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A Viable Realism and Revival Doctrine
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Vivek Ramaswamy Washington, Monroe, and Nixon equals America First. In his inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson famously summarized the thought of George Washington in what is now known as the Washington Doctrine: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” The last of the Founders to serve as president, James Monroe, […]
Florida Senator Marco Rubio Releases 40-Page Report On The Crisis Of Working, Non-Working Men
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio will release a 40-page report Tuesday regarding male labor participation that details the problems men face in their role as providers and shares evidence that working-aged men are having trouble finding quality jobs and are dropping out of the labor force at high rates. The Daily […]
Bidenomics Jobs Report: 1.2 Million Native-Born Workers Lost Their Jobs & Were Replaced With 668K Foreign-Born Workers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Immigration, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report And the illegitimate POTUS is out today bragging about jobs. Zero Hedge reports that 1.2 million American born workers have been replaced by nearly 700k foreign born workers. Bidenomics: America last. As Biden continues to tout his economy, the data says otherwise. The July jobs estimate was revised 30,000 lower and […]
The U.S. Fiscal Ponzi Scheme: Enjoy The Sun While You Can
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ken Veit There are few things as confusing as the concept of money. Thorough explanations quickly become bogged down in technical weeds. I am going to attempt to make this as simple as possible for the general reader. It will probably upset my more technically savvy financial friends, but let the chips fall where […]
Wealthy Democrats Aided And Abetted The Biden Border Crisis, Now They’re Whining About It
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy John Daniel Davidson Amid the scrum of news this week about Democrat-led schemes to put former President Donald Trump on trial during the GOP primaries and rig the 2024 election in plain sight, you might have missed a cautionary tale out of New York City, where Democrat millionaires are whining about a migrant crisis […]
The Richest Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ken Braun A new profile at InfluenceWatch for the Opposition to Nuclear Energy movement lists eleven anti-nuclear nonprofits that each individually have annual revenue in excess of $50 million. As shown in a previous essay, there are hundreds of left-leaning nonprofits that oppose the use of zero-carbon nuclear energy, including nearly all of the nation’s largest climate/carbon alarmist […]
STEPHEN MOORE: Biden’s Killing the American Dream of Homeownership
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller In boasting about Bidenomics two weeks ago in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden declared that his policies are “restoring the American dream.” Then he went into his creepy whispering mode and assured us “it’s working.” Huh? Isn’t a big aspiration of the American dream owning a home? Biden keeps making first-time homeownership […]
Curse of Easy Money: US Government Interest Payments v. Tax Receipts, Average Interest on Treasury Debt, & Debt to GDP
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter Spiking Interest payments will hopefully, knock on wood, force the drunken sailors in Washington to go through detox. The gigantic US government debt is now approaching $33 trillion, amid a tsunami of issuance of Treasury securities to fund the mind-blowing government deficits and roll over maturing securities. At the same time, the Fed has […]
COVID-19 Lies and What to Do About Them
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kurt Mahlburg The fall of Fauci and the unraveling narrative about COVID-19’s origins is something of a slow-motion train wreck. As recently as 2021, White House Chief Medical Advisor and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci was hailed as a national hero and an icon of science. To be […]
Is the Fair Tax in Our Future?“
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dr. Thomas Patterson Critics of Donald Trump once counted tax evasion among his many faults. But it turned out that he wasn’t breaking any tax laws. He was simply utilizing the complex web of exemptions, deductions and other rules available to reduce his tax bill to near zero. It would be hard to imagine […]
What Is the New Deal with the New Deal?
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Robert E. Wright Editors’ Note: It is quite striking how many similarities we have today with another thuggish Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The New Deal was the template for the modern welfare/warfare state and for the abuse of the electoral process, and the court system. Looking back, it seems fantastic that so many Americans […]
Exposed: Best Buy’s Discrimination Against Christians
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy O’Keefe Media Group We have a crucial update on the Best Buy whistleblower case that has been making waves across the nation. Enis Sujak, the man who courageously exposed Best Buy’s blatant discrimination, has been officially terminated by the company. The Backstory For those who missed our initial coverage, Sujak provided OMG with recordings […]
The Three-Headed Monster Giving Us Lousy Public Policy
/in Economy, Education, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Art Carden We have made fantastic strides in our understanding of how the physical and social worlds work. The Great Enrichment of the last three centuries or so that happened because we adopted the Bourgeois Deal of “Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich” has lifted us to standards of living our ancestors […]
Biden Brags About ‘Strongest Economy In The World’ While 61% Of Americans Live Paycheck-To-Paycheck
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller President Joe Biden bragged Friday that the United States has the “strongest economy in the world,” while a majority of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. The president touted the economy in a Friday address about the August jobs report, which showed the U.S. added 187,000 nonfarm payroll jobs, and the unemployment rate rose to 3.8% over the past […]
Mother of 4: How Can AOC Be So Oblivious About Inflation?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Discover The Networks Friday on Fox & Friends First, mother of four Amber Bergeron fired back at Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) after the lawmaker shared a video that said inflation was “propaganda.” AOC reposted a video to Instagram on Thursday from the Aotearoa Liberation League, a left-wing group based in New Zealand that lists among […]
House Freedom Caucus: No Security, No Funding
