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Arizona News: March 20, 2024

By The Editors The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Biden/Obama leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure […]

Dragging Trump Into Court While Biden Campaigns Is Election Interference, Regardless Of Verdict

By Brianna Lyman Even if Trump succeeds everywhere in court, Democrats’ lawfare is costing him time and money in a busy campaign season. Former President Donald Trump spent Thursday sitting in a Florida courtroom while his opponent, President Joe Biden, hit the campaign trail — a reminder that Democrats’ 2024 campaign strategy of “get Trump” […]

Kari Lake and Mark Finchem Take Lawsuit To Ban Voting Machines To The US Supreme Court With New Allegations Of Illegal Machine Certification

By Jordan Conradson March 19, 2024/in 2024 Election, Arizona News, Election Integrity, Featured, Latest News, Maricopa, Midterms 2022, Politics/by Jordan Conradson Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Kari Lake and Mark Finchem appealed their lawsuit to ban the use of electronic voting machines to the United States Supreme Court on Thursday This comes after the 2022 […]

Not A Good Look For Liz Cheney: Now It Looks Like Her Star J6 Witness Was Lying

By Chris Donaldson New details have emerged on the Nancy Pelosi-Liz Cheney sham J6 committee and it now looks like one of their star witnesses may have been less than truthful. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on the day of the so-called “insurrection” electrified the media with […]

NATO’s ‘Welfare’ States: Treating the U.S. As ‘Room Service’

By Peter Hoekstra Last month, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg conceded what former US President Donald Trump has been warning about for nearly a decade: America’s allies are not paying their fair share — as they had agreed — for national defense. After four years in which Trump held our NATO allies accountable for funding their […]

What to Make of the Confusing and (Mostly) Incorrect Federal Court Ruling on Arizona’s Proof of Citizenship Election Law

By Arizona Free Enterprise Club It is no secret that an overwhelming number of Americans believe that only U.S. citizens should be allowed to vote in our elections. It arguably is and ought to be the first and primary qualification to vote. But what good is that requirement if it isn’t verified? In other words, […]

Military Recruitment Crisis: What If It *Is* The Product?

By Rebecca Burgess Any phenomenon manifesting in a large, complex, multipart institution whose dynamics are downwind of society at large is bound to have not just one cause, but many. Current institutional case in point: the U.S. Armed Forces and the military recruitment crisis. For the two-plus years that the military’s branches (outside of the U.S. […]

High School Apologizes For Asking Student To Remove American Flag From Truck

By John Oyewale Authorities at a rural high school in southeastern Indiana apologized after a social media post about them asking a student to take down the U.S. national flag from his truck last Thursday on the campus went viral, according to reports. The counselor and vice-principal of East Central High School in St. Leon […]

Arizona Congressmen Call On IRS To Not Tax State Rebate

By Cameron Arcand March 17, 2024/in Arizona News, Economy, Featured, Latest News, Personal Finance, Politics/by Cameron Arcand Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute The chorus of voices in opposition to the Internal Revenue Service’s taxation of a state rebate many Arizona families received last year continues to grow. On Wednesday, U.S. Reps. David Schweikert, Greg […]

China’s Purchase Of This Academic Support Site Jeopardizes Students’ Security

By Mary Vought As the mother of two young daughters, I want to safeguard the values that make our nation great for the next generation. The recent acquisition of Tutor.com by the Chinese private equity firm Primavera Capital Group undermines those cherished values. This development gives me significant pause as a parent who understands that children sometimes need additional […]

England Banning Puberty Blockers for Kids Will ‘Save Lives,’ Experts Predict

By Mary Margaret Olohan England’s National Health Service has declared that there’s not enough evidence of “safety and clinical effectiveness” for children and young people to be given puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria. “Puberty blockers (gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues) are not available to children and young people for gender incongruence or gender dysphoria, because there […]

China’s Purchase Tutor.com Jeopardizes Students’ Security

By Mary Vought As the mother of two young daughters, I want to safeguard the values that make our nation great for the next generation. The recent acquisition of Tutor.com by the Chinese private equity firm Primavera Capital Group undermines those cherished values. This development gives me significant pause as a parent who understands that children sometimes need additional […]

Taking On the College Cartel

By Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane The venerable economist Milton Friedman once said, “Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change.” That’s the impulse behind Winston Churchill’s admonition (later famously echoed by Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel): “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Well, welcome to the world of American higher […]

Liz Cheney Covered Up Trump’s Push For National Guard On J6 In Political Memoir

By Tristan Justice As The Federalist reported, former Rep. Liz Cheney suppressed evidence that Trump requested National Guard troops for Jan. 6, 2021. In her memoir, former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., falsely framed former President Donald Trump as the mastermind of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, with claims that the commander-in-chief resisted calls to […]

WHO’s Guilty of Fake News, Now?

By Molly Kingsley “A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood,” poet William Shenstone once wrote. These words are likely to strike a chord with those who have been following the World Health Organisation’s ever-more desperate attempts to convince an increasingly skeptical public of its […]