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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>Why Democrats Are Rooting for the Shutdown</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Star Parker</em></p>
<p>One big word worth learning is &#8220;schadenfreude.&#8221;</p>
<p>Schadenfreude is &#8220;pleasure derived by someone from another person&#8217;s misfortune.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nothing better captures the perverse pleasure that Democrats are deriving from the pain inflicted on our country caused by the government shutdown.</p>
<p>Democrats precipitated this shutdown to force Republicans to back off efforts to turn around our suicidal growth of government spending and debt.</p>
<p>House Republicans passed a continuing resolution ready for the president&#8217;s signature to fund the government, but Democrats said no.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/11/why-democrats-are-rooting-for-the-shutdown/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Medicaid for Millions, Misery for the Middle Class</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>For months, Republicans and Democrats alike have insisted on keeping the Medicaid subsidy scam alive — even as it drives inflation and enriches the health care cartel. With the Biden-era expansion of Obamacare “marketplace” subsidies set to expire in December, both parties want to renew them. But this moment offers Republicans a rare opportunity: Finally lower health care costs for Americans not living on government handouts.</p>
<h2><span style="color: #ff6600;">Obamacare buried the middle class</span></h2>
<p>The ill-named Affordable Care Act helped Republicans win more elections than any issue in recent memory.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/07/medicaid-for-millions-misery-for-the-middle-class/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Suddenly, Liberal Christians Want To Get Political</title>
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		<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>A Twilight Zone America Endures The Border Crisis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Whenever I hear the White House insist the border is secure, inflation is no problem, and that boys are really girls if they feel like it, I look around for <strong>Rod Serling</strong>.</p>
<p>You half expect to see the vintage TV show host emerge from a misty backdrop to say, “What you’re seeing is a replica of reality, not reality itself. You have been transported to a parallel universe where evil is good, wrong is right and bitter is sweet.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/01/a-twilight-zone-america-endures-the-border-crisis/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Count America Out Just Yet</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/11/dont-count-america-out-just-yet-2023/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Just when you think it’s all over and that America has gone over the edge, some good things are happening.</p>
<p>Let’s start with the ascent of U.S. Representative <strong>Mike Johnson</strong> (R-LA) to Speaker of the U.S. House. This has stunned observers who thought that pro-life, pro-marriage, conservative Christians were forever barred from such offices thanks to the left’s takeover of virtually every major institution.</p>
<p>The Louisiana Republican is being assailed, of course.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/11/dont-count-america-out-just-yet-2023/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Media&#8217;s Hits Continues To Delegitimize SCOTUS</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/04/medias-hits-continues-to-delegitimize-scotus/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Harsanyi</em></p>
<p>As with ProPublica&#8217;s <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent smear</a> of <strong>Clarence Thomas</strong>, there&#8217;s a lot of excitement across the left-wing Twittersphere over a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico hit</a> on <strong>Neil Gorsuch</strong>. But even as a transparent piece of partisan propaganda, it is poorly conceived.</p>
<p>Politico kicks off the piece, &#8220;Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property,&#8221; with a purposefully deceptive claim: &#8220;For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/04/medias-hits-continues-to-delegitimize-scotus/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Congressman Chip Roy Introduces Game-Changing Medical Freedom Bill</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/04/congressman-chip-roy-introduces-game-changing-medical-freedom-bill/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>There is no life or liberty so long as our health care is controlled by an artificial government-created cartel. Endless government programs, regulations, subsidies, and market distortions have created a monopoly of health care providers and health care insurers. Government tax policies tether health care to medical insurance and medical insurance to place of employment, while boxing out the patient from being the true consumer. As we saw with COVID, this monopoly is not only a problem with costs, but has deadly consequences, as the government was able to channel tyranny and dangerous protocols through a narrow network of health care administrators, while censoring the few remaining independent practice physicians questioning the narrative.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/04/congressman-chip-roy-introduces-game-changing-medical-freedom-bill/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Republicans Must Do To Win In November</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/09/what-republicans-must-do-to-win-in-november/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #0000ff;">“Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #0000ff;">and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #0000ff;">which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?”  </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #0000ff;"><strong>~Ronald Reagan</strong></span></p>
<p>Republicans are still painting in pastels instead of bold colors.</p>
<p>Even the profoundly dangerous and oxymoronically named “Respect for Marriage Act” has failed to draw concerted GOP opposition.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/09/what-republicans-must-do-to-win-in-november/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Leftist Authoritarians Push Their Values By Any Means Necessary</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/09/leftist-authoritarians-push-their-values-by-any-means-necessary/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Last Thursday, <strong>Joe Biden</strong> dropped the hammer on “the unvaxed,” ordering large companies and government agencies to force employees to get the shots or face weekly tests.  Thus, he broke yet another pledge – never to make the shots mandatory.</p>
