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February 1 Evening Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The 18 members of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) run the IRP. How do you want them to respond to Kinzinger? Who do you want them to select to be the next IRP Chairman?

All IRP SCC votes must be weighted. Chapin Rose’s (District 15) weighted vote is 16.11%. Mike Bigger’s (District 18) weighted vote is 11.49%. Laura Pollastrini’s (District 14) weighted vote is 9.64%. John McGlasson’s (District 16) weighted vote is 8.81%. Barb Viviano’s (District 12) weighted vote is 7.71%. Bob Grogan’s (District 6) weighted vote is 7.61%. Fred Floreth’s (District 13) weighted vote is 7.07%. Jan Weber’s (District 17) weighted vote is 5.75%. Roger Claar’s (District 11) weighted vote is 4.40%. The remaining 9 IRP SCC members have a combined weighted vote of 21.41% ranging from 0.87% to 3.29%.

The IRP SCC is scheduled to meet this Saturday.

If the 18 IRP SCC members surveyed the Republican County Party Chairmen in their congressional district, what response do you believe they would get?

If the 102 Republican County Party Chairmen surveyed the Chairmen of the Republican township and ward organizations in their county, what response do you believe they would get?

If the Republican township and ward organization Chairmen surveyed their Republican Precinct Committeemen and captains, what response do you believe they would get?

If the Republican Precinct Committeemen and Captains surveyed the Republican voters in their precinct, what response do you believe they would get? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ABC7
— Adam Kinzinger says if efforts to focus on country over Trump splits Republican Party, that’s fine – Craig Wall
https://abc7chicago.com/adam-kinzinger-illinois-republican-party-gop-donald-trump/10226041/
— Illinois COVID Update: IL reports 2,312 new coronavirus cases, 16 deaths; Will, Kankakee counties enter Phase 4 Will, Kankakee counties enter Phase 4
https://abc7chicago.com/health/il-reports-2312-new-covid-19-cases-16-deaths/10218093/

WBBM
— Illinois Republican Party to select new chairman Saturday after weather postponement – Craig Dellimore
https://www.radio.com/wbbm780/news/local/illinois-republican-party-to-select-new-chairman-saturday

NBC5
— Virginia Senator Amanda Chase Sues Over Being Censured – Sarah Rankin and Denise Lavoie
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/virginia-sen-amanda-chase-sues-over-being-censured/2425993/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— CPS, CTU ‘cooling off,’ making progress | Kinzinger starts PAC aimed at returning Republicans to pre-Trump era | Rev. Jackson hospitalized, recovering from surgery – LISA DONOVAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-lightfoot-teachers-union-bring-striking-kinzinger-pac-spin-20210202-6wkzeyo6t5hudjn56devwqzbvi-story.html
— Waukegan schools to bring in consultants to better understand equity, cultural differences in educating students – STEVE SADIN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/ct-lns-equity-training-st-0202-20210201-ofn4xadshfdgvofaroxeura2wi-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Despite claims of bias, conservatives thrive on social media.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-conservatives-thrive-social-media-study-shows-20210201-zdscpcewyvha7n3wbt5q76cywy-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Worth Township trustee pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with federal prosecutors. Richard Lewandowski is president of Breaker Press Co., records show. The commercial printer promotes itself online as a third-generation family company founded in the 1970s that has become “a well-known name in the political and corporate printing industry.” – Jon Seidel
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/2/1/22260490/worth-township-trustee-pleads-guilty-agrees-cooperate-federal-prosecutors

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Effort to restore full SALT tax break picks up Capitol momentum. Durbin, Duckworth and Schneider are leading a new drive to remove the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions. – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/effort-restore-full-salt-tax-break-picks-capitol-momentum

DAILY HERALD
— Republicans hope to block ‘culturally responsive’ teacher standards – PETER HANCOCK
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210201/republicans-hope-to-block-culturally-responsive-teacher-standards
— How two write-in candidates triggered a Campton Hills primary – Kevin Schmit
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210201/how-two-write-in-candidates-triggered-a-campton-hills-primary

COLLEGE OF DUPAGE
— Dr. Brian Caputo Named to Boy Scouts of America Three Fires Council Board
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/02/01/2167496/0/en/Dr-Brian-Caputo-Named-to-Boy-Scouts-of-America-Three-Fires-Council-Board.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— IL-14/IL-GOP: Catalina Lauf Slams Mark Shaw in State Republican Chairman Race
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/02/01/lauf020121/
— IL-14: Underwood Seeks to Hire Storyteller
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/02/01/il-14-underwood-seeks-to-hire-storyteller/
— Anger in America: An Essay
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/02/01/anger-in-america-an-essay/
— Huntley Fire Protection District Spends Over $8,500 on Conference Table
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/02/01/huntley-fire-protection-district-spends-over-13000-on-conference-table/
— “Township Government…a Well-Guarded, Obscure Sandbox…Filled with Gold Dust”
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/31/township-government-a-well-guarded-obscure-sandbox-filled-with-gold-dust/
— Legislative Pension System Most Underfunded
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/02/01/legislative-pension-system-most-underfunded/
— Rep. Ugaste Reports
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/02/01/ugaste-reports-9/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— KINZINGER STARTS NEW FEDERAL PAC BECAUSE “THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS LOST ITS WAY”
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/02/kinzinger-starts-new-federal-pac-because-the-republican-party-has-lost-its-way-.html
— CHRISTIANS BUILD EFFORT TO SUPPORT FRANKLIN GRAHAM AGAINST CANCEL CULTURE ATTACK
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/02/christians-join-effort-to-support-franklin-graham-against-cancel-culture-attack.html
— TWITTER BANS FOCUS ON THE FAMILY FOR “HATEFUL” SCIENCE-BASED TWEET
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/02/twitter-bans-focus-on-family-for-hateful-science-based-tweet-.html
— THORNER/O’NEIL: HOW WILL HISTORY REMEMBER DONALD J. TRUMP?
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/02/thorneroneil-how-will-history-remember-donald-j-trump.html

CAPITOL FAX
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters glorify and praise Kinzinger. 2,446,891 in Illinois voted for Trump. 193,611 in DuPage County voted for Trump. 20,080 in Milton Township voted for Trump. 157 in my precinct voted for Trump.
https://capitolfax.com/2021/02/01/a-look-at-kinzingers-fight-with-the-far-right/
— 2,312 new confirmed and probable cases; 16 additional deaths; 2,387 hospitalized; 515 in ICU; 3.9 percent average case positivity rate; 4.9 percent average test positivity rate; 43,378 average doses administered; Region 7 moves to Phase 4
https://capitolfax.com/2021/02/01/2312-new-confirmed-and-probable-cases-16-additional-deaths-2387-hospitalized-515-in-icu-39-percent-average-case-positivity-rate-49-percent-average-test-positivitity-rate-43378-average-doses-administer/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Project Veritas: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, praises Biden, rips Trump in latest sting – Valerie Richardson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/1/project-veritas-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-ceo-prais/

GOPUSA
— The Inevitable Descent Into Despotic Leftist Insanity
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=105985

BREITBART
— DePaul University Black Student Union Demands Segregated ‘Safe Spaces’ – ALANA MASTRANGELO (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled White-hating White-haters use the Capitol Riot to promote hatred against Whites. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980.)
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/02/01/depaul-u-black-student-union-demands-segregated-safe-spaces/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Students at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, are demanding segregated “safe spaces” for black students “on and off campus.” The Black Student Union at DePaul University is demanding special accommodations for black students in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot, which they refer to as a “display of white power.” The demands include new programs and racially segregated “safe spaces” both on and off-campus. “The disgusting display of white power, not to be confused with white privilege, is something we should all fear, though we know that situations and tensions in this country will always negatively affect black people, but not so much white people,” began the students in their statement. “While the attempted coup was a scary act of white power, the end of Spring Quarter 2019-2020 and the following months after that were horrifying for black students on campus,” the statement continued. “We were scared for our lives, we saw our friends get beaten and arrested, if not worse, and DePaul’s delayed response in contrast to the quickness in which they’ve replied to this week’s events is just another indicator of how little DePaul cares for their black students,” added the students, referring to previous social justice protests. “It took petitions and a campus-wide movement for DePaul to address the protests, where in that statement they wrote the late Eric Gardner’s name as ‘Eric Ferguson,’” the statement continued. “When we felt threatened by DePaul’s deal with the FOP, they tokenized a Latinx police officer as a means to silence us and show us that they’d made their decision — money is worth more than the black and brown students at DePaul.” The Student Union went on to complain that the university only let students forego their final exams last year after white students joined black students in an effort to get them canceled. “When in Spring Quarter of the last academic year black students asked for some kind of relief from one of our great stressors, final exams, it took the co-opting of white students (who, some, did so for their own benefit, going as far as calling it ‘the awesome perks of Spring Quarter’) and immense pressure from the student body for DePaul to allow a loosely worded policy,” the students said. “Even then, most black students still had finals since certain professors ignored this rule,” they added. “No black student expects it to be easy to attend a Predominantly White Institution, but blatant disrespect will not be tolerated,” the Student Union affirmed. “We demand answers.” From there, the students went on to list their demands, which included “more black therapists,” university-funded “healing and safe spaces for black students on and off campus,” diversity and inclusion training “led by black and brown people,” and “respect from the administration,” among other things. “It is imperative that spaces for black students on campus continue to receive the necessary funding and recognition as they provide safe and healing components through the presence of other students, faculty, and staff who look like us,” said the students of their demand for “safe spaces.” DePaul University did not immediately respond to Breitbart News’ request for comment on whether the school plans to meet the students’ demands for racially segregated “safe spaces” on and off-campus.)

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Are You An Insurgent? – George Rasley
https://www.conservativehq.org/post/are-you-an-insurgent

HOT AIR
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Kinzinger demonizes those who do not agree with him.
https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2021/01/kinzinger-claim-im-possessed-devil/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Over Israel-UAE Peace Deal – JACK PHILLIPS
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-over-israel-uae-peace-deal_3680042.html

THE HILL
— McConnell says Taylor Greene’s embrace of conspiracy theories a ‘cancer’ to GOP, country – JULIEGRACE BRUFKE AND SCOTT WONG
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/536850-mcconnell-says-taylor-greene-a-cancer-to-gop-country
— Democrats look to make Marjorie Taylor Greene the face of GOP – JONATHAN EASLEY (DIERSEN: Democrats also want to make Kinzinger, Joe Walsh, and Pat Brady the face of the GOP.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/536817-democrats-look-to-make-marjorie-taylor-greene-the-face-of-gop

POLITICO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-hater says “Deep-dive refutes allegations of anti-GOP social media bias.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-tech/2021/02/01/deep-dive-refutes-allegations-of-anti-gop-social-media-bias-793082
— Big headaches for party leadership – OLIVIA BEAVERS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/huddle/2021/02/01/big-headaches-for-party-leadership-491588

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters say conservative claims of social media censorship ‘a form of disinformation.’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/01/technology-202-new-report-calls-conservative-claims-social-media-censorship-a-form-disinformation/

FORBES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters say social media companies are not biased against conservatives.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/02/01/are-social-media-companies-biased-against-conservatives-theres-no-solid-evidence-report-concludes/

CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
— Partisan media grows in NC. Do you know who’s funding your news? – COLIN CAMPBELL (DIERSEN: All the money and all the time needed to put together and send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and to post them on www.gopillinois.com comes from me, Dave Diersen.)
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article248832319.html

NEWSWEEK
— Democrats to Force Kevin McCarthy’s Hand on Removing Marjorie Taylor Greene From Committee Seats – NICOLE FALLERT
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-force-kevin-mccarthys-hand-removing-marjorie-taylor-greene-committee-seats-1565878

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Voters See Less Tolerance for Political Differences
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/january_2021/voters_see_less_tolerance_for_political_differences

GUARDIAN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters say “Claim of anti-conservative bias by social media firms is baseless.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/01/facebook-youtube-twitter-anti-conservative-claims-baseless-report-finds

LGBTQ NATION
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, LGBTQ-promoters promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/02/trump-writing-insults-begging-others-tweet/

February 1 Morning Edition

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— KINZINGER’s GOP DILEMMA – Shia Kapos (DIERSEN: By now, Illinois Republican Precinct Committeemen and Captains should have received an email from the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) that IRP Chairman candidate Mark Shaw favors full censure of Kinzinger while candidates Don Tracy and Scott Gryder reject censure. Further, by now, Illinois Republican Precinct Committeemen and Captains should have received an email from their representative on the IRP State Central Committee that states if they favor or reject censure.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2021/02/01/kinzingers-gop-dilemma-teacher-strike-looms-calling-in-kamala-491587
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Enough is enough,” Larry Smith, chairman of the LaSalle County Republican Central Committee, told Playbook after the rally. “He hasn’t talked to us for six years.” Smith said his Republican committee will vote Tuesday on whether to censure Kinzinger, and Smith suggested other GOP county committees could follow. So far, the state GOP has no plans to censure. But the party is in upheaval as Chairman Tim Schneider is stepping down and a new chairman is to be named Saturday. Up for the job are Kendall County Board Chairman Scott Gryder, Lake County Republican Chairman Mark Shaw, and former Illinois Gaming Board exec and former lieutenant governor candidate Don Tracy of Springfield. Shaw favors full censure of Kinzinger. While Tracy and Gryder, who oppose Kinzinger’s impeachment vote, nonetheless reject censure.)

CLEVELAND
— Will the Ohio GOP move on from Trump? A Q&A with Chairman Jane Timken (DIERSEN: How would the three candidates for Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Chairman respond to similar questions? If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman, the organization would host an IRP Chairman candidate forum.)
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2021/02/will-the-ohio-gop-move-on-from-trump-a-qa-with-chairman-jane-timken.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Normally, a political party would move on from a losing presidential candidate. Party leaders already have shown some subtle signs of doing so – the state GOP removed images of Trump from the front page of its website earlier this month, and Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel last week told the Associated Press the party would remain neutral if Trump runs again in 2024. But Trump has claimed he only lost the election because of widespread fraud, a claim his own Justice Department, dozens of courts and senior Republican leaders have rebuked as unsupported or false. Last week, cleveland.com / The Plain Dealer interviewed Timken, whom Trump personally helped install as leader of the state GOP shortly after he was elected, to ask how the party might – or might not – move on from the former president heading into 2022. . .What is the next step for Republicans post-Trump? . . . Do you think he will remain involved with the Republican Party? Do you think he will follow through on his reported threat to start a third party? . . . After losing the November election, do you think the party needs to distance itself from Trump? . . . Do you think Trump will continue to be the face of the Republican Party? . . . What is the biggest thing the Ohio Republican Party needs to improve? . . . The former president attracted a lot of new voters to the Republican Party. Do you think they will remain engaged Republican voters? . . . What responsibility does the president or Republicans generally bear for the events at the Capitol? . . . How are you feeling about 2022 for Ohio Republicans? . . . With congressional redistricting this year under a new map-drawing process meant to prevent gerrymandering, do you think Ohio’s partisan makeup will change?)

KFOR
— ‘President Donald J. Trump Day’: Ohio lawmakers call for June 14 holiday – Natasha Anderson  (DIERSEN: One could compare and contrast Ohio with Illinois.)
https://kfor.com/news/president-donald-j-trump-day-ohio-lawmakers-call-for-june-14-holiday/

ABC7
— Pres. Biden has signed 42 executive actions since his inauguration – CNN (DIERSEN: Democrats falsely hinted/implied/shouted that Biden was a centrist.)
https://abc7chicago.com/10195643/
— Ending cash bail abolishes penalty on poverty, advocates say – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/10192818/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On the other hand, complains House Republican Leader Jim Durkin, a former prosecutor, “The elimination of cash bail basically says that we respect the honor system for violent criminals and gang members.”)

