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/

July 1 Morning Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Obviously, there is a media blackout (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_blackout) concerning Republican participation in the 2016 Wheaton Independence Day Parade. The news media knows full-well 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, and that this year, they will be a $2,500 Gold Celebration Partner for the fireworks and parade.  Which individuals, organizations, companies, governments, etc. do not want anyone to know the aforesaid? – Dave Diersen
https://gopillinois.com

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— CLARE WOODS ACADEMY & CUPERTINO HOME IN 2016 WHEATON PARADE –“CELEBRATION” – Mike Gresk
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elmhurst/community/chi-ugc-article-clare-woods-academy-cupertino-home-in-2016-2016-06-30-story.html
— Rauner ‘turnaround agenda’ isn’t shelved — just on hiatus until after November election – Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-bruce-rauner-budget-impasse-aftermath-20160630-story.html
— Illinois bonds gain as state moves to temporarily halt impasse – Bloomberg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-illinois-afc6a698-3ee2-11e6-9e16-4cf01a41decb-20160630-story.html
— Brits getting taste of what America experienced 240 years ago – Bill Mego
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/opinion/ct-nvs-mego-column-st-0701-20160630-story.html
— Illinois unemployment agency expanding help for jobseekers – AP  (DIERSEN: Are/were you unemployed?  Constructively, because of my Democrat GAO superiors, I have been unemployed since 1997.  In 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors were paying me $120,427/year in today’s dollars (GS-13 Step 10). By their actions, my Democrat GAO superiors made it extremely clear that they did not want me to get a job that was appropriate for someone with my education, work experience, professional certifications, and professional license or that paid anything close to $120,427 in today’s dollars. Of course, needless-to-say, my critics/opponents in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois side with my Democrat GAO superiors.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-il–illinois-unemployment-services-20160630-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Rauner signs bill extending medical marijuana program – AP  (DIERSEN: Pot pushers are overjoyed. How soon will the following be stoners: a) you, b) your spouse, c) your children, d) your grandchildren, e) your parents, f) your grandparents, g) your brothers and sisters, h) everyone else?  If you smoke pot, sooner or later, it will kill you or make you a ward of the state.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/rauner-extends-medical-marijuana-program/
— Rauner, legislators wise to slow down on the victory laps – Mark Brown
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/brown-rauner-legislators-wise-slow-down-on-victory-laps/
— Now let’s see teachers union share in the pain – Editorial (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs want the following to share the pain: 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://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-now-lets-see-teachers-union-share-in-the-pain/

 

DAILY HERALD
— Suburban lawmakers’ take on stopgap budget deal – Kerry Lester
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160630/news/160639882/
— Attention turns to court in Illinois remap ballot question – AP
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160630/news/306309822/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Republicans demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160701/discuss/160709968/
— Lawmakers made encouraging budget progress, but we need and expect more – Editorial
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160701/discuss/160709944/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Rauner signs Illinois budget, but more work to do – GREG HINZ
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160630/BLOGS02/160639989/big-illinois-state-budget-deal-moving-in-springfield

 

ABC7
— GOVERNOR SIGNS STOPGAP BUDGET FOR ILLINOIS – Sarah Schulte and Laura Podesta
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/governor-signs-stopgap-budget-for-illinois/1407940/

 

WTTW
— Race to be VP Pick Heats Up As Conventions Approach – Paul Caine  (GUESTS: Doug Ibendahl, Rebecca Sive, Andre Vasquez, and Pat Brady)
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/06/30/race-be-vp-pick-heats-conventions-approach
http://video.wttw.com/video/2365794319/

 

DNA INFO
— ‘An Orlando Every Month’: Shootings Up 50 Percent In Chicago – Kelly Bauer
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160630/downtown/orlando-every-month-shootings-up-50-percent-chicago

 

ROBERT FEDER
— Reed, Herguth quit in BGA shakeup
http://www.robertfeder.com/2016/06/29/reed-herguth-out-in-bga-shakeup/

