July 8 Morning Edition

HERALD & REVIEW
— Gov. Rauner calls Dallas police shootings ‘outrageous’ – AP
http://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/gov-rauner-calls-dallas-police-shootings-outrageous/article_4dbd83d6-0ca3-5e5d-aaf0-c529c2f16e4e.html

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hillary Clinton disqualifies herself – John Kass
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-hillary-clinton-emails-comey-kass-0708-20160707-column.html
— Illinois lawmakers got paid this week — for April – Monique Garcia
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rauner-munger-madigan-illinois-lawmaker-paychecks-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Zorn and other anti-Trumps argue that “Clinton’s email scandal is far, far, far from a voter deal-breaker.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-hillary-clinton-voter-loyalty-email-scandal-zorn-perspec-0708-md-20160707-column.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps argue that “Really, America. It’s OK to sit out this election.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-sit-out-this-election-clinton-trump-perspec-0708-20160708-story.html
— FRONT PAGE WITH COLOR PHOTO: HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: Monee mayor known for temper outbreaks – Erin Gallagher  (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who have worked the hardest to make me lose my temper. So far, they have failed.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-monee-mayor-met-20160707-story.html
— Don’t compare police shootings to black-on-black crime – Bloomberg  (DIERSEN: Democrats run America. Nevertheless, sooner or later, Democrats blame all crime on Republicans.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-philando-castile-alton-sterling-police-shootings-black-men-20160707-story.html
— That MBA is totally worth it, according to a Facebook-employee-turned-comedian – Ally Marotti  (DIERSEN: I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 when I was 27 years old.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-paul-ollinger-facebook-comedy-bsi-20160705-story.html
— Naperville Township roads lawsuit in court Friday – Genevieve Bookwalter
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-naperville-township-lawsuit-update-st-0706-20160706-story.html
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: DuPage board allows candidacy, denies one – Gary Gibula
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Police: 5 officers dead, 6 hurt in Dallas protest shooting – AP
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/shots-fired-dallas-protest-fatal-police-shootings/
— Kirk on Trump: ‘Eastern, privileged, wealthy bully’ – Lynn Sweet
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/kirk-trump-is-a-privileged-bully/
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: Mistake for race to matter in college admissions  Positive quotas for one or more groups mean negative quotas for others. – Michael Barone  (DIERSEN: Many, if not most, if not virtually all of my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/opinion-discrimination-by-race-will-continue-on-college-campuses/

 

DAILY HERALD
— Toking up while working out: Pair plan gym allowing pot use – AP  (DIERSEN: Those who are anti-religious, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, and/or anti-American promote pot.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160706/business/307069849/
— Wheaton event offers assistance to veterans in need – Jessica Cilella  (DIERSEN: My nastier Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government hinted/implied/argued/shouted that because I avoided the draft, someone less fortunate than me was drafted and then killed or severely injured in Vietnam.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160708/news/160709241/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Law firms try for smooth succession with age, term limits – CLAIRE BUSHEY  (DIERSEN: Non-veteran White males who are seeking a job with the federal government should be advised that except for rare exceptions, a) the longer that you are a federal employee, the less likely that private sector employers will hire you, b) your career will be wasted and you will be gotten rid of if you do not make GS-13 ($92,632) by age 25, GS-14 ($109,463) by age 30, GS-15 ($128,759) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($160,300) by age 40, c) you will be expected to help your superiors and supervisors get rid of their employees who are Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran, and d) virtually everyone despises if not hates federal employees, former federal employees, and federal retirees.)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160707/NEWS04/160709889/chicago-law-firms-try-for-smooth-succession-with-age-term-limits
(FROM THE ARTICLE: At Levenfeld Pearlstein, a small Chicago law firm, birthday candles can signal a change in leadership. Last week the firm named David Solomon, 47, to head the corporate and securities practice, taking over from Mary Wasik, who at 60 had hit the firm’s age ceiling for holding a top management spot. At the same time, Laura Friedel, 43, stepped in to run Levenfeld’s labor and employment practice. The 60-lawyer firm with clients like Barrington and Bridgeview banks is one of handful in the Chicago market to lay out age restrictions and term limits for key leadership positions. Partners established the policy to make it easier for younger lawyers to take over management of the firm from their predecessors. Levenfeld Executive Director Angela Hickey said it is an issue many small and midsize law firms fail to address. “Most firms think of succession plans when the executive committee is 70,” she said.)
— Why Chicago needs a massive gun violence study now – KAREN C. TEITELBAUM
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160707/OPINION/160709909/why-chicago-needs-a-massive-gun-violence-study-now

 

DNA INFO
— ‘Black On Black’ Crime Narrative Is Racist, Ignorant, Chicago Activists Say – Evan F. Moore  (DIERSEN: What percent of crime is a) white on white, b) white on minority, c) minority on minority, and d) minority on white?)
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160707/englewood/black-on-black-crime-narrative-is-racist-ignorant-chicago-activists-say

 

WBEZ
— How Chicago School Construction Furthers Race and Class Segregation – Sarah Karp, Becky Vevea
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/how-chicago-school-construction-furthers-race-and-class-segregation/92305e1d-2888-46e3-9e6c-de3a3a7f01de

 

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Rauner sees no action on pensions till after election – Tom Kacich
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-07-07/updated-rauner-sees-no-action-pensions-till-after-election.html

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Gingrich: If asked, I would be Trump’s VP  Former Speaker is campaigning with Trump in Ohio – CNN  (DIERSEN: Were it not for Gingrich, I might still be a GAO employee.  During the 1990s, Gingrich successfully lead Republican efforts to dramatically cut GAO’s budget. Of course, needless-to-say, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in Chicago were beyond furious.  They took their anger out me, the last non-veteran Republican in the office who was eligible for early retirement.)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/gingrich-if-asked-i-would-be-trumps-vp

 

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Donald Trump lashes out at GOP senators, including Mark Kirk of Illinois – Sean Sullivan and Philip Rucker
http://www.pjstar.com/news/20160707/donald-trump-lashes-out-at-gop-senators-including-mark-kirk-of-illinois

 

SAUK VALLEY
— TRAGIC: Sauk Valley’s first medical marijuana dispensary opens in Fulton
http://www.saukvalley.com/2016/07/07/sauk-valleys-first-medical-marijuana-dispensary-opens-in-fulton/ay6okdf/

 

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— NIU – Penny Wise, Pound Foolish? – Kirk Allen
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2016/07/niu-penny-wise-pound-foolish/

 

REBOOT ILLINOIS
— ILLINOIS UNIONS ACTIVE WITH $800,000 IN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS THIS WEEK – ILLINOIS SUNSHINE (DIERSEN: What do those who are anti-union stress about you?  Those who are anti-union stress that I was a union member for almost 12 years and that I have only bought cars that were made by union members.)
http://www.rebootillinois.com/2016/07/07/editors-picks/illinois-sunshine/illinois-unions-active-with-800000-in-political-contributions-this-week/61200/
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON ILLINOIS TIGHTENS: ILLINOIS ONE OF FEW STATES STILL RECOVERING FROM THE GREAT RECESSION – MICHAEL LUCCI
http://www.rebootillinois.com/2016/07/06/featured-articles/michael-lucci/illinois-and-lost-jobs-still-recovering-from-the-great-recession/60980/
— TOP 10 ILLINOIS SUBURBS TO LIVE IN – NATALIE CRAWFORD  (DIERSEN: Wheaton did not make the top 10 list.  If you live in a suburb that did not make the top 10 list, what are the reasons?)
http://www.rebootillinois.com/2016/07/07/editors-picks/nataliecrawford/top-10-illinois-suburbs-to-live-in/60863/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. Naperville Overall grade: A+  As the #1 suburb in Illinois, it was also voted as the second best place to live by Money magazine in 2006. It’s a midsized city with high home values, high rent costs, and average unemployment levels. Here are some of the grades Niche gave it, but to check out specific, click here. Cost of Living: C-  Public Schools: A+  Crime and Safety: B+  Family Amenities: A  Jobs: B+)

 

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Iowa Civil Rights Commission Goes After Churches – Laurie Higgins (DIERSEN: Who works the hardest against you?  Those who promote LGBTQ activity, their operatives, and their dupes work the hardest against me.)
https://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/iowa-civil-rights-commission-goes-churches/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The kind of draconian restrictions of speech and religious rights that corrupt Canadian governance are  arriving bit by corroded bit on America’s church steps sooner than many expected and in, of all places,  Iowa. Make no mistake though, this is coming to every state. Iowa, like many other states, has a law banning discrimination based on, among other conditions, “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” in places of public accommodation. To be clear, the rhetorical contrivance “sexual orientation” really means “subjective homoerotic attraction and volitional homoerotic acts,”* and the rhetorical contrivance “gender identity” really means “the subjective desire to be the opposite sex or no sex,” both of which are ontological impossibilities. Iowa also has a Civil Rights Commission that has issued “guidance” on how the state law and corresponding city codes affect churches. It states that the anti-discrimination law—including its provisions regarding homoerotic feelings and sex-rejection—does, in fact, apply to churches. Fortunately, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the Fort Des Moines Church of Christ to prevent the civil rights commission and Iowa attorney general “from forcing Fort Des Moines to use its facility in a way that violates its religious beliefs about human sexuality.” Here are some of the tricksy ways the Iowa Civil Rights Commission seeks to violate the civil rights of Christians.)

