ABC7
— Illinois COVID-19 Update: Health officials urge caution on holiday weekend as IL reports 2,839 new coronavirus cases, 13 deaths Chicago’s top doctor issues Easter weekend warning as COVID cases climb – Jesse Kirsch
https://abc7chicago.com/health/il-reports-2839-new-covid-cases-13-deaths/10479823/
— ‘They’re coming to cancel everything’: Georgia governor vows a fight after MLB yanks All-Star Game over voting laws. “Major League Baseball, Coca-Cola and Delta may be scared of Stacey Abrams, Joe Biden and the left, but I am not,” he said. – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/georgia-governor-vows-a-fight-after-mlb-yanks-all-star-game/10480545/
— Dell, American Airlines, AT&T weigh in on restrictive election bills in Texas – Alisa Wiersema
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/dell-american-airlines-at-t-weigh-in-on-restrictive-election-bills-in-texas/10479363/
NBC5
— Georgia Governor Vows a Fight After MLB Yanks All-Star Game – Mae Anderson
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/georgia-governor-vows-a-fight-after-mlb-yanks-all-star-game/2477822/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats pressure corporations to denounce GOP voting bills
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/pressure-mounts-on-corporations-to-denounce-gop-voting-bills/2477863/
— U.S. Companies Face Boycott Threats, Mounting Pressure to Take Sides in America’s Voting Rights Battle – Emma Newburger
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/u-s-companies-face-boycott-threats-mounting-pressure-to-take-sides-in-americas-battle-over-voting-rights/2477770/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, the Biden Administration makes it clear that will get rid of Republican individuals, organizations, companies, and governments once and for all starting with Republican individuals who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/aiming-big-biden-is-looking-to-restore-faith-in-government/2477799/
— Vaccine Passport Efforts Draw Opposition From GOP Lawmakers – Mark Scolforo
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/vaccine-passport-efforts-draw-opposition-from-gop-lawmakers/2477785/
CBS2
— Dolton School Board Votes To Oust Member On Claims Of Illegal Campaign Funding, Says It Was At Taxpayer Expense – Jermont Terry
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/03/31/dolton-school-board-member-ousting-vote-illegal-campaign-funding/
FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Hiring ramps up as US adds 916K jobs in March – Christopher Rugaber (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will employers make it more clear that they hire only those who are Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Independent, RINO, moderate, liberal, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, poor, in America illegally, non-gun owners, non-Christian, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-traditional marriage/family, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/hiring-ramps-up-as-us-adds-916k-jobs-in-march
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Haig Mail House Sends Second Postcard to Elgin
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/03/haig-mail-house-sends-second-postcard-to-elgin/
— The Easter Pig – How to Terrorize Parents
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/03/the-easter-pig-co
— County Clerk Joe Tirio Reacts to Dems’ New Election Law Changes
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/03/tirio-reacts-to-obey-dems-new-election-law-changes/
— Barack Obama Dissed as “Oppressor” at Waukegan School Board Meeting
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/03/tirio-reacts-to-obey-dems-new-election-law-changes/
— Saturday Salvo Against Lakewood Village President Phil Stephan
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/03/saturday-salvo-against-lakewood-village-president-phil-stephan/
— Legislators’ Pay
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/03/legislators-pay/
— Pritzker Signs Election Law Change Bill, Effective Immediately
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/02/pritzker-signs-election-law-change-bill-effective-immediately/
— State Bold Enough to Consider 401(k)’s for Future Public Employees
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/02/state-bold-enough-to-consider-401ks-for-future-public-employees/
— Government Bold Enough to Say, “Happy Easter”
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/02/government-bold-enough-to-say-happy-easter/
— Satire on Pritzker as Good as the Babylon Bee
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/02/satire-on-pritzker-as-good-as-the-babylon-bee/
— Illinois Reports More Than 35% of Small Businesses Closed
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/02/illinois-reports-more-than-35-of-small-businesses-closed/
— Anti-Derek Lee For Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Web Site Appears
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/04/02/anti-derek-lee-for-algonquin-township-road-commissioner-web-site-appears/
GOPUSA
— Fearful Of Virus Or Losing Power, Biden ‘Passport’ Plan Is Coming
