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‘You Think All Conservatives Are Nazis’: Rep. Comer Confronts Twitter Exec With His Own, Giant Printed-Out Tweet

March 21, 2023 in Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Michael Ginsberg House Oversight and Government Accountability Committee chairman James Comer of Kentucky called out ex-Twitter Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth’s Tweets criticizing Republicans during a Wednesday hearing. Roth, who was responsible for removing Tweets he believed violated the social media giant’s rules, regularly met with federal officials to discuss “disinformation” and […]

Biden’s Energy Secretary Says ‘We Can All Learn From China’ On Climate Policy

March 21, 2023 in Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Harold Hutchison Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Friday that everyone could “learn from” China when it came to climate policy while speaking at the South by Southwest festival. China approved 168 new power plants fueled by coal in 2022, according to a report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) […]

DEI Is An Attack on Free Speech

March 20, 2023 in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Dr. Thomas Patterson Jonathan Haidt is a professor at NYU, an acknowledged leader in the field of social psychology, and a champion of free speech. He recently faced a requirement that all scholars wishing to present research to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology were to submit a statement explaining “whether and how […]

The Unconstitutional Tax on “Unrealized Capital Gains”

March 20, 2023 in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Phillip W. Magness The Biden Administration’s 2023 budget bill made headlines by proposing a so-called “billionaire tax,” imposing a 25-percent minimum rate on the “unrealized capital gains” of the wealthiest Americans. The Biden measure rests on an economic falsehood. The new proposal rests on the work of far-left academics such as Thomas Piketty and […]

Moderna CEO Said He Knew in 2019 a Lucrative Pandemic Would Happen

March 20, 2023 in Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Catherine Salgado During the January 18 World Economic Forum (WEF) panel State of the Pandemic at Davos 2023, Moderna CEO said, “When the [COVID] pandemic happened, Moderna had made a hundred thousand doses in 2019 for the whole year. And I remember walking after those into the office of my other manufacturing and I […]

‘No Painless Option’: Fed Faces Tough Choice on Inflation Following Bank Collapses

March 19, 2023 in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Casey Harper The U.S. Federal Reserve may be less likely to use its key tool to combat inflation because of recent bank failures. The Fed has been aggressively hiking interest rates for months to help combat inflation. While inflation has slowed, it remains elevated. Given the recent bank collapses, hiking rates again may be […]

China’s War Warnings

March 19, 2023 in Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Gordon Chang “If the U.S. doesn’t hit the brakes and continues to barrel down the wrong track,” China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on March 7, “no amount of guardrails can prevent the carriage from derailing and crashing, and there will surely be conflict and confrontation.” He also spoke of “catastrophic consequences.” The unusually […]

White Man Down: Frustration Is Not Racism

March 19, 2023 in Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Larry Elder Editors’ Note: Larry Elder, the author of this article, is an African American and a prominent conservative writer, speaker, talk show host and former candidate for Governor of California. About Scott Adams, the white male creator of the (once) popular “Dilbert” comic strip, The Washington Post wrote: On his Feb. 22 episode […]

Law Schools’ Heckling Trends Show Disturbing Future For The Legal System, Experts Argue

March 18, 2023 in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Alexa Schwerha Law schools that permit students to heckle and disrupt speakers fail to impress upon them the importance of free speech rights and could have a negative impact on the future of the legal profession, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. In the past year, protestors have attempted to shut down speakers […]

New Study Shows Illegal Immigration Costing Taxpayers $151 Billion + A Year

March 18, 2023 in Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Elliot Nazar A new report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examined the financial impact of illegal immigration in the United States, revealing that hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars are spent on dealing with the issue. In a statement to The Foreign Desk, Ron Kovach, Press Secretary for FAIR, noted […]

Business-Aligned Democratic Allies Prevail in Phoenix City Council Election

March 18, 2023 in Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Cameron Arcand Democrat Kevin Robinson will replace Republican Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio in District 6, and Democrat Kesha Hodge Washington is on track to unseat incumbent Councilman Carlos Garcia following a runoff election on Tuesday. Republican Sam Stone, who was up against former police officer Robinson, quickly conceded after seeing the results at […]

A Wasteland of Corpses, Living and Dead: A Devastating Inside Look at Phoenix’s Homeless Zone

March 17, 2023 in Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Corinne Murdock Intense poverty, frequent crime, social instability, high mortality, poor living standards: these qualities describe third-world countries. They also describe “The Zone”: the sprawling encampment of over 1,000 homeless in downtown Phoenix just blocks from the state capitol and amidst what was once a thriving business district. It’s an area where law and […]

A ‘Spill’ of FBI Secrets

March 17, 2023 in Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Julie Kelly The FBI agent squirmed on the hot seat. Confronted with messages the Justice Department attempted to conceal, Nicole Miller, one of the lead FBI investigators assigned to the Proud Boys case, was on the verge of admitting that the FBI monitored privileged communications between one defendant and his attorney in 2021. “It […]

Biden’s ‘La Invitacion’ to Illegal Aliens Triggered Border Crisis, New Book Charges

March 17, 2023 in Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Virginia Allen In 2021, Todd Bensman stood on the edge of the Rio Grande river with a member of a drug cartel. Despite usually trying to avoid the cartels, Bensman found himself interviewing the man, who happened to be on vacation after guiding a group of illegal aliens into Texas. “He had his cocaine. […]

What the WHO Is Actually Proposing

March 16, 2023 in Featured, Healthcare, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By David Bell The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently developing two international legal instruments intended to increase its authority in managing health emergencies, including pandemics; (1) Amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), and (2) A pandemic treaty, termed ‘CA+’ by the WHO. The draft IHR amendments would lay out new powers for […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s How Many Pride Events The Air Force Held In 2022, According To A Just-Launched DEI Newsletter

March 16, 2023 in Featured, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Micaela Burrow The Air Force hosted 67 Pride celebrations in 2022, according to the first Air Force Office of Diversity and Inclusion quarterly newsletter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Among those events, top Air Force leaders participated in the first service-wide LGBTQ+ Pride event organized by a new volunteer team within the […]

Lying to Ourselves

March 16, 2023 in Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Theodore Dalrymple One of the peculiarities of our age is the ferocity with which intellectuals and politicians defend propositions that they do not—because they cannot—believe to be true, so outrageous are they, such violence do they do to the most obvious and evident truth. Agatha Christie (a far greater psychologist than Sigmund Freud), drew […]

Hoorah for Hate Speech

March 15, 2023 in Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Bruce Bialosky You, like I, certainly are stunned that there would be a day in the United States where people are talking about banning certain forms of speech and branding it as “hate speech.” As someone who is a free speech absolutist, I find the entire matter repulsive. I applaud that the opportunity to […]

Culture of Death: Dem Resigns After Calling to Abort Kids with Disabilities to Avoid Using Up School Budgets

March 15, 2023 in Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By Catherine Salgado As the late Pope John Paul II once said, we are living in an era where most countries promote a “culture of death.” One of the most obvious examples of this is the zealous, almost religious support of so many for abortion; even many people who understand that abortion is wrong still […]

The Iraq War, 20 Years Later

March 15, 2023 in Education, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.org

By John Mueller On Thursday, March 16, we reach the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq under the George W. Bush administration. There will be an afternoon of panels on that day at Cato reflecting on the event. As the invasion loomed, there was quite a bit of protest both in the […]

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