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— TRUMP CALLS FOR HEALING FOLLOWING EXECUTION OF DALLAS POLICE
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/07/trump-calls-for-healing-following-execution-of-dallas-police.html
— THORNER: KEEP CONCON OUT OF THE GOP PLATFORM
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/07/thorner-keep-concon-out-of-the-gop-platform.html
— HIGGINS: IOWA CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION GOES AFTER CHURCHES
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/07/higgins-iowa-civil-rights-commission-goes-after-churches.html

 

GOPUSA
— Obama lectures nation on racial disparities hours before assassination of Dallas police officers  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats side with individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are anti-police, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=12232

 

GATEWAY
— RNC Chair Priebus: Folks Not Supporting Trump Are ‘SCREWING AROUND With The Next 40 Years’ – Jim Hoft
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/rnc-chair-priebus-folks-not-supporting-trump-screwing-around-next-40-years-video/

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— SNIPERS KILL 5 COPS, WOUND 6 OTHERS IN DALLAS  Attacks took place at peaceful protest of recent fatal shootings by officers
http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/2-cops-shot-after-protest-over-louisiana-minnesota-shootings/#!

 

THE BLAZE
— Philly Archbishop Says Gay Catholics Should Abstain From Sex to Receive Communion. Mayor Blasts Decree as ‘Not Christian.’ And That’s Just for Starters. – Kate Scanlon
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/07/07/philly-archbishop-says-gay-catholics-should-abstain-from-sex-mayor-blasts-decree-as-not-christian-and-thats-just-for-starters/

 

BARBWIRE
— ALL LIVES MATTER! – DR. MICHAEL BROWN
http://barbwire.com/2016/07/08/all-lives-matter/

 

BREITBART
— RNC Chair: Folks Not Supporting Trump Are ‘Screwing Around With The Next 40 Years’ – Pam Key
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/07/07/priebus/
— MILO EXCOMMUNICATED: DePaul Bans Dangerous Faggot From Campus – CHARLIE NASH
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/07/07/depaul-university-bans-milo-from-returning/

 

ONE NEWS NOW
— Limited amount of ‘victimhood’ available to share  An interesting battle sprang up between two victim groups in Toronto over the last weekend. – Steve Jordahl
http://onenewsnow.com/culture/2016/07/07/limited-amount-of-victimhood-available-to-share

 

HOT AIR
— Pew poll: More young adults support Gary Johnson than support Trump  (DIERSEN: What percent of those who support Johnson smoke pot or want to smoke pot legally – 98%, 99%, 100%?)
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/07/07/pew-poll-more-young-adults-support-gary-johnson-than-support-trump/

 

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Priebus to Anti-Trump Republicans: “We’re Going To Win With Or Without Them” – Ian Schwartz  (DIERSEN: Who are the leading anti-Trump individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries?  From what I see, they are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/07/priebus_to_anti-trump_republicans_were_going_to_win_with_or_without_them.html
— Trump’s Capitol Hill Visit Fails to Bring Party Unity – Caitlin Huey-Burns & James Arkin
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/07/07/trumps_capitol_hill_visit_fails_to_bring_party_unity.html

 

THE HILL
— Better refugee screening, bipartisan gun bill needed to protect homeland – Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/286750-better-refugee-screening-bipartisan-gun-bill-needed-to
— Kirk touts break from Trump – Jordain Carney  (DIERSEN: Political Parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform.)
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/286831-gop-senator-touts-break-from-trump
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) is highlighting his split from presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump as an example of his independence as he runs for reelection. “My independence is pretty clearly demonstrated when I de-endorsed Donald Trump,” the Illinois Republican told a local radio station. “I felt Donald Trump was too bigoted and racist for the land of Lincoln.” Kirk’s comments come as Senate Republicans meet with Trump at the National Republican Senatorial Committee. The Illinois Republican is one of a handful of vulnerable GOP senators who aren’t attending the closed-door sit-down. Kirk — widely considered one of this year’s most endangered GOP incumbents — was the first, and only, Republican senator to take back his endorsement of Trump from earlier this year. “I have concluded that Donald Trump has not demonstrated the temperament necessary to assume the greatest office in the world,” Kirk said in a statement in June. The Illinois Republican has repeatedly broken from his party as he runs for reelection on issues including Planned Parenthood and gun control. He also played up his decision to buck Trump in an ad last month. Kirk faces an uphill battle for reelection against Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) in a state widely expected to be carried by Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, in November. Republicans are defending 24 Senate seats. Democrat need to net five — or flip four and retain the White House — to win back the majority. While Kirk isn’t eager to tie himself to Trump, he also took a swing at Clinton over her use of a private email server while secretary of State. He added in the radio interview: “Democrats should really rebuke her, to leave their whole party to that level of risk.”)

 

MSNBC
— Police murders bring a ‘nightmare’ to life in Dallas – Steve Benen
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/police-murders-bring-nightmare-life-dallas

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— 5 Dallas Officers Killed at Protest Against Police Shootings – PATRICK McGEE, MANNY FERNANDEZ and JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/dallas-police-shooting.html
— All the Nominee’s Enablers  Cynicism, denial, and the coming of Trump. – Paul Krugman
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/opinion/all-the-nominees-enablers.html
— Suicide Rate Among Veterans Has Risen Sharply Since 2001 – DAVE PHILIPPS  (DIERSEN: My nastier Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government hinted/implied/argued/shouted that because I avoided the draft, someone less fortunate than me was drafted and then killed or severely injured in Vietnam.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/us/suicide-rate-among-veterans-has-risen-sharply-since-2001.html
— When Will the Killing Stop? – Editorial  (DIERSEN: Democrats run America.  Nevertheless, sooner or later, Democrats blame all crime on Republicans.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/opinion/when-will-the-killing-stop.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH FOUR BIG COLOR PICTURES: After Philando Castile’s Killing, Obama Calls Police Shootings ‘an American Issue’  Obama Asks Nation to Confront Racial Biases in Law Enforcement System – MATT FURBER and RICHARD PEREZ-PENA  (DIERSEN: Democrats run America. Nevertheless, sooner or later, Democrats blame all crime on Republicans.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/us/philando-castile-falcon-heights-shooting.html?login=email

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Ten mistakes Reince Priebus made – Jennifer Rubin  (DIERSEN: Will Priebus respond to this?  My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes hint/imply/argue/shout that I have made many mistakes. It would be great if they would get together ( I suggest at the Wheaton Bowl), publish “Diersen’s top ten mistakes,” and give me an opportunity to respond.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/07/08/ten-mistakes-reince-priebus-made/
— The true danger to democracy is cynicism, not anger – Michael Gerson (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote cynicism and anger.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-triumph-of-cynicism/2016/07/07/232b5028-446c-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d_story.html
— Snipers kill five police officers in Dallas, wound seven others during protest – Tim Madigan, Michael E. Miller, Travis M. Andrews and Mark Berman  (FROM THE ARTICLE: The Dallas police chief said an attacker told authorities “he was upset about the recent police shootings” and “wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/08/like-a-little-war-snipers-shoot-11-police-officers-during-dallas-protest-march-killing-five/
— Fatal shootings by police are up in the first six months of 2016, Post analysis finds – Kimberly Kindy, Wesley Lowery, Steven Rich, Julie Tate and Jennifer Jenkins
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-shootings-by-police-surpass-2015s-rate/2016/07/07/81b708f2-3d42-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html
— Will federal employees in classified-material cases get treated as Clinton did? – Joe Davidson
http://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post/20160708/281960312079458
— In the 2016 campaign, Trump can’t stop talking about Trump – Jenna Johnson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-the-2016-campaign-trump-cant-stop-talking-about-trump/2016/07/07/dc978a74-4460-11e6-bc99-7d269f8719b1_story.html

 

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— As Dallas police hunt for snipers, politicians start to weigh in – Seema Mehta
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-updates-as-dallas-police-hunt-for-snipers-1467956803-htmlstory.html

 

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh threatens ‘war’ on Obama and Black Lives Matter protesters, blames them for deaths after Dallas attack – Jason Silverstein
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/joe-walsh-war-obama-black-lives-matter-dallas-article-1.2703883

 

DALLAS MORNING NEWS
— Meeting with GOP lawmakers, Trump promises outreach to women and minorities, more disciplined message – Katie Leslie and Tom Benning
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20160707-trump-promises-outreach-to-women-and-minorities-message-discipline-in-meeting-with-lawmakers.ece

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Why Donald Trump’s Tensions With Congressional Republicans Are Good for Him–and Them – JOHN FEEHERY
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/07/why-donald-trumps-tensions-with-congressional-republicans-are-good-for-him-and-them/
— Five Police Officers Dead, Several Hurt at Dallas Protest  Two snipers opened fire amid rally over police shootings of two black men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile – DAN MOLINSKI, SAN FROSCH in Denver, and ALEJANDRO LAZO
http://www.wsj.com/articles/shots-fired-at-dallas-protest-over-police-shootings-in-baton-rouge-and-minnesota-1467947604

 

BUSINESS INSIDER
— GOP Senator Jeff Flake dramatically confronts Donald Trump in tense Capitol Hill meeting – Allan Smith
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-goes-to-war-with-jeff-flake-2016-7

 

MONEY MAGAZINE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who are anti-religious, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, and/or anti-American promote pot.
http://time.com/money/4396968/medical-marijuana-prescription-drug-costs/

 

THE BEAST
— Donald Trump to Republican Lawmakers: Hey, Losers, Vote for Me  The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made a trip to Capitol Hill on Thursday to unify his splintered party. He failed. – Betsy woodruff  (DIERSEN: You should be aware that my critics/opponents say that those who read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are losers.  What do you say to my critic/opponents?)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/07/donald-trump-to-hill-republicans-hey-losers-vote-for-me.html

 

THE WEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “There is no good reason for any fence-sitting Republican to endorse Donald Trump.”
http://theweek.com/articles/634458/there-no-good-reason-fencesitting-republican-endorse-donald-trump

 

