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Transgender Activists Manipulate Parents With Suicide Threats
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ginny Gentles “Do you want a dead daughter or a live son?” This question, which is really a threat, is the central tenet of the campaign selling gender ideology to parents. Parents are often told that they are putting their gender-nonconforming child at risk of suicide if they don’t medically “transition” him or her […]
Sorry Libs, You Can’t Replace Dads With Government
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kevin Roberts It’s been said that America can always be counted on to do the right thing, once we have exhausted all the other alternatives. As of Father’s Day 2022, America has spent about 60 years exhausting the alternatives to fatherhood — and the collateral damage is all around us. Broken families. Gutted communities. […]
A Conversation About Gun Violence
/in Gun Rights, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Charles M. Strauss We need to have a conversation about gun violence! OK, you start. You hate children! That’s slander, not a conversation, but go ahead. Schools should be Gun-Free Zones. Those signs have been up since 1990. I said then that Gun-Free Zones wouldn’t work, and I was right, wasn’t I? What else? […]
Disney Doubles Down On LGBTQ Programming With ‘Lightyear’ And More
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Josh Sheperd Same-sex romance is prominent in the latest ‘Toy Story’ entry, and Disney Plus has several LGBTQ-themed films and series coming out. Disney is going all-out in joining leftists’ June celebration of Pride Month, making same-sex themes central to a new “Toy Story” feature film spin-off, and adding more than 100 hours of […]
Why Handwritten FBI And DOJ Notes The Special Counsel Just Released Are Huge
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Margot Cleveland Recently released handwritten notes reveal the FBI either lied or U.K. intelligence fed information to the U.S. agents investigating Donald Trump and his associates. Recently released handwritten notes from a briefing of the acting attorney general on the status of Crossfire Hurricane reveal the FBI either lied about the source of intel or the […]
Weekend Read: 5 Reasons America’s Birthrate Is Plummeting
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Hannah Cox The simple truth is, that there are fewer people who want to bring kids into the world. Though the reasons are diverse, 44 percent of non-parents between 18 to 49 say it is not at all likely they will procreate. Elon Musk recently tweeted, “population collapse is the biggest threat to civilization.” […]
In Movie, Matt Walsh Reveals How Gender Ideology Mutilates Kids
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Douglas Blair The left doesn’t want you to know some consequences of what it calls gender-affirming care, commentator Matt Walsh says of his film “What Is a Woman?” What is a woman? Seems like a pretty simple question. But in today’s America, the left thinks females aren’t the only ones who count as women […]
Federal Agencies Celebrate Pride, Ignore Memorial Day
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Suzanne Bowdey If you’re wondering where America’s heroes rank on President Joe Biden’s list of priorities, try below the rainbow flag. While federal agencies have been tripping over themselves to pledge allegiance to LGBT activism, two couldn’t be bothered to recognize the fallen troops who make our freedom possible. Despite a governmentwide tweet-fest over […]
Arizona Lawmakers Eye Teen Mental Health in Wake of Texas Massacre
/in Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tom Joyce In reaction to the mass shooting inside of a Texas elementary school, Arizona lawmakers seek to explore their options to help teenagers struggling with mental health issues. Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers appointed State Representative Joanne Osborne, R-Goodyear, to chair a new Ad Hoc Committee on Teen Mental Health this week. The […]
48 Senate Republicans Tell Schumer They Will Block Any Bill Undermining Hyde Amendment
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Henry Rogers A group of 48 Senate Republicans sent a letter Wednesday to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer telling him they will vote to block any bill that would undermine the Hyde Amendment or any other pro-life protections. The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the letter which was spearheaded by Montana Sen. […]
New Study Challenges CDC Evidence on School Masking
/in Education, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Waugh Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, adults placed a significant burden on children. An analysis from McKinsey & Co. shows pandemic school closures and hybrid learning resulted in a significant drop in student achievement, costing students $49,000 to $61,000 in future lifetime earnings. This outcome in addition to the mental health toll reveals that school closings and various restrictions had […]
The Texas Shooter And Involuntary Commitment
/in Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy John Hirschauer It is possible that the Texas shooter was evil, not mentally ill. He should have been committed anyway. In 1995, Connecticut Governor John Rowland signed a bill to close Norwich and Fairfield Hills Hospitals, two of the state’s three public mental institutions. The hospitals had collectively housed more than 9,000 patients at […]
Nearly 60% of Arizona Voters Support Some Abortion Restrictions, Poll Finds
/in Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tom Joyce Most Arizona voters support at least some level of abortion restrictions, a new poll found. Residents of the state have mixed opinions about abortion, an Arizona Public Opinion Pulse poll conducted by OH Predictive Insights shows. The poll found that while 41% of the state’s residents think that abortion should be legal […]
The WHO Treaty Is Tied to a Global Digital Passport and ID System
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Aaron Kheriaty The WHO recently announced plans for an international pandemic treaty tied to a digital passport and digital ID system. Meeting in December 2021 in a special session for only the second time since the WHO’s founding in 1948, the Health Assembly of the WHO adopted a single decision titled, “The World Together.” The […]
The Attack on the Justices of the Supreme Court is the Real Insurrection
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ellie Fromm The motto of the U.S. Supreme Court states “Equal Justice Under Law”. While everyone can agree with this simple statement, recently there has been no application of justice for the Justices of the Supreme Court. The protesters at the homes of the Justices have not been arrested. Remember, protesting outside of Justices’ […]
