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		<title>Note-Worthy 2026 SCOTUS Wins and Losses</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/07/note-worthy-2026-scotus-wins-and-losses/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>June is the notorious month for U.S. Supreme Court decisions.</p>
<p>We all remember June 24, 2022, when the horrific <em>Roe v. Wade</em> decision, making abortion the law of the land, was overturned and given back to the states.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>This past June, a number of decisions were handed down— some very good and some very bad.</strong></span></p>
<p>We&#8217;ll highlight a few of the significant ones:</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>1.) Birthright Citizenship</strong></span> <em>(Loss)</em></p>
<p>On June 30th, the U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/07/note-worthy-2026-scotus-wins-and-losses/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mayor Johnson’s Answer to Bloody Chicago Weekend is More Support for Trans Chicagoans</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/06/mayor-johnsons-answer-to-bloody-chicago-weekend-is-more-support-for-trans-chicagoans/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>Over the 19th-21st “Juneteenth” weekend, Chicago experienced multiple violent shootings.</p>
<p>While weekend shootings have become commonplace in the makeup of Chicago living, what was uncommon was both the level of violence and the shocking response from <strong>Mayor Brandon Johnson</strong>.</p>
<p>Not to mention that this bloody weekend caught national attention to the point where <strong>President Trump</strong> has once again offered <strong>Governor J.B. Pritzker</strong> law enforcement help.</p>
<p>What <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/7-killed-and-dozens-injured-following-series-of-weekend-shootings-in-chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left</a> 7 dead and multiple injured, prompted an unexpected and confusing response from Mayor Johnson.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/06/mayor-johnsons-answer-to-bloody-chicago-weekend-is-more-support-for-trans-chicagoans/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Social Security in Crisis: Should We Care?</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/02/social-security-in-crisis-should-we-care/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Rev. Thorin Anderson</em></p>
<p>It is an established fact that the <strong>Social Security Trust Fund</strong> will be depleted sometime in 2032. What this means is that going forward from that point recipients will receive only what is available from the current withholdings from America’s workers. Social Security administrators are estimating that there will be an approximate 25% reduction in the payouts to America’s retirees.</p>
<p>To most Americans this may appear to be of little consequence, but the ramifications are far more serious than one might think.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/02/social-security-in-crisis-should-we-care/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Daring to Call Out Obama Officials’ ‘Treasonous Conspiracy’</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/07/daring-to-call-out-obama-officials-treasonous-conspiracy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>A conspiracy theory is something “that explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators,” according to Merriam-Webster.</p>
<p>One of those theories is coming true before our eyes with the release of newly unclassified documents by Director of National Intelligence <strong>Tulsi Gabbard</strong>.</p>
<p>These documents reveal a secret plot by the Obama administration to falsely frame President Trump as colluding with Russia to fix the 2016 election.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/07/daring-to-call-out-obama-officials-treasonous-conspiracy/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>President Trump&#8217;s Executive Order #14248 is Lawful and Necessary!</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/president-trumps-executive-order-14248-is-lawful-and-necessary/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Nancy Hayes</em></p>
<p>On April 3<sup>rd</sup>, Attorney General <strong>Kwame Raoul</strong>, as part of a coalition of 19 state attorneys general, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over an executive order <strong>President Trump</strong> signed in March, which they claim is an unconstitutional attempt to impose sweeping voting restrictions across the country.</p>
<p>The lawsuit refers to <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14248-preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-american-elections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Order No. 14248</a>, which is a lawful and necessary measure to protect election integrity, especially in federal elections.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/president-trumps-executive-order-14248-is-lawful-and-necessary/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The IHSA Does Not Care About Your Daughters</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/the-ihsa-does-not-care-about-your-daughters/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>The <strong>IHSA</strong> (Illinois High School Association) has doubled down on its dedication to allow biological males to compete in girls’  sports.</p>
<p>Not only is IHSA’s decision a violation of <strong>President Trump’s</strong> February 5 Executive Order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” but it is also a clear indication of one thing:</p>
<p><em>The IHSA will gladly sacrifice the privacy and safety of your daughters on the altar of radical gender ideology.</em></p>
<p>Because of the IHSA’s egregious violation of morality and biology, U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/the-ihsa-does-not-care-about-your-daughters/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Will The GOP Finally End PBS and NPR Subsidies?</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/will-the-gop-finally-end-pbs-and-npr-subsidies/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is in the news again.</p>
