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TODAY, JUNE 14, 2021, IS NATIONAL FLAG DAY Woodrow Wilson 29th president of the United States: “I … call your attention to the approach of the anniversary of the day upon which THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES was adopted by the Congress as the emblem of the Union … I therefore … request that […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES President Biden to a group of service members on Wednesday: “This is not a joke. You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest physical threat facing America was? Global warming.” Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Kamala claims to be a black Baptist, is married to a secular Jewish man, grew […]
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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. BREAKING: FREIGHT TRAIN OF STATE DELEGATIONS COMING FRIDAY — 9 States Will Visit AZ Audit Center […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Victor Davis Hanson contributor to American Greatness: Our 21st-century revolutionaries are multibillionaires in flip-flops, tie-dye T-shirts, and nose rings, but with the absolute power and wish to censor how half the country communicates—or cancel them entirely. Dr. Donald Moss writing in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association: “Whiteness” is “a malignant, parasitic-like […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Monica Showalter contributor to American Thinker comments on the G7 meeting: Nobody wanted to talk to him. Notice that it’s Joe who tries to glom onto some minor foreign leader at the end of video clip in a desperate bid to not be alone for the cameras. Nobody seeks him out. It’s downright […]
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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 Audit: Hand Recount Will be COMPLETE TODAY – Senate President Karen Fann and Wyoming Officials […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) and former Trump Secretary of HUD Ben Carson wrote: Critical race theory is a deliberate means to sow division and cripple our nation from within – one brainwashed and resentful student at a time. And while foreign adversaries like China and Russia surely work to inflame our divisions, we […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Vince Coyner contributor to American Thinker: If it’s possible to steal the presidency with impunity, what office in the nation is beyond reach? The simple answer is none, and that matters because the government has police power and once the Constitution becomes superfluous, the coercive powers of government suddenly have no limits. And […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Nancy Van Deest contributor to American Thinker: Our government, the health care industry, the fear-mongering press, and the vaccine-makers all contributed to my parents’ deaths, and no one can change my mind about that. Even worse, they denied my parents something we all desire: dignified deaths surrounded by loving family and friends. No […]
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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 AUDIT: Third Shift Counts Ballots ALL NIGHT As The Hand Count Begins To Wind Down […]
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SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2021 WAS THE 77TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY Brown: Biden Neglects To Commemorate D-Day, Tweets About Tulsa Massacre Instead President Joe Biden neglected to commemorate the 77th anniversary of D-Day on Sunday, choosing instead to post a video of himself meeting with survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. “I met with survivors of […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Patrick J. Buchanan contributor to CNS News: Sunday, Harris, who is also Biden’s point person on the border crisis, will be in Guatemala to learn what causes Latin American peoples of color to leave the land they were born in and travel 1,000 miles for a chance to live, work and raise their […]
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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. Over 600 Protest Migrant Shelter In Scottsdale Schweikert Wants Answers, Community Input On Scottsdale Migrant Detention […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES President George Washington in 1774: “The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves.” J.B. Shurk contributor to American Thinker: Seeing those giant “Black Lives Matter” flags being unfurled […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Dr. Anthony Fauci in a recently discovered February 2020 e-mail wrote: Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection. The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Jack Kerwick contributor to American Greatness: The decent must transform their psyches and focus their wills if they are to become the dangerous folks that they need to become to neutralize the indecent and dangerous. Matthew Boose contributor to American Greatness: “The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES VP Kamala Harris, failed to recognize those who gave their lives for our country, when on Friday she tweeted: Enjoy the long weekend. Max Morton warrior and contributor to American Greatness: When I look at America, the way it is today, I wonder if any of the killing and dying was worth it. […]
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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. Corporation Commission Rejects the Will of the Voters, Adopts Prop-127-Styled Energy Mandates Arizona’s Governor Ducey Vetoes […]
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The Editors will resume our more extensive coverage in the Daily News Roundup on Tuesday, June 1 following Memorial Day. During this weekend of solemn tribute to all those who have sacrificed so much for this Republic and our liberty, the following are reminders of what this great national holiday is about. MEMORIAL DAY: MONDAY, MAY 31, […]
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The Editors will resume our more extensive coverage in the Daily News Roundup on Tuesday, June 1 following Memorial Day. During this weekend of solemn tribute to all those who have sacrificed so much for this Republic and our liberty, the following are reminders of what this great national holiday is about. MEMORIAL DAY: MONDAY, MAY 31, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on President Biden’s choice to put David Chapman in charge of ATF: “Many see putting a committed gun control proponent like Mr. Chipman in charge of ATF is like putting a tobacco executive in charge the Department of Health and Human Services or Antifa in charge of the Portland […]
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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. Payne: In move to strip secretary of state of lawsuit powers, AZ GOP tees up battle […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Victor Davis Hanson contributor to American Greatness: . . .as Americans sober up, will they institutionalize or reject the frenzy remaining from the destructive stampede that took the country over the cliff during the most unhinged year in American history? John Green contributor to American Thinker: In our modern-day version of The Matrix, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Frank Miele columnist for Real Clear Politics: The real Big Lie is that America is great because Americans are obedient. In fact, America is great because Americans are independent, rebellious and rowdy — just like Donald Trump. “Voluntary cooperation” be damned. Let the evidence speak for itself, and let the people make up […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Senate Minority Leader on Thursday said: “I think at least half the Democrats are hostile to Israel, the rest of them are afraid of those who are hostile to Israel. And you see that reflected in the pressure the president’s put on the Israelis for a premature cease-fire, which, I […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Andy Meek MSN reporter: The Biden administration wants to spend $80 billion to expand the IRS’ compliance abilities in order to generate $700 billion over the next decade to help pay for the American Families Plan, and the benefits it includes like new quasi-stimulus checks. Where does that $700 billion come from? From […]