<p>If a reporter ever bothers to question him about the edict’s constitutionality, he can recycle <strong>Nancy Pelosi</strong>’s response regarding whether Obamacare was constitutional: “Are you kidding? Are you kidding?”</p>
<p>While the nation reels in the grip of authoritarians who love coercion, only one side is consistently accused of imposing its values on others.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/09/leftist-authoritarians-push-their-values-by-any-means-necessary/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Press Deceit Is a Pathology</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2021 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by</em> <em>Laura Hirschfeld Hollis</em></p>
<p>A free country depends upon an honest and vigilant press to demand accountability from the country&#8217;s political, economic and cultural leaders.</p>
<p>We are in serious trouble; our press is neither honest nor vigilant.</p>
<p>To the contrary, the national media in the United States is hopelessly biased, selectively incurious and relentlessly deceitful about the most important issues we are facing today. As a result, the health of the nation is at risk.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/05/press-deceit-is-a-pathology/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Will Biden Leave Little Sisters Free to Choose?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Debra J. Saunders</em></p>
<p>President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> likes to talk about unity and his intent to rise above partisan rancor to heal the divisions that led a pro-Trump mob to swarm the Capitol on Jan. 6. Given his history of cutting deals with Republicans, I believe he wants to work across the aisle.</p>
<p>But a hail-fellow-well-met demeanor can&#8217;t paper over his party&#8217;s intolerance and readiness to use government as a club to beat dissenters into submission.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/01/will-biden-leave-little-sisters-free-to-choose/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump&#8217;s Accomplishments: The Case for Four More Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Kathy Valente</em></p>
<p>There are many people who do not like the personality of President <strong>Donald J. Trump</strong> and his unorthodox methods of communicating. Some have even gone so far as to say that they couldn’t vote for him because of his temperament and/or boorishness.</p>
<p>Having concerns about or aversions to President Trump&#8217;s style is understandable. You don&#8217;t have to like him. When it comes to picking the commander in chief of the United States, we believe that voters should carefully consider President Trump&#8217;s record of achievements over the past four years and his goals for a second term.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/10/trumps-accomplishments/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>At Last Obama&#8217;s Love for Joe Has Come Along</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Laurie Higgins</em></p>
<p>Former president <strong>Barack Obama</strong> just endorsed <strong>Joe Biden</strong> in a belated, windy, narcissistic, deceitful, and platitudinous <a href="https://youtu.be/5-s3ANu4eMs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">12-minute video</a> that should be titled “Audacious Obama’s Ironic Endorsement of Befuddled Biden.” Amid his accolades for <strong>Bernie Sanders</strong> and his admission that Biden will govern even <em>further </em>to the left than he did, Audacious Obama said this:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">This crisis has reminded us that facts and science matter, that the rule of law matters, that having leaders who are informed and honest and seek to bring people together rather than drive them apart—those kind of leaders matter.</span></p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/04/at-last-obamas-love-for-joe-has-come-along/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2020 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p><strong>Bernie Sanders</strong> may have missed his chance to finally head the Democratic ticket, but he still holds considerable clout, which is why Joe Biden was busy wooing the Vermont socialist’s supporters this past week. “Senator Sanders and I may disagree on tactics,” he said. “But we share a common vision.”</p>
<p>That’s good to keep in mind as the media try to cover up Mr. Biden’s recent leftward lurches and convert him into a “moderate” to seem less scary in November.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/03/red-birds-from-the-same-nest/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mining a Crisis for Political Gold</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>“You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do things that you would otherwise avoid.”</p>
<p>So said former Chicago Mayor <strong>Rahm Emanuel</strong>, who was President Obama’s chief of staff and an astute practitioner of smashmouth politics.</p>
<p>It’s worth remembering this as the Democrats and their media do everything they can to hype the dangers of the Wuhan coronavirus.  Not that it isn’t deadly serious. It is.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/03/mining-a-crisis-for-political-gold-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Constitution and Rule of Law – When It Suits Them</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Upon delivering two articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, U.S. House Speaker <strong>Nancy Pelosi</strong> declared that Mr. Trump was guilty of “an assault on the Constitution of the United States.”</p>
<p>Wow. That was some phone call he made to Ukraine’s president. Who knew that, if unaddressed, it would unravel the nation’s founding document?</p>
<p>In any case, Mrs. Pelosi’s newfound, if selective, respect for the U.S. Constitution is refreshing.</p>
<p>In 2010, when asked what part of the U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/01/the-constitution-and-rule-of-law-when-it-suits-them/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Party with No Ideas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 09:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by John C. Goodman</em></p>
<p>At first glance you might think that the Democratic presidential campaign is boiling over with one new idea after another. Free health care. Free education. No more carbon emissions. There have been so many pronouncements, it’s hard to keep track of them.</p>
