December 21 Evening Edition

ABC7

— Mayor announces new Chicago vaccine mandate at restaurants, gyms, some indoor venues – Diane Pathieu, Craig Wall, Sarah Schulte, Liz Nagy
https://abc7chicago.com/covid-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-restrictions-testing/11364875/
— Illinois COVID cases: IL reports 10,264 new cases, 63 deaths; tests sold out at many stores. 60% of Illinois population now fully vaccinated, health officials say. – Michelle Gallardo, Sarah Schulte
https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-covid-testing-vaccine-booster-shots-side-effects/11366687/

NBC5
— Chicago to Require Vaccine Proof for Indoor Spaces Like Restaurants, Bars, Gyms. Beginning Jan. 3, anyone age 5 and older will be required to show proof of full vaccination to dine inside or visit gyms or entertainment venues where food and drinks are being served.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-to-require-vaccine-proof-for-indoor-spaces-like-restaurants-bars-gyms/2712739/
— Chicago COVID Metrics: As New Vax Rules Near, City Reports Large Increase in Daily Case Rates
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/chicago-covid-metrics-as-new-vax-rules-near-city-reports-large-increase-in-daily-case-rates/2712984/
— Report Details ‘Failure’ in Handling of 1st Smollett Case. Smollett was convicted this month of lying to police in January 2019 about what he said was a racist, homophobic attack in downtown Chicago – Sara Burnett
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/report-details-failure-in-handling-of-1st-jussie-smollett-case-by-kim-foxxs-office/2711881/

WGN9
— Lightfoot doubles down on public safety strategy as gun violence soars in 2021 – Tahman Bradley
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/lightfoot-doubles-down-on-public-safety-strategy-as-gun-violence-soars-in-2021/

FOX32
— Pentagon aims to stop extremism among service members, issues new rules – Lolita C. Baldor
(COMMENT: According to Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs, the more of the following planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the more of an extremist that you are: traditional marriage/family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving).)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pentagon-aims-to-stop-extremism-among-service-members-issues-new-rules

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— 50% increase in daily Illinois COVID deaths since last week. In Illinois, 63 people died of the virus Tuesday as another 10,264 cases were reported statewide. – Clare Spaulding
https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2021/12/21/22849062/illinois-covid-pandemic-cases-deaths-increase
— Aurora Proud Boys member accused of assaulting officer with flag pole amid Capitol riot. James Robert Elliott faces what appear to be the most serious charges yet to be brought against an Illinois resident in connection with the riot that interrupted the Electoral College vote count and led to what the feds say could be the largest criminal investigation in U.S. history. – Jon Seidel and Tom Schuba
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/12/21/22848391/aurora-man-accused-assaulting-officer-flagpole-capitol-riot-faces-five-felonies

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot mandates proof of vaccination for patrons of restaurants, gyms, entertainment venues amid surge of COVID-19 omicron cases – GREGORY PRATT, ALICE YIN and DAN PETRELLA
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-lightfoot-mandate-covid-omicrom-20211221-4ycl26ykobeupcjslyiramth4u-story.html
— Aurora man faces federal charges for allegedly attacking cops with flagpole during Capitol riot – JASON MEISNER
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-aurora-man-capitol-assault-20211221-p6o3qskha5ewvewmgbitxyv66m-story.html
— On Kim Foxx’s tenure is the indelible stain of the Smollett case. – EDITORIAL
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-jussie-smollett-kim-foxx-dan-webb-report-20211221-r2hjxrotp5be3glijpyva4cane-story.html
— New Pentagon mission. Ban extremism, but not free speech. – CLARENCE PAGE
(COMMENT: According to Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more of an extremist that you are and therefore, the sooner that you should be gotten rid of: law enforcement officer, Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/clarence-page/ct-column-pentagon-justice-department-extremists-anthony-brown-page-20211221-32sv2a4rr5hj5hm62ps3iouo2q-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Suburban hospitals say they’re closer to running out of beds in new COVID-19 surge – Marni Pyke
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211221/suburban-hospitals-say-theyre-closer-to-running-out-of-beds-in-new-covid-19-surge

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— New COVID rules: Lightfoot mandates vax proof for bars, restaurants, gyms. If you want to eat out, work out, catch a show or have drink at your favorite bar in Chicago, you’ll need your COVID vaccine card starting Jan. 3 – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/chicago-covid-vaccine-proof-restaurants-bars-gyms
— Looking for rain in Chicago’s job deserts
(COMMENT: I lived in Crete 1948-1972, University Park 1972-1976, and Wheaton since 1978. I never found a job in the aforesaid. I worked in Chicago Heights 1964-1966 and 1970-1972, Flossmoor in 1966, Park Forest 1966-1969, Chicago 1971 and 1973-1997, Harvey 1972-1973, and Joliet 1973-1974.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-daily-gist/looking-rain-chicagos-job-deserts-crains-daily-gist-podcast

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Open-Mindedness of Leftist Propagandists
https://illinoisfamily.org/podcast/podcast-the-open-mindedness-of-leftist-propagandists/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump to hold press conference on anniversary of Jan. 6 attack on Capitol – Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/21/trump-hold-press-conference-anniversary-jan-6-atta/
— Evangelical Lutheran LGBTQ ministry group suspends first transgender bishop. Says Bishop Megan Rohrer engaged in “racist words and actions” – Mark A. Kellner
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/21/evangelical-lutheran-lgbtq-ministry-group-suspends/

CNS NEWS
— Satanic Demon Display to Join Christmas Nativity at Illinois Capitol – Michael W. Chapman
https://cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/satanic-demon-display-join-christmas-nativity-illinois-capitol

FEDERALIST
— Defund The Speech Police – NATHANAEL BLAKE
https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/21/defund-the-speech-police/
— How The Miss America Pageant Got Woke And Went Broke – TERESA DAVIS
https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/21/how-the-miss-america-pageant-got-woke-and-went-broke/

COLLEGE FIX
— Defund the campus speech police and root out ‘wokeness,’ ethicist urges
https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/defund-the-campus-speech-police-and-root-out-wokeness-ethicist-urges/

POST MILLENNIAL
— Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot pleas for federal government’s help combatting city’s crime. “Keeping you safe is my priority — not one of, but the first and primary priority,” Lightfoot said. – Mia Cathell
https://thepostmillennial.com/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-pleas-for-federal-governments-help-combatting-citys-crime

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Oxford University Planning to Base New Hiring Practices on Candidates’ ‘Woke Score’ “could make or break an opportunity to teach at the school” – Mike LaChance
(COMMENT: According to Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less woke that you are and therefore, the sooner that you should be gotten rid of: law enforcement officer, Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/12/oxford-university-planning-to-base-new-hiring-practices-on-candidates-woke-score/

WASHINGTON POST
— Catholic bishop criticizes Satanic Temple holiday display at Illinois Statehouse – Heather Greene 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/catholic-bishop-criticizes-satanic-temple-holiday-display-at-illinois-statehouse/2021/12/21/8b8354a8-62c1-11ec-9b51-7131fa190c5e_story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Salvation Army Responds on ‘Wokeness’ We have never endorsed a political or social ideology other than that found in the Bible. – Kenneth Hodder, National Commander, Salvation Army
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-salvation-army-woke-color-us-united-charity-jesus-christian-mission-11640037203

WASHINGTON BLADE
— Washington Blade gets designated seat in WH briefing room. A first for LGBTQ outlets
. (COMMENT: LGBTQ-promoters focus on destroying Republicans.)
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2021/12/20/its-official-washington-blade-gets-designated-seat-in-wh-briefing-room/

LEGAL READER
— How Long is a Home Builder Responsible for Construction Defects? – SHARON FELDMAN
https://www.legalreader.com/how-long-is-a-home-builder-responsible-for-construction-defects/

(FROM THE ARTICLE: Worse than discovering small imperfections in your home is realizing that major construction mistakes are causing actual harm. Construction defects like leaks, mold, sinking or cracking can be detrimental to your property and to your physical health. Perhaps these errors were easy to overlook on the day of inspection, but as time has passed you realize that the mistakes are more significant than you thought. Your biggest investment is also losing value. What are Home Construction Defects? Construction defects come in various forms and produce a variety of problems for homeowners. Every state has different laws and statutes of limitation regarding construction policy.)

December 21 Morning Edition

ABC7

— Illinois COVID cases: IL reports 12,328 new cases, 11 deaths; tests sold out at many stores. ‘If you don’t really need to be here, don’t come,’ hospitals warn. – Michelle Gallardo, Sarah Schulte
https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-covid-testing-vaccine-booster-shots-side-effects/11361873/

CBS2
— Drivers Shut Down Eisenhower Expressway To Perform Dangerous Stunts — Where Were Illinois State Police? – Jermont Terry
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/12/20/car-enthusiasts-shut-down-eisenhower-expressway-stunts/

FOX32
— DuPage County health officials warn of high hospitalizations, increase in COVID cases ahead of holidays
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dupage-county-health-officials-warn-of-high-hospitalizations-increase-in-covid-cases-ahead-of-holidays
— Illinois reports largest one-day increase in COVID cases this year – Elizabeth Matthews
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-reports-largest-one-day-increase-in-covid-cases-this-year

WBEZ
— Illinois is thought to be a blue state. So why is so much of the state so red? – Dave McKinney
https://www.wbez.org/stories/the-political-battle-for-illinois-counties/a2ef057e-aa35-4e06-b86a-7a4cd6fdb3cc
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In 2018, Pritzker made easy work out of predecessor Bruce Rauner’s reelection bid, routing the one-term Republican by nearly 16 percentage points. Pritzker did so while losing 86 out of Illinois’ 102 counties, but that showing amounted to an improvement for Democrats over previous elections. Admittedly, many of those 86 counties are sparsely populated. Regardless of the margins Rauner put up in them, they weren’t enough to overcome Pritzker winning four out of five of the collar counties and taking Cook County by historic margins. Pritzker defeated Rauner in Cook County by more than 836,000 votes. No gubernatorial candidate since at least the Roaring ’20s posted a winning margin that large in Cook County.)

AM560 THE ANSWER
— Crain’s Chicago Business’ Greg Hinz, answers why he believes Dan Proft is racist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGwuRflfY_0

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Full 60-page report on Jussie Smollett case details confusion, controversy in state’s attorney’s office. State’s Attorney Kim Foxx told Dan Webb’s investigators she herself was surprised by the deal made by her prosecutors to drop charges against the “Empire” actor. – Andy Grimm
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/12/20/22845798/jussie-smollett-full-report-release-dan-webb-michael-toomin
— Illinois sees new high in daily COVID-19 cases for the year. It’s the second yearly high set in less than a week as cases surge in the state. – Mitch Dudek
https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2021/12/20/22847238/illinois-sees-new-high-in-daily-covid-19-cases-for-the-year

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinoisans need not wait to start fixing pension problems – ADAM SCHUSTER
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-illinois-pension-crisis-reform-20211220-ojrvnvqbtvdxnklnrz2fsnuh4a-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Des Plaines council says no to downtown cannabis dispensary – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211220/des-plaines-council-says-no-to-downtown-cannabis-dispensary

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Illinois Democrats crow about their success in destroying individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that are law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/opinion/2021/12/21/pritzker-says-future-looks-bright-illinois-though-challenges-remain/8977309002/

HERALD REVIEW
— Rep. Rodney Davis ‘ready for any prospective challenge’ – BRENDEN MOORE
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/watch-now-rep-rodney-davis-ready-for-any-prospective-challenge/article_4f9d9c7c-ad06-5c4a-b6fa-ba5bbe9a1498.html

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— OUTRAGEOUS, DISGUSTING, TRAGIC, UNACCEPTABLE: More Women Using Pot, Other Cannabis Products During Pregnancy – Amy Norton
https://pantagraph.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/why-are-more-women-using-pot-other-cannabis-products-during-pregnancy/article_4d900c3f-2345-5cbf-8831-4638eadb962c.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— DHS to close gaps in border wall as Texas uses private funds to resume construction – ELISSA SALAMY
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/dhs-to-close-gaps-in-border-wall-as-tx-uses-private-funds-to-resume-construction

JOHN KASS
— Gov Pritzker’s Christmas Gift to Illinois Parents: The State, Not Parents, Decides What You Get To Know About Your Child. – Mary Hallan FioRito
https://johnkassnews.com/guest-column-mary-hallan-fiorito-gov-pritzkers-christmas-gift-to-illinois-parents-the-state-not-parents-decide-what-you-get-to-know-about-your-child/

WILLIAM J KELLY
— Stop pro-abortion group’s “Baby Satan” display in Illinois’ Capitol for Christmas
https://www.williamjkelly.org/news/kelly-stop-baby-satan-display-in-illinois-capitol

WIREPOINTS
— A loss of democratic norms in Illinois: 24 straight Executive Orders over nearly two years – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/a-loss-of-democratic-norms-in-illinois-24-straight-executive-orders-over-nearly-two-years-wirepoints-quickpoint/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Open-Mindedness of Leftist Propagandists – Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/the-open-mindedness-of-leftist-propagandists/

NEW YORK POST
— Kyle Rittenhouse speaks at conservative convention AmericaFest – Patrick Reilly
https://nypost.com/2021/12/20/kyle-rittenhouse-speaks-at-conservative-convention-americafest/
— Yet another poll shows Biden approval rating hitting new low – Mark Moore
https://nypost.com/2021/12/20/yet-another-poll-shows-biden-approval-rating-hitting-new-low/

