Arizona’s Tax Regime Improves But Arizona Ranks High In Other Measures Of Freedom

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Arizona has moved up in rankings determined by the Tax Foundation, but still can’t break into the Top 10. The Tax Foundation just came out with its 2024 State Business Tax Climate Index. The bad news is that Arizona does not make it into the Top 10. The good news […]
The Curious Case of Rob Malley

Hamas’s war against Israel, coordinated with Iran, has exposed the fault lines in the American Left. While mainstream Democratic liberals have sided with the innocent Israelis massacred by Hamas terrorists, leftist “Squad” members in Congress compete with Ivy League campus radicals to outdo one another by championing the vicious murderers as a “resistance.” Anti-Israel sentiment […]
An Opportunity To Learn About Hamas Rule in Gaza

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Editors’ Note: The Prickly Pear highly recommends attendance at this event put on by Davos In The Desert. The events of October 7 and the display of anti-semitism across American cities, universities and the media should horrify and outrage every decent person in the nation. The event in Chandler is […]
Illegal Migration Has Cost Americans $150.7B

Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute As of the beginning of 2023, the net cost of illegal immigration for American taxpayers altogether, including federal, state, and local costs, was at least $150.7 billion—and under Biden, it’s going up steeply all the time. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) came out with a report on the […]
NatCon: ‘Breaking the China Addiction’

On Monday, The American Conservative’s Executive Director Curt Mills facilitated a panel at the fourth annual National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C. called “Breaking the China Addiction.” Speakers included TAC contributor and economic strategist David Goldman, corporate lawyer and businessman David Harvilicz, President of The American Strategy Group Brian Kennedy, and General Robert Spalding. Goldman focused […]
FBI Whistleblower Is Exposing Deep Corruption, Political Bias

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The U.S. government is preparing to turn its political, technological, and even military might against its own citizens, warned FBI whistleblower Steve Friend. Steve Friend is a former policeman and FBI agent who exposed FBI abuses around the investigations and prosecution of the Jan. 6 political prisoners. He is the […]
What Is The True Value Of Endorsements?

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors’ Note: In our recent voter guide, we noted that due to limited resources, we can’t give opinions on every race in Arizona. However, we would ike to join with the Arizona Law Enforcement Association in suggesting that, in the primary race, you vote for Dough Eckenrod for Sheriff in […]
Israeli Forces Find Hamas Missiles Under UN Equipment

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Editors’ Note: Whether it be running cover for terrorist organizations, pushing the totalitarian “Green Agenda”, acting as a nest of spies under diplomatic immunity, or inflicting Covid lockdown on the entire world, the UN has become the epicenter for efforts of the International Left to subvert freedom and Western civilization. […]
Court Lets Arizona Reject Would-Be Voters Who Fail To Prove Citizenship On State Registration Form

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes A three-judge panel on Thursday allowed Arizona to enforce a law that requires state voter registration forms that lack documentary proof of citizenship to be rejected. The court stayed an injunction that had forced the state to register those applicants as federal-only voters. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled […]
The Fighting Bishop Who Became Santa Claus

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Everyone knows who Santa Claus is. But centuries before he became the jolly sleigh-riding elf we all love, St. Nicholas was a bishop in Turkey who performed miracles, got into fisticuffs with a heretic, and, of course, gave out presents. And we can all continue to learn from and be […]