Month: May 2024

May 21, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Pro-Palestinian campus protests evoke Vietnam-era uprisings and other ‘struggles of the past’ – ANGIE LEVENTIS LOURGOS (COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have used against me the most my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/21/pro-palestinian-campus-protests-evoke-vietnam-era-uprisings-and-other-struggles-of-the-past/
— Suburban Chicago leaders call on the state of Illinois to increase local government funding – GEORGE WIEBE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/20/suburban-chicago-leaders-call-on-the-state-of-illinois-to-increase-local-government-funding/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Wheaton Mayor Phil Suess speaks during a public gathering of municipal leaders Monday who joined forces at Elmhurst University to call on Illinois General Assembly to increase local government funding. . .“Each one of us here, and every other citizen in the State of Illinois, relies on the critical services provided by local governments,” Wheaton Mayor Phil Suess said Monday. “We are here this morning to reach out to our partners in the General Assembly and urge them to work with us to prioritize continued investment in our communities.”)

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Students protest Israel-Hamas war during School of the Art Institute of Chicago commencement. Many students carried gold flyers with images of a crown, bullets and bombs, symbolizing the Crown family, who are benefactors to the Art Institute and who students say invest in weapons manufacturers. They tore the flyers on stage. – Emmanuel Camarillo
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/05/20/students-protest-gaza-war-during-school-of-the-art-institute-commencement-education-israel-hamas-war
— Why so many Black Chicagoans are frustrated by the migrant crisis. A City Council vote on $70 million in migrant funding highlighted the situation faced by communities like South Shore: Migrants have been resettled in Black communities where people have been fighting for decades for development and resources. – Desmon Yancy (COMMENT: To give preference to one group, for example, illegals, is to discriminate against another group, for example, Blacks.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/05/20/black-chicagoans-migrant-crisis-frustration-racism-disinvestment-alderman-desmon-yancy-south-shore
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ and destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2024/05/20/lgbtq-international-travel-threat-alert-pride

DAILY HERALD
— Editorial called out sneaky Democrats – Gerry Bliss, Elk Grove Village
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240520/letters-to-the-editor/editorial-called-out-sneaky-democrats/
— Wheaton Memorial Day Parade: 10 a.m. Monday, May 27. Hosted by American Legion Post 76, the parade will begin at Memorial Park, proceed west on Wesley Street, turn south on West Street, ending at the Wheaton Cemetery, 1209 S. Warrenville Road. wheaton.il.us.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240520/entertainment/memorial-day-parades-services-fundraisers/
— Wheaton mayor: Apartment project expected to ‘move forward’ downtown – Katlyn Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240520/news/wheaton-mayor-apartment-project-expected-to-move-forward-downtown/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Supreme Court won’t consider Maryland assault weapon ban, but Illinois’ is still on the table – Greg Stohr
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/supreme-court-refuses-consider-maryland-assault-weapon-ban
— How the wheels fell off Oberweis Dairy – Ally Marott
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/retail/how-oberweis-dairy-went-bankrupt

ABC7
— Prosecution rests in Trump hush money trial – Judy Hsu
https://abc7chicago.com/videoClip/14848731/
— Trump posts social media video seemingly suggesting his victory will bring ‘unified Reich’ “This was not a campaign video,” a Trump campaign rep said. – Soo Rin Kim, Lalee Ibssa and Kelsey Walsh
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-social-media-video-unified-reich-/14851798/

NBC5
— Chicago to implement new beach security measures as summer approaches – Lexi Sutter
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-to-implement-new-beach-security-measures-as-summer-approaches/3442164/

WGN9
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://wgntv.com/daytime-chicago/diversity-done-right-a-guide-to-equity-and-inclusion-in-the-workplace/

FOX32
— Northwestern student files class action lawsuit claiming school failed to protect Jewish students – Jenna Carroll
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/northwestern-lawsuit
— Calls for increased police presence after violent weekend in Chicago: ‘We have to do something’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/calls-for-increased-police-presence-surge-after-violent-weekend-in-chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL5E_KFYR28

WBEZ
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/stories/illinois-role-in-the-lgbtq-rights-movement/bd3febe8-2392-459c-8ffa-524d58f39932

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Supporters of Donald Trump flocked to Manhattan on Monday, standing behind the former president heading into day 19 of his hush-money trial. Among them was U.S. Rep. Mary Miller, R-Oakland. – Patrick M. Keck
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/05/21/illinois-congresswoman-heads-to-manhattan-backs-trump/73772682007/

HERALD REVIEW
— Rep. Mary Miller attends Trump trial in New York
https://herald-review.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/rep-mary-miller-attends-trump-trial-in-new-york/article_92798250-16e7-11ef-9ed0-2f429b2cc6a4.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— What happens if Trump and Biden don’t reach 270 electoral votes? – KONNER MCINTIRE & COURTNEY RAU
https://foxillinois.com/amp/news/nation-world/what-happens-if-trump-and-biden-dont-reach-270-electoral-votes-2024-election-voters-candidates-polling-majority-constitution-amendment-house-congress-delegates-tie-andrew-jackson-john-quincy-adams

WSIL TV & WAND TV
— Trump Media lost more than $300 million last quarter on very little revenue – Matt Egan
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/consumer/trump-media-lost-more-than-300-million-last-quarter-on-very-little-revenue/article_50e6d348-7684-5474-a8fe-d358f8693198.html
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-media-and-technology-group-posts-more-than-300-million-net-loss-in-first-public/article_3b616c41-685f-5279-b169-a20cdfe3dccc.html

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Republicans try to soften stance on abortion as ‘abolitionists’ go farther – Sarah McCammon
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2024-05-21/republicans-try-to-soften-stance-on-abortion-as-abolitionists-go-farther

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— They more that you question the reported 2020 presidential election results, the more that Biden’s supporters destroy you, that is, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hates destroy you.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-election-deniers-moving-closer-to-gop-mainstream-report-shows-as-trump-allies-fill-congress/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-293/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-91/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Which candidates on ballots in your precinct have you done the most to help elect? I should write a book about the candidates on ballots in my precinct who I have done the most to help elect since 2000. I would focus on a) the signatures that I got for them for their nominating petitions, b) the sign locations that I got for them, c) their campaign literature that I distributed for them, and d) the promotion that I gave their fundraisers. I would focus on the aforesaid who have blamed me and have blamed my GOPUSA newsletters the most for their not getting as many votes as they expected and/or for their defeats. I would focus on the aforesaid who are taking and have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Should I write about my critics/opponents who do bad things that get into the public record and then punish me for my not covering that up? According to Wikipedia, “A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence, or other embarrassing information. Research has distinguished personal cover-ups (covering up one’s own misdeeds) from relational cover-ups (covering up someone else’s misdeeds). The expression is usually applied to people in positions of authority who abuse power to avoid or silence criticism or to deflect guilt of wrongdoing. Perpetrators of a cover-up (initiators or their allies) may be responsible for a misdeed, a breach of trust or duty, or a crime.” SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover-up – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Should I write about my critics/opponents who are the most nasty/vicious? I would focus on those who have the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or 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 those who use their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— University of Illinois, it’s your turn to eliminate woke DEI loyalty oaths – Mark Glennon (COMMENT: Constructively, to be accepted by the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, you have to sign a DEI loyalty oath. Because I refuse to do that, the aforesaid not only refuse to accept me, they get rid of me.)
https://wirepoints.org/university-of-illinois-its-your-turn-to-eliminate-woke-dei-loyalty-oaths-wirepoints-quickpoint/
— New 2023 School Report Cards reveal to parents Illinois’ dismal student outcomes – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/new-2023-school-report-cards-reveal-to-parents-illinois-dismal-student-outcomes-wirepoints/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Will Algonquin Township Republicans Hold a Primary Election to Select Candidates or Hold a Slating Caucus?
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/20/will-algonquin-township-republicans-hold-a-primary-election-to-select-candidates-or-hold-a-slating-caucus/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois among the highest for massive jury verdicts against companies – Kevin Bessler (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who paint themselves the most as being anti-plaintiff. They stress the lawsuits that I have filed. They glorify and praise, pander to, and serve as operatives/dupes for the defendants in the lawsuits that I have filed. They take many/big adverse actions against me.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_36b20920-16f0-11ef-b2b2-bb5b6afd693b.html

JEFF BERKOWITZ
— Could a scaled-up, empathetic “Big Tent Coalition” fix IL? Could Tim Ozinga, the Big Tent’s CEO, be the IL GOP GOV Candidate to fix IL’s education system, crime problems & lack of growth?
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/could-a-scaled-up-empathetic-big

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— U.N. helps Hamas. International body’s bias against Israel is undeniable. – Sean Durns
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/20/un-helps-hamas/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Biden wants the country to be more racist than it is – Zachary Faria (COMMENT: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat and RINO candidates and elected officials ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites as being racists and even worse things.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3010294/biden-wants-country-be-more-racist-than-it-is/

NEW YORK POST
— Migrants rushing to cross border now in case Biden loses in November: ‘We don’t want Trump’ – Jennie Taer
https://nypost.com/2024/05/20/us-news/migrants-rushing-to-cross-border-now-in-case-biden-loses/
— Biden’s divisive, defeatist HBCU speech proves he has nothing to offer black voters – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2024/05/20/opinion/joe-bidens-divisive-defeatist-hbcu-speech-proves-he-has-nothing-to-offer-black-voters/
— Joe Biden was racist and patronizing in his speech to Morehouse grads – Adam B. Coleman
https://nypost.com/2024/05/20/opinion/joe-biden-was-racist-and-patronizing-in-his-speech-to-morehouse-grads/

ACCURACY IN MEDIA
— New data exposes further flaws in 1619 Project – Tim Worstall
https://aim.org/2024/05/20/new-data-exposes-further-flaws-in-1619-project/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Biden calls discriminatory DEI policies the ‘core strength’ of America – Chris Donaldson (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/05/20/biden-calls-discriminatory-dei-policies-the-core-strength-of-america-1460497/

BREITBART
— Six Arrested in Chicago for Staging Sham Robberies to Aid Immigration Visa Requests – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/05/20/six-arrested-chicago-staging-sham-robberies-aid-immigration-visas-requests/
— Chinese Citizens Using Ecuador – and Tiktok – to Reach U.S. Border – CHRISTIAN K. CARUZO20
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/05/20/report-chinese-citizens-using-ecuador-tiktok-reach-u-s-border/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Commencement speech invite. Anti-Israel professors not happy with Biden’s commencement-speech. – Joshua Odutola
https://www.campusreform.org/article/anti-israel-professors-not-happy-bidens-commencement-speech-invite/25473

CENTER SQUARE
— Lawmakers press investigation into DEI agenda at the Pentagon – Casey Harper (COMMENT: My many Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans used Affirmative Action and DEI big time to get rid of me.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1d194cca-16d8-11ef-a580-f75eda2a1be5.html

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Evidence Democrats Are Corrupting Trump Hush Money Trial – George Rasley
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/democrats-are-corrupting-trump-hush-money-trial

DAILY WIRE
— The Chicago Way: How Obama Began Transforming America Into Cook County. When then-presidential candidate Barack Obama told a crowd in Columbia, Missouri, in October of 2008, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” he meant it. – Brad Schaeffer
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-chicago-way-how-obama-began-transforming-america-into-cook-county
— Over 60 Percent Of Independents Support Deporting Illegal Immigrants – Spencer Lindquist
https://www.dailywire.com/news/over-60-percent-of-independents-support-deporting-illegal-immigrants-poll-finds

FEDERALIST
— Court Rules Schools Can Force LGBT Ideology On Kids Against Parents’ Religious Objections – CHAD FELIX GREENE (COMMENT: Those who promote LGBTQ the most use against me the most that I attended Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962.)
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/21/court-rules-schools-can-force-lgbt-ideology-on-kids-against-parents-religious-objections/
— GOP-Led Bill Protects IVF Industry But Not The Babies It Routinely Kills – JORDAN BOYD
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/20/gop-led-bill-protects-ivf-industry-but-not-the-babies-it-routinely-kills/

FOX NEWS
— Our next health crisis is coming across the border. There’s still time to stop it. Biden’s broken border is letting immigrants enter US with health issues even if they have mumps, measles and TB. – Tom Homan
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/next-health-crisis-coming-across-border-theres-still-time-stop
— Biden wants to speed up backlog of migrant asylum seekers in blue cities as Dem pressure builds. The cities targeted by Biden include Chicago, New York City and Boston. – Adam Shaw
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-wants-speed-up-backlog-migrant-asylum-seekers-blue-cities-as-dem-pressure-builds

GOPUSA
— Trump Demands Biden Take Drug Test Before First Debate
https://www.gopusa.com/trump-demands-biden-take-drug-test-before-first-debate/

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Who Benefits From the Destabilization of the U.S.? – Mike Gonzalez
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/who-benefits-the-destabilization-the-us

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— ‘We’re all border states’ – Pat Droney
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/another-illegal-aliens-another-killing-this-time-in-west-virginia-were-all-border-states
— DHS is now protecting the privacy of terrorists – Sarah Akey
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/the-department-of-homeland-security-is-now-protecting-the-privacy-of-potential-terrorists

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Chicago Develops Exciting New Form of Gun Crime – JEFFREY BLEHAR
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/chicago-develops-exciting-new-form-of-gun-crime/

NEW AMERICAN
— CDC: Measles Breaks Out in Chicago Migrant Shelter Packed With Venezuelans – R. Cort Kirkwood
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/cdc-measles-breaks-out-in-chicago-migrant-shelter-packed-with-venezuelans/
— NGOs Rake In Billions Handling “Migrant” Kids for Federal Government; CEOs Get Rich – R. Cort Kirkwood
https://thenewamerican.com/us/crime/report-ngos-rake-in-billions-handling-migrant-kids-for-federal-government-ceos-get-rich/

NEWSMAX
— Chicago’s Death Spiral – Pastor David L. Lowery, Jr.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chicago-violence-death-spiral/2024/05/20/id/1165387/
— Biden’s Border Fiasco Means We and Our Veterans Come Last – Sen. Marsha Blackburn
https://www.newsmax.com/senmarshablackburn/border-catch-release/2024/05/20/id/1165431/
— Sens. Cruz, Britt Aim to Protect Legal Access to IVF – Fran Beyer
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ted-cruz-katie-britt-ivf/2024/05/20/id/1165381/
— 56% of Voters Support Deporting Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ipsos-immigration-deportation/2024/05/20/id/1165444/
— Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, lamented to Newsmax the treachery of migrants who, already in the U.S. illegally thanks to the Biden administration, then take advantage of federal law to get more protections for themselves while American citizens “take a back seat.” – Mark Swanson
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/ronny-jackson-biden-illegals/2024/05/20/id/1165465/
— Migrants Say They ‘Don’t Want Trump’ – Nicole Wells
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/migrants-donald-trump-joe-biden/2024/05/20/id/1165424/

PJ MEDIA
— California College Holding Five Segregated Graduations – CATHERINE SALGADO (COMMENT: Democrats used to promote integration. Now they promote segregation.)
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/05/20/california-college-holding-five-segregated-graduations-n4929192

PATRIOT POST
— Alien Base Invaders. Did you hear about the attempt by foreign nationals to breach the perimeter of the major Marine Corps training center in Quantico, Virginia? – GARY BAUER
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/106948-alien-base-invaders-2024-05-20

TOWNHALL
— Biden Blasts an ‘Extreme’ SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action. – Guy Benson (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors used Affirmative Action big time to waste the careers of and to get rid of their Republican employees like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/05/20/biden-blasts-an-extreme-scotus-ruling-on-affirmative-action-but-theres-just-one-problem-n2639266

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— N.Y.C. Parents Rebuked for Questioning Transgender Student-Athlete Rules. Over a dozen Democratic elected officials criticized a parent group that asked for a review of rules that let students play on sports teams that align with their gender identity.- Troy Closson
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/nyregion/transgender-athletes-nyc-public-schools.html
— To push legal weed is to push illegal weed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/opinion/marijuana-legalization-regulation.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders want illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINO leader want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/20/trump-immigration-undocumented-economy/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE: Tired of your state politics? These residents are looking to secession as the solution. An Oregon ballot initiative is the latest in a long line of secession efforts that speak to the nation’s sharp divide. – Trevor Hughes
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/19/oregon-idaho-state-secession-national-divorce/73677225007/

ASSOICIATED PRESS
— Nikki Haley has held out on a Trump endorsement. Her move could shape the presidential race. (COMMENT: To not endorse Trump is to endorse Biden, that is, to officially become a Democrat.)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nikki-haley-has-held-out-on-a-trump-endorsement-her-move-could-shape-the-presidential-race

MSN
— America’s largest LGBTQ rights group plans $15 million swing state blitz to re-elect Biden- Sahil Kapur (COMMENT: Those who promote LGBTQ have taken many of the biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/america-s-largest-lgbtq-rights-group-plans-15-million-swing-state-blitz-to-re-elect-biden/ar-BB1mIaVL
— American Citizens Being Turned Away So NYC Hospital Can Give Health Care to Illegals – Warner Todd Huston (COMMENT: How long are the emergency room wait times at your hospital and why?)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/american-citizens-being-turned-away-so-nyc-hospital-can-give-health-care-to-illegals/ar-AA1i3OeO
— Biden tells black graduates Republicans ‘don’t see you in the future’ (COMMENT: How successful have Democrat and RINO leaders been getting Blacks to hate Republicans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/biden-tells-black-graduates-republicans-don-t-see-you-in-the-future/ss-BB1mHWBl
— Black Bostonians demand more than $15billion in slavery reparations – Isabelle Stanley (COMMENT: Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.)
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/black-bostonians-demand-more-than-15billion-in-slavery-reparations/ar-BB1mJPlh

NEWSWEEK
— Migrants Flood New York ID System – Nick Mordowanec
https://www.newsweek.com/migrants-id-cards-new-york-city-asylum-seekers-1902475

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Biden to Morehouse Graduates: America Hates You. As his black support erodes, he plays up racial resentments to the class of 2024. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-morehouse-college-speech-racial-division-9573a404
— The Highest Paid CEOs of 2023. Stock awards push median package to a record $15.7 million; tech executives top the list. – Theo Francis (COMMENT: I should write a book about those who have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me the most since 1966 as being overpaid.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/highest-paid-ceo-2023-charts-0d65be3b
— Higher Ed Has a Progressive Disease. Can It Be Reversed? The prognosis seems grim, but I found signs of life as a proud father at Notre Dame’s commencement. – Gerard Baker
https://www.wsj.com/articles/higher-ed-has-a-progressive-disease-can-it-be-reversed-958333b5
— Suddenly Democrats (hint that they) Care About the Border. Biden and Schumer begin to see their political vulnerability. – John Thune
https://www.wsj.com/articles/suddenly-democrats-care-about-the-border-biden-schumer-f11635aa
— FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg to Resign Following Report Detailing Sexual Harassment at Agency. Gruenberg plans to stay until successor is confirmed, avoiding scenario that would leave a Republican as acting chairman. – Rebecca Ballhaus and Andrew Ackerman (COMMENT: On could compare and contrast Gruenberg with Charles Bowsher who ran GAO 1981-1996. Under him, GAO got rid of virtually all its employees like me who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/fdic-chairman-martin-gruenberg-resignation-ab7fed5f
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg bowed to pressure to resign from the bank regulator after an external investigation found widespread sexual harassment at the agency and lawmakers of both parties berated his leadership.)
— FRONT PAGE: Computer-Science Majors Graduate Into a World of Fewer Opportunities. Those from top schools can still get jobs. They are just not all going to Facebook or Google. – Katherine Bindley, Corrie Driebusch, and Lindsay Ellis (COMMENT: In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should have majored in accounting at UIC and NIU 1966-1970.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/computer-science-majors-job-market-7ad443bf

FORBES & FAST COMPANY
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI and ESG to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffraikes/2024/05/20/want-to-ensure-dei-works-for-your-company-have-some-standards/?sh=4ee039987a46
https://www.fastcompany.com/91123048/war-on-esg-and-dei

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Given a choice between granting amnesty to illegal immigrants and deporting all of them, Americans voters favor deportation by a double-digit margin.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/amnesty_for_illegal_immigrants_or_mass_deportations

WION NEWS
— Lawsuit challenges Southwest Airlines’ Hispanic student ticket program as discriminatory. – Shashwat Sankranti (COMMENT: To give one group preference is to discriminate against another group.)
https://www.wionews.com/business-economy/lawsuit-challenges-southwest-airlines-hispanic-student-ticket-program-as-discriminatory-723748

GUARDIAN
— Wealthy residents of Chicago may live 30 years longer than poorer ones. Can a new mayor help close the gap? – Aliya Uteuova
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/chicago-environmental-racism

PRIDE
— Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ and to demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservative Republicans.
https://www.pride.com/gay-news/pope-francis-lgbt-conservatives

May 20, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— President Joe Biden faces silent protests over Israel-Hamas war at Morehouse commencement speech. “I support peaceful, nonviolent protests,” Biden said. – Michelle Stoddart, Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow, and Selina Wang
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-joe-biden-faces-silent-protests-over-handling-of-israel-hamas-war-at-morehouse-college-commencement-speech-in-atlanta/14843871/

NBC5
— At least 27 shot, 1 fatally, across Chicago in overnight shootings
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/at-least-27-shot-1-fatally-across-chicago-in-overnight-shootings/3441079/

WGN9
— Groups gather at Chicago police district for several causes ahead of DNC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRy-bVbMpLo

CBS2
— Demonstrators vow to disrupt DNC protest in Chicago with or without a permit – Andrew Ramos
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/demonstrators-rally-outside-cpd-station-dnc-protest-chicago/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— In pro-Palestinian rally at CPD station, coalition calls for mobilization ahead of DNC in August – ADRIANA PÉREZ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/19/chicago-dnc-rally/
— At Evanston unity rally, a call for Gaza cease-fire and hostage release: ‘We need to tell a new story’ – AVANI KALRA
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/19/israel-palestine-vigil-evanston/
— The economy trumps all when it comes to the presidential race – Laura Washington (COMMENT: To elect Biden, anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly drive up the stock market.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/20/column-presidential-race-joe-biden-donald-trump-economy-washington/
— Chicago’s fragile trade-show business stands to lose if the Democratic National Convention turns ugly. – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/20/editorial-chicagos-fragile-trade-show-business-stands-to-lose-if-the-democratic-national-convention-turns-ugly/
— 3 women allege grooming, sexual misconduct by former high school teacher and coach. Administrators ignored opportunities to protect students, lawsuits say. – CHRISTY GUTOWSKI
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/19/dallas-till-lawsuits-morton-east-elmwood-park/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Nearly 30 shot, one killed in weekend violence across Chicago
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/05/19/shootings-gun-violence-6-wounded-east-garfield-park-albany-avenue
— Pro-Palestine groups rally at 18th District police station. Protesters marched through the neighborhood after the rally, flying Palestinian flags and wearing kaffiyehs. They called on Chicago leaders to divest from Israel and sought the release of Illinois inmates wrongfully convicted and sentenced. – Emmanuel Camarillo
https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/05/19/israel-hamas-war-pro-palestine-groups-rally-18th-district-police-station-northwestern-uc-city-hall
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the future is ever-increasingly bright for younger minorities and younger females because Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly give them more and more and more preference. But to give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group. Because younger White men are ever-increasingly crashing and burning, fewer and fewer and fewer of them are “marriage material.” Back in the good old days, that is, the 1960s and 1970s, before I got married, even though I was a White male who had to work his way through college, I was able to a) graduate debt-free with a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) earn a master’s degree when I was 27, c) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, and 25, and d) buy a new townhome when I was 24, a studio condo in downtown Chicago when I was 25, and a one bedroom condo there when I was 27. When got married when I was 29 years old in 1978, my salary was $106,785/year in today’s dollars.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/well/2024/05/19/pilsen-after-school-mental-health-wellness-girls-group-positive-coping-skills

DAILY HERALD
— Graduation ceremonies – Paul Valade (COMMENT: Who attended your graduation ceremonies? My parents attended my Crete-Monee High School graduation ceremony in 1966 and my wife attended my Loyola graduation ceremony in 1976, my DePaul graduation ceremony in 1980, and my IIT graduation ceremony in 1997.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240519/news/photo-gallery-lake-zurich-palatine-york-and-naperville-central-north-graduation-ceremonies/

DAILY NORTHWESTERN & SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/05/19/city/evanston-pride-pflag-gender-affirming-evanston-celebrate-queer-joy/
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2024/05/16/springfields-pridefest-organizer-wants-people-to-enjoy-the-journey/73643926007/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Soon, under the Democrats, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/education/2024/05/20/close-to-8500-springfield-kids-eligible-for-new-food-assistance-program/73701091007/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/marijuana-may-soon-be-a-schedule-iii-drug-what-will-change/

CWB CHICAGO
— Knife fight in downtown Chicago ends with no injuries, stunned bystanders
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/05/chicago-magnificent-mile-knife-altercation-no-injuries.html

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— FEBRUARY 21, 2023 FLASHBACK: Will my critics/opponents give Shia Kapos and the rest of the Democrat news media extreme preference at the Illinois Republican Party State Convention in Collinsville May 24-25 like they did at their February 20, 2023 DeSantis event in Elmhurst? Will they stop me from attending the convention? Failing that, will they limit/stop my access to everything? They did everything that they could to stop me a) from learning about their DeSantis event, b) from attending their event, c) from speaking with anyone at their event, and d) from reporting on their event. My critics/opponent have taken many big adverse actions against me to curry favor with their many friends in the Democrat news media. I should write about that.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2023/02/21/desantis-pokes-at-pritzker-in-illinois-00083731

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-292/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you anticipate/expect the next adverse action against you will be by your critics/opponents? For me, it is getting a registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me and to defeat me as Precinct Committeeman. So far, my critics/opponents have succeed in a) removing me from the 2024 Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee, b) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) ending my bid to be selected to fill a Wheaton City Council vacancy in 2019, d) gerrymandering my precinct in 2015, e) ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, f) ending my membership on the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee in 2011, g) ended my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2010 and 2004, h) ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, i) almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, j) ending my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, and k) ending my membership on the American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board of directors in 2004. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker squeezes Democratic legislators with threat to cut grants for their districts – Ted Dabrowski
https://wirepoints.org/pritzker-squeezes-democratic-legislators-with-threat-to-cut-grants-for-their-districts-wirepoints/
— The Chicago Teachers union doesn’t just want 9% annual raises. They want that and more.
https://wirepoints.org/the-chicago-teachers-union-doesnt-just-want-9-annual-raises-they-want-that-and-even-more-wirepoints-on-the-shaun-thompson-show/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS CONSIDER ‘WORKER FREEDOM OF SPEECH ACT’ TO RESTRICT EMPLOYERS – Dylan Sharkey (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office would have vehemently opposed this. They opposed anything and everything that might hinder their hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I remember when GAO’s older White male GS-14s (currently $136,414-$177,341/year) wore black arm bands at work to protest GAO’s efforts to get rid of them. GAO soon got rid of those employees who wore those arm bands.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-lawmakers-consider-worker-freedom-of-speech-act-to-restrict-employers/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— LGBTQ movement working to transform society in its own image. – Robert Knight
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/19/lgbtq-movement-working-to-transform-society-in-its/
— Pope Francis blasted critics of his 11-year pontificate Sunday, saying conservative Catholics manifest “a suicidal attitude.” – Mark A. Kellner (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, conservatives are ever-increasingly demonized, denigrated, and condemned.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/19/pope-francis-tells-cbs-60-minutes-that-us-conserva/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Divisiveness destroys the Republican Party – Everett Piper (COMMENT: I should write a book about the most divisive leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization since 2000.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/19/divisiveness-destroys-republican-party/

