Tag Archives: Donald J. Trump

The Sword of ‘Fear Sells’ Cuts Both Ways

Posted on April 15, 2021 by David E Smith

Have you seen the Project Veritas, undercover video footage exposing CNN’s extreme anti-Trump animus? Have you seen the candid comments about their intentional misrepresentations of both Trump (negatively) and Biden (positively)? Have you heard the unashamed admission that “fear sells”?

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Media Watch | Tagged Charlie Chester, CNN, Donald J. Trump, Joe Biden, Project Verita | Comments Off

Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church v. Pritzker

Posted on March 6, 2021 by David E Smith

While a number of cases have reached the U.S. Supreme Court challenging government pandemic restrictions that limit churches’ and members free exercise of religion, Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church v. Pritzker presents direct legal conflict between jurisdictions (traditionally the primary basis for Supreme Court hearing) and raises crucial additional questions that need resolution by the U.S. Supreme Court, to re-protect and strengthen our first and most important liberty.

For these reasons, IFI has joined an Amicus Brief in support of Elim Romanian.

Until 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court had rightly afforded the highest level of protection to our first freedom, the …

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged Amy Barrett, Antonin Scalia, Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley, Donald J. Trump, Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church v. Pritzker, Employment Division v. Smith, John Roberts, Nevada v. Sisolak, Obergefell v. Hodges, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn vs. Cuomo, Southbay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, U.S. Supreme Court | Comments Off

Tax-Funded Illinois Propagandists Slam 1776 Report’s Honest History

Posted on February 5, 2021 by David E Smith

Tax-funded propagandists in media and academia across Illinois are demonizing the historic 1776 Report report on the public's dime, without offering any examples of errors or inaccuracies among the facts presented by President Donald J. Trump's 1776 Commission.

Posted in Education, Media Watch | Tagged 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, Abraham Lincoln, Carol Swain, Chicago State University, Donald J. Trump, Jr., Lionel Kimble Jr., Martin Luther King, New York Times, WBEZ | Comments Off

Uncensored: Social Media Alternatives for Christian Conservatives

Posted on December 18, 2020 by David E Smith

I am finally doing it: creating profiles on social media platforms that are friendlier to conservative points of view and that do not censor speech. Why? Like so many others, I have had enough of the interference, outright censorship, suppression of conservative views, and suspension of accounts. I am fed up with the unwelcome disclaimers by social media giants and partisan search engines that suggest my opinions and news posts are untrustworthy and/or dishonest. For these reasons, I have decided to say "goodbye" to liberal social media platforms.

Posted in Media Watch | Tagged Big Media, Big Tech, Brave, Dave Olsson, Donald J. Trump, Duck Duck Go, Facebook, Facebook Jail, Google, Google Chrome, Hunter Biden, Jared Thomson, John Matze, Mark Weinstein, MeWe, Microsoft Edge, New York Post, Parler, Robert Epstein, Rumble, The Epoch Times, Tucker Carlson Tonight, Twitter, YouTube | Comments Off

Sorry, But I’m Not Buying Obama’s Portrait of Racist America

Posted on November 18, 2020 by David E Smith

I don’t doubt for a moment that we still have race issues to address in America. And I don’t believe that, to date, we have fully overcome the legacy of hundreds of years of slavery and segregation in our history. At the same time, I do not accept former President Obama’s claim that the 2016 election of Donald Trump was, in part, a reaction to having a Black man in the White House.

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, Donald J. Trump, Promised Land, racism, Washington Post | Comments Off

Handmaids of Bigotry

Posted on October 13, 2020 by David E Smith

Well, they dusted off those colorful “Handmaid’s Tale” outfits that were so visible at Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS confirmation hearings in 2018.

Posted in Federal | Tagged Amy Coney Barrett, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Brett Kavanaugh, Brian Buescher, Clarence Thomas, Cory Booker, Democratic National Committee, Dianne Feinstein, Donald J. Trump, Kamala Harris, Margaret Atwood, Mike Pompeo, People of Praise, The Handmaid’s Tale | Comments Off

Pushing Back the Indoctrination

Posted on October 7, 2020 by David E Smith

From the president on down, we’re seeing a welcome pushback against Marxist indoctrination in our colleges, government agencies, and even the military. It had better happen soon, too, because in K-12 schools, hapless children are being subjected to the awful, anti-American 1619 Project and Black Lives Matter curricula. But at least there is movement at the top of the academic and government food chains.

Posted in Education | Tagged 1619 Project, Bernie Sander, betsy devos, Black Lives Matter, Capital Research Center, Christopher Eisgruber, Cory Booker, Critical Race Theory, Defense Race Relations Institute, Derrick Bell, Dianne Feinstein, Donald J. Trump, Elaine Donnelley, Family Research Council, Joseph Klein, Kamala Harris, Lisa Keim, Marxism, Robert King, Robert Terry, Russell Vought, Southern Poverty Law Center, Woodrow Wilson | Comments Off

Parler: Leaving the Twitter Censorship Zone

Posted on July 4, 2020 by David E Smith

Prominent conservatives have launched a campaign on Twitter urging users to switch to Parler, a competing platform marketed as a "free speech social network." The social media giant has caused a tidal wave of an exodus to its more conservative competitor Parler after it deleted two popular conservative accounts and began adding disclaimers to the tweets of President Donald Trump.

