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Dems Smell Blood In The Water After Arizona Abortion Ruling. Republicans Are Scrambling To Respond
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mary Lou Masters Editors’ Note: We think the authors are spot on. Abortion is a big issue for Arizona and we have offered our own take that we think is helpful in thinking about the matter. We don’t think the compromise we suggest will satisfy all, but that is the difference between the political […]
Biden’s Title IX Rewrite Strips Away Protections For Women, Denies Women Equal Opportunity
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Editors of The Independent Women’s Forum Editors’ Note: Democrats cast themselves as the party of “women’s rights”, while they actually are the party of unrestricted abortion to be paid for with public money. We hope the knowledge of this most recent decision will change the minds of not only Arizona women, but women across […]
Medical Groups Silent After Review Finds ‘Weak Evidence’ for Recommending Puberty Blockers to Kids
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Katelynn Richardson Editors’ Note: It is appalling that American medical organizations either remain opposed or silent on this latest study. Already Scotland is looking at banning puberty blockers and several other European countries now severely restrict their use. Among these are Norway, U.K. Sweden, Denmark, France, and Finland. In addition, 22 American states have […]
The Sex Education of Our Nation’s Children: Since the Sexual Revolution
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kali Fontanilla Since the Sexual Revolution Then came the 1960s and the Sexual Revolution. Many attribute the Sexual Revolution to the birth control pill approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1960. Some states banned the pill entirely or made it illegal for single women to purchase, but by 1972, the Supreme Court […]
Thinking About Abortion and Arizona Elections
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel There seems to be no issue that stirs up people as the issue of abortion. It likely is because the thinking and narrative around the subject have been so distorted over the past 40 years or so. It would appear that the issue will be critical in multiple elections this cycle, including […]
Democrats Don’t Want You To Know How Moderate Trump’s Abortion Stance Is
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Harsanyi Come to think of it, the GOP’s federal bill is also pretty moderate. Abortion on demand, for any reason, until birth, funded by taxpayers. That’s the modern left’s position on the issue. Democrats are so dug into their extremism that they can’t even support bills that compel “doctors” to keep babies who […]
NAIA’s New Rules On Transgender People In Women’s Sports Rebuke The Left’s Insanity
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kaylee McGhee White The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, one of college sports’ governing bodies, announced this week that it would not allow male-bodied athletes to compete in women’s sports, pointing to the importance of “fair and safe competition for all student-athletes.” The decision is a welcome relief in a society that refuses to see […]
Weekend Read: Artificial Intelligence
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Conlan Salgado As human beings we name things. We classify objects and persons. These activities are the foundation of our pursuit of understanding: categorization. It may be that in classifying ourselves as homo sapiens—intelligent hominids—we set ourselves up for perpetual misunderstanding of ourselves. Lately some members of homo sapiens have convinced themselves that they […]
Arizona Attorney General Says She Won’t Enforce State Supreme Court Ruling Banning Abortion
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Arjun Singh Democratic Attorney General Kristin Mayes of Arizona announced on Tuesday that she would not enforce a ruling from her state’s supreme court upholding an 1864 law that bans most abortions. On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a law criminalizing abortions, except in cases where necessary to save the mother’s life, may be enforced following […]
Is Learning Standard “White” English Oppressive for Black Students?
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy George Leef Among the many destructive ideas loose in American education is that black students should not be expected to master standard English because doing so is demeaning and demoralizing for them. Standard English is part of the power structure of “whiteness” that must be overthrown before we can have an equitable society. Professors […]
Honey Am I Male?
/in Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni In advance of an upcoming elective surgery, I have been on the phone with personnel from a local Tucson hospital to provide my medical history, insurance coverage, and other required information. The hospital does a great job and its employees are personable, professional, and thorough. A charming woman asked me on […]
Am I Male?
/in Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni In advance of an upcoming elective surgery, I have been on the phone with personnel from a local Tucson hospital to provide my medical history, insurance coverage, and other required information. The hospital does a great job and its employees are personable, professional, and thorough. A charming woman asked me on […]
The Cut Flowers Civilization
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ben Shapiro This week, famed British atheist Richard Dawkins explained that he was a “cultural Christian.” Praising civilization in the United Kingdom, Dawkins stated: I do think that we are culturally a Christian country. I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer. But there is a distinction between being a believing Christian and […]
The Tailspin of American Boys and Men
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Brenda M. Hafera American males are turning off, and tuning and dropping out. Many boys and men are struggling to flourish in their roles as sons, students, employees, and fathers, and to achieve the sense of purpose that comes from being rooted within marriages, communities, churches, and country. Much of the literature on the […]
Feds Have Showered Blue State With Tax Dollars to Fix Homelessness. It Keeps Getting Worse.
