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What RFK Jr. Gets Right—and Wrong—About Autism
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jill Escher Editor’s Note: As the father of a 41-year-old autistic man, it is hard to comprehend why some people are upset by RFK’s attempt to do something about the problem. That in no way undermines my son’s humanity. There are problems with the fact that my low-functioning son is defined by a term […]
Help others to FEEL SEEN
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare /by DrRichSwier.comBy Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. “Feeling seen” describes the sensation of being fully recognized, understood, and validated for who you are, your emotions, and your experiences by others. It’s a feeling of deep connection and can be incredibly empowering, leading to a sense of belonging and less isolation. It may be as you read my […]
SANDOVAL: Left Wing Media Seethes At Young, Fertile, Republican Women
/in DrRichSwier.com, Featured, Healthcare, National Security, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Left-wing media has identified a dangerous new political archetype: the thin, fertile, Republican woman. Beware the burgeoning online “womanosphere” urging an audience of young women away from feminism and towards marriage, children, and being attractive, warns The Guardian. The outlet points to prominent conservative commentators such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, […]
Critically Thinking about Goal-Oriented Parenting
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. This is the second most important challenge of most people’s life. Writing this, I’m audaciously stepping into the area of expertise of my friend John Rosemond. John has made a career out of giving parenting advice. At one point, he had a weekly column in a few hundred US newspapers. See his excellent […]
Planned Parenthood Spends Big For Democrats, Faces Cuts Under Republican Control
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Casey Harper Written by Casey Harper Planned Parenthood’s political donations to Republicans have plummeted in the past decade, leaving the nation’s largest abortion provider with few friends on the right as it faces funding cuts under the Trump administration. Planned Parenthood reports that about 34% of its funding comes from the federal government, usually through federal […]
‘Fully Fit’: White House Physician Releases Details On President Trump’s ‘Excellent Health’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller President Donald Trump’s doctor said Sunday the president “exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health” in a memo released by the White House. Trump underwent his annual physical examination Friday, spending nearly five hours at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, the Associated Press reported. United States Navy Capt. Sean […]
New Discoveries in Quantum Physics Will Further Efficiency in Medicine, Space Exploration and More
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Healthcare, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy NEWSRAEL Telling the Israeli Story Israeli scientists have discovered how to ensure further efficiency in quantum technology, meaning advanced computers used across various sectors will now run better than ever. Researchers at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Cornell University have discovered how to keep “quantum spin” – the technology that keeps computers based on […]
Trump State Department Axes $25M Pro-LGBTQ ‘Global Equality Fund’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Signal A $25 million program that offered taxpayer funds to promote LGBTQ ideology abroad has been removed from the State Department website by the Trump administration. The Biden administration State Department’s Global Equality Fund posted its final grant application solicitation on Jan. 6, offering $2.1 million to help LGBTQ people “mitigate and recover from violence and restrictions on human […]
Los Angeles Homeless Failure: A Case Study in Waste, Fraud, Abuse
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky A recent court ordered audit of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) is emblematic of the problems we face at a federal level and how our governments waste our money with little to no accountability. LAHSA was formed in 1993 as a joint authority of the city and county of Los […]
VIDEO: The day President Trump finally got told the truth about Operation Warp Speed
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare /by DrRichSwier.comBy Leo Hohmann Country music star John Rich told President Donald Trump that the reason his supporters booed him at his rallies during his 2024 bid for the White House was because of his constant bragging about Operation Warp Speed, Trump’s controversial COVID-19 program that led to the deaths and injuries of millions of Americans. […]
Government and medical establishment continue to poison our children with mercury and then lie about it to parents
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Leo Hohmann Thimerosal, an ingredient in several childhood vaccines, is linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The U.S. government has for years been telling parents that a mercury-based vaccine preservative called thimerosal poses no harm to children but that, out of an abundance of caution, the ingredient hasn’t been included in childhood vaccines since at […]
An Amazing Story
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes We are often treated to hallucinatory storylines by the legacy media and their allies the Democrats. This one I have not understood at all. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has told us for years that our federal government has experienced immense fraud annually of $300 billion or […]
We Were Paying for What? Trump HHS Slashes Hundreds of Millions in Woke LGBTQ Grants
/in Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes The Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Department has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in grants dedicated to researching illegal sexual behavior in children, pregnancy prevention for “transgender boys,” and so-called sleep inequality affecting black sexual-minority men. In March, HHS canceled at least $530 million of funding […]
Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin To Deport Alleged Gang Members Under Wartime Authority
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Supreme Court permitted the Trump administration on Monday to use a wartime authority to deport alleged members of a foreign gang. In a 5-4 ruling, the majority tossed orders by U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, that blocked the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport members […]
Georgia Bill Sparks MAHA Concerns About Alleged Chinese Poison Chemicals
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Environment, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller MAHA advocates are warning about a bill Georgia lawmakers passed in March that they allege would allow manufacturers of pesticides to escape liability for poisoning customers. Senate Bill 144 would make it so “that a manufacturer cannot be held liable for failing to warn consumers of health risks above those required by […]
Critically Thinking about Pain — Is Pain a Good or Bad Thing?