NEW YORK POST
— Team Biden’s sleazy plan to get the unpopular prez reelected — by any means necessary – Victor Davis Hanson (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect ever-increasing negative campaigning and vote buying.)
https://nypost.com/2024/05/19/opinion/team-bidens-sleazy-plan-to-get-the-unpopular-prez-reelected-by-any-means-necessary/
— Chicago mom left waiting hours for help after 911 call for home invasion: ‘We have no units to send you’ – Katherine Donlevy
https://nypost.com/2024/05/18/us-news/chicago-mom-left-waiting-hours-for-help-after-two-masked-bandits-break-into-her-home/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Buried news: Biden administration refuses to release data about how many ‘asylum’ cases are waved through by his asylum officers. – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/buried_news_biden_administration_refuses_to_release_data_about_how_many_asylum_cases_are_waved_through_by_his_asylum_officers.html
— Even as leftists relentlessly push ‘trans,’ hard evidence shows how suicidally dangerous it is. – Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/even_as_leftists_relentlessly_push_trans_hard_evidence_shows_how_suicidally_dangerous_it_is.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘Butchers were murderously wrong’: New study finds risk of suicide jumps 12-fold AFTER gender surgery. – Vivek Saxena
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/05/19/butchers-were-murderously-wrong-new-study-finds-risk-of-suicide-jumps-12-fold-after-gender-surgery-1460405/

BREITBART
— California Assembly Passes Apology for Slavery, Despite Entering Union as ‘Free State’ – JOEL B. POLLAK (COMMENT: Because of my bad demographics, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I should pay reparations big time, that is, that I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time. In my defense, I have always stressed that my ancestors have always lived in northeast Illinois.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/19/california-assembly-passes-apology-for-slavery-despite-entering-union-as-free-state/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Anti-Israel professors not happy about Biden’s Commencement speech invite – Joshua Odutola
https://www.campusreform.org/article/anti-israel-professors-not-happy-bidens-commencement-speech-invite/25473

COLLEGE FIX
— Stanford now has 177 DEI employees – KATLYN ANDERSON (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to get rid of those who are heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-veteran, non-poor, gun-owner, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about leaders of the following who promote DEI the most: Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-now-has-177-dei-employees-research-finds/

DAILY CALLER
— Forget ‘Never Trumpers’ — More Voters Now Say They’ll Never Vote For Biden
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/18/forget-never-trumpers-more-voters-now-say-theyll-never-vote-for-biden/

DAILY WIRE
— Rubio Supports Mass Deportation Of Illegal Aliens Following ‘Invasion Of The Country’ – ROBERT SCHMAD
https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-supports-mass-deportation-of-illegal-aliens-following-invasion-of-the-country

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Desperate Biden Panders to NAACP, Compares Conservative SCOTUS Justices to Segregationists. “Today, the resistance comes in other insidious forms. An extreme movement led by my predecessor and his MAGA Republican allies, backed by an extreme Supreme Court, gutted affirmative action in college admissions.” – Stacey Matthews (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders have always used Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI to get rid of Republicans. I should write a book about how Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of me.)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/05/desperate-biden-panders-to-naacp-compares-conservative-scotus-justices-to-segregationists/

MRC TV
— As United Methodist Church Empties Out, PBS Leans Toward Religious Left, LGBTQ Flakes – CLAY WATERS
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/united-methodist-church-empties-out-pbs-leans-toward-religious-left-lgbtq-flakes

NEWSBUSTERS
— Leftist Media HATED Republicans Long Before Trump – Rich Noyes (COMMENT: I should write a book about how the leftist media has treated me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000.)
https://newsbusters.org/node/284194/print

PJ MEDIA
— How the West Was Woke, to the Point of Near Extinction – KEVIN DOWNEY JR.
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2024/05/19/how-the-west-was-woke-to-the-point-of-near-extinction-n4929164

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Billionaires, Including Family of Gov. JB Pritzker, Funding Protests Donate Millions to House Dems
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/17/billionaires_funding_protests_donate_millions_to_house_dems__150960.html

TOWNHALL
— What If Biden Wins in November? Part Two. – Mark Lewis (COMMENT: RINOs, that is, anti-conservatives, ever-increasingly talk and act like they want Biden to win.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2024/05/20/what-if-biden-wins-in-november-part-two-n2639268

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Biden Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Reason for Border Invasion
https://www.westernjournal.com/2024-election-biden-says-quiet-part-loud-reason-border-invasion/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— Protesters Stormed an Ex-Senator’s Office and Demanded She Leave. She Refused. Heidi Heitkamp was in her office at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics when protesters occupied the building. – Monica Davey and Julie Bosman
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/us/uchicago-protests-politics-institute.html
— See How Easily A.I. Chatbots Can Be Taught to Spew Disinformation – Jeremy White (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters spew disinformation. According to them, articles that promote direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members and conservative principles is disinformation. I should write about my biggest critics/opponents. They include leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/19/technology/biased-ai-chatbots.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/us/politics/trump-trial-tactics.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/nyregion/trump-trial-cohen-testimony.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/nyregion/trump-trial-ny-courthouse.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/opinion/trump-trial-election-appeal.html

WASHINGTON POST
— To promote DEI is to get rid of conservatives. Constructively, if you do not promote DEI, leaders of the following get rid of you: Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. The aforesaid have certainly gotten rid of me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/19/universities-dei-academic-freedom/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/19/trump-nra-dallas-jury-verdict-hush-money/73747343007/
— As Saigon fell 49 years ago, my father flew us onto the USS Midway in a fraught escape – Ngan Nguyen (COMMENT: My critics/opponents blame America’s losing the war on those who avoided the draft, especially those like me who were 1-A, conservative, Republican, White, male, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write a book about those who continue to use my avoiding the draft against me the most.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/04/28/vietnam-fall-saigon-escape-uss-midway/73397138007/

NEWSWEEK
— New Yorkers Blame Migrants for City’s Crime Rate – Matthew Impelli
https://www.newsweek.com/new-york-city-migrants-immigration-crime-poll-1901956

MSN
— 7.2 million illegals entered US under Biden administration, larger than population of 36 states
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/7-2-million-illegals-entered-us-under-biden-administration-larger-than-population-of-36-states/ar-BB1iEVIf
— Organization aims to combat Illinois’ teacher shortage by offering support, mentorship – Carolina Garibay (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who arranged for my transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and was finally able to get me assigned to audits of IRS and promote me in 1986.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/organization-aims-to-combat-illinois-teacher-shortage-by-offering-support-mentorship/ar-AA1frRuW
— Democratic National Convention planning hampered by fears Brandon Johnson will ‘defend’ protesters – Elaine Mallon
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-national-convention-planning-hampered-by-fears-brandon-johnson-will-defend-protesters/ar-BB1ms82u

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Downside of Delayed Gratification. We’re all told that it pays to be disciplined in our spending and consumption. But the advice can backfire. – Jacqueline R. Rifkin (COMMENT: Since we got married in 1978, my and I have a) tried to live on just one of our incomes and b) save as much as we could for our retirement.)
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/money-discipline-downsides-delayed-gratification-5770e346

FORBES
— Democrats and RINOs use “allyship” to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2024/05/19/3-ways-allyship-programs-prevent-business-risk/

SHRM
— Next Version of E-Verify Will Bring Big Changes – Roy Maurer (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes a) promote illegal immigration big time and b) vehemently oppose E-Verify.)
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/talent-acquisition/everify-plus-big-changes-2024-pilot
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The proposed features for the newest version of E-Verify would fundamentally change the way employment eligibility verification is conducted, according to a proposal from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). E-Verify NextGen—scheduled for release in 2024—integrates the Form I-9 process with E-Verify, the government’s electronic employment verification system, and shifts much of the process away from HR and to the new hires themselves. Employers must currently complete a new Form I-9 for each new hire and enter the information into E-Verify if they are enrolled in the program. “The proposed changes are significant,” said John Fay, an attorney and director of product strategy at Equifax Workforce Solutions. Fay was able to participate in a demo of the product. Using E-Verify NextGen, new hires would electronically enter their biographic information, citizenship or immigration status, and acceptable identity documents into E-Verify using their myEverify secure personal account. Once the employee’s identity and employment eligibility are confirmed by the system, the employer would be notified and can finish the verification by examining the documents—remotely, if taking advantage of the new alternative verification option. The submitted information will be used to create a completed Form I-9 available for download and storage by the employer. The current process relies on employer participation to correctly enter information on the Form I-9 and then transcribe that information into E-Verify, a practice which is less secure and sometimes results in data entry errors which can result in E-Verify mismatches, Fay said. “The idea behind NextGen is that the employee will be less likely to make a mistake with their own data,” he said. In addition, new hires would be notified if further action is needed to determine their employment eligibility, removing the employer’s primary role in the mismatch resolution process. Employees would receive notification of and resolve E-Verify mismatches directly with the government without requiring the employer to be an intermediary. This would create a more secure and private process that can speed up case resolution, according to USCIS. “The fact that employers are not involved in the process may sound appealing, but I know that employers have a vested interest in the verification process and will want to have a role in the process, so that could be an issue,” Fay said. Another new development is that employees would be able to carry their verification status with them when they change jobs. Currently, employees and employers must complete a new Form I-9 and enter a new E-Verify case—if an employer uses E-Verify—each time the employee starts a new job. “A key feature of NextGen is to allow employees to save their information in their myE-Verify account to be used for future employers,” USCIS said. “Once they receive their unique reference code from a new employer, the employee can simply update their information if necessary and complete the NextGen process with their new employer.” Fay said this feature—which still needs to be worked out in practice—is a common-sense approach. “If I’m a U.S. citizen and change jobs as much as some people do these days, why do I have to continually go through employment verification?” he asked. Overall, Fay said that E-Verify NextGen will be very useful for those employers still completing I-9s on paper. “For them, if they are also using E-Verify, it is a very manual process,” he said. “This will be a more seamless experience.” But Fay said that he’s not sure if E-Verify NextGen is the best option for larger employers because it doesn’t offer everything that an electronic I-9 system does. “Without a true electronic I-9 system, you still have to store the forms somewhere, you still have to do reverifications, you still have to make corrections and purge forms,” he said. “NextGen does not do any of those things. For many larger organizations, the electronic I-9 process is connected to the onboarding technology, the applicant tacking system, the payroll provider, which are all part of an integrated workflow. NextGen is not there yet but it’s good to see the government is moving in that direction.” E-Verify Required for Some E-Verify is voluntary except for federal contractors and in certain states which require all employers to use it, including Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. But evidence shows that E-Verify compliance is rarely enforced at the state level. Those employers not using E-Verify will still be required to complete the Form I-9 for new hires. Experts believe that the process enhancements included in NextGen are meant to be an incentive for more employers to voluntarily use the system. “The government is absolutely signaling to employers to consider using E-Verify because it can make the onboarding experience smoother,” Fay said. “It also plugs in nicely with the new alternative virtual procedure.” E-Verify NextGen will not replace the standard version of E-Verify for the time being and E-Verify employers will be able to choose which process they will utilize—the current E-Verify process or the NextGen version.)

MEDIATE
— Hate-filled America-hating America-haters ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting the Pope to destroy America.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/madness-pope-francis-denounces-attempts-to-limit-migration-from-southern-border-in-60-minutes-interview/
— Democrats ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of those who are heterosexual, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-veteran, non-poor, gun-owner, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/biden-calls-values-of-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-americas-core-strength-at-detroit-naacp-dinner/

BOARDERLESS MAGAZINE
— Navigating Chicago’s Immigration Court Alone. Fighting for a chance to stay, many immigrants wade alone through backlogs and attorney shortages that plague the immigration court system.
https://borderlessmag.org/2024/05/14/immigration-court-federal-backlog-attorney-shortages-new-arrivals-chicago-illinois/

PRIDE
— Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican will come out as being anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-married people, anti-rich people, anti-draft avoiders, anti-gun owners, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.pride.com/coming-out/celebrities-who-have-come-out-2024#rebelltitem1

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Re-Evaluating the ‘Essay Carveout’ After the Supreme Court barred affirmative action, many selective colleges added essay prompts focused on identity and diversity. Will they hold up under legal scrutiny? – Liam Knox (COMMENT: In my Loyola application in 1972 and in DePaul application in 1976, I stated that my IRS employee manual encouraged IRS employees like me to take graduate business and accounting courses and that was why I wanted to take those courses. But outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically, to disallow those courses, my Democrat IRS superiors ignored the aforesaid and argued that I took the courses to qualify myself for a new trade or business and to get a job in the private sector.)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-age/2024/05/20/examining-admissions-essays-post-affirmative-action

DAILY MAIL
— Extremists plotting protests at Democratic Convention include Missouri man charged with spying for Russia, sparking fears Kremlin could seek to unleash chaos in Chicago. Jesse Nevel, 34, allegedly conspired with an FSB agent to ‘sow discord’ in the US. The far left activist is now involved in plans to disrupt the DNC this summer. Nevel, from St. Louis, Missouri, denies that he has ever worked for the Kremlin. – MILES DILWORTH
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13392249/extremists-protests-democratic-convention-missouri-man-spying-russia-kremlin.html
— Wealthy Texas enclave steps up secession bid as feud with woke city leaders over crime crisis explodes. Lost Creek neighborhood residents who wanted to leave Austin won 91% of vote. Texas capital city dealing with 500 police shortfall, public safety crisis. Soros-backed Austin DA letting killers and rapists walk free. – MARYANN MARTINEZ
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-13421905/texas-austin-secession-vote-lost-creek-crime.html

GUARDIAN
— Can Chicago’s mayor tackle environmental racism in one of the most segregated US cities? Brandon Johnson promised to address the city’s longstanding inequities – advocates want to make the most of the moment. – Aliya Uteuova
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/chicago-environmental-racism

May 19, 2024

WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL
— Wisconsin GOP convention spotlights abortion, higher education, immigration and national security – Steve Schuster (COMMENT: What actions will the Illinois Republican Party take at its State Convention in Collinsville May 24-25?)
https://wislawjournal.com/2024/05/18/wisgop-convention-spotlights-abortion-higher-education-immigration-and-national-security/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There may have been a few empty seats, but there was certainly no lack of heat as the 2024 Republican Party of Wisconsin State Convention kicked off in Appleton Saturday. Elected officials from Washington, D.C. to Madison spoke about issues impacting Wisconsinites, ranging from abortion and immigration to the University of Wisconsin’s failure to enforce the law and condemn antisemitic behavior on the Milwaukee and Madison campuses. Opening remarks were given by Brian Schimming, Chairman Republican Party of Wisconsin. “Are we going to do what it takes to save America?” Schimming asked the audience. Foreign policy Speaking on the Federal legislative panel, Senator Ron Johnson, Rep. Van Orden, Rep. Bryan Steil tore apart the Democrats responses and failure to condemn antisemitism and enforce state law during recent protests. “We must stand with Israel. I stand with Israel,” said Van Orden, and the room applauded. . .Abortion Johnson urged the party to remain united to protect the right to life (pro-life). “Within the Republican Party, we have a broad spectrum … I think we all agree that life begins at conception, want to protect life,” Johnson said. “I completely respect that. But that’s not where probably most Americans, most Wisconsinites, and probably even most Republicans land,” Johnson added. . .The conservative media also was critical of the recent mainstream coverage of the UWM Pro-Palestinian protesters. A panelist said the mainstream media described the protests as “peaceful … or they (pro-Palestinian protesters) were just delivering food, or praying” when in reality they were chanting antisemitic slogans, graffitied sidewalks and walls, and erected illegal tents. “The things I described did not make most, if not all media reports,” the panelist said, noting “the media is censoring things.”)

WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO
— Ron Johnson calls on GOP to set aside ‘squabbles’ on abortion in order to win elections. Johnson says most Americans, Wisconsinites, ‘even most Republicans’ don’t support total abortion bans. – RICH KREMER
https://www.wpr.org/news/ron-johnson-gop-set-aside-squabbles-abortion-win-elections

ABC MILWAUKEE
— Wisconsin Republicans preach unity at state convention ahead of November. Republicans gathered in Appleton this weekend for their party’s annual convention. – Matt Smith
https://www.wisn.com/article/wisconsin-republicans-preach-unity-at-state-convention-ahead-of-november/60833567

WISCONSIN POLITICS
— Party activists at the state GOP convention today elected Waukesha County GOP Chair Terry Dittrich and Pam Travis, one of the Republicans who submitted a false slate of electors for Trump in 2020, to fill two of Wisconsin’s three slots on the Republican National Committee.
https://www.wispolitics.com/2024/gop-activists-elect-dittrich-travis-to-rnc/

WKOW
— Top Wisconsin Republicans Attend State Convention in Appleton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmaXwXnUIu4

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Questions concerning the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Convention in Collinsville May 24-25 – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who will the speakers at the convention be?
— How many delegates will attend and how many from each of the 102 counties?
— Who represents each of the 17 congressional districts on the IRP Platform and Resolutions Committee and what is their contact information?
— Who has replaced me as the member who represents the 3rd Congressional District on that committee and what reasons have been given for my removal?
— When will the committee post on the IRP website its most recent draft platform and list of resolutions?
— At the convention on May 24, which committee members are going to vote for or against the resolution that calls for direct election of IRP State Central Committee members?
— At the convention on May 24, which committee members are going to vote for or against strengthening or weakening the following in the platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, enforcement of immigration laws including adding E-Verity, discouragement of booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, protection of Second Amendment rights, and equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving)?
— Who are all the candidates for IRP National Committeeman and Committeewoman? What are their qualifications? At this point, how many votes do each of them have?

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who leads conservatives in Illinois today? Hopefully, by now, those leaders know which of the 17 members on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee are going to vote to strengthen the IRP platform and which ones are going to vote to weaken it. Because IRP leaders ever-increasingly say and do less to defend and advance the following planks in the Republican Party platform, I fear that efforts are underway to weaken those planks: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). IRP leaders ever-increasingly talk and/or act like they believe that to win elections in Illinois, the IRP has to be Democrat-Lite if not officially dump the aforesaid planks. If anti-conservative IRP State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee members win by small margins on May 24 in Collinsville, conservative leaders should be ready to immediately file timely minority reports like the one that they filed at the 2016 convention so that delegates can vote for them on May 25. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Those who want to drive conservatives like me out of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) and destroy the IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO use the current system to elect IRP State Central Committee (SCC) members. So of course, they vehemently oppose direct election of IRP SCC members. They take all the adverse actions that they can to get rid of Republican Precinct Committeemen like me who support direct election. So far, they have a) ended my membership on the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee this year, b) ended my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) ended my bid to be appointed to fill a Wheaton City Council vacancy in 2019, d) gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, e) ended my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, f) ended my membership on the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee in 2011, g) ended my service as the MTRO webmaster in 2010 and 2004, h) ended my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, i) almost got ICRC to censure me in 2006, j) ended my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, and k) ended my membership on the American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board of directors in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

DOUG IBENDAHL
— Questions for all direct election opponents. The opponents owe all of us an answer to every one of these reasonable questions. (COMMENT: Doug lists 30 questions. I could list the 30 biggest adverse actions that direct election opponents have taken against me since 2000 because I promote direct election. I would focus on the pretexts that they used. I would focus on those who publicly say they favor direct election, but privately opposed it. I would focus on past and present 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, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists.)
https://dougelstonibendahl.substack.com/p/questions-for-all-direct-election

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/la-lgbt-center-gala-celebrates-with-the-stars-at-annual/14840969/

NBC5
— Missouri candidate with ties to the KKK can stay on the Republican ballot, judge rules. The candidate describes himself as “pro-white” but denies being racist or antisemitic. – AP (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the more that the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) do not want you to seek any kind of office: conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. MTRO leaders are overjoyed that I was removed from the 2024 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. They vehemently opposed my seeking to be appointed to fill a Wheaton City Council vacancy in 2019. They vehemently opposed my seeking to be the MTRO Treasurer in 2004. They refused to appoint me as a delegate to the 2004 IRP State Convention.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/missouri-candidate-kkk-can-stay-on-republican-ballot/3440913/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A longshot Missouri gubernatorial candidate with ties to the Ku Klux Klan will stay on the Republican ticket, a judge ruled Friday. Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker denied a request by the Missouri GOP to kick Darrell McClanahan out of the August Republican primary. McClanahan is running against Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, state Sen. Bill Eigel and others for the GOP nomination to replace Gov. Mike Parson, who is barred by term limits from seeking reelection. McClanahan’s lawyer, Dave Roland, said the ruling ensures that party leaders do not have “almost unlimited discretion to choose who’s going to be allowed on a primary ballot.” . . . The Missouri GOP accepted his party dues but denounced him after a former state lawmaker posted photos on social media that appear to show McClanahan making the Nazi salute. McClanahan confirmed the accuracy of the photos to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In his decision, Walker wrote that the Republican Party “has made clear that it does not endorse his candidacy, and it remains free to publicly disavow McClanahan and any opinions the plaintiff believes to be antithetical to its values.” “I’m not sure they ever actually intended to win this case,” said McClanahan’s lawyer, Roland. “I think the case got filed because the Republican Party wanted to make a very big public show that they don’t want to be associated with racism or anti-Semitism. And the best way that they could do that was filing a case that they knew was almost certain to lose.” The Associated Press’ emailed requests for comment to the Missouri GOP executive director and its lawyer were not immediately returned Friday. But Missouri GOP lawyers have said party leaders did not realize who McClanahan was when he signed up as a candidate back in February. McClanahan has argued that the Missouri GOP was aware of the beliefs. He previously ran as a Republican for U.S. Senate in 2022. In a separate lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League last year, McClanahan claimed the organization defamed him by calling him a white supremacist in an online post. In his lawsuit against the ADL, McClanahan described himself as a “Pro-White man.” McClanahan wrote that he is not a member of the Ku Klux Klan; he said received an honorary one-year membership. And he said he attended a “private religious Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony falsely described as a cross burning.”)

CBS2
— Chicago increases police patrols along lakefront amid beach safety concerns – Sara Machi
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-beach-safety-police-patrol/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— After estimates say city lost population, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin says he is ‘thoroughly disgusted’ with U.S. Census Bureau. – STEVE LORD
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/17/after-estimates-say-city-lost-population-aurora-mayor-richard-irvin-says-he-is-thoroughly-disgusted-with-u-s-census-bureau/

DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County Auditor at least takes responsibility for delayed reports – Editorial (COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have falsely hinted/implied/argued/shouted the most that I wanted to run for DuPage County Auditor. I would focus on those who have ignored/dismissed/belittled the most what I did to help elect Bob Grogan in 2020, 2016, 2012, and 2008 and Jim Rasins in 2004 and 2000. I would focus on those who have ignored/dismissed/belittled the most my qualifications for the job: a) worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $115,439-$150,075/year, b) worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year, c) became a licensed CPA, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor and CPA examinations on my first attempt, e) became a Certified Forensic Accountant, Financial Services Auditor, Government Financial Manager, and Fraud Examiner, and f) earned master’s degrees in finance, accounting, and business.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240518/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-dupage-county-auditor-at-least-takes-responsibility-for-delayed-reports/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Protestants like me who do not hate Trump. My critics/opponents, their operative, and their dupes have always used against me my having been baptized in 1948, raised, and confirmed in 1962 as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I should write about those who continue to do that the most since 2015. They stress that I am not a member of any church, that I do not attend church services, and that I do not give money to a church.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/jesus-is-their-savior-trump-is-their-candidate-ex-presidents-backers-say-he-shares-faith/article_8037a15e-73d8-5e74-863b-676cf54c79ad.html
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-jesus-is-their-savior-trump-is-their-candidate-ex-presidents-backers-say-he-shares-faith-values/

FOX MILWAUKEE
— The Republican Party of Wisconsin officially endorsed Eric Hovde as its U.S. Senate candidate during the state party convention in Appleton. (COMMENT: What actions will the Illinois Republican Party take at its State Convention in Collinsville May 24-25?)
https://www.fox6now.com/video/1458088

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Anticipate/expect that Democrats will promote illegal voting the most in the battleground/wing states.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-noncitizen-voting-already-illegal-in-federal-elections-becomes-a-centerpiece-of-2024-gop-messaging/
— Why Illinois professional licenses could be delayed – Brian Weckerly (COMMENT: Illinois approved my CPA license application promptly in 1981 when I was 32 years old. But my Democrat GAO superiors, none of whom were licensed CPAs, ignored/dismissed/belittled my getting that license. They stressed that Charles Bowsher, the head of GAO, had not taken the CPA examination, let alone passed the examination, let alone became a licensed CPA.)
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/state-news/illinois-news/why-illinois-professional-licenses-could-be-delayed/

WSIL TV
— Democrats used to promote integration, but now they promote segregation.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/even-with-school-choice-some-black-families-find-options-lacking-decades-after-brown-v-board/article_e6aa14c6-5bc7-5e10-85f2-fc9e3503c0a9.html
— Trump addresses an embattled NRA as he campaigns against Biden’s gun policies – CNN (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for gun violence and make it clear that they want to abolish the Second Amendment.)
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/trump-addresses-an-embattled-nra-as-he-campaigns-against-biden-s-gun-policies/article_e99df01d-84a2-506e-b1f8-84f54cd5dd55.html

KHMO RADIO
— Safely Find Out If Your Illinois Neighbor is a Vile Sex Offender (COMMENT: How many sex offenders live in your county, in your township, in your municipality, in your school district, and in your precinct? How close do they live to the schools in the aforesaid?)
https://khmoradio.com/illinois-state-police-sex-offender-tool/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Judge denies TRO sought by GOP candidates to block law that changed election rules to keep GOPers off ballot – Jonathan Bilyk
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/658603879-judge-denies-tro-sought-by-gop-candidates-to-block-law-that-changed-election-rules-to-keep-gopers-off-ballot