WASHINGTON EXTERMINATOR
— California Teachers Help Teens Become Transgenders Behind Parents’ Backs, Tried to have Parents Arrested – Warner Todd Hutson
https://washingtonexterminator.com/california-teachers-help-teens-become-transgenders-behind-parents-backs-tried-to-have-parents-arrested/

FOX NEWS
— Orthodox rabbis call on US universities to suspend diversity programs. A recent study suggested that the programs spread antisemitism. – Tyler O’Neil
(COMMENT: In 1989, when I was 41 years old, after my Democrat GAO Chicago office superiors made it clear that to get rid of me, they would never again assign me to audits of IRS, they approved my request to be assigned to their group that audited federal financial industry regulators. That group was led by a GS-15 (currently $142,041-$172,500/year) Jewish younger female of Russian national origin. Many, if not most of my GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates did not want to work with her and/or to work for her because she was Jewish, younger than they were, female, more liberal that they were, Russian national origin, demanding, wealthy, and/or had more education and/or professional certifications than they had. She had an MBA from the University of Chicago and had passed the CPA examination on her first attempt. She accepted me into her group because I had a) become a licensed CPA in 1981, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, d) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and e) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/rabbis-us-universities-suspend-diversity

AMERICAN THINKER
— The wasteful and futile $412-million ‘crime-fighting’ program for Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago – Thomas Lifson
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/the_wasteful_and_futile_412_million_crimefighting_program_for_lori_lightfoots_chicago_.html

BREITBART
— Cancer Treatment Association Member Blasts Woke ‘Political Nonsense’ Invading Medical World – BRECCAN F. THIES
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/20/exclusive-cancer-treatment-association-member-blasts-woke-political-nonsense-in-aapm-invading-medical-world/

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— A Deafening Silence – Patrick Hall
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/blog/2021/12/21/a-deafening-silence
(FROM THE ARTICLE: According to government crime statistics, if you are a police officer, you are 361times more likely to be killed by a black person than the other way around. Also, blacks being only 13% of the population, commit violent crimes at 7 to 10 times the rate of other Americans. Black crime is even more prevalent in our largest cities. For example, blacks committed 76 percent of all homicides in Chicago, IL, despite composing 35 percent of the city’s population. Blacks also accounted for 78 percent of all juvenile arrests. In the city of New York, even before the current chaos we witnessed following the death of George Floyd, blacks committed 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crimes, despite only composing 23 percent of the population. Here is another statistic hiding in plain sight that doesn’t fit the secular homily proselytized by the corporate media, NPR, Democratic Party, and the “only” Black-Lives-Matter bigots. Black commit over 52% of all homicides despite only 13% of the population. We can also add this data to the loud silence emanating from our nation’s racism industry entrepreneurs. In 2015 nearly 6000 blacks were murdered by other blacks.)

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— MLK’s ‘Dream’ has become a nightmare – Michael Matteo
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/12/20/michael-matteo-mlks-dream-has-become-a-nightmare-1178152/
— Woke NYC private preschools are teaching children of the wealthy, influential to be racist elitists – Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/12/20/woke-nyc-private-preschools-are-teaching-children-of-the-wealthy-influential-to-be-racist-elitists-1178163/

POWER LINE
— WASHINGTON POST READERSHIP DECLINES SHARPLY NOW THAT TRUMP HAS LEFT TOWN – PAUL MIRENGOFF
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/washington-post-readership-declines-sharply-now-that-trump-has-left-town.php

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Why Can’t College Republicans Get a Date? – Kevin Vallier
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/12/21/why_cant_college_republicans_get_a_date__146919.html

EPOCH TIMES
— Smith College Ex-staffer Sues Over Anti-White Racism, Ideological Struggle Sessions – Matthew Vadum
(COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs get rid of you if you do not hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, raters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/smith-college-ex-staffer-sues-over-anti-white-racism-ideological-struggle-sessions_4168397.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Former Smith College administrative employee Jodi Shaw, a white woman, is suing the elite school in federal court for retaliation and racial discrimination including forced participation in humiliating ideological indoctrination sessions. David Pitvorak, who describes himself in his Twitter biography as an “individual rights attorney taking on Critical Race Theory in the courts,” is representing Shaw in the lawsuit. “We allege that Smith forced Shaw to undergo ritual racial humiliation and tasked her with implementing policies that racially segregated and discriminated against students,” Pitvorak tweeted. The 101-page lawsuit was filed Dec. 16 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.)

THE HILL
— Chicago preacher leads sermon in drag. “Preaching in drag is a theological reflection on joy,” he said. – Brooke Migdon
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/586651-chicago-preacher-leads-sermon-in-drag
— Illinois hospital bed availability hits record low during pandemic – MONIQUE BEALS
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/586662-illinois-hospital-bed-availability-hits-record-low-during-pandemic

NEW YORK TIMES
— Third-Graders Instructed to Re-enact Scenes From Holocaust, Principal Says. A staff librarian was put on leave after students at an elementary school in Washington, D.C., were directed to simulate shootings and the digging of mass graves. – Vimal Patel
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/us/holocaust-librarian-elementary-school.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Mayor of San Francisco Has an Epiphany. Rewarding criminals leads to more destruction and death, not more social justice. – Tom O’Hare, Charlestown, R.I.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mayor-san-francisco-sf-breed-crime-police-11639778361

BLOOMBERG
— The National Association of Realtors Is Sorry About All the Discrimination. The Realtors want to make amends to Black Americans. So long as they don’t have to talk about the 6% commission. – Peter Robison and Noah Buhayar
(DIERSEN: From what I see watching home purchases in my precinct since 1984, it ever-increasing looks like Democrat realtors steer homebuyers to my precinct who are Democrat, moderate, liberal, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, and/or non-German American. Ever-increasingly, it looks like Democrat realtors stress to potential homebuyers a) that ever-increasingly, Democrats get more votes in the precinct, for example, Biden got 269 votes while Trump got only 157, b) that there are LGBTQ-promoting churches immediately north and south of the precinct, c) that the Wheaton Warrenville School District 200 Administration Headquarters is in the precinct, and d) that a grade school and middle school are in the precinct.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-12-21/real-estate-agents-want-to-fix-housing-discrimination-but-keep-their-commission

FORBES
— Billionaire Space Race Turns Into A Publicity Disaster – Ollie A Williams
https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverwilliams1/2021/12/21/billionaire-space-race-turns-into-a-publicity-disaster/
— U.S. Service Members Can’t ‘Like’ Or Repost Extremist Content Under New Rules – Zachary Snowdon Smith
(COMMENT: I should write a book about the articles that I have included links to in GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes do not like. I would focus on articles disliked by a) past and present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) past and present Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, c) conservative and religious leaders, d) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, and e) those who I have sued.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharysmith/2021/12/20/us-service-members-cant-like-or-repost-extremist-content-under-new-rules/

TAMPA FREE PRESS
— New Study Indicates That The Media’s Bias Is So Bad That A Large Number Of Non-Republicans Now See It – Liam Edgar
(COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who have no problem with bias against conservative principles, if not applaud bias against conservative principles. I would focus on a) past and present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) past and present Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, c) conservative and religious leaders, d) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, and e) those who I have sued.)
https://www.tampafp.com/new-study-indicates-that-the-medias-bias-is-so-bad-that-a-large-number-of-non-republicans-now-see-it/

KNOX NEWS
— Voters have right to know candidates’ political party philosophy – George Korda
(COMMENT: Republican candidates should be asked the following questions: If elected, would you encourage or discourage promotion of the following: a) CRT, b) 1619, c) BLM, d) reparations, e) LGBTQ, f) dependency on government, g) dependency on charity, h) abortion, i) mass/illegal immigration, j) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, k) more gun controls, l) patronage, m) political affiliation discrimination, n) reverse discrimination, and o) age discrimination?)
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/george-korda/2021/12/21/voters-have-right-know-candidates-political-party-philosophy/8965172002/

PASADENA STAR NEWS
— Democrats dissenting on California’s woke math proposal – WENYUAN WU and LANCE IZUMI
https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2021/12/20/democrats-dissenting-on-californias-woke-math-proposal/

NORTHWEST SIGNAL
— Will Blacks survive the racial reckoning – Ann Coulter and Andrews McMeel
https://www.northwestsignal.net/article_bf9a0fdb-752b-5c78-8761-ca1032bbd1b7.html

NEWSWEEK
— It’s Time for Big Tech to Take a Stand Against China – JOEL THAYER
https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-big-tech-take-stand-against-china-opinion-1660251

BROOKINGS
— Why is life expectancy so low in Black neighborhoods? – Andre M. Perry, Carl Romer, and Anthony Barr
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/12/20/why-is-life-expectancy-so-low-in-black-neighborhoods/

CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY
— THESE BOOKS TACKLED INEQUALITY IN 2021 A year of deep deep looks at discriminatory systems in government, education, policing, poverty and media. – Matt DeRienzo
(COMMENT: I should write a book about those who have hinted/implied/argued/shouted the most that I owe all the successes that I have in life a) to discrimination against minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, those who have health problems, veterans, moderates, liberals, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, RINOs, non-Christians, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, criminals, boozers, gamblers, stoners, etc. and b) to improper preference given to those like me who are White, male, old (I was born in 1948), heterosexual, healthy, draft avoiders, conservative, Republican, baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, 100% German American, those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time (my ancestors have been in America since 1844), non-criminals, non-drinkers, non-gamblers, non-pot users, etc.)
https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/these-books-tackled-inequality-in-2021/

NEWS ONE
— COMMENT: Democrats promoted slavery. To deflect blame for that, Democrats blame Republicans for slavery, and especially Republicans who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://newsone.com/4263344/oklahoma-bill-teaching-slavery-ban/

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Rittenhouse gets standing ovation at conservative conference – AP
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/u-s-news/2021/12/rittenhouse-gets-standing-ovation-at-conservative-conference/

DAILY MAIL
— ‘Woke’ Chicago DA Kim Foxx ‘deliberately’ misled the public about her office’s handling of the Jussie Smollett case and quickly dismissed it because she didn’t want ‘throngs of people at court’, new report finds – SNEJANA FARBEROV
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10330279/Chicago-DA-Kim-Foxx-misled-public-Jussie-Smollett-case-report-finds.html

IOL
— Is inheritance tax the answer to inequality? – Prenisha Govender
(COMMENT: Should everyone be required to disclose the biggest things that their parents did to help them succeed? My outstanding parents had me baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) in 1948, raised me as a MSL, and had me confirmed as a MSL in 1962. They sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod. They provided me with room and board in their home in Crete a) 1966-1968 while I took courses at UIC, b) weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and c) the summer of 1969. Neither of my outstanding parents attended college. My father fought type 1 diabetes from age 14, was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma, worked in the office of a nasty chemical plant in Chicago Heights, almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills, and died suddenly of heart failure in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.iol.co.za/personal-finance/tax/is-inheritance-tax-the-answer-to-inequality-c401c856-3da2-440a-9d43-b063af3c2779

December 20 Evening Edition

ABC7

— Illinois COVID cases: IL reports 12,328 new cases, 11 deaths as ICU bed availability shrinks. ‘If you don’t really need to be here, don’t come,’ hospitals warn. – Michelle Gallardo, Sarah Schulte
https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-covid-testing-vaccine-booster-shots-side-effects/11361873/
— Illinois’ minimum wage will increase by $1 on New Year’s Day, Department of Labor says
(COMMENT: I worked for the minimum wage 1964-1966. It was $1.25/hour.)
https://abc7chicago.com/whats-the-minimum-wage-in-illinois-2022-chicago-2021/11361822/

CBS2
— Mayor Lightfoot Calls For Help From Federal Agents In Fighting Violence In Chicago, Takes Aim At Cook County Electronic Monitoring Program – Megan Hickey
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/12/20/mayor-lightfoot-fighting-gun-violence-chicago-2022/

FOX32
— Salvation Army to host forum in Hoffman Estates after racism guide controversy – Jessica Chasmar
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/salvation-army-to-host-forum-in-hoffman-estates-after-racism-guide-controversy

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— At end of another violent year Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls for more help from feds, assures residents: ‘Keeping you safe is my priority’ – GREGORY PRATT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-crime-violence-lightfoot-speech-20211220-u4gwzm4yuzcmrcrujhfndwusoy-story.html

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Hospitals straining under COVID again – JON ASPLUND
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-pulse/hospitals-straining-under-covid-again-us-may-be-undercounting-fully-vaccinated
— Illinois students missed a lot of school last year. Much attention has been paid to Illinois’ enrollment losses during the pandemic. Less has been paid to students who stay but don’t attend school regularly, which can cause them to fall behind and possibly drop out. – SAMANTHA SMYLIE
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/illinois-students-missed-lot-school-days-last-year

RIVER BENDER
— Conservative David Friess Announces Re-Election Campaign For State Representative
https://www.riverbender.com/articles/details/conservative-david-friess-announces-reelection-campaign-for-state-representative-55517.cfm

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats encourage Blacks to be LGBTQers.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/12/20/how-can-the-citys-leading-lgbtq-organizations-better-serve-black-queer-chicagoans-new-report-lays-out-equity-roadmap/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Ives: Pritzker ‘delivers gifts of profits to abortionists and sex traffickers’
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/615106685-ives-pritzker-delivers-gifts-of-profits-to-abortionists-and-sex-traffickers

