Illinois Review

Church shooting raises questions about carrying firearms in Illinois churches

BELLEVUE, WA – The tragic church shooting Sunday in White Settlement, Texas in which church members fatally shot the gunman reminded MetroEast citizens about a similar situation ten years ago at the First Baptist Church of Maryville, Illinois. The church's pastor was killed while preaching during a Sunday morning service. Other parishioners were injured when the shooter pulled a knife on them and then himself after his firearm jammed. 

No one at First Baptist Church of Maryville produced a weapon in defense that fateful day, although it is legal for those with an Illinois Concealed Carry Weapon license to do so - unless the church bans carrying firearms on its property.

105,000 people left Illinois last year

SPRINGFIELD - Ever wonder why it's getting tougher to sell your house and get a decent return on investment?

The Center Square has this story Monday:

72% of Americans optimistic about 2020

WASHINGTON DC - Americans are more optimistic about the year ahead than they have been in a long time. With the presidential election coming in November,  Republicans are a lot more enthusiastic about 2020 than Democrats are.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 72% of American Adults think 2020 will be at a minimum a good year. That’s up dramatically from 54% a year ago and includes 22% who say it will be an excellent year and 20% who predict it will be one of the best years ever.

Thorner: The Perils of Congressional Bipartisanship

By Nancy Thorner -

Bipartisanship in Congress can be a good thing when and if it can happen in a nation that is so divided.  Bipartisanship certainly sounds ideal. There are many Americans who desire bipartisanship and complain when Democrats and Republican don't work together.

In December of this year bipartisanship occurred twice, but both attempts produced results that were less than stellar.

Rossi: Impeachment Charade Is 2nd IQ Test for America

By Randy Rossi - 

This Democrat impeachment charade is another IQ test for Americans The first one was to see if they could figure out that the Democrat’s charges of Trump’s collusion with Russia was the hoax that we all now know it was thanks to the Mueller and IG Reports. This impeachment charade is another IQ test for Americans to see if they remember their high school civics courses, the concept of the “rule of law”, and the ideas of fairness and justice . For anybody who does remember those courses, this Democrat impeachment charade should be viewed as a Democrat insult to all Americans because it violates the Constitution, fairness, and the rule of law.

How An Unlimited Supply Of Borrowed Cash Is Destroying Higher Education

The 1619 Project is based on nonsense. Rebecca Kathryn Jude and Chauncey M. DePree, Jr. write:

“You have to go to college” was an article of faith when we were growing up in poor families. Now we wonder if our ticket out of poverty still has the same value. Far too many of this generation are leaving college with substantial debt and few meaningful job opportunities.

Put a little differently, what is the value of a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies or sociology or any other fields that are not science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or business? Ask some of the young people working at your local coffee shop or favorite restaurant. They will probably tell you, “not much.”

“I Don’t Want To Die” – Schools Are Traumatizing Kids With Greta’s Climate Apocalypse

“Mommy, they said that we're going to die in eight years.” That’s what Joylaea Blazevik, a distraught eight-year old, told her mother, Lejla Blazevik, following a presentation on global warming at her school, in Toronto, Canada. “They were terrified with the information,” Mrs. Blazevik told the National Post, a major Canadian newspaper.

Along with other seven- and eight-year-olds from second and third grade classes at her school, Joylaea had watched a video of Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen climate crusader, delivering her now-famous “How dare you!” tirade at the United Nations. “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing,” the pigtailed girl ranted. “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”

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Good Public-school Teachers Under Siege

When the National Education Association (NEA) partnered with a radical homosexual and transgender group known as the “Human Rights Campaign” to create “welcoming schools,” a lot of public-school teachers felt uncomfortable, if not outraged. But when the groups sent out a mass e-mail encouraging teachers to ask young children what “pronouns” they prefer — he, she, they, z, tree, and so on — that was a bridge too far for many.

