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NOTABLE QUOTES J.B. Shurk contributor to American Thinker: Totalitarianism is the warm bath in which civilization slits its wrists. It envelops the people with petty rules, strange dogmas, immoral duties, and forced sacrifices. It warms its victims with intoxicating promises of the government’s false love. It leaves the citizen naked — stripped first of his […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: The most brutally Machiavellian Senator, Mitch McConnell (U-DC), is the leader and source of anxiety created by the coalition of professionally Republican liars we call DeceptiCons. They are a select group of around 16 “Republican” senators who scheme, lie and support the left-wing of the UniParty vulture. […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: The most brutally Machiavellian Senator, Mitch McConnell (U-DC), is the leader and source of anxiety created by the coalition of professionally Republican liars we call DeceptiCons. They are a select group of around 16 “Republican” senators who scheme, lie and support the left-wing of the UniParty vulture. […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Brandon Smith contributor to Discern Report: Operation Garden Plot And Martial Law: In 1968 the US Department of Defense at the request of the government drafted a civil disturbance plan called ‘Operation Garden Plot’ which outlined what was essentially a martial law response to large scale social breakdown. One of the main factors listed […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Jordan Boyd contributor to The Federalist: If Haley’s primary goal in running were to defeat President Joe Biden, she would have stood up in front of the American flags at her New Hampshire campaign headquarters Tuesday night, quit the race, and endorsed Trump as Americans’ last hope to win back the country. Her insistence […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES James H. McGee contributor to The American Spectator: The dirty little secret of U.S. homeland security is that, with an absolutely wide-open southern border, we have absolutely no idea how many hard-core, well-trained Islamist terrorists have already infiltrated the U.S., particularly now, when they can mingle so freely among the haters already in […]
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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 January 19, 2024 Superior Court Dismisses […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist: Haley isn’t expanding the GOP tent, she’s bringing in leftists who want to infiltrate the Republican primary and destroy the party. Victor Davis Hanson contributor to American Greatness: Add it all up, and the world abroad agrees America is in rapid decline and […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES William Doyle contributor to The Federalist: According to its creative interpretation of the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, elections should be classified as a “critical service” deserving of competitive FEMA grant funding. According to the email, “As a core element of government function, elections are a critical service and eligible for this government funding.” The […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES William Doyle contributor to The Federalist: According to its creative interpretation of the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, elections should be classified as a “critical service” deserving of competitive FEMA grant funding. According to the email, “As a core element of government function, elections are a critical service and eligible for this government funding.” The […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: “There is no such thing as “disinformation” or “misinformation” or “malinformation”. There is only information. There is information you accept and information you do not accept. You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a brain that […]
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Sundance contributor to The Last Refuge: Tucker Carlson: “Could foreign DNA enter your cells through the mRNA COVID vax and change your DNA — and humanity itself — forever? Sounds nutty. It’s not. “Absolutely that could happen,” says Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the surgeon general of Florida. A shocking conversation.” Dr. Joseph Mercola contributor to LewRockwell.com: […]
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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. ‘It Goes Too Far’: Counter campaign to abortion ballot initiative launches Campaign Hopes To […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES James Gordon reporter for The Daily Mail: The Federal Aviation Administration is looking for recruits with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities as it tries to hit woke DEI targets. The agency is hunting people with psychiatric issues and other mental and physical conditions in its latest diversity drive. The FAA, which includes jobs such as […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Dave Merrick for Canada Free Press: It was Barack Obama who so loved the words of his dear friend, Rahm Emanuel […] “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” And just as real vultures watch for a limping animal to make its final fall, there are some powerfully connected ‘vultures’ […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Dave Merrick for Canada Free Press: It was Barack Obama who so loved the words of his dear friend, Rahm Emanuel … “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” And just as real vultures watch for a limping animal to make its final fall, there are some powerfully connected ‘vultures’ […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Bret