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— DEMOCRATS MORE CONCERNED ABOUT COVID VARIANTS THAN GOPERS OR INDEPENDENTS
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/12/democrats-more-concerned-about-covid-variants-than-gopers-or-independents.html
— MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND THEIR FAMILIES TRADED OVER $630 MILLION IN STOCKS THIS YEAR
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/12/members-of-congress-and-their-families-traded-over-630-million-in-stocks-this-year.html
— ROSSI: THE U.S. DEBT “BOMB” JUST EXCEEDED $29 TRILLION
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/12/rossi-the-us-debt-bomb-just-exceeded-29-trillion.html
— PRITZKER EMERGENCY NO. 23 COMES AS COLORADO DROPS MASKS
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/12/-pritzker-emergency-no-23-comes-as-colorado-drops-masks.html
— PARENTS WILL NO LONGER BE NOTIFIED BEFORE MINOR DAUGHTERS’ ABORTION PROCEDURES
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/12/parents-will-no-longer-be-notified-before-minor-daughters-abortion-procedures.html
— GOP STATE REPS CRITICIZE PRITZKER REVERSING PARENTAL NOTIFICATION
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/12/gop-state-reps-criticize-pritzker-reversing-parental-notification.html

FOX BUSINESS
— Salvation Army hosts two-day racial justice forum in Hoffman Estates after racism guide controversy. Salvation Army faced backlash for publishing guide called ‘Let’s Talk About Racism’ – Jessica Chasmar
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/salvation-army-racial-justice-forum-racism-guide-controversy

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Texas Begins Construction of State-Funded Portion of Border Wall – Eric Lendrum
https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/20/texas-begins-construction-of-state-funded-portion-of-border-wall/

AMERICAN FREE PRESS
— 90% of Social Medial Hate Directed at Whites – John Friend
https://americanfreepress.net/Issue_51_52_AFP_2021_FP.pdf (Page 25)

BREITBART
— Gov. Pete Ricketts: Critical Race Theory Is About ‘Resegregation’; ‘A Betrayal of the Civil Rights Movement’ – BRECCAN F. THIES
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/20/exclusive-gov-pete-ricketts-critical-race-theory-is-about-resegregation-a-betrayal-of-the-civil-rights-movement/
— Jesse Jackson Compares UK to Taliban over ‘White Male Supremacy’ – PETER CADDLE
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/12/20/jesse-jackson-compares-uk-to-taliban-over-white-male-supremacy/
— Oregon Teaches Kindergartners to ‘Develop Understanding’ of Their Gender – DR. SUSAN BERRY
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2021/12/20/oregon-teaches-kindergartners-to-develop-understanding-of-their-gender/

CNS NEWS
— By signing into law a bill that repeals the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker has granted a “victory to evil” and, like a “hit man,” has “promoted and facilitated murder,” said Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki, head of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. – Michael W. Chapman
https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/michael-w-chapman/il-catholic-bishop-gov-pritzker-has-facilitated-murder-repealing

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Our Inevitable Civil War – George Rasley
(COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Democrats see citizens of foreign countries as being their soldiers in their army to get rid of Republicans once and for all. Democrats also see those who are the following as being their soldiers: minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, Trump-haters, moderates, liberals, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, RINOs, non-Christians, non-Protestants, non-Italian Americans, non- German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.conservativehq.org/post/our-inevitable-civil-war

CHRISTIANITY DAILY
— Abortionist Claims Doctors ‘Have A Role To Play’ In Hiding Abortion Pill Damage – OLIVIA CAVALLARO
https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/14334/20211220/abortionist-claims-doctors-have-a-role-to-play-in-hiding-abortion-pill-damage.htm

COLLEGE FIX
— Critical race theory enters University of Michigan med school curriculum
https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/critical-race-theory-enters-university-of-michigan-med-school-curriculum/
— Pharmacy school organization updates new pharmacist oath to include commitment to diversity, ‘antiracism’ (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans are racists and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/pharmacy-school-organization-updates-new-pharmacist-oath-to-include-commitment-to-diversity-antiracism/

FEDERALIST
— Medical Journals Have Replaced The Scientific Method With Critical Race Ideology – JOHN MURAWSKI
https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/20/medical-journals-have-replaced-the-scientific-method-with-critical-race-ideology/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Ugly Truth about Progressivism – GEORGE LEEF
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-ugly-truth-about-progressivism/

MSNBC
— GOP’s Kinzinger: Jan. 6 committee exploring possible Trump crimes. Echoing Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger suggested the Jan. 6 committee is exploring whether Donald Trump engaged in criminal misconduct. – Steve Benen
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-s-kinzinger-jan-6-committee-exploring-possible-trump-crimes-n1286303

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Biden Administration to Make 20,000 More H-2B Visas Available for Temporary Workers. The move marks the first time the Department of Homeland Security is offering the additional visas for the winter season. – Michelle Hackman
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-to-make-20-000-more-visas-available-for-temporary-workers-11640013700

PEW RESEARCH
— Republicans view Reagan, Trump as best recent presidents – AMINA DUNN
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/12/20/republicans-view-reagan-trump-as-best-recent-presidents/

December 20 Morning Edition

ABC7

— Chicago shootings: 23 shot, 4 fatally, in weekend violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-violence-shootings-gun/11360658/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Get rid of Cook County Democratic Party’s loyalty pledge. It’s anachronistic, silly and undemocratic. – EDITORIAL
(COMMENT: I should write a book about those who demand blind loyalty to them and to them only. I would focus on those who destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-cook-county-democrats-loyalty-pledge-20211220-u4lzit2bareaxl6hhfrxukduhm-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— AS FEWER AND FEWER AND FEWER MEN EARN COLLEGE DEGREES: Benedictine University program aims to help create diverse women leaders – Madhu Krishnamurthy
(COMMENT: Democrats use minority female leaders to get rid of Republicans. I should write a book about what my minority female GAO superiors and supervisors did to get rid of me. They forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old. Before that, they gave me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair appraisals. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They did not promote me beyond GS-13. They got rid of my mentor in 1987 who had arranged my transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, got me assigned to audits of IRS in 1986, and promoted me in 1986. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. Those who hired them forced me to take a $20,361 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211220/benedictine-university-program-aims-to-help-create-diverse-women-leaders

EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Meleika Gardner: ‘I am still hopeful that Evanston reparations will get better for my community’
(COMMENT: For now, Democrats focus on which Blacks should get reparations and how much. Sooner or later, Democrats will focus on who should pay reparations and how much. From what I see, Democrats want Republicans to pay reparations, and the more of the following that they are, the more reparations that they want you to pay: law enforcement officer, Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-veteran, non-poor, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if their ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2021/12/19/meleika-gardner-evanston-reparations-guest-essay/

WIREPOINTS
— A Waukegan history teacher takes on CRT
https://wirepoints.org/wirepoints-podcast-the-dialogue-episode-14-a-waukegan-history-teacher-takes-on-crt/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Foreign-born population soars to new record under Biden – Stephen Dinan
(COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Democrats see citizens of foreign countries as being their soldiers in their army to get rid of Republicans once and for all. Democrats also see those who are the following as being their soldiers: minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, Trump-haters, moderates, liberals, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, RINOs, non-Christians, non-Protestants, non-Italian Americans, non- German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, criminals, boozers, gamblers, stoners, etc.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/20/foreign-born-population-soars-to-new-record-under-/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Don’t play AOC’s game — it’s a trap. A huge portion of the energy from the Left and from the news media is policing our speech, but the speech police don’t actually believe in their own rules. The rules are not guidelines for speech but rather ad hoc traps laid for ideological opponents so as to call them sexist and avoid substantive debate on issues. – TIMOTHY P. CARNEY
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/dont-play-aocs-game-its-a-trap

NEW YORK POST
— OUTRAGEOUS, DISGUSTING, TRAGIC, UNACCEPTABLE: Satanic Temple’s holiday display coming back to Illinois Capitol rotunda – Patrick Reilly
https://nypost.com/2021/12/19/satanic-temples-holiday-display-coming-back-to-illinois-capitol-rotunda/

FOX NEWS
— Trey Gowdy torches ‘hypocrisy’ of the NFL funding anti-cop groups – Yael Halon
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trey-gowdy-nfl-defund-police
— Chicago police investigation into sergeant who supported TPUSA chapter has a ‘chilling effect,’ lawyer says. Free speech lawyer says that the internal investigation ‘creates a chilling effect’ – Adam Sabes
(COMMENT: Getting rid of those who are the following has a chilling effect on those who are following: law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-investigation-into-sergeant-who-supported-tpusa-chapter-has-a-chilling-effect-lawyer-says

BREITBART
— Former Rep. Lou Barletta (R), now running for governor of Pennsylvania, says he too will consider plans to bus illegal aliens out of the state to President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware. – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/19/exclusive-lou-barletta-like-desantis-ill-bus-illegal-aliens-out-pennsylvania-bidens-delaware/
— Rep. Mary Miller: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s ‘Radical’ Abortion Policy ‘Deeply Unpopular with the American People’ – KATHERINE HAMILTON
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/19/exclusive-rep-mary-miller-illinois-gov-j-b-pritzkers-radical-abortion-policy-deeply-unpopular-american-people/
— Trump: China Must Pay for COVID Origins — ‘They Have to Pay Reparations’ – JEFF POOR
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/12/19/trump-china-must-pay-for-covid-origins-they-have-to-pay-reparations/

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— Is it possible to regain legal protection for the most innocent? – Dr. Eric M. Wallace
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/blog/2021/12/20/is-it-possible-to-regain-legal-protection-for-the-most-innocent

CHRISTIANITY DAILY
— Parental Watchdog Files Civil Rights Complaint Against Downers Grove South High School Over Racial Segregation – OLIVIA CAVALLARO
https://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/14332/20211220/parental-watchdog-files-civil-rights-complaint-against-illinois-high-school-over-racial-segregation.htm

CHRISTIAN POST
— The Salvation Army needs to be saved … from itself – Ryan Bomberger
https://www.christianpost.com/news/the-salvation-army-needs-to-be-saved-from-itself.html

TOWNHALL
— RINO Adam Kinzinger Throws GOP Under the Bus As He Offers ‘It’s Possible’ Colleagues Responsible for Jan. 6 – Rebecca Downs
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/12/19/rino-adam-kinzinger-offers-its-possible-gop-colleagues-responsible-for-jan-6-n2600805
— Coddling Crime is Nuts – Will Alexander
https://townhall.com/columnists/willalexander/2021/12/20/coddling-crime-is-nuts-n2600819

PATRIOT POST
— Biden’s DOJ Changes Tactics to Pay Illegals. Those migrant families who were separated after illegally crossing the border can still expect a massive payout. – THOMAS GALLATIN
https://patriotpost.us/articles/85013-bidens-doj-changes-tactics-to-pay-illegals-2021-12-20

COLLEGE FIX
— Illinois State football coach fired for taking down Black Lives Matter poster, lawsuit alleges. University says it fired him for poor performance. – Matt Lamb
(COMMENT: The Democrats who run the federal government hint/imply/argue/shout that if you are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran and they do not promote you to GS-13 (currently $102,188) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $120,755) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $142,041) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $172,500) by age 40, it is because you have performance problems. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/illinois-state-football-coach-fired-for-taking-down-black-lives-matter-poster-lawsuit-alleges/

POST MILLENNIAL
— BLM wants to defund police and replace them with communist enforcers. Because we don’t immediately see this organization as being communist-run, we mistranslate their calls for police abolition. – Adam B. Coleman
https://thepostmillennial.com/blm-would-defund-police-and-replace-them-with-a-communist-state-police-force

USA TODAY
— COMMENT: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Fox News hosts begged Trump to stop Jan. 6 violence because they knew he started it.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/12/20/fox-news-hannity-ingraham-meadows-trump-texts-jan-6-insurrection/8927327002/

FORBES
— Why Junior Employees Should Demand The Eradication Of (Age Discrimination) – Sheila Callaham
(COMMENT: All my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote age discrimination a) to get rid of those who are older than they are and/or b) to curry favor with those who promote age decimation. I should write a book about the biggest age discriminators in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, etc.  I would focus on the aforesaid who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheilacallaham/2021/12/19/why-junior-employees-should-demand-the-eradication-of-this-workplace-no-no/

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Trump’s DC hotel was the ‘epicenter’ of corruption where anyone looking to ‘curry favor’ could just walk in and ‘flash cash,’ says watchdog group. – Joshua Zitser
(COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who are White, male, older, heterosexual, and/or who claim to be conservative and/or Republican, but who demonize, denigrate, and condemn those who are the aforesaid to curry favor with those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, moderate, liberal, Democrat, Libertarian, Green Independent, and/or RINO.)
https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-dc-hotel-epicenter-corruption-115026619.html

NEWSWEEK
— Donald Trump Reveals He Got Vaccine Booster Shot, Gets Booed by Tour Crowd – KHALEDA RAHMAN
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-reveals-got-covid-booster-shot-1661078
— Millions of Angry, Armed Americans Stand Ready to Seize Power If Trump Loses in 2024 – DAVID H. FREEDMAN
(COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters make it clear that they are going to get rid of once for all those who do not hate Trump. This year, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters stopped DuPage Republicans from helping sponsor Wheaton’s Independence Day parade and fireworks. Last year, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters got downtown Wheaton to promote LGBTQ big time.)
https://www.newsweek.com/2021/12/31/millions-angry-armed-americans-stand-ready-seize-power-if-trump-loses-2024-1660953.html

LGBTQ NATION
— COMMENT: LGBTQ-promoters crow about their success in destroying religion, traditional marriage, the traditional family, etc.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/12/united-states-religious-non-believers-evangelicals-first-time/