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Lawmakers approve stopgap spending deal, Rauner signs it – Doug Finke
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20160630/lawmakers-approve-stopgap-spending-deal-rauner-signs-it
— Stopgap was necessary, but not cause for celebration – Editorial
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20160630/our-view-stopgap-was-necessary-but-not-cause-for-celebration

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Workers to strike at Trump Taj Mahal casino  Despite the name, Trump no longer owns or runs the casino – Jethro Mullen and Chris Isidore
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/workers-to-strike-at-trump-taj-mahal-casino

 

SUBURBAN LIFE
— A pro-gun control protest at North American Firearms in Lombard Thursday drew advocates from both sides of the issue: 5 photos
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2016/06/30/a-pro-gun-control-protest-at-north-american-firearms-in-lombard-thursday-drew-advocates-from-both-sides-of-the-issue-5-photos/dclh42h/

 

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ILLINOISANS REVOLT AGAINST NATION’S HIGHEST PROPERTY TAXES – Austin Berg
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinoisans-revolt-against-nations-highest-property-taxes/

 

ILINOIS REVIEW
— CHICAGO VIOLENCE REACHES NEW DEPTHS IN JUNE
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/07/chicago-violence-reaches-new-low-in-june-.html
— THORNER: CONSTITUTIONAL SOUND BITES: QUICK AND EASY AMERICAN HISTORY
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/06/thorner-constitutional-sound-bites-quick-and-easy-american-history.html

 

GOPUSA
— Cleveland relaxes rules on protest marches at GOP convention after ACLU lawsuit
http://www.gopusa.com/cleveland-relaxes-rules-on-protest-marches-at-gop-convention-after-aclu-lawsuit/

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Justice Clarence Thomas often stands alone as opinions set course for future – Bradford Richardson
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/30/clarence-thomas-often-stands-alone-as-opinions-set/

 

CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN NEWS
— RASMUSSEN: TRUMP LEADS CLINTON BY 4 POINTS
http://conservativerepublicannews.com/2016/06/30/rasmussen-trump-leads-clinton-by-4-points/

 

BREITBART
— Like Father, Like Son: Mitt Romney Shivs Donald Trump Like his Dad Knifed Barry Goldwater – NEIL W. MCCABE
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/30/atlantic-like-father-like-son-mitt-knifes-donald-george-knifed-barry/

 

WEEKLY STANDARD
— Meet the RNC Member Trying to Stop the Effort to Stop Trump –  JENNA LIFHITS  (DIERSEN: Who wants to stop you?  The following want to stop me: those who a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, c) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, d) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, e) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, f) are operatives for the aforesaid, and/or g) are dupes for the aforesaid and 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.weeklystandard.com/meet-the-rnc-member-trying-to-stop-the-effort-to-stop-trump/article/2003103

 

THE HILL
— Schock and awe: a Democrat, in defense of Aaron Schock – Jeremy Berry
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/286197-schock-and-awe-a-democrat-in-defense-of-aaron-schock

