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September 3 Morning Edition

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Unions stand together on the frontline of freedom – Robert G. Reiter
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-sun-times/20180903/281715500493473

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Courses that can set students up for success – Jill Schlesinger (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, virtually none of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinate took job-related courses. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the undergraduate and graduate courses that I took a) were not job-related, b) did not help me carry out my job duties, c) were taken by me to get a job in the private sector, and d) were a distraction. To keep their jobs and to get promoted, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government focused on getting rid of federal employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-201808231613–tms–retiresmctnrs-a20180824-20180824-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps use McCain to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us–mccain-20180901-story.html
— Calls for respect for black America at Franklin funeral – AP (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those in my precinct, in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who are ever-increasingly judgmental and disrespectful of those who are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, draft avoiders, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-bc-us–aretha-franklin-20180901-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Longtime Naperville mayor George Pradel in hospice care – Charles Keeshan
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180902/longtime-naperville-mayor-pradel-in-hospice-care

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasing, beyond outrageously, members of the following groups use Mollie Tibbetts to promote diversity: anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time promote immigration.
https://www.pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/cepeda-don-t-treat-outliers-as-poster-children-for-your/article_6be12da4-395f-59b7-8189-706b6355315c.html

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Drag Queen Story Hour sparks protests in conservative towns – SAP
https://www.bnd.com/entertainment/article217734610.html

POLITIFACT ILLINOIS
— Pritzker claims Rauner misquoted newspapers to lie about him. That’s a stretch. – Kiannah Sepeda-Miller
https://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2018/sep/02/jb-pritzker/pritzker-claims-rauner-misquoted-newspapers-lie-ab/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Blunt Truth About Marijuana
https://illinoisfamily.org/topic/marijuana-2/
https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Chiefs_Sheriffs_letter.pdf

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— Americans Are Fuming Over ‘Disturbing’ ‘Political Rally’ That Took Place at McCain Funeral – MADISON DIBBLE
https://ijr.com/2018/09/1120637-mccain-funeral-politically-charged/

BREITBART
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who are anti-American, anti-Republican, anti-White, and/or anti-women use Tibbetts to promote diversity.
https://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/09/02/mollie-tibbetts-father-promote-diversity-not-immigration-enforcement/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Washington Post uses Cristhian Bahena-Rivera to glorify and praise illegals.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/09/02/washington-post-hardships-iowas-immigrants-wake-mollie-tibbetts-murder/

WORLD NET DAILY
— DON’T LET DEMOCRATS MONKEY UP RED STATES Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson slaps candidates playing race card to get traction
https://www.wnd.com/2018/09/dont-let-democrats-monkey-up-red-states/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Mexican flag flies proudly over town where illegal alien killed Mollie Tibbetts – Ed Straker
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/mexican_flag_flies_proudly_over_town_where_illegal_alien_killed_mollie_tibbetts.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: When an invading army captures a town, they usually run up the flag, to show who’s in charge. But in America, we don’t need an occupying army. We do it to ourselves. Witness the town of Brooklyn, Iowa, where Mollie Tibbetts was murdered by an illegal alien, which proudly flies the flag of Mexico. According to the liberal media, Brooklyn was one big happy multicultural town, until conservatives ruined it by complaining about the illegal alien who murdered Mollie. Really. …police found Tibbetts’s body discarded in a cornfield. They charged Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a local farmhand, with her murder. And they announced that Rivera, who had no prior criminal history, was an undocumented Mexican immigrant. For most people in Brooklyn, though, Rivera’s legal status is a distraction. This time should be about Mollie, they say, not the man accused of killing her. This is the liberal line. On the statistically rare occasions when a white person kills a black, the liberal media can talk about nothing else other than the race of the accused. But when an illegal alien does the killing, they don’t want to talk about perpetrators. They treat it like the weather. It’s just something that happens.)

FOX NEWS
— Sens. Graham, Durbin preview Kavanaugh confirmation hearings
http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2018/09/02/sens-graham-durbin-preview-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings.html

WASHINGTON TIMES
— The Democratic game plan – Robert Knight
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/2/as-democrats-move-left-they-must-replace-the-ameri/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The “progressives”’ game plan to re-acquire power in Washington and make it permanent has been shockingly obvious for some time: Import millions of illegal immigrants, hook them on government aid and turn them into voters — legally or illegally. Two Democrats running for Congress in Texas have come out for decriminalizing illegal immigration, along with Beto O’Rourke, who is running for Ted Cruz’s U.S. Senate seat. Virtually all Democratic office holders oppose voter ID laws. In March, Nation magazine writer Sean McElwee called for abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), a demand repeated by “progressives” around the country. The Washington Post has editorialized against adding a question about citizenship to the U.S. Census, saying it looks “suspiciously like an underhanded way to depress Democratic representation in Washington.” Districts with high numbers of illegal aliens who cannot legally vote have an advantage because the Census determines congressional seats and presidential electors based on population. So, the more illegals, the merrier for Democrats. The Dems must replace the American electorate because their plunge into “free” government health care, “free” college tuition, open borders, confiscatory taxes, anti-police rhetoric, activist judges and bizarre sexual politics is alienating more and more “everyday” Americans. The left needs new voting blocs. It’s the only way they’ll stay competitive, especially when the Trump administration has the economy roaring like a Ferrari. Millions of evangelical Christians and moderate-to-conservative Catholics voted for Mr. Trump because they saw him as their best bet against a hostile Deep State and its media allies. Portions of the IRS, the FBI and other federal agencies had been criminally politicized under President Obama, and Hillary Clinton would have finished the job. With state power unchecked since the Reagan years, Uncle Sam has morphed into Nurse Ratched, presiding over a giant sanitarium. That’s the issue ignored by the media: Democrats are at war with normalcy of any kind and want to impose their cracked view of reality on the rest of us.)
— A boycott of California’s iconic In-N-Out teaches Democrats a lesson – Editorial
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/2/editorial-a-boycott-of-californias-iconic-in-n-out/

DAILY SIGNAL
— We Hear You: Illegal Immigration, Gun Rights, Lower Taxes, and Free Speech – Ken McIntyre
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/09/02/we-hear-you-illegal-immigration-gun-rights-lower-taxes-and-free-speech/

ONE NEWS NOW
— Illegal immigration a ‘major problem’ for 68% of voters – Michael F. Haverluck
https://onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2018/09/02/illegal-immigration-a-major-problem-for-68-of-voters
— LGBT, Antifa demand Texas church leave over sexuality – Michael F. Haverluck
https://onenewsnow.com/church/2018/09/02/lgbt-antifa-demand-texas-church-leave-over-sexuality

HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrats Are Pushing More Diverse Candidates. Behind The Scenes, Not So Much. Diversity typically ends “where the money begins,” says a Latino consulting firm founder. – Molly Redden
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democratic-campaigns-have-a-serious-diversity-problem_us_5b85664fe4b0511db3d1f7ba

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump says “How Trump Betrays ‘Forgotten’ Americans From the Supreme Court to labor organizing rules, the president undermines workers’ greatest champions.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/opinion/trump-labor-unions-greenhouse.html
— Tech Giants Now Share Details on Political Ads. What Does That Mean For You? We tried out new tools from Facebook, Google and Twitter that let you look up campaign ads. Here’s what the databases can — and cannot — do. – Natasha Singer
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/technology/03adarchive.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: If you do not do what McCain wants you to do, McCain’s supporters demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you as being a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/opinion/columnists/republicans-mccain-hypocrisy.html
— The Catholic Church Is Sick With Sex – Timothy Egan
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/opinion/egan-catholic-church-pope-francis.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: What do you say to employers that offer jobs that are so bad that only citizens of foreign countries will take them? GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. If GAO, IRS, and the Post Office could offer jobs to citizens of foreign countries, they certainly would do that.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/business/trump-legal-immigration-h1b-visas.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Pope Benedict, in retired seclusion, looms in the opposition to Pope Francis – Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/pope-benedict-in-retired-seclusion-looms-in-the-opposition-to-pope-francis/2018/09/02/f4d262b2-aaca-11e8-9a7d-cd30504ff902_story.html

NEW YORK POST
— America doesn’t actually lead the world in mass shootings – John Lott and Michael Weisser
https://nypost.com/2018/08/30/america-doesnt-actually-lead-the-world-in-mass-shootings/

USA TODAY
— Why we celebrate Labor Day, a holiday that had a violent start – Susan Miller
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/09/02/labor-day-why-do-we-celebrate-holiday/1180558002/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Companies Ramp Up Worker-Retraining Efforts Tight labor market pushes companies to invest in teaching current workers to do more sophisticated tasks – Austen Hufford (DIERSEN: Between 1992 and 1997, I paid for my own “worker-retraining.” In 1989, the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office a) made it clear that they would never again assign me to audits of IRS and b) assigned me to audits of federal financial industry regulators. Between 1992 and 1997, I took graduate finance courses at IIT, and in 1997 earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-ramp-up-worker-retraining-efforts-1535889600
— Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? – Chris Kornelis (DIERSEN: How long have you had your email address? My email address has been diersen@aol.com since January of 1995.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-your-email-address-holding-you-back-1535470160
— John McCain Hailed as Model of U.S. Virtues – Andrew Duehren (DIERSEN: In 2008, I asked those in my precinct who had given lots of money to McCain to elect him why they did that. They stressed all the planks in the Republican Party platform that McCain rejected.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-mccain-hailed-as-model-of-american-virtues-during-washington-memorial-1535825956

USA TODAY
— Protesters hope to shut down Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Labor Day to spotlight violence – John Bacon (DIERSEN: What do you spotlight? I use my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails to spotlight the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) platform, and especially its traditional family, right to life, immigration, and Second Amendment planks. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes reject one or more of the planks in the IRP platform.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/09/02/chicago-murders-protesters-hope-shut-down-ohare-airport/1180561002/

BOSTON GLOBE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who are anti-American, anti-Republican, anti-White, and/or anti-women use Tibbetts to promote diversity.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/09/02/father-mollie-tibbetts-criticizes-using-her-pawn/rBwhtxBkpZBuQWkF4u8eoK/story.html

HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
— Why Does Chicago Seem Broken? – Roger Biles (DIERSEN: The overwhelming majority of voters in Chicago elect people who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169824

NAVY TIMES
— Are you an officer facing the retirement boards? – Mark D. Faram (DIERSEN: Constructively, if you are federal employee who is Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran, you start facing retirement boards when you are 25 years old. Generally, those boards get rid of you if you do not make GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotions.)
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/08/09/are-you-an-officer-facing-the-retirement-boards/

DAILY BEAST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time promote immigration.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/yes-america-benefits-from-all-immigration-legal-and-illegal

September 2 Evening Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Republicans scheduled to participate in Naperville’s Labor Day Parade include Anderson, Connelly, Gustin, MacKay, Mendrick, Olsen, Roskam, Senger, Smith, Wehrli, and Wilson. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ABC7
— Protesters plan to disrupt Labor Day traffic to, from O’Hare – Megan Hickey
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/protesters-plan-to-disrupt-labor-day-traffic-to-from-ohare/4126372/
— Background check requirement removes 266 CPS employees from service
https://abc7chicago.com/education/background-check-requirement-removes-266-cps-employees-from-service/4127616/

