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		<title>The Left’s War on Words — and Why It Matters</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/02/the-lefts-war-on-words-and-why-it-matters/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Klobuchar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Orwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jocelyn Nungaray]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>Science fiction author <strong>Philip K. Dick</strong> once said, “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”</p>
<p>Of all the strategies presently used by Democrats and their puppets in the establishment media, the bastardization of words is perhaps the most pernicious.</p>
<p>Take, for example, the words green and gay, change and choice, male and female, moral and immoral, justice and injustice, compassion, care and tolerance.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/02/the-lefts-war-on-words-and-why-it-matters/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jim Crow or Common Sense? The Media’s War on Voter ID</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/02/jim-crow-or-common-sense-the-medias-war-on-voter-id/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Voter Integrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Sherman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryan Steil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Schumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derek Clinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Crow 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Fetterman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PolitiFact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAVE America Act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zach Wolf]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=31498</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The people who call themselves the &#8220;mainstream media&#8221; have a remarkable tendency to take the minority position on an 80-20 issue, most recently on requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls. U.S. House Republicans have passed the SAVE Act, while Democrats have almost unanimously opposed it.</p>
<p>But the American people do not. Gallup pollsters report 84% of Americans support requiring photo ID to vote — 98% of Republicans, 84% of independents, and 67% of Democrats.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/02/jim-crow-or-common-sense-the-medias-war-on-voter-id/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Leftists Invade the Sanctuary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>When leftist protesters stormed into Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, during a Sunday service on Jan. 19, they chanted and screamed. Some of them told the frightened children that their parents were Nazis. Others blocked parents from reaching their children to remove them from the chaos.</p>
<p>Former CNN newsman <strong>Don Lemon</strong>, who claimed to have been an observer, insisted that the mob — and he — had a First Amendment right to disrupt the service.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/02/when-leftists-invade-the-sanctuary/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Media Still Bows to Nancy Pelosi</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexandra Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Floyd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=31133</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p><strong>Nancy Pelosi</strong> may be retiring from Congress, but no one should expect the DNC media to stop treating her as a most glorious political figure. She draws deep bows wherever she goes. She&#8217;s always the Best Ever.</p>
<p>On CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; in early 2024, substitute host <strong>Tracy Smith</strong> announced Pelosi &#8220;has a new book out, &#8216;The Art of Power&#8217; — an art which Nancy Pelosi is something of a master.&#8221; After Pelosi bizarrely suggested <strong>Joe Biden</strong> could go on Mount Rushmore, <strong>Leslie Stahl</strong> just had to follow up with flattery:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">&#8220;If there were a Mount Rushmore for Speakers of the House, Nancy Pelosi would certainly be up there, commemorating her 20 years as a commanding leader in Congress.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/01/the-media-still-bows-to-nancy-pelosi/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bill Maher Was Right: Islam Is Not Just Another Religion</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/bill-maher-was-right-islam-is-not-just-another-religion/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam & Sharia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Maher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Rose]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=31120</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>If recent events don’t prove to you that Islam is now the No. 1 enemy of the civilized world, then you are blind, deaf and dumb.</p>
<p>Consider the following.</p>
<p>In Germany, multiple Christmas markets were effectively shut down by thousands of Muslims seeking to intimidate Christians who simply wanted to celebrate “peace on earth and goodwill toward men.”</p>
<p>In Paris, the annual New Year’s Eve festival was canceled because of credible Muslim terrorist threats.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/bill-maher-was-right-islam-is-not-just-another-religion/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ilhan Omar’s Unchallenged Claims — and a Protective Media</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/ilhan-omars-unchallenged-claims-and-a-protective-media/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adnan Hirsi]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>As a leftist Muslim immigrant from Somalia, radical U.S. Representative <strong>Ilhan Omar</strong> (D-MN) is wonderfully blessed with a DEI press. She is perennially assumed to be a victim of racism, sexism and xenophobia whenever she is criticized, and especially when she&#8217;s verbally targeted by President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>.</p>
<p>At the end of a typically syrupy interview with <strong>Esme Murphy</strong> from the local CBS station WCCO in Minneapolis on Sunday, Omar claimed her 19-year-old son <strong>Adnan Hirsi</strong> was pulled over by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement personnel.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/ilhan-omars-unchallenged-claims-and-a-protective-media/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hooked by Design: The Neuroscience Behind Doomscrolling</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/hooked-by-design-the-neuroscience-behind-doomscrolling/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Watch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Big Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clare Morell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doomscrolling]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=31034</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Neurological science is catching up with the tech revolution. Our brains, a growing body of research shows, are sitting ducks for the stimuli found on cellphones, social media and computer screens, making us want even more.</p>
<p>The 24/7 news feed makes it tough to relax when a crisis is always going on somewhere, and we can engage in “doom scrolling.” Our bodies emit “fight or flight” chemicals when we feel endangered, anxious or stressed.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/hooked-by-design-the-neuroscience-behind-doomscrolling/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The White House, Teenagers and Media Bias</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/the-white-house-teenagers-and-media-bias/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=31006</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>The Trump White House has officially launched a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media-bias page</a> on its website — and judging by the hysteria from the legacy press, the Trump Administration hit a nerve. <em>Breitbart</em> <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/11/29/white-house-launches-website-exposing-media-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that the new page highlights falsehoods, distortions, and slanted coverage from the usual suspects. And the reaction from those “objective journalists” tells you everything you need to know.</p>
<p>It’s exciting to see a Republican administration go on offense rather than shrink back.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/the-white-house-teenagers-and-media-bias/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dangerous Double Standard on Civil Disobedience</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/11/dangerous-double-standard-on-civil-disobedience/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>The rightness or wrongness of acts of civil disobedience is in the mind of the beholder.</p>
<p>For example, official lawlessness is openly practiced in “sanctuary” jurisdictions across the nation. The Department of Justice lists a total of 600 cities, counties and states where governing officials refuse to cooperate with federal officers enforcing immigration laws. In some cases, local officials actually interfere with the operations.</p>
<p>Democrats, who support open borders, say this is a matter of conscience, while Republicans say it invites further mass illegal immigration and lawlessness.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/11/dangerous-double-standard-on-civil-disobedience/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why the Left Gets a Pass on Political Violence</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/11/why-the-left-gets-a-pass-on-political-violence/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>We keep being told that both sides of America’s political divide are equally culpable for violent rhetoric and violent acts. It’s a lie.</p>
<p>Virtually all of it comes from the political left. It wasn’t right-wingers who shot President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> and murdered health care executive <strong>Brian Thompson</strong> in New York and conservative activist <strong>Charlie Kirk</strong> in Utah in cold blood.</p>
<p>It wasn’t Young Republicans who attacked a Turning Point USA event on the University of California, Berkeley, campus last week, beating up a TPUSA staffer.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/11/why-the-left-gets-a-pass-on-political-violence/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Counterfeit Christianity Exposed</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/11/counterfeit-christianity-exposed/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>No matter their claims, <strong>Nick Fuentes </strong>and those who sympathize with him are not Christians.</p>
<p>How do we know this? Because what matters to true Christians is Jesus. Christ is our “highest good.” He is the most important aspect of our lives. He is our <em>summum bonum</em>. He and nothing else — not politics, not popularity nor personal animus — is our “first thing.”</p>
<p>Christ, not clicks, drives every decision of a Christian’s life.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/11/counterfeit-christianity-exposed/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Not-So-Special Report with Governor Pritzker</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/10/a-not-so-special-report-with-jb-pritzker/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;"><strong>Excuses, Deflection, and Denial</strong></span></em></span></p>
<p>Illinois billionaire Governor <strong>JB Pritzker</strong> appeared on Fox News’ <em data-start="166" data-end="182">Special Report</em> with <strong>Bret Baier</strong> on Thursday, where he blasted the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement in Chicago while downplaying the city’s spiraling crime problem. The two-term Democratic governor also dodged questions about his presidential ambitions, took shots at Trump’s tariff policies, and doubled down on his paranoid claim that U.S. troops could be used to “steal” the next election.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/10/a-not-so-special-report-with-jb-pritzker/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Shutdown Spin: How the Media Always Blames Republicans</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>If the national media can be counted on to spin anything dramatically toward the Democrats, it&#8217;s a government shutdown. They feel passionately that the Democrats are the Party of Government, and the Republicans are the Haters of Government, so who naturally favors shutting it all down?</p>
<p>Even before the shutdown occurred, NPR and PBS issued their poll warning Republicans would get more of the blame than Democrats. That&#8217;s why those partisan hacks deserved defunding.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/10/shutdown-spin-how-the-media-always-blames-republicans/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Media’s Double Standard on Political Violence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Once the shock of <strong>Charlie Kirk</strong>&#8216;s murder began to wear off, it became easier to notice how today&#8217;s &#8220;news&#8221; media routinely fail to live up to their own pompous prattle about their work. They don&#8217;t &#8220;hold people accountable,&#8221; they don&#8217;t &#8220;uphold democracy,&#8221; and they aren&#8217;t &#8220;independent&#8221; or &#8220;objective.&#8221; They don&#8217;t produce &#8220;news&#8221; as much as narrative.</p>
<p>You can see this in their energetic declarations that you couldn&#8217;t possibly ascribe a leftist motive to Kirk&#8217;s shooter &#8230; and even claimed you shouldn&#8217;t try.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/09/the-medias-double-standard-on-political-violence/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump, Miller Blast Pritzker as Chicago Violence Spirals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p data-start="239" data-end="513">Chicago endured another bloody Labor Day weekend: eight people killed and 58 shot, including two teenagers. President <strong>Donald J. Trump</strong> responded by declaring, “Enough is enough… we’re going in,” signaling his willingness to send federal help to restore order in the city.</p>
<p data-start="515" data-end="733">Trump contrasted Chicago’s spiraling violence with Washington, D.C., which he claimed is now a “safe zone” after federal intervention. “You can walk right down the middle of the street… you’re safe,” he told reporters.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/09/trump-miller-blast-pritzker-as-chicago-violence-spirals/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brian Stelter Underlines CNN Hypocrisy on White House Behavior</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Liberal journalists who decry an allegedly pusillanimous White House press corps under Trump never seem to spend 10 seconds considering how &#8220;courageous&#8221; this group was under Biden.</p>
<p>CNN &#8220;Chief Media Analyst&#8221; <strong>Brian Stelter</strong> tweeted:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">&#8220;The Trump White House has sought to reshape the press corps in its favor this year, and today showcased how well the effort has succeeded.&#8221; </span></p></blockquote>
<p>Stelter was unhappy that no one ruined President Donald Trump&#8217;s Q&#38;A session in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/08/brian-stelter-underlines-cnn-hypocrisy-on-white-house-behavior/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Chip Gaines Judges Everyone But Himself for Judging</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>Last week’s major kerfuffle in the conservative Christian world centered around the announcement by <strong>Chip</strong> and <strong>Joanna Gaines</strong>, of Magnolia Network fame, that they will proudly feature a “family” of two “married” men and the men’s young, surrogacy-purchased boys in an upcoming episode of their show.</p>
<p>Upon receiving predictable criticism for this decision, Mr. Gaines defiantly posted the following <a href="https://x.com/chipgaines/status/1944344464215957561" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message on X</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">“Talk, ask questions, listen … maybe even learn.</span></p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/07/chip-gaines-judges-everyone-but-himself-for-judging/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Arrogant Media Are Not &#8216;Bringing Us Closer Together&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>As the world of &#8220;public&#8221; broadcasting faces the rebuke of Congress rescinding its billions of dollars, it spurs a broader thought about the arrogance of liberal journalists at national media outlets. They&#8217;re not simply arrogant. They sound remarkably insincere.</p>
<p>Start with a man named <strong>Michael Tribble</strong>, the chief content officer at WAMU, the NPR station in the nation&#8217;s capital. He sent out a fundraising email after the U.S. Senate rebuke, oozing to their liberal supporters: &#8220;You&#8217;re part of a community that believes facts matter, that context matters, and that journalism has the power to bring us closer together.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/07/the-arrogant-media-are-not-bringing-us-closer-together/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democrats Can Say &#8216;Hitler&#8217; All Day Long, Forget &#8216;Fact Checks&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The &#8220;No Kings&#8221; rally against President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> on June 14 featured several angry speeches from Democrats. Mediaite had this story: &#8220;<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/eric-swalwell-trump-is-americas-hitler-remark-at-rally-sparks-viral-outrage-then-a-plot-twist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Swalwell &#8216;Trump Is America&#8217;s Hitler&#8217; Remark at Rally Sparks Viral Outrage.</a>&#8221; That gaseous D.C. speech was easily ignored by PolitiFact and those &#8220;independent fact-checkers.&#8221;</p>
<p>U.S. Representative <strong>Eric Swalwell</strong> (D-CA) says this repeatedly, and Mediaite added it&#8217;s a regular line from U.S. Representative <strong>James Clyburn</strong> (D-SC). Fox News host <strong>Neil Cavuto</strong> offered some mild pushback: &#8220;So you don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a little hyperbolic?&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/06/democrats-can-say-hitler-all-day-long-forget-fact-checks/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MSNBC &#038; CNN Ratings Imploding, While Fox News Now Beats ABC in Prime Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Ed Morrissey at Hot Air passed along some encouraging news today from the ratings, under the heading <a href="https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/05/30/implosion-msnbc-still-cratering-with-new-line-up-and-cnns-not-far-behind-n3803270">&#8220;Implosion: MSNBC Still Cratering With New Line-Up &#8212; And CNN&#8217;s Not Far Behind.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Somehow, vigilantly anti-Trump programming isn&#8217;t a ratings dynamo in the second term.</p>
<p>Activists on the Left think the Democrats are worthless and weak, and apparently so are the Democrat-enabling TV networks. First, there&#8217;s Mediaite as MSNBC <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/msnbcs-new-prime-time-lineup-lands-with-a-thud-amid-ongoing-ratings-woes/">&#8220;lands with a thud.&#8221;</a></p>
<blockquote class="im--blockquote"><p>MSNBC’s new prime time lineup, which debuted on May 5th, failed to connect with viewers in its first three weeks as the network saw its audience decline to near record lows – especially in the key 25-54 age demographic.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/msnbc-cnn-ratings-imploding-while-fox-news-now-beats-abc-in-prime-time/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Psychological Projection Playbook: How Elites Blame You For What They Do</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>A phrase often attributed to <strong>Saul Alinsky</strong>, author of “Rules for Radicals,” or to <strong>Joseph Goebbels</strong>, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi minister of propaganda, is “Accuse your opponent of what you are doing, to create confusion and to inculcate voters against evidence of your own guilt.” Although attribution for this quote may be spurious, it continues to resonate with millions for a reason.</p>
<p>Psychological projection is part of our common human experience.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/psychological-projection-playbook-how-elites-blame-you-for-what-they-do/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Americans Are Getting Wise to the Left’s Chicanery</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 10:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>The only good thing to come out of COVID-19 is the public’s awakening to the fact that government officials will lie to us and the media will help them do it.</p>
<p>We might have suspected it, but it had never been so blatantly obvious, at least not since the Vietnam War or the vanishing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.</p>
<p>If they lied to us six ways from Sunday about a pandemic and reasons to invade other countries, it’s a sure bet they have been lying to us about many other things.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/americans-are-getting-wise-to-the-lefts-chicanery/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democrats and Journalists Still Avoid Biden&#8217;s Decline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The first excerpts of the <strong>Jake Tapper-Alex Thompson</strong> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Original-Sin-President-Cover-Up-Disastrous-ebook/dp/B0DXCMSHVL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> on denying former President Joe Biden&#8217;s obvious mental decline have been posted, and you can already sense Democrats don&#8217;t want to deal with what they have done.</p>
<p>The book&#8217;s title is &#8220;<em>Original Sin</em>.&#8221; Why the biblical title? The authors write:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The original sin of Election 2024 was Biden&#8217;s decision to run for re-election — followed by aggressive efforts to hide his cognitive diminishment.&#8221;</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/democrats-and-journalists-still-avoid-bidens-decline/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Left-Wing Couric and Anti-MAGA Kinzinger</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>Apparently <strong>Katie Couric</strong>, the left-wing activist and former Today Show host still has an online program where she conducts interviews and produces progressive news content. Who knew?</p>
<p>Demonstrating her illustrious flare for originality and creativity, the topic of Couric&#8217;s most recent episode was how awful <strong>Donald Trump</strong> is for America. Drawing from a deep well of self-proclaimed conservative Republicans who decided the best way to conserve conservatism and fight for conservative values was to raise money for Democrats and help them gain power, Couric brought on former U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/left-wing-couric-and-anti-maga-kinzinger/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Selective Due Process Concerns Exposes Media&#8217;s Hypocrisy</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/selective-due-process-concerns-exposes-medias-hypocrisy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>For the past couple of weeks, aside from bashing President Trump over tariffs, the media have been fixated on an illegal immigrant deported to El Salvador.</p>
<p><strong>Kilmar Abrego Garcia</strong>, who had been living in Maryland, is reputedly a member of the MS-13 gang, a U.S. government-designated foreign terrorist organization. He was summarily shipped off to his home country. Cue the outrage.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party and the media, in lockstep, have made this the case of the century.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/selective-due-process-concerns-exposes-medias-hypocrisy/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This Year&#8217;s Worst Easter Take Went to &#8230; Christianity Today?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>I legitimately don&#8217;t understand. <em>Christianity Today</em>, the flagship evangelical publication founded by the late Billy Graham, declares its method is:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">To deliver biblical wisdom and beautiful storytelling from the whole world to the whole world across all media.</span></p></blockquote>
<h2>That publication published THIS on Eater weekend:</h2>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Bible doesn’t say Jesus was nailed to a cross.</p>
<p>One evangelical Bible scholar thinks the crucifixion may have been done with ropes. <a href="https://t.co/jXxKuvyo2a">https://t.co/jXxKuvyo2a</a></p>
<p>— Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href="https://twitter.com/CTmagazine/status/1913661384354664703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<h3><em>Christianity Today</em> had to be community-noted by Christians to correct a <em>grievous</em> biblical error.</h3>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/this-years-worst-easter-take-went-to-christianity-today/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Public Trust in Media Dies in &#8216;Groupthink&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Journalists are terrible at hiding their desire to run our democracy, using their platforms to direct history to the &#8220;right side.&#8221; That badly disguised lust for power creates an audience problem, where the people resent the media&#8217;s imperious lectures about which side they are supposed to favor — and if they don&#8217;t, they are uneducated, racist nincompoops.</p>
<p>Axios.com co-founders <strong>Jim VandeHei</strong> and <strong>Mike Allen</strong> appeared on the podcast &#8220;Honestly with Bari Weiss.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/public-trust-in-media-dies-in-groupthink/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CBS News Reported the Truth on Flu Shots Decades Ago</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Trevor Thomas</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;m 55 years old. I&#8217;ve never taken a flu shot. I doubt I ever will. I don&#8217;t recall this CBS News report shown below, but it&#8217;s totally unsurprising.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">This might blow your mind.</p>
<p>Nearly 20 years ago, CBS aired a segment on the flu shot, revealing a shocking truth: despite flu shot uptake among seniors rising from 15% to 65%, flu deaths kept going up.</p>
<p>NIH scientists were devastated. This was not the result they were hoping to… <a href="https://t.co/K7xbjE8j8U">pic.twitter.com/K7xbjE8j8U</a></p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/cbs-news-reported-the-truth-on-flu-shots-decades-ago/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Will The GOP Finally End PBS and NPR Subsidies?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is in the news again.</p>
<p>Kermit the Frog, the iconic “Sesame Street” Muppet, will give the 2025 commencement address at the University of Maryland.</p>
<p>Kermit’s appearance will coincide with the 65th anniversary of the graduation of UM’s <strong>Jim Henson</strong>, who was awarded a degree in home economics in 1960. In a press release, “Kermit” said he would keep the address upbeat, even though, as he put it, “It’s hard to be green.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/will-the-gop-finally-end-pbs-and-npr-subsidies/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Network &#8216;News&#8217; Bows Supinely to the Trans Commands</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Trans woman activist <strong>Dylan Mulvaney</strong> did a happy-go-lucky softball interview tour to promote the book &#8220;Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer.&#8221; The &#8220;mainstream&#8221; media are out of the mainstream on trans issues, and their extreme fawning and flattery only underlines it.</p>
<p>On &#8220;CBS Mornings,&#8221; correspondent <strong>Natalie Morales</strong> sounded like a supporter:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">&#8220;What do you want people to see and know about you?&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;I would ask them to please not make it harder for us,&#8221; Mulvaney said.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/03/network-news-bows-supinely-to-the-trans-commands/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Suddenly, Liberal Christians Want To Get Political</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>For the past two weeks, the news headlines have been replete with stories of liberal church leaders condemning the Trump administration for its intent to enforce America’s immigration laws. Here are some examples.</p>
<p><em>Christianity Today</em>: “Trump’s First Week Sends Shudders Through Immigrant Churches and Ministries.” This article accuses the Trump administration of plunging multiple communities across the nation into fear and anxiety.</p>
<p><em>Genocide Watch</em>: “Pope Francis Condemns U.S. Deportation Policies, Directly Criticizing Trump’s Immigration Actions.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/02/all-of-a-sudden-liberal-christians-want-to-get-political/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NPR Is National Public Relations for the War on Trump</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>At the top of every hour, hundreds of taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio stations in 50 states transmit leftist public relations badly disguised as news. You can get talking points jammed in your ear on your rush-hour commute.</p>
<p>On the morning of Feb. 20, NPR anchor <strong>Korva Coleman</strong> promoted an anti-Trump lawsuit, and notice there are no labels for the activists. They&#8217;re just for &#8220;civil rights.&#8221; Coleman began:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">&#8220;Civil rights groups are suing the Trump administration over executive orders they call illegal.</span></p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/02/npr-is-national-public-relations-for-the-war-on-trump/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Questions for Bishop Budde and the Church of Never Trump</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>For the past two weeks, adulation over Episcopal Bishop <strong>Mariann Budde</strong>’s scolding of President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> and Vice President <strong>JD Vance</strong> has become all the rage for liberal church leaders across the United States and, indeed, around the world.</p>
<p>Here’s just a sampling of what the “Church of Never Trump” has had to say.</p>
<p>The Free Methodist Church Board of Bishops issued an emergency statement echoing the words of Bishop Budde and expressing “deep concern for the very real pain” that members of their community are experiencing.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/02/questions-for-bishop-budde-and-the-church-of-never-trump/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democrats and the Liberal Media’s Grand Deception Merits Justice, Not Vengeance</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Democrats are circling the wagons, warning that President Trump and fellow Republicans are out for “revenge.” They are counting on the media to misrepresent any attempts at accountability and justice.</p>
<p>People need to be held responsible for the Biden administration’s lawlessness, especially for the bald-faced deception over President Biden’s mental decline. Somebody other than Mr. Biden has been running the country into the ditch for the past four years, and Americans deserve to know who it was.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/01/democrats-and-the-liberal-medias-grand-deception-merits-justice-not-vengeance/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NPR Slaps Black Republican With Lame &#8216;No Evidence&#8217; Card</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Even on Inauguration Day, you can count on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio to act like a hive of Democrats. It&#8217;s not surprising. As longtime NPR editor <strong>Uri Berliner</strong> reported last year, he investigated D.C. voting records and found &#8220;87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans.&#8221;</p>
<p>On &#8220;Morning Edition&#8221; before Donald Trump was sworn in, co-host <strong>Leila Fadel</strong> interviewed U.S. Representative <strong>Byron Donalds</strong> (R-FL). After some milder opening questions, Fadel turned to revenge:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;President-elect Trump did promise dozens of times on the campaign trail that his rivals, critics, even some private citizens should be investigated, prosecuted, put in jail or otherwise punished.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/01/npr-slaps-black-republican-with-lame-no-evidence-card/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Democrats, mainstream media used and abused Jan. 6 ‘insurrection’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>On Monday, Jan. 6, Congress will convene to certify the 2024 reelection of former President Donald Trump. Jan. 6, 2025, marks the fourth anniversary of the Capitol riot that Democrats and their media still falsely portray as an “insurrection.”</p>
