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Weekend Read – Covid Response at Five Years: The Role of the Military
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Editors of the Brownstone Institute Estimated Reading Time: 14 minutes The year 2020 introduced a barrage of previously obscure phrases to the forefront of the American lexicon. Social distancing, PCR tests, misinformation, mRNA platforms, remote learning, Zoom school, lockdowns, super-spreader, net zero, Juneteenth, epidemiologists, BIPOC, and so on. In the onslaught of new terms […]
Trump Cuts Off Student Loan Forgiveness to LGBTQ Activists, Open Borders Groups, and Terrorists
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council As part of his ongoing efforts to root out federal programs that underwrite left-wing programs at taxpayer expense, President Donald Trump has curbed a program that forgives student loans for those who work for groups that promote illegal immigration, terrorism, anti-American policies, or facilitate “child mutilation” through transgender surgeries. The Public […]
Without God, There is No TRUE Respect for Human Life
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Selwyn Duke Since my title is bound to inspire criticism that I’m a “God botherer,” I’ll preface what follows by stating that I wasn’t always the halo-adorned, floating-in-the-ether desert mystic (without the sand or heat) you behold today. I wasn’t raised with faith, and as a 12-year-old was an agnostic who’d say, “I’d never […]
The Democratic Fork in the Road and the Woke Repudiation Imperative
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Featured, Gun Rights, Healthcare, National Security, Politics, Religion, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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 […]
DEAD Chickens Can’t Lay Eggs!
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Karen Schoen Once Upon a Time, America’s poultry farmers had coops filled with millions of chickens. Those wonderful hens laid incredible eggs which made an affordable meal for Americans during this time of rising inflation. Then along came the Biden regime. They decided that Americans should not have affordable food because it did not […]
Inside JD Vance’s Tone-Setting Trip To The Southern Border
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller EAGLE PASS, Texas – As the vice president’s motorcade zipped by a long stretch of border wall Tuesday, the barrier quickly turned from solid structure to a patchwork of old train cars and razor wire. The motorcade turned into Shelby Park, an area Gov. Greg Abbott seized so officials could put up […]
Advertising or Manipulating? The Use of AI in Children’s Advertisements
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly permeates various facets of society, its application in influencing behavior — particularly among vulnerable populations like children — raises significant ethical and legal concerns. The concept of “nudging,” introduced by behavioral economists Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein in 2008, involves subtly guiding […]
Dems Do Not Stand For Kid With Cancer Becoming Honorary Secret Service Agent During Trump Speech To Congress
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Democrats attending President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night speech to a joint session of Congress refused to stand when Trump honored a 13-year-old boy with cancer. Trump addressed the joint session for over an hour and a half, during which he announced that D.J. Daniel, who has been sworn in by over 900 police departments […]
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Invites Volleyball Player Seriously Hurt By Trans Opponent To Be Special Guest At Address To Congress
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller 19-year-old Payton McNabb, who has spoken out about being left with a traumatic brain injury after a transgender-identifying man spiked a volleyball into her head, will be a special guest of President Donald Trump’s at his first joint address in front of Congress, the Daily Caller has learned. McNabb has testified […]
When Good Intentions Go Wrong: America’s ‘Crisis of Dependency’
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Featured, Healthcare, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Signal About 25 years ago, James Whitford and his wife founded a ministry to the poor and homeless in Missouri. Not long after starting the ministry, Whitford felt led by the Lord to see for himself what it was like to be homeless. After several conversations with his wife, the couple agreed that […]
A Pilgrim’s Guide to Sodom
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Catholic Thing Francis X. Maier: In praise of ordinary people who do extraordinary things, quietly but faithfully, providing the leaven of virtue in everyday American life. This is a column about Betty and Les Ruppersberger. To the eye, they look like any other ordinary married couple. And in a way, they are like other […]
None of the 70,000 Adverse Events of Puberty Blocking Drugs Were a “Safety Priority” for Biden’s FDA
/in Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dr. David Gortler Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Back in the early 2000s, the FDA launched the Safety First Steering Committee (SFSC). It was started to address the safety concerns of marketed drugs of noteworthy concern to Americans. Today, the acronym is still found ubiquitously throughout FDA documents, but those links no longer function. […]
‘Americans Do Not Want This’: DCNF Reporter Says Dems Will Keep Losing If They Push Radical Gender Ideology
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller A Daily Caller News Foundation reporter told Fox News host Will Cain Wednesday that Democrats’ continued push on child sex changes and allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports would be a “losing issue” for them. President Donald Trump clashed with Democratic Gov. Janet Mills of Maine over biological men playing in […]
Trump’s Surprising Ecumenical Talent
/in Featured, Healthcare, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes While not all of the cabinet positions have yet been confirmed by the Senate, a core is evident in key departments like Defense, State, Interior, and Justice, and a distinct pattern appears to be emerging. His critics have often portrayed Trump as a self-centered egomaniac who has […]
LGBTQ, Inc.