<p>But that’s just at first glance. If you delve deeper, you will discover these are not ideas at all. They are feelings. Strongly held feelings, mind you. But feelings, nonetheless.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/06/the-party-with-no-ideas/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Leftists Whipping Themselves Into a Jacobin Frenzy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2019 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>There’s no question that animosity exists on both sides of the political spectrum, but have you noticed how personal it has become for many on the left?</p>
<p>It is disturbing how intolerant and filled with rage leftist extremists have become, and how many more people are falling into the category of leftist extremism.</p>
<p>But what concerns me as much as this pattern of ill will and abuse from leftists is that it is unchecked by their peers and often applauded.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/04/leftists-whipping-themselves-into-a-jacobin-frenzy/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Healthcare is NOT a Right</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>Universal healthcare, also known as &#8220;Medicare for All,&#8221; is back in the news.  U.S. Senator <strong>Bernie Sanders</strong> (I-VT) is joined in his advocacy of this entitlement program by most, if not all, Democratic presidential candidates, including U.S. Senators <strong>Kamala Harris </strong>(D-CA), <strong>Kirsten Gillibrand</strong> (D-NY), <strong>Elizabeth Warren</strong> (D-MA), <strong>Cory Booker</strong> (D-NJ), U.S. Rep. <strong>Tulsi Gabbard</strong> (D-HI) and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development <strong>Julian Castro</strong>. According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/medicare-for-all/?utm_term=.d58d98c5a544" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">an article</a> in <em>The Washington Post</em>, all of the major Democratic presidential candidates support &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; or something else to achieve universal healthcare coverage.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/04/healthcare-is-not-a-right/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Crisis When It Suits Their Purpose</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Since the federal shutdown began [four] weeks ago, the liberal media have presented dozens of Chicken Little stories claiming that the sky is falling.</p>
<p>“Three dead in national park system accidents as shutdown wears on,” screamed a six-column headline in the <em>Washington Post</em> on January 5.</p>
<p>“The deaths follow a decision by Trump administration officials to leave the scenic — but sometimes deadly — parks open even as the Interior Department has halted most of its operations,” the article said.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/01/a-crisis-when-it-suits-their-purpose/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Democrats’ New “Morality” Messaging Will Fail</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jon Schweppe</em></p>
<p>If you’ve been paying attention to the rhetoric coming from elected Democrats and progressive activists in recent weeks, you’ve probably noticed a calculated effort to frame issues in the vein of morality.</p>
<p>U.S. House Speaker <strong>Nancy Pelosi</strong> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2019/jan/04/immoral-nancy-pelosi-on-trumps-border-wall-video">declared</a> to reporters that building a border wall would be an “immorality.” Abortion activist <strong>Amelia Bonow</strong> <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2018/12/31/abortion-activist-tells-children-abortion-is-all-part-of-gods-plan/">told</a> children in a viral video that aborting her baby was “part of God’s plan.” Even social media superstar <strong>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</strong> — who apparently works part-time as a Member of Congress — clumsily <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/06/ocasio-cortez_people_being_more_concerned_about_me_being_factually_correct_than_morally_right.html">invoked</a> morality to excuse her aversion to the truth, telling <strong>Anderson Cooper</strong> that it’s more important to be “morally right” than factually accurate.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/01/why-democrats-new-morality-messaging-will-fail/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The 3 Biggest Media-Deep State Scams</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/12/10570/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Wayne Allyn Root</em></p>
<p>Remember the old warning from President <strong>Dwight D. Eisenhower</strong> about the &#8220;military industrial complex&#8221;? He was right.</p>
<p>But the defense industry has nothing on the D.C. Swamp, the Deep State, the Democrat Party and the group that does their bidding: the Liberal Media Industrial Complex. They will do anything, lie about anything, slander and manipulate in order to make government bigger and more powerful. And they will go scorched-earth to destroy anyone who opposes them.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/12/10570/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How the GOP Has Taken Ownership of Obamacare</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>Republicans have not only betrayed their promise to repeal Obamacare, they have made Obamacare popular. They have championed its three core elements while refusing to even make the case against all its vulnerabilities and are now running on preserving it. While we are all focused on the results of November 6, we must gird up for a longer battle that, if not waged and won, will ensure we never have health care freedom in America, because <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/on-obamacare-theres-not-a-nickels-worth-of-difference-between-republicans-and-democrats/">a <em>consensus</em> for government-run monopolies</a> is close to fruition.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/10/how-the-gop-has-taken-ownership-of-obamacare/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who Are the Real Partisans?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>Someone please tell me what bizarro world Democratic activists inhabit — those who are grumbling that Republicans are unscrupulous partisan warriors imposing their agenda by government coercion and trampling the innocent, passive left in the process.</p>
<p>This is frighteningly delusional and shockingly divorced from reality.</p>