<p>Hundreds of Trump supporters gathered at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after Mr. Trump spoke to a crowd. Among other things, he said:</p>
<p><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">“Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that’s what this is all about.</span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/01/how-democrats-mainstream-media-used-and-abused-jan-6-insurrection/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Never Mind Biden and Big Tech, Fear &#8216;Trump&#8217;s Censorship Arsenal&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Point and laugh at <em>The Hollywood Reporter</em>. After four years of Team Biden pressuring Big Tech to crush dissent on social media, not to mention Team Biden pressuring the news media to crush any word of President <strong>Joe Biden</strong>&#8216;s mental decline, they&#8217;re going to warn the world about <strong>Donald Trump</strong> and censorship.</p>
<p>The silly headline on this silly article is &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Media Censorship Arsenal Is Growing.&#8221; Beware, says the subhead: &#8220;A new roadmap for the president-elect and his advisors to chill free speech has surfaced as he targets networks critical of him.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/01/never-mind-biden-and-big-tech-fear-trumps-censorship-arsenal/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Invisible President Lies Without Consequence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p><strong>Joe Biden</strong> may still hold the office of President of the United States, but the media are treating him like he&#8217;s anything but a newsmaker. For much of Biden&#8217;s presidency, reporters were much more energized to cover the apparent menace of <strong>Donald Trump</strong> than agitate the officials that were always hiding Biden. Now he seems invisible.</p>
<p>On Dec. 15, the president spoke to a Democratic National Committee holiday party. Any reporter would expect a pep talk, with all the echoes of &#8220;we&#8217;ll get them next time.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/12/the-invisible-president-lies-without-consequence/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Shocker! PolitiFact Tags Trump For &#8216;Lie of the Year&#8217; For the 7th Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t call PolitiFact an &#8220;independent fact-checker.&#8221; When they assemble to select their &#8220;Lie of the Year,&#8221; they have singled out <strong>Donald Trump</strong> in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene.</p>
<p>It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: &#8220;A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/12/shocker-politifact-tags-trump-for-lie-of-the-year-for-the-7th-time/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vaccine Questions Shouldn&#8217;t Be Verboten</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Victor Joecks</em></p>
<p>In the Harry Potter series, the villain Lord Voldemort is known as &#8220;He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.&#8221; There&#8217;s a similar sentiment whenever someone expresses a heterodox opinion on vaccines.</p>
<p>The long knives are already out for Health and Human Services secretary nominee <strong>Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</strong> While there are valid concerns among pro-life activists, the most prominent objection is Kennedy&#8217;s vaccine skepticism.</p>
<p>U.S. Senator <strong>Chris Murphy</strong> (D-CT) labeled Kennedy a &#8220;denier of science.&#8221; Kennedy has pushed &#8220;the scientifically discredited belief that childhood vaccines cause autism,&#8221; The New York Times wrote.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/12/vaccine-questions-shouldnt-be-verboten/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network Receives $500K From Harris Campaign</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Michael Tennant</em></p>
<p>MSNBC claims it was “unaware” that Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign had donated $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s activist organization just weeks before Sharpton interviewed Harris on the network.</p>
<p>MSNBC isn’t saying what it plans to do about this supposedly shocking revelation, but one employee claims it is raising eyebrows among his co-workers, who consider it a “bridge too far” even for notoriously lax MSNBC.</p>
<h4 id="h-kampaign-kontributions" class="wp-block-heading"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Kampaign Kontributions</span></h4>
<p>On November 12, the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/kamala-harris-campaign-gave-500k-to-al-sharptons-nonprofit-weeks-before-glowing-interview-with-anti-semitic-msnbc-host/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Washington Free Beacon</a> reported that the Harris campaign had contributed $250,000 to Sharpton’s <a href="https://nationalactionnetwork.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Action Network</a> on September 5, and again on October 1.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/12/sharptons-national-action-network-receives-500k-from-harris-campaign/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media Know They Must Change. They Won’t&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>The numbers speak for themselves. MSNBC is suffering through a ratings catastrophe as the disillusioned loyalists, who kept believing the network&#8217;s stable of left-wing hosts who continued to promise that Trump was an unelectable Hitler, have walked away.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lots of articles on how MSNBC&#39;s audience has completely collapsed &#8212; disappeared &#8212; once Kamala lost and the got disillusioned, but the full extent is shocking.</p>
<p>Their prime-time shows can&#39;t even get 75k people watching in the key demo (18-54).</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/11/media-know-they-must-change-they-wont/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Media Are Egotistical Exaggerators and Liars</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The 2024 presidential campaign is ending pretty much where it began: loathing the never-ending presence of Donald Trump. On the day before the election, The New York Times front page displayed a gaudy editorial (badly disguised as &#8220;News Analysis&#8221;) under the title &#8220;Torrent of Lies Redefines Political Norms.&#8221;</p>
<p>Doesn&#8217;t that sound like a hard-charging rerun of 2016? Nothing ever seems to change from the paper that gaudily proclaimed under Trump that &#8220;The Truth Is More Important Now Than Ever.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/11/the-media-are-egotistical-exaggerators-and-liars/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Dirty Little Secret the Left Won’t Admit About Trump</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>No one familiar with the world of politics would mistake Vox co-founder <strong>Matthew Yglesias</strong> as anything but a long-time, card-carrying leftist. As <a href="https://freebeacon.com/men-of-the-year/2020-man-of-the-year-matt-yglesias/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> by the <em>Washington Free Beacon</em>,</p>
<blockquote><p>He <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/vox-writer-praises-progressives-for-misleading-americans-on-tax-cuts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocated for lying</a> about the benefits of Republicans&#8217; tax cuts. He <a href="https://freebeacon.com/blog/a-distressing-number-of-journalists-seem-to-think-biden-plagiarism-is-no-biggie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> Joe Biden&#8217;s plagiarism habit. He <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/voxs-yglesias-terrorizing-tucker-carlsons-family-strategy-make-feel-fear-victims/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tacitly endorsed</a> terrorizing Tucker Carlson&#8217;s family.</p></blockquote>
<p>No longer with Vox, Yglesias runs his own podcast and Substack newsletter, farming for attention with provocative posts on his X account.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/10/the-dirty-little-secret-the-left-wont-admit-about-trump/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>DANGER!  DANGER!  DANGER!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Rev. Thorin Anderson</em></p>
<p>Listeners to mainstream Media outlets cannot miss the fact that most representatives of the legacy news organizations consider <strong>Donald Trump</strong> to be a serious, even existential, threat to America.  The fear they have engendered is such that two people have taken it upon themselves to try to take him out!  Are these media elite right, or are they distracting from the one who really does desire to radically transform the country?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/10/danger-danger-danger_2024/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Clear and Present Media Bias</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>In hosting the second presidential debate of the general election season, ABC News once again exposed themselves as left-wing ideologues and staunch allies of Kamala Harris.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/09/clear-and-present-media-bias/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Media Bias Makes It Easier To Run a &#8216;Flawless&#8217; Campaign</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/09/media-bias-makes-it-easier-to-run-a-flawless-campaign/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>There is never a level playing field in an American election. For example, the two major political parties have major advantages that third parties can&#8217;t muster. Another example is the major Democratic Party advantage of the home-team announcers calling the action on the playing field. Our national media set the terms and the tone of our democracy.</p>
<p>The pro-Democrat tilt of every election comes to mind when the pseudo-conservative <strong>Alyssa Farah Griffin</strong> gushed on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; on Sept.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/09/media-bias-makes-it-easier-to-run-a-flawless-campaign/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>U.S. Senator Tom Cotton Shows Us How It&#8217;s Done</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>To say it was a bad look would be an insult to bad looks.</p>
<p>Over the weekend, <strong>Jonathan Karl</strong>, host of ABC&#8217;s Sunday morning talk show &#8220;This Week&#8221; humiliated himself in a conversation with U.S. Senator <strong>Tom Cotton</strong> (R-AR).</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/BrentHBaker/status/1827707989270102238</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>One of the worst sycophantic performances I&#8217;ve seen coming from a mainstream network anchor.</strong></span></p>
<p>I am a fan of Tom Cotton. Consistently, I find him to be measured, mild mannered, affable, and, on the rare occasions where I disagree with him, reasonable and logical in his approach to issues.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/08/u-s-senator-tom-cotton-shows-us-how-its-done/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democrats’ New Way Forward, One Lie At A Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>The lies were thick and fast all week at the Democratic National Convention, but never so blatantly as they were in Vice President <strong>Kamala Harris</strong>’ acceptance speech.</p>
<p>The Democratic presidential nominee accused her opponent, former President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>, of wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare (he has not); being weak on border enforcement (he had it under control before President Biden and Ms. Harris took office) and sending an “armed mob” to the Capitol on Jan.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/08/democrats-new-way-forward-one-lie-at-a-time/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Does the Media Use Fake Polls to Depress Republican Turnout?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Elizabeth Vaughn</em></p>
<p>Ahead of the Democratic National Convention this week, “Fox News Sunday” host <strong>Shannon Bream</strong> rattled off the latest batch of battleground state polls from <i>New York Times</i>/Siena College to U.S. Senator <strong>J.D. Vance</strong> (R-OH), which showed Vice President <strong>Kamala Harris</strong> leading former President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> by 5 points in Arizona and by 2 points in North Carolina. She also referenced two new national surveys from ABC News/<i>Washington Post</i> and CBS News showing Harris ahead of Trump by 4 points and 3 points in those respective states.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/08/does-the-media-use-fake-polls-to-depress-republican-turnout/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democrats and Their News Media Don’t Even Try to Hide What They Think of You</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>In 2008, then-presidential candidate <strong>Barack Obama</strong> said he wasn’t surprised that people from “small towns in Pennsylvania, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, clung to [their] guns or religion.” This wasn’t a compliment. He thought those people were “weird.”</p>
<p>In 2016, former Secretary of State <strong>Hillary Clinton</strong> called the same group of people Mr. Obama disparaged a “basket of deplorables,” She went on to say we were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic [and] you name it,” just plain “weird.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/08/democrats-and-their-news-media-dont-even-try-to-hide-what-they-think-of-you/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Come November, Remember The Liberal Media’s Lies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>This coming November, remember the incessant lies you’ve been told. Remember how you’ve been gaslighted.</p>
<p>Remember, you were told that President Biden was competent, healthy and sharp in mind and body and that those who pointed out the signs of dementia he showed were guilty of “cheap fakes.”</p>
<p>Remember, they said Mr. Biden was the last line of defense against an existential threat to democracy while he and his party were sidestepping the democratic process to install their real nominee without a single voter casting a single vote.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/08/come-november-remember-the-liberal-medias-lies/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sanitizing Violent, Flag-Burning Pro-Hamas Protesters</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>On the same day that President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> implied Jan. 6 was a darker day than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, leftist protesters fought and shoved police and burned the American flag near the Capitol. They pulled down the American flag and replaced it with the Palestinian flag. Some flew the Hamas flag and vandalized monuments with spray-painted slogans like &#8220;Hamas is comin'&#8221; and &#8220;I commend Hamas.&#8221;</p>
<p>The occasion was Israeli Prime Minister <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu</strong> speaking to a joint session of Congress.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/07/sanitizing-violent-flag-burning-pro-hamas-protesters/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Media Skipped the Democrat Warning of Biden&#8217;s Mental Decline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 09:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>As the Democrats struggle among themselves over President Joe Biden&#8217;s declining mental state and his declining poll numbers, it did not have to end up at this impasse. The Democrats and all their &#8220;mainstream&#8221; media enablers who claim they love democracy didn&#8217;t want any serious or rigorous primary challenge for Biden.</p>
<p>Is it possible that Democrats are still haunted by Ted Kennedy challenging President Jimmy Carter in 1980? The parallels between Carter and Biden on foreign fecklessness and domestic inflation are obvious.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/07/the-media-skipped-the-democrat-warning-of-bidens-mental-decline-2024/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Left’s War On The American Dream</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>One of the most chilling scenes in the anti-communist 1965 film “Dr. Zhivago” shows the doctor returning to his Moscow home after forced duty in the Red Army.</p>
<p>The Bolsheviks overthrew the czar and took power in Russia in the October Revolution of 1917.</p>
<p>As his wife, Tonya, gives him a hug and a silent warning, Yuri looks around and sees dozens of people unrelated to him. What was once the Zhivagos’ home — a large, magnificent house — is now a sordid commune crammed with state-sponsored squatters.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/06/the-lefts-war-on-the-american-dream/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Smearing Alito and Thomas as Racist Insurrectionists</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe, but our &#8220;news&#8221; media think U.S. Supreme Court Justice <strong>Samuel Alito</strong>&#8216;s wife hanging a flag upside-down outside their home for a few days is a much more serious matter than an attempted assassination of Justice <strong>Brett Kavanaugh</strong> in 2022. That story was quickly squashed.</p>
<p>Start with taxpayer-funded National Public Radio, which never managed to produce a single feature story on the foiled Kavanaugh assassination but has provided multiple stories in the Alito flag frenzy.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/05/smearing-alito-and-thomas-as-racist-insurrectionists/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Another Gold for Progressives in the Intolerance Olympics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>Much has been said about the <strong>Harrison Butker</strong> situation over the course of the last few days, but I wonder if anyone has paused to consider how violative the secular progressive left is right now of their own rules of inclusion and open-mindedness.</p>
<p>A few years ago, I watched a commencement address at a moderately sized public university. The speaker spent nothing short of 25 minutes warning the graduates about the perils of homophobia, transphobia, climate change, and more than a few other buzzwords associated with our state religion.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/05/another-gold-for-progressives-in-the-intolerance-olympics/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Boos and Hisses for the Kansas City Kicker</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>On May 11, Kansas City Chiefs placekicker <strong>Harrison Butker</strong> gave the commencement address at Benedictine College, a Catholic school in Kansas. Within 48 hours, the media elites were ablaze with outrage. There&#8217;s a &#8220;growing uproar,&#8221; warned NBC&#8217;s <strong>Hoda Kotb</strong>.</p>
<p>A Catholic speaker talked about Catholic issues to Catholic graduates. But the Butker critics who aren&#8217;t Catholics pulled out little snippets they could not abide.</p>
<p>First, they hated that Butker paid tribute to his wife Isabelle for making him successful, for assuming &#8220;one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/05/boos-and-hisses-for-the-kansas-city-kicker/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Someone Please Tell Christianity Today There’s Nothing “Historic” About Heresy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>Last week, what remains of the United Methodist Church voted to reject the authority of God&#8217;s Word on matters of human sexuality and publicly affirm and embrace sin as a tenet of their denomination.</p>
<p>There was nothing particularly surprising about the move. In fact, after having chased all of the God-honoring, Christ-worshipping, Bible-submitting believers out of their group<strong>, it was completely expected.</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://notthebee.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Not the Bee</em></a> reported on their convention/rainbow circus <a href="https://notthebee.com/article/watch-pro-pride-activists-sing-and-dance-outside-united-methodist-convention-after-passage-of-pro-lgbt-measures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HERE</a> several days ago when it happened.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/05/someone-please-tell-christianity-today-theres-nothing-historic-about-heresy/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Little Trust for the &#8216;Democracy-Saving&#8217; Media</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 16:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The national media consider themselves essential in educating the electorate, so what happens when the electorate does not consider them a trustworthy guardian of democracy?</p>
<p>The Associated Press and the American Press Institute just released a poll on the 2024 election and found only 14% of their sample expressed &#8220;a great deal of confidence in election-related information they receive from national sources.&#8221; By contrast, 46% have little or no confidence at all in the information they receive from national news organizations.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/05/little-trust-for-the-democracy-saving-media/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is Satan Taylor Swift&#8217;s Chief Lyricist?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>Truth isn&#8217;t trendy.</p>
<p>The proclamation of truth isn&#8217;t to concern itself with fads.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t get into pastoral sermon series that focus on Hollywood movies and how they reflect gospel themes. It&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t understand the desire of believers to immediately promote high-profile converts into positions where they speak on behalf of the church.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m more than elated and hopeful when I see those so entrenched in our godless culture be delivered from it all.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/04/is-satan-taylor-swifts-chief-lyricist/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Narcissistic NPR Rejects Objective Truth and Respectful Dissent</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>In the past few weeks, <strong>Uri Berliner</strong>, a 25-year veteran of <a href="https://www.npr.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>, blew the whistle on the state-funded media giant’s pervasive liberal bias. In response, NPR’s new CEO, <strong>Katherine Maher</strong>, suspended the senior editor without pay for telling the truth about the company. This ultimately led to Mr. Berliner‘s <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1245283076/npr-editor-uri-berliner-resigns-ceo-katherine-maher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resignation</a>.</p>
<p>NPR’s heavy-handedness in suppressing truthful dissent should surprise no one. Ms. Maher, after all, has been clear in saying that “truth” is not important to her.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/04/narcissistic-npr-rejects-objective-truth-and-respectful-dissent/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NPR’s Lurch to the Left</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>For years, those of us in the media have known that National Public Radio could also be called National People’s Radio.</p>
<p>It’s no secret that tax-subsidized NPR has leaned left since its inception in 1970. But the network had some good reporting and used to keep its most radical elements mostly in check.</p>
<p>Public radio even features discussions pitting conservatives against liberals on various issues. I did some of those when I worked as a cultural policy analyst for the <a href="https://www.frc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Family Research Council</a> and <a href="https://concernedwomen.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Concerned Women for America</a>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/04/nprs-lurch-to-the-left/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Media Obsessed With Screaming “Christian Nationalism” is a Far Greater Than Any Threat Posed by Christian Nationalism</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/03/a-media-obsessed-with-screaming-christian-nationalism-is-a-far-greater-than-any-threat-posed-by-christian-nationalism/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>The over-politicization of our culture has ruined so much. Among plenty of other things, our language has been one of the greatest casualties of our 24-hour &#8220;news&#8221; culture, our obsession over ideological purity and political scandal. Words don&#8217;t mean what they used to mean anymore.</p>
<p>People who aren&#8217;t bigots are called bigots because it&#8217;s easier to call names than make arguments.</p>
<p>Things that aren&#8217;t racism are deemed racist because shaming is easier than logically engaging.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/03/a-media-obsessed-with-screaming-christian-nationalism-is-a-far-greater-than-any-threat-posed-by-christian-nationalism/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who Will Deprogram the Radicals at National Public Radio?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>One of the grandest fictions of our leftist media is that somehow, championing &#8220;social change&#8221; is what makes you a &#8220;bona fide news organization.&#8221; Anyone who resists that siren song isn&#8217;t a professional, but a propagandist. One-sided coverage is great — if you&#8217;ve picked the right side.</p>
<p>On Feb. 19, National Public Radio displayed this fiction with an audaciously arrogant story headlined &#8220;Poland&#8217;s new government deprograms its once far-right public media.&#8221; Let&#8217;s especially giggle at the word &#8220;deprogram.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/02/who-will-deprogram-the-radicals-at-national-public-radio/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>COVID-19 Government Censorship: How Big Med Operates</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>If there were any doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed widespread corruption in America’s health care establishment, a federal lawsuit should put it to rest.</p>
<p>Filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, <em>Murthy v. Missouri</em> accuses the Biden administration of censoring medical views it dislikes.</p>
<p>So, what did the American Medical Association do? The doctors guild lined up with the censors in an amicus brief.</p>
<p>That’s right. It’s their way or the highway, science be damned.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/02/covid-19-government-censorship-how-big-med-operates/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Former CIA Officer Exposes the Real Putin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/author/alex-newman/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alex Newman</a></em></p>
<p>The real <strong>Vladimir Putin</strong> is not a nationalist, but rather a cunning creature of the Soviet KGB who saw the supposed collapse of Soviet communism a great geopolitical catastrophe, explains former CIA officer and leading national-security expert <strong>Clare Lopez</strong> in this interview on <a href="https://thenewamerican.com/video/newman/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Conversations That Matter</a>.</p>
<p>Lopez, who has spent many years exposing the communist and Islamist threats to the United States, argues that Putin sees weakness in America and across the West as immorality runs rampant.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/02/former-cia-officer-exposes-the-real-putin/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bud Light’s Super Bowl Hail Mary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2024 13:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Richard Kocur</em></p>
<p>The Hail Mary pass. It’s a desperate, last-ditch attempt by a football team to score a touchdown in the waning seconds of the game. The pass usually comes from near midfield, well outside of the typical scoring zone, and, as the name implies, often requires a form of divine intervention to be successful. It rarely works, but when all else seems lost, why not try it?</p>
<p>With the NFL’s big game scheduled to take place in a few short days, the attention of football fans everywhere will be focused on two things: the game and the commercials.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/02/bud-lights-super-bowl-hail-mary/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pro-Biden Newsrooms Debate Censoring Trump</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/01/pro-biden-newsrooms-debate-censoring-trump/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Bauder]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s early primary victories have started the &#8220;newsroom debates&#8221; again. Associated Press media reporter <strong>David Bauder</strong> penned a story headlined &#8220;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-speech-cnn-fox-msnbc-5e006fabe97af33f448d8a6d96de9f7c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump&#8217;s live appearances pose a riddle that news executives still haven&#8217;t solved.</a>&#8221;</p>
<p>So, when a newsworthy event happens — like Trump&#8217;s victory speech after the New Hampshire primary — the pro-Biden networks worry &#8220;Trump will make false statements that are difficult, if not impossible, to correct in real time — or go completely off script with something entirely unexpected.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/01/pro-biden-newsrooms-debate-censoring-trump/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Internal Democrat Worries Aired on NPR</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>National Public Radio is a sandbox for the Left. The &#8220;news&#8221; there is manufactured by leftists, for leftists. You can find it easily in the latest interviews about the Biden reelection campaign. The interviewers are clearly nervous that President Joe Biden&#8217;s messaging isn&#8217;t working. It&#8217;s not that Biden&#8217;s incompetent; it&#8217;s that voters are ignorant.</p>
<p>On the Jan. 9 &#8220;Morning Edition,&#8221; NPR host <strong>Michel Martin</strong> interviewed Democratic National Committee Chair <strong>Jaime Harrison</strong> and worried that the Biden focus on &#8220;saving democracy&#8221; from the &#8220;far right&#8221; threat of Trump wasn&#8217;t working.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/01/internal-democrat-worries-aired-on-npr/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Left’s Climate Fear-Mongering, Christian-Bashing, Race-Baiting Fever Dreams</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/12/the-lefts-climate-fear-mongering-christian-bashing-race-baiting-fever-dreams/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Sometimes, you have to laugh at how obvious the leftists and their media have become in their quest to orchestrate “build back better.” When they’re not shoving irreversible surgery at vulnerable children or abusing the legal system to persecute a former president, they’re pushing the latest iteration of climate hysteria.</p>
<p>This past week, the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, of all places, released an agreement that calls for “transitioning away from fossil fuels,” which The Washington Post called “the root cause of the climate crisis.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/12/the-lefts-climate-fear-mongering-christian-bashing-race-baiting-fever-dreams/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Biden and the Press: Is He the Bumper-Bowling President?</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/12/biden-and-the-press-is-he-the-bumper-bowling-president/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2023 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Is President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> treating the press better than former President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> did? It&#8217;s a low bar to argue he doesn&#8217;t describe the media as &#8220;enemies of the people.&#8221; Is he really treating them as they view themselves — as representatives of the people? Or is he not interested in addressing the people? Are they all too negative?</p>
<p><strong>Ben Smith</strong> at <a href="https://www.semafor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Semafor.com</em></a> reported on the White House holiday party for journalists, described as a chance &#8220;to dispel his main problem with the U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/12/biden-and-the-press-is-he-the-bumper-bowling-president/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tennessee Jet is Correct: Two Plus Two is Not Five</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>Headlining this week’s news from the heartland is the story of an up-and-coming country-western singer known as Tennessee Jet, who has just been canceled from a venue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, because his <a href="https://youtu.be/dC8-Lp4vAgc?si=FKOO06txpBS9vZh0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new song “2+2”</a> is deemed hateful, intolerant and transphobic by the management of the Mercury Lounge, where he was scheduled to perform.</p>