<p>Kermit the Frog, the iconic “Sesame Street” Muppet, will give the 2025 commencement address at the University of Maryland.</p>
<p>Kermit’s appearance will coincide with the 65th anniversary of the graduation of UM’s <strong>Jim Henson</strong>, who was awarded a degree in home economics in 1960. In a press release, “Kermit” said he would keep the address upbeat, even though, as he put it, “It’s hard to be green.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/will-the-gop-finally-end-pbs-and-npr-subsidies/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“There are Only Two Sexes”</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/03/there-are-only-two-sexes/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>Transgender ideology has wreaked havoc across America.</p>
<p>Biological men, claiming to be women, have insisted on infiltrating women’s restrooms, locker rooms, and sports.</p>
<p>Because of the radical policies allowing this infiltration, women’s privacy was revoked, championships were lost, and opportunities were ripped away.</p>
<p>However, consequences of this ideology have been even more severe than this. The infiltration of men into women’s spaces has led to egregious violent acts.</p>
<p>In January of 2024, NBC New York <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/man-posing-as-transgender-woman-raped-female-prisoner-at-rikers-lawsuit-says/5067904/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on an incident where a biological male, claiming to be a woman, sexually violated a female prisoner on Riker’s Island.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/03/there-are-only-two-sexes/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Administrators Force Middle School Girls to Undress in Front of Biological Male</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/03/administrators-force-middle-school-girls-to-undress-in-front-of-biological-male/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>

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<p>Shepard Middle School, located in Illinois School District 109 in Deerfield, is under heavy fire for <em>forcing</em> middle school girls to undress in front of a biological male.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/03/administrators-force-middle-school-girls-to-undress-in-front-of-biological-male/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>IVF is Not Pro-Life</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>On February 18, <strong>President Donald J. Trump</strong> signed an executive order that expands access to In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF).</p>
<p>According to the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-expands-access-to-in-vitro-fertilization-ivf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">“The Order recognizes the importance of family formation and that our Nation’s public policy must make it easier for loving and longing mothers and fathers to have children.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p>The executive order goes on to cite the dangerously low fertility rate America is currently facing, as well as the difficulty many families are having as they try to have children.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/02/ivf-is-not-pro-life/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: The Status of Religious Liberty</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/08/spotlight-the-status-of-religious-liberty/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>In this episode, <strong>Illinois Family Spotlight</strong> features remarks and insights made by the honorable <strong>Sam Brownback</strong> that took place during an IFI Forum on religious liberty.</p>
<p>Sam Brownback served as governor of Kansas, represented the people of Kansas in the U.S. House &#38; Senate during <strong>President Trump’s</strong> administration, served as the U.S. Ambassador at Large for <strong>International Religious Freedom</strong>, and is currently the chairman for the <strong>National Committee for Religious Freedom</strong>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/08/spotlight-the-status-of-religious-liberty/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Democrats Leap Into the Abyss of Hypocrisy</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/01/democrats-leap-into-the-abyss-of-hypocrisy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Laurie Higgins</em></p>
<p>Just when you thought Leftists couldn’t be more cynical, hypocritical, dishonest, tyrannical, and cruel, they step up to prove you wrong. When Democrats, by whatever janky standards they’ve made up, think Republicans have gone “low,” they&#8211;that is, Democrats&#8211;dive headlong into the abyss of hypocrisy and nastiness.</p>
<p>They’ve been doing their theatrical performative best to argue that the attack on the Capitol is particularly heinous because of the building’s symbolic significance—which, of course, it has.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/01/democrats-leap-into-the-abyss-of-hypocrisy/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Right for Me but Not for Thee</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/09/right-for-me-but-not-for-thee/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2020 09:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p dir="ltr">If a picture is worth a thousand words, the video of a mask-less <strong>Nancy Pelosi</strong> caught having her hair done at a shut-down San Francisco salon this past week is worth an entire dictionary.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Speaker of the House immediately deployed the <strong>Marion Barry</strong> defense.  When caught on video smoking crack with a hooker in 1990, the former mayor of Washington, D.C. and city councilman at the time exclaimed, “B**** set me up!”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/09/right-for-me-but-not-for-thee/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PODCAST: Bitter, Shortsighted Never-Trumpers Harming America</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/podcast-bitter-shortsighted-never-trumpers-harming-america/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2020 05:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Those who refuse to vote for President Trump because they find his tweets and temperament off-putting are small-minded, myopic, self-indulgent traitors to America. They are indulging their antipathy for Trump and their personal vindictiveness at the expense of America&#8217;s future.</p>