In a video produced as part of the campaign, two transgender children discuss their preferred pronouns with each other. One of the children prefers the plural pronoun “they,” while the other, who claims not to be a boy or a girl, prefers “zee.” Seriously. After that, the two children discuss the alleged need to “educate” their own teachers, especially substitutes, on the supposed importance of using the newly invented pronouns that students choose for themselves.

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Democrats Just Betrayed Working-Class Americans To Appease Environmentalists

Congressional Democrats just betrayed America’s working class.

The U.S. House recently passed a series of bills banning offshore energy development, a significant source of employment for blue-collar Americans. Fueled by environmental fervor, these lawmakers are willing to sacrifice opportunities for their most important constituents.

There could be up to 90 billion barrels of oil and 328 trillion cubic feet of gas buried beneath federally owned sections of the ocean floor. That’s enough oil and natural gas to power the United States for over a decade. Ideally, energy companies would lease these underwater lands from the government and extract this bounty.

If You Hate Israel, You're No Friend of the Jews

It’s one thing to criticize Israel. It’s another thing entirely to be against the very existence of the Jewish state. In this clarifying video, Dennis Prager defines the difference and explains why anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are one and the same.

Police answer pre-January 1st cannabis questions on Facebook

Scene from banned commercial "I use my Crown Royal bag for ..." 

CRESTWOOD, Illinois - Everyone's curious about Illinois legalizing recreational marijuana on January 1, 2020, so here's some answers per the southwest suburb of Crestwood Police's Facebook page: 

We know that there are a lot of questions about the changes in the laws in reference to marijuana. Some of the questions might not even have answers yet.

So here is some information that we took from the Moline Police Department that will hopefully answer some questions.

Here are the do's and don'ts for legal marijuana, which will fill our air starting next Wednesday:

"Refugees" and "immigrants" - the same, or very different in Illinois?

Sign located on a Pilsen neighborhood church in Chicago

WEST CHICAGO - Immigration could be a key issue in Chicago's western suburbs next November as Republicans fight to retake control of the U.S. House. But a letter in response to President Trump's executive order concerning refugee placement has opened the discussion in Illinois' purple DuPage County.

Earlier this week, President Trump told a group of young conservatives at a conference in West Palm Beach, "We believe our country should be a sanctuary for law-abiding Americans, not for criminal aliens. The open borders agenda of the radical left causes profound harm to poor, working-class Americans."

The debate erupting in DuPage County Illinois has come down to determining the difference between the terms "refugees" and "immigrants." If they're one and the same, Republican DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin is giving conservatives the impression he is shrugging off President Trump's views on protecting law-abiding Americans.

U.S. children, Christian children more likely to be raised in single-parent homes: Pew

The United States has a higher rate of children living in single-parent homes than many other parts of the world, and Christian children around the world are about twice as likely to live in a single-parent home, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center.

In a report released last week by Pew’s Religion & Public Life, the research organization found that 23 percent of children under 18 in the U.S. lived in a single-parent home.

This was a higher percentage than other countries, including Brazil (10 percent), Germany (12 percent), India (5 percent), Japan (7 percent), Mali (1 percent), Nigeria (4 percent), Russia (18 percent), Turkey (2 percent), and Vietnam (4 percent).

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Western companies allegedly complicit in China’s organ scandal

The report, entitled the Economics Of Organ Harvesting In China and conducted by the Institute to Research the Crimes of Communism, finds that the companies from Western countries are ‘taking part’ in China’s organ harvesting crimes, including Pfizer from America, OrganOx from the United Kingdom and Roche from Switzerland.

The report supports China Tribunal’s Final Judgement in June 2019 which exposed China’s ‘wicked’ organ harvesting crimes and murder of innocent people as ‘Crimes Against Humanity’.

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@realNapoleonBonaparte

He was the most famous man of his time – so much so that his name still defines his age. Born on an obscure island into humble circumstances, he rose to conquer a continent. Yet most today know little of him beyond their impression from popular caricature. His improbable story and its far-reaching consequences – both positive and negative – are the subject of this video from renowned historian and Napoleon scholar Andrew Roberts.

