Tag Archives: Tammy Duckworth

Oppose Federal Marijuana Legalization

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

A growing body of evidence proves that marijuana deeply harms individuals and society. Yet 37 states, including Illinois, have legalized it, and more states are working towards decriminalizing its use. Not surprisingly, heavily-funded Big Tobacco, Big Alcohol, and Big Pharma lobbyists in Washington, D.C. continue to work towards legalizing marijuana at the national level. We need your help to fight this national effort!

Posted in Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions, Illinois Politics | Tagged Delia Ramirez, Jan Schakowsky, Jeff Merkley, Jerold Nadler, marijuana, Marijuana- Oppose SAFER Banking Act, SAFER Banking Act, Tammy Duckworth | Comments Off

U.S. Senator Marshall’s Stand

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

On May 15, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced two bills to the U.S. Senate—one that would prohibit federal funds from supporting gender transition procedures, and another that would altogether ban such procedures on minors.

Posted in Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions, Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, next gen, Sexuality | Tagged Cindy Hyde-Smith, civil action, Dick Durbin, Doug LaMalfa, End Taxpayer Funding of Gender Experimentation Act of 2023, federal government funding, gender transition, gender transition surgery, gender transition therapy, health care, James Risch, Josh Hawley, Kevin Cramer, Marco Rubio, Markwayne Mulllin, Marsha Blackburn, Mary Miller, Mike Bost, Mike Braun, Mike Lee, Protecting Children From Experimentation Act of 2023, Roger Marshall, Roger Wicker, Senator Marshall's Stand, Steve Daines, Tammy Duckworth | Comments Off

Quashing States’ Rights Gets Quashed!

Posted on March 3, 2022 by David E Smith

Have you heard? Abortion cheerleaders were at it again! Earlier this week they attempted to overturn state legislative abortion restrictions. Their weapon? The so-called "Women’s Health Protection Act" (H.R. 3755) - led by U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Representative Judy Chu (D-CA). The proposal passed the U.S. House by a vote of 218-211 on September 24, 2021. It was taken up by the U.S. Senate on Monday, February 28, 2022 where cloture was opposed by all Republicans and one Democrat: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). The motion failed by a vote of 46-48.

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Abortion, Adrienne Mansanares, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Guttmacher Institute, H.R. 3755, Joe Manchin, Judy Chu, Las Vegas Sun, Planned Parenthood, Roe v. Wade, Tammy Duckworth, Women’s Health Protection Act | Comments Off

U.S. House Approves $400 million to Track Immunizations

Posted on January 10, 2022 by David E Smith

The growth of the federal government’s power over the last two years is problematic. Increasingly lawmakers are using the pandemic as an excuse to control every aspect of their citizens’ lives. It now seems that they want to further control and surveillance the health records of their citizens. The US House of Representatives passed HR 550, the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021, on November 30, 2021. The bill is a complex idea that will create a network of computers and databases capable of further tracking immunization for the local, state, and federal governments.

Posted in Federal | Tagged Adam Kinzinger, Ann Kuster, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dan Crenshaw, Darin LaHood, Dick Durbin, H.R. 550, Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021, Rodney Davis, Tammy Duckworth | Comments Off

Are Progressives Allies of Women or Misogynists?

Posted on January 4, 2022 by David E Smith

Leftists seek to destroy every created thing that emerges from or depends on the real and foundational distinctions between males and females. Eradicating all distinctions between males and females entails socially constructing a false understanding of marriage. It entails distorting the public understanding of the purposes for and boundaries of sex and reproduction. It entails transforming the public understanding of the needs and rights of children. And it entails a wholesale assault on all sex-associated phenomena, including clothing, hairstyles, grammar, private space usage, sports, and even human bodies.

Posted in Sexuality | Tagged Dick Durbin, Schuyler Bailar, Tammy Duckworth | Comments Off

Border Crisis Leading to Human Trafficking and Other Disasters

Posted on December 13, 2021 by David E Smith

The crisis along the US-Mexican border continues with little effort from the Biden administration to stop the flood. In September, Del Rio, Texas, was nearly overrun when 30,000 illegal immigrants poured over the border into the town. This action meant illegal immigrants almost outnumbered actual citizens and, as a result, Del Rio’s public areas and living conditions deteriorated noticeably.