FED SMITH
— Senators Want to Take Away Hillary Clinton’s Security Clearance – Ian Smith  (DIERSEN: One could argue that if cannot get/keep a security clearance, you should not seek or hold any kind of government position.  Many millions in America cannot get a security clearance.  If you have ever done anything that subjects you to blackmail, you should not seek or hold any kind of government position.)
http://www.fedsmith.com/2016/07/07/senators-want-to-take-away-hillary-clintons-security-clearance/

 

THE GUARDIAN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who hate men hate Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/07/women-hate-donald-trump-no-time-to-fix-it

 

SALON
— Donald Trump lectures Congress on the greatness of Saddam – Mark Sumner
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/07/1546018/-Donald-Trump-lectures-Congress-on-how-great-Saddam-was

 

METRO WEEKLY
— Anti-gay activist: Gay rights an “anti-God movement” and a “sin movement”  Peter LaBarbera believes that gay rights are “a liberal cult” – Frank Carber
https://www.metroweekly.com/2016/07/anti-gay-activist-gay-rights-anti-god-movement-sin-movement/

July 7 Morning Edition

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump hits Chicago next Tuesday for high-dollar fundraising – Lynn Sweet
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/trump-chicago-tuesday-fundraising/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The host for the Chicago luncheon is Ron Gidwitz, the Trump Victory Illinois finance chairman, a powerhouse fundraiser for GOP Illinois candidates up and down the ticket.)
— Laquan McDonald’s tragic past to be used by defense? – Mary Mitchell  (DIERSEN: Of course, needless-to-say, if you are involved in government or politics, the older that you get, the more that your critics/opponents spin your past against you.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/mitchell-laquan-mcdonalds-tragic-past-to-be-used-by-defense/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Unions open their wallets against Rauner’s hand-picked comptroller candidate
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinois-comptroller-rauner-mendoza-munger-union-campaign-cash-20160706-story.html
— Will Newt Gingrich save Donald Trump from disaster? – Jonah Goldberg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-newt-gingrich-vice-president-20160706-column.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Why longer life spans may spell bad news for public pensions – Marie Wilson  (DIERSEN: What is your life expectancy, that is, how long are you expected to live?  I am 67 years and 9 months old.  According to Social Security (
https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/longevity.cgi), I have 17 years left to live.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160707/news/160528634/
— Hillary Clinton’s ‘extremely careless’ email policy – Editorial
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160706/discuss/160709400/
— Trump and the rebellion against ‘elites’ – Kathleen Parker  (DIERSEN: Who are the elites, that is, who has the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois?  I should write a book about nasty/troubled/failed/vicious people in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who talk and act like they are operatives or dupes for whoever has the most clout.  They talk and act like the elites, that is, those who have the most clout, blame me for their problems, blame me for your problems, blame me for my problems, and blame me for everyone’s problems.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160707/discuss/160709409/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— How the state financial mess could still kill college dreams for thousands – STEVEN R. STRAHLER (DIERSEN: How did you pay for your college expenses? I paid for my college expenses while I attended UIC full-time 1966-1968 and then NIU full-time 1969-1970 with money that I earned working for the Park Forest Post Office for about $15/hour in today’s dollars part-time during the school years and full-time during the summers of 1967, 1968, and 1969. My outstanding parents provided me with room and board in their home in Crete 1966, 1967, 1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969. That allowed me to save enough money to stay at University Plaza Dormitory for two semesters in 1969 and one in 1970 and then to share an apartment for the 1970 summer session at Lincolnshire West Apartments.  I graduated debt-free in August of 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in management, a 1969 Dodge Charger SE, and a job working for Firestone in its Chicago Heights store.  If tuition back then was as high as it is now, I doubt that back then I would have had enough money to buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967 and a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968.)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160706/NEWS13/160709944/illinois-budget-woes-could-still-affect-college-map-grants-student
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The state’s budget mess could delay or even kill chances for completion of college degrees for as many as 18,000 recipients of state financial aid, according to the agency that administers the grants. About one in seven respondents to a survey by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission said they were doubtful of returning to college this fall because of funding issues involving the Monetary Award Program.)

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— How Newt Gingrich became Donald Trump’s inside man  Gingrich: Time to get on the bandwagon – CNN
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/how-newt-gingrich-became-donald-trumps-inside-man
— Marco Rubio won’t attend the Republican convention  Rubio seeking re-election – CNN
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/marco-rubio-wont-attend-the-republican-convention

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Rep. Foster, Sanders campaign tried to shift 13th race – Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20160706/bernard-schoenburg-rep-foster-sanders-campaign-tried-to-shift-13th-race
— Home care for seniors a worthy investment – Vincent Speranza
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20160706/guest-column-home-care-for-seniors-worthy-investment

 

NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES
— Could U.S. become another Illinois? – Doug Ross
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/doug-ross/doug-ross-could-u-s-become-another-illinois/article_8613a8a2-645c-562c-9532-2b620e5acbc4.html

 

WHEATON PATCH
— District 200’s Facility Shortcomings Could Lead to 2017 Referendum  Officials in Wheaton-Warrenville Community Unit School District 200 are discussing the possibility of an April 2017 referendum. – Carrie Frillman
http://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/district-200s-facility-shortcomings-could-lead-2017-referendum-0

 

ILLINOIS HOMEPAGE
— Turnover in Gov. Rauner’s “Turnaround Administration” About a half dozen top aids and directors have left in the first 1 1/2 years – Matt Porter
http://www.illinoishomepage.net/news/capitol-news/turnover-in-gov-rauners-turnaround-administration

 

REBOOT ILLINOIS
— SENATOR KIMBERLY LIGHTFORD’S STATEMENT ON ILLINOIS LAWMAKER PAY SUMS UP ALL THAT IS WRONG IN SPRINGFIELD – Patrick Hughes
http://www.rebootillinois.com/2016/07/06/editors-picks/pat-hughes/illinois-opportunity-project-takes-a-stand-against-lawmaker-pay/61060/
– 26 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN ILLINOIS MAKE FORBES’ 2016 TOP COLLEGES RANKING – Kevin Hoffman  (DIERSEN: IIT is ranked 8th; in 1997, I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT. DePaul is ranked 10th; in 1980, I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.  Loyola is raked 9th; in 1976, I earned an MBA from Loyola.  NIU is ranked 20th; in 1970, I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU.  UIC is ranked 13th; I attended UIC 1966-1968.  What do say to those who demonize, denigrate, and condemn non-Ivy League colleges and universities and their alumni?)
http://www.rebootillinois.com/2016/07/06/whats-hot/kevin-hoffmanrebootillinois-com/26-colleges-and-universities-in-illinois-make-forbes-2016-top-colleges-ranking/60959/
— Support Reboot to continue our quality journalism and deliver the best of Illinois news, views, list and infographics and we’ll remove the advertising, just for you! $6.79/month or $69.99/year  (DIERSEN: Of course, needless-to-say, my critics/opponents are beyond furious that I can afford to spend 10+ hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails together and sending them out free of charge and without any advertising.  My critics/opponents know full-well that my critics/opponents spend hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars each year to compete with me.)
http://www.rebootillinois.com/

 

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— THE CLARENCE THOMAS STORY: AN AMERICAN MASTERPIECE – Ken Blackwell
http://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/opinion/the-clarence-thomas-story-an-american-masterpiece/

 

GOPUSA
— Hillary to promise free tuition to millions of students; who will pay?  (DIERSEN: Democrats always want Republicans to pay for everything.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=12175
— Democrat Platform Follies
http://www.gopusa.com/dem-platform-follies/
— Will the West Survive the Century? – Patrick J. Buchanan  (DIERSEN: Those who oppose Trump are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.  How many of the aforesaid apply to you?  Do you oppose Trump?)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=12107
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Nativism … xenophobia or worse” is behind the triumph of Brexit and the support for Donald Trump, railed President Barack Obama in Ottawa. Obama believes that resistance to transformational change in the character and identity of countries of the West, from immigration, can only be the product of sick minds or sick hearts. According to The New York Times, he will spend the last months of his presidency battling “the nativism and nationalism” of Trump and “Britain’s Brexiteers.” Prediction: Obama will fail. For rising ethnonationalism and militarization of frontiers is baked in the cake, if the West wishes to remain the West. Behind that prediction lie the startling figures of the U.N.’s “World Population 2015” chart, which just arrived. Consider but a few of those figures. Between now and 2050, Europe will lose 32 million people. Not one European nation has a fertility rate — 2.1 children per woman — sufficient to keep it alive. A quarter of all Europeans are 60 or older. The tribes that created the West are passing away. Contrast Europe with Africa, just across the Mediterranean. Between now and 2050, Africa will add 1.3 billion people, to reach 2.4 billion in 2050. Then its population will double again, to 4.4 billion, by 2100. Only 5 percent of Africans are 60 or older, while 41 percent of Africans are 15 or younger. Given the tyranny, destitution and disease that afflict Africa, what — other than barriers, border guards and warships — is there to stop tens of millions of young African men from crossing over in coming decades to fill the empty spaces left by dying Europeans? The Arab-Muslim population of North Africa alone, from the western Sahara and Morocco to Egypt and Sudan, will add 130 million people in 35 years. Egypt will add 60 million, to reach a population of 151 million by 2050. Yet Egypt will still have only the fifth-highest population of Muslims, behind Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. While impossible to find a Western country with a fertility rate that will prevent its native-born people from dying off, it is difficult to find a Muslim country that does not boast a rising or exploding population. If the future belongs to the young, it belongs to Asians, Africans and Latin Americans, and it belongs to Islam. Eastern Europe presents the grimmest picture in Europe. Between now and 2050, Poland will lose 5 million people; Ukraine almost 10 million; and Russia 15 million. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will see one-sixth of their combined population disappear. Such losses are comparable to those of World War II. In percentage terms, Ukraine will suffer most. By midcentury, its population will have shrunk by 21 percent, to 35 million. Is this not a graver matter than whose flag flies over Crimea? The bleakest prospects belong to Japan, home to some of the most capable, industrious and advanced people on earth. Between now and 2050, Japan will lose 19 million people and see its population fall to 107 million. A third of the nation is already 60 or older. Only 1 in 7 Japanese are under 16. Japanese are the oldest people on earth. In coming decades, a large slice of Japan’s population will be working to support health care, pensions and welfare for the aged, infirm and dying. And the United States?With Mexico and Central America adding 56 million people in 35 years, either the U.S. secures its southern border or the 11-12 million immigrants here illegally will have millions of new compatriots. America is already evolving into another country. Though the U.S. is projected to grow by 67 million people in 35 years, this growth will be wholly among Hispanics, Asians and African-Americans. In each of the past four years, non-Hispanic white Americans have registered more deaths than births. Between July 2014 and July 2015, the Asian-American population grew by 3.4 percent, and the Hispanic population grew 2.2 percent. The black population was up 1.3 percent. But the white population grew by only 0.1 percent. White America has begun to die. Can Obama really believe that amnesty for undocumented immigrants is still in the cards with a Republican Congress scorched by the forces behind Trump? Can he believe that the right-wing parties proliferating across Europe, which see their nations imperiled by a rising tide of Muslim immigrants and refugees, will pack it in and support the EU’s march to a transnational superstate that controls immigration and borders? What has been tabled for discussion this year, in Europe and America, is the future of the West as an identifiable civilization to be cherished and defended by the peoples whose ancestors created it. And Obama’s reverence for Islam notwithstanding, the West remains the greatest civilization of them all. Belatedly, Western Man appears to have decided to defend the shire, pull up the drawbridge, and man the parapets on the castle walls. As for Trumpism and the Brexiteers, Mr. President, in the words of Jimmy Durante, “you ain’t seen nothing yet.”)