Construction of Navy ship ‘Harvey Milk’ begins at San Diego shipbuilder

Construction has begun on the future Harvey Milk, a fleet oiler named for the slain gay rights leader and the first openly gay man elected in the state.

Milk was elected to the San Francisco board of supervisors in 1978 and was assassinated 10 months later by an ex-supervisor. His life was the subject of the 2008 film “Milk.”

"(This) sends a global message of inclusion more powerful than simply ‘We’ll tolerate everyone,’” Harvey Milk's nephew said. "(It says) We celebrate everyone.”

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Hundreds support Trump at Will County intersection Saturday

FRANKFORT - Hundreds stood on the four corners of Frankfort Illinois' intersection of Rt 45 and Rt 30 Saturday morning supporting President Trump, just days after the Democrats in the US House voted to impeach him. 

The effort was organized by groups such as Will County Republicans, Will County Republican Women and United Southland Republican Women. Law enforcement reportedly told participants they estimated the crowd at 750.

Troubled Chicago-based Boeing dumps CEO

CHICAGO - Chicago-based Boeing's reputation and finances are bleeding after their Max 737 was involved in killing 346 people and causing worldwide grounding. Monday the company announced a change in leadership. 

“A change in leadership was necessary to restore confidence in the company moving forward as it works to repair relationships with regulators, customers, and all other stakeholders,” Boeing’s board said in the following statement:

14th CD Republicans protest Democrat Underwood's impeachment vote

WEST CHICAGO - Saturday, Republican Jim Marter and an array of 14th CD supporters delivered a letter to freshman incumbent Democrat Congresswoman Lauren Underwood, who voted to impeach President Donald Trump last week. 

In 2016, Trump won the 14th CD by 17 points - then turned blue when the 2018 Blue Tsunami hit Illinois. 

The Republicans want the 14th back. Seven Republicans are vying for the Republican nomination in the March 2020 primary. 

Marter's letter delivery turned into an anti-impeachment demonstration, with signs like "Go Impeach Yourself" and "Stop the Circus."

Weyermuller: Celebrating Christmas 2019 in Chicagoland, Getting Ready for a Wild 2020

By Mark Weyermuller - 

For the past several years I’ve been posting a Christmas Nativity scene a day on Facebook and Twitter. This includes front lawns, table displays, churches,  and even a live children’s nativity children’s service featuring a donkey, four sheep, and a 1500-pound camel.  I collect table nativity sets with about 75 in my collection. This year Hobby Lobby had about hundred different ones, including nativity ornaments but upon a visit this week they are almost completely sold out. I did purchase this week several nativity coloring books which are pretty cool.

New Ives poll shows she could beat Democrat Casten in 2020

WHEATON - Illinois' 6th CD could swing back into Republican hands next November, a poll released by Republican candidate Jeanne Ives said Monday. 

The campaign says an Ogden & Fry poll conducted on December 17 shows the former state rep leading incumbent Congressman Sean Casten in a one-on-one in Illinois’ 6th Congressional District.  The poll was conducted districtwide regarding political preferences of candidates with 575 respondents.

While the 575 polled showed Democrats leading by five points in Henry Hyde's once-conservative district, Ives polled ahead of Casten by 10 points among likely voters. The Madigan Democrat machine has redrawn the 6th CD over the last two decades to include areas of Cook County that bring in more and more Democrats, while they are leaving the city of Chicago.

Rep. Skillicorn condemns Capitol Satanist display as "targeted affront to ...Christians"

SPRINGFIELD - Over the weekend in a letter to Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, State Representative Allen Skillicorn (R-66) condemned a Satanist display in the State Capitol rotunda alongside religious holiday display of a Christian nativity scene as a "targeted affront to those upon which the holiday was founded, Christians."

Skillicorn urged Secretary White to take the matter to the state's courts.

Illinois cannabis industry faces what McDonald's is facing ... union organizing demands

DES PLAINES – Not only are union activists pushing worker organization at blue state McDonald's, they're demanding workers in pot companies organize, just as Illinois is counting down to recreational legalization on January 1, 2020. 