Posted in Media Watch | Tagged Dan Bongino, Devin Nunes, Donald J. Trump, Hugh Hewitt, Jared Thomson, John Matze, Parler, social media, Ted Cruz, Twitter | Comments Off

President Trump Deems Churches “Essential”; Calls on Governors to Reopen Houses of Worship

Posted on May 23, 2020 by David E Smith

During yesterday's White House press conference, President Donald J. Trump officially designated churches as “essential places that provide essential services.” President Trump’s remarks came the same day that Fox News reported that U.S. Department of Justice was intervening "in an Illinois case that has the potential to invalidate the state's stay-at-home order implemented by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker..."

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged Donald J. Trump, Kayleigh McEnany, Religious Freedom | Comments Off

Coronavirus:
National Day of Prayer

Posted on March 14, 2020 by David E Smith

President Donald J. Trump has called for a National Day of Prayer this Sunday. While there is never a lack of serious issues to pray about, the level of anxiety and even fear among citizens is at a level many of us have never seen before. The need for national corporate prayer by Christians is indisputable.

While some politicians and media pundits are working overtime to have us believe that the federal or state government can save us, we know that God is sovereign (Psalm 103:19) over the affairs of all creation. It is to Him we must turn when …

Posted in Faith | Tagged Coronavirus, COVID–19, Donald J. Trump | Comments Off

Are Politically Engaged Conservative Christians Idolaters?

Posted on January 29, 2020 by David E Smith

In his recent Christianity Today (CT) blog post, New Testament scholar Scot McKnight defends recently retired CT president Mark Galli’s hubristic diktat about the necessity—in Galli’s view—of Trump’s removal from office:

Whether Mr. Trump should be removed from office by the Senate or by popular vote next election—that is a matter of prudential judgment. That he should be removed, we believe, is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments.

Trump’s removal from office would inarguably result in the election of a man or woman who endorses, among other things, human …

Posted in Faith, Media Watch | Tagged Anthony Esolen, Christianity Today, Donald J. Trump, Karl Barth, Mark Galli, Martin Luther King Jr., Pete Buttigieg, Randall Balmer, Scot McKnight, Thomas Jefferson, Timothy Dalrymple | Comments Off

A Narco-Nation of Potheads, Courtesy of George Soros

Posted on January 20, 2020 by David E Smith

Billionaire George Soros was named “Philanthropist of the Year” by Inside Philanthropy magazine for his “…fight for academic freedom in Central Europe, and his resistance to the rising tide of authoritarianism worldwide.” The former is a reference to gender studies programs and the latter concerns his ongoing campaign to undermine existing governments, causing chaos that makes more money for hedge fund currency manipulators and short-sellers like himself.

Posted in Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Tagged Aaron Hernandez, Adam Schuster, David E. Smith, Donald J. Trump, Dr. Kenneth Finn, Fentanyl, George Soros, Inside Philanthropy, Jerome M. Adams, John Klingner, Juliana Stratton, Marc Levine, Pete Buttigieg, Philanthropist of the Year, Roger Morgan, Ted Dabrowski, Theodoric Meyer, Trevor Hughes, USA Today, WirePoints | Comments Off

Donald Trump: The Champion of Religious Freedom

Posted on September 27, 2019 by David E Smith

In June, 2016, when candidate Trump promised a large gathering of evangelical Christian leaders that he was committed to defending our liberties, I was skeptical. Was he just trying to get our votes? Did he really care about our freedoms? Was he truly concerned that our rights were being eroded?

For more than two years, he has answered those questions emphatically. Yes, he is committed to defending our liberties. Yes, he really does care about freedoms. And yes, he is truly concerned that our rights are being eroded.

Now, the president has gone one step further, standing up for religious …

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged China, Donald J. Trump, Hindu Party, India, Indian Christians, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Muslims, Narendra Modi, New Zealand, North Korea, Open Doors World Watch List, Religious Freedom, Sri Lanka, Uighur Muslims, United Nation, Xi Jinping, Yael Kushner | Comments Off

Score Three for American Conservatism

Posted on July 12, 2019 by David E Smith

Three Points to Draw out of the Flag-Kneeling Spectacles in Sports

“Psh … I’m not going to the f***in’ White House,” sneered U.S. Women’s National soccer team co-captain Megan Rapinoe, barely letting the reporter finish his question. “No, I’m not going to the White House,” she said again, just in case there was any doubt.

This took place before the team had won its fourth World Cup championship amid sophomoric Twitter squabbles between Rapinoe, her lesbian girlfriend Sue Bird, and President Trump over Rapinoe’s national anthem protests. In 2016, she’d followed Colin Kaepernick in kneeling during the …

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American War for Independence, Colin Kaepernick, Declaration of Independence, Donald J. Trump, Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird, White House, World Cup | Comments Off

Evangelist Franklin Graham Calls for Day of Prayer

Posted on May 30, 2019 by David E Smith

Reverend Franklin Graham, the president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, posted a message on Facebook and sent an email to his social media followers requesting they dedicate Sunday, June 2, as a day of prayer for President Donald Trump. Two hundred and fifty Christian leaders quickly responded by signing the proclamation, including three former presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention (the largest Protestant denomination in America) and the general superintendent of the Assemblies of God.

The proclamation reads:

“We the undersigned are calling for June 2 to be a special Day of Prayer for the President

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Posted in Faith | Tagged Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Donald J. Trump, Family Research Council, Franklin Graham, Southern Baptist Convention, Tony Perkins | Comments Off