DAILY MAIL
— OUTRAGEOUS, DISGUSTING, TRAGIC, UNACCEPTABLE: Newly-ordained Lutheran pastor hosts DRAG Bible study class for children at woke Chicago church. Aaron Musser decided to host a children’s Bible study class while in drag. Musser could be seen in pictures wearing a blonde wig, lipstick and white dress. ‘I wasn’t sure how the outside world would handle me when they saw me this morning. Joy is difficult to feel,’ he wrote. – JAMES GORDON
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10327339/Woke-Chicago-Lutheran-church-invites-newly-ordained-pastor-hold-drag-queen-story-hour-kids.html

KELLER WILLIAMS
— FOR SALE: 1040 Golf Lane, Wheaton – $1,575,000
https://sellingsuburbanchicagoland.com/listings/1040-Golf-Lane-Wheaton-IL-60189-79709742

December 19 Evening Edition

ABC7

— Chicago shootings: 19 shot, 3 fatally, in weekend violence across city. Chicago police said boy, 14, among those wounded this weekend.
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-violence-shootings-gun/11358122/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— COVID-19 hardships fuel increase in violent student behavior and threats in K-12 schools: ‘It breaks our hearts to see them in crisis.’ – KAREN ANN CULLOTTA
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-student-behavior-crisis-20211219-a264agtu5nfa7loavg3y6pizoi-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— McHenry Co. Board wants repeal of township dissolution law – Ben Szalinski
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211219/mchenry-co-board-wants-repeal-of-township-dissolution-law

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— From masks to book banning, conservatives take on educators – AP
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/From-masks-to-book-banning-conservatives-take-on-16713867.php

OUR QUAD CITIES
— Expect GOP to seize on Pritzker’s potential presidential aspirations – Linda Cook, Jim Niedelman
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/4-the-record/expect-gop-to-seize-on-pritzkers-potential-presidential-aspirations/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Sunday Funny: President JB Pritzker?
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/12/19/pritzker121921/
— TIF Money – Municipalities Have to Spend It All
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/12/19/tif-money-municipalities-have-to-spend-it-all/
— IL-11: Mike Pierce Launches Website with Broad Outline of Platform
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/12/19/pierce121821/
— IL-11: Catalina Lauf’s Speech at Three Headed Eagle Alliance in Geneva
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/12/19/lauf121821/
— Kyle Rittenhouse to Speak Sunday at Turning Point USA AmericaFest in Phoenix
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/12/18/rittenhouse121821/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump demands China pay $60T in ‘reparations’ for the coronavirus pandemic – Haris Alic
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/19/trump-demands-china-pay-60t-reparations-pandemic/

NEW YORK POST
— Private preschools are teaching the future elite to be racist – Karol Markowicz
https://nypost.com/2021/12/19/private-preschools-teaching-the-future-elite-to-be-racist/

FOX NEWS
— Oxford University blasted for considering hiring based on ‘woke score’ of academics. ‘You have to go out your way to show you have tried to virtue signal,’ one professor complained. – Jessica Chasmar
(COMMENT: This year, virtue signalers stopped Republicans from helping sponsor Wheaton’s Independence Day parade and fireworks. Last year, they got downtown Wheaton to promote LGBTQ big time.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/oxford-university-woke-score-academics-report

AMERICAN THINKER
— Spite: Joe Biden would rather let border wall materials rot on the ground than sell them to Texas – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/spite_joe_biden_would_rather_let_border_wall_materials_rot_on_the_ground_than_sell_them_to_texas_to_build_its_own.html

BREITBART
–A civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education against Downers Grove South High School after it advertised an allegedly racially-segregated “students of color field trip opportunity.” – BRECCAN F. THIES
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/19/federal-civil-rights-complaint-filed-against-illinois-school-over-racial-segregation/
— Biden’s Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, Limitless Immigration for Corporations in Tailspin with Manchin Opposition – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/19/bidens-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens-limitless-immigration-for-corporations-in-tailspin-with-manchin-opposition/

DAILY SIGNAL
— We Hear You: Inflation Isn’t a ‘High-Class Problem’ – Ken McIntyre
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/12/19/we-hear-you-inflation-isnt-a-high-class-problem/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Victims of Cancel Culture Fight Back – KENIN M. SPIVAK
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/12/victims-of-cancel-culture-fight-back/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Dems look for way to weasel around parliamentarian, include immigration in stalled Build Back Better bill – Ashley Hill
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/12/19/dems-look-for-way-to-weasel-around-parliamentarian-include-immigration-in-stalled-build-back-better-bill-1177926/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Fury From The Left After George Will Calls 1619 Project “Historical Illiteracy” and “Not Innocent Ignorance” And he did it at WaPo, leftists’ safe space. Race card played: “Will should’ve just written Hannah-Jones was ‘uppity’” – Stacey Matthews
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/12/fury-from-the-left-after-george-will-calls-1619-project-historical-illiteracy-and-not-innocent-ignorance/

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— As Biden’s Border Crisis Rages, Armed Texans Arrive to Round Up Illegal Aliens – Jack Gist
https://ijr.com/as-bidens-border-crisis-rages-armed-texans-arrive-to-round-up-illegal-aliens/

POLITICO
— Kinzinger on McCarthy: ‘I don’t think history books are going to be kind to him’ The Illinois Republican contrasted Kevin McCarthy with Mitch McConnell. – DAVID COHEN
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/19/kinzinger-mccarthy-mcconnell-trump-525531
— Biden’s H-1B Conundrum. The administration’s efforts to reform the visa program could put him at loggerheads with key factions of his own party. – RIKHA SHARMA RANI
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/19/biden-h-1b-visa-conundrum-524254
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I spoke with current and former H-1B holders, U.S. workers, union reps, academics, lobbyists, recruiters and immigration lawyers on both sides of the political spectrum. While they differed on the specifics, many said that the program is used not to fill labor shortages, as corporations insist, but to cut costs. Critics say that businesses regularly game the system to pay H-1B visa holders below market wages, both exploiting foreign workers and stacking the deck against American job seekers.)
— Black lawmakers threaten to cut off K St unless it diversifies. Years of frustration with the racial composition of the political influence industry have begun to boil over. – HAILEY FUCHS and LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/19/black-lawmakers-diversity-lobbying-firms-525362

NEW YORK TIMES
— In Fight Against Violence, Asian and Black Activists Struggle to Agree. Calls for unity have ebbed over disagreements on one main issue: policing. – Kellen Browning and Brian X. Chen
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/19/us/black-asian-activists-policing-disagreement.html

SACRAMENTO BEE
— San Francisco mayor declares state of emergency in troubled neighborhood – AP
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article256720442.html

NEWSWEEK
— Adam Kinzinger Says GOP Lawmakers May Be Targeted in 1/6 Probe: ‘There Are More Texts’ – JASON LEMON
https://www.newsweek.com/adam-kinzinger-says-gop-lawmakers-may-targeted-1-6-probe-there-are-more-texts-1660944

DAILY KOS
— Special Privilege in Admission to Elite U.S. Colleges – Lawrence S Wittner
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/19/2070141/-Special-Privilege-in-Admission-to-Elite-U-S-Colleges

DAILY MAIL
— Trump rips Mitch McConnell as a ‘disaster’ and urges Republican voters to elect ‘tougher people’ in 2022 midterm elections – ELIZABETH ELKIND
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10326773/Trump-rips-McConnell-disaster-urges-GOP-voters-elect-tougher-people-2022-midterms.html

December 19 Morning Edition

ABC7

— Chicago shootings: 18 shot, 3 fatally, in weekend violence across city. Chicago police said boy, 14, among those wounded this weekend.
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-violence-shootings-gun/11358122/

DAILY HERALD
— COMMENT: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote hatred against Trump and against those who do not hate Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20211218/editorial-george-orwells-america-and-the-2020-election

WASHINGTON TIMES
— AOC: Dems are ‘delusional’ to expect 2022 win without passing progressive priorities. ‘It’s time for him to deliver,’ she says of Biden. – Mica Soellner
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/18/aoc-dems-are-delusional-about-winning-2022-without/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Social issues take center stage during Charlie Kirk’s and Tucker Carlson’s Amfest speeches – Virginia Aabram
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/social-issues-take-center-stage-during-charlie-kirk-and-tucker-carlsons-amfest-speeches

FOX NEWS
— Texas Gov. Abbott shows completed section of state-made border wall, pledges to protect state’s sovereignty. Abbott said the state has raised around $54 million from private donations – Peter Aitken
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-gov-abbott-border-wall-sovereignty-state
— Republicans eye red wave for governor races. Prognosticators lay out most competitive races following Glenn Youngkin’s big Virginia win. – Fred Lucas
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-eye-red-wave-governor-races-2022

NEW YORK POST
— CNN closes offices to nonessential workers again as COVID cases spike – Mark Lungariello
https://nypost.com/2021/12/19/cnn-closes-all-offices-to-nonessential-workers-amid-rising-covid-19-cases/

ACCURACY IN MEDIA
— CRT is failing in public schools, and the media is to blame – John Ransom
https://www.aim.org/aim-column/crt-is-failing-in-public-schools-and-the-media-is-to-blame/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Awaiting the return of the Time of Trump – Richard Chang
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/awaiting_the_return_of_the_time_of_trump.html
— Our political divide is no longer between Democrats and Republicans – Shari Forst
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/our_political_divide_is_no_longer_between_democrats_and_republicans.html
— The woke alphabet – Eric Utter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/the_woke_alphabet.html

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— The Party Of Parents. Babies are not just for Catholics and homesteaders. – CARMEL RICHARDSON
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-party-of-parents/

CNS NEWS
— Fraternal Order of Police: NFL Refused to Help Unite Officers and Communities, But Funds ‘Defund the Police’ Groups – Craig Bannister
https://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/fraternal-order-police-nfl-refused-help-unite-officers-and-communities-funds

DAILY WIRE
— Woke infiltration Into Christian Institutions – Megan Basham
(COMMENT: I should write a book about woke infiltration of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Wheaton Park District, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, etc. This year, woke leaders of the aforesaid stopped Republicans from helping sponsor Wheaton’s Independence Day parade and fireworks. Last year, woke leaders of the aforesaid got downtown Wheaton to promote LGBTQ big time.)
https://www.dailywire.com/discussion/woke-infiltration-into-christian-institutions-w-megan-basham

DAILY CALLER
— Kamala Harris Thinks The Biggest Obstacle To Buying A $50,000 Electric Car Is Figuring Out How To Charge It – LAUREL DUGGAN
https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/17/kamala-harris-biggest-obstacle-buying-50000-electric-car-figuring-out-how-to-charge/

TOWNHALL
— Democrats Return To Segregation – Derek Hunter
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2021/12/19/democrats-return-to-segregation-n2600791

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Tucker Carlson: You Cannot Overstate The Scale Of Demographic Change Underway Right Now In U.S. – Ian Schwartz
(COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, leaders in America act like they have a mandate to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, etc. that are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. Just watch how the aforesaid are treated by the Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Independent, and RINO leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Wheaton Park District, Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, etc.)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/12/18/tucker_carlson_you_cannot_overstate_the_scale_of_demographic_change_underway_right_now_in_us.html

MRC TV
— People in Calif. Bay Area Leaving Car Doors/Trunks Open to Prevent Criminals Breaking Windows – Nick Kangadis
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/bay-area-lawlessness-people-san-fran-oakland-leaving-car-doorstrunks-open-prevent-criminals

NEWS BUSTERS
— Harvard Hates Objective Journalism – Tim Graham
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2021/12/18/new-newsbusters-podcast-harvard-hates-objective-journalism
— Abandoned: Networks Bury Biden’s Border Crisis in November as Coverage Drops to ZERO – Scott Whitlock
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2021/12/17/abandoned-networks-bury-bidens-border-crisis-november-coverage

PJ MEDIA
— Texas: ‘Deadly Consequences of Biden’s Open Border Policies’ Spur Gov. Abbott to Unprecedented Action – GWENDOLYN SIMS
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/gwendolynsims/2021/12/18/texas-deadly-consequences-of-bidens-open-border-policies-spur-gov-abbott-to-unprecedented-action-n1542573
— Texas Building Back A Better Border Wall Because Biden and Harris Won’t – GWENDOLYN SIMS
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/gwendolynsims/2021/12/18/texas-building-back-a-better-border-wall-because-biden-and-harris-wont-n1542486

POWERLINE
— FROM MEDIA BIAS TO OUTRIGHT PARTISANSHIP – JOHN HINDERAKER
(DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, the MSM does everything that it can a) to promote the Democrat, Libertarian, and Green party platforms and b) to destroy the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/from-media-bias-to-outright-partisanship.php

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Will the Left Ever Stop Making Everything about Race? – GEORGE LEEF
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/will-the-left-ever-stop-making-everything-about-race/

CENTER SQUARE
— Inflation costs families around $3,500 this year – Casey Harper
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/report-inflation-costs-families-around-3-500-this-year/article_1e1e89d0-5ea4-11ec-94a1-63d5daf745cf.html

POST MILLENNIAL
— Gov. Abbott shows off newly-completed part of the border wall, built by TX – James Anthony
https://thepostmillennial.com/abbott-shows-off-wall
— TPUSA opens AmericaFest 2021 with a message of optimism, patriotism, and fun – Libby Emmons
https://thepostmillennial.com/tpusa-americafest-optimism-patriotism-fun
— Biden warns of ‘winter of severe illness and death’ for the unvaccinated – Hannah Nightingale
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-warns-of-winter-of-severe-illness-and-death-for-the-unvaccinated

ABC NEWS
— Kinzinger: It’s ‘possible’ some GOP colleagues are responsible for Jan. 6 attack – Julia Cherner
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kinzinger-gop-colleagues-responsible-jan-attack/story?id=81834432

