Identity Politics and Paraphilias: Impact & Transgenders
By John Biver   |   02.08.17
As with many topics, identity politics can be approached on any number of levels, such as intellectual, spiritual, and emotional. Yet, too few Americans actually talk about what we’re really talking about when the subject of the “LGBT community”/identity politics...
Are Progressives Targeting Minorities with Abortion?
By John Biver   |   02.08.17
Pro-life advocate Chris Iverson noted this fact in an article here at IFI recently: The U.S. abortion rate is the lowest in recorded history! The Guttmacher Institute found that there were 14.6 abortions for every 1,000 women aged 15-44 in...
Identity Politics and Paraphilias: Body Integrity Identity Disorder
By John Biver   |   01.30.17
Three and a half years ago in an article titled “Frightening The Horses,” writer and editor Rod Dreher opens giving a fellow writer kudos. “Ben Domenech calls it,” Dreher notes, and then excerpts him: I think they have really been...
Identity Politics and Paraphilias: Incest
By John Biver   |   01.16.17
Mike Miller at the Independent Journal Review posted a Tweet from Fox News’ Brit Hume about the University of Kansas Gender “pronoun buttons” — Hume Tweeted, “Is there no end to this foolishness?” What foolishness? Miller reports that “Signs in...
U.S. Senate Sees First Win in Obamacare Fight
By John Biver   |   01.05.17
Yesterday a Washington Times headline read “GOP wins first Obamacare fight in Senate budget vote.” Katie Pavlich reported this at Townhall.com: Republicans eager to show quick action against Obama’s health care law took an initial procedural step Tuesday, introducing a...
Identity Politics and Paraphilias: A Series
By John Biver   |   01.03.17
Identity Politics gets a lot of press — both conservative and liberal. The topic permeates nearly every area of life in the America of today. Yet for all the attention, not nearly enough people understand the most basic aspect of...
Demand That Congress Preserve the Electoral College
By John Biver   |   12.27.16
The men and women that you elect to the U.S. Congress in both chambers need to hear from you regularly on the important issues, and they need to hear from you today regarding the latest actions of Illinois’ own U.S....
Are Trigger Warnings Needed for Invocations?
By John Biver   |   12.24.16
In today’s “politically correct” America, it is evidently a possible offense to quote a former president and discuss the role of Christianity in the founding of the nation. The State Journal-Register’s political reporter Bernard Schoenburg recently reported on an invocation...
Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford Wins Injunction
By John Biver   |   12.21.16
It seems that our nation's founding fathers were not clear enough with their use of language in the First Amendment, which protects some of our God-given rights. That "make no law" thing is confusing for many, and that "abridging" business, well, that's way over the heads of Illinois Leftist lawmakers.
Chicago Tribune Reports on Illinois Lottery Corruption
By John Biver   |   12.12.16
The Chicago Tribune reported this last Friday on the dubious goings on at the Illinois Lottery: A Tribune investigation found the Illinois Lottery collected hundreds of millions of dollars from selling tickets to instant games in which it did not...
‘Lame Duck’ Tax Increase Debated While Both Parties Struggle with Basic Math
By John Biver   |   11.30.16
Anyone paying the least bit of attention to Illinois government knows the state is a fiscal mess, and the ongoing drama being played out between our Republican governor and Democrat General Assembly is like a long-running TV soap opera. The...
By John Biver   |   11.30.16
All Americans should watch the 2015 film “Ride the Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Victory and Betrayal.” It’s one of the most unusual movies I’ve ever seen — the creativity of the pacing, the writing, and the beautiful filming...
Articles Reveal Truth About the Southern Poverty Law Center
By John Biver   |   11.29.16
The infamous Southern Poverty Law Center has been in the news for many years now, not for the good work it might have done early on after it was started, but for the anti-Christian hate group they have evolved into....
Support the Free Speech Fairness Act
By John Biver   |   10.18.16
Some of our best voices in the nation are being silenced when it comes to discussing the critical issues facing the country. It just so happens that every Sunday you can hear one of these voices speaking from the pulpit...
The 2016 Campaign for President and the Info War About the U.S. Constitution
By John Biver   |   09.15.15
Over the course of the past few months I gathered articles about the question of “judicial supremacy” — are U.S. Supreme Court decisions “the law of the land,” or are they rulings on cases? Here is that page of excerpts,...
John Biver
John Biver

John Biver is a Christian, an American citizen from Illinois, and works in the arena of applied political science. He is a writer, activist, and analyst with over twenty-five years of experience in the political arena. John has worked in politics and government in Washington, D.C., and in Illinois at the state and local level.

His personal website is johnbiver.com.

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