I Believe President Biden
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes I have been taken aback by the chorus of my fellow Republicans who have questioned the word of President Joe Biden regarding his involvement in his son’s business dealings. Mr. Biden was obviously busy with other matters, as you can only expect from a man of his stature. So why […]
Today, We Are All MAGA Republicans
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editors’ Note: Enjoy the first two paragraphs of satire introducing the events in the House of Representatives last week with the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The essay below is penned by Conlan Salgado, The Prickly Pear’s newest contributor. Mr. Salgado is a college junior, astute political observer and highly […]
The Dollar And Its Domestic Enemies
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Upping the ante following the initial weaponization of the dollar in 2022, the United States and a number of allied nations have agreed in principle to begin distributing profits on seized Russian assets to Ukraine. Interest payments on securities in which hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Russian foreign exchange reserves […]
A Reckoning Is Coming for the Failing Energy Transition
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes It didn’t make a ton of news in the United States media, but a new study published by the International Energy Agency in mid-October emphasizes the enormous potential roadblock to a successful energy transition posed by a projected need to refurbish and double capacity on global electricity grids. The study, […]
Mugging Lady Liberty And Dividing America. Who’s At Fault?
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Over the past few years, there has been extensive commentary about “polarization.” This has come to mean the dividing up of America into more and more extreme views on political, social, and cultural matters. The divide seems to be getting wider and wider. Not only does this make political compromise […]
College History Textbooks Spread Misinformation About the Great Depression
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The Great Depression was the most significant macroeconomic event of the past century, but don’t expect to find an accurate portrayal of its causes in your college history classroom. The most commonly assigned college-level US history textbooks contain obsolete and economically erroneous explanations of the 1929 stock market crash and […]
Somersaulting Over Sonoran Hot Dogs
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The human capacity for inconsistency, contradiction, hypocrisy, double standards, and cognitive dissonance fascinates me—especially my own large capacity for such intellectual somersaults. Somersaults were on display in a recent news story in the Arizona Daily Star. The story was about “Sonoran hot dog king” Daniel Contreras being in intensive care […]
All Republicans But One Vote to Hold Garland in Contempt
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena to release an audio tape of President Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. The resolution passed along party lines 216-207, according to The Associated Press […]
Scottsdale Official Faces Board Expulsion After Arizona AG Files Suit
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes School Board member Jann-Michael Greenburg is facing potential removal from the Scottsdale Unified School District school board. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court, arguing that Greenburg should be required to step down from the board after multiple violations of public hearing requirements. […]
Halfway There
On April 12, 2022, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 319, Constitutional carry, into law. Constitutional carry in Georgia goes into effect immediately. Georgia is now the 25th Constitutional carry state, and the Peach State becomes the fourth state to join that group in 2022. Half of the country now recognizes the right of […]