<p>There is a loathsome campaign afoot by Never-Trumpers/RINOs/Establishment Republicans (aka the D.C. swamp) to bequeath to the next generation a country of far more oppression, far less liberty, far greater educational indoctrination, a darker economic future, and more threats domestic and foreign.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/podcast-bitter-shortsighted-never-trumpers-harming-america/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>PODCAST: President Trump&#8217;s Mt. Rushmore Speech &#038; the Left&#8217;s Unhinged Response</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/podcast-president-trumps-mt-rushmore-speech-the-lefts-unhinged-response/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2020 05:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The juvenile, unhinged, and dishonest responses to President Trump’s magnificent Mt. Rushmore speech on July 3, 2020 reveal exactly what patriots are up against. President Trump began his speech by reminding all who call America home of the reason for the existence of the monument at Mt. Rushmore, the reason why America is unique among nations, and the reason so many still want to call America home:&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/07/president-trumps-mt-rushmore-speech-the-lefts-unhinged-response/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">read more</a>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/podcast-president-trumps-mt-rushmore-speech-the-lefts-unhinged-response/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;BOLD As A Lion&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #179)</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/bold-as-a-lion-illinois-family-spotlight-179/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>IFI and IFA&#8217;s executive director David Smith&#8217;s speech at the annual IFI Fall banquet is presented on this spotlight. During this &#8220;Bold as a Lion&#8221; themed banquet, Dave talked about Christians needing to be bolder in the public square in the face of increasing pressure from the radical left. He also gave his opinion of Trump&#8217;s presidency to date, the seemingly insurmountable odds against pro-family advocates, an encouragement from scripture, a vision for the future of the Illinois Family organizations, and a little pep-talk towards the end.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/bold-as-a-lion-illinois-family-spotlight-179/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>CNN Takes the Bait on Diversity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Brian C. Joondeph</em></p>
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<p>CNN, famous for fake news, focuses their 24-7 news cycle on anything damaging to President <strong>Trump</strong>, even if they have to provoke it or make it up. Their low <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/26/cnn-food-network-ratings/">television ratings</a> reflect the lack of public interest in their incessant Trump bashing. In late June, “In primetime, CNN lost to HGTV, Investigation Discovery, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and the Food Network.”</p>
<p>When CNN is not Trump bashing, they are virtue signaling to fellow leftists.</p></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/08/cnn-takes-the-bait-on-diversity/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump is More Popular Than Obama and it’s Driving the Fake Newsers Nuts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Autumn Price Johnson</em></p>
<p>President <strong>Trump</strong>’s popularity is soaring among voters in spite of round-the-clock attacks from CNN’s <strong>Jim Acosta</strong> and others in the Fake News industry.</p>
<p>“When they see the anger from the media – the seething rage against this president, it drives people to the president’s corner,” Republican National Committee spokesperson <strong>Kaley McEnany</strong> said on the <strong>Todd Starnes</strong> Radio Show.</p>
<p>McEnany cited a new Rasmussen <strong><a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/998515/Donald-Trump-news-Obama-US-poll-Rasmussen-Reports-US-approval-rating">poll</a> </strong>showing President Trump has a current approval rating of 48%, while former President <strong>Barack Obama</strong> had an approval rating of 46% at the same point in his presidency.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/08/trump-is-more-popular-than-obama-and-its-driving-the-fake-newsers-nuts/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;HB 40 is Having a Deadly Impact on Illinois&#8221; (Illinois Family Spotlight #105)</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/illinois-family-spotlight-105/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>On a busy intersection on a bright summer day, Monte Larrick spoke with <strong>Eric Schiedler</strong>, the President of the Pro-Life Action League at the 19th annual Face the Truth Tour.</p>
<p>This edition of Spotlight features their conversation which touches on President <strong>Trump</strong>&#8216;s SCOTUS nominee; how graphic images displayed at the Truth Tour debunk popular liberal talking points on abortion; possible Supreme Court debates on the Illinois&#8217; &#8220;bubble zone&#8221; law; troubling news about the effects of the implementation of HB 40 (taxpayer funding of abortion); and how HB 40 will affect Illinois abortion law if SCOTUS overturns <em>Roe v.</em>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/illinois-family-spotlight-105/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The Racist Left</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by E.W. Jackson</em></p>
