Well, it’s not breaking news, but it’s worth noting as President Donald Trump and Congress spar over spending that the national federal debt exceeds $20,000,000,000,000 and is rising by the minute. We’re using zeroes here instead of spelling out “trillion”...

Why is the Illinois Family Institute publishing another article about state government employee pensions? Because excessive taxes in Illinois are putting a strain on Illinois families -- and 25 percent of our state budget pays those overly-generous pensions. Now, policy experts Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner have provided yet more evidence that “A dramatic rise in pension benefits -- not funding shortfalls -- caused Illinois’ state pension crisis.”

To some entrepreneurs (and even Illinois gubernatorial candidates), marijuana legalization is all the rage these days. We're promised "more tax money!", "less crime!" and "miraculous medicine!" 

Unfortunately, due to the 8 to 12 inches of snow coming to the area, the World View Conference with John Stonestreet has been CANCELLED. We plan to reschedule the event and will let you know as soon as we have...

Sometimes, in 21st century America, we lose sight of the preciousness of human life. But God admonished us to choose life: I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death,...

Pastors are praying for change in Illinois and they're looking to raise new leaders for our state from within their congregations.

The U.S. Senate recently confirmed Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to be the new U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom in the US Department of State. "Never before has there been more religious persecution than there is in the world today, I am sad to say that," Brownback said. "Yet this is a foundational human right. If you want more security and less terrorism in your country have more religious freedom. It's a byproduct, a fruit of more security and peace. It's in all the data and now we need to spread it to all the world."

America’s founders believed in God and His word, and predicated our founding documents on those immutable, biblical principles. Though Leftists love to spout revisionist nonsense about many of the Founders being deists or worse, those accusations don’t hold water when...

If it is far from ideal to mutilate healthy body parts to accommodate someone who identifies as transabled, then it is far from ideal to do the same for someone who identifies as transgender.

Last Saturday I dropped off my two oldest sons and their friend at the theatre. I planned to kill a couple of hours at the bookstore, on my laptop, at a coffee shop, whatever. When I got out of the car the balmy two-degree temperature in Pittsburgh prompted second thoughts. Instead, I strolled into the theater complex, looked around, and saw a poster for “Darkest Hour.” I vaguely knew it was a movie about Winston Churchill. I bought a ticket and went in.