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Organize for Attack!
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Center For Security Policy On Independence Day, nearly a dozen black-garbed individuals, some equipped with body armor and firearms, allegedly orchestrated a premeditated ambush on law enforcement outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. According to the federal criminal complaint, the group began firing on the center with fireworks and spray-painting anti-ICE and […]
The Dr. Rich Swier Report for July 17, 2025
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Immigration, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com The Dr. Rich Swier Report for July 17, 2025 View this email in your browser 100% of 2025 Job Growth Went to Americans Thanks to Mass Deportations ‘You Can’t Use This Feature Right Now’ — How Meta’s Facebook Censors Americans using the ‘Spam Scam’ ‘Woke,’ ‘Weak,’ and ‘Out of Touch’: […]
Are Illegal Immigrants Using Taxpayer-Funded Benefits? Not Anymore.
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council In another move to tackle illegal immigration, President Donald Trump and his administration are ensuring that illegal immigrants cannot access taxpayer-funded programs. The White House announced Thursday that the Trump administration “is taking the biggest step in more than 30 years to protect taxpayer-funded benefits for American citizens — NOT illegal […]
20 States Sue To Keep Medicaid Data Away From ICE
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Elyse S. Apel Written by Elyse S. Apel Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors’ Note: The divisions within the Republican Party that allowed for a Democrat victory that tilted Arizona purple with Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs and turncoat Republican Attorney General Chris Mayes, is the gift to Democrats that keeps giving. It is annoying […]
Another Word For American
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Conlan Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes If you enjoy this article, please sign up for our monthly subscription. Articles like this are normally accessed only in PREMIUM CONTENT. The delirium over the Big Beautiful Bill–given that it was signed into law by the hand of Donald Trump–is both predictable and boring. The Democrats, […]
Pedophilia and Politics
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Linda Goudsmit In an important recap of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revelations, journalist Margaret Flavin reports on an audit of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as discussed in a recent interview with Vice President JD Vance. Flavin’s article, “Vice President Vance Underscores Reports of Massive Waste and Corruption in […]
House Passes BBB as Conservatives Win ‘Significant Commitments’ on Life, Transgenderism
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Congress has delivered President Donald Trump’s signature legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill, but not without hours of mean-spirited Democratic delay and principled conservative negotiations that secured “major” commitments of executive action and future legislation to promote the pro-life, pro-family cause. The House of Representatives passed President Trump’s One Big Beautiful […]
GOP Effort To Strip Illegal Immigrants Of Taxpayer-Funded Benefits Fails In Senate
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Senate Democrats moved to block Republican efforts Monday evening to strip illegal immigrants of taxpayer-funded benefits within President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill. The Senate voted 56 to 44 on an amendment from Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn that would have reduced federal Medicaid payments to states who offer health care […]
Supreme Court Allows States To Block Medicaid Funding For Planned Parenthood
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Caroline Boda Written by Caroline Boda Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute South Carolina and other states can bar taxpayer dollars from the federal Medicaid program from going to Planned Parenthood for abortion services, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday In Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, justices ruled 6-3 in favor of South […]
Historic U.S. Child Rescue: 60 Missing, Trafficked Children Saved in Florida Operation
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Immigration, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Florida’s “Operation Dragon Eye” was successful in rescuing 60 children who were missing, endangered, or victims of human trafficking, state officials announced Monday. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said in a press briefing: “We are here to announce the most successful completion of the largest child rescue operation, not just in Florida […]
A Simple Answer to Our Budget Problem
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Written by Bruce Bialosky Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Ronald Reagan was very fond of simple solutions, simple answers. That was what made him such a great communicator. People understood what he was telling them. My favorite statement of his is written in beautiful calligraphy and hung in my office. Regarding the […]
TIME LIMITS: A Simple Answer to Our Budget Problem
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Written by Bruce Bialosky Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Ronald Reagan was very fond of simple solutions, simple answers. That was what made him such a great communicator. People understood what he was telling them. My favorite statement of his is written in beautiful calligraphy and hung in my office. Regarding the […]
AZ Legislative Leaders Blast Fraud By ‘Medicaid millionaires’
/in Economy, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dave Mason Written by Dave Mason Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Arizona is paying $6 billion in Medicaid benefits to more than 20,000 recipients who don’t need the help, legislative leaders said Tuesday at a news conference about a Patient First Coalition report. About one-fourth of those people are “Medicaid millionaires,” who could have […]
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The Purest Form Of Discrimination
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mark Wallace Written by Mark Wallace Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The Trump Administration is attempting to defund an entire host of federally-funded programs, generating fierce opposition from those who have their snouts firmly planted in the federal trough. For them the taxpayer-funded gravy train is coming to an end, a prospect they view […]
Running for Governor with a Plan
/in Education, Environment, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Written by Bruce Bialosky Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes When people are running for an elected position, they often launch their campaign with a book making the case why they are the best candidate for the position, along with their backstory. I have read a few of these over the years and […]
