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Ramadan 2024: Massive Terror Attack on Moscow Targeting Christians—Islamic Terrorists Take Responsibility
/in DrRichSwier.com, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier Russia says 40 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid, Islamic State group claims responsibility MOSCOW (AP) — Several assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing at least 40 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue […]
Weekend Read: A Tale of Two Lies – Part II: The Two-State Solution
/in Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Marvin A. Treiger Editors’ Note: We suggest also reading Part 1 of A Tale of Two Lies – Jewish Settler Colonialism published two weeks ago in The Prickly Pear. The author’s accurate history of the state of Israel and the well documented distortions presented to the world since 1948 are particularly relevant to the […]
How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism?
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jeffrey Tucker In the 1990s and for years into our century, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backwards. We were all gaining access to fabulous things, including webs, apps, search tools, and social media. But governments at all levels were stuck in the past using IBM mainframes and large floppy […]
Trading Guns for Citizenship
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Martin Mawyer The controversial Courage to Serve Act proposes citizenship for illegal immigrants joining the U.S. military. Scariest thing imaginable. There’s no other way of putting it. There’s a bill in Congress called the Courage to Serve Act, a noble-sounding title meant to conjure images of patriotism, American pride, and flags waving in the […]
VIDEO: Hamas’ Efforts, Assisted By UNRWA, To Seize Control Of Humanitarian Aid Entering Gaza Strip
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Middle East Media Research Institute Palestinians | Special Dispatch No. 11222 Hamas has recently been attempting to seize control of the delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip, out of recognition that such control is critical to maintaining its rule and its grip on the populace.[1] These efforts were spurred by reports that Israel […]
Biden’s Duplicitous History Against Israel
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Barry Shaw Biden’s long and contentious relationship with Israel goes back to June 1982 when, as a senator, Biden threatened another Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin with holding back US aid. Joe Biden is, once again, at loggerheads with Israel. This has been brewing for decades. Biden infamously admitted telling Benjamin Netanyahu, “Bibi I love you, but […]
Noble Dreaming
/in Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Juliana Geran Pilon In “Time for Two States,” Rachel Lu observes that after the shocking events of October 7, “the sequence of events was somewhat predictable. Israel retaliated. It was clear they would win.” Well, maybe not win, exactly. But definitely, “Israel’s war with Hamas is reaching its final stages.” If only it were. […]
REPORT: Biden Administration’s Abuse of Parole for Illegal Aliens Now Outpaces Admission of Legal Immigrants
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Federation for American Immigration Reform Washington, D.C. — Unprecedented abuse of immigration parole authority by the Biden administration is currently allowing more illegal aliens into the United States than the U.S. admits through the legal immigration process, finds a new report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Data detailed in the report, […]
RFK Jr. Comes Out Against Gaza Ceasefire
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. strongly questioned the wisdom of a ceasefire in Gaza during an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. “I don’t even know what that means right now,” Kennedy, who is running as an independent, told Reuters in response to a question about a temporary ceasefire. Kennedy argued that Hamas had […]
Posters By Al-Qaeda Supporter Call On Muslims To Kill Jews, Americans, Britons Worldwide In Support Of Islam
/in DrRichSwier.com, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Middle East Media Research Institute In recent days, Sandar Al-Ghafiqi, a prolific Al-Qaeda supporter, published two posters inciting Muslims around the world to jihad. This report reviews the posters. Call For Jihad To Resist Harm Of Muslims In Gaza, Europe, Sudan On March 8, Al-Ghafiqi published[1] a poster in Arabic on the Al-Qaeda-operated Rocket.Chat server, […]
As the Border Crisis Intensifies, Almost 70% Link Migrants to Violent Crime
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council This week, Jason Riley, father of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley who was brutally killed, joined NBC News in a heartfelt interview claiming that his daughter was “like an angel” and “so full of life.” When discussing his daughter’s murderer, a Venezuelan migrant who entered the U.S. illegally in 2022, Riley told the […]
Netanyahu after talk with Biden: ‘We are determined to complete the elimination of Hamas’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains resolute despite world pressure and interference. He addressed the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee about his continued goals. He also discusses briefly a phone call with Joe Biden. (Courtesy: Israel Government Press Office) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Tuesday, 19 March 2024), made the following […]
Hamas’s New Friend In The White House
/in Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mark Wallace The 20th century and early 21st century are remarkable for the large number of terrorist organizations arising during these years. They include not only those most recently in the news — Hamas and Hezbollah — but also the Baader-Meinhof Gang (Germany), the Japanese Red Army, the Weathermen (U.S.), the Red Brigades (Italy), […]
Supreme Court Lets Texas Enforce Law Allowing Police To Arrest And Deport Illegal Immigrants
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Supreme Court allowed Texas’ law enabling local police to arrest illegal migrants to take effect Tuesday. After extending a pause on the law multiple times, the Supreme Court allowed Texas’ SB 4 to take effect Tuesday, declining the Biden administration’s effort to halt it while litigation continues. The Department of Justice (DOJ) […]
Israel’s Strategic Game Of Survival
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Center For Security Policy Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s obscene call on the Senate floor on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster from power was the latest sign that Hamas’s strategy is working. On the “Caroline Glick Show” this week, U.S. Military Academy professor Col. John Spencer, who chairs West Point’s Urban […]
House Launches Broad Probe into China’s Infiltration of U.S.