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Most important Black History Month ever. We need to know the past to fight for rights that are being taken away right now in the present. – Neil Steinberg (DIERSEN: I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates used Black History Month to promote hatred against Republicans, and especially against Republicans who were conservative, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/1/31/22258821/black-history-month-civil-rights
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater promotes hatred against Marjorie Taylor Greene.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/dahleen-glanton/ct-glanton-marjorie-taylor-greene-voters-20210201-ytjd5n5xinglpngrhiplvbbj3y-story.html

ALTON DAILY NEWS
— Durbin Supports Impeachment Vote
http://altondailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=17&id=318284#.YBf4-Z4XCM8

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DuPage County reports 126 COVID-19 cases Sunday, 3 deaths, region’s positivity rate decreases to 7.1% – Joshua Welge
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/coronavirus/2021/01/31/dupage-county-reports-126-covid-19-cases-sunday-3-deaths-regions-positivity-rate-decreases-to-71/

WJOL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters use Kinzinger to destroy the Republican Party once and for all.
https://www.wjol.com/rep-kinzinger-in-many-areas-gop-has-lost-moral-authority/

WCMY
— Kinzinger says the Republican Party has changed and he wants to change it back – Rick Koshko (DIERSEN: I should write a book about how the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) have changed since 2000. Ever-increasingly, IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO leaders who reject one or more of the following planks in Republican Party platform have gained power: traditional marriage/family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). Ever-increasingly, the more of the aforesaid planks that you support, the more that the aforesaid leaders get rid of you.)
https://www.1430wcmy.com/2021/01/31/cong-kinzinger-says-the-republican-party-has-changed-and-he-wants-to-change-it-back/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in using the Capitol Riot to promote hatred against Trump. Those who orchestrated the Capitol Riot knew that the riot would promote hatred against Trump, so therefore, those who orchestrated the Capitol Riot are Trump-haters.
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/spurred-capitol-riot-thousands-republicans-drop-their-party#stream/0

WEEK
— LaSalle County Republicans at odds with Rep. Kinzinger over lack of involvement – Kyle Beachy
https://week.com/2021/01/31/lasalle-county-republicans-at-odds-with-rep-kinzinger-over-lack-of-involvement/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Thousands Of Republicans Leave Party After Capitol Riot.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/thousands-republicans-leave-party-after-capitol-riot#stream/0

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— What Is Becoming of America? – Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/what-is-becoming-of-america/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ROSSI: CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION COMMITTING MASSIVE CHILD ABUSE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/02/rossi-chicago-teachers-union-committing-massive-child-abuse.html

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Evangelicals ridiculously asked to apologize for supporting Trump. Sins of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and all those who voted to empower them, much greater – Everett Piper
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/31/evangelicals-ridiculously-asked-to-apologize-for-s/

BREITBART
— Left-wing Columnist: Put the Republican Party on Domestic Terror Watch List – JOEL B. POLLAK
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/31/left-wing-columnist-put-the-republican-party-on-domestic-terror-watch-list/
— Adam Kinzinger: Matt Gaetz Going After Liz Cheney Is ‘Totally GOP Cancel Culture’ – PAM KEY (DIERSEN: Who has gone after you? I should write a book about those who have gone after me since 2000. I would focus on those who have/had lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who have lost elections, their operatives, and their dupes.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/31/adam-kinzinger-matt-gaetz-going-after-liz-cheney-is-totally-gop-cancel-culture/

DAILY WIRE
— ‘Deplorable And Predatory Behavior’: The Lincoln Project Condemns Cofounder After NYT Reports He Allegedly Sexually Harassed 14-Year-Old Boy – Jon Brown
https://www.dailywire.com/news/deplorable-and-predatory-behavior-the-lincoln-project-condemns-cofounder-after-nyt-reports-he-allegedly-sexually-harassed-14-year-old-boy

TOWNHALL
— America Grows Sick on a Diet of Propaganda and Political Theater – Laura Hollis
https://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2021/01/28/america-grows-sick-on-a-diet-of-propaganda-and-political-theater-n2583871
(FROM THE ARTICLE: First and foremost, of course, is the attempt by Democrats in Congress to impeach Trump for “inciting insurrection.” Most people won’t read the full text of Trump’s speech that day. It was vintage Trump, confrontational and full of braggadocio, but in it, he explicitly told his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard. But no “insurrection” means no “incitement,” and that would mean no impeachment. The articles of impeachment are themselves a charade. As Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul stated on the Senate floor — and to which 44 other Republican senators agreed — the Constitution simply does not authorize Congress to take the action contemplated by an impeachment trial against a private citizen. Only a sitting president can be “removed,” and Donald Trump is no longer the president of the United States. Further, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that Chief Justice John Roberts will not preside over an impeachment trial in the Senate — another blow to those who claim that such a “trial” on the House’s single impeachment charge is legitimate. Finally, the 44 GOP senators who voted in favor of Paul’s procedural motion prove that the 50 Democratic senators will not get the additional 17 Republicans they need for a two-thirds majority to convict. So, the impeachment shtick isn’t about removing a man who is already gone, and it isn’t really about getting a conviction either. It’s more — and more extreme — political theater. If that’s not bad enough, the country is also struggling to recover from months of COVID lockdowns. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio described the impeachment charge as “stupid” and a waste of time. And it gets much worse. The target of the “insurrection” propaganda campaign is not so much Donald Trump as it is the 74 million-plus people who voted for him. Americans were stunned when Hillary Clinton referred to only half of Donald Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables” in 2016. But Trump had millions more supporters in 2020, and now all of them are being demonized by Democrats and their mouthpieces in the media as threats, as “seditionists” and “white supremacists” who need to be “deprogrammed,” “reprogrammed,” imprisoned in “reeducation camps” or subjected to “Nuremburg trials.” These are not isolated remarks by fringe elements; they are comments made by “mainstream” Democratic voices: Washington Post correspondent Eugene Robinson, media darling Katie Couric, MSNBC anchor Don Lemon, actor Jon Cryer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Comments on these articles and tweets — made by non-famous, left-leaning Americans — are even worse. This is beyond political difference. It is a sickness.)

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Is Biden Committed to Unity or Unilateral Action? – Kay C. James
https://www.heritage.org/political-process/commentary/biden-commited-unity-or-unilateral-action

PJ MEDIA
— Dems Press Pelosi to Smuggle Path to Citizenship Into COVID-19 Relief Bill – RICK MORAN
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/01/31/dems-press-pelosi-to-smuggle-path-to-citizenship-into-covid-19-relief-bill-n1419765

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— The Speech As Incitement Case Against Trump Continues to Crumble – Stacey Matthews
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/01/the-speech-as-incitement-case-against-trump-continues-to-crumble/
— Lincoln Project Predator: What Did They Know, And When Did They Know It?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/01/lincoln-project-predator-what-did-they-know-and-when-did-they-know-it/

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters use Kinzinger to destroy the Republican Party once and for all.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/536300-our-path-forward-after-a-year-of-chaos-heres-how-to-kick-start-americas
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Thanks, Trump — Republicans’ victim mentality intensifies, despite reality.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/536652-thanks-trump-republicans-victim-mentality-intensifies-despite-reality
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater uses QAnon to destroy the Republican Party.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/536669-juan-williams-gop-cowers-from-qanon
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater uses extremists to destroy the Republican Party.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/536587-growing-extremist-threats-put-more-pressure-on-biden

HUFFINGTON POST
— Report Details Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Lincoln Project Co-Founder. Republican campaign adviser John Weaver tried to exploit his position for sexual favors, according to the New York Times report. – Ja’han Jones
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/report-details-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-lincoln-project-co-founder_n_6017143dc5b6bde2f5c0889c

POLITICO
— FROM THE ARTICLE: “The Illinois Republican Party is expected to censure Kinzinger for his vote to impeach the president.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/31/adam-kinzinger-republican-party-464140
— Rep. Kinzinger: They claim ‘I’m possessed by the devil.’ The Illinois Republican has launched a website as an effort to refocus the Republican Party’s “conservative principles.” – MYAH WARD (DIERSEN: Trump did more to defend and advance conservative principles than many other Republican presidents.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/31/adam-kinzinger-republican-party-464140

REUTERS
— Trump faces Tuesday deadline to deliver formal response to impeachment as trial looms – Richard Cowan (DIERSEN: It would be great if my disgusting critics/opponents would come out of their closets and put their charges against me in writing. They hint/imply/argue/shout that I am a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things. Better yet, I should just sue my disgusting critics/opponents.)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-idUSKBN2A125Z

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Lincoln Project denounces co-founder accused of harassing young men
https://www.fox13now.com/news/national-news/lincoln-project-denounces-co-founder-accused-of-harassing-young-men

NBC NEWS
— Kinzinger: ‘I’d certainly vote [Marjorie Taylor Greene] off committee’ in Congress (DIERSEN: From what I see, if Kinzinger had been an Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) member, he would have voted to censure me in 2006 and to throw me off the ICRC Steering Committee in 2007. Kinzinger would have painted me as being too conservative and even worse things.)
https://news.yahoo.com/kinzinger-id-certainly-vote-marjorie-144009695.html

MSN
— ‘We traffic in lies’: Kinzinger launches campaign to ‘take back our party’ – Jennifer Haberkorn (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Kinzinger does everything that he can to destroy the Republican Party.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-traffic-in-lies-a-house-republican-launches-campaign-to-take-back-our-party/ar-BB1dghlC?li=BBnbcA1
— Joe Walsh on current GOP: ‘it’s a conspiracy-believing cult. It’s a cult. (DIERSEN: The more that you promote hatred against Republicans, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote you.)
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/fmr-gop-rep-joe-walsh-on-current-gop-it-s-a-conspiracy-believing-cult-it-s-a-cult-and-as-you-pointed-out-ali-i-helped-bring-it-here-i-wasn-t-alone-100308549633

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “An Emboldened Extremist Wing Flexes Its Power in a Leaderless G.O.P. As more far-right Republicans take office and exercise power, party officials are promoting unity and neutrality rather than confronting dangerous messages and disinformation.” My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always painted me as being far-right because I support the traditional marriage/family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/us/politics/republicans-trump-ronna-mcdaniel.html
— The Gerrymander Battles Loom, as G.O.P. Looks to Press Its Advantage – Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti (DIERSEN: I should write a book about the 2015 gerrymandering of my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/politics/gerrymander-census-democrats-republicans.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs get rid of you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/opinion/trans-rights-biden-states.html
— Raise Your Hand if You Were Expecting Biden to Be a Revolutionary. The president has been much more left-wing out of the gate than many predicted. What comes next? – Gail Collins and Bret Stephens (DIERSEN: Everyone knew that if elected, hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters would make Biden even more anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-traditional marriage/family, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/opinion/biden-executive-orders-mcconnell.html
— Biden’s Approval Rating Is Trump’s in Reverse Support from a slim majority might be all President Biden can expect — and maybe it’s all he needs. – Giovanni Russonello
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/us/politics/biden-approval-rating-trump.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Biden entered the White House last month with a broadly positive approval rating — but well shy of the two-thirds of Americans who expressed support for his former boss, Barack Obama, when he took office 12 years ago. In fact, Biden’s net approval rating is lower than that of any incoming president since the dawn of modern polling, except for his predecessor, Donald Trump. It’s just another clear sign that we’ve entered a new era of partisanship: Media fragmentation and the hard-line politics it has helped foster may make it impossible for any leader to become a true consensus figure. But it also bears noting that Biden’s approval rating is basically a reverse image of Trump’s. In addition to being loathed by Republicans and embraced by Democrats, he’s firmly in positive territory among independents — who had consistently disapproved of Trump’s performance. A Monmouth University poll out last week found that 54 percent of Americans gave Biden’s performance positive marks, including nine in 10 Democrats and a plurality of independents, who approved by a 17-percentage-point margin (22 percent hadn’t yet formed an opinion). But among Republicans, his numbers were upside down. Just 15 percent approved, and 70 percent disapproved.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote hatred against Marjorie Taylor Greene.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-gop.html
— Why a Trump Third Party Would Be a Boon for Democrats. We really have room for only two major parties at a time in the United States. – Michael Tomasky
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/opinion/trump-republicans-third-party.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Many who have received the coronavirus vaccine wonder: What can I safely do? – Laurie McGinley and Lenny Bernstein
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/02/01/vaccinated-people-precautions/

USA TODAY
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters say that Google, Facebook, etc. do not censure conservatives. Google censures me by refusing to treat www.gopillinois.com as being a news website.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/02/01/censorship-conservatives-trump-facebook-twitter-youtube/4316155001/
— Where are all the neighborhood kids who shovel snow? We’ve put them out of business. Entrepreneurs are born in the snow — and at the lemonade stand. So where are all the young workers now? – Bob Brody (DIERSEN: I did yard work and delivered newspapers 1962-1964.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/01/28/children-kids-working-entrepreneurs-labor-column/4278478001/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Starts 2021 With $31 Million in Cash for New PAC. The political-action committee’s fundraising comes as the former president tries to remain Republican Party leader. – Chad Day and Rebecca Ballhaus
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-starts-2021-with-31-million-in-cash-for-new-pac-11612157129
— $20 Says Harriet Tubman Was Conservative. She appreciated the first GOP president and carried a gun. – Michael Taube
https://www.wsj.com/articles/20-says-harriet-tubman-was-conservative-11612131809

INC.
— How 2020 Changed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Good and How Companies Can Do Better in 2021 – LIANA DOUILLET GUZMÁN (DIERSEN: Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.inc.com/liana-douillet-guzman/how-2020-changed-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-for-good-how-companies-can-do-better-in-2021.html

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Kinzinger says his family sent around a signed petition disowning him for Trump vote.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-rep-adam-kinzinger-relatives-disowned-him-impeach-trump-vote-2021-1

ALBANY HERALD
— Already missing Trump’s optimism – Michael Reagan
https://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/michael-reagan-already-missing-trumps-optimism/article_76ca7020-635b-11eb-95f6-3f5e49f9c1cf.html

WEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “The GOP’s dismaying embrace of fringe politicians.” My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes hint/imply/argue/shout that I am a fringe politician and a) that is why I am not embraced by the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, etc. and b) that is why I was dumped by TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, MTRO, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, GAO, etc.
https://theweek.com/articles/964209/gops-dismaying-embrace-fringe-politicians

WTVR
— Everyone should fact check; this is how easy and quick it can be done – Alicia Nieves (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Google News Alerts take everyone to non-credible articles on non-credible websites written by non-credible authors who promote the Democrat, Libertarian, and Green party platforms.)
https://www.wtvr.com/news/news-literacy-project/everyone-should-fact-check-this-is-how-easy-and-quick-it-can-be-done

INQUISITR
— Kinzinger Says Family Member Accused Him Of Being Possessed By The Devil – Nathan Francis
https://www.inquisitr.com/6468115/adam-kinzinger-possessed-devil/

RAW STORY
— Lincoln Project cuts ties with founding member after accusations of sexual misconduct – Tom Boggioni
https://www.rawstory.com/lincoln-project-2650219346/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “The GOP is on the way to being a fringe party within three or four years.”
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-dying/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Trump is like a ‘rat trapped in a cage’ trying to ‘bang his way out’ of legal jeopardy.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-like-trapped-rat/

ROLLING STONE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters use Kinzinger to destroy the Republican Party once and for all.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-impeachment-republicans-cheney-1121628/

January 31 Evening Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do the following have to say about Kinzinger: the three candidates for Illinois Republican Party (IRP) chairman and each of the 18 IRP State Central Committee (SCC) members, and especially those who have the heaviest weighted vote? It would be great a) if the IRP would send weekly emails to Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains on government and political issues of state-wide interest, b) if IRP SCC members would send weekly emails to their Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains on government and political issues of congressional district-wide interest, c) if Republican county party organizations would send weekly emails to their Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains on government and political issues of county-wide interest, and d) if Republican township/ward organizations would send weekly emails to their Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains on government and political issues of township/ward–wide interest. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ABC7
— Kinzinger starts PAC to resist party’s Trump embrace – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/10194460/

FUTURE FIRST LEADERSHIP PAC
— 6-MINUTE VIDEO: Our country’s future is truly unlimited. After all, we are the party that ended slavery, secured women’s suffrage, and won the war against communist tyranny. Now we must be the party that lifts up the rural town and the inner city. We must be the party that empowers every student to soar and every family to thrive.” – CONGRESSMAN ADAM KINZINGER
https://www.country1st.com/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Kinzinger launches ‘country first’ movement as Trump criticism puts focus on Illinois GOP divide amid search for new leadership – RICK PEARSON (DIERSEN: Will Kinzinger and his supporters demand that the following give money to Kinzinger’s PAC or leave the Illinois Republican Party (IRP): a) IRP Chairman, b) IRP officers, c) IRP National Committeeman, d) IRP National Committeewoman, e) the 18 IRP State Central Committee members and their deputies, f) the officers of the 102 county party organizations, g) the officers of the township and ward party organizations, h) the Precinct Committeemen and Captains, i) the 2,446,891 in Illinois who voted for Trump, j) the 193,611 in DuPage County who voted for Trump, k) the 20,080 in Milton Township who voted for Trump, and l) the 157 in my precinct who voted for Trump?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-adam-kinzinger-trump-illinois-republicans-20210129-sybzihfppbazrcviq2v2cvupka-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s vote to impeach Donald Trump and criticism of Republican congressional colleagues who support the former president has highlighted a split in the state GOP as it gets set to decide on new leadership. The Republican State Central Committee will meet Feb. 6 to decide among three candidates to replace outgoing Chairman Tim Schneider. But some in the party want to use the forum to discuss Kinzinger and a possible reprimand for his anti-Trump statements, which increased in vitriol following the Nov. 3 election and the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. “There’s a group that wants to talk about it and it’s not positive. There are those who want to censure him. There’s people wanting to know what the state party is going to do about it,” said former Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar, who represents the 11th Congressional District near Kinzinger’s 16th District on the state GOP central committee. The schism in the state GOP mirrors what’s happening with Republicans nationally as the party struggles to move forward even as many of its voters continue to back Trump and believe the November election was stolen from him. On Sunday, Kinzinger doubled down on his position, announcing the formation of a “country first” movement and website attached to his Future First Leadership political action committee. He’s seeking like-minded supporters to “take back our party” and to “unplug the outrage machine, reject the politics of personality and cast aside the conspiracy theories and the rage.” “I think the Republican Party has lost its moral authority in a lot of areas. That doesn’t mean we don’t need to fight back to defend what we believe are our conservative principles. But when I ask people now, what is a conservative principle, how many people think that conservative principles are things like just build the wall and charge the Capitol and have an insurrection?” Kinzinger said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” . . . But they also did not go unnoticed by state GOP leaders. Some have said they have received phone calls asking what the Illinois Republican Party was going to do about Kinzinger. The congressman was the subject of some discussion at a GOP State Central Committee meeting last weekend. “I think the party majority are kind of disappointed. I mean, the one thing I’ve heard most from Republicans over the years since Reagan is the old 11th Commandment,” Claar said of the former president’s admonishment to not speak ill of fellow Republicans. Claar accused Kinzinger of causing upheaval in the party to no clear end. “What is the point? Why are you elevating this thing into regional, if not national, prominence? What purpose are you serving here? You’re further pointing out the division in the party,” Claar said. Kinzinger has denied that he is attempting to position himself for a run for U.S. Senate or governor in 2022, though he has not ruled out a run for higher office. In a statewide race, his Trump criticism would likely be held against him in Downstate Illinois, which has grown more strongly conservative and ardently supported the former president in the past two elections. His stance could, however, help him among more moderate independents and Republicans in Chicago’s suburbs. Kinzinger recently told CNN that he believes with Trump gone, Republican leaders face a reckoning of where the GOP should go next — either aligning themselves with the former president or moving beyond him. “I think in six months it’s not going to be necessarily the party of Donald Trump. But this is the whole point: I do think we are in a battle, that it may be a battle that really needs to happen, for our party to say what is it we stand for now when it comes to policy. But as much as anything, are we aspirational or are we a party that feeds on fear and division?” Kinzinger said. “If you’re a leader of the Republican Party right now, you need to be focused on one thing — not winning another election, that’s not what we should be focused on right now. What we should be focused on is restoring the integrity of this party,” he said. Claar supported Trump and even co-hosted a fundraiser for him at the Bolingbrook Golf Club. That’s where the state GOP leaders were supposed to meet Saturday until a predicted snowstorm pushed off the date to Feb. 6. But he said Illinois Republicans should take a wait-and-see attitude on the party’s future and whether it should continue to align itself with the former president. “Let’s just leave it alone and see how it plays out,” Claar said. He said if the party does decide to speak out on Kinzinger, he would oppose any effort to censure the congressman for his conduct, a course taken by GOP leaders in some states against congressional members who voted for impeachment. “It serves no purpose to have headlines that say, ‘Republican state party censures congressman.’ That would just give it more legs,” Claar said. “I think it would be better to just issue an observation of the reality that a congressman can say what he wants and it’s up to his constituency to decide whether they like it or not.” Kinzinger did not respond to a request to speak about the GOP state central committee’s potential actions. On Sunday, during his “Meet The Press” interview, Kinzinger said he viewed GOP efforts to reprimand Trump opponents as an example of the “cancel culture” that Republicans have outspokenly criticized Democrats for exhibiting. . .Much of the state GOP’s decision on how to respond to Kinzinger may come down to its pick of a new chairman to replace Schneider, a former Cook County commissioner and Hanover Township trustee from Streamwood.)
— 21 men accuse co-founder of anti-Trump Lincoln Project of online harassment – MAGGIE ASTOR AND DANNY HAKIM
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-john-weaver-lincoln-project-harassment-20210131-ll5iul3sajehfotjd6aq32msk4-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump raised $255.4 million in 8 weeks as he sought to prove election fraud.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-trump-fundraising-20210131-h5cksn4i3zhdleefoux4ddyk5q-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters paint Trump-supporters as being home-grown terrorists.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/31/22256849/congress-threats-violence-democracy-capitol-editorial

