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PETER SCHWEIZER: Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win

By Scott Graves Top reviews Top reviews from the United States There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2022 Verified Purchase safe from the investigations conducted by Peter Schweizer and a crew of forensic investigators. Peter is president of the non-partisan Government […]

In Defense of White People

By Bruce Bialosky The current en vogue idea (dare I say “woke”) is to attack white people in the United States as if they are the devil incarnate. Our president does it regularly. Other white people have bought into this ridiculous line and humbled themselves unnecessarily. I am here to tell you, I am grateful […]

Pollster Scott Rasmussen Says Democrats Are Getting Demographics All Wrong

By Marc Ang In a year-end review of polling and politics, one of America’s leading national pollsters, Scott Rasmussen, says most Americans have higher priorities than politics. And he says partisan thinking about race, particularly among Democrats, hasn’t kept up with demographic realities. Marc Ang: What is the state of polling today? Rasmussen: “People think […]

Totalitarian Paranoia Run Amok: Pandemics, Lockdowns & Martial Law

By John W. Whitehead “Totalitarian paranoia runs deep in American society, and it now inhabits the highest levels of government.”—Professor Henry Giroux Once upon a time, there was a government so paranoid about its hold on power that it treated everyone and everything as a threat and a reason to expand its powers. Unfortunately, the […]

Arizona Senate Committee Passes SEVEN Election Integrity Bills – Including Ballot Fraud Countermeasures, Ballot Images Will Be Public Records

By Jordan Conradson Seven critical election integrity bills were passed by Republicans on the Arizona Senate Government Committee Monday. The Arizona audit discovered evidence of over 700,000 ballot discrepancies and law violations that occurred during the 2020 Presidential Election, and the Arizona Legislature is working to secure elections in 2022 and beyond. Many in the […]

The Governor of New York Descends Into Nonsense

By Neland Nobel Over the weekend, Kathy Hochul, the lieutenant governor who replaced Mario Cuomo after his resignation, responded to the ambush murder of two New York City policemen. The attack, which occurred in Harlem, left one officer dead and another who died several days later. Although details are not yet complete, they appear to […]

Arizona Takes Bipartisan Stand Against Forced Labor in China

By Tom Joyce State Representative Justin Wilmeth (R-Phoenix) introduced a bill into the Arizona House of Representatives (HB 2488) with the hope of combatting the use of forced Uyghur labor in China. The bill would require that the Arizona government and other public entities in the state cannot enter a contract with a company for […]

Cryptocurrency and Financial Mania

By Neland Nobel In 1952 Professor Harry Markowitz developed the seminal ideas of what is called Modern Portfolio Theory.  He later won a Nobel Prize for his work. While his insights have been expanded by others, his original ideas still echo today when investment people talk about diversification, asset allocation, and portfolio efficiency.  It is […]

The Big Money Behind Abortion Activism

By Hayden Ludwig Warren Buffett’s charitable foundation has poured nearly $5 billion into pro-abortion advocacy. There’s no shortage of cash for the war on the unborn. That its biggest bankroller is the Wizard of Omaha—famed investor Warren Buffett—may surprise you. Buffett is almost certainly the largest funder of abortion in human history. In the two […]

Arizona News 1/25/2022

By The Editors The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers. Arizona Government Committee Passes A Number of Election Reform Bills Scottsdale Schools Plan […]

Free Enterprise Club Responds to ASU Cancelling Event Featuring Congressman Andy Biggs and Jason Chaffetz

By The Editors The Arizona Free Enterprise Club has released the following statement in response to the decision by ASU and Michael Crow to cancel a fundraising event featuring Congressman Andy Biggs and former Congressman Jason Chaffetz to benefit the Political History and Leadership (PHL) program at ASU: “It is outrageous that Michael Crow and […]

Arizona Sheriffs Lean on Sinema, Kelly to Support Border Security Upgrades

By Tom Joyce Arizona Sheriff’s Association Calls On Mark Kelly, Kyrsten Sinema To Support Border Security Measures The Arizona Sheriff’s Association sent a letter to both U.S. Senators from Arizona, Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema, telling the Democrats to take action on the state’s border crisis. In the letter, the ASA said the situation on […]

Ducey Renews State Ban on New Regulations

By Tom Joyce Arizona governor Doug Ducey has once again issued an executive order preventing state agencies from creating more regulations. Ducey’s Executive Order signed Wednesday renewed his administration’s recommendations for an annual moratorium on regulatory rulemaking for all state agencies. He first issued the moratorium in 2015, his first year in office. “Arizona’s streamlined […]

Voting Rights

By Thomas C. Patterson Editors’ Note: Although the HR-1, the Right to Vote Act, did not progress through the Senate last week with Senators Sinema (AZ) and Manchin (WVa) courageously refusing to vote for the elimination of the chamber’s filibuster rule, the Democrats will continue to dishonestly preach about voter suppression, the voter ID requirement […]

Arizona Democratic Party Censures Sinema over Filibuster Stance

By ZACHARY EVANS The Arizona Democratic Party’s Executive Board passed a motion to censure Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) on Saturday, as a result of her refusal to push Democrat-backed voting bills through the Senate by changing filibuster rules earlier this week. “While we take no pleasure in this announcement, the ADP Executive Board has […]

Economist Offers Harsh Assessment of Elizabeth Warren’s Inflation Theory

By Jon Miltimore Harvard economist Jason Furman said the notion that “corporate greed” is driving inflation is not grounded in sound economics. Over the weekend, Jason Furman, a former top economist for President Barack Obama, threw cold water on Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s claim that “corporate greed” is driving inflation. “Corporate greed is a bad theory […]

Americans Deserve Answers on Hunter Biden’s Beijing-Backed Cobalt Mine Deal

By James Comer Instead of fixing runaway inflation, rising energy prices, and supply chain issues for the American people, the “Bare-Shelves Biden” administration is attempting to persuade you that Hunter Biden’s business dealings are a thing of the past. It wants you to believe there’s nothing in the president’s son’s suspicious international business dealings the American people […]