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<p>Leftist ideologues live in an alternate universe, a product of their hallucinations of an America that does not exist except in their own demented thinking.</p>
<p>The latest manifestation of this delusional perception is <strong>Eugene Robinson</strong>&#8216;s opinion piece in the <em>Washington Post</em> on July 5.  Here is some of what he said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Racism is a feature of the Trump administration, not a bug[.] &#8230;</p>
<p>We have not seen such overt racism from a president since <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/1214/5-surprising-facts-about-Woodrow-Wilson-and-racism">Woodrow Wilson</a> imposed Jim Crow segregation in Washington and approvingly showed &#8220;The Birth of a Nation,&#8221; director D.W.</p></blockquote></div></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/07/the-racist-left-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Left is Always Wrong: Election Meddling Edition</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/07/the-left-is-always-wrong-election-meddling-edition/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 20:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tom Trinko</em></p>
<p>Twelve Russians have been indicted for hacking the DNC and releasing DNC emails showing that the DNC had violated its own rules and worked against <strong>Bernie</strong> and for <strong>Hillary</strong> in the primaries.</p>
<p>Leftists are talking about the Russians meddling in the U.S. election as a result.  The problem is that while hacking the DNC is illegal and the Russians should be prosecuted, how can telling the voters that the DNC conspired against Bernie be considered “meddling” in our election?&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/07/the-left-is-always-wrong-election-meddling-edition/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Four Pillars of the D.C. Swamp: Part 2</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/the-four-pillars-of-the-d-c-swamp-part-2/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Walker Wildmon</em></p>
<p>There are four pillars of the Swamp in Washington, D.C. Each of these pillars works against the American people and President <strong>Trump</strong>’s agenda.</p>
<p>The legislative branch and judicial branch are the first two pillars; they are discussed <a href="https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2018/06/the-four-pillars-of-the-dc-swamp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here in Part 1</a> of this blog series. Each institution, in its original form, was created for good. Now, these once good institutions have been remade into something that has and continues to hurt our country.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/the-four-pillars-of-the-d-c-swamp-part-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Four Pillars of the D.C. Swamp</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Walker Wildmon</em></p>
<p>There are four pillars of the Swamp in Washington, D.C. Each of them works against the American people and President <strong>Trump</strong>’s agenda.</p>
<p>The legislative and judicial branches are the first two pillars. Each institution, in their original form, were created for good. Now, these once good institutions have been remade into something that has and continues, to hurt our country.</p>
<p>The legislative branch is currently being used to maintain the status quo and prevent President Trump from carrying out all that he and other Republicans promised voters they would do.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/the-four-pillars-of-the-d-c-swamp/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Deconstructing Young Minds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Since November 2016, the Deep State and its media allies have spent considerable time and money cultivating animus toward <strong>President Trump</strong> and the Republican-led Congress among younger voters.</p>
<p>Many Millennials came unglued in the wake of the election and still are.  The Left is counting on their turning out to elect progressives in November.  Social media bristle with anti-Trump and anti-conservative invectives, and some of it spills over into anti-American rants.</p>
<p>As author <strong>William J.</strong>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/deconstructing-young-minds/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>‘Fake News’ Is Not a Fake Term</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>The left and Trump-opposing right are predictably annoyed at <strong>President Trump</strong>’s persistent description of the liberal media as “fake news.” Like it or not, the term as he uses it has merit.</p>
<p>Trump’s opponents hysterically claim he threatens the free press when he uses that term to describe them, just as they accuse him of other alleged abuses of constitutional power. In fact, unlike <strong>President Obama</strong>, Trump has governed within his constitutional authority.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/fake-news-is-not-a-fake-term/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Congressional Leaders Demand HHS Investigate Planned Parenthood&#8217;s Cover Up of Sex Crimes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Brandon Showalter</em></p>
<p>WASHINGTON — Fifty-six members of Congress are urging the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate Planned Parenthood for covering up and not reporting the sexual abuse and trafficking of minors.</p>
