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Drag Queens Are the New Black Face
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel It is easy to find on YouTube numerous videos of parents dragging their own children to drag queen shows where the children are encouraged to touch the genital areas of the performers or stuff dollar bills into the same geography. Or they will haul their children to a place of learning, usually […]
FBI, Justice Department Twist Federal Law to Arrest, Charge Pro-Life Activist
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Hans von Spakovsky and Cully Stimson In an early morning raid Friday in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, about two dozen FBI agents with weapons drawn pounded on the door of Mark Houck’s home, where he lives with his wife and seven children. The FBI agents arrested Houck based on a federal indictment. Sounds serious, right? Is Houck a domestic […]
Poll: Arizona Democrats Riding on Abortion Rights to Make Up for Poor Biden Approval
/in Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cole Lauterbach Democrats in Arizona say they’re more interested in November’s election, with abortion laws becoming their battle cry. But, they will have to outwork President Joe Biden’s mid-term approval ratings. A recent Arizona Public Opinion Pulse poll from OH Predictive Insights found that 59% of Arizona voters think there should be limits on […]
EXCLUSIVE: Trump-Endorsed Arizona Attorney General Nominee And Former Prosecutor Abe Hamadeh HAMMERS Woke Anti-Police Radical Kris Mayes During AG Candidate Forum (VIDEO)
/in Environment, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jordan Conradson Editors’ Note: As the 2022 midterm election approaches (November 8th), mail-in ballots are to be mailed out on October 12th. The Prickly Pear asks all readers and all Arizonans two simple questions: Is Arizona to be a state like California where there is widespread crime, homelessness, defunding of police and rapid deterioration […]
Court Allows Arizona’s Near-Total Abortion Ban To Go Into Effect
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Trevor Schakohl Are you fed up? Are you worried that America in rapidly sliding into a neo-Marxist state by the radical left in control of Washington with historically narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and an Executive controlled by unnamed far leftists in place of a clinically incompetent President Biden? They are […]
To Our Conservative and Moderate Friends
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kim Miller Are you considering voting for a Democrat, or not voting for a Republican because you think they’re crazy? If you’re someone who votes according to the “candidate I like,” rather than the political party, consider what RESULTS your vote will bring to America, Arizona, and your family. A candidate’s likability and respectfulness […]
Dr. Devil Worshiper Vs. Monkeypox
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Rod Dreher Are you fed up? Are you worried that America in rapidly sliding into a neo-Marxist state by the radical left in control of Washington with historically narrow majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and an Executive controlled by unnamed far leftists in place of a clinically incompetent President Biden? They are […]
Make Democrats Defend Their Abortion Extremism
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Harsanyi The modern left isn’t pro-choice anymore. Senator Lindsey Graham has introduced the “Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act” which would limit abortions past 15 weeks of pregnancy. The bill includes exceptions for rape and incest, offers protections for the woman’s life, and prohibits the prosecution of those seeking abortions. By any […]
Religious Individuals Versus Collectivist Control
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce W. Davidson A century ago, Princeton scholar J. Gresham Machen remarked that “historic Christianity is in conflict at many points with the collectivism of the present day; it does emphasize, against the claims of society, the worth of the individual soul. . . It does give a man courage to stand, if need be, […]
NBA Suspends Phoenix Suns Owner Robert Sarver, Fines Him $10 Million After Probe Found he Used Racial Slurs, Made Sexist Comments Toward Female Employees
/in Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cristina Laila Editors’ Note: We can’t determine whether the charges made against Mr. Sarver are true or not. It would seem the NBA thinks so and they are judge, jury, and executioner. However, it is worth noting sports owners have been at the forefront of promoting their sport as the spearpoint of left-wing social […]
A Skeptic Confronts False Prophets
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Joshua Mitchell John McWhorter has written an important book—a heretical book, really, because, in today’s America, black men are anathema if they believe what he believes, or write what he writes. McWhorter knows the bounds within which he is expected to live, but will not suffer the faux righteousness disseminated by the Elect of […]
It Is Critical to Drain the School Board Swamp This November
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Arizona Free Enterprise Club Public schools are out of control. And it’s going to get worse if we don’t do something about it. Unfortunately, for far too long, school board elections have been some of the most ignored around our state. But whether you have kids in public school, private school, or homeschool—whether your […]
Major League Blunder: Baseball Teams’ ‘Pride Nights’ Help Fund Gender Transitions for Minors
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Joshua Arnold Editors’ Note: If you need another excuse not to waste hundreds of dollars for an evening with a game that drags on until your rear end goes numb, simply go to the Diamondback website: click on this link. Both of the Editors at The Prickly Pear played baseball and loved baseball. Not […]
Federal Court Ruling on Gender Identity Upends Civil Rights Law
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Sarah Parshall Perry In a shocking and first-of-its-kind reading of a more than 30-year-old disability law, a federal judge ruled that the distress that results from a person feeling that he or she is of the wrong sex is a disability that must be accommodated under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If the opinion is […]
The US Engages in LGBTQI+ Imperialism
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni Sweden, Finland, and Britain are in America’s sex and gender crosshairs. Ukraine and Russia are at war. China and Taiwan are throwing more than words at each other. North Korea is firing ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. India and Turkey are making goo-goo eyes at Russia. Saudi Arabia is […]