CBS2
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who are anti-American, anti-White, and/or anti-women are overjoyed that Mollie Tibbetts’ father says “Stop Using Her As A Pawn In Immigration Debate”
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/09/02/tibbetts-dad-stop-using-mollie-as-pawn-in-immigration-debate/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/pot-topics-cannabis-jobs-medical-marijuana/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who are anti-American, anti-White, and/or anti-women are overjoyed that Mollie Tibbetts’ father says “Leave us out of immigration debate, racism.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/mollie-tibbetts-dad-rob-tibbetts-opinion-piece-immigration-debate-racism-des-moines-register-trump/
— Days commuting are not time lost, but time found – Neil Steinberg (DIERSEN: While I rode commuter trains to and from work in 1971, 1973, 1974, and 1978-1997, I read newspapers. In addition, I did homework for a) graduate classes at Loyola in 1973 and 1974, b) graduate classes at DePaul 1978-1980, c) CPA review courses in 1978 and 1979, d) Certified Internal Auditor review courses in 1980 and 1981, and e) graduate courses at IIT 1992-1997.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/days-commuting-are-not-time-lost-but-time-found/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pope Benedict, in retired seclusion, looms in the opposition to Pope Francis – Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-pope-benedict-20180902-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Mollie Tibbetts’ father hints that his daughter was anti-Trump.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-mollie-tibbetts-20180902-story.html
— Meet the table busser who’s worked at the same Wilmette pancake house for 54 years, and still makes minimum wage – Christopher Borrelli (DIERSEN: Othea Loggan and I both started working for the minimum wage in 1964. My critics/opponents have always been furious that I qualified myself for better paying jobs by a) earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, c) earning job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-othea-loggan-0831-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Republicans who cast Republican primary for Kasich in 2016 want Kasich to run in the 2020 Republican primary and defeat Trump. Anti-Republicans are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-minow-2020-bipartisan-presidential-ticket-0902-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump says “Americans are making less money despite Trump’s promises.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20180902/analysis-americans-are-making-less-money-despite-trumps-promises
— Poll: 2 in 3 Americans say public school teachers are underpaid – Laura Meckler (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always accused me of being overpaid. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20180902/poll-2-in-3-americans-say-public-school-teachers-are-underpaid
— What Kennedy drivers need to know about Monday’s protest – Marni Pyke
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180901/what-kennedy-drivers-need-to-know-about-mondays-protest-

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Recent statewide polls not in GOP’s favor – Tom Kacich
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2018-09-02/tom-kacich-recent-statewide-polls-not-gops-favor.html
— Tax cat has caught Pritzker’s silver tongue – Jim Dey
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/2018-09-02/jim-dey-tax-cat-has-caught-pritzkers-silver-tongue.html
— ‘Gov. Veto’? You’re darn right – Editorial
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2018-09-02/editorial-gov-veto-youre-darn-right.html

MACOMB NEWS NOW
— Rauner Makes Record Setting Donation To HImself – Sean Patrick
https://macombnewsnow.com/macomb-news/285152
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Governor is kick starting the 2018 campaign season with a little gift to himself. Bruce Rauner moved $50 million of his own money to his campaign fund. It’s a record setting amount that raises the stakes in what no doubt will be the most expensive state wide race in Illinois history. The Rauner campaign notes to media sources that there is plenty more where that came from – labeling the money as a first installment.)

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump says “President Trump’s Description of What’s ‘Fake’ Is Expanding.”
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/president-trumps-description-whats-fake-expanding#stream/0

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Pro-economic liberty group launches campaign against soaring Illinois property taxes – Karen Kidd
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511549705-pro-economic-liberty-group-launches-campaign-against-soaring-illinois-property-taxes

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Facing challenge, GOP State Senator Connelly takes up teachers union cause
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511552500-facing-challenge-gop-state-senator-connelly-takes-up-teachers-union-cause
— Breen helps 48th House District constituents learn how to appeal property tax assessments – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511549746-breen-helps-48th-house-district-constituents-learn-how-to-appeal-property-tax-assessments

FOX NEWS
— Trump taking ‘hard look’ at pay-freeze plan for federal workers following pushback – Bradford Betz
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/02/trump-taking-hard-look-at-pay-freeze-plan-for-federal-workers-following-pushback.html

DAILY CALLER
— SOCIALIST STATE SENATE CANDIDATE CAUGHT LYING ABOUT SUPPOSED ‘WORKING-CLASS BACKGROUND’ – Joe Simonson (DIERSEN: Do you have a working-class background? 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. My critics/opponents would never stoop to take the aforesaid jobs.)
https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/01/julia-salazar-childhood-home/

AMERICAN THINKER
— The McCain funeral – a failed brand re-launch – Jay Valentine
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/the_mccain_funeral__a_failed_brand_relaunch.html

EAGLE FORUM
— Senate Fails to Stop $500 million to Planned Parenthood
https://mailchi.mp/eagleforum/senate-fails-to-stop-500-million-to-planned-parenthood?e=ea26132016

THE HILL
— McCarthy leads GOP charge against Silicon Valley – MELANIE ZANONA
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/404642-mccarthy-leads-gop-charge-against-silicon-valley
— Hackers increasingly target reputations through reviews sites, experts say – OLIVIA BEAVERS
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/404477-hackers-increasingly-target-reputations-through-reviews-sites-experts

CBS NEWS
— Why Bill and Melinda Gates put 20,000 students through college Now, universities around the country are forming a new, color-blind, Affirmative Action, aiming to close the gap between rich and poor – Scott Pelley (DIERSEN: What percent of those 20,000 are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-college-tuition-why-bill-and-melinda-gates-put-20000-students-through-college/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Writing the Unions’ ‘Fight-or-Die Survival Chapter’ The growing labor militancy making headlines has its roots in slow, grinding efforts by workers all over the country. – Sarah Jaffe (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are anti-union. They stress that I was a union member of almost 12 years, and that I say that if GAO had been unionized in 1997, I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/opinion/unions-labor-day-strike.html

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump asks “IS TRUMP A CHAMPION OF WORKERS?” and says “HIS ANTI-UNION POLICIES INDICATE OTHERWISE.”
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-not-champion-workers-1100483

HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Donald Trump Was the Oldest Elected President in History in 2016” and ask “Are We Ready to Elect the Youngest President in 2020?
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169821

REASON
— How Trustworthy Does Facebook Think You Are? Should we be concerned about a new system to keep track of real vs. fake news? – Andrea O’Sullivan (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, all news and commentary is fake except for the news and commentary that they put out or bless. They focus on a) stopping me from putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails together and sending them out and b) stopping everyone from reading the emails. Should I publish a list of my critics/opponents? Should I sue them?)
https://reason.com/archives/2018/08/28/how-trustworthy-does-facebook-think-you
(FROM THE ARTICLE: One new tool in Facebook’s bag of anti-“misinformation” tricks definitely ticks the “creep box”: Last week, the Washington Post reported that Facebook has been planning to assign a “trustworthiness score” for users on their platform for around a year. Users who are believed to more accurately flag news stories as valid or not will be given a higher score, while users suspected of flagging stories out of revenge or distaste—and thereby throwing off the algorithm—will be given a goose egg. The scale ranges from 0 to 1, and the system is now reportedly coming online. The new system is framed as a necessary augmentation of Facebook’s previous forays into third party-guided media ranking. In addition to partnering with self-deputized “fact-checkers” like PolitiFact and Snopes.com, Facebook created a button for average users to report when a story was “fake news.” The idea was that human feedback, provided by both “experts” and the wisdom of the crowds, would supplement the brittle fallibility of algorithms, leading to a better overall curation of what is being shared on Facebook.)

CARS
— American-Made Index
https://www.cars.com/american-made-index/

September 2 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— What voters want from Illinois’ next governor (DIERSEN: According to Democrats, Illinois voters want the next governor a) to promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, retaliation, even worse things and b) to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, draft avoiders, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-illinois-governor-candidate-priorities-20180828-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Americans use Mollie Tibbetts murder a) to glorify and praise illegals and b) to demonize, denigrate, and condemn citizens of America.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-mollie-tibbetts-iowa-immigration-20180901-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-denying-passports-border-20180829-story.html
— Poll: Few Dems favor abolishing ICE – AP
http://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-capital/20180828/281547996756484
— Despite strong economy, many Americans struggling to get by – AP (DIERSEN: What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32. Anyone should be able to do what I did because according to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, I am extremely stupid. But out of the other side of their crooked mouths they shout that I had tremendous unfair advantages in life including that I was born a White male, that my ancestors have been in America since 1844, that I avoided the draft, that I worked for the federal government, that I got married, that my wife has always had income, that we gave up trying to have children, that we did not adopt, and that we did not become foster parents, etc.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-economy-americans-struggling-20180828-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-perspec-page-trump-evangelicals-stormy-daniels-0902-20180831niels-20180831-story.html
— How to prevent overdose deaths — and how not to – Steve Chapman
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-perspec-chapman-overdose-deaths-supervised-sites-rosenstein-0902-20180831-story.html
— Rate of home ownership among black and Latino millennials is strikingly low, study finds – Darcel Rockett (DIERSEN: My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the mortgages that I got in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, and 1984 should have been given to Democrats, to minorities, to females, and/or to veterans, and especially to those had less money than I had.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-re-millennial-homeownership-20180902-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump, 2018’s most volatile candidate, is not on the ballot – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/trump-2018s-volatile-candidate-ballot/
— College students need more loan watchdogs, not fewer – Editorial (DIERSEN: When you were in high school, would you have been able to get a student loan? Because I would not have been able to get a student loan, I did not even try. When was in high school, I was not viewed as being “college material.” Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresges in Chicago Heights. I just barely made into the upper 20% of my class. My ACT score was only 24. I was 1-A for draft notwithstanding the fact that my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, I had partial red/green color blindness, and I had Osgood-Schlatter disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%E2%80%93Schlatter_disease).)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/student-loan-debt-profit-schools-seth-frotman-mick-mulvaney/

WGN RADIO
— Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 09/02/16: What in the world is Bruce Rauner doing? – CURTIS KOCH
https://wgnradio.com/2018/09/02/walter-jacobsons-perspective-09-02-16-what-in-the-world-is-bruce-rauner-doing/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON AMERICA, ON ILLINOIS, ON COOK COUNTY, AND ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Local health officials frustrated by rising STD rates – Dean Olsen
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180901/local-health-officials-frustrated-by-rising-std-rates

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Hope there are rainy days in Illinois; Putting the pen down, for now; Chairperson isn’t gender neutral? – Doug Finke
http://www.pjstar.com/news/20180901/statehouse-insider-hope-there-are-rainy-days-in-illinois

HERALD & REVIEW
— Working people are fighting back – MICHAEL T. CARRIGAN (DIERSEN: Are/were you a working people? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes look down on working people. I was a lowly working people 1962-1997. 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://herald-review.com/news/local/carrigan-working-people-are-fighting-back/article_8740c4b4-a452-57bc-928f-90e12814d857.html

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Fresh sets of eyes looking over Schock’s corruption case – Jim Dey
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2018-09-01/jim-dey-fresh-sets-eyes-looking-over-schocks-corruption-case.html

NATIONAL MEMO
— Remembering McCain, America’s Political Elite Rebukes Trump in Unison – Peter Dreier (DIERSEN: Who are the political elite in your municipality, in your township ward, in your county, and in Illinois? Who do they rebuke?)
http://www.nationalmemo.com/remembering-mccain-americas-political-elite-rebukes-trump/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Is bashing Trump the fraternity’s new secret handshake? – Jeannie DeAngelis (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, Trump-bashers are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/is_bashing_trump_the_fraternitys_new_secret_handshake.html

NEW AMERICAN
— MAGA Hat Suspect Faces Charges in Yet Another Anti-Trump Attack – R. Cort Kirkwood
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/29934-maga-hat-suspect-faces-charges-in-yet-another-anti-trump-attack

BREITBART
— Uber Suspends Driver Who Allegedly Used Gun in Self-Defense – Awr Hawkins
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/01/uber-suspends-driver-who-allegedly-used-gun-in-self-defense/
— Education Secretary Will Not Stand in Way of Funding for Armed Teachers – Awr Hawkins
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/01/education-secretary-will-not-stand-in-way-of-funding-for-armed-teachers/
— Left-Wing Journalist Laura McGann Claims Ocasio-Cortez Faces Gender Discrimination – Penny Starr
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/01/ocasio-cortez-left-wing-journalist-laura-mcgann-claims-gender-discrimination/

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers push pot.
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/404447-government-has-lost-its-credibility-to-talk-pot