Posted in Federal | Tagged André Manuel López Obrador, border control, Dick Durbin, Fox News Channel, Greg Abbott, Homeland Security, human trafficking, illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Joe Biden, Kevin Lilly, Ron DeSantis, Stop the Surge Act of 2021, Tammy Duckworth, Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson | Comments Off

Radical Pro-Abortion Bill in Washington D.C.

Posted on September 30, 2021 by David E Smith

Last Friday, by a vote of 218 to 211, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a radical pro-abortion bill that would essentially codify Roe v. Wade. The so-called "Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021" (H.R. 3755) would create an absolute right to abortion in federal law, superseding all state laws. The vote fell along party lines, with only one Democrat—U.S. Representatives Henry Cuellar (D-TX)—voting against the bill.

Posted in Federal, Sanctity of Life | Tagged Abortion, Bill Foster, Bobby Rush, Brad Schneider, Cheri Bustos, Chuy Garcia, Danny Davis, Dick Durbin, Doe v. Bolton, Jan Schakowsky, Lauren Underwood, Marie Newman, Mike Quigley, Mitch McConnell, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Robin Kelly, Roe v. Wade, Sean Casten, Susan Collins, Tammy Duckworth, Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021 | Comments Off

Executive Order Makes Biden Regime Lone Wolf in Tyrannical Vaccine Mandates

Posted on September 14, 2021 by David E Smith

The United States was legally founded upon the principle of limited government, under which at the time of the founding, the federal government mandating specific medical treatment to individual citizens would never have been tolerated.

Posted in Federal, Religious Liberty | Tagged Dick Durbin, Joe Biden, Tammy Duckworth, vaccine mandate | Comments Off

Illinois Congressional Rep. Newman’s Dumb Plea for Equality Act

Posted on March 30, 2021 by David E Smith

How can someone as foolish and manipulative as U.S. Representative Marie Newman get elected to Congress? Oh, yeah, she ran in Illinois, the land that once gave the nation Abe Lincoln but now saddles the nation with Dick Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, Jan Schakowsky, Sean Casten, and Brad Schneider.

On March 17 Newman, the anti-life, self-identifying Catholic, spoke in a U.S. Senate hearing in support of the execrable Equality Act, which has nothing to do with Equality and everything to do with advancing an alchemical superstition about the alleged ability of humans to become the opposite …

Posted in Federal, Religious Liberty, Sexuality | Tagged Brad Schneider, Dick Durbin, Equality Act, Ethics and Public Policy Center, James Lankford, Jan Schakowsky, Marie Newman, Marsha Blackburn, Mary Hasson, Notre Dame Law School, Sean Casten, Tammy Duckworth, Vicki Hartzler | Comments Off

Kara Dansky: Biden’s Order on Gender Identity Harms Women and Girls

Posted on March 12, 2021 by David E Smith

Earlier this week Tucker Carlson interviewed feminist attorney Kara Dansky. ... During this short interview, she rightly describes the increasing erasure of women as an “emergency” with many unforeseen consequences that will affect the “rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls.” She warns that the Equality Act, which will “redefine the word ‘sex” to include the nebulous, ill-defined, un-understood, made-up lie that is “gender-identity,” makes a national conversation about these serious consequences imperative.

Posted in Sexuality | Tagged ACLU, Dick Durbin, Equality Act, Kara Dansky, sex, Tammy Duckworth, Tucker Carlson, Women’s Human Rights Campaign, Women’s Liberation Front | Comments Off

Freshman U.S. Representative Mary Miller Bullied by Deceitful Leftists and Abandoned by Cowardly Republicans

Posted on January 8, 2021 by David E Smith

Another tempest is brewing in the Land of the Lost, formerly known as the Land of Lincoln. It all began when, in a speech to Moms for America, newly elected U.S. Representative Mary Miller quoted Hitler’s infamous assertion from Mein Kampf about the indoctrination of children. Miller said,

"If we win a few elections, we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts and minds of our children. This is the battle. Hitler was right on one thing. He said, 'Whoever has the youth has the future.'”

The political world came unhinged.

Posted in Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Adam Kinzinger, Adolph Hitler, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Brenda Lawrence, Chicago Sun-Times, Donald Trump, George Santayana, holocaust, Jan Schakowsky, Jim Clyburn, LA Times, Lynn Sweet, Mary Miller, Mein Kampf, Michael Hiltzik, Nazi, Tammy Duckworth, Timothy Snyder, U.S. Holocaust Museum | Comments Off

Marijuana Decriminalization Happening in Congress

Posted on December 10, 2020 by David E Smith

The U.S. House passed a bill last week that would remove marijuana from the federal schedule of controlled substances and eliminate federal criminal penalties for anyone who manufactures, distributes, or possesses marijuana. This is the first time in our nation’s history that a chamber of the U.S. Congress has voted on decriminalizing marijuana on the federal level.