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Robert Schmad A plethora of federal agencies have spent well over $200 million attempting to alleviate homelessness in Washington state over the past 17 years, only for the number of people living on the streets to keep rising. Federal agencies like the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of […]
Sex Politics
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy E.J. Hare With the sudden re-emergence of Christine Blasey Ford, who tried to derail Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court with baseless accusations of sexual assault, the Democrats are clearly wasting no time in trying to get more white women back into their fold. They are looking to make the extremely nuanced case […]
England Banning Puberty Blockers for Kids Will ‘Save Lives,’ Experts Predict
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mary Margaret Olohan England’s National Health Service has declared that there’s not enough evidence of “safety and clinical effectiveness” for children and young people to be given puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria. “Puberty blockers (gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues) are not available to children and young people for gender incongruence or gender dysphoria, because there […]
The Real Purpose Behind Biden’s SOTU Speech
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Marvin A. Treiger “It was a word salad on speed.” Dr. Carol Lieberman, forensic psychiatrist Biden’s speech achieved the singular objective Jill and his other handlers had set for Joe’s speech in spades. Their objective was simple. Keep the Democratic hounds from bumping him from the ballot. The whole performance was designed to ward […]
ROOKE: Leaked Docs Reveal The Trans Cult Is Going Even Further Than We Ever Knew
/in Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mary Rooke An environmental group released leaked documents from the world’s top organization of doctors determining the correct course on youth and adult transgender healthcare late Monday. The findings inside the WPATH Files published by Environmental Progress expose the sinister reality of this pseudoscience that has captured American children and goes far beyond anything we could have imagined. […]
Weekend Read: They Got Us, Right Where They Want Us
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Peachy Keenan Open borders Christians wage open warfare on Americans. Social media lit up with commentary after a bizarre commercial for a group called “He Gets Us” aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl. The ad, which you can watch here, consists of still images that depict BLM- and DEI-approved progressive archetypes getting their feet washed by […]
Weekend Read: Still Spiraling Down
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni The state of American society and culture 30 years after the publication of “Defining Deviancy Down.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s essay, “Defining Deviancy Down,” was published in the 1993-1994 Winter edition of The American Scholar. It was certainly scholarly. It was also accurate, prescient, courageous, politically incorrect, and subsequently ignored by policymakers, […]
Beware Those Who Intentionally Use Words To Lie
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas C. Patterson The word “liberal” was once considered a compliment. It meant fair, principled, and thoughtful. The Age of Enlightenment was birthed by “classical liberals” with their then-fantastical notions about government by consent of the governed, legal equality of all, and individually owned rights. Later as ideologies like collectivism and class oppression gained […]
The Abortion Access Amendment Is Getting Most Of Its Funding From Outside Arizona
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Katarina White It’s bad enough that the abortion lobby is fully committed to its disturbing agenda to enshrine abortion up until birth in the Arizona Constitution. But now, it appears, that the overwhelming majority of the funding to get this measure on our ballot in November isn’t even coming from within our state. I […]
Representatives of the Uyghur Community to Speak at Chandler Event
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Wanetick Editors’ Note: The presentation of Plight of the Uyghurs by Davos in the Desert will be virtual on Monday, February 12th from 6:45 – 8:00 PM (Mountain Time). Registration for this informative and important presentation can be accessed here. The word “genocide” has been hurled around so much and so loosely in […]
Joe Biden is a Terrible Father and a Lousy Liar
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky As we lurch into the 2024 election year, it is imperative we confront the naked truth about the potential contestants for the grand prize of President of the greatest country ever. Though it is often stated that family is off limits in political discussion, I believe that ship has sailed for President […]
The Cost of Inflation: History Shows Inflation Erodes More Than the Value of Money
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jon Miltimore Across the world, people are struggling under the specter of inflation. In Venezuela, the inflation rate is 360 percent. In Argentina, it’s 160 percent. In Turkey, inflation is about 50 percent, about 10 percent higher than its neighbor Iran. In Europe, inflation of the euro has finally cooled to about 3 percent, down from more than 10 […]
Why Gen Z Is Ditching The Girlboss For The Tradwife
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Emma Waters For women who have observed the unhappy zero-sum battle of the sexes, many feel that the modern world, for all its promises, has failed them. Hannah Neeleman, a Utah-based cattle farmer and mother of eight, is perhaps the most popular Instagram “tradwife” — a growing category of social media influencers who reject the […]
Arizonans Should Decline To Sign The Arizona Abortion Access Amendment
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Katarina White Imagine a future where abortion is sanctioned until the very moment of birth, parental consent becomes a relic of the past, and taxpayers foot the bill for all abortions. This is not a distant dystopia; it is the gruesome reality that will unfold if a new controversial amendment—the Arizona Abortion Access Amendment—finds […]
AZ Gov. Hobbs’ Bizarre Attack on ESA Families
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Matt Beienburg Today, 70,000 Arizona children are finally getting the education they deserve through the state’s universal Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program, the most expansive program of its kind in the nation. But instead of celebrating those students’ success, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is launching a direct attack on their families and the beginning […]
The TikTok Spiral
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Faith Kuzma Trauma dumping on the “for you page” sucks young girls into a pit of self-loathing. The winning TikTok formula is videos produced by teens for their peers. In that sense, it is hugely kid-friendly. Yet in 2019, TikTok paid a settlement for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Then in 2021 […]