CRAINS CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump critic Kinzinger starts PAC to ‘renew’ Republican Party (DIERSEN: Will Kinzinger and his supporters demand that the following give money to Kinzinger’s PAC or leave the Illinois Republican Party (IRP): a) IRP Chairman, b) IRP officers, c) IRP National Committeeman, d) IRP National Committeewoman, e) the 18 IRP State Central Committee members and their deputies, f) the officers of the 102 county party organizations, g) the officers of the township and ward party organizations, h) the Precinct Committeemen and Captains, i) the 2,446,891 in Illinois who voted for Trump, j) the 193,611 in DuPage County who voted for Trump, k) the 20,080 in Milton Township who voted for Trump, and l) the 157 in my precinct who voted for Trump?)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/government/trump-critic-kinzinger-starts-pac-renew-republican-party

NBC5
— Illinois Reports 2,428 New COVID-19 Cases, 40 Additional Deaths Sunday
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/illinois-reports-2428-new-covid-19-cases-40-additional-deaths-sunday/2425196/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— ‘Predator, liar and abuser’: The Lincoln Project responds to allegations against co-founder John Weaver – Megan Ziegler
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/predator-liar-and-abuser-the-lincoln-project-responds-to-allegations-against-co-founder-john-weaver

ALTON DAILY NEWS
— 150+ Turnout for Springfield March for Life Event Friday – Ross Pearson
http://www.altondailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=17&id=318226#.YBcF454XCM8

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Gary Rabine Testing Waters for Gubernatorial Run – 80% Certain of Run
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/31/gary-rabine-testing-waters-for-gubernatorial-run/
— Kinzinger’s Latest Move
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/31/kinzingers-latest-move/
— IL-16: Scott Presler Visited Illinois Organizing Volunteers to Primary Adam Kinzinger Next Year
— http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/31/presler013121/
— Pritzker Picks Elizabeth Coulson for Human Rights Commission
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/31/pritzker-picks-elizabeth-coulson-for-human-rights-commission/
— IL-14/CO-03: Jim Oberweis Joined Catalina Lauf Contributing to Lauren Boebert
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/30/boebert013021/
— Report to Valley Hi Nursing Home Families This Week
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/30/report-to-valley-hi-nursing-home-families-this-week/
— Maybe You’ve Read That Police Most Fear Domestic Violence Calls
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/30/maybe-youve-read-that-police-most-fear-domestic-violence-calls/
— McHenry County Jail Finds Three with Coronavirus
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/29/mchenry-county-jail-finds-three-with-coronavirus/
— DNR Identifies Wonder Lake Man Who Killed 12-Point Deer Out of Season
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/29/dnr-identifies-wonder-lake-man-who-killed-12-point-deer-out-of-season/
— UPDATE: More Illinois National Guard to DC than Helping with Vaccinations
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/29/more-illinois-national-guard-to-dc-than-helping-with-vaccinations/
— Comparison of State Coronavirus Vaccination Rollouts
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/29/comparison-of-coronavirus-vaccination-rollouts/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump quietly ‘getting stronger’ – Jennifer Harper
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/31/inside-beltway-donald-trump-quietly-getting-strong/

BREITBART
— Anti-Trump PAC: Current GOP ‘No Different’ from ISIS – JOSHUA KLEIN
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2021/01/31/anti-trump-pac-current-gop-no-different-isis/
— Kinzinger to Launch PAC Challenging GOP’s Embrace of Donald Trump – KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/31/rep-adam-kinzinger-launch-pac-challenging-gops-embrace-donald-trump/

THE HILL
— Former Trump officials find tough job market – ALEX GANGITANO
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/536588-former-trump-officials-find-tough-job-market-after-capitol-attack

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Kinzinger starts PAC to resist party’s Trump embrace (DIERSEN: Will Kinzinger and his supporters demand that the following give money to Kinzinger’s PAC or leave the Illinois Republican Party (IRP): a) IRP Chairman, b) IRP officers, c) IRP National Committeeman, d) IRP National Committeewoman, e) the 18 IRP State Central Committee members and their deputies, f) the officers of the 102 county party organizations, g) the officers of the township and ward party organizations, h) the Precinct Committeemen and Captains, i) the 2,446,891 in Illinois who voted for Trump, j) the 193,611 in DuPage County who voted for Trump, k) the 20,080 in Milton Township who voted for Trump, and l) the 157 in my precinct who voted for Trump?)
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/washington-dc/gop-rep-kinzinger-starts-pac-to-resist-partys-trump-embrace/

CNN
— Kinzinger launches new PAC to reclaim Republican Party after Trump – Paul LeBlanc (DIERSEN: Will Kinzinger and his supporters demand that the following give money to Kinzinger’s PAC or leave the Illinois Republican Party (IRP): a) IRP Chairman, b) IRP officers, c) IRP National Committeeman, d) IRP National Committeewoman, e) the 18 IRP State Central Committee members and their deputies, f) the officers of the 102 county party organizations, g) the officers of the township and ward party organizations, h) the Precinct Committeemen and Captains, i) the 2,446,891 in Illinois who voted for Trump, j) the 193,611 in DuPage County who voted for Trump, k) the 20,080 in Milton Township who voted for Trump, and l) the 157 in my precinct who voted for Trump?)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/politics/adam-kinzinger-country-first-trump/index.html

NBC NEWS
— Pence plans to form fundraising group as he moves beyond Trump, Capitol riot. The former vice president plans to settle back in Indiana, where he has been staying with family. – Hallie Jackson and Monica Alba
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pence-plans-form-political-group-he-moves-beyond-time-trump-n1256259
— Kinzinger: ‘It is very difficult’ to take a stand in the Republican party (DIERSEN: I vehemently disagree. I should write books about the many Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders who stand against the traditional marriage/family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. The aforesaid many party leaders focus on driving out of the Republican Party those who support the aforesaid planks. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform.)
https://news.yahoo.com/kinzinger-very-difficult-stand-republican-150656597.html

NEWSWEEK

— Kinzinger Says Trump Is ‘Desperate’ to Look Like He’s Still Leading GOP – JASON LEMON

https://www.newsweek.com/adam-kinzinger-says-trump-desperate-look-like-hes-still-leading-gop-1565655

WASHINGTON POST
— Kinzinger to start new PAC to challenge party’s embrace of Trump – Paul Kane and Amy B Wang (DIERSEN: Will Kinzinger and his supporters demand that the following give money to Kinzinger’s PAC or leave the Illinois Republican Party (IRP): a) IRP Chairman, b) IRP officers, c) IRP National Committeeman, d) IRP National Committeewoman, e) the 18 IRP State Central Committee members and their deputies, f) the officers of the 102 county party organizations, g) the officers of the township and ward party organizations, h) the Precinct Committeemen and Captains, i) the 2,446,891 in Illinois who voted for Trump, j) the 193,611 in DuPage County who voted for Trump, k) the 20,080 in Milton Township who voted for Trump, and l) the 157 in my precinct who voted for Trump?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/31/gop-rep-kinzinger-start-new-pac-challenge-partys-trump-supporters/

NEW YORK POST
— Kinzinger wants Rep. Greene tossed from House committee – Mark Moore (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my disgusting critics/opponents who had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes toss me. I am no longer a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, GAO employee, etc. I would focus on my disgusting critics/opponents who have/had lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.)
https://nypost.com/2021/01/31/rep-kinzinger-wants-rep-greene-tossed-from-house-committee/

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger — whose family sent out a petition to disown him after his pro-impeachment vote — said the GOP is not a ‘Trump-first party’ – Taylor Ardrey
https://www.businessinsider.com/kinzinger-on-mccarthy-flordia-visit-this-is-not-a-trump-first-party
— GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s relatives disowned him for voting to impeach Trump
https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-rep-adam-kinzinger-relatives-disowned-him-impeach-trump-vote-2021-1

CITIZEN
— Should conservatives be sentenced to a Leftist-enforced ‘re-education camp’? – Trey Hoffman, Peachtree City, Ga.
https://thecitizen.com/2021/01/31/should-conservatives-be-sentenced-to-a-leftist-enforced-re-education-camp/

ATLANTIC
— Only Accountability Will Allow the U.S. to Move Forward. America cannot change its history, but it can surely learn from it. – Mitch Landrieu (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters paint Trump-supporters as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/only-accountability-will-allow-us-move-forward/617876/?fbclid=IwAR1I68in27Ndqx18TcNNPn7DT4Gwdn4-1TAm2-1Ap5nyqW0upC7BhZscxqs

January 30 Morning Edition

ABC7
— Republican leader meets with Trump 2 weeks after pinning Capitol riot on ex-president. Trump’s expected status as a GOP kingmaker post-presidency had seemed like an impossibility after his supporters stormed the Capitol building in a deadly riot. – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/gop-leader-meets-with-trump-despite-condemnation/10121573/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Rash of teen carjackings shows it’s time to expand the meaning of neglect, abuse of minors. It isn’t just a bunch of 14-year-olds who are to blame. We need to be holding their parents accountable, too. – Mary Mitchell
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/1/29/22256964/carjackings-chicago-abuse-neglect-minors-teenagers

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Erasing classic literature for kids – JOHN KASS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-classics-in-schools-kass-20210130-k2uluwpt2jdtxmz7zp4hl2xz2i-story.html

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— On the dangerous progressive page – Michael Reagan
https://www.pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/michael-reagan-on-the-dangerous-progressive-page/article_b0688eec-fb0f-5a11-ab58-e8bf3499acfc.html

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DuPage County reports 220 COVID-19 cases Friday, 1 death, region’s positivity remains at 7.1% – Joshua Welge
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/coronavirus/2021/01/30/dupage-county-reports-220-covid-19-cases-friday-1-death-regions-positivity-remains-at-71/
— Berwyn cop promoted despite concerns voiced by residents, activist group – Catey Sullivan (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who complained the most a) when my IRS mentor promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, b) when my GAO mentor hired me in 1980, got me assigned to audits of IRS in 1986, and promoted me in 1986, c) when I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999, d) when I became a Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster in 2000 and 2008, e) when I became the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, f) when I became an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member in 2001, g) when I became an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member in 2003, h) when I became a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member in 2004, and i) when I became a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2005. I should write a book about the aforesaid complainers.)
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/government/2021/01/29/berwyn-cop-promoted-despite-concerns-voiced-by-residents-activist-group/

WREX
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, a) Democrats blame Republicans for all the problems that minorities and everyone else has and b) Democrats encourage minorities and everyone else to hate Republicans.
https://wrex.com/2021/01/29/pritzker-lightfoot-discuss-need-for-racial-healing-in-illinois/

WGLT
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot. To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.
https://www.wglt.org/post/bloomington-agencies-expand-services-cannabis-tax-grants#stream/0

NPR ILLINOIS
— Republicans Divided Over Loyalties To Former President Trump – DON GONYEA (DIERSEN: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/republicans-divided-over-loyalties-former-president-trump#stream/0
— Biden’s Support Of Abortion Rights At Odds With Catholic Bishops – TOM GJELTEN
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/bidens-support-abortion-rights-odds-some-catholic-bishops#stream/0

FOX ILLINOIS
— In fight over GOP, state parties stand as firewall for Trump – AP (DIERSEN: What positions do the candidates for Illinois Republican Party Chairman have on Trump, Kinzinger, etc.? If I was still the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, the organization would be hosting a candidate forum.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/in-fight-over-gop-state-parties-stand-as-firewall-for-trump-01-29-2021
— GOP rift over Trump’s role in riot fades as Republicans turn to midterms – Stephen Loiaconi
https://foxillinois.com/news/connect-to-congress/gop-rift-over-trumps-role-in-riot-fades-as-republicans-turn-to-midterms

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Wheaton Republican Amy Grant wants Illinois to ‘address all the spending’ to tackle outmigration concern – Glenn Minnis (DIERSEN: The Democrats who run Illinois focus on driving Republicans out of Illinois, and especially Republicans who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/572956428-wheaton-republican-wants-illinois-to-address-all-the-spending-to-tackle-outmigration-concern

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois is about to impose a political litmus test on all teachers – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-is-about-to-impose-a-political-litmus-test-on-all-teachers-wirepoints-on-wjpfs-morning-newswatch/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Lessons From Lincoln – Julie Tisdale
https://illinoisfamily.org/faith/lessons-from-lincoln/

BREITBART
— Pritzker Blocks Troops from Helping Chicago, Sends Them to D.C. Instead – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/29/ill-gov-pritzker-blocks-troops-keep-chicago-safe-sends-them-d-c-instead/
— 13 Shot, 2 Killed, Thursday in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago – AWR HAWKINS
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/29/13-shot-2-killed-thursday-mayor-lori-lightfoots-chicago/
— New York Times: Joe Biden’s Migrant Wave Is Building – NEIL MUNRO
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/01/29/nytimes-joe-bidens-migrant-wave-building/
— Democrats Seek to Ban Federal Agencies from Using ‘Illegal Alien’ Term – JOHN BINDER (DIERSEN: Democrats have declared war on Republicans. Democrats see illegal aliens as being their soldiers in their army to get rid of Republicans once and for all. Democrats a) want employers to replace their current employees with illegal aliens and b) want organizations to replace their current members with illegal aliens.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/29/democrats-seek-to-ban-federal-agencies-from-using-illegal-alien-term/

BLAZE
— Public school staff member calls ‘white privileged Trump supporters … scum and a plague upon the world’ in profanity-laced post – DAVE URBANSKI
https://www.theblaze.com/news/school-staff-member-attacks-trump-supporters-online

PJ MEDIA
— Trump’s Policy Agenda Resonates With Americans. McCarthy Needs It and Democrats Are Out to Destroy It – STACEY LENNOX
https://pjmedia.com/columns/stacey-lennox/2021/01/29/trumps-policy-agenda-resonates-with-americans-mccarthy-needs-it-and-democrats-are-out-to-destroy-it-n1418102

HOT AIR
— Poll: Plurality Of Republicans Say Third Party Started By Trump Would Be Better Than The GOP (DIERSEN: What percent of the following want Trump to start a third party: a) the 2,446,891 in Illinois who voted for Trump, b) the 193,611 in DuPage County who voted for Trump, c) the 20,080 in Milton Township who voted for Trump, and d) the 157 in my precinct who voted for Trump?)
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2021/01/29/poll-plurality-republicans-say-third-party-started-trump-better-gop/

