Zero Net by 2050 Has Zero Chance Of Succeeding
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Arizona State University President Michael Crow believes we are in such danger that we should amend the US Constitution to empower the government to deal more expansively with climate change. Dr. Crow’s view that constitutional protections of our liberties should be eliminated when they become inconvenient wouldn’t square with the […]
Stocks Look for Seasonal Strength
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes As reported in the past few missives on the subject, stocks, and bonds have been having a generally tough time. We warned that this was going to happen, and we were lucky enough to get the call right. Weakness continued through the month of October and just might extend into […]
Secretary Of State’s Office Lacks Processes To Clean Voter Rolls Of Over 78K Noncitizens, Nonresidents
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The secretary of state’s office lacks the processes in place to remove about 78,000 potential noncitizens and nonresidents from its voter rolls. In its last two quarterly reports issued to the state legislature in May and August, respectively, the department reported that it had received reports of but not acted […]
Decolonization from Theory to Practice
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Since October 7th, 2023, we have seen that ideas have consequences in the real world. Phillip Magness is an economic historian who specializes in the economic dimensions of slavery and racial discrimination, the history of taxation, and measurements of economic inequality over time. He also maintains an active research […]
Weekend Read – The Gem of Unplanned Pregnancy Options: ‘Open’ Adoption
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Editors’ Note: The following essay is the third of three by Theresa Marcroft published in The Prickly Pear. This series is an important contribution addressing the crisis of unplanned pregnancies in America. The first essay, Weekend Read: How Abortion Hurts Women, presents the very real long-term physical and mental health […]
Weekend Read: Imprimis – Inside the Transgender Empire
Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes The following is adapted from a talk delivered on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist […]
Calm Before the Storm or the Pause That Refreshes?
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Sometime during the mid-afternoon of July 17, 1967, a band of six mountaineers set off from Camp VII at 17,900 feet on Mount McKinley in their quest to reach the summit. Four others of their party had summited the mountain two days earlier after an eight-hour climb from Camp VII […]
The Last Line of Defense
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Editors’ Note: At The Prickly Pear, we often run as many as ten fresh videos a day. We think all of them are important or we would not select them. But as with most things, some videos are more important, and more eloquent, than others. With so little time, and […]
We Approach State Singularity
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Many citizens of the West believe that they live in free societies, or something close. But as time goes on, public authorities increasingly insist on having a say in everything. People cannot build things on their own land without permits. They cannot run businesses without approvals and inspections. They cannot […]
What I Saw In Israel On Oct. 7 Should Be A Wake-Up Call For All Americans Asleep At The Wheel
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes We returned gratefully to our beloved country having learned many lessons which we realize apply not just to us, but to all Americans. When the war broke out on Saturday, Oct. 7, my wife and I were in Israel on day 10 of a 13-day tour. By a series of […]