August 22 Morning Edition

WTTW
— Rev. Jesse Jackson, Wife Jacqueline Hospitalized for COVID – AP
https://news.wttw.com/2021/08/22/rev-jesse-jackson-wife-jacqueline-hospitalized-covid

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Marijuana drug tests in the workplace could someday follow same standard as DUI – Robert McCoppin
(COMMENT: If you use pot, you impair yourself. If I had been a pot user, a) the Post Office would not have hired me in 1966, b) IRS would not have hired me in 1971, and c) GAO would not have hired me in 1980. If I had been a pot user, I doubt that a) I would have graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class or got a 24 on the ACT in 1966, b) UIC, NIU, Loyola, DePaul, or IIT would have accepted me in 1966, 1969, 1972, 1976, and 1992 respectively, c) I would have graduated from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, or IIT in 1970, 1976, 1980, or 1997 respectively, d) I would have passed the CPA examination in 1979, let alone on my first attempt, or e) I would have passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981, let alone on my first attempt.)
https://www.pjstar.com/story/business/employment/2021/08/22/proposed-law-could-change-marijuana-drug-tests-illinois-workplaces/8215137002/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Champaign Man Sentenced for Inciting Riot
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/08/21/champaign-riot-inciter-sentenced-to-four-years/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Living in the liberal media’s ‘Twilight Zone’ Nothing is as is seems – Robert Knight
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/21/living-in-the-liberal-medias-twilight-zone/

FOX NEWS
— Brace for an epic fail — Biden’s twin messes, in Afghanistan, and at the border, could merge. Biden’s Irish-exit strategy left America’s Afghan partners confused and demoralized – Deroy Murdock
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-afghanistan-border-deroy-murdock

AMERICA THINKER
— Taking Action – Sally Zelikovsky
(COMMENT: What action do you take? I put together and send out a GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter each and every morning and each and every evening.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/taking_action.html

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Canary in the Coal Mine of America’s Future. The “melting pot” was never merely assimilation or simple surrender to the dominant type, as is popularly supposed. – Michelle Marder Kamhi
https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/21/canary-in-the-coal-mine-of-americas-future/
— Lessons Never Learned. The establishment, having failed to win a counterinsurgency abroad and a culture war at home, opted to export the culture war and import the counterinsurgency. – Kyle Shideler
https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/21/lessons-never-learned/

BREITBART
— Trump to Rally: ‘I Recommend, Take the Vaccines!’ – JOEL B. POLLAK
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/22/trump-vaccines/
— Donald Trump: ‘Everything Woke Turns to S**t’ – CHARLIE SPIERING
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/21/donald-trump-everything-woke-turns-to-st/
— 13 Things the Next California Governor Can Do After Newsom Recall – JOEL B. POLLAK
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/22/pollak-13-things-the-next-california-governor-can-do-after-newsom-recall/

BLAZE
— Colorado school district bans critical race theory after black father delivers rousing speech: ‘We are not victims of America’ – PAUL SACCA
https://www.theblaze.com/news/black-father-critical-race-theory-school

DAILY CALLER
— ‘It’s Not Even Catholic Anymore’: How Parents Turned On A Florida Christian School For Allegedly Embracing ‘Woke’ Ideology – KENDALL TIETZ
https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/21/tampa-florida-catholic-high-school-scarpo-academy-holy-names/

POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump blasts Biden over ‘total surrender’ in Afghanistan at massive Alabama rally – Mia Cathell
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-blasts-biden-over-total-surrender-in-afghanistan-at-massive-alabama-rally