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats’ filibusters shield illegal immigrants, sanctuary cities – Stephen Dinan
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/6/democrats-vote-defend-sanctuary-cities/

 

THE BLAZE
— Pro-Life Democrats Ask Their Party to ‘Open the Big Tent’ – Kate Scanlon  (DIERSEN: “Republicans” who reject the right-to-life plank in the Illinois Republican Party platform, their operatives, and their dupes have always worked very hard against me.)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/07/06/pro-life-democrats-ask-their-party-to-open-the-big-tent/

 

NEWSMAX
— Anti-Trump Forces Close to ‘Conscience’ Vote at Convention – Greg Richter
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/anti-Trump-forces-conscience-vote/2016/07/06/id/737428/
— Priebus on AG’s Decision: ‘Slap in the Face’ to Those Who ‘Play by the Rules’ – Todd Beamon
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/reince-priebus-loretta-lynch-close-probe/2016/07/06/id/737440/

 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The downside of dumping Trump – W. JAMES ANTLE III
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-downside-of-dumping-trump/article/2595816
— Sessions: 91% of illegal youths handed over to illegal relatives – PAUL BEDARD
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sessions-91-of-illegal-youths-handed-over-to-illegal-relatives/article/2595781

 

THE HILL
— RNC: Clinton ‘allowed to play by a different set of rules’ – Rebecca Savransky
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/286781-rnc-lynch-decision-slap-in-the-face-to-americans-who-play-by

 

POLITICO
— 200 House Republicans show up to meet Trump  CNBC personality Larry Kudlow introduces the presumptive nominee. – Rachael Bade, Heather Caygle and John Bresnahan
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-meets-house-republicans-225205

 

ABC NEWS
— Trump Goes Back to Washington to Face Wary Republicans – BENJAMIN SIEGEL and ALI ROGIN
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-back-washington-face-wary-republicans/story?id=40394625

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Donald Trump Meets With Republicans in Congress – ALAN RAPPEPORT, JENNIFER STEINHAUER and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html
— Democrats Plan Early Attacks Tying G.O.P. Candidates to Trump – ALEXANDER BURNS  (DIERSEN: QUESTION: Which individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries work the hardest against Trump?  ANSWER: Those that are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/us/politics/democrats-plan-early-attacks-tying-gop-candidates-to-trump.html
— On Trump: Some GOP Say Yes, Some Say Never – AP
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/07/06/us/politics/ap-us-campaign-2016-trump-congress.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hillary Clinton Embraces Ideas From Bernie Sanders’s College Tuition Plan  In-State Colleges Free for those Families Earning Up to $125,000 – STEPHANIE SAUL and MATT FLEGENHEIMER  (DIERSEN: In today’s dollars, how much did your parents earn when you were young?  In today’s dollars, my outstanding father earned less than $50,000 a year while I attended UIC and NIU. He died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21.  My outstanding mother stayed home and raised me and my brother.  After my father died, she earned a GED and worked for dentists in Crete.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/us/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-education.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Will other federal employees make out as Clinton did? – Joe Davidson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/07/07/will-other-feds-make-out-like-clinton-did/
— House Democrats launch ad blitz linking Trump to GOP members – Sean Sullivan and Paul Kane  (DIERSEN: QUESTION: Which individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries work the hardest against Trump?  ANSWER: Those that are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/07/house-democrats-launch-ad-blitz-linking-trump-to-gop-members/

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Obama Administration Awards $55 Million for Research on Genetic Links to Disease  Millions of Americans to be studied, with goal to develop more precise drugs, medical treatments – THOMAS M. BURTON
http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-administration-awards-55-million-for-research-on-genetic-links-to-disease-1467849601

 

USA TODAY
— When it comes to campaign promises, presidents usually try, often fail – Rick Hampson  (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs promise to give preference to those who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/07/06/campaign-promises-trump-clinton/86134898/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PICTURE: 20 veterans a day committed suicide in 2014, new data show – Gregg Zoroya  (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats and/or veterans.  Democrats are nasty.  Democrats are moral relativists who believe that their end justifies their means.  Democrats are disciples of Saul Alinsky.  My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government always hinted/implied/argued/shouted at my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government that I was a draft dodger. They stressed that I sought and obtained student draft deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971.)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/07/07/veterans-suicides-young-men-women/86755132/
— Military families deserve more than lip service – Gen. James L. Jones Jr. and Sheila Casey,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2016/07/06/voices-military-families-deserve-more-than-lip-service/86710702/

 

CLEVELAND
— U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci introduces bill to put national debt in plain sight – Sabrina Eaton
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/07/national_debt_should_be_in_pla.html

 

HOUSTON CHROINICLE
— Texas GOP delegate resistance to Trump grows – Mike Ward
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Texas-GOP-delegate-pushback-from-Trump-grows-8344265.php

 

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The Democrat Party runs America. Ever-increasingly, the Democrat Party demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Republicans like the Nazi Party demonized, denigrated, and condemned Jews.)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/donald-trump-and-hitlers-rise-to-power.html
— Trump Campaign Floats Ivanka for VP Because ‘She’s Got the Looks’ – Claire Landsbaum
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/07/trump-campaign-floats-ivanka-for-vp.html

 

FED SMITH
— House Trying Again to Make It Easier to Fire VA Employees – Ian Smith  (DIERSEN: What about protecting federal employees against political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation for complaining about the aforesaid? Soon, if not already, all federal employees will be Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.)
http://www.fedsmith.com/2016/07/06/house-trying-again-to-make-it-easier-to-fire-va-employees/
— House Passes Package of Reforms Aimed at Federal Agencies and Employees – Ian Smith
http://blogs.fedsmith.com/2016/07/07/house-passes-package-of-reforms-aimed-at-federal-agencies-and-employees/

 

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Lawmakers Want to Fast Track Hiring and Firing For Yet Another Troubled Federal Agency – Kellie Lunney  (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.  IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.  The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
http://www.govexec.com/management/2016/07/lawmakers-want-fast-track-hiring-and-firing-yet-another-troubled-federal-agency/129649/

 

MONEY MAGAZINE
— Hillary Clinton’s Plan for Free College Sounds Awfully Familiar – Martha C. White  (DIERSEN: Nothing is free.)
http://time.com/money/4395317/hillary-clintons-plan-for-free-college-sounds-awfully-familiar/
— You Can Thank Brexit for Lowering U.S. Mortgage Rates – Reuters
http://time.com/money/4394603/brexit-mortgage-rates-cheaper-refinancing-up/

 

POLITICUS USA
— Bill O’Reilly Says Obama’s ‘Deep Emotional Ties’ to Islam Put Country in Danger – Hrafnkell Haraldsson
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/07/bill-oreilly-obamas-deep-emotional-ties-islam-danger.html

 

DAILY MAIL
— Trump says he has TEN people on his VP short list – including two retired generals! – but two potential running mates have pulled out in just one day – DAVID MARTOSKO
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3677684/Does-want-Trump-s-VP-Sen-Joni-Ernst-says-s-just-getting-started-representing-Iowa.html
— How Hillary Clinton limps forward after the damning FBI report – REUTERS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3677873/How-Hillary-Clinton-limps-forward-damning-FBI-report.html

July 3 Evening Edition

ABC7
— FIGHTING FOR REDISTRICTING RULES IN ILLINOIS
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/fighting-for-redistricting-rules-in-illinois/1411236/

 

NBC5
— Former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar Part of Firm Built to Profit Off Budget Stalemate
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Former-Illinois-Governor-Jim-Edgar-Part-of-Firm-Profiting-Off-Budget-Stalemate-385377911.html

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— As late budgets go, Illinois has no equal
http://www.fox32chicago.com/politics/169038239-story
— Elite K-8 school teaches children about ‘white privilege’ (DIERSEN: What about “education privilege?” Neither of my outstanding parents attended college.  My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma.  My mother never attended high school.)
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dont-miss/169146515-story
(FROM THE ARTICLE:  An elite New York City K-8 school is instituting a controversial new diversity program that segregates students based on race. Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side has introduced the new “Racial Justice and Advocacy” curriculum, which separates the school’s 430 students into an “advocacy group” for white students and the “kids of color affinity group.”  According to The New York Post, white students are taught to increase their “awareness of the prevalence of whiteness and privilege,” challenge “notions of colorblindness (and) assumptions of ‘normal,’ ‘good,’ and ‘American'” and “understand and own European ancestry and see the tie to privilege.”)