From workers at the Des Plaines'-based Cresco Labs, a press release was issued Monday am:

Di Leo: Red Meat and Fast Food on the Campaign Trail

McDonald's employees in Illinois won $15 minimum wage; now demand unions 

By John F. Di Leo -

Speaking in Los Angeles recently, former Vice President Joe Biden - desperate to actually earn the top spot in the polls that he currently enjoys from name recognition and the vacuity of his opponents - tried to polish up his bonafides with Big Labor, throwing out this bit of red meat to the shop stewards:  

“There is only one way you can fight back power,” Joe Biden shouted to his crowd. “That is with more power, and that’s union power… we should unionize McDonald’s!”

Franklin Graham: ‘My Father Would Have Been Disappointed’ in Christianity Today’s Call to Remove Trump

Evangelist Franklin Graham has responded to a fiery editorial calling for President Trump’s removal from office posted online Thursday by Christianity Today, a publication founded by his father.  

Editor-In-Chief Mark Galli was posted the editorial just one day after Trump became the third president in United States history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.  Galli wrote, “The impeachment of Donald Trump is a significant event in the story of our republic. It requires comment.”

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The Business of Climate Change

Climate change is about the money. Rupert Darwall writes:

Saving the planet takes money, and lots of it. Money is both the theme and the subtext of the latest round of U.N. climate talks being held here—a vast river of cash flows through the U.N. climate process. Formally, the meeting is about nailing down one of the more obscure provisions of the Paris Agreement: Article 6, which provides for market-based instruments so that countries can trade their way out of their decarbonization commitments. Billions of cross-border dollars and transaction fees hang on the outcome.

The Invention of Hispanics: What It Says About the Politics of Race

Activists created ethnic categories to fuel identity politics. Mike Gonzalez writes:

America’s surging politics of victimhood and identitarian division did not emerge organically or inevitably, as many believe. Nor are these practices the result of irrepressible demands by minorities for recognition, or for redress of past wrongs, as we are constantly told. Those explanations are myths, spread by the activists, intellectuals, and philanthropists who set out deliberately, beginning at mid-century, to redefine our country. Their goal was mass mobilization for political ends, and one of their earliest targets was the Mexican-American community. These activists strived purposefully to turn Americans of this community (who mostly resided in the Southwestern states) against their countrymen, teaching them first to see themselves as a racial minority and then to think of themselves as the core of a pan-ethnic victim group of “Hispanics”—a fabricated term with no basis in ethnicity, culture, or race.

China Violates Disclosure Law to Publish Propaganda in NY Times, WaPo

China routinely broke federal law by not disclosing how much it spent to publish regime propaganda in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other newspapers, an expert review of foreign agent registration filings concluded.

China Daily, an official mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, has published hundreds of propaganda articles designed to look like ordinary news stories in some of America's most influential newspapers. While foreign agents may place ads in the United States, the propaganda outlet has repeatedly violated the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) by failing to provide full disclosures about its purchases.

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How socialism causes atheism

George Orwell’s 1984 defines the booming genre of dystopian literature, but Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World provided a more accurate prophecy of the future. In another of his works, Ends and Means, Huxley offered deep insights into why people choose to become atheists. In a time when 26 percent of Americans are unaffiliated with any religion, and the number of atheists and agnostics in the U.S. has doubled in the last 10 years, people of faith must pay heed to his observations. Huxley wrote that he and “most of [his] contemporaries” saw atheism’s moral vacuum as their “instrument of liberation,” because it allowed them to embrace sexual hedonism and socialism. For most however, the transference of faith is not so coldly transactional as it was for Huxley. Instead, faith in the transcendent gets crowded out by faith in socialism’s utopian promise of equality-of-outcome on earth. This path transformed Michael Harrington from a daily communicant volunteering in the Catholic Worker movement to the atheistic founder of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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The Amazing History of Christmas

How much do you know about Christmas – about its origins and its many beloved traditions? Do you know where the idea of stocking-stuffers comes from? Or how lights found their way onto the Christmas tree? Or why we all have the jolly, red-suited, white-haired image of Santa Claus in our heads? In this video, historian William Federer explores the holiday’s rich and unique history.