NEW YORK TIMES
— COMMENT: According to Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs, a) GOD is anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-traditional marriage/family, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and b) GOD promotes dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, crime, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and even worse things.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/18/opinion/christianity-politics.html

NEWSWEEK
— Illinois School District (Rockridge CUSD #300) Revokes Mask-Optional Policy After Just 3 Days – DARRAGH ROCHE
https://www.newsweek.com/school-district-revokes-mask-optional-policy-days-covid-illinois-1660846

DAILY ADVANCE
— Trump bully brand inspires GOP close to home – Alexander H. Jones
(COMMENT: No one manipulates/dominates me. I should write a book about those who destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I would focus on the aforesaid a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois, b) who stopped me from raising funds from DuPage Republicans so that they could help sponsor Wheaton’s 2021 Independence Day parade and fireworks, c) who gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, d) who ended my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) who ended my Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee membership in 2011, f) who ended my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, g) who ended my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, h) who almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, i) who ended my American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board membership in 2004, j) who ended my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, k) who reject the traditional marriage/family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform, l) who despise/hate conservatives, Republicans, Whites, men, older people, heterosexuals, gun owners, married people, childless people, non-dog owners, those who have more or less money than they have, those who have more or less education, professional certifications and or professional licenses than they have, past/present/future union members and federal employees, Missouri Synod Lutherans, German Americans, draft avoiders, those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors, etc.)https://www.dailyadvance.com/opinion/editorial_columnists/alexander-h-jones-trump-bully-brand-inspires-gop-close-to-home/article_24d2c4c9-922e-59e9-84c8-c2ad17072947.html

JSTOR
— 1986 FLASHBACK: The Politics of Blame Avoidance – R. Kent Weaver
(COMMENT: I should write a book about those who blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. I would focus on a) past and present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) past and present Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, c) conservative and religious leaders, d) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, and e) those who I have sued.)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4007281

FAST COMPANY
— CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARTICLE TITLE: Here’s what Gen Z really wants at work – ANNEMARIE HAYEK
(COMMENT: My Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government acted like their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, and/or non-German American wanted them to get rid of their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American.)
https://www.fastcompany.com/90701036/leaders-you-have-no-idea-what-gen-z-wants-at-work-here-are-the-myths-busted

INC.
— This 4-Step Plan Will Help You Reach Your Most Ambitious Goals in 2022. Most people face at least one of these obstacles. Here’s how to clear them away. – MINDA ZETLIN
(COMMENT: My goals for 2022 include continuing to put together and send out a GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter each and every morning and each and every evening. Goals that my critics/opponents have include a) stopping me from doing the aforesaid and b) stopping everyone from reading those newsletters.)
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/goals-motivation-2022-planning-ambitious-achievement.html

ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— Changing the Face of the CPA Profession. Even as CPA candidate numbers dwindle, these vibrant new CPAs are making the profession their own. – Del Wright
(COMMENT: I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 when I was 30 years old and i became a licensed CPA in 1981.)
https://www.icpas.org/information/copy-desk/insight/article/winter-2021/changing-the-face-of-the-cpa-profession

GUARDIAN
— ‘A reminder of what human beings can be capable of’: a journey to the sites of America’s forgotten race massacres Bayeté Ross Smith’s project on the Red Summer of 1919 reveals ‘uncanny’ likeness to today’s political violence – Alvin Chang
(COMMENT: Ever-increasing, if you are an older White male Republican, the longer that your parents, your grandparents, your great grandparents, and the rest of your ancestors have been in America, the more that you are demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all and who owes their income and net worth to their, to their parents’, to their grandparents’, to their great grandparents’, and to the rest of their ancestors’ discrimination against minorities, women, younger people, non-Christians, non-Protestants, non-Italian Americans, non-German Americans, LGBTQers, Trump-haters, moderates, liberals, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, RINOs, non-married people, those who had less money than they had, criminals, boozers, gamblers, stoners, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, etc.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/18/red-summer-race-massacres-bayete-ross-smith-interview

December 18 Evening Edition

NBC

— Surging COVID Cases in Chicago Force Cancellations of Musical, Sporting Events
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/surging-covid-cases-in-chicago-force-cancellations-of-musical-sporting-events/2710929/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Republicans resist saying 3 simple words: ‘Joe Biden won’ – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-republicans-biden-election-results-20211218-hpkgja7rnjgadl3yli7pevasiy-story.html
— Remote learning makes a comeback as schools enter another holiday break with COVID-19 surging – TRACY SWARTZ, JOE MAHR and TATYANA TURNER
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-schools-covid-increase-remote-learning-20211218-dvxfitor5bexvalyhdx33nofdi-story.html
— As COVID surges, experts say US booster effort is far behind – SHAWN HUBLER and AMY HARMON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-aud-nw-nyt-us-covid-vaccine-booster-20211218-nybkwbjpfzhxbigcfs4efd2a64-story.html
— San Francisco mayor declares state of emergency to fight city’s ‘nasty streets’ – THOMAS FULLER, SHAILA DEWAN and KELLEN BROWNING
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-nyt-san-francisco-mayor-emergency-20211218-e7brtl2uyvcevkef6loskgivmm-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Latest affordable housing win in City Council strikes a blow to exclusionary policies. It’s just one, modest development in a city that houses millions of people. But it’s significant. – Laura Washington
(COMMENT: Democrats have set Chicago’s policies for many decades.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/12/18/22841962/city-council-development-ohare-affordable-housing-column-laura-washington

DAILY HERALD
— Police: Man used knife to rob Naperville Dollar Tree – Doug T. Graham
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211218/police-man-used-knife-to-rob-naperville-dollar-tree

FOX ILLINOIS
— House Republican Leader targeting organized retail theft – Sydney Dorner
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/house-republican-leader-targeting-organized-retail-theft

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin’s History of Womanizing
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/12/18/irvin121821/
— Aurora Mayor and Possible Gubernatorial Candidate Richard Irvin Record
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/12/17/irvin121721/
— Temptation to Explore What’s In the Democrats’ “Build Back Better” Bill
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/12/18/temptation-to-explore-whats-in-the-democrats-build-back-better-bill/
— Parental Notice Bye-Bye in 2024, Abortion Supporters Cheer, Rabine: Illinois “Most Pro-abortion State in the Country”
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/12/18/parental-notice-bye-bye-in-2024-abortion-supporters-cheer/
— Lying Statistic from President Biden
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/12/17/lying-statistic-from-president-biden/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump blasts McConnell for caving on debt ceiling. ‘Good old Mitch gave away our primary negotiating weapon’ – Mica Soellner
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/18/trump-mcconnell-best-thing-ever-happened-democrats/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Texas starts building Trump-sized border wall – Anna Giaritelli
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/texas-starts-building-trump-sized-border-wall

FOX NEWS
— A new way to protect the integrity of our elections. Every citizen’s vote is sacred. – Dr. Kevin Roberts
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/protect-integrity-elections-kevin-roberts

AMERICAN THINKER
— In Biden’s America, Americans should go where they’re treated best – Andrew Henderson
(COMMENT: I should write a book about how conservatives are treated in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Wheaton Park District, etc.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/in_bidens_america_americans_should_go_where_theyre_treated_best.html

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— There’s a line that’s been thrown around by Republicans ever since the Loudon County school-board saga that lost Terry McAuliffe the Virginia governorship. It’s that the Republican Party is the “party of parents,” since parents fought and won the first major battle against critical race theory in public education. – CARMEL RICHARDSON
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-party-of-parents/

BREITBART
— California Investigates Woke Google over Treatment of Black Women – LUCAS NOLAN
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/12/18/california-investigates-woke-google-over-treatment-of-black-women/
— LGBTQ Nation Essay Implies ‘You Ain’t Gay if You Don’t Vote Democrat’ – THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/18/williams-lgbtq-nation-essay-implies-you-aint-gay-if-you-dont-vote-democrat/

COLLEGE FIX
— Prof: Outdoor recreation a ‘white-dominated space,’ has ‘roots in systemic racism’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/prof-outdoor-recreation-a-white-dominated-space-has-roots-in-systemic-racism/
— Elite, private all-girls school moves away from calling girls ‘girls’ – DAVE HUBER
https://www.thecollegefix.com/elite-private-all-girls-school-moves-away-from-calling-girls-girls/

POST MILLENNIAL
— Chicago police investigate sergeant for supporting formation of conservative group at daughter’s high school. A police officer is facing an internal investigation after she supported her daughter and her friends’ right to form a political club at their Chicago public high school. – Libby Emmons
https://thepostmillennial.com/chicago-police-investigate-sergeant-for-conservative-group

THE HILL
— COMMENT: Democrats do everything that they can to make Jews hate Republicans.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/586387-trump-evokes-antisemetic-tropes-says-jewish-americans-dont-like

CNN
— The data that shows Boomers are to blame for the labor shortage – Allison Morrow
(COMMENT: During the 1990s, the Democrats who ran GAO got rid of their boomer employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who had not made Senior Executive Service, currently $172,500/year, by age 40. Extremely few GAO employees make that promotion deadline.)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/business/labor-shortage-boomers-millennials-nightcap/index.html

MSN
— Ponnuru: Why Trump is stronger than he looks for 2024 – Ramesh Ponnuru
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ponnuru-why-trump-is-stronger-than-he-looks-for-2024/ar-AARVXx7

NEWSWEEK
— AOC Suggests CRT Opponents ‘Accepting of Racism’ as GOP Bills Against It Pile Up – JASON LEMON
(COMMENT: To promote CRT is to promote hatred against those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.newsweek.com/aoc-suggests-crt-opponents-accepting-racism-gop-bills-against-it-pile-1660874

MOTORIOUS
— How The Government Canceled Classic Muscle Cars – Steven Symes
https://www.motorious.com/articles/features-3/government-canceled-muscle/

December 18 Morning Edition

CBS2

— Among Numerous Recent Retail Thefts On And Around Magnificent Mile, Only 2 People Have Been Arrested – Tara Molina
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/12/17/magnificent-mile-retail-thefts-few-arrests/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Cook County commissioner fired employee after she complained of sexual harassment, EEOC complaint says – ALICE YIN
(COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take their early retirement “offer” after I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-deborah-sims-cook-county-eeoc-complaint-20211217-u4glwozkhrdjbiwiwwyotui4na-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Former Winfield trustee Stan Zegel remembered his love of local politics – Scott C. Morgan
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211217/former-winfield-trustee-remembered-his-love-of-local-politics

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Not exactly putting words into action. A majority of admissions officers express support for the Black Lives Matter movement, but fewer than half of medical schools have implemented policies to ensure a diverse and inclusive student body. – AMY KRAFT
(COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Those Democrats “ensure a diverse and inclusive” federal workforce by doing everything that they can a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their employees who are Republican, and especially those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/equity/how-chicago-medical-schools-address-equity

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— What’s going on in GOP? Chaos and intrigue are in equal supply within the Illinois Republican Party, the late contribution of both come from billionaire Ken Griffin. – Jim Dey
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey/article_e608c937-5fae-538d-ade4-7b40285aef58.html

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— I expected the America I had seen on TV. But life on Chicago’s South Side is a struggle. The realities of racism, poverty, food insecurity, and gun violence surprised me. – Ajibola Elizabeth Junaid
(COMMENT: Democrats run Chicago’s South Side.)
https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2021/12/17/22815394/chicago-south-side-immigration-american-dream

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Experiments with a Universal Basic Income – FLORIAN SOHNKE
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-experiments-with-a-universal-basic-income

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Potentially 8 Illinois Republicans could crowd field for gubernatorial nomination – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/potentially-8-illinois-republicans-could-crowd-field-for-gubernatorial-nomination/article_80ba4626-5f60-11ec-b0f0-afb892d62069.html

JOHN KASS
— Glenn Loury, Chicago born, on woke policy feeding violent urban crime
https://johnkassnews.com/glenn-loury-chicago-born-on-woke-policy-driving-violent-crime-and-crushing-black-america/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illegal immigration ticks up; DHS border numbers show worst November on record – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/17/illegal-immigration-ticks-dhs-border-numbers-show-/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump: ‘The Jewish people in the United States either don’t like Israel or don’t care’ – Christopher Hutton
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-the-jewish-people-in-the-united-states-either-dont-like-israel-or-dont-care
— Too many whites attend campus concerts, says Oberlin College newspaper columnist – Tori Richards
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/whites-dont-belong-at-campus-concerts-says-oberlin-college-newspaper-columnist
— Nicholas Sandmann reaches settlement with NBC – Asher Notheis
(COMMENT: I should have sued Money Magazine. In its 4-page hit piece on me in its February 1978 edition, Money Magazine a) painted me as being grossly overpaid, b) foisted negative government employee, political, racial, gender, religious, national origin, other stereotypes on me and on my wife, and c) painted my education deductions as being improper. Money Magazine would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, veteran, non-Missouri Synod Lutheran, and/or non-German American.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nicholas-sandmann-reaches-settlement-with-nbc
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Sandmann became the center of attention after a viral confrontation between him and a Native American man named Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after attending events associated with the March for Life with classmates from Covington Catholic. Sandmann, wearing a “MAGA” hat, smiled at Phillips, an attendee of the Indigenous Peoples March who sang and played a drum in front of the teenager. Video of the encounter led to a media firestorm, and the ensuing litigation highlighted the reporting as incorrectly portraying the teenager as the face of an unruly and racist mob. The defamation lawsuit Sandmann filed against NBC Universal, which sought $275 million, said NBC “unleashed its vast corporate wealth, influence, and power against Nicholas to falsely attack him despite the fact that at the time, he was a 16-year-old high school student.”)
— Police: NFL ‘on the side of the offenders’ in defunding play – Paul Bedard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/police-nfl-on-the-side-of-offenders-in-defunding-play
— Why doesn’t Biden care about colleges’ anti-Asian discrimination? – Christopher Tremoglie
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-doesnt-biden-care-about-colleges-anti-asian-discrimination