 

DAILY HERALD
— Museum preserving DuPage County’s rich history – Brett Peto
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160703/submitted/160709995/

 

DEGA VIEW
— Illinois Lt. Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti at ATA 25th Anniversary at Chicago
http://www.degaview.com/play/illinois-lt-governor-evelyn-sanguinetti-ata-25th-anniversary-at-chicago-ntv-ntvteluguhd

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar has been critical of Gov. Bruce Rauner over the state’s ongoing budget stalemate
http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/83c4a2448ca04b40bb3737bcc0096ad6/IL–Illinois-Budget-Edgar
http://qctimes.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/edgar-part-of-firm-built-to-profit-off-budget-stalemate/article_93194c58-5f52-59da-9863-477ccb3db193.html

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson: Trump says ‘racist’ things ‘He has said 100 things that would disqualify anyone else from running for president’ – CNN (DIERSEN: Because Johnson said that, how many more anti-Whites will vote for Johnson?)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/libertarian-nominee-trump-says-racist-things

 

WSIL TV
— Clinton, Obama, stand-ins emphasize her trustworthiness – AP
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/32364434/clinton-obama-stand-ins-emphasize-her-trustworthiness

 

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— Trump’s problems linger with GOP base in Wisconsin – Craig Gilbert
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/385380571.html

 

NEWSMAX
— Newt: NYT, WashPost in ‘All-Out War’ Against Trump – Cathy Burke
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/gingrich-times-post-in/2016/07/03/id/736833/

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— DEMOCRATS DROP REQUIREMENT TO LEARN ENGLISH FOR AMNESTY 2016 draft platform takes dramatic shift to the left regarding immigration
http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/dems-drop-requirement-to-learn-english-for-amnesty/#!

 

BREITBART
— Trump: I’m with the NRA, ‘We’re Saving Your 2nd Amendment 100 Percent’ – AWR HAWKINS
http://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2016/07/03/trump-im-with-the-nra-were-saving-your-2nd-amendment-100-percent/

 

THE BLAZE
— BEYOUND OUTRAGEOUS: Several Faith-Based Dating Sites Now Required to Allow Users to Search for Same-Sex Matches – Carly Hoilman
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/07/03/several-faith-based-dating-sites-now-required-to-allow-users-to-search-for-same-sex-matches/
— Rapper Says TV is ‘Making Our Kids Gay,’ Claims ‘Half the Population’ Will be Gay in 10 Years – Carly Hoilman
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/07/02/rapper-says-tv-is-making-our-kids-gay-claims-half-the-population-will-be-gay-in-10-years/324757/

 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Racial discrimination on campus likely to go on forever – MICHAEL BARONE
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/campus-discrimination-likely-to-go-on-forever/article/2595422

 

THE HILL
— Trump rivals divided over convention – Ben Kamisar
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/286302-trump-rivals-divided-over-convention

 

ABC NEWS
— As Late Budgets Go, Illinois Has No Equal – AP
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/late-budgets-illinois-equal-40314132
— Clinton, Obama, Stand-Ins Emphasize Her Trustworthiness – AP
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/clinton-obama-stand-ins-emphasize-trustworthiness-40316200

July 3 Morning Edition

SUBURBAN LIFE
— JULY 1, 2016 FLASHBACK: Wheaton Park District to host Independence Day festivities July 3 and 4  (DIERSEN: Be sure and stop by the DuPage County Republican booth at the fireworks. For the 11th consecutive year, DuPage Republicans will help sponsor the parade. This year, they are a $2,500 Gold Celebration Partner for the fireworks and parade. 22 DuPage Republicans have pledged $2,500: $250 from Chris Nybo; $150 from Liam Brennan, Dave Diersen, and Phil Suess; and $100 each from Bob Berlin, Peter Breen, Fred Bucholz, Mike Connelly, Tim Elliott, Amy Grant, Jeanne Ives, Richard Jorgensen, Chris Kachiroubas, Mark Kirk, Brian Krajewski, Bob Lyon, Deanne Mazzochi, James Mendrick, Peter Roskam, Darlene Ruscitti, Tim Whelan, and Jim Zay.)
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2016/07/01/wheaton-park-district-to-host-independence-day-festivities/a1xbxv4/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The annual Independence Day Celebration, featuring carnival rides, food vendors, a business expo, DJ, art mural, fireworks show and other activities, will be July 3 in Graf Park, 1701 Manchester Road. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, picnic blankets, snacks and nonalcoholic beverages. Due to district policy, no dogs will be allowed in the park apart from service animals. Parking will be available in the park just south of Monroe Middle School and also in the western fields of the fairgrounds. Sparklers and smoke bombs are prohibited. The celebration will continue the next morning with the Wheaton Park District and the city of Wheaton’s annual Fourth of July Parade, led by Grand Marshal Ed Ewoldt. The parade will step off at 10 a.m. from Hawthorne Boulevard and conclude at Cross and Front streets. To learn more and see a full schedule of events, visit www.wheatonparkdistrict.com/july4.)

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Taboos over talking politics at work loosen during divisive election season – Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz  (DIERSEN: Democrats run America.  Democrats Illinois.  Democrats run Cook County.  Democrats run Chicago.  Democrats focus on getting rid of Republicans.  If you are a Republican, if you have a job, sooner or later, Democrats will get rid of you. GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.  IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.  The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-talking-politics-at-work-0703-biz-20160629-story.html
— CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARTICLE TITLE: U.S. gun ownership drops to a 38-year low, study finds – Christopher Ingraham  (DIERSEN: Could it be that because the Democrats want to abolish the Second Amendment, more and more and more falsely state that they do not own guns?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/american-gun-ownership-is-now-at-a-30-year-low/
— Hard to reconcile Pope’s call for compassion with church doctrine on gays – Ted Slowik  (DIERSEN: How soon will those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that promote LGBTQ activity succeed in getting the Pope a) to promote LGBTQ activity and b) to demonize, denigrate, and condemn those who do not promote LGBTQ activity?)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-slowik-pope-st-0629-20160628-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD OF NAPERVILLE SUN: Little-known registry lists murderers in your town, but is it a good thing? – Bill Bird , Hannah Leone and Gloria Casas  (DIERSEN: What do you say to individuals, organizations, companies, governments, countries, etc. that encourage criminals to move into and to stay in a) your precinct, b) your municipality, c) your township/ward, d) your county, e) Illinois, and f) America?  Of course, needless-to-say, those who bring in criminals are responsible for what those criminals do.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/crime/ct-nvs-illinois-murderer-registry-st-0626-20160701-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— After pro-choice ruling, pro-life hope still reigns – Kathryn Jean Lopez
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/opinion-after-pro-choice-ruling-pro-life-hope-still-reigns/

 

DAILY HERALD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The “S.S. Trump” boat powers through the water during the Lake Ellyn Cardboard Boat Regatta in Glen Ellyn.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160702/news/160709741/
— COD committed to moving forward – Ann Rondeau
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160703/discuss/160709798/
— Ku Klux Klan dreams of rising again 150 years after founding – AP  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, Whites in America are viciously demonized, viciously denigrated, and viciously condemned as being racists, haters, bigots, and even worse things.  Democrats and RINOs shout at minorities that Republicans have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that minorities have had, are having, and will have.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160630/news/306309980/
— DAILY HERALD ARTICLE TITLE: LGBT gun group membership spikes – AP
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/07/02/lgbt-gun-group-membership-spikes-after-florida-shooting/

 

QUAD CITY TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The arrogant insulting Democrat Quad City Times Editorial Board claims to be mature.
http://qctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/editorial-rauner-has-until-december-to-mature/article_9c5f1666-2cce-5f42-be3c-bd74fc2122e4.html

 

QUINCY HERALD WHIG
— Illinois’ half-year budget, a year late, is unacceptable – Doug Wilson
http://www.whig.com/article/20160703/ARTICLE/307039959#

 

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Rauner/Madigan truce expires after election – Jim Dey
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/2016-07-03/jim-dey-raunermadigan-truce-expires-after-election.html

 

DEKALB COUNTY ONLINE
— IL Gov. Bruce Rauner Grounded State Airplanes, But Many Public Contractors Are Still Flying High – Adam Andrzejewski
http://dekalbcountyonline.com/2016/07/il-gov-bruce-rauner-grounded-state-airplanes-but-many-public-contractors-are-still-flying-high/

 

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— ‘It ain’t broke’: Officials displeased with 911 consolidation mandate – Nathan Grimm
https://thetelegraph.com/news/85366/it-aint-broke-officials-displeased-with-911-consolidation-mandate

 

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Open Meetings Bill signed into law – John Kraft
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2016/07/open-meetings-bill-signed-into-law/
— Governor Rauner, We urge you to VETO SB212 – Kirk Allen
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2016/07/governor-rauner-we-urge-you-to-veto-sb212/

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— DHS PLAN TO BAN ‘OFFENSIVE’ TERMS WON’T STOP TERRORISM  ‘They have already declared war on us multiple times’- PAUL BREMMER  (DIERSEN: Those who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors SIDE WITH TERRORISTS AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/dhs-plan-to-ban-offensive-terms-wont-stop-terrorism/#!