LGBTQ activists send funeral directors to pastor's home

LGBT activists sent funeral directors to the home of a British pastor who posted on Twitter that LGBTQ "Pride" events are harmful to children, with instructions to contact his wife and "arrange his funeral."

The threats also included the pastor being nearly knocked off his bike by an angry local resident in her car.

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California Freelancers Suffer From Totally Predictable 'Unintended Consequences' of Gig Worker Protection Bill

A bad California law will devastate freelancers. Elizabeth Nolan Brown writes:

Vox Media is laying off hundreds of freelance writers and editors due to a new California law that was sold as a way to protect the state's contingent workforce. That law, AB5, was adopted in September. To comply, New York-based Vox Media would have had to reclassify many of the freelancers it uses for sports platform SB Nation as full-time staff.

Instead, the company decided to cancel the contracts of some 200 or so freelancers that now work for SB Nation. It will "replace them with 20 new part-time and full-time staffers," a "source familiar with the decision" told the Los Angeles Times.

Pritzker's office boasts historical low in state's unemployment rate

SPRINGFIELD – With little mention of the burgeoning national economy generally attributed to President Donald Trump's policies, the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) boasted the state's unemployment rate fell another .1 percentage points to 3.8 percent - a new historical low - in November 2019.

“With unemployment at a record low, this administration remains committed to strengthening Illinois’ economy and implementing policies that lift up working families,” said Deputy Governor Dan Hynes. “Governor Pritzker has taken historic actions this year to build a foundation for long-term job growth. From a new bipartisan capital bill to pension reform and a raise in the minimum wage, this administration is working towards its goal of fostering an environment for businesses and working people to thrive in.”

Trump supporters to rally in Frankfort, IL Saturday

FRANKFORT - Just south of I-80 on the corner of LaGrange Road and Route 30, those supporting President Trump plan to rally Saturday, December 21, 2019 from 10 AM – 12 PM CST.

"Candidates supporting the President will be there," the announcement says. "Everyone needs to come at least for a short while. President Trump needs us to stand with him. This impeachment is biased, based in half-truths, incomplete information, and false statements by the Democrats."

Di Leo: Impeachment 2019: A Political Party Comes Full Circle

By John F. Di Leo - 

The news of the week, possibly the news of the year, in a way, is that the United States House of Representatives has impeached President Donald Trump, sort of (at this writing, the House hasn’t forwarded the package to the US Senate, and it is rumored that it may never do so, making it unclear whether it counts as an impeachment at all).

It doesn’t mean he’s leaving office, of course… Since there is zero chance of his conviction in the Senate, due to the unprecedented process violations by the House, President Trump is more likely than ever to enjoy his remaining five years in the White House, with continued success, and perhaps even more fun than he had in his first three.

… But it is still significant, not only because impeachment is so rare, but also because this one is such a throwback to the birth of the Democratic Party, over two centuries ago.

Under State's Attorney Kim Foxx's policies, Cook County retail thieves loot stores

CHICAGO - Thieves are becoming more and more bold in Cook County, walking out of stores with armloads of merchandise as Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's social justice policy to not prosecute retail theft under $1000 becomes more well known. 

CWBChicago.com posted the following video on social media this week, appearing to show several men walking out of a Marshall's store in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood with armloads of coats as store employees standby.

Where’s Weyermuller? With President Trump in Battle Creek, Michigan on Impeachment Day

By Mark Weyermuller -

Wednesday night America witnessed another historic moment as the United States House of Representatives voted to impeach the 45th President, Donald J. Trump. As the vote was talking place In Washington,  D.C. the president held a "Merry Christmas Rally" in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Over 5400 were inside Battle Creek's Kellogg Arena, with thousands unable to come in as the local fire marshall stopped admitting people into the building about 90 minutes before the president took the stage. Many people were waiting for hours in 17 degree temperatures as the venue opened early at 3:00 p.m. - four hours before the president was scheduled to speak.

