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Another Win for Bruen, This Time in Anti-gun Minnesota

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes The effort by anti-gun Minnesota politicians to keep its citizens between the ages of 18 and 21 from keeping and bearing arms failed last week. But the ruling was closer than it appeared, and the state’s radical Muslim Attorney General Keith Ellison is appealing the decision. At issue is the […]

2024 Arizona Election: Some Advice From Jim O’Connor

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editors’ Note: Election integrity arguments generally fall into two camps, which are not mutually exclusive.  One camp makes the case that government agencies, working with broadcast and social media, put their thumbs on the scale to defeat Republicans and specifically, Donald Trump.  We think that the case has now become […]

The Meaning of Christmas

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Christmas is a season that for many is a festivity focused on exchanging gifts or going to parties. Sadly, many Americans have taken Christ out of Christmas but for those of us who are believing Christians, it is a very joyous and solemn time to celebrate the birth of Jesus. […]

Media Concealed Biden’s Cognitive Decline Because They Hate Trump

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Reporters turned on president only when the lie became impossible to sustain. The former executive editor of The New York Times gave away the game: The media were in on it. They helped cover up President Biden’s dramatic cognitive decline and gaslit Americans regarding his mental and physical condition. ADVERTISEMENT […]

Arizona News: February 6, 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 […]

America Can’t Afford Bidenomics

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Recent headlines for the January jobs report indicate a robust economy. But a more thorough look reveals challenges for Americans. One recent headline proclaimed “Voters are finally noticing that Bidenomics is working.” But just 30 percent of Americans think the economy is doing well. When asked who would handle the economy better, people give former […]

Hobbs Admin Suggests Yee Broke Law At State Board Of Investment Meeting

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Hobbs administration suggests that Treasurer Kimberly Yee violated state law by refusing to recognize agency-based board members at a State Board of Investment meeting on Tuesday. Yee did not acknowledge the employees from two departments in response to Gov. Katie Hobbs’ decision to pull all of her agency director […]

The Assumption is US Government Bonds Are “Risk Free”

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Unless one is familiar with portfolio theory, you may not be aware that for many discussions, and for many strategies, US Treasury Bonds are considered “risk-free”.  Therefore their “risk-free” return is used as a lodestar to assist in comparing investment strategies. For example, in many decisions, investors must look at […]

It Is Time For Caution

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Last time we wrote on the markets we continued to advocate a cautiously bullish market stance. We have felt that the technical turn that the market had taken since October (a turn upward in the moving averages, breadth thrusts, and liquidity flows) coupled with the seasonal strength one typically sees […]