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Illinois Families need much more relief than Pritzker's plan, family leader says

CHICAGO - Governor J.B. Pritzker issued a press release Thursday laying out what he called a temporary relief plan for Illinois families struggling to make ends meet with skyrocketing inflation on groceries, gas and utilities.

The "relief" Pritzker boasts means little, if anything to the average Illinoisan, one family group leader told Illinois Review.

"Billionaire Pritzker must be tone-deaf," David E. Smith, executive director of Illinois Family Action said. "His 'temporary' relief plan does very little for working families. High taxes plus the unreasonable costs of gasoline, electricity, and groceries have all but destroyed discretionary spending."

While the majority of families in Illinois have very little in terms of saving reserves, government bureaucrats continue to demand more and more from taxpayers, Smith said.

"In fact, Pritzker is calling for a special session to discuss more money for Planned Parenthood to pay for abortions with our tax dollars. Once again, digging deeper into our pockets," he said.

Don't expect a cut in IL gas taxes July 1st. They're just not going UP 2.2 cents a gallon ... yet

SPRINGFIELD - If you're hoping to see the price at Illinois gas pumps go down this weekend like Governor Pritzker has told everyone is going to happen, you'll be disappointed, the gas distributors are explaining. 

It's just that they've DELAYED a 2.2 cents per gallon gas tax hike that was supposed to start July 1st. So that means nothing will change today. 

Here's a letter gas station owners got today to clear up the mess and answer their customers that were effectively misled, or shall we say "lied to" by Pritzker and the Democrats: 

If you can't see the image, here's what the letter says;

Where’s Weyermuller? Watching a “Secure” Election Ballot Box at Wrigley Field in Chicago

By Mark Weyermuller -

This past Tuesday was a beautiful day for baseball as the Chicago Cubs played the Cincinnati Reds at Wrigley Field.  It was also Primary Election Day in Illinois to select party nominees for the upcoming midterm elections in November. The attendance for the game was around 38,000, with several thousand more in the neighborhood they call Wrigleyville. 

Watch a video I took of a "secure" ballot box at Chicago's Wrigley Field last Tuesday: 

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Republicans maintain 5 point lead on generic ballot 130 days out

The 2022 midterm elections are now 130 days away, and Republicans have a five-point lead in their bid to recapture control of Congress.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that, if the elections for Congress were held today, 47% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Republican candidate, while 42% would vote for the Democrat. Just four percent (4%) would vote for some other candidate, but another eight percent (8%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The Republican lead has decreased by three points since last week, when they led 48%-40%. The GOP has led the Generic Congressional Ballot all year.

Feigenholtz features anti-Catholic image on Facebook page

CHICAGO - Illinois state Senator Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago), has since deleted this profile from her Facebook page she reportedly posted shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court announced their decision on Dobbs last Friday.

However, the state lawmaker removed the controversial profile image of the Catholic pope holding a gun to the back of Lady Liberty's head without comment or issuing a public apology to the nearly 70 million Catholics that make up 21% of the US population.

Feigenholtz appeared in interviews to assure expectant mothers that Illinois will remain a safe place if they decide they'd rather not carry their preborn babies to birth.

Not only are abortions safe in Illinois, but any person qualifying for Medicaid will also get their abortions free - and health insurance companies are required to pay for them. And parents are not required to be notified before their minor daughters undergo this particular medical procedure.

More about Senator Feigenholtz HERE: https://www.senatorsara.com/ 

 

Thorner: Christians revealed as top enemy of elites

 

By Nancy Thorner - 

 

What follows is almost unbelievable, yet undeniably true, as was documented in the June issue of World Net Daily’s critically acclaimed Whistleblower magazine, “Elites Finally Reveal Their #1 Enemy:  Christians.”

 

As stated in the article:  "While sexual-gender anarchy is exploding across the USA, the deranged Biden agenda from engineering an ever-expanding foreign invasion of the USA to destroying the nation’s fossil fuel industry, to bringing the U.S. to the brink of nuclear war with Russia, financial woes, cultural and sexual revolutionaries responsible for all of this chaos have finally dared to “come out” and publicly identify who they consider to be their biggest enemy. Christians." 