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Biden 2.0 promises tax hikes, illegal immigration – Paul Bedard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3008947/white-house-report-card-biden-2-0-promises-tax-hikes-illegal-immigration/
— ‘Republicans’ who endorse Biden aren’t Republicans at all – Zachary Faria (COMMENT: If you are not helping elect Trump, you are helping elect Biden. I should write about past and present ‘Republican’ candidates, elected officials, party leaders, etc. in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who have demonstrated their hatred against Trump the most. I would focus on those who taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2015.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3008136/republicans-who-endorse-biden-arent-republicans-at-all/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Blame, Resent, Repeat – Dion Pierre (COMMENT: To elect Biden, anticipate/expect that Democrats will not only ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump as being a racist and even worse things, they will ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn voters like me who share Trump’s demographics: heterosexual, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-veteran, non-poor, gun-owner, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://freebeacon.com/culture/blame-resent-repeat/

NEW YORK POST
— Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pledges to keep bussing migrants to NYC, takes shot at Mayor Eric Adams in NRA speech. – Patrick Reilly
https://nypost.com/2024/05/18/us-news/texas-gov-gregg-abbott-pledges-to-keep-bussing-migrants-to-nyc-mayor-adams-needs-something-to-do/
— Why young people become woker and woker – Eric Kaufmann
https://nypost.com/2024/05/18/opinion/young-people-are-becoming-woker-and-woker/
— This is the new top spot for migrants to slip across US border. – Katherine Donlevy
https://nypost.com/2024/05/18/us-news/san-diego-is-the-most-popular-spot-for-migrants-to-cross-border/
— Illinois high school senior killed weeks before graduation by alleged drunk driver going over 120 mph – Nicholas McEntyre COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote vices including booze and pot.)
https://nypost.com/2024/05/19/us-news/illinois-student-marko-niketic-killed-weeks-before-graduation-by-alleged-drunk-driver-taeyoung-kim-going-over-120-mph-report/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A high school senior was killed just weeks before graduation when a suspected drunk driver, speeding at over 120 mph, split his car into two during a crash in a Chicago suburb. Marko Niketic, 17, was driving with his 16-year-old girlfriend in Glenview, IL when a sports car struck their vehicle at an intersection just after 11 p.m. on May 12. The driver, Taeyoung Kim, 21, had been driving his 2021 Ford Mustang with a passenger from his home in Northbrook to downtown Chicago and back earlier in the day, according to court records obtained by NBC Chicago. “The investigation revealed at 2308 hours (11:08 p.m.) on May 12, Kim drove his vehicle westbound on East Lake Ave, at a high rate of speed in a reckless manner,” the Glenview Police Department said. Kim’s car crashed into Niketic as the teen was making a left turn through the intersection of East Lake Ave and Meadow Lane, approximately 20 miles northwest of Chicago. Kim had been racing past other cars going westbound on Lake Ave, with one driver noting Kim increasing speeds and turning his headlights off. “As Niketic began turning, Kim’s vehicle approached the intersection at an immense rate of speed, still with the headlights off,” the court documents allege. “Just as Kim was entering the intersection, the headlights turned back on as Kim’s vehicle crashed into Niketic’s vehicle.” The front of Kim’s car struck the driver’s side of Niketic’s vehicle, splitting it into two. The front half of Niketic’s sedan remained in the road, with the back half being sent flying through a nearby fence and landing in a backyard. Kim’s car, which had a dashcam recording his joyride, came to a halt near a tree on the side of the road. Witnesses inside the homes near the scene of the crash immediately called 911 before rushing to the scene and observed Niketic inside his vehicle, appearing to be deceased, Kim’s bond court proffer read. Other witnesses observed Kim sitting inside his car and admitted he had been drinking, while his passenger was lying on the ground bleeding heavily, WMAQ reported. The teen was pronounced dead at the scene. His girlfriend and Kim’s passenger were both rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Niketic’s girlfriend, who remains unidentified, suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage, hematoma of the brain, a fracture of the pelvis vertebrae and hyper-density of the left frontal lobe of the brain with loss of consciousness and seizure. She was released from the hospital on Friday. Kim’s passenger sustained a fracture to his back and a severed artery in the crash. Kim suffered a broken femur, and a blood-drawn test concluded he had a blood alcohol level of .088, the test also revealed he had cannabis in his system. During their investigation, police found a bong, rolling papers, a one-hitter cannabis pipe with residue and two plastic containers with cannabis residue inside Kim’s vehicle. Kim was arrested on Friday and charged with two counts of aggravated DUI causing death, reckless homicide, aggravated DUI causing great bodily harm, DUI of alcohol, DUI of drugs, and several traffic violations including speeding 35 mph over the limit. He appeared in court on Saturday. Kim is being held without bond, and his next court date is scheduled for May 24, according to jail records viewed by The Post. Niketic’s funeral was held on Thursday, two days before his high school, Glenbrook South, held its prom. Niketic was set to graduate on June 2. “He’s one of those people, you meet him, and he’s glowing. The most genuine human ever,” friend Preston Shute told NBC Chicago. “He had a lot of stuff ahead of him. I can’t really process it.”)

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The new anti-Americanism. Although written in the abstract language of the graduate seminar, Empire has an ominously pragmatic aim: to undermine faith in the liberal institutions that inform American democracy. – Roger Kimball
https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/19/the-new-anti-americanism/

AMERICAN THINKER
— The Unbearable Lightness of Whiteness – Pete McArdle
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/the_unbearable_lightness_of_whiteness.html

DAILY SIGNAL
— Days of Rage in Chicago: A Brief History of the 1968 Democratic National Convention – Jarrett Stepman
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/05/19/days-rage-chicago-brief-history-1968-democratic-national-convention/

EPOCH TIMES
— Behind Rosy Economic Data, Americans Struggle to Make Ends Meet. Eating out less often, taking from 401(k)s, buying medication overseas, choosing cheaper products—Americans say they are feeling the pain of inflation. – Emel Akan
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/behind-rosy-economic-data-americans-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-5651988

FOX NEWS
— Democratic town furious over migrant shelter opening in neighborhood. ‘We don’t want it here … and it doesn’t make us bad people’ one Norfolk, Massachusetts, resident said. – Michael Dorgan
https://www.foxnews.com/us/democratic-town-reeling-migrant-shelter-opening-neighborhood
— Biden’s plan to admit Gazans to US could backfire: ‘Brainwashed by Hamas,’ expert warns. Gazans spoke about the Biden immigration plan, anti-Israel protests on campus. – Benjamin Weinthal
https://www.foxnews.com/world/bidens-plan-admit-gazans-us-could-backfire-brainwashed-hamas-expert-warns

GOPUSA
— Trump Says He May Wait To Announce VP At July GOP Convention
https://www.gopusa.com/trump-says-he-may-wait-to-announce-vp-at-july-gop-convention/
— China’s Growing Threat To U.S. National Security In The Crosshairs Of Congress
https://www.gopusa.com/chinas-growing-threat-to-u-s-national-security-in-the-crosshairs-of-congress/
— GAO: Taxpayers Lose Billions To Government Overlap, Duplication (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years. None of them were licensed CPAs like me. They wasted my career, they took many adverse actions against me, and they forced me to retire 6 years before I was eligible for regular retirement. GAO audits IRS. They wasted the knowledge of IRS that I gained working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year. They wasted what I learned earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. They wasted what I learned passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://www.gopusa.com/taxpayers-lose-billions-to-government-overlap-duplication/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Overlap and duplication cost taxpayers billions, according to a new report from a Congressional watchdog. The U.S. Government Accountability Office’s annual report identified opportunities to save billions of dollars by reducing overlap, duplication and fragmentation across the federal government. The report outlines 112 measures that Congress and federal agencies could take to save money and improve government services. “This year’s report provides Congress and federal agencies with new opportunities to save federal dollars, increase revenue, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of a wide range of federal programs,” said Gene Dodaro, comptroller general and head of the GAO. “By addressing this year’s pointed list, as well as open recommendations to both agencies and Congress from GAO’s past work, the federal government could potentially save tens of billions of dollars.”)

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— How cops can stand up to the death-to-America crowd
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/usa-usa-how-cops-can-stand-up-to-death-to-america-crowd
— In just two days this month, more Chinese nationals illegally crossed into U.S. than the entire year of 2021 – Pat Droney
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/in-just-two-days-this-month-more-chinese-nationals-illegally-crossed-into-u-s-than-the-entire-year-of-2021

NEWSMAX
— Peter Breen to Newsmax: Pro-Life Activist Victim of Biden Weaponization – Sandy Fitzgerald
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/peter-breen-lauren-handy-pro-life/2024/05/17/id/1165178/
— RNC, Trump Campaign Launch ‘Gun Owners for Trump’ – Eric Mack
https://www.newsmax.com/us/second-amendment-gun-rights-nra/2024/05/18/id/1165253/

PJ MEDIA
— Biden’s Plan to Resettle Thousands of Gaza Refugees Is Insane, Warns Expert – RICK MORAN
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/05/18/bidens-plan-to-resettle-thousands-of-gaza-refugees-is-insane-warns-expert-n4929153

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Three Illinois cities will pay you thousands to move there. – JOEY SCHNEIDER (COMMENT: How much will Democrat leaders pay voters (both legal and illegal) to move to battleground/swing states to vote for Biden?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4672284-three-illinois-cities-will-pay-you-thousands-to-move-there/amp/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/us/migrants-lawyer-shortages.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— GOP tries to ‘correct the narrative’ on use of mailed ballots after years of conflicting messages (COMMENT: At the request of the Milton Township Republican Organization, as an elected Republican Precinct Committeeman, I am in the process of hand-delivering permanent mail-in ballot applications to 64 registered Republican voters in my precinct in 55 homes and one apartment who did not vote recently. Of course, my critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout that my doing that will cause Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to get fewer votes.)
https://www.hotsr.com/news/2024/may/19/gop-tries-to-correct-the-narrative-on-use-of/

MSN
— Mexico to help US keep migrant flows under 4,000 a day – Julian Resendiz
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mexico-to-help-us-keep-migrant-flows-under-4-000-a-day/ar-BB1mziF8
— Chicago City Council Denies Fed Up Residents Chance to Vote on Ending Sanctuary City Status – Jack Davis
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chicago-city-council-denies-fed-up-residents-chance-to-vote-on-ending-sanctuary-city-status/ar-AA1lzXna
— Bhushan R Gavai: ‘I am a Supreme Court judge (in India) thanks to affirmative action’ – Dhananjay Mahapatra (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors used Affirmative Action quotas, goals, and targets and DEI to waste my federal career and to get rid of me. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. All my GAO, IRS, and Post Office coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats who were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran.)
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/i-m-sc-judge-thanks-to-affirmative-action/ar-BB1kLLgi
— Student Loan Cancellation Could Be Banned in New Bill – Aliss Higham
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/student-loan-cancellation-could-be-banned-in-new-bill/ar-BB1l87yR

FORBES
— Trump Tells NRA Forum That ‘I Think We Should Call For Drug Tests On The Debate’ (COMMENT: The more that you promote pot, the more that you should be presumed to use pot.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn5KtPYozsQ

JILL ON MONEY
— Are Americans prepared for retirement? (COMMENT: I began earning credits toward a Civil Service Retirement System pension when I was 18 years old in 1966. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always been furious about that.)
https://www.jillonmoney.com/blog/two-tiered-retirement

POLITICAL WIRE
— Trump Says He’ll Insist Biden Take a Drug Test – Taegan Goddard (COMMENT: The more that you promote pot, the more that you should be presumed to use pot.)
https://politicalwire.com/2024/05/18/trump-says-hell-insist-biden-take-a-drug-test/
— Democrats used to promote integration. Now they promote segregation.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/05/18/biden-compares-maga-to-segregationists/

EURASIAN REVIEW
— Illegal Immigration: Biden Admin’s Secret To A ‘Permanent Majority’? – Kelli Ballard (COMMENT: Of course, anticipate/expect that illegals will forever vote for Democrats.)
https://www.eurasiareview.com/19052024-illegal-immigration-biden-admins-secret-to-a-permanent-majority-oped/

WION NEWS
— Trump receives endorsement from NRA as he pledges to ‘roll back’ Biden’s gun policies. – Nishtha Badgamia
https://www.wionews.com/world/trump-receives-endorsement-from-nra-as-he-pledges-to-roll-back-bidens-gun-policies-722966

May 18, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— UChicago Institute of Politics surrounded by pro-Palestinian protesters, some climb on building. The Institute of Politics is across the street from a Jewish student center. – Eric Horng
https://abc7chicago.com/post/iop-uchicago-protest-institute-of-politics-pro-palestinian/14834145/
— Chicago Tribune journalists file discrimination suit against paper – Kade Heather (COMMENT: One could compare and contrast the private sector with the government sector. I am a White male born in 1948. If I had not been denied my 7th Amendment rights in Diersen v. GAO in 2005, I would have presented a jury with evidence that beginning in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors paid my coworkers more than me and/or promoted them over me who were minority, female, and/or younger than me and/or who had less job-related work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-tribune-lawsuit-journalists-file-discrimination-class-action-lawsuit-against-paper-claiming-systematic-pay-disparities/14832647/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Seven Chicago Tribune journalists filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against the newspaper and its owner, alleging violations of equal pay based on sexual and racial discrimination. The lawsuit claims systematic pay disparities between female and male employees, as well as between Black and white employees under its current ownership of Alden Global Capital and dating back to its previous owner, the Tribune Publishing Co.)

NBC5
— Chicago’s population has dropped again, data shows. Here’s what Mayor Johnson chalks it up to. If the population drop continues, Chicago could soon lose its status as the third-largest city. (COMMENT: Pritzker ever-increasingly a) drives out of Illinois voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans and b) recruits to Illinois voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Those who vote Democrats a) lack education and/or job skills, b) have major health, financial, and/or other problems, c) want/need/demand massive assistance from government, charities, and churches, d) promote dependency on government and charity, e) promote LGBTQ, f) promote abortion, g) promote mass/illegal immigration, h) promote booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, i) promote diminishment of Second Amendment rights, j) promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, promote patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and/or k) are in America illegally.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicagos-population-dropped-yet-again-census-data-shows-heres-what-mayor-johnson-chalks-it-up-to/3440368/

CBS2
— Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy University of Chicago campus building. – Charlie De Mar, Adam Harrington, Jason Cooper
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-rally-university-of-chicago/
— With warm weather coming, Chicagoans are concerned about violence prevention on beaches – Jermont Terry (COMMENT: Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicagoans-concerned-violence-prevention-beaches/
— Chicago Tribune employees sue the paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JGHi61OQ-8

WGN9
— Pro-Palestinian protestors occupy building on University of Chicago campus – Gabriel Castillo
https://wgntv.com/israel-hamas-conflict/pro-palestinian-protestors-occupy-building-on-university-of-chicago-campus/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://wgntv.com/migrants-in-chicago/biden-speeds-up-asylum-proceedings-for-migrants-to-chicago-four-other-cities/

FOX32
— Committee hearing on Capitol Hill turns to chaos. Lawmakers are reacting after a committee hearing on Capitol Hill turned into chaos. It came complete with name calling, insults and accusations of members being under the influence.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1457785

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— UC students, alumni briefly occupy politics building days after pro-Palestinian encampment razed – CAROLINE KUBZANSKY (COMMENT: Because my Jewish Chicago Office GAO superiors were anti-conservative and anti-Republican, if they were still working for GAO today, they would protest against Israel.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/17/uc-students-alumni-briefly-occupy-politics-building-days-after-pro-palestinian-encampment-razed/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Students and alumni from the University of Chicago briefly occupied the university’s Institute of Politics late Friday afternoon to protest the war in Gaza and demand that the university divest itself of financial assets associated with Israel.)
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/18/miscommunication-in-shelters-leads-to-confusion-and-worry/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pro-Palestinian protesters take over University of Chicago building. Around 5 p.m. Friday, a large group of protesters had surrounded the Institute of Politics. Shortly after that, a group of police officers, equipped with riot shields, burst into the building and scuffled with protesters. – Ellery Jones and Cindy Hernandez
https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/05/17/pro-palestinian-protesters-take-over-university-of-chicago-building-institute-politics-israel-hamas
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/money/2024/05/17/grindr-app-loop-office-tower-menashe-global-engineering-tech-hub
— Mandatory driving tests for Illinois’ older adults are unnecessary and unfair. Studies show seniors are the safest drivers on the road. – Mary Mitchell
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/2024/05/17/unfair-mandatory-driving-tests-older-adults-illinois
— Advocate Health staff stage protest, allege disparities and discrimination in response to Gaza crises. Doctors at Advocate Medical Group say the organization has fallen short in responding to ongoing humanitarian crises in Gaza, especially compared to donated aid and calls for peace after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. – Violet Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/05/17/advocate-health-protest-israel-hamas-gaza

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— How lawyers are preparing protesters for the DNC – Leigh Giangreco
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-dnc-how-lawyers-are-preparing-protesters
— CPS meeting with Pritzker marked by tension over migrant funding – Leigh Giangreco
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/chicago-public-schools-officials-meet-gov-jb-pritzker
— Protestors take over building at University of Chicago – Brandon Dupré
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/protestors-take-over-building-university-chicago

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Donald Trump will address the NRA in Texas. He’s called himself the best president for gun owners. Former President Donald Trump is expected to address thousands of members of the National Rifle Association in Texas a day after campaigning in Minnesota in the midst of his hush money trial. – AP
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/donald-trump-will-address-the-nra-in-texas-hes-called-himself-the-best-president-for/article_0aa6c87d-c9b0-5cff-8038-0f978a985fea.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & WAND TV
— After blaming his 2020 loss on mail balloting, Trump tries to make GOP voters believe it’s OK now – AP (COMMENT: At the request of the Milton Township Republican Organization, as an elected Republican Precinct Committeeman, I am in the process of hand-delivering permanent mail-in ballot applications to 64 registered Republican voters in my precinct in 55 homes and one apartment who did not vote recently. Of course, my critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout that my doing that will cause Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to get fewer votes.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-gop-tries-to-correct-the-narrative-on-use-of-mailed-ballots-after-years-of-conflicting-messages/
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/after-blaming-his-2020-loss-on-mail-balloting-trump-tries-to-make-gop-voters-believe/article_75cca206-805c-50fb-852e-7140155501bd.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-05-17/biden-will-cap-off-a-week-of-outreach-to-black-americans-with-morehouse-commencement

WCIA
— The more that you promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.wcia.com/news/national/boebert-heckled-in-new-york-while-defending-trump/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-90/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Top reasons to attend the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Convention as a delegate in Collinsville May 24-25 include urging your representative on the Platform and Resolutions Committee to vote on May 24 a) for the resolution for direct election of IRP State Central Committee (SCC) members and b) to strengthen the IRP platform. Further, if those committee members who oppose direct election of IRP SCC members and/or who want to weaken the IRP platform win by a small margin and minority reports are filed like the one that was filed at the 2016 convention, you can vote for those minority reports on May 25. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can/will defend/advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. The system used by the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) to elect its State Central Committee (SCC) members has resulted in the IRP and its candidates failing/refusing to defend/advance the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), and other planks in the Republican Party platform. Ever-increasingly, the IRP and its candidates paint themselves as being Democrat-Lite if not anti-conservative. Consequently, ever-increasingly, Republican candidates ever-increasingly lose elections in Illinois. Going back to direct election of IRP SCC members would allow candidates to run who could/would defend/advance the Republican Party platform. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write a book about the tremendous downside of helping elect political candidates. I would focus on those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who I have done the most to help elect and to reelect since 2000 but a) who have suffered defeats and/or have won by a smaller margins than they expected, b) who have blamed their defeats on me and on my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most, c) who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me to punish me, d) who oppose direct election of Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee members the most, and/or e) who reject the most planks in the Republican Party platform. I would focus on those who had their nasty operatives and nasty dupes a) end my membership on the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee this year, b) end my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) end my bid to be appointed to fill a Wheaton City Council vacancy in 2019, d) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, e) end my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, f) end my membership on the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee in 2011, g) end my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2010 and 2004, h) end my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, i) almost get ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, j) end my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, and k) end my membership on the American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board of directors in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS

— Bill defines ‘woman’ as legislators oppose Illinois sponsoring teen drag show – Catrina Petersen

https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_fe60f630-1488-11ef-85ea-7bfe84171406.html

CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL) votes to count illegal aliens towards seats in Congress
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/658775762-rep-davis-votes-to-count-illegal-aliens-towards-seats-in-congress

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Progressive protest tactics face resistance in Illinois General Assembly
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/659213290-progressive-protest-tactics-face-resistance-in-illinois-general-assembly

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— IL-11: Bill Foster Votes for Illegal Aliens Again
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/17/hr7343/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— VP Harris Falsely Repeats “We’re Winning” During Chicago Fundraiser as Biden Trails Trump in Every National, Swing State Poll. https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/05/vp-harris-falsely-repeats-were-winning-during-chicago-fundraiser-as-biden-trails-trump-in-every-national-swing-state-poll.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

BREITBART
— 84% of Chicago’s Measles Cases Traced to Venezuelan Migrants – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2024/05/17/report-84-of-chicagos-measles-cases-traced-venezuelan-migrants/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— The Effect of the Border Crisis on U.S. Elections – Andrew R. Arthur
https://cis.org/Arthur/Effect-Border-Crisis-US-Elections

DAILY SIGNAL
— 10 Most Common Pro-Hamas Lies About Israel – Victor Davis Hanson
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/05/10/try-a-little-honesty-about-israel/
— Who Benefits From Destabilization of America? – Mike Gonzalez
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/05/17/who-benefits-from-destabilization-of-america/

FOX NEWS
— Reparations in America: How cities from San Francisco to Wilmington are trying to get it done. The California Assembly on Thursday voted to formally apologize for the state’s role in slavery, the latest move by elected officials working towards reparations in the country. – Joshua Q. Nelson (COMMENT: How much reparations have you paid so far? Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. Because I have paid the price of AA and DEI big time, I have paid reparations big time.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/president-bidens-hometown-releases-reparations-recommendations-after-similar-efforts-sweep-country

JUDICIAL WATCH
— Illegal Aliens Vote – in DC!
https://www.judicialwatch.org/illegal-aliens-vote-in-dc/

PATRIOT POST
— Biden’s Border Baloney. He thinks we’re supposed to tolerate nearly 1.5 million illegal aliens crossing our border. That’s not a “closed border.” – GARY BAUER
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/106927-bidens-border-baloney-2024-05-17

TOWNHALL
— What if Biden Wins in November? Part One – Mark Lewis
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2024/05/18/what-if-biden-wins-in-november-part-one-n2639231
— Chinese Illegal Aliens Are Crossing the Border in Droves Because of Biden’s Open Border Policies – Madeline Leesman
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/05/17/chinese-illegal-immigrants-hearing-n2639162

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— Protesters Take Over the Institute of Politics at University of Chicago – Monica Davey and Julie Bosman
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/us/uchicago-protests-politics-institute.html
— Protesters Agreed to Leave. This Is What Some Colleges Promised in Return. – Vimal Patel
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/us/campus-protests-agreements-divestment-israel.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Chicago Tribune staffers’ unequal pay lawsuit claims race and sex discrimination. The Chicago Tribune is being sued by some of its staffers, who say they and other women and Black journalists are being paid less than their white male counterparts. AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/17/chicago-tribune-pay-race-sex-discrimination/5970ab4a-146d-11ef-9d37-865890cc2670_story.html

MSNBC
— Democrats and RINOs decry that “The sneaky, spiteful new way Republicans are working to undermine LGBTQ groups. The House GOP has doubled down on efforts to shut off funding to LGBTQ nonprofits.” (COMMENT: RINOs who promote LGBTQ have always worked against me the hardest.)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/house-republicans-lgbtq-nonprofits-rcna152753

MSN
— Who’s okay with the affirmative action decision? Many Black Americans. – Aaron Blake (COMMENT: Some of my Black GAO coworkers opposed my Democrat GAO supervisors forcing my Jewish GAO superiors forcing me to retire so that they could give my Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. Democrat employers used Affirmative Action and continue to use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/who-s-okay-with-the-affirmative-action-decision-many-black-americans/ar-AA1dx3bt
— ‘I‘ve seen bigger Tupperware parties’: CPAC ridiculed as ‘a shell of its former self’ – Carl Gibson (COMMENT: I should write about the many CPACs that I attended in the past.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-ve-seen-bigger-tupperware-parties-cpac-ridiculed-as-a-shell-of-its-former-self/ar-BB1iOF7N
— Target’s reputation takes hit over children’s LGBTQ clothing – Shannon Thaler
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/targets-reputation-takes-hit-over-childrens-lgbtq-clothing-survey-shows/ar-AA1bDGW3
— Melania Trump inexplicably hosts LGBTQ+ Republican event despite total absence from campaign trail – Molly Sprayregen
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/melania-trump-inexplicably-hosts-lgbtq-republican-event-despite-total-absence-from-campaign-trail/ar-AA1nsd4M
— Biden to Pay Foreign Countries to ‘Control’ Flow Of Illegals – Jordan Andrews
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/biden-to-pay-foreign-countries-to-control-flow-of-illegals/ar-AA1jmcG1
— Brooklyn residents protesting after finding out new illegal immigrant shelter is coming to their neighborhood (COMMENT: How many illegals are Democrat leaders and RINO leaders going to dump in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/brooklyn-residents-protesting-after-finding-out-new-illegal-immigrant-shelter-is-coming-to-their-neighborhood/ar-BB1k5zXO
— Maybe the Left should stop calling its political opponents ‘neo-Nazis’ – Julian Adorney
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/maybe-the-left-should-stop-calling-its-political-opponents-neo-nazis/ar-AA1ggiel
— Trump vows to fight ‘anti-white feeling’ in US. His allies have a plan (COMMENT: What do you say to Whites who promote more hatred against Whites to curry favor with anti-Whites?)
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/politics/analysis-trump-vows-to-fight-anti-white-feeling-in-us-his-allies-have-a-plan/ar-AA1o8aYl

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Trump Allies Draw Up Plans for Unprecedented Immigration Crackdown. Advisers to former president are getting a head start on clearing the hurdles they would face. – Michelle Hackman and Andrew Restuccia
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-immigration-plans-deportation-e91b1bc4

BLOOMBERG
— 11 Million Immigrants in US Unlawfully at Last Count: Mayorkas (COMMENT: How many of them voted for Biden in 2020? How many of them will vote for Biden in 2024?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veo2xf70F24

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT DAILY
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI to a) not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.businessmanagementdaily.com/72386/what-does-dei-mean-in-todays-workplace/

ACCOUNTING TODAY
— Is the profession damaging its own pipeline? – Paige Hagy (COMMENT: What about age discrimination and reverse discrimination? I was a 30-year-old White male when I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I subsequently a) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981, and c) became a licensed CPA in 1981. But the accounting profession, IRS, and GAO had no interest in me because they considered me to “too old” to have a successful career in accounting. Further, I was a White male and the accounting profession has always been under tremendous pressure to hire, to retain, and to promote minorities and females. Further, I was conservative, Republican, non-veteran, Protestant, 100% German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, I had lived in Crete 1948-1972, and I had lived in Wheaton since 1978. Back then, as it is now, the accounting profession continues to be under tremendous pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to give preference to young people who are minority and/or female. To give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group.)
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/is-the-accounting-profession-damaging-its-own-talent-pipeline

May 17, 2024

SPECTRUM NEWS
— 2024 Republican National Convention’s Platform Committee leadership announced – Aly Prouty (COMMENT: Who will the man and woman be who will represent Illinois on that committee? Who is representing each of the 17 congressional districts on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee? What is their contact information? Will they vote for or against direct election of IRP State Central Committee members? Will they vote to move the platform to the right or to the left? Will they vote for E-Verify or against E-Verify?)
https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2024/05/15/2024-rnc-platform-committee
(FROM THE ARTICLE: MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Committee and Trump Campaign announced its leadership team for the 2024 Republican National Convention’s Platform Committee. The committee includes one man and one woman from every U.S. state and territory. It will create an outline of the GOP’s core principles and values. Randy Evans, the former ambassador to Luxembourg, was announced as the executive director of the committee. Russ Vought, who was director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Trump administration, was announced as the committee’s policy director. Ed Martin, president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles and the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, was announced as the deputy policy director of the committee. “Ambassador Randy Evans, director Russ Vought and Ed Martin are brilliant and accomplished assets for the leadership of the 2024 Republican National Convention’s Platform Committee,” said Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley. “They each have a proven track record of understanding and implementing our party’s America First agenda, and their sound judgement and principled vision will be critical to help lead our party and country to victory in one of the most significant elections of our lifetimes. The Republican Party is well-equipped to lead an American revival by upholding our commitment to liberty and economic prosperity for all Americans under a second Trump administration.”)

