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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. “They (the Democrats) Know That This Is a Corrupt System That They Have Been Trying to […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Tim McAllister contributor to America Thinker: God is not dead despite our culture’s increasing trend to shun Him. If conservatism is grounded upon the Divine, then conservatism is not dead either. Sen. Manchin (D- WV) in a debate regarding energy policies: If you want to know what’s going on in the world, there’s […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Sidney Powell former federal prosecutor and author of “ LICENSED TO LIE”: The Supreme Court’s failure to date to address the massive election fraud and multiple constitutional violations that wrought a coup of the presidency of the greatest country in world history completes the implosion of each of our three branches of government […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Leo Goldstein contributor to American Thinker poses that President Biden’s April 15, 2021 Executive Order really isn’t about Russia but about us: In my opinion, this EO is the most dangerous of them all. It allows the Biden regime to eliminate its opposition, quickly and quietly. Raymond Ibrahim contributor to Frontpage Magazine: While […]
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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: Arizona Senate on the verge of beginning major audit of Maricopa County ballots Fann claimed […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Andrea Widburg contributor to American Thinker: Here’s a rule of thumb: Accept that the GOP and its leadership have morphed into the conservative arm of the Democrat party. They are neither your friends nor America’s. That’s not invariably true but it’s often true. Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: Japanese Prime Minister Joshihide […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Helen Roy contributor to the American Mind: When the maiden becomes a mother, loss of innocence becomes new life. As a mother becomes a matriarch, the loss of physical beauty is leavened by the acquisition of wisdom. In the wake of a matriarch’s death there remains a legacy, a guiding example for generations […]
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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. A Mother’s Journey Through Arizona’s K-12 School System Both Republican And Democrat Voters Show Their Support […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Senator Mike Lee (R-UT): Packing the court is an act of arrogant lawlessness. Those behind this effort spit in the face of judicial independence. Linda Thomas-Greenfield Biden’s ambassador to the United Nations: White supremacy is woven “into our founding documents and principles.’ Daniel Greenfield contributor to FrontPage Magazine: While few will agree on […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES President Biden honoring the beginning of the Muslim month of Ramadan: The Holy Qur’an reminds us that ‘God is the light of the heavens and earth,’ who leads us out of darkness to the light. Although our White House festivities will be held virtually this Ramadan, Jill and I look forward to resuming […]
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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. 82 Percent of Arizona Voters Support Election Integrity Reforms: Stronger Voter ID, Voter Roll Cleanup Arizona […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Mark Malvesi contributor to The Imaginative Conservative: There is a darker reality to contemplate. Violence, even the sort of horrific gun violence that we repeatedly experience, may after all be only one symptom of a more acute disease against which legislation is impotent. Pundits and critics, including me, have lamented that a culture […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES President Trump: Wouldn’t it be ironic if the Supreme Court of the United States, after showing that they didn’t have the courage to do what they should have done on the Great Presidential Election Fraud of 2020, was PACKED by the same people, the Radical Left Democrats (who they are so afraid of!), […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Mitch McConnell Senate Minority Leader responds to Biden’s newly formed 36 member “court packing” commission: ‘Today’s announcement is a direct assault on our nation’s independent judiciary and yet another sign of the Far Left’s influence over the Biden Administration. Rational observers know well there is nothing about the structure or operation of the […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES George Washington Founding Father and first U.S. president: Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. Adolph Hitler German dictator and mass murderer: The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow subjugated races possess arms. President Joe Biden, on 4/7/2021 called on DOJ to establish framework for “red […]
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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. Governor Ducey Should Follow The Science By Signing The “Mask Freedom” Bill Democrats Play The Long […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES I & I Editorial Board borrowed and slightly amended a Jeffersonian principle: The tree of liberty needs to be watered by a bloodless revolution of patriotic voters who will use their ballots to oust the tyrants that crave ruling over governing. That’s our road back to independence. Dan Gelernter contributor to American Greatness: […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Shaun Rieley contributor to The Imaginative Conservative: . . .an ideologically partisan military poses a unique threat to a free society, in ways that ideological capture of other institutions (detrimental as it may be) does not. Not only does it potentially undermine its ability to defend the country from external dangers, but it […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Joe Allen contributor to The Federalist addresses Big Tech’s goal to replace God with machines: Transhumanists have hyped the new religion of high technology for decades now. The basic idea, fairly prevalent in Silicon Valley, is that rapid advances in scientific knowledge and tech innovation will culminate in our de facto omniscience and […]
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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. Phoenix Joins Tucson, Pima County “In Reaffirming The Requirement To Wear Masks” AZGOP Minutes Contradict Ward, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Tucker Carlson expresses deep concern for the large number of people falling away from religion: And so, actually, people aren’t liberated by fleeing from meaning, from God, from religion. They’re enslaved. Look at the country! Jeff Crouere contributor to American Thinker: Vaccine passports are the definition of medical tyranny. The entire idea 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. Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office Sees A 1500% Increase In Fentanyl Seizures Ducey Calls Out Gallego, Phoenix […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Matthew Vadum contributor to Canada Free Press warns about the Biden/Harris push for a vaccine passport: This data-driven authoritarianism, if it comes to pass, will wash away what remains of the rule of law and the Constitution, and annihilate the American way of life. . . . America’s placeholder president, the Communist Chinese […]
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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 Senate Selects Maricopa County 2020 Election Audit Team Arizona Senate Hires 4 Firms to Audit […]
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HOLY WEEK GOOD FRIDAY: Good Friday is observed on the Friday before Easter Sunday. On this day Christians commemorate the passion, or suffering, and death on the cross of Jesus Christ. Many Christians spend Good Friday in fasting, prayer, repentance, and meditation on the agony and suffering of Christ. If you cannot get into Good […]