CNN
— GOP Rep. Kinzinger: This is not the party I joined. Kinzinger says that the Republican party needs to return to the way it was prior to Donald Trump’s time in the White House. – John Berman (DIERSEN: How many of the following agree with Kinzinger: a) the 2,446,891 in Illinois who voted for Trump, b) the 193,611 in DuPage County who voted for Trump, c) the 20,080 in Milton Township who voted for Trump, and d) the 157 in my precinct who voted for Trump? One could argue that Trump did more to defend and advance the Republican Party platform than any recent Republican president before him.)
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/01/28/adam-kinzinger-republican-party-future-sot-newday-vpx.cnn

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats have declared war on Republicans. Democrats see Dreamers as being their soldiers in their army to get rid of Republicans once and for all. Democrats a) want employers to replace their current employees with Dreamers and b) want organizations to replace their current members with Dreamers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/biden-immigration-reform-dreamers.html
— Proud Boys Charged With Conspiracy in Capitol Riot The conspiracy charges were the first to emerge against members of the extremist group in connection with the assault on Congress. – Alan Feuer
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/nyregion/proud-boys-charged-with-conspiracy-in-capitol-riot.html
— For McCarthy and McConnell, Two Paths on Trumpian Crisis Management Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell want to take back control of Congress in 2022. But first they have to figure out how to handle Donald Trump. – Jonathan Martin (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents a) demand blind loyalty to them and to them only and b) destroy those like me who are not blindly loyal to them. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton’s West District, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County’s 4th District, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who lead/led the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Center Right Coalition, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, etc. I would focus on Republican candidates who have been on ballots in my precinct since 2000.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/us/politics/trump-mcconnell-mccarthy.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The impeachment trial, which begins Feb. 8, and the growing debate over whether the Senate should at least censure Mr. Trump is setting the stage for a Trumpian loyalty test in the same chamber that was ransacked by a violent mob earlier this month. . .Ms. Greene, the freshman Georgia lawmaker who is under fire for her years of making hateful and bizarre comments, believes the problem is old-guard Republicans who won’t recognize what she believes is the new reality. “The vast majority of Republican voters, volunteers and donors are no longer loyal to the G.O.P.,” she said this month. “Their loyalty now lies with Donald J Trump.”)
— In Biden’s White House, Masks, Closed Doors and Empty Halls. The West Wing has become a different place in an administration serious about Covid restrictions. – Annie Karni
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/politics/biden-white-house-coronavirus.html
— FRONT PAGE: DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “G.O.P. in a Bind as Hate Speech And Smears Find a House Seat|.”
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has created a dilemma for her party’s leaders, who for months have been largely unwilling to publicly rebuke her inflammatory posts for fear of alienating voters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-republicans.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “White Supremacists Organized Early Online.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/us/louis-beam-white-supremacy-internet.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: G.M. Announcement Shakes Up U.S. Automakers’ Transition to Electric Cars Every carmaker is trying to figure out how to make the leap before governments force it and Tesla and other start-ups lure away drivers. – Neal E. Boudette and Coral Davenport
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/business/general-motors-electric-cars.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “The ‘civil war’ for the soul of the GOP is over before it began. Trump won — again.” Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want the Republican Party to get rid of all those who support Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/29/civil-war-soul-of-gop-over-trump-won/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Speech and Sedition in 2021 The progressive press decides that dissenters should be suppressed. – Editorial (DIERSEN: The progressive press has always suppressed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and my www.gopillinois.com website.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/speech-and-sedition-in-2021-11611962910
— The Constitution Can Crack Section 230 Tech companies think the statute allows them to censor with impunity. The law is seldom so simple. – Philip Hamburger
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-constitution-can-crack-section-230-11611946851
— Repeal of State-Tax Deduction Cap Pitched for Covid-19 Relief Bill. Democrats, in control of Congress, see a chance to repeal the $10,000 limit on the state and local tax deduction, but a move may wait until later this year. Richard Rubin (DIERSEN: The SALT cap discourages marriage and it discourages homeownership. It should be increased to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/repeal-of-state-tax-deduction-cap-pitched-for-covid-19-relief-bill-11611928800

BUSINESS INSIDER
— The Trump Plaza condo board in West Palm Beach voted unanimously to dump the Trump name – Juliana Kaplan (DIERSEN: Which individuals, organizations, employers, etc. have dumped you? I should write a book about those who have dumped me. I would focus on those who paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican but who have surrendered to the Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs and moved to the left and now reject the traditional marriage/family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/condo-board-florida-west-palm-beach-votes-dump-trump-plaza-2021-1

TPM
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Kinzinger Suggests QAnon Theories Have ‘Unmoored’ The Republican Party.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kinzinger-suggests-qanon-theories-have-unmoored-the-republican-party
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “The GOP Is Rapidly Making Its Way to Embrace of the Insurrection.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-gop-is-rapidly-making-its-way-to-embrace-of-the-insurrection

ATLANTIC
— How Early Trump Supporters Feel Now The former president’s 2015 backers, in their own words – Conor Friedersdorf (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will your municipality, your township, your county, Illinois, and America officially publish their blacklists? From what I see, the more of the following that you are, the more blacklists that you will be on: law enforcement officer, Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/how-early-trump-supporters-feel-now/617815/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: If you don’t agree with Democrats, then the Dems use social media to punish you for wrongthink. You are canceled. You can lose your job. You go on a blacklist. People who support Trump or worked in his administration are now blacklisted as punishment for their beliefs. This is what they do in communist countries, not free America. What the hell has happened to our country in the past year anyway? Riots and looting are permitted if performed by antifa but not peaceful protests by Trump supporters. Antifa infiltrates our rallies to make us look bad. Nobody cares. It is not investigated. [The Freedom of Information Act] is denied, citing privacy concerns. Thus anger among conservatives continues to build up like a volcano about to explode because we are stymied at every turn and there is no outlet, no justice, just corruption.)

GUARDIAN
— Fauci says ‘virus will continue to mutate’ as Democrats aim to fast-track Covid relief plan – as it happened – Daniel Strauss (now) and Martin Belam
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/29/joe-biden-donald-trump-impeachment-covid-coronavirus-nancy-pelosi-kamala-harris-live-updates

January 29 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Illinois COVID Update: IL reports 4,156 new cases, 71 deaths; vaccine efforts ramp up. As Illinois COVID vaccination ramps up, 2nd appointments prove hard to find. – Diane Pathieu
https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-covid-cases-vaccine-coronavirus/10120504/

NBC5
— In Fight Over GOP, State Parties Stand as Firewall for Trump. In swing states and GOP bastions, state and local Republican committees are stocked with Trump supporters who remain loyal – Thomas Beaumont and Nicholas Riccardi
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/in-fight-over-gop-state-parties-stand-as-firewall-for-trump/2424239/
— OEMC Says Chicago Has Not Received Threats Following US Terrorism Alert. The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday warning of the lingering potential for violence from people motivated by antigovernment sentiment after President Joe Biden’s election. (DIERSEN: From what I see, the more of the following that you are, the more that Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs paint you as being an extremist, if not a domestic terrorist: law enforcement officer, veteran, Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/oemc-says-chicago-has-not-received-threats-following-us-terrorism-alert/2424309/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Wednesday warning of the lingering potential for violence from people motivated by antigovernment sentiment after President Joe Biden’s election, suggesting the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol may embolden extremists and set the stage for additional attacks.)
— Trump-Supporting Illinois Couple Charged in US Capitol Riot – Don Babwin
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-supporting-illinois-couple-charged-in-us-capitol-riot/2424258/
— Democratic Lawmakers Call for Removal of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Over Incendiary Rhetoric – Hannah Miao
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/democrat-lawmakers-call-for-removal-of-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-over-incendiary-rhetoric/2424455/

CBS2
— Feds Charge 3 More Illinois Residents In U.S. Capitol Riot, Based On Social Media Videos And Photos
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/01/29/feds-charge-3-more-illinois-residents-in-u-s-capitol-riot-based-on-social-media-videos-and-photos/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Pelosi denounces GOP leaders over Georgia lawmaker’s posts. – Will Weissert and Brian Slodysko
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pelosi-denounces-gop-leaders-over-georgia-lawmakers-posts
— Journalists booted from Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall – Ben Nadler
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/journalists-booted-from-marjorie-taylor-greene-town-hall

WGN TV
— US Capitol surrounded by fence, troops as threats continue – Raquel Martin
https://wgntv.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/us-capitol-surrounded-by-fence-troops-as-threats-continue/

WGN RADIO
— National March for Life goes digital as Biden reverses abortion restrictions – Basil John
https://wgnradio.com/news/national-march-for-life-goes-digital-as-biden-reverses-abortion-restrictions/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— CTU dance video goes viral after getting slammed by conservative media. Through interpretive dance, six CPS teachers expressed their COVID safety concerns about returning to classrooms in a Facebook video. The video ended up receiving backlash after being posted on Fox News and other outlets. – Alison Martin
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2021/1/29/22256622/ctu-dance-video-covid-19-teachers-union-strike-cps
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater promotes hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/1/27/22252933/joe-biden-vote-republicans-for-trump-agenda-mona-charen
— A new Illinois House leader rolls out a new team — and a new style. “I’m looking forward to using my new voice to continue to highlight the issues that are important to me and to the communities that I serve,” Speaker Chris Welch said. – Rich Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/1/29/22256979/illinois-politics-house-chris-welch-rich-miller-capitol-fax
— Madam Mayor, save the word ‘racist’ for the clear and real thing. We agree that two aldermen who argued against an ordinance extending protections for undocumented immigrants were “misguided.” But xenophobic and racist? – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/29/22254458/chicago-racism-racist-undocumented-immigrants-city-council-mayor-lori-lightfoot-editorial

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— A view from Chicago for the Illinois Republican Party – STEPHEN F. BOULTON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-republican-party-illinois-20210129-b5k5xefiqfel3khfvhbfmfjnyq-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 6. Vocally oppose cancel culture. Our discourse is now dominated by a social theory which recognizes only “oppressors” and “oppressed” with no middle ground or differing opinions allowed. Our youth are being indoctrinated with this destructive mindset in our schools. An example is the “culturally responsive” teaching standard currently proposed by the Illinois State Board of Education, which will force teachers to adopt a curriculum of “progressive viewpoints,” under which teachers must “work actively” in the classroom against “systems of oppression” while promoting “student activism and advocacy” for a progressive agenda. Cancel culture is at root a Marxist-based model, and as with all Marxist theories, pits different groups of people against each other in bitter, unending conflict. Adopting such doctrines in government results in expanding hatred, suppression of speech, economic decline and social disintegration, as we are already seeing in parts of America today. If the Republicans will not stand for civility and freedom, who will? The Chicago Republican Party has begun planning for the 2022 election. We urge all Republicans to join forces to rescue and restore Illinois.)
— Repealing Section 230 would limit Americans’ speech – WILL DUFFIELD
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-section-230-big-tech-congress-con-repeal-20210128-dn7ovp252jdp7othxbtavggldy-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: While Illinois lost population over the past decade, four suburban counties grew, study shows – SARAH FREISHTAT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct-abn-kane-kendall-dupage-will-grow-st-20210128-4gisoorhb5abdmiuowvst2k2zy-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Only nine Illinois counties grew in population over the past decade and four of them were in the west and southwest suburbs — Kane, DuPage, Kendall and Will counties, an analysis from a Chicago planning agency shows. . .Over the same time period, DuPage County grew by 2,575 people, or 0.28%. Will County grew by 7,207, or 1.06%, and Kane County grew by 9,502 people, or 1.82%. Kendall County saw the highest rate of increase of any Illinois county, growing by 6.65%, or 7,860 people. . .Growth in Kane, DuPage, Kendall and Will is likely tied to people already in the region moving farther into the suburbs, he said, and to better job growth in the Chicago area than elsewhere in the state.)
— Older readers take offense to ‘prejudice of ageism’ against them and President Biden – JERRY DAVICH (DIERSEN: I should write a book about the biggest age discriminators in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-pt-davich-ageism-discrimination-president-biden-concerns-st-0131-20210129-s7bznpnfzrg33bqv5ifjcvxne4-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “In defense of Marjorie Taylor Greene: Think of all the times she HASN’T wanted to execute Democrats.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/rex-huppke/ct-marjorie-taylor-greene-laser-execute-house-republicans-fire-huppke-20210129-yjvky2unvfcj3fixjdr3jvllh4-story.html
— Chicago aldermen launch ‘Operation Safe Pump’ amid carjacking spike | Kinzinger and Illinois’ fractured GOP | Lightfoot, Pritzker on what it means to govern after George Floyd’s death – LISA DONOVAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-carjackings-alderman-coleman-kinzinger-republicans-spin-20210130-sr7w5wx2bnccndkhbitqfxgd7y-story.html
— Communication, flooding topics in Aurora Township highway commissioner race – DAVID SHAROS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct-abn-aurora-township-highway-commissioner-st-0201-20210130-7ytxd4pwbnhhjejvjraya7inse-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Vote for new Illinois GOP chairman delayed to Feb. 6 – JJ Bullock (DIERSEN: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organization would be hosting a candidate forum.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210129/vote-for-new-illinois-gop-chairman-delayed-to-feb-6
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The voting delay will give the three candidates vying for the role — Lake County Republican Chairman Mark Shaw, former lieutenant governor candidate Don Tracy and Kendall County Chairman Scott Gryder — extra time to campaign within their party before the vote.)
— OUTSTANDING: Naperville park board approves resolution urging Pritzker to veto police reform bill – Lauren Rohr
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210129/naperville-park-board-approves-resolution-urging-pritzker-to-veto-police-reform-bill
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: To promote diversity is to get rid of those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20200726/league-of-women-voters-seeks-to-be-more-inclusive

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— McDonald’s will pay employees to get the vaccine. The fast food giant joins other companies offering workers incentives to get inoculated against COVID-19. – ALLY MAROTTI
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/mcdonalds-will-pay-employees-get-vaccine

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois reports third daily record for COVID-19 shots; governor responds to GOP barbs – Dean Olsen
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2021/01/29/illinois-reports-new-daily-record-covid-19-vaccine-shots/4310259001/

ALTON DAILY NEWS
— House Republicans Urge Veto Of Police Reform Bill – Greg Bishop
http://www.altondailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=17&id=318104#.YBRmep4XCM8

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Who Is Marjorie Taylor Greene? What The Congresswoman’s Rise Means For The Future Of The GOP.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/who-marjorie-taylor-greene-what-congresswomans-rise-means-future-gop#stream/0

FOX ILLINOIS
— Pelosi wants security money to face ‘enemy’ within House – AP (DIERSEN: According to Democrats, Republicans are the enemy within. According to RINOs, conservatives are the enemy within.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/connect-to-congress/pelosi-wants-security-money-to-face-enemy-within-house-01-29-2021

WJBC
— State Rep. Brady calling on Gov. Pritzker to veto police reform bill – Blake Haas
https://www.wjbc.com/2021/01/29/state-rep-brady-calling-on-gov-pritzker-to-veto-police-reform-bill/

WLDS
— IL GOP Delegation Weighs In On Biden’s Cancellation of Keystone XL Pipeline Permit – Benjamin Cox
https://wlds.com/il-gop-delegation-weighs-in-on-bidens-cancellation-of-keystone-xl-pipeline-permit/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats illegally do more to illegally encourage illegal immigration.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/01/28/with-new-president-cook-county-leaders-chicago-advocates-press-for-immigration-reform/

GATEWAY PUNDIT
— Top Winnebago County Republican Calls for GOP to Censure Trump-Hating Rep. Adam Kinzinger — Rally Set for Saturday – Jim Hoft
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/top-winnebago-county-republican-calls-gop-censure-trump-hating-rep-adam-kinzinger-rally-set-saturday/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Were the Capitol Rioters Christ-Followers? – Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/were-the-capitol-rioters-christians/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— CONGRESSWOMAN MARY MILLER TO SERVE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR COMMITTEE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/01/miller-to-serve-on-education-and-labor-committee.html
— THORNER: DEMOCRATS PUSH FOR FEDERAL ELECTION LAW CREATING A PERPETUAL BLUE WAVE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/01/thorner-democrats-push-for-federal-election-law-creating-a-perpetual-blue-wave-.html
— BIDEN’S DISBANDING OF 1776 COMMISSION SHOWS LEFT’S WAR ON US HISTORY
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/01/bidens-disbanding-of-1776-commission-shows-lefts-war-on-us-history.html

CAPITOL FAX
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Kinzinger.
https://capitolfax.com/2021/01/29/kinzinger-continues-wowing-the-news-media/
— COVID-19 roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2021/01/29/covid-19-roundup-73/
— 4,156 new confirmed and probable cases; 71 additional deaths; 2,735 hospitalized; 532 in ICU; 4.3 percent average case positivity rate; 5.4 percent average test positivity rate; 38,738 average daily doses
https://capitolfax.com/2021/01/29/4156-new-confirmed-and-probable-cases-71-additional-deaths-2735-hospitalized-532-in-icu-43-percent-average-case-positivity-rate-54-percent-average-test-positivity-rate-38738-average-daily-doses/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden, Democrats scheme to sidestep Republicans for left-wing wishlist – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/28/joe-biden-democrats-scheme-sidestep-republicans-le/

RUSH LIMBAUGH
— All the Tech Entrepreneurs Are Liberals for a Reason
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2021/01/29/all-the-tech-entrepreneurs-are-liberals-for-a-reason/

THE HILL
— Scrutiny grows over National Guard presence at Capitol – REBECCA KHEEL AND ELLEN MITCHELL
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/536570-scrutiny-grows-over-national-guard-presence-at-capitol

POLITICO
— Trump-inspired big donors plan their own campaigns. At least a half-dozen major Trump patrons are preparing possible campaigns modeled on Trump’s outsider, business-oriented mantra. – ALEX ISENSTADT
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/28/trump-donor-campaigns-463363