<p>Without question, Democrats and their never-Trump supporters on the right would have us believe that <strong>Donald Trump</strong> is the very creator of partisan politics, someone who has gobsmacked the unsuspecting collegial political left into abject impotence.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/10/who-are-the-real-partisans/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Complacent Conservatives Should Learn the Murkowski Lesson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2018 13:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>If we are so busy “owning the libs” that we ignore the libs festering within our own ranks to the point where “our party” agrees with 90 percent of what the libs want, isn’t it time we focused on cleaning our own house?</p>
<p>The biggest news of the day outside the Kavanaugh cloture vote in the U.S. Senate is that one Republican, <strong>Lisa Murkowski</strong> from the solid red state of Alaska, voted against him.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/10/complacent-conservatives-should-learn-the-murkowski-lesson/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Christians Should Support Building a Wall &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong><em>“Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.” ~Leviticus 19:16</em></strong></span></p>
<p><em>Written by Jonathan Clay de Hale</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Another murder by an illegal alien fails to rouse the nation</strong></span></p>
<p>What is it going to take for Americans to overthrow the inertia of their political masters in Washington with regard to keeping illegal aliens out of the country? Apparently, more than the cold-blooded murder of its citizens by foreign trespassers.</p>
<p>In July, <strong>Mollie Tibbetts</strong>’ mutilated body was found after a month-long search, dumped in a cornfield in Brooklyn, Iowa.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/09/why-christians-should-support-building-a-wall-part-i/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What The Rise Of Kamala Harris Tells Us About The Democratic Party</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2018 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Perry Bacon Jr.</em></p>
<p>In the days after <strong>Hillary Clinton</strong>’s defeat, the two people who seemed like the Democratic Party’s most obvious 2020 candidates, then-Vice President <strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/us/politics/democrats-joe-biden-hillary-clinton.html">Joe Biden</a></strong> and Vermont U.S. Senator <strong>Bernie Sanders</strong>, hinted that Clinton had gone too far in talking about issues of identity. “It is not good enough for somebody to say, ‘I’m a woman; vote for me,’” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/21/sanders-identity-politics/94221972/">Sanders said</a>.</p>
<p>Other liberals lamented that the party had lost <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/upshot/why-trump-won-working-class-whites.html">white voters in such states as Ohio and Iowa</a> who had supported <strong>Barack Obama</strong>, and they said Democrats needed to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html">dial back the identity talk</a> to win them back.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/07/what-the-rise-of-kamala-harris-tells-us-about-the-democratic-party/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Deal With Congressional Republicans?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Brian C. Joondeph</em></p>
<p>Every few months, Republicans behave stupidly, causing their voters to again ask themselves, &#8220;Why vote Republican?&#8221;  Supporting congressional Republicans seems an exercise in futility – Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown, ready to kick a conservative field goal, only to have Lucy pull the football away at the last second.  I have asked this question <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/06/why_vote_republican_part_3.html">several times</a>&#8230;</p>
<p>We all know the words to the Republican song we have heard every two years for the past decade.  &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/03/whats-the-deal-with-congressional-republicans/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Bad Couple of Weeks for Pre-Born Americans Thanks to Republicans</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 09:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by John Biver</em></p>
<p>It hasn’t been a good couple of weeks for the pre-born in America. Illinois Governor <strong>Bruce Rauner</strong> <a href="https://illinoisfamily.org/politics/gov-rauner-approves-taxpayer-funding-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed HB 40</a>, allowing for taxpayer funding of abortions. In Washington, D.C., Republicans still haven’t gotten their act together regarding their promised defunding of Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>Here is Dr. <strong>Susan Berry</strong> writing a rather simple sentence:</p>
<blockquote><p>Republicans have presented themselves to Americans as a pro-life party, and promised to defund Planned Parenthood once they had control of the House, the Senate, and the White House.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/10/a-bad-couple-of-weeks-for-unborn-americans-thanks-to-republicans/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Does it Mean to Be a Republican?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Lt. Col. Allen B. West</em></p>
<p>[Over the summer], MSNBC host and former U.S. Congressman from Florida <strong>Joe Scarborough</strong> said on a late night talk show that he was no longer a Republican. Scarborough admitted that he would be registering as an Independent. This is the same Joe Scarborough who came of age in the constitutional conservative ideological legislative revolution of one <strong>Newt Gingrich</strong> and his “Contract with America”. Of course, these days there are many folks changing their party affiliations to Independent.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/09/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-republican/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The ACLU’s Transparent Attack on the Election Integrity Panel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p dir="ltr">If you don’t think the Left is terrified by the prospect of clean voter rolls, you might not have heard about the latest ploy by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).</p>