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=108384
— Biden Aims To Spend $174B To Juice Electric Vehicle Sales
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=108395
— Punishing Georgia: Biden ‘Strongly Supports’ Moving MLB All-Star Game Over New Voting Law
https://www.gopusa.com/punishing-georgia-biden-strongly-supports-moving-mlb-all-star-game-over-new-voting-law/
BLAZE
— CBS News drops pretense of objectivity with headline: ‘3 ways companies can help fight Georgia’s restrictive new voting law’ The mask slips – LEON WOLF
https://www.theblaze.com/news/cbs-news-drops-pretense-of-objectivity-with-headline-3-ways-companies-can-help-fight-georgias-restrictive-new-voting-law
FEDERALIST
— Vaccine Passports Are A Serious Threat To American Civil Liberties. Are Americans supposed to accept that the government, private employers, and businesses such as airlines and Costco may stop you and demand that you show your COVID-19 papers? – Harmeet K. Dhillon
https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/02/vaccine-passports-are-a-serious-threat-to-american-civil-liberties/
ONE NEWS NOW
— Bill introduced to ban critical race theory from military – Michael F. Haverluck
https://onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2021/03/28/bill-introduced-to-ban-critical-race-theory-from-military
EPOCH TIMES
— Republican Lawmakers in Kansas Repeal Mask Mandate – TOM OZIMEK
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/republican-lawmakers-in-kansas-repeal-mask-mandate_3761115.html
THE HILL
— More GOP-led states risk corporate backlash like Georgia’s – ALEX GANGITANO (DIERSEN: What adverse actions will Democrat corporations take against Republican individuals, Republican organizations, Republican companies, and Republican governments where you live?)
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/546268-more-gop-led-states-risk-corporate-backlash-like-georgias
— 2024 GOP White House hopefuls lead opposition to Biden Cabinet – JORDAIN CARNEY
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/546233-2024-gop-white-house-hopefuls-lead-opposition-to-biden-cabinet
— Congressional CEO grillings can’t solve disinformation: We need a public interest regulator – BRAD HANLON (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who have blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/546304-congressional-ceo-grillings-cant-solve-disinformation-we-need-a-public
POLITICO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats focus on getting Asian-Americans to hate Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/03/asian-american-aapi-political-power-covid-19-478845
NBC PHILADELPHIA
— Vaccine Passports Are Latest Flash Point in COVID Politics Vaccine passports are typically an app with a code that verifies whether someone has been vaccinated or recently tested negative for COVID-19 – Mark Scolforo
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/vaccine-passport-efforts-draw-opposition-from-gop-lawmakers/2765996/
WASHINGTON POST
— Inside a stealth ‘persuasion machine’ promising Republican victories in 2022 – Isaac Stanley-Becker
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-midterms-digital-influence/2021/04/03/391103a8-8c0e-11eb-a730-1b4ed9656258_story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The American Culture Project is set up as a social welfare organization exempt from disclosing its donors or paying federal income taxes but, in exchange, barred from making politics its primary focus. The project is led by an Illinois-based conservative activist, John Tillman, who also oversees a libertarian think tank and a news foundation that recently received grant money to highlight opposition to public health restrictions. Tillman, who declined to be interviewed for this story, wrote in an email that the American Culture Project’s objectives are “issue education and advocacy (not electioneering).” “We focus on reaching millions of Americans who can no longer rely on traditional media to become fully informed on a diversity of views on the issues of the day,” he wrote. “By reaching millions of Americans with a broader, more wide ranging set of issues and ideas, we think that voters will make decisions that will elect people, whether Democrat or Republican, that believe in America’s founding principles, and particularly the Bill of Rights.” While data collection and digital ad targeting have become commonplace in political campaigns, what’s unusual about the American Culture Project, experts said, is how it presents its aims as news dissemination and community building. It touts transparency and civic engagement using an online network whose donors remain private — part of a bid to shape public opinion as local news outlets crater and social networks replace traditional forums for political deliberation. The arrangement “puts the lie to the public presentation of these nonprofits as public welfare organizations that might happen to do a little politics,” said Noah Bookbinder, president of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “It shows the system is being abused in ways we knew were happening but you usually don’t see quite so blatantly.”)
