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The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers.   Former National Intelligence Director: Democrats Didn’t Count All AG Votes in Arizona   Arizona officials […]

The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers.     Arizona officials share outcry in mass release of migrants   Hillary Clinton Lawyer Celebrates […]

Thursday’s indictment of presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden on three gun-related criminal counts is the latest twist in the long, winding and rapidly escalating saga that is the Biden crime family. The indictment, served up by U.S. Attorney — and now “special counsel,” despite the fact 28 Code of Federal Regulations Sec. 600.3 requires that […]

The U.S. Navy confirmed on Tuesday it has discontinued an online recruiting initiative featuring an enlisted drag queen that was aimed at bringing new sailors into the service. In May, The Daily Caller revealed that the Navy brought on Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley — an active-duty drag queen who goes by the stage name Harpy […]

The immigration crisis is crushing New York City. According to ABC7 news, last week alone 2900 new “asylum seekers” entered one of the city’s 200 new emergency shelters. Mayor Eric Adams says the city spends $383 per day per family on food, shelter and other expenses, which are deemed the migrants’ right to receive for […]

Each year, almost three million American women face an unplanned pregnancy. When a pregnancy is unwanted and those involved are not ready, willing or able to parent, that is a dilemma for which there is no ideal solution. The obvious options for one facing an unplanned pregnancy are abortion, parenting and adoption, but few among […]

Editors’ Note: Governor Grisham’s ill-fated attempt to repeal the Second Amendment by decree has not gone well either in the Courts or with the local sheriff. Additionally, while she must have felt she would feel the glow of national media praise, the whole gambit has turned into a public relations disaster. But the back story […]

Thought the Federal Reserve raising interest rates was bad? Wait until they freeze your ability to get paid. Seamless money transfers? State-of-the-art security and tracking features? A hassle-free payment service backed by the Fed? No annoying third-party systems? What’s not to love about the Federal Reserve’s new FedNow Service? Quite a lot, actually. Despite the […]

Editors’ Note:  As the news rolls in of one EV disaster after another, the easy money and greed of Wall Street have to be examined. However, it also should be noted this is part of a government, top-down, problem of central planning. Politicians have a dream and if the dream does not comport with reality, […]

Editors’ Note:  Now it appears that Dr. Fauci, the doctor most beloved by the press, is clearly a liar. He knew early on that the US government was funding gain of function research in China. Our own government, cooperating with our adversary, unleashed a terrible virus on the world, killing millions and wrecking the world […]

The House Oversight Committee released bank records Wednesday showing Hunter Biden took millions of dollars worth of payments from Russian, Ukrainian, and Kazakh oligarchs. Hunter Biden received millions from Russian oligarch Elena Baturina, Ukrainian energy firm Burisma and Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev when his father was vice president, the committee found. The committee has identified […]

In boasting about “Bidenomics” two weeks ago in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden declared that his policies are “restoring the American dream.” Then he went into his creepy whispering mode and assured us “it’s working.” Huh? Isn’t it a big aspiration of the American dream to own a home? Biden keeps making first-time homeownership harder for young families for two […]

A professor hailing from China with a World Economic Forum (WEF) background is behind critical race and gender theory research on children at two of Arizona’s taxpayer-funded universities. Sonya Xinyue Xiao teaches psychological science and performs developmental research on moral and gender development at Northern Arizona University (NAU). Xiao was a postdoctoral scholar at the […]

The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers.   Superior Court Judge: Voter Signature Verification Under Fontes, Hobbs Unlawful   Arizona Supreme Court petitioned […]

The Biden Administration, after suffering a string of judicial defeats on gun control, is now attempting to expand the definition of who can have a Federal License to deal in firearms. After repeated judicial defeats on bump stocks, frames, receivers, and braces, the Administration has decided to throw great uncertainty over who must be licensed […]

Patrick T. Brown, a climate scientist, wrote Tuesday in The Free Press that he deliberately omitted the “full truth” from a paper he recently authored in order to increase its chances of publication in a prestigious journal. Brown explained his decision-making in the piece, asserting that he overlooked truths in his work in order to make […]

The elites dearly miss having a pandemic on hand.   Apparently, prescribing Ivermectin for people with Covid was fine all along. Sure, nearly every public authority vehemently denounced Ivermectin, calling it “horse dewormer,” and social media platforms censored people who dared mention it. And sure, they slandered medical experts like Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone and even placed jaundiced […]

I am enormously grateful to Law & Liberty for recruiting such heavy hitters to respond to my lead essay. What a joy to get such humbling and instructive comments, each brimming with its author’s characteristic intellectual virtues. I thank all four responders and only regret that the imperative for brevity in this summary reply means I […]

