Entries by ThePricklyPear.org

Blue States’ Defiance: The Case for a Lopsided National Split

By The Editors February 4, 2026/by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Published by The Blaze What a joke—blue states want to play anarchist with immigration laws while expecting red states to toe the line like good little puppets. This piece doesn’t mince words: it’s a fiery rant on how Democrats’ hypocrisy is […]

Soros Funding Fuels Anti-Immigration Enforcement Activism

By The Editors February 4, 2026/by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Published by Just The News Throughout history, the intersection of philanthropy and politics has often led to unintended consequences, as seen in the current funding of groups opposing U.S. immigration enforcement. This deliberate examination reveals how a Soros-backed charity has channeled […]

The Escalating Burden of Obamacare Premiums and the Rise of Cost-Sharing Solutions

By The Editors February 4, 2026/by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Published by Daily Caller In an era of unchecked government intervention in healthcare, the Affordable Care Act’s premiums continue to spiral upward, burdening American families with unsustainable costs. This thoughtful analysis examines how rising expenses, driven by bureaucratic inefficiencies and market […]

Shamp: Arizona Gives $6B Yearly In Improper Medicaid Payments

By Zachery Schmidt Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Arizona is facing $6 billion in improper state Medicaid payments yearly, according to state Sen. Janae Shamp. Shamp, R-Surprise, gave a presentation to the Arizona Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Thursday about what she called fraud. “We cannot put our heads in the sand and […]

Fraud as Policy: The Incentives of the Modern Welfare State

By Patrick Frise Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes The scale of fraud uncovered in recent years has exposed how government transfer programs function, even as meaningful public or legislative reckoning remains largely absent. What began as a series of pandemic-related scandals has revealed something broader and more troubling: large-scale fraud is not an anomaly within […]

Melinda French Gates And Her Pivotal Philanthropies

By Robert Stilson Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes The erstwhile wife of the Microsoft co-founder now sits atop of one America’s richest philanthropic networks. Where is this money going? In 2024, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates made a $7.88 billion contribution to a charitable foundation established by his ex-wife Melinda French Gates. Media outlets have reported that that the gift was […]

The Turbulent Month Of January

By Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Markets don’t particularly care that we humans divide our time frames into monthly periods.  They follow their own long and short-term cycles.  But since humans will be reading this,  we have to give some attention to the turbulent January that just ended. It was a decent, but […]

BREAKING: Don Lemon Arrested For Involvement In Church Attack

By Elyse S. Apel Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors’ Note: We hope the legal system can make the rational distinction between peaceful protest (which we support) and criminal trespass for purposes of political intimidation, which is what we think Don Lemon and his friends engaged in.  The purpose was to enter private property, a […]