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		<title>When Love Grows Cold: The Rise of Political Violence</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/10/when-love-grows-cold-the-rise-of-political-violence/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p data-start="306" data-end="612">The growing political violence in the U.S. is a serious concern that threatens both the stability of our republic and the safety of its citizens. What we’re witnessing today is not merely partisan animosity, but open hostility — a clear sign of our culture’s moral and spiritual decline, which undermines the very foundation of a civilized society.</p>
<p data-start="306" data-end="612">Just look at the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/ice-chicago-protesters-arrests-broadview-facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">violent mobs</a> that recently targeted ICE offices and federal agents — torching vehicles, smashing windows, and assaulting officers who enforce our nation’s immigration laws.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/10/when-love-grows-cold-the-rise-of-political-violence/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The 2024 Festivus Report is Ugly</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>If you are not familiar with the annual &#8220;<a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-REPORT-2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Festivus Report</a>,&#8221; by U.S. Senator, Dr. <strong>Rand Paul</strong> (R-KY), and are concerned with out-of-control government spending, you will want to read this short summary.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Festivus Report&#8221; is<span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3"><span class="css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1wl4xqv"> a mind-blowing critique of irresponsible (if not reckless) federal government spending. The 2024 report highlights $1,008,313,329,626.12 (that&#8217;s over $1 trillion) in government waste, detailing the ways our taxpayer dollars were used unnecessarily and/or frivolously.</span></span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/12/the-2024-festivus-report-is-ugly/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lab Leak Story: How Elite Scientists Lied and Concealed the Truth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Michael Barone</em></p>
<p>When the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> reported in a front-page lead story that the Department of Energy had concluded the COVID-19 pandemic resulted from a leak from China&#8217;s Wuhan laboratory, you might have argued it was old news. The FBI had already, it turns out, come to the same conclusion and with a higher degree of confidence (moderate) than the Energy Department (low).</p>
<p>Those agencies&#8217; conclusions, moreover, came as a result of a May 21 directive from President <strong>Joe Biden</strong> to multiple intelligence agencies to review two &#8220;equally plausible scenarios&#8221; for COVID&#8217;s origin, &#8220;whether it emerged from human contact with an infected animal&#8221; (the zoonotic theory) &#8220;or from a laboratory accident&#8221; (the lab leak theory).&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/03/lab-leak-story-how-elite-scientists-lied-and-concealed-the-truth/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>From Oil to Monkeypox, Truth is Elusive to Mainstream Media</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>More people than ever realize the media are gaslighting us. But I wonder if they know just how much.</p>
<p>You can lie with falsehoods or you can omit or obscure inconvenient facts. Just watch any “mainstream” media coverage of the Jan. 6 show trial. On second thought, why would you want to?</p>
<p>I thought about all this while reading the “Fact Checker” column by <strong>Glenn Kessler</strong> in <em>The Washington Post</em>.</p>
<p>Mr.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/07/from-oil-to-monkeypox-truth-is-elusive-to-mainstream-media/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tlaib and Omar Weren’t Banned for Disagreeing with Israel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Spencer</em></p>
<p>It is unlikely to come as a surprise to anyone except the most blinkered Leftist ideologue that <strong>Ilhan Omar</strong>’s response to being banned from entering Israel, along with her fellow antisemitic Congresswoman <strong>Rashida Tlaib</strong>, was outstandingly disingenuous. But she knows, when she retails her outrageous falsehoods, that the establishment media will never call her on them or reveal the true depths of her alliance with jihadis and agitation against Israel.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/08/tlaib-and-omar-werent-banned-for-disagreeing-with-israel/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>U.S. Election Driving New Immigration Crisis</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Pete Kasperwoicz</em></p>
<p>The new surge of illegal immigration at the southern border is being driven by the U.S. election and the related debate over whether to ease or tighten immigration laws, according to representatives of border agents and border-state sheriffs.</p>
<p>The last few months have seen a dramatic rise in apprehensions of illegal immigrants, on a scale that rivals 2014, when members of both parties agreed it became a humanitarian crisis. That crisis abated in 2015, but the numbers have spiked again, and federal officials have mostly been silent on why.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/10/u-s-election-driving-new-immigration-crisis/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is Johnson-Weld a Libertarian Ticket?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Ilya Shapiro</em></p>
<p>Plenty of libertarians were wary of seeing former Massachusetts governor <strong>Bill Weld</strong> as the Libertarian Party’s nominee for vice president. Even those of us who haven’t had anything to do with the LP would like to see the party represented by, you know, libertarians. Weld, who seems like a nice man and was apparently a <a href="http://www.cato.org/blog/cato-fiscal-grades-gary-johnson-william-weld">decent governor</a>, is the living expositor of the difference between a libertarian and someone who’s “socially liberal and fiscally conservative.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/08/is-johnson-weld-a-libertarian-ticket/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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