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Scottsdale Unified Assures Parents Of Privacy In Aftermath Of Secret Dossier Discovery, Parents Call For Greenburg Resignation

By Terri Jo Neff The Scottsdale Unified School District’s administration is scrambling to do damage control after a group of mothers discovered Governing Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg had access to a Google Drive full of personal information, documents, and photos of about 47 people, including children. An email sent out Wednesday evening by the SUSD’s […]

Americans Blow Off Fed Propaganda Inflation is “Temporary”

By Wolf Richter Americans, as they struggle with the meaning of the Fed’s terms “transitory” and “temporary,” expect that inflation one year from now will rise to 5.7%, the 12th month in a row of relentless increases, the highest in the data going back to 2013, creating a beautiful record spike (red line), according to […]

Will the Right to Bear Arms Become a “Constitutional Orphan”?

By Joyce Lee Malcolm After nearly a decade rejecting Second Amendment cases, the Supreme Court has just agreed to hear New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York. It is high time and not a moment too soon. Since McDonald v. City of Chicago in 2010 when the Court incorporated “the right of individuals to […]

Vaccine Authoritarianism Explained

By Max Borders This is behavior that picks and chooses precepts from both syndromes [taking and trading], creating monstrous moral hybrids.” – Jane Jacobs, from Systems of Survival Disclosure: I am vaccinated against Covid-19. So allow me to inoculate myself from any charges that I am an ‘anti-vaxxer.’ I am not. Yet, I join millions of people […]

Arizona School District Colluded With Law Enforcement To Shut Up Parents

By Jordan Davidson An Arizona school board colluded with local law enforcement to kick out and arrest parents who spoke out against the district’s anti-science mask mandate for young children. According to emails obtained by Not in our Schools, Sgt. Greg Howarth of the Chandler Police Department spent time in April and May gathering evidence on […]

Tucker Carlson On The January 6th Capitol Incursion

By Neland Nobel Editors’ Note: The Tucker Carlson three-part Fox Nation series on January 6th is so revealing. The bottom line, though, is what actually happened in the 2020 Presidential election to bring so Americans to distrust our electoral system. Today, the Prickly Pear posted a superb Featured Video interview with Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers who has […]

Teacher Union Effort Fails

By Cole Lauterbach A teacher union-backed ballot initiative to strike a state law protecting small business owners from a new 3.5% income tax increase failed to get the voter support needed to make the ballot. An attorney for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs disclosed the update Friday in a court hearing challenging tax-related citizen […]

THE “WOKE” ARE ASLEEP

By Alan Korwin Inventing new ideas to describe the impossible — and make it sound rational and normal — are Marxist and communist control tools. These are mechanisms designed to keep people cooperative and in line. Looking around you, and especially watching or reading the so-called “news,” you can see it at work. George Orwell […]

How Important Are Illegal Immigrants to Elections?

By James D. Agresti In 2012, what portion of non-citizens in the U.S. were registered to vote in violation of laws that prohibit non-citizens from voting in U.S. elections? What do you think?  One percent, five percent, maybe 10%.  Maybe enough for election integrity laws? The correct answer is a whopping 20%? Laws in all […]

The Homeless are More Important Than We Are

By Bruce Bialosky A simple situation of trying to attend a concert at the Hollywood Bowl turned into a series of lies and deceit by the Los Angeles County government. All of this was in an apparent attempt to hide that the County has chosen to sacrifice its residents’ needs to a group of people […]

The Year of The Parent

By Larry Sand Battle lines have been drawn, the war is on, and the great parent awakening of 2021 will have permanent consequences. Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, my parents could send me off to school and assume I would be taught by people who shared their values. Those days are long gone, […]

The Democrats’ Self-inflicted Wound

By Alan M. Dershowitz As a lifelong Democrat, I am appalled at the way the leaders of the party have shot themselves in the foot by kowtowing to left-wing radicals. The recent Republican victories were not so much a vindication of Republican policies as a rejection of the extremism of Democratic leaders and their tolerance […]

Another Letter to Senator Joe Manchin (D-WVa)

By John R. Ammon Editors’ Note: The following letter is my second letter (10/26/21 letter here) sent to Senator Manchin’s offices in Washington, D.C., Charleston, WVa, Fairmont, WVa, and Martinsburg, WVa. Please feel free to copy and paste any of the following to communicate by email and hard copy to the Senator how we Americans […]

Election Integrity Is A Unifying Issue

By Shawnna Bollick Statewide Republican candidates in Virginia swept elections, stunning and upsetting Democratic candidates. All across America, voters have spoken: parental rights, election integrity, and a strong economy with low taxes matter. In historically deeply-Democratic blue states like Virginia and New Jersey and in liberal cities like Minneapolis and New York City, Americans have […]

Democrats [Tried to Use] the Same 2020 Election Shenanigans to Overtake Virginia This Year

By Hayden Ludwig So how do Democrats plan to ensure they win Virginia’s elections, from the governorship to its U.S. Senate seat? By using the same tactics they used in the 2020 contest nationwide. Editor’s note: The 2021 general election was a disaster for Democrats in Virginia, with Republicans winning the elections for governor, lieutenant governor, […]

US Federal Appeals Court Freezes Biden’s Medically Coercive Vaccine Mandate

By Haley Strack A federal appeals court blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate on Saturday, just two days after the administration issued the law through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The rule requires employees at companies with 100 or more workers to get the jab by Jan. 4 or be tested for the virus […]

Sheriff’s Associations Oppose Tucson Police Chief’s Nomination To Head Border Patrol

By Bethany Blankley The National Sheriff’s Association and the Arizona Sheriff’s Association oppose the Biden administration’s nomination of Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus to be the next commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Both associations sent letters to President Joe Biden expressing their opposition and have asked their U.S. senators to vote against his […]

Stalked by Facebook and Google Creeps

By Craig J. Cantoni We wouldn’t put up with it in the physical world but put up with it in the virtual world. The media have been full of stories and commentaries about such tech giants as Facebook and Google, regarding their impact on society and control of advertising dollars. I have my own story […]

Thanksgiving Turkeys Without a Left Wing

By Craig J. Cantoni You wouldn’t buy a turkey without a left-wing, but Americans buy a lot of news stories without a left-wing I’m not on the right or left but still can’t help noticing that the adjective “right-wing” is used in the media about eight times more than the adjective “left-wing.” Not only that but […]