Sexual Neocons Inch Closer to Social Conservatism
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Austin Lamb The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, by Louise Perry (Polity: August 2022), 200 pages. Among the remarkable things about The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry, set to hit shelves tomorrow, is that it’s not much of a case against the sexual revolution at all. Given the title, you’d expect Perry’s book […]
AZ Voters Divided on Abortion, Energy Subsidies; United Against Higher Taxes and Bad Economy
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy The Editors at Center Square The tight race for Arizona governor is within the margin of error, according to a new survey from Scott Rasmussen’s RMG Research, and incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-AZ, holds a 7-point lead over Republican challenger Blake Masters. On hot-button issues such as the economy, Arizonans took positions Rasmussen believes could […]
Errant DAs Are Not Only Ones Destroying Our Justice System
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky There is an active revolt going on against District Attorneys who once elected decide to take the law into their own hands and apply laws at their personal whim. This has caused havoc and uproar across our nation highlighted recently by the charges against a bodega worker in New York City (later […]
Monkeypox And The Face Of Gay Promiscuity
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Rod Dreher Promiscuous gay German man’s nose nearly rots off from monkeypox. He also had advanced syphilis and HIV, but didn’t know it That’s a pretty horrible picture, isn’t it? It’s a 40-year-old German monkeypox patient whose nose began to rot off after he caught the disease. Turns out that he was HIV-positive and […]
DeSantis, Trump, and a New Right Comfortable With Power
/in Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Pedro Gonzalez Editors’ Note: This article touches on an important subject that we hope will be expanded by conservative leaders of all hues. We certainly do not wish to become as illiberal as our opponents. Politics should be more than just gangs fighting over who gets to control the levers of state power. In […]
Will the Real “Independent” Please Stand Up?
/in Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Joe Pitts After a heated Republican primary and some lukewarm Democratic battles, candidates for Arizona’s statewide offices are positioning themselves for the general election on November 8th. Even the winners of the most contentious races, like Kari Lake, are calling for post-primary unity among members of their party. When the clock struck 8 pm […]
Did Lockdowns Turn Americans Into Lazy Bums?
/in Economy, Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jeffrey Tucker It looks as if we can add another line to the long list of lockdown harms. Sloth. This explains so much actually. For months, we’ve been watching working/population ratios and labor participation rates and have been stunned by how they both continue to plummet. We search for explanations. Early retirement. Women driven […]
The Next Populist Moment
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Declan Leary After Tuesday’s primaries, the New Right has officially arrived. Next to win, and then to govern. On Tuesday [August 2], New Right rising star Blake Masters won Arizona’s Republican Senate primary by more than a ten-point margin. Kari Lake defeated establishment candidate Karrin Taylor Robson in the state’s gubernatorial primary. Up in […]
In Defense of National Conservatism
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Scott Yenor Editors Note: As the article suggests, National Conservatism is a work in progress. Some call it MAGA and that seems to mean different things to different people. For us, it embraces elements of political conservatism but emphasizes the historic need to control the abuse of power, especially from today’s internationalist technocratic framework. It […]
Democratic Activists Are Dishing Out Millions To Keep CRT, Gender Theory In Schools
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Reagan Reese An education nonprofit that labels itself as non-partisan is pouring millions of dollars into political groups ahead of school board elections, according to Politico. The Campaign for Our Shared Future, which works for “equitable, anti-racist programs, practices and policies” in K-12 education, is targeting school board elections in red states including Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, […]
Poll: Most Arizona Voters Want Some Abortion Restrictions
/in Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tom Joyce Most Arizona voters want at least some restrictions on abortions, a new Arizona Public Opinion Pulse poll conducted by OH Predictive Insights found. While the poll found that 42% of voters said that abortion should be legal under any circumstance, that wasn’t the majority opinion. Rather, most people thought that there should […]
Mr. Roberts, Where Are You?
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Chief Justice John Roberts has expressed that he feels compelled to protect the image of the Supreme Court since he was sworn in as the leader. That is why we have been told he conceived of the Obamacare Individual Mandate as being a tax. That is after the President and the supporters […]
Bidenvilles: America’s New Emblem of Decay
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Simon Hankinson In French, a “bidonville” is a shantytown. A “bidon” is a large container, like the giant yellow vegetable oil bottles used to carry drinking water in developing countries. I’ve seen plenty of shantytowns in cities from India to Togo; they are an unfortunate consequence of rapid urbanization. What surprised me when I […]
An Amazing Conundrum
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Editors Note: Further confusion from this story not mentioned, is that the mother of the child has said complimentary things about the rapist. Some news sources have reported that the rapist was her boyfriend and that the mother is illegal as well. It is not uncommon for single mothers, who have a […]
Do Women Really Have Fewer Rights Than an Uzi?
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dr. Julius Decker The recent United States Supreme Court decisions in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. resulted in a leftist tidal wave of histrionic personality disorder coupled with (mostly violent) demonstrations. An aristocracy of celebrities and opinion pundits all appear to be auditioning […]