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Still More Dangerous New Concessions by Biden Administration for a Nuclear Deal with Iran’s Mullahs

By Majid Rafizadeh Since assuming office, the Biden administration’s policy towards the Iranian regime has been one of capitulation and giving concessions to the ruling Islamist mullahs of Iran. So far, they include suspending some of the anti-terrorism sanctions on Iran-backed Houthis, then revoking the designation of Yemen’s Houthis as a terrorist group; disregarding Iran’s oil sales to China; shipping […]

Experts Blame Green Energy Policies for Europe’s Full-Scale Energy Crisis: ‘A warning to the U.S.’

By The Geller Report We are watching the villainous Left deindustrialize our societies, under the guise of climate nonsense. All while they fly around the world in private jets, which emit far more green-house gasses into the atmosphere. The Green Movement is a total assault on capitalism, our freedom, and our entire way of life. […]

REVIEW: Progressive Conservatism – How Republicans Will Become America’s Natural Governing Party?

By David Gordon Editors’ Note: We at The Prickly Pear will continue to run worthwhile articles that explore the shift from “establishment Republican” to MAGA Republican, often referred to as National Conservatism, Progressive Conservatism or National Populism. It is a work in progress and you can tell that because various adherents can’t even agree on […]

Why Tyrants Still Study Gorbachev

By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) What Mikhail Gorbachev tried to do with the Soviet Union is surprisingly relevant today. Sometimes I joke that I lived through four currencies and three leaders of the Soviet Union. I was born in 1981, Brezhnev died in 1982, Andropov in 1984, and Chernenko in 1985. Compared to the previous Soviet Leaders who spent a […]

Biden is Paying Osama bin Laden’s Old Airline to Fly Out Afghans

By Jihad Watch The Taliban are getting rich from the immigration business. And we’re paying for it. Ariana Afghan Airlines used to fly Al Qaeda terrorists from Afghanistan to the Middle East. As a sideline, it also flew guns and drugs on behalf of the Islamic terrorist organization. While Ariana was controlled by Osama bin Laden, it […]

Musk: “Civilization Will Crumble” Without Oil and Gas

By David Kelly Editors’ Note: Elon Musk is hard to categorize. On the one hand, he is selling a lot of cars because of government subsidies, tax breaks, and coercion. But on the other hand, he notes such policies are anti-human and will lead to great misery and chaos. His space business gets a lot […]

Border Patrol Busts Hundreds of Adult Migrants Posing as Minors to Dodge Deportation

By Judicial Watch As if the crisis along the southern border were not bad enough, adult illegal immigrants are posing as minors to enter—and stay in—the U.S. since typically those under 18 are welcomed with open arms. The government refers to them as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and hundreds of thousands have entered the country […]

SARASOTA, FLORIDA: WWII, Korean, Vietnam and Gulf War Warriors to Receive the Congressional Veterans Commendation

By Dr. Rich Swier The Congressional Veteran Commendation (CVC) is a nominations-based program designed to recognize the wartime sacrifices and peacetime community involvement of American veterans. Honorees have demonstrated a record of being exceptional Americans both on and off the battlefield. In Florida’s 16th Congressional District five warriors will be awarded the CVC. Two WWII […]

Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s Letter to FBI Director Wray on the Mar-a-Lago Raid

By Royal A. Brown III Senator Marco Rubio’s letter is below. We are glad that he responded to this outrage but wish he had mentioned Hillary Clinton by name as to why FBI didn’t raid her residence when she had confidential work related info on her private server at home. Our great Governor Ron DeSantis […]

Does the Council on American Islamic Relations Hate White People?

By Judicial Watch Esmeralda Upton apparently had too much to drink and accosted a group of Indian American women in the parking lot of a restaurant in Plano, Texas. This was captured on cell phone video, with Upton saying, “I hate Indians. Go back to India. We don’t want you here.” She also pushed the women, slapped […]

Afghan Refugees in U.S. Are Sending Our Tax Dollars Back to Afghanistan

By Jihad Watch Not actually a surprise. Some countries run their entire economies around remittances, promoting mass migration to America, and then profiting from the money sent back to their families. Once we enabled money to enter Taliban territory, this was inevitable. But this little detail emerges from what is supposed to be a sympathetic […]

TikTok’s New ‘Elections Center’ Is A Massive Threat To National Security

By Emily Jashinksy That we’ve forfeited this much control to a hostile foreign power is one of the most mind-boggling, slow-motion political blunders in modern history. TikTok just unveiled an “Elections Center” that will put detailed voter profiles in the hands of a company based in Beijing, stocked with party members and state employees, subject […]

Judge Chastises DoD, Marine Corps in Order Granting Class Action Status in Vaccine Mandate Case

By Bethany Blankley U.S District Court Judge Steven Merryday issued a blistering rebuke of the Department of Defense and Marine Corps for refusing to grant religious accommodation requests to service members. Merryday did so when issuing a 48-page ruling Thursday in which he granted class-action status for all active and reserve U.S. Marine Corps service […]

Watch Colonel Douglas Macgregor’s Exposé ‘Reinforcing Failure in Ukraine’