Baier Fox News host asked former POTUS Trump how much time he will spend on retribution. Trump responded: “I’m not going to have time for retribution,” Trump continued. “We’re going to make this country so successful again, I’m not going to have time for retribution. And remember this: our ultimate retribution is […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Chrsitopher Rufo Substack: That must be enough [courage]. For every Paine, Washington, and Jefferson, there are a hundred nameless men who spilled ink, and blood, for the fight. In our time, the Right will soon be confronted with a choice: to submit to the current regime, to revitalize the vision of the Founders, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES John Daniel Davidson contributor to The Federalist: Because the removal of statues and memorials by radical Democrats has never been about the past, it’s always been about the raw exercise of political power and the assertion of tyranny over a free people in the here and now. This has been true of commie […]
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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. Arizonans Should Decline To Sign The Arizona Abortion Access Amendment Gov. Hobbs Repeats False […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Ray DiLorenzo contributor to Canada Free Press: Understand that the seeming incompetence of our government is a disguise for sabotage. Bret Weinstein in a Tucker Carlson interview: “The ability to [end the First Amendment] is currently under discussion at the international level, and it’s almost impossible to exaggerate how troubling what’s being discussed […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Adam Tomkins contributor to Law & Liberty: If we want free speech, we will just have to put up with its vices, its drawbacks and its inconveniences, fake news and disinformation included. Sanford D. Horn contributor to The Federalist: As we head into 2024, let’s fight like hell, in unison — Democrats, Republicans, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Adam Tomkins contributor to Law & Liberty: If we want free speech, we will just have to put up with its vices, its drawbacks and its inconveniences, fake news and disinformation included. Sanford D. Horn contributor to The Federalist: As we head into 2024, let’s fight like hell, in unison — Democrats, Republicans, […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Norman Rogers contributor to American Thinker: A popular saying is that those that don’t believe in God will believe in anything. Global warming provides an excellent reason for making an effort to believe in God, or at least in Judeo-Christian ideology that is the basis of our civilization. Global warming religion originates in […]
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Happy New Year: May your faith provide you with peace, comfort, and happiness in the new year. NOTABLE QUOTES Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director General of the World Health Organization: Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet. Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and account for almost one […]
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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. Fontes Drops New Elections Procedure Manual, Draws Threats Of Litigation Hobbs Announces […]
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Happy New Year: May your faith provide you with peace, comfort, and happiness in the new year. NOTABLE QUOTES Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director General of the World Health Organization: Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet. Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and account for almost one […]
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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 Leaders React To Trump’s Removal From Colorado Ballot Arizona Democratic Party chair […]
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The Daily News Roundup will resume on January 4, 2024. The Prickly Pear Editors wish all of our readers a very healthy, prosperous and Happy New Year. We sincerely thank you for your readership and support of The Prickly Pear and our efforts to provide important content each day to inform, educate and advocate important […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Jason D. Hill contributor to Frontpage Magazine: If we understand that the move to raze Western civilization and make white people extinct comes in many guises, and that Baker-Bell’s demand that all Americans speak Ebonics while canceling standard English is part of a systemic and comprehensive Final Solution by avowed nihilists to genocide […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Jason D. Hill contributor to Frontpage Magazine: If we understand that the move to raze Western civilization and make white people extinct comes in many guises, and that Baker-Bell’s demand that all Americans speak Ebonics while canceling standard English is part of a systemic and comprehensive Final Solution by avowed nihilists to genocide […]
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CHRIST’S BIRTH PLACE Longenecker: No Room in the Inn — What Inn? Bailey goes on to explain in more detail what a typical home in Bethlehem would have been like, “Simple village houses had but two rooms. One was exclusively for guests. That room would be attached to the end of the house or be […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Monica Showalter contributor to American Thinker: […] for the first time since the start of modern celebrations of Christmas, Jesus’s birthplace and the Manger Square tree in Bethlehem will not be decorated. Daniel Greenfield contributor to Frontpage Magazine: Democrats and the media love their “threat to democracy” messaging that depicts anyone who opposes […]