 

Your eyes didn’t deceive you.  It is Bible-believing, Judeo-Christian morals-affirming, Jesus-loving, Ten Commandments and Sermon on the Mount believers who are the real enemy!

 

The article goes on to describe the many tricky substitute names "euphemisms" for Christians that have been stealthily deployed: “white supremacists,” “conservative fascists,” “violent extremists,” “domestic terrorists.”

 

"Some of their attacks have been staggeringly idiotic, like officially branding parents as “domestic terrorists” for complaining at school board meetings about teachers indoctrinating their young children with Marxist critical race theory."

 

"Yet, fantastical and extreme as all this demonization of normal, traditional-American values, law-abiding Americans has been, the “progressive” ruling class has finally grown sufficiently brazen, deranged and desperate to openly admit their enemy."

Jesus Rediscovered

I cannot myself imagine a more fearful fate for our species than that they should so habituate themselves to their earthly circumstances as to be finally contented with them, or a more sublime one than that they should continue till the end of time to peer into the distance after the land that is very far off.."

Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus Rediscovered (1969)

Democrats Call for Expanding Supreme Court After String of Losses

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Democratic lawmakers called for expanding the Supreme Court and abolishing the filibuster following a string of Supreme Court rulings not in their favor this week.

Many Democrats and liberals reacted with anger over the three rulings that covered the exclusion of religious schools from a taxpayer-funded voucher program, expanded gun rights involving concealed carry and overturned Roe v. Wade’s findings on abortion, sending the power to limit abortion rights back to the states.

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A Simple Plan for Dramatic School Reform

Taxpayer money should be used to invest in every child’s future, not prop up a failing system. That’s a simple plan that would create dramatic school reform.

As education analysts and reformers have known for decades and parents have found out since their children ended up studying online at home during Covid-19 lockdowns, those who teach in and administer government-controlled schools in the United States have proven that they simply cannot be trusted with the taxpayers’ money.

Writing at The Wall Street Journal, Jeff Yass, managing director and cofounder of Susquehanna International Group, notes the return on investment in the government-run education establishment has been abysmal: “inflation-adjusted [annual] spending in K-12 education has tripled since 1970 to a record $751.7 billion,” Yass writes. “Yet barely a third of all fourth-graders across U.S. urban communities can read or do math at grade level.”

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Bailey/Trussell wins 2022 IL GOP gubernatorial primary

EFFINGHAM - Illinois Republicans made it clear they want a strong contrast between the two candidates for governor in November 2022.

The two that will be before Illinois voters in November 2022 are incumbent governor JB Pritzker and state Senator Darren Bailey - who directly challenged the governor over the mask mandate in 2020. 

More to come on Illinois Review on this topic in the days ahead. But we wanted to leave you with this photo that the Bailey campaign shared Tuesday night. It's backstage at the Effingham campaign celebration of Senator Bailey with one of the Bailey's beloved 11 grandchildren. Here's what his Facebook page said:

Salvi wins IL GOP nomination; two losing candidates protest

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The IL GOP primary voters picked north suburban attorney Kathy Salvi as their nominee to challenge US Senator Tammy Duckworth in the November 2022 General Election. 

Duckworth's voting record while in the US Senate has coincided directly with radically-left US Senator Dick Durbin's and the radically-left "Squad" in the U.S. House. 

The contrast between Salvi and Duckworth's political views will be like night and day - Salvi is pro-life. Duckworth is pro-abortion. Salvi is pro-legal immigration. Duckworth is pro-open borders. Salvi is for utilizing all forms of energy. Duckworth demands an end to using fossil fuels. 

The list goes on and on ... 

But the 2022 IL GOP U.S. Senate primary isn't closing on a feel-good note. 

Salvi won by 35,000 votes over second-place Peggy Hubbard, a downstate political activist that lost to Mark Curran in the 2020 US Senate IL GOP primary.

Hubbard was not happy with the reported results.

