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Senators Express Optimism That Trump Will Restore Pro-Life Policies at HHS
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, Politics, Regulation, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Following four years of the Biden administration reversing the pro-life federal policies established during President Donald Trump’s first term, Republican senators are expressing confidence that the incoming Trump administration will put back in place policies that blocked federal funds from going to abortion businesses, allowed pregnancy resource centers to receive federal […]
End Of Biden’s Title IX Rule Change Hailed By Arizona Lawmakers
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Daniel Stefanski Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Arizona Republicans are applauding a recent court decision that helps to protect females. Late last week, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky dealt a significant blow to a Final Rule from the Biden administration on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. […]
Big Pharma Continues to Hide the Truth
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Harvey Risch Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes On Thursday, Joe Rogan and Marvel megastar Josh Brolin traded stories about the preponderance of Covid vaccine injuries among their friends. Brolin even described contracting “a mild case of Bell’s palsy” earlier this year, which Rogan attributed to the vaccine, noting he knew several people who suffered facial […]
Heritage Foundation Launches Ad Supporting Former Dem RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Signal DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Heritage Foundation on Monday launched an advertisement campaign supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to direct the Department of Health and Human Services. WATCH: The Heritage Foundation RFK Jr. Ad The ad, first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, touts Kennedy as “fearless,” and promotes his policy […]
RFK, Vaccines, and the FDA
/in Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Raymond J. March As President-elect Trump prepares to return to the White House this January, many continue to question his choices for key cabinet positions. Perhaps his most controversial appointment so far is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (commonly referred to as RFK) as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. And a recent vaccine-related controversy is not […]
Critically Thinking about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Federal Healthcare
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. Arguably, for the first time in modern U.S. history, the federal government is: open to making radical changes in government agencies, has the right political perspective, and is receptive to citizen inputs. Yes, there are always reasons to be skeptical — but the upside is so great that we should assume the […]
Alternatives To Biden’s Presidential Medal Of Freedom Awards
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mark Wallace Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Those following the news these days will note that President Joe Biden has been generously doling out Presidential Medal of Freedom Awards to some of the major heroes of the so-called Progressive Left. Among the recipients are Liz Cheney, Hillary Clinton and George Soros. Also awarded the […]
Powerful Explosive Video Exposé on The Trial of Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus
/in Commentary, Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Vlad Tepes Blog We focus on the Helen Grus hearings because it is one of the clearest and most accurately recorded examples of how a once civilized process of determining truth in order to set the correct outcome based on rule of law and Western values has become a dialectical process of ritual destruction […]
Musk Completely Derails UK Political Establishment, Accuses PM’s Party Of Covering Up Muslim Rape Gangs
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Elon Musk ignited a political firestorm in Britain after accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer of complicity in the “rape of Britain” Friday, reanimating a years-old debate over organized child sexual exploitation by predominately Muslim Pakistani men. Musk has ravaged Starmer and other U.K. officials in a barrage of tweets over the […]
Medical Doctor: ‘Pandemic preparedness’ industry ‘like arsonists running the fire department’
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Leo Hohmann Biden created another layer of federal bureaucracy when he created the permanent Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy. Will Trump abolish this freedom-killing monster? Don’t bank on it. I reported back in July 2023 that the Biden administration had created a permanent Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy. This encapsulates everything […]
WARNING: Bill Gates unleashes plan for new series of gene-based injections that will target Africa
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Leo Hohmann The Global depopulation agenda moves forward. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is rolling out a plan to use Africans as guinea pigs for an expanded series of new genetically altering mRNA injections. He calls them vaccines but we know they are not vaccines, at least not in the traditional meaning of the word. […]
Here’s the List of 158 Democrats Who Voted To Keep Convicted Sex Offender Illegals In America
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report January 6, 2025/in Child Sex, Child Sex Trafficking, Communism, Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Elections, Healthcare, Hot Topics, Marxism, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report Below is the list of the Democrats by state who voted to to keep illegals […]
Voters Overwhelmingly Say Schools Should Not Keep Student Gender Transitions Hidden
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Brendan Clarey The overwhelming majority of Americans do not believe schools should hide a student’s gender change at school from parents, according to a recent poll of over 2,200 likely voters. The issue of parental notification regarding a student’s gender transition has been hotly contested in recent years, especially in California, where the state […]
‘People Will Be Outraged’: MAHA Advocates Tell Senators To Think Twice Before Opposing RFK Jr.’s Nomination
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Supporters of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda have a message for senators who may be entertaining the idea of tanking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination: opposition won’t go unnoticed among the American public. Though Kennedy’s nomination to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary is drawing […]
GENDER INDOCTRINATION: 16 States That Force Transgender Lessons on Kids
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tyler O’Neil Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s easy to grow desensitized to the threat of gender ideology in schools. It seems every day there is a fresh new outrage about kindergarteners getting indoctrinated into “trans joy” and school clinics offering transgender “medicine” for minors. President-elect Donald Trump’s historic reelection victory represented a loud rebuke to […]