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Palm Beach considers options as Trump remains at Mar-a-Lago. The Town of Palm Beach, Florida, is considering its legal options as former President Donald Trump is still living at his Mar-a-Lago club, a possible violation of a 1993 agreement. – Terry Spencer
https://www.wfmj.com/story/43254449/palm-beach-considers-options-as-trump-remains-at-mar-a-lago

CNN
— Pipe bombs found near Capitol on January 6 were placed the night before, FBI says – David Shortell
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/29/politics/washington-pipe-bombs-dnc-rnc/index.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Republican Ties to Extremist Groups Are Under Scrutiny. A number of members of Congress have links to organizations and movements that played a role in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. – Luke Broadwater and Matthew Rosenberg (DIERSEN: From what I see, the more of the following that you are, the more that Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs paint you as being an extremist, if not a domestic terrorist: law enforcement officer, veteran, Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/republicans-trump-capitol-riot.html
— Joe Biden, the Irishman. The president’s heritage is important to him. But how deep does it go? – Maeve Higgins
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/opinion/joe-biden-irish-ireland.html
— Washington Post, Reuters and Los Angeles Times Search for New Top Editors – Katie Robertson and Marc Tracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/business/media/post-reuters-los-angeles-editors.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “The G.O.P. Is in a Doom Loop of Bizarro. and asks “But will it doom the rest of us, too?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/opinion/republican-lies.html

WASHINGTON POST
— RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is trying to hold together a party that Donald Trump might want to tear up – Josh Dawsey and Manuel Roig-Franzia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/ronna-mcdaniel-interview-trump-republican-party/2021/01/28/c2cbc93e-5770-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “It seemed the GOP might show some self-respect. Now it’s crawling back to Trump.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/it-seemed-the-gop-might-show-some-self-respect-now-theyre-crawling-back-to-trump/2021/01/28/a4eb4130-61af-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “If Republicans won’t risk defeat to tell the truth, Trump will own their party.”
Retiring senators are handing the GOP over to its wild fringe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-mcconnell-portman-toomey-kinzinger-republicans/2021/01/29/a71efed4-60f0-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Forcing out the fringe” and asks “Can Republicans exile their most toxic supporters? They’ve done it before.” The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the more that RINOs call you fringe if not toxic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/01/29/gop-john-birch-society-trump/

FORBES
— Clinton Conspiracies, False Flags And Laser Beams That Cause Wildfires—Marjorie Taylor Greene has endorsed them all
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/01/28/clinton-conspiracies-false-flags-and-laser-beams-that-cause-wildfires-marjorie-taylor-greene-has-endorsed-them-all/

WEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “The Capitol insurrection isn’t moderating the GOP. It’s making them more extreme.”
https://theweek.com/articles/963635/capitol-insurrection-isnt-moderating-gop-making-more-extreme

INQUISITR
— Adam Kinzinger Says Marjorie Taylor Greene Is A ‘RINO’ – Damir Mujezinovic (DIERSEN: RINOs reject planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, they reject the traditional marriage/family, right to live, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Further, most commonly, RINOs focus on driving Republicans like me out of the Republican Party.)
https://www.inquisitr.com/6464806/adam-kinzinger-marjorie-taylor-greene-rino/

January 29 Morning Edition

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Rep. Adam Kinzinger on the fight for the future of the GOP: ‘That epic battle has commenced. The most prominent Republican in Illinois, Kinzinger is stepping up his crusade to “RestoreOurGOP,” as his hashtag says, in this post-Trump era. – Lynn Sweet (DIERSEN: The Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) has postponed to February 6 the meeting that it had scheduled for tomorrow to interview candidates for IRP chairman. What positions do the candidates have on Trump, on Kinzinger, etc.? The answers to those questions should by now be well-known not only by the IRP SCC members, but a) by all the chairmen of the Republican county, township, and ward organizations in Illinois and b) by all the Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains in Illinois. This is especially true because IRP SCC members are not elected by Republican voters in Illinois, but by Republican Precinct Committeemen outside of Cook County and by Township and Ward Committeemen in Cook County. All Republicans in Illinois should know by now, but do not know what positions the IRP Chairmen candidates have on Trump, Kinzinger, etc.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/28/22255481/rep-adam-kinzinger-illinois-future-gop-after-donald-trump-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-georgia
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Evangelist and Trump acolyte Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham, likened the 10 to Judas Iscariot in a Facebook post: “It makes you wonder what the 30 pieces of silver were that Speaker Pelosi promised for this betrayal.” I asked Kinzinger about what Graham said regarding the 10, and he told me, “as a Christian myself it was just heartbreaking to see” how “far, you know, personalities in the movement have fallen.” Kinzinger, 42, raised a Baptist, left that church when he was 20 and is now a “non- denominational Protestant.” For Graham to “equate those of us that voted to defend the Constitution to Judas, who betrayed Jesus, aka Trump, I mean it was — I didn’t get mad about it because nothing really makes me mad, you know — but I was just, I was actually more heartbroken,” Kinzinger said.)
— ‘Quincy made it inside’: 2 more Illinoisans charged in Capitol breach. The case against Christina and Jason Gerding of Quincy appears to be the first from Illinois to directly reference the QAnon conspiracy. – Jon Seidel (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters paint Trump supporters as being QAnon believers.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/1/28/22255598/qanon-capitol-riots-siege-donald-trump-quincy-christina-jason-gerding

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Kinzinger’s criticism of Trump puts focus on divide in Illinois GOP as party gets set to elect new leadership – RICK PEARSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-adam-kinzinger-trump-illinois-republicans-20210129-sybzihfppbazrcviq2v2cvupka-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Republican State Central Committee will meet Feb. 6 to decide among three candidates for outgoing Chairman Tim Schneider. But some in the party want to use the forum to discuss Kinzinger and a possible reprimand for his anti-Trump statements, which increased in vitriol following the Nov. 2 election and the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. “There’s a group that wants to talk about it and it’s not positive. There are those who want to censure him. There’s people wanting to know what the state party is going to do about it,” said former Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar, who represents the 11th Congressional District near Kinzinger’s 16th District on the state GOP central committee. The schism in the state GOP mirrors what’s happening with Republicans nationally as the party struggles to move forward even as many of its voters continue to back Trump and believe the November election was stolen from him. . .Kinzinger’s recent views and actions toward Trump, his supporters and the majority of his party have elevated his national stature, earning him cable-news interviews and profiles in The Washington Post and The Atlantic. But they also did not go unnoticed by state GOP leaders. Some have said they have received phone calls asking what the Illinois Republican Party was going to do about Kinzinger. The congressman was the subject of some discussion at a GOP State Central Committee meeting last weekend. “I think the party majority are kind of disappointed. I mean, the one thing I’ve heard most from Republicans over the years since Reagan is the old 11th Commandment,” Claar said of the former president’s admonishment to not speak ill of fellow Republicans. Claar accused Kinzinger of causing upheaval in the party to no clear end. “What is the point? Why are you elevating this thing into regional if not national prominence? What purpose are you serving here? You’re further pointing out the division in the party,” Claar said. . .Claar supported Trump and even co-hosted a fundraiser for him at the Bolingbrook Golf Club. That’s where the state GOP leaders were supposed to meet Saturday until a predicted snowstorm pushed off the date to Feb. 6. But he said Illinois Republicans should take a wait-and-see attitude on the party’s future and whether it should continue to align itself with the former president. “Let’s just leave it alone and see how it plays out,” Claar said. He said if the party does decide to speak out on Kinzinger he would oppose any effort to censure the congressman for his conduct, a course taken by GOP party leaders in some states against congressional members who voted for impeachment. “It serves no purpose to have headlines that say ‘Republican state party censures congressman.’ That would just give it more legs,” Claar said. “I think it would be better to just issue an observation of the reality that a congressman can say what he wants and it’s up to his constituency to decide whether they like it or not.” . . . Much of the state GOP’s decision on how to respond to Kinzinger may come down to its pick of a new chairman to replace Schneider, a former Cook County commissioner and Hanover Township trustee from Streamwood. . . State Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, said his focus for the next meeting was on picking a new state chairman, not on Kinzinger. “It’s about picking the right person to move us forward as we prepare for 2022,” said Rose, the 15th Congressional District state central committeeman. “We need to be focused on the right person to win 2022 and frankly, how we unite the party is what I’m hoping to hear from each of the candidates.”)
— If Biden and Democrats truly support ‘equity,’ why are they silent on school choice? – JOHN KASS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-school-choice-biden-kass-20210128-w5ainctcinckboe5jhdcprggim-story.html
— CTU’s Sharkey for mayor? Why not, isn’t he already the boss? – JOHN KASS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-chicago-teachers-union-kass-20210129-yfeefuoujnfvhlw2gnm36krfmq-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Republicans set to choose new state party chairman Saturday – Marni Pyke (DIERSEN: The meeting has been postponed to Saturday, February 6, 2021.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210129/republicans-set-to-choose-new-state-party-chairman-saturday
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It’s crucial for the next chairman to be personable, plus a savvy fundraiser and organizer, officials said. “We want the unicorn,” Grogan said. “We’re looking for someone who is well-rounded.” . . . “We feel 2022 will be a good cycle,” Grogan said.)

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— GOP PARTY PAUSE: The Republican State Central Committee has canceled Saturday’s meeting to name a new party chair. The meeting was supposed to be in Bolingbrook (not Bloomington, as I mistakenly stated on Thursday). Some downstate committee members were concerned about their return home as snow is forecast for Saturday evening, according to a spokesman. The plan is to hold the meeting Feb. 6. Kinzinger’s criticism of Trump puts focus on divide in Illinois GOP: “The Republican State Central Committee will meet Feb. 6 to decide among three candidates for outgoing Chairman Tim Schneider. But some in the party want to use the forum to discuss Kinzinger and a possible reprimand for his anti-Trump statements, which increased in vitriol following the Nov. 3 election and the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters,” by Tribune’s Rick Pearson. Kinzinger talks to Axelrod about his impeachment vote: Rep. Adam Kinzinger is willing to lose his seat over his vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump, the Illinois Republican told CNN’s David Axelrod during an episode of “The Axe Files” podcast released Thursday. “I did it knowing full well it could very well be terminal to my career,” Kinzinger said of his vote. “But I also knew that I couldn’t live with myself having, you know, try to just protect it and just felt like the one time I was called to do a really tough duty, I didn’t do it.” And Kinzinger addresses his evangelical roots with The Atlantic’s Emma Green. – Shia Kapos
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2021/01/29/mayors-comms-shuffle-now-urlacher-seeks-re-election-teacher-talks-stall-kids-still-home-491571
— Casey Urlacher, the Mettawa mayor pardoned by former President Donald Trump for his alleged involvement in a gambling scheme, is running for re-election as a write-in candidate now that his name has been cleared. “Even before I received a pardon, residents were encouraging me to run for reelection, to continue that progress. With the support of our residents, I made the decision that I would run for another term,” Urlacher said in a statement to Playbook. Urlacher, the brother of former Bears Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher, was among 73 people pardoned or commuted by Trump during his final hours in office. A federal indictment had charged that Urlacher and nine others ran an offshore sports gambling ring that raked in millions of dollars from hundreds of Chicago-area gamblers. Urlacher was charged with conspiracy and running an illegal gambling business. With an indictment looming over him, Urlacher didn’t file to run for a third term. That changed after Trump’s pardon. Urlacher’s quick return to politics comes as many Republican lawmakers nationwide shed their concerns about Trump’s role in inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol. “My position is unpaid, and I look forward to a positive campaign, earning the votes of residents, and serving for another term,” Urlacher said in his statement. It’s too late in the process for Urlacher to get his name printed on the ballot for the April 6 election. He faces former Mettawa Mayor Jess Ray of the Back to the Future Party. – Shia Kapos
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2021/01/29/mayors-comms-shuffle-now-urlacher-seeks-re-election-teacher-talks-stall-kids-still-home-491571

WBEZ
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats crow about their success in driving individuals, organizations, and companies out of Illinois that are pro-law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wbez.org/stories/planning-official-cites-lagging-economy-and-immigration-for-illinois-population-loss/fc4a5192-1946-4a74-973e-c8e5fac9bc34

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— House speaker Chris Welch plans to reduce partisan acrimony. How it will affect the chamber – Dean Olsen
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2021/01/29/illinois-house-new-speaker-chris-welch-wants-parties-work-together/4162153001/

JOURNAL STAR
— Illinois man caught on TikTok video fighting National Guard at Capitol arrested – AP
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/2021/01/28/illinois-man-arrested-u-s-capitol-attack/4293702001/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DuPage County reports 263 COVID-19 cases Thursday, 6 deaths, region’s positivity rate decreases to 7.1% – Joshua Welge
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/coronavirus/2021/01/29/dupage-county-reports-263-covid-19-cases-thursday-6-deaths-regions-positivity-rate-decreases-to-71/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Amazon has asked federal regulators to block multiple shareholder proposals addressing criticism of company stances on curbing hate speech, diversity in hiring, workplace conditions and surveillance technologies. – AP
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/amazon-asks-for-block-on-shareholder-hate-speech-proposal

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters paint Trump supporters as being QAnon believers.
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/without-their-messiah-qanon-believers-confront-post-trump-world#stream/0
— After Riot, Acting Capitol Police Chief Calls For Permanent Fencing Around Complex – ALANA WISE
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/after-riot-acting-capitol-police-chief-calls-permanent-fencing-around-complex#stream/0
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote discrimination against those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/biden-signs-most-far-reaching-federal-protections-lgbtq-people-yet#stream/0
— Biden Signs Most Far-Reaching Federal Protections For LGBTQ People Yet – LEILA FADEL (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will all employers, organizations, governments, countries, etc. officially get rid of all individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that do not promote LGBTQ?)
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/biden-signs-most-far-reaching-federal-protections-lgbtq-people-yet#stream/0

FOX ST. LOUIS & KWQC
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers push pot. To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.
https://fox2now.com/video/illinois-collects-62m-in-cannabis-revenue-for-neighborhoods/6204983/
https://www.kwqc.com/2021/01/29/green-state-how-has-legalization-of-marijuana-in-illinois-impacted-crime-in-the-quad-cities/

CHICAGO NOW
— Not content with shafting the kids, CTU demands more power to do more damage – Dennis Byrne
http://www.chicagonow.com/dennis-byrnes-barbershop/2021/01/not-content-with-shafting-the-kids-ctu-demands-more-power-to-do-more-damage/

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Speaker Welch releases committee assignments, February session plans – SARAH MANSUR
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/NEWS/speaker-welch-releases-committee-assignments-february-session-plans

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Rep. Marty McLaughlin Expresses Disappointment that Democrats Refuse to Meet
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/28/rep-marty-mclaughlin-exresses-disappointment-that-democrats-refuse-to-meet/
— Algonquin Township Abolition Petitioners Suffer Court Loss
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/28/algonquin-township-abolition-petitioners-suffer-court-lose/
— Reick Reports on New Standards for Teaching, Urges Citizens to Email Reactions to State Board of Education
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/28/reick-reports-on-new-standards-for-teaching-ueges-citizens-to-email-reactions-to-jcar/
— Illinois Coronavirus Protection Failure
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/28/illinois-coronavirus-protection-failure/
— Jack Franks Swearing on House Floor While Insulting Lee Daniels Remembered
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/28/jack-franks-swearing-on-house-floor-while-insulting-lee-daniels-remembered/
— Should State Mandate What Is Taught in Schools?
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/28/should-state-manadate-what-is-taught-in-schools/
— Left Retools Its Fight Against 1099 Workers Focusing on App-Based Businesses
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/27/freelancers012721/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump pledges to help McCarthy, GOP win back House majority in 2022 – Dave Boyer
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/28/donald-trump-pledges-help-kevin-mccarthy-republica/
— Pelosi says House GOP is ‘the enemy within’ Congress – Seth McLaughlin and Dave Boyer (DIERSEN: RINOs who run Republican organizations treat conservatives, that is, treat those like me who support the Republican Party platform, as being “the enemy within.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/28/nancy-pelosi-house-gop-enemy-within-taylor-greene/
— RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel condemns QAnon as ‘beyond fringe’: ‘I think it’s dangerous’ – Jessica Chasmar
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/28/ronna-mcdaniel-rnc-chair-condemns-qanon-as-beyond-/
— Adam Kinzinger: Marjorie Taylor Greene is chasing fame – Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/28/adam-kinzinger-marjorie-taylor-greene-chasing-fame/
— Biden reverses Trump ban on U.S. foreign-aid funding for abortion. Order clears way to fund overseas organizations that perform or promote abortion – Valerie Richardson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/28/biden-signs-order-rescinding-trump-policy-banning-/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

