Nearly A Third Of Voters Lack Confidence In 2024 Presidential Election

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes With a primary season underway, nearly one-third of registered voters think the 2024 presidential election will not be conducted fairly or accurately, according to a new poll. The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll conducted in conjunction with Noble Predictive Insights shows that a majority of Americans have faith that votes will […]
Is Free Enterprise At Home More Important Than Free Trade Abroad?

Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Recently The Prickly Pear ran an article by Oren Cass called Free Trade’s Origin Myth. Then we ran a rejoinder entitled On Comparative Advantage and International Capital Mobility by Donald Boudreaux, a staunch defender of free trade. As someone quite supportive of free markets, and free trade, we found reading both […]
Europe’s Farmers Protest Climate Alarmist Idiocy

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmers in several European countries have engaged in mass protests against the agriculture-wrecking, society-destroying, unscientific “green” agenda. Climate alarmists have been wrong for 50+ years, and there’s plenty of evidence to expose the climate hoax. Yet elites around the world continue to tout the fake climate crisis as an excuse […]
The Important Work Of Peter Schweizer

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Blood Money: Why The Powerful Turn A Blind Eye While China Kills Americans Author: Peter Schweizer, published by Harper Collins. Reading Peter Schweizer’s new book is a disturbing revelation. It is a very important book, perhaps the most important book for a Conservative American to read right now. However, it […]
The Legalized Sexualization Of America’s Young Children

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Let’s peek in on a typical classroom scenario approved by the National Sex Education Standards (NSES). Mr. Smith’s 7 and 8-year-olds are answering true-false questions: 1) “Sexual intercourse should be ONLY between a cisgender male and cisgender female.” 2) “There are only two genders.” 3) “Cisgender boys who identify as girls […]
Campaignus Interruptus – Pulling Out of the Campaign Too Early?

While Biden undoubtedly is concerned about his party’s political future, we remain concerned about having an impaired commander-in-chief remain in office. With little sense and now no political power, this would be an ideal time for a foreign adversary to make a move, catching the US in an awkward and confused state. In his official […]
The Consequences of Obsessive Category Disorder

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes In the name of diversity, America’s racial classifiers obliterate diversity. Long ago, long before the diversity movement and the sprouting of departments of diversity and inclusion in academia, government, media, and industry, I lived in a San Antonio barrio, where my friends and neighbors who were Mexican nationals and Mexican […]
The Forgotten 15.9 Million People

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes The rest of the story about race and poverty You probably won’t be surprised by the following poverty rates by race/ethnicity: Asians: 8.1%Non-Hispanic Whites: 8.1%Hispanics: 17.0%Blacks: 19.5%U.S. Average: 11.4%Year: 2021Source: https://www.federalsafetynet.com/us-poverty-statistics.html ADVERTISEMENT You might be surprised, however, by the following absolute numbers of Americans in poverty, especially the last number: […]
California District Pays Nearly $170k For Curricula Teaching Children To Become Leftist ‘Co-Conspirators’

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes This California school district isn’t just indoctrinating children, it’s teaching them how to be leftwing revolutionaries. California’s Jefferson Elementary School District will be the first district in the United States to implement ethnic studies courses in all of their elementary and middle schools, and their new curriculum for this includes […]
Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, December 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editors’ Note: The Prickly Pear welcomes this review by Ellie Fromm, a new citizen journalist and young patriot committed to the values we share as America-loving citizens: faith, family, a strong work ethic and devotion to liberty and individual sovereignty. Ellie represents the best in her generation who will lead […]