<p>You might rightly ask, “What exactly did Tennessee Jet say or sing that was so terrible?”</p>
<p>Well, here are the lyrics of “2+2” in their entirety.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/12/tennessee-jet-is-correct-two-plus-two-is-not-five/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is The DOJ Compiling an Enemy&#8217;s List?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>Last week we learned that in January 2022, DOJ Special Counsel <strong>Jack Smith</strong>&#8216;s team secretly obtained a subpoena from a judge to access <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Donald J. Trump</strong>&#8216;s Twitter account</a> information. He demanded that X, formerly known as Twitter, hand over information on all Americans who interacted with Trump on Twitter between October of 2020, while he was the President of the United States of America, to January of 2021. This would include people that did something as simple as liking a tweet issued by President Trump.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/12/is-the-doj-compiling-an-enemys-list/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Media Mourn End of Biden-Big Tech Censorship &#8216;Partnership&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/12/the-media-mourn-end-of-biden-big-tech-censorship-partnership/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Inside the silo of the &#8220;legacy media,&#8221; they are alarmed that left-tilting government bureaucrats are being discouraged from telling social media platforms what speech they should suppress &#8230; in the name of &#8220;democracy.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 2020, these platforms crushed damaging stories about <strong>Hunter Biden</strong> and &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; about COVID emerging from a Chinese lab. It doesn&#8217;t matter now that the &#8220;suppressed&#8221; side was correct, and the &#8220;misinformation&#8221; actually came from the Left. <em>The Washington Post</em> expressed alarm under the headline: &#8220;U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/12/the-media-mourn-end-of-biden-big-tech-censorship-partnership/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rashida Tlaib&#8217;s Lies Skipped By &#8216;Fact-Checkers&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/11/rashida-tlaibs-lies-skipped-by-fact-checkers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>On Nov. 7, the U.S. House of Representatives (212 Republicans and 22 Democrats) voted to censure radical U.S. Representative <strong>Rashida Tlaib</strong> (D-MI) because she has &#8220;levied unbelievable falsehoods about our greatest ally, Israel, and the attack on October 7.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of those outrageous falsehoods was clinging to the false claim that Israel bombed the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. But guess what? Our professional &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; haven&#8217;t located that lie &#8230; or any other nutty utterance, like her laughable claim that &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; isn&#8217;t a Hamas slogan about the eradication of Israel, it&#8217;s an &#8220;aspirational call for freedom&#8221; and &#8220;peaceful coexistence.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/11/rashida-tlaibs-lies-skipped-by-fact-checkers/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Left-Wing Media Push Hamas Propaganda</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>Barely a week after the horrific October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel, we noticed CNN&#8217;s coverage starting to turn foul. We then noticed it on the PBS News Hour as well. Their coverage drifted away from the <a href="https://www.faithwire.com/2023/10/13/horror-stories-journalist-stands-by-coverage-of-hamas-massacring-babies-reveals-another-heartbreaking-claim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abhorrent murders, rapes and kidnappings</a> committed by Islamic jihadists, to a more sympathetic tone for the people of Palestine and the terrorists that they unequivocally support. ABC, CBS, and NBC &#8220;news&#8221; programs quickly followed suit.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/10/left-wing-media-push-hamas-propaganda/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dems And News Media Allies Test The Limits of Denial on Biden Family Corruption</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/09/dems-and-news-media-allies-test-the-limits-of-denial-on-biden-family-corruption/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 12:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>As the evidence of impeachment-worthy Biden family corruption piles up, so do the absurd defenses mounted by Democrats and their media allies.</p>
<p><em>The Washington Post</em>, which has not returned its ill-gotten Pulitzer for ginning up the false “Russian collusion” narrative against former President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>, is charging that the congressional inquiry into the Bidens is merely political gamesmanship.</p>
<p>“Republicans cheapen a vital power of the House,” a <em>Post</em> editorial headline proclaimed Thursday.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/09/dems-and-news-media-allies-test-the-limits-of-denial-on-biden-family-corruption/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>White House Whips Liberal Media For Not Being Pro-Biden Enough</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>When Biden aide <strong>Ian Sams</strong> wanted to leak his strongly worded memo to &#8220;Editorial Leadership at U.S. News Media Organizations,&#8221; he chose CNN media reporter <strong>Oliver Darcy</strong>, who is one of many enthusiastic White House spinners at CNN. Darcy and CNN didn&#8217;t have enough self-respect to push back on Sams for implying they needed to be lectured on going soft on Republicans.</p>
<p>Instead, in reporting this administration&#8217;s &#8220;breaking&#8221; list of demands, the incredibly servile Darcy claimed Sams was right.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/09/white-house-whips-liberal-media-for-not-being-pro-biden-enough/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Corrupt News Media Majoring In Omission</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/09/corrupt-liberal-news-media-majoring-in-omission/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Here’s a recent <em>Washington Post</em> headline that might help explain why many people distrust the liberal media: “U.S. soldier in Texas shoots man in Mexico: Cross-border gunfire by National Guard member leaves victim wounded.”</p>
<p>A casual reader will conclude that some American yahoo, perhaps even a White supremacist, went overboard and shot a Mexican for no apparent reason.</p>
<p>Then you read eight paragraphs into the story and find this: “According to one of the CBP [Customs and Border Protection] officials, who was briefed on what happened, the Texas Guard member opened fire after three men on the Mexican side of the border started attacking a group of migrants with a knife as the migrants attempted to cross the border.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/09/corrupt-liberal-news-media-majoring-in-omission/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The ADL Does Not Speak for the Jews</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Harsanyi</em></p>
<p><strong>Elon Musk</strong> has threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League for some $22 billion over its slandering of him as an antisemite, which he alleges has tanked X&#8217;s advertising revenue. &#8220;Based on what we&#8217;ve heard from advertisers, ADL seems to be responsible for most of our revenue loss,&#8221; Musk says.</p>
<p>Judging from my own feed, there are plenty of real-life antisemites who have taken to X, formerly Twitter, to participate in the #BanTheADL movement over this kerfuffle. &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/09/the-adl-does-not-speak-for-the-jews/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Biden Revolving Door Into the Media Spins Heavily</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>No one in the media elites today is alarmed at a revolving door between the &#8220;objective media&#8221; and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a qualification than a disqualification.</p>
<p>NBC News announced on air that legal correspondent <strong>Laura Jarrett</strong> was going to be a co-host of their Saturday &#8220;Today&#8221; news program. She&#8217;s the daughter of <strong>Valerie Jarrett</strong>, the closest White House aide to <strong>Barack</strong> and <strong>Michelle Obama</strong>, and who is now a senior adviser to the Obama Foundation.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/08/the-biden-revolving-door-into-the-media-spins-heavily/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The &#8216;Mainstream&#8217; Media&#8217;s Radical Rebellion Against God</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/07/the-mainstream-medias-radical-rebellion-against-god/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The line between radical activism and &#8220;mainstream&#8221; journalism has been obliterated, especially when it comes to the LGBTQ+ lobbyists. The war on traditional Christianity is on. It was splashed all over the front page of the July 25 <em>USA Today</em>.</p>
<p>The headline above the photograph was &#8220;<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-a-christian-transgender-man-increased-his-faith-by-taking-the-fight-over-lgbtq-rights-to-religious-schools/ar-AA1egq3K" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christian transgender man says fighting LGBTQ+ discrimination has increased his faith.</a>&#8221; The big headline underneath was the trans man&#8217;s quote: &#8220;This is what I was supposed to be doing.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/07/the-mainstream-medias-radical-rebellion-against-god/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Are Walls Closing in on the Bidens?</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/07/are-walls-closing-in-on-the-bidens/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Everyone paying attention to the latest revelations about Hunter Biden and his energetically supportive father knows that journalists and Republican officials have opened a vein, or &#8220;the walls are closing in.&#8221; Even so, the leftist media are trying to report as little of this damaging scandal material as they possibly can.</p>
<p>We can scarcely imagine the anxious political chatter <i>inside </i>pro-Biden newsrooms, but let&#8217;s imagine it sounds something like <strong>Jen Psaki</strong>&#8216;s MSNBC show.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/07/are-walls-closing-in-on-the-bidens/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Media Display Hostility Toward a Third Party</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Polls show that voters are not thrilled at the prospect of a Trump vs. Biden rerun in the 2024 presidential election. That makes the idea of a fresh third-party candidate more interesting. One might think the media would enjoy a curveball, but there&#8217;s one big problem: Democrats think a third-party ticket would sink President <strong>Joe Biden</strong>.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://No Labels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Labels</a> group held an event in New Hampshire on July 17 with U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/07/the-media-display-hostility-toward-a-third-party/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Scandal Questions Go Down the Latrine Jean-Pierre</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>White House briefings in the Biden years are often sleepy meetings compared to the <strong>Jim Acosta</strong> shriek-fests we remember under Trump. President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> pledged he would be so much nicer to the press corps. He promised to &#8220;bring transparency and truth back to the government.&#8221; But the press is much nicer to him than the other way around.</p>
<p>Biden provides far less access than Trump did. He avoids press conferences and one-on-one interviews like the plague.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/07/scandal-questions-go-down-the-latrine-jean-pierre/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It’s Bizarre When We Rely On Jokesters For Accurate Reporting</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Last Tuesday, a remarkable thing happened.</p>
<p>Under a split screen of photos of President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> and former President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>, a message appeared during a Fox News story about Mr. Trump’s arraignment over documents found in the FBI’s raid on his Florida home. In all caps, it said:</p>
<blockquote><p>“WANNABE DICTATOR SPEAKS AT THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER HAVING HIS POLITICAL RIVAL ARRESTED.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Well, yes. What sounds like <em>The Babylon Bee</em> is exactly what’s happened.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/06/its-bizarre-when-we-rely-on-jokesters-for-accurate-reporting/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Inflammatory PBS Warns About Trump&#8217;s Rhetoric</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ff6600; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><strong>PBS isn&#8217;t for the &#8220;public.&#8221; It&#8217;s taxpayer-funded content for Democrats.</strong></span></p>
<p>Last September, when President Joe Biden gave a nasty speech in front of a blood-red backdrop at Independence Hall, proclaiming, &#8220;Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic,&#8221; PBS streamed this harsh rhetoric live with no &#8220;explanatory&#8221; text on screen for charges the Republicans are authoritarians.</p>
<p>But on June 13, when Trump spoke in New Jersey after being arraigned in Florida, the PBS livestream felt inexorably compelled to insert opinions on screen.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/06/inflammatory-pbs-warns-about-trumps-rhetoric/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CNN&#8217;s Mostly False Take on Biden&#8217;s Stance on Abortion</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/06/cnns-mostly-false-take-on-bidens-stance-on-abortion/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>As CNN looks for a new leader, former CNN host <strong>Brian Stelter</strong> proposed this as the most important question: &#8220;What should an anchor do when a guest says something untrue?&#8221;</p>
<p>The public could turn this question around: &#8220;What should a politician do when a CNN host says something untrue?&#8221; The Stelters of this world cannot imagine anyone at CNN would ever say anything false. They arrogantly presume they always defend the &#8220;truth.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/06/cnns-mostly-false-take-on-bidens-stance-on-abortion/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Washington Post Hit Piece on Home Schooling is Thinly Veiled Attack on Christianity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Home-schoolers consistently outscore government school students in every academic area. It’s no wonder that the public school establishment hates and fears home schooling.</p>
<p>The clearest evidence yet came in this past Thursday’s <em>Washington Post</em>. “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/christian-home-schoolers-revolt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">THE REVOLT OF CHRISTIAN HOME-SCHOOLERS</a>” (all caps in original) is a voluminous, front-page article almost entirely about one Loudoun County, Virginia, couple who had home-schooled their children before opting to enroll them in public schools.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/06/washington-post-hit-piece-on-home-schooling-is-thinly-veiled-attack-on-christianity/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Exposing Moral Evil And Defrocking Those Who Weaponize The Law</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Here’s a brief quiz. What do all these events have in common?</p>
<p>Special counsel <strong>John Durham</strong>’s long-awaited report leaves no doubt that <strong>Hillary Clinton</strong>’s campaign facilitated the Russian collusion hoax “to vilify <strong>Donald Trump</strong>” during and after the 2016 presidential election cycle. The corrupt FBI leadership validated the scheme, which led to the first Trump impeachment. Democratic U.S. Representative <strong>Adam Schiff</strong> of California lied over and over to keep the hoax going.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/05/exposing-moral-evil-and-defrocking-those-who-weaponize-the-law/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>America’s Elites Are Using Soviet-Style Media to Misinform And Keep People Impartial</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Written by Robert Knight</p>
<p>About a third of the country is moving toward restoring sanity while another third seems hellbent on getting nuttier. The final third might charitably be described as “neutral.”</p>
<p>On the sane side, Wyoming recently became the 19th state to reserve women’s sports for women.</p>
<p>Thirteen sane states have enacted laws barring doctors from plying children with puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones and mutilating surgery. More states will be added as people wake up and realize they need to do something about this trans madness.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/05/americas-elites-are-using-soviet-style-media-to-misinform-and-keep-people-impartial/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media&#8217;s Hits Continues To Delegitimize SCOTUS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Harsanyi</em></p>
<p>As with ProPublica&#8217;s <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent smear</a> of <strong>Clarence Thomas</strong>, there&#8217;s a lot of excitement across the left-wing Twittersphere over a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico hit</a> on <strong>Neil Gorsuch</strong>. But even as a transparent piece of partisan propaganda, it is poorly conceived.</p>
<p>Politico kicks off the piece, &#8220;Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property,&#8221; with a purposefully deceptive claim: &#8220;For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/04/medias-hits-continues-to-delegitimize-scotus/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NPR Won&#8217;t Hide Their Hatred of Republicans and Fox News</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>National Public Radio left Twitter in a hilarious huff. In a statement, CEO <strong>John Lansing</strong> announced, &#8220;We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public&#8217;s understanding of our editorial independence.&#8221;</p>
<p>This contains multiple layers of comedy. For starters, NPR is a platform that has demonstrated an incredibly aggressive interest in undermining the credibility of Fox News Channel and the public&#8217;s understanding of how it balances out NPR&#8217;s relentless liberal bias and censorship.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/04/npr-wont-hide-their-hatred-of-republicans-and-fox-news/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What the Heck: Whoopi, The Best Women Are Men, And Capitalist Chicken Sandwiches</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;m not ashamed to admit that I didn&#8217;t know <strong>Whoopi Goldberg</strong> was even back on the daytime gab fest The View. Last I had heard, she was sidelined after making foolish and racially buffoonish comments about the Holocaust. But apparently that was like a year ago. Time flies when you&#8217;re doing anything but watching The View, I guess.</p>
<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s nice to see that <strong>she&#8217;s been back making a fool of herself over other topics she knows nothing about as well</strong>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/03/what-the-heck-whoopi-the-best-women-are-men-and-capitalist-chicken-sandwiches/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Congressional Hearings About Team Biden Die in Darkness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2023 14:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The easiest layup in proving the &#8220;mainstream media&#8221; is hyperpartisan is to study how they cover congressional hearings. After two years of obsessive media promotion and congratulation and live coverage of the Pelosi-picked panel on Jan. 6, the network &#8220;newscasts&#8221; can&#8217;t locate a hearing now with two hands.</p>
<p>On March 1, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Biden administration Attorney General <strong>Merrick Garland</strong> for the first time in the new Congress. The hearing was not devoid of newsworthiness.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/03/congressional-hearings-about-team-biden-die-in-darkness/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When &#8216;Pants on Fire&#8217; Fact Checks Are About Biden&#8217;s Pants</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The so-called fact-checkers are energetic defenders of President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> — almost like they&#8217;re his siblings or his nephews. No cockeyed critique of Biden is silly enough for them to forgo the urgent need to &#8220;check.&#8221; They&#8217;re perpetually poised to pounce!</p>
<p>PolitiFact gave us two examples on Feb. 10. Both were &#8220;Pants On Fire&#8221; warnings, but only one was about pants. The headline was &#8220;Joe Biden put his pants on backwards,&#8221; and their headline continued: &#8220;We know all about pants.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/02/when-pants-on-fire-fact-checks-are-about-bidens-pants/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Truth Always Wins: Liberal Media Has Started to Report Actual Facts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>I reposted a meme this week. It was a graphic of a mass of humanity, with tens of thousands of people standing shoulder to shoulder and one solitary individual standing outside, looking back at the group. The accompanying text was, “Yes, you all are wrong.” To this, I added, “It appears those of us who stood nearly alone on masks and jabs are exonerated. May the same prove true on all else woke and wrong.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/02/truth-always-wins-liberal-media-has-started-to-report-actual-facts/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lies From Big Tech and ‘Big Guy’ Biden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>The constant trickle of lies coming out of Washington became a gusher this past week.</p>
<p>We’ll look below at President Biden’s State of the Union speech. But first, Big Tech took center stage at a U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Former Twitter executives testified that Twitter has never hassled conservatives. Nor were they politically motivated to censor the New York Post’s coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop just before the 2020 presidential election.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/02/lies-from-big-tech-and-big-guy-biden/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Agree With Us, or Else: Soviet-Style Totalitarian Spirit Afoot in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>The first thing the communists did after the 1917 Russian Revolution was round up anyone who disagreed with them.</p>
<p>They shut down newspapers and denied all public forums to dissenters. This included their “useful idiot” socialist allies.</p>
<p>We think it can’t happen here, but some recent moves to stifle free speech and enforce official viewpoints should give us pause.</p>
<p>Last Tuesday, the satellite TV provider DirecTV kicked the fast-growing conservative cable news network Newsmax off its network.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/01/agree-with-us-or-else-soviet-style-totalitarian-spirit-afoot-in-america/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Controversy Surrounding ‘Lawn Boy’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Nobody seems to know who leaked the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft in the <em>Dobbs</em> case overturning <em>Roe v. Wade</em>. Nobody seems to know how many serious adverse effects occurred shortly after COVID-19 shots. Nobody seems to know how the FBI was turned into a left-wing political weapon.</p>
<p>“Mainstream” media doesn’t find these things worth pursuing.</p>
<p>Thanks to an exhaustive investigative analysis by <em>The Washington Post</em>, however, we now know how many parents — 38 — around the country have challenged <strong>Jonathan Evison</strong>’s book “Lawn Boy” in school libraries.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/01/the-controversy-surrounding-lawn-boy/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Twitter Isn’t Dying, But A Progressive Speech Monopoly Is</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2022 14:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>Mere moments after former President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> dropped his &#8220;big announcement&#8221; about a new line of virtual trading cards, more than a few left-leaning voices were scoffing and asking how any self-respecting person could continue to associate themselves with such a huckster. While I will let Trump fans speak for themselves, I feel it incumbent to ask how these same leftists continue associating themselves with the credibility clown show that is modern American progressivism right now.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/12/twitter-isnt-dying-but-a-progressive-speech-monopoly-is/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Media vs. Free Speech on Twitter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Anyone who thinks the First Amendment is best represented by the &#8220;news&#8221; media is not paying attention to the way they wage war on freedom of speech for the conservative &#8220;rabble&#8221; on social media platforms.</p>
<p>Imagine if the media had attacked new media owners <strong>Jeff Bezos</strong> or <strong>David Zaslav</strong> with the kind of venom that they&#8217;re using on Twitter owner <strong>Elon Musk</strong>. No one would suggest it&#8217;s important for the government to monitor <em>The Washington Post</em> or CNN as potential sources of misinformation.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/11/the-media-vs-free-speech-on-twitter/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Old Friends Like Reader’s Digest Go Off The Rails</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>When my wife and I were in Colonial Williamsburg several years ago, we talked briefly to a store clerk about an unwanted change – the passing of a longtime pharmacy in the Market Square area near the William &#38; Mary campus.</p>
<p>The pharmacy had an old-fashioned lunch counter that served up the best milkshakes and limeades we had ever tasted. Now it was gone.</p>
<p>As we lamented its replacement by a chain store, the clerk stiffened her spine and barked, “Change is good!”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/11/when-old-friends-like-readers-digest-go-off-the-rails/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democracy Dies in Climate Panic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The United Nations is one of the most sacred political cows in the liberal media. This is especially true when they convene the global elites on the perils of &#8220;climate change.&#8221; The latest confab in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, began with the usual appeal to fear and panic from U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, formerly known as the Socialist Party prime minister of Portugal.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible,&#8221; Guterres warned.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/11/democracy-dies-in-climate-panic/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Polarizing Media Decries Polarization</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>We have witnessed two years of journalism centered around the notion that the Republican Party was a collective of violent election-denying rioters and Jim Crow segregationists trying to suppress the black vote. Somehow, journalists find it shocking that the country is polarized.</p>
<p>On &#8220;Sunday Today,&#8221; NBC reporter <strong>Hallie Jackson</strong> announced that their latest polling showed &#8220;80% of voters in both parties think the other side is going to destroy America. And our pollsters say many people are being driven to cast their ballots this year out of anger, out of fear.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/11/the-polarizing-media-decries-polarization/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ignore The Polls</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>The polls are starting to show that a conservative “wave” may be forming after all for the midterm election. No kidding.</p>
<p>Somebody should tell <em>The Washington Post</em>. They reported on Oct. 10 that “Half of voters say climate change is important in midterms.” Sure it is. You keep thinking that way.</p>
<p>For weeks, media polls gave the impression that Democrats were an even bet to hold the U.S. House and U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/10/ignore-the-polls/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The FBI and Liberal Media Collusion Grinds On</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Someone in the FBI keeps leaking materials that agents seized during the shocking, unprecedented nine-hour raid of former President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>’s Florida home on August 8.</p>
<p>We know this because supposedly sensitive documents keep turning up in the <em>Washington Post</em>. Of course, they do. The paper justifies its eager role in the FBI-fueled witch hunt against Mr. Trump by claiming concern for “national security.”</p>
<p>If that’s their motive, the <em>Post</em> should report on President <strong>Joe Biden</strong>’s dangerous foreign policies and his perversion of our armed forces into a “safe space” for Corporal Klinger.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/09/the-fbi-and-liberal-media-collusion-grinds-on/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Lies That Blind American Citizens</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>It’s not healthy when citizens automatically discount whatever the government or media tell them.</p>
<p>That’s what happens in totalitarian countries like North Korea, China or Venezuela.</p>
<p>We have this now in America, thanks to a ruling elite who lie ever more boldly. Girls can be boys. Men can be women. The border is secure. Inflation is all in your head. COVID-19 will kill you unless you do exactly what we tell you to do.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/08/the-lies-that-blind-american-citizens/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From Oil to Monkeypox, Truth is Elusive to Mainstream Media</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>More people than ever realize the media are gaslighting us. But I wonder if they know just how much.</p>
<p>You can lie with falsehoods or you can omit or obscure inconvenient facts. Just watch any “mainstream” media coverage of the Jan. 6 show trial. On second thought, why would you want to?</p>
<p>I thought about all this while reading the “Fact Checker” column by <strong>Glenn Kessler</strong> in <em>The Washington Post</em>.</p>
<p>Mr.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/07/from-oil-to-monkeypox-truth-is-elusive-to-mainstream-media/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Canine Behavior of The LGBTQ Cabal</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>This past week, T<em>he New York Times</em> published an opinion piece finally admitting that today’s LGBTQ cabal of rainbow activists is little more than a misogynistic cult that reduces women to just “a mix of body parts and gender stereotypes.”</p>
<p>Writing for the <em>Times</em>, columnist <strong>Pamela Paul</strong> described what she called the “fringe left’s misogynist agenda.”</p>
<p>The word “women,” said Ms. Paul, which has, for millennia, been “commonly understood” by all rational thinking people to denote genetics, physiology, biology and the basic reality of human existence, is now “verboten.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/07/the-canine-behavior-of-the-lgbtq-cabal/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Time Magazine Champions &#8216;Gender-Expansive&#8217; Teens</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>When someone wants to complain about how our most respected news outlets once attempted to look &#8220;objective&#8221; but are now dwelling on performative activism, see <em>Time</em> magazine.</p>
<p><em>Time</em> magazine is a shadow of its former self. Every issue is a &#8220;double issue,&#8221; since no one needs a &#8220;weekly news magazine&#8221; at this late date. The cover of the June 20/27 issue looks like graffiti, or an overworked chalkboard. It lists the cities of putative mass shootings, and then demands in red capital letters, &#8220;When Are We Going to Do Something?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/06/time-magazine-champions-gender-expansive-teens/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Censored by YouTube&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>The overlords at Google/YouTube have banned the IFA video of our U.S. Senatorial Forum. Why? Because the topic of widely suspected voting irregularities during the 2020 election was briefly touched on during the forum. That is a &#8220;conspiracy theory&#8221; Leftists will not tolerate despite the mounting evidence. So, what conspiracy theories <em>do</em> they tolerate?  Well, if you search the following topics, you will find a plethora of videos available:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS7qGx7t0x4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump-Russia</a> collusion conspiracy theory</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnKyaaUbEag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jussie Smollett</a> attacked by racist, homophobic Trump supporters conspiracy theory</li>