Arizona Republican Blake Masters is considering another bid for the United States Senate, which could pave the way for a competitive primary race. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Masters was considering a bid for the seat currently held by Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who left the Democratic Party last year. On the Democratic side, […]

National Public Radio was in a frenzy this morning but it felt like the movie Groundhog Day: they were spreading tremendous alarm about the rise of Covid cases. We have to stop the spread, the announcer said, and that’s why masks are coming back to classrooms. However, they added, relief is on the way in […]

Washington, Monroe, and Nixon equals America First. In his inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson famously summarized the thought of George Washington in what is now known as the Washington Doctrine: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” The last of the Founders to serve as president, James Monroe, formulated the Monroe […]

Amid the scrum of news this week about Democrat-led schemes to put former President Donald Trump on trial during the GOP primaries and rig the 2024 election in plain sight, you might have missed a cautionary tale out of New York City, where Democrat millionaires are whining about a migrant crisis they helped create. A […]

Spiking Interest payments will hopefully, knock on wood, force the drunken sailors in Washington to go through detox.   The gigantic US government debt is now approaching $33 trillion, amid a tsunami of issuance of Treasury securities to fund the mind-blowing government deficits and roll over maturing securities. At the same time, the Fed has hiked its […]

Who’s running the federal government? That question has been asked frequently as President Joe Biden continues to demonstrate signs of severe physical and mental decline. The president often seems barely there. It strains credulity that a man who can hardly put a sentence together at this point is fully carrying out his duties as commander in chief. A […]

We have made fantastic strides in our understanding of how the physical and social worlds work. The Great Enrichment of the last three centuries or so that happened because we adopted the Bourgeois Deal of “Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich” has lifted us to standards of living our ancestors could not have […]

The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers.    

A Missouri trial court declined Friday to block a law preventing transgender interventions for minors, citing “conflicting and unclear” medical evidence on the effectiveness of so-called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. “The science and medical evidence is conflicting and unclear,” Judge Stephen R. Ohmer ruled. “Accordingly, the evidence raises more questions than answers.” Three Missouri families who […]

What’s the dividing line between fashionable and unfashionable tattoos?   Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is fashion. Being neither beautiful nor fashionable, I have a burning question:  At what point do tattoos go from being fashionably attractive to being unfashionably ugly? I need to know in case I ever decide to […]

He fretted about the re-accelerating economy flying above the “below-trend” growth required to get to 2%. “We will keep at it until the job is done.” The most important aspect of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech today [8/25/23] at the Jackson Hole Symposium was his total and repeated smackdown of the folks that had either […]

While packing for our recent trip to London, I went to our unread bookshelf – the place where we track acquired but not yet read books. I spotted The Intimidation Game written by Kimberly Strassel. Since we will be seeing Ms. Strassel in September as she releases a new book, I thought it a suitable […]

The thoroughly mendacious “climate crisis” narrative, which has been consistently and wildly wrong for 50 years and continues to be wrong now, has turned deadly. People are dying as a result of terrible policies based off climate change hysteria. I just reported for PJ Media on a media call where several climate experts agreed that government negligence and obsession […]

The woke lie that racism has gotten worse needs to be called out.   For many years, racism in America has been, to a very significant degree, a manufactured problem. When we speak about race, whether we admit it or not—and we usually don’t—we mean blacks. Black grievance largely ginned up, provides the fuel for […]

It is pretty clear that the Conservative Movement is splintering over the policies currently espoused over the support of Ukraine.  The most recent Republican Presidential Primary Debate made this even more clear and the differences starker. Mainstream Conservatives like the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal love Nikki Haley and former Vice President Mike […]

Judge Chutkan has repeatedly expressed strong and settled opinions about the issues at the heart of United States v. Donald Trump — the criminal case she is now presiding over.   At her first appearance in the criminal case against Donald Trump for his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. […]

Political scientist Yoram Hazony argued in Quillette that “an updated version of Marxism” was surging in America today, owing to the decay of liberalism, and its proponents were coming for everyone who did not subscribe to its politically correct, woke dogmas. Hazony’s warning that the followers of this new breed of Marxism “cannot grant legitimacy to any […]

Vivek was the single exception to an underwhelmingly mediocre debate While the eyes of well over 160 million people were on the highly-anticipated interview between President Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, the undercard debate of also-ran candidates proved very telling in its own way, often at the expense of the GOP. With a single exception, all of […]

The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers.     Arizona Supreme Court to review abortion laws   Phoenix Libraries Used Up Month’s Supply […]