HUFFINGTON POST & THE HILL & DES MOINES REGISTER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Mollie Tibbetts father uses his daughter’s murder a) to glorify and praise illegals and b) to demonize, denigrate, and condemn citizens of America.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dont-use-mollie-tibbetts-death-to-promote-racism-says-dad_us_5b8b45dfe4b0511db3d94eb1
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/404719-mollie-tibbetts-father-in-op-ed-she-is-not-a-pawn-in-immigration-debate
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2018/09/01/mollie-tibbetts-search-father-rob-tibbetts-illegal-immigration-cristhian-bahena-rivera-trump-jr/1171714002/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Pot industry wants to see stereotype go up in smoke (DIERSEN: If you promote pot, you promote destruction.)
http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/national-news-apwire/2018/08/pot-industry-wants-to-see-stereotype-go-up-in-smoke/

AOL
— Trump tweets response to Meghan McCain’s ‘America was always great’ remark (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps hint/imply/argue/shout that if you do not hate Trump, McCain hates you.)
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/09/02/trump-tweets-in-apparent-response-to-meghan-mccains-america-was-always-great-remark/23514734/

NBC NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The mainstream news media, that is, an arm of the Democrat Party, attacks Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-attacks-media-are-going-get-someone-killed-robert-ncna905541

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps use McCain to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/us/politics/trump-john-mccain.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Whites a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites and b) make it clear that they want to get rid of Whites once and for all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/opinion/race-politics-whiteness.html
— I’m Running for Re-Election. How Honest Do I Have to Be? – Kwame Anthony Appiah (DIERSEN: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. Ever-increasingly, in Illinois, beyond outrageously, and beyond unacceptably, Republican candidates fraudulently hint/imply/argue/shout that if elected, they can and will defend and advance the Illinois Republican Party platform.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/magazine/im-running-for-re-election-how-honest-do-i-have-to-be.html
— How to Get a Raise, Even When the Boss Won’t Negotiate – Rob Walker (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who were the most furious a) when IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and b) when GAO promoted me in 1986. They successfully worked together to get rid of the IRS and GAO managers who promoted me. They made it very clear to me that if I applied for any more promotions, they would punish even more severely.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/business/how-to-negotiate-a-raise.html
— It’s Tempting to Take Social Security at 62. You Should Wait. – Peter Finch (DIERSEN: I took Social Security when I was 62 in 2010 because no matter when I took it, it would be dramatically reduced because I get a Civil Service Retirement System pension.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/business/social-security-retirement.html
— How Rising Inequality Has Widened the Justice Gap – Robert H. Frank (DIERSEN: Generally, to win a civil lawsuit, you have to spend many thousands, if not many tens of thousands, if not many hundreds of thousands, if not many millions of dollars in legal fees.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/business/rising-inequality-widened-justice-gap.html
— How to Make a Big Decision – Steven Johnson (DIERSEN: What big decisions have you made? Mine include being a Republican; avoiding the draft; working my way through college; earning college degrees, professional certifications, and a professional license; accepting job offers from the Post Office, Firestone Stores, Oldsmobile, IRS, and GAO; applying for promotions; complaining about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation; becoming an active member in 1988 when I was 40 years old in a class action lawsuit that charged GAO with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation; buying new cars, real estate, and collector cars; getting married; giving up trying to have children; not adopting; not becoming a foster parent; and filing lawsuits.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/opinion/sunday/how-make-big-decision.html
— The Biblical Guide to Reporting I spent five years in Christian ministry. My faith has made me a better journalist. – Marshall Allen (DIERSEN: I was baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) in 1948, raised as a MSL, and confirmed as a MSL in 1962. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who despise, if not hate MSLs as being “too conservative.”)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/opinion/christianity-bible-journalism.html

USA TODAY
— Reporters turn White House press briefings into performances. That’s why I quit. The White House beat makes reporters into household names. But too many show off with gotcha questions and preening for the camera. – Ronica Cleary
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/09/02/white-house-press-briefing-journalism-media-bias-quit-job-column/1142355002/

DENVER POST & CBS DFW & WASHINGTON POST & INDEPENDENT
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Americans use Mollie Tibbetts murder a) to glorify and praise illegals and b) to demonize, denigrate, and condemn citizens of America.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/09/01/the-murder-of-mollie-tibbetts-draws-out-ugly-racial-trope/
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/09/01/mollie-tibbetts-father-says-stop-using-her-pawn-immigration-debate/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/after-arrest-of-undocumented-immigrant-in-mollie-tibbetts-case-iowa-town-tries-to-escape-the-inescapable-politics/2018/09/01/4ed60274-aa16-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mollie-tibbetts-father-donald-trump-jr-do-not-appropriate-student-iowa-death-a8519151.html

NEW YORK POST
— The New York Times fails to acknowledge the crises of public confidence – Michael Goodwin
https://nypost.com/2018/09/01/the-new-york-times-fails-to-acknowledge-the-crises-of-public-confidence/
— Stop treating tech jerks like gods – Jennifer Wright
https://nypost.com/2018/09/01/stop-treating-tech-jerks-like-gods/

USA TODAY
— Inflation erodes your savings. Here’s how to shore them up – Spencer Tierney
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2018/09/02/inflation-eating-away-savings-how-keep-under-control/1088470002/

FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: According to anti-Trumps, if McCain did not like you, you are a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and worse things.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article217704375.html

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Americans crow that “MOLLIE TIBBETTS’ FATHER APPEALS FOR POLITICIANS TO SHOW ‘DECENCY’ AND STOP USING DEATH AS ‘PAWN’ IN IMMIGRATION DEBATE
https://www.newsweek.com/mollie-tibbetts-father-appeals-politicians-stop-using-murder-pawn-immigration-1101236
https://www.newsweek.com/ignoring-familys-plea-trump-accuses-democrats-being-responsible-mollie-1101053
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump/Cruz says “DONALD TRUMP ENDORSED TED CRUZ. NOW PEOPLE ARE POINTING OUT ALL OF THE NASTY THINGS HE USED TO SAY ABOUT HIM.”
https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-past-tweets-contradict-his-support-ted-cruz-senate-campaign-1101184

DAILY MAIL
— Under fire In-N-Out is offered chance to move to ARKANSAS after threat of boycott in California over recent GOP donation – MAXINE SHEN (DIERSEN: Who boycotts you? I should write a book about those who boycott me. They a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, c) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, d) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, and/or e) are operatives or dupes for the aforesaid.)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6121671/In-N-offered-chance-ARKANSAS-threat-California-boycott-GOP-donation.html

September 1 Evening Edition

CBS2
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps use McCain to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/09/01/mccain-honored-words-to-trump/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps use McCain to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/meghan-mccain-s-eulogy-at-john-mccain-s-service-america-was-always-great-

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps use McCain to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/john-mccain-final-farewell-procession-watch-live-obama-bush-washington-national-cathedral/
— Durbin, Durkin — once rivals — teaming up at McCain’s funeral – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/durbin-durkin-mccain-funeral-washington-partisan-politics-washington/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps use McCain to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-mccain-funeral-dc-20180901-story.html
— ‘Sniveling coward’ Trump to campaign for ‘Lyin’ Ted’ Cruz in Texas – AP
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-ted-cruz-trump-campaign-20180901-story.html
— Residents and politicians take action to stop emissions from plant in Willowbrook that EPA says are harmful – Kimberly Fornek
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/burr-ridge/news/ct-dbr-sterigenics-protest-tl-0906-story.html
— Chicago Tribune, other newspaper distribution workers file lawsuit demanding fair pay – Jacqueline Serrato
http://www.chicagotribune.com/voiceit/ct-chicago-tribune-newspaper-distributors-file-lawsuit-demanding-fair-pay-20180831-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— 53rd House District: The sorry election politics of negativity – Editorial
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20180901/editorial-the-sorry-election-politics-of-negativity

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois treasurer says new law could save state $100 million – Doug Finke
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180901/illinois-treasurer-says-new-law-could-save-state-100-million

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps use McCain to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
http://www.rrstar.com/opinion/20180901/ruben-navarrette-mccain-understood-immigrant-work-ethic

BREITBART
— 68% of Voters: Illegal Immigration ‘Major Problem,’ Feds Not Doing Enough – Penny Starr
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/01/68-of-voters-illegal-immigration-major-problem-feds-not-doing-enough/

TOWNHALL
— Bipartisanship or Caving In? – Cal Thomas
https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2018/09/01/bipartisanship-or-caving-in-n2514674

NEWSMAX
— Meghan McCain Uses Eulogy for Father to Take Potshot at Trump
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/meghan-mccain-john-mccain-funeral-donald-trump/2018/09/01/id/879810/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Meghan McCain swings at Trump at her father’s memorial: ‘America was always great’ – Allison Elyse Gualtieri
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/meghan-mccain-swings-at-trump-at-her-fathers-memorial-america-was-always-great

EAGLE PAC
— John McCain’s Bitter Exit – Felicia Tweedy
https://eagleactionreport.com/articles/john-mccain-s-bitter-exit

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps crow about their success in getting women hate Trump.
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/404590-president-trumps-woman-problem-may-cost-the-gop-the-house
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Republicans will need more than the economy to hold the House.”
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/404585-republicans-will-need-more-than-the-economy-to-hold-the-house

ABC NEWS & REUTERS & USA TODAY & ASSOCIATED PRESS & BOSTON GLOBE & WASHINGTON POST & NEW YORK TIMES & POLITICO & NBC NEWS & CNN & NEWSWEEK & VANITY FAIR & MOTHER JONES & DAILY BEAST & USA TODAY & FORTUNE & GLAMOUR & LGBTQ NATION
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps use McCain to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/subtle-digs-president-trump-john-mccains-funeral/story?id=57549672
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-bush-eulogize-former-political-foe-mccain-cathedral-051031719.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/01/john-mccain-funeral-twitter-users-talk-donald-trump/1173484002/
https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/obama-bush-_-not-trump-_-give-mccain-presidential-farewell/1410932299
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/09/01/obama-bush-not-trump-give-mccain-presidential-farewell/YcJm7ml1ogQTxQQb76G4CJ/story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/01/most-poignant-political-excerpts-meghan-mccains-fiery-eulogy-her-father/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mccain-to-be-eulogized-at-memorial-service-by-two-former-presidents/2018/08/31/1c180bb8-ad5c-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-washington-mourns-mccain-trump-tends-to-grievances-on-twitter/2018/09/01/4a5e4394-adfb-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/us/politics/john-mccain-funeral.html
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/01/john-mccain-memorial-service-washington-national-cathedral-806111
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-bush-pay-tribute-john-mccain-s-memorial-service-washington-n905676
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/america-was-always-great-meghan-mccain-john-mccain-s-daughter-n905716
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/01/politics/john-mccain-washington-national-cathedral-memorial-service/index.html
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-played-golf-during-mccain-funeral-1101112
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/meghan-mccain-john-mccain-funeral-trump-remarks
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/meghan-mccain-disses-trump-in-her-fathers-eulogy/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/meghan-mccain-appears-to-take-swipe-at-trump-in-dads-eulogy
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/01/john-mccain-funeral-meghan-mccain-denounces-cheap-rhetoric/1172779002/
http://fortune.com/2018/09/01/john-mccain-funeral-meghan/
https://www.glamour.com/story/meghan-mccain-eulogy
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/09/meghan-mccain-slays-trump-fathers-eulogy-america-always-great/

ATLANTA BLACK STAR
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Whites use Michael Steel to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites as being racists.
https://atlantablackstar.com/2018/09/01/michael-steele-says-monkey-comment-is-example-of-how-white-folks-talk-about-black-men-who-are-successful/

WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE
— Trump threatens pay freeze for federal workers – Harvey Simpkins
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/01/feds-s01.html

