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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ MOTHER’S DAY, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2024 (2017) Olmstead: We’re Talking About Motherhood Wrong. It’s A Vocation, Not A Job Nyquil recently released a television ad pointing out the most basic of facts: moms don’t get sick days. […] how else ought we to describe the difficulties and duties of motherhood? Earlier […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Kurt Schlichter contributor to Toenhall.com: Contrary to popular conservative opinion, I don’t want this college chaos to end anytime soon. I want it to increase and metastasize and continue right up until these entitled, ugly, mutated communist jerks totally alienate every normal American. It’s already happening. The frat boys have turned. The normals […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Glenn Reynolds contributor to the New York Post: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” This philosophy, announced by Brazilian President Getulio Vargas in the 1940s, is no longer just the favored approach of Latin American strongmen. It has become the openly practiced strategy of today’s Democratic machine. Laws that hamper Democrats are […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES TJ Harker contributor to The American Mind: George Orwell called this coordinated process of erasing one’s official identity “unpersoning.” By depriving John Eastman of his employment, employability, law license, reputation, access to money, and even his freedom, the regime seeks to send a message. That message is not to John Eastman. It 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. Arizona Supreme Court Rules State GOP Can’t Be Punished For Challenging 2020 Election Goldwater […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ NOTABLE QUOTES Hugh Hewitt contributor to Fox News: We will not know this side of heaven what Merchan and Bragg thought they were doing. But what they have already done is enough to put them down in the column of those who put politics ahead of law, to the great and […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ NOTABLE QUOTES Hugh Hewitt contributor to Fox News: We will not know this side of heaven what Merchan and Bragg thought they were doing. But what they have already done is enough to put them down in the column of those who put politics ahead of law, to the great and […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Patty McMurray contributor to Gateway Pundit reports on May 1, 2024 James O’Keefe undercover video: Amjad reveals to OMG’s Undercover American Swiper that intel agencies not only kept intelligence information from a sitting United States President and Commander-In-Chief, they also used FISA to spy on realDonaldTrump and his team and are still monitoring […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) in a John Solomon interview on 4/29/2024: “The government has criminalized so many activities in this country that it’s been estimated that the average American violates three federal criminal offenses every day without even realizing it.” Yuri Bezmenov former propagandist foe the KGB who defected to Canada in 1970: […]
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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. Hobbs vetoes bill requiring party affiliation listed for school board races Hobbs’ office prepares […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ NOTABLE QUOTES Allan J. Feifer contributor to American Thinker: Who will fight for the values that our forefathers fought so valiantly for, risking everything in the process? If not you, then who? The blood of an untold number of patriots waits for your answer. God Bless America. Daniel Greenfield contributor to […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ NOTABLE QUOTES Allan J. Feifer contributor to American Thinker: Who will fight for the values that our forefathers fought so valiantly for, risking everything in the process? If not you, then who? The blood of an untold number of patriots waits for your answer. God Bless America. Daniel Greenfield contributor to […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Jessica Costescu contributor to The Washington Free Beacon: Columbia Law School students told their Jewish classmates they should not advocate for the school to bring police to campus to ensure their safety because the presence of law enforcement “makes students of color feel unsafe,” screenshots obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. In […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Wayne Allen Root contributor to Gateway Pundit: One more thing Obama is great at–painting everyone who disagrees with his plans to destroy America as a “racist.” You know the real definition of racist? Anyone winning an argument with a communist. Former U.S. Senator Ron Paul in an X post: “Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is […]
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PASSOVER Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, is one of the Jewish religion’s most sacred and widely observed holidays. In Judaism, Passover commemorates the story of the Israelites’ departure from ancient Egypt, which appears in the Hebrew Bible’s books of Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, among other texts. Jews observe the weeklong festival with a number of important […]