Populists need to investigate the moral grounds on which ordered liberty is based. The conservative tradition has always been wary of populism in the form of an untutored mob, an undisciplined populus, or tyrannical majorities. It particularly fears the moral anarchy that accompanies the undermining of sound tradition and salutary self-restraint. That does not mean […]

You have to hand it to the Left. They are a clever bunch. They take your tax dollars and use them to promote abortion, DEI in the military, and reverse discrimination. They take the tuition money you saved to educate your children or your tax dollars, and then they use it to turn your child’s […]

I have been taken aback by the chorus of my fellow Republicans who have questioned the word of President Joe Biden regarding his involvement in his son’s business dealings. Mr. Biden was obviously busy with other matters, as you can only expect from a man of his stature. So why would we question his involvement? […]

The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers. Democrats Used $190 Million Voter Registration Nonprofit To Flip Arizona Blue In 2020 Rep. Gallego Defines […]

Democrats’ deceptive talking point that universal mail-in voting is completely “safe” and “secure” is collapsing as postal theft becomes rampant throughout the country. Within the last week alone, CBS News Chicago released several articles detailing a series of incidents involving mail theft and crime throughout the Windy City. On July 31, for instance, the outlet reported […]

Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes’ time in office now exceeds 6 months. They have excelled regarding their support for the agenda of the present-day radical Democrat Party, but they have done more harm than good for the people of Arizona who care about election integrity and the welfare of children. Governor Hobbs […]

In his essay from August 4, Andrew E. Busch argues that opponents of providing aid to Ukraine have made a “feeble” case, identifying three arguments in particular that he finds lacking: that we should be focusing on issues at home rather than abroad; that the government of Ukraine is suppressing Russian Orthodox Christianity; and that […]

More than 97% of “mass shootings” that have occurred in the U.S. in the first six months of 2023 do not fit the “active shooter” type scenario driving the majority of new legislative proposals, a Daily Caller analysis of the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) shows. Stricter gun regulation favored by Democrats would only address 38 of […]

The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers.     As Biden Celebrates Inflation Reduction Act Anniversary, Arizonans Continue To Be Hit Hard By […]

At no time since the 1868 impeachment of President Andrew Johnson has an impeachment been more warranted than it is now.   Now we know there was good reason for Trump to be asking about it. We also know there’s far more evidence Biden engaged in impeachable (and possibly criminal) offenses than there ever was […]

mRNA vaccine inventor-turned-truth teller Dr. Robert Malone just revealed how Anthem Medicaid was incentivizing doctors to push the dangerous COVID-19 vaccines by promising $50 for every Anthem member aged 5 years and older who got jabbed by Dec. 31, 2022. So what if 13 million people died worldwide from the vaccines? So what if millions […]

Mortgage applications to purchase a home: -40% from 2022 and 2019, 3rd worst week since 1995, behind only two weeks in February. The 7%+ mortgages are doing their magic on the housing market as they keep buyers out of the market, and home sales sagged further in late July and August, from already dismal levels, […]

Almost nobody is taking America’s drug crisis seriously. To be sure, the ever-mounting deaths attract headlines. They get a mention in the State of the Union, or on the campaign trail. But based on the outcomes, policymakers appear to have more or less given up. Some numbers put the problem in perspective. After Covid-19, drugs […]

The Arizona Board of Regents has decided to eliminate a diversity requirement that [for] applicants to give a statement about diversity, equity, and inclusion. The shift comes after the nonprofit Goldwater Institute publicized that 80% of faculty job postings at three major Arizona public universities required applicants to do so. The schools involved are Arizona […]

The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers.     Report: Hobbs requested social media limits on critical posts as Secretary of State   […]

Editors’ Note:  This information seems to go even beyond what is called “regulatory capture.” Rule making agencies often lack expertise and hence tend to recruit personnel from the very companies they regulate. Progressives argued that “market failure” required the guiding hand of bureaucrats to correct abuses. However, in this case, regulators actually stand to profit […]

Editors’ Note: The concept used to be, “public lands”, where ranchers, lumbermen, miners, off-road enthusiasts, hunters, hikers, and mountain bikers, in other words, “the public” had use of the Federal lands. Now propelled by the environmental movement, increasingly these become “private lands” government-owned and approved for only progressive causes. It is even worse. As the […]

Editors’ Note: The debate about legalization may not really be the debate. Smoking tobacco is legal, but restricted. Advertising is banned and its use is now severely frowned upon in today’s culture. Even the tobacco companies themselves must fund education against their own product. But marijuana gets a pass. It is an approved way to […]