IL GOP boasts six possible Congressional pickups in 2022

The Illinois Republican Party reports the National Republican Congressional Committee is looking to Illinois for six possible GOP pickups after yesterday's primary - if Illinois joins the expected Red Wave in November. 

The districts that are currently represented by Republicans were not mentioned in the IL GOP's statement - such as Darin LaHood, who won the nomination in IL's 16th CD, and Mary Miller, who defeated GOP incumbent Rodney Davis in the 15th.  

The IL GOP's statement sent out by Communications Director Joe Hackler: 

Republicans in the US House are just four seats shy of a majority. In Illinois, the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) has identified six target congressional contests that are prime Republican pick-up opportunities. It’s safe to say the battle to take back the House runs right through Illinois. 

In tonight’s Republican primary contests, the AP has called the races in each of those six seats. Our Republican nominees in target districts are:

• Keith Pekau - IL-6 (Offensive)
• Chris Dargis - IL-8 (Offensive)
• Catalina Lauf - IL-11 (Offensive)
• Regan Deering - IL-13 (Open)
• Scott Gryder - IL-14 (Offensive)
• Esther Joy King - IL-17 (Offensive)

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy has released the following statement responding to tonight’s results:

“Nancy Pelosi and the Socialist Squad’s days in power are numbered. Illinois alone can provide the margin we need in flipping seats to take back the majority in the House. I am confident we will do just that. From a decorated combat veteran and mayor to a next-generation woman of color, our crop of candidates in these target races are extraordinary and bring with them a diverse set of life stories and backgrounds. The Illinois Republican Party looks forward to helping them secure victory in November."

Di Leo: Like a Seinfeld episode, Illinois Republicans do the Opposite

By John F Di Leo - 

It is said that "there is a Seinfeld for everything."

Who would’ve expected an Illinois primary election to give support to that, of all theories? But, so it has.

First, the fundamentals: Despite Illinois having been a reliable swing state for generations, due to the powerful Chicago Democrat machine countered by the reliably conservative Republican suburbs and rural downstate, a change began in the 1980s, when a new state constitution tipped the balance of power to the Democrats.

As Chicago and Illinois' other large cities grew more dangerous and more corrupt, the lifelong Democrat voters of the cities moved into the suburbs (without changing their voting patterns), overturning that old balance, and making it easier and easier for Democrats to win the state.

No longer called a swing state, Mike Madigan’s record-setting two-generation hold on the Speaker’s chair, combined with incredibly bad luck (and unforced errors) in numerous US Senate races, have resulted in an almost unshakably defeatist attitude in the minds of Republican activists, party officials, media, and worst of all, donors.

Rep. Morrison: We must promote respect for all lives

PALATINE - State Rep. Tom Morrison (R-Palatine) will not be seeking re-election in 2022 after six terms in the Illinois House. Last Friday, he released the following after the Dobbs decision was announced:

The Supreme Court today rightly returned abortion policy to the states and the people’s representatives in Congress and state legislatures.

Since the country’s founding, state laws—to varying degrees—have recognized and protected life within the womb. That is what this decision represents.

Sadly, Illinois' abortion policy has become an extreme outlier compared to other states and most countries. That is, there are no restrictions on abortions in Illinois—even up until birth. State taxpayers are required to pay for abortions via Medicaid and state-sponsored health insurance plans. Even some out-of-state residents might receive abortions paid for by Illinois taxpayers, according to our current policies.

Additionally, despite bipartisan opposition and widespread public disapproval—even among those who self-identify as pro-choice on abortion—the legislature and Gov. Pritzker eliminated Illinois' parental notification law that protected minor girls who seek and/or have an abortion.

Pregnancy resource centers across Illinois and the U.S. have been serving and will continue to aid women and families who face unintended or difficult pregnancies—regardless of a respective state’s abortion policies. We still have much work to do to help promote respect for all lives—from conception until natural death.

State Representative Tom Morrison is proud to serve the 54th district of Illinois.

Thorner: RINOs Bail Out Biden Again with Bi-Partisan Gun Bill

Biden - AP photo

 

By Nancy Thorner - 

1. George Washington: “A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined …” — George Washington First Annual Address, 1790.
2. Thomas Jefferson: “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.” — Thomas Jefferson.
3. Benjamin Franklin: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin, 1755.

