By Fred Lucas The White House won’t respond and Attorney General Merrick Garland is playing defense after the release of sworn testimony from two IRS whistleblowers alleging special treatment in the agency’s investigation of the president’s son, Hunter Biden. The House Ways and Means Committee voted Thursday to make public the transcripts of the IRS […]
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 State University sees scrutiny over conservative event backlash Is Katie Hobbs the […]
By Michael Ginsberg Democratic Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego has accepted thousands of dollars in donations from individuals and political action committees (PACs) associated with major pharmaceutical companies and the healthcare industry despite frequently criticizing both, a Daily Caller review found. Gallego, who is running for Senate against Independent Kyrsten Sinema, frequently blasts the former Democrat […]
By Catherine Salgado Today has been declared a national holiday—Juneteenth. But if we really want to celebrate a day that was a landmark in America’s journey toward a freer, less racist society, we should not be celebrating Juneteenth—we should be celebrating January 1, the day in 1863 when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, or December […]
By Craig J. Cantoni They won’t rest until they get their fellow Heinerscheid, Donald Trump. Heinerscheids on the left and right dominate the top of government, industry and media. What is a Heinerscheid (high-nur-shide)? A Heinerscheid is an upper-caste American from the Ivy League who has been hoodwinked to believe that a degree from a […]
By Natalia Mittelstadt The printer company said Maricopa County did not contact them during the investigation into Election Day printer issues. A printer company says a report by Arizona’s Maricopa County on errors at voting centers on Election Day 2022 is “factually inaccurate” and is seeking a correction from the county attorney’s office. Ballot printer […]
By Thomas Buckley Prior to the pandemic, the term “gain of-function [GOF] research” was rarely heard outside the confines of a laboratory or a government bureaucrat’s office. COVID changed all that and the term, its GOF abbreviation, and the debate over its implications took center stage in the international pandemic discussion. Researchers, members of the […]
By Carly Moran Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed Senate Bill 1413, a bill that would have made homeless encampments on private property trespassing. The bill would have also allowed cities to remove homeless encampments’ property if after a warning they are not claimed within 24 hours. If not claimed within 14 days, the property would […]
By Gigi De La Torre While a number of companies have faced public criticism for promoting LGBTQ Pride Month in June, federal organizations promoting “pride” activities have mostly flown under the radar. One of the few times a federal entity came close to being scrutinized occurred when the Navy deleted a pride post on its […]
By Corinne Murdock Arizona State University (ASU) advocated for keeping pornographic LGBTQ+ books in K-12 classrooms. The university featured commentary from professors on the subject as part of a feature story dedicated to Pride Month issued last week. “In June, Pride Month is a time to promote inclusivity, raise awareness and celebrate the contributions the LGBTQ+ community […]
By Peter Murphy America’s K-12 classrooms are increasingly becoming indoctrination centers for a one-sided view of climate change, aka, global warming and the supposed existential threat to humankind. The Biden administration, universities, left-of-center think tanks and state governments are developing and spreading climate change curriculum that also contains an explicit activist bent to turn the […]
By GianCarlo Canapro The federal government has threatened to withhold Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program funds from a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma because the staff keeps one small candle burning in its chapel. It’s tiny, encased in glass, and kept far away from medical equipment, but the feds insist it’s a safety risk. It’s absurd, but not surprising. Absurdities are a feature of administrative rule. What […]
By Wolf Richter Debt doesn’t matter. Until it does. And now it does. The U.S. national debt spiked by $572 billion since the debt ceiling was suspended two weeks ago after the sarcastically named “Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023” was signed into law, the Treasury Department reported Friday evening. The total government debt now exceeds […]
By Bruce Bialosky A large portion of the national debt limit bill negotiations involved reestablishing work requirements to receive payments from the various government handout programs. President Biden objected to what was in the House bill and a compromise was struck. Why are we discussing this now? There is definitely a difference of opinion even […]
By Tyler O’Neil The Justice Department backtracked on its 2021 memo urging the investigation of concerned parents, but the Left and the Biden administration seem to be gearing up for another round. President Joe Biden’s White House did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about the ties between the administration and the […]
By Paul Mueller Editors’ Note: The accounting mechanics are complicated. The bottom line, however, is the FED is pursuing a contradictory policy. If the FED has any function, it was supposed to back up the banking system in the event of a liquidity crisis and maintain a stable currency. Yet, banking failure has been quite […]
By Bethany Blankley At least 1.2 million people have been apprehended or reported evading capture at the southern border in the first five months of this year, according to data obtained and analyzed by The Center Square. The estimate is based on official apprehension data reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection as well as […]
By Neland Nobel Twenty states now ban genital mutilation or what progressives call “gender-affirming care” for minors with gender dysphoria. In most cases, it has been achieved against almost universal support by the Democrat Party for invasive surgery and puberty-blocking drugs. Texas is the latest and largest state to pass such legislation banning such practices. […]
By Margot Cleveland Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky wasn’t far from the mark when he said it would take 10 years to unravel the complex payment path that led to Joe Biden. The Bidens allegedly “coerced” a foreign national to pay them $10 million in bribes, according to individuals familiar with the investigation into the FBI’s […]
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. AZ Legislature Week In Review – Week Ending June 16, 2023 Maricopa County […]
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