NEW YORK POST
— Biden accidentally calls VP ‘President’ Kamala Harris – Steven Nelson
https://nypost.com/2021/12/17/joe-biden-accidentally-calls-kamala-harris-president/

FOX NEWS
— Ingraham: Biden ‘isn’t listening’ to Americans, has ‘failed on almost every front’ Americans are fed up with misgivings, Ingraham said. – Charles Creitz
https://www.foxnews.com/media/laura-ingraham-joe-biden-democrats-agenda-economy-crime-border


— Biden nominee dodges Sen. Kennedy 9 times when asked if social justice-inspired crimes should be forgiven. Kennedy called the exchange ’embarrassing’ – Andrew Mark Miller
(COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans are rich because Republicans, their parents, their grandparents, their great grandparents, and the rest of their ancestors are/were White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who discriminate/discriminated against minorities, against women, against younger people, against LGBTQers, against etc.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-nominee-dodges-sen-kennedy-9-times-asked-social-justice-inspired-crimes-forgiven

AMERICAN THINKER
— Will Poland Have to Defend Europe from Islam Again? – Gunnar Heinsohn
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/will_poland_have_to_defend_europe_from_islam_again.html

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Biden White House Offers Bonuses for Doctors Who Mandate ‘Anti-Racism Plans’ – Eric Lendrum
https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/17/biden-white-house-offers-bonuses-for-doctors-who-mandate-anti-racism-plans/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Why Are Men So Cowardly? – ROD DREHER
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/why-are-men-so-cowardly-transgender-women-children/

BREITBART
— Biden Admin Encourages Doctors to Implement ‘Anti-Racism Plans’ by Offering Bonuses – JORDAN DIXON-HAMILTON
(COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Those Democrats give preferred job assignments, give easy-to-meet performance expectations, give glowing performance appraisals, give pay increases, give bonuses, and give promotions to their Democrat employees who help them get rid of federal employees who Republican, and especially those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/17/biden-admin-encourages-doctors-implement-anti-racism-plans-offering-bonuses/
— Wall Street Journal Guest Op-Ed Slams Salvation Army ‘Wokeness’ – THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.
https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2021/12/17/wall-street-journal-slams-salvation-army-wokeness/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Why Hasn’t Jussie Smollett Been Charged With Perjury? – Larry Elder
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/12/17/why-hasnt-jussie-smollett-been-charged-with-perjury/

FEDERALIST
— A Powerful Campaign Against Woke Capitalism Is Unfolding Quietly In State Treasurer Races
https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/17/a-powerful-campaign-against-woke-capitalism-is-unfolding-quietly-in-state-treasurer-races/

PJ MEDIA
— Woke Health Insurer Claims to See a Racist Behind Every Stethoscope – CHRIS QUEEN
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2021/12/17/woke-health-insurer-claims-to-see-a-racist-behind-every-stethoscope-n1542419

POST MILLENNIAL
— Black Chicago school students given segregated field trips with black instructors. “Students will travel to Jefferson Middle School, observe a teacher and then have a question answer luncheon and discuss the importance of considering education as a career as a person of color.” – Nick Monroe
https://thepostmillennial.com/black-chicago-school-students-given-segregated-field-trips-with-black-instructors

TOWNHALL
— Deliberately Dragging Us Down: Team Biden Locks up America’s Energy, Inflation Soars – Craig Rucker
https://townhall.com/columnists/craigrucker/2021/12/18/deliberately-dragging-us-down-team-biden-locks-up-americas-energy-inflation-soars-n2600759

SPECTRUM NEWS
— Sen. Ted Cruz releases e-book instructing conservatives on how to fight critical race theory – Craig Huber
(COMMENT: Who is leading the fight against CRT a) in your school district, b) in your municipality, c) in your township, d) in your county, and e) in Illinois? It should be a) the leaders of your Republican township/ward/county organizations, b) your representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee, c) the IRP leaders, d) Republican elected/appointed officials in your municipality, in your township, in your county, and in Illinois, and e) candidates for the aforesaid offices.)
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2021/12/17/sen–ted-cruz-releases-e-book-instructing-conservatives-how-to-fight-critical-race-theory-

THE HILL
— Harvard ditching standardized testing requirements for admissions for next four years – Shirin Ali
(DIERSEN: What tests have you passed? The tests that I have passed include a) the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 when I was 30 years old, b) the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) all the tests necessary to earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, d) all the tests necessary to earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, e) all the tests necessary to earn an MBA from Loyola in 1976, f) all the tests necessary to earn a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970, g) the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, and h) the Post Office employment examination in 1966.)
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/586321-harvard-ditching-standardized-testing-requirements-for
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Biden hints/implies/argues/shouts that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazi, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. How soon, if not already, will Biden call for the federal government to round up Republicans, take away their property, send them to concentration camps, and get rid of them there once and for all?
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/586313-biden-discusses-hate-and-racism-in-america-in-address-to-hbcu

NEW YORK TIMES
— COMMENT: A hate-filled White-hating White-hater promotes hatred against Whites.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/opinion/freedom-liberty-racial-hierarchies.html
— COMMENT: The New York Times promotes those who are anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-traditional marriage/family, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/15/opinion/tom-morello-high-school-activism.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/opinion/tom-morello-newsletter-rage-against-the-machine.html

WASHINGTON POST
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats a) paint themselves as being protectors of and as being champions of Blacks and b) hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-south-carolina-black-colleges/2021/12/17/5d1cb5a4-5f48-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html

LOS ANGLES TIMES
— Tough-on-crime politics are back in California. But Black activists aren’t giving up – ERIKA D. SMITH
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-17/california-goes-tough-on-crime-black-activists-fight-for-police-reform

USA TODAY
— ‘It’s nighttime in America’: How to fight back against the forces pulling our nation apart. We’re being forced apart by organized forces that profit from polarizing the country. – Philip K. Howard
(COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs promote hatred against those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/12/18/polarization-america-how-fight-forces-dividing-our-nation/6460116001/
— President Biden wants more money for the IRS. Here’s what the agency would do with it – Michael Collins
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/18/irs-biden-proposes-80-billion-tax-agency-over-next-decade/6497908001/

FOX INDIANAPOLIS
— Carmel tops Money Magazine’s ’10 Best Places to Retire in 2022′ – Luther Johnson
(COMMENT: I should have sued Money Magazine. In its 4-page hit piece on me in its February 1978 edition, Money Magazine a) painted me as being grossly overpaid, b) foisted negative government employee, political, racial, gender, religious, national origin, other stereotypes on me and on my wife, and c) painted my education deductions as being improper. Money Magazine would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, veteran, non-Missouri Synod Lutheran, and/or non-German American.)
https://fox59.com/news/carmel-tops-money-magazines-10-best-places-to-retire-in-2022/

KENOSHA NEWS
— Rittenhouse hints that potential libel lawsuits could be coming – ADAM ROGAN
(COMMENT: I should have sued Money Magazine. In its 4-page hit piece on me in its February 1978 edition, Money Magazine a) painted me as being grossly overpaid, b) foisted negative government employee, political, racial, gender, religious, national origin, other stereotypes on me and on my wife, and c) painted my education deductions as being improper. Money Magazine would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, veteran, non-Missouri Synod Lutheran, and/or non-German American.)
https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/rittenhouse-hints-that-potential-libel-lawsuits-could-be-coming/article_17128ca3-2e1e-59e7-8bf9-e3e87cf983a7.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats Brace for Rewrite of Biden Spending Plan to Woo Joe Manchin. Satisfying pivotal senator could force substantial changes in what President Biden called party’s consensus healthcare, education and climate bill in October – Richard Rubin and Andrew Duehren
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-brace-for-rewrite-of-biden-spending-plan-to-woo-joe-manchin-11639832402

FORTUNE
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats a) paint themselves as being protectors of and as being champions of minorities, women, LGBTQers, etc. and b) hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that minorities, women, LGBTQers, etc. have had, are having, and will have.
https://fortune.com/2021/12/17/optimism-race-corporate-diversity-dei-evelyn-carter-paradigm/

FORBES
— COMMENT: Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, BLM, CRT, 1619, reparations, up-or-out, budget cuts, etc. to get rid of Republicans, and especially to get rid of Republicans who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleystahl/2021/12/17/3-benefits-of-diversity-in-the-workplace/

NEWSWEEK
— Black Democrats Are Fighting Back Against ‘Woke’ Progressives – DARVIO MORROW
https://www.newsweek.com/black-democrats-are-fighting-back-against-woke-progressives-opinion-1660583

NIEMAN LAB
— Realizing inequality in news goes a lot deeper than diversity numbers – Janelle Salanga
(COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote hatred against non-White and non-male journalists who do not promote hatred against those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/12/realizing-inequality-in-news-goes-a-lot-deeper-than-diversity-numbers/
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs promote hatred against Republicans, and especially against Republicans who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/12/the-rise-of-nationalism-becomes-a-local-story/

WHITE HOUSE
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats a) paint themselves as being protectors of and as being champions of Blacks and b) hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/17/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-advances-equity-and-opportunity-for-black-people-and-communities-across-the-country-2/

PHYS
— Bias against Native Americans spikes when mascots are removed – Kim Eckart
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-bias-native-americans-spikes-mascots.html

DAILY MAIL
— Oxford University may make ‘woke scores’ part of the criteria when recruiting academics – IMOGEN HORTON
(COMMENT: The more of the following that you are, the higher that your woke score is: anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-traditional marriage/family, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10323159/Oxford-University-make-woke-scores-criteria-recruiting-academics.html

TELEGRAPH
— Fury over Oxford University plan to hire academics based on how woke they are. Anger among lecturers who fear they may have to give researchers a score on their beliefs about diversity and equality. – Camilla Turner
(COMMENT: The more of the following that you are, the higher that your woke score is: anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-traditional marriage/family, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/17/fury-oxford-university-plan-hire-academics-based-woke/

December 17 Evening Edition

ABC7

— Illinois COVID cases: IL reports 10,765 new cases, 52 deaths
https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-covid-testing-vaccine-booster-shots-side-effects/11352548/

— UIC, City Colleges of Chicago announce program to address nursing shortage, diversity – Will Jones
https://abc7chicago.com/nursing-shortage-bs-in-uic-university-of-illinois-at-chicago/11353232/

CBS2
— Groups Rally Outside Daley Plaza For Immigration Provision To Social Spending Bill
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/12/17/immigration-provision-to-social-spending-bill/
— 3 Evanston Township High School Students Charged In Connection With Lockdown After 2 Guns Found
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/12/17/evanston-township-high-school-lockdown-students-charged-gun-found/

FOX32
— Illinois reports 59,312 coronavirus cases, 316 deaths in the past week
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-reports-59312-coronavirus-cases-316-deaths-in-the-past-week
— New law says parents in Illinois no longer have to be notified before girls under 18 get abortions
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/new-law-says-parents-in-illinois-no-longer-have-to-be-notified-before-minor-children-get-abortions

WGN RADIO
— The Chicago Way w/John Kass: Prof. Glenn Loury explores how woke policies are driving violent crime in urban America and crushing Black America
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/the-chicago-way-w-john-kass-prof-glenn-loury-explores-how-woke-policies-are-driving-violent-crime-in-urban-america-crushing-black-america/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Immigration activists in Chicago urge Democrats to disregard Senate parliamentarian, move forward with reform. Advocates plan to join a rally Saturday outside of the Thompson Center to push for immigration, climate and labor reforms in the “Build Back Better” bill. – Elvia Malagón
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/12/17/22841465/chicago-illinois-immigration-build-back-better-reform-undocumented-daca-green-card-durbin-biden
— Illinois’ COVID surge rages on: ‘This is setting up to be a very deadly COVID Christmas’ “Our key message here continues to be: get the vaccine, and if vaccinated and eligible, get the booster,” Illinois Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said. – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/coronavirus/2021/12/17/22841747/illinois-coronavirus-surge-holidays-cases-deaths-hospital-vaccine
— Pritzker signs repeal of Parental Notification of Abortion law. The legislation also creates an advisory group for youth health and safety issues that will identify laws and policies that affect parenting and pregnant people under age 18. – Rachel Hinton
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2021/12/17/22841847/pritzker-repeal-parental-notification-abortion-law-illinois
— Text messages between Lightfoot and state leaders reveal weird interactions, moments of tension. Most of the conversations were innocuous or polite. But some of the conversations are revealing. – Rich Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/12/17/22843007/text-messages-lightfoot-chicago-pritzker-illinois-column-rich-miller

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Space in Illinois hospitals is at an all-time pandemic low, as patients flood in and workers burn out. – JOE MAHR, LISA SCHENCKER and DAN PETRELLA
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-illinois-hospital-capacity-covid-surge-20211217-hnkjacf5vbbepbo3xyl7x24ymu-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— COVID-19 update: 10,765 new cases, 52 additional deaths, 3,783 hospitalizations – Marni Pyke
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211217/covid-19-update-10765-new-cases-52-additional-deaths-3783-hospitalizations

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois’ hot marijuana market chills out. Why strong growth has turned to no growth in the newly legalized weed business. – JOHN PLETZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/legalized-marijuana-sales-have-flatlined-illinois-summer

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— New law grants five-part victory for evil in Illinois – Bishop Thomas John Paprocki
https://www.thetelegraph.com/insider/article/New-law-grants-five-part-victory-for-evil-in-16710794.php