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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 Boasts Third Best Economic Climate Is Arizona Turning Blue? The Latest Voter Registration […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) in an April 20, 2024 X post following the House vote: Democrats chanted “Ukraine” while waving Ukrainian flags on the Floor of the UNITED STATES House of Representatives. The Uniparty approved $60.8 billion more for Ukraine while the US quickly approaches $35 trillion in debt. The DC Cartel cares […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ ON THIS DAY, APRIL 19, 1775 Federer: Remembering the men who took a stand and the day the American revolution began “To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” — George Mason of Virginia. In April of 1775, the British Royal Military Governor of Massachusetts, […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ ON THIS DAY, APRIL 19, 1775 Federer: Remembering the men who took a stand and the day the American revolution began “To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” — George Mason of Virginia. In April of 1775, the British Royal Military Governor of Massachusetts, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Argus Hamilton contributor to Jewish World Review: President Trump’s hush money trial in New York proceeded with jury selection Tuesday. The star witnesses for the DA are a disgraced attorney and a porn star. One is a person from a slimy profession that would screw anybody and debase themselves for money, and the […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Wayne Allen Root: . . . why isn’t every Republican politician in Washington DC and America asking “Who is in charge? Who is running the country? Who is making the decisions that change our lives and our children’s future? Who is giving the orders? Someone is making ridiculous, absurd, insane decisions. Someone wants […]
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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. Latest Poll Shows Trump Beating Biden In Arizona By Healthy Margin Trump: Arizona should […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Liz Churchill X post: President Trump has to be in Court every day […] or he’ll be sent to Prison. This is Lawfare and Election Interference from an Obama Judge. NBC News: Biden plans to attack Trump on the economy while the former president is in court. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) contributor to […]
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INCOME TAX DAY Federer: Income Tax: Civil War Emergency, Supreme Court declared unconstitutional “Class legislation. . . leads inevitably to oppression”: Woodrow Wilson made permanent, FDR expanded – On APRIL 15, 1865, President Lincoln died. He was shot the night before in Ford’s Theater. On APRIL 15, 1912, the Titanic sank. It struck an iceberg […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ NOTABLE QUOTES J.B. Shurk for Gatestone Institute: The word “democracy” appears to have become polite shorthand for insisting that an insular minority in control of the government always knows what is best for the vast, unrepresented majority. Even worse, it sometimes seems nothing more than a convenient disguise for camouflaging abuses […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ NOTABLE QUOTES J.B. Shurk for Gatestone Institute: The word “democracy” appears to have become polite shorthand for insisting that an insular minority in control of the government always knows what is best for the vast, unrepresented majority. Even worse, it sometimes seems nothing more than a convenient disguise for camouflaging abuses […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: Second, the IC argument is now something akin to we have let thousands of terrorists into the country through the southern border crisis. They say: “My god, we need to monitor the terrorists, and if you take away 702 the foreign terror cells will activate and start […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Steve McCann contributor to American Thinker: A nation without honor and an attendant fealty to duty is a nation without a future. Today the United States finds itself in a quagmire of ever-increasing self-doubt and foreboding. Chief among the factors that have brought America to this point has been the abandonment of an […]
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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 April 5, 2024 New Polling Has […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Sam Faddis, Retired CIA: “A modern nuc can fit in the trunk of a compact car. When millions of people can walk across our border with impunity what do you think the chances are we would catch something that size?” David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist: Remember, the same people […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Peter Imanuelsen Substack: From the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay, researchers from the University of Washington LAUNCHED trillions of salt particles into the atmosphere with the intent of blocking out the sunlight from earth. This is all being done in the name of stopping global warming of […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ NOTABLE QUOTES G. David Bednar contributor to American Greatness: From the Greek playwright Aeschylus: God, whose law it is that he who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own, against our will, comes wisdom to […]
