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NOTABLE QUOTES Nick Short contributor tomklingenstein.com: The control of information, the crackdown on dissent, the redefinition of reality itself: all of these are classic tools of totalitarian regimes. We must understand that fact — understand both the goals of the group quota regime and how they intend to achieve them — before we can proceed. We […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Drew Allen author and contributor to American Greatness: “Our present conflict is unprecedented in our own nation’s history and in our own lifetimes and marks the third major test, which will determine whether America survives or dies.” Forget war with Russia; we’re already fighting a war here in America. Forget the monster in […]
Estimated Reading Time: 26 minutes
NOTABLE QUOTES Martin Gurri contributor to City Journal: The cults of identity and ecology now serve as instruments of elite control in the United States. The elites have imposed conformity with astonishing rapidity. A majority of Americans report that they fear contradicting the orthodoxy, with the young—savviest about the information landscape—being most afraid. While the new censorship […]
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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. We’re Suing Adrian Fontes For His Illegal Elections Procedures Manual Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman will […]
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PRESIDENTS’ DAY Whitney: Should We Celebrate Presidents’ Day, or Washington’s Birthday? People ask why a few of us presidential junkies would like to see Presidents’ Day changed back to Washington’s Birthday. The technical explanation has to do with a misguided law called HR 15951 that was passed in 1968 to make federal holidays less complicated. […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES John D. O’Connor contributor to American Greatness: it is understandable that many are inclined to believe that our country’s current serious problems are, once again, merely the failed result of well-intentioned policies. But what if, we ask, seemingly fumbled programs were intended to be the initial throes of civilizational suicide? What if apparent missteps were […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES John D. O’Connor contributor to American Greatness: it is understandable that many are inclined to believe that our country’s current serious problems are, once again, merely the failed result of well-intentioned policies. But what if, we ask, seemingly fumbled programs were intended to be the initial throes of civilizational suicide? What if apparent missteps were […]
Estimated Reading Time: 26 minutes
NOTABLE QUOTES Winston Churchill: If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a […]
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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. Arizona Free Enterprise Club Sues Adrian Fontes Over New Elections Procedures Manual How NOT […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Mollie Hemingway X post: Just left oral arguments over Colorado’s partisan court attempt to remove popular Republican candidate from presidential ballot. Based on questioning and response, legal observers I spoke with said this could be 7-2, 8-1, even 9-0. Techno Fog Threadreader post: Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report has been released. “Biden willfully […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Mollie Hemingway X post: Just left oral arguments over Colorado’s partisan court attempt to remove popular Republican candidate from presidential ballot. Based on questioning and response, legal observers I spoke with said this could be 7-2, 8-1, even 9-0. Techno Fog Threadreader post: Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report has been released. “Biden willfully […]
Estimated Reading Time: 29 minutes
NOTABLE QUOTES Steve Bannon War Room host and former adviser to former President Donald Trump: “FDR, in his first hundred days, started the foundations of building the administrative state, the deep state. The first 100 days of President Trump, I think you’ll see the beginning of the deconstruction of that and the destruction of the […]
Estimated Reading Time: 23 minutes
NOTABLE QUOTES John & Nisha White contributors to The Rutherford Institute: Empowered by advances in surveillance technology and emboldened by rapidly expanding public-private partnerships between law enforcement, the Intelligence Community, and the private sector, the Surveillance State is making the fictional world of 1984, Orwell’s dystopian nightmare, our looming reality. J.B. Shurk contributor to American […]
Estimated Reading Time: 30 minutes
NOTABLE QUOTES Shea Bradley-Farrell contributor to American Greatness: Although senators are being pressured to agree to this deal without the opportunity to read, review, or amend its text, a few “bullet points” have been leaked. From these it is clear the deal is not designed to close the border, but to deceptively strengthen Biden’s open […]
Estimated Reading Time: 30 minutes
NOTABLE QUOTES Scott Johnson contributor to PowerLine Blog: The Firm of Schumer & McConnell (as Senator Lee calls it) released the text of the “bipartisan border bill” last night. The text is posted here. It’s part of an “emergency” supplemental appropriations bill that runs to 370 pages. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) regarding the “bipartisan […]