<p>Speaking at a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, several pro-life activists and members of Congress spoke about a newly released <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Planned%20Parenthood%20Sexual%20Abuse%20Report%202018.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> by Live Action titled, &#8220;Aiding Abusers: Planned Parenthood&#8217;s Coverup of Child Sexual Abuse,&#8221; that they say details Planned Parenthood&#8217;s long history of complicity with sexual exploitation.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/06/congressional-leaders-demand-hhs-investigate-planned-parenthoods-cover-up-of-sex-crimes/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I Am A Climate Denier</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by William Briggs</em></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The latest meeting of the UN to discuss the redistribution of your money because of “climate change” <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/cop23-un-climate-change-summit-bonn-donald-trump-paris-agreement-us-pope-francis-a8061256.html">has just concluded</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here’s one headline generated by the event: “<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/11/16/pope-francis-says-those-who-deny-climate-change-have-perverse-attitudes.html">Pope Francis says those who deny climate change have ‘perverse attitudes’</a>“.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The pontiff, during remarks made to negotiators at climate talks in Germany, called climate change “one of the most worrisome phenomena that humanity is facing.” He added efforts to combat climate change are held back by those who deny the science behind it, are indifferent or resigned to it, or think it can be solved by technical solutions.</span></p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/11/i-am-a-climate-denier/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why So Much Hatred Against Christians in America Today?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>By Dr. Michael Brown</em></p>
<p>On Sunday, the day of the church massacre, cultural commentator <strong>David French</strong> tweeted, “The amount of anti-Christian hate on Twitter the same day Christians were massacred is stunning and chilling.”</p>
<p>If ever there was a time when we might have expected sympathy for Christians, or at least restraint in attacking them, the opposite proved true far too many times. Why?</p>
<p>On Fox News, <strong>Laura Ingraham</strong> <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/11/06/laura-ingraham-aftermath-texas-church-shooting-shows-hostility-people-faith">noted</a> that some of the reactions to the shooting pointed to “elite hostility to people of faith,” stating that “hostility to faith infects the popular culture.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/11/why-so-much-hatred-against-christians-in-america-today/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump Should Ignore Judge on Transgenders</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 10:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Bryan Fischer</em></p>
<p>U.S. District Judge <strong>Colleen Kollar-Kotelly</strong> is a lowly U.S. District Court judge in the District of Columbia. She is not the Commander-in-Chief.</p>
<p>Yet she has somehow appointed herself commandant of the entire United States military in an astonishing display of hubris and judicial supremacy. She ruled this week that transgenders must be allowed to serve in the military, overturning the president’s executive order on the matter.</p>
<p>U.S. Senatorial candidate Judge <strong>Roy Moore</strong>, who knows a thing or two about confronting an out-of-control judiciary, today called for this judge’s impeachment, and of course he is right to do so.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/11/trump-should-ignore-judge-on-transgenders/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vote Fraud Panel Frightens the Left</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2017 09:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p dir="ltr"><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p dir="ltr">Judging by the unhinged reaction this past week to the first public meeting of President Trump’s blue-ribbon voter fraud panel, progressives are terrified.</p>
<p dir="ltr">They’re fearful that these election experts are actually going to do the job they’ve been given – uncovering the extent to which the nation’s voter rolls are vulnerable to fraudulent activity. How else to explain the panic and shots fired before the commission even met?</p>
<p dir="ltr">“This is such a threat to democracy, this commission, this voter suppression commission,” huffed MSNBC analyst and Daily Beast columnist <strong>Jonathan Alter</strong> on MTP Daily (Meet the Press Daily).&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/vote-fraud-panel-frightens-the-left/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Levin: Rep. Luis Gutierrez is a ‘Marxist-Leninst’ and a ‘lunatic’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Written by Jordan Schachtel</em></p>
<p>Tuesday on his radio show, Conservative Review Editor-in-chief <strong>Mark Levin</strong> exposed far-left Democratic Congressman <strong>Luis Gutierrez,</strong> D-Ill., breaking down his radical past.</p>
<p>Levin first responded to Gutierrez discussing the supposed evils of America, in which the Chicago politician called for the mass importation of illegal immigrants into America.</p>
<p>“Why are they here … If people are here working in the most horrendous conditions imaginable, why do they come here?” Levin asked.</p>
<p>He then played a clip of Rep.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/levin-rep-luis-gutierrez-is-a-marxist-leninst-and-a-lunatic/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Charity Should Begin at Home — And Not in Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Terry Schilling</em></p>
<p>In a recent <a href="https://thenationalpulse.com/commentary/charity-should-begin-home-not-washington/">Liberty Minute</a>, “Charity Begins at Home,” <strong>Helen Krieble</strong> condemned the attitude of excessive reliance on the government for welfare:</p>
<blockquote><p>Have you ever heard the old saying that charity begins at home? Now we seem to believe charity begins with the government. Whenever there is a tragedy of any kind, people look to government to rebuild homes, bail out failing businesses, and replace people’s lost possessions.</p>
<p>But when we look through the lens of liberty, we realize government can only provide for some people by taking from others.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/charity-should-begin-at-home-and-not-in-washington/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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