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The Prickly Pear Will Celebrate Flag Day in Prescott, Arizona on June 14, 2025
By John R. Ammon Written by John R. Ammon Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes On Saturday, June 14th, The Prickly Pear will take part in the Flag Day celebration at the Yavapai County Courthouse Plaza in the great American city of Prescott, Arizona. In addition to celebrating our beloved American Flag, the day is also […]
Gun Owners Can Be Arrested For Concealed Carrying After Crossing State Lines — But There’s A Solution
By The Daily Caller While Americans acquire training to apply for concealed carry permits, Second Amendment groups are pushing Congress to pass concealed carry reciprocity legislation so gun owners are not arrested after crossing state lines. The Daily Caller went to the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) gun range in Fairfax, Virginia, and attended Live Fire Instruction’s pistol […]
“Be Glad You Live in Arizona”: A Response to Firearm Rights, Self-Defense, and the Importance of Constitutional Legislators
By Michael Infanzon Written by Michael Infanzon In two separate incidents reported from Florida and Nevada, we are witnessing the fallout of government and corporate actions rooted not in Constitutional principle or common sense, but in fear-based policy and ideologically driven overreach. One case involves a Fort Myers Florida tenant who was reportedly given a […]
The Role of State Legislatures in Upholding the Second Amendment
By Michael Infanzon Written by Michael Infanzon In two separate incidents reported from Florida and Nevada, we are witnessing the fallout of government and corporate actions rooted not in Constitutional principle or common sense, but in fear-based policy and ideologically driven overreach. One case involves a Fort Myers Florida tenant who was reportedly given a […]
DERELICTION OF DUTY: Chief Justice John Roberts Admits It’s His Job to Rein in the Judicial Insurrection—and He’s Not Doing It
By The Daily Signal The deep state and its allies have launched a judicial insurrection against President Donald Trump, and Chief Justice John Roberts effectively just admitted he’s not doing his job to stop it. Roberts made a rare public statement back in March, criticizing Trump and other Republicans who have suggested impeaching judges to prevent them from […]
Data Cops Catching Data Gangsters
By Conlan Salgado Written by Conlan Salgado There is a particularly vicious cartel, growing in size and number in the United States: I call them the “data gangsters.” These criminally idiotic people are a subset of the larger, more notorious “Trend Ing Da Wrong Way” gang, who traffic large numbers of lies over international and […]
Republican Arizona Congressman Backs Bills On Silencers
By Chris Woodward Written by Chris Woodward Editors ‘ Note: At the risk of seeming picky, we don’t like to use the terms “silencers” and “suppressors” interchangeably.” The reason is that the term “silencer” suggests that a firearm emits hardly any noise at all. This conjures up Hollywood movie scenes of assassinations and murders where […]
The Shot Heard Round the Web: Freedom Fighters Across Many Aprils
By Catherine Salgado Written by Catherine Salgado From Lexington to Warsaw, from Dublin to Concord, freedom lovers throughout history chose the month of April to stand up to tyranny and make the choice for liberty or death. We could benefit from their dauntless spirit today. Passover began this past weekend and Easter this upcoming weekend, […]
The Prickly Pear Announces A Strategic Alliance with Patriot Mobile
By Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel The Prickly Pear, an online news and opinion magazine, has entered into a strategic alliance with Patriot Mobile. We made this decision based on what would be a good deal for our readers, what provides the best cellular coverage for customers, and Patriot Mobile’s values. As to the […]
The Left’s Assault on the Second Amendment: A Threat to Our Freedoms
By The Editors April 14, 2025/by The Editors Published by The American Conservative | March 11, 2023 The left’s relentless attack on the Second Amendment continues, with progressive activists pushing for gun control measures that would strip law-abiding Americans of their constitutional rights. From banning so-called ‘assault weapons’ to imposing universal background checks, these radicals […]
The Other Side Of The Story
By David (Cowboy Dave) Segall Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Prescott, Arizona, is a small town in Yavapai County. It is rich with the heritage of our Western ancestors and is known as “Everyone’s Hometown USA.” On this particular morning, of April 5, 2025, many Prescott residents were gathering around the courthouse, as is common […]
Florida’s Red Flag Law
By Royal A. Brown III The below article is a good follow-up of presentation I made at Winter Haven 912 meeting on that portion of Florida Red Flag Law allowing unconstitutional Risk Protection Orders to seize firearms, ammo, permits from someone accused of being a threat to themselves or others, e.g. based on something that […]
The Shot Heard Around the Web: Liberty or Death
By Catherine Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes “Liberty or death!” Patrick Henry thundered out that stark alternative to his fellow Patriots at the Second Virginia Convention 250 years ago on March 23, 1775. His words echoed across the colonies, which rose up and demanded independence. And his challenge has rung out in our nation […]
While Dems Flounder, GOP Speeds toward More Wins
By Family Research Council Just how bad are things for the Democratic Party? Apart from the quiet mutiny against Senate leadership, the party of Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is staring down its worst approval ratings in the history of NBC polling. Only a quarter of voters (27%) have positive views of the party, […]
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ State of the State Address for 2025
By Royal A. Brown III Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gave the State of the State address on March 4th, 2025. The following excerpts are of great interest to those of us who support the 2nd Amendment, including Constitutional Carry and rescinding Risk Protection Orders, part of Florida’s Red Flag Law. Governor DeSantis is spot on […]
The Democratic Fork in the Road and the Woke Repudiation Imperative
By The Daily Signal Yogi Berra, the mid-century New York Yankees Hall of Fame catcher known for his pithy and often humorous life observations, once famously quipped: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” It was sound advice, perhaps, for a traveler on the go and in search of a quick […]
‘Remember the Alamo’: The Freedom Fighters Who Inspired Millions
By Catherine Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Today, March 6, marks the anniversary of one of the most famous fights in American history, the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. While the Mexican troops under brutal and dictatorial Gen. Santa Anna seized the Alamo and massacred its American and Mexican defenders, the legacy of the […]
Teenage boy confronted by two armed home invaders and guess what happened?