<p dir="ltr">The ACLU has <a href="https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/american-civil-liberties-union-v-donald-trump-complaint">sued</a> President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>, Vice President <strong>Mike Pence</strong> and the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, charging them with violating federal “transparency” laws.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The suit is a bald attempt to halt the panel’s mission, which is to examine the prevalence of vote fraud in America and to recommend ways to secure the election process.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/the-aclus-transparent-attack-on-the-election-integrity-panel/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>20 Ideas to Crush Obamacare and Cure America&#8217;s Health Care Crisis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2017 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>U.S. Senator <strong>Bernie Sanders</strong> (I-VT) is famous for declaring health care a right. He is actually correct if we were to tweak his statement to read, “free market health care is a natural right.” Yes, we the people have a right to finally create a free market health care system that will do to the medical field what Uber, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Walmart, FedEx, and UPS have all done to their respective industries.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/20-ideas-to-crush-obamacare-and-cure-americas-health-care-crisis/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Democrats Are More Unified Than the GOP</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p class="p1"><em>By <span class="author vcard">Paul Gottfried</span> </em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Thanks to at least nine opposing Republican senators, Congress left for its July 4 break without passing a replacement bill for Obamacare.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-narrow-path-forward-for-the-gop-health-care-bill/">The opposition from these Republicans was two-fold</a>: Four conservatives thought the GOP bill on the table went too far in retaining government control over the medical insurance market, while five centrist members complained it doesn’t go far enough in providing federal funding for Medicaid in their states, and would leave 22 million Americans overall without medical insurance.</span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/why-democrats-are-more-unified-than-the-gop/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Do Democratic Policies Cause More Deaths?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2017 08:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Jack Hellner</em></p>
<p>Democrats are out ripping Trump’s budget and the replacement for ObamaCare, asserting that these policies will cause people to die.</p>
<p>For years Democrats have supported policies which force car makers to make smaller and lighter cars. Many studies have shown what obviously happens: people in small cars are <a href="https://www.edmunds.com/car-safety/are-smaller-cars-as-safe-as-large-cars.html">more likely to die</a> than those in larger and heavier cars. This is just common sense, but Democrats and the media have supported these policies anyway.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/05/do-democratic-policies-cause-more-deaths/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Many Americans Does Obamacare Kill Each Day?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 12:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Ben Voth</em></p>
<p>In 2015, something unexpected and unusual happened to the United States. For the first time since 1993, life expectancy in the United States declined. The decline was significant and extensive. Life expectancy is one of the most basic indicators of human health and the United States is one of the most advanced nations in the world. The decline should be causing a careful consideration of its causes and potential solutions. This is largely being ignored by our intellectual leadership for a rather obvious reason: the Affordable Care Act that promised to make health insurance more affordable and available for Americans.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/05/how-many-americans-does-obamacare-kill-each-day/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Contact Kinzinger To Defund Planned Parenthood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2017 20:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Chris Iverson</em></p>
<p>We&#8217;re flooding U.S. Representative Adam Kinzinger&#8217;s office in Washington D.C. with calls urging him to vote YES on the AHCA!</p>
<p>Call U.S. Representative Kinzinger at (202) 225-3635 and say:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I want to urge Representative Kinzinger to vote YES on the AHCA!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The AHCA will defund Planned Parenthood for one year, cutting 33 percent of their revenue! It can only defund the abortion clinic chain for one year due to Senate rules. This will be a major pro-life victory, but there are a handful of Republicans who have not committed to voting yes yet.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/05/contact-kinzinger-to-defund-planned-parenthood/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump Picks Pro Life Heritage Foundation Alum to Lead HHS Civil Rights Office</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Joshua Denton</em></p>
<p>In a move vigorously applauded by social conservatives and simultaneously denounced by same-sex “marriage” advocates, President Donald Trump has appointed <a href="http://www.heritage.org/staff/roger-severino">Roger Severino</a> to head the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Civil Rights.</p>
<p>Severino formerly served as the Director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society. As Director, his three main focuses where on religious liberty, marriage, and life issues.</p>
<p>His track record of defending religious liberty, natural marriage, and the sanctity of life go further back then his time at the Heritage Foundation.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/04/trump-picks-pro-life-heritage-foundation-alum-to-lead-hhs-civil-rights-office/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Obamacare vs. Obamacare Lite</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>Illinois families have been devastated by Obamacare through rising premiums and higher deductibles. In rural areas of our state, fewer insurers mean less competition and an increase in costs even as choice is limited.</p>
<p>Apparently, we must remind U.S. House Speaker <strong>Paul Ryan</strong> (R-WI) and the political leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives that the National Republican Platform calls for the repeal of Obamacare and that many Congressional Republicans ran on a platform of appealing this big government mandate and program.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/03/obamacare-vs-obamacare-lite/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>GOP Replaces ObamaCare with SwampCare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Bryan Fisher</em></p>
