By
David E. Smith
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07.12.10
In the early twentieth century, unions were responsible for creating safe and healthy work environments. Unions helped protect people who worked in the private sector, including those who toiled in mines; worked for America’s burgeoning railroad system; and were employed...
By
David E. Smith
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05.07.10
Illinois’ General Assembly failed to help failing students in the state’s worst schools on Wednesday afternoon.
Landmark school choice legislation was rejected by lawmakers from both parties Wednesday. This common sense bill would have allowed approximately 22,000 children from Chicago’s...
By
David E. Smith
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05.03.10
Former Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline joined other Illinois law enforcement leaders at a press conference at the Daley Center today announcing their opposition to the proposed “medical marijuana” bill now pending in the Illinois House of Representatives.
Cline, who...
By
David E. Smith
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04.29.10
In Springfield on Wednesday, Illinois State Representative Deborah Mell (D-Chicago) took a moment of personal privilege in the legislative chamber to announce that she and her lesbian partner would be traveling to Iowa to get married next year, and to...
By
Kathy Valente
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03.29.10
Illinois FOCA is dead for this session and Illinois’ Parental Notification Law is one step closer to being implemented!
Illinois families had a tremendous victory today when Circuit Court Judge Daniel A. Riley dismissed the ACLU’s legal challenge of the...
By
Kathy Valente
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03.25.10
In his budget address before the Illinois Legislature on March 10th, Governor Patrick Quinnannounced his proposal to raise your income taxes by 33 percent instead of having state spending come in line with current state revenue. His original 2010 budget...
By
David E. Smith
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03.24.10
Seven minutes after President Barack Obama signed the onerous health care “reform” bill into law Tuesday afternoon, thirteen state attorneys general filed suit against the federal government, challenging the legislation as unconstitutional.
Florida’s Attorney General Bill McCollum has taken the...
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David E. Smith
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03.11.10
Pro-Life and Pro-Family citizens must contact their State Representatives to oppose HB 6205.
Early Wednesday morning on March 10th, the Illinois House of Representatives’ Human Services Committee passed HB 6205 (Illinois FOCA) by a vote of 5-2. This was fully...
02.27.10
by John Bambenek – Illinois Family Institute
We are all frustrated by the dysfunction and corruption out of Springfield. Their pursuit of a far-left radical agenda has us stunned year after year. Yet, a majority of us are opposed to...
Today, hundreds of thousands will gather in Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life in protest of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling which legalized abortion in America. The nation’s highest judicial body handed down this controversial...
Today, hundreds of thousands will gather in Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life in protest of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling which legalized abortion in America. The nation’s highest judicial body handed down this controversial...
By
David E. Smith
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10.31.09
Approximately 150-175 people gathered in the rain at the Lincoln statue last Thursday (Oct. 29th) to rally for natural marriage and encourage Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) to “let the people vote” on the a state constitutional amendment to...
Illinois citizen and activist John Bambenek began a petition drive on Wednesday to place a state constitutional amendment on the November 2010 general election ballot.
The initiative is titled the “Bambenek Put-Back Amendment”. Bambenek, a political reformer and resident of...
The initiative is titled the “Bambenek Put-Back Amendment”. Bambenek, a political reformer and resident of...
By
David E. Smith
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09.14.09
Voters in 30 states have been able to cast ballots to pass state constitutional amendments to protect marriage as between a man and a woman. The results have been overwhelming in defense of natural marriage, despite the fact that pro-family...
07.14.09
Praise God!! Illinois Parental Rights are Restored!!
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dissolved the federal injunction against the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act. As a direct result of the court’s decision (Zbaraz v....