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: Chris Christie Becomes Powerful Figure in Donald Trump Campaign – ALEXANDER BURNS and MAGGIE HABERMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/us/politics/chris-christie-donald-trump.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump and his supporters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/opinion/is-the-trump-campaign-just-a-giant-safe-space-for-the-right.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats a) promote LGBTQ activity and b) make it clear that they will get rid of you if you do not promote LGBTQ activity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/opinion/transgender-troops-protected-at-last.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats shout at everyone that Republicans are racists and that they have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that minorities have.  How soon, if not already, will Democrats officially call for minorities to get rid of Republicans once and for all?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/opinion/the-state-of-race-in-america.html
— Why Guest Workers Are Easily Exploited – Editorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/opinion/why-guest-workers-are-easily-exploited.html
— A ‘No Buy’ List for Guns Is a Bad Idea – JEFFREY KAHN
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/opinion/a-no-buy-list-for-guns-is-a-bad-idea.html
— The Changing Face of Urban Power – Thomas B. Edsall  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the following have more power: 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.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/opinion/campaign-stops/the-changing-face-of-urban-power.html
— The Coming Political Realignment  How Trump is smashing everything. – David Brooks
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/opinion/the-coming-political-realignment.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— $3.1 billion – at least — lost in bogus tax refunds to ID thieves in 2014 – Joe Davidson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/07/01/3-1-billion-lost-to-id-theft-tax-fraudsters-in-2014-at-least/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Even during this era of cyber-insecurity, here’s a chilling figure: 3.1 billion. That’s the number of dollars the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) paid in bogus tax refunds in 2014 because of identity theft refund fraud, according to the Government Accountability Office. The IRS has a Taxpayer Protection Program (TPP) that sounds like it should provide security. It does, but not enough to prevent IRS from paying $30 million to identity theft fraudsters in 2014, based on the 1.6 million screened by the program.  That’s just one of the ways Uncle Sam fights identity theft fraud. About 7,200 of them were bogus. In total, IRS processed more than 150 million individual tax returns in 2015. Overall, the GAO report indicates the IRS does a decent job of detecting and stopping ID fraud, which is a big business. Crooks attempted to get $25.6 billion from bogus refunds in 2014. The IRS beat them most of the time, stopping or recovering the theft of $22.5 billion, 88 percent of the attempted pillage. But in the remaining cases, crooks got the $3.1 billion. That could be a low-ball estimate, however. GAO says the IRS might have been beaten an unknown number of times for an undetermined amount of money by undetected cheating.)
— What the 1880s tell us about why the rich are moving to cities today – Emily Badger  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats, big cities are more and more and more crime-plagued, 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.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/what-the-1880s-tell-us-about-why-the-rich-are-moving-to-cities-today/

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Disunited State of America  As nations grow richer, birth rates fall and immigrant labor rises—robbing workers of a sense of security and sowing cultural conflict. – GEORGE MELLOAN  (DIERSEN: What do you say to those who were born with a silver spoon in their mouth and who have always been privileged in your precinct, in your township/ward, in your county, in Illinois, and in America who never sought jobs like I had doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, working on an automobile assemble line, working as a security guard, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, collecting delinquent taxes, and auditing federal agencies BECAUSE THOSE JOBS WERE BENEATH THEM?)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-disunited-state-of-america-1467327827

 

USA TODAY
— Survey: Americans’ support of 1st Amendment strong – Roger Yu  (DIERSEN: Of course, needless-to-say, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes want to abolish the 1st Amendment.  They want the power to stop me from putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS together and sending them out, and if not that, to dictate which articles I link to in the emails, what upcoming events I list in the emails, and what my comments, if any, are in the emails.  Because I refuse to serve as one of their operatives or as one of their dupes, the focus on getting rid of me.)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/30/survey-americans-support-1st-amendment-strong/86564972/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: USA TODAY poll: Americans see Brexit anger as widespread – Susan Page and Fernanda Crescente
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/30/poll-americans-brexit-anger-widespread/86546786/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Brexit earthquake isn’t just British. Americans by an overwhelming 4-1 margin agree that the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union was a sign of anger and dissatisfaction that can be seen in other countries, including the United States, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll. Just 16% call it an isolated referendum. “I think it is an indication of a broader feeling among people around the world, where they are feeling more and more helpless about controlling things in their own countries,” says Sandra Lueder, 68, of Cheshire, Conn., who plans to vote for Republican Donald Trump. She was among those surveyed. “I do happen to believe the refugee crisis and immigration were important components of things that people were unhappy about.”)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: In a front page top of fold editorial with a big color picture unethically made to look like a news article, Democrats glorify and praise citizens of foreign countries and demonize, denigrate, and condemn citizens of America.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/30/poll-americans-citizenship-test/86559188/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: In an editorial with a big color picture unethically made to look like a news article, Democrats glorify and praise naturalized citizens of America and demonize, denigrate, and condemn natural-born citizens of America.
http://college.usatoday.com/2016/06/30/voices-naturalized-and-energized-to-vote/
— At Google, women and minorities still lag – Jessica Guynn  (DIERSEN: If Google really wants to achieve diversity, it should hire Charles Bowsher.  During the 1980s and 1990s, Bowsher had great success in getting rid of GAO’s employees who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran like me.)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/06/30/google-diversity-numbers-2016/86562004/
— Japan’s Toyota has the most made-in-the USA car: Camry – Chris Woodyard
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/06/29/survey-top-made–usa-cars-toyota-honda/86510052/

