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Illinois Freedom Coalition

Published: 10/06/2022Edited: 02/01/2025 The Illinois Freedom Coalition is a political think tank that promotes: a constitutional Republic, due process, fiscal responsibility, a free market, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, limited government, the protection of life, the sanctity of the family unit, and the unalienable and constitutionally protected right to bear arms. Membership comprises a […]

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Benghazi

Published: 09/11/2012Edited: 02/01/2025 On September 11, 2012, the United States embassy in Benghazi, Libya, was overrun and American lives were lost.  American personnel, including the United States ambassador to Libya, were murdered.  President Obama (Democrat) and members of the State Department, including Hillary Clinton (Democrat), could have intervened but instead made the decision to abandon

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Taxes

Published: 12/04/2013Edited: 02/01/2025 The true power of Congress resides in the constitutional power of Congress to control the purse strings of the United States Government.  Congress has the constitutional power to refuse to fund items, to include executive orders and legislation, which in effect renders such items null and void.  Sadly, Congress has failed to

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Crony Capitalism

Published: 07/04/2017Edited: 02/01/2025 At the simplest level, free market capitalism is driven by supply and demand; people only engage in mutually beneficial transactions and are free to spend their time and money as they choose. Crony capitalism, despite the name, is not free market capitalism at all.  In crony capitalism the game is rigged; supply

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Descendants of Stephen McGrorty

Published: 12/10/2017Edited: 02/01/2025 Generation No. 1 Children of STEPHEN MCGRORTY and MARY FAIRY are: Generation No. 2 Children of MICHAEL MCGRORTY and ANN UNKNOWN are: iii.    CHARLES MCGRORITY, born between 1865 – 1888, Ireland; died after April 16, 1926. Child of SUSAN MCGRORTY and THOMAS CARR/KERR is: Generation No. 3 Child of STEPHEN MCGRORITY and

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Sister Julia McGroarty

Published: 12/10/2017Edited: 02/01/2025 Sister Julia McGroarty, original name Susan McGroarty (born Feb. 13, 1827, Inver, County Donegal, Ire.—died Nov. 12, 1901, Peabody, Mass., U.S.), Irish-born American religious leader and educator, the first American superior in the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, whose efforts increased the scope and quality of Roman Catholic education in the

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John Steven McGroarty

Published: 12/10/2017Edited: 02/01/2025 Born at Buck Mountain, in Foster Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (near Wilkes-Barre), McGroarty was the youngest of 12 children.  He was educated at public schools and Harry Hillman Academy in Wilkes-Barre, and was employed as treasurer of Luzerne County from 1890 to 1893.  He later studied law and was admitted to the

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2nd Amendment

The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights is meant to safeguard our unalienable right to bear arms.  Throughout history tyrants have attempted to disarm individuals in order to control people by force.  Therefore, our Founding Fathers made it clear that no government body has any right to pass any law or regulation limiting the

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