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Cook County GOP Launches "Stop The Violence, Fire Kim Foxx" Video Ad

Cook County Republican Party Chairman Sean Morrison announced the release of a new video ad today from the Cook County GOP titled, "Stop The Violence, Fire Kim Foxx". The ad is now running on digital, streaming and social medial platforms across Cook County.

Kushiner: Defensive Linemen for Amy Coney Barrett

Communication released Friday by James M. Kushiner, Executive Editor, Touchstone Magazine - 

Amy Coney Barrett: regardless of whether she turns out to be the president’s nominee to the U. S. Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg, her name has already become a flashpoint in the ongoing culture war.

Many have said that the culture war was lost long ago; I might concede the point, but only to insist that the loss occurred earlier, and certainly no later than January 1973 in Roe v. Wade. Then, the U. S. Supreme Court, the crème del la crème of the American judicial system, 27 years after the Nuremberg trials, declared that a woman had a constitutional right to slaughter any of her offspring in her womb, even to the drawing of the first breath.

In another sense, however, the culture war had already begun through mainstreaming the Playboy, the Pill, and the sexual revolution that followed. But those items in turn arose from an ongoing global pandemic: sin.

Roe was the flashpoint that commenced the most recent culture war, inspiring the pro-life movement, which has not miscarried and continues its clear witness to the humanity of the child. If pro-life activism is a sign of a culture war, the war grinds on. Yes, LGBTQRST agendas have won most if not all contests, yet there is a hidden factor at play called the family.

House GOP leader Durkin's fundraiser endorses Biden/Harris ticket

The fundraiser for Illinois House Republican Leader Jim Durkin and her husband aren't voting for Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump, and they're proud of it. They posted it on Facebook for the "Public" to see. 

The Naperville couple's reason? "At the national level, the Republican party has a serious character and ethics problem..." Thus they are voting "accordingly."

The Chirico's are voting for Republicans at the state and local level, however, because there the Democrats have the same problem. 

So, if you're wondering where your donations to the House Republican Organization's are going, at least $4500 a month went to Julie Chirico from April through June 2020 - a Biden/Harris supporter. You know, the presidential candidates the Chirico's feel have less character and ethical problems than Trump?

Shorewood Republican candidate condemns opponent for celebrating anti-police group's endorsement

SHOREWOOD - Shorewood Republican State Senate candidate Thomas McCullagh is appalled that his Democrat opponent Meg Loughran Cappel is boasting her endorsement by Equality Illinois, a gay rights political group that has taken a public position against law enforcement. 

"ENDORSEMENT ALERT: Thank you for your support, Equality Illinois!" Cappel tweeted this week. On the group’s website their CEO Brian Johnson aligns his LBGTQ group with the police protest movement stating “We must never forget that, at its core, Pride is a police protest.”

“The open acceptance of an endorsement from a group that condemns police and supports the very rioters who threaten the fabric of the American Dream, and condemns those tasked with protecting our families and small businesses. It is unacceptable,” McCullagh said in a statement.

McCullagh pointed to an array of police officers being killed recently in reaction to public anti-police demonstrations.

Thorner: GOP candidates picnic with Republican Assembly of Lake County

Lake Co Board member Dick Barr

By Nancy Thorner - 

The annual picnic of the Republican Assembly of Lake County was held on Sunday, September 20, 2020, at a shelter in the Lakewood Forest Preserve, Wauconda, IL.

The main goal and purpose of the Republican Assembly of Lake County is to recruit, educate, train and motivate individuals to run for public office who are irrevocably committed to uphold and fight for Constitutional principles and the preservation of the Republic, State and County.  Glen Garamoni is Chairman.

The RALC meets ten months of the year on the 3rd Thursday, 7 p.m., at the Republican Headquarters in Grayslake.  Its next meeting is on November 19th, 2020.

4 Reasons why Illinois should reject the Progressive Tax Hike

SCHAUMBURG - Why would you give an alcoholic a 12-pack and believe he will change his behavior after that beer is gone?

Former State Senator Steve Rauschenberger says that's what Illinois voters will be doing if they vote "YES" to remove the Flat Tax from the Illinois State Constitution on November 3. He explains in a short interview at the Technology & Manufacturing Association in Schaumburg.

