Written by Peter Heck
Make no mistake about it, Anna Kendrick, the actress/singer famous for roles in the Pitch Perfect and Trolls movies, undoubtedly considers herself quite woke. She is a Hollywood actress who is fully cognizant of what she’s supposed to say, when she’s supposed to say it, and what power she is supposed to “speak truth” to in order to maintain pop culture credibility.
That said, Kendrick bravely ventured into a position of “unlikely voice of reason” on Twitter recently when she properly identified what the mainstream media has been decidedly unable to deduce or unwilling to admit.… Continue Reading
Tags: Anna Kendrick, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Dan Rather, Ian Miles Cheong, Peter Heck, Pitch Perfect, social justice, Trolls, Violet Iknomova
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | June 2, 2020 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Young White Liberals Living Out Their “Teenage Anarchist Fantasy”
Written by Tad Armstrong
This op-ed will be hard-hitting. It’s time to tell the unvarnished truth. It is lengthy because I cannot shorten what needs to be said. If you care about Constitutional freedom, you will take the time. If your goal is to take America down the path of socialism, perhaps you might be interested in reading this in order to to better understand your adversary.
Although it is hard for me to believe, we are a divided nation.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amos Humiston, Andrew Cuomo, Anthony Fauci, Bill Maher, D-Day, Donald J. Trump, George Washington, Gettysburg, Iwo Jima, Joe Biden, Mark H. Dunkelman, Mike Pence, Pearl Harbor, Ronald Reagan, SCOTUS, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, WW2
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | May 21, 2020 9:00 AM | Comments Off on Freedom Is A Risky Business…
Written by Jerry Newcombe
One fallout of the COVID-19 crisis is its severe thrashing of our economy. Not only have all the impressive economic gains of the Trump administration evaporated, but we are now adding to our national debt in scary ways. I hope that all the bailouts are temporary means to solve a temporary problem.
To use an analogy: One of the saddest things about a midlife crisis is that permanent damage can be done to “solve” what turns out to be only a temporary problem.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Coronavirus, COVID–19, Dennis Prager, Donald J. Trump, Dr. Richard Land, Jerry Newcombe, Margaret Thatcher, PragerU, Scandinavia, Southern Evangelical Seminary, Stephen Moore, Trump Administration
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | May 15, 2020 6:18 AM | Comments Off on Greasing the Skids Toward Socialism?
Written by Rev. Thorin Anderson
“Seriously,” You might ask? “How will you manage that?”
Those who actually understand traditional Christianity know that devout Christians typically make the best citizens, even under totalitarian regimes, because we understand and accept the biblical injunction to submit to authority, even when it is unreasonable, so long as it does not demand disloyalty to Christ. Therefore, my suggestion that there is biblical support for the Second Amendment will likely surprise many because that Amendment is sometimes perceived to provide means for overthrowing a government. … Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
On this Spotlight podcast, Monte Larrick interviews Pastor Ceasar LeFlore of the Chicago chapter of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. Pastor LeFlore introduces CURE’s Triangle for Transformation. Then he and Monte explore the dramatic impact of and proper Christian response to gentrification in communities of color. They also discuss the biblical principles and kingdom economy that support the concept of community co-ops for homeownership.
Pastor LeFlore stresses the need for the black community to recommit to the centrality of the family, the importance of personal responsibility and education that emphasizes values, sexual morality, and the sanctity of human life.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
Why do so many young people hate America and think we’d be better off as a socialist country?
We’ve all heard about the impact of “fake news,” but there’s something even more dangerous: Teaching “fake history.”
“If you think that it is outrageous that Democratic presidential candidates want to eliminate the southern border and that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls our detention facilities there ‘concentration camps,’ then you haven’t been reading and believing Howard Zinn’s best-selling ‘A People’s History of the United States,’” writes Mary Grabar, Ph.D.… Continue Reading
Tags: A People’s History of the United States, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, class warfare, Debunking Howard Zinn, Elizabeth Warren, Good Will Hunting, Howard Zinn, Mary Grabar, Matt Damon, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Pol Pot, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, The Communist Manifesto
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | January 10, 2020 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Socialism, Howard Zinn and His Fake History
Written by Benjamin Smith
This week’s Spotlight podcast features the speech David E. Smith, executive director of IFI and IFA, presented at the 2019 Faith, Family, and Freedom banquet. In keeping with the banquet’s theme, “Boldness,” Dave emphasizes the need for Christians to be bolder in the public square, especially in the face of increasing pressure from the radical, regressive, and relentless left.
The theme verse highlights that quality: “The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion” (Proverbs 28:1). … Continue Reading
Written by David Limbaugh
People seem shocked that recent polls show millennials are enamored of socialism — an economic system that reasonable and educated Americans have long known is disastrous. They shouldn’t be; this has been a long time coming.
The latest survey by Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation shows that 70 percent of millennials are likely to vote socialist. Adding insult to injury, only 57 percent believe the Declaration of Independence “better guarantees freedom and equality” over “The Communist Manifesto.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Burton Folsom, Chrissy Clark, David Limbaugh, Declaration of Independence, Elizabeth Warren, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, Hillsdale College, Medicare-for-all, Mitchell Langbert, National Association of Scholars, Socialism, The Communist Manifesto, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | November 6, 2019 6:24 AM | Comments Off on Exposing the Fraud of Socialism
Written by L. Brent Bosell III
Freedom of speech is in the First Amendment for a reason. Freedom begins with the ability to speak your opinion without fear of censorship or violent reprisal or imprisonment. This is a precious human right, not something that most countries in the world revere like we have. But here in America, free speech is most dangerously under attack in the one place you would not expect: the universities.
Dennis Prager and Adam Carolla have created a new documentary on the subject called “No Safe Spaces.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Adam Carolla, Alan Dershowitz, Barack Obama, Bret Weinstein, Day of Absence, Dennis Prager, Erika Christakis, Evergreen State College, First Amendment, L. Brent Bosell III, Nicholas Christakis, No Safe Spaces, Pew Research Center, Van Jones, Yale
Marriage, Family & Culture, Religious Liberty | David E. Smith | October 25, 2019 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Speech Police and ‘Safe Spaces’
Written by Abigail Moreno-Riano
Earlier this year, the state of New York legalized abortion up until birth, and the governor and abortion activists then proceeded to celebrate this loss of life as a joyous occasion. Now, another crisis of human dignity was narrowly averted after New York came close to passing the first ever complete decriminalization of prostitution.
While Nevada is the only other state to legalize forms of prostitution, New York’s bill is the most extensive bill that has ever been introduced, and as these authors noted, “would only turn mostly women and girls into ‘commodities to be bought and sold.’”… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, decriminalizing prostitution, Feminism, human dignity, Julia Salazar, Prostitution, Sanctuary for Families, sex work
Marriage, Family & Culture, Pornography, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | September 17, 2019 5:59 AM | Comments Off on Prostitution and Abortion: The Exploitation of Women and Children