Supreme Court Greenlights Tennessee’s Ban On Sex-Change Procedures For Kids
/in Commentary, Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s law banning child sex change procedures on Wednesday. In a 6-3 ruling, the court held that Tennessee’s law does not violate the Equal Protection clause. “This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical […]
How Trump’s Unmasking of Corporatism Spoiled the Left’s Agenda – The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Suzanne Cook Catlin Written by Suzanne Cook Catlin Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes America’s two dominant political parties approach governance very differently. The Republican Party sees the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as enduring and time tested and they revere freedom. By contrast, today’s Democratic Party has incorporated the teachings of Karl Marx […]
A Few Very Recent Examples of Soviet Level Western Media Propaganda and Active Measures
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Vlad Tepes Blog 1. While RFK Jr struggles to get rid of the astonishing grip big pharma has on the entire set of regulatory bodies of the American medical system, Canada is insulting itself with narratives and dialectics on the issue. Ottawa Citizen: Experts fear upheaval in the U.S. could fuel vaccine distrust in […]
URGENT: World Health Organization About to Give Itself Unlimited Power
/in Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Robert Williams Written by Robert Williams Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Dr.’ Tedros Will Decide How You Must Live The World Health Organization (WHO) might finally be getting just what it wanted: Unlimited power and control. The deadline to opt out of the International Health Regulations is July 19 – less than two months from now. […]
Meet the Companies Helping to Trans Kids and Hide It from Parents
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council It’s been a while since Americans could actually sit back and enjoy June. Now, instead of bumping into rainbows in every aisle and choking on the colored logos of every conceivable brand, there’s some freedom from the suffocating fumes of Pride Month. In these last two years, the march to pull […]
‘Next’: Schumer Dodges Simple Question About Medicaid For Illegal Immigrants
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Immigration, Labor & Unions, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sidestepped a question about whether he supported states giving illegal migrants taxpayer-funded health insurance at a press conference Wednesday. The House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act included a provision to penalize 14 states and the District of Columbia who enroll illegal immigrants in state health insurance programs by […]
Dr. Fauci and China’s Killer Fungus
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Kenneth R. Timmerman Just when you thought you’d heard everything about corruption inside the National Institutes of Health under Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, this week federal prosecutors arraigned two Chinese nationals in Detroit for allegedly attempting to import a “killer fungus” into the United States. Thirty-three year old Yunqing Jian, and her colleague, […]
‘Absolutely Horrific’: AI-Generated Child Porn Leads Teen to Commit Suicide
/in Commentary, Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council As their teenage son lay in the hospital with his life oozing out of him, Eli Heacock’s parents felt their grief compounded by confusion: They had no idea why he had committed suicide. Then they found his phone. Messages showed their son — 16-year-old Elijah “Eli” Manning Heacock of Glasgow, Kentucky — had fallen […]
Why It’s Hard To Make Sense Of The ‘Mishmash’ In Republicans’ ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Chris Jacobs Written by Chris Jacobs Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editor’s note: Given Trump’s pledge of fiscal responsibility and cutting government waste, it is especially perplexing that he has advocated so vociferously for this bill to be passed into law. America is in serious deficit trouble. It is quickly approaching existential levels, and […]
‘Habitual Lawbreakers’: ICE Rolls Up Hundreds Of Illegal Migrant Criminals In Sprawling Massachusetts Operation
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Federal immigration authorities arrested well over 1,000 illegal migrants during a month-long enforcement operation across Massachusetts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, working alongside a slate of other federal partners, arrested 1,461 illegal migrants throughout the Bay State during the month of May, the agency announced Monday. Most of the apprehended foreign […]
Trump Pardons Military Officer Mark Bashaw Who Refused To Follow COVID Mandates
/in Commentary, Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller President Donald Trump pardoned former 1st Lt. Mark Bashaw after he was convicted in 2022 for violating COVID-19 mandates. Former Army officer Bashaw, an entomologist at the Army Public Health Center in Maryland, was pardoned Wednesday over his conviction by a military judge for disobeying orders intended to curb the spread […]
Senate Should Make House’s Big, Beautiful Bill Bigger, More Beautiful
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Government Transparency, Healthcare, National Security, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Signal On Thursday at 6:54 a.m., the U.S. House passed the Trump and Republican-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. (Yup, that is this 1,118-page measure’s official title.) By a snare-drum-tight, 215-214 vote, all but three Republicans and zero Democrats chose to give Americans $4.1 trillion in tax relief, along with their bacon, eggs, tea, […]
A VERY BIG Deal: Critically Thinking about what Science actually is!
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. For years now, I have preached a central theme: the main underlying cause of almost any societal technical problem is that we have replaced Real Science with political science. Think COVID, climate change, renewable energy, etc. The root problem with ALL of these (and many more) is that Real Science had been summarily escorted out of the […]
Report: Biden Admin ‘Downplayed’ And ‘Delayed’ Warnings About Covid Shot Risks
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Shawn Fleetwood Written by Shawn Fleetwood Editor’s note: According to the article, the FDA authorized emergency use of Pfizer’s covid shot on May 10, 2021 in young adolescents aged 12-15. This is at a time when U.S. health officials would have already received large numbers of data points, reports, and warnings about the risks […]
That Big Beautiful Bill
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Kenneth R. Timmerman The House finally passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” in the early morning hours on Thursday, after weeks of hearings during which Democrats did their best to obstruct, delay, and obfuscate. One extraordinary example that got my attention — no thanks to the national media, which almost totally ignored it — […]