A new report says that Biden’s Energy Secretary called up a top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) energy official before the Biden administration released America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) in late 2021. Aside from the ostensible goal of lowering gas prices (even while the Biden administration wrecked America’s energy independence), the Biden administration’s Department of Energy […]

The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers.   Fontes May Face Lawsuit For Violating Federal Law With Dirty Voter Rolls   Arizona Border […]

The indictments of Donald Trump represent a power play, not the interests of justice. Special Counsel Jack Smith has indicted President Trump. Again. To spare you the pain of reading them, let me summarize the recent 45-page “election fraud” indictment and the June 44-page “documents” indictment: in June, Smith indicted Trump for stealing the government’s […]

2023 began with federal regulators targeting gas stoves, but we have since seen a host of other proposals going after washing machines, refrigerators, dishwashers, ceiling fans, water heaters, and others. They are all part of the Biden administration’s prioritization of the climate change agenda over the interests of consumers. Each runs the risk of boosting appliance prices, limiting choice, and […]

Matthew Continetti: The Washington Post’s go-to authority on conservatism   Washington Post reached for superlatives last year in describing Matthew Continetti’s The Right. This voice of the establishment Left explained that Continetti, besides being an AEI senior fellow and a one-time distinguished editor of the Washington Free Beacon, may be the premier intellectual historian of the American Right. Continetti’s […]

The Prickly Pear will provide current, linked articles about Arizona consistent with our Mission Statement to ‘inform, educate and advocate’. We are an Arizona based website and believe this information should be available to all of our statewide readers.   Arizona Lawmakers Share Concerns With Election Procedure Manual Development   Goldwater Institute Education Expert Fact-Checks […]

Author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century. The 2005 book wasn’t advocating the agenda of the Flat Earth Society, and Friedman likely hasn’t used the proceeds to help fund such a ludicrous group. But the charitable foundation he runs with his wife has done something […]

U.S. policy toward China appears to be suffering from a belief in magic – that, for instance, withdrawing from Afghanistan would be a great idea; that Putin would be happy with a “minor incursion” into Ukraine; that the Chinese spy balloon was “silly;” that the mission of education and the military should be to ensure “equity,” leading one veteran […]

It’s not about Trump. It’s about criminalizing dissent and punishing the millions who voted for him — and warning them not to do it again.   On Tuesday, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department took the unprecedented step of indicting former President Donald Trump — Biden’s chief rival in the upcoming 2024 election — for repeatedly expressing […]

When Nebraskans went to the polls last November, nearly two-thirds of voters decided to amend Nebraska’s Constitution to require people to present a valid photo identification before casting a vote in future elections. To implement the amendment, Nebraska’s Legislature recently passed a law setting forth the exact voter ID requirements and striking a proper balance […]

A majority of heat deaths in Maricopa County are attributable to methamphetamine, according to the latest Maricopa County Department of Public Health heat deaths report. 53 percent of heat deaths involved meth last year, or 226 deaths. 67 percent of deaths involved some type of substance abuse. The county noted that the proportion of heat deaths involving […]

What a run it has been!  The S&P is up better than 20% and the tech-laden NASDAQ is up better than 45% year to data.  Label it as either a new bull market or a bear market rally, it has been strong. The stock market seems poised to challenge old highs based on good technical […]

As agents continue to apprehend more known, suspected terrorists (KSTs) illegally entering the U.S., internal federal agency processes have allowed them to enter the U.S. and “potentially threaten national security and public safety,” an Office of Inspector General report found. The OIG, which audited the Department of Homeland Security, the agency created in response to the 9/11 […]

Editors’ Note:  It is one of the defining issues of our time: the limits to personal liberty, especially absent any broadly accepted moral code. It seems many are their own God, making up their own moral code or copying one from social media. Democrats, i.e., the Left, like to sell themselves as the party for […]

Tom Lewis is among America’s most generous philanthropists. Over more than 20 years, his T.W. Lewis Foundation has funded causes helping children and families, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations like The Heritage Foundation. But he’s now taking a different approach with colleges and universities after a controversy at Arizona State University. Lewis pulled his funding following the school’s mishandling […]

When did things begin to go wrong? The Garden of Eden is one possible answer, of course. But we nevertheless look for more proximate answers to a question such as “When did transgender ideology become an unassailable orthodoxy in large parts of the academy?” Personal memory is deceptive when trying to answer such a question: […]

3rd Year-over-Year Price Drop in a Row. Monthly Increases Are “Just Seasonal”: Robert Shiller   Home price rise since 2012 “may be coming to an end”: Shiller. Biggest YoY drops: Seattle, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Portland, Denver, and Dallas. “Probably what’s happening with the increase in home prices, it’s just seasonal, it’s […]