— Big Tech is behaving more like Big Brother – Rep. Roger Marshall (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes side with Big Tech, that is, with Big Brother.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/big-tech-is-behaving-more-like-big-brother
(FROM THE ARTICLE: During the 1984 Super Bowl, a young company that had been founded less than a decade earlier in a garage in Los Altos, California, spent $1.5 million to its first significant commercial for a new, groundbreaking product — the Macintosh, the first personal computer. The company was Apple, and the advertisement was a defining moment that distinguished Apple as a company willing to go against the grain and rescue humanity from conformity. The ad had been inspired by George Orwell’s 1984 and featured a woman escaping police pursuit, running through a movie theater. She runs to the front of the theater and throws a hammer through a screen portraying a man’s face meant to represent Big Brother. As the camera pans to the audience, fully in shock from the movie screen’s explosion, the commercial concludes with black text that reads: “On January 24, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like 1984.” Nearly 40 years later, it is hard to recognize the company that paid to air this ad and established itself as a company that thinks differently. Unfortunately, that company no longer subscribes to a belief in free individual thought. It has demonstrated as much in recent weeks, taking a 180-degree turn. Apple now finds itself, along with other major Big Tech companies such as Google and Twitter, serving as Big Brother through the censorship and surveillance of conservative voices they and their political allies in Congress don’t agree with.)
— Pelosi’s big Tesla stock buy raises ethics questions – James Varney
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/29/nancy-pelosis-big-tesla-stock-buy-raises-ethics-qu/

FOX NEWS
— Former California GOP gubernatorial candidate John Cox predicts successful Newsom recall effort due to ‘epic mismanagement.’ ‘This state is a wonderful state to live in, great weather, great natural beauty but the worst management in the country,’ Cox said. – Joshua Q. Nelson
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-successful-newsom-recall-effort-epic-mismanagement
— Biden HUD nominee Fudge explains ‘equity’ doesn’t mean ‘treating everyone the same’ Marcia Fudge explained the meaning of one of President Biden’s goals – Ronn Blitzer (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs demand more and more and more preference for members of protected groups. Protected groups include those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, citizens of foreign countries, Trump-haters, non-Christians, non-Protestants, non-Italian Americans, non-German Americans, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Independent, RINO, moderate, liberal, low-income, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, drinkers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, and those who lack education, lack job skills, lack job experience, have financial problems, have health problems, and/or have other problems.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-hud-nominee-fudge-equity-not-treating-everyone-the-same

GOPUSA
— Names Struck From 44 San Francisco Schools, Including Lincoln, Revere — And Feinstein
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=105837
— 28 GOP Lawmakers Blink As Blinken Voices Pro-LGBTQ Plans
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=105868

BREITBART
— Duckworth: McCarthy ‘Violated his Oath’ Standing with ‘Enemy of the Constitution’ Trump – PAM KEY (DIERSEN: What adverse actions will Duckworth take against the following who refuse to disavow Trump: a) the 2,446,891 in Illinois who voted for Trump, b) the 193,611 in DuPage County who voted for Trump, c) the 20,080 in Milton Township who voted for Trump, and d) the 157 in my precinct who voted for Trump?)
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/01/28/duckworth-mccarthy-violated-his-oath-standing-with-enemy-of-the-constitution-trump/

BLAZE
— Chicago teacher says in-person schooling allows white people to kill black families: ‘If we do not speak up, nice white parents will get us killed’ – Sarah Taylor
https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-teacher-in-person-schooling-whites-kill-blacks
— Health care worker taken to ER just a few hours after getting second COVID-19 vaccine shot. Four days later he was dead. – Dave Urbanaki
https://www.theblaze.com/news/health-care-worker-taken-to-er-just-a-few-hours-after-getting-second-covid-vaccine-shot-four-days-later-he-was-dead

DAILY CALLER
— McCarthy And Trump Discuss Plans To Win Back The House During Thursday Meeting In Florida. – HENRY RODGERS
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/28/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-plans-win-house-congress-meeting-florida/
— Impeachment Supporting Republican Peter Meijer Says Capitol Is ‘Walled Off’ Because People Can’t Be Trusted To Not ‘Try To Overrun It’ – BRANDON GILLESPIE
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/28/impeachment-republican-peter-meijer-jake-tapper-capitol/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I think if there was any complicity in the events of January 6th we shouldn’t jump the gun, we shouldn’t jump to conclusions. We need to wait for that investigation to play out,” Meijer responded. “But we’re taking security risks seriously. I think it was my colleague Adam Kinzinger who said, you know, it’s not necessarily the death threats that are made to you that you worry about, it’s the ones that aren’t, it’s the people who are planning and not saying what they’re planning to do.” Some Democratic members of Congress have expressed their views that some of their Republican colleagues are white supremacist sympathizers and they don’t feel safe around them. They have yet to name any specific members who they feel fit that description.)

PJ MEDIA
— Facebook Will Reduce Political Content in Newsfeed – TYLER O’NEIL (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents/competitors, including Facebook, want to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, but failing that, they want to stop me from including links in the newsletters to articles that promote the traditional marriage/family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving), and other planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/01/28/facebook-will-reduce-political-content-in-newsfeed-n1416725

THE HILL
— Apple CEO says ‘recent events’ show ‘risk’ of social media algorithms pushing disinformation – REBECCA KLAR (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, all government and political news and commentary is disinformation except for the government and political news and commentary that they put out or bless. According to my critics/opponents, Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains should only read what they get directly from the chairmen of a) their Republican township/ward/county party organizations and b) the Illinois Republican Party. According to my critics/opponents, the chairmen of Republican township/ward/county party organizations in Illinois and the Illinois Republican Party should get rid of Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains who read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails.)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/536333-apple-ceo-says-recent-events-show-risk-of-social-media-algorithms-pushing
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, Independents and Independent plants, and RINOs crow about their success in destroying the Republican Party.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/536410-the-memo-center-right-republicans-fear-party-headed-for-disaster

POLITICO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Gary Rabine has plowed cash into the pro-Donald Trump organization Turning Point USA, shelled out thousands of dollars to the former president’s reelection campaign and raised big bucks with Donald Trump Jr. Now, Rabine is striking out on his own — and plotting a run for Illinois governor.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/28/trump-donor-campaigns-463363
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump may poison the party, but Republicans have decided they need him. A delicate dance is underway to keep some distance from the ex-president while also letting him know he’s beloved and welcomed.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/28/republicans-need-trump-463684

YAHOO NEWS
— Illinois mayor blames Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for 12-year-old girl’s death by alleged drunk driver. – Joe Barrett
https://news.yahoo.com/illinois-mayor-blames-cook-county-021700280.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Chicago Teachers Strike Could Upend Reopening Plans
Educators in the nation’s third-largest district have been negotiating with the city over how to reopen the schools safely amid Covid-19
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chicago-teachers-strike-could-upend-reopening-plans-11611829801
— GM to Phase Out Gas- and Diesel-Powered Vehicles by 2035. Auto giant’s plan to eliminate tailpipe emissions is part of a goal to be carbon neutral by 2040. – Mike Colias (DIERSEN: If batteries are so great, why aren’t there any battery-powered passenger jets?)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gm-sets-2035-target-to-phase-out-gas-and-diesel-powered-vehicles-globally-11611850343

USA TODAY
— ‘Almost had me murdered’: AOC slams Cruz for his efforts to overturn the election – Savannah Behrmann (DIERSEN: To what extent do hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters hold the following responsible for the Capitol Riot: a) your Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain, b) the officers of your Republican township/ward/county party organization(s), c) your representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee, d) the IRP National Committeeman, e) the IRP National Committeewoman, f) the IRP Chairman, g) your GOPUSA Illinois Editor, h) the Republican candidates on April 6, 2021 ballots for your precinct, i) etc.?)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/28/aoc-slams-ted-cruz-tweet-robinhood-gamestop/4297204001/

NEWSWEEK
— 10 Republicans Voted to Impeach Trump, 7 (including Kinzinger) Already Facing Challenges for Their Seats in Congress – JENNI FINK
https://www.newsweek.com/10-republicans-voted-impeach-trump-7-already-facing-challenges-their-seats-congress-1565248
— Pressure Grows on Kevin McCarthy to Cut Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Committee Assignments – DARRAGH ROCHE
https://www.newsweek.com/pressure-grows-kevin-mccarthy-cut-marjorie-taylor-greene-committee-assignments-1565320
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois told CNN on Thursday that Greene should be removed from her committee assignments. “She may be like this new definition of Republican, but that’s kind of a RINO thing,” Kinzinger said. “I don’t think she should have the privilege of any committees.”)

RAW STORY
— GOP’s Adam Kinzinger: We need to ‘expose’ people like ‘unhinged’ Majorie Taylor who’ve ‘lost a sense of reality’ – Matthew Chapman
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-green-2650165912/

AXIOS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters crow about their success in destroying conservatives. I should write a book about those who focus on destroying conservatives in Wheaton’s West District, Wheaton, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township, DuPage County’s 4th District, DuPage County, Illinois, Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, etc. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout and who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican.
https://www.axios.com/republican-party-culture-war-tucker-carlson-67e47559-6782-4e8a-97b3-d660f3cb21df.html

January 28 Evening Edition

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE
— RNC Statement on Senate Impeachment Trial
https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1354552272685035521

ABC7
— Chief federal judge scorns Capitol riot suspects, keeps rioter jailed – CNN
https://abc7chicago.com/chief-federal-judge-scorns-capitol-riot-suspects-keeps-rioter-jailed/10105487/
— Illinois COVID Update: IL reports 4,191 new cases, 103 deaths; vaccine efforts ramp up. As Illinois COVID vaccination ramps up, 2nd appointments prove hard to find – Sarah Schulte, Leah Hope
https://abc7chicago.com/health/il-covid-vaccinations-ramp-up-more-than-4k-new-cases-reported/10097641/
— Chicago Auto Show postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic; annual McCormick Place event pushed to spring – Liz Nagy
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-auto-show-2021-mccormick-place-covid/8589401/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Illinois Republican lawmakers urge Pritzker to veto police reform proposal – Mike Flannery
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/republican-lawmakers-urge-pritzker-to-veto-police-reform-proposal

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— House GOP leader calls new speaker’s style and offer of talks over coffee ‘refreshing’ — and he’s not talking about the cup of joe. The conversations Republican Jim Durkin’s had with Democrat Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch leave Durkin hopeful that this General Assembly will be markedly different than those led by Mike Madigan, whose iron-fisted grip on the gavel earned him the nickname “The Velvet Hammer.” – Rachel Hinton
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2021/1/28/22254660/durkin-welch-speaker-republican-democrat-general-assembly-madigan-coffee

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois population continues to drop, CMAP study finds | At Pentagon’s request, Pritzker sends Illinois guard to D.C. | Lightfoot, Pritzker to speak at racial healing virtual summit – LISA DONOVAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-immigration-economy-illinois-census-welch-legislative-agenda-spin-20210128-oljpgbccmrfcriveubruziglk4-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— State Republicans slam Pritzker as COVID-19 vaccinations lag – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20210128/news/301289877/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Durbin, Duckworth sign on to D.C. statehood bill. Though popular among Democrats, the measure faces long odds in a closely divided Congress. – GREG HINZ (DIERSEN: What about making Chicago the 52nd state?)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/durbin-duckworth-sign-dc-statehood-bill

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: If you promote violence, you are not a Christian.
https://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/christianity-on-display-at-capitol-riot-sparks-new-dialogue/article_71903d08-098b-5b30-ae36-b46758721a72.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Illinois senators support legislation to make Washington D.C. 51st state – Matt Sheehan (DIERSEN: What about making Chicago the 52nd state?)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/illinois-senators-support-legislation-to-make-washington-d-c-51st-state/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: How soon, if not already, will Democrats get rid of law enforcement officers who support Trump?
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/after-capitol-attack-does-police-maga-sentiment-cross-line#stream/0

FOX ILLINOIS
— Cancel culture on campuses: Students are ‘in an echo chamber’ says Campus Reform – ELISSA SALAMY
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/cancel-culture-on-campuses-students-are-in-an-echo-chamber-says-campus-reform

WIFR
— Rep. Kinzinger unsure of party alignment. Now that the impeachment trial is on the Senate floor, Kinzinger says there’s not much else he can do.
https://www.wifr.com/2021/01/29/rep-kinzinger-unsure-of-party-alignment/

CAPITOL FAX
— 500 Illinois National Guard members activated for Washington, DC security duty
https://capitolfax.com/2021/01/28/500-illinois-national-guard-members-activated-for-washington-dc-security-duty/
— Shaw, Tracy and Gryder to be interviewed for state GOP chair
https://capitolfax.com/2021/01/28/shaw-tracy-and-gryder-to-be-interviewed-for-state-gop-chair/
— 4,191 new confirmed and probable cases; 103 additional deaths; 2,802 hospitalized; 567 in ICU; 4.3 percent average case positivity rate; 5.5 average test positivity rate; 36,728 average daily doses
https://capitolfax.com/2021/01/28/4191-new-confirmed-and-probable-cases-103-additional-deaths-2802-hospitalized-567-in-icu-43-percent-average-case-positivity-rate-55-average-test-positivity-rate-36728-average-daily-doses/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Stop Big Tech and Big Businesses Silencing of Conservative Voices – Christine Misner
https://illinoisfamily.org/media/gardner-stop-big-tech-and-big-businesses-silencing-of-conservative-voices/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Duckworth ‘profoundly disappointed’ Biden Cabinet doesn’t include Asian Americans – Jessica Chasmar
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/28/tammy-duckworth-profoundly-disappointed-biden-cabi/
— ICE orders agents to stop using ‘illegal alien’ – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/28/ice-orders-agents-stop-using-illegal-alien/

FOX NEWS
— Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘white supremacist’ accusations about Republicans ‘reckless’ and ‘divisive’: Ronna McDaniel. Ocasio-Cortez’s comments do nothing to bring down the ‘temperature,’ McDaniel argues – Nikolas Lanum
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-accusations-republicans-reckless-divisive-ronna-mcdaniel


— CPAC organizers accuse Politico of trying to ‘cancel’ conservative event with ‘misleading’ claims to sponsors. ‘Politico is attempting to chill sponsorship of CPAC and harm the American Conservative Union,’ general counsel David Safavian wrote. – Brian Flood
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cpac-organizers-politico-cancel-conservative-misleading-claims-sponsors

HANNITY
— Today’s Democratic Party Doesn’t Respect Freedom of Speech or Expression
https://hannity.com/media-room/hannity-todays-democratic-party-doesnt-respect-freedom-of-speech-or-expression/


— CRUZ: ‘Silicon Valley Billionaires’ and ‘Big Tech’ Are ‘Using Power to Silence Dissent’
https://hannity.com/media-room/cruz-silicon-valley-billionaires-and-big-tech-are-using-power-to-silence-dissent/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Will Be ‘Actively Involved’ in Republican Politics, Not Interested in Third Party: Former Adviser – JACK PHILLIPS
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-will-be-actively-involved-in-republican-politics-not-interested-in-third-party-former-advisor_3675722.html

THE HILL
— Kinzinger: Marjorie Greene is ‘not a Republican’ – JOSEPH CHOI
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/536299-kinzinger-marjorie-taylor-greene-is-not-a-republican

— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters paint Marjorie Taylor Greene as being a typical Trump supporter.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/536355-gop-has-growing-taylor-greene-problem

WASHINGTON POST
— Time to double or upgrade masks as coronavirus variants emerge, experts say. Better face coverings are needed to curb more-transmissible strains as vaccine rollout is underway, they say – Fenit Nirappil
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/27/double-mask-variants-guidance/
— General Motors to eliminate gasoline and diesel light-duty cars and SUVs by 2035. Big U.S. automaker says it will invest heavily in electric vehicles and become carbon neutral by 2040 – Steven Mufson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/28/general-motors-electric/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater glorifies and praises Liz Cheney and paints Marjorie Taylor Greene as being a typical Trump supporter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/28/gop-is-self-policing-further-right/

NEWSWEEK
— Republicans Most at Risk of Being Primaried in 2022 – ALEXANDRA HUTZLER (DIERSEN: How hard will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters work to get hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters to run against Republican Precinct Committeemen?)
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-most-risk-being-primaried-2022-1565100

NEW YORKER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled boomer-hating boomer-haters promote hatred against boomers.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-conservative-case-against-the-boomers

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 57% of Voters Say Trump Impeachment Will Further Divide America
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/57_of_voters_say_trump_impeachment_will_further_divide_america

January 28 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— GOP signals unwillingness to part with Trump after riot – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-gop-unwilling-part-with-trump-20210127-olbp4fo65nhx5dvuscrkmlxvpi-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— A week to reflect on your ability to evaluate news – Jim Slusher (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents want to be your only source for government and political news and commentary of interest to Illinois Republicans. Consequently, they do everything that they can a) to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) stop everyone from reading those newsletters. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. Better yet, I should sue them.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20210128/a-week-to-reflect-on-your-ability-to-evaluate-news

JOURNAL COURIER
— President invited to visit region to see site of deadly 1908 race riots – David C.L. Bauer (DIERSEN: Soon, if not already, Illinois Democrats will demand that all Illinois Republicans disclose what their ancestors did in 1908. My ancestors on my father’s side operated Crete’s only hardware store. My ancestors on my mother’s side operated a farm in Grant Park.)
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/President-invited-to-visit-region-to-see-site-of-15904324.php

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DuPage County reports 191 COVID-19 cases Wednesday, 6 deaths, region’s positivity rate decreases to 7.2% – Joshua Welge
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/coronavirus/2021/01/28/dupage-county-reports-191-covid-19-cases-wednesday-6-deaths-regions-positivity-rate-decreases-to-72/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— U.S. terrorism alert warns of politically motivated violence – AP (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will the hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters who run your municipality, your township, your county, Illinois, and America officially a) prohibit Republican organizations from holding meetings, b) prohibit Republicans from communicating with each other, c) prohibit Republicans from seeking or holding government or political offices, d) prohibit Republicans from getting educations, e) prohibit Republicans from getting/holding jobs, f) prohibit Republicans from owning property, g) prohibit Republicans from etc.?)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/us-issues-domestic-terrorism-alert-early-in-bidens-term/
— Those in Peoria’s Muslim community hopeful after Biden reverses Trumps travel ban – Darronté Matthews (DIERSEN: Islam is more like a political party or a country without borders than a religion.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/those-in-peorias-muslim-community-hopeful-after-biden-reverses-trumps-travel-ban/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Police Departments Search For Political Extremism In Ranks Following Capitol Riot – MARTIN KASTE (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will the hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters who run your municipality, your township, your county, Illinois, and America officially prohibit hiring or retaining police who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/police-departments-search-political-extremism-ranks-following-capitol-riot#stream/0

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump ‘never encouraged violence’ says Sen. Rand Paul – ELISSA SALAMY
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-never-encouraged-violence-says-sen-rand-paul

ILLINOIS TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters paint Trump-supporters as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/springfield/the-kkks-statehouse-rally-27-years-ago/Content?oid=13121635

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Lightfoot Calls Out Aldermen For Making ‘Racist’ Comments Against Sanctuary City Ordinance: ‘Shame On You’ The mayor slammed Ald. Anthony Napolitano (41st) and Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th), who opposed changes to the sanctuary city ordinance Wednesday. “Being an immigrant is not a crime,” Lightfoot said. – Justin Laurence (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will Lightfoot officially banish from Chicago all individuals, organizations, and companies that are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/01/27/lightfoot-calls-out-aldermen-for-making-racist-comments-against-sanctuary-city-ordinance-shame-on-you/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The council approved the revamped law by a 41-8 vote, closing loopholes that had allowed for the Chicago Police Department to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in some scenarios. Napolitano, the council’s lone Republican member who said he’s a “proud son” of immigrants, said that by eliminating those exceptions “we are essentially welcoming criminals to our city.” “If you are an illegal immigrant and a convicted felon, or a fugitive, what better place to go than Chicago,” he said. “This ordinance irresponsibly offers protections to those who have possibly broken the law to hide underneath this ordinance and gives them safe haven from federal prosecution.” Napolitano said he knew he’d receive criticism for his “no” vote, but said he wanted the Council to know he’d “lose more sleep every night knowing how we failed our citizens with our alarming crime rate, homicides, carjackings, shootings.” Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) said he opposed the changes “not because of racism and xenophobia, but because I too represent immigrant communities.” He said the law threatens the safety of residents in his Southwest Side ward and some undocumented immigrants in his area are gang members. “They have been sucked in by the generational violence that impacts so many of our communities,” he said. Those individuals would be treated with the “same compassion” as law abiding members, he said.)