Illinois Congressional members voting for this proposal include: Bobby Rush (D-Chicago), Robin Kelly (D-Chicago), Jesus Garcia (D-Chicago), Mike Quigley (D-Chicago), Sean Casten (D-Wheaton), Danny Davis (D-Chicago), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Lake Zurich), Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston), Bill Foster (D-Aurora), and Lauren Underwood (D-Woodstock).

The bill, known …

Posted in Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Tagged Bill Foster, Bobby Rush, Danny Davis, Dick Durbin, Jan Schakowsky, Jesus Garcia, Lauren Underwood, Marijuana Decriminalization, Mike Quigley, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Robin Kelly, Sean Casten, Tammy Duckworth | Comments Off

Chicago Teachers’ Union’s Absurd Tweet About School Re-Openings

Posted on December 8, 2020 by David E Smith

The state of Illinois long ago made the embarrassing leap from local joke to national joke. The Land of Lincoln is now the corrupt, insolvent, morally vacuous, leftist dystopia of U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, Springfield mob boss Mike Madigan, Governor J.B. Pritzker, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot. I guess the lazy, irresponsible, anti-science, and morally vacuous community organizers that comprise the Chicago Teachers’ Union thought Illinois was not getting quite enough national PR, so on Sunday, they tweeted,

The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.

Say what? Even for …

Posted in Education | Tagged 1619 Project, Chicago Teachers Union, COVID–19, Critical Race Theory, Dick Durbin, Illinois Policy Institute, J.B. Pritzker, John Piper, Lori Lightfoot, Mike Madigan, National Education Association, Tammy Duckworth, Wuhan virus | Comments Off

The 2020 Post-Election Plot Thickens

Posted on November 24, 2020 by David E Smith

The 2020 post-election plot thickened on Sunday when Trump legal team attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis announced that Sidney Powell was not a member of the Trump legal team. Naturally, questions and theories about the reason for the separation flooded social media full of sound and fury but signifying nothing.

It is hoped that within a few weeks, we will learn much more about the nature and degree of voter “irregularities” and electronic malfeasance, which in an ideal political world would be a bipartisan issue.

In the past Democrat U.S. Senators Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren…

Posted in Federal | Tagged Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Darryl Cooper, Dominion Voting Systems, Edward Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Eric Coomer, Jenna Ellis, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennett, Patty Murray, Richard Blumenthal, Ron Wyden, Rudy Giuliani, Sharon Meroni, Sherrod Brown, Sidney Powell, Tammy Baldwin, Tammy Duckworth | Comments Off

The Ideological Non-Sense and Hypocrisy of Leftists

Posted on November 19, 2020 by David E Smith

One of the more grotesque demonstrations of leftist non-sense and hypocrisy was demonstrated a week ago following an episode of the wildly popular Disney show The Mandalorian when “Baby Yoda” eats the unfertilized eggs of a Frog Woman who is transporting her eggs to her husband so he can fertilize them thereby preventing their species’ imminent extinction. Fans of Baby Yoda freaked out, incensed at the lighthearted treatment of what they deemed genocide by the beloved Baby Yoda.

The moral incoherence and hypocrisy should be obvious. In the Upside Down where leftists live, when a human mother hires someone to …

Posted in Media Watch, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality | Tagged 2020 election, Abigail Shrier, Andrew Cuomo, Baby Yoda, Bernie Sanders, Brian Schatz, Chinese Communist Party, Chris Cuomo, Christine Whitmer, CNN, Cory Booker, COVID–19, Downs Syndrome, Edward Markey, Election 2020, Electoral College, Elizabeth Warren, Free Speech, Gavin Newsom, Harry Potter, Irreversible Damage, J.K. Rowling, Jeff Merkley, John Lewis, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, lock-downs, Lori Lightfoot, Maria Cantwell, Michael Bennet, Nancy Pelosi, Patty Murray, Sherrod Brown, Tammy Baldwin, Tammy Duckworth, The Mandalorian. Ron Wyden. Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Supreme Court, Wall Street Journal | Comments Off