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U.S. DEBT CLOCK: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ NOTABLE QUOTES G. David Bednar contributor to American Greatness: From the Greek playwright Aeschylus: God, whose law it is that he who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own, against our will, comes wisdom to […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES William Upton contributor to National Pulse: At President Joe Biden‘s fancy fundraiser in New York City, guests were made to present a valid form of photo ID to enter. Instructions received by guests note the name on their ID must match the name printed on their ticket. The identification and name-match requirements contrast […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Peachy Keenan contributor to The American Mind: I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful day with family and friends on the holiest day of America’s liturgical year, the Transgender Day of Visibility. I had never heard of this blessed Federal holiday until a few days ago, but my kids loved it. We had a […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Brian C. Joondeph contributor to American Thinker: . . . it’s clear that the Washington D.C. establishment, the ruling class, the deep state, the blob, or whatever you want to call it, views Donald Trump as an existential threat to their perks, power, and survival and is pulling out all the stops 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. AZ Legislature Week In Review – Week Ending March 29, 2024 It’s Time To […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Allan J. Feifer contributor to American Thinker: Not everyone has the strength to be a soldier in the war of ideas. Still, there should be enough Americans who will courageously speak out, who understand the stakes, and who have a vision of a nation in which our officeholders are not our enemies. That’s […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Victoria Manning contributor to The Federalist: American education has become a system of force — like that of North Korea or Cuba. How can children be taught about capitalism when they are living the realities of socialism for 13 years of their lives, stuck behind the wall of government schools? The only thing […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Victoria Manning contributor to The Federalist: American education has become a system of force — like that of North Korea or Cuba. How can children be taught about capitalism when they are living the realities of socialism for 13 years of their lives, stuck behind the wall of government schools? The only thing […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES John & Nisha Whitehead contributors to LewRockwell.com: When any government becomes almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting—whether that evil takes the form of war, terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity—that […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Katya Sedgwick contributor to The American Mind: As a Soviet-born émigré, I’m disappointed but not overly concerned about Russia failing to develop into a democracy. Russians themselves are quite pleased with this arrangement. I am far more disheartened about the consolidation of power vertically stateside, and the slipping away of individual freedoms, and […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES James Madison Founding Father and 4th POTUS: In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his […]
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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. What To Make Of The Confusing And (Mostly) Incorrect Federal Court Ruling On Arizona’s Proof […]
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CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE HOLY WEEK: PALM SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2024 THROUGH EASTER (RESURRECTION) SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2024 During Holy Week, Christians commemorate the Passion of Christ, who died on Good Friday in reparation for the sins of mankind, and rose on Easter Sunday to give new life to all who believe. Thus, while Holy Week is solemn […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Robin M. Itzler contributor to American Thinker: The United States of America has only one chance of stopping this illegal alien invasion and saving the United States of America from radical socialism. ONE CHANCE! November 5, 2024. Yuri Bezmenov former member of the KGB: Comrades: AWFL DEI (Affluent White Female Liberal Dry Egg […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Robin M. Itzler contributor to American Thinker: The United States of America has only one chance of stopping this illegal alien invasion and saving the United States of America from radical socialism. ONE CHANCE! November 5, 2024. Yuri Bezmenov former member of the KGB: Comrades: AWFL DEI (Affluent White Female Liberal Dry Egg […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Newt Gingrich contributor to Real Clear Wire: The Left has learned from Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin about the importance of language dominance and branding to advance its agenda. Hence, the Left wants to rebrand illegal immigrants as “undocumented migrants” or now even “newcomers.” Mark A. Hewitt contributor to American Thinker: Are Americans waking […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Jack Fitzhenry contributor to The Daily Signal: Deputy Solicitor General Brian Fletcher, arguing for the federal government, maintained that persuasive speech is all that the government used when seeking to have vaccine- or lockdown-skeptical posts deplatformed. That may be a creative re-characterization of the lengthy harangues, neither mild nor persuasive in tone, emailed […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: While Kentanji Brown Jackson may have said the quiet part out loud, a whole bunch of even the ‘conservative’ justices agree with her that it would be dangerous not to let the government tell social media monopolies to take down certain political views and that the First […]