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— GOP to name party chair: Members of the Republican State Central Committee will meet in Bloomington on Saturday to elect a new party chairman. There’s concern among some Republicans that the meeting is purposely being done in person in Bloomington, which is inaccessible to many, so as to keep the public out. GOP leaders will interview applicants Mark Shaw, the Lake County Republican chairman; Don Tracy, the former head of the Illinois Gaming Board in the Rauner administration; and Scott Gryder, an attorney from Kendall County. – Shia Kapos
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2021/01/28/a-slap-to-remap-welchs-committee-chairs-educators-turn-on-bost-491559

GOPUSA
— The Left Wants Unconditional Surrender, Not Unity
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=105758

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Google Stops Donating to Republicans that Objected to 2020 Elections – Catherine Smith (DIERSEN: Google is a utility. Utilities are not supposed to use their power to reward and punish based on politics.)
https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/28/google-stops-donating-to-republicans-that-objected-to-2020-elections/

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— This Is Not Normal – Ben Shapiro
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.snappages.site/blog/2021/01/28/this-is-not-normal

BREITBART
— 14.5M Illegal Aliens Living in U.S., Costing Americans $134B a Year – JOHN BINDER (DIERSEN: Those politicians, organizations, and companies that promote illegal immigration should be billed for that $134B a year.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/27/study-14-5m-illegal-aliens-living-in-u-s-costing-americans-134b-a-year/
— YouTube Demonetizes the Epoch Times – ALLUM BOKHARI (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are furious that I have the money, time, ability, and motivation to put together and send out a GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter each and every morning and each and every evening.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/27/youtube-demonetizes-the-epoch-times/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump’s Approval Rating With GOP Voters Rebounds To 81% – DAVID KRAYDEN (DIERSEN: What approval rating does Trump get from the following: a) Republican voters in your precinct, in your municipal district, in your municipality, in your township, in your county district, and in your county, b) your Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain, the leaders of your township/ward/county party organizations, c) your representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee, d) the IRP leaders, e) Republican elected/appointed officials for your precinct, and f) those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout where you live.)
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/27/morning-consult-politico-poll-donald-trump-approval-rating-gop-voters-rebounds-81-percent/

THE HILL
— Kinzinger says he’s ‘very isolated and very lonely’ in Republican Party – JOHN BOWDEN (DIERSEN: Which Republicans are “very isolated and very lonely” where you live? Where I live (Wheaton, Milton Township, and DuPage County), the more of the following planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the more isolated and lonely that you are: traditional marriage/family, abortion, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving).)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/536159-kinzinger-says-hes-very-isolated-and-very-lonely-in-republican-party
— Trump censure faces tough odds in Senate – JORDAIN CARNEY (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who unsuccessfully tried to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me in 2006 for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I would focus on Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who lost elections, their major donors, their political consultants, their campaign managers, their campaign staff members, and their campaign volunteers.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/536210-trump-censure-faces-tough-odds-in-senate

POLITICO
— Rep. Jimmy Gomez drafts resolution to oust Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress – MATTHEW CHOI (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who successfully ousted me as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member in 2011, Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster in 2010 and 2004, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member in 2007, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member in 2004 for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I would focus on Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who lost elections, their major donors, their political consultants, their campaign managers, their campaign staff members, and their campaign volunteers.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/gomez-oust-marjorie-taylor-greene-463350
— McCarthy urges House Republicans to stop attacking each other publicly. “I’m not going to sit back and watch us make self-inflicted wounds,” he told his members. – MELANIE ZANONA (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who have publicly attacked me. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus those who are/were leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/27/kevin-mccarthy-republican-infighting-463257

CNN
— Virginia gubernatorial candidate who called US Capitol rioters ‘patriots’ censured by state Senate – Ryan Nobles, Terence Burlij and Paul LeBlanc
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/amanda-chase-us-capitol-insurrection-virginia-censure/index.html

ABC NEWS
— Bipartisan Senate duo crafts censure resolution that seeks to bar Trump from office. The senators say censuring Trump is optimal given GOP objections to impeachment. – Trish Turner and Allison Pecorin (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who unsuccessfully tried to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me in 2006 for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I would focus on Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who lost elections, their major donors, their political consultants, their campaign managers, their campaign staff members, and their campaign volunteers.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bipartisan-senate-duo-crafts-censure-resolution-bar-trump/story?id=75518145

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Extremists Emboldened by Capitol Attack Pose Rising Threat, Homeland Security Says – Zolan Kanno-Youngs and David E. Sanger
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/us/politics/homeland-security-threat.html

WASHINGTON POST
— GOP tested anew by Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Facebook activity – AP (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, the following organizations have taken care of their Diersen problem. I am no longer a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman. I am no longer a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member. I am no longer the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster. I am no longer an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member. I am no longer an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-tested-anew-by-georgia-congresswomans-facebook-activity/2021/01/28/fcd399f2-6127-11eb-a177-7765f29a9524_story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republicans have a Marjorie Taylor Greene problem. . .There was no immediate word on whether she will face a similar sanction as King.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Biden’s First Week Was a Race to the Left. The new president’s actions don’t suggest he’s interested in bipartisan progress. – Karl Rove
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-first-week-was-a-race-to-the-left-11611787868

FORBES
— Here Are The High-Profile GOP Officials Scorned By Their Own Party For Crossing Trump (DIERSEN: I should write a book about high-profile GOP officials who scorn me because of my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I would focus on those in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. I would focus on those who want everyone to know that they scorn me and scorn my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I would focus on those who blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all their problems, for all of your problems, for all of my problems, and for all of everyone’s problems.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/01/27/here-are-the-high-profile-gop-officials-scorned-by-their-own-party-for-crossing-trump/
— President Trump’s Regulatory Agencies Continued To Stockpile Firepower. – Adam Andrejewski
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/01/28/president-trumps-regulatory-agencies-continued-to-stockpile-firepower/?sh=1b1b7eae1514

USA TODAY
— Why we need a bipartisan censure to deal with Trump, not another circus impeachment trial. Instead of fracturing our country further, the Senate should censure Trump with a truly bipartisan vote. – Greta Van Susteren
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/01/26/censure-trump-instead-holding-impeachment-trial-column/4247735001/

KTRH
— Google Can Shift Elections Based on Search Engine Results – Wyatt Goolsby (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Google leads everyone to non-credible articles written by non-credible authors on non-credible websites that promote the Democrat, Libertarian , and Green Party platforms.)
https://ktrh.iheart.com/content/2021-01-27-data-scientists-google-can-shift-elections-based-on-search-engine-results/

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Centrists Air Censure Option As Trump Conviction Hopes Fade – Ed Kilgore (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who unsuccessfully tried to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me in 2006 for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I would focus on Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who lost elections, their major donors, their political consultants, their campaign managers, their campaign staff members, and their campaign volunteers.)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/centrists-air-censure-option-as-trump-conviction-hopes-fade.html

NEWS LITERACY PROJECT
— Practice good information hygiene: Sanitize before you share (DIERSEN: Since 2004, in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, I have shared links to almost 391,000 articles. My critics/opponents dislike many, if not most, if not virtually all of those articles. It would be great if my critics/opponents would get together, maybe in Wheaton Bowl Banquet Hall or a larger venue, go through all those almost 391,000 articles, and come to an agreement on the top 10, 50, 100, 500, 1,000+ articles that they dislike the most, and give me an opportunity to defend my decisions to include links to those articles in GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.)
https://newslit.org/tips-tools/information-hygiene-sanitize-before-you-share/

January 27 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Illinois COVID Update: IL reports 3,751 new cases, 81 deaths Gov. JB Pritzker tours Lake County Fairgrounds mass vaccination site
https://abc7chicago.com/health/il-reports-3751-new-cases-81-deaths/10066524/
— Army unveils more flexible rules for ponytails, nail color – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/society/army-unveils-more-flexible-rules-for-ponytails-nail-color/10061242/
— GOP to stay neutral should Donald Trump run for president again – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/gop-to-stay-neutral-should-trump-run-for-president-again/10073870/

NBC5
— Broken by Trump, US Refugee Program Aims to Return Stronger. More than 100 U.S. resettlement offices closed during Trump’s term – Julie Watson (DIERSEN: Democrats have declared war on Republicans. Democrats see refugees as being their soldiers in their army to get rid of Republicans once and for all.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/broken-by-trump-us-refugee-program-aims-to-return-stronger/2423361/
— Trump Cut Taxes for the Rich. Biden Wants to Raise Them. Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump were far apart on many issues — tax policy among them. – Greg Iacurci (DIERSEN: According to Democrats, you are rich if you are not on welfare.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-cut-taxes-for-the-rich-biden-wants-to-raise-them/2423229/

CBS2
— City Council Expands Protections For Immigrants, Blocks CPD From Cooperating With ICE – Todd Feurer (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats illegally encourage illegal immigration.)
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/01/27/city-council-expands-protections-for-immigrants-blocks-cpd-from-cooperating-with-ice/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Chicago City Council closes loopholes in Welcoming City ordinance, ending police cooperation with federal immigration agents. JOHN BYRNE and GREGORY PRATT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-city-council-january-meeting-20210127-zcgpjpcrdzgkzko3u4qzvnratm-story.html
— Solutions to carjacking epidemic can come from the Black community too – JERALD MCNAIR
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-carjackings-illinois-police-youth-parents-20210127-vwlurdpsqzhyjcb2f5unzljwvq-story.html
— State buys Near West Side building as part of Thompson Center exit plan | Lightfoot mum on chat with Vice President Kamala Harris | City landmarks Emmett Till house – LISA DONOVAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-thompson-center-emmett-till-landmark-foxx-public-defender-spin-20210128-hfy2fbfxb5ajnc33rjkudt6jpa-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers push pot. To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-cannabis-social-justice-st-0128-20210127-npaosnqqxrcz5nr4lfpjsgihpa-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— House Republicans, law enforcement urge Pritzker to veto ‘confusing, inoperable’ criminal justice reform bill. In a Zoom news conference Wednesday morning, House Republican Leader Jim Durkin said the state must “thoroughly and carefully address police reform and criminal justice reform, it is the right thing to do.” – Rachel Hinton
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2021/1/27/22252868/house-republicans-law-enforcement-durkin-pritzker-veto-criminal-justice-reform-bill
— Mayor rebuffs plan to nix ban on downtown weed shops: ‘We’re not turning Michigan Ave. into pot paradise’ “My concern about the effect on the shopping and tourists jewel of our city really hasn’t changed one wit since the fall of 2019, when we first started wrestling with this issue,” Lightfoot said Wednesday. – Tom Schuba and Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2021/1/27/22252781/illinois-dispensary-pot-cannabis-marijuana-downtown-brendan-reilly-lightfoot-exclusion-zone
— Democrat floats Trump censure as conviction grows unlikely. A censure would not hold the power of a conviction, but it would put the Senate on record as disapproving of Trump’s role in the insurrection, which came as Congress was counting electoral votes to confirm Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/27/22253356/democrat-floats-trump-censure-as-conviction-grows-unlikely
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, if you are an older White male Republican, the longer that your ancestors have been in America the more that Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn you as being a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/27/22252724/cancel-culture-english-literature-patrick-reardon-women-writers-african-american-writers

DAILY HERALD
— Oppose racial profiling – Bradley Williams, Mundelein
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20210127/oppose-racial-profiling
(FROM THE LETTER: HB0038 is currently in committee of the Illinois House of Representatives. This bill should concern Illinoisans who aspire for a community so beautifully described by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as one where people “will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” In a departure from Dr. King’s aspirations, HB0038 calls for consideration of race in the hiring process of public-school teachers. This would seem to violate several federal and state civil rights laws. Specifically, the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003 which explains that a unit of the state cannot “subject a person to discrimination under any program or activity on the grounds of that person’s race, color, national origin, or gender,” as well as the language of the Illinois Human Rights Act which prohibits race-based discrimination in employment. While one component of HB0038 undermines Dr. King’s message through employment considerations, another does so through mandates of curriculum and instruction at the local level. Starting as early as elementary school, HB0038 would require students to learn curriculum based in a discipline of academia that places race as an essential and defining part of human interaction. In this model, one’s status as oppressor or oppressed is heavily determined by skin color. In one application of this curriculum, groups of third-grade students analyzed their racial and sexual identities according to “power and privilege” and then wrote reflections on their status as being either privileged or oppressed. One parent described the activities as “basically teaching racism.” Humbly, I submit, a society that places race as an essentially defining element of most human interaction is not one so admirably envisioned by Dr. King. With that in mind, Illinoisans should oppose HB0038.)
— GOP signals unwillingness to part with Trump after riot – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20210127/news/301279993/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Proud Boys leader was government informant, records show – AP
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/proud-boys-leader-was-government-informant-records-show

WCMY 1430
— Local Republicans to publicly express dissatisfaction with Cong. Kinzinger – Rick Koshko
https://www.1430wcmy.com/2021/01/27/local-republicans-to-publicly-express-dissatisfaction-with-cong-kinzinger/

WALLS 102
— Kinzinger’s office responds to LaSalle County Republican’s rally this weekend
https://www.walls102.com/lasalle-county-republicans-hosting-rally-against-u-s-rep-adam-kinzinger/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Illinois’ Indoctrination Centers–Government Schools – Kathy Valente (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always stressed a) that my parents sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod and b) that my parents had me baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.)
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/illinois-indoctrination-centers-government-schools/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— “ANTIRACISM” COMES TO THE HEARTLAND
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/01/antiracism-comes-to-the-heartland.html
— MARCH FOR LIFE CHICAGO DRAWS THOUSANDS ACROSS MIDWEST, ADVOCATING FOR HUMAN LIFE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/01/march-for-life-chicago-draws-thousands-across-midwest-to-advocate-for-sanctity-of-human-life.html
— WANT A CONSERVATIVE TAKE ON ILLINOIS NEWS? JOIN ILLINOIS REVIEW’S GROWING EMAIL LIST
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2021/01/want-a-conservative-take-on-illinois-news-join-illinois-reviews-growing-email-list.html

CAPITOL FAX
— 3,751 new confirmed and probable cases; 81 additional deaths; 2,931 hospitalized; 591 in the ICU; 4.5 percent average case positivity rate; 5.6 percent average test positivity rate; 33,698 average daily doses
https://capitolfax.com/2021/01/27/3751-new-confirmed-and-probable-cases-81-additional-deaths-2931-hospitalized-591-in-the-icu-45-percent-average-case-positivity-rate-56-percent-average-test-positivity-rate-33698-average-daily-doses/
— Goodbye begins to James R. Thompson Center (DIERSEN: I worked for GAO in its Chicago office 1980-1997. My critics/opponents were furious that starting in 1990, I had a preferred corner office in GAO’s new space on the 7th floor of the new 200 West Adams building ( https://200westadams.com/ ) in the Loop.)
https://capitolfax.com/2021/01/27/goodbye-begins-to-jrtc/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Schumer shames Republicans who challenged legality of Trump’s impeachment trial – Alex Swoyer
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/27/chuck-schumer-shames-republicans-who-challenged-le/
— DHS issues new terror alert, warns that Jan. 6 attack emboldened extremists – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/27/dhs-issues-new-terror-alert-warns-jan-6-attack-emb/
— Liberals reinvent reality as the ‘After Trump’ era begins. In the new age, expect the media and government to suddenly resent any pushback against a sitting president. – Victor Davis Hanson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/27/liberals-reinvent-reality-as-the-after-trump-era-b/