Mom Reads Aloud Purported Assignment Given To Daughter. School Board Cuts Her Mic Because It’s Too Obscene
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Chrissy Clark A Nevada school board temporarily cut off a mother from speaking as she read an assignment reportedly given to her 15-year-old daughter, according to video footage of a school board meeting. One mother alleged that a teacher at Clark County School District — the nation’s fifth-largest public school district — forced her 15-year-old […]
Majority of Americans Support Restrictions on Abortion As Nation Awaits Supreme Court Ruling
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Casey Harper As the nation awaits a landmark abortion ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, newly released polling data show that the majority of Americans support limits on abortion. Convention of States Action, along with the Trafalgar group, released a new poll showing that 57.6% of Americans say “abortion should only be legal in […]
White House Press Secretary ‘Encourages’ Angry Mobs Surrounding Supreme Court Justices’ Homes
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kennedy Kruse [Former] White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki voiced support for the pro-abortion mobs gathering outside U.S. Supreme Court justices’ homes as the justices are being protected with increased security amid threats against their lives and family members. “I know that there is an outrage right now about protests that have been peaceful to date,” […]
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Says Abortion Restriction is Bad For the Economy
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Usually, the abortion issue is so difficult, because at least one side of the argument contends a baby is being killed. One side sees a human that has value and standing, while the other side tries to argue it is not human life independent of the mother. A pregnancy becomes sort of […]
The Homeless Election Battle
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky When I had the opportunity to engage one of the major candidates for Mayor of Los Angeles, I stated there are only two issues in the race. The first being proper funding and use of the police and the second being the Homeless. The candidate agreed with me and the issues for […]
Biden White House Refuses to Condemn ‘Disgusting’ Efforts to Intimidate Supreme Court Justices
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Laurel Duggan White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to say if President Joe Biden condemned efforts to intimidate Supreme Court justices by posting their addresses online and protesting outside their homes. A left-wing group called Ruth Sent Us published the home addresses of the court’s six conservative justices online, called them “extremist,” and on Tuesday announced a May 11 […]
Justice Alito’s Leaked Majority Opinion Draft of Dobbs v. Jackson
/in Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Shawnna Bolick Editors’ Note. The following is a message to the supporters of AZ Representative Shawnna Bolick (LD 20) who is currently a Republican candidate for the Arizona Secretary of State. We share Ms. Bolick’s timely message about the egregious leak of the SCOTUS opinion and the left’s partisan attack on the judiciary, the […]
What the West Got Wrong About China
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Habi Zang In believing that China would one day become a liberal democratic society, Western elites demonstrated their ignorance of Chinese culture. Until recently, for the past four decades, the myth that helping China get rich would make it into a democracy was part of the everyday “wisdom” in the West. However, China—the second-largest […]
I Just Got Back from a Trip
/in Education, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky To Saturn. I was there for six years. Boy, have things changed. I am not talking about Joe Biden being President which is shocking enough. I am referring to the fact that the hottest issue in America is not even climate change. It is people changing gender, what gender you are, how […]
How The Climate Crusade Hijacked the Environmental Movement
/in Environment, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tom Harris Modern environmentalism has been taken over by an extremist cult that threatens to destroy the movement. This cult preys especially on young and impressionable people who lack the life experience to recognize when their goodwill and altruism are being taken advantage of. Like most cults, it is not backed by sound science, […]
Here’s What to Watch Following Dobbs Draft Leak
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Melanie Israel Politico leaked a draft version of a Supreme Court decision for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization late on May 2. It would uphold a Mississippi law protecting unborn children when they can feel pain—15 weeks of pregnancy—and overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Dated Feb. 10, the draft […]
The End Of Tolerance
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy John Hirschauer Thomas Aquinas argued that human law, because it is “framed for a number of human beings the majority of whom are not perfect in virtue,” should not criminalize every vice. Instead, he argued, the civil power should ban “only the more grievous vices, from which it is possible for the majority to […]
Amazon Employees Melt Down Over ‘Traumatic’ Conservative Children’s Book in Leaked Video
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Katrina Trinko Once again, Amazon has shown it’s on the side of leftist activists, not free speech. Matt Walsh, a popular conservative podcast host and writer at The Daily Wire, just released a children’s book titled “Johnny the Walrus.” The book, according to the description on Amazon, tells the tale of Johnny, who likes […]
The Grave Dangers of Politicizing Medicine
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Joe Wang For the past 20 years, medical practitioners (nurses and doctors) were ranked the most trusted professions by the Gallup Honesty and Ethics poll. When a patient visits a doctor, he or she can assume that the doctor will only consider treatments benefiting the patient. This is because hundreds of years of medical […]
Liberal Corporations Are Confused and Scared Because Conservatives Now Fight Back
/in Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kurt Schlichter It’s always fun when progressive jerks try to leverage their bizarre perceptions of our beliefs to get us to do what they want. It can be some smug Twitter blue check informing us that “Actually Jesus was a socialist who would want us to cancel student debt for spoiled rich kids who […]