 

CHRISTIAN TODAY
— How to shut down gossip – Patrick Mabilog  (DIERSEN: Democrats run America.  Democrats run Illinois.  Democrats run Cook County.  Democrats run Chicago.  Sooner or later, if not already, Democrats will say that you are a racist, a bigot, a hater, and even worse things if you do not promote Democrats. How have those who do not promote Democrats reacted to that?  How are those who do not promote Democrats reacting to that?  How will those who do not promote Democrats react to that?  Will those who do not promote Democrats a) go to court and get restraining orders against Democrats, b) file lawsuits against Democrats charging them with slander, or c) take stronger actions?  From what I see, ever-increasingly, if a Democrat says that you are a racist, a bigot, a hater, or worse things, a) you will be fired if you have a job, b) you will not be able to get a job, and c) even worse things will happen to you.)
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/how.to.shut.down.gossip/89620.htm

 

FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
— THE WORST SMEAR SITE IN AMERICA  The Southern Poverty Law Center smears patriots and provides cover for the nation’s enemies. – Matthew Vadum
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263332/worst-smear-site-america-matthew-vadum
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center relentlessly promotes the Big Lie, wildly popular in the media, that conservative Americans are racists and the real threat to the nation rather than Islamic terrorists. The group claims the principal enemies of the American people are presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, conservatives like David Horowitz, and the Tea Party movement. The SPLC is a shamelessly hypocritical leftist attack machine funded by radical speculator George Soros and a rogue’s gallery of rich people and established philanthropies that want to fundamentally transform America. The fabulously wealthy 501(c)(3) nonprofit has an astounding one third of a billion dollars ($338 million) in assets, as well as investments in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, two offshore tax havens the Left loves to attack (but only when non-leftists stash cash there). The Center characterizes all opposition to immigration and open borders as symptomatic of hate and all political expression of those views to be hate speech. In other words, if you disagree with founder Morris Dees and his minions you are evil and worthy of public condemnation. It may take some intellectual toughness to insist that the nation has the right to decide who may or may not cross its borders, but it’s not hate. Following the Islamist massacre at a gay club in Orlando a fortnight ago, the group has played an integral role in the Left’s propaganda push aimed at taking the focus away from gay-hating Islam and finding creative ways to blame conservatives and Republicans for the slaughter. Two days after Orlando as a sea of rainbow flags rivaling those that washed over Facebook and Twitter following the Supreme Court’s pro-same sex marriage ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges swept over social media, David Dinielli, deputy legal director of SPLC’s LGBT Rights Project, tossed out a red herring as he whined amidst a national outpouring of grief that somehow politicians weren’t doing enough to characterize the attack as an assault on the gay community. Instead of blaming Muslim terrorist Omar Mateen, reportedly a registered Democrat, for the attack, Dinielli blamed people like Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) instead. Many politicians were secretly delighted so many gays were killed, he implied. “[M]any who offered their ‘thoughts and prayers’ know exactly what they are doing. They are trading on political expediency. The demonization of gay, lesbian, and transgender Americans pays, politically.” But this “demonization” of the LGBT community that the Southern Poverty Law Center complains of is pure paranoid fantasy. Anyone who followed media coverage in the days following the June 12 incident knows that cable TV and other media were filled with wall-to-wall denunciations of the Muslim terrorist Omar Mateen by politicians who acknowledged the sexual orientation of the victims whether explicitly or implicitly. Even those not generally sympathetic to gay rights made it clear that murder, including the murder of people based on their sexual preference, was morally abhorrent. None of this is surprising to those of us who have been tracking the SPLC’s adventures in vilification and defamation over the years. The SPLC is waging a scorched-earth war against Donald Trump. The group routinely and baselessly associates Trump with neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and other marginal political actors it calls “the racist right.” Pointing out that these fringe figures back Trump in the election is the most obvious kind of smear. The Left did the same thing to Ronald Reagan in 1984 when the Ku Klux Klan offered him its unwanted endorsement. Reagan waited a full two weeks to denounce the KKK and reject its endorsement. But Trump waited barely a day after a bungled CNN interview Feb. 28 in which Jake Tapper asked him if he would reject the Klan’s endorsement of him. Trump gave a less than clear answer to Tapper, blaming a “bad earpiece” that led him to misunderstand the question. The very next day Trump asked “How many times do I have to continue to disavow people?” and attacked the KKK on Michael Savage’s radio show. Replying to a question, he said “yeah, totally denounce, and I disavowed it, and I’ve disavowed it numerous times, and I’ve disavowed it on Twitter and on Facebook and all over the place but people refuse to accept it.” The SPLC’s annual report on “hate” in America this year features a cover picture of Trump, a man the group blames for increasing hate in the U.S. According to the left-wing Guardian (UK), “the image underscores a theme laid out by the report’s author, about how hate speech has invaded mainstream political discourse in a way that might have shocked many even a year ago.” “I have been writing these Year in Hate and Extremism essays for 20 years now, and only very rarely, if at all, have we seen a year like last year,” said SPLC senior fellow Mark Potok. Hate, of course, isn’t exactly a precise concept in the world of politics and ideology, and the SPLC likes it that way because then it has wide latitude to malign and slander its targets. Its leaders are no doubt proud that Pentagon training materials borrow from SPLC reports and refer to extremists as “haters,” a colloquialism that appears in hip hop music and in humorous graphic art posted on the Internet. Trump is definitely a hater, according to the Center. On April 4 its blog cited his “continued embrace of racist and extremist ideas” and accused him of turning “the political landscape on its side and introduced countless numbers to hate speech and racist conspiracy theories.” It’s all spin and lies. The SPLC is still bellyaching over the courageous, electrifying anti-illegal immigration speech Trump gave last summer when launching his campaign. In it Trump said many of the Mexicans crossing illegally into the U.S. are “people that have lots of problems” who bring drugs and crime with them and that some are “rapists.” Trump’s statements are demonstrably true. He wasn’t saying all Mexicans are criminals, just many of the Mexicans sneaking into the country. This isn’t racism: it is empirical fact. Many of the so-called hate groups the SPLC monitors are so labeled because they fail to genuflect before political correctness. The Center labels as hate groups respectable right-leaning organizations such as the Center for Security Policy (CSP), Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), American Freedom Defense Initiative, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which publishes FrontPage. The Southern Poverty Law Center frequently targets New York-based civil rights attorney David Yerushalmi, a co-founder of the American Freedom Law Center and counsel to CSP. In 2011 the SPLC named Yerushalmi to its 10-member “Anti-Muslim Inner Circle.” Among the other “members” of the inner circle are David Horowitz, Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, and Brigitte Gabriel. According to the Center, the rhetoric these individuals use “reveals how doggedly this group works to provoke and guide populist anger over what is seen as the threat posed by the 0.6% of Americans who are Muslim — an agenda that goes beyond reasonable concern about terrorism into the realm of demonization.” The Guardian ran a story last week attacking Yerushalmi for daring to countersue a group of grandstanding Muslim women trying to shake down a Laguna Beach, Calif. café. The women filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming they were given the bum’s rush at the establishment because they were wearing hijabs. The café counters that the women violated the 45-minute seating time limit and that other headscarf-clad women present were not asked to leave. The newspaper regurgitated SPLC writings on Yerushalmi who maintains that the women’s lawyers are “ambulance-chasers” involved in “an extortion.” It reported: “Asked about the SPLC’s characterization of him, Yerushalmi said that he ‘represents a lot of Muslims.’ “I represent Muslim Americans, running from jihad and seeking asylum. If you want to say I’m an anti-jihad lawyer, you’re 100% right,” he continued. “Am I anti-Sharia? Yes, I am. Am I anti-Muslim? Not if he doesn’t have a gun in his hand shooting at me.’ “Yerushalmi alleged that the suit against Urth Caffe was part of a wider “civilizational jihad” waged by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which aims, he said, “to weaken western civilization.” The SPLC never tires of trying to assassinate the character of David Horowitz. A May 24, 2014 profile calls him “the godfather of the modern anti-Muslim movement.”  Without presenting a shred of useful evidence, the Center separately smears Horowitz as “a driving force of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-black movements.”  Horowitz rejects these characterizations. On Monday he told this writer: “I’m called the godfather of the anti-Muslim movement, which puts a target on my back, whereas out of million words and scores of hours of speeches on the subject they couldn’t find one sentence to back up their claim.” The Southern Poverty Law Center has been playing this dangerous game for a long time. It doesn’t care if it gets innocent Americans killed. It came close to getting people killed four years ago. SPLC reports inspired left-wing terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins II to shoot up the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Family Research Council four years ago. The Center identified FRC as a “hate group” not because it actually hates anyone but because it opposes same-sex marriage. Even the reliably left-wing Dana Milbank rejected that designation for FRC in an Aug. 16, 2012 Washington Post column, calling that group “a mainstream conservative think tank.” “I disagree with the Family Research Council’s views on gays and lesbians,” he wrote. “But it’s absurd to put the group, as the law center does, in the same category as Aryan Nations, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Stormfront and the Westboro Baptist Church.” Corkins apparently disagreed. Upon entering FRC’s office he reportedly said “I don’t like your politics” and shot a black Christian security guard who managed to subdue him and lived to forgive him. Later Corkins told investigators “Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups,” the Washington Examiner reported at the time. “I found them online, did a little research, went to the website, stuff like that.” The gay rights-avenging shooter had planned to kill as many FRC staffers as possible and smear Chick-fil-A sandwiches — his backpack contained 15 of them — on their faces as a political statement. He chose that fast food chain whose management is unabashedly Christian because its president was revealed to be a supporter of traditional marriage. Corkins was convicted of terrorism in 2013 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. And when the next Floyd Corkins comes along and actually succeeds in killing someone targeted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, its staffers will direct blame elsewhere. Scapegoating is what they do best.)