Governor JB Pritzker and the Democrat-control state legislature can't seem to understand they need to cut their spending frenzy and determine to cut the budget in order to turn the state's finances around. Instead, they're spending more and more - hoping for a federal bailout.  

Police Leave Big Cities in Record Numbers As Attacks Increase

Police officers across the nation are leaving in record numbers as violent attacks increase and city officials openly side with rioters and tighten restrictions on what officers can do in response to the rising urban violence across the country.

In the latest high-profile incident, two Los Angeles County deputies were shot in their patrol vehicle. The officers reportedly were a 31-year-old female and a 24-year-old male. Both had been on the job barely 14 months.

More HERE

How The 1960s Riots Foreshadow Today’s Communist Weaponization Of Black Pain

How the far-left turns protests into riots. Katherine Gorka writes:

How do we know those are Marxist riots in our streets? That one’s easy: because the organizers tell us they are. In a 2015 interview, Patrice Cullors said she and Alicia Garza, co-founders of Black Lives Matter, are “trained Marxists.”

The second question is more challenging: If you are a Marxist, how do you start a riot? Or, as Methvin posed the question: “What turns an ordinarily trivial city street arrest incident into a gargantuan explosion of mass violence?” After 10 years of research, Methvin found the answer, and he published it in “The Riotmakers.”

The Bigotry of Social Justice

The racialist creed doesn't add up. William Voegeli writes:

Two of 2020’s best-sellers were published in 2018 and 2019, respectively: White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo, and How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi. (DiAngelo, a consultant, is white; Kendi, a professor who recently left American University for Boston University, is black.) It’s strange for books to achieve their greatest commercial success a year or more after publication, but this year’s circumstances are even stranger. In America’s reckoning over race, catalyzed by George Floyd’s death while under arrest in Minneapolis, journalists, entertainers, professional athletes, and corporations have embraced a social justice dogma. DiAngelo and Kendi’s books provide many of its core principles, which distinguish acceptable thoughts and attitudes about race from unacceptable ones. The resulting framework’s first attribute is an unwavering focus on socioeconomic disparities that leave black Americans worse off than whites. Racial inequalities, as Reuters reports, “have proven immune to decades of laws and policies meant to address them.”

Drowning in Pension Debts: Illinois the Outlier

Illinois has the worst pension crisis of any state in the country. It’s the nation’s extreme outlier. Every Illinois household is on the hook for nearly $50,000 in pension debts just for the state alone.

I Love America Too Much to Stay Silent

Nestride Yumga experienced real corruption and civil rights abuses in Africa. Then she came to America, the land of opportunity, education, and freedom. So when Black Lives Matter protests declared America guilty of systemic racism and injustice, she knew she had to defend her adoptive country.

Shutdown Orders Violate Constitution, Federal Judge Rules

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s shutdown orders in response to COVID-19 violate the right to assembly under the First Amendment and the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge ruled.

Although mitigation efforts were enacted with good intentions, “even in an emergency, the authority of government is not unfettered,” U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV wrote in his September 14 decision.

The plaintiffs, including small businesses, county governments, and individuals, challenged restrictions on economic activity such as capacity limitations and shutdown orders on “non-life sustaining’ businesses. The plaintiffs did not contest the state’s mask mandate.

“The liberties protected by the Constitution are not fair-weather freedoms—in place when times are good but able to be cast aside in trouble,” wrote Stickman. “There is no question that this country has faced, and will face, emergencies of every sort.”

Governments must follow the rules even if it prevents them from doing things they consider essential.

“The Constitution cannot accept the concept of a ‘new normal’ where the basic liberties of the people can be subordinated to open-ended emergency mitigation measures,” Stickman wrote.

More HERE

Is The COVID Death Toll Accurate?

Roughly two-thirds of U.S. residents don’t believe the CDC’s official tally for the number of Covid-19 deaths. This distrust, however, flows in opposing directions. A nationally representative survey conducted by Axios/Ipsos in late July 2020 found that 37% of adults think the real number of C-19 fatalities in the U.S. is lower than reported, while 31% think the true death toll is greater than reported.

