Written by Jenna Smith
To the great sorrow of pro-life, pro-family citizens of Illinois, on December 17, 2021, Governor JB Pritzker signed into law House Bill 370, thereby repealing the Parental Notice of Abortion Act and eliminating the right for parents to be made aware of a minor daughter’s pregnancy and impending abortion.
Joining me for an important Spotlight conversation are IFI contributors Kenna Rose and Alyssa. Please listen as we discuss the impact of the repeal of the Parental Notice of Abortion Act and the repercussions of HB 370, the disingenuously named Illinois Youth Health and Safety Act.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alyssa, HB 370, Illinois Youth Health and Safety Act, JB Pritzker, Jenna Smith, Kenna Rose, Parental Notice of Abortion Act, worldview
Marriage, Family & Culture, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | 
January 11, 2022 9:00 AM | 
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Written by Dr. Everett Piper
M. Scott Peck once said that America had become a “people of the lie.” His point was that our nation’s establishment — our leaders in government, media and education, along with the hoard of mindless lemmings who parrot their every decree — have lied so often to others and even to themselves that they have come to believe their own deception.
“The central defect of the evil,” he said, “is not the sin but the refusal to acknowledge it.” … Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
The self-government called for in the first sentence of the U.S. Constitution (“We the people”) doesn’t ever take a breather. With elections every two years in our state and nation, one election season ends and another begins. Primary election cycles give way to the General Election cycle whether in presidential years and elections for state constitutional offices or our local consolidated elections.
In the wake of two contrived impeachments against President Donald J.… Continue Reading
Written by Kristi Shaffer
The 2018 election for Macon County Sheriff was an example of nearly everything that can possibly go wrong in an election. Unsurprisingly, the problems that occurred in 
Macon County illustrate the issues facing the entire state of Illinois. Elections and election results are often uncertain in Illinois for several reasons, and many of the related problems surfaced in the sheriff’s court case.
As a result of the legal proceedings in the Macon County Sheriff election, the ballots were recounted.… Continue Reading
Tags: Al Gore, Anna M. Benjamin, Ballot harvesting, fair elections, George Barna, George W. Bush, hanging chad, Jim Root, Macon County Sheriff, mail-in ballots, overvoting, Tony Brown, undervoting, Voter ID
Illinois Politics, Voter Integrity | David E. Smith | January 6, 2022 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Macon County Sheriff Election: Irregularities in Elections (Part 2)
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
2021 is behind us. It has been another year of conflict. Another year of anger. Another year of division. A year of the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated, the masked versus the unmasked, of us against them. A time of racists calling everyone else racists, men calling themselves women and basically everybody accusing everyone of being the cause of everything that ails us.
How did we get here? How did the United States ever become so divided?… Continue Reading
Written by Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Voting irregularities—including potentially thousands of votes cast by noncitizens and dead people—were reported during the first phase of the Texas secretary of state’s forensic audit of the 2020 general election, but critics deemed it more of a risk-limiting audit at this point.
The secretary of state’s office released its findings on Dec. 31; the issues found aren’t enough to significantly affect 2020 election results of the four counties involved in the audit—Collin, Dallas, Harris, and Tarrant counties—which account for about 10 million people, or a third of Texas’s population.… Continue Reading
Written by Kristi Shaffer
The right to vote is nearly sacred in the United States. Elections are closely monitored for an accurate count and assurance that the voices of the people are heard. At least that is the intended outcome of the election process, but, far too often, things go awry. Many of us watched back-and-forth recounts, audits, and legal battles in various states over the 2020 presidential election. However, there was a battle right here in Illinois for election legitimacy of which few were aware.… Continue Reading
Tags: David J. Shestokas, Discovery Recount, Election integrity, Illinois Attorney General, Illinois Conservative Union, Illinois State Board of Elections, JB Pritker, Jim Root, Josh Turner, Kwame Raoul, Macon County Sheriff, mail-in ballots, National Voters Registration Act, Tony Brown, Verified Election Contest Petition, Voter Fraud
Illinois Politics, Voter Integrity | David E. Smith | January 3, 2022 6:51 AM | Comments Off on Macon County Sheriff Election: Irregularities in Elections (Part 1)
Written by David E. Smith
IFI was honored to have theologian, pastor, and courageous truth-teller Doug Wilson speak at our September 2015 banquet, after which he continued his critique of culture in an interview with Pastor Derek Buikema of the Orland Park Christian Reformed Church. Pastor Wilson addressed the cultural issues to which Christians must respond: abortion and same-sex “mirage.”
Take a break from the holiday bustle to relish and challenged by words that more Christian leaders should be speaking.… Continue Reading
