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Teaching and Celebrating Terrorism on Campus – One Professor’s View
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Matthew Hausman, J.D. What is taught at U.S. colleges is not higher education, it is academic fraud. In U.S. law, terrorists are unlawful combatants. Read on. Since Hamas’s bloody October 7th terror attack on Israeli civilians, American college campuses have erupted in demonstrations where students without any sense of decency or history chant antisemitic […]
Sixty Years On, Why the Kennedy Assassination Still Matters
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Michael Wilkerson James W. Douglass describes how, by 1963, JFK had made himself irredeemably odious to the dark powers of the intelligence community and the military-industrial complex. A review of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, by James W. Douglass (Touchstone, 560 pages, $22) June 10, 2023, marks the 60th […]
ASU Investigating Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupting A Meeting On Campus
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cole Lauterbach Editors’ Note: We are pretty much free speech purists, even if that speech is repugnant. However, if groups break the rules pertaining to on-campus meetings or intimidate and interfere with other university functions using force and coercion, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. After the BLM riots, […]
Florida Again Earns Top Spot on Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card [Arizona is #2]
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Samantha Aschieris Editors’ Note: Those who want the hear the podcast can scroll to the to the eleventh one below. Those who prefer to read the transcript can continue below. Florida has once again been ranked No. 1 among the states on The Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card, which was released at an event […]
Florida Earns Top Spot on Education Freedom Report Card (Arizona is #2)
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Samantha Aschieris Editors’ Note: Those who want the hear the podcast can scroll to the to the eleventh one below. Those who prefer to read the transcript can continue below. Florida has once again been ranked No. 1 among the states on The Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card, which was released at an event […]
A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ken Masugi Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer’s African Founders illuminates the leading controversies today with facts that shame political cant and enable us to reassess the centuries of slavery’s effects on American national character. In a scholarly tome of over 900 pages, Fischer follows the method of his earlier work, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in […]
The Two Nations
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Michael Rectenwald A bottom-up libertarian localism that rejects federal funding and resists centralized control is the only viable way to defeat the totalitarian left and to restore the American republic Two political, economic, and cultural movements are vying for the soul of America. One is a program from above, and the other, a movement […]
Michigan Congresswoman’s Planned Speech at ASU Canceled
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cole Lauterbach A planned speech from recently-censured U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus has been canceled by the school. An ASU spokesperson told The Center Square Friday morning that Tlaib’s speech would not happen on school grounds, saying the groups organizing the event didn’t follow proper channels. “Organizers of events […]
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Planned Speech at ASU Canceled
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cole Lauterbach A planned speech from recently-censured U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus has been canceled by the school. An ASU spokesperson told The Center Square Friday morning that Tlaib’s speech would not happen on school grounds, saying the groups organizing the event didn’t follow proper channels. “Organizers of events […]
‘Complicated’: Over 100 Harvard Faculty Defend ‘From The River To The Sea’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Over 100 Harvard faculty members signed a letter saying the phrase “from the river to the sea” is “complicated” in response to the president’s recent statement on antisemitism. Harvard President Claudine Gay wrote multiple statements about the antisemitism on campus following backlash from donors and fire from former grads about her response to antisemitism on campus after […]
College History Textbooks Spread Misinformation About the Great Depression
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Phillip W. Magness The Great Depression was the most significant macroeconomic event of the past century, but don’t expect to find an accurate portrayal of its causes in your college history classroom. The most commonly assigned college-level US history textbooks contain obsolete and economically erroneous explanations of the 1929 stock market crash and its […]
IMPORTANT VIDEO: The Last Line of Defense
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy The Editors Editors’ Note: At The Prickly Pear, we often run as many as ten fresh videos a day. We think all of them are important or we would not select them. But as with most things, some videos are more important, and more eloquent, than others. With so little time, and so much […]
Social Emotional Learning & Critical Thinking
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. For those new to this topic, Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is basically about instilling a set of values into school children. For more information, see two of the prior articles I’ve written about this: SEL Intro and SEL in Public Schools. The advertised goals of SEL sound great! Who could be against the Stated Objectives of helping children to: a) Make better […]
Americans Should Take Islamism Very Seriously
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dr. Thomas Patterson In a speech following 9/11, President Bush assured us that in spite of this terrorist attack, all humans deep in their hearts long for freedom and brotherhood. It’s a comforting sentiment, but it’s not true. Radical Islamists openly proclaim their disdain for freedom as another decadent Western value. Iranian street crowds […]
A Nobel for a Student of Civilization
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Peter Jacobsen The 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (colloquially referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics) was awarded to economist Claudia Goldin. To preface this article, I don’t believe there should be a Nobel Prize in economics, as I’ve pointed out before. My reasoning on this […]