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TODAY IS APRIL FOOLS’ DAY April Fools’ Day—celebrated on April 1 each year—has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, though its exact origins remain a mystery. April Fools’ Day traditions include playing hoaxes or practical jokes on others, often yelling “April Fools!” at the end to clue in the subject of the April […]
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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. Exclusive–Kobach: A Tale of Two States: New York Legislators Propose Vaccine Mandates While Arizona Legislators Push […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Justin Danhof, General Counsel, National Center for Public Policy Research, and Director of the Free Enterprise Project: We’ve watched with growing concern the Left’s efforts to infiltrate corporate boardrooms and use that power to force their agenda on Americans everywhere. We are drawing a line. It’s time to hold corporate America accountable for […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Daniel Greenfield contributor to FrontPage Magazine: 20 years ago, 71% of Democrats were members of a church. A decade later, in the Obama years, it fell to 60% and is now down to 46%. Rep. Andy Barr (R., Ky.) sounds the alarm on the House Democrat push to limit America’s ability to fight […]
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PASSOVER Passover, Hebrew Pesaḥ or Pesach, in Judaism, holiday commemorating the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery in Egypt and the “passing over” of the forces of destruction, or the sparing of the firstborn of the Israelites, when the Lord “smote the land of Egypt” on the eve of the Exodus. Passover begins with the 15th and […]
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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 Republicans Win First Battle In Fight For New AZGOP Election Citing COVID Case Rates, Ducey […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Robert Jones contributor to American Thinker: Given the compelling evidence that there is a close to 100% cure for COVID, it is mindboggling that a person who tests COVID positive will not be offered any medical assistance. Frank Bennett contributor to the American Mind: The common refrain from both civilian leaders and active-duty […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Mark Tapson contributor to FrontPage Magazine: Is civilizational decline inevitable? If history is any measure, then yes. Only the kingdom of God lasts forever. The question before us now, though, is this: is America’s decline reversible? Martin Cothran on the subject of wokeness: When everyone else becomes afraid to say what he thinks, […]
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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. Moorhead: Arizona Town Declares State of Emergency Amid Onslaught of Illegal Migration “Border Patrol let us […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: While it might sound innocuous for the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security to monitor the travel habits & patterns of Americans they define as ‘domestic extremists’, we would be prudent to remind ourselves that political affiliation is just as easily defined as ‘extremism.’ Jim Hanson former Green […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES J.B. Shurk contributor to American Thinker observes how America’s pro-globalist political elites will reset America: You go to war with the American people. “White supremacy” is the socialists’ “yellowcake uranium.” Robert Spencer contributor to FrontPage Magazine regarding the Colorado mass murderer: All this makes it abundantly clear that not only is Ahmad Al […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Ronny Jackson (R-TX) tweeted: I served as White House physician under THREE Presidents. I’ve seen what it takes physically AND mentally to do the job. I can tell you right now that the way Biden is hiding from the public is a MAJOR red flag. Something’s not right! Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh contributor […]
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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. Sinema Calls On Biden To Take Aggressive Steps In Response To Border Crisis Democrats Smuggle In […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Albert Camus French journalist, novelist, playwright and philosopher: The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Chet Richards contributor to American Thinker: The fear of this epidemic has been used by governments to imprison us. After all, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: We already have reinstituted the Central American minors program that was built in the Obama-Biden administration and that was torn down by the prior administration, but we well understand that out of desperation, some children might not wait. Some loving parents might send their child to […]
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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. Scott Walter Testifies Before the Arizona Senate Border Crisis? What Border Crisis? Civil Forfeiture Bill Provokes […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Kim Yo Jong North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister sent a message to President Biden: We take this opportunity to warn the new U.S. administration trying hard to give off (gun) powder smell in our land … If it wants to sleep in peace for coming four years, it had better refrain […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Byron York contributor to Townhall: Is there something missing from press coverage of the thousands of unaccompanied children who have illegally crossed the U.S. border from Mexico and are now in the custody of the Biden administration? Yes, there is something missing — pictures. Descriptions of the conditions in which the children are […]
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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 are completely in the dark’: Arizona mayor says Biden admin refuses to give info about […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Benny Thomas Facebook Global Planning Lead in a Project Veritas undercover video: No king in the history of the world has been the ruler of two billion people, but Mark Zuckerberg is — and he’s 36 Bruce Hendry contributor to FrontPage Magazine: COVID is a serious health issue, although just how serious it […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Kevin McCarthy (R- Calif) House Minority Leader at the U.S. – Mexico border: I came down here because I heard of the crisis. It’s more than a crisis. This is a human heartbreak. The sad part about all this is it didn’t have to happen. There’s no other way to [call] it than […]
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It has often been said that you learn more from failure than from success. We don’t doubt the wisdom in that observation. So, if it is true, we need to look at the state of American Conservatism today. This is the movement that supports the Constitution, the ideas of limited government, personal liberty, personal responsibility, […]
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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 Mar 12, 2021 Litchfield School Board Member Questions […]
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Notable Quotes Editors of The Prickly Pear: Have courage. The election mess is a temporary event. It will only do lasting damage if you concede defeat in your own mind. Angela Kelley contributor to American Greatness: Possibly the strongest belief I had going into last year and the one I was saddest to lose when […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Julie Kelly contributor to American Thinker on the lockdown catastrophe: What’s truly alarming is how many Americans want this cruelty to persist despite its proven ineffectiveness at “stopping” the spread of the virus. Daniel Greenfield contributor to FrontPage Magazine: Believe all women… except those who accuse powerful Democrats. Jack Hellner contributor to American […]