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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. AZ Legislature Week In Review – Week Ending February 1, 2024 Petersen, Toma sue […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Brandon Smith contributor to Discern Report: If you think the war on farming which is raging right now in Europe is only intended to affect industrial farms, think again. The establishment is going to try to use the man-made climate change lie to dictate ALL food production, right down to your unassuming backyard […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Brandon Smith contributor to Discern Report: If you think the war on farming which is raging right now in Europe is only intended to affect industrial farms, think again. The establishment is going to try to use the man-made climate change lie to dictate ALL food production, right down to your unassuming backyard […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Connor Boyack, creator of the Tuttle Twins and author of a U.S. history book for children: “A nation cannot long survive the progressive dumbing down of its historically illiterate citizenry.” Matt Margolis contributor to PJMedia: So what happens if Biden federalizes troops to essentially enforce its open-border policies? It would be a consequential […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Robert Weissberg contributor to American Thinker: It has been said that intellectuals can reduce a city of stone to sand. Unfortunately, this is especially true as today’s “thinking class” wages all-hands-on deck warfare against Western Civilization. The most prominent of these attacks is the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) movement but DIE is […]
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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. Arizona Legislators, GOP To Sue Over Election Procedures Manual Arizona GOP chairman resigns after […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES John Hanson X post on 1/28/2024: Biden 2 weeks ago: “I’ve already delivered the message to Iran. They know not to do anything.” Today: Iran-backed drone strike kills 3 U.S. service-members, many wounded. William Federer’s American Minute: In 1918, Henry Louis Mencken explained how crises are used in politics to create panic so […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES J.B. Shurk contributor to American Thinker: Totalitarianism is the warm bath in which civilization slits its wrists. It envelops the people with petty rules, strange dogmas, immoral duties, and forced sacrifices. It warms its victims with intoxicating promises of the government’s false love. It leaves the citizen naked — stripped first of his […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: The most brutally Machiavellian Senator, Mitch McConnell (U-DC), is the leader and source of anxiety created by the coalition of professionally Republican liars we call DeceptiCons. They are a select group of around 16 “Republican” senators who scheme, lie and support the left-wing of the UniParty vulture. […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: The most brutally Machiavellian Senator, Mitch McConnell (U-DC), is the leader and source of anxiety created by the coalition of professionally Republican liars we call DeceptiCons. They are a select group of around 16 “Republican” senators who scheme, lie and support the left-wing of the UniParty vulture. […]
Estimated Reading Time: 26 minutes
NOTABLE QUOTES Brandon Smith contributor to Discern Report: Operation Garden Plot And Martial Law: In 1968 the US Department of Defense at the request of the government drafted a civil disturbance plan called ‘Operation Garden Plot’ which outlined what was essentially a martial law response to large scale social breakdown. One of the main factors listed […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Jordan Boyd contributor to The Federalist: If Haley’s primary goal in running were to defeat President Joe Biden, she would have stood up in front of the American flags at her New Hampshire campaign headquarters Tuesday night, quit the race, and endorsed Trump as Americans’ last hope to win back the country. Her insistence […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES James H. McGee contributor to The American Spectator: The dirty little secret of U.S. homeland security is that, with an absolutely wide-open southern border, we have absolutely no idea how many hard-core, well-trained Islamist terrorists have already infiltrated the U.S., particularly now, when they can mingle so freely among the haters already in […]
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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. AZ Legislature Week In Review – Week Ending January 19, 2024 Superior Court Dismisses […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist: Haley isn’t expanding the GOP tent, she’s bringing in leftists who want to infiltrate the Republican primary and destroy the party. Victor Davis Hanson contributor to American Greatness: Add it all up, and the world abroad agrees America is in rapid decline and […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES William Doyle contributor to The Federalist: According to its creative interpretation of the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, elections should be classified as a “critical service” deserving of competitive FEMA grant funding. According to the email, “As a core element of government function, elections are a critical service and eligible for this government funding.” The […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES William Doyle contributor to The Federalist: According to its creative interpretation of the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, elections should be classified as a “critical service” deserving of competitive FEMA grant funding. According to the email, “As a core element of government function, elections are a critical service and eligible for this government funding.” The […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: “There is no such thing as “disinformation” or “misinformation” or “malinformation”. There is only information. There is information you accept and information you do not accept. You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a brain that […]