The facts show that neither side has an airtight case, but the evidence is more consistent with the theory that less people have died from C-19 than the official figures indicate. Nevertheless, the extent of the possible overcount is unknown, and even if it were as high as 50,000, it would not make a marked difference in key measures of the pandemic’s severity. Hence, debates over the accuracy of the death toll distract from other issues with much greater implications.

More HERE

Does JB Pritzker hate small business? This owner thinks so

CRYSTAL LAKE - Denise Smith, the owner of Smith Physical Therapy and Running Academy, says Governor Pritzker's plan to tax small businesses like hers up to 60 percent more means he hates small business. If Pritzker's Progressive Tax proposal changes the Illinois Constitution to remove the flat tax, there will be no cap to the state income tax rates Democrats will place on businesses like hers. 

Smith is the fourth in a series of stories being rolled out by the No Progressive Tax Coalition, consisting of nearly 30 business organizations - from the Illinois Chamber of Commerce to the Technology & Manufacturing Association. 

DuPage Co state rep faces criticism for controversial comments

WHEATON - "I'm afraid he's afraid of the reaction people might give him," State Rep. Amy Grant said on a recorded fundraising call. "Not because he's Black. But because of the way he talks. He's all LGBTQ." 

She went on. 

"He's just another one of those Cook County people. That's all you're going to vote for is the Cook County, you know another Black caucus," she said. 

Grant's Democrat challenger this time around is Ken Mejia-Beal, who is Black and openly gay. 

Now the DuPage County Democrats are calling for Rep. Grant to end her effort to be re-elected. They're also calling on Republicans to condemn her remarks.

Could a Republican represent Chicago in DC?

CHICAGO - A Republican Congressman ... in Chicago? The conservative-leaning 3rd CD that is represented now by the last pro-life Democrat Congressman Dan Lipinski could go Republican rather than for the Democrat Marie Newman - who is backed by the radical Left in the US House. 

A new poll by Ogden & Fry, taken September 7 and released this week shows incredible gains made by Cook County GOP candidates in the month of August. Most impressive is the IL-03 race between GOP congressional candidate Mike Fricilone and Newman, who defeated Lipinski in the March 2020 Democrat primary.

The Ogden & Fry poll, commissioned by the Cook County Republican Party, shows Fricilone within the 3.6 point margin of error, down to Newman by basically two points, 46.1% to 43.9%, with 10% undecided.

“The poll released today shows what we already have known since the primary election, Socialist Marie Newman doesn’t share the values of the residents of the 3rd Congressional District. Her agenda is ripped directly from the most extreme members of the Washington progressive left including AOC and Bernie Sanders,” stated Fricilone.

It's Sept 24th, and early in-person voting begins today in five IL counties

Early in-person voting starts Thursday in five northern Illinois counties: DuPage, Kane, Will, McHenry and Lake Counties. 

 

For DuPage County early voters, the Fairgrounds will be open from 8 am to 4:30 PM. 

 

To find early voting locations, the Illinois State Board of Elections is providing this online information HERE. 

This BLM Co-Founder and Pro-Communist China Group Are Partnering Up. Here’s Why.

Black Lives Matter partners with Chinese Communists. Michael Gonzalez writes:

Imagine that far-right demonstrators were laying siege to American cities for months, led by activists explicitly calling for an “ethno-state,” and that one of their groups was funded by an outfit involved with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. It would lead the news every day and there would be congressional hearings, right?

And rightly so. The threat of foreign interference in our domestic affairs is a serious matter, whether the suspects are rivals such as Russia or friendlies such as Mexico. This is especially the case if a foreign power were abetting unrest that aims to topple our constitutional order.

Ives reminds IL-6 voters incumbent Casten demands bigger salary

WHEATON - In her latest ad, Republican challenger Jeanne Ives reminds voters in IL-6 that their current Democrat Congressman Sean Casten is insulted by his congressional salary of $174,000 - calling it "peanuts" and begged for more:

Party Platform Comparison 2020

The Family Research Center has put together a Party Platform comparison:

Click HERE to download a PDF of this comparison

Click HERE to download Biblical Principles for Political Engagement