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FROINT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Protesters plan Gaza-focused DNC march, won’t apply for Chicago permit – JAKE SHERIDAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/16/protesters-plan-gaza-dnc-march-no-permit/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Chicago police clear DePaul’s pro-Palestinian encampment – KATE ARMANINI and NELL SALZMAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/16/chicago-police-clear-depaul-universitys-pro-palestinian-encampment/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/16/grindr-chicago-office-expansion/
— Former city staffer removed from do-not-hire list by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration – ALICE YIN (COMMENT: Constructively, my Democrat GAO superiors have had me on a federal do-not-hire list since 1997 when I was 49 years old when they forced me to take their early retirement “offer.”)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/16/former-city-staffer-removed-from-do-not-hire-list-by-mayor-brandon-johnsons-administration-appeals-from-two-other-lightfoot-holdovers-remain-pending/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: More than 112,000 Illinois residents have lost the right to own guns. The state doesn’t know if 84,000 still have them, sheriff says. – STACY ST. CLAIR (COMMENT: How many of these 112,000 live in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/16/foid-revocations-guns-rights-felons-police-seizures/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Tribune journalists file discrimination suit against paper. The lawsuit claims systematic pay disparities between female and male employees, as well as between Black and white employees under its current and previous owners. – Kade Heather (COMMENT: If I had not been denied my 7th Amendment rights in Diersen v. GAO, I would have presented a jury with evidence that my Democrat GAO superiors paid my coworkers more than me and/or promoted them over me who were minority, female, and/or younger than me and/or who had less job-related work experience that I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/05/16/chicago-tribune-journalists-file-discrimination-lawsuit-against-paper-news-journalism-labor-wages
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/05/16/kamala-harris-illinois-trip-glencoe-fundraiser-abortion-rights
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/abortion/2024/05/17/abortion-planned-parenthood-illinois-mifepristone-colleen-mcnicholas
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/05/17/donald-trump-election-disaster-economy-freedom-democracy-mona-charen
— This change to Illinois election law denies voters a choice at the ballot
The new law, which limits ballot access after primary elections, is likely to lead to claims of ‘stolen elections’ for years to come, the League of Women Voters writes. Republicans have now filed a lawsuit against the law. – Becky Simon
https://chicago.suntimes.com/democracy/2024/05/17/illinois-election-law-ballot-access-voter-choice-republicans-sue-league-women-voters-becky-simon

DAILY HERALD
— Over 80,000 Illinois people banned from owning guns still keep them – AP (COMMENT: How many of these 80,000 live in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240516/crime/over-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning-guns-still-keep-them-report-shows/
— FRONT PAGE: DuPage County auditor on delayed reports: the buck stops with me – Alicia Fabbre
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240517/news/dupage-county-auditor-on-delayed-reports-the-buck-stops-with-me/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Multimillion-dollar Highland Park condos woo buyers disaffected with Chicago – Dennis Rodkin (COMMENT: I owned and lived in condos, first a studio and then a one bedroom, in the Outer Drive East building ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/400_East_Randolph ) in downtown Chicago 1974-1978. While I lived there, my IRS salary increased from $97,079/year to $108,785/year in today’s dollars and I walked to/from graduate evening business classes at Loyola 1974-1976 and accounting classes at DePaul 1976-1978.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/highland-park-condos-woo-buyers-disaffected-chicago
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As affluent suburban empty nesters lose their once voracious appetite for downtown Chicago condos, a developer in Highland Park is betting they’ll go for the same type of property, but out in the suburbs. “We realize people have stopped moving into the city,” said Mark Muller, president of Fulton Developers. As Crain’s reported earlier this week, the upper-end condo market in downtown neighborhoods is in its fourth bleak year, and the loss of empty nesters is a key reason.)

ABC7
— Illinois FOID card revocation enforcement problem continues to grow. – Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Tom Jones, Chuck Goudie, and John Garcia
https://abc7chicago.com/post/foid-card-revocation-enforcement-continues-to-be-growing-problem-cook-county-sheriff-illinois-state-police-officials-say/14827288/

NBC5
— NBC 5, Telemundo Chicago investigate alarming absence of sexual assault arrests, convictions in Chicago
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/nbc-5-telemundo-chicago-investigate-alarming-absence-of-sexual-assault-arrests-convictions-in-chicago/3439283/
— Chicago’s population drop could have more impacts beyond falling behind Houston (COMMENT: Pritzker ever-increasingly a) drives out of Illinois voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans and b) recruits to Illinois voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Those who vote Democrats a) lack education and/or job skills, b) have major health, financial, and/or other problems, c) want/need/demand massive assistance from government, charities, and churches, d) promote dependency on government and charity, e) promote LGBTQ, f) promote abortion, g) promote mass/illegal immigration, h) promote booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, i) promote diminishment of Second Amendment rights, j) promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, promote patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and/or k) are in America illegally.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicagos-population-drop-could-have-more-impacts-beyond-falling-behind-houston/3439536/
— To defeat Trump, anticipate/expect that Biden will ever-increasingly drive the stock market up.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/biden-slams-trump-as-he-touts-record-high-dow-crossing-40000/3438812/

CBS2
— Cook County sheriff: More resources needed to get guns from those with revoked FOID cards – Megan Hickey (COMMENT: How many of those who have revoked FOID cards live in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/cook-county-sheriff-guns-revoked-foid-cards/
— Some Chicago area police departments resell guns, but don’t track what happens next – Megan Hickey
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/some-chicago-area-police-departments-resell-guns-that-go-back-into-public-circulation/

NBC5 & SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/fbi-department-homeland-security-issue-terror-alert-regarding-pride-month-celebrations/3436888/
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2024/05/16/springfields-pridefest-organizer-wants-people-to-enjoy-the-journey/73643926007/

WGN9
— Sheriff: 27,000 guns held by revoked FOID holders unaccounted for in Cook County – Andrea Medina, BJ Lutz (COMMENT: How many of those who have revoked FOID cards live in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
https://wgntv.com/news/cook-county/cook-county-sheriff-foid-revoked-compliance-2024/

FOX32
— DePaul’s quad needs about $180K in repairs after pro-Palestinian encampment. The encampment was taken down just before 6 a.m. and left voluntarily.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1457096
— Cook County Sheriff’s Office wants funding to remove guns from people who shouldn’t own them. The Cook County Sheriff’s Department said more than 112,000 Illinois residents have been declared too dangerous to own a gun. However, the state doesn’t know if 84,000 of those people still have them. (COMMENT: How many of these 112,000 live in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1457103

WBEZ
— Chicago sees a spike in Black teens out of school and out of work – Anna Savchenko (COMMENT: What did you do to avoid unemployment? Starting in 1962, I took bad jobs that my peers did not seek and would not stoop to take. Because I took those bad jobs, I was able to a) buy a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air in 1964 when turned 16, b) buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, c) pay for my college expenses, d) buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, e) buy a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, f) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, g) buy a new townhome in University Park in 1972, h) buy an new 1974 Dodge Dart in 1973, i) buy a studio condo in downtown Chicago in 1974, j) buy a one bedroom condo in downtown Chicago in 1976, k) etc.)
https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-sees-a-spike-in-black-teens-out-of-school-and-out-of-work-study-shows/530c52b0-733d-4fde-b41e-93e6859e088d

ABC7 & NBC5 & CHICAGO SUN-TIMES & WTTW & WSIL TV & CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS & STATELINE & HERALD WHIG & DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more pot.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/justice-department-formally-moves-reclassify-marijuana-dangerous-drug/14826868/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pritzker-praises-justice-department-move-to-reclassify-marijuana/3439467/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2024/05/16/marijuana-reclassification-justice-department-proposal-not-legalize
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/16/justice-department-moves-reclassify-marijuana-less-dangerous-drug-historic-shift
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/top-stories/justice-department-formally-moves-to-reclassify-marijuana-as-a-less-dangerous-drug-in-historic-shift/article_95224e24-a370-5829-80c6-3f2071dbf30a.html
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/doj-advances-plan-reclassify-cannabis
https://www.mystateline.com/reviews/br/health-wellness-br/ap-health/ap-justice-department-formally-moves-to-reclassify-marijuana-as-a-less-dangerous-drug-in-historic-shift/
https://www.whig.com/ap/business/justice-department-formally-moves-to-reclassify-marijuana-as-a-less-dangerous-drug-in-historic-shift/article_8b39cf54-7879-56e3-83e1-cef26e3b610f.html
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2024/05/16/dekalbs-2nd-marijuana-dispensary-to-open-with-help-from-bears-legend-jim-mcmahon/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH & JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Chicago youth struggle with higher rates of unemployment – SHANZEH AHMAD (COMMENT: What did you do to avoid unemployment? Starting in 1962, I took bad jobs that my peers did not seek and would not stoop to take. Because I took those bad jobs, I was able to a) buy a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air in 1964 when I turned 16, b) buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, c) pay for my college expenses, d) buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, e) buy a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, f) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, g) buy a new townhome in University Park in 1972, h) buy an new 1974 Dodge Dart in 1973, i) buy a studio condo in downtown Chicago in 1974, j) buy a one bedroom condo in downtown Chicago in 1976, k) etc.)
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/report-chicago-youth-struggle-with-higher-rates-of-unemployment-post-pandemic/article_dd802e76-2639-5cef-b958-0cebe76cc4fb.html
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-regional/report-chicago-youth-struggle-with-higher-rates-of-unemployment-post-pandemic/article_e96b2beb-539d-5986-8bc3-ba09846b619d.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats used to promote integration, but now they promote segregation.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-70-years-after-brown-v-board-america-is-both-more-diverse-and-more-segregated/
— NRA kicks off annual meeting as board considers successor to longtime leader Wayne LaPierre – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-nra-kicks-off-annual-meeting-as-board-considers-successor-to-longtime-leader-wayne-lapierre/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Soon, under the Democrats, everyone in Illinois will be handing out welfare and/or receiving welfare.
https://www.nprillinois.org/education-desk/2024-05-16/illinois-launches-summer-food-assistance-program

WSIL TV
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more abortion.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/medical-residents-are-increasingly-avoiding-states-with-abortion-restrictions/article_c2e03cc1-5da8-5786-b1b0-802e7e7b499e.html

CITIES 92.9
— State Rep. Chris Miller, R-Oakland, calls Pritzker a ‘population denier’ after data show Chicago loses more – Catrina Petersen (COMMENT: Pritzker ever-increasingly a) drives out of Illinois voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans and b) recruits to Illinois voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Those who vote Democrats a) lack education and/or job skills, b) have major health, financial, and/or other problems, c) want/need/demand massive assistance from government, charities, and churches, d) promote dependency on government and charity, e) promote LGBTQ, f) promote abortion, g) promote mass/illegal immigration, h) promote booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, i) promote diminishment of Second Amendment rights, j) promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, promote patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and/or k) are in America illegally.)
https://www.cities929.com/2024/05/16/legislator-calls-pritzker-a-population-denier-after-data-show-chicago-loses-more/

WFXR & WDBO & KRON & WOKV & WSBTV & WFTV & WBTW & WSPA & WNKY & WMBD & WJTV & FOX 44 & WGN RADIO & WTOPP
— Over 80,000 Illinois people banned from owning guns still keep them – AP (COMMENT: How many of these 80,000 live in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
https://www.wfxrtv.com/news/national/ap-over-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning-guns-still-keep-them-report-shows/
https://www.wdbo.com/news/national/over-80000-illinois/JN4WZHLZE2ULNYEYUG47BWEM3Q/
https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-over-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning-guns-still-keep-them-report-shows/
https://www.wokv.com/news/national/over-80000-illinois/JN4WZHLZE2ULNYEYUG47BWEM3Q/
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/national/over-80000-illinois/JN4WZHLZE2ULNYEYUG47BWEM3Q/
https://www.wftv.com/news/national/over-80000-illinois/JN4WZHLZE2ULNYEYUG47BWEM3Q/
https://www.wbtw.com/news/national/ap-over-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning-guns-still-keep-them-report-shows/
https://www.wspa.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-over-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning-guns-still-keep-them-report-shows/
https://www.wnky.com/i/over-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning-guns-still-keep-them-report-shows/
https://wmbdradio.com/2024/05/16/us-unveils-proposal-to-ease-restrictions-on-marijuana-2/
https://www.wjtv.com/news/national/ap-over-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning-guns-still-keep-them-report-shows/
https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-over-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning-guns-still-keep-them-report-shows/
https://wgnradio.com/news/national/ap-over-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning-guns-still-keep-them-report-shows/
https://wtop.com/national/2024/05/over-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning-guns-still-keep-them-report-shows/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & WCIA & FOX 23 & WSIL TV & NEWS CHANNEL 20 & TELEGRAPH
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more pot.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-justice-department-formally-moves-to-reclassify-marijuana-as-a-less-dangerous-drug-in-historic-shift/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/biden-announces-major-step-toward-reclassifying-marijuana/
https://www.wcia.com/hill-politics/biden-announces-major-step-toward-reclassifying-marijuana/
https://www.kbsi23.com/i/justice-department-formally-moves-to-reclassify-marijuana-as-a-less-dangerous-drug-in-historic-shift/
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/top-stories/justice-department-formally-moves-to-reclassify-marijuana-as-a-less-dangerous-drug-in-historic-shift/article_95224e24-a370-5829-80c6-3f2071dbf30a.html
https://newschannel20.com/news/nation-world/justice-department-formally-moves-to-reclassify-marijuana-as-a-less-dangerous-drug-historic-move-drug-enforcement-administration-doj-us-drug-policy-attorney-general-merrick-garland-schedule-i-drug
https://www.thetelegraph.com/business/article/alert-justice-department-formally-moves-to-19461952.php

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot. If you push pot, you should be presumed to use pot.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/05/17/bidens-weed-plan-a-win-for-illinois-00158620

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-291/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-89/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Why do governments exist in America? Under Democrat and RINO elected officials, they ever-increasingly exist a) to hire, retain, and promote Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time and b) to give more and more and more preference to voters who are the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What motivates you? What do you do and what motivates you to do that? I spend 15+ hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out. The following motivates me to do that: a) the continuing failure/refusal of Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) leaders to defend and advance the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform, b) the continuing failure/refusal of Republican elected officials in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton to defend and advance the aforesaid planks, c) the continuing big adverse actions that IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO leaders continue to take against me, and d) ever-increasing poverty and crime in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What were your greatest professional accomplishments in life? Mine were in chronological order: a) earning a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU when I was 21 in 1970, b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, e) passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, f) becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, g) earning job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and h) earning a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997. My critics/opponents not only ignore/dismiss/belittle the aforesaid, they use them against me. They hint/imply/argue/shout that because I never earned more than $150,075/year in today’s dollars and because I was forced into early retirement in 1997, I must be a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and/or even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. I should write a book about my biggest high-profile critics/opponents. Better yet, I should sue them for defamation. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who welcomes you? Those who do not welcome me are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-draft avoiders, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-past, present, and future federal employees, anti-those who they cannot manipulate or dominate, anti-those who refuse to glorify and praise them, anti-those who refuse to pander to them, anti-those who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, anti-those who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or anti-those who refuse to give them money. I should write a book about those who are the aforesaid. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on the aforesaid who are high-profile and who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on the aforesaid who use the disgusting operatives and dupes to do their dirty work.- Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— Twelve Illinois Congressmen vote against bill to give federal custody to non-citizen defendants charged or convicted with assaulting cops.
https://wirepoints.org/twelve-illinois-congressmen-vote-against-bill-to-give-federal-custody-to-non-citizen-defendants-charged-or-convicted-with-assaulting-cops-wirepoints-quickpoint/
— Pritzker is using the threat of budget cuts to get more tax hikes passed
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzker-is-using-the-threat-of-budget-cuts-to-get-more-tax-hikes-passed-wirepoints-joins-tom-miller-of-wjpf-carbondale/
— Public education staffing has ballooned over the years…yet kids still can’t read
https://wirepoints.org/wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/

CEMNTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— SCOTUS considers whether to take Illinois’ gun ban challenges – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_09546bc2-13c5-11ef-b6f4-e36cb6dc9f5e.html
— Opponents call measure ‘union propaganda’ that could be taught in Illinois schools – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f5feb848-13ce-11ef-b727-cb649cd70918.html
— Legislator calls Pritzker a ‘population denier’ after data show Chicago loses more – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_60496454-13c6-11ef-92bf-1f518eb7257a.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— SEIU HCII spends money in other questionable ways
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/16/sieiu-pizzagate-opt-out-link/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Chicago GOP Elects Retired Chicago Police Detective Chuck Hernandez as Chairman to Replace Boulton, who Bolted After the Vote
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/05/ir-exclusive-chicago-gop-elects-retired-chicago-police-detective-chuck-hernandez-as-chairman-to-replace-boulton-who-bolted-after-the-vote.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans release reminder of Biden’s failures on the border – Jennifer Harper
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/16/inside-beltway-republicans-release-reminder-bidens/
— Today’s college students are being educated into imbecility. Marxist indoctrination has led to narrow-minded and destructive mentality. – Craig J. DeLuz
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/16/todays-college-students-are-being-educated-into-im/
— New fast-track immigration court docket aims to speed up removals of newly arrived migrants – AP (COMMENT: Take that with a grain of salt.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/16/new-fast-track-immigration-court-docket-aims-to-sp/
— More than 80,000 Illinois people banned from owning guns still keep them – AP (COMMENT: How many of these 80,000 live in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/16/more-than-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning/
— Putin, on Beijing visit, seeks to deepen ‘strategic’ ties to challenge U.S. Xi, Putin in summit call Washington a Cold War hegemon destabilizing the world. – Bill Gertz (COMMENT: Biden’s weakness emboldens America’s enemies.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/16/vladimir-putin-on-beijing-visit-seeks-to-deepen-st/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Is 2024 the new 1968 for Democrats? – Jim Nelles
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3005150/is-2024-new-1968-democrats/
— Who benefits from the destabilization of the US? – Mike Gonzalez
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/3006834/who-benefits-from-destabilization-of-the-us/

AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION
— More Racism Won’t End Racism (COMMENT: If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, my Democrat superiors would not have taken the many big adverse actions against me that they did including wasting my career and forcing me to retire early. What they did was political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2024/05/more-racism-won-t-end-racism/

AMERICAN FAMILY NETWORK
— Scouts pay dearly for wokeness, but double down anyway – Robert Knight
https://afn.net/opinion/robert-knight/2024/05/16/scouts-pay-dearly-for-wokeness-but-double-down-anyway/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Rate of Illegal Aliens Escaping Border Patrol Spiked Under Biden – Eric Lendrum
https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/16/rate-of-illegal-aliens-escaping-border-patrol-spiked-under-biden-data/
— Medical Schools Secretly Defying Supreme Court’s Ruling on Affirmative Action. – Eric Lendrum
https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/17/report-medical-schools-secretly-defying-supreme-courts-ruling-on-affirmative-action/

BREITBART
— Over 80,000 Illinois people banned from owning guns still keep them – AP (COMMENT: How many of these 80,000 live in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
https://www.breitbart.com/news/over-80000-illinois-people-banned-from-owning-guns-still-keep-them-report-shows/

CENTER SQUARE MINNESOTA
— A federal lawsuit claims Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz uses “blatant discrimination” and affirmative action in appointments. (COMMENT: How strongly do the elected officials in your county, township, municipality, and school district discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time? In 2019, the leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization made it extremely clear that instead of me, they wanted a female LGBTQer who was younger than me to fill a Wheaton City Council vacancy. I should write about that.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/minnesota/article_3bb88094-139d-11ef-84f4-e37ee74846db.html

COLLEGE FIX
— Columbia has more full-time employees than undergrads, including an Earth Observatory DEI director – MATT LAMB
https://www.thecollegefix.com/columbia-has-more-full-time-employees-than-undergrad-students-including-an-earth-observatory-dei-director/

CREATORS SYNDIATE
— Graduates Need To Know That Life Is Bigger Than Your GPA. – Bonnie Jean Feldkamp (COMMENT: What harmed your GPA? For me, it was my working while I took classes 1964-1981 and 1992-1997.)
https://www.creators.com/read/bonnie-jean-feldkamp/05/24/graduates-need-to-know-that-life-is-bigger-than-your-gpa

DAILY WIRE
— DHS Says ‘Privacy Interests’ Of Illegals On Terrorist Watchlist Outweigh Americans’ Right To Know. Secrecy comes after military base allegedly concealed infiltration attempt by illegal immigrant on terrorist watchlist. – Luke Rosiak
https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-says-privacy-interests-of-illegals-on-terrorist-watchlist-outweigh-americans-right-to-know
— NFL Kicker SLAMMED For Defending Christianity – Ben Shapiro
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1966-nfl-kicker-slammed-for-defending-christianity-member-exclusive

EPOCH TIMES
— Ohio Orders Purge of Ineligible Voters From State Voter Rolls After Finding 137 ‘Non-Citizens’ Registered to Vote. ‘The legislature has explicitly tasked me with ensuring that only eligible citizens can register and vote,’ Ohio’s secretary of state said. – Tom Ozimek (COMMENT: What does your County Clerk do to assure that only U.S. citizens are registered to vote? How many illegals are registered to vote in your county, township, municipality, and school district?)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/ohio-orders-purge-of-ineligible-voters-from-state-voter-rolls-after-finding-137-non-citizens-registered-to-vote-5650040

FEDERALIST
— More Chinese Nationals Illegally Entered The U.S. In Two Days This Month Than In All Of 2021 – CHUCK DEVORE AND AMMON BLAIR
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/16/more-chinese-nationals-illegally-entered-the-u-s-in-two-days-this-month-than-in-all-of-2021/
— There’s No Such Thing As Good Masculine Male Characters In The Woke World Of Book Publishing – KAMMIE C. ROSE (COMMENT: My critics/opponents despise/hate American nameplate vehicles and those who own them and especially those like me who own muscle cars.)
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/17/theres-no-such-thing-as-good-masculine-male-characters-in-the-woke-world-of-book-publishing/
— MIT Breaks With DEI Insanity In Faculty Hiring, But Is It Too Late? – HELEN RALEIGH
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/16/mit-breaks-with-dei-insanity-in-faculty-hiring-but-is-it-too-late/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— In Spite of Border Crisis Calls for Amnesty Continue – Pawel Styrna
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/05/16/spite-border-crisis-calls-amnesty-continue

FOX NEWS
— Socialist Chicago council member says it’s ‘racist’ to punish criminals, America is a ‘garbage society’ The Chicago politician laughed at the idea that White people experience racism. – Hannah Grossman (COMMENT: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat politicians ever-increasingly blame Republican White males for all the problems that Blacks have.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/socialist-chicago-council-member-says-racist-punish-criminals-america-garbage-society
— Medical schools are ‘skirting SCOTUS’ ruling against affirmative action. ‘Many in the healthcare establishment… remain ideologically committed to the principle of racial favoritism.’ – Brianna Herlihy (COMMENT: Soon, if not already, everyone in healthcare in America will be many, most, if not virtually all of the following: non-conservative, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or citizens of foreign countries.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/medical-schools-skirting-scotus-ruling-affirmative-action-report-shows
— Parents can’t opt K-5 children out of LGBTQ curriculum: appeals court. The court ruled that parents had not shown how the policy would violate their children’s First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. – Michael Dorgan
https://www.foxnews.com/us/parents-cant-opt-k-5-children-lgbtq-curriculum-appeals-court
— Chinese Communist Party-linked network behind ‘well-funded’ anti-Israel campus protests. Report described the umbrella organization orchestrating protests as ‘anti-capitalist, anti-police, and anti-government’. – Bradford Betz
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chinese-communist-party-linked-anti-israel-campus-protests-well-funded-non-organic-group-says

HOT AIR
— Executive Order: How Does 4,000 Illegal Aliens Per Day Sound? – KAREN TOWNSEND
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2024/05/16/executive-order-how-does-4000-illegal-aliens-per-day-sound-n3788511
— Mexico Facilitates Illegals Getting Legal Plates and Registrations on Vehicles in Florida – BEEGE WELBORN
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/05/16/loophole-mexico-facilitating-illegals-getting-legal-plates-and-registrations-on-vehicles-in-florida-n3788518

PJ MEDIA
— Chinese and Iranian Moles Are Posing As DoorDash Drivers – KEVIN DOWNEY JR.
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2024/05/16/the-spy-who-fed-me-chinese-and-iranian-moles-are-posing-as-door-dash-drivers-n4929092

TOWNHALL
— Biden’s Commerce Secretary Confirms That More Illegal Immigrants Means More Power for Democrats – Spencer Brown
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/05/16/raimondo-confirms-more-illegal-immigrants-mean-more-power-for-democrats-n2639136

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4668056-gaetz-echoes-trump-proud-boys-stand-back-stand-by/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://thehill.com/latino/4669032-biden-asylum-cases-docket-immigration-border/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— California Assembly on Thursday voted to issue an official apology for the state’s role in slavery and the systemic racism that ensued. – Mackenzie Mays (COMMENT: What do your critics/opponents want you to apologize for that your parents and/or the rest of your ancestors did? My parents and the rest of my ancestors were never in a position in which they could discriminate against anyone and they never did discriminate against anyone.)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-16/california-legislature-issues-official-apology-for-slavery-then-kill-some-reparations-bills

