Written by Ecce Verum
It’s election season, and that usually means that three kinds of people start getting really loud right about now.
First, the candidates themselves start campaigning harder than ever. Second, those who are especially civics-minded begin to non-partisanly clamor at everyone else to “Do your patriotic duty and vote!” And third? We all have that one Uncle Bob (or equivalent figure in your life) who just can’t stand either of the two main parties and is proudly and purely casting his ballot for some third-party candidate you never heard of before.… Continue Reading
Written by Ecce Verum
A Newsweek article from August chronicles the many Republicans who have openly pledged their support for Kamala Harris.
Their list includes former Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Representatives Liz Cheney (Wyoming), Adam Kinzinger (Illinois), former Trump White House official Stephanie Grisham, and a group of over 200 staffers for previous presidential Republican candidates.
Enough Republicans are feeling likewise that Newsweek reports a program started by the Harris campaign—”Republicans for Harris”—which is intentionally catering to Republicans who are rejecting Trump.… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Adam Kinzinger, Democrat, Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, in vitro fertilization, IVF, Kamala Harris, Liz Cheney, pro-life, Republican, Roe v. Wade, Stephanie Grisham, U.S. Supreme Court
Faith & Religion, Federal Issues, Marriage, Family & Culture, Political, Sanctity of Life | Alyssa Sonnenburg | September 25, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Is Voting for Kamala Worth Babies’ Lives?
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
As a young girl, Anni Cyrus was sold as a child bride in Islamic Iran. Because of the courage of her grandmother, Anni was able to escape the horrors that she faced at the hands of Islam and make her way to America– to freedom.
As a legal American citizen, Anni Cyrus is now a human rights activist that speaks out against the horrors and oppression that Islam brings.
In this special episode, Anni specifically addresses Christians in America and how they can embrace their God-given freedoms.… Continue Reading
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
Is praying outside of an abortion clinic terrorism?
In this episode of Spotlight, Monte Larrick sits down with Constitutional attorney David Shestokas to discuss how pro-life activists in Illinois have been targeted by Eileen O’Neill Burke, a candidate for the Cook County State’s Attorney position, as it regards their Constitutional rights.
“She’s going after free speech… Possibly potentially freedom of religion… She’s intending to prosecute people not necessarily based on their conduct, but based on the content of their message.”
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Written by Oliver Perry
Fox News reported that presidential candidate Kamala Harris affirmed her support of a federal wealth tax.
It’s meant to hit only the “super wealthy”:
“The proposal would impose a minimum tax of 25% on total income, generally inclusive of unrealized capital gains, for all taxpayers with wealth (that is, the difference obtained by subtracting liabilities from assets) greater than $100 million,” the Treasury Department stated in its FY25 revenue proposals. The same proposal was also put forth by the Biden-Harris administration in fiscal year 2024 and in fiscal year 2023, but the minimum taxable amount was 20%.
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Tags: A.Q. Smith, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Biden-Harris Administration, Capitalism, Donald J. Trump, First Amendment, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Income Tax Amendment, Jeff Bezos, Jennifer Szalai, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Karl Marx, living Constitution, Ludwig von Mises, Mark Zuckerberg, New York Times, Ryan Doerfler, Samuel Moyn, Sixteenth Amendment, super wealthy, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court, wealth tax
Federal Issues, Marriage, Family & Culture, Political | Alyssa Sonnenburg | September 17, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Wealth Taxes, Court Packing, and Revolution
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
What is a worldview and how do you know you have the correct one?
In this special episode of Spotlight, Ken Ham answers these pivotal questions.
Ken Ham is the founder and CEO of Answers in Genesis and it’s two popular attractions: The Ark Encounter and The Creation Museum. He’s an author and the #1 expert on the topic of Biblical creation.
“There are only two religions. There are only two foundations that build your worldview.
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Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
This episode of Illinois Family Spotlight features remarks from the Go Public for Pro Life rally, organized by Vision 2020.
Julie Garofalo, executive director of the women’s crisis pregnancy center, Waterleaf; Matt Yonke of the Pro Life Action League; and Veronica Janiszewski with Students for Life, all speak on the vital importance of speaking truth and hope into the lives of women facing unexpected pregnancies.
“Our voices are a gift from God, and we must use them for good.
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Tags: abortion, Go Public for Pro Life, Julie Garofalo, Matt Yonke, pro-life, Pro-Life Action League, Students for Life, Veronica Janiszewski, Vision 2020, Waterleaf
Faith & Religion, Marriage, Family & Culture, Sanctity of Life | Alyssa Sonnenburg | September 4, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on SPOTLIGHT: Go Public for Pro Life
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
With an upcoming General Election, election integrity is more important than ever.
In order to clean up the voter-rolls in the state of Illinois, Illinois Family Action joined Judicial Watch in their lawsuit
“against the Illinois State Board of Elections and its Executive Director, Bernadette Matthews, over their failure to clean Illinois’ voter rolls and to produce election-related records as required by federal law, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA)… The lawsuit requests the court to require Illinois to ‘develop and implement a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove the registrations of ineligible registrants from the voter rolls.’
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Tags: Carol Davis, Election, Election integrity, Illinois Election Integrity Program, Judicial Watch, lawsuit, voter rolls, Voting
Federal Elections, Federal Issues, Illinois Politics, Political, Voter Integrity, Voter Integrity, Voter Integrity | Alyssa Sonnenburg | August 28, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on SPOTLIGHT: Election Integrity in Illinois
Written by Thomas Hampson
The Democrat Party of 2024 bears no resemblance to the Democrat Party of the 1960s. To be fair, neither does the Republican Party. The important difference is that the Republicans have maintained a commitment to and love for our original principles, while the Democrats have become the party that is ashamed of our founding.
In an August 15th post on X, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote that the Party today “would be unrecognizable to my father and my uncle .… Continue Reading
Tags: Angela Davis, Antonio Gramsci, Biden, Bill Ayers, Blackrock, CDC, Chinese Communist Party, COVID–19, Derrick Bell, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, FBI, Green New Deal, Harris, Herbert Marcuse, Jr., Karl Marx, Little Red Book, Mao Zedong, Marxism, Office of the Surgeon General, Paris Agreement, Robert F. Kennedy, Rudi Dutschke, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Tim Walz, Vanguard
Federal Issues, Political, Religious Liberty | Alyssa Sonnenburg | August 27, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on The Last Leg of a Long March
Written by Pastor Calvin Lindstrom
Recently, one of my former students sent me a link to a video. It comes from a TikTok account, canceledchristian, which contains content from a young woman raised in a Christian fundamentalist family who attended Pensacola Christian College.
The purpose of her account is ”Exposing Christian Fundamentalism.”
In the video linked above, this young woman asks two main questions of Christians who support Donald Trump.
1] Why do Christians believe Donald Trump is a Christian?… Continue Reading
Tags: Aaron Klein, Barronelle Stutzman, Beth Walder, Christianity, Constitution, David Daleiden, Donald Trump, Frank Luntz, Jack Phillips, Kamala Harris, Laura Ingraham, Melissa Klein, Norman Vincent Peale, Planned Parenthood, Sandra Merritt
Faith & Religion, Federal Issues, Political | Alyssa Sonnenburg | August 24, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Christians Voting for Trump?