September 1 Morning Edition

CBS2
— Pritzker Wants People To Vote-By-Mail Using His Paperwork
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/08/31/pritzker-vote-by-mail-paperwork/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Koch group funding on GOP U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam’s behalf foretells 6th District’s national implications – Patrick M. O’Connell
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-roskam-receives-koch-brothers-support-20180830-story.html
— Drug overdose victims remembered in vigil held at Elgin counseling center – Gloria Casas (DIERSEN: If you a) have never abused legal drugs, b) will never abuse legal drugs, c) have never used an illegal drug, and d) will never use an illegal drug, to who/what do you give credit for that? I give credit to my outstanding parents who had me baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) in 1948, raised me as a MSL, and had me confirmed as a MSL in 1962. They 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.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/news/ct-ecn-elgin-overdose-awareness-event-st-0902-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers use problems with opioids to push pot.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-medical-marijuana-for-pain-illinois-20180831-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker cruise company takes 180, now supports union effort – Ryan Smith
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/pritzker-seadog-entertainment-cruises-union-bust-confrontation-democrat-governor-illinois-election/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps use McCain to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn Trump and Trump’s supporters.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/john-mccain-role-model-hero/

DAILY HERALD
— 6 suspended after Des Plaines police golf outing involving drinking and sex
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180831/6-suspended-after-des-plaines-police-golf-outing-involving-drinking-and-sex
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Five police officers and a civilian employee of the Des Plaines Police Department will be suspended without pay as a result of their actions at a June 2017 golf outing and party, officials said Friday. Police Chief Bill Kushner is issuing the suspensions after private firm Michael Best and Friedrich LLP completed its investigation into the golf outing at Hilldale Golf Course in Hoffman Estates and a nearby after-party that included excessive drinking, nudity, sexual activity and subsequent rumors that a female officer was raped.)
— Visitor spending increases in DuPage County – Beth Marchetti
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20180831/visitor-spending-increases-in-dupage-county
— So, how does the mysterious Google search engine really work? – Brian Fung (DIERSEN: Everyone should compare and contrast how Google treats www.gopillinois.com versus www.capitolfax.com. www.gopillinois.com highlights the source, title, author, and hyperlink for internet postings. www.capitolfax.com downplays the aforesaid.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20180901/so-how-does-the-mysterious-google-search-engine-really-work
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This is where the more subjective parts of Google’s search engine come in. Over 100 factors – from where the user is located to how recently a given webpage was updated – contribute to how highly a certain result may appear. In addition, the company’s famous PageRank algorithm, developed by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, plays a role in determining the authoritativeness of a given source. Google executives are hesitant to discuss the specifics of their software, for fear of encouraging those who may seek to game the algorithm. And a core aspect of Trump’s critique is that Google is mistaken in the way that it assigns authority in the first place. But, said Pandu Nayak, the head of Google’s search ranking team, Google tests its own search results with regular humans to ensure that the search engine does what it is meant to do: Provide relevant and authoritative results. “We’ve developed a detailed series of guidelines about what it means to be authoritative,” said Nayak in an interview. “It’s a 160-page document, it’s been publicly available on the Web for several years now, and it’s our representation about what it means to give relevant and authoritative results. Raters must study it and pass a test” before they can participate in the evaluation process. Google News’ secret sauce Some of Trump’s criticism appears to revolve around which stories appear in Google News. Recent changes to Google News have turned it into a much more personalized product. The company now apples artificial intelligence and accounts more for your expressed preferences. This approach has given rise to questions about what determines News results and just how much its engineers truly understand about the decisions their AI is making. A consistent theme in current machine learning research is that the algorithms are typically black boxes – often, the only way to determine why an algorithm made a decision is to try to reverse-engineer the logic from the results. Influencing the sauce? Still, it appears, companies and individuals can influence Google search results. Reverse-engineering Google has practically become something of a cottage industry, particularly in media. Publishers are constantly trying to find ways to compete for visibility on Google News and on Google Search. For example, Google’s tendency to favor recency, or “freshness,” incentivizes companies such as The Washington Post to create their webpages with metadata keywords that the search engine can easily read. But not even the best experts can know for sure whether their techniques are working. “The file that has the smart meta-title on it is the file that people land on for the latest updates,” said Megan Chan, director of digital operations at The Post. “A lot of it is trial and error.” While The Post has a relationship with Google on special initiatives such as The Trust Project, an effort to promote integrity in journalism, Google does not use those relationships to provide insights into how its algorithms work, Chan said.)
— Volunteers needed to assist seniors with income taxes (DIERSEN: How old are you? I am almost 70. Should I form an organization of seniors who would help younger people with their income taxes?)
https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20180830/volunteers-needed-to-assist-seniors-with-income-taxes

WTTW
— Employee Accuses Pritzker Group of Union-Busting – Amanda Vinicky
https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2018/08/30/employee-accuses-pritzker-group-union-busting

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— City to appeal court order to immediately pay $333K to panhandlers’ attorneys – Crystal Thomas
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180831/city-to-appeal-court-order-to-immediately-pay-333k-to-panhandlers-attorneys

IROQUOIS COUNTY TIMES REPUBLIC
— ICRCC hosts dinner, candidates give talks – KIM RABE
http://www.newsbug.info/iroquois_countys_times-republic/icrcc-hosts-dinner-candidates-give-talks/article_5b29b87c-ec9b-559c-ae35-8161b6cffc79.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— How Trump Tries To Discredit What He Doesn’t Like With ‘Fake’ And ‘Phony’ Labels – TAMARA KEITH (DIERSEN: Of course, my critics/opponents demonize, denigrate, and condemn a) every article that I include a link to in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails, b) every event that I include in the upcoming events list in the emails, and c) everyone who reads the emails. Of course, my critics/opponents are conflicted a) when I include links in the emails to articles that they wrote, b) when I include their events in the upcoming events list, and c) when they read the emails. My critics/opponents want you know only what they tell you, no more and no less.)
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/how-trump-tries-discredit-what-he-doesnt-fake-and-phony-labels#stream/0

CHICAGO READER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps invade the collar counties to promote hatred of Trump.
https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/08/31/join-blue-beginning-as-it-sends-the-democratic-troops-into-the-collar-counties

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— State Senator Karen McConnaughay Resignation Follows Pam Althoff’s by Three Days
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/09/01/state-senator-karen-mcconnaughay-resignation-follows-pam-althoffs-by-three-days/

CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Borrowers in default on student loans after attending colleges in Chicago
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/511530198-borrowers-in-default-on-student-loans-after-attending-colleges-in-chicago

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Dodge points to survey as proof Democratic policies hamper Illinois business climate – Glenn Minnis
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511546791-dodge-points-to-survey-as-proof-democratic-policies-hamper-illinois-business-climate
— Illinois is one of the nation’s top cheats in the welfare game – W.J. Kennedy
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511547822-illinois-is-one-of-the-nation-s-top-cheats-in-the-welfare-game
— Pritzer proposes tax hike, ignores voter questions – Asia Mayfield (DIERSEN: Who hints/implies/argues/shouts that you can and that you should pay more taxes? I should write a book about those in my precinct, in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who hint/imply/argue/shout that I should pay more taxes. They stress that I avoided the draft, that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, that I gave up trying to have children, that I did not adopt, that I did not become a foster parent, that I get a federal pension and health insurance subsidy, that I am a Trump supporter, that I am White, that I am a male, that I am old (almost 70), that a am not poor, that I am 100% German American, that my ancestors have been in America since 1844, etc.)
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511546235-pritzer-proposes-tax-hike-ignores-voter-questions

WILL COUNTY GAZETTE
— Benford, other Republicans refuse pensions ahead of November general election – Robert Hadley (DIERSEN: Needless-to-say, if I ran for an office saying that if elected, I would refuse a pension, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes would shout at everyone that I could do that because I am undeservedly filthy rich. They would stress my $51,864/year Civil Service Retirement System pension and my $18,000/year federal health, dental, and vision insurance subsidy. They would shout a) that I, my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents, and the rest of ancestor have always benefited tremendously from discrimination against minorities and against females, b) that I am an old (almost 70) White male, c) that I avoided the draft, d) that the federal government grossly overpaid me, e) that wife has always had good jobs, f) that we gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents, and g) even worse things.)
https://willcountygazette.com/stories/511547593-benford-other-republicans-refuse-pensions-ahead-of-november-general-election

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Roskam honors McCain as patriot, servant, friend of America – Robert Hadley
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511546408-roskam-honors-mccain-as-patriot-servant-friend-of-america
— Olsen warns Pritzker tax hike will hit working class, not just billionaires – Karen Kidd (DIERSEN: Are/were you a member of the working class? I was a lowly member of the working class 1962-1997. 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. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who despise if not hate members of the working class.)
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511546910-olsen-warns-pritzker-tax-hike-will-hit-working-class-not-just-billionaires
— Mazzochi blasts candidate as Madigan’s puppet during press conference – Karen Kidd (DIERSEN: If you asked my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who I am a puppet for, who would they say?)
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511546908-mazzochi-blast-candidate-as-madigan-s-puppet-during-press-conference
— Pritzker offers only an ‘intellectually lazy’ approach to state problems, Wehrli says – Karen Kidd
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511546896-pritzker-offers-only-an-intellectually-lazy-approach-to-state-problems-wehrli-says

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Islam is Advancing in America – David E. Smith
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/08/spotlight-islam-is-advancing-in-america/

GOPUSA
— ‘Old-school’ eulogy at Aretha Franklin funeral ignites wrath
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=53691
— Apple-picking time: Washington sees record foreign worker visas (DIERSEN: What bad jobs have you been offered because others would not take them? GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
http://www.gopusa.com/apple-picking-time-washington-sees-record-foreign-worker-visas/
— Suzanna Walters, man-hating professor, slapped with Title IX sex bias complaint (DIERSEN: I should write a book about men who promote hatred of men to curry favor with man-haters.)
http://www.gopusa.com/suzanna-walters-man-hating-professor-slapped-with-title-ix-sex-bias-complaint/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Lawyer for illegal immigrant abortions to testify against Brett Kavanaugh – John Dean, Nixon White House lawyer, also to testify on behalf of Democrats – Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer (DIERSEN: Those who work against you say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself. I should write a book about those who work against me. They a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, c) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, d) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, and/or e) are operatives or dupes for the aforesaid.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/30/rochelle-garza-lawyer-illegal-immigrant-abortions-/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump to ‘study’ federal workers’ pay after asking Congress to block automatic raise – Naomi Lim (DIERSEN: How many federal employees and federal retirees live in your precinct, in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois. Who takes the lead in promoting hatred against the aforesaid?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-to-study-federal-workers-pay-after-asking-congress-to-block-automatic-raise

AMERICAN THINKER
— Radicalized Democrats: Destroying the Country and Their Own Party – Jake Hoffman (DIERSEN: How successful have radicalized Democrats been in promoting hatred against Republicans in your precinct, in your municipality, in your township/ward, and in your county? I should write a book about those in my precinct, in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, and in DuPage County who have demonstrated the most hatred against Republicans.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/radicalized_democrats_destroying_the_country_and_their_own_party.html

LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES
— Learn To Live Within Your Means (DIERSEN: Since September 30, 1997, my income has been 59% less. My $51,864 federal pension is only 41% of what my $125,325 federal salary was in today’s dollars.)
http://devotions.lccharities.org/2018/09/01/learn-to-live-within-your-means/

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Just about everyone promotes hatred of federal employees and hatred of federal retirees. How many federal employees and federal retirees live in your precinct, in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois. Who takes the lead in promoting hatred against the aforesaid?
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/trump-federal-employee-pay-freeze/
— Gov’t Spends $18 Billion On Jobs Programs, But Can’t Tell If They Work- Editorial (DIERSEN: What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/job-training-programs-waste-fraud/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Sexual Libertinism Won’t Save the Church – DAVID FRENCH (DIERSEN: Democrats are anti-religious. Democrats want churches to promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, retaliation, and even worse things. Democrats want non-Protestants to hate Protestants.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/catholic-church-scandals-sexual-libertinism/

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps use McCain to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/404679-meghan-mccain-slams-cheap-rhetoric-in-fathers-eulogy