By Royal A. Brown III Watch this short video of an interview of Colonel Douglas Macgregor who is a very smart man – his analysis of Ukraine situation is 100% spot on especially with following points.  KEY POINTES: Biden can keep sending Billions in ammo and equipment to Ukraine (depleting our military capabilities) but […]

Tampa Mosque Event Features Two Imams One Anti-Semitic, the Other Supports Sharia Punishments

By Jihad Watch Stoning adulterers, killing homosexuals, and hating Jews is all standard Sharia. Stoning adulterers is not “extremist”; it is Islamic law. The caliph Umar, one of Muhammad’s closest companions, even maintained that it was originally in the Qur’an: ‘Umar said, “I am afraid that after a long time has passed, people may say, […]

TAKE ACTION: How YOU Can Help to Bring About Election Integrity

By The Geller Report Stolen elections won’t fix themselves and without free and fair elections, the country is done for, finished. Just look at the catastrophic consequences of the 20202 stolen election. get involved. No one is going to save you. Only YOU can. Operation Eagles Wings is recruiting, training, and deploying thousands of citizens […]

Mossad Chief: New Iran Agreement is a ‘Done Deal’ and a ‘Disaster’

By Jihad Watch The Bidenites have repeatedly made clear their insensate desire to revive the Iran Deal of 2015. This will free up about $700 billion, currently frozen, for Iran. Tehran will be able to fund in spectacular fashion its terrorist proxies all over the Middle East, including the Houthis in Yemen, the Kata’ib Hezbollah […]

Israel’s Pernicious Paradox: Tactical Brilliance vs Strategic Imbecility

By Martin Sherman Israel must forgo the forlorn hope of winning Arab amitié and pursue different strategic goals. The most it can hope for is to be grudgingly accepted; the least it must achieve is to be greatly feared. The IDF looks for every possible way to maintain peace even if the very heavy cost is […]

FBI Whistleblowers Say Senior Officials Ordered Bureau Not to Investigate Hunter Biden Laptop

By John Solomon 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 […]

Investigation of U.S. Election Software Company Uncovers Chinese Coders

By The Geller Report Until election corruption is remedied, the fix is in and the destruction of our great nation will continue unimpeded.  We must go to all paper ballots throughout the land. They’ve done it elsewhere, whole countries like France but places like New York and California will always be last. If, ever. Investigation […]

The FBI Has Not Earned the Benefit Of The Doubt

By Tristan Justice A look at the FBI’s last six years shows a pattern of irredeemable corruption. Can the FBI be trusted? A Federalist analysis of agency lies over the last decade is an unequivocal no. FISA Warrants In the summer of 2016, FBI bureaucrats launched a deep-state operation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, to thwart […]

DOJ’s Highly Redacted Trump Affidavit Details Reasons For Raid

By The Daily Caller The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) redacted affidavit relating to the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was released on Friday. The document shows that the DOJ pointed to a number of classified materials already obtained from Trump’s home as reason for the August search warrant request. Though much of […]

AFGHANISTAN: Biden Lied, Americans Died

By Jihad Watch While Biden’s panicked evacuation from Afghanistan was going on, it had failed so badly that staffers from his own wife’s office were contacting private rescue groups to get people out. This is one of the many damning revelations in the report by Rep. McCaul for the Republican minority on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. […]

Famed Hacker Blows Whistle on Twitter, App is Risk to National Security

By The Geller Report The nation owes an immeasurable debt to Elon Musk for pulling back the curtain on this nefarious enterprise…. It’s even worse than we thought – spying and sabotage from hostile foreign actors. Famed hacker blows whistle on Twitter, claims app is risk to national security https://t.co/sRyvt5aQrc via @nypost — Sports Fan Jimmy […]

The American Gestapo

By Kelleigh Nelson “You’ve got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens – that’s what the SS (Schutzstaffel), the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, and the NKVD did. (NKVD is The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs.)” — William Binney – Former intelligence official with the United States National Security […]

Biden’s CIA Director Employed Chinese Communist Party Members While Heading Elite DC Think Tank

By Philip Lenczycki Considering such warnings, employing CCP members and those with Chinese government ties raises red flags, national security experts said. “It’s pretty much a fatal cul-de-sac that [Burns] finds himself in,” Steve Yates, former deputy national security adviser to the vice president, told the DCNF. “Either he appears to have allowed government-linked experts […]

Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake Eyes Invasion Declaration, Sweeping Border Moves If Elected

By Adam Shaw Arizona has been at the forefront of the ongoing crisis at the southern border Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is promising to declare an “invasion” at the southern border if elected to lead the state in November, one of a number of aggressive moves she intends to take to combat the raging […]

Energy Shortage and Mineral Dependence

By Neland Nobel Editors’ Note: Although the November 8th election here in Arizona will be focused on economic issues and our southern border invasion, the Inflation Reduction Act should be a central issue for the Senate race between Blake Masters (R) and incumbent Mark Kelly (D). Similarly, incumbent Kyrsten Sinema (D) will attempt to remain in […]

False Friends of Digital Privacy

By Bill Blunden The unlocking was mostly an afterthought, however. What really generated headlines was the fight between Apple and the United States government. Members of the press announced that Apple was working on a new unhackable iPhone while the company’s CEO was depicted as a defender of digital privacy. The result of this hyperbolic coverage was the […]

Will the Real “Independent” Please Stand Up?

By 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 […]