ISRA Thursday Bulletin - January 5, 2017
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE
On January 9, 2017, the Illinois Legislature will go into session. On Monday, the 99th General Assembly will finish unfinished business from the last two years. While all of the gun...
Residents say new industrial park would 'destroy' Lockport
John Basile, owner of the Big Run Wolf Ranch, stands at the edge of his six acre site in Lockport. Prologis, an industrial developer, has proposed building five warehouses in the cornfield...
Posted on December 21, 2016 by Sam Rolley
EU uses terror threat to push more gun control
European Union officials are working to make already tough European gun laws more draconian by citing the threat of terror to limit legal gun...
Transgender Reaassignment Surgery Under Obamacare Blocked Nationwide
File Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images
by LANA SHADWICK1 Jan 2017
The Texas Attorney General won a nationwide preliminary injunction to block a new Obamacare mandate requiring taxpayers to fund transgender reassignment surgeries and...
Editor has one question: How does a very young child understand the concept of changing sex, for that matter identify or wish to be the opposite sex?
Young children may like playing with the opposite sex because of attraction that...
Posted on December 27, 2016 by Sam Rolley
Fake news used to justify real propaganda
Buried in the latest iteration of the National Defense Authorization Act is a provision that gives the federal government its very own Ministry of Truth.
The annual...
Common sense tells us most 13-year olds are perfectly capable of staying home alone after school while their parent is at work, but in Illinois, common sense isn’t the law.
Any parents who leave their children age 13 or younger...
Demand That Congress Preserve the Electoral College
Written By John Biver | 12.27.16
The men and women that you elect to the U.S. Congress in both chambers need to hear from you regularly on the important issues, and they...
Black Panthers Hold ‘Human Rights Tribunal’ in Milwaukee
by Ethan Sabo | Dec 26, 2016
In what can only be considered a major irony, the Black Panthers of Milwaukee are protesting “genocide” of blacks by police.
I’m not sure of their priorities,...
Posted on December 22, 2016 by Sam Rolley
Obama administration kills Muslim screening program ahead of Trump inauguration
In a move largely seen as a rebuke of the president-elect’s plan to increase scrutiny on Muslims traveling to the U.S., the Obama...
