By Larry Bell With consumer appetite for plug-in electric vehicles tanked and manufacturers making up for huge losses by charging more for gasoline cars and trucks that they actually want, EPA has just raised central-government-knows-best green zealotry to draconian heights. On Good Friday, when news outlets were relatively quiet, the agency rolled out a new […]
By Bruce Bialosky Many changes have occurred in American society over the past few decades, largely due to a surge of Socialism supporters. Most of them call themselves “Progressives.” The honest ones announce they are members of the Democrat Socialists of America. One of the primary tenets of Socialism is aimed to substitute private property […]
By Neland Nobel The Biden Administration is frustrated. After dumping fiscal stimulus that exceeds both the New Deal and the Great Society into the economy, he gets strikingly little political payback for such lavish handouts. The economy has been growing at a decent rate, unemployment appears rather low, and the stock market has been doing […]
By David Harsanyi Come to think of it, the GOP’s federal bill is also pretty moderate. Abortion on demand, for any reason, until birth, funded by taxpayers. That’s the modern left’s position on the issue. Democrats are so dug into their extremism that they can’t even support bills that compel “doctors” to keep babies who […]
By Majid Rafizadeh In the tumultuous landscape of the Middle East, Israel stands as a beacon of freedoms, human rights and democracy amid a sea of terrorist organizations and authoritarian regimes seeking its destruction. Israel is currently facing a multi-front war for its survival, with Qatar, Iran, and Iran’s proxies, which are encircling Israel, leading […]
By Wolf Richter Ugly inflation in services drives up the 3-month “core CPI” for 7th month, to 4.5% annualized, worst in a year, and the 3-month overall CPI to worst since Nov 2022. So inflation behaved very badly again in March. January was terrible, but it was kind of written off as maybe one of […]
By Kaylee McGhee White The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, one of college sports’ governing bodies, announced this week that it would not allow male-bodied athletes to compete in women’s sports, pointing to the importance of “fair and safe competition for all student-athletes.” The decision is a welcome relief in a society that refuses to see […]
By Kate Anderson April 14, 2024/in Featured, Foreign Policy, Latest News, National Security, Politics/by Kate Anderson Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Iranian military launched a drone attack on Israel after days of increasing tension. Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesman, said during a briefing for reporters on Saturday that Iran had “fired drones from […]
By David Blackmon Oil and gasoline prices are rising now, just in time to become an issue for the 2024 presidential election campaign. The U.S. domestic price for West Texas Intermediate topped $86 per barrel in Friday trading, while the international Brent index briefly hit $91 before dropping slightly below that level. These are the […]
By Bruce Bialosky You may have heard the Governor of California (you know the one who wants to be President of the United States) got into a little quarrel with a cashier at a Target store. Newsom spotted someone leaving the store without paying for an item. By his own account he asked the clerk […]
By Neland Nobel We don’t live in a free country anymore. Perhaps you hadn’t noticed. It’s easy to miss the vapor of totalitarianism seeping into America when most of our lives are dominated by 21st century bread and circuses, propaganda silos, and self-made virtual worlds, layered on top of centuries of American prosperity and stability made […]
By Micaela Burrow Editors’ Note: There is a lot of competition for Federal dollars. College students want their “loans” forgiven, we must pay the salaries of bureaucrats in Ukraine, and green industries that don’t deliver the goods need lavish subsidies. And of course, let’s not leave out the priority of transporting, housing, and feeding millions […]
By Conlan Salgado As human beings we name things. We classify objects and persons. These activities are the foundation of our pursuit of understanding: categorization. It may be that in classifying ourselves as homo sapiens—intelligent hominids—we set ourselves up for perpetual misunderstanding of ourselves. Lately some members of homo sapiens have convinced themselves that they […]
By Ken Braun Editors’ Note: This is just another example of wild spending to force change in the energy field on Americans and how badly US corporations have been corrupted by the government by the cynically named Inflation Reduction Act. “Wind turbines are like strippers. They stop working when you stop throwing money at them.” […]
By Tristan Justice European farmers are reshaping the political landscape across the Atlantic just months before the EU’s parliamentary elections. European farmers are reshaping the political landscape across the Atlantic about two months before 27 member states of the European Union (EU) vote on new leadership in their parliamentary elections. Between June 6 and June […]
By Arjun Singh Democratic Attorney General Kristin Mayes of Arizona announced on Tuesday that she would not enforce a ruling from her state’s supreme court upholding an 1864 law that bans most abortions. On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a law criminalizing abortions, except in cases where necessary to save the mother’s life, may be enforced following […]
By Neland Nobel Editors’ Note: We in Arizona are indeed fortunate that our Republican leaders have been leading the nation in school choice. But, Democrats and their allies the teachers’ union will always be trying to cut back school choice and so we must remain ever vigilant. On a national level, we must be sure […]
By Bethany Blankley U.S. House Republicans are demanding answers from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as to why more than 200,000 deportation cases were dismissed. A new report published by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University found that 200,000 deportation cases were dismissed because DHS employees or Border Patrol agents didn’t file […]
By James Allan Pandemic Panic was a fascinating book to read, especially for a lawyer like me. It very quickly had my blood pressure way up as it reminded me of the nearly three years of governmental thuggery, heavy-handedness, imposition of idiotic and often irrational rules, and resort to lockdown lunacy. If that last sentence sounds […]
By The Editors The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Biden/Obama leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure […]
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