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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’s 2024 Presidential Preference Election Is Set Petersen And Toma Challenge Proposed ATF Firearms […]
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DECEMBER 15, 2023: BILL OF RIGHTS DAY Zeiger: This Bill of Rights Day, Let’s Celebrate the Preamble December 15th marks Bill of Rights Day, which commemorates the 232nd anniversary when the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution were ratified. December 15th should be a day all Americans reflect on the unique blessings the Bill […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Byronn York contributor to TownHall.com: Two things are true: One, former President Donald Trump’s polling — nationally, in key swing states, and in the first-voting state of Iowa — has never been better. And two, Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by the Biden Justice Department to prosecute Trump, is taking self-described “extraordinary” […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Victoria Taft for PJMedia.com: It turns out that the American people know a scam when they see one — even Democrats. A new I&I/TIPP poll shows indisputably that the lawsuits against Trump are beginning to boomerang in the minds of Democrats. Indeed, they’re not buying the BS that Donald Trump is a “THREAT […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Victoria Taft for PJMedia.com: It turns out that the American people know a scam when they see one — even Democrats. A new I&I/TIPP poll shows indisputably that the lawsuits against Trump are beginning to boomerang in the minds of Democrats. Indeed, they’re not buying the BS that Donald Trump is a “THREAT […]
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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. Trump to stay on 2024 Arizona ballot after lawsuit tossed Toma And House Republicans […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), in a hearing, said to CIA Director, Chris Wray: “You said we do not go to priests and ask them about their parishioners. You said we do not. You didn’t say we haven’t. You didn’t say we won’t. You said we don’t. It turns out you do.” Jack Gleason […]
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ON DECEMBER 7, 2023 WE WILL COMMEMORATE THE 82ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of […]
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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 People Of Arizona Should Stop Any Efforts To Allow Abortion Up To Birth […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Michael Infanzon contributor to ThePricklyPear.org: The Second Amendment reads: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” For years, scholars and courts have debated whether this safeguards an individual’s right to own firearms or merely […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Michael Infanzon contributor to ThePricklyPear.org: The Second Amendment reads: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” For years, scholars and courts have debated whether this safeguards an individual’s right to own firearms or merely […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Viv Forbes contributor to American Thinker: The sinister hidden agenda of COP28 in Dubai is about rationing and depopulation. Eric Utter contributor to American Thinker: U.S. “special envoy” John Kerry recently announced that Washington has agreed to join something called “the Powering Past Coal Alliance” which means the Biden administration has effectively vowed […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Viv Forbes contributor to American Thinker: The sinister hidden agenda of COP28 in Dubai is about rationing and depopulation. Eric Utter contributor to American Thinker: U.S. “special envoy” John Kerry recently announced that Washington has agreed to join something called “the Powering Past Coal Alliance” which means the Biden administration has effectively vowed […]
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ADVENT Sunday, December 3rd is the start of Advent 2023- Advent is the season of reflective preparation for Christ’s Nativity at Christmas and Christ’s expected return in the Second Coming. NOTABLE QUOTES Carpe Diem contributor to American Greatness: Even with all of these disastrous policy outcomes, whether foreign or domestic, to my knowledge, Biden has not fired a […]
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ADVENT Sunday, December 3rd is the start of Advent 2023- Advent is the season of reflective preparation for Christ’s Nativity at Christmas and Christ’s expected return in the Second Coming. NOTABLE QUOTES Carpe Diem contributor to American Greatness: Even with all of these disastrous policy outcomes, whether foreign or domestic, to my knowledge, Biden has not fired a […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Miles Smith IV contributor to The American Mind: Russell Kirk once said that Americans had to understand themselves as inheritors of a tradition to keep their hard-earned liberties. So, too, do Americans in the early 21st century have to understand that we are stewards of a tradition not tied to race or ethnicity […]
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NOTABLE QUOTES Frits Byron Soepyan is chemical engineer and contributor to American Thinker: I was struck most by the benefits of CO2, which was something I had not put much thought into. CO2 is essential for plant growth and food production. In fact, doubling atmospheric CO2 from today’s concentrations of approximately 400 parts per million […]