 

From 10 quotes that show how radical the Founding Fathers were about gun ownership   https://www.one-armed-man.com/2015/02/ten-quotes-that-show-how-radical-the-founding-fathers-were-about-gun-ownership/  

 

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, June 23, 2022, struck down a New York state gun control law that required gun owners seeking a license to carry a concealed handgun to demonstrate a "proper cause" to do so.

Endless Empty Shelves? The Broken Supply Chain May Never Be Fixed Thanks to Woke Companies

The supply chain used to be something few people thought about. They think about it now as they gaze upon empty store shelves. 

Because the empty shelves phenomenon began during COVID, many people assumed that after COVID things would return to normal. But they haven't, and that's because of problems in the supply chain that will not be fixed soon. 

The really bad news is that some of the problems might never be fixed.

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On the Front Lines of the Tearing of Our Social Fabric

PITTSBURGH — When the Hampton Battery was dedicated here in 1871 to a young Civil War soldier who lost his life protecting the Union at Chancellorsville, Virginia, the granite monument was a point of pride for residents of this neighborhood. They would stroll along the trails of the lush park filled with trees located across the street from their homes along Cedar Avenue to honor the local hero.

Today, the battery’s founder, Capt. Robert B. Hampton, who was remembered by the men who served under him as a born commander with “the chivalric nature of an honorable gentleman,” is now part of a different carnage in America as he stands watch over an open heroin market that has taken over the once-grand park.

Residents say the Civil War statue is literally surrounded by drug dealers, buyers and users around the clock. They are getting more aggressive with panhandling, trespassing and theft.

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New MPG Rule Will Exacerbate Existing Car Shortage

In April, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that automobile manufacturers must adhere to through 2026. Unfortunately, the new rule is likely to lead to a shortage of new gasoline-powered cars in the coming years while massively hiking the price of battery-powered electric vehicles (EV) as well as cars powered by internal combustion engines (ICE).

 

In 1975, CAFE standards were created by the Energy Policy Conservation Act in response to the oil embargo imposed by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries in 1973. CAFE imposes fines on car and truck manufacturers if they fail to achieve minimum targets for sales-weighted average fuel economy, which is expressed in miles per gallon (mpg).

NHTSA’s new rule requires a massive 40 percent increase in mpg from now to 2026. Fuel efficiency must rise 8 percent in 2024 and 2025 model year automobiles, and 10 percent in 2026 model year automobiles, to a 49-mpg car and truck fleet average. Historically, the most manufacturers have been able to increase mpg year-over-year is about 3 percent. So, surging average mpg by a whopping 10 percent is a tall order.

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The Supreme Court’s decision in Roe was as shameful as its decision in Dredd Scott — and for the same reason.

The end of Roe v. Wade is perhaps the greatest political and cultural event in a generation. It will change American politics forever, and — what’s more important — it will save the lives of countless unborn children. The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs is a great victory for the U.S. Constitution, for the American people, and for justice and truth and the common good.

It is also a turning point. We should now expect Democrats and the left to call more explicitly for violence, initially against places like crisis pregnancy centers and Catholic churches, as we have already seen, and eventually against ordinary people who disagree with them. We should expect not just calls for physical attacks against the justices in the Dobbs majority, but, as we have also already seen, attempts to carry out such attacks.

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Racialism is a blight on the left

In 2012, the American comedian Chelsea Handler told radio DJ Howard Stern about her brief relationship with hip-hop star 50 Cent, claiming she had ‘always had a thing for black guys’, as they ‘are very, very masculine, and I really like that’.

She told Stern that when she broke up with the rapper, she ‘called him the worst thing you could say to a black person short of calling him the n-word. I said something like you’re like a street person basically. Something along the lines of being a gangster, and it was really, really offensive… I said, “you have no business even talking to someone like me”.’

Eight years later, after 50 Cent tweeted he would support Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, Handler announced that she ‘had to remind him that he’s black’.

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