Louis Jacobson https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:39:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg Louis Jacobson https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 Democrats Can Say ‘Hitler’ All Day Long, Forget ‘Fact Checks’ https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/06/democrats-can-say-hitler-all-day-long-forget-fact-checks/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:00:17 +0000 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=29790 Written by Tim Graham

The “No Kings” rally against President Donald Trump on June 14 featured several angry speeches from Democrats. Mediaite had this story: “Eric Swalwell ‘Trump Is America’s Hitler’ Remark at Rally Sparks Viral Outrage.” That gaseous D.C. speech was easily ignored by PolitiFact and those “independent fact-checkers.”

U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) says this repeatedly, and Mediaite added it’s a regular line from U.S. Representative James Clyburn (D-SC). Fox News host Neil Cavuto offered some mild pushback: “So you don’t think that’s a little hyperbolic?”… Continue Reading

]]> 29790 Ranked-Choice Voting: Is It a Good Choice for Illinois? https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/03/ranked-choice-voting-is-it-a-good-choice-for-illinois/ Fri, 06 Mar 2020 15:00:13 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=13640 Written by Jane Ryan Carrell

A September 2019 article in The Atlantic describing a new way of voting for candidates bears the headings “A step toward blowing up the presidential-voting system” and “Maine’s adoption of ranked-choice voting could upend a close race for the White House.”

What is Ranked-Choice Voting, who is adopting it, and should Illinois adopt it? What are the positives and negatives, and how might it affect the 2020 presidential race?

Under Ranked-Choice Voting, sometimes abbreviated here as RCV, the voter lists candidates in order of preference.… Continue Reading

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