Written by David E. Smith
The number of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border continues at a frightening rate, and the Biden Administration continues to pretend it isn’t a major problem. Meanwhile, the persisting surge has only served to increase havoc in border states and big cities across the nation.
There is no question about it: the Biden Administration has encouraged this border crisis from the very beginning of his term. Almost four years later, voters are increasingly worried about illegal immigration and the loss of our American identity.… Continue Reading
Tags: Biden Administration, Border Crisis, Bret Baier, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese nationals, Ecuador, Merrick Garland, Mike Tobin, Susan Collins
Executive Branch, Immigration | David E. Smith | April 18, 2024 10:00 AM | Comments Off on 7K% Spike in Chinese Nationals Crossing Border
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
In this episode of Spotlight, Monte Larrick sits down with IFI Springfield Lobbyist, David Curtin, in order to get his perspective on the upcoming Illinois legislative sessions.
A bill that has a lot of conservatives in Illinois concerned is SB 3499 (Physician-Assisted Suicide). David Curtin comments,
The assisted suicide legislation is a very coordinated national effort and they’ve already done it in a few other blue states, and Illinois is the next state they usually stop at to try to pass something like this… [Physician Assisted Suicide] would allow physicians to dispense some pills to a person who is diagnose with a terminal illness to kill themselves at home.
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Tags: David Curtin, Illinois, legislation, physician assisted suicide, SB3499, Springfield
Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions, Faith & Religion, Federal Issues, Illinois Politics, Marriage, Family & Culture, Sanctity of Life | Alyssa Sonnenburg | April 17, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on SPOTLIGHT: A Legislative Update
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
This episode of Illinois Family Spotlight features Reverend Ceasar LeFlore.
Reverend LeFlore is the director of Public School Exit , an IFI-affiliated organization dedicated to facilitating the exit of children from government schools. He is also the director of Good Soil Good Seed (GS2), a scholarship foundation designed to help children afford to attend Christian schools.
Reverend LeFlore has an event on April 18th, called “Saving Our Children for God.” Attendance is free and the discussion will focus on the danger of Illinois government schools.… Continue Reading
Tags: children, educaton, Good Soil Good Seed, GS2, LeFlore, Public School Exit, public schools, Spotlight
Education, Faith & Religion, Federal Issues, Illinois Politics, LGBTQ Agenda, Marriage, Family & Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life | Alyssa Sonnenburg | April 16, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on SPOTLIGHT: Don’t Be a Lump of Human Dough
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
This edition of Illinois Family Spotlight features Mark Houck, a devout Catholic and peaceful pro-life protestor who was falsely accused of violating the FACE Act.
Houck was arrested and handcuffed in front of his wife and children by the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice.
With legal representation from the Thomas More Society and a unanimous jury verdict, Mark Houck was declared to be innocent.
This is a conversation you won’t want to miss.… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Biden, Department of Justice, FACE Act, FBI, Planned Parenthood, Sanctity of Life, Thomas More Society
Faith & Religion, Federal Issues, Marriage, Family & Culture, Political, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life | Alyssa Sonnenburg | April 10, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on SPOTLIGHT: When the FBI Comes Banging
Written by David Harsanyi
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can be an unhinged leftist and crackpot, but he also happens to be correct about President Joe Biden‘s attacks on constitutional order, particularly free expression.
Speaking to an incredulous Erin Burnett on CNN this week, Kennedy argued that Biden was a bigger threat to “democracy” than Donald Trump, a position that clashes with the media’s entire 2024 campaign messaging.
In a more decent world, we’d be debating which presidential candidate was better at upholding the constitutional order, rather than which one was worse.… Continue Reading
Tags: Black Lives Matter, Censorship, Chinese Communist Party, CNN, Committee on Public Information, COVID, Donald Trump, Erin Burnett, Eugene Debs, Facebook, Hunter Biden, Jen Psaki, Joe Biden, Kate Bedingfield, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Ministry of Truth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Weaponized Government
Executive Branch, Federal Elections, Federal Issues, Political | David E. Smith | April 6, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on RFK Jr. Is Right About Joe Biden
Written by Daniel Horowitz
During his 2005 confirmation hearings, Chief Justice John Roberts compared the role of the U.S. Supreme Court to that of an umpire calling balls and strikes. But what happens when the umpire allows one team more at-bats than the other? Once again, the much-vaunted conservative U.S. Supreme Court is a one-way ratchet for left-wing litigation. Some things never change.
When Donald Trump was president, not a single major administrative policy went unchallenged by the officiously litigious left-wing legal movement.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alliance Hippocratic Medicine, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, FDA, FDA v. Alliance Hippocratic Medicine, John Roberts, Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, Matthew Kacsmaryk, mifepristone, Neil Gorsuch, Population Council, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | April 5, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on SCOTUS Waffles on Abortion Drugs
Written by Robert Knight
In the name of “saving democracy,” a former presidential aide is now in a federal prison in Miami.
Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced to four months for ignoring a congressional subpoena ordering him to appear before the U.S. House Jan. 6 Select Committee.
That’s the kangaroo court that permitted no pro-Trump witnesses or pro-Trump committee members, and staged a Stalinist-style show trial that outranks the most disgraceful congressional abuses of power ever seen.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amit Mehta, Arthur Engoron, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Fani Willis, FBI, Jeff Clark, Jeffrey Clark, New York Supreme Court, Peter Navarro, Roger Stone, Russ Vought, Screwtape Proposes a Toast, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | March 26, 2024 7:16 AM | Comments Off on SCOTUS Must Weigh in on Unprecedented Political Persecution
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Four years ago this month, we learned that a state has practically unlimited power to make decisions about our lives, liberties, and property in the name of public health. During the COVID-19 crisis, courts confirmed that states can enforce regulations like controlling our breathing, requiring vaccinations, closing essential services, eliminating jobs, banning religious gatherings, and even imposing travel restrictions between states. If a state can do all this and even block residents from other states, then why can’t it also prevent people from entering from places where diseases are rampant, such as Haiti and Western Africa?… Continue Reading
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Every Republican seems to agree that our country has been taken over by a post-constitutional junta that usurps power to achieve its insidious objectives rather than follows the rule of law. But when it comes to redressing those usurpations with the only tool James Madison gave us — federalism — our elected officials too often shirk their responsibilities. Worse, they declare that the egregious usurpations are, in fact, the law of the land.… Continue Reading
Tags: Chief Justice Earl Warren, Chief Justice John Marshall, Cooper v. Aaron, Daniel Horowitz, Federalist 49, Jonathan Skrmetti, Judicial Branch, Kentucky Resolution of 1798, Restoring State Sovereignty Through Nullification Act, Roger Sherman, Supremacy Clause, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | March 16, 2024 4:00 AM | Comments Off on What Too Many Republicans Get Wrong About The U.S. Constitution
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Should a product that is completely funded, marketed, monopolized, and then mandated by government be less liable than Toyota is for its airbags?
Anyone with a modicum of common sense would understand that the more a product is favored with regulatory shortcuts and other benefits only government can provide, the more the product’s makers should be on the hook for liability if it causes damage. The fact is that the federal government required millions of people — including members of the armed services — to get the jab.… Continue Reading
Tags: Big Pharma, Chip Roy, COVID, COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Informed Consent Action Network, Josiah Magnuson, Moderna, National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, Pfizer, Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005, South Carolina, The LIABLE Act
COVID, Federal Issues | David E. Smith | March 9, 2024 8:00 AM | Comments Off on The LIABLE Act Would End Pfizer’s and Moderna’s Free Pass