Written by Robert Knight
Since November 2016, the media and the progressive Left have been pounding the same two claims.
The first is that Donald Trump was not really elected, since Hillary Clinton got more popular votes.
The second is that anyone who voted for Mr. Trump or supports him today is a white male supremacist bigot. And probably homophobic and xenophobic to boot. Regardless of actual race or sex.
Regarding the first claim, Hillary’s national margin of 2.8 million votes can be explained entirely by California, which has become a one-party, socialist state with enormous potential for voter fraud.… Continue Reading
Tags: #WalkAway, Agustín Blazquez, Dilber, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Investor’s Business Daily, Joseph Epstein, Laurence Jarvik, Scott Adam, Wall Street Journal
Federal Issues, Political | David E. Smith | 
December 3, 2018 4:00 AM | 
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Written by Kathy Valente
Illinois State Senator Jason Barickman (R-Bloomington) has been an outspoken proponent for legalizing high-potency marijuana and he wants a “seat at the table” when Gov.-elect JB Pritzker and other Chicago Democrats move the bill in 2019.
Take ACTION: Barickman will be the featured speaker Dec. 4 at the McLean County Chamber of Commerce’s BN The Know event in Bloomington, titled “Recreational Marijuana and the Business Community.” You can register to attend HERE.… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
This week’s Spotlight features a presentation by one of Illinois’ finest, Jeanne Ives, who recently spoke in Rockford at a forum organized by Concerned Christian Americans, a chapter of Illinois Family Institute. Representative Ives recapped and analyzed the results for Illinois in the midterm election, keying in on specific races/areas where traditionally Republican strongholds switched from red to blue.
Representative Ives also discussed the need for cohesion within the Republican Party and highlighted what conservatives ought to do in order to take back seats in the next election cycle.… Continue Reading
Written by Joseph A. Morris
President Trump’s nomination of my former assistant at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Thomas A. Farr, to be a Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina is finally coming to the floor of the U.S. Senate this week. It’s in the queue and the U.S. Senate may get to it this week.
Tom is a learned, thoughtful, kindly, even-tempered man. He has been an extremely accomplished and successful lawyer in public and private practice.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Bar Association, Andrew Gillum, Chuck Schumer, Donald J. Trump, Eastern District of North Carolina, Edward Whelan, Ethics and Public Policy Center, George W. Bush, Joe Morris, Joseph A. Morris, Morris & De La Rosa, Stacey Abrams, Thomas A. Farr, United States District Court
Federal Issues | David E. Smith | November 28, 2018 6:05 AM | Comments Off on Judicial Nominee Tom Farr and the Left’s Smears
Written by David E. Smith
Today is #GivingTuesday – a global day of giving dedicated to the support of organizations and ministries called to address pressing issues around the world and here in America. Giving Tuesday is a movement to inspire personal philanthropy by focusing the nation’s attention on a day of charitable giving on the first Tuesday following Thanksgiving.
Please make Illinois Family Action (IFA) the non-profit that you give to today.
Remember, IFA exists to advance public policies to protect the sanctity of human life, Christian marriage, the natural family and other initiatives which are consistent with principles of good government.… Continue Reading
Press Statement by Global Warming Policy Foundation
The Climate Change Act at Ten: History’s Most Expensive Virtue Signal, written by Rupert Darwall, a leading climate and energy policy analyst, describes the economic and social burden the Act has had in the United Kingdom on the poorest in society:
“Fuel poverty was to have been a thing of the past. Both the Labour and Coalition governments had targets to abolish it. Thanks to the CCA and other anti-fossil-fuel policies, it lives on and is worsening,” Darwall explains.
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Written by Shelby Steele
Even before President Trump’s election, hatred had begun to emerge on the American left—counterintuitively, as an assertion of guilelessness and moral superiority. At the Women’s March in Washington the weekend after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, the pop star Madonna said, “I have thought an awful lot of blowing up the White House.” Here hatred was a vanity, a braggadocio meant to signal her innocence of the sort of evil that, in her mind, the White House represented.… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
Another election has come and gone. A number of states saw a noticeable political shake-up. For pro-life/pro-family conservatives in Illinois, things went from bad to worse.
As promised last week, Monte Larrick and I are once again joined by Richard Hartian, Chairman of Illinois Family Action, for this episode of Spotlight.
Moving on from the post-mortem of What went wrong? to a discussion of Where do we go from here? – Hartian, Smith, and Larrick consider what Illinois might look like under a Democrat-controlled statehouse led by J.B.… Continue Reading
