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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. Hoft: BREAKING: ‘External Devices’ With Up-to-Date Vote Totals Were Taken Offsite Nightly During the Election by […]
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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY: SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2021 Weerts: The Surprising True Story Of The Women Behind Mother’s Day Any mother who has had to bury her child — one of the most devastating and enduring tragedies of motherhood — can take heart on Mother’s Day. You are not alone. The mother who was the very […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Polybius a Greek historian explains how a democracy degenerates into tyranny: So when [the rich] begin to hanker after office, and find that they cannot achieve it through their own efforts or on their merits, they begin to seduce and corrupt the people in every possible way, and thus ruin their estates. The […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Lloyd Billingsley contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Nearly 30 years later, the Department of Justice has become the pro-bono law firm of the deep state. Gabe Kaminsky contributor to The Federalist: Former President George W. Bush lambasted his own party for electing Donald Trump even though Trump left office with a higher approval rating […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Angelo Codevilla contributor to American Greatness: Those who live under oligarchies are not citizens—because oligarchy validates itself, decides for itself, within itself. It is committed above all to negating a people’s capacity to rule itself. E.M. Cadwaldar contributor to American Thinker: Truth, as the postmodernists have openly told us, is what authorities say […]
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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. Steiber: Company in Charge of Arizona Election Audit Accuses Court of Releasing Security Plan to Public […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES John Green contributor to American Thinker: Ben Franklin famously said, “You’ve got a republic, if you can keep it.” That warning is particularly haunting now, because we seem on the verge of losing it — not from foreign invasion, not from revolution, but because we stopped caring about it. Victor Davis Hanson conservative […]
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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. Former Arizona Secretary of State Confirms – Four Out of Six Truckloads of Voting Machines Were […]
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James Monroe, 5th President of the United States: ‘When the people become ignorant & corrupt … they become the willing instruments of their own … ruin. ‘ Connor Tomlinson contributor to The Federalist: Power-hungry government officials’ eyes have been opened to how far they can stretch their ’emergency powers,’ and climate change is their next […]
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APRIL 29TH MARKED THE 76TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF DACHAU Feder: The Liberation of Dachau And Holocaust Lessons We Haven’t Learned [While the next Reich waits in the wings.] If it’s acknowledged at all, expect the usual cliché-ridden coverage that trivializes one of the greatest horrors of history, while the next Reich waits in […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Leana Wen, M.D. contributing columnist Washington Post and CNN medial analyst: Frankly, outdoor mask mandates should just go, regardless of whether you’re vaccinated. Dr. Nicole Saphier Fox News medical contributor slams the new CDC children camp guidelines: The CDC is the only entity across the globe that recommends young children over 2 years […]
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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. The Worst COVID Tyrant You’ve Never Heard Of – How Phoenix Mayor “Queen Kate” Gallego mismanaged […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Noah Pollak Exec Director @AllianceInit. Contributor to @FreeBeacon and other publications, on 4/25/2021, tweeted: John Kerry was ratting out Israeli covert operations in Syria directly to the Iranian foreign minister. Let that sink in. Wow. Christopher Chantrill contributor to American Thinker: The fact is that Blacks are the Mascots of the ruling class, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Greta Thunberg spoke to the House Oversight Committee on Thursday: When Greta rants, people listen. Presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, media moguls, Bill and Melinda Gates…they tremble at her presence! How did a teenage zealot with a ninth-grade education and no experience in meteorology, climatology, astrophysics, or geological history gain such profound knowledge […]
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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. Senators Kelly, Sinema Vote Down Amendment Prohibiting Discrimination Against Asians in College Admissions Arizona Legislature Fails […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES President Biden on Wednesday said: I’m calling on every employer large and small in every state to give employees the time off they need with pay to get vaccinated and any time they need with pay to recover if they’re feeling under the weather after the shot. No working American should lose a […]
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò speaking against the May 6-8 Vatican Conference Unite to Prevent & Unite to Cure. A Global Health Care Initiative: How Innovation and Novel Delivery Systems Improve Human HealthThe result is the super-imposition over the true Church of a sect of heretical and depraved Modernists who are intent on legitimizing adultery, sodomy, […]
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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, […]