 

TOWNHALL
— Federal Government Out of Control Again – Bruce Bialosky  (DIERSEN: Constructively, since 1997, the Democrats who run GAO have had me on administrative leave.  Constructively, since 1997, the Democrats who run GAO have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $50,712 a year to stay home and to not come to work at GAO.  What do Bialosky, Von Ah, and you have to say about that?)
http://townhall.com/columnists/brucebialosky/2016/07/03/federal-government-out-of-control-again-n2185920
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Our federal government suffers from lack of focus trying to do too many things while doing too many poorly. This behemoth allows for huge waste that gets buried in the apathy bred by the very definition of what happens when you are spending OPM (other people’s money). The GAO (Government Accountability Office) recently released a report about administrative leave in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that boggles the mind. Though the Washington Post covered the story, my inner soul told me as staggering as their report was they still were probably doing an inadequate job. Thus, I dug in to find the real story of how our money is being abused. The report was written by a team lead by Andrew Von Ah, the acting director of Homeland Security and Justice at the GAO. Mr. Von Ah was surprisingly responsive for a federal government employee. We connected a couple of times allowing me to address some of my insights from the 34-page report. The report focused only on administrative leave for the DHS. Administrative leave is defined as any paid leave that is not sick leave or vacation leave. What alarmed people was that, over the five years of the study (from 2011-2015), 116 DHS employees were on administrative leave for more than a year costing us over $19.8 million. From all appearances the agency did not have discernible consistent controls over how people were put on admin leave nor how long they stayed on leave.)

 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— From Denver to Cleveland, expect big anti-Trump protests – W. JAMES ANTLE III (DIERSEN: Those who protest Trump are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/from-denver-to-cleveland-expect-big-anti-trump-protests/article/2595528

 

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps side with global elites against Trump.
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/286334-trump-vs-the-global-elite

 

POLITICO
— Why Trump won’t get dumped in Cleveland  The conditions for a coup are present, but the delegates don’t want one. – Kyle Cheney
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/donald-trump-cleveland-convention-225056

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Donald Trump Versus the ‘Haters’ – WESLEY MORRIS  (DIERSEN: Who hates you?  I should write a book about my critics/opponents in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who hate me.  They blame me for their problems.  They blame me for your problems.  They blame me for my problems.  They blame me for everyone’s problems.  If you were me, how would you react to the aforesaid haters?)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/donald-trump-versus-the-haters.html
— What Is a Man For? – KAREN RINALDI (DIERSEN: Those who are anti-male vote for Democrats and for RINOs.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/fashion/modern-love-marriage-divorce-husband.html
— Donald Trump’s Appeal to Rust Belt Workers – STEVEN GREENHOUSE
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/opinion/sunday/donald-trumps-appeal-to-rust-belt-workers.html
— Where the Pro-Life Movement Goes Next – MARY ZIEGLER
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/opinion/sunday/where-the-pro-life-movement-goes-next.html

 

DENVER SPRINGS GAZETTE
— That ‘racist’ Summit in Denver – Editorial  (DIERSEN: Democrats run America.  Democrats run Illinois.  Democrats run Cook County.  Democrats run Chicago.  Sooner or later, if not already, Democrats will say that you are a racist, a bigot, a hater, and even worse things if you do not promote Democrats. How have those who do not promote Democrats reacted to that?  How are those who do not promote Democrats reacting to that?  How will those who do not promote Democrats react to that?  Will those who do not promote Democrats a) go to court and get restraining orders against Democrats, b) file lawsuits against Democrats charging them with slander, or c) take stronger actions?  From what I see, ever-increasingly, if a Democrat says that you are a racist, a bigot, a hater, or worse things, a) you will be fired if you have a job, b) you will not be able to get a job, and c) even worse things will happen to you.)
http://gazette.com/editorial-that-racist-summit-in-denver/article/1579534
(FROM THE EDITORIAL: White male protesters stood outside the Colorado Convention Center during the Western Conservative Summit, protesting a “racist” event going on inside. Shouting through bullhorns and waving obscene signs, with fists in the air, the protests occasionally turned violent as police formed a wall between the mob and Summit attendees Friday night. Protesters, mostly motivated by the presence of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, conveyed a central theme: Conservatives are old, white, racist men of privilege. Signs said “Down with This Sort of Thing,” “America was Never Great” and “Purge White Supremacy.” Inside, an audience of thousands anxiously awaited Saturday night’s speech by Colorado’s Republican nominee for the United States Senate. He is Darryl Glenn, a black man who grew up in Colorado Springs, worked his way through the United States Air Force Academy, completed a military intelligence career, worked to support his family while finishing law school and won four local elections by landslides. Glenn symbolizes the possibilities afforded in a free society that defends equal opportunity. Because Glenn is black and conservative, much of the mainstream media wrote him off before the primary. After his nomination, journalist-pundit types effectively called the race for incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet a full seven months before a vote would be cast. At the “racist” Summit, attendees anticipated improving the Senate’s diversity by helping Glenn upset Bennet — a white man brought up in a prominent political family in Washington, D.C. While waiting for Glenn, the audience applauded a lineup of speakers considerably more diverse than the white-male protesters outside. A small sample includes: Kristina Arriaga, a young Hispanic female who serves as executive director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. A lawyer who grew up in poverty, after her parents escaped Cuba, Arriaga has won several Supreme Court victories and defended the religious practices of American Indians and a variety of other religious minorities. Star Parker, a young black woman who grew up in rough neighborhoods of East St. Louis, Ill. After working her way through college, Parker established the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, based in Washington, D.C., to improve school options for minority children. Linda Chavez, a Hispanic woman who heads the Center for Equal Opportunity. State Rep. Clarice Navarro, a young Hispanic Republican from Pueblo. Vera Ortegon, a Hispanic woman elected by Colorado Republicans as their National Committeewoman for 2016. George Leing, an Asian-American man elected by Colorado Republicans as their National Committeeman for 2016 Casper Stockham, a black man nominated by Republicans to run for Congress in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District. An exhaustive list of young, female, religiously diverse minority scholars and politicos leading the Summit would be too long for inclusion here. We’ll suffice to say white men were scarce. They were a minority among conference speakers, but an overwhelming majority among those charging “racism.” Like other blacks and minorities leading the conference, Glenn said the “old-white-male” stereotype used against Republicans is bizarre. “I am proud to be part of the Republican Party, which elevates people on a basis of merit and not on a basis of race,” Glenn told The Gazette before his speech. “As a meritocracy, we are the young party of diversity. The protesters support a party of mostly old white people telling younger minorities they can’t survive without more government.”)

 

THE GUARDIAN
— Let’s make retirement great again – by bringing back a pension system  As Americans look to build their future on 401k plans, they find themselves perched atop nest eggs that are far too small – Suzanne McGee  (DIERSEN: In 1966, when I was 18 years old, when I started working part-time for the Park Forest Post Office, I began saving for my retirement by earning both Civil Service Retirement System and Social Security credits.  Of course, needless-to-say, my critics/opponents in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, and in DuPage County, and especially those who have financial problems, hate me for that.  My critics/opponents a) were never qualified for and/or b) considered themselves to be “too good” for the jobs that I had a) doing yard work, b) delivering newspapers, c) washing dishes, d) cleaning golf shoes, e) chipping slag, f) pumping gasoline, g) delivering mail, h) working on an automobile assembly line, i) working as a security guard, j) selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, k) collecting delinquent taxes, and l) auditing federal agencies.  What do you say to my critics/opponents?)
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jul/03/retirement-pensions-money
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Here’s a thought about how to make America great again: bring back pensions. If Donald Trump really is intent on turning back the clock to the glory days of an America before globalization knocked the stuffing out of the US manufacturing sector, why stop at trade? Part of what is making all but the wealthiest Americans feel so economically vulnerable today isn’t just that incomes have been eviscerated. It’s the fact that when we retire, those of us without pensions – a growing proportion, especially if we’re not public sector employees or union employees – are perched atop very, very tiny nest eggs. Last year’s report from the nonpartisan US government accountability office (GAO) reminded us of the perils. Half of all households headed by Americans 55 and older had no retirement savings at all. While some long-term savers may have retirement accounts with as much as $251,600, Fidelity reported that the average amount in a 401k – the replacements to pensions that companies began rolling out during the 1980s – was little more than a third of that amount.)

 

LGBTQ NATION
— Orlando’s gay commissioner Patty Sheehan: GOP ‘loaded those bullets with hatred’ – Charline Jao  (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already,  will Sheehan call for Republicans to be killed? Republicans are buying more and more and more firearms and ammunition for their self-defense.  Of course, needless-to-say, my critics/opponents side with Sheehan.  My critics/opponents blame me for the problems that those who engage in LGBTQ activity have had, are having, and will have.)
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/06/orlandos-gay-commissioner-gop-loaded-bullets-hatred/