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “From Criminal Convictions to Ethical Lapses: The Range of Misconduct in Trump’s Orbit.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/01/us/politics/trump-officials-crimes-and-ethical-violations.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who promote booze, gambling, pot and other vices say “Addiction Doesn’t Always Last a Lifetime.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/opinion/addiction-recovery-survivors.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps use McCain to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump and his supporters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/opinion/mccain-america.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/us/politics/mccain-memorial-democrats-republicans.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mccain-to-be-eulogized-at-memorial-service-by-two-former-presidents/2018/08/31/1c180bb8-ad5c-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats make it clear that they want to abolish the Second Amendment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/opinion/schools-can-keep-kids-safe-without-giving-their-teachers-guns.html

WASHINGTON POST
— College students say they want a degree for a job. Are they getting what they want? – Jeffrey J. Selingo (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the undergraduate and graduate courses that I took a) were not job-related, b) did not help me carry out my job duties, c) were taken by me to get a job in the private sector, and d) were a distraction. To keep their jobs and to get promoted, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government focused on getting rid of federal employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/09/01/college-students-say-they-want-a-degree-for-a-job-are-they-getting-what-they-want/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— John McCain, the GOP’s lost conscience – PAUL THORNTON (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, anti-Republicans use McCain to viciously demonize, to viciously denigrate, and to viciously condemn Republicans, and especially to viciously demonize, to viciously denigrate, and to viciously condemn Republicans who are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.latimes.com/la-ol-opinion-newsletter-john-mccain-20180901-htmlstory.html
— Candidate for California governor John Cox was sued for alleged financial misconduct, court documents show – PHIL WILLON (DIERSEN: Should I write a book about all the lawsuits that I have filed? I would focus on what the defendants did to harm me before and after the lawsuits were filed.)
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-governor-candidate-john-cox-lawsuit-20180831-story.html
— Democratic leader’s call for In-N-Out Burger boycott meets its own resistance – DAKOTA SMITH and MELISSA ETEHAD (DIERSEN: Should I publish a list of all the individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that boycott me and me GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails?)
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-in-and-out-donations-20180830-story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Tattoo Industry Wins Over Millennials – Jo Craven McGinty
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tattoo-industry-wins-over-millennials-1535713200
— The World Isn’t as Bad as Your Wired Brain Tells You Magnified by the internet’s algorithms, our primitive biases make our fears go viral – Christopher Mims (DIERSEN: Democrats dominate the internet. More and more and more of their postings promote hatred of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older people, rich people, gun owners, German Americans, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-isnt-as-bad-as-your-wired-brain-tells-you-1535713201
— Happy in Their Work A survey finds that blue-collar workers aren’t as glum as the stereotype. – Editorial (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes look down on blue-collar workers.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/happy-in-their-work-1535756830

BUFFALO NEWS
— Take a measure of your eyesight this month – Judith Whitehead (DIERSEN: How is your eyesight? My eyesight has never been correctable to 20/20 and I have always had partial red/green color blindness. I can no longer put off cataract surgery.)
https://buffalonews.com/2018/09/01/take-a-measure-of-your-eyesight-this-month/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As we age, loss of vision becomes more prevalent, depending on family history, health and certain eye diseases. If conditions such as Macular Degeneration, diabetes and glaucoma run in your family, you need to make sure you have regular eye exams. Eye diseases often have no early symptoms but can be detected during a dilated eye evaluation. There are more than 40 million Americans over the age of 65 and this number is growing rapidly. By the 2050, there will be more than 88 million people in this age group. As our life expectancy increases, so do our eye conditions. The number of people living with poor vision is projected to triple. Fortunately in our country, conditions such as cataracts don’t have to cause blindness as they do in other countries. We are lucky enough to have accessible health care in most areas of America. We need to make sure we take care of our aging population. Keep an eye on aging relatives and friends – loss of vision is gradual and easily goes undetected. Early detection and treatment is always the key to saving your sight.)

SEDALIA DEMOCRAT
— Don’t take age too seriously – Deborah Mitchell
https://www.sedaliademocrat.com/opinion/don-t-take-age-too-seriously/article_63561c43-c4ba-5fd0-a12b-f20a7a92078c.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: After my cataract surgery, I remember saying that I was officially a geezer. Well, that wasn’t true. NOW I am officially a geezer. My Medicare card arrived yesterday in the mail. You know, that red, white and blue card that all of us geezers carry around in our wallets. I opened the envelope from the Department of Health and Human Services and saw the cheery greeting on the cover letter: “Welcome to Medicare!” Seeing the card felt really weird, I suppose because I have never taken my age seriously. I remember being 30 all those years ago and thinking, “I wonder when I will feel as if I am an adult?” I wondered the same thing when I turned 35. Not long after that, though, adulthood came crashing down because Emily was born, and all of a sudden, I realized that I was responsible for another human being. That made me sit up and take notice. But truly, I have never paid attention to the fact that age was creeping up because I have never felt my age. My BFF Susan and I were talking a few months ago – OK, it was probably a couple of years ago, but who can remember, because they’re all running together at this point – about how we both felt as if we were much younger than our mothers when they were our age (we share the same age), whatever it was at the time.)

WHEC
— MAY 10, 2018 FLASHBACK: How old is too old to drive?
https://www.whec.com/news/how-old-is-too-old-to-drive/4902224/

ILLINOIS SECRETARY OF STATE
— Medical/Vision Conditions
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/drivers/drivers_license/medical_vision.html
(FROM THE POSTING: If you know someone you feel could jeopardize traffic safety as the result of a medical condition, contact the individual’s doctor or a police officer and request that the Secretary of State’s office investigate. You may submit a Vision Specialist Report completed by a licensed optometrist, ophthalmologist or physician, instead of an in-person vision screening at a Driver Services facility. Visual reading requirements are as follows: The minimum requirement for visual acuity is 20/40 acuity with or without corrective lenses. Drivers with acuity between 20/41 and 20/70 are limited to daylight driving only. You must have at least 140 degree peripheral vision (the ability to see to the side) to have a license without restrictions. This is with or without corrective lenses.)

FEDERAL NEWS RADIO
— Trump’s planned pay freeze earns criticism from at least 1 House Republican (Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) – Nicole Ogrysko (DIERSEN: How many federal employees and federal retirees live in your precinct, in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois. Who takes the lead in promoting hatred against the aforesaid?)
https://federalnewsradio.com/your-money/2018/08/trumps-planned-pay-freeze-earns-criticism-from-at-least-1-house-republican/

FED SMITH
— Trump to ‘Study’ Federal Workers’ Pay Over Labor Day Weekend – Ian Smith (DIERSEN: Just about everyone promotes hatred of federal employees and hatred of federal retirees. How many federal employees and federal retirees live in your precinct, in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois. Who takes the lead in promoting hatred against the aforesaid?)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/08/31/trump-study-federal-workers-pay-labor-day-weekend/

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Rauners say “Rauner Admin Admits Gov Exaggerated Jobs Claims after Overseas Trips.”
https://democraticgovernors.org/news/coming-off-a-high-rauner-admin-admits-gov-exaggerated-jobs-claims-after-overseas-trips/

August 31 Morning Edition

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE OF RAUNER: Rauner on tollway: ‘If I have to send in some investigators, I’ll do it’ – Marni Pyke
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180831/rauner-on-tollway-if-i-have-to-send-in-some-investigators-ill-do-it
— Editorial’s comments on tollway were premature – Elizabeth Gorman, Executive Director, Illinois Tollway
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20180830/editorials-comments-on-tollway-were-premature
— Democratic candidate Sean Casten regrets comparing Trump to bin Laden
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180830/democratic-candidate-regrets-comparing-trump-to-bin-laden
— FRONT PAGE: How suburban police are using dog walkers to fight crime – Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas (DIERSEN: What about criminals who pretend to be dog walkers?)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180831/how-suburban-police-are-using-dog-walkers-to-fight-crime
— FRONT PAGE: How fentanyl test strips help drug users ‘be safe and survive’ – Marie Wilson (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will illicit drug users sue those who give them fentanyl test strips?)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180831/how-fentanyl-test-strips-help-drug-users-be-safe-and-survive
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With a goal of stopping the recent rise in drug overdose deaths, advocates and health agencies are willing to try anything — even safety strategies targeting people who will continue using illicit drugs. The latest strategy to come to the suburbs is the issuance of fentanyl test strips so users can determine whether the drugs they plan to take contain the powerful painkilling substance, which is 30 to 50 times stronger than heroin.)
— Group seeks to determine community views on racism – Rev. Clyde H. Brooks (DIERSEN: What does this group say about Democrats who ever-increasingly shout at everyone that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things?)
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20180831/group-seeks-to-determine-community-views-on-racism
— Despite drawbacks, there is value in political parties – Lee Hamilton (DIERSEN: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. What do you say to political parties a) that help elect candidates who reject important planks in their platform and/or b) that work against candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform?)
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20180831/despite-drawbacks-there-is-value-in-political-parties
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasing, those who are anti-conservative and/or anti-Republican paint drug abusers as positively as they can.
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20180831/editorial-treat-opioid-abuse-like-the-disease-it-is
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PHOTO OF TRUMP: HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: Trump cancels federal raises – AP (DIERSEN: The federal government employs more voters in Illinois than any other employer. Of course, this action by Trump will encourage them, their spouses, their parents, their children, their etc. to vote for all the Democrats on the ballot in their precinct.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cancels-pay-raise-due-174828322.html
— How suburban police are using dog walkers to fight crime – Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas (DIERSEN: What about criminals who pretend to be dog walkers?)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180831/how-suburban-police-are-using-dog-walkers-to-fight-crime

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam gets backing from billionaire Koch brothers group in Illinois’ 6th District – Patrick M. O’Connell
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-roskam-receives-koch-brothers-support-20180830-story.html
— Twitter will begin labeling political ads about issues such as immigration – Tony Romm
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-twitter-political-ads-20180830-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE IN THE NAPERVILLE SUN: Naperville dog walkers vigilant against crime as part of new police program – Suzanne Baker
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-paw-patrols-st-0831-story.html
— Naperville restaurants embracing Dollar Up Hunger Down as easy way to help Loaves & Fishes – Diane Moca (DIERSEN: Soon, under the Democrats who run Illinois, everyone in Illinois will be getting charity and/or handing out charity.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-hunger-action-month-st-0829-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— As sex-abuse crisis roils the Catholic Church, Cupich goes on seminary retreat – Robert Herguth
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/catholic-church-sex-abuse-scandal-cardinal-blase-cupich-carlo-maria-vigano-theodore-mccarrick/

ABC7
— Kanye West apologizes for saying slavery was ‘a choice’ – AP (DIERSEN: What “choices” have you made that your critics/opponents have blasted you for making? My Democrat superiors in the federal government blasted me for my a) not being a Democrat, b) avoiding the draft, c) applying for jobs and accepting job offers from the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980, d) being a union member while I worked for Post Office 1966-1969 and for IRS 1971-1980, e) applying for promotions, f) complaining about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, g) frustrating their efforts to get rid of me by earning job-related college degrees, professional certifications, and a professional license, h) giving up trying to have children, not adopting, and not becoming a foster parent, i) becoming an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, j) etc.)
https://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/kanye-west-apologizes-for-saying-slavery-was-a-choice/4097335/

WGN TV
— Illinois Democratic congressional candidate Sean Casten compares Trump to Osama bin Laden – TAHMAN BRADLEY AND MELISSA ESPANA
https://wgntv.com/2018/08/30/illinois-democratic-congressional-candidate-compares-trump-to-osama-bin-laden/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— An Ugly Pension Update – Editorial
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2018-08-30/editorial-ugly-pension-update.html

JOURNAL TOPICS
— ‘Independent Republican’ Taking On Morrison In 29th State Senate District – Tom Robb
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/independent-republican-taking-on-morrison-in-29th-state-senate-district/

