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NOTABLE QUOTES Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: The slogan for the campaign is “Let’s Finish the Job,” oddly admitting the collapse of the American middle-class is the goal for 2024. Everything Biden touches ends up making a total mess for the American people. Then again, this is by design. Every policy from his administration […]
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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. Maricopa County’s Proposal to Comply with the EPA Threatens to Turn Arizona into California Shocking […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: A Newsom/Rice or Rice/Newsom ticket is a no brainer. Both are foot soldiers for the Lightbringer movement’s fundamental change agenda, although Rice is the apex player and Newsom is the ideological, intellectual and cognitive equivalent of John Fetterman with better style. Most people still do not understand […]
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EARTH DAY WAS CELEBRATED ON SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2023 EIBLegacy: Earth Day and its origins – The Secret Bloody History of Earth Day Rush highlighted this flier years ago, now it has all but vanished. Read more: https://eiblegacy.substack.com/p/earth-day-and-its-origins Salgado: Happy Earth Day: ‘Green’ Energy Is Toxic, Inefficient, and Unprofitable For all leftists, climate alarmists, and […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Kevin Roberts Heritage Foundation President: “The Left has abandoned the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the consent of the governed, free and fair elections, the separation of powers, the First and Second Amendments, and more. This fight is a battle of foundational […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES GianCarlo Canaparo, Duggan Foley, Joseph Sturdy – Heritage Foundation: Although a rags-to-riches story is heartwarming, and a tale of two (or more) genders is trendy, whether a medical doctor aced anatomy and physiology ought to be more important. Glenn Greenwald Tweet: We’ve spoken with 2 major law firms in Nashville who said they’d […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Joseph Pearce contributor to The Imaginative Conservative: It is all too easy in the darkened days and daze in which we live to become despondent. It is all too easy to forget the happy ending that is promised to those who keep faith in the God of the happy ever after. We […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Mark Lewis contributor to TownHall.com: Ronald Reagan described a communist as a person who reads Karl Marx and an anti-communist as a person who understands Karl Marx. Words of wisdom, indeed. David Lewis Schaefer contributor to The American Mind: Why should the restoration of voting rights to those who served serious prison terms […]
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AMERICAN HISTORY 101: PATROTS’ DAY, APRIL 19, 1775 Federer: Lexington & Concord, and the Right to Keep & Bear Arms “To Disarm the People is the Best Way to Enslave Them”-George Mason The sun never set on the British Empire. It was the largest empire in world history. Out of nearly 200 countries in the world, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Civis Americanus contributor to American Thinker: The bottom line is that the Democrat Left is infested throughout with Jew-haters, race hustlers, looters, rioters, people who disrupt legislatures and speeches, men who use their fists on women with whom they disagree, and an organization (BLM) that praises terrorists, cop killers, and a dictator who […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES N.S. Lyons contributor to The American Mind: . . . whether or not NPR or the BBC is directly funded or managed by the state is largely irrelevant. These institutions are at this point entirely staffed by Party members, or people desperately pretending to be Party members. They have the same broader interests […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Thaddeus G. McCotter contributor to American Greatness: We have enjoyed the bountiful blessings of God, yet we have become like the Israelites after deliverance from Pharoah’s slavery: with tears of gratitude quickly dried, our rapacious hands reach out for craven golden calves to worship; our hearts ever hardening to the voice of God. […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Victor Davis Hanson contributor to American Greatness: . . .without America, the result is a new Chinese order in which, to quote the historian Thucydides, “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Bob Weir contributor to American Thinker: The left is willing to destroy our country. What […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Tucker Carlson: “For the past seven years, the neo-con media establishment has been telling you that Donald Trump is a dangerous lunatic. In two years in office, Joe Biden has brought the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust, who is the dangerous lunatic?” Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: The United States […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh contributor to Canada Free Press: If one uses the term “cultural Marxism,” he/she is immediately attacked by the left as a conspiracy theorist. Reality proves that public school education and especially higher education have become the breeding grounds for Marxists, the mentally disturbed, the psychotics, and the sexual deviants […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ NOTABLE QUOTES Heidi Klessig, M.D. and Christopher W. Bogosh contributors to American Thinker: “Just as cigarette ads are required to contain a footnote warning of health risks, ads promoting organ donation should contain a footnote along these lines: ‘Warning: it remains controversial whether you will actually be dead at the time […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Scott Powell is senior fellow at the Institute for Faith and Culture and contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Easter, which has its ultimate meaning in the resurrection, is one of ancient history’s most carefully scrutinized and best-attested events. The resurrection is real, and changes everything. Easter is the commemoration and celebration of the single […]