June 30 Evening Edition

ABC7
— ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY SENDS STOPGAP BUDGET DEAL TO RAUNER – Sarah Schulte and Laura Podesta
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/illinois-general-assembly-sends-stopgap-budget-deal-to-rauner/1407940/
NBC5
— General Assembly Passes Stopgap Budget Compromise  “Very important work has been accomplished after serious compromise and good faith efforts, but our job is not finished,” Speaker Madigan said Thursday. – Tom Schuba
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Illinois-General-Assembly-Passes-Stopgap-Budget-Compromise-385046811.html
— Trump Has a 3 Percent Chance of Winning Illinois: Report  According to a new political analysis, the divisive billionaire is expected to receive 37 percent of the vote in Illinois – Tom Schuba
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Report-Clinton-Has-a-97-Percent-Chance-of-Winning-Illinois-in-November-385052091.html
CBS2
— With Budget Deal, State Can Finally Put Checks In Mail To Landlords – Jeremy Ross
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/06/30/with-budget-deal-state-can-finally-put-checks-in-mail-to-landlords/
FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Illinois OKs stopgap spending deal, Rauner will sign – AP
http://www.fox32chicago.com/politics/167596473-story
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Stopgap budget passes — Rauner and Madigan signal fight not over – Tina Sfondeles
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/budget-bills-pass-illinois-house-amid-last-minute-drama/
— Ditka reaffirms support for Trump, rips GOPers who don’t – Michael Sneed
http://chicago.suntimes.com/1985-chicago-bears/sneed-ditka-reaffirms-support-for-trump-rips-gopers-who-dont/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DuPage Chairman urges budget deal to keep road projects on track – Gary Gibula
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-dupage-roads-st-0701-20160630-story.html
— Long Grove, Hawthorn Woods urge Rauner to stop funding Route 53 extension study – Ronnie Wachter
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/buffalo-grove/news/ct-bgc-route-53-tl-0707-20160630-story.html
— The stopgap lesson: Budgets are hard! – Eric Zorn
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-rauner-budget-illinois-stopgap-zorn-perspec-0701-jm-20160630-column.html
— Illinois’ budget and schools deal: Half a loaf? Not even. – Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-illinois-budget-rauner-madigan-cullerton–deal-edit-0701-jm-20160630-story.html
— Judge to issue ruling on Rauner-backed redistricting referendum by July 21 – Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinois-remap-constitutional-amendment-legal-arguments-met-0701-20160630-story.html
— Going to college is worth it, new study says – Gail MarksJarvis
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-recession-recovery-for-college-degrees-0630-20160630-story.html
— Taboos over talking politics at work loosen during divisive election season – Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-talking-politics-at-work-0703-biz-20160629-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps ask “Who will spark the Republican delegate revolt against Trump?”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-republican-delegate-revolt-donald-trump-20160630-story.html
— Mayor Emanuel says Chicago schools will open on time this fall – Juan Perez Jr.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-schools-state-budget-0701-20160630-story.html
— Donald Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ playbook – Bloomberg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-elizabeth-warren-pocahontas-20160630-story.html
— Trump’s VP pick? Gingrich, Christie are the leading candidates for running mate – Robert Costa, Karen Tumulty
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-running-mate-20160630-story.html
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage improving information system for police, fire – Robert Sanchez
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160630/news/160639901/
WSIL TV
— Utah Sen. Lee won’t endorse Trump – AP
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/32343498/the-latest-utah-sen-lee-wont-endorse-trump
REBOOT ILLINOIS
— ILLINOIS HOUSE AND SENATE APPROVE STOPGAP BUDGET; RAUNER EXPECTED TO SIGN – MADELEINE DOUBEK
http://www.rebootillinois.com/2016/06/30/whats-hot/madeleinedoubek/breaking-news-illinois-house-approves-stopgap-budget-illinois-senate-begins-debate/60657/
— FEISTY LAW FIRM FIGHTS FOR RAUNER’S AGENDA – KARI LYDERSEN
http://www.rebootillinois.com/2016/06/30/editors-picks/kari-lydersen/feisty-law-firm-fights-for-rauners-agenda/60671/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Jim Tobin Takes Jim Thompson to Task for Pension – Cal Skinner
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2016/06/30/jim-tobin-takes-jim-thompson-to-task-for-pension/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Former Illinois Governor James R. Thompson, who in 1983 and 1989 engineered raising Illinois’ state personal and corporate income tax rates by 20 percent, will receive a generous increase to his lavish, gold-plated state pension on July 1, 2016, while Illinois residents on Social Security government pensions will see negligible increases to their own benefits next year. Thompson’s annual pension as of 2016 is $147,477. On July 1, his annual cost-of-living increase of 3% will boost his annual government pension by $4,424. Compare those figures to Social Security recipients, whose cost-of-living increase of two-tenths of one percent for 2017 was just recently announced. For those receiving a Social Security pension of $1,000 a month, that cost-of-living increase amounts to only $24 annually, or nearly one-hundred eight-five times less than that of Thompson. “It is obscene that tax-raiser Thompson is pulling in millions of dollars from the essentially bankrupt state pension fund, while retirees on Social Security pensions, whose earnings were taxed to prop-up his state pension fund, must get by with an increase of $2 or $3 a month in 2017,” said Jim Tobin, President of Taxpayers United of America (TUA). Under Thompson, the state personal income tax was raised from 2.5% to 3%, and the state corporate income tax to 7.3%, including the 2.5% personal property replacement-tax surcharge. “This is an example of how corrupt the Illinois government is and has always been,” said Tobin. “Thompson, who retired at age 55, and who has contributed only $84,996 to his pension plan, already has collected $2.5 million to date, and his estimated lifetime pension payout is $3.38 million. “He should be ashamed, Social Security pensioners and taxpayers alike should demand immediate reform.” To understand the tax burden Illinois taxpayers face due to unfunded government pension liabilities, see TUA’s 10th Annual Illinois State Pensions Report.)
— What You Can Do to Stop Higher School Taxes TODAY – Cal Skinner
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2016/06/30/what-you-can-do-to-stop-higher-school-taxes-today/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— STATE LEGISLATURE AGREES ON STOPGAP MEASURE TO KEEP SCHOOLS OPEN, SERVICES FOR VULNERABLE AND SENIORS AVAILABLE
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/06/house-agrees-on-stop-gap-measure-to-keep-schools-open-services-for-vulnerable-and-seniors-available.html
— ROSKAM PUSHES HARDER ON BOEING DURING SPEECH AT NORTHROP
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/06/roskam-pushes-harder-on-boeing-during-speech-at-northrop-.html
CAPITOL FAX
— BGA takes a look at an anti-union group  (DIERSEN: What do anti-union groups think of you?  My critics/opponents would stress to anti-union groups a) that I all the cars that I have bought since 1964 were made by union members, b) that I was a union member 1971-1980 while I worked for IRS, and c) that I was a union member 1966-1969 while I worked for the Post Office.)
http://capitolfax.com/2016/06/30/bga-takes-a-look-at-an-anti-union-group/
— Comptroller Munger to “reassess” lawmaker pay delay
http://capitolfax.com/2016/06/30/comptroller-munger-to-reassess-lawmaker-pay-delay/
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Summit to test conservatives’ support of Trump ahead of convention – Valerie Richardson
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/30/donald-trump-faces-republican-support-test-at-west/
— Trump has been losing ground in the national polls because he’s losing support among Republicans. – Kelly Riddell  (DIERSEN: QUESTION: Which “Republicans” would rather have Clinton be our next President? ANSWER: Those who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/30/donald-trumps-republican-problem/
FOX NEWS CHANNEL
— OUTSTANDING: DOJ increasing penalty for hiring illegal immigrants
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/30/doj-increasing-penalty-for-hiring-illegal-immigrants.html
GOPUSA
— The GOP plot to stop Trump is real
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=11863
— Multiculturalism: A Failed Concept
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=11866
— Brit indicted in Trump assassination attempt was here illegally
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=11928
THE BLAZE
— Supreme Court Encourages Passage of Laws Targeting Christians for Discrimination – MARIO DIAZ
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/supreme-court-encourages-passage-of-laws-targeting-christians-for-discrimination/
CBS NEW YORK
— Trump Campaign Vetting Christie As Possible Republican Vice Presidential Nominee
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/06/30/donald-trump-chris-christie-vp/
NEWSMAX
— Donald Trump: ‘I’m Running Against Two Parties’ – Todd Beamon
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/donald-trump-running-against-two/2016/06/30/id/736584/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps cause American 401(k)s to lose $100 billion.
http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/Hillary-Clinton-Donald-Trump-Brexit-401k/2016/06/29/id/736314/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Americans encourage citizens of foreign countries to become refugees.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/americas/canada-syrian-refugees.html
DALLAS NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say that “Paulson, Armitage and George Will give conservatives more cover to dump Trump.”
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20160630-paulson-armitage-and-george-will-give-conservatives-more-cover-to-dump-trump.ece
MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
— Outraged elites should listen to fed-up ‘Brexit’ supporters – Bonnie Blodgett
http://www.startribune.com/outraged-elites-should-listen-to-fed-up-brexit-supporters/385111561/
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— The ‘Dump Trump’ Effort Needs a Miracle – Ed Kilgore
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/06/dump-trump-effort-needs-a-miracle.html
TORQUE NEWS
— The 1st Ever Chevrolet Corvette was Built 63 Years Ago Today
http://www.torquenews.com/106/1st-ever-chevrolet-corvette-was-built-63-years-ago-today
WASHINGTON BLADE
— Caitlyn Jenner says Donald Trump ‘seems behind the LGBT community” – Mariah Cooper
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/06/30/caitlyn-jenner-says-donald-trump-seems-behind-lgbt-community/
WHEATON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: It would be great if the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce would issue a press release that announced that Mark Kirk; Bruce Rauner and Evelyn Sanguinetti; Mike Connelly and Jeanne Ives; Peter Breen; Tim Elliott, Amy Grant, and Tim Whelan; and the Milton Township Republican Central Committee will be in Wheaton’s Independence Day Parade and that for the 11th consecutive year, DuPage Republicans will help sponsor the parade. This year, they will be a $2,500 Gold Celebration Partner for the fireworks and parade.
http://www.wheatonchamber.com/events/details/food-on-the-fourth-7741
DOWNTOWN WHEATON ASSOCIATION
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: It would be great if the Downtown Wheaton Association would issue a press release that announced that Mark Kirk; Bruce Rauner and Evelyn Sanguinetti; Mike Connelly and Jeanne Ives; Peter Breen; Tim Elliott, Amy Grant, and Tim Whelan; and the Milton Township Republican Central Committee will be in Wheaton’s Independence Day Parade and that for the 11th consecutive year, DuPage Republicans will help sponsor the parade. This year, they will be a $2,500 Gold Celebration Partner for the fireworks and parade.
http://downtownwheaton.com/4th-of-july-wheaton-celebrations/