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Analyzing School Shootings- Are We Looking For Answers In All the Wrong Places?
By Anne Marie DiCarlo Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes In the aftermath of the recent Minnesota school shooting, where two children were shot and killed by a gender-confused 23-year-old former student while attending a Catholic mass to kick off the school year, it is time to ask the question that mainstream media have long ignored: […]
Motive Of Trans Shooter Who Killed Christians Is Not A ‘Mystery’
By Breccan F. Thies Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes When the truth is right in front of them, clear as day, you can bet on the corporate media ignoring it as an expression of fealty to ‘transgender’ ideology. When a highly disturbed, outwardly demonic, Christian-hating man who considers himself a woman allegedly shoots up a […]
“The British Aren’t Coming!”
By Ronald Dodson Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes The decline and fall of the non-American Anglosphere The Firth of Forth sounds confusing to American ears. It is an inlet of the North Sea, called a “firth” and produced by the river “Forth.” On this body of water in Eastern Scotland sits Rosyth, the location of […]
Trump Cleaning Up DC In One Week Proves Democrats Are Destroying Their Cities By Choice
By Brianna Lyman Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes For years, Washington, D.C.’s so-called leaders resigned themselves to the idea that crime was inevitable. Then came President Donald Trump, who saw a problem and took the novel approach of actually doing something about it — sending in the National Guard to restore order in the capital. […]
A Hidden Post-Pandemic Decline of Female Health
By Carla Peeters Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes In September 2024, Swiss Re published in their annual report, “Many countries worldwide still report elevated death in their population today.” This impact appears independent of healthcare system or population health. In the pessimistic model, Swiss Re would expect excess deaths to continue for another decade. There is also […]
A Few Anti-Technology Thoughts on AI
By Conlan Salgado
Hard Reality for the Right Wing
By Edward Ring Written by Edward Ring Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editor’s note: There has often been criticism from conservatives about the dysfunctional nature of contemporary ideologies. We would like to note that all living things have two basic drives: to reproduce and survive. Contemporary Western-secular-leftist-postmodernist-deathculture-climate-change-fanaticism has convinced an entire civilization of living creatures […]
ROOKE: Liberals Getting Fatter, Conservatives Getting Skinnier And It All Comes Back To Most Important Thing In Life
By Mary Rooke Written by Mary Rooke Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Liberals seem to be increasingly upset that conservative women are skinny and pretty, but there’s an obvious reason behind the growing “phenomenon” – conservative women are happier. Study after study proves that the female appearance is directly affected by the level of stress and angst […]
NYT Author Who Destroyed Her Marriage Wonders Where The Good Men Went
By Nathanael Blake Written by Nathanael Blake Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editor’s note: we pass on our ceremonial condolences to Ms. Jean Garnett, although we agree with our author that her misery is of her own making. Renaming loneliness or ‘lack of commitment’ as happiness does not work; one may call “infidelity” an “open […]
Why Prudes Are The Only Ones Consistently Having Good Sex
By Nathanael Blake Written by Nathanael Blake Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editors’ Note: It must indeed be a confusing world for Progressives. For example, those on the outer edge of the sexual revolution, like the trans crowd, unite with followers of militant, orthodox Islam. This movement not only dislikes them, but given the opportunity, […]
During Pride Month Public Libraries Become Centers for Queer Resistance
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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’
By 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
By 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.
By 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
By 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?
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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 […]