<li>Who shot JFK conspiracy theory</li>
<li>Moon landing hoax conspiracy theory</li>
<li>Area 51 conspiracy theory</li>
<li>Sasquatch conspiracy theory</li>
<li>Loch Ness Monster conspiracy theory</li>
<li><strong>Elvis</strong> still lives conspiracy theory</li>
</ul>
<p>Thankfully, last year we decided to cross-post our videos over at our <a href="https://rumble.com/c/c-864735" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rumble channel</a> in case intolerant regressives blocked us, but who knew it would be over a video of a <a href="https://rumble.com/vzal2r-ifas-2022-u.s.-senatorial-forum.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">candidate forum</a>?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/05/censored-by-youtube/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Al Roker Shares Planet Panic With Barack Obama</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2022 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Whenever <strong>Barack Obama</strong> grants an interview to one of his adorers in the media, one who arrives bathed in the glow of servility, everyone should be reminded that this is a major reason why people don&#8217;t trust the media.</p>
<p>In every interview, Obama is treated as a global celebrity and as the wisest of wise men. One can understand a journalist offering more tender inquiries to an ex-president, but there is no difference in tenderness between now and during his presidency.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/04/al-roker-shares-planet-panic-with-barack-obama/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Headline Misleads About Mary Miller and Jim Marter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith and Paul Hurst</em></p>
<p>The <em>Daily Herald</em> newspaper recently published <a href="https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20220311/gop-congressional-candidate-touts-endorsement-from-hitler-quoting-lawmaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article</a> about Congresswoman <strong>Mary Miller</strong> (R-15th) and her endorsement of Congressional Candidate<strong> Jim Marter, </strong>who is running as a Republican for the 14th Congressional District in the western and southwestern suburbs of Chicagoland. Upon receiving a Marter for Congress press release about the endorsement, the <em>Daily Herald</em> took the occasion to drudge up a <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/06/mary-miller-is-correct/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously debunked</a> attack-narrative against Miller, by referring to her as a “Hitler quoting lawmaker.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/03/headline-misleads-about-mary-miller-and-jim-marter/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Gulf Widens Between Democrats’ Truth &#038; Lies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>If you don’t go outside the legacy media, you might have missed a few important stories.</p>
<p>In New York, Democrat Gov. <strong>Kathy Hochul</strong> extended the COVID-19 “emergency” to March 16, even though the pandemic is running out of steam.</p>
<p>“The rate of new COVID-19 hospital admissions has been increasing over the past month to over 300 new admissions a day,” she said. But, as <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>’s <strong>Allysia Finley</strong> points out, “In fact, state data show that daily new hospital admissions fell to around 300 from 2,100 in early January.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/03/the-gulf-widens-between-democrats-truth-and-lies/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The New York Times’ Fake News Has a Russian Accent</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p><em>The New York Times</em> has a problem with Russia. And the truth.</p>
<p>For more than three years, the <em>Times</em> pushed the false Trump-Russia collusion story, making the paper an accessory to what amounted to an attempted coup against the 45th president.</p>
<p>For its sordid role, the <em>Times</em>, known as “the Gray Lady,” won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for writing on “Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/02/the-new-york-times-fake-news-has-a-russian-accent/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8216;Explainer&#8217; Articles Insist Nobody &#8216;Spied&#8217; on Trump</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/02/explainer-articles-insist-nobody-spied-on-trump/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>There&#8217;s a second wave of media reaction to <strong>John Durham</strong>&#8216;s latest filing on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. The first wave was silence, hoping somehow the whole story would vanish. Now the second wave is &#8220;Explainers,&#8221; which attempt to hem and haw defensively through the whole business.</p>
<p>The Associated Press &#8220;Explainer&#8221; was headlined &#8220;<a href="https://wgntv.com/news/how-the-latest-trump-russia-filing-generated-buzz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How the latest Trump-Russia filing generated buzz</a>.&#8221; This article was sent to me on Twitter by a fellow who apparently hates <strong>Donald Trump</strong> with the energy of a thousand suns, so that illustrates the type of people who eagerly share these dismissive articles.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/02/explainer-articles-insist-nobody-spied-on-trump/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media Hostile to Republicans While Democrats’ ‘Gaffes’ Ignored</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>If the lockstep media are good at anything, it’s repeating phrases out of context until they’re a mantra of shame.</p>
<p>This is done only to Republicans, of course. When Democrats commit awful misstatements, the media dismiss them as harmless “gaffes.”</p>
<p>By the way, if you think otherwise, you’re a “lying, dog-faced pony soldier,” as President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> said to a student. She was crushed, while the media gave Mr. Biden cover, saying he was only “joking.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/02/media-hostile-to-republicans-while-democrats-gaffes-ignored/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NPR&#8217;s Fake News From the SCOTUS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>CNN anchor <strong>Brianna Keilar</strong> is hosting a temporary program pompously titled &#8220;Democracy In Peril.&#8221; On Jan. 18, Keilar huffed: &#8220;We can&#8217;t discuss the tsunami of disinformation, jeopardizing American democracy, without talking about the mothership, Fox.&#8221;</p>
<p>On the very same day, NPR U.S. Supreme Court reporter <strong>Nina Totenberg</strong> aired a story claiming that U.S. Supreme Court Justice <strong>Neil Gorsuch</strong> was callously ignoring requests from Chief Justice <strong>John Roberts</strong> to wear a mask during oral arguments in deference to diabetes-suffering colleague Justice <strong>Sonia Sotomayor</strong>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/01/nprs-fake-news-from-the-scotus/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Turning Bystander Americans Into an Active Citizenry Against Big Tech Censorship</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Former President Donald Trump will soon launch his new social media platform, Truth Social, and it can’t come any too soon.</p>
<p>The reigning Big Tech powers, so full of hubris that they banned the former president, are a massive part of the leftist cabal that is remaking America in the image of San Francisco, Chicago and New York. These cities are amid moral meltdowns, crime waves and an epidemic of homelessness.</p>
<p>Silicon Valley thinks the rest of America needs to achieve this sort of sophistication.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/12/turning-bystander-americans-into-an-active-citizenry-against-big-tech-censorship/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Looting Party’s Media Scare Machine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>If you haven’t been unduly anxious lately, just open a newspaper or tune into a TV network like CNN.</p>
<p>Scaring the public is the media’s reason for being.</p>
<p>Not the suits who run the media, understand. The suits may be stylishly “woke,” but they’re in the business to make a buck. I’m talking about the so-called journalists. They are steeped in Marxist theory they learned in college and which they never outgrew.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/12/the-looting-partys-media-scare-machine/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rachel Maddow, Libertarian on One Issue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2021 13:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Rachel Maddow is one of America&#8217;s most popular proponents of socialism. Government is never big enough for Maddow. <strong>Bernie Sanders</strong> has a friend in Maddow. But when the subject is abortion, you will not find a more enthusiastic libertarian.</p>
<p>After the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Nov. 30 on Mississippi&#8217;s law banning the termination of unborn children after 15 weeks, Maddow championed lawyer <strong>Julie Rikelman</strong> for the Center for Reproductive Rights for arguing this is &#8220;about American women being forced by the government to give birth against their will.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/12/rachel-maddow-libertarian-on-one-issue/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Laughing At All Of The Democrats’ Lies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>When the Soviet Union existed — 1917 to 1991 — its hapless citizens resorted to dark humor in the face of constant lies.</p>
<p>Open defiance could land them in the Siberian gulag or a KGB torture chamber in a dank basement near the Kremlin. So they learned to joke among themselves about absurd government claims, such as <em>Pravda</em> insisting that the economy was surging and the collective farms overflowing with food.</p>
<p>Here are a couple of typical Soviet jests:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">Q: How does every Russian joke start?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/11/laughing-at-all-of-the-democrats-lies/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Climate Democracy Dies in Darkness</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/11/climate-democracy-dies-in-darkness/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>A British leftist group calling itself the Center for Countering Digital Hate has issued a report on what it calls the &#8220;Toxic Ten,&#8221; which are so-called fringe websites spreading &#8220;climate change denial.&#8221; The ten include our group, the Media Research Center, as well as Breitbart, The Daily Wire, Townhall Media, Newsmax, <em>The Washington Times</em> and <em>The Western Journal</em>.</p>
<p>So, any challenge to Greenpeace climate-crackdown orthodoxy is now classified as &#8220;toxic&#8221; and &#8220;digital hate.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/11/climate-democracy-dies-in-darkness/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8216;Free Speech&#8217; Media Allies with Transgender Tyranny</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/10/free-speech-media-allies-with-transgender-tyranny/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The left claims that their most urgent battle is to save democracy, but when it comes to any questioning of the LGBT lobby, they are the ones who sound like authoritarians. The overtones are unmistakable in the &#8220;news&#8221; coverage promoting &#8220;dozens&#8221; of employees walking out of Netflix in Los Angeles on Oct. 20 in protest. The target? A popular Dave Chappelle comedy special, &#8220;The Closer.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tens of thousands of anti-abortion advocates can assemble and be ignored, but assemble two dozen transgender lobbyists and NBC and PBS will treat it as momentous.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/10/free-speech-media-allies-with-transgender-tyranny/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Teenage Girl Who Shall Not Be Mentioned</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>If we sat in a boardroom and tried to decide the kind of story that the liberal media is the most hostile to covering — hostile to the point of wishing it had never existed — it may be this: Teenage boy describing himself as &#8220;gender-fluid&#8221; accused of raping a girl in a high school bathroom.</p>
<p>This is a story that any liberal media outlet would want to spike, censor, ignore, squelch and bury six feet underground.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/10/the-teenage-girl-who-shall-not-be-mentioned-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>‘They’ Are Controlling You. ‘They’ Are Silencing You.</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/09/they-are-controlling-you-they-are-silencing-you/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>This past week, on Labor Day, to be exact, I submitted my routine column to <em>The Washington Times</em>. The topic I chose was frankly quite simple and straightforward; many might rightly suggest it was even boring and mundane. My subject matter was disease immunity, something many of us kind of slept through in our freshman Biology 101 classes.</p>
<p>In my article, I spoke of how medical science has known for centuries that natural immunity derived from pathogenic exposure is critical to disease mitigation and control.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/09/they-are-controlling-you-they-are-silencing-you/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joe Walsh Wants More Bipartisanship, Which Means Less Joe Walsh</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/08/joe-walsh-wants-more-bipartisanship-which-means-less-joe-walsh/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2021 09:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>I admit I know very little about former one-term congressman <strong>Joe Walsh</strong> of Illinois. Some quick online research reveals that he was a tea party activist elected in the anti-Obamacare Republican wave of 2010. During his short tenure in office, Walsh appears to have carved out a reputation as a staunch and sometimes harsh critic of former President Obama, and a reliable vote for conservative policy.</p>
<p>When he lost his re-election bid to <strong>Tammy Duckworth</strong> in 2012, Walsh went on to host a conservative talk radio show before announcing a presidential primary run against <strong>Donald Trump</strong>&#8216;s re-election bid in the 2020 cycle.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/08/joe-walsh-wants-more-bipartisanship-which-means-less-joe-walsh/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Living In The Liberal Media’s ‘Twilight Zone’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>We’re so far beyond media bias that we’ve entered the Twilight Zone, where nothing is as it seems.</p>
<p>Imagine, if you will, a secure border.  You can because the media are blacking out the reality. Hundreds of thousands of illegals are streaming into the United States and are being bused around the country. Despite the extreme severity of the crisis and its implications for America’s future, TV network coverage of the border has plummeted 96 percent since March, according to the <a href="https://www.mrc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Media Research Center</a>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/08/living-in-the-liberal-medias-twilight-zone/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cowardly Biden Hides from the Press on Afghanistan</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The very supportive media environment around President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> has turned suddenly sour over this administration&#8217;s shoddy handling of Afghanistan. This debacle shouldn&#8217;t be buried and ignored by the press, like they&#8217;ve tried to do with the border crisis. But Biden&#8217;s gone back to hiding as a strategy, as he did in his 2020 presidential campaign.</p>
<p>For four days, the president disappeared from public view. Then he gave a speech on Aug.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/08/cowardly-biden-hides-from-the-press-on-afghanistan/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Real Reason YouTube Silenced Rand Paul</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Charles Hurt</em></p>
<p>There is always the risk of taking fools and liars more seriously than they deserve. But then again Google-owned YouTube deserves every shred of scorn and ridicule we can still muster in these crazy, exhausting times.</p>
<p>Most recently, the cat video website YouTube silenced U.S. Senator <strong>Rand Paul</strong> (R-KY) — a medical doctor — for posting a video in which he stated his studied medical opinion about a vitally important medical issue.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/08/the-real-reason-youtube-silenced-rand-paul/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CNN&#8217;S Lemon of a Town Hall Meeting</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>CNN became apoplectic whenever former President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> called them &#8220;fake news,&#8221; but on July 21, they offered President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> a nationally televised boost that can accurately be described as a &#8220;fake town hall.&#8221;</p>
<p>A real town hall would sell tickets in a city like Cincinnati and let the locals mix it up with the president and ask him whatever was on their minds. That&#8217;s not what CNN did. It was an &#8220;invitation only&#8221; audience, which means nobody boos or laughs at inappropriate times.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/07/cnns-lemon-of-a-town-hall-meeting/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democrats: Killing With Misinformation Since 1840</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Trevor Thomas</em></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In 1840, item seven of the Democrat Party Platform read,</p>
<blockquote><p>Resolved, That congress has no power, under the constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states, and that such states are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the constitution; that all efforts by abolitionists or others, made to induce congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences, and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend to our political institutions.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/07/democrats-killing-with-misinformation-since-1840/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democrats’ Gaslighting of America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 11:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>The word “gaslighting” has been creeping into media critiques, and for good reason.</p>
<p>Once upon a time, the media conveyed the news, albeit with a liberal slant. Now, they’re into full-blown gaslighting to facilitate whatever the Left wants.</p>
<p>The term comes from a 1938 play by British playwright Patrick Hamilton, “Gaslight,” and film adaptations, the most famous of which is a 1944 version starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman.</p>
<p>It’s about a man who covers up a secret by literally making his wife believe she is insane.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/07/democrats-gaslighting-of-america/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Neil Steinberg&#8217;s Flawed Take on Critical Race Theory</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2021 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by James E. McNally</em></p>
<p>Opposition to the teaching of a seriously flawed ideology known as critical race theory has drawn the ire of <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em> columnist <strong>Neil Steinberg</strong>. His <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/6/29/22555348/history-racism-critical-race-theory-republicans-gop-schools-teaching-chicago-ali-boxing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">column</a> is riddled with almost as many flaws as the <em>NY Times</em> “1619 Project”, apparently championed by Steinberg, which inanely asserts that the American Revolution was conducted because the colonists feared that Great Britain was about to abolish slavery, a ridiculous charge (among many contained in the document) debunked by serious historians of various political persuasions.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/07/neil-steinbergs-flawed-take-on-critical-race-theory/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Left’s Chutzpah Knows No Bounds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Two recent opinion columns were eye catchers.</p>
<p>A <em>Wall Street Journal</em> piece by <strong>James Carville</strong> was headlined, “<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-are-the-anticrime-party-11622045951" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrats Are the Anticrime Party</a>.” Seriously?</p>
<p>The other, by <em>The Washington Post</em>’s <strong>Dana Milbank</strong>, said, “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/25/republicans-spent-anniversary-george-floyds-murder-trying-vote-down-black-woman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The GOP’s fixation on race is on full display</a>.” Seriously?</p>
<p>Both men are undoubtedly familiar with the definition of “chutzpah.” It’s someone killing his parents and then falling on the mercy of the court on account of his being an orphan.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/06/the-lefts-chutzpah-knows-no-bounds/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A World Upside Down: Illinois Cop Killer Initially Treated Like Victim by Local CBS Affiliate</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/06/a-world-upside-down-illinois-cop-killer-initially-treated-like-victim-by-local-cbs-affiliate/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>Sadly, there is nothing new about the story of <strong>Darion Lafayette</strong>. A young black suspect with a long rap sheet who kills a cop with a gun he was able to purchase despite Illinois&#8217; tough gun control measures — that is essentially the story of every major city. What is new, however, is that after the other cop in this deadly altercation was forced to kill Lafayette, the local media initially treated Lafayette as a martyr, despite the fact that the officer was justified by a mile.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/06/a-world-upside-down-illinois-cop-killer-initially-treated-like-victim-by-local-cbs-affiliate/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Parents Must Push Back Against Progressives’ Doublethink</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>We’re clearly living in a time of “doublethink.”</p>
<p>That’s when someone believes two mutually contradictory beliefs. The term comes from George Orwell’s novel “1984,” in which the government ruling party issued absurd dictums such as “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength.”</p>
<p>Anyone not going along with this was in for a rough time, including the novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith.</p>
<p>The psychological name for this is cognitive dissonance. One form of it is accepting as reality something that clearly conflicts with reason, sensory perception and common sense.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/05/parents-must-push-back-against-progressives-doublethink/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Press Deceit Is a Pathology</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by</em> <em>Laura Hirschfeld Hollis</em></p>
<p>A free country depends upon an honest and vigilant press to demand accountability from the country&#8217;s political, economic and cultural leaders.</p>
<p>We are in serious trouble; our press is neither honest nor vigilant.</p>
<p>To the contrary, the national media in the United States is hopelessly biased, selectively incurious and relentlessly deceitful about the most important issues we are facing today. As a result, the health of the nation is at risk.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/05/press-deceit-is-a-pathology/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Breaking Up Big Tech Hard To Do, But It Should Happen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2021 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>You know it’s getting thick when even U.S. Senator <strong>Elizabeth Warren</strong> (D-MA) says Facebook and other social media are too censorious.</p>
<p>First, she took the mandatory shot at <strong>Donald Trump</strong>. “I’m glad that he’s not on Facebook,” the Massachusetts Democrat said of the ban on the former president upheld on May 5 by a Facebook appeals board. “I think that he poses a real danger.”</p>
<p>She went on: “But I don’t think that Facebook ought to have this kind of power.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/05/breaking-up-big-tech-hard-to-do-but-it-should-happen/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Team Biden&#8217;s Rigid Control of the Press</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Everyone knew instinctively that the Biden White House would get enormous cooperation and positive media coverage from the &#8220;news&#8221; media, given that it follows the alleged democracy-darkening <strong>Donald Trump</strong> days. But Team Biden&#8217;s control of the narrative can look more like a stranglehold.</p>
<p>On May 10, <em>Politico</em> revealed that &#8220;If you&#8217;ve read a quote from an administration official in a newspaper or a wire story recently, there&#8217;s a good chance that the White House communications team had an opportunity to edit it first.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/05/team-bidens-rigid-control-of-the-press/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Anthony Fauci, America&#8217;s High Priest of Scientism, Wears Out His Welcome</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>On April 13, the editors of National Review opined: “More than a year ago, Americans welcomed [Dr.] <a href="chrome-extension://oknpjjbmpnndlpmnhmekjpocelpnlfdi/topics/anthony-fauci/">Anthony Fauci</a> into their homes as a sober scientist who was helping them make sense of a deadly new virus. But he has worn out that welcome.”</p>
<p>William F. Buckley’s heirs are absolutely right, and here’s why.</p>
<p><a href="chrome-extension://oknpjjbmpnndlpmnhmekjpocelpnlfdi/topics/anthony-fauci/">Anthony Fauci</a> is no longer viewed as our nation’s sober “scientist” because he’s not one. Instead, he has shown himself to be a political opportunist and our country’s new high priest of “scientism.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/04/anthony-fauci-americas-high-priest-of-scientism-wears-out-his-welcome/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Watchdogs Nap for Biden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> averaged a 56 percent job approval rating from his inauguration through March, according to Gallup, about the same as the ratings of former Presidents <strong>Bill Clinton</strong> and <strong>George W. Bush</strong>, and much higher than former President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>&#8216;s (42 percent). One factor in that approval might be the tone of press coverage.</p>
<p><strong>Rich Noyes</strong> and <strong>Bill D&#8217;Agostino</strong> of the Media Research Center studied ABC, CBS and NBC evening-news programs from Jan.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/04/the-watchdogs-nap-for-biden/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Gaslighting of the American People</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jackie Cushman</em></p>
<p>This week, <em>Project Veritas</em> released a video of <strong>Charlie Chester</strong>, a CNN technical director, talking to a woman who recorded him during what he thought were &#8220;dates&#8221;; she had purposely targeted him and videoed him surreptitiously. While you might not agree with her tactics, her videos reveal that CNN was involved in what proved to be a successful media campaign to control the political process.</p>
<p>&#8220;Look what we did, we got Trump out.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/04/the-gaslighting-of-the-american-people/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Press Is Infrastructure for Biden</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>U.S. Senator <strong>John Cornyn</strong> (R-TX) came under blistering attack from <em>Washington Post</em> scribe <strong>Aaron Blake</strong> for having wondered whether President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> is really in charge, since he&#8217;s kept an extremely low profile with the press. Blake took after the senator for implying the Trump spin that old Joe has lost a few mental gears and is something of a &#8220;Manchurian Candidate.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s a baseless and ugly bit of innuendo,&#8221; Blake wrote.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/04/the-press-is-infrastructure-for-biden/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>‘Dear Don Lemon, You’re Not God’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>Last Monday, CNN host <strong>Don Lemon</strong> strutted onto the world’s stage to declare with ex-cathedra confidence that Christian orthodoxy and its 2,000 years of church teaching on sexual dignity, sexual morality and about God himself is wrong.</p>
<p>“I think that the Catholic Church and many other churches really need to reexamine themselves,” said Mr. Lemon, “[Their teaching] is not what God is about. God is not about hindering people or even judging people.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/04/dear-don-lemon-youre-not-god/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Big Tech’s Masters of the Universe Fueling the Marxist Revolution and Destroying America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Big Tech was on the hot seat again last Thursday.</p>
<p>Facebook CEO <strong>Mark Zuckerberg</strong>, Google CEO <strong>Sundar Pichai</strong> and Twitter CEO <strong>Jack Dorsey</strong> testified again before Congress, this time in the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee virtual hearing. The three men were the essence of cool. Nothing ruffled them. Well, almost.</p>
<p>In fact, their cool, almost robotic articulation was unsettling, though it contrasted well with what unfolded at the other big Washington event on Thursday — President Biden’s first press conference.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/03/big-techs-masters-of-the-universe-fueling-the-marxist-revolution-and-destroying-america/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Pro-Biden Press Corps Is Deeply Embarrassing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2021 09:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>President Biden&#8217;s first formal press conference is in the books, and it was deeply embarrassing to anyone who thinks the media&#8217;s job is to hold presidents accountable.</p>
<p>Taxpayer-enabled PBS White House correspondent <strong>Yamiche Alcindor</strong> was the worst. She complimented the president, saying: &#8220;You&#8217;ve said over and over again that immigrants shouldn&#8217;t come to this country right now; this isn&#8217;t the time to come. That message is not being received. Instead, the perception of you that got you elected as a moral, decent man is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and are trusting you with unaccompanied minors.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/03/the-pro-biden-press-corps-is-deeply-embarrassing/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Racist Sound of &#8216;Whiteness Is a Pandemic&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/03/the-racist-sound-of-whiteness-is-a-pandemic/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/page_1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-17047" src="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/page_1.jpg" alt="" width="158" height="204" srcset="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/page_1.jpg 1159w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/page_1-232x300.jpg 232w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/page_1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/page_1-768x994.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px" /></a></em>The <em>Root</em> is obviously a hyperbolically <a href="https://www.theroot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">racial magazine</a>, since its slogan is &#8220;The Blacker the Content the Sweeter the Truth.&#8221; It&#8217;s not surprising that it frequently publishes writer <strong>Damon Young</strong>, author of the memoir &#8220;What Doesn&#8217;t Kill You Makes You Blacker.&#8221; We&#8217;re told he asked important and dramatic questions like &#8220;Will this white person&#8217;s potato salad kill me?&#8221;</p>