<p>Well, now we know why the GOP establishment kept their ObamaCare replacement package locked in a room where not even GOP senators could read it. Everyone naturally wondered what they were hiding, and now we know. They were hiding it because it is a horrible, no good, very bad piece of legislation.</p>
<p>If it repeals ObamaCare in any meaningful sense (and it doesn’t), it only replaces it with something as bad if not worse.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/03/gop-replaces-obamacare-with-swampcare/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>4 Likes, 2 Dislikes from Trump’s First 50 Days</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DonaldTrump.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7280" src="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DonaldTrump.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="300" srcset="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DonaldTrump.jpg 600w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DonaldTrump-300x150.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p><em>Written by Jon Schweppe</em></p>
<p>Generally, the first 50 days of the Trump Administration have been an absolute joy to watch. The media and the Left have been apoplectic as President <strong>Donald J. Trump</strong> largely honors his campaign promises and does exactly what he said he would do. Truthfully, Trump has been everything we hoped he would be and more.</p>
<p>Still, that’s not to say there haven’t been some disappointments. Here are four things I like and two things I dislike from the first 50 days:</p>
<h3><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Like: U.S.</strong></span></h3>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/03/4-likes-2-dislikes-from-trumps-first-50-days/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>7 Reasons Neil Gorsuch’s Nomination is Only the Beginning of Taking Back the Judiciary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 13:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Written by Daniel Horowitz</p>
<p>This week, President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> fulfilled his promise to nominate a very qualified and intelligent conservative judge. <strong>Neil Gorsuch</strong> is likely a very good pick. However, <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/01/what-conservatives-want-in-a-supreme-court-justice">given the past history</a>, the enormous post-constitutional pressure even in some circles of the conservative legal movement, and so much terrible court precedent, it is yet to be determined if Gorsuch has the resolve to not get sucked into the swamp.</p>
<p>This point was best encapsulated in a statement from U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/02/7-reasons-neil-gorsuchs-nomination-is-only-the-beginning-of-taking-back-the-judiciary/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>U.S. Senator Rand Paul Offers Worthy Obamacare Alternative</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Rand-Paul.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-7135 aligncenter" src="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Rand-Paul.jpg" alt="Rand Paul" width="599" height="327" srcset="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Rand-Paul.jpg 599w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Rand-Paul-300x164.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px" /></a></p>
<p><em>Written by Joshua Withrow</em></p>
<p>U.S. Sen. <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/members/rand-paul/liberty-card/">Rand Paul, R-Ky. (A, 92%)</a> has been nothing if not vocal about his belief that a new set of health care reforms should be voted on at the same time as a repeal of Obamacare. This week, Sen. Paul has revealed his proposal to replace Obamacare, by introducing <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/222" target="_blank">S. 222</a>, the <a href="https://www.paul.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ObamacareReplacementActSections.pdf" target="_blank">Obamacare Replacement Act</a>.</p>
<p>His bill is obviously designed to work in tandem with the partial repeal that was passed by Congress last year, in that it sweeps away the parts of Obamacare that the other bill leaves behind, particularly the regulations.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/01/u-s-senator-rand-paul-offers-worthy-obamacare-alternative/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CBO Confirms Fake Repeal of Obamacare Would Increase Premiums</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Daniel Horowitz</em></p>
<p>What happens when Republicans pursue a half-baked repeal of Obamacare and sell it to the public as full repeal of Obamacare? Premiums go up because of the core Obamacare provisions left behind, yet that increase will be blamed on the false pretense that Obamacare was indeed repealed.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, the <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/115th-congress-2017-2018/reports/52371-coverageandpremiums.pdf" target="_blank">Congressional Budget Office</a> (CBO) released a budgetary and economic score of the presumptive GOP plan to “replace” Obamacare. CBO concluded that not only will premiums fail to decrease, but will increase by 20-25% and 27 million more people would be uninsured.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/01/cbo-confirms-fake-repeal-of-obamacare-would-increase-premiums/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Will Obamacare Repeal Really Leave 30 Million without Insurance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Dr. Brian Joondeph</em></p>
<p>Repeal and replace.  That was and still is the <strong>Donald Trump</strong> promise for Obamacare.  Congressional Republicans are ready to join in.  Not that they haven&#8217;t been trying for the past six years, with over 60 <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/groundhog-day-republicans-vote-repeal-obamacare">attempts</a> at repeal at the congressional level, all quickly dispatched by the Obama veto pen.</p>
<p>Now that there is a new sheriff in town, the veto threat is gone.  Repeal and replace may actually happen.  What will it mean?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/12/will-obamacare-repeal-really-leave-30-million-without-insurance/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Most Americans Want Changes to Affordable Care Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 14:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Riely Brands and Frank Newport</em></p>