 

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— The Politics of Intimidation  Donald Trump is trying to discredit the media to get what he wants. – Kenneth T. Walsh  (DIERSEN: Who tries to intimidate you?  Who tries to discredit you?  I should write a book about those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who focus on intimidating me and discrediting me. Their operatives and their dupes talk and act like they have been promised lots of money, a new home, a new car, a sweetheart job, a sweetheart contract, favorable legislation, and/or lots more if they get me to stop putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails together and sending them out. They talk and act like they are in bed with the Daily Herald and other Democrat newspapers.)
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-01/donald-trumps-campaign-against-the-media
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Donald Trump is lashing out at the media again, trying to discredit his journalistic antagonists and undermine their attacks on his credibility. He is also expanding his communication team by hiring two veteran media strategists. Jason Miller will be his senior communications adviser and Michael Abboud will take charge of rapid response and “daily messaging.” These staff changes don’t signal a change in Trump’s bash-the-media approach but instead likely represent an effort to improve his spin and bypass or outmaneuver the mainstream media in more effective ways. This is more than a media issue. It’s actually reflective of a larger reality about Trump – his belief in the politics of intimidation. He has used intimidation throughout his career as a real-estate developer and dealmaker, attempting to bully and bulldoze his opposition in order to get his way. His attempts to elbow the media are part of that pattern. Trump and his aides recently banned reporters from Politico and the Guardian from his press conference and tour of a golf resort he owns in Scotland. Trump representatives said that these news organizations are biased against the Republican presidential candidate. But he has done this before. Among the organizations that he has blacklisted in the past – by refusing them admittance to Trump events – have been Buzzfeed, the Des Moines Register, The Washington Post and Univision. A recent poll by CNN/ORC found that nearly three-quarters of Americans disapprove of Trump’s refusal to grant press credentials to news outlets he says are unfair. Seventy-one percent of voters including 53 percent of Republicans, 70 percent of independents and 87 percent of Democrats describe Trump’s decision to deny credentials as “inappropriate.”)