<p>Young&#8217;s memoir was honored as &#8220;required reading&#8221; by NPR and celebrated by <em>Entertainment Weekly</em> and <em>The Washington Post</em>, among others.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/03/the-racist-sound-of-whiteness-is-a-pandemic/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>‘Equity’ Is a Mandate to Discriminate</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Charles Lipson</em></p>
<p>On his first day as president, <strong>Joe Biden</strong> issued an “Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities.” Mr. Biden’s cabinet nominees must now explain whether this commitment to “equity” means they intend to abolish “equal treatment under law.” Their answers are a confused mess.</p>
<p>Arkansas U.S. Senator <strong>Tom Cotton</strong> raised the question explicitly in confirmation hearings. Attorney General-designate <strong>Merrick Garland</strong> responded: “I think discrimination is morally wrong. Absolutely.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/03/equity-is-a-mandate-to-discriminate/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democrats’ Disgraceful Lies Keep On Giving</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>We are awash in so many media lies that I thought it might be useful to list a few for easy reference, in no particular order.</p>
<p>No. 1. The Capitol Hill riot on Jan. 6 was an “armed insurrection” in which five people were killed, including a U.S. Capitol officer hit by a fire extinguisher in the head. Reality: The rioters had no firearms or even knives. Two of the five died from a stroke and heart attack.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/03/democrats-disgraceful-lies-keep-on-giving/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CNN Should Shut up About &#8216;Misinformation&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p><strong>Brian Stelter</strong> and <strong>Oliver Darcy</strong>, CNN&#8217;s in-house cheerleaders for censoring or squelching conservative media outlets, celebrated a letter in which Democrats on the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee pressed TV providers to punish right-wing spreaders of so-called &#8220;misinformation.&#8221;</p>
<p>California U.S. Representatives <strong>Anna Eshoo</strong> and <strong>Jerry McNerney</strong> asked, &#8220;What moral or ethical principles (including those related to journalistic integrity, violence, medical information, and public health) do you apply in deciding which channels to carry or when to take adverse actions against a channel?&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/02/cnn-should-shut-up-about-misinformation/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>[VIDEO] Corrupt Mainstream Media Takes Lying to Olympic Levels</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/02/video-corrupt-mainstream-media-takes-lying-to-olympic-levels/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 17:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Tucker Carlson</strong>, political commentator and television host of <em>Tucker Carlson Tonight</em> on Fox News, offers his views on the collective spirit and spin of the highly-skilled, professional <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">liars</span> journalists of our nation’s corrupt news media.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IBeMjyo2Wwk" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/02/video-corrupt-mainstream-media-takes-lying-to-olympic-levels/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by</em> <em>Dr. Everett Piper </em></p>
<p>This week I had a new Facebook “friend” send me this note: “Upon liking your professional page a minute ago, Facebook warned me that your page ‘has repeatedly shared false information.’”</p>
<p>Because communicating with a real human being at Facebook’s Ministry of Truth is more difficult than talking with your dead uncle at a Madam Blavatsky seance, perhaps this open letter to <a href="chrome-extension://oknpjjbmpnndlpmnhmekjpocelpnlfdi/topics/mark-zuckerberg/">Mark Zuckerberg</a> is in order.</p>
<p>Your Eminence Mr. Z,</p>
<p>I have recently been informed that I am guilty of posting “false information” on your social media platform.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/02/an-open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Conservative Leaders: Tech Companies Pose Existential Threat, Must Be Broken Up</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/02/conservative-leaders-tech-companies-pose-existential-threat-must-be-broken-up/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Media Research Center (MRC) President <strong>Brent Bozell</strong> and more than 30 conservative leaders issued the following statement Monday calling for the breakup of Big Tech companies including Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple after their sweeping acts of censorship against conservatives and President Donald Trump this past week.</p>
<p>“Big Tech has declared war on free speech and is now an existential threat to democracy. The tech tyrants began to systematically shut down the conservative movement over the weekend.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/02/conservative-leaders-tech-companies-pose-existential-threat-must-be-broken-up/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Tyrannical Left’s Sinister Conspiracy to Silence Conservatives</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>Why does the left want to silence conservatives? Why do rank-and-file Democrats go along with this abomination? Leftists have bad intentions, but how about the Democrats who enable them? I prefer to think they’ve being manipulated.</p>
<p>As worried as we should be about the hyperexploding national debt and our inevitable fiscal catastrophe, I am even more worried about the left’s success in turning America into a police state (ironic, given its simultaneous war on the police).&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/02/the-tyrannical-lefts-sinister-conspiracy-to-silence-conservatives/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Beware Those Hysterical Historians</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Liberals love to insist they&#8217;re on the &#8220;right side of history,&#8221; and their confidence crests in the liberal dominance among historians. Just as the liberal media dominate our evaluation of day-to-day developments, liberals count on their historians to dominate our evaluation of the decades behind us.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not just historians but our taxpayer-funded storytellers, like the insufferable PBS documentarian <strong>Ken Burns</strong>. On the day before President-elect <strong>Joe Biden</strong>&#8216;s inauguration, NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Edition&#8221; presented him as an American treasure with no partisan bias.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/01/beware-those-hysterical-historians/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Democrats Leap Into the Abyss of Hypocrisy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Laurie Higgins</em></p>
<p>Just when you thought Leftists couldn’t be more cynical, hypocritical, dishonest, tyrannical, and cruel, they step up to prove you wrong. When Democrats, by whatever janky standards they’ve made up, think Republicans have gone “low,” they&#8211;that is, Democrats&#8211;dive headlong into the abyss of hypocrisy and nastiness.</p>
<p>They’ve been doing their theatrical performative best to argue that the attack on the Capitol is particularly heinous because of the building’s symbolic significance—which, of course, it has.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/01/democrats-leap-into-the-abyss-of-hypocrisy/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Big Tech&#8217;s rush to take down and ban social media accounts or de-platform entire websites that they believe in some way caused the horrible rioting at the Capitol is based on fear — that Joe Biden&#8217;s inauguration will devolve into another riot. Or that there will be riots at state capitols.</p>
<p>Social media platforms such as Twitter are only focused on President Donald Trump and his millions of devoted fans. They don&#8217;t seem to focus on violent thoughts on the left, most prominently the Hollywood left.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/01/hollywood-elites-and-violent-thoughts/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>One of the Last Honest Reporters Speaks Out</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Elise Cooper</em></p>
<p><em>Slanted </em>is the third book by <strong>Sharyl Attkisson</strong>, and as with her other two, it is a refreshing read.  It is nice to know that there are still independent journalists who put fact over opinion, and she is one of those.  To no one&#8217;s surprise, she talks about the shift in the news, from a focus on reporting the facts to more on trying to push a narrative on the American people.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/12/one-of-the-last-honest-reporters-speaks-out/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The News That Biden Voters Didn&#8217;t Know</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Journalists have strongly slanted the &#8220;news&#8221; during the Trump era in order to destroy Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency, and to destroy it early if possible. Their actions betray that they feel they have important and influential platforms from which they can and should run America in between elections. The voters can have a say for about two weeks every two years.</p>
<p>Recall 2004, when <em>Newsweek</em>&#8216;s <strong>Evan Thomas</strong> admitted the press would go all in for Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees <strong>John Kerry</strong> and <strong>John Edwards</strong>, and that the effort would &#8220;be worth maybe 15 points.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/11/the-news-that-biden-voters-didnt-know/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pandering Democrats Protect Own Ideology But Say Nothing to Defend Free Speech</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>On May 10, 1933, students in 34 university towns across Germany gathered to burn more than 25,000 books. The works of authors like <strong>Albert Einstein</strong>, <strong>Ernest Hemingway</strong> and <strong>Helen Keller</strong> went up in flames.</p>
<p>At the same time, 40,000 people gathered to hear the German Minister of Public Enlightenment, <strong><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/joseph-goebbels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Joseph Goebbels</a></strong>, give a speech applauding those who were “commit[ting] to the flames the evil spirit of the past.” The unwanted ideas of Western civilization fueled the bonfires of Berlin.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/11/pandering-democrats-protect-own-ideology-but-say-nothing-to-defend-free-speech/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Censorious Left Is Obliterating Free Speech</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>A lot of things worry me about a <strong>Joe Biden-Kamala Harris</strong> administration, but nothing troubles me more than that it will accommodate the left&#8217;s disturbing march toward selective suppression of free speech.</p>
<p><span class="column--highlighted-text">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.</span></p>
<p>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.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/11/the-censorious-left-is-obliterating-free-speech/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Absolute Failure of Pollsters</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>In every election cycle, there is only one poll that matters, and that is the election results. That has never been truer than in 2020. Why should we have paid attention to the polls? As of Thursday morning, the popular vote margin was 50% Joe Biden and 48% Donald Trump. Here are some of the closing polls:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">Quinnipiac University: Biden 50%, Trump 39%.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">NBC News/Wall Street Journal: Biden 52%, Trump 42%.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">Fox News: Biden 52%, Trump 44%.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/11/the-absolute-failure-of-pollsters/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Relentless Revolution</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>This past month, America’s Progressives showed they will do anything to elect <strong>Joe Biden</strong> and <strong>Kamala Harris</strong>. This includes having social media, along with “legacy” media, spike articles by America’s fourth largest newspaper, <em>The New York Post</em>.</p>
<p>But that’s not all. These Marxists are even vowing revenge on Trump supporters if they get back the reins of power.</p>
<p>“When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” tweeted <strong>Robert Reich</strong>, former Labor Department secretary under <strong>Bill Clinton</strong> and adviser to <strong>Barack Obama</strong>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/10/the-relentless-revolution/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Media&#8217;s Broadcast Brutality Against Trump</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Liberals are beginning to swagger around as if the 2020 election is already over. <strong>Eugene Robinson</strong> at <em>The Washington Post</em> exclaimed that President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>&#8216;s reelection campaign is &#8220;beginning to look like the Titanic.&#8221; <strong>Joe Biden</strong> should be preparing his inauguration remarks.</p>
<p>One reason for this arrogance is the absolutely punishing media coverage of Trump. The coronavirus pandemic did what some might have thought was impossible: made Trump coverage even more negative.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/06/the-medias-broadcast-brutality-against-trump/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Twitter Censors Trump Yet Keeps Khamenei’s Tweet Calling for Jihad Violence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2020 09:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Spencer</em></p>
<p>Twitter did this after the President’s Executive Order calling for an end to politically motivated censorship on Twitter. And so the war is on. It is clear from Twitter’s leaving up Khamenei’s tweet calling for jihad violence that they’re not censoring Trump out of concern about violence, but because he is the largest voice dissenting from their agenda. Once he is silenced, it will be easy to silence everyone else. Who appointed Twitter’s <strong>Jack Dorsey</strong>, and <strong>Mark Zuckerberg</strong>, and the clowns at Google/YouTube and the Southern Poverty Law Center, as the guardians of acceptable opinion and permitted speech?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/06/twitter-censors-trump-yet-keeps-khameneis-tweet-calling-for-jihad-violence/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Intensely Does the Leftwing Media Hate Trump?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2020 12:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Michael L. Brown</em></p>
<p>I cannot prove this, but <a href="https://youtu.be/dlbnToO1uQw" rel="nofollow">the caller to my radio show</a> seemed totally credible. If what he said is true, then the animosity towards <strong>Donald Trump</strong> in leftwing circles is even more extreme than some of us would have believed. And that is saying a lot.</p>
<p>The caller, named Rob, from Tampa, Florida, said he had previously worked at an NBC News affiliate up north. (He didn’t want to give further details so as to be able to speak with total freedom.)&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/05/how-intensely-does-the-leftwing-media-hate-trump/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Silence of the Media Lambs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2020 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Debra J. Saunders</em></p>
<p>Democratic U.S. Senators <strong>Catherine Cortez Masto</strong>, <strong>Kirsten Gillibrand</strong>, <strong>Kamala Harris</strong>, <strong>Elizabeth Warren</strong> and <strong>Amy Klobuchar</strong> — self-styled feminists who bought every flimsy claim made against now U.S. Supreme Court Justice <strong>Brett Kavanaugh</strong> — have chosen to stand by <strong>Joe Biden</strong> in the face of a sexual assault allegation made against him by a former staffer.</p>
<p>The MeToo movement, which followed a <em>New York Times</em>&#8216; expose on Hollywood mogul <strong>Harvey Weinstein</strong>&#8216;s abuse and degradation of women in the entertainment industry, was supposed to prove that the feminist movement was a moral entity committed to fair treatment of women, even when big Democratic figures stood accused.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/05/the-silence-of-the-media-lambs/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CNN is Proudly Morphing Into Lifetime Movie Network</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>I had forgotten the ad until I saw Erick Erickson’s tweet yesterday:</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1252574719796273155</p>
<p>For those who don’t remember, back in 2017 CNN took a swipe at President Trump’s propensity to refer to them as fake news by creating an <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/922431308797751296">advertisement</a> of a single apple on screen with a narrator reading this copy:</p>
<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>“This is an apple. Some people might try and tell you that it’s a banana. They might scream banana, banana, banana over and over and over again.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/04/cnn-is-proudly-morphing-into-lifetime-movie-network/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Everyone Who Hates Donald Trump Should Become a Political Conservative</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>&#8230; Or At Least Consider the Prospect and Benefits Thereof</strong></span></p>
<p><em>Written by Terrell Clemmons</em></p>
<p>Earlier this month, <strong>David Frum</strong> spilled his spleen in a lengthy harangue at <em><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/">The Atlantic</a> </em>titled, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/americans-are-paying-the-price-for-trumps-failures/609532/">This Is Trump’s Fault</a>. Against the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak, the author of the upcoming <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trumpocalypse-Restoring-Democracy-David-Frum/dp/0062978411"><em>Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy</em></a>, spent more than 5,000 words (that would be about a ten-page, single-spaced Word document, by the way) taking the president to task in hyperbolic, over-the-top, no-holds-barred terms.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/04/why-everyone-who-hates-donald-trump-should-become-a-political-conservative/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Americans&#8217; Goodness Outweighs Pockets of Anti-Christian Bigotry</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2020 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>Though some deny it, many harbor a strong hostility toward Christians in our society, especially those who obediently wear their faith on their sleeves.</p>
<p>You know what they find worse than an outspoken evangelical Christian? An outspoken evangelical Christian who&#8217;s also an outspoken supporter of President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>. Talk about a perfect storm of contemptibility!</p>
<p><strong>Mike Lindell</strong>, owner of MyPillow, and the Rev. <strong>Franklin Graham</strong> fall squarely into this category.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/04/americans-goodness-outweighs-pockets-of-anti-christian-bigotry/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Spectacle of Bigotry: LGBT Objections to Christian Aid in NYC</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>In a 2017 <em>USA Today</em> <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/03/07/christian-evangelical-disney-beauty-beast-gay-column/98812856/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">op-ed</a>, journalist <strong>Jonathan Merritt</strong>, who has distinguished himself by persistently undermining the authority of Scripture while wearing the name of Jesus, fretted over a potential Christian boycott of Disney and its LGBT activism. He wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>It risks making Christians look like antiquated bigots, and it reeks of moral hypocrisy. Worse, it diverts energy from a more worthwhile effort: teaching Christian children to coexist in a pluralistic society.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/04/a-spectacle-of-bigotry-lgbt-objections-to-christian-aid-in-nyc/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jake Tapper and Chuck Todd Prove (Again) Why Media Trust is So Low</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>When Gallup released the results of their recent Coronavirus crisis trust <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/300680/coronavirus-response-hospitals-rated-best-news-media-worst.aspx">poll</a>, I can’t help but think there were several jaws that hit the floor in America’s newsrooms. Having asked the American people whether they approved or disapproved of the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic by a host of various leaders and institutions, there was only one that found more disapproval than approval, on average.</p>
<p>President Trump? No, by a wide 22 points, Americans approved of his leadership.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/03/jake-tapper-and-chuck-todd-prove-again-why-media-trust-is-so-low-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Once Again, Trump Was Right And The Media Were Wrong</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Andrea Widburg</em></p>
<p>In February, China reported that chloroquine could fight coronavirus, which led to a burst of media optimism. However, when President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> said he hoped that chloroquine might cure coronavirus, the media instantly turned on the drug. Unsurprisingly, the media were wrong. The lead doctor of the latest study on the drug says chloroquine is so helpful it would be unethical to deny it to control groups.</p>
<p>We first <a href="https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/coronavirus-covid-19-choroquine-data/">learned about chloroquine</a> in mid-February, when <strong>Sun Yanrong</strong>, the deputy head of the China National Center for Biotechnology Development, announced that it was one of three drugs that the Chinese had successfully used to treat coronavirus.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/03/once-again-trump-was-right-and-the-media-were-wrong/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Carol Davis on Social Media in Politics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>During this period of social distancing and stay-at-home orders, how can conservatives effectively communicate in ways that will affect election outcomes and impact our culture? <strong>Carol Davis</strong> says social media is a great medium to disseminate these messages.</p>
<p>In her address at the Women Win 2020 conference that was held in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by <a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/">FreedomWorks</a>, Davis presented tips for making the most of Facebook posts and shares and Twitter tweets and retweets.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/03/spotlight-carol-davis-on-social-media-in-politics/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The “Trump is a Dictator” Crowd is Angry Trump…Isn’t Acting Like a Dictator</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>It has become nearly impossible to take the <em>New York Times</em> seriously. Even those who appreciate the <em>Times</em> regularly quote it not because of its accuracy or insight, but because it’s taking a caustic (and usually careless) swipe at a president that they hate. That’s not a great look for the country’s “newspaper of record.”</p>
<p>The most recent demonstration of their embarrassing current state of affairs has to be education policy reporter <strong>Erica L.</strong>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/03/the-trump-is-a-dictator-crowd-is-angry-trumpisnt-acting-like-a-dictator/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mining a Crisis for Political Gold</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>“You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do things that you would otherwise avoid.”</p>
<p>So said former Chicago Mayor <strong>Rahm Emanuel</strong>, who was President Obama’s chief of staff and an astute practitioner of smashmouth politics.</p>
<p>It’s worth remembering this as the Democrats and their media do everything they can to hype the dangers of the Wuhan coronavirus.  Not that it isn’t deadly serious. It is.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/03/mining-a-crisis-for-political-gold-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Critical Race Theory’s Destructive Impact on America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Carol M. Swain</em></p>
<p>Under the guise of a venture called the “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">1619 Project</a>,” revisionist history about race in America is being introduced into classrooms across America without undergoing the normal peer review expected of educational materials. August 2019 marked the birth of the project, a <a href="https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">publication</a> of <em>The New York Times</em> Magazine and the Pulitzer organization, containing a collection of essays and artistic works to commemorate the 400-year anniversary of slavery in America.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/02/critical-race-theorys-destructive-impact-on-america/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Non-Citizens May Not Have &#8220;The Vision Thing&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jane Ryan Carrell</em></p>
<p><em>Chicago Tribune</em> writer <strong>Eric Zorn</strong> has offered a new paradigm for U.S. elections. Zorn says, “Let’s give Green Card holders (non-citizens who have legal status to reside permanently and work in the U.S.) voting rights. After all, they pay taxes!” His January 23<sup>rd</sup> column is titled, “<a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-zorn/ct-column-non-citizen-voting-zorn-20200123-weyxtvhldzbvzg26ruzcc3ecmi-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jesse White’s blunder makes me want to ask, what’s so terrible about allowing non-citizens to vote?</a>”</p>
<p>The column was precipitated by the news that Illinois’ automatic voter registration system, which is in effect at driver’s license facilities and other state agencies, had mistakenly registered 545 non-citizens who had interacted with a state agency.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/02/non-citizens-may-not-have-the-vision-thing/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>No Surprise, the Media Hates Trump</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Micah Clark</em></p>
<p>Another <a href="https://afain.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=61f5592a94affec9554afe209&#38;id=bee565b455&#38;e=45beb336ce">study</a> has found that the mainstream media is overwhelmingly slanted in its coverage of the President. One could argue that <strong>Donald Trump</strong> is a very different kind of politician whose off the cuff, rough and tumble, shoot from the hip, clunky speaking style makes him an easy target, compared to previous presidents. Yet, when nearly all of the news coverage is found to be negative, objectivity and fairness are missing.</p>
<p>In the first 100 days since U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/01/no-surprise-the-media-hates-trump/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hollywood Gets an Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2020 12:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by L. Brent Bozell III</em></p>
<p><strong>Ricky Gervais</strong>, the perpetually snarky British comedian, set social media on fire after he mocked arrogant Hollywood in his opening monologue when hosting the Golden Globes.</p>
<p>&#8220;So if you do win an award tonight, don&#8217;t use it as a platform to make a political speech, right?&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;re in no position to lecture the public — about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/01/hollywood-gets-an-education/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Devin Nunes: Mocked for Being Right</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 11:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by L. Brent Bozell III</em></p>
<p>A few weeks ago, U.S. Representative <strong>Devin Nunes</strong> (R-CA) appeared on Mark Levin&#8217;s Fox News show, &#8220;Life, Liberty &#38; Levin.&#8221; Near the end, he talked about how he and his staff put out a memo in early 2018 &#8220;to expose the counterintelligence malfeasance that was occurring in the FBI&#8221; in the search for Russian &#8220;collusion&#8221; with <strong>Donald Trump</strong>. The media did all kinds of stories about how the Republicans were concocting &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; and destroying the nation&#8217;s law enforcement agencies.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/12/devin-nunes-mocked-for-being-right/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>‘Conservative Obama’ and Pregnant Men</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2019 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>What sets our current age apart from previous ones is not only technological wonders but the shocking abandonment of truth.</p>
<p>For Marxists, a lie is as good as truth if it works to advance their cause.  A case in point was a recent article on the front page of <em>The Washington Post</em>’<em>s</em> Sunday Outlook section.  Next to a large, serious portrait, the headline proclaimed: “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/22/barack-obama-conservative/?arc404=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Barack Obama: Conservative</a>.”  Sure.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/12/conservative-obama-and-pregnant-men/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Long Can CNN Justify Keeping Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>If I hadn’t watched the clip twice, I wouldn’t have actually believed what I was seeing. CNN anchor <strong>Brian Stelter</strong>, the man who hosts a program called <em>Reliable Sources</em> no less, stared at me through the camera in the most serious tones he could muster. Discussing the upcoming days in the impeachment inquiry, Stelter motioned noticeably at the screen next to him and cautioned,</p>
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<p class="has-background has-very-light-gray-background-color">“Some people are going to insult your intelligence in the days ahead.”</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/11/how-long-can-cnn-justify-keeping-brian-stelter-and-oliver-darcy/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fake News Versus Fake Polls</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Wayne Allyn Root</em></p>
<p>Last week, I wrote about why you can&#8217;t trust a word the biased, liberal mainstream media tells you about President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>. They distort, mislead, misrepresent, slander and muddle context.</p>
<p>As their Marxist hero <strong>Saul Alinsky</strong> taught them in &#8220;Rules for Radicals,&#8221; the ends justify the means. In other words, anything goes — any lie is excused — to create &#8220;fairness, equality and social justice.&#8221;</p>
<p>As an example, all we&#8217;ve heard for months is how we are either entering a recession or already in one.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/10/fake-news-versus-fake-polls/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CNN Seems Blissfully Unaware That They Are a Punchline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>Feverishly covering the story that noted left-leaning, pro-LGBT news anchor <strong>Shepard Smith</strong> had abruptly left Fox News after 23 years, CNN’s “senior media reporter” <strong>Oliver Darcy</strong> expressed his stoic concern about what this meant for the future at Fox:</p>
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<p>First of all, I understand the potshot at Fox. Darcy is attempting to sustain a career at a supposed news network that, far from being Fox’s rival, is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnn-ratings-don-lemon" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)">struggling</a> to even compete with the ratings of Hallmark Channel, Investigation Discovery, and TLC in primetime.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/10/cnn-seems-blissfully-unaware-that-they-are-a-punchline/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Surrendering to SPLC&#8217;s Lazy Media Lemmings</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Michelle Malkin</em></p>
<section id="article-body">ACT for America, a nationwide grassroots group that educates the public about radical Islam, was founded in 2007 by my vigilant activist friend and Lebanese Christian immigrant journalist Brigitte Gabriel. I was honored to accept Gabriel&#8217;s invitation to speak at her organization&#8217;s annual banquet at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 7.
