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During Pride Month Public Libraries Become Centers for Queer Resistance
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy John Murawski Written by John Murawski Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editors’ Note: Censorship should not be equated with fiscal regulation. Those with varied sexual views should be free to purchase, publish, and read what they wish to, but the public is under no obligation to sponsor their ideas or movements. We are not […]
Primer: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — Propaganda Machine
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Center for America Renewing Staff Written by Center for America Renewing Staff Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editors’ Note: Much of the Conservative movement is waiting to see concrete signs that Republican leadership in the House and Senate, as narrow as it is, can identify wasteful spending and spending that takes taxpayer dollars and […]
Supreme Court Allows States To Block Medicaid Funding For Planned Parenthood
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Caroline Boda Written by Caroline Boda Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute South Carolina and other states can bar taxpayer dollars from the federal Medicaid program from going to Planned Parenthood for abortion services, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday In Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, justices ruled 6-3 in favor of South […]
How Trump’s Unmasking of Corporatism Spoiled the Left’s Agenda – The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Suzanne Cook Catlin Written by Suzanne Cook Catlin Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes America’s two dominant political parties approach governance very differently. The Republican Party sees the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as enduring and time tested and they revere freedom. By contrast, today’s Democratic Party has incorporated the teachings of Karl Marx […]
Anti-Semitism And Anti-Whiteness Merge Together
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel For several decades now, our population, through the press, book publishers, the media, and the educational institutions, has been peddling a Neo-Marxist lie about being white. Whether it be the shoddy scholarship of the 1619 Project, Black Lives Matter, the proposals to pay reparations, DEI, Critical Race Theory, […]
We Are All Jewish Today
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas Reiner Written by Thomas Reiner Editors’ Note: We agree with the author that there is a need for Conservatives to feel solidarity for Israel and the Jewish people. But we must do even more. We must fight the Left and, in some cases, our fellow Democrat citizens. What do we know about the […]
The First 100 Days of the Golden Age
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dan McCarthy Editors’ Note: Donald Trump gets little love from the ” established” Conservative movement and mostly hostility from Libertarians. National Review remains overtly hostile; we also think the Wall Street Journal and Commentary are as well. We found this article particularly insightful, and remarkably, it came from the editor of Modern Age, one […]
Germany Designates Leading Conservative Opposition Party ‘Extremist’
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance condemned the decision Germany has long had a “democracy” problem. It evolved neither under the English tutelage nor under Switzerland’s independent federal development. First under the Kaiser, then under Hitler, and then under Soviet occupation of the East, […]
This Week’s Politico Playbook ‘Journalism’ Was Brought To You By Planned Parenthood
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Elle Purnell Editors’ Note: We know that legacy media are scrambling for funds, but this story seems both strange and distasteful. It’s not like Planned Parenthood is a typical commercial enterprise buying advertising space. One of their chief jobs is killing babies and selling body parts. They also receive a lot of tax dollars, […]
Razing Higher Education Won’t Destroy the New Girl Order.
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Scott Yenor Written by Scott Yenor Editors’ Note: While we agree with much of this essay, we would also like to see more exploration of why men are doing so poorly. Simply because women are doing well in education and careers, there is little explanation for why men are not doing as well as […]
If Every Man Were Stauffenberg
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Conlan Salgado Written by Conlan Salgado The leftists are caught between a rock, and a molotov cocktail: which is better suited for Tesla vandalism? Depends, in part, whether one is walloping an empty car on a dealership lot, or a cybertruck on a street-corner with a pregnant woman inside. The cultural right, delighted to […]
What Does It Profit A Man?