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Blending Social Justice Into Math Curriculum Stirs Debate In U.S.
https://chicagodefender.com/blending-social-justice-into-math-curriculum-stirs-debate-in-u-s/

STATELINE
— Girls in Illinois can get abortion without telling parents – WTVO
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/girls-in-illinois-can-get-abortion-without-telling-parents/

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Bailey continues statewide tour with fundraiser in Swansea – Emily Bevard
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/614720626-bailey-continues-statewide-tour-with-fundraiser-in-swansea

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— DI LEO: IS AMAZON REALLY KILLING BRICK-AND-MORTAR RETAIL?
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/12/by-john-f-di-leo-amazon-is-killing-brick-and-mortar-retail-well-no-but-amazon-wish-and-all-those-other-online-o.html
— THE PREDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES OF ‘DEFUND THE POLICE’
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/12/the-predictable-consequences-of-defund-the-police.html
— MERIT VS. WOKENESS: UNIVERSITIES MUST CHOOSE
(COMMENT: From what I see, ever-increasingly, universities choose wokeness over merit.)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/12/merit-vs-wokeness-universities-must-choose.html
— WHY DOESN’T BLM’S ‘BLACK XMAS’ WHITE BUSINESS BOYCOTT EXTEND TO LOOTING WHITE BUSINESSES?
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/12/why-doesnt-blms-black-xmas-white-business-boycott-extend-to-looting-white-businesses.html
— THORNER: IS COMPLIANCE A WAY OUT OF TYRANNY?
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/12/thorner-is-compliance-a-way-out-of-tyranny.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Pritzker signs repeal of Parental Notification Act into law
https://capitolfax.com/2021/12/17/pritzker-signs-repeal-of-parental-notification-act-into-law/
— Cases, deaths, ICU usage all increased 19% in past week, hospitalizations up 16%
https://capitolfax.com/2021/12/17/cases-deaths-icu-usage-all-increased-19-in-past-week-hospitalizations-up-16/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal complaints filed against Colorado, Illinois schools for holding allegedly segregated events – James Varney
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/17/federal-complaints-filed-against-colorado-illinois/
— GOP state lawmakers introduce 12 new bills to ban critical race theory – Sean Salai
(COMMENT: What about Illinois?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/17/gop-state-lawmakers-introduce-12-new-bills-ban-cri/
— From defund to refund: Liberal mayors reverse course on police as crime surges. San Francisco Mayor London Breed calls for more aggressive law enforcement. – Valerie Richardson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/17/liberal-mayors-reverse-course-defund-police-crime-/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— OUTRAGEOUS, DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: A preacher dressed in drag led a sermon for children on Sunday in Chicago. Aaron Musser, the preacher at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church of Logan Square, said that instead of telling people how they should be joyful, he was showing them what makes him joyful, arguing his attire served as a dress rehearsal for the ultimate joy experienced upon the return of Jesus Christ. – Misty Severi
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lutheran-church-offers-drag-queen-prayer-time-to-children

FOX NEWS
— Why DeSantis’ bold critical race theory move matters to all of us. DeSantis has emerged one of the most articulate political spokesmen for the anti–critical race theory movement. – Christopher F. Rufo
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/desantis-critical-race-theory-christopher-rufo

GOPUSA
— Childless Mayor (Lightfoot) Takes Aim At Your Pudgy Children
https://www.gopusa.com/childless-mayor-takes-aim-at-your-pudgy-children/
— It Appears Socialists Are Winning The War To Destroy The Family
https://www.gopusa.com/it-appears-socialists-are-winning-the-war-to-destroy-the-family/

BREITBART
— Illinois governor repeals parental notification of abortion – AP
https://www.breitbart.com/news/illinois-governor-repeals-parental-notification-of-abortion/

FEDERALIST
— Pulitzer Center Helps 1619 Project Teachers Subvert Laws Banning Racism. The nonprofit, leftwing billionaire-funded center hosted a webinar for educators and librarians offering tips on how to use their 1619 Project material and skirt laws banning its use. – Mary Grabar
https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/17/pulitzer-center-helps-1619-project-teachers-subvert-laws-banning-racism/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Colorado, Illinois School Districts Sued for Racially Segregating Students – CAROLINE DOWNEY
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/colorado-illinois-school-districts-sued-for-racially-segregating-students/

EPOCH TIMES
— Schools Across US Tighten Security, Increase Police Presence After TikTok Shooting Threats – Katabella Roberts
https://www.theepochtimes.com/schools-across-us-tighten-security-increase-police-presence-after-tiktok-shooting-threats_4161468.html

THE HILL
— ‘Allies’ China and Russia are ganging up on America – GORDON G. CHANG
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/586142-allies-china-and-russia-are-ganging-up-on-america

HUFFINGTON POST
— Senate Confirmed White Nominees More Quickly Than Nominees Of Color This Year. GOP senators have slowed down the confirmation process, and nominees of color have been disproportionately affected. – Amanda Terkel
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-white-nominees-people-of-color_n_61bcc947e4b040edce94fb4c

WASHINGTON POST
— The malicious, historically illiterate 1619 Project keeps rolling on – George F. Will
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/new-york-times-1619-project-historical-illiteracy-rolls-on/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— In a Texas Border Town, Armed Groups Arrive to Look for Migrants. State law that allows migrants to be arrested for trespassing draws armed citizens, in some cases welcomed by county officials. – Elizabeth Findell
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-a-texas-border-town-armed-groups-arrive-to-look-for-migrants-11639668989
— Inflation Is Near a 40-Year High. Here’s What It Looks Like. Price increases for fuel, cars, food, apparel and medical care vary widely. – Peter Santilli and Gwynn Guilford
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-is-near-a-40-year-high-heres-what-it-looks-like-11639737004

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Rep. Steve Scalise and 15 other Republicans lay out their plan to use controversies over the teaching of race and gender in schools to beat Democrats in 2022. – Nicole Gaudiano
https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-2022-elections-critical-race-theory-education-culture-wars-scalise-2021-12

LGBTQ NATION
— Why are some LGBTQ people Republicans? Why do they vote against their own community? One of the enduring mysteries in politics is why the existence of LGBTQ Republicans. – John Gallagher
(COMMENT: I should write a book about LGBTQ-promoting RINOs. I would focus on LGBTQ-promoting RINOs who got downtown Wheaton to promote LGBTQ big time last year and who got Wheaton to stop Republicans from helping sponsor its Independence Day parade and fireworks this year.)
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/12/lgbtq-people-republicans-vote-community/

December 17 Morning Edition

WGN9

— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Lincoln Park residents walk in response to uptick in violent crime – Patrick Elwood
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/lincoln-park-residents-walk-in-response-to-uptick-in-violent-crime/

FOX32
— Evanston Township High School given ‘all-clear’ after 2 guns recovered, 8 students detained – Kasey Chronis
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/2-guns-found-in-evanston-township-hs-school-placed-on-lockdown
— DISGUSTING, OUTRAGEOUS, TRAGIC: Marijuana dispensary training center opens in Wrigleyville – Natalie Bomke
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/marijuana-dispensary-training-center-opens-in-wrigleyville

WBEZ
— Chicago has exceeded 800 homicides in 2021 – Chip Mitchell
https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-has-exceeded-800-homicides-in-2021/f5518836-b3a2-490f-8cf3-ca503b6640ba

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Evanston Township High School students spent hours on lockdown after 2 guns found: ‘It’s just overwhelming’ – BRIAN L. COX
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/evanston/ct-evr-evanston-eths-lockdown-tl-1224-20211216-pr4aofdmuvhoxifcmwxn7gpzf4-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago ‘at a crossroads’ because of rising crime, skyrocketing commercial property taxes, business leader says. “There’s a sense of no plan,” Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce chief Jack Lavin said. “Our businesses …. They want to know how are we’re gonna solve the violence and the public safety problem this week. This weekend. Tomorrow.” – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/fran-spielman-show/2021/12/16/22840148/chicago-crime-commercial-property-taxes-jack-lavin-chicagoland-chamber
— Cook County assessor gave tax breaks to dead mobster — for 6 years. Other homeowners were given disabled veteran tax breaks — which could erase their property tax bills for life — even though they didn’t apply and weren’t vets, the Sun-Times found. – Tim Novak, Lauren FitzPatrick, and Caroline Hurley
(COMMENT: I should write a book about my efforts during the 1980s and 1990s to get the assessed valuation of my home reduced. It is all public record.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/12/17/22838399/fritz-kaegi-cook-county-assessor-property-tax-breaks-dead-mobster-joseph-lombardi

DAILY HERALD
— McHenry County sheriff prepares to roll out body cameras next year – Ben Szalinski
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211217/mchenry-county-sheriff-prepares-to-roll-out-body-cameras-next-year

BURR RIDGE PATCH
— The Burr Ridge Village Board this week took final action on paying off the debt for its police station, which was built more than a decade ago. – David Giuliani
https://patch.com/illinois/burrridge/burr-ridge-enjoys-unusual-status-government

NAPERVILLE PATCH
— Man Wields Knife, Robs Dollar Tree In Naperville: Cops Police say a man used a knife to rob the Dollar Tree at 1550 N. Rte. 59 Wednesday morning. – Lisa Marie Farver
https://patch.com/illinois/naperville/man-wields-knife-robs-dollar-tree-naperville-cops

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— SCOOP: Watch for former Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti to announce she’s running for DuPage County clerk. – SHIA KAPOS
(COMMENT: January 13, 2022 is the first day to circulate nomination papers for established political party candidates who file in between March 7 – 14, 2022 for the June 28, 2022 primary.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2021/12/17/ken-griffin-and-the-dark-money-of-2022-495511
— Ken Griffin and the dark money of 2022: SCOOP: The head of a dark money group that helped defeat last year’s graduated income tax measure is behind a campaign to elect a Republican candidate to run against Gov. JB Pritzker in 2022. And the money behind the effort will come from billionaire Ken Griffin. Mike Zolnierowicz, who was former Gov. Bruce Rauner’s first chief of staff, is working the levers of this operation, according to two Playbook sources. The former governor, however, is not involved. Zolnierowicz, or Mike Z, did not return a request for comment. Interviews with potential candidates have been held in secrecy with Zolnierowicz. Word got out, however, that there’s interest in Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin to run for governor and state Rep. Avery Bourne to join the ticket as lieutenant governor. Neither returned requests for comment. It’s part of a plan for Griffin to bankroll a slate of GOP candidates, reports Lee Enterprises’ Brenden Moore. A source close to Griffin said the Citadel CEO has not met with any candidates and has not yet decided who he is going to support. Griffin is clear about his concerns for Illinois. “We have real problems in Illinois with violence, corruption and profligate spending and I look forward to supporting candidates — be it Republican or Democrat — who will address these issues that plague our state,” he said in a statement to Playbook. A source who spoke to Playbook about Mike Z, also said Griffin has committed $150 million to the campaign, which would match what Pritzker spent in his first run for governor. Other media reports have attributed “multiple sources” as saying Griffin is willing to spend as much as $300 million in next year’s election. Those numbers are all speculation, according to a source close to Griffin. “The field for next year’s election hasn’t fully formed yet and Ken hasn’t made a decision. …There is also no spending number as there is no candidate.” Still pining for Griffin’s support are the current field of candidates: state Sen. Darren Bailey of Xenia, former state Sen. Paul Schimpf of Waterloo, and businessmen Gary Rabine and Jesse Sullivan. ABOUT IRVIN: “In 2007, Irvin became the first Black male elected to the Aurora City Council as an at-large member, and held that post until his election as mayor. … In October, he laughed off a Tribune reporter’s question about a gubernatorial run or whether he had been in talks with Griffin. There are also questions about Irvin’s positions on social issues that run counter to those held by the GOP base.” He has said he supports abortion rights, immigrant rights, and implementing sanctuary city-style policies for immigrants who lack legal status, reports Tribune’s Rick Pearson. ABOUT TODD RICKETTS: The Cubs co-owner “had previously announced he would not run for governor. But asked about that possibility [Thursday], his spokesman discouraged, but did not rule out, such a possibility, saying, ‘Ricketts has no current plans to run for governor,’” reports Crain’s Greg Hinz. — SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2021/12/17/ken-griffin-and-the-dark-money-of-2022-495511

WIREPOINTS
— Chicago’s Mayor Lightfoot To Pump $412 More Into Anti-Crime Plan That Doesn’t Work. – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/otters-plan-chicagos-mayor-lightfoot-to-pump-412-more-into-anti-crime-plan-that-doesnt-work-wirepoints/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Smidge of Hope on the Education Horizon – Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/smidge-of-hope-on-the-education-horizon/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The high stakes of historical revisionism – Jonathan Tobin
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/the-high-stakes-of-historical-revisionism
— Demographic autumn: Our working-age population is already shrinking – Timothy P. Carney
(COMMENT: Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs do everything that they can to drive older people out of the workforce, and especially older people who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/demographic-autumn-our-working-age-population-is-already-shrinking
— Encouraging women to have children is now a Title IX violation – CONN CARROLL
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/encouraging-women-to-have-children-is-now-a-title-ix-violation

FOX NEWS
— DeSantis’s ‘Stop W.O.K.E.’ legislation would make teaching CRT in Florida classrooms ‘illegal’: Rufo The legislation seeks to return the power of education back to Florida parents, Rufo said – Yael Halon
https://www.foxnews.com/media/desantis-stop-woke-legislation-crt-florida-illegal-rufo
— Nikole Hannah-Jones claims mainstream media were caught up in ‘propaganda campaign’ against 1619 Project. NY Times Magazine reporter: ‘We are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions’ – Cortney O’Brien
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nikole-hannah-jones-media-propaganda-campaign-1619-project

