We’ve all seen them, the Medicare TV ads exhorting seniors to apply for enhanced benefits. The government appears to be coaxing often reluctant retirees into greater dependence. But this is a colossally bad idea, even for those of us who support helping citizens in their sunset years. It stimulates greed (it’s freeeee!) and entitlement in […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/medicare.jpg338509Thomas C. Pattersonhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngThomas C. Patterson2021-11-28 01:00:412024-01-17 10:22:53Medicare Ads And Other Inane Policies
Five Senate Democrats tell Biden they won’t back Lenin scholarship winner Saule Omarova Five Senate Democrats told the White House late Wednesday they will not support Lenin scholarship recipient Saule Omarova to serve as Comptroller of the Currency, nuking her chances to serve as the country’s bank regulator. The Democrats—Sens. Jon Tester (D., Mont.), Kyrsten […]
Editors’ Note: Whether the Left disagrees with the celebration of Thanksgiving, the right of self-defense, school curricula, or the debate about governmental policies relative to Covid, it is clear what all Leftists share is a disdain for individual opinions and actions. More than just a viewpoint, almost always they want law enforcement to go after […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/collins-portrait_1.jpg7721157Ailan Evanshttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngAilan Evans2021-11-27 01:05:502021-11-25 06:48:13NIH Director Suggests Law Enforcement ‘Track Down’ Spreaders of Online ‘Disinformation’ on Vaccines
The disappearance of tennis star Peng Shuai this month has led many around the world to question the holding of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Games are scheduled to begin February 4. Now, only the morally bankrupt could think it is a good idea to allow the hostage-taking, rapist-protecting, genocide-committing Chinese regime to […]
Shades of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial of 100 years ago. Being retired, my wife and I were able to keep the TV tuned all day to the Kyle Rittenhouse trial as we went about our normal activities, stopping what we were doing to pay attention to the proceedings when something important happened in the […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/260px-Sacvan.jpg190260Craig J. Cantonihttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngCraig J. Cantoni2021-11-26 01:05:072021-11-25 06:38:25A House Divided Over Rittenhouse
We are coming off a debacle departure from a country in which we were entangled for 20 years. There are many Americans that look skeptically at entering another country to defend it against evil forces. In this case, we have a mostly different situation. It is imperative for us and our allies that we defend Taiwan. […]
Editors’ Note: The exchange between two Arizona legislators at the end of the following article encapsulates the major divide in America today. The (Democrat) left’s Marxist socialist ideology currently being forced without a mandate through Congress and the Executive branch, trumpeted by a corrupted and state-acting media and enabled by public school and higher education indoctrination throughout […]
The searing Russian novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is one of the greatest examinations of totalitarianism ever written. Based on his experiences under Stalin, Grossman depicts how humanity withers under tyranny. Grossman’s book is not a dystopian novel, yet few books better teach how force is used to control a population by not only restricting […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/chess-800x508-1.jpg508800Barry Brownsteinhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngBarry Brownstein2021-11-25 01:00:332021-11-22 12:25:50Why There is a Civic and Moral Duty to Oppose Tyrannical Bureaucracies
A new book exposes the ideological wellsprings of the Black Lives Matter movement. BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution, by Mike Gonzalez (Encounter Books, 2021), 234 pages. A running joke on the climate-skeptic right depicts environmentalists as political watermelons—green on the outside, red on the inside. After the rampant rioting and looting of two summers […]
A complaint alleges Pennslyvania election officials were tearing tapes ‘into pieces and placing … them into the trash stating they will have a campfire to burn the data.’ Several residents of Delaware County Pennsylvania filed a sprawling lawsuit Thursday against the former Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, Delaware County, the Delaware County Board of Elections, […]
Medicare Ads And Other Inane Policies
/in Culture War, Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics/by Thomas C. PattersonWe’ve all seen them, the Medicare TV ads exhorting seniors to apply for enhanced benefits. The government appears to be coaxing often reluctant retirees into greater dependence. But this is a colossally bad idea, even for those of us who support helping citizens in their sunset years. It stimulates greed (it’s freeeee!) and entitlement in […]
Comrade Down: Senate Forces Biden to Dump OCC Nominee, Lenin Scholar
/in Arizona News, Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics/by Chuck RossFive Senate Democrats tell Biden they won’t back Lenin scholarship winner Saule Omarova Five Senate Democrats told the White House late Wednesday they will not support Lenin scholarship recipient Saule Omarova to serve as Comptroller of the Currency, nuking her chances to serve as the country’s bank regulator. The Democrats—Sens. Jon Tester (D., Mont.), Kyrsten […]
NIH Director Suggests Law Enforcement ‘Track Down’ Spreaders of Online ‘Disinformation’ on Vaccines
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics/by Ailan EvansEditors’ Note: Whether the Left disagrees with the celebration of Thanksgiving, the right of self-defense, school curricula, or the debate about governmental policies relative to Covid, it is clear what all Leftists share is a disdain for individual opinions and actions. More than just a viewpoint, almost always they want law enforcement to go after […]
China’s ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Olympics
/in Culture War, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics/by Gordon ChangThe disappearance of tennis star Peng Shuai this month has led many around the world to question the holding of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Games are scheduled to begin February 4. Now, only the morally bankrupt could think it is a good idea to allow the hostage-taking, rapist-protecting, genocide-committing Chinese regime to […]
A House Divided Over Rittenhouse
/in Culture War, Featured, Liberty/by Craig J. CantoniShades of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial of 100 years ago. Being retired, my wife and I were able to keep the TV tuned all day to the Kyle Rittenhouse trial as we went about our normal activities, stopping what we were doing to pay attention to the proceedings when something important happened in the […]
Defend Taiwan
/in Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics/by Bruce BialoskyWe are coming off a debacle departure from a country in which we were entangled for 20 years. There are many Americans that look skeptically at entering another country to defend it against evil forces. In this case, we have a mostly different situation. It is imperative for us and our allies that we defend Taiwan. […]
Arizona Legislation Would Require Schools Teach ‘anti-communist’ Civics Curriculum
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics/by Cole LauterbachEditors’ Note: The exchange between two Arizona legislators at the end of the following article encapsulates the major divide in America today. The (Democrat) left’s Marxist socialist ideology currently being forced without a mandate through Congress and the Executive branch, trumpeted by a corrupted and state-acting media and enabled by public school and higher education indoctrination throughout […]
Why There is a Civic and Moral Duty to Oppose Tyrannical Bureaucracies
/in Culture War, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics/by Barry BrownsteinThe searing Russian novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is one of the greatest examinations of totalitarianism ever written. Based on his experiences under Stalin, Grossman depicts how humanity withers under tyranny. Grossman’s book is not a dystopian novel, yet few books better teach how force is used to control a population by not only restricting […]
BLM: America’s Homegrown Marxism
/in Culture War, Featured, Liberty, Politics/by Jorge González-GallarzaA new book exposes the ideological wellsprings of the Black Lives Matter movement. BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution, by Mike Gonzalez (Encounter Books, 2021), 234 pages. A running joke on the climate-skeptic right depicts environmentalists as political watermelons—green on the outside, red on the inside. After the rampant rioting and looting of two summers […]
Whistleblower Videos Capture Pennsylvania Election Officials Destroying Evidence
/in Featured, Liberty, Politics/by Margot ClevelandA complaint alleges Pennslyvania election officials were tearing tapes ‘into pieces and placing … them into the trash stating they will have a campfire to burn the data.’ Several residents of Delaware County Pennsylvania filed a sprawling lawsuit Thursday against the former Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, Delaware County, the Delaware County Board of Elections, […]