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— School Board Cannot Suppress Voices of Fairfax, VA Parents – Dee O’Neal
(COMMENT: What do the members of your school board think of you? For that matter, what do the following think of you: your employer if you are still employed, the leaders of the organizations that you are a member of, your park district, your chamber of commerce, your municipality, your township, your county, and Illinois? I should write a book about what the aforesaid think of me.)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2021/08/21/school_board_cannot_suppress_voices_of_fairfax_va_parents_549942.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Twitter blows up when CBS publishes article titled ‘How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban’ – Vivek Saxena
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/08/21/twitter-blows-up-when-cbs-publishes-article-titled-how-climate-change-helped-strengthen-the-taliban-1122439/
— America first? Not so much: Mere 2,500 Americans among 17K rescued thus far from Kabul – Vivek Saxena
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/08/22/america-first-not-so-much-mere-2500-americans-among-17k-rescued-thus-far-from-kabul-1122645/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— U.S. Air Force Academy Requiring New Students to Watch Training Video Promoting BLM. – Leslie Eastman
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/u-s-air-force-academy-requiring-new-students-to-watch-training-video-promoting-blm/

EPOCH TIMES
— The New Wild West: Texas Border County’s Desperate Bid to Curb Illegal Immigration – Charlotte Cuthbertson
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-new-wild-west-texas-border-countys-desperate-bid-to-curb-illegal-immigration_3955137.html

THE HILL
— Pentagon requests civilian airlines’ assistance in Afghanistan evacuation – KYLE BALLUCK
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/568900-pentagon-activates-civil-reserve-air-fleet-requests-civilian-airlines

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Veterans are prized recruits as congressional candidates – WILL WEISSERT
(COMMENT: I will forever deeply regret avoiding the draft. Since 1966, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have viciously used the following against me: a) I sought and got student draft deferments 1966-1970 and b) I sought and got a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes especially shouted the aforesaid at my many Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who were veterans.)
https://apnews.com/article/veterans-9cad3c4211a0e15852c44c8d75681254

NEW YORK TIMES
— Defense Secretary Orders Six Commercial Airlines to Help Ferry Afghan Refugees
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/22/world/afghan-refugees-commercial-airlines.html
— FRONT PAGE: New Wave of Refugees Faces A Much Chillier U.S. Welcome – Miriam Jordan
(COMMENT: Democrats want refugees, but only refugees who are future Democrats.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/us/refugees-history-afghanistan.html

WASHINGTON POST
— COMMENT: Democrats want refugees, but only refugees who are future Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/22/nativism-us-politics-has-thwarted-refugee-resettlement-before/

USA TODAY
— COMMENT: Democrats want refugees, but only refugees who are future Democrats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/08/22/afghan-refugees-need-christians-step-forward-help-taliban/8209666002/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Pentagon Tells Airlines to Help Fly Afghan Evacuees From Foreign Bases Commercial carriers wouldn’t fly to Kabul under emergency civil aviation program. – Gordon Lubold and Nancy A. Youssef
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-tells-airlines-to-help-fly-afghan-evacuees-from-foreign-bases-11629632843

FORTUNE
— Facebook and Twitter weigh giving a social-media megaphone to the Taliban – NAOMI NIX
https://fortune.com/2021/08/21/facebook-twitter-social-media-taliban/
— These Fortune 500 companies will help pay for employee MBAs – SYDNEY LAKE
(DIERSEN: During the 1970s, IRS encouraged its Revenue Officers to take graduate courses in business and accounting, but IRS did not pay for those courses. I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer 1971-1980. I took graduate business courses at Loyola 1972-1976 and graduate accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1980 and deducted what I paid for tuition and books. In 1978, disgustingly and outrageously, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed those deductions. They never would have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://fortune.com/education/business/articles/2021/07/15/these-fortune-500-companies-will-help-pay-for-employees-mba/

FORBES
— 3 Ways To Increase Empathy And Embrace Diversity In The Workplace – Esther Choy
(COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, BLM, CRT, 1619, reparations, up-or-out, budget cuts, reorganizations, etc. to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/estherchoy/2021/08/22/3-ways-to-increase-empathy-and-embrace-diversity-in-the-workplace/

NPR
— Republican Rep. Rodney Davis Comments On Safety At The Capitol After Bomb Threat
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/22/1030100001/republican-rep-rodney-davis-comments-on-safety-at-the-capitol-after-bomb-threat