The Crisis of the West Revisited: Self-Flagellation and the Great Liberal Death Wish
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Daniel J. Mahoney This crisis is nothing new. From Sydney to London to untold numbers of American college campuses, we hear incendiary cries for destroying the Jewish state, for a new Jihad or Holy War, all in the name of an ostensibly noble and just “anti-colonialist” struggle. Tens of thousands march in major European […]
Report: U.S. Colleges Received $13 Billion from Mostly Authoritarian Regimes
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council On Monday, the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) released a report revealing that American colleges and universities have received approximately $13 billion in undisclosed funds from foreign governments, many of which are authoritarian regimes such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia. As the report and experts are noting, there appears to be a correlation […]
The Real Scandal: Covid Inquiry’s Failure
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Will Jones The real Covid scandal is emerging right in front of the inquiry’s nose, writes Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph: Britain could have escaped the horrors of lockdown, but nobody pulled apart the doom models driving it. Here’s an excerpt. Let’s go back to when much of the world had copied the Wuhan lockdown, […]
Elementary School Ditches Veteran’s Day for UN-Sponsored ‘Namaste’ Day
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report And you wonder why the younger generations are so malformed and ignorant? These heroes fought and in many cases paid the ultimate price for these spoiled, entitled losers to crap all over them. The UN should not be honored, it should be dismantled, it is the global arm of oppressive regimes […]
Weekend Read: Imprimis – Inside the Transgender Empire
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Christopher F. Rufo The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are […]
Universities Hit With Civil Rights Complaints Alleging Tuition Programs Illegally Discriminate Based On Race
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The University of North Dakota (UND) and UND School of Law were hit with civil rights complaints this week by the Equal Protection Project over tuition reduction programs they allege violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “These institutions […]
Campus Anti-Semitism Can’t be Stopped Without Dismantling the DEI Complex
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky The October 7th murderous terrorist attacks in Israel led to protests erupting on many college campuses. These protests were both verbal and somewhat physical on Israel and the Jewish people while Israel had yet to engage militarily. These protests were justifiably branded by many as anti-Semitic. There have been many calls for […]
There Is No AI Shortcut to Real Education
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Catholic Thing Dan Guernsey: Artificial Intelligence can neither love a student nor inspire greatness. Despondency and cynicism result when learning is isolated, unrecognized by other humans, or simply reduced to data sets. Educational optimists predict that artificial intelligence (AI) will soon provide amazing efficiencies and progress in teaching and learning. There is no doubt […]
NYC: Pre-K Teacher Spreads Pro-Hamas Propaganda to Four-Year-Olds
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch UPDATE: It turns out she is a dhimmi Christian, sold out to the Islamic agenda, as so many are. Raising up a new generation of jihadis. NYC pre-K teacher pushes anti-Israel agenda with lessons about ‘land theft, displacement and ethnic cleansing by Deirdre Bardolf and Susan Edelman, New York Post, November 4, 2023: A […]
Universities Have Become Staging Grounds for American Pogroms
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tony Kinnett The American university system has finally gone beyond failure and has become an active threat to the United States and its people. We have reached peak political irony as LGBTQ activists cry in the streets of college campuses for a group, Hamas, that would hang them from cranes. Universities that once proclaimed the virtues of the […]
Biden Admin Targets Nation’s Largest Private Christian University [Grand Canyon University]
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Corinne Murdock The Biden administration has set its sights on the largest private Christian university in the nation: Arizona’s Grand Canyon University (GCU). For over half a decade the Department of Education (ED) has denied GCU’s IRS-granted nonprofit status. After GCU pushed back with legal action, the Biden administration responded with the full force […]
Homeschooling Is ‘America’s Fastest Growing Form of Education,’ Experts Say
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Since the 2017-2018 school year, the number of parents homeschooling has increased dramatically. With the rise has come pushback from state educators like Hillsborough County School Board member Lynn Gray who said parents don’t have “any understanding of education.” As far as Gray is concerned, this increase in homeschooling is going to hurt […]
Elite University Hosting Biden Center Took Money From School That Settled With US Gov’t Over Alleged Hezbollah Ties
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The University of Pennsylvania, which hosts the Penn Biden Center, took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2022, roughly five years after AUB paid a settlement to the United States government in connection with its alleged ties to Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terror organization. UPenn […]
Ivy League Among Top Recipients of $8.5 Billion Islamic Funding
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The terrifying rise in Jew hatred across college campuses are no accident. Things don’t just happen. They are made to happen. What a difference twenty years can make. Back in 2004, a young Jewish girl from Tennessee got Harvard University to return a $2.5 million gift this week to the president of the […]
Weekend Read – The Gem of Unplanned Pregnancy Options: ‘Open’ Adoption
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Terri Marcroft Editors’ Note: The following essay is the third of three by Theresa Marcroft published in The Prickly Pear. This series is an important contribution addressing the crisis of unplanned pregnancies in America. The first essay, Weekend Read: How Abortion Hurts Women, presents the very real long-term physical and mental health dangers prior […]