— Dozens of LGBTQ students at Christian colleges sue the U.S. Education Dept., hoping to pressure Equality Act negotiations – Michelle Boorstein
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/christian-colleges-lawsuit-lgbtq-equality-act/2021/03/29/39343620-90af-11eb-9668-89be11273c09_story.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Biden Baseball League The sports league sides with Democrats on Georgia’s voting law. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-baseball-league-11617402781
— Starting a Family? Company Benefits Favor IVF Over Adoption – Christina Rexrode (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. Democrats are nasty. I should write a book about my Democrat GAO superiors who punished me the most because my wife and I gave up trying to have children, because we did not adopt, and because we did not become foster parents.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/starting-a-family-company-benefits-favor-ivf-over-adoption-11617454800
FORTUNE
— JULY 16, 2020 FLASHBACK: Are you willing to pay for news? The future of journalism may depend on it – JENNIFER HOEWE and BRETT SHERRICK
https://fortune.com/2020/07/16/american-journalism-crisis-save-news-media/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The following strategies should help news consumers make these decisions: Think about where you get your news. Are you selecting information just because it agrees with you? Don’t do that. Pick news sources that do more than simply cater to a partisan audience. Make sure you’re differentiating between news and commentary. Good news organizations should clearly demarcate what is news and what is opinion content. Check the news organizations’ use of sources. Are the sources they use in their news stories credible and considered experts in their field? Keep in mind: Experts are often people other than politicians. Look for journalistic standards. A good news organization should have a code of ethics or clear reporting guidelines posted on its website. If you spot a piece of information on social media or a news aggregator, first make sure the information originated with a legitimate news organization (using the other steps listed here). Then visit the site of the news organization that created the original content to ensure it will earn ad revenue for that content. Read full articles, not just headlines (or Facebook posts or tweets). In-depth reporting provides more context, which is part of why it’s worth paying for.)
ATLANTIC
— ‘The Narrative Is, “You Can’t Get Ahead”’ In Evanston, Illinois, a Black parent and school-board candidate takes on a curriculum meant to combat racism. – Conor Friedersdorf (DIERSEN: Democrats use reparations, Affirmative Action, Diversity, Inclusion, etc. to get minorities to hate Republicans.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/black-lives-matter-curriculum-has-unintended-lesson/618501/
THE DRIVE
— Everyone who’s window-shopped car auction sites has seen their share of classics with glistening paints and low miles, but no apparent reason for having been treated like unicorns. Take as an example the 1972 Chevrolet Corvette C3 on Bring A Trailer right now—it’s nothing all that special as Corvettes go, but it was preserved like a C2 L88, covering just 3,286 miles in 45 years. Who does this, and why? Who makes what many would consider a landmark car purchase only to drive it fewer miles each year than they walk on their two feet? – JAMES GILBOY (DIERSEN: I took delivery of my 1972 Corvette on October 14, 1971; it has 5,143 miles on it today.)
https://www.thedrive.com/news/40018/why-some-people-buy-their-dream-cars-but-never-drive-them-a-theory
— Are Classic Chevrolet Corvettes Prices Already Past Their Peak? The Answer Is Complicated. Rather than break a Corvette auction record at Mecum in March, a rare C2 L88 fizzled. Has Boomer nostalgia reached its limit? – JAMES GILBOY
https://www.thedrive.com/news/39924/are-classic-chevrolet-corvettes-prices-already-past-their-peak-the-answer-is-complicated
(FROM THE ARTICLE: So, are we past peak C2? If you define that as the maximum of what one can be worth, then the answer would appear to be probably. The generation for whom the C2 is probably most evocative, Baby Boomers, are slowly getting too old to drive these symbols of their childhood. But while they account for the biggest percentage of C2 owners insured by Hagerty, at 40 percent, they are actually outnumbered by Gen X and Millennial policy-holders, who own 48 percent of the C2s Hagerty insures. Not all of midcentury America’s icons have stood the test of time, but as demonstrated by younger generations taking up the C2 ownership mantle (and at slowly increasing cost), this Corvette has.)