<p>Gabriel has worked tirelessly to expose the Islamic imperialist agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic state; barbaric practices of female genital mutilation and honor killings by adherents of sharia; and the whitewashing of violent jihad in American middle school textbooks.</p>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/10/surrendering-to-splcs-lazy-media-lemmings/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></section>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>If Only We Could Impeach the Left-Wing Media</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Trevor Thomas</em></p>
<p>In order to remove the U.S. president, the vice president, federal judges, and other federal officials from office, Article I, Section II of the U.S. Constitution gives the U.S. House of Representatives &#8220;the sole Power of Impeachment.&#8221;  Article I, Section III gives the U.S. Senate &#8220;the sole Power to try all Impeachments.&#8221;  In the history of the United States, the U.S. House has initiated impeachment proceedings dozens of times; however, <a href="http://history.house.gov/Institution/Impeachment/Impeachment-List/">only 19 individuals</a> have faced actual Articles of Impeachment.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/10/if-only-we-could-impeach-the-left-wing-media-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fake News Narrative: &#8216;Trump is in Trouble&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>If you weren’t looking closely, you might not have noticed that Republicans won two North Carolina congressional races last Tuesday, not just one.</p>
<p>The media featured the 9th District race in which <strong><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/dan-bishop/">Dan Bishop</a></strong> defeated <strong>Dan McCready</strong> by 50.7 percent to 48.7 percent. They ignored the 3rd District, where state U.S. Representative <strong>Greg Murphy</strong> swamped Democrat <strong>Allen Thomas</strong> with nearly 60 percent of the vote to fill the seat of the late U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/09/fake-news-narrative-trump-is-in-trouble/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Networks Endorse Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8216;Equality&#8217; Lobbying</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by L. Brent Bozell III</em></p>
<p>At the MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 26, <strong>Taylor Swift</strong> won the video of the year award for her latest song &#8220;You Need to Calm Down.&#8221; It&#8217;s a song that trashes anyone still dissenting from the LGBTQ agenda and begs them to &#8220;control your urges to scream about all the people you hate / &#8216;Cause shade never made anybody less gay.&#8221;</p>
<p>The network news shows gushed over her leftist activism and the &#8220;Taylor Effect&#8221; they expect it to provide.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/09/networks-endorse-taylor-swifts-equality-lobbying/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>They Dish It out but Can&#8217;t Take It</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>In the midst of the daily tarring and feathering of President Trump by our &#8220;objective&#8221; press, we are treated to some precious moments where these badly disguised political operatives write something unintentionally hilarious.</p>
<p>Take, for example, <em>The New York Times</em> story on Aug. 25 headlined &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/25/us/politics/trump-allies-news-media.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trump&#8217;s Allies Scour Internet to Punish Press</a>.&#8221; Reporters <strong>Ken Vogel</strong> and <strong>Jeremy Peters</strong> ominously warned, &#8220;A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed hostile to President Trump by publicizing damaging information about journalists.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/08/they-dish-it-out-but-cant-take-it/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Left Stokes Racist Flames and Demonizes Millions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2019 09:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Michael Brown</em></p>
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<p>It is insidious to watch the left do its dirty work of demonization. It starts with a narrative constructed on false accusations and misleading innuendos. Then, the narrative is repeated enough until it becomes accepted truth. Finally, wider conclusions are drawn from it, casting ugly aspersions on the innocent.</p>
<p>In the current iteration, the narrative began with accusations that President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> was a white supremacist and racist, fueled by <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_didnt_call_neo-nazis_fine_people_heres_proof_139815.html" rel="nofollow">selective quotes</a> from his Charlottesville press conference.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/08/the-left-stokes-racist-flames-and-demonizes-millions/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CNN Is a Disgrace, and Don Lemon Is a Huge Problem</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>Perfect.  It was perfect.  What <strong>Don Lemon</strong>, one of the most unscrupulous actors posing as a journalist on television today, did to a black minister live on television last week stands as the perfect depiction of why people hate the media, why the president’s punches against them always land so forcefully, and why his employer CNN is cratering to what seems like unsustainably low ratings.</p>
<p>It was also perfect that not long before, CNN’s resident “senior media reporter” <strong>Oliver Darcy</strong> had criticized Fox News’ resident loudmouth <strong>Tomi Lahren</strong> for “reprehensible commentary.” &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/08/cnn-is-a-disgrace-and-don-lemon-is-a-huge-problem/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Attacks on Conservative Speech Take Many Forms</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2019 09:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Ken Blackwell</em></p>
<p>Looking over the frenzied political landscape in America today — one marred by constant clashes between right and left — a single issue rises above the rest. In many areas of public life, conservatives — their words, views and values — are under assault. Ultra-left, radical activists methodically expunge conservative speech and conservative ideas from public discourse.</p>
<p>This threat to the First Amendment and to the sharing of viewpoints held by roughly half of all Americans is taking many forms.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/07/attacks-on-conservative-speech-take-many-forms/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Democracy Dies in Darkness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<section id="article-body">Tyranny can arrive fast in the form of tanks and jackboots. Or it can come gradually, snuffing out liberty and replacing it with fear.
<p>The latter is what we’re facing today, as cultural Marxists advance their doctrines and silence any dissension.</p>
<p>Each day brings new examples, but here are a few that show why a sleeping church and any friend of liberty had better wake up before it’s too late.</p>
<p>Social media giants Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, Google’s YouTube and even Pinterest have all been caught censoring Christians and conservatives.  </p>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/07/how-democracy-dies-in-darkness/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></section>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reporter Cries ‘Sexism’ After Mississippi Gubernatorial Candidate Invokes Billy Graham Rule</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Brian McNicoll</em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">A gubernatorial candidate in Mississippi <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/us/robert-foster-female-reporter.html"><span class="s2">invoked the Billy Graham Rule and declined to allow a reporter ride alone with him on a 15-hour campaign trip</span></a>, a decision the mainstream media has condemned in nearly lockstep.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Mississippi State Rep. <strong>Robert Foster</strong>, who represents a district near Memphis, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/10/politics/robert-foster-reporter-mississippi/index.html"><span class="s2">said he had made a promise to his wife before they married</span></a> that he would not be alone with another woman in a situation that could be construed as compromising.</span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/07/reporter-cries-sexism-after-mississippi-gubernatorial-candidate-invokes-billy-graham-rule/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Christian Response to Taylor Swift&#8217;s LGBT-Promoting Video</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Generally speaking, the entertainment industry is no friend to Christians attempting to raise their children to resist worldly conformity and embrace Godliness.  Taylor Swift’s recently released Christian-mocking, LGBT-affirming anthem <em>You Need to Calm Down</em> is the latest example.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The 29-year-old pop sensation brings together a cast of colorful celebrity collaborators to depict those who would choose to promote biblical sexual ethics as backwards, mean-spirited, even toothless cretins, angrily berating anyone who expresses their sexuality in a nontraditional way.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/06/a-christian-response-to-taylor-swifts-lgbt-promoting-video/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Al Gore Deserves Shame, Not an Apology</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">NPR recently ran a silly <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/06/08/730456004/more-people-see-climate-change-in-record-floods-and-extreme-weather-will-that-me">story</a> with this provocative headline: “We All Owe Al Gore an Apology.”  I dissent.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s first be clear about Gore.  After losing the 2000 presidential election, Gore found a cause to peddle in global warming.  He partnered with affluent donors, created a documentary full of hyperbolic exaggeration and dire warnings about an impending ecological armageddon, and made millions.  And millions.  He divorced his wife and became the international playboy of global warming-turned-climate change-turned-climate disruption-turned-whatever we’re calling it now.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/06/al-gore-deserves-shame-not-an-apology/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Disturbing Glimpse Into the Manufacturing of Fake News</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Ken Blackwell</em></p>
<p>President Trump’s enemies provided yet another disturbing glimpse of the bona fide fake news factory into which the mainstream media has morphed.</p>
<p>Late last week, <strong>Ian Bremmer</strong> tweeted a made-up quote from President Trump. Bremmer is one of the most well-known foreign policy experts in America. He didn’t offer any hint that the statement was fake. “President Trump in Tokyo: ‘Kim Jong Un is smarter and would make a better President than Sleepy Joe Biden,&#8217;” Bremmer wrote.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/06/a-disturbing-glimpse-into-the-manufacturing-of-fake-news/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jesters, &#8216;Hypokrites,&#8217; Actors &#038; Actresses</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 09:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Nicholas J. Stojakovich</em></p>
<p>The next time a Hollywood actor or actress tries to persuade or impress you with their profound knowledge and insights on political or world affairs, keep a few things in mind.</p>
<p>Never forget that the word &#8220;actor&#8221; comes from the Greek word &#8220;hypokrites,&#8221; which means “an actor” or “a stage player.”</p>
<p>Of course, many actors and actresses throughout history and today are incredibly gifted, and have created and will continue to create memorable stage plays and films that impact society for good.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/05/jesters-hypokrites-actors-actresses/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Understanding Fake News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2019 11:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Carmel Kookogey</em></p>
<p>Tuesday on the radio, <a class="external" href="https://get.blazetv.com/levin/?utm_source=cr&#38;utm_medium=referral&#38;utm_campaign=levin-episode-promos&#38;utm_term=levin&#38;utm_content=markup-051519-cr-website" rel="noopener noreferrer">LevinTV host Mark Levin</a> explained why he believes the media is the most important issue facing Americans today.</p>
<p>Levin read from an article he discusses in his upcoming book, “<a class="external" href="https://www.amazon.com/Unfreedom-Press-Mark-R-Levin/dp/1476773092/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=unfreedom+of+the+press&#38;qid=1557920600&#38;s=gateway&#38;sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer">Unfreedom of the Press</a>.” The article, <a class="external" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-unbearable-smugness-of-the-press-presidential-election-2016/" rel="noopener noreferrer">written after</a> the 2016 election by CBS News digital political correspondent <strong>Will Rahn</strong>, detailed D.C. journalists’ anguish after Donald Trump’s victory. The reporter admitted the mainstream media missed the story, while smugly mocking the people — Trump’s supporters — who knew better what was going on.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/05/understanding-fake-news/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 11:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Grogan</em></p>
<p>Recently, representatives from Facebook and Twitter <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/stifling-free-speech-technological-censorship-and-the-public-discourse">appeared</a> before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to respond to claims that their companies are engaging in the censorship of conservative news and voices. For years, conservatives have lamented the power of Big Tech over political discourse and their bias against the Right.</p>
<p>U.S. Senator <strong>Mazie Hirono</strong> (D-Hawaii) made sure to point out that, in her view, the evidence conservatives have for social media bias is purely anecdotal.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/05/facebook-twitter-biased-against-the-right/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hey Liberals, On Media Bias, Please Remove the Plank from Your Own Eye</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/04/hey-liberals-on-media-bias-please-remove-the-plank-from-your-own-eye/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>What kind of Twilight Zone are we living in when Democrats pretend that the mainstream media are objective journalists and Fox News is an arm of the Trump administration?</p>
<p>People are always talking about media bias, so why am I bringing this up now?</p>
<p>Well, because of two news alerts that popped up on my phone. First, I read that the Democratic National Committee is refusing to partner with Fox News for the 2020 primary debates.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/04/hey-liberals-on-media-bias-please-remove-the-plank-from-your-own-eye/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cognitive Bias and the Democrats</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Walker Wildmon</em></p>
<p>According to <u><a href="https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/definitions/cognitive-bias-13" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chegg.com</a></u>, “a cognitive bias is a mistake in reasoning, evaluating, remembering, or other cognitive process, often occurring as a result of holding onto one&#8217;s preferences and beliefs regardless of contrary information. Psychologists study cognitive biases as they relate to memory, reasoning, and decision-making.”</p>
<p>The modern day Democratic Party seems to be full of members who struggle with a form of cognitive bias. Look at their behavior.</p>
<p>For over two years, Democrats have accused President <strong>Donald J.</strong>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/04/cognitive-bias-and-the-democrats/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>No, We’re Not All Socialists Now</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jerry Newcombe</em></p>
<p>[Recently], the <em><a href="https://nypost.com/2019/03/03/socialisms-millennial-fans-dont-even-know-what-it-is/">New York Post</a></em> had an editorial about how many millennials embrace “socialism,” while not really knowing what it means:  “Millennials — ignorant of socialism’s appalling economic and human-rights history — increasingly embrace socialism and its naively unrealistic prescriptions for ending all human want.”</p>
<p>I’m reminded of a college student who wrote his dad: “Dear Dad, No mon. No fun. Your son.”</p>
<p>His dad wrote back: “Too bad. So sad. Your Dad.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/03/no-were-not-all-socialists-now/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Irresponsibility of Jussie Smollett</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jonathon Clay de Hale</em></p>
<p>When <strong>Jussie Smollett</strong>’s account of being attacked first broke at the end of January, I watched with interest but didn’t say anything. It seemed a bit cartoonish: two white guys wearing MAGA hats giving a gay black man a beat down in the middle of Chicago on a night of sub-zero temperatures, yelling racial and anti-gay epithets, dousing him with bleach, tying a noose around his neck and proclaiming, “This is MAGA country!”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/03/the-irresponsibility-of-jussie-smollett/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hate Crime Hoaxes: The Bad and the Good</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Walter WIlliams</em></p>
<p><strong>Jussie Smollett</strong>, &#8220;Empire&#8221; actor, claimed that on Jan. 29, two masked men identifying themselves as <strong>Donald Trump</strong> supporters and using racial and homophobic insults attacked him. Smollett said the assailants yelled &#8220;This is MAGA country,&#8221; bashed his face, crushed his ribs, splashed him with bleach and put a noose around his neck. Smollett&#8217;s telling of the hate crime was gobbled up hook, line and sinker by the anti-Trump news media, but Chicago police say it was a hoax.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/02/hate-crime-hoaxes-the-bad-and-the-good/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Left Is Hateful and Discriminatory</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Walker Wildmon</em></p>
<p>Democrats and liberals have used a strategy, again and again, to try to win power, and it is by calling others, their opponents, liars, haters, racists, and more.  Often this is just an example of psychologically projecting onto opponents their own actions they have taken or are willing to take.  But you won’t see many of these examples of liberal or Democrat deception in the media called out (visit <a href="https://onenewsnow.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> to see what other media sites won’t fairly discuss).&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/02/the-left-is-hateful-and-discriminatory/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Does the Media Deserve to Be Respected and Believed?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Michael Barone</em></p>
<p>Is it true that Donald Trump&#8217;s bad habits are contagious? Is it true that his Democratic opponents and, even more, his critics in the press are increasingly given to terminological inexactitudes, if not downright lies?</p>
<p>Sure looks like it. Last week, large parts of the press — we&#8217;re looking at you, CNN and MSNBC — were gleefully reporting and commenting on the BuzzFeed story about President Trump having allegedly ordered his former personal lawyer <strong>Michael Cohen</strong> to lie to members of special prosecutor Robert Mueller&#8217;s staff.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/01/does-the-media-deserve-to-be-respected-and-believed/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Crisis When It Suits Their Purpose</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Since the federal shutdown began [four] weeks ago, the liberal media have presented dozens of Chicken Little stories claiming that the sky is falling.</p>
<p>“Three dead in national park system accidents as shutdown wears on,” screamed a six-column headline in the <em>Washington Post</em> on January 5.</p>
<p>“The deaths follow a decision by Trump administration officials to leave the scenic — but sometimes deadly — parks open even as the Interior Department has halted most of its operations,” the article said.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/01/a-crisis-when-it-suits-their-purpose/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mitt&#8217;s Message</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2019 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Gary Bauer</em></p>
<p>The past two years have witnessed some of the most brutal political battles in modern American history.  Leftists refused to accept the 2016 election results.  They disrupted the inauguration.  And the Deep State has been attempting to undermine the Trump presidency every day since he was elected.</p>
<p>After having been AWOL for much of this fight, U.S. Senator-elect <strong>Mitt Romney</strong> (R-UT) has published an opinion piece in the <em><a href="https://ouramericanvalues.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b28b0a5cdf7536681c72b502d&#38;id=b8179c6ef1&#38;e=b2810feb15">Washington Post</a></em> offering his critique of Washington. &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/01/mitts-message/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Leftist Media Shocked at Number of Latinos Voting GOP</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 13:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Michael F. Haverluck</em></p>
<p class="selectionShareable">The left-leaning MSNBC was amazed when a new survey revealed that a surprisingly large percentage of Hispanics voted for Republicans in November’s midterm election.</p>
<p class="selectionShareable">In fact, the survey conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago divulged that nearly one in three of the 7,738 Latino voters surveyed casted their ballots for GOP candidates just over two years ago.</p>
<p class="selectionShareable">“In November&#8217;s elections, 32 percent of Latinos voted for Republicans, frustrating Democrats, according to AP VoteCast data,” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/defying-pundits-gop-share-latino-vote-steady-under-trump-n952411?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press (AP) announced in a report published by NBCNews.com</a>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/12/leftist-media-shocked-at-number-of-latinos-voting-gop/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Media Was Still Unglued in 2018</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2018 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by L. Brent Bozell III</em></p>
<p>President Trump has been in office for almost two years, which should mean that by now, all the crazy talk in the media about his impending dictatorship ought to be abandoned. Democracy is still vibrant, as we saw with record voter turnout in November. But the wild conspiracy theories about Trump never stop. Some of them qualify as the worst media quotes of the year.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t go looking for &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; to evaluate how much evidence the cable &#8220;news&#8221; folks have mustered.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/12/the-media-was-still-unglued-in-2018/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The 3 Biggest Media-Deep State Scams</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Wayne Allyn Root</em></p>
<p>Remember the old warning from President <strong>Dwight D. Eisenhower</strong> about the &#8220;military industrial complex&#8221;? He was right.</p>
<p>But the defense industry has nothing on the D.C. Swamp, the Deep State, the Democrat Party and the group that does their bidding: the Liberal Media Industrial Complex. They will do anything, lie about anything, slander and manipulate in order to make government bigger and more powerful. And they will go scorched-earth to destroy anyone who opposes them.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/12/10570/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>No, Don Lemon, the Facts Show Jihadists Are the Biggest Terror Threat</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Spencer</em></p>
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<p class="newLineContentFilterParagraph">CNN’s <strong>Don Lemon</strong> has found himself in the middle of a controversy for claiming, in the wake of a shooting in a Kentucky supermarket, that “the biggest terror threat in this country is white men.” When criticized, Lemon doubled down, claiming that “the evidence is overwhelming.”</p>
<p class="newLineContentFilterParagraph">It isn’t.</p>
<p class="newLineContentFilterParagraph">Ironically, Lemon began his venture into counterterror analysis by <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/29/CPT.01.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>: “I keep trying to point out to people not to demonize any one group or any one ethnicity.”</p></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/11/no-don-lemon-the-facts-show-jihadists-are-the-biggest-terror-threat/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Europe Suppresses Speech for Muslim &#8216;Feelings&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2018 01:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by L. Brent Bozell</em></p>
<p>In the age of Trump, the American media insist that freedom of speech is in danger because they somehow consider mocking journalists a suppression of free speech. Now imagine if America had a law where you couldn&#8217;t mock Christian doctrines without facing a fine. The press would again denounce the curtailment of free speech but now you&#8217;d also hear the cries of &#8220;theocracy!&#8221;</p>
<p>And yet the First Amendment worshipers were missing on Oct.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/11/europe-suppresses-speech-for-muslim-feelings/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CNN’s Don Lemon Doubles Down on False Claim That White Men are “Biggest Terror Threat in This Country”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Spencer</em></p>
<p>“The evidence is overwhelming,” insists Lemon. But is it, really? There are several reasons why it is a false claim that “right-wing extremists” are a bigger threat to Americans than Islamic jihad terrorists. “Lemon pointed to <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683984.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a recent Government Accountability Office report</a> that shows that since the 9/11 attacks in 2001, far-right violent extremists have killed 106 people in 62 attacks in the United States, while radical Islamist violent extremists have killed 119 people in 23 attacks.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/11/cnns-don-lemon-doubles-down-on-false-claim-that-white-men-are-biggest-terror-threat-in-this-country/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>American Media, Just Stick to Your Job</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/10/10136/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Denise Shick</em></p>
<p>Well, it&#8217;s official now: <strong>Jazz Jennings</strong> – born 18 years ago as Jared, with normally functioning male parts – now has female parts.</p>
<p>Despite a &#8220;complication&#8221; requiring a second procedure, Jazz is happy to tell her throngs of adoring fans that her surgery was a success and that now &#8220;I just get to be myself, be in the body that I&#8217;ve always wanted.&#8221;</p>
<p>In case you missed it somewhere along the way – as you worked those long, hard hours scraping up enough money to pay the rent and feed your family – in 2007, when Jared was just seven years old, he became the poster-child for childhood transgenderism.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/10/10136/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mudslinging</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Mudslinging.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-9985 size-full" src="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Mudslinging-e1538831030521.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="435" /></a>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/10/mudslinging/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kicking Off More Contempt for America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>What is it with our ruling elites? How did they come to have so much disdain for America?  Some recent events have yet again brought this unfortunate situation to the surface.</p>
<p>Let’s start with Nike, the Portland, Oregon-based sportswear mega-company.  It did not become a Fortune 100 corporation by chance or careless management.</p>
<p>Debuting as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964, the firm under <strong>Bill Bowerman</strong> and <strong>Phil Knight</strong> officially adopted the Nike name and the famous Swoosh logo in 1971.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/09/kicking-off-more-contempt-for-america/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mr. Anonymous Exposes an Even Deeper State</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>If Democrats and resistance Republicans think they are going to depose President Trump or thwart his presidency by endlessly savaging him in the name of protecting the republic, they don’t have any concept of the fierce resolve of his supporters.</p>
<p>The latest salvo in the resistance’s efforts to nullify the will of the American electorate is an anonymous <em>New York Times</em> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> purportedly penned by a “senior official” in the Trump administration.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/09/mr-anonymous-exposes-an-even-deeper-state/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CNN Takes the Bait on Diversity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Brian C. Joondeph</em></p>
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<p>CNN, famous for fake news, focuses their 24-7 news cycle on anything damaging to President <strong>Trump</strong>, even if they have to provoke it or make it up. Their low <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/26/cnn-food-network-ratings/">television ratings</a> reflect the lack of public interest in their incessant Trump bashing. In late June, “In primetime, CNN lost to HGTV, Investigation Discovery, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and the Food Network.”</p>
<p>When CNN is not Trump bashing, they are virtue signaling to fellow leftists.</p></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/08/cnn-takes-the-bait-on-diversity/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Theory of Political Relative Relativity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Michelle Malkin</em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s quite simple: Some political relatives are more equal than others.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>By contrast, relatives who openly challenge powerful Democrats are dismissed as gadflies and publicity hounds.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/08/the-theory-of-political-relative-relativity/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump and the Media War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jan LaRue</em></p>
<p>The anti-Trump media are comparing President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> to <strong>Joseph Stalin</strong> because the president fires back at his critics.</p>
<p>An allusion to the wisdom of philosophers residing in the joint applies to media whiners: &#8220;if you can&#8217;t do the time, don&#8217;t do the slime.&#8221;</p>
<p>The president&#8217;s daily dose of name-calling by media includes the following: he&#8217;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&#8217;s just MSNBC.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/08/trump-and-the-media-war/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The First Fake Media-Induced Mental Illness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 09:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jeffery Ford</em></p>
<p>Fake mainstream news sources have actually succeeded in broadcasting so much unbridled fear into the United States that weak-kneed left-leaning Americans are coming down with a mental illness that goes by two different names: Trump Anxiety Disorder and Trump Derangement Syndrome.</p>
<p>The symptoms of these conditions include a delusional belief that it&#8217;s the end of the world, a disorientation that&#8217;s beyond the liberal norm, an unhealthy obsession with following every liberal news channel&#8217;s apocalypse of the day, a deep sense of anxiety and dread, and being prone to unhinged hissy fits if anyone dares to besmirch the sterling reputation of either <strong>Hillary Rodham Clinton</strong> or <strong>Barack Hussein Obama</strong>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/08/the-first-fake-media-induced-mental-illness/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump is More Popular Than Obama and it’s Driving the Fake Newsers Nuts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Autumn Price Johnson</em></p>