<p>Americans&#8217; assessments of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remain relatively unchanged after the Nov. 8 election, with more continuing to disapprove (53%) than approve (42%) of the law. Going forward, the vast majority of Americans want to see the law changed. This includes the 37% who want it repealed and replaced, along with a total of 43% of Americans who want the law kept, but with major changes.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/12/most-americans-want-changes-to-affordable-care-act/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;What We Have Here is Failure to Communicate&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #007)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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John Biver rejoins David Smith and Monte Larrick to discuss the importance of communicating ideas well and ways we can better deliver our conservative message.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/illinois-family-spotlight-007/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Obama Hoodwinked the SCOTUS on Obamacare</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Hollis Hurd</em></p>
<p>In the case of <em>King v. Burwell</em>, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in June of 2015, President <strong>Barack Obama</strong> won the day by convincing six justices that Obamacare would collapse if he lost.  The case involved the so-called &#8220;individual mandate,&#8221; which imposes a financial penalty on those who neglect to buy health insurance.  To many observers, the wording of Affordable Care Act seemed to impose the financial penalty only in states where a state exchange had been set up, not in states where the federal exchange operated by default.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/08/how-obama-hoodwinked-the-scotus-on-obamacare/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who Would Trump Appoint to the U.S. Supreme Court?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Frank Cannon </em></p>
<p><strong>Donald Trump</strong> says a lot of things. We’ve become all too used to that now. Some of these things should probably be taken with a grain of salt — <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9lcr-wsYOk">“Only Rosie O’Donnell” comes to mind</a> — but some deserve to be analyzed more closely.</p>
<p class="Body">Here’s an example. Remember Trump’s discussion about U.S. Supreme Court Justices back in August with <em>Bloomberg Politics</em>? <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2015-08-26/donald-trump-the-full-with-all-due-respect-interview">Mark Halperin asked Trump</a>, “Is there someone out there today who isn’t on the [Supreme Court], but say, this is the kind of person I would consider for the court?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/12/who-would-trump-appoint-to-the-supreme-court/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rejecting False Liberal Choices</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Over and over, progressives give us simplistic formulae, plus name calling if we’re on the “wrong” side of an issue.</p>
<p>This is not happenstance; it’s the way they shame people into adopting their agenda or at the very least silencing opponents.</p>
<p>When Democrats were selling Obamacare, then-Majority Leader Sen. <strong>Harry Reid</strong> decried Tea Party members as “evil mongers.” Americans were either selfish skinflints or compassionate souls who favored healthcare for all. If you opposed Obamacare, you hated the poor.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/12/rejecting-false-liberal-choices/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who Will Join Ted Cruz in Repealing ObamaCare?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Now we know who the masters are: the black-robed dictators of the U.S. Supreme Court. And we know who the slaves and the serfs are: you and me.</strong></span></p>
<p><em>Written by Bryan Fischer</em></p>
<p>The judicial tyrants of the U.S. Supreme Court, headed by chief oligarch <strong>John Roberts</strong>, have abandoned the Constitution, reason, and their oath of office by trashing the plain language of ObamaCare to reach an illogical, irrational, and judicially abominable result.</p>
<p>This 6-3 ruling is a juristic catastrophe.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/06/3980/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How 5 Republicans Let Congress Keep Its Fraudulent Obamacare Subsidies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2015 19:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Brendan Bordelon</em></p>
<p>The rumors began trickling in about a week before the scheduled vote on April 23: Republican leadership was quietly pushing senators to pull support for subpoenaing Congress’s fraudulent application to the District of Columbia’s health exchange — the document that facilitated Congress’s “exemption” from Obamacare by allowing lawmakers and staffers to keep their employer subsidies.</p>
<p>The application said Congress employed just 45 people.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/05/how-5-republicans-let-congress-keep-its-fraudulent-obamacare-subsidies/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gruber Apology &#8220;Lacking and Late,&#8221; Says Healthcare Analyst</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Chris Woodward</em></p>
<p>A health policy analyst predicts that Americans will find an ObamaCare adviser&#8217;s apology lacking.</p>
<p>M.I.T. professor <strong>Jonathan Gruber</strong> appeared Tuesday before a U.S. House committee, saying he was sorry for videotaped comments he made about the &#8220;stupidity of American voters&#8221; and lack of transparency in ObamaCare.</p>
<div class="mugContainer ImageFloatRight ImageBorderNo">&#8220;At this point, that&#8217;s the only good tactic for him to take is to humble himself and sort of apologize,&#8221; says <strong>Hadley Heath Manning</strong>, director of Health Policy at the <a href="http://www.iwf.org/" target="_blank">Independent Women&#8217;s Forum</a>.</div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2014/12/gruber-apology-lacking-and-late-says-healthcare-analyst/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Bernie Becker</em></p>
<p>U.S. Senator-elect <strong>Bill Cassidy</strong> (R-LA) said Sunday that his election was the “exclamation mark” on this year’s Republican successes.</p>
<p>Cassidy, who unseated U.S. Senator <strong>Mary Landrieu</strong> (D-LA) in a runoff election on Saturday, said the GOP takeover of the U.S. Senate illustrated how dissatisfied voters were with President <strong>Barack Obama</strong>, especially in the Deep South.</p>
<p>“If there’s one party for the working people right now, it’s the Republican Party,” Cassidy said on “Fox News Sunday,” pointing to GOP efforts to expand drilling of natural resources and Democrats’ attempts to limit emissions.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2014/12/newest-gop-u-s-senator-vicotory-an-exclamation-mark/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Moral Primer: Obama’s Legacy is Government-Induced Chaos at Home, Moral Equivalence Abroad</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Victor Davis Hanson</em></p>
