Written by David E. Smith
This week, Illinois Family Spotlight features Q & A highlights from a forum on Islam that was held in Orland Park. The event was presented by IFI along with Paul Hurst and the team from Des Plaines ACT for America. We are grateful to Stone Church, led by Senior Pastor, the Rev. Dr. Wes Modder, for hosting this event.
Our forum panelists were: Anni Cyrus, an Iranian child bride who escaped to America and is now a U.S.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
The American Left has so many people vying to be the Alternative Reality poster child that it may be difficult to pick a winner.
In recent weeks, we’ve seen a slew of entries:
Hillary Clinton recently praised an 11-year-old schoolgirl in Maryland who refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and “took a knee” like NFL players. “It takes courage to exercise your right to protest injustice, especially when you’re 11!… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andrew Cuomo, Andy Ngo, Antifa, Clinton Foundation, Democratic Socialists of America, Dillard University, DNC, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Karl Marx, Netroots Festival, Tom Perez, Tom Wheeler, Wall Street Journal
Political | David E. Smith | 
August 27, 2018 5:30 AM | 
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Written by David Limbaugh
No offense, my Democratic friends, but only in the modern Democratic Party could a Democratic icon such as Andrew Cuomo fearlessly and publicly claim that America “was never that great.” Just two decades ago, few Democrats would dare make that statement.
Lest you fall for the lie that this was merely a one-off hyperbole, notice the full range of Cuomo’s intentional remarks.
Gov. Cuomo’s Remarks
“We’re not going to make America great again,” said the New York governor.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
The progressive Left is in a panic over the U.S. Senate’s coming confirmation vote on President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
How do we know this? They keep telling us.
In a national conference call sponsored by People for the American Way (PFAW), U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, said, “We’re in the fight of our lives.”
PFAW’s Marge Baker echoed Ms. Warren by exclaiming that this is “a critical, critical, critical fight.”… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, Anthony Kennedy, Barack Obama, Brett Kavanaugh, Cory Booker, Daniel Lapin, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Marge Baker, People for the American Way, SCOTUS, Ten Commandments, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | August 18, 2018 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Left Claims The Moral High Ground – For What?
Written by Michelle Malkin
It’s quite simple: Some political relatives are more equal than others.
Agenda-driven journalists love to exploit familial dysfunction when a prominent politician is conservative and his or her kinfolk espouse liberal views. When a vengeful offspring, sibling, cousin or distant relation wants to wreak havoc, instant fame and adoration are just a tweet or call away. The media schadenfreude over such bloody bloodline battles is thicker than California wildfire smoke.
By contrast, relatives who openly challenge powerful Democrats are dismissed as gadflies and publicity hounds.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bonnie Fuller, border security, CNN, Donald Trump, Dr. David Glosser, GQ, Hillary Clinton, Huffington Post, immigration, Kyung Lah, Lawrence O'Donnell, Malik, Maria Hinojosa, MSNBC, New York Times, Politico, Slate, Stephen Miller, Vox, Wajahat Ali
Federal Issues, Media Watch | David E. Smith | August 15, 2018 11:00 AM | Comments Off on The Theory of Political Relative Relativity
This week’s Spotlight conversation between Monte Larrick and Mary Hallan FioRito took place at the annual Lake County Right to Life Banquet, which was held July 27th in Mundelein, Illinois.
Ms. FioRito received her Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1993. Upon conferral of her degree, she was chosen by the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin to serve as Director of Pro-life Activities for the Archdiocese of Chicago. She subsequently served the Archdiocese as its first female Vice-Chancellor and then as Executive Assistant to the late Francis Cardinal George, until his death in 2015.… Continue Reading
Tags: Archdiocese of Chicago, Brett Kavanaugh, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Francis Cardinal George, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Lake County Right to Life, Mary Hallan Fiorito, NIFLA v. Becerra, Roe v. Wade
Faith & Religion, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | August 14, 2018 4:00 AM | Comments Off on SPOTLIGHT: Mary Hallan FioRito on Pro-Life Politics and Culture
Written by Jan LaRue
The anti-Trump media are comparing President Donald Trump to Joseph Stalin because the president fires back at his critics.
An allusion to the wisdom of philosophers residing in the joint applies to media whiners: “if you can’t do the time, don’t do the slime.”
The president’s daily dose of name-calling by media includes the following: he’s Hitler, Stalin, racist, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot, racist, Nero, racist, mentally deranged, tyrant, racist, unfit, fascist, racist, dictator, hateful, racist, liar, illegitimate, colluder of all things Russian, schmuck, jackass, warmonger, and racist, and that’s just MSNBC.… Continue Reading
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Andrew Hamilton, Benito Mussolini, Donald Trump, fake news, John Peter Zenger, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, MSNBC, National Press Club, NEW YORK WEEKLY JOURNAL, Pap's AM v. City of Erie, Pol Pot, Twitter, William S. Cosby
Media Watch | David E. Smith | August 13, 2018 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Trump and the Media War
Written by David E. Smith
If you listen to only one Spotlight podcast this year, please listen to this one!
Monte Larrick and I are joined by Jo McGuire, Colorado native and Chairman of the Board of the National Drug & Alcohol Screening Association, for an eye-opening discussion of the devastation that five years of legalized marijuana has brought to the state of Colorado. In the 2018 lame duck Veto Session in Springfield (November 13-15 and 27-29), Illinois state lawmakers could vote to fully legalize marijuana in Illinois.… Continue Reading
Written by Bonnie Quirke
Due to an unexpected resignation in the 51st Legislative District, which was held by State Representative Nick Sauer (R-Libertyville), Republican Lake County Chairman Mark Shaw will need to appoint a replacement.
Sauer resigned from the Illinois House after a bombshell revelation involving pornographic photos of his ex-girlfriend. Multiple sources report that Sauer created a fake Instagram account on which he posted these photos in order to lure men into graphic sexual conversations with him.… Continue Reading
