Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis
Editors’ Note: If we are lucky enough to get a change in administration this fall, this connection between government, political cronies, and the use of Federal money to violate immigration laws through “non-profits” needs a thorough investigation. Non-profit status is granted to charities. But “charities” should get voluntary contributions, not money confiscated from taxpayers by […]
The Lie That Started The Covid Panic and Culpability Of Media
The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Biden/Obama leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion […]
The Rise of Left-Wing Nonprofit Journalism
Editor’s Note: This is the introduction to a forthcoming CDC special report Nonprofits and Journalism: An Analysis of the Shifting Information Landscape and Potential Growth Opportunities. The decline of traditional metropolitan “objective” media outlets has affected the news landscape dramatically. Those outlets were more liberal and less objective than they pretended, and their business model, which […]
“2% Is and Will Remain our Inflation Target”
He fretted about the re-accelerating economy flying above the “below-trend” growth required to get to 2%. “We will keep at it until the job is done.” The most important aspect of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech today [8/25/23] at the Jackson Hole Symposium was his total and repeated smackdown of the folks that had either […]
A Fashion Question about Tattoos
What’s the dividing line between fashionable and unfashionable tattoos? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is fashion. Being neither beautiful nor fashionable, I have a burning question: At what point do tattoos go from being fashionably attractive to being unfashionably ugly? I need to know in case I ever decide to […]
House Freedom Caucus: No Security, No Funding
With the clock ticking closer to the Sept. 30 government funding deadline, the conservative House Freedom Caucus this week outlined its official position on Washington’s latest spending debate. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., a member of the Freedom Caucus, spoke to The Daily Signal about why conservatives are insisting House Republicans honor their promise to reduce government spending while also […]
Court Lets State Protect Kids From Transgender ‘Care,’ Making Key Point About Evidence
A Missouri trial court declined Friday to block a law preventing transgender interventions for minors, citing “conflicting and unclear” medical evidence on the effectiveness of so-called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. “The science and medical evidence is conflicting and unclear,” Judge Stephen R. Ohmer ruled. “Accordingly, the evidence raises more questions than answers.” Three Missouri families who […]
Newsom Funded Chinese COVID Lab Known To Biden’s FDA
The discovery last month of a Chinese COVID biolab in California shocked the nation but likely came as no surprise to the state’s Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom. He helped fund it. The now-notorious secret facility, which contained a massive stockpile of “infectious agents,” including coronavirus, and nearly a thousand dead lab mice and vials of unidentified biological […]
Arizona News: September 2, 2023
The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Biden/Obama leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion […]
What Does The Second Amendment Really Mean?
Let’s take it word by word. “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.” What is a “Militia”? What is a “well regulated” Militia (as opposed to a poorly regulated one)? What about a well-regulated Militia […]