Articles by Laurie Higgins
![Teaching Math the Common Core Way (no chuckling allowed) Teaching Math the Common Core Way (no chuckling allowed)](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Common-Core.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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09.06.14
This should help all of us dullard parents clarify Common Core arithmetic for our confused little ones--you know, without forcing them to memorize those pesky math facts. (Remember: No chuckling, which would be mean to the teacher—maybe even bullying):
![Details on Tonight’s Pro-Late-Term Abortion Documentary Details on Tonight’s Pro-Late-Term Abortion Documentary](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/After-Tiller.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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09.01.14
For those who want to watch or record the pro-late-term abortion film After Tiller airing on PBS tonight, it’s being shown from 10:00-11:00 p.m. on WTTW. It’s being shown as part of PBS’s P.O.V. series, which airs documentaries with a...
![PBS’ Labor Day Special on Late-Term Abortion PBS’ Labor Day Special on Late-Term Abortion](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/PBS_logo-2.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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08.30.14
In honor of Labor Day, the Public Broadcasting Company (PBS) is showing the documentary After Tiller that follows America’s four remaining late-term abortionists as they seek to “help” women by murdering their full-term or nearly full-term babies.
![Pompous Judge Posner’s Morality and Logic Run Amok Pompous Judge Posner’s Morality and Logic Run Amok](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/judge-posner.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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08.29.14
On Tuesday August 27, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judge, Richard Posner, grilled attorneys from Wisconsin and Indiana who were defending true marriage. Posner’s noxious bias dripped unnoticed by Slate writer, homosexual Mark Joseph Stern, who sycophantically described Posner as...
![Homosexual Choir Director in Illinois Fired Homosexual Choir Director in Illinois Fired](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/image-crop.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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08.21.14
Holy Family Parish in Inverness, Illinois has been at the center of yet another controversy spawned by the unholy effort to impose a “progressive” sexuality ideology on the entirety of society, including churches. Holy Family recently fired its choir director,...
![What Parents & Tapayers Should Know About Their Local Public Schools What Parents & Tapayers Should Know About Their Local Public Schools](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/classroom1.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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08.20.14
There are numerous problems affecting public education, problems so serious that many families are choosing either to homeschool their children or send them to private schools—options which very few families are able to implement or afford.
![Troubling Views from Christian on Abortion Troubling Views from Christian on Abortion](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/baby-in-womb-620x270.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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08.14.14
Last weekend, I wrote an article about the fetid fruits of feminism, chief of which is the legalized slaughter of preborn babies. A Mr. Z. from St. Louis wrote to me in response, listing several points about abortion that he...
![Fetid Fruits of Feminism Fetid Fruits of Feminism](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pro-life-baby.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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08.09.14
Hillary Clinton infamously said that abortion should be legal, safe, and rare. She also said that conception marks the beginning of “potential life.” If the union of egg and sperm, which creates something actual that possesses the full genetic code...
![Foolish Journalists Attack NFL Coach Tony Dungy Foolish Journalists Attack NFL Coach Tony Dungy](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/usp-nfl_-indianapolis-colts-at-dallas-cowboys.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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07.24.14
The Chicago Tribune must have an expansive anti-discrimination hiring policy that prohibits discrimination based on foolishness because the paper hires a boatload of foolish writers. The feckless Trib writer ‘o’ the week is sports writer Steve Rosenbloom who penned an embarrassing piece about the admired football coach Tony Dungy. To be clear, it is Rosenbloom—not Dungy—who should be embarrassed.
![Stunning Attempt by Congressional Dems to Overturn All State and Federal Abortion Restrictions Stunning Attempt by Congressional Dems to Overturn All State and Federal Abortion Restrictions](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/AbortiononDemand.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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07.16.14
A hearing was held yesterday on the deviously named ultra-partisan “Women’s Health Protection Act” (S. 1696). If passed this legislation would effectively overturn virtually every state statute that provides limits on the murder of preborn babies, including laws that ban third-trimester partial birth abortions.
![Flee from Public School Pornogogues Pronto Flee from Public School Pornogogues Pronto](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Tippecanoe-School-for-the-Arts-and-Humanities-school-desks.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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07.14.14
Providence College English professor, Anthony Esolen, has done it again. He’s written another must-read piece, this time an impassioned plea to Christian parents to pull their children out of public schools.
Esolen importunes parents to fulfill our God-given obligation to...
![Tumultuary Harry Reid Insults Whites, Women and Justice Thomas Tumultuary Harry Reid Insults Whites, Women and Justice Thomas](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/RoseyReid.png)
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Laurie Higgins
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07.11.14
Maybe there’s a silver lining to the cloud created by U.S. Senator Harry Reid’s tumult of confused and disordered thinking. Maybe he has just inadvertently made a case for his own political demise.
![What a Pro-Abortion Atheist Woman Says about Hobby Lobby What a Pro-Abortion Atheist Woman Says about Hobby Lobby](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Shikha-Dalmia.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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07.11.14
Read what Shikha Dalmia, the pro-abortion atheist senior analyst for the Reason Foundation (who also happens to be a woman), said about the left’s apoplectic response to the “Hobby Lobby” decision:
The United States Supreme Court last week handed...
![Homosexual Activists Reject Their Own Legislation: ENDA Homosexual Activists Reject Their Own Legislation: ENDA](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/GetEQUAL_religious_exemptions_2.jpg)
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Laurie Higgins
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07.09.14
Those who have been literally and figuratively taking a vacation from our increasingly strident culture wars may be surprised to learn that homosexual activist organizations, including Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, and...
![Admission from the Left about the Homosexuality=Race Analogy Admission from the Left about the Homosexuality=Race Analogy](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/orwell.png)
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Laurie Higgins
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07.09.14
The new website Barbwire carries many of my articles. In my recent piece on “Independence Day Parades and Barbarism” I wrote, “Opposition to celebrations of homoerotic predispositions, activity, and relationships bears not even the remotest relation to racism because homosexuality...