Written by Trevor Grant Thomas
As much as conservatives in America love capitalism, many U.S. capitalists sure seem to hate conservatives—especially Christian conservatives. On virtually every issue important to conservatives of all stripes, large U.S. corporations (“Big Corp” for this column) stand opposed—almost unanimously!—to American conservatives.
In other words, to the detriment of America and the truth, Big Corp has gone “woke.” Coca-Cola provides the most recent and egregious example of gross corporate wokeness. According to a whistleblower, Coca-Cola is forcing its employees to complete online training that instructs them on “What it Means to Be White” and how to “Try and be less white.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Adam Smith, Al Perrotta, Amazon, anti-white diversity training, Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, Big Corp, Black Lives Matter, Brian Schuster, Capital One, Chevron, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Dell, Delta Airlines, Dominos, Donald J. Trump, E-TRADE, Equality Act, Food Lion, Gatorade, General Motors, Google, Hershey, IBM, Intel, Joe Biden, Johnson & Johnson, Jordan Davidson, Kellogg, MasterCard, Mattel, Microsoft, Netflix, New York Post, Nike, PepsiCo, Sony, Starbucks, Target, Texas Instruments, The Federalist, The Wealth of Nations, Trevor Grant Thomas, Uber, Under Armour, Warner Records, wokeness
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | March 4, 2021 9:00 AM | Comments Off on Woke Coke is No Joke
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Written by David E. Smith
Successful plans are best built on a foundation of strategic thinking. When it comes to political involvement, Christian apologist Dr. Frank Turek states that Christians ought to focus their efforts on motivating and mobilizing the citizens who share their worldview on the most critical issues of the day. Speaking at the 2017 IFI Worldview Conference, Dr. Turek also poses and answers these key questions: what is the purpose of government; can morality be legislated; how can we counter self-defeating statements; and what’s at stake and what should we do?… Continue Reading
Written by David Limbaugh
A dark cloud looms over the United States today — a storm cloud of tyranny. All the rest is noise — a diversion.
If self-congratulatory pats on the back could cause skin damage, Trump haters would have leprosy. Having been on a witch hunt to burn him at the impeachment stake since he took office, they believe they are vindicated forevermore.
But apart from their brutal mistreatment of President Donald Trump from the beginning through their coordinated and malicious hoaxes that incidentally rejected lawful election results (in 2016), and apart from the question of whether they have some legitimate complaints against him, this is still not mainly about him.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Capitol Riot, COVID–19, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Election anomalies, election fraud, Electoral College, Harvard University, impeachment
Marriage, Family & Culture, Political | David E. Smith | January 22, 2021 10:00 AM | Comments Off on Real Threats to Democracy Still Come From the Left
Written by David E. Smith
For our first Spotlight of 2021, we begin with a topic that is at the heart of the mission of IFI: the family. Monte Larrick and Dr. Allan C. Carlson, founder of the World Congress of Families, begin by defining social conservatism and contrasting it with “decadent liberalism.” Dr. Carlson offers advice to pastors and churches to abandon the losing strategy of settling for religious exemptions and opting for isolationism, and instead take a stand for Christian family ethics and Christian sexual ethics.… Continue Reading
Written by David Limbaugh
I have long believed that the radical left represents an existential threat to the republic. Indeed, my last book, “Guilty By Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win,” was based on that premise. So now what?
Since it appears that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will take office in less than three weeks, my deepest fears should only be intensifying. Right?
We needn’t carry on this disingenuous debate about whether Biden is a centrist, because his growing mental incapacity makes it a moot point.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
It may be Christmastime, but our ruling elites are keeping up their campaign of cultural cleansing.
Not even Honest Abe is safe.
In San Francisco, a committee tasked to rid the school system of now-disgraced public figures at 44 sites says that a high school named after Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves and held America together through the Civil War, ought to drop the Great Emancipator.
“Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that Black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building,” explained first-grade teacher Jeremiah Jeffries, chairman of the renaming committee.… Continue Reading
Tags: 1619 Project, Abraham Lincoln, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Asbury United Methodist Church, Black Lives Matter, Cultural Marxism, Dan Snyder, Dianne Feinstein, Francis Scott Key, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Floyd, George Washington, James Garfield, James Monroe, John Muir, Junipero Serra, National Football League, Paul Revere, Proud Boys, Teddy Roosevelt, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Redskins, William H. Lamar IV, William McKinley
Education, Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | December 21, 2020 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Ruling Elites Continue Cultural Cleansing Rampage And Not Even Honest Abe Is Safe
Written by Ron Ewart
“Identity politics rejects the model of traditional give-and-take politics, presupposing instead that the most important thing about us is that we are white, black, male, female, straight, gay, and so on. Within the identity-politics world, we do not need to give reasons—identity is its own reason and justification. Because identity politics supposes that we are our identities, politics does not consist in the speech, argument, and persuasion of normal politics but instead, in the calculation of resource redistribution based on identity—what in Democratic parlance is called ‘social justice.’”—Joshua
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Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Climate Change, Cuties, Democrats, Family, FDR, John Adams, LGBTQ, Netflix, nuclear family, President Johnson, President Obama, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson
Marriage, Family & Culture | Benjamin D. Smith | December 15, 2020 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Democrats Have Turned Normal and Common Sense Into Raw Sewage
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
In his classic work, “The Book of Virtues,” former U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett recounts the story of a young boy who brought death and ruin upon himself and his community by his lies. We have all heard the tale over and over again in our youth. It goes like this.
“There was once a shepherd boy who kept his flock at a little distance from the village.… Continue Reading
Tags: Anthony Fauci, Chris Cuomo, COVID, COVID–19, Gavin Newsom, lock-down, London Breed, Lori Lightfoot, Muriel Bowser, Nancy Pelosi, Sheila Kuehl, The Book of Virtues, William J. Bennett
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | December 14, 2020 4:00 AM | Comments Off on The Hypocrisy of Democrats is Killing People
Written by Dr. Jerry Newcomb
Last week we celebrated Thanksgiving, but is this holiday becoming so politically incorrect that one day it will be doomed to be sent down the “memory hole”?
There is a war on American history. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Antifa and other leftwing groups toppled more historical statues. Tyler O’Neil of PJ Media (11/28/20) describes the extent of this vandalism, which included the spray-painting of anti-Thanksgiving messages and statues torn down in Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and Spokane.… Continue Reading
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Antifa, Billy Falling, Black Lives Matter, Frederick Douglas, George Orwell, George Washington, Golda Meir, Marxism, My Cherokee Roots, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving, Thomas Jefferson, Tyler O’Neil, Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | December 4, 2020 7:05 AM | Comments Off on American History Down the Memory Hole?
Written by David Limbaugh
A lot of things worry me about a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, but nothing troubles me more than that it will accommodate the left’s disturbing march toward selective suppression of free speech.
Much of the war against this sacred liberty occurs at the level of our culture, but when a leftist-friendly administration is in power, our efforts to combat this culturally will be more difficult.
As a result of structural and technological changes in our society, threats to free speech no longer come from government alone, and so, our constitutional guarantees against encroachments are now inadequate.… Continue Reading