BHARATE EXPRESS NEWS
— GOP seeks to correct ‘the narrative’ on mail-in ballot use after years of conflicting messages (COMMENT: At the request of the Milton Township Republican Organization, as an elected Republican Precinct Committeeman, I am in the process of hand-delivering permanent mail-in ballot applications to 64 registered Republican voters in my precinct in 55 homes and one apartment who did not vote recently. Of course, my critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout that my doing that will cause Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to get fewer votes.)
https://thebharatexpressnews.com/gop-seeks-to-correct-the-narrative-on-mail-in-ballot-use-after-years-of-conflicting-messages/

ABC NEWS & YAHOO
— Over 80,000 Illinois people banned from owning guns still keep them – AP (COMMENT: How many of these 80,000 live in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/80000-illinois-people-banned-owning-guns-report-shows-110295351
https://www.yahoo.com/news/over-80-000-illinois-people-100130522.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrats used to promote integration. How they promote segregation.
https://apnews.com/article/school-integration-brown-board-supreme-court-9d84858db3717620a77bfae0b478cab8

CNN
— To keep Blacks voting for Democrat candidates, Democrat elected officials ever-increasingly give Blacks more preference. Since 1997, Democrat elected federal officials can stress to Blacks that they forced me to take their early retirement “offer” and gave my Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office.
https://ktvz.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2024/05/17/biden-makes-fresh-appeals-to-black-voters-hoping-they-can-return-him-to-the-white-house/

MSNBC
— White students sue University of Oklahoma over alleged pro-Black discrimination. A class action lawsuit accuses the school of unlawfully placing a “high value on diversity” and unfairly awarding scholarship funds to Black students. – Ja’han Jones
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/university-oklahoma-anti-white-discrimination-lawsuit-rcna152644

MSN
— Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to speak at Texas GOP convention in San Antonio – Brooke Kushwaha (COMMENT: Who will speak at the Illinois Republican Party State Convention? How many delegates will there be from each of the 102 counties? I should write about those who do not want be a delegate from DuPage County.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/florida-rep-matt-gaetz-to-speak-at-texas-gop-convention-in-san-antonio/ar-BB1mwryS
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting more abortion.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/illinois-sees-spike-in-out-of-state-abortion-patients/ar-AA1cvuB6
— Two-Thirds of Voters Strongly Oppose Secret ‘Woke’ Civics Classes – Claire O’Hare
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/two-thirds-of-voters-strongly-oppose-secret-woke-civics-classes-poll/ar-BB1iGUzk
— R&B singer cuts up National Anthem live on stage with anti-American lyrics: ‘Blood built this land’ R&B singer and actor Jill Scott blasted America by changing the words of the National Anthem into claiming it is an oppressor state during a live performance on stage. Jill Scott was performing on the second day of the Essence Festival on the perceived systemic racism in America, saying the country is “not the land of the free.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/r-b-singer-cuts-up-national-anthem-live-on-stage-with-anti-american-lyrics-blood-built-this-land/ar-AA1dxpTE
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI to not hire Republicans and to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/careers/here-s-how-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-drives-performance-at-workplace/ar-BB1lX3GH
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gone-woke-chick-fil-a-dei-hire-sparks-calls-for-boycott/ar-AA1bTQj6

ASSOCIATED PRESS & THE HILL & POLITICO & NEW YORK MAGAZINE & YAHOO & HUFFINGTON POPST & MSN & NEW REPUBLIC
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use the Proud Boys against Trump. I should write about those who have demonized, denigrated, and condemned TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) the most as being extremist groups. I would focus on past and present a) Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists. I would focus on the aforesaid who had their disgusting operatives and dupes end my TAPROOT chairmanship in 2012 and my ICRC Steering Committee membership in 2007.
https://apnews.com/article/matt-gaetz-donald-trump-proud-boys-daed52f145929eefc8deaf2bfee32e47
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4668056-gaetz-echoes-trump-proud-boys-stand-back-stand-by/
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/16/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/gaetz-alludes-to-proud-boys-00158379
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/matt-gaetz-proud-boys-trump-hush-money-trial.html
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/matt-gaetz-invokes-trump-infamous-150003089.html
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-stand-back-stand-by-proud-boys_n_66462d52e4b0dd63cd2ba653
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/matt-gaetz-invokes-trump-s-infamous-call-to-proud-boys-at-trial-stand-back-and-stand-by/ar-BB1mvzxn
https://newrepublic.com/post/181636/matt-gaetz-trump-trial-insurrection

WASHINGTON POST & CBS NEWS & GOVERNING & KGUN9 & AMERICA MAGAZINE & VOA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/15/trump-immigration-deportation-plan/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/15/president-joe-biden-immigration-border-asylum/4ec57030-12d9-11ef-9d37-865890cc2670_story.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-new-effort-expedite-court-cases-migrants-who-cross-border-illegally/
https://www.governing.com/urban/how-cities-can-absorb-waves-of-refugees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gfIIUBGiag
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2024/05/16/immigration-asylum-border-texas-annunciation-house-el-paso-paxton
https://www.voanews.com/a/new-immigration-court-docket-aims-to-speed-removal-of-some-new-migrants/7615290.html

USA TODAY
— Speeders drive faster cars. State police are buying the Ford Mustang GT to chase them. – Phoebe Wall Howard (COMMENT: I own a 2023 Mustang GT Premium and a 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2024/05/13/ford-mustang-gt-police-car-to-chase-speeders/73668575007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As other automakers stop building cars powered by big V8 engines, Ford Motor Co.’s Mustang GT remains the last man standing. Police agencies, who need the horsepower, have taken notice. After years of ordering the Dodge Challenger and Chevrolet Camaro, state patrol agencies in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina confirmed they’re adding the 2024 Mustang GT to their fleets. And they’re not the only law enforcement agencies doing so. Ford’s competitors aren’t making these muscle cars anymore.)
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2024/05/14/rupaul-drag-race-all-stars-performing/73632845007/
— Democrats used to promote integration, now they promote segregation.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2024/05/16/brown-v-board-turns-70-school-segregation-persists/73243509007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Chicago Teachers Union Plays Hooky. The CTU abandons students to seek a billion-dollar raise. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chicago-teachers-union-1-billion-dollars-stacy-davis-gates-f17cb4aa
— A Legal Scholar Critiqued Elon Musk’s Pay. Now He’s Out of a Job. Tesla threatened to fire a law firm over Charles Elson’s objections to the CEO’s proposed pay package. – Ben Foldy (COMMENT: Since I started working for the federal government when I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In my defense, a) I earned a high school diploma in 1966, b) I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) I earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and d) I earned a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-tesla-pay-vote-scholar-lost-job-0e3cb38b
— Democrats Take Jewish Voters for Granted. We are liberal and support Israel. The party risks losing us by pandering to its antisemitic elements. – Ammiel Hirsch (COMMENT: I should write a book about my Democrat superiors in the federal Government who succeeded in encouraging/forcing my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-take-jewish-voters-for-granted-israel-antisemitism-e963a0e3

FORBES
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2024/05/16/how-target-found-middle-ground-for-pride-month-2024-and-others-can-do-the-same/

POLITICO
— Biden’s team had a few demands for a Trump debate. A major one: No crowd. “Trump feeds off the crowd, they give him life. We wanted to take that away.” – JONATHAN LEMIRE
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/17/biden-trump-debate-2024-demands-00158586

BROOKINGS
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly make their students good little Democrats, that is, sexually active LGBTQers who are anti-heterosexual, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-draft avoiders, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, anti-etc.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/7-takeaways-on-how-teachers-are-reacting-to-restrictions-on-discussing-race-and-gender/

INSDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Illinois Adopts ACT as Graduation Requirement – Liam Knox (COMMENT: No one thought that I was “college material.” They were shocked that my ACT score was 24. They thought that it would be much lower. Similarly, they were shocked that I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. Similarly, they were shocked that UIC accepted me.)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/05/17/illinois-switches-graduation-requirement-sat-act

CPA PRACTIVE ADVISOR
— Top Reasons Why Some Decide Not to Pursue CPA Credential – Isaac M. O’Bannon (COMMENT: To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. All of my coworkers who they wanted to promote over me at the time were Democrat, minority, female, veteran, and/or younger than me, but had not taken the examination or let alone passed it. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2024/05/16/updated-cpa-pipeline-report-show-top-challenges-for-candidates/105514/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Among all respondents surveyed, “time” emerged as the top-ranked challenge—or deterrent—to becoming a CPA. Here are the five top-ranked challenges impacting prospective CPAs: Workload time commitments to study for the exam. Personal time commitments to study for the exam. Difficulty of exam content. Fear of failing the exam. Navigating the exam application process.)

May 16, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Police clear out pro-Palestinian DePaul quad encampment; school green spaces closed – Jessica D’Onofrio
https://abc7chicago.com/post/police-clear-out-depaul-university-pro-palestinian-protest-encampment-in-lincoln-park-chicago/14825161/
— DePaul University students, faculty hold walkout over impasse on divestment negotiations – Eric Horng
https://abc7chicago.com/depaul-university-students-faculty-hold-walkout-over-impasse-between-pro-palestinian-protesters-officials-on-israel-divestment/14821862/
— CTU goes to Springfield to lobby lawmakers for more school funding, CPS CEO agrees $1B needed – Sarah Schulte
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-teachers-union-goes-to-springfield-lobby-lawmakers-for-more-school-funding-cps-ceo-agrees-1b-needed-district/14822334/

CBS2
— Trump appeals gag order in New York “hush money” trial (COMMENT: My critics/opponents want a gag order that stops me from promoting a) direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members and b) those planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-appeals-gag-order-new-york-hush-money-trial/

FOX32
— Chicago teachers rally at state capitol for additional $1B in funding – Paris Schutz and Joanie Lum
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-ctu-cps-school-funding

WTTW
— Chicago Teachers Union, CPS Leaders Travel to Springfield to Lobby State Lawmakers for More Funding – Amanda Vinicky
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/15/chicago-teachers-union-cps-leaders-travel-springfield-lobby-state-lawmakers-more-funding

WBEZ
— Northwestern ended its encampment without cops or violence. Why is Congress upset? Northwestern University President Michael Schill is expected to be grilled by lawmakers next week for his decision to negotiate with students. – Lisa Kurian Philip
https://www.wbez.org/stories/northwestern-encampment-deal-gets-criticism-and-praise/9db7586c-fb16-4b3c-a9e4-0c21ec427645
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wbez.org/stories/planned-parenthood-offers-abortion-pill-via-app/3a0df98b-a31f-4594-a731-faa8f2d17efd

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— More than 112,000 Illinois residents have lost the right to own guns. The state doesn’t know if 84,000 still have them, sheriff says. – STACY ST. CLAIR
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/16/foid-revocations-guns-rights-felons-police-seizures/
— CTU rallies in Springfield to demand greater funding for city’s schools – JEREMY GORNER and SARAH MACARAEG
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/15/ctu-rallies-in-springfield-to-demand-greater-funding-for-citys-schools/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Suburban Cook County biggest area population loser in recent years, census estimates show. ROBERT MCCOPPIN, JAKE SHERIDAN, KORI RUMORE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/15/suburban-cook-county-biggest-area-population-loser-in-recent-years-census-estimates-show/
— America is distracted by Trump’s trials and campus encampments as Eastern Europe turns into a powder keg. – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/15/editorial-georgia-slovakia-ukraine-russia/
— This era’s protesters could stand to ask a few more questions – Clarence Page (COMMENT: My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout that those who avoided the Vietnam War draft like me caused America to lose the War. They stress that I was 1-A for the draft, conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844. They demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a big hypocrite and coward because I would not have been sent into combat because of my health problems. According to them, the only reason why I became a college student was to avoid the draft. In my defense, I decided to get a college degree when I was in grade school in 1962 because my father frequently decried his not having a college degree.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/15/clarence-page-protests-gaza-vietnam-campuses/
(COMMENT: Whether the protests ended the Vietnam War any sooner than it would have otherwise remains a subject for vigorous debate. But at least they helped a lot of us to make better arguments.)

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Biden needs to get real about trailing Trump in the latest polls.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/05/15/joe-biden-donald-trump-polls-election-2024-s-e-cupp-column

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat and RINO policies ever-increasingly increase poverty and crime in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240515/news/a-tremendous-need-how-wheaton-glen-ellyn-rotary-clubs-help-fill-the-college-of-dupage-food-pantr/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/local/illinois-residents-can-now-access-abortion-pill-through-mobile-app

CHALKBEAT
— In some Chicago neighborhoods, almost half of all teens and young adults are not going to school or working – Mila Koumpilova (COMMENT: I was taking classes and/or working 1953-1997. I was both taking classes and working 1962-1981 and 1992-1997.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/05/15/out-of-work-out-of-school-youth-doubled-during-pandemic-report-finds/
— Illinois high school juniors must take the ACT to fulfill graduation requirements starting next spring. – Samantha Smylie and Becky Vevea (COMMENT: No one thought that I was “college material.” They were shocked that my ACT score was 24. They thought that it would be much lower. Similarly, they were shocked that I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. Similarly, they were shocked that UIC accepted me.)
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/05/15/illinois-college-entrance-exam-is-act-not-the-sat/

CAPITOL FAX
— Johnson disapproval rating at 57 percent, approval rating at 28 percent (COMMENT: What disapproval/approval ratings do my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter readers, including you, give me and why? From what I see, the more that my readers oppose direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members, reject planks in the Republican Party platform, and/or disapprove of my demographics, the more that they disapprove of me. I should write a book about my readers who disapprove of me the most. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who have the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who I have done the most to help elect and reelect since 2000. I would focus on those who destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or 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 those who use their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work.)
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/15/poll-johnson-disapproval-at-57-percent-approval-at-28-percent/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-290/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-briefing-4/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-289/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Zahorik Moves from County and State to National Level Using Affirmative Action
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/16/zahorik-moves-from-county-and-state-to-national-level/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Venezuelan illegal alien invasion: Oak Brook shoplifting arrests up 80 percent in ’24
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/658800410-venezuelan-illegal-alien-invasion-oak-brook-shoplifting-arrests-up-80-percent-in-24

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinoisans seek judicial declaration on validity of ‘Workers Rights Amendment’ – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_72ada9ae-12ca-11ef-8e1c-07a556c99d66.html

WIREPOINTS
— New Census data: 75% of Illinois cities shrank last year, Chicago population drop nation’s 3rd-worst – Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner and Nick Binotti
https://wirepoints.org/new-census-data-75-of-illinois-cities-shrank-last-year-chicago-population-drop-nations-3rd-worst/
— Illinois job growth? Government does all the hiring as private sector shrinks – Nick Binotti and Ted Dabrowski
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-job-growth-government-does-all-the-hiring-as-private-sector-shrinks-wirepoints/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 9-YEARS OF DECLINE: EXPECT CHICAGO TO BE NO. 4 BEHIND HOUSTON BY 2035 – Bryce Hill
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/9-years-of-decline-expect-chicago-to-be-no-4-behind-houston-by-2035/
— CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION IN SPRINGFIELD SEEKING MORE CASH WHEN THEY ALREADY GET A LOT – Hannah Schmid
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-in-springfield-seeking-more-cash-when-they-already-get-a-lot/
— CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION CUTS CLASS TO LOBBY, COSTING TAXPAYERS UP TO $141K – Patrick Andriesen
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-cuts-class-to-lobby-costing-taxpayers-up-to-141k/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Border cools as migrants use Biden ‘parole’ to enter elsewhere – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/15/border-cools-migrants-use-biden-parole-enter-elsew/
— ‘Police Week’ shines spotlight on the left’s retreat from ‘defund the police’ movement – Kerry Picket and Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/15/police-week-shines-spotlight-on-lefts-retreat-from/
— Democrats really hate Americans, and here’s the proof. Those who see ordinary people as deplorable pose the real threat to democracy. – Joseph Curl
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/15/democrats-really-hate-americans-and-heres-proof/

NEW YORK POST
— Anti-Israel protesters swarm UC Irvine campus, buildings; students told to ‘leave area’ – Sarah Rumpf-Whitten
https://nypost.com/2024/05/15/us-news/police-on-uc-irvine-campus-after-anti-israel-agitators-swarm-buildings-students-told-to-leave-area/
— Inflation rates show Biden is gaslighting Americans on the economy – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2024/05/15/opinion/inflation-rates-show-biden-is-gaslighting-americans-on-the-economy/

AMAC
— Why Counting Illegals On The Census Threatens American Democracy – Dale Wilcox
https://amac.us/blog/blog/why-counting-illegals-on-the-census-threatens-american-democracy/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Ohio Removes Illegal Aliens from State Voter Rolls – Eric Lendrum (COMMENT: How many illegals are on the voter rolls in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, in your school district, and in your precinct?)
https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/15/ohio-removes-illegal-aliens-from-state-voter-rolls/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Great shortstops and now swimmers? – Silvio Canto, Jr.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/great_shortstops_and_now_swimmers.html
— With illegals rolling in through the surf, City of San Diego decides to crack down on … beach yoga – Monica Showalter (COMMENT: As illegals roll into your municipality, what are the leaders of your municipality focusing on?)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/with_illegals_rolling_in_through_the_surf_city_of_san_diego_decides_to_crack_down_on_beach_yoga.html

BLAZE
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson complains about having to take care of migrants – JULIO ROSAS
https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-complains-about-having-to-take-care-of-migrants

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Migrants Send List of 13 Demands to Denver Mayor. If you give migrants free housing, they’ll demand the right to ‘cook their own food with fresh, culturally appropriate ingredients’ – Andrew R. Arthur
https://cis.org/Arthur/Migrants-Send-List-13-Demands-Denver-Mayor

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Hamas Democrats Run Senate And Biden White House – George Rasley
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/hamas-democrats-run-senate-and-biden-white-house

DAILY WIRE
— Libs EXPLODE Over Not Allowing Illegals To Vote – Michael Knowles
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1490-libs-explode-over-not-allowing-illegals-vote

FOX NEWS
— Biden team reportedly in denial about dismal polling ahead of November
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6352964696112
— 148 House Democrats vote against bill to deport migrants who assault police. House passes Detain and Deport Illegal Aliens Who Assault Cops Act. – Elizabeth Elkind
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-votes-bill-deport-migrants-who-assault-cops

JUDICIAL WATCH
— Judicial Watch Sues California to Force Clean-Up of Voting Rolls
https://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-sues-california-to-force-clean-up-of-voting-rolls/

NEWSMAX
— Telehealth Spurs Rise in Abortions Despite State Bans – Jim Thomas
https://www.newsmax.com/us/telehealth-abortion-bans/2024/05/14/id/1164751/

HOT AIR
— D.C. Now Requires 4-Year Degree to Teach in Day Care – DAVID STROM
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/05/15/dc-now-requires-4-year-degree-to-teach-in-day-care-n3788422

PJ MEDIA
— New York Mayor Adams Has the Perfect Job for Illegal Aliens – STEPHEN GREEN
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/05/15/new-york-mayor-adams-has-the-perfect-job-for-illegal-aliens-n4929046

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— In About-Face, Wall Street’s Big Donors Warm to Trump. They may “hate the man,” as one put it, but major business players from coast to coast are increasingly on board for a second term after the first one alienated them. – Rob Copeland
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/business/wall-street-donors-trump.html

MSN
— Biden Is Trying To ‘Get As Many Illegals in the Country As Possible’ So He Can Make a ‘One-Party State’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musk-claims-biden-is-trying-to-get-as-many-illegals-in-the-country-as-possible-so-he-can-make-a-one-party-state/ar-BB1hHdhr
— High Schoolers Walk Out as Adults Push Transgenderism – Evelyn Thomas (COMMENT: How much success have Democrats had making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/high-schoolers-walk-out-as-adults-push-transgenderism/ar-BB1kskDY

CNN
— By disallowing my education deductions in 1978 when I was 29 years old, IRS sent a big message. I had just been the subject of a 4-page “One Person’s Finances” article in Money Magazine. I had worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer for 5 years and as a Special Procedures Staff Advisor for 2 years. My salary in today’s dollars was $106,785/year. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. The message that IRS sent was that IRS does not want employees who share my demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The message that IRS sent was that IRS does not want employees like me who oppose patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. The message that IRS sent was that IRS can and will use its power to destroy whoever it wants to. Subsequently, IRS was furious when I a) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) transferred to GAO in 1980, c) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and d) became a licensed CPA in 1981. GAO audits IRS. Neither the Democrats who ran IRS nor the Democrats who ran GAO wanted me to be assigned to audits of IRS. The forced me to suffer a $22,996 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to take their early “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old.
https://money.cnn.com/2013/05/08/pf/taxes/irs-protest/index.html

NEWSWEEK & MSN
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting LGBTQ, that is, Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying traditional marriage and family.
https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-so-many-more-gen-z-identifying-lgbtq-1900962
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/18-republican-led-states-are-suing-for-the-right-to-discriminate-against-trans-workers/ar-BB1ms2Lu

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Biden Goes From the Basement to Denial. Polls show him behind Trump, and he won’t come back unless he admits the problem. – Karl Rove
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-goes-from-the-basement-to-denial-2024-presidential-election-9ec3d29f
— Trump and Haley: A Perfect Match. As running mates, they can unite voters, raise money, and dominate American public policy for years. – Gordon Sondland (COMMENT: Haley promotes ever-increasingly talk and/or act like they rather see Biden elected than Trump.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-and-haley-a-perfect-match-election-vice-president-480be237
— The Power Move of Working the 5-to-9 Before the 9-to-5. Working a regular day, even into the evening, is for mere mortals. Those out to impress start well before dawn. – Callum Borchers (COMMENT: To put together and send pot a GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter each and every morning, I get up between midnight and 2:00 AM each and every morning.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/early-5-to-9-work-7dd4db7c
— Retirees Face Decline in Financial Wealth Due to Inflation. Inflation over the past two years has caused retirees as well as Americans several years away from retiring to take bigger withdrawals from their savings. Wall Street Journal reporter Anne Tergesen joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss a new study that focused on how inflation has harmed older households. (COMMENT: My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors wasted my career, took many big adverse actions against me, and forced me to take the early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/retirees-face-decline-in-financial-wealth-due-to-inflation/e2d612e2-359e-4fb4-9a08-5530c27cb411
— FRONT PAGE: More Workers Are Cheating on Drug Tests. Substituted urine samples increased by sixfold, while marijuana positive screens jumped in finance and real estate, according to Quest Diagnostics – Joseph De Avila (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/cheating-on-workplace-drug-tests-hits-a-record-c3f62355

21th CENTURY CHRONICLE
— The Federal Government’s move to introduce a new productivity-based salary structure for civil servants, allowing employees at the same rank to earn different wages, is a significant policy shift. – ISMAILA UMARU LERE (COMMENT: Starting in 1989, my Democrat GAO superiors used their pay-for-performance system to get rid of their employees who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write a book about that.)
https://21stcenturychronicle.com/assessing-the-new-productivity-based-wage-system/

POLITICO
— Biden moves to block House from getting tapes of his interviews with special counsel on classified docs. Robert Hur’s description of those interviews fueled a firestorm over the president’s memory and mental fitness. – JOSH GERSTEIN
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/16/biden-moves-to-block-house-from-getting-his-classified-docs-interview-tapes-00158323

GOVERNING
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.governing.com/urban/how-cities-can-absorb-waves-of-refugees

GBH
— Activist calls on white religious leaders in Boston to draft atonement message – Saraya Wintersmith (COMMENT: How soon, if not already, will the organizations that you are a member of issue atonement messages?)
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-05-15/activist-calls-on-white-religious-leaders-in-boston-to-draft-atonement-message

May 15, 2024

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— QUESTION: Who do hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punish the most? ANSWER: Conservative Republicans like me who share the most demographics with Trump and who communicate the most. Both Trump and I are White, male, old, non-poor, married, draft avoiders, Protestant, German American, and our ancestors have been in America for a long time. I put together and send out a newsletter every morning that is read my many thousands in Illinois. Since 2015, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois have taken many big adverse actions against me. I should write a book about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

IBENDAHL ON POLITICS
— Obliterating the last remaining lie of the direct election opponents (COMMENT: I should write a book about those past and present Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000.)
https://ibendahlonpolitics.com/2024/05/14/obliterating-the-last-remaining-lie-of-the-direct-election-opponents/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Defenders of a failed status-quo whined for years that we couldn’t allow Republican primary voters to have a vote again for the Illinois GOP’s governing board because we would get Democrats on our state central committee. Of course this was always just a manufactured lie. And the hacks who parroted that phony talking point could never explain how that would ever realistically happen. Further, the Illinois GOP had direct elections for the members of the state central committee prior to 1986 (the same voting right every Illinois Democrat STILL enjoys in their state party) and there is absolutely zero evidence Democrat infiltration was ever an issue for the Illinois GOP when Republican primary voters had a voice. In truth it’s our cockamamie current system, the one forced down our throats by a handful of old party bosses back in 1986 which actually HAS put Democrats on our state central committee. But it’s worse than that. Over a quarter of the 17 current members of the state central committee publicly endorsed career left-wing Democrat Richard Irvin for governor in 2022. National Committeeman Richard Porter did too.)

