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		<title>The Institutions That Taught America to Hate Itself</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/02/the-institutions-that-taught-america-to-hate-itself/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>Have you ever wondered how we got into the mess we’re in, how Minneapolis became so ungovernable, how anarchy replaced civility and how rioting replaced the rule of law?</p>
<p>Have you ever asked yourself how this societal meltdown happened and how so many people have come to hate American culture, values and heritage so much that they would rather tear it all down than work together to preserve it?</p>
<p>Have you ever wondered how we became the “divided states” rather than the “United States” and how e pluribus unum (out of many, one) became “us against them” almost overnight?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/02/the-institutions-that-taught-america-to-hate-itself/" 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>Shameful “Karma” Post by D300 School Board President</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/10/shameful-karma-post-by-d300-school-board-president/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #ffff99;"><strong>See update below!</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.d300.org/d300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Community Unit School District 300</a> (D300), based in Algonquin, Illinois, is the <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/District-300-Map.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sixth-largest district</a> in the state, serving families across Kane, McHenry, Cook, and DeKalb counties. While the school board ought to be focused on academic excellence and serving students, instead, the spotlight has been stolen by Vice President of the Board of Education, <strong>Nancy Zettler</strong>—whose reckless words have inflamed the community and dishonored her office.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;"><strong>Disgraceful Words</strong></span></p>
<p>On September 10, 2025, Christian conservative apologist <strong>Charlie Kirk</strong> was assassinated.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/10/shameful-karma-post-by-d300-school-board-president/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/09/devastating-consequences-of-abandoning-truth/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>As a university president, I had a front-row seat as I watched hundreds of students descend onto my campus every year. Each fall, I watched with growing discomfort as the increase in self-centeredness became more apparent.</p>
<p>From the athlete who was upset because his coach was too harsh, to the student who failed a test because the professor was “unfair,” to the coed who was incredulous because a faculty member dared to penalize her for skipping class, over and over again, I watched as one generation after another strutted into the classroom with the confidence that they were God’s gift to the ivory tower, regardless of their academic performance (or lack thereof).&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/09/devastating-consequences-of-abandoning-truth/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Defunding Shouldn&#8217;t Stop With Harvard</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/defunding-shouldnt-stop-with-harvard/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Eisgruber]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Written by Victor Joecks</em></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">If America&#8217;s elite universities want to racially discriminate, they shouldn&#8217;t receive taxpayer money.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Tuesday, Harvard University&#8217;s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias released its final report. The 300-plus-page document reveals the depth of the university&#8217;s systemic bias against Jewish students.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Many students &#8220;described experiences of being bullied or shunned by fellow students, singled out for negative attention by instructors, and feeling ignored by administrators,&#8221; the report said. It continued,</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Fear of encountering hostility has led some Jewish students to conceal their Jewish identity from classmates.&#8221;</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/defunding-shouldnt-stop-with-harvard/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Educating a Nation of Intellectual And Moral Imbeciles</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/educating-a-nation-of-intellectual-and-moral-imbeciles/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>In 1943, C.S. Lewis warned of a day when our country’s educated class would claim that it made sense to “geld the stallion and then bid him be fruitful.” In his seminal work, “The Abolition of Man,” he accused the ivory tower of creating “men without chests,” where instead of pursuing the truth, our schools would educate an entire generation of moral and intellectual amputees with no understanding of the good, the true and the beautiful.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/educating-a-nation-of-intellectual-and-moral-imbeciles/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Suddenly, Liberal Christians Want To Get Political</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/02/all-of-a-sudden-liberal-christians-want-to-get-political/</link>
		
		<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>Is the Overhaul of USAID Good?</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/02/is-the-overhaul-of-usaid-good/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allie Beth Stuckey]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>The <strong>Trump Administration </strong>recently announced a freeze in funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and ordered all its employees to pause their work. USAID’s website <a href="https://www.usaid.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Unsurprisingly, this action has sparked outrage amongst a variety of groups.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/02/is-the-overhaul-of-usaid-good/" 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>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/01/democrats-and-the-liberal-medias-grand-deception-merits-justice-not-vengeance/</link>
		
		<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>Voices Crying in the Internet Wildernesses</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/08/voices-crying-in-the-internet-wildernesses/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Rev. Ceasar I. LeFlore</em></p>
<p>Besides Jesus Christ, John the Baptist is by far one of my most favored and respected heroes of the Christian Bible. His boldness and fearless proclamation of the truth concerning the imminent coming of the Kingdom of Christ, even to a hostile and spiritually blind world, caused him to be identified in New Testament Scripture as <em>“the voice of one crying in the wilderness,</em>” <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+40%3A3&#38;version=NASB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prophesied</a> by the prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/08/voices-crying-in-the-internet-wildernesses/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>American Companies Are Scrapping DEI Programs</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/07/american-companies-are-scrapping-dei-programs/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 11:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Two more American companies have seen the light after feeling the heat.</p>
<p>Like Bud Light beer, which learned the hard way that pushing the transgender agenda was bad for business, Tractor Supply Co. and John Deere recently retracted their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.</p>
<p>The companies cater primarily to farmers, rural homeowners and suburbanites.</p>
<p>LGBTQ groups are expressing outrage. Human Rights Campaign Vice President <strong>Eric Bloem</strong> accuses John Deere of bending to “a coordinated attack by far-right extremists on American business.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/07/american-companies-are-scrapping-dei-programs/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>DEI is Self-Centered and Childish</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/03/dei-is-self-centered-and-childish/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage, Family & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BLM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DEI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity Equity and Inclusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTQ]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>There is a concerted effort to divide our country, and the people responsible know that if they can get us to focus on ourselves, our grievances and our victimhood, the very fabric of our nation can be torn apart thread by thread. As Solomon said, “A cord of three strands is not easily broken,” but a cord of one is defenseless. In other words, divide and conquer.</p>
<p>The transparent “us against them” agenda of the diversity, equity and inclusion movement is but one example.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/03/dei-is-self-centered-and-childish/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Did Speaker McCarthy Keep Pelosi’s House ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Office?</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/03/why-did-speaker-mccarthy-keep-pelosis-house-diversity-and-inclusion-office/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DEI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E Pluribus Unum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equity and Inclusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Office of Diversity and Inclusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin McCarthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>Is it too much to ask that nearly 250 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, we finally treat people equally?</p>
<p>For decades, Republicans have engaged in a drag race with Democrats to pander to the gods of “diversity” and affirmative action rather than supporting a pure meritocracy in which all public policy and legal decisions are 100% blind to the physical identity of a human being. However, over the past few years, there has finally been a great awakening among conservatives, largely impelled by the radical push for “critical race theory” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs, to shed their fear of being called names and rather pursue truth, equality, and justice in a color-blind meritocracy.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/03/why-did-speaker-mccarthy-keep-pelosis-house-diversity-and-inclusion-office/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Should be Second to Biblical Unity, Equality, and Truth</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/03/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-should-be-second-to-biblical-unity-equality-and-truth/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and Inclusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DEI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[university]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>Last week I <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/12/republicans-bow-to-goddess-of-diversity-equity-and/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote an article</a> about DEI and argued that the political agenda of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is broken, inconsistent, and self-refuting. My premise was that while these words may sound good, they lead to their polar opposites in the hands of today’s progressive demagogues and pedagogues.</p>
<p>More to the point: On the Animal Farm of contemporary politics, diversity now means division, equity means “some are more equal than others,” and inclusion demands that if you don’t parrot what’s popular, you will be excluded.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/03/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-should-be-second-to-biblical-unity-equality-and-truth/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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