By Leo Hohmann Things did not turn out well for the two middle-aged men who thought they’d rob a soft-target household while the child’s parents were not home. A 14-year-old Kentucky boy protected his home from two armed intruders during a brazen pre-dawn home invasion that occurred around 4:24 a.m. on Feb. 15 in the […]
IDF Reveals 10-Month-Old Baby, 4-Year-Old Brother Beaten To Death By Hamas Terrorists
By The Daily Caller Daniel Hagari, the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) spokesperson, announced that the dead children returned Thursday to Israel from Gaza were beaten to death by terrorists. “We can confirm that baby Kfir Bibas, aged just 10 months old, and his older brother Ariel, aged four, were both brutally murdered by terrorists while […]
The First Indian-Origin FBI Director and a New Chapter in U.S. Law Enforcement
By Amil Imani Kashyap “Kash” Patel has made history as the first Indian-origin Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a role he achieved after a contentious and politically charged confirmation process. On February 20, 2025, Patel secured his position as the head of the FBI with a narrow Senate vote of 51-49. This […]
President Eisenhower and President Trump Both Strategic High IQ Thinkers
By Geoff Ross USN retired Surface Warfare/Air Warfare The massive corruption, fraud, waste and abuse of our tax money, illegally confiscated from our paychecks and retirement accounts then laundered through the U.S. Treasury to fund unconstitutional expenditures is finally getting exposed by President Trump and his superior high IQ DOGE team led indirectly by Mr. […]
Trump Moves On Ukraine, Euros Panic
By Kenneth R. Timmerman Isn’t this a great time to be alive in America! We finally have a president who cares for this country, who puts our interests first, and who is willing to tell the truth as he sees it, not as our “allies” or adversaries want to hear it. This week, of course, […]
DEI Wall Crumbling in U.S. Military
By Royal A. Brown III The Center for Military Readiness does great work. Our military should never have been subjected to Marxist CRT/DEI pushed by Obama3/Biden and their clones DOD Secy Lloyd Austin and the equally bad JCS who supported him. DOD has put into place a total opposite of a merit based system at […]
What is RFK Jr’s real job as Secretary of Health and Human Services?
By MercatorNet – A Compass for Common Sense Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation as the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the US is the ultimate repudiation of the Covid policy response. The scheme of lockdown-until-vaccination was the biggest effort of government and industry on a global scale on historical record. It was all […]
‘Trump Administration Is Serious’: America’s Southern Border Hasn’t Been This Quiet Since The 1960s
By The Daily Caller As the Trump administration continues to overhaul the country’s immigration enforcement apparatus, encounters along the southern border are bottoming out to levels not experienced in decades, federal data shows. Border czar Tom Homan, who is spearheading the White House’s ambitious deportation operation, revealed Monday that there were merely 229 Border Patrol encounters along […]
It’s on! Kash Patel CONFIRMED for FBI Director
By The Geller Report Let’s go! The hammer of justice is coming. Crooked, criminal Democrats are terrified. ABOUT FBI DIRECTR KASH PATEL Mr. Patel served as the former Chief of Staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and is responsible for leading the Secretary’s mission at the Department, including his executive staff and providing […]
Cry Baby Cry… Nobody is Listening
By Leo Hohmann The crybaby U.S. Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to end funding of refugee resettlement, calling the action unlawful and harmful to newly arrived refugees and to the nation’s largest private resettlement program. In reality, they could care less about the refugees. What they really are concerned about […]
Stacey Abrams Stole $2 BILLION From Taxpayers
By The Geller Report These depraved criminals were so sure, so confident that they would never be caught, the magnitude of their colossal crimes would be comical if it were fiction. But it’s real and it’s monstrous. And the bigger their crimes, the higher they ascended in the Democrat party rackets. All made possible by […]
God is Great, America is Good and Democrats are Crazy
By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) We were inspired to write this column after listening to the 2008 song by Billy Currington titled “People Are Crazy.” Hope you enjoy our column. Please feel free to leave comments if you wish. God is Great America was founded as a Judeo-Christian nation. The […]
Some Suggestions for DOGE
By John Droz, Jr. Powerful, Practical, Plausible Recommendations for DOGE Arguably, for the first time in modern US history, the federal government is: 1) open to making radical changes in government agencies, 2) has the right political perspective, and 3) is receptive to citizen inputs. Yes, there are always reasons to be skeptical — but the upside is so great that we […]