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Israel Independence Day draws pro-Palestinian protesters downtown – Michelle Gallardo
https://abc7chicago.com/post/security-heightened-at-daley-plaza-in-chicago-as-israel-flag-to-be-raised-mark-independence-day-pro-palestinian-protests-expected/14814082/
https://abc7chicago.com/videoClip/14816135/
— Southern Poverty Law Center rebukes CPD for lack of action for officers tied to Oath Keepers – Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Tom Jones (COMMENT: I was the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012 and an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents who have demonized, denigrated, and condemned those groups the most as being extremist.)
https://abc7chicago.com/southern-poverty-law-center-rebukes-chicago-police-department-for-lack-of-action-officers-tied-to-oath-keepers-proud-boys/14816593/
— Aldermen frustrated with performance, leadership call for CTA president Dorval Carter to resign. – Craig Wall (COMMENT: Politics is nasty/vicious. Who has called for you to resign and why? I should write a book about my critics/opponents who successfully had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me as a) a 2024 Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee member, b) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, c) a contender to fill a Wheaton City Council vacancy, d) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, e) a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, f) a Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster, g) an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, h) a MTRO Treasurer candidate, i) an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, j) a GAO employee, k) etc. In my book, I would focus on the pretexts that were used to get rid of me. In my book, I would focus on my critics/opponents who I have done the most to help elect and reelect. In my book, I would focus on my critics/opponents a) who continue to blame me and to blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems, b) who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and c) who have destroyed those who have come to my defense. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have demonstrated the most hatred against Trump.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-aldermen-frustrated-with-performance-and-post-pandemic-recovery-call-for-cta-president-dorval-carter-to-resign/14815568/
— Chicago migrants moved out of Woodlawn’s old Wadsworth Elementary School after months of controversy. – Sarah Schulte
https://abc7chicago.com/post/migrants-chicago-brandon-johnson-administration-shuts-down-migrant-shelter-at-old-wadsworth-school-in-woodlawn/14816091/

CBS2
— Chicago official says city has plan in event of another influx of migrants this summer
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-official-says-city-has-plan-in-event-of-another-influx-of-migrants-this-summer/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxcLd0bo0-I
— Pro-Palestinian protesters come face-to-face with Israeli Independence celebration in Chicago – Chris Tye
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-israeli-independence-celebration-chicago/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/johnson-chicago-migrants-anniversary/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CglbDwsRGaA
— Nearly 80 officials overseeing elections in 7 swing states doubt 2020 results – Madeleine May, Caitlin Huey-Burns (COMMENT: How many millions of illegals in those 7 swing states used their false identifications to vote for Biden?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/officials-overseeing-elections-swing-states-doubt-2020-results/

WGN9
— ‘We are not on a path to understanding’: How ‘FEST’ at DePaul got cancelled, and where divestment talks are headed next. – Christine Flores, Eli Ong
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/we-are-not-on-a-path-to-understanding-how-fest-at-depaul-got-cancelled-and-where-divestment-talks-are-headed-next/
— Chicago’s Jewish community celebrates Israel Independence Day at Daley Plaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLiS2_9LWzQ

FOX32
— Protests flare at Daley Plaza commemoration of Israel’s founding – Paris Schutz
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/protests-daley-plaza-commemoration-israel-founding

WTTW
— ‘There’s a Lot of Unevenness’: Chicago’s Youth Joblessness Rates Outpace Illinois and US – Matt Masterson (COMMENT: While I was a junior and a senior at Crete Monee High School 1964-1966, I was employed part-time during the school years and full-time the summer in between because I took a bad job, a job that my classmates would not stoop to take. I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights. I was the only White male who ever held that job in that store. With the money that I earned and saved, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in May of 1966 that I used to commute to/from my parents’ home in Crete and classes at UIC.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/15/there-s-lot-unevenness-chicago-s-youth-joblessness-rates-outpace-illinois-and-us-new

WBEZ
— Chicagoans give CPS a ‘C,’ say students are not learning enough. – Sarah Karp (COMMENT: My outstanding teachers at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete, Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest, and Crete-Monee High School enabled me to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my class, and get accepted by UIC.)
https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicagoans-give-cps-a-c-say-students-are-not-learning-enough/c3e48315-1ecb-4b53-b608-200176236d16

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters a) ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and b) say “The courthouse parade of GOP officials courting defendant Trump is a disgrace.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/14/editorial-donald-trump-mike-johnson-stormy-daniels-republicans/
— This year’s Israel Independence Day ‘tinged with sorrow,’ say Chicago Jews – NELL SALZMAN (COMMENT: If I was still working for the Democrats who run GAO, I would be in big trouble. The Democrats who run GAO hint/imply/argue/shout at their many Jewish employees that Republicans cause all the problems that Jews have and especially the problems that liberal/moderate Jews have. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, 100% German American, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978. While I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, at least one of my superiors was an anti-conservative Jew and during my last 8 years they all were anti-conservative Jews. They all took many big adverse actions against me. From what I see, if they were still in charge today, they would side with Hamas against Israel.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/14/this-years-israel-independence-day-tinged-with-sorrow-say-chicago-jews/
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their ever-increasing success in promoting abortion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/14/abortion-5/
— City closes migrant shelter in former school on South Side – OLIVIA STEVENS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/13/city-closes-migrant-shelter-in-former-school-on-south-side/
— Today in History: New state of Israel attacked by 5 nations – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/15/today-in-history-new-state-of-israel-attacked-by-5-nations/
— More spending won’t be enough to reduce Chicago’s gun violence – Jens Ludwig:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/15/opinion-public-safety-chicago-violence-prevention/
— Prosecutor opposes bill to help moms whose babies are born with drugs in system – Robert McCoppin (COMMENT: I should write a book about my outstanding parents.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/prosecutor-opposes-bill-to-help-moms-whose-babies-are-born-with-drugs-in-system/ar-BB1mmnBo

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Jewish community celebrating Israel Independence Day are met by pro-Palestinian protesters in Daley Plaza. Chicago’s Jewish community celebrates Israel declaring its independence 76 years ago, on May 14, 1948. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered across the plaza. There were a few altercations, but no arrests were made. – David Struett
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/05/14/protest-israel-independence-daley-plaza
— DePaul University cancels FEST 2024, cites campus ‘environment’ The cancellation of the end-of-school-year music festival comes days after the university said it has reached a stalemate in negotiations with organizers of a pro-Palestinian encampment. – Isabel Funk
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/05/14/depaul-university-cancels-fest-2024-cites-campus-environment-pro-palestinian-camp-israel-hamas-war
— CTA riders, victims recall robberies, attacks: ‘I’m very paranoid’ Four robberies or beatings occurred on the Red Line from May 6-10, carried out by at least four young women and a male, Chicago police said in a community alert. – Mohammad Samra
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/05/14/female-robbery-crew-red-line-victims-talk
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2024/05/14/chicago-woman-who-helps-migrants-fights-chance-stay-united-states
— Civil rights group says Chicago mayor, top cop should take tougher action against officers linked to extremist Oath Keepers. The Southern Poverty Law Center urged Mayor Brandon Johnson and Police Supt. Larry Snelling to reconsider the decision not to take disciplinary action against eight officers connected to the Oath Keepers, six of whom admitted to joining the group. – Tom Schuba and Dan Mihalopoulos (COMMENT: I was the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012 and an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007. I should write about my critics/opponents who have demonized, denigrated, and condemned those groups the most as being extremist.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/extremism-in-the-ranks/2024/05/14/civil-rights-group-urges-chicago-mayor-top-cop-closer-took-at-officers-linked-to-extremist-oath-keepers
— City closes Woodlawn migrant shelter and moves residents. The shelter at the former Wadsworth Elementary School building, 6420 S. University Ave., was recently ‘decompressed’ and all residents were moved to other temporary shelters or have found permanent housing, city officials said. – Cindy Hernandez
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/05/14/city-closes-woodlawn-migrant-shelter-moves-residents-immigration-city-hall-health-education-welfare
— Museum of Science and Industry to rebrand as Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — after big donor who fled city. Once the richest person in Illinois, Ken Griffin pulled out of Illinois in 2022, months after complaining about the city’s crime, saying “there is nowhere, where you can feel safe.” – Jessica Ma
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-and-culture/2024/05/14/museum-science-industry-rebrand-griffin-museum-science-industry-chicago
— Fare question: Why has Mayor Brandon Johnson resisted demands to fire CTA President Dorval Carter Jr.? – Fran Spielman (COMMENT: I should write about leaders who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican but who have fired me and the pretexts that they used.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2024/05/14/dorval-carter-cta-brandon-johnson-crime-ridership-red-line-extension

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH TWO PHOTOS: DuPage County State’s Attorney preparing lawsuit against county clerk over bills – Alicia Fabbre
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240514/news/dupage-county-states-attorney-preparing-lawsuit-against-county-clerk-over-bills/
— Democrats ever-increasing use Jesus to promote more hatred against Republicans. Democrats ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Jesus promotes the Democrat platform, that is, that Jesus promotes a) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, b) dependency on government and charity, c) LGBTQ, d) abortion, e) illegal immigration, f) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, and g) abolition of the First and Second Amendments.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240514/submitted-content/aurora-church-to-offer-workshop-on-discipling-anti-racist-youth/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: He will discuss and engage with youth leaders to wrestle with and share insights on leading youth to grow into critical-thinking, racial justice-minded followers of Jesus Christ.)

SOUTHERN
— Trump allies, potential VP contenders flock to Manhattan courthouse – Lalee Ibssa and Soo Rin Kim (COMMENT: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters ever-increasingly promote hatred against those who support Trump.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/05/14/trump-allies-potential-vp-contenders-flock-to-manhattan-courthouse/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Anticipate/expect that my critics/opponents have/will falsely hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I am an operative/dupe for “Local Government Information Services, Inc.” b) that should not include links to any of its articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, and c) that I should remove all links to its articles in my www.gopillinois.com website.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/elections/state/2024/05/15/right-wing-publisher-removes-some-personal-information-from-illinois-voters/73678334007/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Speaker Mike Johnson assails Trump’s felony trial in remarkable visit outside courthouse – AP (COMMENT: Yes, but supporters can and do turn against those who they have supported. I should write about those who I have always supported but who have now turned against me. I would focus on past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, c) conservative leaders and activists, and d) religious leaders and activists. I would focus on those who have worked the hardest to “use” me. I would focus on the aforesaid who now blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me recently.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-speaker-mike-johnsons-appearance-at-trumps-felony-trial-marks-a-remarkable-moment-in-us-politics/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters ever-increasingly promote hatred against those who support Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-05-14/these-people-waited-hours-to-see-the-trump-hush-money-trial-up-close-heres-why

WCIA
— Speaker Johnson rails against Trump trial outside NY courthouse – Lauren Sforza, Mychael Schnell
https://www.wcia.com/hill-politics/speaker-johnson-rails-against-trump-trial-outside-ny-courthouse/

WGLT
— Trump gets by with a little help from his friends during New York hush money trial – Ximena Bustillo (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and destroy those who help me. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.wglt.org/2024-05-14/trump-gets-by-with-a-little-help-from-his-friends-during-new-york-hush-money-trial

FOX SAVANNAH
— Student teacher stipend bill with possible $68 million cost to taxpayers advances in Illinois – GREG BISHOP (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give more tax dollars to teachers to get them to make their students “good little Democrats.”)
https://fox28savannah.com/news/nation-world/teacher-stipend-bill-possible-68-million-cost-price-money-dollars-taxpayers-appropriation-education-school-advances-students-classroom-senate-illinois

NPR ILLINOIS & WSIL TV & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & WCIA
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their ever-increasing success in promoting abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-05-14/despite-state-bans-abortions-nationwide-are-up-driven-by-telehealth
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/telehealth-abortions-now-account-for-nearly-1-in-5-in-us-with-thousands-accessed-under/article_dd669626-c267-57f4-85f2-0e321c3acf08.html
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-survey-finds-8000-women-a-month-got-abortion-pills-despite-their-states-bans-or-restrictions/
https://www.wcia.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-survey-finds-8000-women-a-month-got-abortion-pills-despite-their-states-bans-or-restrictions/

ILLINOIS SENATE DEMOCRATS
— Democrats champion legislation aimed at prohibiting employer discrimination based on family obligations. I should write a book about my Democrat GAO superiors who punished me the most a) because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF, b) because we did not adopt, and c) because we did not become foster parents. I would focus on those a) who had children, b) whose children had health problems, c) who adopted, d) who had spouses who had little or no income, and/or e) who painted themselves as having tremendous family obligations. I would focus on the aforesaid who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.illinoissenatedemocrats.com/caucus-news/87-senator-natalie-toro-news/5662-toro-guzzardi-legislation-stands-against-discrimination-in-the-workplace

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/14/afternoon-roundup-197/
— Poll: Half of city respondents don’t trust the mayor to look out for best interest of CPS students, three-quarters trust teachers, 84 percent say city politicos ‘too focused on petty political battles’
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/14/poll-half-of-city-voters-dont-trust-the-mayor-to-look-out-for-best-interest-of-cps-students-three-quarters-trust-teachers-84-percent-say-city-politicos-too-focused-on-petty-political-battles/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois has more educators, less students than ever, yet officials complain about a ‘teacher shortage’ – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-has-more-educators-less-students-than-ever-yet-officials-complain-about-teacher-shortage-wirepoints/
— One year in and Mayor Johnson’s only “success’ is handing out money
https://wirepoints.org/one-year-in-and-mayor-johnsons-only-success-is-handing-out-money-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago teachers to descend on Springfield asking for more taxpayer money – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f3b32b7a-122d-11ef-9dab-e399e625337a.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Moving Woman’s Prison from Lincoln to Will County Would Make It Easier to Maintain Contact with Families
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/14/moving-womans-prison-from-lincoln-to-will-county-will-make-it-easier-to-maintain-contact-with-families/
— Hamas Supporters Allowed to Raise Palestinian Flag in Daley Plaza
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/14/hamas-supporters-allowed-to-raise-palestinian-flag-in-daley-plaza/
— Even More Tax Dollars to Subsidize Chinese Communist Party Electric Battery Plant
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/14/even-more-tax-dollars-to-subsidize-chinese-communist-party-electric-battery-plant/
— Telephone Company Bribes
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/14/telephone-company-bribes/
— SIEU Spends Oodles on High Salaries
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/14/sieu-spends-oddles-on-high-salaries/
— McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally Opposition to Family Recovery Task Force Legislation Lands on Front Page of the Chicago Tribune
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/14/sb3136/
— McHenry County College Tax Dollars at Work in Sponsorship of Woodstock Gay Pridefest
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/15/message-of-the-day-tax-dollars-at-work/
— Political Spending by SIEU
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/15/political-spending-by-sieu/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— MAYOR JOHNSON’S 1ST YEAR DELIVERS THE MAYHEM HE PROMISED – Paul Vallas
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-mayor-johnsons-1st-year-delivers-the-mayhem-he-promised/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Commencement Protests Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg – JOHN F. DI LEO
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/05/opinion-commencement-protests-are-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg.html
— EVs: Another Assault On Modern Life – James P. Economos
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/05/economos-another-assault-on-modern-life.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Scouts pay dearly for ‘wokeness,’ double down anyway. The fall of another great American institution. – Robert Knight
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/14/scouts-pay-dearly-for-wokeness-double-down-anyway/
— New York appeals court keeps gag on Trump – Mallory Wilson (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who want to gag me, that is, to stop me from promoting direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members and conservative principles.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/14/new-york-appeals-court-keeps-gag-on-trump/
— DEI has jeopardized air safety – Adam Laxalt (COMMENT: During the 1980s and 1990s, Democrat and RINO politicians used big budget cuts, Affirmative Action, and DEI to destroy GAO, that is, to make GAO just an ineffective shell of what it once was. If GAO had been in 1980 what it is today, I doubt that I would have transferred from IRS to GAO. I had to suffer a $22,996/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/14/dei-has-jeopardized-air-safety/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Speaker Johnson fundraises off Trump’s hush-money trial in New York City – Cami Mondeaux
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3003300/speaker-johnson-fundraises-trump-hush-money-trial-new-york/
— DC hosted voting registration training for illegal immigrants – Paul Bedard (COMMENT: How many of the illegals in your county, township, municipality, and school district are registered to vote?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3003524/dc-hosted-voting-registration-training-illegal-immigrants/
— ‘Misinformation’ is the word for facts the Biden administration dislikes – Timothy P. Carney (COMMENT: To justify removing me from the 2024 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee, IRP leaders had one of their operatives/dupes a)demonize/denigrate/condemn as being false my concern that I expressed in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter that efforts were underway to move to IRP platform to the left and b) demand that I remove that concern from www.gopillinois.com . Further, they had him hint/imply/argue/shout that if I stayed on the committee, I would improperly/unethically put confidential/private committee information in my newsletters. Of course, the aforesaid is a pretext.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3003905/reminder-misinformation-word-facts-biden-administration-dislikes/
— Kari Lake is already making excuses for her likely Senate loss – Zachary Faria (COMMENT: I should write a book about those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who have blamed me and have blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their defeats.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3003312/kari-lake-already-making-excuses-likely-senate-loss/

NEW YORK POST
— Bogus Gaza death counts again prove the United Nations is another Hamas stooge – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2024/05/14/opinion/bogus-gaza-death-counts-again-prove-the-united-nations-is-another-hamas-stooge/

BLAZE
— Illegals make list of demands for FREE ‘culturally appropriate food,’ housing, and immigration lawyers
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/pat-gray-unleashed/illegal-immigrants

CHARLIE KIRK
— How Many Illegals Does America Have? And How Many Vote?
https://thecharliekirkshow.com/podcasts/the-charlie-kirk-show/how-many-illegals-does-america-have-and-how-many-v

COLLEGE FIX
— DEI consultant gets most of nursing school’s ‘racial healing’ grant – KAYLEY CHARTIER (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at nurses and at everyone else that Republicans are White Supremists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/dei-consultant-gets-most-of-nursing-schools-racial-healing-grant/

DAILY SIGNAL
— NPR Assigned a Reporter With Ties to Soros-Funded Groups to Cover a Story About Illegal Alien Voting? – Tyler O’Neil
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/05/14/why-did-npr-assign-reporter-ties-soros-funded-groups-cover-story-illegal-alien-voting/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A recent study estimates that 10-27% of non-citizens are registered to vote, and based on previous elections and federal data, at least 1-2.7 million non-citizens will vote in the 2024 election.)

EPOCH TIMES
— Speaker Mike Johnson, Vivek Ramaswamy Join Trump in Court on Tuesday – Chase Smith
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/speaker-mike-johnson-vivek-ramaswamy-join-trump-in-court-on-tuesday-5649621

FEDERALIST
— Don’t Buy The Media’s Spin About Illegal Border Crossings Being Down – CASEY CHALK
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/15/dont-buy-the-medias-spin-about-illegal-border-crossings-being-down/
— When SCOTUS Nuked Affirmative Action, Universities Just Took It Underground – AUGUSTE MEYRAT
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/15/when-scotus-nuked-affirmative-action-universities-just-took-it-underground/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— What Do We Want? Everything! Migrants Send List of Demands to Denver City Officials – Ira Mehlman (COMMENT: What did your ancestors want/demand when they immigrated?)
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/05/14/what-do-we-want-everything-migrants-send-list-demands-denver-city-officials

GOPUSA
— 70% Of Banks Target Clients Based On Conservative, Religious Beliefs (COMMENT: How anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time is your bank?)
https://www.gopusa.com/report-70-of-banks-target-clients-based-on-conservative-religious-beliefs/
— The Left’s Attack On American Patriotism
https://www.gopusa.com/the-lefts-attack-on-american-patriotism/
— Fentanyl Coming To U.S. Becoming More Deadly, DEA Says
https://www.gopusa.com/fentanyl-coming-to-u-s-becoming-more-deadly-dea-says/

HOT AIR
— Erdogon Defends Hamas; Treating 1000 Hamas Fighters in Turkey – DAVID STROM
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/05/14/erdogon-defends-hamas-treating-1000-hamas-fighters-in-turkey-n3788319

IMMIGRATION REFORM
— DHS Awards Millions to NGOs Facilitating Illegal Immigration
https://www.immigrationreform.com/2024/05/14/dhs-awards-millions-to-ngos-facilitating-illegal-immigration/

JUDICIAL WATCH
— Illegal migrants are being ‘encouraged’ to vote, top Republican warns after shocking documents reveals ‘training’ for noncitizens to cast ballots in Washington D.C. (COMMENT: How many of the illegals in your county, township, municipality, and school district are registered to vote?)
https://www.judicialwatch.org/illegal-migrants-encouraged-vote-warns-after-documents/

MRC TV
— ‘They’re Excellent Swimmers’: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Suggests Using ‘Migrants’ to Fill Lifeguard Shortage – NICK KANGADIS
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/nick-kangadis/theyre-excellent-swimmers-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-suggests-using-migrants-fill

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Racism That Once Was, Is No More – Richard Porter (COMMENT: To get more votes from minorities, Democrat and RINO candidates, elected officials, and party leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans are not only racists, but White Supremists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/14/racism_that_once_was_is_no_more_150940.html

ZERO HEDGE
— Illegals in America take jobs away from citizens of America and/or collect welfare from citizens of America.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/over-half-illegal-aliens-us-are-unemployed-report

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Speaker Johnson attends Trump’s hush-money trial. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy are also present. – Lalee Ibssa and Soo Rin Kim
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/speaker-johnson-attend-trumps-hush-money-trial/story?id=110211888

NBC NEWS
— Trump’s vice presidential contenders show their support — and loyalty — in court. With the former president’s time on the campaign trail limited due to his New York trial, Trump’s potential running mates are coming to him instead. – Alec Hernández (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have had great success in destroying those who support me. I should write a book about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trumps-presidential-contenders-show-support-loyalty-court-rcna152206
— In a split with Trump, Ben Carson calls for a national abortion ban. In his new book, Carson also compares the “attack” on American families with the Israel-Gaza war. – Shaquille Brewster, Abigail Brooks, Alec Hernández and Amanda Terkel
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ben-carson-national-abortion-ban-trump-rcna152106
— The doctor who saved Sen. Tammy Duckworth in Iraq is trapped in Gaza. Now she’s trying to save him. Adam Hamawy, from Princeton, N.J., is among a team of doctors from the Palestinian American Medical Association that was blocked from leaving Gaza on Monday. – Frank Thorp V, Zoë Richards and Abigail Williams
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/doctor-saved-tammy-duckworth-iraq-trapped-gaza-adam-hamawy-rcna152291

MSN
— Biden Demands Illegal Aliens He’s Let In Get Pathway To Citizenship – Claire O’Hare
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-demands-illegal-aliens-he-s-let-in-get-pathway-to-citizenship/ar-BB1i2DFi

MSNBC
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at women that Republican men cause all the problems that women have.
https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/out-of-office/sexism-still-ranks-biggest-hurdle-facing-women-elected-office-poll-rcna152217

AOL
— Donald Trump New York Trial: Who Has Come to Support Him? – NIK POPLI (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have had great success in destroying those who support me. I should write a book about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.aol.com/donald-trump-york-trial-come-170426605.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Noem to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/opinion/kristi-noem-vice-signaling-maga.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/immigration-history-race-quota-progress/

USA TODAY
— Florida shines under DeSantis’ leadership. His liberal critics should learn from him. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is proving that conservative policies can boost an economy and attract Americans who want to thrive. – Nicole Russell
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/05/15/desantis-republican-policy-people-move-to-florida/73684294007/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, age discrimination ever-increasingly increases. How soon will they officially dump White male precinct committeemen over age 40, township/ward party leaders over age 45, county party leaders over age 50, state central committee members over age 55, and state party officers over age 60?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/05/13/genz-voters-2024-election-dislike-biden-trump/73624402007/

TAMPA FREE PRESS
— After Martha’s Vineyard Dust-Up, Biden Made Florida Top-Stop For Migrant Parole Program – Liam Edgar
https://www.tampafp.com/after-marthas-vineyard-dust-up-biden-made-florida-top-stop-for-migrant-parole-program/

WLIW
— South Dakota tribes side with Democrats against Noem and Trump.
https://www.wliw.org/radio/news/most-of-south-dakotas-tribes-have-banned-kristi-noem-from-their-land-heres-why/

AMERICA MAGAZINE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing use religious organizations to promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2024/05/14/catholic-ngos-migrant-border-247928

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— EV Tariffs and the Inanity of Bidenism. Or how a president can be handed lemonade and turn it back into lemons. – Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/evs-and-the-inanity-of-bidenism-china-tariffs-235f63be

FORBES
— The Latest DEI Research And How To Find An Employer Who Shares Your Values – Mark C. Perna (COMMENT: The Democrat-run GAO, IRS, and Post Office that I worked for almost 30 years did not share my conservative Republican values. First and foremost my superiors ever-increasingly promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they ever-increasingly promoted patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Further, they ever-increasingly promoted the rest of the Democrat Party platform, that is, dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot and other vices, and diminishment of Second Amendment rights.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markcperna/2023/04/25/the-latest-dei-research-and-how-to-find-an-employer-who-shares-your-values/

NPR
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their ever-increasing success in promoting abortion.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/14/1251086997/abortion-increase-research-wecount-telehealth
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting organizations to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1198912268/migrant-girl-scouts-shelter-new-york-crisis-border-asylum-biden-immigration

INSIDE PHILANTHROPY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2024/5/14/three-ways-philanthropy-can-respond-to-attacks-on-affirmative-action-according-to-black-leaders

LIFEWIRE
— The 10 Best News Aggregators of 2024 – Stefanie Fogel (COMMENT: I am a conservative independent nonprofit government and political news and commentary aggregator. What do you say to website operators, including those who state that they are conservative and/or Republican, who do not want me to drive traffic to their websites? They know full-well that they cannot manipulate or dominate me, that I do not glorify and praise them, that I do not pander to them, that I will not serve as one of their operatives or dupes, and that I will not cover up their wrong doing.)
https://www.lifewire.com/best-news-aggregators-4584410

May 14, 2024

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Officially, who are all the candidates for Illinois Republican Party (IRP) National Committeeman and National Committeewoman? What are their qualifications? Why are they running? Illinois Republicans await a press release from the IRP. The deadline for applying was Friday, May 3, 2024 at 5:00 PM. According to a May 8, 2024 Prairie State Wire article at https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/658419645-kolber-seeking-rnc-committeeman-seat-important-green-shoots-are-growing-in-illinois , Vince Kolber is seeking the IRP National Committeeman seat and he faces Dean White (8th CD) and Mark Shaw (1st CD). While I was the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2010, I conducted a candidate forum for an open IRP National Committeeman seat. Jack Roeser participated. See a Chicago Tribune article titled “Illinois Republicans pick Williamson as new national GOP representative” at https://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2010/04/illinois-republicans-pick-williamson-as-new-national-gop-representative.html and a Huffington Post article titled “Jack Roeser, Wealthy Conservative, Passed Over For GOP Leadership Role; Rich Williamson Wins National Committeeman” at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jack-roeser-wealthy-conse_n_549492 . From the Tribune article: “Williamson succeeds Pat Brady, who vacated the position when he became chairman of the Illinois Republican Party last year. Also interested in the national post were conservative Carpentersville businessman Jack Roeser and former governor candidate Jim Oberweis. The selection was made before a Republican fundraiser in honor of the statewide ticket and featuring controversial RNC Chairman Michael Steele. It was supposed to be open to the media, but Brady decided to close it today.” – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— APRIL 13, 2024 FLASHBACK: IL GOP National Committeeman Race Heats Up, Includes a Former State Party Chairman and a Wisconsin Voter
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/04/il-gop-national-committeeman-race-heats-up-includes-a-former-state-party-chairman-and-a-wisconsin-voter.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The race amongst the Illinois Republican Party’s State Central Committee to be the next Republican National Committeeman is heating up as candidates campaign to replace outgoing national committeeman Richard Porter and national committeewoman Demetra Demonte, who cannot run for a third time because of term limits. While the state central committee represents the governing board of the IL GOP, the national committeeman – one male and one female, represents the state party along with the state GOP chairman before the Republican National Committee The position requires frequent travel to RNC meetings throughout the country and they are elected by delegates at the state convention. The national committeeman also votes in the RNC chairman’s election, and last year, Porter, Demonte and IL GOP chairman Don Tracy all voted to support Ronna Romney-McDaniel over the grassroots-backed candidate Harmeet Dhillon. Running to replace Porter are three candidates: state central committee members Mark Shaw and Dean White, and IL GOP Finance Committee Chair Vince Kolber.”)

