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Should Violent Prisoners Vote in Illinois Elections?
Illinois prisoners should have the right to vote, a powerful lobbying group is arguing to the Illinois General Assembly. The effort nearly progressed in late January 2022, when the measure failed in the Illinois House by three votes.
If made law, SB 828 would make Illinois the third state to allow incarcerated citizens to vote while they’re in prison – after Maine and Vermont, and the District of Columbia.
Current Illinois voter law must be changed because it is racially unfair, the advocates say. Their proposed changes would add about 28,000 prisoners to Illinois’ voter rolls. Most importantly, nearly 55 …
Posted in Illinois Politics
Tagged Bernie Sanders, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Votes, Department of Corrections, Jacqueline Y. Collins, Jason Snead, La Shawn K. Ford, Mike Simmons, SB 828, WBEZ
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Tax-Funded Illinois Propagandists Slam 1776 Report’s Honest History
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
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Abortion Activists Want Us to Look at Abortion More Expansively
Great Idea! Let’s Help Them
The number of “tourist” abortions carried out in Illinois nearly doubled from 2014 to 2018. Reporter Natalie Moore of Chicago's NPR station WBEZ recently praised this development, as she see this as a strength. Illinois has become a go-to state for abortion.
Posted in Sanctity of Life
Tagged Abortion tourism, Band of Brothers, Carafem, Easy Company, Megan Jeyifo, Natalie Moore, NPR, Planned Parenthood, reproductive justice, Roe v. Wade, Scott Klusendorf, Stephen Ambrose, Toni Bond, WBEZ
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Great Idea! Let’s Help Them
Great Idea! Let’s Help Them
