States Banning or Restricting “Zuck Bucks”
Editor’s note: Updated December 30, 2023, with two new bans in Louisiana (constitutional amendment) and North Carolina (veto override). State Bans and restrictions passed: 27 states Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West […]
America’s Campaigns Are Costing More And Producing Worse Results Than Ever
Last fall a television news host advised viewers to “fasten their seat belts“ because they were now in the exciting final countdown to the presidential election – which was at that point fifteen months in the future! Strange as it once would have seemed, the comment actually made some sense because the news cycle had […]
What A Fool Believes
“What a fool believes, no wise man has the power to reason away.”Doobie Brothers, 1978 Liberalism/Progressivism (or whatever they are calling Marxism these days) is a mental illness, characterized by delusions impervious to facts and reason. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5th Edition (DSM-5) defines “delusions” as “…fixed beliefs that are not amenable […]
AZ Gov. Hobbs’ Bizarre Attack on ESA Families
Today, 70,000 Arizona children are finally getting the education they deserve through the state’s universal Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program, the most expansive program of its kind in the nation. But instead of celebrating those students’ success, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is launching a direct attack on their families and the beginning of a government […]
A U.S. National Debt Odyssey
The question of debt and deficits has been vexing the US political system since chronic deficits began to be realized after the Great Society legislation of the 1960s. But while troublesome, the issue has moved apparently to irrelevancy. The term “existential threat” gets tossed around easily today while the real existential threat is right in […]
Two Things That Worry Me to Start 2024
There are more like how well my baseball team will do this coming season, but we need to focus on a couple of big issues that affect us all and our entire country. The first issue is our insane national budget deficit. One would think that since the effects of the pandemic receded more than a […]
Arizonans Should Decline To Sign The Arizona Abortion Access Amendment
Imagine a future where abortion is sanctioned until the very moment of birth, parental consent becomes a relic of the past, and taxpayers foot the bill for all abortions. This is not a distant dystopia; it is the gruesome reality that will unfold if a new controversial amendment—the Arizona Abortion Access Amendment—finds its way onto […]
Wayne La Pierre Resigns From NRA
Editors’ s Note: We agree with the author that the lawsuit against the NRA is mostly a political hit, but largely justified by the actions of the head of the NRA and its board. They more than lead with their chin. It is bad enough when a charity takes advantage of the compassion of its […]
Arizona News: January 10, 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 […]
How A Left-Wing ‘Alliance’ Skirted Arizona’s ‘Zuckbucks’ Ban To Meddle In Key County’s Elections
Emails obtained by The Federalist show how Coconino County election officials have coordinated with a left-wing dark money group on election administration issues. A bevy of emails obtained by The Federalist reveal how Coconino County officials have been violating the spirit of Arizona law by colluding with a coalition of left-wing nonprofits tasked with influencing […]