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Rob Bluey With the clock ticking closer to the Sept. 30 government funding deadline, the conservative House Freedom Caucus this week outlined its official position on Washington’s latest spending debate. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., a member of the Freedom Caucus, spoke to The Daily Signal about why conservatives are insisting House Republicans honor their promise to reduce government […]
Share of U.S. Born Men in the Labor Force Declined Dramatically Since the 1960s
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier The following study is from the Center for Immigration Studies that looks at the decades-long decline in labor force participation among the U.S. born men and women and its implications for immigration policy. Working-Age, but Not Working in California Share of U.S.-born men in the labor force declined dramatically since the […]
Chinese Parent Behind Company Building Michigan Battery Plants Employs 923 CCP Members
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Chinese parent company of Gotion Inc., which intends to build two electric battery plants in Michigan, employs 923 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members, including its CEO, according to its 2022 ESG report. The Fremont, California-based Gotion Inc. — which is “wholly owned and controlled” by Gotion High-Tech Power Energy Co., according to […]
Powell Smacks Down Calls to Raise 2% Inflation Target: “2% Is and Will Remain our Inflation Target”
/in Economy, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter He fretted about the re-accelerating economy flying above the “below-trend” growth required to get to 2%. “We will keep at it until the job is done.” The most important aspect of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech today [8/25/23] at the Jackson Hole Symposium was his total and repeated smackdown of the folks […]
NASCAR, Other Companies Ban White Job Applicants
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Despite NASCAR’s claims about being an equal opportunity employer, their “Diversity Internship” has officially banned white people from applying. The job listing states, “We seek to attract and retain the best qualified people available. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race [or] color.” Yet, according to The […]
‘Climate Crisis’ Lies Are Killing People
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado The thoroughly mendacious “climate crisis” narrative, which has been consistently and wildly wrong for 50 years and continues to be wrong now, has turned deadly. People are dying as a result of terrible policies based off climate change hysteria. I just reported for PJ Media on a media call where several climate experts agreed that government […]
America’s International Influence Wanes as Communist Nations Craft Partnerships
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Economic weakness and radical policies are pushing nations away from the U.S. and into the arms of China and Russia, a well-known business school head stated Friday. “The U.S. is clearly losing our authority on the world stage,” former Congressman Dave Brat said on August 25’s “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins.” Brat is dean […]
Offshore Wind Is Neither Clean, Nor Green And Doesn’t Cut CO2 Emissions
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig Rucker America is preparing to spend trillions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars to install thousands of offshore wind turbines – for illusory benefits. Advocates claim offshore wind energy is clean and sustainable. Wind itself certainly is, but that doesn’t mean getting energy from wind is. Relying on the wind just to provide electricity […]
BIDENOMICS: U.S. Federal Reserve Preparing ‘To Raise Rates Further’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier Have you bought groceries lately? Tried to get a mortgage. The pain and struggle of daily life is another huge news story the Democrat media axis ignores as they lick their claws in their gilded cages. Fed Chair Powell calls inflation ‘too high’ and warns that ‘we are prepared to raise […]
Biden’s ‘alcohol czar’ Wants to Limit Americans to 2 Alcoholic Drinks a Week, while Massive amounts of Fentanyl cross our borders
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report And a marijuana shop on every corner. But no drinks for you. Drug deaths nationwide hit a new record. 109,680 people died in 2022. As the fentanyl crisis continued to deepen, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But hold your beer! They are out of control. […]
6 Highlights of Trump’s Debate-Disrupting Interview With Tucker Carlson
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Fred Lucas Former President Donald Trump addressed the disputed 2020 election, his mounting legal problems, and the potential for “civil war” during a wide-ranging interview with former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, released Wednesday night. Trump, the nation’s 45th president and current front-runner for his party’s nomination, opted against participating in the first Republican […]
Biden Regime SUES Elon Musk’s SpaceX for ‘Only Hiring American Citizens’ and Not Refugees
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Immigration, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Biden administration SUES Elon Musk’s SpaceX for ‘only hiring U.S. citizens’ and ‘discouraging’ asylum seekers and refugees from applying for jobs. By Gd, this regime is at war against the American people. Make it stop. Biden administration SUES Elon Musk’s SpaceX for ‘only hiring US citizens’ and ‘discouraging’ asylum seekers and […]
Hawaii Company Blasts Biden For Callous Response to Maui Fire
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Discover The Networks A Hawaiian business has slammed alleged President Joe Biden for comparing the catastrophic Maui fire to a small, quickly-contained kitchen fire in his home nearly two decades ago, according to the Daily Wire. At least 115 people on Maui were killed and hundreds are still missing after deadly fires ripped through the island earlier […]
Grading the First Peanut Gallery Debate
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Eric Lendrum Vivek was the single exception to an underwhelmingly mediocre debate While the eyes of well over 160 million people were on the highly-anticipated interview between President Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, the undercard debate of also-ran candidates proved very telling in its own way, often at the expense of the GOP. With a single […]
House Freedom Caucus Throws Wrench Into Congress’ Government Spending Fight
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The House Freedom Caucus has issued a list of demands for 12 appropriations bills that will be considered by Congress in September, which must be passed to avoid a government shutdown, according to a press release issued on Monday. The Caucus has often clashed with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other […]