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Conlan Salgado Written by Conlan Salgado Secular is said to be an antonym of religious. If that is true, secularity is also an antonym to truth, goodness, redemption, and the many distinctly religious values which exist; advocates tend to confuse secularity with “human rights”, “progress”, and other inadequate replacements to the Eight Beatitudes. Since […]
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 […]
The Prickly Pear Announces A Strategic Alliance with Patriot Mobile
/in Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel The Prickly Pear, an online news and opinion magazine, has entered into a strategic alliance with Patriot Mobile. We made this decision based on what would be a good deal for our readers, what provides the best cellular coverage for customers, and Patriot Mobile’s values. As to the […]
The Biden Administration’s War on Life: A Moral Outrage
/in Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy The Editors April 14, 2025/by The Editors Published by National Review | March 10, 2023 The Biden administration’s war on life has reached new heights of moral depravity, with the president pushing for policies that would expand abortion access and undermine the sanctity of human life. From rescinding the Mexico City Policy to advocating […]
Common Sense Revolution
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Daniel J. Mahoney Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes The positives and potential pitfalls of the Trump coalition’s approach The most popular and encouraging part of the upheaval unleashed by the Trump presidency may be the administration’s fierce determination to break the grip that wokeness, the new racialism, and gender ideology have had on all […]
Shot Heard Round the Web: Booker T. Washington on Lifting Our Nation Up
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes America became the greatest country in the world by being a nation of individualists who would let no obstacle hinder them from accomplishing their goals. We must become that nation again if we are to restore our economy, culture, and political system. We have witnessed numerous instances […]
The Myth of Non-Partisan School Board Elections
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Anne Marie DiCarlo Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editors’ Note: Progressives have dominated school boards because the elections often attract little attention and thus can be swayed by the subterranean coordinated activity of teacher’s unions and their allies. Nonpartisan labeling allows candidates the ability to hide their radicalism and penetrate educational institutions. If one […]
Leftist and Marxist Beatitudes
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Conlan Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Karl Marx is famous for saying, “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”–a statement of such breathtaking stupidity, one would have to search out a sitting member of the United States Congress for a more inane utterance. Marx then closed out […]
Study: Gen Z Has More Traditional Views of Marriage Than Their Parents
/in Economy, Featured, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Sarah Holliday Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes A recent study found that members of Generation Z are more traditionalist and conservative when it comes to marriage—more so than their Millennial parents. According to The Times Generation Z study, “only a fifth of 18 to 27-year-olds believed that marriage was ‘irrelevant,’ while a third thought it better for a couple […]
The War on Motherhood: Why the Left Wants to Erase Moms
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy C.J. Pearson Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Democrats are upset about President Donald Trump renaming the former Gulf of Mexico but want to replace the word “mother” with “inseminated person.” You can’t make this up. The Left’s war on language has reached a new level of insanity, and this time, they’ve set their sights […]
Independent Women Applauds HHS for Issuing Clear Definitions of ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ Under Trump Executive Order
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Editors of The Independent Women’s Forum Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Independent Women applauds the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for executing on its implementation of President Donald Trump’s day one executive order — “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” — in issuing clear guidance on the definition of […]
A Duty to Die?
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Anne Marie DiCarlo Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Not that many years ago, when the ‘Death with Dignity’ movement was in its infancy, the thought of helping another human being end their lives was sold as a solution for those in unbearable pain, for whom death was an inevitable conclusion. It was argued by […]
Antisemitism in the 21st Century: A Story from the Front Lines
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Hannah Becker Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes I couldn’t believe what was before me, as I attempted to walk into the U.S. Army Military Ball building. Protestors with megaphones screaming that people like me—Jewish Americans—deserved to die, be raped, held hostage, and be annihilated. The protestors threw red liquid, held up signs that would […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Biggest Peacetime Crime—and Cover-up—in British History
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dominic Green Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors Note: As details begin to leak out about the situation in England, the scale of these crimes, spanning several decades, shows deep corruption in the English government. Progressive thinking Labour and the ineffectual Conservatives have always been on the outlook to be multicultural and concerned about […]
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 […]
United Health Care CEO Murder a Reflection of the Left’s Moral Belief System
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Conlan Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editors’ Note: The essay below is penned by Conlan Salgado, a recent college graduate and a contributor to The Prickly Pear. Conlan is an astute political observer and highly informed conservative. His essay deserves careful reading. We recommend reading Mr. Salgado’s excellent articles published in The Prickly […]