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Thorner, Part 2: Scientific Facts Expose Biden’s Radical Climate Policies

By Nancy Thorner - 

The Heartland Institute, as a prelude and counter to the Biden/Harris administration's celebration of Earth Day on Thursday, April 22, 2021, presented its own Zoom event on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, titled, " The Real Crisis:  Biden and the Left's Radical Climate Policies." 

Part 1 - Scientific Facts Expose Biden’s Radical Climate Policies was posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2021 at Illinois Review.  Featured were panel members Steve Milloy, Founder and Publisher of Junk Science, and James Taylor, President of The Heartland Institute.

Part 2 features Gregory Wrightstone, Executive Director, CO2 Coalition, and Myron Bell, CEI's Center for Energy and Environment

Gregory Wrightstone. Wrightstone's Inconvenient Facts, published in 2017, is still a best seller on Amazon.

5 White Farmers Sue Over Loan Forgiveness Only for Blacks, Other Minorities

Photo: Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty

Christopher Baird owns a dairy farm near Ferryville in southwest Wisconsin, not far from the Mississippi River. He milks about 50 cows and farms approximately 80 acres of pasture.

Like a lot of farmers, Baird has direct loans through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency. 

But the dairy farmer isn’t entitled to a new FSA loan-forgiveness program provided as part of COVID-19 relief in the $2 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, legislation touted Wednesday night by President Joe Biden in his address to Congress. 

Baird is white. He joined four other white farmers last week in suing federal officials over being left out.

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The Courage of Our Convictions

There are ways Americans can fight back against the rise of critical race theory. Christopher F. Rufo writes:

Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it—and of those who have, many don’t understand it. This must change. We need to know what it is so we can know how to fight it.

To explain critical race theory, it helps to begin with a brief history of Marxism. Originally, the Marxist Left built its political program on the theory of class conflict. Karl Marx believed that the primary characteristic of industrial societies was the imbalance of power between capitalists and workers. The solution to that imbalance, according to Marx, was revolution: the workers would eventually gain consciousness of their plight, seize the means of production, overthrow the capitalist class, and usher in a new socialist society.

National Catholic Register Blasts Biden For His First ‘100 Days Of Disappointments’

The publisher of the National Catholic Register excoriated President Joe Biden on Friday for standing in opposition to the Catholic Church by supporting abortion and the LGBT agenda.

“As Joe Biden passes his 100th-day mark in office today, the early returns show how, for faithful Catholics, this period couldn’t be more disappointing,” began Michael Warsaw. “There are also signs that the next 100 days and beyond will be even more disturbing.”

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Studies Purporting to Show Safety of Telehealth Abortions Are Unpersuasive

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Pro-life advocates suffered a policy setback last week when the Food and Drug Administration lifted existing restrictions on telemedicine abortions for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.  

This past year, groups supporting legal abortion litigated against Trump administration FDA rules, which required that chemical abortions occur under medical supervision.

Supporters of legal abortion obtained a favorable ruling from a U.S. district court judge in July. However, in January, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration’s protective rules were constitutional and could remain in place.  

However, the Biden administration’s new FDA rules will make it possible for women to obtain chemical abortion drugs by mail and undergo chemical abortions without any in-person medical supervision.

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Rossi: How Democrats Are Killing the “American Dream”

By Randy Rossi - 

The Wall Street Journal just published a great Op Ed from Daniel Henninger titled “Killing the American Dream” which explains how Democrats are doing exactly that which is a tragedy. America became the most prosperous and powerful nation in the world because of a belief that any American can live the American Dream no matter who they are or where they are from if they work hard and live good moral lives. That doesn’t mean it is easy, but it is achievable. As the son of a legal Italian immigrant who was raised in a converted two car garage when I was a young kid, I lived that American Dream and retired as a group president of two manufacturing companies. Even though I was called a “Wop”, “Dago”, and “Papist” at different points in my life, I was taught that if I worked hard and lived a good life anything was possible. And it was true. The key to success was hard work ethics and self-dependence and it was a common theme across America as I was growing up. And we were taught that America was the greatest country on earth that brought freedom to over a billion people in WWI, WWII, and the Cold War. We were raised as proud Americans who believed that anything was possible.

Bailey releases Pritzker attack ad

XENIA - State Senator Darren Bailey (R-Xenia) released an ad Wednesday criticizing Governor JB Pritzker as Bailey pursues his bid to oust the Democrat incumbent in 2022.

In the new ad, Bailey asserts Pritzker hypocritically attacked former Governor Bruce Rauner for ignoring veterans in long-term, state-run care when Pritzker's administration similarly allowed 36 veterans to die of COVID last fall.