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Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: Tucker Carlson: “Could foreign DNA enter your cells through the mRNA COVID vax and change your DNA — and humanity itself — forever? Sounds nutty. It’s not. “Absolutely that could happen,” says Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the surgeon general of Florida. A shocking conversation.” Dr. Joseph Mercola contributor to LewRockwell.com: […]
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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. ‘It Goes Too Far’: Counter campaign to abortion ballot initiative launches Campaign Hopes To […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES James Gordon reporter for The Daily Mail: The Federal Aviation Administration is looking for recruits with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities as it tries to hit woke DEI targets. The agency is hunting people with psychiatric issues and other mental and physical conditions in its latest diversity drive. The FAA, which includes jobs such as […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Dave Merrick for Canada Free Press: It was Barack Obama who so loved the words of his dear friend, Rahm Emanuel […] “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” And just as real vultures watch for a limping animal to make its final fall, there are some powerfully connected ‘vultures’ […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Dave Merrick for Canada Free Press: It was Barack Obama who so loved the words of his dear friend, Rahm Emanuel … “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” And just as real vultures watch for a limping animal to make its final fall, there are some powerfully connected ‘vultures’ […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Bret Baier Fox News host asked former POTUS Trump how much time he will spend on retribution. Trump responded: “I’m not going to have time for retribution,” Trump continued. “We’re going to make this country so successful again, I’m not going to have time for retribution. And remember this: our ultimate retribution is […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Chrsitopher Rufo Substack: That must be enough [courage]. For every Paine, Washington, and Jefferson, there are a hundred nameless men who spilled ink, and blood, for the fight. In our time, the Right will soon be confronted with a choice: to submit to the current regime, to revitalize the vision of the Founders, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES John Daniel Davidson contributor to The Federalist: Because the removal of statues and memorials by radical Democrats has never been about the past, it’s always been about the raw exercise of political power and the assertion of tyranny over a free people in the here and now. This has been true of commie […]
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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. Arizonans Should Decline To Sign The Arizona Abortion Access Amendment Gov. Hobbs Repeats False […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Ray DiLorenzo contributor to Canada Free Press: Understand that the seeming incompetence of our government is a disguise for sabotage. Bret Weinstein in a Tucker Carlson interview: “The ability to [end the First Amendment] is currently under discussion at the international level, and it’s almost impossible to exaggerate how troubling what’s being discussed […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Adam Tomkins contributor to Law & Liberty: If we want free speech, we will just have to put up with its vices, its drawbacks and its inconveniences, fake news and disinformation included. Sanford D. Horn contributor to The Federalist: As we head into 2024, let’s fight like hell, in unison — Democrats, Republicans, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Adam Tomkins contributor to Law & Liberty: If we want free speech, we will just have to put up with its vices, its drawbacks and its inconveniences, fake news and disinformation included. Sanford D. Horn contributor to The Federalist: As we head into 2024, let’s fight like hell, in unison — Democrats, Republicans, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Norman Rogers contributor to American Thinker: A popular saying is that those that don’t believe in God will believe in anything. Global warming provides an excellent reason for making an effort to believe in God, or at least in Judeo-Christian ideology that is the basis of our civilization. Global warming religion originates in […]
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Happy New Year: May your faith provide you with peace, comfort, and happiness in the new year. NOTABLE QUOTES Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director General of the World Health Organization: Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet. Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and account for almost one […]
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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. Fontes Drops New Elections Procedure Manual, Draws Threats Of Litigation Hobbs Announces […]
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Happy New Year: May your faith provide you with peace, comfort, and happiness in the new year. NOTABLE QUOTES Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director General of the World Health Organization: Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet. Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and account for almost one […]
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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. Arizona Leaders React To Trump’s Removal From Colorado Ballot Arizona Democratic Party chair […]