June 30 Morning Edition

CITY OF WHEATON
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: It would be great if the City of Wheaton 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.wheaton.il.us/news/
WHEATON PARK DISTRICT
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: It would be great if the Wheaton Park District 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://wheatonparkdistrict.com/events/july4/
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: It would be great if the Illinois Republican Party 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://illinois.gop/news/
DUPAGE COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: It would be great if the DuPage County Republican Party 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://dupagegop.org/category/news/
MILTON TOWNSHIP REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: It would be great if the Milton Township Republican Central Committee 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.miltontwpgop.org/
FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO, ON COOK COUNTY, ON ILLINOIS, AND ON AMERICA TIGHTENS: Illinois lawmakers, families of gun violence victims hold rally in Chicago – Scott Schneider
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/167543801-story
ABC7
— NAPERVILLE RANKED AMONG SAFEST CITIES TO RAISE CHILDREN (DIERSEN: What do you say to individuals, to organizations, to companies, to governments, and to countries that encourage criminals to move into your precinct, into your municipality, into your township/ward, into your county, into Illinois, and into America?)
http://abc7chicago.com/family/naperville-ranked-among-safest-cities-to-raise-children/1407526/
NBC5
— Donald Trump Wants Consequences for GOP Rivals Not Endorsing Him  (DIERSEN: Have you supported Republican candidates in elections?  I should write a book about Republican candidates who lost elections and who blame me for their losses.  They hint/imply/argue/shout that they would have won were it not for me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails.)
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Donald-Trump-Wants-Consequences-for-GOP-Rivals-Not-Endorsing-Him-384999781.html
— Rauner, Lawmakers Reach Tentative Stopgap Funding Deal  Lawmakers will return to Springfield Thursday to potentially vote on a compromise that would keep the state government running for the next six months and fund schools for the upcoming fiscal year. – Tom Schuba and Mary Ann Ahern
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Rauner-Lawmakers-Reach-Tentative-Stopgap-Funding-Deal-384942751.html
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FROM THE ARTICLE: Later Wednesday, Ditka said, “I spoke with Mr. Trump this afternoon and he invited me. But I don’t think I’m going to go.”  Still, he said, “The Republican Party has its head up its ass — if he’s the candidate, you’ve got to get behind him. It does the party no good. They’re a bunch of assholes.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-mike-ditka-donald-trump-republican-convention0-630-chicago-inc-20160629-story.html
— Protest at Gov. Bruce Rauner’s home  (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents have made it clear that if I sought a government office or a political office, they would have their operatives and their dupes protest at my home and even worse things.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-protesters-at-governor-rauner-home-video-20160629-premiumvideo.html
— Trump’s overseas fundraising pitches draw complaints – Sean Sullivan and Max Bearak
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-donald-trump-overseas-fundraising-20160629-story.html
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: July 4th weekend typically Chicago’s most violent – Kyle Bentle and Jonathon Berlin
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-july-4-shootings-chicago-20160629-htmlstory.html
— Political numbers whiz predicts big Clinton win over Trump in Illinois this fall – Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-hillary-clinton-illinois-margin-of-victory-donald-trump-20160629-story.html
— Brexit, Donald Trump show how elite lost touch with workaday voices – Ron Grossman  (DIERSEN: Who are the elite in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois?  The elites have the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout.  How do they keep in “touch with workaday voices?” Do they read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails?)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-brexit-trump-grossman-0630-20160629-story.html
DAILY HERALD
— Deal in Springfield to fund schools for a year? – Doug Graham and Lee Filas
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160630/news/160639975/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— A break in the acrimony? Some OK signs – Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20160629/bernard-schoenburg-break-in-acrimony-some-ok-signs
NORTHWEST HERALD
— McConnell bids to shelter GOP senators from Trump upheaval  McConnell bids to shelter GOP senators from Trump upheaval – AP  (DIERSEN: McConnell sides with those who are anti-White.  Therefore, does McConnell side with those who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, 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.nwherald.com/2016/06/29/mcconnell-bids-to-shelter-gop-senators-from-trump-upheaval/ak5dvea/
WBEZ
