![They Did it to Ol’ Blood and Guts, They’ll Do it to Us Too They Did it to Ol’ Blood and Guts, They’ll Do it to Us Too](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Patton_speaking_with_Lt._Col._Lyle_Bernard_at_Brolo_circa_1943.jpg)
In the late summer of 1944, the Allied armies liberated Northern France and began to push deeper into Europe. No one was more effective in his advance than General George S. Patton and the Third Army. After serving his “time-out”...
![Is the GOP Suicidal? Is the GOP Suicidal?](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/gop-headstone.png)
Leave it to the Republican Party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
While nearly every poll definitively affirms that Democrats are in deep doo-doo come November, and as leftist talking heads like Chris Matthews have already conceded a...
![No Political Fix to America’s Death Spiral No Political Fix to America’s Death Spiral](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/America_In_A_Death_Spiral_Texe_Marrs__RenseRadio__155358.jpg)
The question is not, “Is America falling?” but, rather, “Why is America falling?”
I’m currently writing from CPAC 2014, the nation’s largest gathering of conservative political junkies. The event is being held at the beautiful Gaylord National hotel, adjacent to...
![The Whopper Industry The Whopper Industry](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pic_giant_031113_SM_obamacare.jpg)
By
Robert Knight
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03.07.14
If the prevaricating Harry Reid, Joe Biden, and Susan Rice have demonstrated anything, it’s that the ruling elite have no qualms about using shockingly obvious lies in pursuit of fundamentally transforming America.
U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) doesn’t think there’s...
![Liberal Law Professor Testifies on Obama’s Dangerous Expansion of Executive Power Liberal Law Professor Testifies on Obama’s Dangerous Expansion of Executive Power](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/JonathanTurley.gif)
By
Laurie Higgins
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03.01.14
Recently, “progressive” George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the dangerous expansion of Executive Branch power under the Obama Administration. This would be an excellent resource for high school students to study, both...
![Prince Holder and His Newest Imperial Proclamation Prince Holder and His Newest Imperial Proclamation](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/eric_holder.jpg)
By
Laurie Higgins
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02.25.14
From his imperial throne, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has proclaimed that heretofore state attorneys general need not enforce state laws that define marriage as a sexually complementary union. According to the New York Times, Holder said that “officials...
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President Barack Obama’s administration has announced that it won’t enforce money-laundering laws against banks doing business with marijuana stores, in a move designed to “facilitate illegal conduct,” says U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA)
The Obama administration calls it “Guidance to...
![If You Give a Liberal the Oval Office … If You Give a Liberal the Oval Office …](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Barack_Obama_David_Axelrod_Rahm_Emmanuel_in_the_Oval_Office.jpg)
By
Robert Knight
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02.19.14
The Obama administration has answered the question of what happens when you give liberals the Oval Office – and it’s not pretty or even a bit funny.
You know that clever ad by a satellite dish company that shows what...
![Federal Judge Who Struck Down Marriage Law Confused Constitution and Declaration Federal Judge Who Struck Down Marriage Law Confused Constitution and Declaration](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rainbowflag2.jpg)
Judges are ignoring the fact that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t provide for homosexual “marriage” – regardless of recent rulings.
While homosexual activists filed lawsuits against marriage laws in four states, last week two federal judges ruled against constitutional amendments. Mat...![Banning Federal Funding of Abortion (Update) Banning Federal Funding of Abortion (Update)](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/tax-dollars.jpg)
By
David E. Smith
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02.06.14
Only 7 Illinois Reps Vote to Ban Federal Abortion Funding
Republican members of Illinois’ Congressional delegation have voted to slap a total ban on federal taxpayer funding of elective abortions.
Seven of Illinois’ eighteen members of the U.S. House of...
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Have you ever read a voter guide or perused a legislative scorecard? Maybe you are one of the many Americans that have helped with a voter registration drive because you believe every citizen should be involved in electing their lawmakers....
![Help Stop IRS Shutdown of Voter Guides, Voter Registration Drives Help Stop IRS Shutdown of Voter Guides, Voter Registration Drives](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/irs_bldg2.jpg)
By
Tim Wildmon
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01.24.14
The IRS is proposing regulations that will give them the authority to restrict voter guides, legislative scorecards, get-out-the-vote campaigns and even the voter registration activities of non-profit groups by defining such civic engagement as “candidate-related political activity.”
Many, including AFA,...
![Is Prodigal GOP Inching Home? Is Prodigal GOP Inching Home?](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Reince-Priebus.jpg)
I’m a Bible-believing Christian first, a conservative second and, sometimes, with rapidly dwindling frequency, a Republican third (but only when the Grand Old Party is behaving itself).
Although the GOP’s RINO establishment still controls its legislative reins, I’m mildly encouraged...
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A very important, albeit confusing, ruling was handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) last summer. In the United States v. Windsor case, the Supreme Court struck down the federal definition of marriage contained in the...