IDAHO POST REGISTER
— This race matters (COMMENT: Who is your Republican Precinct Committeeman? Since 2002, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP) who oppose direction of IRP State Central Committee members and/or who reject planks in the IRP platform have failed in their efforts to recruit a registered Republican in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 (previously Precinct 9) in Wheaton to run against me and to defeat me for Precinct Committeeman. But I anticipate/expect that the aforesaid leaders will do whatever that they believe is necessary to get a registered Republican in my precinct to run against me and to defeat me in 2026. I should write a book the aforesaid leaders and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me so far, most recently, removing me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee.)

https://www.postregister.com/freeaccess/opinion-this-race-matters/article_3cabc650-0d5d-11ef-8912-03b65b4c49d4.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Precinct committeemen wield tremendous power within the Republican and Democratic parties. They elect the county political party leaders, set the county party rules and send delegates to the state convention where they vote on the state party platform and state party officers. You vote for them during the May primary elections. They’re on your ballot if you are affiliated with the Republican or Democratic parties. Registered Republicans vote for Republican PCOs, and registered Democrats vote for Democratic PCOs. If you are not affiliated with a party, you have no say.”)

IDAHO CAPITOL SUN & NEWS FROM THE STATES
— Idaho 2024 primary election: Precinct committee races represent battle for soul of GOP. Hundreds of Idahoans are running for obscure precinct positions that could shake up the state’s Republican Party leadership. – CLARK CORBIN
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2024/05/13/idaho-2024-primary-election-precinct-committee-races-represent-battle-for-soul-of-gop/
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/idaho-2024-primary-election-precinct-committee-races-represent-battle-soul-gop
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Hundreds of obscure, down ballot primary election races for neighborhood-level political positions are drawing intense competition in Idaho and have the potential to shake up party leadership – particularly within the dominant Republican Party. The problem – according to officials on both sides of the fight for control and influence of the Republican Party – is that many voters have no idea what precinct committeemen are and likely don’t recognize the names of candidates running for these positions because they aren’t high profile offices like a congressional representative, state legislator or even a county commissioner or city council member. “I would say 99% of people don’t know and don’t know who their precinct committeeman is,” former Idaho Lt. Gov. Jack Riggs said in a telephone interview. “But your neighborhood precinct is the foundation of the party, and in our case, the Republican Party.” The stakes are so high that Riggs wrote in an April 26 opinion piece for the North Idaho Republicans that “This May, precinct committeeman will be the most important race on the ballot.” Riggs, a Republican physician who served as lieutenant governor from 2001 to 2003, is the co-founder of a group called North Idaho Republicans. The group is one of at least two groups of established, traditional Idaho Republicans who are engaging heavily in the precinct committee elections this year as part of an effort to take the Republican Party back from its current leadership team that includes Chairwoman Dorothy Moon. The other group is called Gem State Conservatives, and it includes former Idaho Republican Party chairmen Trent Clark and Tom Luna. Moon defeated Luna to become chairperson of the Idaho Republican Party in 2022. . .“There is a statewide effort to take over the party at the precinct level,” Regan said in a telephone interview. “That is not what precinct committeemen are supposed to be; it’s not supposed to be the elites and the higher ups, it’s supposed to be the grassroots, the ma and pa,” Regan added. “It’s supposed to represent the voters and the people, not a bunch of special interests. When Tom Luna lost in a landslide and his faction of the party was no longer in charge of the party, they set aside their prior calls for unity at the convention when they lost and a bunch got up and left.” Multiple efforts to reach Moon, the chairwoman of the Idaho Republican Party, were unsuccessful. Additionally, Moon did not respond to a list of questions about precinct committee races that a reporter from the Sun emailed to Moon and another Idaho GOP official on April 22. What is a precinct committeeman and what do they do in Idaho? There are only a few requirements to run for precinct committeeman. Candidates must be at least 18 years old, be a U.S. citizen and have been a registered voter in the precinct for at least six months before the election. Idaho law refers to the position as precinct committeeman, but anyone can run for the office, not just men. Although they are obscure, the precinct committeemen are important because they make up the grassroots level of political parties and help determine the parties’ leaders and rules. For example, the precinct committeeman elected in the May 21 Republican primary will play a big role in who is elected chairperson of the Idaho Republican Party during the upcoming GOP state convention this summer. Precinct committeemen essentially make up the county central committees for political parties in Idaho. Under state law, within 10 days of the primary election, the precinct committeemen who are elected are required to meet, organize their county central committees and elect a county chairperson and officers. Once the county central committees are organized, they select the delegates that will attend the 2024 Idaho GOP State Convention that begins June 13 in Coeur d’Alene. At the convention, delegates will vote on who to elect as chairperson of the Idaho Republican Party and will help write and pass any changes to party rules or the party platform, which lists the party’s core beliefs and policies it supports. In Idaho, it is basically impossible to track how much money is going into precinct committeeman campaigns. Unlike other offices, there are no campaign finance reporting requirements for precinct committeemen with the county or the state, and there is no limit to what they can raise or spend, said Chelsea Carattini, a spokesperson for the Idaho Secretary of State’s office. Precinct committeemen are required to disclose a “paid for by” designation on any materials, Carattini said. Campaign finance information gives the public a transparent look at money funding political campaigns and candidates, according to the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office. For state level candidates, all money raised and spent on a campaign must be tracked and accounted for, according to the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office. Even local county candidates and judicial candidates must report campaign finance information once they raise $500, including the sources and expenses for that first $500. But for precinct committeemen, there are no such reporting requirements, Carattini said. How many precinct candidates are running in Idaho’s primary election this year? Unlike statewide races and elections, the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office does not maintain a list of all the statewide candidates running for precinct committeeman in Idaho, Carattini said. Instead of the state keeping tabs, it’s up to local county election officials. But for context, there are almost 300 Republicans in Ada County alone running for a precinct committeeman position in the May 21 Republican primary. . .How can you tell where precinct committeeman candidates stand on issues? The ability to inform voters about these tiny precinct level offices is a challenge for everybody on all sides of this election. The North Idaho Republicans and supporters of the Gem State Conservatives have published lists of the precinct committeeman candidates they are supporting or have recruited. Regan said Republican Party rules prevent central committees from endorsing precinct committeemen. Instead, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee has published a list of its current precinct committeemen in a list posted below a list of candidates for other offices that have been vetted and recommended by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee. Beyond looking at lists published online or on social media, Wasden recommends voters find out what precinct they are in and spend time researching the candidates running for precinct committeeman in their neighborhood. To support establishment Republicans looking to take the party back, Wasden urged voters to listen to see if candidates support education and public schools, reasonable government services, low taxes and fewer regulations. There’s been an increase in those running for the position in other Idaho counties as well. “For years now, the public’s interest and participation in Idaho’s Republican Party has been growing, and this year there were a record number of applicants to serve in Bonneville County,” said a press release from Nicholas Contos, Bonneville County Republican Party chairman. Across the state, there are more than 930 precincts in total, and each precinct can be represented by a different precinct committeeman in each of the four political parties the state recognizes. While state election officials do not have an exact number of precinct committeeman candidates running for office this year, longtime political observers say they have never seen this much interest and competition for the positions. “Right now what is happening is traditional, true Republicans have decided we are going to take back this party,” said Tracey Wasden, a longtime Republican booster and party official who has served as a precinct committeeman and president of the Idaho Federation of Republican Women.”)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— A Republican operative is running for Congress in Georgia with Trump’s blessing. Will it be enough? (COMMENT: I have never been an operative for any person and I never will be. My critics/opponents have a very hard time calling me an operative because I do not need/want more money. I have enough money. I have a Civil Service Retirement System pension, currently $65,165/year. The federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance. We have no debts. We have no children or dependents. We have substantial retirement savings. We own a home in Wheaton, a car condo in Naperville, and seven cars and an SUV. I have no desire for a political office or government office. I am 75 years old. Because of the aforesaid, no one manipulates me, no one dominates me, and no one ever will. While they can and do take big public adverse actions against me, for example, removing me from the Illinois Republican Party Platform and Resolution Committee, my critics/opponents decry that no one can tell me what to do.)
https://srnnews.com/a-republican-operative-is-running-for-congress-in-georgia-with-trumps-blessing-will-it-be-enough/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— The Illinois Democratic Party elected their seven “base” members to serve on the Democratic National Committee on Monday. They are Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, Congresswomen Robin Kelly and Delia Rameriz, former Senate President John Cullerton, Democratic Committeewoman Kristina Zahorik and former Deputy Gov. Dan Hynes. Here’s how the votes broke down, via Lee Enterprises’ Brenden Moore. ( https://twitter.com/brendenmoore13/status/1790178141769466021 ) – SHIA KAPOS (COMMENT: It would be great if the Illinois Republican Party would be so open.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Northwestern threatens disciplinary action as American, Israeli flags vandalized. Flags were set up for Israel’s Memorial Day. – Jessica D’Onofrio
https://abc7chicago.com/post/northwestern-president-threatens-disciplinary-action-as-american-israeli-flags-near-former-pro-palestinian-encampment-vandalized/14812323/
— CPD’s massive safety plan to protect Chicago during DNC – Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel, Tom Jones, Maggie Green and Adriana Aguilar and Chuck Goudie
https://abc7chicago.com/videoClip/14810925/

NBC5
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/city-announces-more-changes-to-chicago-pride-parade-reversing-course-after-reducing-event-size/3435618/

CBS2
— End-of-year FEST at DePaul University canceled with protest encampment continuing – Adam Harrington
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/end-of-year-fest-depaul-university-canceled-protest-encampment/
— Antisemitic signs left on cars in Chicago’s West Ridge community
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/antisemitic-flyers-cars-chicago-west-ridge-community/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WjlfuTux4

FOX32
— Chicago police investigate anti-Semitic fliers found on predominantly Jewish block – Nic Flosi
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-police-antisemitic-fliers-jewish-neighborhood

WTTW
— Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin Fined $10K for Firing Whistleblowers – Heather Cherone (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I increasingly blew the whistle on political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Consequently, they increasingly took big adverse actions against me.)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/05/13/chicago-city-treasurer-melissa-conyears-ervin-fined-10k-firing-whistleblowers

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— With or without CPS/CTU ‘day of action’ in Springfield, there’s no more money for Chicago schools – Editorial
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-without-cps-ctu-day-100500103.html
— ‘We’re on the friends and family plan now’: New details emerge in alleged AT&T scheme to bribe House speaker. – Jason Meisner, Ray Long
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-re-on-the-friends-and-family-plan-now-new-details-emerge-in-alleged-at-t-scheme-to-bribe-house-speaker/ar-BB1mjYvV

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/05/13/donald-trump-going-overseas-president-elections-gene-lyons

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH TWO PHOTOS: GOP legislative hopefuls sue state over slating ban – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240513/illinois-state-politics/gop-legislative-hopefuls-sue-state-over-slating-ban/
— Democrats promote Democrats who blast Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240513/nation-and-world-politics/democratic-ad-campaign-tries-to-chip-away-at-trump-support-among-rural-swing-voters-in-3-key-states/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Ron DeSantis is planning to raise money for Donald Trump in Florida and Texas and possibly other large states in the coming weeks. – AP
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/ron-desantis-is-planning-to-raise-money-for-donald-trump-in-florida-and-texas-ap/article_b1fc6b05-981a-56b4-b12c-b03c7f84f727.html

SOUTHERN
— Haley voters don’t want Trump – Isabella Murray (COMMENT: I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999. For general elections, Republican Precinct Committeemen are required to help elect those candidates who win Republican primary elections. I have always done that.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/05/13/zombie-haley-voters-dont-want-trump-but-many-not-sold-on-biden-either/

WSIL TV
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters run America. The more that you question the 2020 election, the faster that they destroy you.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/consumer/rudy-guiliani-s-radio-show-has-been-canceled-after-he-repeatedly-discussed-false-2020-election/article_530e149b-0b63-5343-96da-7034bed4a7f6.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUID & WCIA
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will send their illegals to battleground/swing states to use their false identifications to vote for Biden.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/johnsons-intuition-clashes-with-data-on-illegal-voting/
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-to-stump-in-minnesota-a-traditionally-blue-state-he-insists-he-can-win-is-it-really-in-play/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/13/afternoon-roundup-196/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Candidates file lawsuit challenging Illinois’ hastily changed election law – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1718e3a2-115c-11ef-93b1-47f6d0682015.html

COOK COUNTY
— IL Dems unconstitutionally changed election rules to block Republican candidates from fall ballot, lawsuit says
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/658603879-il-dems-unconstitutionally-changed-election-rules-to-block-republican-candidates-from-fall-ballot-lawsuit-says

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— GOP lawmakers Tuberville, Vance, Malliotakis attend court to support Trump – Tom Howell Jr.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/13/gop-sens-tuberville-vance-and-rep-malliotakis-atte/
— GOP leaders clash with Secret Service over ‘protest trap’ near Republican National Convention site – Susan Ferrechio
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/13/gop-leaders-clash-with-secret-service-over-protest/
— Trump campaign rails at ‘disgusting’ Mother’s Day ad from Biden-Harris campaign – Mallory Wilson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/13/donald-trump-campaign-rails-at-disgusting-mothers-/
— Pull federal funding from universities that won’t protect Jewish students. ‘Never again’ is right now – Rep. Ashley Hinson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/13/pull-federal-funding-from-universities-that-wont-p/
— After U.S. withdrawal, terror groups ‘gaining strength’ in Afghanistan, report warns. Critics questions effectiveness of ‘over the horizon’ surveillance. – Ben Wolfgang
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/may/14/after-us-withdrawal-terror-groups-gaining-strength/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Can Blinken stand up to anyone other than Israel? – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3002409/blinken-stand-up-israel/
— Illegal immigration up 3.8 million since Biden became president – Conn Carroll (COMMENT: How many illegals are there in your county, township, municipality, and school district?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3002214/illegal-immigration-up-3-8-million-since-biden-became-president/
— Campus mayhem, funded by our adversaries – Robert Bellafiore
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3002063/campus-mayhem-funded-by-our-adversaries/

NEW YORK POST
— Ken Griffin slams pro-Palestinian protests as ‘performative art,’ urges Harvard to embrace ‘Western values’ – Ariel Zilber
https://nypost.com/2024/05/13/business/ken-griffin-slams-pro-palestinian-protests-as-performative-art/
— Nancy Pelosi yet again reveals Democrats’ disdain for average Americans – Joe Concha (COMMENT: My critics/opponents a) distain those who have less money than they have and/or b) glorify, praise, and pander to those who have more money than they have.).
https://nypost.com/2024/05/13/opinion/nancy-pelosi-yet-again-reveals-democrats-disdain-for-average-americans/
— Border charities spending taxpayer millions on music therapy, ‘people-plant interactions’ and huge salaries – Megan Palin
https://nypost.com/2024/05/13/us-news/border-charities-spend-millions-on-music-therapy-salaries-report/
— Anti-Israel Columbia grads wear zip ties, rip diplomas on stage during commencement – Doree Lewak and Emily Crane
https://nypost.com/2024/05/13/us-news/columbia-university-grads-wear-zip-ties-rip-diplomas-on-stage-during-commencement-ceremony/

BLAZE
— Boston uses taxpayer funds to support anti-ICE groups providing services to illegal aliens – CANDACE HATHAWAY
https://www.theblaze.com/news/boston-uses-taxpayer-funds-to-support-anti-ice-groups-providing-services-to-illegal-aliens
— House Committee investigates surge of Chinese nationals illegally crossing border after Biden relaxes vetting – CANDACE HATHAWAY
https://www.theblaze.com/news/house-committee-investigates-surge-of-chinese-nationals-illegally-crossing-border-after-biden-relaxes-vetting-report

BREITBART
— Catch and Release: Biden’s DHS Freed Illegal Alien Convicted Killer into U.S. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/05/13/catch-and-release-bidens-dhs-freed-illegal-alien-convicted-killer-into-u-s/

COLLEGE FIX
— Northwestern journalism professor counts Yemeni terrorism supporter among his ‘comrades’ – HUDSON CROZIER
https://www.thecollegefix.com/northwestern-journalism-professor-counts-yemeni-terrorism-supporter-among-his-comrades/

DAILY WIRE
— San Francisco Slammed For Spending Millions Of Dollars For Vodka And Beer For Homeless Alcoholics – Zach Jewell
https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-program-slammed-for-spending-millions-of-dollars-giving-vodka-and-beer-to-homeless-people-with-severe-alcohol-addiction

FEDERALIST
— Teachers Unions’ Fanatical Hatred Of Children Ignited The Parent Revolution – COREY DEANGELIS
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/13/teachers-unions-fanatical-hatred-of-children-ignited-the-parent-revolution/

EPOCH TIMES
— Why 1960 Alternate Electors Succeeded Where 2020 Ones Failed. The two elections bear striking similarities, but important differences allowed one to succeed, while the other failed. – Lawrence Wilson
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/why-1960-alternate-electors-succeeded-where-2020-ones-failed-5637240
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A November election decades ago produced a clear winner in a hotly contested presidential race. Yet the popular vote immediately came under scrutiny in several states. In one, auditors discovered clear errors in tabulating vote totals. In others, credible evidence of election fraud was uncovered. With a court challenge underway, electors from both parties met at a state capitol and conducted the electoral vote. Two certifications were forwarded to Washington, one declaring the Democratic candidate to be the victor, the other naming the Republican. The Republican vice president—also a candidate in the race—convened a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. Without fanfare, he moved to accept the Democratic slate of electors and set the Republican electors aside. So ended the presidential election of 1960. The state in question was Hawaii. The vice president was Richard Nixon, who ran against Democrat John F. Kennedy, and would have won if as few as 11,000 votes spread over five battleground states had gone the other way. Sixty years later, history nearly repeated itself as Republican electors from seven states sent alternative electoral certifications to Washington amid allegations of election fraud.)

FEDERALIST
— Without The SAVE Act, The Only Thing Keeping Foreigners From Voting Is The Honor System – MIKE LEE (COMMENT: Do not anticipate/expect that Democrat election officials will stop illegals from voting.)
https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/13/without-the-save-act-the-only-thing-keeping-foreigners-from-voting-is-the-honor-system/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— House Passes Bill to Stop Illegal Aliens from Distorting Congressional Apportionment (COMMENT: How many illegals are there in your congressional district and how many of their illegals have Democrat leaders sent there recently?)
https://www.fairus.org/news/congress/house-passes-bill-stop-illegal-aliens-distorting-congressional-apportionment

FOX NEWS
— Biden’s unvetted migrant parole plan putting every community at risk. Abuse of parole is only one layer of Biden’s immigration ‘strategy,’ one that should be shut down immediately. – Sen. Roger Marshall, M.D.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bidens-unvetted-migrant-parole-plan-putting-every-community-at-risk

JUDICIAL WATCH
— New Documents Reveal DC Training for Noncitizen Voting (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that illegals will use their false identifications to register to vote and to vote for Democrats.)
https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents-reveal-dc-training-noncitizen-voting/

NEW AMERICAN
— Could Biden Use Executive Order to Let Illegals Vote? – Catherine Engelbrecht (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Biden will do that.)
https://thenewamerican.com/video/could-biden-use-executive-order-to-let-illegals-vote-catherine-engelbrecht/
— Trump’s Popularity Is Soaring. But Will It Make a Difference? – Steve Bonta (COMMENT: Joseph Stalin said “It’s Not Who Votes That Counts, It’s Who Counts The Votes.”)
https://thenewamerican.com/video/trumps-popularity-is-soaring-but-will-it-make-a-difference/

REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— Embattled Dolton Mayor’s Sky-High Salary Revealed – Adam Andrzejewski
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/05/13/waste_of_the_day_embattled_illinois_mayors_sky-high_salary_revealed_1030909.html

TOWNHALL
— NYC Sued for Denying IVF Coverage to Gay Male Couples – Madeline Leesman (COMMENT: Should I write a book about my Democrat GAO superiors who used my and my wife giving up trying to have children in the 1980s without trying IVF to justify taking big adverse actions against me including throwing me off audits of IRS, giving me an extremely bad job assignment and performance appraisal, and ranking me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for performance purposes in 1989?)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/05/11/nyc-invitro-lawsuit-n2638872

TURNING POINT USA
— Illinois Math and Science Academy Faces Backlash Over Equity Training Requirements for Teachers (COMMENT: Who has used DEI to get rid of you? Those above me in the following continue to use DEI to get rid of me: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party. Those above me in the following used DEI to get rid of me: American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter in 2004, Illinois Center Right Coalition in 2007, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee in 2011, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012. Those above me in the following continue to use DEI to get rid of me: Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. Those above me in the following used DEI to get rid of me: Post Office in 1969, IRS in 1980, and GAO in 1997. I should write a book those above me in the aforesaid and what they are doing and have done to get rid of me. If I had been a woman or a minority, they would not have taken the many big adverse actions against me that they did.)
https://www.tpusa.com/live/illinois-math-and-science-academy-faces-backlash-over-equity-training-requirements-for-teachers

ZERO HEDGE
— Biden Calls Illegals Crossing The Border “Hispanic Voters” – TYLER DURDEN (COMMENT: No one anticipates/expects that any illegal will ever vote for a Republican. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promise to give illegals more and more and more preference.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-calls-illegals-crossing-border-hispanic-voters

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— He’s Running for Senate With an Immigrant’s Origin Story. Here’s the Rest. Bernie Moreno, the Republican challenging Senator Sherrod Brown in Ohio, tells a riches-to-rags-to-riches tale. But the reality isn’t so tidy. – Jonathan Weisman, Patricia Mazzei and Simón Posada (COMMENT: How much money did your ancestors have when they immigrated? On my father’s side, they had to work in a brick factory in Chicago 1844-1854 before they had enough money to homestead a farm in southeast Crete Township. On my mother’s side, they were sharecroppers in Grant Park along the Indiana border.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/politics/bernie-moreno-ohio.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/us/politics/gop-earmarks-lgbtq-centers.html

MSN
— U.S. Anchor Baby Policy Ensures Easy Welfare Access for Illegals – Jordan Andrews
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/study-finds-u-s-anchor-baby-policy-ensures-easy-welfare-access-for-illegals/ar-AA1mqd0o

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/red-states-sue-eeoc-over-harassment-guidances-lgbtq-protections

NPR
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/13/1250880650/girl-scouts-migrant-children-asylum-latin-america

QUORA
— Are people responsible for the actions of their ancestors? (COMMENT: What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, my father took and kept an office job in a nasty chemical plant in Chicago Heights in 1941 and kept it until he died suddenly in 1969. He married my mother in 1945 and they had me in 1948 and my brother in 1953. My grandfather fought the Germans in WWI, operated Crete’s only a hardware store, had my father and my aunt Eunice, and had 1286 Wood Street built in Crete. My great grandfather raised and sold horses in Crete, operated Crete’s only hardware store, had my grandfather and other children, and had a large historical home built on Main Street in Crete. My great great grandfather and his father immigrated from what is now Germany in 1844, worked in brick factory in Chicago until 1854, homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township in 1854, had my great great grandfather and other children, sold the farm and bought 10 acres just northeast of downtown Crete in 1864, raised horses on it, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side, my mother was born and raised on a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. She raised me and my brother. Her parents operated that farm. Her grandparents operated that farm. Her great great grandparents immigrated from what is now Germany in the 1850s and were sharecroppers.)
https://www.quora.com/Are-people-responsible-for-the-actions-of-their-ancestors

DAILY MAIL
— Illegal migrants are being ‘encouraged’ to vote, top Republican warns after shocking documents reveals ‘training’ for noncitizens to cast ballots in Washington D.C. Chip Roy is the lead sponsor of new legislation that will soon hit the House floor to prevent illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections. DC City Council voted to allow illegal immigrants to vote last year. – MORGAN PHILLIPS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13413623/elections-illegal-migrants-washington-dc-chip-roy.html

TELEGRAPH
— Blame Democratic dysfunction on big cities. The herd effect is leading progressive lawmakers down a dark path where fashion is more important than function. – RICHARD PORTER
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/05/12/democrats-crime-herd-affect-urban-joe-biden/

May 13, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Blinken delivers some of the strongest US public criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza – JOSH BOAK
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/12/blinken-delivers-criticism-of-israel/
— The IRS gets back on its feet. Time to crack down on wealthy cheaters. – Editorial (COMMENT: I should write a book about those who have wasted my knowledge of IRS the most. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year. I worked GAO on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $115,439-$123,136/year.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/13/editorial-irs-funding-audits-wealthy-cheaters/

ABC7
— Protesters deny DePaul University’s request to vacate encampment as negotiations ‘are at an impasse’ Pro-Palestinian demonstrators have remained on Lincoln Park campus quad since April 30. – Stephanie Wade
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pro-palestinian-protesters-deny-depaul-universitys-request-to-vacate-encampment-ahead-of-2-week-mark-negotiations-at-impasse/14804610/

NBC5
— Blinken delivers some of the strongest US public criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza – AP
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/blinken-criticism-israel-war-gaza/3434921/

CBS2
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transborder-students-us-mexico-graduate/

WGN9
— Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase in Chicago. Soon, everyone in Chicago will be handing out welfare and/or collecting welfare.
https://wgntv.com/news/features/share-our-spare-helping-chicago-families-as-need-grows/

FOX32
— Protesters gather to honor Palestinian mothers in Chicago on Mother’s Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDuSA-S6zlg

WGN RADIO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/steve-dales-other-world/chicagos-gay-mens-chorus-is-celebrating-40-years/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Hitting their pocketbooks: How Illinois backs Israel, hinders its opponents – Patrick M. Keck
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/05/13/illinois-ups-investment-in-israel-as-student-groups-continue-protests/71228972007/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Trump may face $100M+ tax bill if he loses IRS audit fight over Chicago tower – AP (COMMENT: Democrat leaders use IRS to get rid of Republicans. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education deductions in 1978 when I was a GS-12 Step 4 (currently $106,785/year) IRS Collection Division Special Procedures Staff Advisor. They stressed their disallowance to all my IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, subordinates and to everyone else. They disallowed the graduate evening business and accounting courses that I had taken at Loyola and DePaul 1972-1978. Even though my IRS employee manual encouraged me to take those courses and I had stated that in my Loyola and DePaul applications, they outrageously and unethically argued that the courses were not related to my job duties, that they did not maintain or improve my job skills, that they qualified me for a new trade or business, and that I took them to get a job in the private sector. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. They would not have done that if I had not complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/report-trump-may-face-100m-tax-bill-if-he-loses-irs-audit-fight-over-chicago/article_4701545e-0fe1-11ef-a043-270da722131e.html

ST. LOUIS TODAY
— In a new low, Missouri’s AG defends defamation on the taxpayers’ dime – Editorial (COMMENT: Those who defame me talk and/or act like they are operatives or dupes for my critics/opponents who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. They hint/imply/argue/shout that they can defame me because I am a “public figure” because I am the GOPUSA Illinois Editor. I should sue them.)
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-in-a-new-low-missouris-ag-defends-defamation-on-the-taxpayers-dime/article_5cd6900c-0efe-11ef-911c-ef426bb080b9.html

WAND TV
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters glorify and praise Chinese illegals.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-suggests-chinese-migrants-are-in-the-us-to-build-an-army-the-migrants-tell/article_956d1632-3ca0-5286-9aa0-c6bcbb03cfd0.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democratic ad campaign tries to chip away at Trump support among rural swing voters in 3 key states (Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin) – AP (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrats will flood Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin with their illegals who will use their false identifications to vote for Biden.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-democratic-ad-campaign-tries-to-chip-away-at-trump-support-among-rural-swing-voters-in-3-key-states/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/05/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-288/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

ILLINOIS FREDOM CAUCUS
— Chicago Teachers Union needs to refund taxpayers – not demand more money
https://www.myradiolink.com/2024/05/10/il-freedom-caucus-chicago-teachers-union-needs-to-refund-taxpayers-not-demand-more-money/

WIREPOINTS
— Mayor Johnson deepens concerns about what side he will be on if DNC protesters become lawbreakers and challenge police – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/mayor-johnson-deepens-concerns-about-what-side-he-will-be-on-if-dnc-protesters-become-lawbreakers-and-challenge-police-wirepoints/
— Lawsuit Filed Against State of Illinois Over Democrats’ Retroactive Election Rule Change – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/scoop-lawsuit-filed-against-state-of-illinois-over-democrats-retroactive-election-rule-change-wirepoints/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Delays continue to plague Illinois agency responsible for issuing professional licenses – Kevin Bessler (COMMENT: I earned a CPA license when I was 32 years old in 1981. I had a) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, e) worked for IRS for almost 9 years, and f) worked for GAO for more than a year.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_0568f268-0f14-11ef-b423-fbd861d076a6.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What is your Republican Precinct Committeeman doing to help elect Republican candidates? I am in the process of hand-delivering permanent mail-in ballot applications to 64 registered Republican voters in my precinct in 55 homes and one apartment who did not vote recently. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you were me, how would you react to high-profile people who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican, but who take big public adverse actions against me? Those who take big public adverse actions against me a) reject direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members, b) reject planks in the Republican Party platform, and/or c) reject Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do your critics/opponents stress about you to turn people against you?