Thorner: UN's Climate Change strategy is a wealth confiscation game

By Nancy Thorner - 

In a UN Climate Statement on November 1, 2019, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa announced: "We are pleased to announce the COP Bureau has agreed that COP25 will take place from 2-13 December in IFEMA - Feria de Madrid in Madrid, Spain."

Not mentioned in her announcement was how COP 25 had to change locations from Chile to Spain at very short notice (after it had already changed locations from Brazil to Chile), after riots erupted around Chile in protest to energy price hikes to pay for her climate change programs, thus forcing Chilean President Sebastian Pinera to put troops on the streets and cancel his plans to host COP 25.

Shehab: Linda Sarsour and others push Anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories at Chicago Palestinian Convention

By Hesham Shehab - 

The former “Women’s March” leader who once called for a “jihad” against Donald Trump is back in the news, following leaked video of her diatribe against Israel as a “Jewish Supremacist” state. Linda Sarsour, the Palestinian American activist and Bernie Sanders campaign surrogate claimed that “Israel was built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everybody else.” Sarsour was speaking before a crowd at the annual Palestine Convention of the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), held in Chicago over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Nor was Sarsour the only anti-Semitic speaker. Rather the entire event was dominated by Anti-Semitic diatribes, conspiracy theories, and distortions of Israeli history, all taking place while AMP security aggressively denied access to anyone attempting to accurately report on what was said. 

Joining Sarsour at the AMP convention was Nihad Awad, co-founder of Council on the American and Islamic Relations (CAIR) spoke about a Western conspiracy where the “transnational Zionist movement” and neoconservatives use Islamophobia as a “funnel” to “spread misinformation,” and propaganda, using “sophisticated networks.”

Rossi: Impeachment - "A Day That Will Live In Infamy"

By Randy Rossi - 

December 18, 2019 will forever be remembered in U.S. history as another “Day That Will Live In Infamy” and another day that the United States was attacked and put into great danger as it was when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Sadly, this attack on America was by Democrats who impeached Republican President Trump purely for partisan reasons and their hatred of our president. As many Constitutional legal experts have said, “This is the weakest impeachment in U.S. history” and it threatens our great republic and all future presidents of any political party if it is not thrown out by the Senate as unconstitutional, illegal, and immoral.

Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist did a great job of simplifying why this phony impeachment must be thrown out for four critical reasons:

Yale Prof Estimates Faculty Political Diversity at ‘0%’

Nobody looks to the Ivy League for balanced political discourse. But a new report suggests that on at least one campus, the stifling of conservative views among faculty members is nearly complete.

Valerie Pavilonis and Matt Kristoffersen report in the Yale Daily News:

According to computer science professor David Gelernter ‘76, faculty political diversity at Yale is low: “0%,” he wrote in an email. He added that while there are a “few conservatives, including prominent ones,” their numbers are not high enough to have a significant impact on campus culture.

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Education Department uncovers $1.3B in foreign university funding

An Education Department investigation revealed universities failed to report more than a billion dollars in foreign funding, which officials believe is only a sliver of the unreported overseas donations flowing onto campuses.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told the Washington Examiner she had launched a preliminary investigation into six universities but already turned up an alarming $1.3 billion in foreign funding over the past seven years from nations such as China, Russia, and Qatar that the schools hadn’t told the federal government about, despite their legal requirement to do so.

“It is already a reporting requirement for schools to report all foreign contributions. From my perspective, it’s a simple requirement: Report all foreign money you get.” DeVos said. “We’re going to continue to raise the flag on this, and we think, just given what we’ve seen scratching the surface, there’s a lot there that has gone undetected.”

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Greta Thunberg Is the Perfect Hero for an Unserious Time

Who better than a finger-wagging teen bereft of accomplishment, or any comprehension of basic economics or history, to be Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2019? Greta Thunberg’s canonization is a perfect expression of media activism in a deeply unserious time.