<p>President <strong>Trump</strong>’s popularity is soaring among voters in spite of round-the-clock attacks from CNN’s <strong>Jim Acosta</strong> and others in the Fake News industry.</p>
<p>“When they see the anger from the media – the seething rage against this president, it drives people to the president’s corner,” Republican National Committee spokesperson <strong>Kaley McEnany</strong> said on the <strong>Todd Starnes</strong> Radio Show.</p>
<p>McEnany cited a new Rasmussen <strong><a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/998515/Donald-Trump-news-Obama-US-poll-Rasmussen-Reports-US-approval-rating">poll</a> </strong>showing President Trump has a current approval rating of 48%, while former President <strong>Barack Obama</strong> had an approval rating of 46% at the same point in his presidency.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/08/trump-is-more-popular-than-obama-and-its-driving-the-fake-newsers-nuts/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Racist Left</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by E.W. Jackson</em></p>
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<p>Leftist ideologues live in an alternate universe, a product of their hallucinations of an America that does not exist except in their own demented thinking.</p>
<p>The latest manifestation of this delusional perception is <strong>Eugene Robinson</strong>&#8216;s opinion piece in the <em>Washington Post</em> on July 5.  Here is some of what he said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Racism is a feature of the Trump administration, not a bug[.] &#8230;</p>
<p>We have not seen such overt racism from a president since <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/1214/5-surprising-facts-about-Woodrow-Wilson-and-racism">Woodrow Wilson</a> imposed Jim Crow segregation in Washington and approvingly showed &#8220;The Birth of a Nation,&#8221; director D.W.</p></blockquote></div></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/07/the-racist-left-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Left is Always Wrong: Election Meddling Edition</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/07/the-left-is-always-wrong-election-meddling-edition/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 20:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Elections]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tom Trinko</em></p>
<p>Twelve Russians have been indicted for hacking the DNC and releasing DNC emails showing that the DNC had violated its own rules and worked against <strong>Bernie</strong> and for <strong>Hillary</strong> in the primaries.</p>
<p>Leftists are talking about the Russians meddling in the U.S. election as a result.  The problem is that while hacking the DNC is illegal and the Russians should be prosecuted, how can telling the voters that the DNC conspired against Bernie be considered “meddling” in our election?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/07/the-left-is-always-wrong-election-meddling-edition/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Big Lie: Leftists Care about Children</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/the-big-lie-leftists-care-about-children/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tom Trinko</em></p>
<p>Leftists have a long history of exploiting children to advance the left&#8217;s political agenda.  The most recent case is the left&#8217;s screeching about the fact that when illegals are arrested for trying to sneak into the country, their children are separated from them.</p>
<p>We know that leftists don&#8217;t really care about this because it happened under <strong>Barack Obama</strong>, and they said nothing.  It even happened under <strong>George W. Bush</strong>, and they didn&#8217;t complain about it then, either, even though they hated Bush.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/the-big-lie-leftists-care-about-children/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“Pride Month” is Officially a Religion: Twitter CEO Shamed Into Disavowing Chik-fil-A Visit</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/pride-month-is-officially-a-religion-twitter-ceo-shamed-into-disavowing-chik-fil-a-visit/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith & Religion]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In April, Babylon Bee <a href="http://babylonbee.com/news/op-ed-you-either-die-an-sjw-or-you-live-long-enough-to-see-yourself-become-a-bigot/">published a satirical op-ed entitled</a>: “You Either Die An SJW, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become A Bigot”</p>
<p>The “author” of the piece was Starbucks Executive Chair <strong>Howard Schultz</strong>. The op-ed mocked how Starbucks was shamed into closing all of its 8,000 stores because leftist social justice warriors claimed that one Philadelphia store manager’s decision meant the <em>entire company </em>was full of racists.</p>
<p>This is the same Starbucks which endorsed left-wing ideologies on LGBT issues long before they were popular.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/pride-month-is-officially-a-religion-twitter-ceo-shamed-into-disavowing-chik-fil-a-visit/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Deconstructing Young Minds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Since November 2016, the Deep State and its media allies have spent considerable time and money cultivating animus toward <strong>President Trump</strong> and the Republican-led Congress among younger voters.</p>
<p>Many Millennials came unglued in the wake of the election and still are.  The Left is counting on their turning out to elect progressives in November.  Social media bristle with anti-Trump and anti-conservative invectives, and some of it spills over into anti-American rants.</p>
<p>As author <strong>William J.</strong>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/deconstructing-young-minds/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>‘Fake News’ Is Not a Fake Term</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>The left and Trump-opposing right are predictably annoyed at <strong>President Trump</strong>’s persistent description of the liberal media as “fake news.” Like it or not, the term as he uses it has merit.</p>
<p>Trump’s opponents hysterically claim he threatens the free press when he uses that term to describe them, just as they accuse him of other alleged abuses of constitutional power. In fact, unlike <strong>President Obama</strong>, Trump has governed within his constitutional authority.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/fake-news-is-not-a-fake-term/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Does CNN Really Have Trump Derangement Syndrome?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Michael Brown</em></p>
<p>Maybe it’s a matter of timing. Maybe I’m not giving this a fair shake. But whenever I happen to tune in to CNN, there’s a panel of talking heads discussing President Trump and the porn star. Or President Trump and the Mueller investigation. Or President Trump and whether he’ll be impeached.</p>
<p>Or President Trump and Jerusalem. Or President Trump and Saudi Arabia. Or President Trump and Iran. Or President Trump and North Korea.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/does-cnn-really-have-trump-derangement-syndrome/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Beware of The Dog</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/05/beware-of-the-dog/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2018 09:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Watch]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jonathan Clay de Hale </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em>Is it ever right for Christians to describe evil in unflattering terms?</em></span></strong></span></p>
<p>Judging by the hyperbolic angst of the political left and the mainstream media, you’d have thought that President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> had called Prince Louis Arthur Charles an ugly baby. But you’d be wrong, because all he did was call MS-13 gang members “animals.”</p>
<p>MS-13 is a criminal gang whose motto is &#8220;Kill. Rape. Control.” and they are responsible for some of the most violent crimes in the United States.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/05/beware-of-the-dog/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Biggest Threat to America&#8217;s Future Is the Media</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Rick Hayes</em></p>
<p>The United States of America is by far the most powerful nation on Planet Earth, spending about as much on defense as the entire rest of the world.  According to a report on globalization from Credit Suisse, the U.S. has maintained its position as the world&#8217;s strongest military.  As an example, although Russia has the most substantial number of tanks, approximately 15,000, with the U.S. coming in at around 8,000, the U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/05/the-biggest-threat-to-americas-future-is-the-media/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>America Has Always Been Politically Divided</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 13:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Illinois Politics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Pat Hickey</em></p>
<p>You got that right, Al.</p>
<p>Party-line, lock-step, propaganda-swallowing Americans have been with us always. New York Loyalists wanted nothing to do with the Sons of Liberty, and now Deplorables and the Resistance spit at one another.</p>
<p><em>Can&#8217;t we all get along</em>?</p>
<p>Nope. <a href="http://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/why-is-the-united-states-so-divided-simple-it-was-never-united-at-all">Never have</a>.</p>
<p>When I was ten years old, Chicagoans had the choice of reading these daily newspapers:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Chicago American</em>, 1900–1939 (became the <em>Herald-American</em> and then <em>Today</em>)</li>
<li><em>Chicago Daily News</em>, 1876–1978</li>
<li><em>Chicago Sun-Times</em>, 1948–present</li>
<li><em>Chicago Tribune</em>, 1847–present</li>
<li><em>Chicago Defender</em>, 1905–present</li>
<li><em>Southtown Economist</em> 1906 to 2014 (swallowed by the <em>Chicago Tribune</em> and <em>Sun-Times News Group)</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Now, at the ripe milestone of 66 years, this Chicagoan has the choice of <em>not</em> reading the <em>Chicago Tribune</em> and <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/05/america-has-always-been-politically-divided/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Return of the Feckless Chick-Fil-A-Phobes</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/04/return-of-the-feckless-chick-fil-a-phobes/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Michelle Malkin</em></p>
<p>Move over, Trump Derangement Syndrome. Another unhinged liberal pathology is back:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Chick-fil-A-phobia.</span></strong></em></span></p>
<p>Perhaps, in the interest of public health, the CDC should launch a weekly C-F-A-P surveillance report to map the recurrence of this culturally infectious disease. Early-onset symptoms include fear of pressure-cooked poultry, allergic reaction to waffle potato fries and an irrational hatred of cow costumes. Anti-Christian prejudice and coastal elitism are common comorbidities associated with this debilitating progressive condition.</p>
<p>Ground zero for the latest outbreak?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/04/return-of-the-feckless-chick-fil-a-phobes/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>White House Bible Study Leader Criticized for Views on Homosexuality, Gender Roles, Catholic Church</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/04/white-house-bible-study-leader-criticized-for-views-on-homosexuality-gender-roles-catholic-church/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Michael Gryboski</em></p>
<p>The leader of a weekly Bible study that includes prominent members of the White House like Vice President <strong>Mike Pence</strong> and Attorney General <strong>Jeff Sessions</strong> is garnering controversy for his views on social and religious issues.</p>
<p><strong>Ralph Drollinger</strong>, a former basketball player-turned-pastor who oversees <a href="https://capmin.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitol Ministries</a>, which ministers to public officials, oversees the Bible study every Wednesday.</p>
<p>On Sunday, the BBC published <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43534724" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a report</a> that was <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43534724" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical</a> of the Bible study, and put a spotlight on Drollinger&#8217;s views, such as his biblical views on homosexuality and complementarianism.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/04/white-house-bible-study-leader-criticized-for-views-on-homosexuality-gender-roles-catholic-church/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Southern Poverty Law Center Is a Hate Group</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/03/southern-poverty-law-center-is-a-hate-group/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Josh Goldstein</em></p>
<p>Like many leftist organizations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, started out with good intentions. It was founded in 1971 by <strong>Morris Dees</strong> and <strong>Joseph Levin</strong> and is headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama.  The Southern Poverty Law Center rightly condemned, as did conservatives such as the great <strong>William F. Buckley</strong> and <strong>Ronald Reagan</strong>, the American Nazi Party and the Democrat-affiliated Ku Klux Klan.</p>
<p>A favorite SPLC tactic was suing Klan affiliated organizations for their crimes and then distributing the money to the victims.  &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/03/southern-poverty-law-center-is-a-hate-group/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I Wish I Were as Bad a Christian as Mike Pence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>I’ve repeatedly said that though President Trump gives his leftist enemies plenty of fodder in his tweets to attack him, they would malign any Republican president unless he totally capitulated to their demands — and switched parties. Indeed, they always have.</p>
<p>The liberals say Trump is such an awful person, which apparently excuses their monomaniacal obsession with destroying his presidency. Yet Vice President <strong>Mike Pence</strong> is one of the finest people around, and they can’t stand him, either.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/02/i-wish-i-were-as-bad-a-christian-as-mike-pence/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Chicago Tribune Dumps on Ives</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Laurie Higgins</em></p>
<p>Last week the <em>Chicago Tribune</em> Editorial Board, columnist <strong>Eric Zorn</strong>, columnist <strong>Rex Huppke</strong>, and “reporter” <strong>Kim Janssen</strong> all took shots at gubernatorial candidate <strong>Jeanne Ives’</strong> campaign ad.</p>
<p>The Ives campaign released an ad that criticized <em>policies</em> using actors to depict the constituencies <strong>Bruce Rauner</strong> serviced through his boneheaded Leftist decisions, and Leftists became apoplectic. Actually, they mainly cared about the depiction of a cross-dressing man—or what the Left risibly calls a “transwoman” to conceal the existential and immutable reality of his sex.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/02/chicago-tribune-dumps-on-ives/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The Real Problem With Fake News: We Can&#8217;t Agree on a Definition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by William M. Briggs</em></p>
<p>On the last day of bad old last year, Lake Superior State University released its <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/list-bans-fake-news-covfefe-let-ask-051104480.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">43rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.</a></p>
<p>The ripest for excision was “fake news.” “Let that sink in.”</p>
<p>I mean, “let that sink in” was another “impactful” phrase needing banning. As was (can we get an Amen?) “impactful.” (Most banned words are those that fill the air in corporate meetings.)&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/01/the-real-problem-with-fake-news-we-cant-agree-on-a-definition/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media Ignore Real Democratic Scandals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2017 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>Why the collective liberal media yawn on the multi-headed Democratic scandals surfacing everywhere except on their pages and airwaves?</p>
<p>It’s not that the stories are too far-fetched and thin to interest self-respecting journalists, because they are real, damning and supported by sufficiently credible evidence to warrant serious attention and scrutiny.</p>
<p>There are the notorious Trump dossier, the Clinton-infected uranium bribery scandal and the prematurely drafted FBI memo to exonerate the most recently defeated United States presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, who, by the way, is still acting like a heat-seeking missile in search of just one plausible excuse for her loss.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/10/media-ignore-real-democratic-scandals/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Conservative Coalition Urges Media to Stop Citing SPLC</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter LaBarbera</em></p>
<p>A coalition of 47 conservatives has written a <a href="http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF17I05.pdf">letter</a> appealing to the media to stop citing the Southern Poverty Law Center (<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/hate-profiteer-splc-will-use-new-liberal-donations-to-destroy-small-pro-fam">SPLC</a>) as an authority on &#8220;hate,&#8221; calling it &#8220;an attack dog of the political left&#8221; that slanders traditional conservatives as &#8220;extremists.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the wake of the race protests and riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/us/hate-groups-us-map-trnd/index.html">CNN</a> and other media and blogs have <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/hate-profiteer-splc-will-use-new-liberal-donations-to-destroy-small-pro-fam">cited the SPLC’s “hate map”</a> as a <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/this-list-of-hate-groups-inspired-a-terrorist-attack-on-pro-lifers.-today-c">guide to locate “hate groups”</a>and “extremists” across the United States.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/09/conservative-coalition-urges-media-to-stop-citing-splc/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tucker Carlson: Antifa&#8217;s The Democrats&#8217; Militant Wing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Kraychik</em></p>
<p>Antifa is the de facto militant wing of Democrats, said Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson on Monday’s episode of <em>Tucker Carlson Tonight</em>.</p>
<p>Carlson made his comments during an interview with Joey Gibson, founder of “Patriot Prayer” and a self-described advocate for free speech and expression.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a political militia that is doing the bidding, in effect, of Nancy Pelosi and Governor Jerry Brown and the mayor of Berkeley and all these supposedly mainstream Democratic politicians, and this is a militia hurting American citizens for saying what they think,&#8221; said Carlson.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/08/tucker-carlson-antifas-the-democrats-militant-wing/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mainstream Conservatives Are On CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Hate Group&#8221; List</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jordan Schachtel</em></p>
<p>CNN has <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/us/hate-groups-us-map-trnd/index.html">published</a> a list of “hate groups” currently operating in the United States, relying on an extremely partisan analysis from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).</p>
<p>Several truly extremist groups populate the list, such as the Ku Klux Klan, New Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, and others.</p>
<p>But along with the neo-Nazi and Islamic extremist groups on the list, the SPLC has lumped in as “hate groups” mainstream, well-known conservative individuals and organizations who merely speak out about the threat of radical Islam.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/08/mainstream-conservatives-are-on-cnns-hate-group-list/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ABC News Vilifies Everyday Americans with “Hate Group” Headline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Monica Burke</em></p>
<p>[Last] week, an ABC News headline referred to <a href="https://www.adflegal.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Alliance Defending Freedom</a>, a Christian nonprofit committed to defending religious liberty in the legal system, as an “<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeff-sessions-addresses-anti-lgbt-hate-group-doj/story?id=48593488">anti-LGBT hate group</a>.” ABC reported on a speech delivered by Attorney General <strong>Jeff Sessions</strong> in the following manner:</p>
<blockquote><p>Sessions addressed members of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was designated an ‘anti-LGBT hate group’ by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2016, at the Summit on Religious Liberty at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, in Dana Point, California.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/abc-news-vilifies-everyday-americans-with-hate-group-headline/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Double Standards in the War between White House and Media</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Michael Medved</em></p>
<p>For all his vast power, the President of the United States—any president—is always at a structural disadvantage in a “war” with the media. The First Amendment protects press rights to criticize the government, and everyone expects such criticism. But if government—or the president, as head of government—strikes back by assailing media, there’s an uneasy hint of bullying or oppression.</p>
<p>President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> isn’t exceptional in generating media hostility, but <strong>Barack Obama</strong> was exceptional in avoiding such scrutiny for eight years.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/double-standards-in-the-war-between-white-house-and-media/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Killing Trump: Hollywood&#8217;s Violent Assault on an American President</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Todd Starnes</em></p>
<p>Hollywood wants <strong>President Trump</strong> to sleep with the fishes. They want him dead – decapitated – his bloody entrails splayed across the Rose Garden for <a href="http://www.toddstarnes.com/column/why-did-school-yank-teachers-conservative-summer-reading-list">all of the world to see.</a></p>
<p>A who’s-who of actors and directors and musicians want him to suffer the most agonizingly brutal and gory death in the history of assassinations.</p>
<p><strong>Johnny Depp</strong> is the latest star of stage and screen to flirt with the idea of murdering President Trump.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/killing-trump-hollywoods-violent-assault-on-an-american-president/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Guidestar to Remove ‘Hate Group’ Labels on Conservative Groups for ‘Time Being’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Rachel del Guidice</em></p>
<p>The nation’s leading source of information on U.S. charities announced it will modify its use of a controversial “hate group” designation in listings for some well-known and broadly supported conservative nonprofits.</p>
<p>“We have decided to remove the SPLC annotations from these 46 organizations for the time being,” read a <a href="https://learn.guidestar.org/news/news-releases/update-regarding-splc-flags-on-guidestar-nonprofit-profiles">statement</a> posted Friday on GuideStar’s website. “This change will be implemented during the week of June 26, 2017. In the meantime, we will make this information available to any user on request.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/guidestar-to-remove-hate-group-labels-on-conservative-groups-for-time-being/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CNN’s Fake Muslim Anti-Terror Protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2017 09:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ff6600;"><strong>“You see more press than anyone else.”</strong></span></p>
<p><em>Written by Amber Athey</em></p>
<p>[Last week] CNN was accused of staging a Muslim-led anti-terror protest after the London terror attacks. Now, more footage has dropped that shows what happened on the scene before the CNN shot was taken.</p>
<p>A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTdqZnu6Gao" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Youtube video</a> taken by <strong>Claire Jordan</strong> shows her milling around the scene and “protest” prior to CNN lining up the protesters for their on-air shot.</p>
<p>There is a group of people in the area, both Muslim and non-Muslim, and some of them can be seen handing out bouquets of flowers and posters.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/cnns-fake-muslim-anti-terror-protest/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Need for a Middle America News Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2017 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Bruce Walker<br />
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<p>The decline and lurch to the left of the Fox News Network provides an opening for any astute conservative billionaire: create a news network specifically intended to provide news from the viewpoint of most of America, which is to say the seventy-five percent of Americans who live in Flyover Country.  While the geographic concentration of political power in America is appalling, the geographic concentration of media power is much worse.</p>
<p>Because the media defy elections and, in fact, determine elections, having almost all national news pass through the tiny channel of the New York-to-Washington Beltway is toxic to our national life.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/the-need-for-a-middle-america-news-network/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Backlash: Appropriate Only When the Liberals and Media Say It Is</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 09:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jody Patterson</em></p>
<p>A “backlash” is simply a reaction to a situation, development, or political action, etc. A “backlash” maybe an adverse reaction but it can also be a just and right reaction.  “Backlashes” should not have a negative connotation for all situations; at times they are warranted and needed to enact change or justice.</p>
<p>The liberal/progressive groups and the media selectively “backlash” and have knee-jerk reactions when it suits their agenda. It is nauseating to see liberals and the media discuss a potential backlash against Islam in the U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/backlash-appropriate-only-when-the-liberals-and-media-say-it-is/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It’s So Bad, Even a Liberal University Noticed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 18:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Micah Clark</em></p>
<p>If you think that liberal bias in the media has gotten even worse since the election of <strong>Donald Trump</strong>, you’re not alone.  Even Harvard University in Massachusetts has noticed that the media has gone over the edge in a new study.</p>
<p>They found in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency, <u>80 percent of media coverage was negative</u>. For major liberal players such as CNN and<em> The New York Times</em>, that number was as high as 93 percent.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/its-so-bad-even-a-liberal-university-noticed/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Media-Democratic Party Suicide Pact</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 09:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Patricia McCarthy</em></p>
<p>The national media and the Democratic Party have gone stark raving mad over <strong>President Trump&#8217;s</strong> election victory; they refuse to accept it.  Their paroxysms of fury are evident all day long on every network and cable news outlet and every mainstream newspaper. Since Nov. 8, they have leapt like a swarm of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remora">remoras</a> onto a whale proclaiming every little thing that they think might take the man down.  Hillary&#8217;s team concocted the &#8220;Russia collusion&#8221; hoax within twenty-four hours of her defeat.  &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/05/7565/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Milo Yiannopoulos: Cultural Marxist in Not So Conservative Clothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2017 09:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Ryan Sorba</em></p>
<p>Milo Yiannopoulos is a thirty-two year old pansexual British citizen.<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a> Yiannopoulos’ legal name is Milo Andreas Hanrahan. He has written poetry under the pen name Milo Wagner<a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3">[3]</a> and gone by the names Nero and Caligula on social media, after two Roman despots who molested children and tortured Christians.<a href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4">[4]</a><a href="#_ftn5">[5]</a></p>
<p>Yiannopoulos is a dropout of both the University of Manchester and Wolfson College. After a short stent working for the <em>UK’s Daily Telegraph</em> and a series of business corruption charges were levelled against him in England Yiannopoulos obtained approval to migrate to the United States on an O-1 Visa for “aliens with special abilities.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/05/milo-yiannopoulos-cultural-marxist-in-not-so-conservative-clothing/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Empty Talking Heads Wasting Chances to Inform Voters About the Real Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by John Biver</em></p>
<p>Over the weekend veteran Chicago news reporter <strong>Bill Cameron</strong> had <strong>Pat Brady</strong> as a guest on his weekly program and <a href="http://www.wlsam.com/2017/04/07/connected-to-chicago-04-09-2017/" target="_blank">podcast</a>. Yes, <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/05/pat-brady-appointed-to-il-gop-platform-committee/" target="_blank">that Pat Brady</a> &#8212; the disgraced former chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, who was hired by the radical ACLU to convince weak-kneed and malleable Republicans to vote for marriage redefinition in 2013. On Monday, a friend brought it to my attention in an email and asked:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why does Bill Cameron go to a disgraced Republican who was chased out as GOP chairman for a supposedly conservative reaction to Donald Trump&#8217;s first few months as POTUS?</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/04/empty-talking-heads-wasting-chances-to-inform-voters-about-the-real-problem/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Poll: 6 in 10 Americans Think Media Reports Fake News</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Don Irvine</em></p>
<p>A new poll shows that a majority of Americans believe that both online news sources and traditional media outlets are guilty of publishing fake news.</p>
<p>The poll, released Wednesday by the <a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthPoll_US_032917/">Monmouth University Polling Institute</a>, found that 80 percent of respondents thought that online news sites published fake news either regularly or occasionally. Traditional news outlets fared a little better, with 60 percent of those polled believing that they published fake news, either regularly or occasionally.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/04/poll-6-in-10-americans-think-media-reports-fake-news/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Desperate Is CNN To Bash Trump? This Desperate.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 09:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Joseph Curl</em></p>
<p>CNN makes no bones about being anti-Trump in every way. The cable news channel that many know as the Clinton News Network was all about Hillary throughout the election – and even though Trump trounced her, the network execs have decided to target the president at every turn.</p>
<p>They&#8217;ve covered non-stories galore while ignoring huge Hillary scandals. And they absolutely love fact-checking through the use of chyrons, like <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-chyron-smacks-eric-trump-for-saying-father-apologized-for-khan-attacks/">this</a> and <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/cnn-uses-chyrons-to-fact-check-a-trump-speech-on-nukes-as-he-gives-it/">this</a> and <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/cnn-brings-back-the-fact-checking-chyron-to-say-obama-didnt-found-isis/">this</a>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/04/how-desperate-is-cnn-to-bash-trump-this-desperate/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media Bias on Snooping Benefits Obama over Trump</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>A week ago, President <strong>Trump</strong> unleashed a media firestorm when he accused former President <strong>Barack Obama</strong> in a tweet of wiretapping Trump Tower in New York.</p>