JK Rowling: ‘There are no trans kids’ and ‘no child is born in the wrong body’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch JK Rowling is back in the news over her continuing opposition to the far-left trans agenda. This time, she posted on X: Rowling also praised an article by Kara Dansky — a “feminist fighting for the sex-based rights of women and girls.” Dansky makes the compelling argument: In order to justify the enshrinement of […]
The Spies Who Hate Us
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jeffrey Tucker Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Brownstone Institute has been tracking a little-known federal agency for years. It is part of the Department of Homeland Security created after 9-11. It is called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA. It was created in 2018 out of a 2017 executive order that seemed to […]
Questioning Vaccines Shouldn’t Be Verboten
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Signal In the Harry Potter series, the villain, Lord Voldemort, is known as “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.” There’s a similar sentiment whenever someone expresses a heterodox opinion on vaccines. The long knives are already out for Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. While there are valid concerns among pro-life activists, the most prominent […]
Absolute vs Relative Risk: An Exceptionally Important Medical Statistic
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. In my last commentary, one of several key things I am recommending that RFK Jr. fix in the FDA, is how they portray effectiveness (of drugs, vaccines, etc.) to the public. Currently, the effectiveness that is almost exclusively shown is relative risk. I am advocating that absolute risk be shown. I cited two important examples where others […]
Critically Thinking about the FDA: Particularly its Emergency Use Authorization and Approval processes
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, National Security, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. The U.S. healthcare system is woefully inadequate from several perspectives. A silver lining of the COVID-19 fiasco is that it exposed several of these systemic failures. To make this discussion somewhat digestible, I will focus on the FDA, and its Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and Approval processes. The root problem with both of these, […]
Don’t Trust the Cabinet, Trust the Market
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Raymond J. March To the surprise of many, Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election handedly. Even more are surprised by his rapid—and sometimes head-scratching—nominations ahead of taking office again. So far, he has appointed TV personality and physician Dr. Mehmet Oz to be the Center for Medicare and Medicate Services administrator, business woman and former […]
Is it Time to Restore the Pledge of Allegiance and Prayer back into our Public Schools?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) I was recently inspired by something that happened in Poland. You see I am of Polish heritage. I watch a video of a Polish teacher explaining how they have changed their policies as a result of the Russian/Ukrainian War. WATCH: Poland mandates gun training, marksmanship and […]
ACLU Attorney Confesses: Transgender-Suicide Claim is a Myth
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Leor Sapir Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors’ Note: As the author points out, the differences between “feelings” of suicide and committing the act are quite different. By conflating the two, trans activists have bullied parents, therapists, school officials, and doctors into doing some brutal things to children. More often than not, it is […]
The Supreme Court Must Act to Protect Children from Online Pornography Exposure
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy National Center on Sexual Exploitation Your child walks into a supermarket, convenience store, or bookstore. Are they able to buy pornography? The answer is no. Most states have laws that prohibit the distribution of sexual material that is “harmful to minors.” In 1968, the Supreme Court held that it was permissible for New York to prohibit the […]
Progressivism and the Murder of a Health Insurance CEO
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Connor O’Keeffe Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Editors’ Note: What seems odd is Progressives who are taking delight in the murder of the CEO do not see the role they played in creating the medical cartel that they inveigh against. As this article so correctly points out, the present frustrating system is the product […]
Capitol Hill Bathroom Controversy Continues: 15 Trans Activists Arrested for Illegally Protesting
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Have you ever heard of a “bathroom sit-in”? Apparently, it’s the term used to describe a form of protest in which transgender activists crowd or obstruct a bathroom space to try and prove a point. In this case, roughly 15 people from the Gender Liberation Movement (GLM) occupied the bathroom across […]
Biden Program May Have Helped Sex Traffickers ‘Exploit Women and Girls’: Congressional Report
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Human sex traffickers may have used a Biden administration program that imported tens of thousands of illegal immigrants a month into the United States “to exploit women and girls,” a congressional report has revealed. In addition to breaking consecutive records for the largest number of border crossings in U.S. history, the […]
WARNING: ‘Wicked’ Not Only Includes Witchcraft But Also LGBTQ Content!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy One Million Moms Alerting All Parents! One Million Moms needs your help to make sure as many people as possible are aware of Universal Pictures pushing the LGBTQ agenda on families, particularly children, in the musical Wicked. Of course, the musical contains a tremendous amount of witchcraft and sorcery, and that content prompts most parents to […]
DOGE Zeroes in on $150 Billion Spent on Illegal Immigration in Single Year
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council As the U.S. continues to accumulate debt at a record pace, entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are calling attention to tens of billions of taxpayer dollars being spent on illegal immigrants. Citing a Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) study, DOGE posted on […]
Tennessee AG Says SCOTUS Could Pave Way To Ending Child Sex Changes And Saving Women’s Sports With Just One Ruling
/in DrRichSwier.com, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Supreme Court’s forthcoming ruling on state child sex change bans could impact a range of issues related to gender identity, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The justices heard oral arguments Wednesday on Tennessee’s law banning medical procedures intended to help a child live as an identity […]