— Police Union Head: Gun Violence Owes Partly To ‘Disrespect’ For Cops – Chip Mitchell  (DIERSEN: Who encourages others to disrespect you?  The following encourage others to disrespect me: those who a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, c) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, d) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, e) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, f) are operatives for the aforesaid, and/or g) are dupes for the aforesaid and 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.)
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/police-union-head-gun-violence-owes-partly-to-disrespect-for-cops/87b5b2f5-bf49-4b9f-9b7b-162362d54ef1
WQAD
— Illinois has one day left to take action on budget before fiscal year ends – JENNA MORTON
http://wqad.com/2016/06/29/illinois-has-one-day-left-to-take-action-on-budget-before-fiscal-year-ends/
STATELINE
— Mark Zuckerberg is building a wall  Neighbors not happy – Hope King
http://www.mystateline.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-is-building-a-wall
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Springfield’s selfishness blamed for universities’ fiscal woes  (DIERSEN: Who blames you for their woes?  The following blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails for their woes, for your woes, for my woes, and for everyone’s woes: those who a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, c) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, d) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, e) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, f) are operatives for the aforesaid, and/or g) are dupes for the aforesaid and 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://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/510940432-springfield-s-selfishness-blamed-for-universities-fiscal-woes
RUSH LIMBAUGH
— There’s a High Probability Nate Silver Is Wrong Again About Donald Trump
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/06/29/there_s_a_high_probability_nate_silver_is_wrong_again_about_donald_trump
WASHINGTON TIMES
— When elitism creates a new populism  The privileged have no one to blame but themselves for Brexit and Trump – Victor Davis Hanson  (DIERSEN: Who has the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois?  Who are their operatives and who are their dupes?  Who do they glorify and praise?  Who do they demonize, denigrate, and condemn?)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/29/when-elitism-creates-a-new-populism/
NEWSMAX
— Trump on Rival Pledge Breakers: Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Run for Office – Greg Richter
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/trump-rivals-broke-pledge/2016/06/29/id/736383/
BREITBART
— Donald Trump Slams Chamber of Commerce ‘Sinister’ Trade Agenda: They ‘Don’t Care’ About Working Americans – JULIA HAHN
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/06/29/donald-trump-slams-chamber-of-commerce-sinister-trade-agenda-they-dont-care-about-working-americans/
THE BLAZE
— Trump Surrogate Howie Carr Does Native American ‘War Whoop’ to Mock Warren – Leigh Munsil (DIERSEN: Who are the surrogates for those who have the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois?  How do these surrogates treat you?  I have never been, I am not now, and I never will be a surrogate for anyone.  I am a surrogate for the Republican Party platform, for the Illinois Republican Party platform, and for the Milton Township Republican Central Committee Resolution against video gambling.)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/06/29/trump-surrogate-howie-carr-does-native-american-war-whoop-to-mock-warren/?ut
FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— WHITE PRIVILEGE, BLACK FATHERS – Patrick Hall
http://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/family/white-privilege-black-fathers/
FOX NEWS CHANNEL
— School blinks in battle with campus conservatives, Breitbart’s Milo – Michelle Liebowitz
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/29/school-blinks-in-battle-with-campus-conservatives-breitbarts-milo.html
WORLD NET DAILY
— FEDERAL COURT ORDERS SCHOOLS TO END ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS  Awards $150,000 in case called ‘major victory’
http://www.wnd.com/2016/06/federal-court-orders-schools-to-end-anti-christian-bias/#!
THE HILL
— Bush World goes for Clinton, but will a former president? – Scott Wong  (DIERSEN: If you say that your are going to vote for Clinton, you are not a Republican, you never were a Republican, and you will never be a Republican. You are a Democrat plant, a Libertarian plant, a Green plant, or a RINO.)
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/285969-bush-world-goes-for-clinton-but-will-a-former-president
— ‘Never Trump’ plots its last stand – Jonathan Easley – 0
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/286054-never-trump-plots-its-last-stand
POLITICO
— Trump’s convention stars: His kids  The Trump children are set to play a central role on stage, and have been given a critical mission behind the scenes. – Hadas Gold
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trumps-convention-stars-his-kids-224969
— Trump skepticism hardens in GOP  Senate Republican leaders have been heartened, but the rank-and-file are still keeping their distance. – Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-gop-skeptics-224955
— Anxiety mounts over GOP convention’s security  Guns in protest zones and a still-unset security perimeter fuel worry about Trump’s coronation in Cleveland. – Kyle Cheney
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/anxiety-gop-conventions-security-224920
ABC NEWS
— Illinois Governor, Lawmakers Nearing Budget Deal – AP
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/illinois-lawmakers-progress-made-stopgap-budget-40213230
NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “The G.O.P. Waits, and Waits, for Donald Trump to Grow Up.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/opinion/campaign-stops/the-gop-waits-and-waits-for-donald-trump-to-grow-up.html
— How Trump’s Campaign Could Redraw Voter Allegiances – Nate Cohn  (DIERSEN: What do you say to Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, and RINOs who work increasingly harder to drive the following out of the GOP: those who are Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors?)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/upshot/how-trumps-campaign-could-redraw-voter-allegiances.html
WASHINGTON POST
— How many hats has Donald Trump bought, anyway? – Philip Bump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/29/how-many-hats-has-donald-trump-bought-anyway/
— Media use in America up a full hour over just last year – David Bauder
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/media-use-in-america-up-a-full-hour-over-just-last-year/2016/06/29/3c356a7c-3e0e-11e6-9e16-4cf01a41decb_story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The typical American adult is using media for a full hour a day more than just last year, with smartphones accounting for most of the increase. People spent an average of 10 hours, 39 minutes each day with smartphones, tablets, TV, radio, computers and video games during the first three months of 2016, according to a Nielsen company study released this week. It was nine hours, 39 minutes during the same period in 2015. Even these numbers are probably underestimated, since while Nielsen measures the amount of time spent online on smartphones, it doesn’t count texting, taking selfies or talking on the phone. Most Americans can sense the increase anecdotally given the ubiquity of smartphones. People stare at screens while waiting in line for fast food, riding in elevators or walking down the street. Retail outlets post signs pleading that phones be turned off. People check messages in bed before falling asleep, and reach for the devices upon waking up.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What Really Drives Anti-Immigration Feelings – Greg Ip  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that have the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in the world a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn citizens of America and b) glorify and praise the citizens of all the other countries in the world.)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-really-drives-anti-immigration-feelings-1467223192
BLOOMBERG
— The Long Road to Immigration Reform  The Supreme Court’s decision this week kicks the can to 2017. – Josh Eidelson and Karen Weise  (DIERSEN: “Immigration reform” is code for giving U.S. citizenship to anyone who promises to vote for Democrats and/or who promises to work for less money than U.S. citizens will work for.)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-30/the-long-road-to-immigration-reform
USA TODAY
— Excited over the future of journalism – Rem Rieder  (DIERSEN: From what I see, the overwhelming reason why people become journalists is to promote the Democrat Party platform.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/rieder/2016/06/29/rieder-excited-over-future-journalism/86508446/
OMAHA WORLD HERALD
— Court caves in the name of ‘diversity’  The human tragedy amid all the legal evasions and frauds is that, while many laws and policies sacrifice some people for the sake of other people, affirmative action manages to harm blacks, whites, Asians and others, even if in different ways. – Thomas Sowell  (DIERSEN: Of course, needless-to-say, my critics/opponents reject Sowell.  My critics/opponents side with my Democrat superiors in the federal government. My critics/opponents agree with all the adverse actions a) that my Democrat GAO superiors took against me including forcing me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, not promoting me beyond GS-13, keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forcing me to take an $18,459 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, b) that my Democrat IRS superiors took against me including not promoting me beyond GS-13, disallowing my education deductions, and disallowing my partial day per diem claims, and c) that my Democrat Post Office superiors toke against me including forcing me resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests.)
http://www.omaha.com/opinion/thomas-sowell-court-caves-in-the-name-of-diversity/article_5fe41840-e88f-568a-89b6-e50d1c4ad159.html
CHARLOTTE POST
— For minorities, the pain is still severe decade after housing peaked – AP
http://www.thecharlottepost.com/news/2016/06/25/national/for-minorities-the-pain-is-still-severe-decade-after-housing-peaked/
THE BEAST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries 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 longer than their ancestors demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/30/donald-trump-can-still-win-and-he-ll-have-the-race-card-to-thank-if-he-does.html
AMERICAN PROSPECT
— What’s Next for the Progressive Movement? – GEORGE GOEHL (DIERSEN: From what I see, it is ramping up efforts to get rid of 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://prospect.org/article/what%E2%80%99s-next-progressive-movement
MONEY MAGAZINE
— American Families Spent Less On College Last Year – Reuters  (DIERSEN: My outstanding parents provided me with room an board in their home in Crete during my first 2 years at UIC 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969.)
http://time.com/money/4387577/college-cost-spending-lower/
FEDERAL NEWS RADIO
— 44 years in the trenches (DIERSEN: I was in the trenches for almost 30 years.)
http://federalnewsradio.com/federal-report/2016/06/44-years-trenches/