Following last week’s prayer breakfast in Springfield, IFI’s Dave Smith spoke with Pastor Pat McManus of Aurora. Pastor McManus is the Illinois director of Watchmen on the Wall, an initiative of Family Research Council that works to educate and activate pastors to pray, partner, preach, and promote a biblical worldview in order to effect a change in the liberal culture and climate in which we live.
In this Spotlight podcast, David and Pastor Pat discuss the centrality of prayer, especially as we fight a spiritual battle (one we cannot afford to ignore) in our state and nation.… Continue Reading
“Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.” ~Leviticus 19:16
Written by Jonathan Clay de Hale
Another murder by an illegal alien fails to rouse the nation
What is it going to take for Americans to overthrow the inertia of their political masters in Washington with regard to keeping illegal aliens out of the country? Apparently, more than the cold-blooded murder of its citizens by foreign trespassers.
In July, Mollie Tibbetts’ mutilated body was found after a month-long search, dumped in a cornfield in Brooklyn, Iowa.… Continue Reading
Tags: Ann Coulter, border control, border security, Border wall, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, Election integrity, Elizabeth Warren, Federation for American Immigration Reform, ICE, illegal aliens, Jenna Lynn Ellis, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, Kate Steinle, Medicaid, Mollie Tibbetts, National Center for Education Statistics, Obamacare, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Voter Fraud
Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | 
September 24, 2018 6:53 AM | 
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Written by David Limbaugh
We’ve long known that unelected leftist bureaucrats embedded in the bowels of the federal government have been lawlessly targeting conservatives and abusing their power to thwart the agenda of duly elected Republican policymakers. The proof keeps pouring in.
The Obama administration’s IRS deliberately discriminated against conservative groups in their applications for tax-exempt status. This isn’t an empty partisan allegation from an imaginary “right-wing conspiracy.” In 2013, an IRS official admitted scrutinizing groups with right wing identifying names, such as “Tea Party” and “patriots.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Allison Hrabar, Department of Health and Human Services, Donald Trump, James O’Keefe, Jeremy Wiley, Jessica Schubel, Justice Department, Kirstjen Nielsen, Linchpins of Liberty, NorCal Tea Party Patriots, Project Veritas, Stuart Karaffa
Federal Issues | David E. Smith | September 22, 2018 5:07 AM | Comments Off on Project Veritas Catches Deep State Redhanded
Written by Robert Knight
That was the late Joe Sobran’s ironic take mostly on the courts’ blatantly unconstitutional usurpations over the past few decades.
The most powerful evidence that federal judges have eclipsed the other branches of government is the circus surrounding President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. This should not be as big a deal as it is.
If you missed it, dozens of screaming women, some costumed, were dragged from the confirmation hearings.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, American Civil Rights Union, Brett Kavanaugh, Code Pink, Donald Trump, John Adams, Ken Klukowski, Men for Choice, Neil Gorsuch, SCOTUS, Southern Poverty Law Center, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues | David E. Smith | September 20, 2018 7:20 AM | Comments Off on A Constitutional Power Struggle
Written by David E. Smith
This week on Illinois Family Spotlight we welcome Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), a policy institute based in Washington, D.C. that promotes market-based solutions to fight poverty.
IFI’s own Monte Larrick sat down with Ms. Parker while she was attending a recent summit on violence and poverty with pastors and community leaders in Chicago. Their conversation delves into the root cause of the violence and poverty that is destroying urban communities: breakdown of the family; lack of paternal influence; the perpetual welfare state mentality of big government; excessive taxation and regulation that suppress economic development and growth in black neighborhoods and communities, and much more.… Continue Reading
Written by Walter Williams
One of the best statements of how the Framers saw the role of the federal government is found in Federalist Paper 45, written by James Madison, who is known as the “Father of the Constitution”: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce.… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
Evidently, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has learned nothing from the razor-thin primary election. Instead, he’s doubling down on his pro-abortion, pro-“transgenderism” and pro-sanctuary state policies, suggesting that signing them into law was the “right” thing to do.
In a speech yesterday, he almost admits mistakes but asserts that his mistakes were, in reality, evidence of his over-zealous commitment to courage in the pursuit of right action. In other words, he’s trying to spin his anti-conservative policy decisions as “courageous.”… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
What is it with our ruling elites? How did they come to have so much disdain for America? Some recent events have yet again brought this unfortunate situation to the surface.
Let’s start with Nike, the Portland, Oregon-based sportswear mega-company. It did not become a Fortune 100 corporation by chance or careless management.
Debuting as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964, the firm under Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight officially adopted the Nike name and the famous Swoosh logo in 1971.… Continue Reading
Tags: Bill Bowerman, Buzz Aldrin, Colin Kaepernick, First Man, Jack Ryan, Neil Armstrong, NFL, Nike, Phil Knight, Ryan Gosling, San Francisco 49ers, Sonia Saraiya, Tom Clancy
Marriage, Family & Culture, Media Watch | David E. Smith | September 12, 2018 6:45 AM | Comments Off on Kicking Off More Contempt for America
Written by Peter Heck
I recently read a thought-provoking, though ultimately misguided, article by Daniel Jose Camacho from the faith-oriented left-wing commentary website Sojourners. In it, Camacho argued against the preoccupation many American Christians have with capitalism, suggesting that,
“Capitalism is so deeply ingrained in our Christianity that it is the default. Yet, this arrangement is neither natural nor inevitable.”
Such a perspective was anything but surprising coming from a Sojourners publication. After all, the online magazine is the modern iteration of socialist Jim Wallis’s anti-capitalist magazine “The Post American.” … Continue Reading
Written by David Limbaugh
If Democrats and resistance Republicans think they are going to depose President Trump or thwart his presidency by endlessly savaging him in the name of protecting the republic, they don’t have any concept of the fierce resolve of his supporters.
The latest salvo in the resistance’s efforts to nullify the will of the American electorate is an anonymous New York Times op-ed purportedly penned by a “senior official” in the Trump administration.… Continue Reading