My critics/opponents:
— stress to those who oppose direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members that I have always advocated strongly for direct election,
— stress to those who despise/hate Trump that I share many demographics with Trump; we are both conservative, Republican, White, male, older, draft avoiders, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and we have ancestors who have been in America for a long time,
— stress to veterans that I avoided the draft,
— stress to non-Protestants that I am Protestant,
— stress to non-German Americans that I am 100% German American,
— stress to those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time that my ancestors have been in America since 1844,
— stress to moderates and liberals that I am conservative,
— stress to those who reject the personal responsibility plank in the Republican Party platform that I advocate for that plank,
— stress to those who reject the traditional marriage and family plank in the Republican Party platform that I advocate for that plank,
— stress to those who reject the right to life plank in the Republican Party platform that I advocate for that plank,
— stress to those who reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform that I advocate for that plank,
— stress to those who reject the illegal drugs plank in the Republican Party platform that I advocate for that plank,
— stress to those who reject the Second Amendment plank in the Republican Party platform that I advocate for that plank,
— stress to those who reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform that I advocate strongly for that plank,
— stress to those who despise/hate federal employees that I worked for GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and Post Office 1966-1969 and that my ending salary was $150,075/year in today’s dollars,
— stress to those who do not have a pension that I have gotten a Civil Service Retirement System pension (currently $65,165/year) since 1997 and that the federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums,
— stress to renters that I have owned real estate since 1972,
— stress to those who are not married that I have been married since 1978,
— stress to those whose spouse has little or no income that my wife always had good-paying jobs,
— stress to those who have children that my wife and I do not,
— stress to those who have dependents to care for that I do not,
— stress to those who have no master’s degrees that I have three,
— stress to those who have no professional certifications that I have six,
— stress to those who have no professional licenses that I became a licensed CPA in 1981,
— stress to those who have/had major health problems that I do not,
— stress to those who have dogs that I do not,
— stress to those who despise/hate conservative principles that Crete used to advocate that I lived in Crete 1948-1972, and
— stress to those who despise/hate conservative principles that Wheaton used to advocate that I have lived in Wheaton since 1978. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— DEI Hits the VA: Biden’s Veterans Affairs Department Offers Race-Based Training Programs That Exclude White Vets. ‘Equity’ means realizing ‘treating everybody the same might not be enough,’ VA official Shawn Liu says. – Peter Hasson
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/dei-hits-the-va-bidens-veterans-affairs-department-offers-race-based-training-programs-that-exclude-white-vets/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Illegals Have More Rights Than Citizens. If you are an illegal alien, your chances of getting away with committing a crime are higher than those of an American citizen. – Ed Brodow
https://amgreatness.com/2024/05/13/illegals-have-more-rights-than-citizens/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrats are proving the existence of the ‘Great Replacement’ theory – Eric Utter (COMMENT: How much success are Democrats having replacing voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans with voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats in your county, township, municipality, and school district?)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/democrats_are_proving_the_existence_of_the_great_replacement_theory.html

CENTER SQUARE
— Trump tax cuts becoming important election year issue – Casey Harper (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their troubled operatives, and the troubled dupes have always wanted me to pay more taxes because I avoided the draft, because I worked for IRS, because my wife has always had a good job, because we gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did become foster parents, because I do not give money to a church, because etc.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_fb84b5a0-0ecf-11ef-9b26-836f4c63d800.html

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Rally Draws Tens of Thousands in Blue State New Jersey – Janice Hisle (COMMENT: Of course, this makes hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters furious.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-draws-tens-of-thousands-makes-history-in-blue-state-rally-5648508
— Republican Campaign Strategists See Jewish Voters Moving Right in 2024. Being perceived as weak on supporting Israel appears to be a growing problem for Democrats seeking re-election. – Mark Tapscott (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government had great success in turning Jewish superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/republican-campaign-strategists-see-jewish-voters-moving-right-in-2024-post-5644515

FOX NEWS
— South Side Chicago pastor says ‘faith in government is very low’ after seeing city resources go to migrants. Pastor Corey Brooks said the handling of migrant crisis in Chicago shows a ‘serious leadership flaw’ – Teny Sahakian
https://www.foxnews.com/media/south-side-chicago-pastor-says-faith-government-very-low-after-seeing-city-resources-migrants
— Jewish students across the US blame DEI, faculty for anti-Israel protests: ‘Wasting my tuition dollars’ USC, George Washington, UT-Austin, Rutgers and Cornell students said the campus environment is ‘dangerous’ and ‘antisemitic’ – Nikolas Lanum (COMMENT: Democrats run education in America.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jewish-students-across-us-blame-dei-faculty-anti-israel-protests-wasting-tuition-dollars

TOWNHALL
— Electoral College Mischief Not Unprecedented—You Don’t Have to Look That Far Back – Fred Lucas (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will flood battleground/swing states with their illegals who will use their false identifications to vote for Biden.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/fredlucas/2024/05/12/electoral-college-mischief-not-unprecedentedyou-dont-have-to-look-that-far-back-n2638950

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

REUTERS
— Billionaire investor Ken Griffin calls on Harvard to embrace ‘Western values’
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/billionaire-investor-ken-griffin-calls-harvard-embrace-western-values-2024-05-11/

NEW YORK TIMES
— A German Initiative to Keep Workers Employed by Retraining Them – Melissa Eddy (COMMENT: In 1992, when I was 43 years old, after had been assigned to GAO’s group that audited federal financial regulators since 1990, I started using my own money to pay for graduate evening finance courses at IIT, and in 1997, after I completed 14 courses, I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading. I did that because my Democrat GAO superiors had made it very clear that to force me to take their early retirement “offer,” they would never again assign me to audits of IRS. But in 1997, they succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer.” They should have always assigned me to audits of IRS. When I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year. But my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/business/germany-workers-retraining.html
— To Protect Kids, We Need More Foster Care, Not Less – Naomi Schaefer Riley (COMMENT: I should write a book about how my Democrat GAO superiors demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/opinion/child-abuse-foster-care.html

WASHINGTON POST
— GOP escalates fight with Secret Service over convention protesters. Senior GOP representatives have been arguing for weeks with Secret Service officials, but the agency has not budged. – Josh Dawsey
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/10/republican-convention-milwaukee-protesters/
— Those who defame me talk and/or act like they are operatives or dupes for my critics/opponents who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. They hint/imply/argue/shout that they can defame me because I am a “public figure” because I am the GOPUSA Illinois Editor. I should sue them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/11/trump-carroll-comments-defamation/

MSN
— U.S. to welcome illegal migrants this summer by handing out free IDs – Jon Michael Raasch
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/u-s-to-welcome-illegal-migrants-this-summer-by-handing-out-free-ids/ar-BB1mbeqj
— Biden lets in immigrants and taxpayers get stuck with the bill – Simon Hankinson
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-lets-in-immigrants-and-taxpayers-get-stuck-with-the-bill/ar-AA1etnz9
— To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat candidates and elected officials, their operatives, and their dupes ever-increasingly not only promise to give non-Whites even more preference, they promote more hatred against Whites.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/white-people-never-have-to-think-about-these-things/ar-BB1me6BO

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Kicked out in ’68 for protesting at Arizona State University, 78-year-old finally graduates. Alfredo Gutierrez, one of Arizona’s most influential Latino leaders, earned a degree nearly 60 years after he was kicked out of ASU for protesting. – Daniel Gonzalez (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always equated getting draft deferments and not enlisting with protesting. They have always a) stressed that was 1-A for the draft, b) stressed that I got draft deferments 1966-1971, and c) stressed that I never enlisted.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/11/alfredo-gutierrez-graduates-after-1968-college-protests/73613424007/
— The Democrat Party promote homelessness, that is, it promotes LGBQ, that is, it destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/05/08/supreme-court-homelessness-grants-pass-oregon/73530096007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— California Beaches Are a New Gateway for Illegal Immigration. Migrants who want to avoid the Mexican border are arriving on boats, then rushing into waiting vehicles. – Alicia A. Caldwell
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/illegal-migrant-california-beach-boat-crossing-7f135d8e
— Trump’s Vice Presidential Opportunity. He needs to attract Nikki Haley’s voters, and a MAGA echo won’t do it. – Editorial (COMMENT: How many Haley voters are going to vote for Biden? If you vote for Biden, you never were a Republican.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-vice-presidential-opportunity-candidate-election-05e7aa64
— Evangelist Franklin Graham Says Democratic Politics Have Turned Against Religion. Whereas the late Billy Graham warned against crossing the line with politicians, his son owns a Trump-endorsed Bible. – Vivian Salama
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/evangelical-franklin-graham-donald-trump-support-0af2b035
— There’s Not Enough Power for America’s High-Tech Ambitions – David Uberti
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/data-centers-energy-georgia-development-7a5352e9
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use same-sex marriage to ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/how-20-years-of-same-sex-marriage-changed-america-670758bd
— What 1960s Antiwar Protesters Think About Today’s Unrest on College Campuses. – Alyssa Lukpat, Joseph Pisani, and Suryatapa Bhattacharya (COMMENT: I should write a book about those who have used against me the most my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. I would focus on my Democrat Post Office, Firestone Stores, IRS, and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates. I would focus on those who hinted/implied/argued/shouted the most that America lost the war because of hypocrites and cowards like me. They stressed that I should have enlisted straight out of high school because of my being 1-A for the draft and because of my demographics (White, male, conservative, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844). But that instead, while and after my peers died in Vietnam, I got draft deferments and a) earned a bachelor’s degree in 1970 and master’s degrees in 1976 and in 1980, b) bought a new cars in 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1978, etc., c) went on vacations every year since 1969 except 1972, d) bought real estate in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, and 1984, and e) earned professional certifications in 1979 and1981 and a professional license in 1981. They stressed that because of my health problems, I would not have been sent into combat anyway. I could not run because I had a bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. They used the aforesaid to hint/imply/argue/shout that I was a super hypocrite and a super coward.)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/1968-anti-war-protesters-pro-palestinian-campus-protests-0264a9cb
— Biden Breaks a 2004 Promise to Israel. To facilitate withdrawal from Gaza, Bush pledged the U.S. would ‘lead efforts’ against terrorism. – Amit Segal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-breaks-a-2004-promise-to-israel-sharon-hamas-gaza-terrorism-a081d7e4
— Campus Protesters, Unmasked. Anti-KKK laws are relevant against today’s antisemites. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/campus-protesters-unmasked-ohio-a0197b89
— Relationships get complicated when one spouse retires and the other keeps working – Clare Ansberry (COMMENT: My wife and I have been married since 1978. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/retirement-couples-relationships-942a76a9

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI to not hire Republicans and to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/big-law-recruiting-rush-puts-more-pressure-on-diverse-students

HUFFINGTON POST
— ‘What The Hell’s She Talking About?’: Ex-RNC Chair Exposes Lara Trump’s Blatant Lie. Michael Steele tells Trump to “stop it” when it comes to this big falsehood. – Ed Mazza
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-steele-lara-trump-lie_n_6641832ce4b0c43c96b0cc65
— Blinken Criticizes Israel For Conduct In Gaza Conflict. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza. – AP
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/united-states-israel-palestinians_n_66410d47e4b0866a5b2c3033?se
— ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Reportedly Threatens To Sue Twitter Workers Who Leak To Press – Mary Papenfuss (COMMENT: My critics/opponents blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all of their problems, your problems, my problems, and everyone’s problems. They have falsely charged me with “leaking” confidential/private information. I should sue them for that. All the “information” that they charge me with “leaking” was already in the public realm, was already know by the Democrats and/or their news media, and/or was my opinion. They have never wanted me to report that Republican events that were open to the public took place, who organized those events, where or when those events took place, who spoke at those events, who the high-profile attendees were at those events, or home many attended those events.)
https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/news/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-032732704.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: New Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who has described himself as a “free speech absolutist,” is now threatening to sue his own employees who leak information to the press, according to an email he sent to workers reportedly leaked Saturday to a media organization. Musk issued a message warning the company’s workers against leaking “confidential” information, and threatening to sue “for damages” those who violated non-disclosure agreements, according to the email obtained by tech outlet Platformer. Managing Editor Zoe Schiffer then distributed Musk’s message — on Twitter. Musk asked staffers to sign a pledge indicating they understood his email, and said he expected a response by 5 p.m. Saturday, Schiffer said. She did not post the actual email in an effort to do everything possible to protect the source, she said. It was a dramatic turnaround from Musk’s catch phrase “transparency is the key to trust,” and “sunlight is the best disinfectant.” Musk could not immediately be reached for comment.)

SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS
— SPJ Code of Conduct (COMMENT: I am a SPJ member. I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. I should sue my critics/opponents who have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have violated the SPJ Code of Conduct. I have always fully disclosed that I have always been a conservative Republican. I have always fully disclosed that I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999. I have always fully disclosed my sources of income and my demographics including that I am White, male, older (born in 1948), draft avoider, heterosexual, married, childless, non-poor, Protestant, 100% German American, and my having ancestors who have been in America since 1844. I have always fully disclosed that I advocate the Republican Party platform and direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members.)
https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

May 12, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Palestinian flag raised at Daley Plaza in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/palestinian-flag-raised-at-daley-plaza-in-downtown-chicago-by-american-muslims-for-palestine/14801716/
— Trump may face a $100 million-plus tax bill if he loses IRS audit fight over Chicago tower – AP (COMMENT: Democrat leaders use IRS to get rid of Republicans. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education deductions in 1978 when I was a GS-12 Step 4 (currently $106,785/year) IRS Collection Division Special Procedures Staff Advisor. They stressed their disallowance to all my IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, subordinates and to everyone else. They disallowed the graduate evening business and accounting courses that I had taken at Loyola and DePaul 1972-1978. Even though my IRS employee manual encouraged me to take those courses and I had stated that in my Loyola and DePaul applications, they outrageously and unethically argued that the courses were not related to my job duties, that they did not maintain or improve my job skills, that they qualified me for a new trade or business, and that I took them to get a job in the private sector. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. They would not have done that if I had not complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-chicago-report-says-ex-pres-may-face-100m-tax-bill-if-he-loses-international-hotel-and-tower-irs-audit-fight/14800078/
— At least 12 shot, 2 killed in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-at-least-11-shot-2-killed-in-gun-violence-across-city-police-department-says/14799857/

CBS2
— Protesters, DePaul University reach stalemate, demonstrators say
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/protesters-depaul-university-reach-stalemate-demonstrators-say/
— IRS audit could cost Trump more than $100 million in taxes on Chicago tower
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-chicago-tower-irs-audit/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB5SsrrT3II
— Suburban Chicago man charged with possessing loaded gun at Naperville TopGolf – Jeramie Bizzle
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/palos-man-charged-possessing-gun-naperville-topgolf/

WGN9
— Trump may face a $100 million-plus tax bill if he loses IRS audit fight over Chicago tower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OWUeFTeKY8

FOX32
— Countdown to Chicago DNC: Leaders rally for action 100 days before convention – Dane Placko
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/countdown-to-dnc-in-chicago-leaders-rally-for-action-100-days-before-convention
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1454679

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Group raises Palestinian flag in the Loop, calling attention to Gaza humanitarian crisis: ‘Flies high with strength’ – REBECCA JOHNSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/11/group-raises-palestinian-flag-in-the-loop-calling-attention-to-gaza-humanitarian-crisis-flies-high-with-strength/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: Naperville police make 19th arrest for gun in vehicle at Topgolf parking lot since August
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/11/naperville-police-make-19th-arrest-for-gun-in-vehicle-at-topgolf-parking-lot-since-august/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/10/city-touts-pride-parade-compromise-but-some-organizers-still-frustrated-with-downsizing-lack-of-communication/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Blacks charge “Chicago” with discriminating against Blacks. In my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors’ defense, they could stress that they a) wasted my career, b) forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old, and c) gave my Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/05/10/chicago-employment-discrimination-racism-black-white-shame-chicago-nation-wttw-alden-loury
— Trump audited for double-dipping tax breaks on Chicago’s Trump Tower. ProPublica and the New York Times found the former president could end up owing the IRS more than $100 million for claiming the same massive losses twice on his namesake River North tower.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2024/05/11/trump-tower-chicago-tax-breaks-audit
— At Loyola, other four-year colleges, a chance to earn a two-year associate degree as a start. The aim is to give students who might not initially see themselves going to a four-year school a boost that might help them eventually get a bachelor’s degree, as few two-year students do now. – Matt Krupnick (COMMENT: One of my biggest decisions in life was to get a four-year college degree in business even though no one saw me as being “college material.” Neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never attended high school, I could not run because a bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, I had partial red/green color blindness, I demonstrated no leadership potential, and I had to work my way through college. Nevertheless, I took college preparatory classes, got an ACT score of 24, graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and got accepted by UIC.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/05/10/four-year-colleges-loyola-chance-to-earn-two-year-associate-degrees

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Most suburban schools report special ed student growth. – Jake Griffin
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240510/education/most-suburban-schools-report-special-ed-student-growth/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240511/business/dei-is-getting-a-new-name-can-it-dump-the-political-baggage/
— Naperville police make another gun arrest at Topgolf
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240511/crime/naperville-police-make-another-gun-arrest-at-topgolf/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Stop asking amateurs to oversee public transit – Editorial (COMMENT: GAO audits IRS. Instead of me, GAO assigned amateurs to audit IRS. The Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted my knowledge of IRS. My coworkers who they assigned to audits of IRS instead of me knew little or nothing about IRS. When I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. The Democrats who ran IRS and GAO back then certainly did not want Republicans like me to work on audits of IRS. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/editorial/members-rta-board-should-have-experience-public-transit-editorial

MILWAUKEE INDEPENDENT
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly paint themselves as being protectors of those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, unmarried, LGBTQ, have less money than others, non-Protestant, non-German American, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, illegals, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/driven-fear-hate-trump-promotes-delusion-white-people-victims-racism/

WREX
— Democrats ever-increasingly use IVF to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.wrex.com/news/senator-duckworth-promotes-ivf-access-importance-ahead-of-mothers-day/article_07cc0534-0fcf-11ef-a6a8-270777eb707a.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Springfield’s Catholic Bishop Criticizes Biden on Crossing Himself During a Florida Abortion Rally
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/12/springfields-catholic-bishop-criticizes-biden-on-crossing-himself-during-a-florida-abortion-rally/


— Chicago’s Debt Bomb
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/05/12/218320/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— On Friday, a Lake County Judge has ordered Illinois-based publishing company Local Government Information Services to remove sensitive voter data from their websites that was illegally published and includes the names and home addresses of police officers, domestic violence and human trafficking victims, by 5:00 pm Monday. (COMMENT: Since 2000, my critics/opponents have falsely and maliciously hinted/implied/argues/shouted that I improperly include sensitive/confidential information in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Needless-to-say, I should sue my critics/opponents.)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/05/fake-newspaper-company-publishes-il-voter-data-that-revealed-names-and-home-addresses-of-human-trafficking-domestic-violence-victims.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Dismissing noncitizen voting because it is ‘rare’ is dishonest – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3000212/dismissing-noncitizen-voting-is-dishonest/
— Banish the mainstream racists back to the fringes – Stephanie Lundquist-Arora
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/2999474/banish-mainstream-racists-back-to-fringes/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Know Your Enemies – J.S. Winter (COMMENT: The more of the following that my critics/opponents reject, more and bigger adverse actions that they have taken against me: a) direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members and/or b) the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and 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. My critics/opponents disproportionally do not share my demographics, that is, they are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, have major health, financial, and/or other problems, parents, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/02/know-your-enemies/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Clarence Thomas: DC a ‘hideous place’ where ‘people pride themselves in being awful’ – Melissa Fine
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/05/12/clarence-thomas-dc-a-hideous-place-where-people-pride-themselves-in-being-awful-1458821/

DAILY WIRE
— Democrat Colin Allred Attended Event Where Illegal Aliens Were Taught How To Evade Authorities – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-colin-allred-attended-event-where-illegal-aliens-were-taught-how-to-evade-authorities-report

FOX NEWS
— Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen should be given gag order too: Gabriel Hays (COMMENT: Constructively, the following have given me gag orders to stop promoting a) direct election of Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee members and b) conservative principles: the leaders of the IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-panelists-argue-stormy-daniels-michael-cohen-should-given-gag-order-too-seems-fair

RUMBLE
— Charlie Kirk’s Call to Action: Here’s What You Can Do to Help Elect Trump in November (COMMENT: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly accuse me of helping elect Trump in November. I should write about them. I would focus on past and present leaders of the a) Illinois Republican Party (IRP), b)DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and c) Milton Township Republican Organization. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me including removing me from the 2024 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee.)
https://rumble.com/v4u766l-charlie-kirks-call-to-action-heres-what-you-can-do-to-help-elect-trump-in-n.html

TOWNHALL
— Illegal Aliens May Decide the Outcomes of National Elections, Without Even Voting – Rep. Chuck Edwards
https://townhall.com/columnists/rep-chuck-edwards/2024/05/12/illegal-aliens-may-decide-the-outcomes-of-national-elections-without-even-voting-n2638953
— Bishop Accuses Biden of Mocking Catholicism With Pro-Abortion Message – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/05/11/bishop-mocks-devout-catholic-biden-n2638940#google_vignette

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Anti-Israel protests could help elect Trump, warns prof involved in ’68 Columbia takeover
https://thehill.com/video/anti-israel-protests-could-help-elect-trump-warns-prof-involved-in-68-columbia-takeover/9652192/

REUTERS
— Trump says he is not considering Nikki Haley as running mate (COMMENT: Will Haley promoters actively campaign for Biden? I should write a book about those Haley promoters who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nikki-haley-under-active-consideration-by-trump-campaign-be-running-mate-axios-2024-05-11/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump tells Jersey Shore crowd he’s being forced to endure ‘Biden show trial’ in hush money case
https://prescottenews.com/2024/05/12/trump-tells-jersey-shore-crowd-hes-being-forced-to-endure-biden-show-trial-in-hush-money-case-associated-press/

MSN
— Chicago will not allow citizens to vote on whether to keep city’s ‘sanctuary’ status – John Clark
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chicago-will-not-allow-citizens-to-vote-on-whether-to-keep-city-s-sanctuary-status/ar-AA1lzvlB?ocid=avres007
— My critics/opponents ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that what I do as your GOPUSA ILLINOIS editor helps elect Democrats. Most recently, they hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if I had served as a member of the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee, I would have included sensitive/private information in my newsletters that would have helped elect Democrats. I should sue my critics/opponents.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rfk-jr-s-sister-concerned-his-candidacy-could-hand-trump-2024-victory/ar-BB1kT2oq
— How many illegals are Democrat and RINO leaders housing in your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sanctuary-city-landlords-get-a-call-from-local-official-and-told-we-re-going-to-have-some-newcomers/ar-BB1jAkdA
— Democrats ever-increasingly use woke policies to male children sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/polling-suggests-that-defeating-woke-policies-in-schools-and-government-is-not-a-priority-for-most-republican-voters/ar-AA1eRRu6
— Campus antisemitism has become systemic due to ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ – Alan Dershowitz
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/campus-antisemitism-has-become-systemic-due-to-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/ar-AA1kZlPk
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Kinzinger.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-gop-congressman-mocks-biden-impeachment-inquiry-fishing-expedition/ar-AA1lfYrN%3Focid%3Dmsedgdhp

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel. Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric. – Karen Yourish, Danielle Ivory, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Alex Lemonides (COMMENT: I should write a book about the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government (Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997) had in turning my many Jewish superiors and supervisors against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, draft-avoider, Protestant, 100% German American, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978. In my defense, I stressed a) that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, b) that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, c) that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F, and d) that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. Adverse actions that my many Jewish superiors and supervisors took against me include a) disallowing my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969, b) forcing me to resign in 1969, c) disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974, d) never promoting me beyond GS-13, e) disallowing my education deductions in 1978, f) forcing me to suffer a $22.996/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, g) keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, h) delaying my promotions and never promoting me beyond GS-13, i) always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and j) forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/us/antisemitism-republicans-trump.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn potential Trump running mates.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/09/maga-republicans-deny-2024-election/

DALLAS NEWS
— How strongly do the Target stores near you promote LGBTQ?
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/national/2024/05/11/target-limits-lgbtq-pride-month-merch-for-june/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— ‘Under the Bus’: The Fate of a Fall Guy. A phrase repeatedly invoked is relatively new compared to ‘scapegoat’ and ‘sacrificial lamb’ – Ben Zimmer (COMMENT: I should write about those who have thrown me under their bus, that is, who have made me their fall guy, scapegoat, and/or sacrificial lamb. I would focus on unsuccessful Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000. I would focus on past and present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. I would focus on past and present leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/under-the-bus-the-fate-of-a-fall-guy-11573760261