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jack Weir Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Corporations have pushed a radical agenda on the American people. American life today is characterized in no small part by nearly ceaseless exposure to LGBTQ propaganda. Everywhere you turn, you’re confronted with “the message,” be it in grade schools, on college campuses, while watching television or movies, […]
It Appears Democrats Have Finally Picked A Hill To Die On
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Democrats are doubling down on left-wing gender ideology despite their viewpoints being increasingly unpopular with the average American. The vast majority of Americans support reversing the Biden administration’s extreme approach to transgender issues, including barring biological males from participating in women’s sports. But Democratic lawmakers, including those representing congressional districts President Donald Trump […]
What is RFK Jr’s real job as Secretary of Health and Human Services?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Government Transparency, Gun Rights, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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 […]
Some Suggestions for DOGE
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Gun Rights, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy 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 […]
Trump Pulls Welfare Rug Out From Under Illegals
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Gun Rights, Healthcare, National Security, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Leo Hohmann Those who enabled taxpayer dollars to flow to illegal aliens at a time when everyday Americans are struggling to put food on their tables should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. President Trump last night signed what may be his most explosive executive order yet, and once enacted it […]
In Defense of Conspiracy Theorists
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bill Rice Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Full disclosure: I am a fellow at Brownstone Institute. I’ve recently become aware of at least one “gatekeeper of the news” who’s becoming increasingly concerned that groups like Brownstone Institute have gone overboard advancing “conspiracy theories.” I definitely disagree with the opinion that Brownstone’s writers are becoming “conspiracy theorists,” a […]
HAWAII: Amended SB1150 Still Legalizes Kidnap of Children for Sex-Change
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Hawaii Free Press Amended SB1150 Still Legalizes Kidnap of Children for Sex-Change by Austin Martin, Chairman, Libertarian Party of Hawaii On February 11, 2025, I testified against SB1150 before the Senate HHS/CPN committees: “This bill is about stealing children from states that don’t have that access. Buried in this bill is a provision that would legalize inter-state kidnapping […]
VIDEO: Trump Rightfully Slams Bitter NeoLiberal Mitch McConnell the only Republican voting against Tulsi Gabbad and RFK, Jr.
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Immigration, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Royal A. Brown III Apparent liberal Mitch McConnell is hellbent on being a thorn in Donald Trump’s side. The Kentucky senator was the only Republican who voted against confirming Tulsi Gabbard and Robert Kennedy this week, and it’s clear why. Did McConnell think he could stop the president’s nominees from taking office? Of course […]
Trump Gives RFK New Assignment Leading ‘MAHA Commission’ Hours After Senate Confirmation
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Trump administration is kicking off the Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. era with a massive new health commission, according to a Thursday evening White House press release. Just hours after the Senate confirmed Kennedy Jr. as the next HHS Secretary, the White House announced the Make America Healthy Again Commission. […]
WEEKEND READ: Golden Calf of the Grand Old Party
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Charles Haywood Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes A vanity metric for an age of stupidity. If 21st-century Republicans have an idol, a graven image we collectively worship, it is Gross Domestic Product. All discussion about the flourishing of our nation is reduced to GDP, and its increase is seen as an ironclad refutation of […]
Legalizing Fentanyl
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editors’ Note: The discussion below is undoubtedly provocative. In a sense, we agree that as long as Americans remain drug-hungry, it will be difficult to stop drug smuggling. Getting them to stop is undoubtedly a challenge. It is hard to do individually, let alone on a societal […]
To Reduce Homelessness, Donald Trump Must End Housing First
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Christopher J. Calton Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Homelessness in the United States has grown by nearly 19 percent since its low point in 2016. In 2023, the unhoused population reached its highest levels since we began tracking homelessness, but with the new year and new administration come opportunities to reverse this troubling trend. […]
VIDEO: Dr. Ann Gillies Interview On Trans-Killers, The Drugging of Our Youth Into Murderers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Immigration, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Vlad Tepes Blog We had the chance to interview Dr. Ann Gillies the other day who is one of the most outspoken and well informed experts on the Marxist intersectional line of attack against sexual identity, “Critical gender theory”. This focuses more on the facts and somewhat the law. But apply your understanding of […]
Trump Is Leading a Historic Counterrevolution Against the Deep State
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Gun Rights, Healthcare, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Regulation, Religion, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Signal Something truly revolutionary is taking place in Washington. President Donald Trump not only won an election; he’s fundamentally changing the way the federal government does business. Unlike the early days of his first term, Trump is directly targeting the nodes of real power in the nation’s capital. He’s launching a multifront assault on […]
WEEKEND READ: Science’s Turn Towards Darkness
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jordi Pigem Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes In light of RFK, Jr.’s confirmation hearings to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, it is good to remember that much of what is presented to us as science stems from vested interests and an outdated mechanistic worldview. Science is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. But […]
Are You Overpaying for Health Insurance?
/in Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy My Pay. My Say. Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Health insurance is a critical safety net, but for many teachers, it might be costing more than it should. Rising premiums, hidden fees, and union-negotiated plans often leave you paying for coverage you don’t fully utilize. In this article, we’ll help you evaluate your current […]