By Lawrence Kadish During World War II, the Allies’ aerial assault on the Nazis did not begin to have the strategic means to bring the enemy to its knees until Germany’s oil reserves were destroyed and it was unable to refuel its tanks. Then, as now, destroying the energy infrastructure of an adversary can bring […]
By Ryne Bolick On the first day of November, Libertarian candidate Marc Victor announced his withdrawal from the race for U.S. Senate in Arizona. This was not all that he announced. Victor also announced his endorsement of Republican candidate Blake Masters. This shows that the Republican Party is the best vehicle for liberty-minded individuals to enact change. […]
By Chuck Ross A dark money group that wants to defund police and abolish federal immigration agencies has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Arizona Senate race, providing a last-minute boost for Democratic senator Mark Kelly, whose once-sizable lead has evaporated ahead of Election Day. Living United for Change in Arizona has spent […]
By Erica Mitchell Above, that’s Vijaya Gadde, who until she was fired by Elon Musk, was Twitter’s lead censor — and, as it turns out, a government suck-up. You have probably seen by now The Intercept’s jaw-dropping report about how the US Government has been collaborating with Big Tech to monitor and shape what Americans are allowed […]
By Craig J. Cantoni The forgotten white supremacists whose descendants pretend to be woke and virtuous. Below are vile, racist comments spoken by white supremacists about minorities. The supremacists and minorities will be identified after the comments. These races have “crooked faces, coarse mouths, bad noses, heavy jaws, and low foreheads.” They “lack the conveniences […]
By John Daniel Davidson The late, great Angelo Codevilla maintained that America’s response to 9/11 was fundamentally flawed because it adopted a law enforcement approach to what is essentially a foreign policy problem. He argued that the law enforcement approach — the idea that we could detect and disrupt terrorist plots before they come to […]
By Tom Joyce (The Center Square) – Arizona will not require public school students to be vaccinated against coronavirus regardless of what the federal government suggests, a joint statement from the Arizona state Senate majority said. Senate leadership noted that Governor Doug Ducey signed HB 2086 into law last May. Among other things, the bill […]
By Bruce Bialosky Editors’ Note: It is no secret that The Prickly Pear believes strongly in the exceptional character of America since its founding as a Republic with individual sovereignty and government by consent of ‘We the People’. What is occurring today with the political party currently in control of the federal government is a […]
By Neland Nobel Perhaps sensing a groundswell of a political backlash against politicians and officials, the Atlantic magazine, long a purveyor of progressive politics, has run a major article suggesting “amnesty” for people that abused their power, and abused other people, because of Covid. Interestingly, Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers (the teacher’s […]
By Terri Jo Neff In 2016, Pima County used more than $15 million in county assets as collateral to lure an aspiring space tourism company connected to now-Sen. Mark Kelly to Tucson despite myriad questions about whether the deal was constitutional. The Arizona Court of Appeals answered one of those questions on Oct. 26, ruling […]
By Bobby Anne Flower Cox I’m currently down here in the free state of Florida for a summit this weekend where I am one of the legal experts on the panel of lawyers (hence me being a day late in posting this week’s Substack). The lineup of speakers here has been phenomenal. Truly brilliant minds, […]
By Jim Hoft Phoenix police identified the man who allegedly broke into Katie Hobb’s campaign office this week. Police arrested Daniel Mota Dos Reis in connection with the break-in. Moto Dos Reis was already in jail after being arrested for a separate commercial burglary in the Phoenix area. Katie Hobbs accused Kari Lake’s team of […]
By Susan Berry, PhD A new poll finds 75 percent of likely American voters believe the transgender movement has gone too far by encouraging underage minors to use drugs and surgery to transition to the opposite sex. The survey, co-sponsored by Colorado-based Summit Ministries – which embraces a Christian worldview – and national polling firm […]
By Neland Nobel Libertarian candidate for the US Senate in Arizona has pulled out of the Arizona US Senate race, making it now a clear choice between Democrat incumbent Mark Kelly and Republican challenger Blake Masters. The Prickly Pear has expressed concern that in such a tight race, votes for the libertarian candidate would be “wasted” […]
By Editorial Staff By Timothy H.J. Nerozzi Republican Blake Masters is facing Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly in the midterm election The Libertarian candidate in Arizona’s Senate race has dropped out and endorsed his Republican opponent. Libertarian Senate candidate Marc Victor, who was polling at 1% in a New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday, […]
By Mark T. Cicero Editors Note: When the President of the United States said he will shut down the fossil fuel industry, what do you think happens to capital flows for the industry? When the ESG movement said they will not fund the fossil fuel industry, what do you think happens to capital flows? Well, […]
By Craig J. Cantoni A self-identified Hispanic reveals the speciousness of today’s racial/ethnic labels but then falls into the same trap. A reader of the Wall Street Journal with the surname of Flores had me cheering enthusiastically over part of what he wrote in the Reader Comments of the online edition of the newspaper. He […]
By Will Jones COVID-19 is much less deadly in the non-elderly population than previously thought, a major new study of antibody prevalence surveys has concluded. The study was led by Dr. John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Stanford University, who famously sounded an early warning on March 17th, 2020 with a widely-read article in Stat News, […]
By Timothy Sandefur In a major win for Arizona taxpayers—thanks to the work of the Goldwater Institute—a state appellate court yesterday declaredthat Pima County officials violated the state Constitution when they adopted a multimillion-dollar subsidy for the World View company, a business that’s supposed to take passengers on rides to the stratosphere in specially modified high-altitude […]
By Neland Nobel Not too long ago, The Prickly Pear ran a piece, “Don’t Take the Bait”. It suggested that the press and the Democrats were deliberately baiting conservatives to take action that would result in violence, so it could be to discredit conservatism. It went on to recommend that conservatives swear off any kind […]
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