Entries by ThePricklyPear.org

How Republicans Can Stop Letting Libertarians Spoil their Victories

By Keith Knight Editors Note: Most conservatives would share almost all these sentiments. We may differ on cultural matters on occasion,  but even that can be handled by simply letting people be free and letting competition shake out the bad ideas from the good. However, the central point he makes is valid. The best protection […]

Yes, It’s As Bad As You Think It Is – What Can You Do?

By Neland Nobel One of the cardinal questions in politics for voters to answer is: are you better off today than you were before? Has the party in power made your life better or worse, easier or more difficult, safer or more dangerous? We think an objective answer to this question, in relation to the Biden […]

When the Family Is Abolished, People Starve

By Barry Brownstein Editors’ Note: In the current election cycle, Republicans remain concerned that they have lost the college-educated suburban soccer moms. Democrats hope to use abortion as the wedge issue to keep moms from drifting towards Republicans because of crime, illegal immigration, and the economy. There is a certain irony here that conservatives need […]

Against Climatism

By Emmet Penney The Right needs a total vision overhaul on energy. For over half a century, the environmental perspective has succeeded in overtaking every other outlook on energy and industry. Even fossil fuel companies and their allies like the American Petroleum Institute cast themselves in the green idiom. In the era of climate change, […]

Remembering 2012 in Arizona When Libertarians Elected Kyrsten Sinema

By Neland Nobel We have received some friendly pushback from some of our libertarian friends because of our contention that more often than not, the Libertarian Party rarely elects anyone but Democrats. Now frankly we have not examined every race that has been conducted over the past 40 years so we could be wrong. However, […]

Executing a Long Term Plan While Playing Dumb

By Thomas C. Patterson Pundits commonly depict the ongoing calamity at our border as the result of the Biden administration’s incompetence. As with inflation, urban crime, and the deficit, their near-complete lack of insight and management skills is leading us over a cliff. But this analysis itself is a major error. They know exactly what […]

Arizona GOP Senate Nominee Masters Now Deadlocked with Democrat Incumbent Kelly: Poll

By Madeline Hubbard Editors’ Note: It is likely that as the race for US Senate between incumbent Kelly and Republican challenger Masters tightens, what libertarians decide to do will prove decisive. The polling evidence confirms this is happening. We have provided two articles on this subject which we urge our libertarian readers to consider. We […]

Will Libertarian Candidates Again Deny GOP the U.S. Senate?

By Edward Ring The more powerful the Libertarian Party becomes, the more certain it is that they will turn America over to Democrats—rendering the majority sentiments of Americans politically irrelevant. The political reality in America today is that of a two-party system. Embracing this reality means if you want to change the political direction of […]

Katie Hobbs Says She Supports No Limits on Abortion, Even Up to Birth

By Corinne Murdock In a Sunday interview, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs said she wouldn’t put any limits on abortion. Hobbs also evaded questions about her strength to handle a debate with Lake, as well as who caused the present border crisis. Hobbs’ remarks occurred during her 8-minute one-on-one interview with CBS host Major Garrett, as part […]

Easy Money and Hard Economic Times

By Craig J. Cantoni Editors’ Note: As the article below indicates, a new magisterial history of interest rates and central banking has been published. The author, Edward Chancellor wrote a previous book just before the last great financial crash called Devil Take the Hindmost, which was extremely timely if not prescient. This new book is […]

BOOK REVIEW: Easy Money and Hard Economic Times

By Craig J. Cantoni Editors’ Note: As the article below indicates, a new magisterial history of interest rates and central banking has been published. The author, Edward Chancellor wrote a previous book just before the last great financial crash called Devil Take the Hindmost, which was extremely timely if not prescient. This new book is […]

What I Saw at NatCon

By Pedro Gonzalez Editors’ Note: The recent Nat Con Convention demonstrates that debate within conservatism is alive and well. While seemingly incoherent, the various shades of thought and opinion is normal when a new political movement is forming. It is an attempt to draw together legacy conservatism with the newer, more assertive, MAGA agenda. Readers […]

What I Saw at the National Conservative Convention (NatCon)

By Pedro Gonzalez Editors’ Note: The recent Nat Con Convention demonstrates that debate within conservatism is alive and well. While seemingly incoherent, the various shades of thought and opinion is normal when a new political movement is forming. It is an attempt to draw together legacy conservatism with the newer, more assertive, MAGA agenda. Readers […]

Midterm 2022 Election Endorsements by the Arizona Free Enterprise Club

By Arizona Free Enterprise Club How Not to Vote in Arizona The 2022 midterm election is fast approaching. The system for voting in Arizona is predominantly by mail-in ballots (around 80% of all ballots). The ballots will be mailed out to all voters registered for mail-in voting on October 12th. The actual ‘day’ of the election is […]

CANDIDATE VOTER GUIDE: Candidate Endorsements by the Arizona Free Enterprise Club

By Arizona Free Enterprise Club How Not to Vote in Arizona The 2022 midterm election is fast approaching. The system for voting in Arizona is predominantly by mail-in ballots (around 80% of all ballots). The ballots will be mailed out to all voters registered for mail-in voting on October 12th. The actual ‘day’ of the election is […]

Goldwater’s Know Your 2022 Arizona Ballot

By The Editors The Goldwater Institute has taken a position on the following measures that will be on the ballot for Arizona voters in 2022. The Goldwater Institute is supporting Proposition 128, Proposition 129, Proposition 132, and Proposition 309; and opposing Proposition 209, Proposition 211, and Proposition 310. Prop 128:  Most of the destructive initiatives […]

PROPOSITION VOTER GUIDE: Goldwater Institute’s Guide to the 2022 Arizona Ballot

By The Editors The Goldwater Institute has taken a position on the following measures that will be on the ballot for Arizona voters in 2022 . YES: Prop 128 Most of the destructive initiatives that have appeared on Arizona ballots over the past few election cycles have been developed and funded by out-of-state special interests. […]

The Coming Radical Political Shift

By Bruce Bialosky Editors’ Note: The following article defines today’s Democrat party accurately. One no longer has to dissect through their ‘moderate’ messaging that has hidden their true agenda for decades. What you are seeing is what we get when today’s Democrats have unbalanced power. The Founders’ design of our Republic made every citizen sovereign […]