HERALD & REVIEW
— Kochs unveil list of backed House candidates, including Peter Roskam – AP
https://herald-review.com/news/national/kochs-unveil-list-of-backed-house-candidates-including-one-in/article_0ca85047-a193-511b-9a83-ba9a710ccb11.html

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Cooking for a cause: Glen Ellyn Backyard BBQ to raise funds for Bridge Communities – ERIC SCHELKOPF Moca (DIERSEN: Soon, under the Democrats who run Illinois, everyone in Illinois will be getting charity and/or handing out charity.)
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2018/08/25/cooking-for-a-cause-glen-ellyn-backyard-bbq-to-raise-funds-for-bridge-communities/amkvz6t/

WGLT
— Rep. Davis Added To Republican Incumbent-Protection Program – RYAN DENHAM
http://www.wglt.org/post/rep-davis-added-republican-incumbent-protection-program#stream/0

CITY OF WHEATON
— Public Meeting for East Roosevelt Road Study September 11 (DIERSEN: My precinct is on the south side of Roosevelt Road from Main Street west to the Prairie Path.)
https://www.wheaton.il.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=148

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— State Senator Pam Althoff Resigns
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/08/31/state-senator-pam-althoff-resigns/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Khouri touts reform record as true ‘new voice’ for 49th House District – Robert Hadley
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511546867-khouri-touts-reform-record-as-true-new-voice-for-49th-house-district

WIREPOINTS
— “We’ll never get real pension reform as long as legislators are getting a pension” – Ted Dabrowski on WTAD (DIERSEN: The logical extension of this is to prohibit those who are earning government pension credits or are getting a government pension from a) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman or Captain and b) seeking or holding any kind of government or political office as a Republican.)
http://www.wirepoints.com/well-never-get-real-pension-reform-as-long-as-legislators-are-getting-a-pension-ted-dabrowski-on-wtad-audio/
— Emanuel’s misleading pension bond presentation to Chicago aldermen – Ted Dabrowski
http://www.wirepoints.com/emanuels-misleading-pob-presentation-to-chicago-aldermen/
— Liquidation Sale. That’s How To Think About Chicago’s Proposed Pension Bond – Mark Glennon
http://www.wirepoints.com/liquidation-sale-thats-how-to-think-about-chicagos-proposed-pension-bond/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS GRAD STUDENTS DECLARE ‘SANCTUARY UNION’
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2018/08/university-of-illinois-grad-students-declare-sanctuary-union.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Koch brothers group to back Roskam
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/31/koch-brothers-group-to-back-roskam/
— Governor claims to be “pretty upset” over Tollway nepotism allegations
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/31/governor-claims-to-be-pretty-upset-over-tollway-nepotism-allegations/
— SIU quickly rescinds ban on “activism” during events by athletes, cheerleaders
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/31/siu-quickly-rescinds-ban-on-%e2%80%9cactivism%e2%80%9d-during-events-by-athletes-cheerleaders/
— Union challenges Pritzker to live up to promises
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/31/union-challenges-pritzker-to-live-up-to-promises/

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Pope Francis: Resign, and Let Pope Benedict Return from Retirement – Richard A. Viguerie and Mark Fitzgibbons
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/28657

BREITBART
— Sarah Palin, Loyal Running Mate, Excluded from John McCain’s Funeral – Joel Pollak
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/29/sarah-palin-loyal-running-mate-excluded-from-john-mccains-funeral/
— Pope Francis ‘Embittered’ by Accusations but Has ‘No Intentions of Retiring’ – Thomas Williams
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/30/pope-francis-embittered-by-accusations-but-has-no-intentions-of-retiring/
— Catholics Call for Investigation, Resignation of Pope Francis – Thomas Rodriguez
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/08/30/pope-francis-catholics-call-investigation-resignation/

DAILY CALLER
— HOW BIASED ARE TECH COMPANIES AGAINST CONSERVATIVES? – Anders Hagstrom
https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/30/tech-companies-conservative-bias/

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— The left gives community colleges another free pass for unpaid student loans – Jason D. Delisle
https://www.aei.org/publication/the-left-gives-community-colleges-another-free-pass-for-unpaid-student-loans/

GOPUSA
— California has Tarnished the American Dream. (DIERSEN: From what I see, under the Democrats, to be successful in Illinois, like to be successful in California, you have to be anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=53424

NEW YORK TIMES
— How McCain Got the Last Word Against Trump – Michael D. Shear and Katie Rogers (DIERSEN: How do your critics/opponents plan on getting the last word against you?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/us/politics/mccain-funeral-trump.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump says “Here’s the Conversation We Really Need to Have About Bias at Google.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/technology/bias-google-trump.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump says “Trump’s Assault on Google The right is pressuring tech to be more MAGA-friendly.” (DIERSEN: One could compare and contrast how friendly Google news searches are to Rich Miller and www.capitolfax.com with Google News Searches are to Dave Diersen and www.gopillinois.com.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/opinion/trump-assault-google-facebook.html
— National Enquirer Had Decades of Trump Dirt. He Wanted to Buy It All. – Jim Rutenberg and Maggie Haberman (DIERSEN: One could argue that the more dirt that your critics/opponents have on you, the more that you should not seek or hold any kind of government or political office. What dirt do your critics/opponents have on you? My critics/opponents stress a) that I avoided the draft, b) that my wife and I gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents, c) that we have never owned any dogs, d) that we have only owned American nameplate vehicles, e) that my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take an $19,203 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, f) that my Democrat IRS superiors did not promote me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, got rid of my mentor in 1975, and disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974, g) that my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968, and h) that I am no longer a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, or American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/nyregion/trump-cohen-national-enquirer-american-media-recording.html
— Claims of Censorship Come Through Loud and Clear – Kate Conger
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/technology/week-in-tech-censorship-debate.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “60 percent disapprove of Trump, while clear majorities back Mueller and Sessions.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-60-percent-disapprove-of-trump-while-clear-majorities-back-mueller-and-sessions/2018/08/30/4cd32174-ac7c-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Is It Time for Pope Francis to Resign? If an archbishop’s explosive claims are vindicated, this papacy must end. – Robert P. George
https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-time-for-pope-francis-to-resign-1535668524
— Coming Soon to Facebook: Lots of Extreme Political Ads Campaign strategists say the social-media giant’s advertising platform rewards extreme messaging – Georgia Wells and Deepa Seetharaman (DIERSEN: Of course, you never have, and you never will see any kind of paid advertising in GOPUSA emails or on www.gopillinois.com. But if I did take money for such advertising, which activists, candidates, elected officials, party leaders, major donors, political consultants, etc. would take out ads in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and on www.gopillinois.com? What would they would they promote with their advertising?)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/coming-soon-to-facebook-lots-of-extreme-political-ads-1535707802
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Campaign strategists are gearing up to flood Facebook with inflammatory and polarizing ads heading into the midterm elections, saying its advertising platform rewards extreme messaging more than other venues. Such tactics often backfire, partly because extreme ads can be hidden by those who find them disagreeable, Facebook Inc. said. The disconnect highlights the social network’s often-controversial role as a political tool, where Facebook wants to be viewed as a promoter of healthy debate while some believe its platform contributes to divisive civic discourse. Although Facebook didn’t start the trend toward more inflammatory political ads, many candidates and consultants working on midterm campaigns said its cost structure and ability to target narrow slices of voters makes it a uniquely effective tool for motivating people to act in support of a cause or a candidate. “You’re not trying to persuade anybody on Facebook,” said Jeff Roe, whose political-consulting firm Axiom Strategies is one of the biggest buyers of political advertising, largely on behalf of Republican candidates. “You’re trying to reach a different part of people’s brains.”)
— Why Republicans Stick With Trump It’s all the things he hasn’t done. On key issues, the president has come around to conservative positions.
114 Comments – Bobby Jindal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-republicans-stick-with-trump-1535667137
— FRONT PAGE: The ‘Trump Slump’: With a Friend in the White House, Gun Sales Sag The industry leaned heavily on panic over gun control to drive sales, especially during the Obama administration; AR-15 seeks a reboot For years, AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles have been one of the biggest drivers of growth for the gun industry. But President Donald Trump’s election triggered an unexpected response: A slump in demand. – Zusha Elinson and Cameron McWhirter
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-slump-with-a-friend-in-the-white-house-gun-sales-sag-1535640346
— At Wells Fargo, Discontent Simmers Among Female Executives – Emily Glazer (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors in the federal government hinted/implied/argued/shouted that their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran wanted them to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-wells-fargo-discontent-simmers-among-female-executives-1535707801
— Your Kids Could Lower Your Tax Bill Like Never Before There’s a new tax break for many parents, but it ends when college expenses are approaching – Laura Saunders (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my GAO superiors who hinted/implied/argued/shouted the most that they punished me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children, because we did not adopt, and because we did not become foster parents. However, that was a pretext. In 1989, they pulled out all the stops to get rid of me. They threw me off audits of IRS which were always in-town, assigned me to a nasty 6-month out-of-town audit, gave me unfair performance expectations, and gave me an unfair performance appraisal. The real reason why they did the aforesaid was that in 1988, I had become an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. Because of the aforesaid, in 1989, I asked Henry Hyde to come to my defense.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-kids-could-lower-your-tax-bill-like-never-before-1535707850
— Trump Says He’ll Eliminate Pay Raises for Civilian Federal Employees Next Year Democrats and unions denounce the move in a time of tax cuts and vigorous economic growth – Kate Davidson (DIERSEN: The federal government employs more voters in Illinois than any other employer. Of course, this action by Trump will encourage them, their spouses, their parents, their children, their etc. to vote for all the Democrats on the ballot in their precinct.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-says-hell-eliminate-pay-raises-for-civilian-federal-employees-next-year-1535652233

USA TODAY
— In-N-Out Burger donates $25,000 to Republican Party, prompting Democrats to demand boycott – Josh Hafner
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/08/30/n-out-burger-donates-25000-republican-party-sparks-boycott/1147103002/
— Fixing ageism and rethinking retirement – Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy (DIERSEN: All my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote age discrimination a) to get rid of those who are older than they are and/or b) to curry favor with those who promote age discrimination.)
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/2018/08/29/sell-date-employees-ageism-and-rethinking-retirement/1086814002/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Ageism is widespread and is termed “an insidious practice which has harmful effects on the health of older adults,” by the World Health Organization. Political commentator Bill Maher famously called it the “last acceptable prejudice in America.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once publicly noted: “Young people are just smarter.” With 10,000 Baby Boomers reaching 65 every day — a trend which began in 2011 and is set to continue until 2029 — it is past the time to have a conversation around attitudes toward retirement. After all, since the time Social Security set the retirement eligibility age at 65 in 1936, life expectancy at birth has gone up by 20 years. . .Age discrimination occurs when an employer treats an applicant or employee less favorably because of his or her age, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. . .Ageism is hard to prove Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which protects individuals who are over the age of 40 from discrimination in employment. Half a century later, age discrimination in the workplace remains notoriously hard to prove. Of the 18,376 cases filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2017, only 2.2 percent were found to have a “reasonable cause.” . . . 5 Signs of Age Discrimination (Source: AARP) According to the AARP, there are signs older workers can watch out for: Older workers are being fired or offered buyouts, and younger ones are being hired. The most common term for this is “culture fit.” You are reassigned to unpleasant duties. You start hearing tacky comments about your age. You stop getting raises. Your performance reviews tank.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, USA TODAY promotes LGBTQ activity.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/08/30/troye-sivan-hayley-kiyoko-next-generation-gay-pop-stars/1134289002/
— Public sector unions need to serve their members, not the Democratic Party – Andrew Cline
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/31/public-sector-unions-must-end-democratic-activism-serve-members-column/796326002/
— Google’s new tools help vets to find better jobs – Mike Snider (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified veteran who would take the job. That says a lot about how bad the jobs were that I had in the federal government.)
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/usa-today-us-edition/textview (31 Aug 2018)

