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The Left-Progressive Machine in Indian Country: Election Day

December 10, 2021 in Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Ike Clayton The Left-Progressive Machine in Indian Country, 2020 Election (full series)Election Day | Nationwide Organizational StructuresArizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, and California | Beyond 2020 Summary: Left-of-center nonprofit organizations played a pivotal role in augmenting Native American turnout on and off reservations to seal Joe Biden’s victory over President Trump in the 2020 presidential election. This constellation of Native […]

Ducey’s News Conference Interrupted by Migrants Seeking Asylum

December 9, 2021 in Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Cole Lauterbach Amid an announcement that Arizona is beefing up border security because of a surge in immigrants, Gov. Doug Ducey’s news conference along the U.S. border wall had some surprise visitors. Ducey, local law enforcement, and county and municipal officials were gathered in front of a gap in the U.S. southern border wall […]

DeSantis Aims for Self-Reliance for Florida in Emergencies Instead of Dependence on Feds

December 9, 2021 in Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Lora Ries Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed reestablishing a Florida State Guard, or civilian voluntary force, to assist the National Guard in state-specific emergencies. The governor’s new military budget proposal includes $3.5 million for the State Guard to support emergency-response efforts in the event of hurricanes, other natural disasters, and other state emergencies. The dedicated […]

The Supply Chain’s Inconvenient Truth

December 9, 2021 in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Michael Rentz The entire world has turned its eyes to the “Supply Chain.” It is a term that seems rather intuitive and easy to understand on its face. We all buy goods. We all see Amazon drivers and UPS and FedEx drivers delivering packages. We think this is our easy future—same-day delivery by Amazon, […]

Why in the World Are Democrats Preferred on the Issue of Education?

December 8, 2021 in Education, Email, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Bruce Bialosky While watching the election returns in Virginia, the analysts — you know those people with those slick boards which move pictures with the flick of a finger — were talking about what a shock it was that a Republican was favored on the issue of education. At this time in America, why […]

Real Policy or Political Theatre?

December 8, 2021 in Economy, Email, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Neland Nobel Many people on the political Left don’t seem to understand the deep skepticism with which many Conservatives view government health policy. They believe Conservatives are anti-science. In the last few days, we have been provided a very good example of what is wrong with government policy and it is worthwhile reviewing while many […]

CATO: Arizona Is The Ninth Freest State in U.S.

December 7, 2021 in Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Cole Lauterbach Only eight states in the country have more freedom than Arizona. That’s according to the nonprofit CATO Institute’s annual Freedom in the 50 States report, which compares states based on several different aspects of autonomy and choice in respective states. The CATO Institute is a libertarian public policy think tank that promotes […]

The Covid, Climate Alliance

December 7, 2021 in Education, Email, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Joe Bastardi Maybe it is all just a big Coincidence — Covid and Climate. I have 2 chapters in my book on this matter. The book was written in March and April of 2020 so it predates the evolution of what you see (btw it is available here and it is stocking stuffer size, sort of). Keep […]

As a Tucson Walmart Goes, so Goes the Nation

December 7, 2021 in Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Craig J. Cantoni My wife and I shop for groceries and other essentials at four different stores in the City of Tucson, although we live a few miles outside of city limits and there are closer stores, including a Whole Foods, which is too expensive for our frugality. One of the four stores is […]

Head of Wisconsin Election Probe Accuses Two Big-City Mayors of Cover-up, Stonewalling

December 7, 2021 in Email, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Benjamin Yount A former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who is leading one of the investigations into the state’s 2020 elections says it’s clear to him there is a cover-up going on. Former Justice Mike Gableman told the Assembly’s Committee on Elections on Wednesday that the state’s Elections Commission, its administrator, and the mayors of […]

Dobbs V. Jackson: An Easy Opinion

December 6, 2021 in Email, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By George Liebmann The rejection of a “compelling state interest” test will remove abortion from national politics. A simple Baltimore lawyer here tenders a short opinion to dispose of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the abortion case from Mississippi in oral arguments before the Supreme Court today. This case presents the question: “Whether all […]

How Governments Seized Control of Money

December 6, 2021 in Economy, Email, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Ryan McMaken In discussions surrounding the world’s monetary systems today, there is usually one thing almost everyone can agree on: that money should be controlled by the organizations we call “states” or “sovereign states.” Nowadays when we say “the US dollar” we mean the currency issued by the US government. When we say “the British […]

Joe Manchin Does It Again

December 6, 2021 in Email, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Rick Moran Senator Joe Manchin announced he would join all 50 Republicans in the Senate in voting for a resolution of disapproval that would roll back the OSHA vaccine mandate. The Congressional Review Act (CRA) allows for a majority of Congress to disapprove of any agency rule. Since the CRA vote is in the […]

Troubled Waters

December 5, 2021 in Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Ralph l. Defalco III When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Manila, Philippines during a 2018 state visit, he assured all that the two nations had entered a new era of diplomacy that promised to turn the long-disputed areas of the South China Sea into a “sea of peace.” Xi had previously issued an official […]

The Long Cycles in Markets and Political Order

December 5, 2021 in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Joakim Book The best class I took in all my economics education was called “Cyclical Fluctuation,” taught by Dr. Susan Schroeder at USYD. It was a broad-scope class in the many heterodox ideas that economists have about what causes business cycles, and what makes the output, employment, and financial prosperity fluctuate so wildly around otherwise steady […]

The Rest of the Story on Tucson’s Home Affordability

December 4, 2021 in Economy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Craig J. Cantoni A lesson on how a seemingly simple subject is actually quite complex. Statistics don’t lie, but they sure can be cherry-picked. Consider this recent headline from the Arizona Daily Star, the daily newspaper in Tucson: Tucson is still among the best in the West for home affordability Despite surging home prices, […]

Dispelling 3 Common Myths About Abortion

December 4, 2021 in Featured, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Melanie Israel With the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case before the Supreme Court and the ongoing litigation over the Texas heartbeat law, the issue of abortion looms large in our national discourse. Too often, pro-abortion actors make claims that are simply not true, and those claims are repeated without challenge in the media. Therefore, it’s vital that […]

Respecting the Corona Virus

December 4, 2021 in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Neland Nobel It is one thing to describe something. It often is different actually to experience it. In this case we are talking about the Corona virus. I am a 73-year-old, unvaccinated male in generally good health who came down with the Chinese virus almost exactly two weeks ago. It came along just in […]

Biden’s Climate Power Grab Via Trillions of Dollars in Annual Federal Procurement

December 3, 2021 in Economy, Email, Environment, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By David Wojick Spending by federal agencies is governed by the extensive Federal Acquisition Regulations or FAR for short. In response to a Biden executive order, the FAR Council is conducting a silly public inquiry as to how climate change should be factored into federal spending. The Federal Government spends over $6 trillion a year […]

Challenging Technocensorship, Rutherford Institute Appeals to Federal Court to Prohibit Facebook From Censoring COVID-19 Vaccine Critics

December 3, 2021 in Email, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Editorial Staff Rutherford Institute Appeals to Federal Court to Prohibit Facebook From Censoring COVID-19 Vaccine Critics Warning against the rising threat to free speech posed by the government’s collusion with large technology companies in order to regulate and control what ideas can be shared on the internet and through social media, The Rutherford Institute […]

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