Peoria area pregnancy support center ruined by fire set intentionally, officials say

 

PEORIA - The Women’s Care Center of Peoria, a local pro-life pregnancy support center, lost everything in the early hours of Monday morning after a severe fire went through their facility and did an estimated $250,000 in damage. The fire has been ruled intentional.

 

According to reports, firefighters were called to 7319 N. University St. at about 2:40 Monday and found heavy fire coming from the windows in the front of the building. The blaze destroyed one large room, and the entire building sustained extensive heat and smoke damage.

One Congress member from Illinois opposes gun control advocate David Chipman's ATF appointment

WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Mary Miller (IL-15) signed a letter urging the Senate to oppose President Biden’s nomination of David Chipman in leading the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. She joined 68 Republicans of the Republican Study Committee in signing this letter.

No other members of Congress from Illinois signed onto the letter.

“As a strong defender of our Second Amendment, I signed onto a letter urging the Senate to oppose this nomination. David Chipman is an unacceptable choice to lead the ATF. If confirmed, David Chipman would jeopardize the constitutional right of every legal firearm owner and attempt to change the landscape of firearm ownership for future generations. Chipman has not made it a secret that he is an enemy of our Second Amendment. Our Constitution must be upheld with every appointment, and I hope that the Senate will take our petitions into consideration.”

Abortion advocate Tammy Duckworth sells Mother's Day swag

WASHINGTON DC - Illinois' junior US Senator Tammy Duckworth is offering an array of Mother's Day gifts for "the moms in your life" - for prices ranging from $10 for a "Working Moms are Bada@@" to $50 for a plush duck sporting a "Tammy Strong" logo. 

The irony can't be overlooked, however, that Senator Duckworth has done everything possible to promote ending motherhood before a new life is able to live outside her mother's womb - and wants even more radical anti-life policies in place in America and abroad. The Democrat is running for a second term in Illinois next year.

Indeed, Senator Duckworth, as her book title says, "Every Day is a Gift." Everyone of us is thankful for our days - and we should regret all the days the unborn in America have missed because of radical pro-abortion policies. 

We Can Repeal, Not Just Reform, Section 230

Repeal of Section 230’s 1996 lawless Wild West Internet policy is inevitable because it is based on an immoral premise and has inflicted severe damage to America’s constitutional liberties, national security and economic prosperity.

Repeal vs. Reform

Repeal of Section 230 would serve America and Americans much better than reforms that perpetuate lawless U.S. Internet policy and guarantee Big Tech remains unaccountable and Americans remain unprotected online.

Repeal would affect a major national policy change, while reform incrementalism would preserve the online status quo.

Repeal would be a comprehensive and constitutional solution, while content moderation reforms are piecemeal solutions that carry constitutional risks.

Repeal would empower 2022 and 2024 voters with a national policy conversation that asks candidates if and how they are going to ensure Big Tech is accountable and Americans are protected online?

Most importantly, repeal of Section 230 and its lawless U.S. Internet policy would legally restore the Constitution, Bill of Rights, rule-of-law, right and wrong, due process, redress and a duty of care online — without new regulation.

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Florida Close to Cracking Down on Big Tech

Florida is close to finalizing a bill to protect the free speech rights of people on social media. The bill is supported by The Heartland Institute, which said, "we are entering into a potentially dangerous time for political free speech." It is opposed by Facebook, Amazon, NetChoice and the Internet Association.

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Americans Do Not Want the Woke Racism Our Schools Are Peddling

Americans don't want wokeness in the classroom. Samuel J. Abrams writes:

In the past few weeks, it has become apparent that the extreme progressive impulses infecting higher education in the United States have moved from campus quads and dormitories into our nation’s middle and high schools and even into our kindergartens. In New York City alone, the uptown Dalton School has seen an uprising and departure of numerous high-level staff over questions of curriculum and social justice. Downtown, a Grace Church School teacher published an open letter explaining that the school’s new “anti-racist” ideology induces shame in white students for being oppressors; he has witnessed the harmful impact that these ideas have had on children including silencing inquiry such that “children are afraid to challenge the repressive ideology that rules our school.”

Victory! A Sanctuary Ordinance Falls

Last week, in a major victory against sanctuary policies, Indiana’s Lake Superior Court struck down key parts of an ordinance that the City of East Chicago, Indiana, had enacted to protect illegal aliens, even ones with criminal records, from federal immigration law enforcement. The decision is a major victory for the plaintiffs, who are represented by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) and The Bopp Law Firm. Previously, the same attorneys represented plaintiffs who successfully challenged a similar ordinance in Gary, Indiana.