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Sue Them, Parents. Sue Them Into The Ground – ROD DREHER
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/transgender-school-spreckels-sue-them-parents/

CNS NEWS
— ‘Black’ Vs. ‘white’: The Significance of Elite-Imposed Language Norms – John Kline
https://cnsnews.com/commentary/john-kline/black-vs-white-significance-elite-imposed-language-norms

DAILY WIRE
— Wokeness Is America’s Dominant Religion – Matt Walsh
(COMMENT: I should write a book about those who paint themselves as being woke, that is, who paint themselves as being anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-traditional marriage/family, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. I would focus on the following: a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, c) conservative and religious leaders, d) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, and e) those who I have sued. I would focus on those who a) demand blind loyalty to them and to them only and b) destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money.)
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-859-wokeness-is-america-s-dominant-religion

PJ MEDIA
— ‘White Privilege’ Isn’t Getting People Killed, Democrats Are – KEVIN DOWNEY JR.
https://pjmedia.com/uncategorized/kevindowneyjr/2021/12/16/white-privilege-isnt-getting-people-killed-democrats-are-n1542079
— Santa’s List of Businesses That Are Naughty and Nice to Conservatives – KEVIN DOWNEY JR.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2021/12/15/santas-list-of-businesses-who-are-naughty-and-nice-to-conservatives-n1541824

FEDERALIST
— Biden’s Border Crisis Brings Record Number Of November Arrests – Jordan Boyd
https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/16/bidens-border-crisis-brings-record-number-of-november-arrests/
— 14 Times Biden Straight-Up Lied About His Border Crisis. Here are the Biden administration’s top lies about the border. – Jordan Boyd
https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/16/14-times-biden-straight-up-lied-about-his-border-crisis/

POWERLINE
— THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE WOKENESS – PAUL MIRENGOFF
(COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, etc. Democrat and RINO government employers have far more motivation and power a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees. Just look at how GAO, IRS, and the Post Office treated me. Just look at how RINO politicians in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton treat me. Just look at now the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization treat me.)

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/the-limits-of-corporate-wokeness.php
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As noted above, the Post asserts the existence of the gap based on its finding that Blacks are 12 percent of the population and 8 percent of high level executives. But high level corporate executives are not drawn from the general population or from the non-incarcerated population, of which Blacks make up a slightly smaller percentage. No reasonable person would argue that they should be. Corporate executives are, and should be, drawn from the portion of the U.S. population that it is highly accomplished. Do Blacks make up 8 percent of that population? I doubt it. Consider the portion of graduating high school students who are highly accomplished. First, to a disproportionate extent, Blacks don’t graduate from high school. Second, Blacks don’t make up 8 percent of the highly accomplished students who do graduate. We know this because, if it were otherwise, elite colleges wouldn’t have to grant stark racial preferences to attain 8 percent black representation. But statistics show that they must grant such preferences if they are to admit that percentage. Absent preferences, elite colleges, and many others, would be hard pressed to get to half of 8 percent. Next, consider law school performance. Do Blacks make up 8 percent of highly accomplished law students? I don’t think so. They didn’t when I was on the hiring and recruiting committee of my former law firm. Top law firms had to reach far below the top 10 percent to extend more than a tiny number of offers to Blacks. Additional evidence came from professor Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania law school, before the school silenced her. Wax had the audacity to say “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class [I teach to first year law students] and rarely, rarely in the top half.” Her law school was outraged by this statement, but didn’t (and I assume couldn’t) dispute its accuracy. Something very similar happened at Georgetown law school. It fired an adjunct professor for saying, privately, that Blacks make up a disproportionate number of low-performing students in the class she taught. Thus, if Blacks really do make up 8 percent of top corporate executives, it’s likely that they are overrepresented in these jobs if the criterion is merit, as it should be, rather than skin color. And if George Floyd’s tragic encounter with Derek Chauvin hasn’t helped pushed the percentage above 8 percent, that’s evidence that, as woke as it is, corporate America hasn’t completely lost its mind.)

EPOCH TIMES
— Liz Wheeler on Salvation Army ‘suffering’: That’s what happens when you call white donors racists – Vivek Saxena
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/12/16/liz-wheeler-on-salvation-army-suffering-thats-what-happens-when-you-call-white-donors-racists-1176522/

NEWS BUSTERS
— INSANE: MSNBC Host Thinks DeSantis Wants to Codify White Supremacy by Banning CRT – Kevin Tober
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2021/12/16/insane-msnbc-host-thinks-desantis-wants-codify-white-supremacy

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER TV
— NFL Funding Groups Seeking To Kill ‘Malignant Tumor: White Supremacy’ – Jay Maxson
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/nfl-funding-groups-seeking-kill-malignant-tumor-white-supremacy

COLLEGE FIX
— Professor of color denied funding for cutting-edge laser research due to ‘insufficient’ equity, diversity and inclusion enthusiasm – DANIEL NUCCIO
https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-of-color-denied-funding-for-cutting-edge-laser-research-due-to-insufficient-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-enthusiasm/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Chemistry Professor Patanjali Kambhampati said he has been denied two grants over the past two years for failing to properly pledge allegiance to equity, diversity and inclusion. Kambhampati was born in India. He grew up and was educated in the United States. Since 2003, Kambhampati has successfully conducted cutting-edge research at the intersection of chemistry and physics as a member of the Department of Chemistry at McGill University in Canada.)

THE HILL
— GOP candidates, conservative groups holding more events at Mar-a-Lago than previous years – LEXI LONAS
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/586116-gop-candidates-conservative-groups-holding-more-events-at-mar-a

YAHOO NEWS
— Ted Cruz’s new e-book on Critical Race Theory argues that seeking equity in the US is really calling for ‘discrimination’ against white people – Nicole Gaudiano
https://news.yahoo.com/read-ted-cruzs-e-book-221957760.html

MSN
— COMMENT: Democrats use “classmates’ racial slurs” to promote CRT.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-parents-protest-critical-race-theory-students-fight-racist-behavior-at-school/ar-AARRQxu

NEW YORK TIMES
— You Love That House, but Should You Write a Love Letter? A common practice in real estate is coming under new scrutiny because of concerns about discrimination. And one state has made it illegal. – Candace Jackson
(DIERSEN: From what I see watching home purchases in my precinct since 1984, it ever-increasing looks like Democrat realtors steer homebuyers to my precinct who are Democrat, moderate, liberal, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, and/or non-German American. Ever-increasingly, it looks like Democrat realtors stress to potential homebuyers a) that ever-increasingly, Democrats get more votes in the precinct, for example, Biden got 269 votes while Trump got only 157, b) that there are LGBTQ-promoting churches immediately north and south of the precinct, c) that the Wheaton Warrenville School District 200 Administration Headquarters is in the precinct, and d) that a grade school and middle school are in the precinct.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/realestate/you-love-that-house-but-should-you-write-a-love-letter.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: But last year, the National Association of Realtors issued a warning about the practice, cautioning that it may make sellers and agents vulnerable to accusations of discrimination, as love letters often disclose personal details that can reveal buyers’ family status, religion, sexual orientation or race — all protected statuses under fair housing laws. (The Fair Housing Act prevents landlords, banks, real estate agents and anyone else involved in leasing or selling homes from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, disability status, religion, national origin or familial status; states like California recognize additional protected categories, including occupation and gender expression.) Realtors’ organizations in California and Ohio followed suit. And this year, the state of Oregon took it a step further, passing legislation banning such letters. Starting in January 2022, it will be illegal for a seller’s agent to pass a love letter along to a client in Oregon. Mark Meek, the Oregon State Representative who proposed the legislation, said the idea emerged from his own experience as a real estate agent, observing the disparity in homeownership among racial groups, something he formed a task force to address in 2018. In 2019, he said, the rate of white homeownership in Oregon was 65 percent, compared with 35 percent for Black residents and 40 percent for Hispanic residents. “Whoever is the successful bidder of a home should be based on the qualification of the offer,” Mr. Meek said. “Not the preference of that seller.”)
— Jobless for a Year? That Might Be Less of a Problem Now. – Sydney Ember
(COMMENT: Soon after my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 year old, I came to realize that because of the adverse actions that they had taken against me, I would never get a job appropriate for someone with my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/business/economy/employment-resume-gaps.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Wokeness Infiltrates the Salvation Army. It backs away from a call on members to ‘lament, repent and apologize’ for racism. – Kenny Xu
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wokeness-infiltrates-the-salvation-army-discussion-guide-racism-diversity-and-incusion-christian-11639690409
— Washington Post Grasps for New Direction as Trump-Era Boom Fades. News outlet’s audience is down sharply, amid sector-wide declines; subscription growth has stagnated as readers look beyond politics. – Benjamin Mullin and Alexandra Bruell
https://www.wsj.com/articles/washington-post-grasps-for-new-direction-as-trump-era-boom-fades-11639695007
— White House Revs Up Trucker Recruitment Drive. The plans aims to address longstanding industry issues but isn’t likely to have an immediate impact on supply-chain bottlenecks. – Jennifer Smith
https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-revs-up-trucker-recruitment-drive-11639648803
— Biden’s Art of the Overreach. Don’t blame Manchin for the White House’s poorly managing expectations. – Kimberley A. Strassel
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-art-of-the-overreach-progressive-agenda-build-black-better-pelosi-schumer-manchin-11639690786
— COLA Doesn’t Bring Much Refreshment. Automatic wage hikes can’t keep up with inflation. They can only fuel it further. – Bill Lane
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cola-doesnt-bring-refreshment-cost-of-living-inflation-raises-john-deere-auto-workers-caterpillar-11639690580

FORBES
— Firearm Industry Groups Sue New York For Permitting Lawsuits Over Gun Misuse – Lisa Kim
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2021/12/16/firearm-industry-groups-sue-new-york-for-permitting-lawsuits-over-gun-misuse/
— Here Are The Companies Creating Brands That Consumers Love – DIANE BRADY, LAUREN DEBTER, JARED COUNCIL, JENA MCGREGOR AND MARTY SWANT
(COMMENT: I am a minority because I only buy American-nameplate vehicles. The top vehicle loyalty brands are Toyota, Honda, Subaru, Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, and Mazda.)
https://www.forbes.com/halo-100/#792377f332da
(FROM THE ARTICLE: We all value the brands we use for different reasons. Some offer incredible value and quality. Others are aligned with our values or personal identity, with messages that feel tailored to who we are or who we want to be. Forbes’ inaugural Halo 100 list highlights excellence in delivering the experience that customers want to have. It measures how well – and how responsibly — brands are serving their US customers.)

NPR
— Rep. Kinzinger discusses the events of Jan. 6 as congressional inquiries heat up
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/1064951583/rep-kinzinger-discusses-the-events-of-jan-6-as-congressional-inquiries-heat-up

PEW RESEARCH
— White evangelicals more likely than other Christians to say people should prioritize marriage, procreation – STEPHANIE KRAMER
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/12/16/white-evangelicals-more-likely-than-other-christians-to-say-people-should-prioritize-marriage-procreation/

ACCOUNTANCY AGE
— “Still work to be done” on diversity in accountancy, industry leaders say. Research shows that more work is needed from firms. – Natasha Spencer-Jolliffe
(COMMENT: When I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980 when I was 31 years old, a very high percentage of my superiors, supervisors, and coworkers a) were Democrats, b) were Whites, c) were males, d) were older, e) were veterans, f) had accounting degrees from non-Ivy League universities, g) were non-Protestant, and h) were non-German American. When Charles Bowsher took over GAO in 1981 and ran it for the next 15 years, he focused on getting rid of GAO employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, and/or who had accounting degrees from non-Ivy League Universities and who had not made GS-13 (currently $102,188) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $120,755) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $142,041) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $172,500) by age 40. Extremely few GAO employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. My Democrat GAO superiors did everything that they could to get rid of me because I was Republican, White, male, old, non-veteran, my 1980 master’s degree in accounting was from DePaul, Protestant, German American, I had taken a $20,361/year in today’s dollars pay cut (a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10) to transfer from IRS to GAO, I did not make GS-13 until I was 38 years old in 1986, I never made GS-14, and in 1987, they had gotten rid of the GS-15 GAO manager who had hired me in 1980, got me assigned to audits of IRS in 1986, and promoted me in 1986.. My Democrat GAO superiors would have gotten rid of me sooner if I had not earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, became a licensed CPA in 1981, became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, became a Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, became a Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, became a Forensic Accountant in 1997, and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997.)
https://www.accountancyage.com/2021/12/16/still-work-to-be-done-on-diversity-in-accountancy-industry-leaders-say/

DEMOCRATIC PARTY
— THE CURRENT COMMITTEE SYSTEM
(COMMENT: GAO works for Congress. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, they periodically asked GAO employees for suggestions on how to improve GAO’s credibility with Republican Senators and Representatives. I suggested having at least two Republicans on GAO audit teams for every three Democrats. I also suggested not doing audits unless at least one of the requesters was Republican.)
https://archives-democrats-rules.house.gov/Archives/jcoc2d.htm

(FROM THE RULES: Party leaders also determine the ratio of majority to minority party members on each committee. Under current Democratic Caucus Rules, each standing committee (except Standards) must have at least three Democrats for every two Republicans. While this ratio roughly approximates the ratio of Democrats to Republicans in the overall Chamber, the majority party usually accords itself a super-majority on important panels including Appropriations, Budget, Rules, and Ways and Means.)