Has there ever been a less consequential person picked to be Person of the Year? I doubt it. I mean, Wallis Simpson, 1936’s Person of the Year, got King Edward VIII to abdicate the throne. Thunberg can’t even get you to abdicate your air-conditioning.

These days we celebrate vacuous fire and brimstone. “Greta Thunberg”—the idea, not the girl—is a concoction of activists who have increasingly taken to using children as a shield from critical analysis or debate. She’s the vessel of the environmentalist’s fraudulent apocalypticism-as-argument. Her style is emotion and indignation, histrionics and fantasy. She is a teenager, after all.

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Cook Co Democrat Party Chairman added to list of those under federal investigation

CHICAGO - The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that former Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios - who also was chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party while assessor - is under investigation by the feds, adding to the list of Democrats under investigation statewide.

Beckman: Are You Sure About Impeachment, Nancy?

By Hank Beckman - 

With an impeachment vote near in the U.S. House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi would be wise to reflect on another prominent Democrat’s  effort to pull off a similarly daunting task.

When Hillary Clinton was a new First Lady, her husband gave her the responsibility of reforming the nation’s health care system.

Aurora, IL Planned Parenthood botches another abortion

An ambulance was called for a seriously injured woman at the Aurora Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Aurora, Illinois, on November 16, 2019.

“We’ll need a stretcher,” a Planned Parenthood employee told the 911 dispatcher at the beginning of the 911 call recording.

Rossi: British Voters Just Handed US Democrats a Big Warning!

By Randy Rossi - 

British voters just handed the worst loss to the liberal Labor Party in Britain since 1935 giving the conservatives the most power they have had since conservative Margret Thatcher was elected as Prime Minister. Democrats in America should pay attention because there is a good case that US voters may do exactly the same thing to liberal Democrats in 2020.

Britain’s liberal Labor Party ignored the will of the people and resisted “Brexit” while they pushed far left socialist policies that a majority of Brits strongly did not agree with. The British people love their country and they do not want open borders and they are tired of bureaucrats in Brussels ruling their lives. Sounds just like the 63 million Americans that voted for President Trump!

Preaching a Conspiracy Theory

The 1619 Project is based on nonsense. Allen Guelzo writes:

The 1619 Project is not history: it is polemic, born in the imaginations of those whose primary target is capitalism itself and who hope to tarnish capitalism by associating it with slavery. Slavery made cotton profitable; but profitability is not capitalism. Profit-seeking has been around since Abraham bought the cave at Machpelah in the book of Genesis. If profitability were capitalism, then the Soviet Union’s highly profitable sales of natural gas and other commodities would surely make it one of the great success stories of capitalism – which, of course, it was not. Ask any worthwhile Marxist: capitalism is about the creation of class, and especially the bourgeoisie. And one thing the South never developed was a bourgeoisie. Which is why no single American, North or South, before 1861 ever imagined that slavery and capitalism were anything but mortal enemies. The proslavery apologist, George Fitzhugh, frankly declared that slavery was a form, not of capitalism, but feudal socialism; the antislavery president, Abraham Lincoln, explained the war on slavery as a war on behalf of free labor.

CBS Boosts Southern Poverty Law Center

You’d think that liberal news outlets would get tired of schlepping around the Southern Poverty Law Center’s baggage.

After a devastating year—one that saw all of SPLC’s top leadership resign over workplace sexism and racism—it seemed, at least for a while, that the media would stop propping up the disgraced anti-Christian cesspool of bigotry. Apparently not.

At CBS, they’d rather take the word of an organization being sued by its own employees than a conservative victim of the SPLC’s labeling. ...

... In a story about Fidelity Investments, one of the charitable funds that lets donors “grow their savings” and give to their favorite causes, CBS blasts the company for leaving conservative groups—who’ve been wrongly smeared by SPLC—on the list.

Organizations like FRC were listed as benefiting from the fund, despite, CBS explains, being “described as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.”

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