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Easter – THE CELEBRATION OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION Birzer: The Brilliant Darkness of a Friday Afternoon As Jesus looked down from the cross, so close to three o’clock on a Friday afternoon, he saw his “mother, with her sister, Mary wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.” Next to the three Marys stood “the disciple whom […]
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TODAY IS GOOD FRIDAY AND EASTER, THE CELEBRATION OF CHRIST’S RESSURECTION, IS SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2023 Birzer: The Brilliant Darkness of a Friday Afternoon As Jesus looked down from the cross, so close to three o’clock on a Friday afternoon, he saw his “mother, with her sister, Mary wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.” […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ NOTABLE QUOTES Dennis Prager contributor to American Greatness: Incredibly—or maybe not so incredibly—more than 200 years of unprecedented and unrivaled liberty and commitment to Judeo-Christian values and reason, and all the unparalleled achievements of Western civilization, have come to mean nothing to about half of the American people and to virtually […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Rod Thomson contributor to American Greatness: The reality is that an awful lot of people are above the law—they just all happen to be Democrats and leftists or members of Democratic voting blocks. John Hinderaker contributor to PowerLineblog.com: The Democratic Party is making war on Republicans, conservatives, and America. All rules have been […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist: The Clintons are clearly traitors willing to endanger their nation for profit, and it would be fully just to prosecute them as such. Yet as president when he had the chance, Trump decided not to pursue it. According to Trump Attorney General Bill Barr’s recently […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Robert Spencer contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Trump has not actually been indicted for the crime of giving hush money to a prostitute. He has been indicted for the crime of opposing the Leftist elites and challenging their control over the political system. For the first time in American history, a politician – indeed, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) tweeted: What we are seeing is the attempted political assassination of a former President. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s spurious legal case should never have been entertained & his flagrant abuse of the justice system is leading the nation down a very dark & dangerous path. U.S. Sen. […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Cheryl K. Chumley contributor to Climate Depot: The specifics of this looming regulatory model aren’t yet known. But the hints are there. The United Nations plans to protect water that’s used for bathing; water that’s used for developments; water that’s home to sea life; water that’s used for transportation. So the up-and-coming controls […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: 2% of counties populated by Democrats were responsible for 56% of the country’s murders David Eisenberg contributor to The Imaginative Conservative: The self-absorption that is so prominently on display in the present day precludes such transcendence. It involves an inflation of the self that results in the […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Lou Dobbs in a War Room interview: “The Biden administration had at least five months to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine and chose not to do so. This was a conscious choice. It was a conscious choice to do nothing.” Chuck DeVore contributor to The Federalist: With what we know today, the […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Janet Levy contributor to American Thinker: The globalist agenda, whose chief instruments are technocracy and transhumanism, is a multi-pronged attack on humanity — a war on food, health, energy, currency, media, culture, and free-market capitalism, which respects individuals and rewards endeavor, innovation, and excellence. This assault must be repelled if freedom and liberty […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES David Horowitz founder of FrontPage Magazine: Reparations To African Americans Have Already Been Paid. Since the passage of the Civil Rights Acts and the advent of the Great Society in 1965, trillions of dollars in transfer payments have been made to African-Americans in the form of welfare benefits and racial preferences (in contracts, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh contributor to Canada Free Press: A Trilateral Commission member, which cannot be identified as per its rules, spoke at the New Delhi meeting on March 12, 2023, “Three decades of globalization – defined as integrated, free-market based and deflationary – has been replaced by what will be a multidecade […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Amuse Substack, Politique Republic: While the Biden administration is fixated on its proxy war in Ukraine, emptying both our ammunition stockpiles and our strategic petroleum reserve, China is quietly sending thousands of military-age males across our southern border. Just as the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, built his secret terracotta army to […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Revolver.news: The truth is that “Trump Derangement Syndrome” was coined for a reason: Trump really does drive his enemies insane. They don’t want him on a GOP ticket. The system harbors unique hatred for Trump for the same reason that he inspires unique loyalty in patriots– Trump is the real deal and challenged […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES John Kirby Biden’s National Security Council (NSC) Strategic Communications Director commenting on the Putin/ Xi Jinping meeting: What we have said before, and we’ll say it again today, that if coming out of this meeting, there’s some sort of call for a ceasefire, well, that’s just going to be unacceptable,” said Kirby. “Because […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Matthew Boos contributor to American Greatness: The Trump witch hunt has never been about one man. If Donald Trump is arrested on these baseless charges, it will be an act of hostility toward millions and an attack on the political principle of self-rule. A free country cannot tolerate a corrupt, local machine prosecutor […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Silicon Valley Bank spent billions on green energy, millions on Black Lives Matter and other leftist causes, until it finally ran out of ‘other people’s money’. That’s when the Biden administration decided to bail out its depositors. . . . The Biden bailout was not there to […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Will Ripley CNN’ senior national correspondent: Chinese scientists are examining a potential weakness in the US missile defense system. According to the Chinese study, a North Korean missile could reach the US in 33 minutes if the US fails to intercept it. Christian Adams contributor to The Federalist: Only Americans should be voting in […]