<p>The standard portrayal: Once again, the president has shot from the hip, right into his foot, &#8220;without any evidence&#8221; whatever.</p>
<p>These are the same media that excitedly accused the Russians of &#8220;hacking the election,&#8221; based on a report from the CIA, FBI and NSA in early January while Mr.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/03/media-bias-on-snooping-benefits-obama-over-trump/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>For CNN, The Embarrassments Pile Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Monica Showalter</em></p>
<p>First, <strong>President Trump </strong><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/trump-shouts-down-reporter-refuses-to-take-cnn-question-in-bizarre-press-conference">refused</a> to take their questions.  Later, he tweeted that they were a network of &#8220;<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/379256-russia-cnn-spying-zakharova/">fake news</a>.&#8221;  Then they got caught in a fake news scandal, of the grossest sort, reporting some of the &#8220;<a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/01/fake-news-buzzfeed-cnn-fall-trump-piss-story-4chan-prank/">golden showers</a>&#8221; phony dossier on Trump as straight news and getting caught and discredited.  Turned out it was just the product of some disgusting left-anarchist&#8217;s febrile imagination, and only Buzzfeed made a <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/the-media-spar-over-the-alleged-golden-shower-report">bigger fool of itself</a>.</p></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/03/for-cnn-the-embarrassments-pile-up/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>4 Recent Examples Show Why No One Trusts Media ‘Fact Checks’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2017 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway</em></p>
<p>A few weeks ago, <strong>Donald Trump</strong> responded to <strong>Meryl Streep’s</strong> insults by calling her overrated. Some fact checks came out saying that Streep, in fact, had won many awards. The Associated Press’ “<a href="https://www.apnews.com/1771085ba1ce4a1d8098266b13d864af?utm_content=buffer28691&#38;utm_medium=social&#38;utm_source=twitter.com&#38;utm_campaign=buffer" target="_blank">Meryl Streep overrated? Donald Trump picks a decorated star</a>,” was one such example. Four of the seven paragraphs to the story listed awards and honors she’d received.</p>
<p>As <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/vjmfilms/status/818615510866792448" target="_blank">Victor Morton</a> </strong>noted, “‘She has won a bunch of awards’ isn’t even a prima-facie rebuttal of the claim ‘she is overrated’.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/02/4-recent-examples-show-why-no-one-trusts-media-fact-checks/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>As any reporter can tell you, it’s far more fun to cover zany people and events than those exuding decency and restraint.  The news business, like much of the entertainment media, thrives on mayhem.</p>
<p>In Disney’s animated classic “Fantasia,” the spectacular deviltry of “A Night on Bald Mountain” is followed by a peaceful march of candle-bearing believers after the morning sun dispatches the satanic hordes.  The melodic strains of “Ave Maria” wash away any lingering creepiness. &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/02/the-media-march-in-lockstep-toward-irrelevance/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stein: Hollywood &#8216;Bullies&#8217; Silencing Political Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<p class="selectionShareable"><em>Written by Michael F. Haverluck</em></p>
<p class="selectionShareable">With actors continued bashing of President-elect <strong>Donald Trump</strong> ever since he defeated his Democratic rival <strong>Hillary Clinton</strong> in November’s presidential election, actor and economist <strong>Ben Stein</strong> blasted most of Hollywood as being a “bunch of thuggish bullies” who try to silence those with opposing political views.</p>
<p class="selectionShareable">When reflecting on his past work in the entertainment industry, including <em>Ferris Bueller’s Day Off</em> and <em>Win Ben Stein’s Money</em>, the conservative critic took on those who use acting as a stage to dictate public discussion on political matters.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/01/media-ben-stein-hollywood-bullies-silencing-political-debate/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Every Crime is a Hate Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Bryan Fischer</em></p>
<p>By now the nation is fully aware of a heinous crime committed in Chicago against a mentally challenged young man who is white. Four black adults kidnapped him, bound him with duct tape, tortured him for days as he huddled in a corner, made him drink water out of a toilet, and threatened him with a knife which they used to cut his scalp.</p>
<p>He managed to escape and the police found him wandering dazed and traumatized in a T-shirt and shorts in the January cold.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/01/every-crime-is-a-hate-crime/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Liberal Media Invented ‘Fake News’ LONG Before Conservative Media Was Born</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Todd Warner Huston</em></p>
<p>The watch words of the day seems to be “fake news” with liberals using the concept as a weapon to shut down all center right news and opinion outlets on both the Internet and TV. But the fact is, the liberal media invented “fake news” many decades before those on the right finally had enough of media bias and started their own news outlets.</p>
<p>Liberals have spent the entire month after Election Day proclaiming every non-liberal website or TV network to be purveyors of “fake news” even going so far as creating a list of sites they claim are all lies and publishing wildly biased “studies” of said sites to “prove” they are filled with “fake news.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/12/liberal-media-invented-fake-news-long-before-conservative-media-was-born/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hey Liberal Media, This is what it Actually Looks Like</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Micah Clark</em></p>
<p>There is a very interesting <a href="https://www.votervoice.net/BroadcastLinks/Yu1_6qRenzrynojZmBLMXw">story</a> that deserves to be resurrected in all this talk of Russian involvement in the recent election.  The claim is that somehow <strong>Donald Trump</strong> encouraged the Russians to hack <strong>Hillary Clinton</strong> and DNC servers to confirm bad things about the Clintons that most everyone already knew and suspected.</p>
<p>Actual confirmed efforts to involve the Russians are there, but not with Donald Trump. It involves one of the patron saints of liberalism: U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/12/hey-liberal-media-this-is-what-it-actually-looks-like/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wahlberg: Stars Should Shut Up About Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 10:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Chase Stephens</em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s nice to know not every big Hollywood entertainer is Cher-level crazy.</p>
<p>While out promoting his latest picture, a terrorism drama called &#8220;Patriot’s Day,&#8221; actor <strong>Mark Wahlberg</strong> sat down with <a href="http://taskandpurpose.com/mark-wahlberg-thinks-celebrities-need-shut-politics/" target="_blank">TaskandPurpose.com</a> and opened up about how out of touch Hollywood is with the average American&#8217;s life. His fellow celebrities living in the Hollywood &#8220;bubble,&#8221; he suggested, should stop cramming their political views down the viewing public&#8217;s throats.</p>
<p>&#8220;A lot of celebrities did, do, and shouldn’t,&#8221; he told Task &#38; Purpose last week, concerning the long list of celebrities who had denounced <strong>Donald Trump</strong> before the election.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/12/wahlberg-stars-should-shut-up-about-politics/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Widespread Coverage of Liberal Hate Crimes ‘Study’ Shows Media’s Fake News Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Katrina Trinko</em></p>
<p>So much for taking America’s “fake news” problem seriously.</p>
<p>Ever since <strong>Donald Trump</strong> was elected president, there’s been an abundance of hand-wringing over the “fake news” that supposedly is rampant on social media.</p>
<p>Yet missing has been any kind of serious searching among the mainstream media about whether it could learn any lessons from this election—and whether reporters and editors are holding themselves accountable to their supposed values of objectivity and rigorous reporting.</p></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/12/widespread-coverage-of-liberal-hate-crimes-study-shows-medias-fake-news-problem/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2016 16:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Dr. Michael Brown</em></p>
<p>For years I have said that gay activists and their allies would overplay their hand and that their bullying would backfire. It is happening today in front of our eyes as a Christian couple, <strong>Chip</strong> and <strong>Joanna Gaines</strong>, who recently graced the cover of <em>People</em> magazine, is now being attacked simply for attending a Christian church. Oh, the thought of it!</p>
<p>Yes, if you are a public figure and you attend a church that preaches that marriage is the union of one man and one woman and you actually believe that homosexuals can be changed by the power of the gospel, you should be shamed, ridiculed, and perhaps even fired.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/12/6972/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Fake News Fake Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Philip Giraldi</em></p>
<p>“Fake stories” are <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/world/europe/fake-news-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-georgia.html">in the news</a>. The narrative goes something like this: fabricated accounts that misrepresent “the truth” are proliferating on the internet, and once they appear on a social networking site, they are frequently spread far and wide, often doing serious damage along the way to whatever or whomever was the target of the initial posting. Reportedly, Google and Facebook are now alert to the problem and doing their best to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-facebook-and-google-are-struggling-to-purge-fake-news/2016/11/15/85022897-f765-422e-9f53-c720d1f20071_story.html">monitor and eliminate</a> such material.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/12/the-fake-news-fake-story/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bozell: &#8216;Public Now Knows It’s Not Getting News&#8230;It&#8217;s Getting Leftist Propaganda&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2016 10:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Craig Bannister</em></p>
<p>President-elect<strong> Donald Trump’s</strong> win is “a massive repudiation of the press,” Media Research Center (MRC) Pres.<strong> Brent Bozell</strong> declared today at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.</p>
<p>Accompanied by other top conservative leaders, Bozell warned the blatantly biased liberal media that the American public is now on to them, so their credibility may be lost forever:“The public now knows it is not getting news from the ‘news’ media.”</p>
<p>“Liberal media were the second-biggest losers last night,” Bozell said, noting how the “press treated Trump supporters with utter contempt.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/11/bozell-public-now-knows-its-not-getting-news-its-getting-leftist-propaganda/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Golden Age of Fibbery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><em><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span class="article_subtitle">Don’t they know we have Google?</span></strong></span></em></span></p>
<div class="blog_author"><em>Written by Heather Wilhelm</em></div>
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<p><span class="drop">S</span>ometimes I like to think back to the olden days, when it was easier for politicians to tell a good old-fashioned fib. Think of the age of the majestic woolly mammoth, for instance. Trudging along on a typical Ice Age morning, a caveman named Og could blithely tell his rivals Garglon and Thag that he had just run an ultra-marathon, clubbed the neighborhood’s fiercest saber-tooth tiger, and invented the Internet, all in one morning.</p></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/09/the-golden-age-of-fibbery/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Symbiotic Relationship Between Liberal Democrats and Hollywood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2016 18:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Michael Bargo, Jr.</em></p>
<p>There is a mutually supportive relationship between Hollywood elites and the Democrat Party of the U.S. It is interesting to explore this relationship, how it benefits both, and why it continues. Every election cycle, candidates for the Democrat Party go to dinner parties in Hollywood and raise money from all movie industry attendants. These Hollywood dinner fundraisers are the most successful single day events in political campaigns. This year, for example,<strong> Hillary Clinton</strong> raised <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/hillary-clinton-george-clooney-fundraiser-221207">$8 million</a> in one evening.</p></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/08/the-symbiotic-relationship-between-liberal-democrats-and-hollywood/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2016 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>The whole idea of truth is getting an overhaul.</p>
<p>It’s not just the rise of moral and cultural relativism that is turning public dialogue into dueling monologues as people talk past each other; it’s a growing belief that truth no longer matters – only cause and effect.</p>
<p>For example, the media are not content to let <strong>Donald Trump</strong>’s provocative statements speak for themselves; they are pulling out all stops to magnify outrage for partisan purposes.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/08/when-lies-become-common-currency/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Tamara Jackson</em></p>
<p>The political arena is tough and hardened &#8212; cross a line or the wrong people and payback is a proverbial you know what. Or worse.</p>
<p><strong>Dinesh D&#8217;Souza</strong> paid a steep price for his mistake: D&#8217;Souza asked two people to contribute a total of $20,000 to the New York Senate campaign of Wendy Long, and later reimbursed them. He pled guilty and was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza" target="_blank">sentenced to</a> five years probation, eight months in a halfway house, a $30,000 fine, eight hours of community service each week, and therapy on a weekly basis.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/07/dsouza-unveils-the-dnc-and-hillary-in-visually-stunning-hillarys-america-movie/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2016 09:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Matthew Vadum</em></p>
<p>The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center relentlessly promotes the Big Lie, wildly popular in the media, that conservative Americans are racists and the real threat to the nation rather than Islamic terrorists.</p>
<p>The group claims the principal enemies of the American people are presumptive Republican presidential nominee <strong>Donald Trump</strong>, conservatives like <strong>David Horowitz</strong>, and the Tea Party movement.</p>
<p>The SPLC is a shamelessly hypocritical leftist attack machine <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/202757/conservative-enemies-state-matthew-vadum">funded</a> by radical speculator George Soros and a rogue’s gallery of rich people and established philanthropies that want to fundamentally transform America.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/07/the-worst-smear-site-in-america/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Larry Pratt Schools MSNBC on Guns</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Don Irvine</em></p>
<p>The terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando on June 12 has sparked the usual knee-jerk reactions from politicians and the liberal media for more gun control legislation, in the mistaken belief that such laws might have prevented the attack as well as future attacks.</p>
<p>One of the biggest lies with regard to the Orlando attack is the type of weapon that was used. The media are pushing the narrative that <strong>Omar Mateen</strong> had an assault weapon—originally identified as an AR-15 before being correctly identified as a Sig Sauer MCX—and that it is a “military” weapon.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/06/larry-pratt-schools-msnbc-on-guns/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump Revokes Washington Post’s Press Credentials</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Don Irvine</em></p>
<p>GOP presumptive nominee <strong>Donald Trump</strong> escalated his war with the media yesterday when he decided that his campaign would no longer issue press credentials to <em>The Washington Post</em> because of the paper’s “incredibly inaccurate coverage” of his campaign.</p>
<p>Trump issued the ban in a Facebook post on Monday:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post.”</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/06/trump-revokes-washington-posts-press-credentials/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rich Miller Ignores Supermajority Reality to Demand Rauner Capitulate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2016 12:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Eric Kohn</em></p>
<p><strong>Rich Miller</strong> wants <strong>Bruce Rauner</strong> to surrender.</p>
<p>This has been a theme of Miller’s since shortly after Rauner was inaugurated.  [Recently] in a <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.rebootillinois.com/2016/03/27/featured-articles/richmiller/time-for-bruce-rauner-to-accept-political-reality-get-state-government-back-on-track/55100/" target="_blank">guest column</a></span> at <em>Reboot Illinois</em>, he used the loss of two high profile Rauner-backed primary candidates to renew his call.  Miller begins with this sentence:</p>
<blockquote><p>It’s almost impossible to make a deal with somebody who won’t accept reality.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let’s talk about reality.</p>
<p>Miller is correct that Rauner lost two races where he had made a significant investment.  &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/04/rich-miller-ignores-supermajority-reality-to-demand-rauner-capitulate/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>No Cindy Sheehan–Style Media Attention for Benghazi Victim’s Father</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Jonah Goldberg</em></p>
<p><span class="drop">F</span>or partisan Democrats, when the word “Benghazi” comes up, the sophisticated thing to do is roll your eyes. If the name <strong>Charles Woods</strong> comes up, the normal thing to do is say, “Who?”</p>
<p>So let’s talk about <strong>Cindy Sheehan</strong> for a moment instead. Remember her?</p>
<p>For a while, she was the Joan of Arc of the anti-war Left. The mother of a U.S. Army specialist killed in Iraq, Sheehan held a vigil outside President George W.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/01/no-cindy-sheehan-style-media-attention-for-benghazi-victims-father/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Jack Cashill</em></p>
<p>The more naïve members of the <strong>Hillary Clinton</strong> campaign have long dreaded the release of <strong>Michael Bay</strong>&#8216;s factual account of the Benghazi attack, <em>13 Hours</em>.  The more sophisticated members of that campaign were less worried.  They were confident their friends in the media would scare off all but the most deluded &#8220;tea-baggers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, the media will try.  They are trying.  I am not sure, however, that they will succeed.  In the age of social media, word of mouth is much more significant a force than it ever was before.  &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/01/why-the-media-dont-want-you-to-see-the-must-see-13-hours/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2015 13:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Thomas Valentine</em></p>
<p>U.S. Senator <strong>Ted Cruz</strong> <a href="http://www.hughhewitt.com/senator-ted-cruz-planned-parenthood-attacks-freedom-act-2016-illegal-immigration/">appeared</a> on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Monday, where they discussed the recent shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado and the political reaction to it.  You can listen to Cruz’s response and read the transcript from his appearance below:</p>
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<blockquote><p>HUGH HEWITT: Now let’s go to the very, very serious stuff. Jennifer Markovsky, Ke’Arre Stewart and Garrett Swasey, the last, a police officer, lost their lives in Colorado when that gunman killed them last week.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/12/cruz-calls-out-media-for-despicable-coverage-of-planned-parenthood-shooting/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Selwyn Duke</em></p>
<p>It’s long been known that a leader can gain power by rallying the people against a boogeyman.</p>
<p>And it helps when that boogeyman is real.</p>
<p>When CNBC’s GOP debate moderators couldn’t help but be sanctimonious, supercilious, and self-important Wednesday night, they did more than provoke a response from their intellectual superiors. They did more than further reveal the Establishment Media as a left-wing monolith, further discredit themselves, and further cement in minds that they’re comic-book versions of journalists.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/11/gop-media-takedown-a-recipe-for-victory/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bernie Sanders Says ISIS Exacerbated by Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Jeffrey Meyer</em></p>
<p>During an appearance on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, Wall Street Journal columnist <strong>Peggy Noonan</strong> strongly rebuked <strong>Bernie Sanders</strong>’ claim during Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate that climate change has contributed to the rise of ISIS.</p>
<p>Noonan argued that Sanders’ statement “makes him to many people look slightly daffy like someone who doesn’t understand what the real subject is” because “[t]his is about terrorism. This isn’t about climate change and deserts and people migrating because it’s hot.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/11/bernie-sanders-says-isis-exacerbated-by-climate-change/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 13:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Cliff Kincaid</em></p>
<p>Last May we published a <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/why-they-must-destroy-ben-carson/">column</a>, “Why They Must Destroy Ben Carson.” It has been determined that a black Christian conservative, especially a political outsider with credentials as a life-saving physician, just cannot be allowed to succeed in politics. Carson must be destroyed.</p>
<p>His life as a poor boy with a temper is now coming in for serious media scrutiny. Who did he hit? And why?</p>
<p>In an attempt to defend this assault on the character of Benjamin Carson,  that the media are fair and balanced because they “vetted” <strong>Barack Obama</strong> as a candidate by checking out reports that he once had a girlfriend, who “may have been a composite character.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/11/carson-performs-brain-surgery-on-the-media/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Republicans’ Media Bias Claims Boosted by Scarcity of Right-Leaning Journalists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Kelly Riddell</em><br />
<em>The Washington Times</em></p>
<p>A mere 7 percent of journalists identify as Republicans, and when they do give money to political campaigns they usually donate to Democrats, lending evidence to Republican presidential candidates’ claims that they are facing a hostile audience when they deal with the press.</p>
<p>As Republican candidates prepare for their fourth debate of the primary season Tuesday in Milwaukee, the people doing the questioning are increasingly in the spotlight, with their motives being questioned by the campaigns, voters and even by their fellow journalists.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/11/republicans-media-bias-claims-boosted-by-scarcity-of-right-leaning-journalists/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2015 14:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by David Uberti</em></p>
<p><strong>AS THE PAST 24 HOURS</strong> of Ben Carson coverage have reminded, swinging for the fences can often leave journalists whiffing on solid stories.</p>
<p>Carson is the newly crowned leader of many GOP primary polls, and Major League media scrutiny comes with such territory. CNN and Politico obliged readers with explorations of Carson’s biography these last two days. Both pieces included illuminating information that cast doubt on Carson’s much-admired personal narrative. But both also overpromised on what they exposed, nullifying what would have been useful comparisons of how Carson’s burnished retelling of his past compares to an independently gleaned inquiry into it.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/11/ben-carson-exposed-not-really/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 12:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Gary L.Bauer</em></p>
<p>The fallout from Wednesday&#8217;s contentious <em>CNBC</em> debate continues. <em>Politico</em> reports that the Republican presidential candidates are taking matters into their own hands.</p>
<p>Representatives from at least nine campaigns will be meeting in Washington, D.C., Sunday to discuss how they can force changes to the debate structure. No one from the Republican National Committee (RNC), which set up this process with the media, has been invited.</p>
<p>The candidates&#8217; frustrations run the gamut from the questioning to the reliance on national polls to determine who makes it into the prime time debates.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/10/the-fallout-continues/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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<p><em>By StacyOnTheRight</em></p>
<p>The CNBC debate is memorable for many reasons, with the complete lack of preparedness of the moderators standing out as unfortunate circumstance number one. At numerous points during the evening, candidates called out the moderators for the low quality of their questions. <strong>Becky Quick</strong> was obviously biased against the candidates and repeatedly steered the discussion to “Pay Inequality” only to be viciously rebuffed. At one point, Quick couldn’t remember where she’d heard that <strong>Donald Trump</strong> was critical of Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration stance.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/10/cnbc-debate-moderators-low-performance-should-be-a-lesson-to-the-rnc/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ben Carson Is Right to Compare Abortion with Slavery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by David French</em></p>
<p>This weekend, <strong>Ben Carson</strong> did what he does best. He clearly and plainly stated a mainstream conservative view that most Republican politicians dare not utter — in this case, that the debate over abortion is comparable to the debate over slavery. Speaking to NBC’s <strong>Chuck Todd</strong>, Carson said: “During slavery — and I know that’s one of those words you’re not supposed to say, but I’m saying it — during slavery, a lot of slave owners thought they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave, anything that they chose.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/10/ben-carson-is-right-to-compare-abortion-with-slavery/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Jeffrey Lord</em></p>
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<p>In every town large enough to house a college there is a faculty lounge at the back of which sits the local <strong>George Will</strong>, nursing his ever-present pipe and innumerable elitist delusions.</p>
<p>Because the actual George Will is a syndicated columnist, he can turn himself into an unprecedentedly and incorrigibly sniffy public preacher. It is his right to use his considerable intelligence as he pleases. His supercilious performance and its haughty disdain of civic life are costs of freedom that an open society must be prepared to pay.</p></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/08/george-will-and-the-gop-divide/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by James Longstreet</em></p>
<p>Democratic National Committee Chairman <strong>Debbie Wasserman Schultz</strong> got a jolt of introspection, a quick glance at oneself, like walking by a picture window and being surprised by the reflection.</p>
<p><strong>Chris Matthews</strong>, bravely admitting that he once knew the answer to this question, sought the answer from Debbie.</p>
<p>“What is the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist?&#8221; Matthews asked.  Wasserman Schultz was at a loss (<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/07/30/chris_matthews_to_debbie_wasserman_schultz_whats_the_difference_between_a_democrat_and_a_socialist.html">video</a></span>):</p>
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<p>She didn’t answer the question. &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/08/dnc-chairman-dumbfounded-when-asked-about-the-difference-between-democrats-and-socialists/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Aaron Rupar</em></p>
<p>During an appearance yesterday on <em>Meet the Press</em>, Wisconsin Gov. <strong>Scott Walker</strong> said he thinks it&#8217;s time his party concedes defeat and moves past the marriage equality issue.</p>
<p>Walker&#8217;s remarks come on the heels of the release of new nationwide polling showing that 51 percent of Republicans under the age of 30 support marriage equality at the state level. As <em>Mother Jones</em> <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/majority-young-republicans-support-gay-marriage-now" target="_blank">reports</a>, according to the polling, &#8220;the only major demographic that still opposes same-sex marriage is white, evangelical Christians.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/06/scott-walker-says-its-time-gop-concedes-defeat-on-gay-marriage/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2015 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>U.S. Senator <strong>Ted Cruz</strong> made a campaign stop in Beaumont, Texas, where he was asked repeated questions by KBMT-TV’s <strong>Kevin Steele</strong> about the issue of gay marriage. Cruz finally turned the table and owned Steele on this issue.</p>
<p>Cruz doesn&#8217;t shrink back like so many establishment Republicans do! God bless him for speaking truth in love.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/05/leftist-media-meets-u-s-senator-ted-cruz/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Hillary Says &#8220;Always,&#8221; She Doesn&#8217;t Always Mean Always</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Agenda]]></category>
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<p><em>Written by Dr. Michael L. Brown</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>I believe Hillary Clinton is now telling the truth regarding her views on same-sex &#8220;marriage.&#8221; I just don&#8217;t believe she was telling the truth in the past, especially when she expressed her opposition to it. Can anyone say &#8220;Shades of Barack Obama,&#8221; whose views on the subject also &#8220;evolved&#8221;?</strong></span></p>
<p>When it comes to <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2012/05/12/equivocating_or_evolving_president_obama_is_wrong_either_way/page/full" target="_blank">President Obama</a>, <strong>David Axelrod</strong> has now confirmed what seemed obvious for years, namely, that he lied about his views on redefining marriage so as not to drive away black (and other morally conservative) voters.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/04/when-hillary-says-always-she-doesnt-always-mean-always/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>For Honest Assessment of Chicago’s Financial Woes, Read Out-of-Town Papers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Rauner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus “Chuy” Garcia]]></category>
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<p>If you’re a close reader of the two Chicago metro dailies, you know both the <em>Sun-Times </em>and the <em>Tribune</em> are reluctant to talk much about Chicago’s dire financial situation. The one exception is when the union members in the press are trying to help the union candidate for mayor, <strong>Jesus “Chuy” Garcia</strong>. Then, they’re quick to point out that <strong>Rahm Emanual</strong> is a rich guy, who hangs out with other rich guys like Gov. <strong>Bruce Rauner</strong>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/04/for-honest-assessment-of-chicagos-financial-woes-read-out-of-town-papers/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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