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Legalizing Marijuana: A Perspective from the Homeless [VIDEO]
By Monte Larrick   |   12.16.14
As the president of one of the largest homeless shelters in Chicago, Pastor Phil Kwiatkowski of the Pacific Garden Mission sees the effects of drug addiction everyday and questions the recent legislative push to legalize the “gateway drug,” marijuana. IFI’s...
Illinois Euthanasia Group Pushes Pro-Death Agenda with Documentary Screening
12.15.14
An advocacy group is holding a Chicago screening of a documentary propagandizing that people diagnosed with terminal illnesses should be allowed to kill themselves. The documentary “How to Die in Oregon” will be shown Saturday with a discussion afterward. The...
Parentectomy – Government Usurpation of Parental Rights
By   |   12.15.14
The State of Illinois Seizes Sick Child and Blocks Hospital Transfer In today’s America the severing of sick children from their parents by the state has become so common it has a nickname “the Parentectomy.” You may recall the highly...
12.15.14
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[VIDEO] Busting the Myth That Marijuana Doesn’t Kill
12.13.14
A former adviser on drug policy to three presidents—Clinton, Bush and Obama—says, despite popular fiction, marijuana does kill. “Saying marijuana has never contributed to death or never killed anyone is like saying tobacco hasn’t killed anyone,” Kevin Sabet, president of Project SAM, told The Daily Signal after speaking at a Heritage Foundation event today on marijuana policy. “In that same way, marijuana does kill people in the form of mental illness, suicide and car crashes.”
Welcome to TotCare: Obama’s preschool takeover
12.11.14
The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round, just like the endless cycles of big, bad government programs to federalize preschool and daycare.
Gay Marriage and the Death of Freedom
12.10.14
Rather than striking a blow for individual liberties, the dogma of gay marriage is stifling them
A Failing Grade for Explicit Sex Education [VIDEO]
By Monte Larrick   |   12.09.14
Its time to raise the standards for sex education in Illinois. Recently, parents of 5th grade students at a West Side Chicago Public School (CPS) magnet school, were stunned and repelled by the binder of sex ed material that they...
Secular Sensitivity Gone Wild
By Robert Knight   |   12.09.14
It’s not enough for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to use its legal clout to halt graduation invocations or prayers before high school football games. In Florida, the ACLU insists that even a secular school concert in a building...
Storage Wars: The Midterm Edition
By   |   12.08.14
Now that the heady rush of jubilation has faded from the election, it’s time to take stock of what we actually achieved. The numbers couldn’t be more forthright. It’s as if the American people interrupted the President to interject, “Now,...
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