PRESS HERALD
— Census shows new trends favor Democrats – GORDON L.
WEIL (COMMENT: From what I see, ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: law enforcement officer, Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasing, the more of the aforesaid that you are, the harder that Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs work to get rid of you.)
https://www.pressherald.com/2021/08/20/census-shows-new-trends-favor-democrats/

BILLY PENN
— Block parties are allowed again in Philly, but applications are down at least 50%
(COMMENT: What do you say to those who host block parties, but who only invite Democrats?)
https://billypenn.com/2021/08/12/philly-block-party-application-denied-decline-summer-covid/

SAMPSON INDEPENDENT
— Voters would end racial preferences – John Hood
(COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, BLM, CRT, 1619, reparations, up-or-out, budget cuts, reorganizations, etc. to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.clintonnc.com/opinion/54771/voters-would-end-racial-preferences

WYO FILE
— Conservative group seeks to rid Wyo GOP of ‘RINOs’ – Laton McCartney
(COMMENT: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. Most commonly, RINOs reject the traditional 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. Far too often, RINOs promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, patronage, reverse discrimination (Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, wokeism, BLM, CRT, 1619, reparations, etc.), and/or age discrimination. I should write a book about RINOs. I would focus on RINOs who destroy a) those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, b) those like me who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) those like me who refuse to pander to them, d) those like me who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) those like me who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) those like me who refuse to give them money.)
https://www.wyofile.com/conservative-group-seeks-to-rid-wyo-gop-of-rinos/

AXIOS
— AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ON CAMPUS IS ENDANGERED – Erica Pandey
(COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, BLM, CRT, 1619, reparations, up-or-out, budget cuts, reorganizations, etc. to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.axios.com/hard-truths-deep-dive-higher-education-affirmative-action-28706a24-dd54-452a-9ea1-2eb6c5cf3b48.html
— Axios-Ipsos poll: 51% of Black people say they’re disadvantaged in U.S. higher education – Margaret Talev
(DIERSEN: Since 1966, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have hinted/implied/argued/shouted a) that instead of me, in 1966, UIC should have admitted a Black, b) that instead of me, in 1969, NIU should have admitted a Black, c) that instead of me, in 1972, Loyola should have admitted a Black, d) that instead of me, in 1976, DePaul should have admitted a Black, and e) that instead of me, in 1992, IIT should have admitted a Black. Since 1970, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have hinted/implied/argued/shouted a) that instead of me, in 1970, NIU should have graduated a Black, b) that instead of me, in 1976, Loyola should have graduated a Black, c) that instead of me, in 1980, DePaul should have graduated a Black, and d) that instead of me, in 1997, IIT should have graduated a Black.)
https://news.yahoo.com/axios-ipsos-poll-51-black-110005294.html

NEW YORKER
— What We Left Behind in Afghanistan
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/30/what-we-left-behind-in-afghanistan

PARADE
— Lights, Camera, Crime and Comedy! The 8 Most Memorable TV Shows From 1971 – Mara Reinstein
(COMMENT: What did you do in 1971? I lived with my mother and brother in Crete. My father had died suddenly in October of 1969. I started the year working as the Retail Sales Manager for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights, taking a graduate business management course at UIC, and awaiting a decision on my application for a financial hardship draft deferment. That application was approved, and because of my draft lottery number, I was no longer subject to the draft. I believe that prompted Oldsmobile to offer me a job which I accepted. But when I told my Firestone boss, he immediately and rudely fired me. But then, Oldsmobile withdrew its job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS to be a GS-7 (currently $48,445/year) Revenue Officer in Chicago. But then, my Firestone boss offered me a part-time job pumping gasoline which I accepted. Before I started working for IRS and working part-time for Firestone, I went on a spring break vacation in the Bahamas. My 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in Chicago in August. That directly resulted in my buying a new 1972 Corvette and a 1962 Chevy Bel Air for everyday use. At the end of the year, IRS granted my request to be assigned to its Harvey office.)
https://parade.com/1250376/maramovies/best-tv-shows-of-1971/

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.