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		<title>Calvin Coolidge on The Declaration of Independence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">The following text is perhaps one of the most insightful appreciations of the Declaration ever pronounced. President Calvin Coolidge gave this speech in Philadelphia on July 5, 1926, marking the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. We hope you will find it encouraging.</span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;">‘If All Men Are Created Equal, That Is Final’</span></strong></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;"><strong>&#8220;If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us,<br />
we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.&#8221;</strong></span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/07/calvin-coolidge-on-the-declaration-of-independence/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>America Was Not Founded By Atheists And Deists</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 09:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>Last week, I wrote <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/07/americas-new-religion-fake-christianity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article</a> about the recent research of <strong>George Barna</strong>, who has concluded that America’s religion is no longer one of orthodox belief but rather a new syncretistic faith that he called moralistic therapeutic deism – a nonjudgmental don’t-worry-be-happy “fake Christianity” where self-actualization and personal affirmation are now our highest goods. The result of my article? My critics came unglued.</p>
<p>“First and foremost, you need to get your facts straight,” said one.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/08/america-was-not-founded-by-atheists-and-deists/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett Deal Crushing Blow to Religious Liberty</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>James Madison once <a href="https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s23.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ol-has-click-handler="">wrote</a>, <em>&#8220;</em>Government is instituted to protect property of every sort&#8221; and that &#8220;conscience is the most sacred of all property.&#8221; Yet just before July 4 weekend, the U.S. Supreme Court, by denying an appeal in an important religious liberty case, has essentially abrogated both property and conscience rights, as well as the right to use one&#8217;s own property in accordance with deeply held religious beliefs. So much for self-evident truths, inalienable rights, and the institution of government to secure these rights.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/07/justices-kavanaugh-and-barrett-deal-crushing-blow-to-religious-liberty/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Difference Between Washington’s Birthday and ‘Presidents’ Day’ is the Difference Between Liberty and Tyranny</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>No, we are not celebrating <strong>Joe Biden</strong>, <strong>Barack Obama</strong>, <strong>Woodrow Wilson</strong>, or <strong>Millard Fillmore</strong> this week. We are supposed to be celebrating <strong>George Washington</strong>. In other words, we are not celebrating the majestic power of the chief executive of the United States government in the abstract, but the humble leadership of one man who, until recently, successfully set the precedent of the presidency being wielded as an office of limited power rather than the power of a king.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/02/the-difference-between-washingtons-birthday-and-presidents-day-is-the-difference-between-liberty-and-tyranny/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Restore Our Constitutional Foundation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by E. Jeffrey Ludwig</em></p>
<p>By the end of World War II, the beautiful foundational ideas and ideals of our constitutional republic had already been significantly undermined by the Democratic Party. The two pillars of our constitutional republic, federalism and checks and balances among our three branches of government, were being disrupted and distorted. The distortions expressed by so-called progressivism had begun the transformation of our political and economic system, especially under Woodrow Wilson and the Democrat Party, and intensified under the policies and <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/why_the_democrats_oppose_economic_freedom.htm">programs of the New Deal</a>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/09/how-to-restore-our-constitutional-foundation/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Early Presidential Prospects</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/01/3127/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Thomas Sowell</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>The more optimistic among us may hope that the Republicans will nominate somebody who stands for something, rather than the bland leading the bland &#8212; the kind of candidates the Republican establishment seems to prefer, even if the voters don&#8217;t.</strong></span></p>
<p>With 2015 just getting under way, the buzz of political activity makes it seem almost as if we are already in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign.</p>
<p>Among the Democrats, <strong>Hillary Clinton</strong> is honing her message to appeal to the mindset of the left wing of her party, whose support she will need in her second attempt to get the nomination as the Democrats&#8217; presidential candidate in 2016.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/01/3127/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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