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— In-N-Out boycott call from top California Democrat disowned by state party – John Wildermuth (DIERSEN: Should I publish a list of all the activists, candidates, elected officials, party leaders, major donors, political consultants, etc. in Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican, but who a) boycott me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and b) call for everyone to boycott me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails? Should I draw special attention to the aforesaid boycotters who religiously and hypocritically read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails to get information to destroy me?)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/In-N-Out-boycott-call-from-top-California-13195243.php

SACRAMENTO BEE
— From top to bottom, know your ballot and make it count – CATHERINE LEW (DIERSEN: If the Republican and Independent voters in your precinct were asked who the Republican candidates are on the November 6, 2018 ballot for your precinct, how many could they list? I have brought and I will continue to bring to the attention of the Republican and Independent voters in my precinct that the following Republican candidates will be on the November 6, 2018 ballot for our precinct: UNITED STATES: Peter Roskam, U.S. Congressman, 6th Congressional District; STATE OF ILLINOIS: Bruce Rauner & Evelyn Sanguinetti, Governor & Lieutenant Governor, Erika Harold, Attorney General, Jason Helland, Secretary of State, Darlene Senger, Comptroller, Jim Dodge, Treasurer, Mike Connelly, Senator, 21th District, and Amy Grant, Representative, 42nd District; DUPAGE COUNTY: Dan Cronin, Chairman, James Mendrick, Sheriff, Paul Hinds, Clerk, Gwen Henry, Treasurer, Grant Eckhoff and Chris Zaruba, County Board, District 4, and Darlene Ruscitti, Regional Superintendent of Schools; DUPAGE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE: Joseph Cantore, President; and CIRCUIT COURT: Karen Wilson, Judge and Jeff MacKay, Judge)
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article217535935.html

GAZETTE
— Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper lauds a pretend “experiment” with pot – Editorial
https://gazette.com/opinion/editorial-governor-lauds-a-pretend-experiment-with-pot/article_0fd346f6-acb7-11e8-b217-ff3369f27d1e.html

WBKO
— National Corvette Museum celebrates 24 years – Allie Hennard (DIERSEN: What have you given up to spend more time on what you believe is more important? My wife and I used to regularly attend these events before January 1, 2005 when I started putting together and sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails each and every morning. We have not attended any such events since January 1, 2016 when I started putting together and sending out the emails each and every evening too.)
http://www.wbko.com/content/news/National-Corvette-Museum-celebrates-24-years-492129421.html

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— GAO: Census Bureau Needs to Improve Minority Outreach Efforts – Charles S. Clark
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2018/08/census-bureau-needs-improve-minority-outreach-efforts-gao-finds/150913/

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
— Day 163: Ives Still Not Endorsing Rauner, Still Not Optimistic for Him Either
https://democraticgovernors.org/news/day-163-ives-still-not-endorsing-rauner-still-not-optimistic-for-him-either/

August 30 Morning Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin and State Senator Mike Connelly hosted an outstanding public safety town hall meeting in the Wheaton City Hall Wednesday evening, August 29, 2018. The 50+ attendees included Cherry, Falbo, Grant, Jorgensen, Keller, MacKay, Monino, Prater, Suess, and Rutledge. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ABC7
— Vietnam veterans honor soldiers killed overseas during 1968 DNC protests on 50th anniversary – Stacey Baca
https://abc7chicago.com/society/vietnam-veterans-honor-soldiers-killed-overseas-during-1968-dnc-protests/4091424/
— Texas woman explains why she posted video of mystery doorbell ringer
https://abc7chicago.com/woman-explains-why-she-posted-video-of-mystery-doorbell-ringer/4094104/
— ‘Suspicious shooting’ leads deputies to mystery woman seen ringing doorbell in Texas – Katherine Marchand
https://abc7chicago.com/mysterious-doorbell-ringer-safe-after-boyfriends-suicide/4091785/

WGN TV
— Willowbrook meets to address cancer concerns – TAHMAN BRADLEY
https://wgntv.com/2018/08/29/willowbrook-meets-to-address-cancer-concerns/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Gov. Bruce Rauner dangles capital bill for billions in road, bridge, other projects — after the election – Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-morning-spin-capital-bill-20180829-story,amp.html
— 4 ways Trump could go after Google – Brian Fung
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-trump-google-20180829-story.html
— Electric school buses, cleaner trains to get share of state’s $108 million from Volkswagen settlement – Mary Wisniewski
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-biz-volkswagen-settlement-electric-buses-20180829-story.html
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: 5 things to know about the expanded medical marijuana law in Illinois – Robert McCoppin
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-medical-marijuana-illinois-five-things-20180829-story.html
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: DIERSEN HEADLINE: State Sen. Heather Steans pushes pot in La Grange.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/la-grange/news/ct-dlg-great-marijuana-debate-tl-0906-story.html
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers push pot.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-pot-industry-stoner-stereotype-20180829-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Good news for free trade: Trump loses a dispute.” Anti-Trumps always side with foreign countries and their citizens against America and against its citizens.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-trade-trump-newsprint-canada-20180829-story.html
— Reinventing higher ed: If Illinois wants more college students … – Editorial (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, if you have a degree from a college in Illinois, you are presumed to be anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, that is, you are presumed to be a “good little Democrat.”)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-university-illinois-scholarship-commitment-20180827-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers push pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/medical-marijuana-weed-cresco-labs-opioids/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Whites and anti-Republicans use what Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) says to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn Whites and Republicans as being racists.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/richard-russell-white-nationalists-john-mccain-trump/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DuPage sheriff officials now blame state’s attorney’s office for bad info on judge’s ruling – Justin Kmitch
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180829/dupage-sheriff-officials-now-blame-states-attorneys-office-for-bad-info-on-judges-ruling
— DuPage County could talk about abolishing recorder’s office – Robert Sanchez
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180829/dupage-could-talk-about-abolishing-recorders-office
— Editorial’s comments on tollway were premature – Elizabeth Gorman, Executive Director, Illinois Tollway
https://www.dailyherald.com/opinion/ (Not yet posted as of 9:00 AM, Thursday, August 30, 2018)
— Elgin Community College to host weeklong celebration of students of color – Madhu Krishnamurthy (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, anti-Whites demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things. How soon, if not already, will anti-Whites succeed in stopping Whites from getting an education, getting a job, owning property, etc.?)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180829/ecc-to-host-weeklong-celebration-of-students-of-color

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— The latest new-economy fight brewing in Springfield Gov. Rauner sides with newcomers in the peer-to-peer car-sharing industry, while old-line renters like Enterprise and their allies ponder their next step. – GREG HINZ
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/latest-new-economy-fight-brewing-springfield

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Lower taxes, vote ‘no’ on McHenry referendums – Charles “Chuck” Wheeler
http://www.nwherald.com/2018/08/29/wheeler-lower-taxes-vote-no-on-mchenry-referendums/adwjtui/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Rauner immigration talk, then and now – Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20180829/bernard-schoenburg-rauner-immigration-talk-then-and-now

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— LaHood: Trump’s policies working despite behavior, investigation – DEREK BEIGH
https://www.pantagraph.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/lahood-trump-s-policies-working-despite-behavior-investigation/article_8689ef9d-a91d-5084-9b3a-4b977405f887.html

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Springfield Winter Warming Center to have mental health services for homeless – Crystal Thomas (DIERSEN: What do you say to those who hint/imply/argue/shout that mental illness does not cause homelessness, but instead, that Republican policies cause homelessness? What do you say to those who send homeless people to DuPage County and then blame homelessness in DuPage County on Republican policies in DuPage County?)
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180829/springfield-winter-warming-center-to-have-mental-health-services-for-homeless

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Area GOP legislators say Democrat JB Pritzker needs to detail tax plan – Chris Kaergard
http://www.pjstar.com/news/20180829/area-gop-legislators-say-democrat-jb-pritzker-needs-to-detail-tax-plan

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Spending watchdog Adam Andrzejewski finds fertile ground out West – Jim Dey
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/2018-08-29/jim-dey-spending-watchdog-finds-fertile-ground-out-west.html

TIMES
— Beware biting hand that feeds Downstate – Jim Nowlan
http://www.mywebtimes.com/2018/08/27/state-affairs-beware-biting-hand-that-feeds-downstate/ap2pjnc/

KENDALL COUNTY NOW
— Kendall County Board members, sheriff headed to Washington, D.C. Will speak with feds about funding; trip sponsored by counties council – TONY SCOTT
http://www.kendallcountynow.com/2018/08/24/kendall-county-board-members-sheriff-headed-to-washington-d-c/au45dyl/

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Manar Hopes To Override Teacher Salary Veto – DUSTY RHODES
http://www.northernpublicradio.org/post/manar-hopes-override-teacher-salary-veto

NPR ILLINOIS
— The People vs. The Budget When it comes to state spending, Illinois politicians are giving voters what they want. That’s the problem. – BRIAN MACKEY (DIERSEN: How much money does the State of Illinois spend on its residents who share your demographics? From what I see, the State of Illinois spends far more on its residents who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/people-vs-budget#stream/0
— ‘If You Don’t Think You’re Being Recorded At Work, You Are Naive’ – YUKI NOGUCHI (DIERSEN: If I had recorded what my Democrat GAO superiors said to me to get me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old, a jury would have ruled in my favor in Diersen v. GAO.)
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/bugged-work-how-secret-recordings-are-changing-workplace#stream/0
— Generous Giving Or Phony Philanthropy? A Critique Of Well-Meaning ‘Winners’ – STEVE INSKEEP (DIERSEN: I should write a book about philanthropists in Illinois who give money to promote a) dependency on government, b) dependency on charity, c) LGBTQ activity, d) abortion, e) mass/illegal immigration, f) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, g) abolition of the First and Second Amendments, h) patronage, i) political affiliation discrimination, j) reverse discrimination, k) age discrimination, l) retaliation, and even worse things. I should write a book about philanthropists in Illinois who give money to promote getting rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, draft avoiders, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/generous-giving-or-phony-philanthropy-critique-well-meaning-winners#stream/0

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Illinois GOP debate Pritzker’s tax plan – Rebecca Brumfield
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/illinois-gop-debate-pritzker-s-tax-plan/1405287538

WJBC
— Cong. LaHood praises Trump’s policies, but not his personality
http://www.wjbc.com/2018/08/29/cong-lahood-praises-trumps-policies-but-not-his-personality/

WSIL TV
— Providers hesitant about new medical marijuana expansion bill – Roni LeForge
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/38989404/providers-hesitant-about-new-medical-marijuana-expansion-bill

WAND TV
— Lawmakers push for tighter food stamp rules
http://www.wandtv.com/story/38990116/lawmakers-push-for-tighter-food-stamp-rules
— Man pleads not guilty in deadly video gambling stabbing
http://www.wandtv.com/story/38987177/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-deadly-video-gambling-stabbing

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Illinois is one of the nation’s top cheats in the welfare game – W.J. Kennedy
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511547822-illinois-is-one-of-the-nation-s-top-cheats-in-the-welfare-game

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Wheaton pays property taxes nearly two times national average (DIERSEN: Roskam should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511547035-analysis-wheaton-pays-property-taxes-nearly-two-times-national-average
— Roskam hails NAFTA reboot – Robert Hadley
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511546400-roskam-hails-nafta-reboot
— Pritzker wants to follow Madigan 2017 tax hike with more increases, Durkin says – Karen Kidd
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511546382-pritzker-wants-to-follow-madigan-2017-tax-hike-with-more-increases-durkin-says

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Brown University Caves to Cross-Dressers and Their Collaborators – Laurie Higgins (DIERSEN: Under the Democrats, expect to see more and more and more men dressing as women and more and more and more women dressing as men. Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote gender dysphoria.)
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/brown-university-caves-to-cross-dressers-and-their-collaborators/

