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		<title>Defending Hyde: Why Taxpayers Must Not Fund Abortion</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/01/defending-hyde-why-taxpayers-must-not-fund-abortion/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p data-start="97" data-end="438">You’ve likely been hearing a lot lately about the Hyde Amendment—a vital, long-standing safeguard that has protected Americans for nearly fifty years from being forced to fund abortion with their tax dollars. Its purpose is straightforward and morally necessary: no citizen should be compelled to subsidize the taking of innocent human life.</p>
<p data-start="440" data-end="883">The amendment is named for Illinois Congressman <strong>Henry Hyde</strong>, a courageous and principled pro-life leader who represented the 6th Congressional District from 1975 to 2007.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/01/defending-hyde-why-taxpayers-must-not-fund-abortion/" 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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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Beshear]]></category>
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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>Bidenomics: Cashless, Homeless, and Jobless</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive Branch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[COVID lockdowns]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>The president recently <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1681455057269555205?s=20">defined</a> “Bidenomics” as building the economy “from the middle out and bottom up, not the top down.” In fact, Bidenomics is really the economy’s equivalent to “long COVID,” whereby that same middle class suffers permanent degradation of quality of life and standard of living while being caught in the permanent and degenerative cycle of government debt, inflation, and market manipulation.</p>
<p>Despite the rosy economic projections from the White House, incontrovertible data shows that because of the COVID lockdown policies he and his predecessor supported and the new policies they enacted to “fix” the market distortions created by the endless debt-driven inflation, a young family now has to live at the top of the economic pyramid to even afford basic living.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/07/bidenomics-cashless-homeless-and-jobless/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>They Were Wrong About Everything, But Will Apologize For Nothing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[COVID]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[closing schools]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>Forgiveness isn&#8217;t going to be easy. Especially in this culture. Especially at this particular moment in time. Especially with such little remorse for so grievous an offense.</p>
<p>Ironically, I was sitting on an airplane watching a handful of passengers board donning N95 surgical masks when I scrolled across this story:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hundreds of millions of Americans dutifully covered their faces in the states with mandates, and the result was the same: the masks made no difference.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/03/they-were-wrong-about-everything-but-will-apologize-for-nothing/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Will The Omnibust Finally Push Conservatives to Rebel Against The GOP?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">&#8220;<em>Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians<br />
is the number one priority for the United States right now<br />
according to most Republicans. That&#8217;s how we see the challenges<br />
confronting the country at the moment.&#8221;</em></span> ~<a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1605301253952589824?s=20&#38;t=jLgw61sDGxmFzIH7ni3D0g">Mitch McConnell</a></span></p>
<p>Everything that is wrong with this country is embodied in the <a href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/JRQ121922.PDF">4,155-page omnibus</a> bill negotiated by <strong>Mitch McConnell</strong> and supported by the majority of U.S. Senate Republicans. Like all bills that fleece the American people, it was dropped in a massive cardboard box at 1:23 a.m.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/12/will-the-omnibust-finally-push-conservatives-to-rebel-against-the-gop/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Lockdowns Created More Deaths From Murderers</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/07/how-lockdowns-created-more-deaths-from-murderers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage, Family & Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Leyton]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Hrowitz</em></p>
<p>If the shutdown of schools was the evilest part of the lockdown, the shutdown of the court system is a close second.</p>
<p>Throughout the past year, liberals have wrongly blamed skyrocketing crime on the pandemic rather than on their criminal release policies and BLM rioting. However, there is one important way that the pandemic — or more aptly put, the response to the pandemic — will continue to contribute to more crime for years to come.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/07/how-lockdowns-created-more-deaths-from-murderers/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Freedom Spring After the Dark Winter of Tyranny?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s not just when you&#8217;re having fun that time flies. I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s nearly 11 months since <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/conservative-review/horowitz-schools-first-thing-reopen-not-last" target="_self" rel="noopener noreferrer">my first article</a> noting that locking down and masking children is a crime against humanity divorced from all science. Yet here we are almost a year later, entering a new spring season, with children being forced to mask in school (assuming they are even in school) and being wrongly treated as vectors of spread rather than the future of our country.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/03/a-freedom-spring-after-the-dark-winter-of-tyranny/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: Jeanne Ives on the Importance of the Lesser Magistrate</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>Where do we go from here? Our state is currently suffocating under the weight of massive debt and failed Democratic policies. Yet, former state representative <strong>Jeanne Ives</strong> says there is hope for Illinois conservatives. She suggests the Republican Party focus on promoting <strong>truth</strong>, electing conservatives to <strong>local</strong> governing bodies and boards, and insisting on <strong>competency</strong> from candidates and government – some TLC, if you will. Jeanne also details the three big issues on which Republicans must stand in unity and gives insight on the compensation Illinois taxpayers pay our public “servants” (warning, you might need to monitor your blood pressure).&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/01/the-importance-of-the-lesser-magistrate/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Passing The Buck: The Demand for Principled Lesser Magistrates&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #235)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2021 06:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Where do we go from here? Our state is currently suffocating under the weight of massive debt and failed Democratic policies. Yet, former state representative <strong>Jeanne Ives</strong> says there is hope for Illinois conservatives. She suggests the Republican Party focus on promoting <strong>truth</strong>, electing conservatives to <strong>local</strong> governing bodies and boards, and insisting on <strong>competency</strong> from candidates and government – some TLC, if you will. Jeanne also details the three big issues on which Republicans must stand in unity and gives insight on the compensation Illinois taxpayers pay our public “servants” (warning, you might need to monitor your blood pressure).&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/illinois-family-spotlight-235/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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