<p><span class="drop">T</span>he last but long gasp of the Obama administration is characterized not so much by deceit and incompetence as by growing chaos. Everything appears to be coming apart. The chariot of state now veers up and down with a terrified Phaethon clueless at the reins. Whether it is ISIS, Ebola, Putin, or Obamacare, the common strain is not simple incompetence, but a maladroitness born of intolerant ideological fundamentalism.</p>
<p>Have our government agencies ever seemed more corrupt or useless or both, staffed by political cronies and leftist zealots?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2014/12/a-moral-primer-obamas-legacy-is-government-induced-chaos-at-home-moral-equivalence-abroad/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obamacare-gallup-approval.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2846" src="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obamacare-gallup-approval.png" alt="obamacare-gallup-approval" width="543" height="323" srcset="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obamacare-gallup-approval.png 543w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obamacare-gallup-approval-300x178.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px" /></a><em>Written by Brian Hughes</em></p>
<p>November has been a terrible month for President <strong>Barack Obama, between his party losing control of the Senate and seemingly unending bad news for Obamacare.</strong></p>
<p>The last few weeks were the worst stretch for his signature domestic initiative since the botched rollout of Obamacare in fall 2013, stoking doubts about whether the president can ever sell his healthcare policies to the American public.</p>
<p>First, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear arguments on the legality of Obamacare subsidies, a move that could gut the centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2014/11/bad-obamacare-month-could-haunt-white-house/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Unpublished Letters Reveal Close Hillary-Alinsky Link</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2014/09/unpublished-letters-reveal-close-hillary-alinsky-link/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Chad Groening</em></p>
<p>An author and political activist says the Democratic Party is clearly controlled by far left-wing radicals who want to create a one-party state.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Recently <em>The Washington Free Beacon</em> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-hillary-letters/" target="_blank">obtained</a></span> some unpublished correspondence between <strong>Hillary Clinton</strong> and 1960s-era left-wing radical <strong>Saul Alinsky</strong>. The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/240077031/The-Hillary-Letters" target="_blank">letters</a></span> revealed a close relationship between Clinton and Alinsky, who wrote <em>Rules for Radicals</em>, a controversial guide to the ends-justifies-means approach to power and wealth redistribution through community activism.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2014/09/unpublished-letters-reveal-close-hillary-alinsky-link/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Big Government’s IT Problem</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">There’s a reason so many states didn't create their own health exchanges. </span></strong></pre>
<p><em>Written by Michael Barone</em></p>
<p style="color: #000000;"><span class="drop">E</span>arlier this week, I was thinking of writing a column about the lying and duplicity of Obamacare backers who argued that the difference between providing subsidies in states with state-run health exchanges and providing no subsidies in states with federal exchanges resulted from inadvertence or a typographical error.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Typical among them was MIT health-care expert <strong>Jonathan Gruber</strong>. The folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute found video of him in 2012 arguing that all or most states would create their own exchanges because they wouldn’t get subsidies if they let the federal government run their exchanges.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2014/08/big-governments-it-problem/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NAACP And the White Sexual Anarchists</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><strong><em><a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NAACP_LogoBW.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-full wp-image-655" title="NAACP_LogoBW" src="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NAACP_LogoBW.jpg" alt="" width="252" height="252" srcset="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NAACP_LogoBW.jpg 360w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NAACP_LogoBW-150x150.jpg 150w, https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NAACP_LogoBW-300x300.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px" /></a>Exclusive: Matt Barber shames black organization for buckling to &#8216;gay&#8217; activists</em></strong></p>
<p>As his re-election hopes dim, the mainstream “progressive” media continue to run interference for <strong>Barack Obama</strong>. It’s predictable. They no longer even try to hide it. They persist in slobbering on their over-hyped, under-capable would-be savior as his campaign collapses around them. The sycophancy is embarrassing and the desperation palpable.</p>
<p>Most recently, they’ve created a stir around the <strong>NAACP</strong> crowd booing <strong>Mitt Romney</strong> at the decidedly liberal group’s national convention in Houston, Texas.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2012/07/naacp-and-the-white-sexual-anarchists/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Awakened Giant Likes tea</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>It’s often said, “Be careful what you wish for – you just might get it.”</p>
<p>Democrats got it all right.</p>
<p>U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice <strong>John Roberts</strong> – once counted among the constitutional originalists on the high court – has granted President<strong> Barack Obama’s</strong> supreme wish. By inexplicably siding with the court’s left wing and upholding the president’s signature achievement – government-run socialized health care – Roberts has given Democrats a shiny election-year package adorned with a judicial-activist bow.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2012/06/the-awakened-giant-likes-tea/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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