By Wolf Richter Even Miami lost ground. The spring selling season is a dud so far. And the banking crisis hasn’t even made it into the data yet. That’s still to come. The spring selling season is here, but so far, it’s a dud. In some markets, home prices fell from the prior month, despite […]
By Jon Miltimore In July 2022, Twitter permanently suspended Rhode Island physician Andrew Bostom after awarding the epidemiologist and longtime researcher at Brown University a fifth strike for spreading “misinformation.” A July 26 tweet alleging that there was no solid evidence Covid-19 vaccines had prevented any children from being hospitalized—”only RCT data we have from […]
By Charles W. Sharpe Believe it or not, 30 years have elapsed since Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man. A work with far-reaching consequences for global politics, its central argument offered the American neoconservative movement and their allies on the political left intellectual rocket fuel. With the Soviet Union disintegrating, […]
By Suzanne Bowdey While Anheuser-Busch reels from the backlash over its partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, another brand is jumping feet-first into the fire. Over the weekend, media personality Oli London retweeted a post of Mulvaney “getting glam” with Maybelline, which has apparently joined the ranks of companies like Nike who think the best way to […]
By John Howting My old boss James O’Keefe recently parted ways with the Project Veritas, the organization that he founded and ran for over a decade, following allegations of abuse from his employees. Visionaries are rarely loved by their employees. Mountains aren’t moved without sweat and tears, and the man I know can—and did—move mountains. […]
By Jon Miltimore FEE recently sat down with German author Rainer Zitelmann to discuss his latest book, the global financial crisis, and the future of capitalism. The great writer Henry Hazlitt once observed that the path to prosperity is achieved through production, and the best way to achieve production is to maximize incentives. “And the […]
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. JUST IN: We The People AZ Alliance Files Lawsuit Against Maricopa County to […]
By Victor Davis Hanson Joe Biden is now 80 years-old. He will be 82 when he campaigns for the 2024 presidency—and a clearly debilitated 86 should he be elected and fill out his second term. He has been in government for over a half-century. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and current representative from California is […]
By Bruce Bialosky The current attempt to turn our society on its head by establishing equity as the standard for advancement instead of excellence has become quite apparent. The failures are right in front of us. Two shining examples that glare at us daily are visible members of our federal government. The first is our […]
By Tristan Justice Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton confronted the deputy attorney general Wednesday over the agency implementing a two-tiered justice system to crack down on political opponents. During a hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco was pressed about the department exploiting the 2002 Accountability Act to “prosecute hundreds of […]
By AZ Free News If you enjoy losing your freedom for a goal that is impossible to achieve, the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) has you covered. MAG recently released its proposed measures to bring Maricopa County into compliance with ozone standards set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and it’s a total […]
By Craig Rucker President Biden and congressional Democrats constantly fret about “climate change.” Indeed, they have made it such a high priority they are taking an “whole of government approach” to addressing it. In fulfilling their aims at curbing emissions, the entire Biden Administration has been systematically and intentionally dismantling the powerful, reliable energy system […]
By James D. Agresti In the aftermath of school shootings, media outlets often amplify calls for gun control while ignoring or spurning evidence-based ways to protect students. Here are four life-saving tools they are missing or dismissing. Shatter-Resistant Entryways As documented in the academic journal Victims & Offenders, an “immediate and economical” way to protect […]
By Neland Nobel There is little doubt today that what the Federal Reserve decides to do with both interest rates and its massive balance sheet is perhaps the most important variable moving markets. The next two FED meetings loom as particularly important. The key dates will be May 3rd-4th and June 14th-15th. To be sure, […]
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. Maricopa County’s Proposal to Comply with the EPA Threatens to Turn Arizona into […]
By Matt Margolis Make no mistake about it, the transgender cult owns the Democratic Party. On Thursday, the United States House of Representatives voted to pass the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, but not a single present Democrat voted in favor of it. The legislation, introduced by Rep. Greg Stuebe (R-Fla.), would […]
By Catherine Salgado Twitter Inc. has apparently changed its name to the highly unimaginative X Corp., but that, in my opinion, isn’t the most important news this week related to Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Musk is once again selling out his supposed pro-free speech humanitarian principles for profit. If a country’s government is […]
By Robert Williams China’s overseas infrastructure projects present high-impact risks to the environment, a new study has found. The report — conducted by researchers from the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, the University of Queensland, the University of California Santa Barbara, and Colorado State University — focused on the risks to coastal and marine […]
By Joshua Glawson Ron Paul: “Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.” Buying physical gold is a time-proven method of securing generational wealth, and a security measure often taken in times of economic turbulence. Gold investing has long been viewed as a hedge against inflation and a store of value against […]
By Craig J. Cantoni Not to brag, but Bragg has nothing on me. Circa 1985, I flew from New York to Chicago to deliver a check for $25,000, or $70,000 in today’s money. It was a payoff to keep someone silent. It was one of the scores of payoffs that I had made up to […]
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