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HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY Federer: Saint Patrick & the times he lived in — How he “…found Ireland all heathen and left it all Christian!” In 220 AD, the Later Eastern Han Dynasty extended sections of the Great Wall of China along the Mongolian border. This made it harder for the Huns to attack into […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Mellisa Koenig journalist for Daily Mail describes Silicon Valley Bank’s board of directors: Tom King, 63, was appointed to the board in September after previously serving as the CEO of investment banking at Barclay’s. He has had 35 years of experience in investment banking. But he is the only one on the board […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Chris Bray Substack: The most striking thing about the average member of the contemporary political class — the “elite,” and yes, I know — isn’t that they’re almost invariably wrong, or that they’re never interesting, or that they have no wisdom of any kind that ever shines through anything they do, ever. Instead, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Dr. Fauci on a Sunday CNN program: “There’s no response to that craziness, Jim. Prosecute me for what? What are they talking about? I wish I could figure out what the heck they’re talking about. I think they’re just going off the deep end.” Philip Ahlrich contributor to American Thinker: The liberal mind is […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Thomas Barrabi reporter for the NY Post: The US national debt will balloon by nearly $20 trillion over the next decade under the spending outlined in President Biden’s $6.9 trillion budget proposal released on Thursday. Under Biden’s budget plan for fiscal 2024, the gross national debt would surge to nearly $51 trillion as of the […]
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A Baltic monitoring media outlet has published footage of an enormous amount of American military equipment being prepared to move from the Port of Gdynia in Poland. The expanse of military hardware is being described as equipment belonging to the US Army’s 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. Some Eastern European media reports […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Mike Konrad contributor to American Thinker: The Trump administration had Iran on the verge of economic collapse. Within a month of assuming office, Biden rescued the regime by loosening the restrictions, and resuscitated the tyranny. So today, Iran is only weeks away from a nuclear device. Israel will not lie down. It will […]
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MARCH IS WAS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH. THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON WOMEN Boyd: Here Are 5 Brands Celebrating Men In Costumes This Women’s History Month Anything women can do, men in dresses can do better.” That’s the message from major American corporations and tech giants on International Women’s Day in 2023. Already, cities, organizations like the ACLU, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Chris Hedges Substack: There is little that unites me with those who occupied the Capitol building on Jan. 6. Their vision for America, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, blind support for Trump and embrace of reactionary fact-free conspiracy theories leaves a very wide chasm between their beliefs and mine. But that does not mean […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Matthew G. Andersson I contributor to American Thinker: Our nation’s elite law schools otherwise want to stay elite, and equity is the new elitism. Government administrative bureaucracy is the new symbol of law school prestige, because government will accommodate the redefinition of law in personalized terms, and by personal, rather than objective values. When […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Scott Morefield reporter for The Daily Caller: . . . while it’s dumb for Trump supporters to diss DeSantis, it’s also become a bad political move for establishment types, for different reasons. To his credit, Donald Trump, despite his massive ego and irritating (to many) personality, brought core issues to the forefront of […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Jason Rantz host of Jason Rantz Show KtHH770, Washington State The AG’s office makes it clear that they’re primarily interested in targeting white people. Indeed, his office rejected the term “domestic terrorist” because it was too “triggering” to minority communities. And it came from an AG Office report after it tasked a group […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Seth Smith contributor to Brownstone Institute: Not only do we once again live under the imminent threat of atomic annihilation, as our global “leaders” continue to play out a 21st-century version of Dr. Strangelove, but Covid offered an opportunity to further militarize and subordinate society. For let’s call lockdowns what they were: martial […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Andrew Klavan contributor to The American Mind: All I’ll say is this: if there is no devil, if there are no demons, if there are no conscious powers of evil seeking entry to our souls through our broken places, the world behaves very strangely—very strangely and precisely—as if there are. Robert Royal contributor […]