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		<title>SPOTLIGHT: A Double Whammy</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/04/spotlight-a-double-whammy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alyssa Sonnenburg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg</em></p>
<p>In this episode of Illinois Family Spotlight, <strong>Tom Brejcha</strong> discusses President Biden and his State of the Union address.</p>
<p>Tom Brejcha is the Founder, President, and Chief Counsel of the <a href="https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/attorneys/tom-brejcha">Thomas More Society</a>. He is a legal expert with over 50 years of experience in the federal and state courts.</p>
<p>Abortion is a top issue for the 2024 election, and Brejcha comments on states who are codifying abortion into their state laws and gives insight on how Christians and conservatives can counter this.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/04/spotlight-a-double-whammy/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Are Walls Closing in on the Bidens?</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/07/are-walls-closing-in-on-the-bidens/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Everyone paying attention to the latest revelations about Hunter Biden and his energetically supportive father knows that journalists and Republican officials have opened a vein, or &#8220;the walls are closing in.&#8221; Even so, the leftist media are trying to report as little of this damaging scandal material as they possibly can.</p>
<p>We can scarcely imagine the anxious political chatter <i>inside </i>pro-Biden newsrooms, but let&#8217;s imagine it sounds something like <strong>Jen Psaki</strong>&#8216;s MSNBC show.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/07/are-walls-closing-in-on-the-bidens/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>GOP&#8217;s Moral Cowardice Leads to More Concessions, Acceptance of Dems’ Unthinkable Agenda</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/06/gops-moral-cowardice-leads-to-more-concessions-acceptance-of-dems-unthinkable-agenda/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>What is it with Republicans who try to fight the culture war with one hand tied behind their backs? They shift to a defensive crouch even when their position is clearly right.</p>
<p>G.K. Chesterton mocked this tendency years ago. Some politicians, he wrote, would loudly oppose the deadly mugging of a grandmother in a city park not because it’s immoral but because it would be a “waste of a perfectly good grandmother.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/06/gops-moral-cowardice-leads-to-more-concessions-acceptance-of-dems-unthinkable-agenda/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Left is &#8220;Crazy&#8221; Says Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Her Response to SOTU</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Written by David E. Smith</span></em></span></p>
<p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="color: #000000;">Governor <strong>Sarah Huckabee Sanders</strong> (R-AR) gave the official Republican response to President <strong>Joe Biden</strong>’s State of the Union on Tuesday night. She rightly pointed out that the dividing line in America is between normal and crazy. In fact she used the word &#8220;crazy&#8221; three times. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">While pundits are analyzing and parsing both speeches, they seem to be glancing over how Gov. Sanders may have laid the foundation for impeaching President Biden when she said, </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="background-color: #ccffcc; color: #000000;">“President Biden is unwilling to defend our border, defend our skies, and defend our people.</span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/02/the-left-is-crazy-says-sarah-huckabee-sanders-in-her-responds-to-2023-sotu/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Not Doubling Down; A Whole New Deck</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Michael Medved</em></p>
<p>Unfortunately, too many conservatives give the president credit he doesn’t deserve regarding his State of the Union agenda.</p>
<p>U.S. Senator <strong>Ted Cruz</strong> (R-TX), U.S. House leaders <strong>Steve Scalise</strong> (R-LA) and <strong>Jeb Hensarling </strong>(R-TX), have all suggested that <strong>Barack Obama</strong> has “doubled down” on his agenda. The blackjack definition for “doubling down” is to “hold your existing cards while doubling your existing bet with only one more card.”</p>
<p>But in his State of the Union, Obama requested virtually all new cards, raising issues he and his party never mentioned in the recent campaign:</p>
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<li>A tax hike of $320 billion?</li></ul>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/01/not-doubling-down-a-whole-new-deck/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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