Senator John Fetterman Goes Vogue
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Laurie Higgins
- 7 days ago
- 8 min
Durbin and Giannoulias Embarrass Illinois at U.S. Senate 'Book-Banning' Hearing
This week the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing about “book bans and censorship” led by tricky Dick Durbin who once again...
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Jeanne Ives
- Sep 12
- 4 min
Rolling Out the Red Carpet for the Red Chinese
Pritzker is Funding Our Adversaries for His Green Energy Fantasy (Picture from Gov. Pritzker public X post.) Last Thursday Governor...
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Jeanne Ives
- Sep 11
- 7 min
Pritzker Pens Deal With ChiComms To Give Them $536 Million To Open an EV Battery Assembly Plant
Governor Pritzker has been begging for an EV battery plant to come to Illinois for a couple of years now. Before last Friday, Crains...
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Laurie Higgins
- Sep 8
- 5 min
Deviant Man Makes History by Winning Seat on Illinois City Council
Warning: Article Contains Obscene Photos It’s remarkable that we have reached such a corrosive cultural place that a label is needed to...
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Jeanne Ives
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Illinois’ Green New Energy Laws Threaten Our Way of Life – Politicians Refuse to Listen to Reason
The rest of the world may be waking up to the climate crisis hoax, but not Illinois politicians. In just the last two weeks, news has...
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Laurie Higgins
- Sep 6
- 5 min
Illinois Poised to Do the Impossible: Move Even Further Left
We hear a lot about the exodus of Illinoisans to greener pastures. And by “greener” pastures, I do not mean pastures blighted by...
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Jeanne Ives
- Sep 5
- 8 min
Democrats, Stop Complaining,You Voted For This
The other big discussion this week is the plea by Mayor Johnson to accelerate work permits for the thousands of illegals who have come to...
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Jeanne Ives
- Sep 1
- 3 min
Your Money, Your Freedom, and Your Future
Illinois politicians, led by Governor Pritzker and his Democrat party have completely lost any semblance of moderation or commonsense....
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Laurie Higgins
- Aug 30
- 6 min
Illinois' Wheaton College Embraces Leftism
Wheaton College President Philip Ryken recently spoke at a conference hosted by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals at which he said,...
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Laurie Higgins
- Aug 26
- 4 min
CRT IS Taught in Public Middle & High Schools
School has just begun, and, unfortunately, many parents have no workable option other than placing their children in public schools that...
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Laurie Higgins
- Aug 25
- 5 min
Wheaton Park District Poobahs Stonewall Community
Smack dab in the heart of evangelical Christianity where Wheaton College, Crossway publishing company, Christianity Today, and College...
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Laurie Higgins
- Aug 18
- 3 min
Illinois School District Hires Mentally and Morally Unfit Man to Teach Young Kids
“Trust the experts.” How often have you heard that from leftist educrats? Well, here’s yet another fine mess a community is embroiled ...
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Laurie Higgins
- Aug 17
- 4 min
Illinois Dems Score Against Freedom Again with a Big, Fat GOP Assist
In a rare exercise in bipartisanship, Illinois lawmakers voted in for a destructive bill to curtail free speech about which I warned in...
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Jeanne Ives
- Aug 15
- 7 min
Banana Republic, Yet? – Scoring Best Places for Business – BIPA
“There can be no joy in living without joy in work.” – Thomas Aquinas Everybody knows work is important. It gives people a sense of...
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Laurie Higgins
- Aug 12
- 3 min
Texas Law to Prohibit Obscene Material in Public Schools
How badly do leftists want to get porn into public schools? How badly do they want to mainline leftist ideas about sexuality and “gender”...
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Jeanne Ives
- Aug 9
- 3 min
Holding the Media Accountable on Farming and Climate Change
In a total switch of topics – because at Breakthrough Ideas we cover a myriad of issues – let’s talk about farming and the so-called...
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Laurie Higgins
- Aug 9
- 4 min
Dems Make Illinois the Nation's Laughing Stock
Just when you thought Illinois Democrats had exhausted all their boneheaded ideas, they disappoint. To the list of moral, political,...
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Laurie Higgins
- Aug 5
- 4 min
Pritzker Spending $23 Million of Public Money to Subsidize Feticide
WTTW reported on pickpocket J.B. Pritzker’s newest sock in the jaws and guts of Illinoisans who believe developing humans deserve to be...
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Laurie Higgins
- Aug 5
- 4 min
A Tale of Two Community Colleges - McHenry & St. Philips
According to a letter sent by First Liberty, a law firm dedicated to protecting religious liberty, to St. Philips Community College in...
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