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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 Senators Sinema, Kelly Voted Against Continuation Of Border Wall Education Failures Getting Worse New Survey […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Angelo Codevilla contributor to America Greatness: Today’s Justice Department, acting as part and parcel of the oligarchy that calls itself “our democracy” has pushed partisanship to the point of war by one regime in favor of another. Inevitably, this has created the horrid reality of political prisoners among us—people who are being punished […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Folks contributor to American Thinker: . . now the elite are smiling in smug certainty, believing they are laying the groundwork for permanent power with their so-called federal election “reform.” They believe they possess an inherent right to rule over the great masses who reside between the Appalachians in the East and the […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Adam Korzeniewski contributor to American Mind: Contrary to its image in the mainstream media, the Census does not behave like a studiously nonpartisan agency. Many of those in leadership made their negative opinions of former president Trump clear. Don Feder contributor to Frontpage Magazine describes Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY): Princess Leia alternates between […]
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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. 2020 ELECTION NEWS – MARICOPA COUNTY AUDIT Hoft: Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and Soros-Backed Sheriff […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Issues & Insights Editorial Board note that Democrats have no intention of relinquishing power gained during the COVID-19 pandemic: So intoxicated from their deep swig of power are they that they no longer see boundaries, just opportunities to subjugate. Fight back, or lose in a few years what has made America unique and […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Stephen Miller Senior Advisor to President Trump tweeted on 5/15/2021: Trump gave Biden 3 vaccines, economy primed to roar, energy independence, peace in Mideast, rock-solid border. What did Biden do? Shut the schools, inflated the $, crushed energy sector, destabilized Mideast, erased SW border. Biden inherited a royal flush—and he mucked the hand. […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Samuel Adams one of the leaders of the Boston Tea Party and a signer of the Declaration of Independence: “It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail” President Trump in an interview on 77WABC […]
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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. ELECTION 2020 (H/T VV) Anglen & Randazzo: Arizona Senate considers expanding audit of Maricopa County ballots […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Don Fotheringham contributor to American Thinker: If every cloud has a silver lining, COVID’s silver, from which we should try to benefit, has shone the light on the shallowness and fragility of our common sense. Sean Feucht contributor to The Federalist: We are facing an identity crisis. Do we fearlessly follow the God […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Robert Maginnis contributor to American Thinker: Never forget – canaries stop singing when danger arises, but when senior military leaders — active and retired — start singing, they are warning of danger. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) in a congressional hearing about January 6, 2021 said: “The House floor was never breached and it […]
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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. McMurray: BREAKING BOMBSHELL: Maricopa Co. DELETED Entire 2020 General Election Database Days Before Equipment Was Delivered […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Dr. Mike Yeadon former Pfizer VP: If Ivermectin was more widely used, there’d be no need for vaccines. Dr. Ryan Cole, Mayo trained physician and owner of Cole Diagnostics: We’ve seen more deaths from this shot than all vaccines in the last 20 years combined — and that’s just in the first 4 […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Max Morton contributor to American Greatness: In the information security business, there is a saying that security by obscurity is no security at all—meaning hiding from hackers is not a winning security strategy. The parallel to this in politics is anonymity is freedom. In other words, I am free as long as the […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Carolyn Glick contributor to Jewish News Syndicate calls out the Biden administration: The rupture in ties isn’t about how best to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. It is about prejudice against Jews. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) calls out Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for referring to Israeli airstrikes in Gaza as acts […]
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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. 2020 ELECTION: ARIZONA Neff: Maricopa County’s 2020 Election Audit Continues As Political Antics Ramp Up The […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Victor Davis Hanson contributor to American Greatness: What is saving the country, for now, is not the third of Americans who have bachelor’s degrees, given the university has become a woke deductive, anti-empirical, anti-Enlightenment institution. For now, the more practical two-thirds of the population who did not graduate, and either never experienced the […]
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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. Hoft: BREAKING: ‘External Devices’ With Up-to-Date Vote Totals Were Taken Offsite Nightly During the Election by […]
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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY: SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2021 Weerts: The Surprising True Story Of The Women Behind Mother’s Day Any mother who has had to bury her child — one of the most devastating and enduring tragedies of motherhood — can take heart on Mother’s Day. You are not alone. The mother who was the very […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Polybius a Greek historian explains how a democracy degenerates into tyranny: So when [the rich] begin to hanker after office, and find that they cannot achieve it through their own efforts or on their merits, they begin to seduce and corrupt the people in every possible way, and thus ruin their estates. The […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Lloyd Billingsley contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Nearly 30 years later, the Department of Justice has become the pro-bono law firm of the deep state. Gabe Kaminsky contributor to The Federalist: Former President George W. Bush lambasted his own party for electing Donald Trump even though Trump left office with a higher approval rating […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Angelo Codevilla contributor to American Greatness: Those who live under oligarchies are not citizens—because oligarchy validates itself, decides for itself, within itself. It is committed above all to negating a people’s capacity to rule itself. E.M. Cadwaldar contributor to American Thinker: Truth, as the postmodernists have openly told us, is what authorities say […]
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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. Steiber: Company in Charge of Arizona Election Audit Accuses Court of Releasing Security Plan to Public […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES John Green contributor to American Thinker: Ben Franklin famously said, “You’ve got a republic, if you can keep it.” That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it — not from foreign invasion, not from revolution, but because we stopped caring about it. Victor Davis Hanson conservative […]