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. Pain is a strange thing. One of the most insightful things I’ve read about pain is that it is an essential element of making us happy! (e.g., read this interesting article.) Put in a simpler way: Contrast makes all the difference. A personal example is that one of my favorite meals is lobster. However, if […]
Covid Vaccine: Truth and Justice from Trump?
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy James Bovard Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. forced Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, to resign on Friday. Good Washingtonians were horrified, especially since Marks had played a key role in enabling President Biden’s most oppressive Covid mandate. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) […]
Netherlands: A Police State in the Making
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Matthys van Raalten Several years ago, I found out that my family doctor was passing on information about me to the government. Behind my back. My dcotor works closely with drug manufacturers, presumably for a generous commission. So I already objected to my doctor’s methods, because I don’t trust Big Pharma. I trust in […]
Big Pharma and the Big Lie — The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Academy of Ideas “Big Pharma is one of the largest and most profitable businesses in America, and in order to sell their chemical goods to allegedly treat the mind/psyche, pharmaceutical companies must convince society that people’s mental and behavioral problems are caused by their bodily chemicals.” Daniel R. Berger, The Chemical Imbalance Delusion […]
Weekend Read: Can We Fix Our Demographic Doom Loop?
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Edward Ring Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Falling birth rates in rich nations threaten collapse, while poorer regions boom—forcing tough questions on economics, culture, and why modern women choose not to have children. Throughout the developed world, birth rates have crashed. But the “population bomb” that author Paul Ehrlich warned us about in the 1970s […]
New Bill Gives Trump the Legal Power to ‘Reform Our Government and Drain the Swamp’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Two congressional conservatives have introduced a bill that would give legal authorization for President Donald Trump to slash the federal workforce, stop harmful government programs, and even close entire executive departments without fear an activist judge will stop his money-saving reforms by judicial fiat. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) introduced the Reorganizing […]
The Party of Men Who Think They’re Women Decides to Stay the Course
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report What could possibly go wrong for the party of blue-haired, angry Marxists? They know they’re right. They know they’re righteous. They know their opponents are evil, racist fascists. So what if they’ve lost an election or two? They’re on the side of history, you benighted fools! To change course now would […]
EXCLUSIVE: Researchers Axed Data Point Undermining ‘Narrative’ That White Doctors Are Biased Against Black Babies
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller A researcher who argued that infant mortality is higher for black newborns with white doctors because of racial bias omitted a variable from the paper that “undermines the narrative,” according to the researcher’s internal notes. The study forms a keystone of the racial concordance field, which hypothesizes patients are better served […]
Biotech and Big Pharma Dodge a Bullet with FDA Nominee
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Kelleigh Nelson “The field of U.S. cancer care is organized around a medical monopoly that ensures a continuous flow of money to the pharmaceutical companies, medical technology firms, research institutes, and government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and quasi-public organizations such as the American […]
Abortion, Mega-Donors, and Election Integrity: What to Know about Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Race
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Government Transparency, Healthcare, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council A judicial contest in the Badger State is heating up and drawing national attention. Following President Donald Trump’s sweeping electoral victory in November, the race for a seat on Wisconsin’s state supreme court is shaping up to be the first major test of conservative voter momentum since the presidential election. Already, […]
Trump to Revoke Temporary Legal Status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans That Biden Secretly Flew In
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Undoing the havoc of the Biden invasion. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday. The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year “parole” granted to the migrants […]
Let’s Fix Education: “Big Picture Thinking”
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare /by DrRichSwier.comBy Linda Goudsmit I am thrilled to post education reformer Bruce Deitrick Price’s podcast transcript, March 12, 2025, Let’s Fix Education: Episode 193, Big Picture Thinking: TRANSCRIPT: BIG PICTURE THINKING I want to celebrate the work of Linda Goudsmit. She is that rare miracle today, a big thinker. Her topic is understanding life in the 21st-century, […]
Big Pharma wins, Dr. Dave Weldon withdrawn from CDC cofirmation
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Kelleigh Nelson “Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined […]
Lying corporate media continues to gaslight American parents on measles outbreak: Here’s the truth about America’s ‘first measles death’ since 2015
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Leo Hohmann A video report was just released by Children’s Health Defense exposing the corrupt mainstream corporate media, which loudly and repeatedly announced that a 6-year-old child died in Texas recently of measles. Due to new information, we now know that this report was patently false. The child did not die of measles. The child died […]
After Media’s Covid ‘Oopsie,’ I Don’t Want To Hear The Word ‘Misinformation’ Ever Again
/in Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Elle Purnell Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Media gave air cover to censors by constructing artificial boundaries around acceptable thought and calling everything else ‘misinformation.’ Over the weekend, The New York Times did the journalistic equivalent of crashing an Oscar Mayer Wienermobile into a men’s store and telling police “we’re all trying to find the […]