In the East Chicago case, lawyers at IRLI and Bopp argued, and the court yesterday found, that the ordinance violates several Indiana statutes prohibiting governmental bodies in the state from refusing to cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement. The statutes, which IRLI had helped draft, require local jurisdictions to cooperate with such enforcement to the full extent contemplated in federal law.

Sharing the Covid Vaccine ‘Formula’ with Foreign Countries Poses National Security Risk

President Joe Biden cannot say he is tough on China and then transfer advanced pharmaceutical patents to them.

U.S.-based corporations have developed the most effective vaccines against the Covid virus and are generously distributing them to other countries. But sharing the vaccine “formula” with other countries would pose a national security risk. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in reaction to demands from other nations to access the intellectual property of America’s advanced biotech labs.

“Because the United States is the most generous country in the world, we are sharing our Covid vaccines with less developed countries. But sharing the intellectual property that underlies those vaccines poses a national security risk.

“Many countries are demanding the U.S. waive the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement that was made at the World Trade Organization in 1995 on pandemic-related products in order to get their hands on our advanced biotech knowledge that was critical to develop the vaccine in the first place.

“This national security concern is why the Trump administration explicitly rejected waiving TRIPS last year, and the Biden administration should do the same, as waiving would give sensitive national security-developed biotech to the rest of the world including China, which is in a race to build its own biotech arsenal.

“President Joe Biden cannot say he is tough on China and then transfer advanced pharmaceutical patents to them and other competitors  to exploit and bury U.S. manufacturers. If Congress wants more vaccines distributed globally, it can choose to appropriate more money to do that, but the American people have every right to expect that we will get our doses first.

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Illinois Conservatives to welcome Nigel Farage May 11

TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2021 AT 6 PM CDT – 9 PM CDT

America’s Comeback Tour: An Evening with Nigel Farage

Diplomat West Banquet Halls

 

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Rand Paul to visit Chicago

CHICAGO - US Senator Rand Paul will be in the Chicago area June 4th to raise funds for his 2022 re-election bid.

The evening will be hosted by the Honorable Eloise Gerson, the 2nd Ward Republican Committeeperson, and Lori Yokoyama, the 4th Ward Republican Committeeperson for the City of Chicago.

Paul has become a favorite of both libertarians and conservatives - known for his feisty challenges of Dr. Anthony Fauci's COVID policies and the Democrats' unleashed spending efforts.

Thorner: Part 1 - Scientific Facts Expose Biden’s Radical Climate Policies

 
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By Nancy Thorner -

The Heartland Institute, as a prelude and counter to the Biden/Harris administration's celebration of Earth Day on Thursday, April 22, 2021, presented its own Zoom event on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, titled, "The Real Crisis:  Biden and the Left's Radical Climate Policies." 

Heartland's event featured a panel of the following notable climate science experts:

• Steve Milloy, Founder and Publisher of Junk Science
• James Taylor, President of The Heartland Institute
• Gregory Wrightstone, Executive Director, CO2 Coalition
• Myron Bell, CEI's Center for Energy and Environment.

The panel focused on several different aspects of the Biden plan and what's going on with the climate summit, what's going on with the American Jobs Plan, the so-called infrastructure package, the Paris Treaty commitments, and some of the science that the Biden administration and its supporters don't pay attention to.

 

Since the topic is so important, with its ramification closely tied to this nation's economic future and its survival as a world leader if fully enacted, Thorner decided her article needed to be presented in two parts to do justice to each of the four panelists' remarks.

Where’s Weyermuller? At Illinois Right to Life Banquet with Sarah Huckabee Sanders

By Mark Weyermuller -

“Why didn’t somebody  do something?”  These are words said by a nine year old girl at the Holocaust Museum in Israel some 30 years ago. That little girl was Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Her dad, the former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, had taken her to the museum.  

She was the keynote speaker last Friday night at the Illinois Right to Life dinner in Lombard, Illinois. The event was called “The Leaders For Life Banquet.”

Fact-Checking 7 of Biden’s Claims in His Address to Congress

Here’s a look at seven instances where setting the record straight may help those evaluating the speech. Rachel del Guidice and Fred Lucas write:

President Joe Biden delivered his first address to a joint session of a downsized Congress on Wednesday night, nearly 100 days into his presidency.

Biden spoke to only 200 masked lawmakers in the spacious House chamber, even though most, if not all, members of Congress have been vaccinated for COVID-19 and federal health guidelines don’t require such masking and distancing precautions.