Just before the start of 2024, the US Federal debt surpassed a new milestone: $34 trillion. In 2023 the US added $2.65 trillion in debt, the second largest annual increase in history after the 2020 increase of $4.5 trillion. Going back to 1995, Federal Debt has increased by just over $1 trillion per year, but […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Peter C. Earlehttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngPeter C. Earle2024-01-11 00:28:222024-01-10 20:14:31$34 Trillion and Climbing
There are more like how well my baseball team will do this coming season, but we need to focus on a couple of big issues that affect us all and our entire country. The first issue is our insane national budget deficit. One would think that since the effects of the pandemic receded more than a […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Bruce Bialoskyhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngBruce Bialosky2024-01-09 00:28:292024-01-08 06:37:37Two Things That Worry Me to Start 2024
The question of debt and deficits has been vexing the US political system since chronic deficits began to be realized after the Great Society legislation of the 1960s. But while troublesome, the issue has moved apparently to irrelevancy. The term “existential threat” gets tossed around easily today while the real existential threat is right in […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Neland Nobelhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngNeland Nobel2024-01-08 00:30:232024-01-05 06:08:59A Crisis Ignored Is A Crisis Fulfilled: A U.S. National Debt Odyssey
Alan Dershowitz began composing War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism on October 8, the day after Hamas’ horrific attack. He set aside all his other projects to produce this tome in 32 days. Alan is extraordinarily well qualified for this task. He personally knows and has conferred with Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Marvin A. Treigerhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngMarvin A. Treiger2024-01-05 00:30:262024-01-04 10:44:26Weekend Read: Review of Two Books by Alan Dershowitz
As a record number of migrants invade the U.S., wreaking pain on New York City and other communities, one group is winning big-time: the public advocacy lawyers. Their business is to constantly sue to win more so-called rights for migrants. Rights to shelter, rights to meals, rights to health care, and even the right to […]
A friend and regular reader of my column came to me at our Hanukkah party and suggested that I should write more about positive things. Unbeknownst to him, I had already planned my next two columns regarding the Christmas season with a decidedly positive bent. In response to his request, this column attempts just that. […]
Editors’ Note: As we move into 2024, let us call out DEI for what it really is. The Marxist agenda being pushed by the radical left (i.e., today’s Democrat party) with their long standing goal of taking over American institutions and forcing everyone into tribal collectivism, is branded by the meaningless and shallow words Diversity, […]
Woke Westerners—and even some conservatives—are weeping and wailing over the “Palestinian” jihadis and terrorist-loving “civilians” killed in Gaza. But where is the mass outcry over the attempted genocides of Jews and Christians around the world? On Oct. 7, more Jews were killed in a single day than at any time since the Holocaust. Christians are […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Catherine Salgadohttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngCatherine Salgado2023-12-31 00:28:562023-12-30 06:52:32The West Mourns Jihadis, Not Jews or Christians
Why would Islamist Jihadists and leftwing progressives make common cause concerning Israel and the Jews? The answer is: why not? Both are ideologies, carefully crafted by shrewd political warriors who use age-old tactics. Exploiting ambiguities in texts held sacred, they distort reality and glorify “righteous” violence, engaging in zealous asymmetric warfare. Radical ideologues are dualists […]
Even though Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered National Guard troops to the southern border on Friday, not everyone in the region is on board. The Tohono Oʼodham Nation, which is a Native American nation that touches parts of the southern border in the Tucson Sector, wrote in a letter that they do not want troops along […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.png00Cameron Arcandhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngCameron Arcand2023-12-29 00:28:302023-12-28 06:42:46Native American Nation Will Not Allow National Guard Troops Along Their Part Of Border
$34 Trillion and Climbing
/in /by Peter C. EarleJust before the start of 2024, the US Federal debt surpassed a new milestone: $34 trillion. In 2023 the US added $2.65 trillion in debt, the second largest annual increase in history after the 2020 increase of $4.5 trillion. Going back to 1995, Federal Debt has increased by just over $1 trillion per year, but […]
Two Things That Worry Me to Start 2024
/in /by Bruce BialoskyThere are more like how well my baseball team will do this coming season, but we need to focus on a couple of big issues that affect us all and our entire country. The first issue is our insane national budget deficit. One would think that since the effects of the pandemic receded more than a […]
A Crisis Ignored Is A Crisis Fulfilled: A U.S. National Debt Odyssey
/in /by Neland NobelThe question of debt and deficits has been vexing the US political system since chronic deficits began to be realized after the Great Society legislation of the 1960s. But while troublesome, the issue has moved apparently to irrelevancy. The term “existential threat” gets tossed around easily today while the real existential threat is right in […]
Weekend Read: Review of Two Books by Alan Dershowitz
/in /by Marvin A. TreigerAlan Dershowitz began composing War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism on October 8, the day after Hamas’ horrific attack. He set aside all his other projects to produce this tome in 32 days. Alan is extraordinarily well qualified for this task. He personally knows and has conferred with Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, […]
Stop Funding ‘Rights for Migrants’ Legal Scam
/in /by Betsy McCaugheyAs a record number of migrants invade the U.S., wreaking pain on New York City and other communities, one group is winning big-time: the public advocacy lawyers. Their business is to constantly sue to win more so-called rights for migrants. Rights to shelter, rights to meals, rights to health care, and even the right to […]
A Happy Column
/in /by Bruce BialoskyA friend and regular reader of my column came to me at our Hanukkah party and suggested that I should write more about positive things. Unbeknownst to him, I had already planned my next two columns regarding the Christmas season with a decidedly positive bent. In response to his request, this column attempts just that. […]
DEI Resistance Is Advancing
/in /by Larry SandEditors’ Note: As we move into 2024, let us call out DEI for what it really is. The Marxist agenda being pushed by the radical left (i.e., today’s Democrat party) with their long standing goal of taking over American institutions and forcing everyone into tribal collectivism, is branded by the meaningless and shallow words Diversity, […]
The West Mourns Jihadis, Not Jews or Christians
/in /by Catherine SalgadoWoke Westerners—and even some conservatives—are weeping and wailing over the “Palestinian” jihadis and terrorist-loving “civilians” killed in Gaza. But where is the mass outcry over the attempted genocides of Jews and Christians around the world? On Oct. 7, more Jews were killed in a single day than at any time since the Holocaust. Christians are […]
Weekend Read: Anti-Zionism and the Bolshevik Jihad
/in /by Juliana Geran PilonWhy would Islamist Jihadists and leftwing progressives make common cause concerning Israel and the Jews? The answer is: why not? Both are ideologies, carefully crafted by shrewd political warriors who use age-old tactics. Exploiting ambiguities in texts held sacred, they distort reality and glorify “righteous” violence, engaging in zealous asymmetric warfare. Radical ideologues are dualists […]
Native American Nation Will Not Allow National Guard Troops Along Their Part Of Border
/in /by Cameron ArcandEven though Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered National Guard troops to the southern border on Friday, not everyone in the region is on board. The Tohono Oʼodham Nation, which is a Native American nation that touches parts of the southern border in the Tucson Sector, wrote in a letter that they do not want troops along […]