Mary Jo Kopechne https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:57:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg Mary Jo Kopechne https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 Astronauts, Riots, and Pandemics: 2020 vs. 1969 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/06/astronauts-riots-and-pandemics-2020-vs-1969/ Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:00:16 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=14363 Written by Dr. Paul G. Kengor

In July 1969, three American astronauts landed on the moon. It wasn’t just a great technical triumph. It was a much-needed respite amid social and political chaos.

America was already beset by Vietnam and civil rights struggles. That summer of 1969, things got worse. The nation was shocked by news of a riot after a confrontation between gay rights activists and police outside the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village on June 28.… Continue Reading

]]> 14363 Operating Above the Law https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/11/operating-above-the-law/ Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:00:36 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=12817 Written by Robert Knight

“No one is above the law,” U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said when announcing the start of the impeachment process against President Donald J. Trump.

She should have tempered it with: “unless you’re a Democrat.”

For starters, literally hundreds of Democrat-controlled jurisdictions operate as “sanctuary cities,” flouting the law by refusing to cooperate with federal immigration officials.  Nothing ever happens to the Democrat politicians, just the crime victims at the hands of criminal aliens who are released instead of being turned over to immigration enforcement officers.… Continue Reading

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