Tucson’s Privileged Public Sector
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Those at the top of the public sector are doing well while Tucson stays mired in poverty. The City of Tucson and the surrounding Pima County have a lot of poverty. The city’s poverty rate of 20.79% is near twice the national average, and the county’s poverty rate of […]
An Infrared Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Grace Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist, and Navy rear admiral once said, “One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions,” which extended W. Edward Deming’s “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” But rather than relying on accurate measurements, as Thomas Sowell put it in Discrimination and Disparities, public policy is […]
America’s Elections Are at Stake. Texas Shows They Can Be Fixed.
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute As we approach the next election cycle, many Americans wonder whether or not their votes will count. But given the incredibly high stakes in any election, how can Americans know that their votes actually matter and that their elections are free and fair? Chad Ennis, director of the Forensic […]
The FBI Has Not Earned the Benefit Of The Doubt
Estimated Reading Time: 17 minutes A look at the FBI’s last six years shows a pattern of irredeemable corruption. Can the FBI be trusted? A Federalist analysis of agency lies over the last decade is an unequivocal no. FISA Warrants ADVERTISEMENT In the summer of 2016, FBI bureaucrats launched a deep-state operation, known as […]
FBI Whistleblowers Say Senior Officials Ordered Bureau Not to Investigate Hunter Biden Laptop
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute “The FBI cannot be trusted with the handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop” FBI whistleblowers allege that the Bureau’s leaders ordered agents not to investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop, according to a letter Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson sent to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz asking that he investigate […]
How Sri Lanka’s Attempt at Modern Monetary Theory Went Horribly Sideways
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editors’ Note: One of the first major book reviews undertaken at the Prickly Pear, was a critical assessment of Modern Monetary Theory, which we found not really modern and hardly a theory. It is just a clever academic excuse for the old principle of the government paying for its expenses […]
Goodbye, Anthony Fauci
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes When Anthony Fauci announced his retirement, a deluge of fawning coverage about his career immediately appeared in mainstream media outlets. This praise was both expected and deeply disturbing. Yasmeen Abutaleb of the Washington Post described him as the “nation’s preeminent infectious-disease expert who achieved unprecedented fame while enduring withering political attacks.” President Biden […]
Supreme Court Takes the First Step Toward Serious Solutions for Homelessness
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The U.S. Supreme Court today took the first step toward a rational approach to the problem of homelessness by overturning a Ninth Circuit ruling that prohibited cities from enforcing their laws against camping in public parks and on sidewalks. That decision, called Johnson v. Grants Pass, declared that it violates the Eighth Amendment’s “cruel […]
Home Sales Plunge, Investors Pull Back Too, Prices Drop 8.4% in 4 Months
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Sellers are struggling with denial: Priced “right,” a home will sell, but “right” is where the buyers are, and they’re a lot lower. Sales of all types of previously owned homes – houses, condos, and co-ops – fell by 5.9% in October from September, the ninth month in a row of […]
DNC Sent Millions To Law Firms Behind ‘Unprecedented Lawfare’ Campaign Against Trump
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Editors’ Note: It is important to realize that “lawfare” is more than the mobilization of Federal Agencies to use the courts to achieve ends properly left to the political process. It extends to private law firms hired by the DNC, plus a wide variety of non-profits and NGOs. This also […]