GOPUSA
— Joe Biden’s 1st Week In Review: So Much Damage In So Little Time – Bobby Eberle
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=105793

FEDERALIST
— How The Supreme Court Made It Easier To Smear People As Racists And Scream The F-Word In Public. Instead of protecting true free speech, we’ve crushed the speech that matters most: the articulation and testing of the truth. – Jonathan Lange
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/27/how-the-supreme-court-made-it-easier-to-smear-people-as-racists-and-scream-the-f-word-in-public/

DAILY SIGNAL
— The Left Wants to Transform and Nationalize Our Election System – Jarrett Stepman
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/01/25/the-left-wants-to-transform-and-nationalize-our-election-system/

ONE NEWS NOW
— Parents, this is a good week to think about ‘school choice’ – Bob Kellogg (DIERSEN: Democrat teachers focus on turning their students into good little Democrats.)
https://onenewsnow.com/education/2021/01/25/parents-this-is-a-good-week-to-think-about-school-choice

THE HILL
— Tens of thousands of voters drop Republican affiliation after Capitol riot – REID WILSON (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, a) will employers stop hiring Republicans, b) will employers get of their employees who are Republican, c) will organizations stop admitting members who are Republican, d) will organizations get rid of their members who are Republican, and e) will municipalities, townships, counties, states, and America officially stop Republicans from seeking oi holding government or political offices, getting educations, owning property, etc.?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/536113-tens-of-thousands-of-voters-drop-republican-affiliation-after-capitol

NEW YORK TIMES
— For Trump’s Aggrieved Defenders, This Impeachment Confirms Everything. His supporters see his second impeachment, a historic first, as the culmination of years of unfair treatment. The belief’s ubiquity shows the resilience of his message and the power of conservative media. – Dionne Searcey
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/us/politics/trump-supporters-impeachment.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Republicans back away from confronting Trump and his loyalists after the Capitol insurrection, embracing them instead. – Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/riot-republicans-trump-impeachment/2021/01/27/b13633fe-60b6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater promotes Adam Kinzinger and Joe Walsh. In my opinion, my becoming the only active member in GAO’s Chicago office in a class action lawsuit that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation in 1988 when I was 40 years old was as serious as Kinzinger’s voting to impeach Trump in 2021 when he was 42 years old. My Democrat GAO superiors immediately threw me off audits of IRS and gave me an adverse job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals. They might have succeeded in getting rid of me if Henry Hyde had not come to my defense. However, they continued to keep me off audits of IRS, to give me unfair performance expectations, to give me unfair performance appraisals, and to always rank me in the lower half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. In 1997 they succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer.” They were furious that I became Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997 and that I earned a job-related master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997 because the aforesaid frustrated their efforts to get rid of me. If I had had drinking problems like Kinzinger had, I would not have gotten jobs washing dishes 1964-1966; cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline in 1966; delivering mail 1966-1969; working on an automobile assembly line and as a security guard in 1970; selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971; pumping gasoline 1971-1972; collecting delinquent taxes 1971-1980; or auditing federal agencies 1980-1997. IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974 and GAO would not have promoted me in 1986. If I had had drinking problems like Kinzinger had, Loyola might not have accepted me in 1972, DePaul might not have accepted me in 1976, and IIT might not have accepted me in 1992. If I had had drinking problems like Kinzinger had, I doubt that I would have passed CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 or passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. Kinzinger is a veteran. Starting in 1966, my Democrat superiors, Democrat supervisors, Democrat coworkers, and Democrat subordinates always used my avoiding the draft against me.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/adam-kinzinger-republican-impeach-trump-capitol/2021/01/26/c544cc1e-55fa-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: He started drinking at age 16. He can remember drinking before school one morning, just to try to be cool. In his first semester at Illinois State, he joined a fraternity and came home with a 2.5 GPA. The next semester, he got a 0.8 and was kicked out. He spent the next six months living with his parents and working as a manager in the furniture section of a department store. He tried to date the daughter of a fellow store manager, only to learn that he forbade her from going out with him.)
— Large majorities of the region’s nursing home workers have declined the coronavirus vaccine – Rachel Chason, Rebecca Tan, Jenna Portnoy and Erin Cox
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/nursing-homes-vaccine-decline/2021/01/27/22a602f6-5fe2-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Voters Say U.S. Is More Divided, Doubt Biden Can Unite Americans (DIERSEN: Under Biden, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs will do even more to get rid of Republicans once and for all.)

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/voters_say_u_s_is_more_divided_doubt_biden_can_unite_americans

January 27 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois tax revenue losses lower than expected during pandemic, U. of I. study finds – JAMIE MUNKS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-illinois-revenues-surpass-coronavirus-projections-20210126-fde4xaswoje43dazidgc5lgxpi-story.html
— As institutions fade, a key question: ‘Who charts Chicago’s future and what does it look like?’ – JOHN KASS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-chicago-pfleger-catholic-church-kass-20210127-pl22uoundfgz3dv6luezko3wpy-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The hate-filled Trump-hating “Mitt Romney calls out fellow Republicans for pushing stolen election myth, says it makes achieving unity more difficult.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-mitt-romney-republicans-election-20210126-ohugfwzwgjcg5echre2xv7tr7y-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— How Second Amendment gun rights fall short for African Americans. Nothing in the Constitution restricts gun ownership by ethnicity. But in reality, the Second Amendment doesn’t apply equally to people of color, who are often killed while trying to fully exercise their right to “keep and bear Arms.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1/26/22248836/how-second-amendment-gun-rights-fall-short-for-african-americans

DAILY HERALD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters blame police for all the problems that minorities have.
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20210127/editorial-residents-should-be-part-of-the-discussion-about-police-reform

ABC7
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters side with Communist China against America.
https://abc7chicago.com/society/asian-americans-support-biden-order-condemning-hate-amid-pandemic/10043661/

WBEZ
— Survival Economics: High Unemployment Pushes Black Chicagoans Into Informal Jobs – Natalie Moore (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, a) all the jobs that I had were bad jobs, b) they would never have stooped to take those jobs, and c) Blacks should have gotten those jobs. I did yard work and delivered newspapers 1962-1964; washed dishes 1964-1966; cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966; delivered mail 1966-1969; worked on an automobile assembly line and as a security guard in 1970; sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971; pumped gasoline 1971-1972; collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980; and audited federal agencies 1980-1997.)
https://www.wbez.org/stories/survival-economics-high-unemployment-pushes-black-chicagoans-into-informal-jobs/98d4d918-6f36-48c7-9576-82f1394d6c2d

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois Lawmakers delaying return to Springfield, future plans uncertain – Ben Szalinski
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2021/01/27/illinois-general-assembly-delays-return-springfield-until-feb-9/4267840001/

RIVER BENDER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Duckworth promotes LGBTQ in the military.
https://www.riverbender.com/articles/details/duckworth-applauds-president-bidens-move-to-end-trumps-discriminatory-transgender-military-ban—47359.cfm

JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Biden: ‘Now is the time to act’ on racial justice (DIERSEN: To act on social justice is to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://jg-tc.com/news/national/biden-now-is-the-time-to-act-on-racial-justice/video_2f58226e-9ae7-5d2a-acef-8e2e10a63ce4.html

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DuPage County reports 222 COVID-19 cases Tuesday, 5 deaths, region’s positivity decreases to 7.5% – Joshua Welge
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/coronavirus/2021/01/27/dupage-county-reports-222-covid-19-cases-tuesday-5-deaths-regions-positivity-decreases-to-75/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Hypocrisy in big tech censorship is ‘stunning’ says FCC commissioner – ELISSA SALAMY
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/hypocrisy-in-big-tech-censorship-is-stunning-says-fcc-commissioner

WGLT
— Bloomington To Observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day Each October – MICHELE STEINBACHER (DIERSEN: Are you a Republican White male? How long have your ancestors been in America? Ever-increasingly, the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that Democrats demonize you, denigrate your, and condemn you.)
https://www.wglt.org/post/bloomington-observe-indigeneous-peoples-day-each-october#stream/0

LCBC RADIO
— Kinzinger Has No Plans To Attend Ottawa Rally That Questions His Party Allegiance – Jeremy Aitken
https://www.lcbcradio.com/wlpo/kinzinger-has-no-plans-to-attend-ottawa-rally-that-questions-his-party-allegiance/article_0bb67346-6019-11eb-857a-ebf50a9df808.html

CHICAGO NOW
— Watch 50% likely Republican Gov Candidate Richard Porter discuss w/Berkowitz how to make IL a destination state again – Jeff Berkowitz
http://www.chicagonow.com/public-affairs-with-jeff-berkowitz/2021/01/watch-50-likely-republican-gov-candidate-richard-porter-discuss-wberkowitz-how-to-make-il-a-destination-state-again-cable-and-web/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Despite being 10th most restrictive state, Illinois’ COVID-19 death rate higher than all neighbors – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/despite-being-10th-most-restrictive-state-illinois-covid-19-death-rate-higher-than-all-neighbors/article_7c88a1d6-6012-11eb-ae9f-439f68b60f8e.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Algonquin Township Consolidation Referendum Petitioners Ask Judge to Place Question on the Ballot
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/26/algonquin-township-consolidation-referendum-petitioners-ask-judge-to-place-question-on-the-ballot/
— Day Before Trump Leaves Office HHS Starts Probe of Pritzker Abortion Coverage Mandate
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/26/day-before-trump-leaves-office-hhs-starts-probe-of-pritzker-abortion-coverage-mandate/
— State Allows Partial Reprieve from Pritzker Purgatory in McHenry County
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/26/state-allows-partial-reprieve-from-pritzker-purgatory-in-mchenry-county/
— Grafton Township GOP Endorses Terra DeBlatz for Assessor
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/26/grafton-township-gop-endorses-terra-deblatz-for-assessor/
— NWH Gives Bob Anderson Page 2 Platform to Advocate for Putting the McHenry Township Road District under Township Board
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/01/26/nwh-gives-bob-anderson-page-2-platform-to-advocate-for-putting-the-mchenry-township-road-district-under-township-board/

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Jeanne Ives on the Importance of the Lesser Magistrate – David E. Smith
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/01/the-importance-of-the-lesser-magistrate/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s post-presidency clout puts Republicans on notice, Democrats on high alert – Dave Boyer
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/26/donald-trump-post-presidency-clout-puts-republican/
— ‘An absolute lie’: CPAC tangles with Sacha Baron Cohen over fake Klansman claim – Valerie Richardson (DIERSEN: Although not recently, I have attended many CPACs. I should write a book about how Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, Independent plants, and RINOs in the following have used that against me: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/26/cpac-sacha-baron-cohen-ku-klux-klan-claim-absolute/

FOX NEWS
— ‘Same problems’ will resurface if Biden rolls back border wall construction, former NM governor warns. Susana Martinez says the Biden administration’s border agenda is ‘very wrong’ – Megan Gallen
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-rolls-back-border-wall-construction-susana-martinez

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— Other Peoples’ Money and the Minimum Wage – Eric M. Wallace, Ph.D.
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.snappages.site/blog/2021/01/27/other-peoples-money-and-the-minimum-wage

PJ MEDIA
— Disagreeing With Biden’s Transgender Policy Is ‘Incitement’ Now?! Facebook Says So… – TYLER O’NEIL
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/01/26/disagreeing-with-bidens-transgender-policy-is-incitement-now-facebook-says-so-n1411958
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Ironically, Gagnon’s post drew attention to Facebook’s suspension of his friend, Laurie Higgins, who got a 7-day ban for criticizing Biden’s policy. “There was absolutely no incitement to violence on our part. We abhor violence done to any person,” Gagnon told PJ Media on Tuesday. “This is just a thinly veiled and pathetic excuse for censorship of any critical views toward trans-tyranny over our consciences, religion, and reason.” Only one point of view is being allowed,” he added, ominously. “Trump was not the great danger to the Republic. Left-wing canceling is.” Gagnon, who holds a Ph.D. in Pauline theology and sexuality from Princeton Theological Seminary, has published “The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics.” He teaches as a professor of New Testament Theology at Houston Baptist University. In the post Facebook flagged, Gagnon had defended Higgins’ response to Biden’s pro-transgender military policy.)

ONE NEWS NOW
— 1776 vs. 1619: a symbol of simmering disagreements – Billy Davis
https://onenewsnow.com/education/2021/01/26/1776-vs-1619-a-symbol-of-simmering-disagreements

DAILY HEADLINES
— Court Rules Virginia Allowing Late Ballots Missing Postmark Was ILLEGAL
https://dailyheadlines.com/breaking-court-rules-virginia-allowing-late-ballots-missing-postmark-was-illegal/

EPOCH TIMES
— Biden Promptly Dismantles Trump’s Border Security Measures – CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON
https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-promptly-dismantles-trumps-border-security-measures_3672234.html
— 45 Republican Senators Vote Against Trump Impeachment Trial, Say It’s Unconstitutional. The 55–45 decision suggests that Trump will not be convicted in an impeachment trial. – JACK PHILLIPS
https://www.theepochtimes.com/only-5-gop-senators-vote-saying-trump-impeachment-trial-is-constitutional_3672649.html

THE HILL
— Conservatives lean into warnings on ‘wave of censorship’ – JONATHAN EASLEY (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will the hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters who lead the following officially banish conservatives once and for all: your Republican township/ward party organization, your Republican county party organization, Illinois Republican Party, your municipality, your township, your county, Illinois, America, and the world?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/536000-conservatives-lean-into-warnings-on-wave-of-censorship

POLITICO
— Pennsylvania GOP pledges full allegiance to Trump. Once a producer of centrist Republicans like Arlen Specter and Tom Ridge, the state GOP now bears the MAGA stamp. – HOLLY OTTERBEIN (DIERSEN: Centrist Republicans focus on a) driving conservatives out of the Republican Party and b) destroying the Republican Party.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/26/pennsylvania-republican-party-trump-support-462843

CNN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Why major corporate donors halted funding to GOP.”
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/01/27/gop-donations-capitol-riot-avlon-reality-check-newday-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/new-day-highlights/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— GOP signals unwillingness to part with Trump after riot – STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN (DIERSEN: How fast will the hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters a) who run your municipality, your township, your county, Illinois, and America, b) who are employers in the aforesaid, and c) that are organizations that you are a member of get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that fail/refuse to disavow Trump?)
https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/politics/gop-signals/UROMNJBUWY77SKPOA532M5RQNE/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Proud Boys Under Growing Scrutiny in Capitol Riot Investigation. Officials are trying to determine to what extent far-right groups planned the assault in advance. – Alan Feuer and Frances Robles
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/us/proud-boys-capitol-riot.html
— Twitter Acquires Revue, a Newsletter Company – Kate Conger
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/technology/twitter-revue-newsletter.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Proud Boys Were Key Instigators in Capitol Riot
https://www.wsj.com/video/video-investigation-proud-boys-were-key-instigators-in-capitol-riot/37B883B6-9B19-400F-8036-15DE4EA8A015.html
— Twitter to Buy Newsletter-Creation Service Revue Move reflects interest among social-media companies in providing content creators with tools to make money – Sarah E. Needleman
https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-is-buying-newsletter-provider-revue-11611666920

DESERT NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater crows over Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Independent, and RINO success in making young people anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-traditional marriage/family, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2021/1/26/22233884/future-of-the-gop-republican-party-young-conservatives-generation-z-millennials-after-donald-trump

ORLANDO SENTINEL
— Bugged by censorship, Florida Republicans seek to punish Big Tech – GRAY ROHRER (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes side with Big Teck against conservatives.)
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-desantis-republicans-tech-bill-20210126-e2lqqsvcgbdk7p6bm6k7w3c4cq-story.html

FED SMITH
— COVID-19 and “Protecting the Federal Workforce” The White House has issued guidance for agencies on implementing new COVID-19 safety regulations for federal employees. – Ian Smith (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will all employers, all organizations, all municipalities, all townships, all counties, all states, and all countries issue similar guidance for their employees, members, and/or residents?)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2021/01/26/covid-19-protecting-the-federal-workforce/

ATLANTIC
— The First Amendment Is No Excuse for Letting Social-Media Companies Do Whatever They Want. Private corporations have far too much power over the flow of ideas and information in today’s society. – Genevieve Lakier (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents want Google, Facebook, etc. to deplatform me. I should write a book about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/first-amendment-regulation/617827/

TECH RADAR
— Twitter might soon start sending out email newsletters Revue acquisition will bring editorial newsletters to the social network – Anthony Spadafora
https://www.techradar.com/news/twitter-might-soon-start-sending-out-email-newsletters

LAW 360
— Woman Files $10M Suit Over Firing For Role In Capitol Chaos (DIERSEN: I attended a Bob Dole rally in Wheaton in 1996. That made my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates furious. SEE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/07/05/dole-takes-pulse-of-the-heartland/913b56e4-dd07-4491-9bb3-7de45ad54d5f/ )
https://www.law360.com/employment/articles/1348965/woman-files-10m-suit-over-firing-for-role-in-capitol-chaos-