Written by Jenna Smith
This week on Spotlight, Pastor Ceasar LeFlore, field director for IFI’s Public School Exit Initiative and resident chaplain, interviews Courtney Lewis, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church, located in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago.
Pastor Lewis recounts the stand his church took against the pandemic shutdowns initiated by Mayor Lightfoot and he shares how the Lord called him to open Cornerstone Christian Academy to rescue his children and the children in his church from government-run schools.… Continue Reading
Written by Jorge Gomez
In the biggest wave of judicial confirmations so far, the U.S. Senate recently confirmed nine (9) nominees to the federal courts. This brings the total number of judges appointed during the Biden administration to twenty-eight (28), which means the President continues outpacing his predecessors by sizeable margins.
Here’s a quick look at judicial confirmations at this point in a President’s first year, dating back to the Reagan administration:
President Biden is having a relative measure of success up to this point in his presidency, with some judicial analysts calling his confirmations “historic.”… Continue Reading
Tags: appellate court, Beth Robinson, Donald Trump, federal court, First Liberty, Joe Biden, Judicial Nominations, U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. Senate, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | 
November 5, 2021 7:00 AM | 
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Written by Oliver L. North and David Goetsch
Communist leader, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, aka, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, is reputed to have said, “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Whether Lenin said this or not, the message is prophetic. For the sake of cheap labor, some large corporations in America are selling the United States down the river, and they have the cooperation of the Biden Administration in doing so.… Continue Reading
Written by Tim Graham
A British leftist group calling itself the Center for Countering Digital Hate has issued a report on what it calls the “Toxic Ten,” which are so-called fringe websites spreading “climate change denial.” The ten include our group, the Media Research Center, as well as Breitbart, The Daily Wire, Townhall Media, Newsmax, The Washington Times and The Western Journal.
So, any challenge to Greenpeace climate-crackdown orthodoxy is now classified as “toxic” and “digital hate.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Angela Eagle, Breitbart, Cat Zakrzewski, Center for Countering Digital Hate, Climate Change, ClimateDepot, Facebook, Google, Green Fraud, Greenpeace, Greta Thunberg, Imran Ahmed, Joseph Vazquez, Marc Morano, Media Research Center, Meryl Streep, NewsBusters, Newsmax, Sheldon Whitehouse, The Daily Wire, The Guardian, The Washington Times, The Western Journal, Townhall Media
Climate Change, Media Watch | David E. Smith | November 3, 2021 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Climate Democracy Dies in Darkness
Written by Jenna Smith
If you are interested in ensuring election integrity and eliminating voter fraud, you will certainly want to listen to this edition of Spotlight. Joining Monte Larrick on the podcast is David J. Shestokas, a former Cook County State’s Attorney and current Republican candidate for Illinois Attorney General. In his position as counsel for Illinois Conservative Union (ICU), Shestokas is uniquely qualified to address the federal lawsuit ICU has filed against the Illinois State Board of Elections, as well as discuss various violations of the National Voter Registration Act and problems with mail-in balloting.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
Remember when Democrats proposed in their multi-trillion spendathon that the IRS would track all transactions of $600 or more in personal bank accounts?
Well, they took a licking from the public, so they upped it to a still-absurd $10,000 in total yearly transactions.
This means they want the IRS prowling into bank accounts of everyone who has either deposits or withdrawals over an entire year totaling $10,000 or more, excluding wage income.… Continue Reading
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, COVID–19, Declaration of Independence, Frederic Bastiat, Marxism, Medicare, Social Security, Socialism, Soviet Union, Terry McAuliffe, The Law
Federal Issues | David E. Smith | November 1, 2021 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Leftists Believe That All Our Earnings, Like Our Children, Belong To The Government
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
Ever get the feeling our country is being led by a captain with no sense of direction, that the officers on the boat can’t tell up from down or right from left. Does every news story cause you to become increasingly uneasy? Do you feel that you’re on a ship without a rudder, a vessel that is being tossed to and fro with every blowing wind and tossing wave of political confusion, economic crisis, and social conflict?… Continue Reading
Written by Daniel Horowitz
This year the Biden administration has orchestrated the most widespread invasion of illegal aliens at our border on record. At the same time, the number of arrests and deportations in the interior have plummeted to the lowest level in recent memory. As such, the federal government is the entity that has seceded from the compact established in 1789. States should respond in kind by doing what it takes to rid themselves of other countries’ criminals at any and all costs.… Continue Reading