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Education, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier On Thursday, the House Oversight Committee announced the launch of a wide-ranging investigation into the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to infiltrate “every sector and community” in the U.S. The probe, which has the stated objective to “thwart the CCP’s political and economic warfare campaign,” is being initiated with letters sent to nine […]
‘A Great and Effective Door of Opportunity’: Perkins Visits Israel to Meet with Key Leaders
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Family Research Council President Tony Perkins touched down in Israel on Saturday, March 9 to meet with Israeli leaders and assure them of American Christians’ support. The next day, Perkins visited Re’im, the site of the October 7 attack where, as Perkins described it, “over 300 people were brutally murdered, tortured, […]
Lebanese Muslim caught at border says he’s Hezb’allah jihadi, ‘I’m going to try to make a bomb’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Judicial Watch When will Old Joe and his henchmen invite Basel Bassel Ebbadi to the White House? Illegal migrant from Lebanon caught at border admitted he’s a Hezbollah terrorist hoping ‘to make a bomb’ — and was headed for NY by Jennie Taer, New York Post, March 17, 2024: A Lebanese migrant who was caught […]
NATO’s ‘Welfare’ States: Treating the U.S. As ‘Room Service’
/in Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Peter Hoekstra Last month, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg conceded what former US President Donald Trump has been warning about for nearly a decade: America’s allies are not paying their fair share — as they had agreed — for national defense. After four years in which Trump held our NATO allies accountable for funding their […]
EXCLUSIVE: Firm Tied To China’s Military Industrial Complex Plans To Roll Out Massive Battery Chemical Plants In U.S.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Chinese manufacturer of chemicals for electric vehicle batteries planning to build two U.S. factories has long-standing ties to China’s military industrial complex, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. Capchem Technology USA, the wholly-owned subsidiary of China-based Shenzhen Capchem Technology (Capchem), plans to build factories in both Ohio and Louisiana that would […]
Biden’s 2025 Budget Ignores the Border Crisis
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Federation for American Immigration Reform Last week, the Biden Administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget proposal. Unsurprisingly, the $7.3 trillion budget maintains status quo on the border, allocating billions in taxpayer dollars towards funding an open-borders, anti-enforcement agenda. Of the $107.9 billion in proposed spending for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), $19.8 billion is allocated to […]
Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff Publicly Raising Money for Group Who Was Part of Oct. 7 Atrocities and Terrorist Attack on Israel
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Of all the worthy causes for which one can raise money this is what the coprophagic Ella Emhoff comes up with! However, this should not come as a surprise since her step-mother, Kalamity Harris, was urging people to contribute to a fund for bailing out Antifa and BLM rioters in 2020. […]
Muslims Understand Compassion Differently Than We Do
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Harold Rhode The idea that compassion is between man and man, not just God and man, barely exists. The origins of Islam are twofold. It was a revealed religion, but grew out of pre-Islamic Arabian tribal—that is, Bedouin—culture. When Bedouin cultural values conflicted with Islam, Bedouin culture almost always won out. Over time, Islam […]
Military Recruitment Crisis: What If It *Is* The Product?
/in Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Rebecca Burgess Any phenomenon manifesting in a large, complex, multipart institution whose dynamics are downwind of society at large is bound to have not just one cause, but many. Current institutional case in point: the U.S. Armed Forces and the military recruitment crisis. For the two-plus years that the military’s branches (outside of the U.S. […]
Haiti: Here We Go Again—The BorderLine
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Signal Haiti, a Maryland-sized country sharing half the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, won independence from France in 1804 and since then has been beset by political strife and poverty. Today, Haiti has descended into a Hobbesian state of nature, in which gang leaders like Jimmy Chérizier, aka “Barbecue,” will fight […]
Joe Biden Backs Schumer After Senator Calls For New Elections In Israel — And now the crisis begins!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch According to the Associated Press: Schumer, a Jewish Democrat from New York, sent tremors through both countries this week when he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and warned that “Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah” as the Palestinian death toll continues to grow. Biden is backing […]
‘If Hamas Survives … Radicalism Will Be on Steroids All over the Planet’: Senator
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council For a Democratic Party so consumed with the evils of insurrection, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had no problem calling for one in Israel. In a speech that would have astounded Capitol Hill a year ago, the highest-ranking Jewish official in America demanded that Israeli voters hold an unscheduled election […]
Netanyahu Defies Biden, Green Lights Offensive Into Hamas Stronghold
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, National Security, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the green light on Friday for Israel to launch a ground invasion against a Hamas stronghold in south Gaza, despite the Biden administration’s warnings, according to NBC News. Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is “preparing for the operational […]
Biden Admin Hands Out $500 Million For Oil Drilling In Middle East
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Labor & Unions, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier The Biden administration is providing financing for oil development in the Middle East after taking numerous steps to restrict domestic production, according to Bloomberg News. The U.S. Export-Import Bank — a nominally independent government entity that aims to boost the American economy “by facilitating the export of U.S. goods and services” […]
China’s Purchase Of This Academic Support Site Jeopardizes Students’ Security
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mary Vought As the mother of two young daughters, I want to safeguard the values that make our nation great for the next generation. The recent acquisition of Tutor.com by the Chinese private equity firm Primavera Capital Group undermines those cherished values. This development gives me significant pause as a parent who understands that children sometimes need additional […]