CAPITOL FAX
— Rauner floats capital plan for umpteenth time, but again won’t say how we’ll pay for it
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/30/rauner-floats-capital-plan-for-umpteenth-but-again-wont-say-how-well-pay-for-it/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: Illinois Dem: Trump and Osama Bin Laden Have ‘Tremendous Amount in Common’ Sean Casten says Trump and Bin Laden both ‘activate marginalized young men’ – Brent Scher
https://freebeacon.com/politics/illinois-dem-trump-osama-bin-laden-tremendous-amount-common/
— Blue-Collar Workers Increasingly Optimistic Under Trump New poll: 85 percent of blue-collar workers say their lives are heading ‘in the right direction’ – Haris Alic
https://freebeacon.com/issues/blue-collar-workers-increasingly-optimistic-under-trump/

WORLD NET DAILY
— TRUMP COULD CALL DOWN CONGRESS, LAW ON SOCIAL MEDIA Report confirms there are ‘outside-the-box’ opportunities too
https://www.wnd.com/2018/08/trump-could-call-down-congress-law-on-social-media/

DAILY CALLER
— POLL REVEALS 65 PERCENT OF AMERICANS DON’T KNOW WHO TRUMP NOMINATED TO THE SUPREME COURT – Hanna Bogorowski (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my critics/opponents. They want to know ONLY what they tell you, no more and no less.)
https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/29/cspan-poll-supreme-court/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot in Illinois.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/29/medical-marijuana-illinois/

BLAZE
— Verified hate: Freelance journalist exposes overwhelming amount of racism among staff at BuzzFeed – Doc Thompson
https://www.theblaze.com/video/verified-hate-freelance-journalist-exposes-overwhelming-amount-of-racism-among-staff-at-buzzfeed
— NPR: More than two-thirds of school shootings reported to feds in 2015-16 never happened – Breck Dumas
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/08/28/npr-more-than-two-thirds-of-school-shootings-reported-to-feds-in-2015-16-never-happened
— The Catholic Church needs a ‘Come to Jesus’ moment — literally – Leon Wolf
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/08/29/commentary-the-catholic-church-needs-a-come-to-jesus-moment-literally

GOPUSA
— US consumer confidence rises to 18-year high
http://www.gopusa.com/us-consumer-confidence-rises-to-18-year-high/
— Bitterness in Death Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has reportedly not been invited to attend funeral services for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), her onetime running mate.
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=53523
— Jim Brown: Black community ‘has a responsibility’ to look inward, not blame Trump
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=53436
— Michelle Malkin: The Left’s Long War on Conservative Free Speech
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=53521

CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
— To the legacy media, corrupt Democrats are not news – L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/bozell-graham-to-the-legacy-media-corrupt-democrats-are-not-news/

DAILY TORCH
— The mainstream media continues to prove it is nothing but propaganda – Printus LeBlanc
http://dailytorch.com/2018/08/the-mainstream-media-continues-to-prove-it-is-nothing-but-propaganda/

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Whites and anti-Republicans use what Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) says to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn Whites and Republicans as being racists.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news-campaigns/404304-former-rnc-chair-on-desantis-its-how-white-folks-talk

REUTERS
— Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling – David Shepardson (DIERSEN: I do not block anyone a) from having GOPUSA ILLINOIS email subscriptions or b) from reading the emails at www.gopillinois.com. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who have GOPUSA ILLINOIS email subscriptions and/or read the emails at www.gopillinois.com. They focus on getting information to use against me. They a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, c) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, d) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, and/or e) are operatives or dupes for the aforesaid.)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-twitter/trump-unblocks-more-twitter-users-after-u-s-court-ruling-idUSKCN1LE08Q

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— US Officials Take Action To Protect Alaska Whistleblower (DIERSEN: I was a whistleblower. If I had been protected, my Democrat GAO superiors would NOT have forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, given me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, failed/refused to promote me beyond GS-13, gotten rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take an $19,203 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors would NOT have failed/refused to promote me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, gotten rid of my mentor in 1975, and disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors would NOT have forced me resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://www.kfqd.com/us-officials-take-action-to-protect-alaska-whistleblower/

NEW YORK TIMES
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: A Measured Look at a Study That Alarmed Some Drinkers – Aaron Carroll (DIERSEN: All my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes talk and/or act like a) they drink lots of booze, b) they want to drink lots of booze, c) they want to make lots of money selling booze, and/or d) they want government to take in lots of tax revenue from the sale of booze.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/upshot/alcohol-health-risks-study-worry.html
— Putin Softens Russia Pension Changes, in Rare Bow to Public Pressure – Neil MacFarquhar
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/world/europe/russia-putin-pension.html
— Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win Justice Dept. Support – Katie Benner
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/us/politics/asian-students-affirmative-action-harvard.html

WASHINGTON POST
— John Cox’s claim that he was raised by a ‘single mother on the South Side of Chicago’ – Glenn Kessler (DIERSEN: The higher the office that you run for, the deeper that your opponents will dig into your background.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/29/john-coxs-claim-that-he-was-raised-by-single-mother-south-side-chicago/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Here’s where the story gets fuzzy. Cox frequently says he “grew up” with a single mother, struggling on the South Side of Chicago. But records show that’s not the case. His mother married a third time, to a Post Office supervisor named Thomas Cox, on May 23, 1959, according to the marriage license, which said the ceremony was performed by a minister. In other words, John Cox was not yet 4 years old when his mother was no longer single. She remarried less than 3½ years after Cox’s father left her. . .Cox’s mother was a librarian at Calumet High School on the South Side, which had a student population that was almost exclusively African American. Cox graduated from the local high school, H.L. Richards in Oak Lawn, which according to his senior-year yearbook was almost all white. . .When we asked the Cox campaign to explain these discrepancies, officials responded with a statement from Cox that he was largely raised by his mother and that his stepfather was absent and abusive. . .Cox’s older brother has died, and his other siblings did not respond to requests for comment.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-denying-passports-to-americans-along-the-border-throwing-their-citizenship-into-question/2018/08/29/1d630e84-a0da-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html
— Justice Department criticizes Harvard’s admissions practices in affirmative action case alleging bias against Asian Americans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/30/justice-department-criticizes-harvards-admissions-practices-in-affirmative-action-case-alleging-bias-against-asian-americans/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Hammers Google Again, but Signals Against Regulation President repeats criticism that the internet giant’s search engine is biased against conservatives – Douglas MacMillan
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-hammers-google-again-but-signals-against-regulation-1535589396
— Schools Crack Down as More Students Cut Class New approaches aim to reverse rise in chronic absenteeism, including prizes for good attendance and laundry rooms for students who lack clean clothes – Tawnell D. Hobbs (DIERSEN: What classes did you cut? If ran for a government office or for a political office, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes would stress the classes that I cut 1966-1968 while I attended UIC and 1969-1970 while I attended NIU. Most commonly, they were Monday and Friday classes that I cut to work the Post Office and for Chrysler.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-crack-down-as-more-students-cut-class-1535621403
— California Moves to Mandate Female Board Directors Legislators pass bill requiring publicly traded companies based in the state to have at least one woman on board – Vanessa Fuhrmans and Alejandro Lazo (DIERSEN: I should write a book about the tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians that my superiors in the federal government were under a) to hire, retain, and promote young Democrat minorities and young Democrat females and b) to make way for them by getting rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who they had not promoted to GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40. Of course, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes vehemently deny there was any such pressure.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-moves-to-mandate-female-board-directors-1535571904
— Treasury Moves to Block New Yorkers’ Path Around Cap on State Tax Deductions New regulations would blunt high-tax states’ efforts to bypass a new limit on state and local tax deductions with donation programs – Richard Rubin (DIERSEN: Roskam should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/treasury-moves-to-block-new-yorkers-path-around-cap-on-state-tax-deductions-1535055928
– John McCain and the Dying Art of Political Compromise – James A. Baker III (DIERSEN: Beyond overwhelmingly, “compromise” is a) when liberals win and conservatives lose and b) when Democrats, Libertarians, and/or Greens win and Republicans lose.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-mccain-and-the-dying-art-of-political-compromise-1535581611
— A Visit to Islamic England Muslims headed to Friday prayer while non-Muslims went the other way. No one made eye contact. – Andy Ngo (DIERSEN: There are tremendous differences between what Muslims want and what non-Muslims want.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-visit-to-islamic-england-1535581583
— Forget ‘Senior Citizen’—Aging Baby Boomers Search for Better Term Offended by labels like ‘elderly’ and ‘old,’ older adults try on new generational descriptions – Clare Ansberry (DIERSEN: All my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote age discrimination a) to get rid of those who are older than they are and/or b) to curry favor with those who promote age discrimination.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-senior-citizenaging-baby-boomers-search-for-better-term-1535556196
— Putin Dials Back Pension Plan After Backlash Bill to bump up the qualifying age for state pensions draws popular ire, hits president’s popularity. – Ann M. Simmons (DIERSEN: The qualifying age for regular retirement for those federal employees under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) is 55. In addition, you must have at least 30 years of CSRS service. In 1997, when I was 49 years old, and I had almost 30 years of CSRS service, my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” and suffer 6 years of “early retirement penalty” for the rest of my life.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-proposal-to-raise-retirement-age-poses-problems-for-putin-1535533201
— Justice Department Says Harvard Hurts Asian Americans’ Admissions Prospects With ‘Personal Rating’ Government calls rating ‘vague and elusory’ in filing in closely-watched affirmative-action lawsuit – Melissa Korn and Nicole Hong
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-says-harvard-hurts-asian-americans-admissions-prospects-with-personal-rating-1535637680

FORTUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps want Trump to hire only those who are anti-White.
http://fortune.com/2018/08/29/leaked-emails-ian-m-smith/

BUSINESS INSIDER
— ‘You can see the dripping of hate’: Inside the protest group at Facebook attacking its ‘intolerant’ liberal culture – Rob Price
https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-facebook-conservative-employee-protest-2018-8

USA TODAY
— Facebook ‘mobs’ attack conservative views within company, some employees say – Jessica Guynn (DIERSEN: Facebook is a Democrat, Libertarian, and Green website.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/08/28/facebook-employees-hint-conservative-intolerance/1127988002/

ARIZONA CENTRAL
— How doorbell cameras are creating dilemmas for police, neighborhoods – Christina Hall (DIERSEN: To deter crime and to help solve crimes, I encourage everyone to have a motion-activated doorbell camera and other motion-activated security cameras.)
https://www.azcentral.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/08/23/doorbell-camera-videos-police-dilemma/1074952002/

WCVB
— ‘I’m gonna kill you:’ Terrifying abduction caught on doorbell camera – Chelsea Robinson
https://www.wcvb.com/article/i-m-gonna-kill-you-terrifying-abduction-caught-on-doorbell-camera/22859284

KSDK
— Doorbell camera captures fireball streak across the sky in Missouri The American Meteor Society said it has received more than 340 reports from eight states. (DIERSEN: I can watch Wheaton’s fireworks with my doorbell camera.)
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/weird/doorbell-camera-captures-fireball-streak-across-the-sky-in-missouri/63-588382673

MY FEDERAL RETIREMENT
— Social Security Benefits Lose 34% of Buying Power Since 2000, Study Shows (DIERSEN: Based on this, my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension has lost 34% of buying power since 2000. My $51,864/year CSRS pension should be $69,498/year.)
https://www.myfederalretirement.com/public/2108.cfm
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Social Security benefits have lost 34 percent of buying power since 2000, according to the 2018 Social Security Loss of Buying Power Study released this week by The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan senior citizen’s action group. The study’s findings represent a significant one-year loss of 4 percentage points in buying power, with the loss increasing from 30% to 34% from January 2017 to January 2018. According to the study, the loss occurred even though beneficiaries received a 2% annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2018. The study examines the growth, since 2000, in the price of goods and services that are typical for retired and disabled households, and compares that to the growth in Social Security benefits due to annual COLAs.)

EPOCH TIMES
— New Study Rejects Idea That Americans Won’t Do Certain Jobs – CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes hint/imply/argue/shout that they would never stoop to take the jobs that I did. 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.theepochtimes.com/new-study-rejects-idea-that-americans-wont-do-certain-jobs_2636440.html

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
— Rauner Unleashes “Controversial” Vetoes on Illinois, Turns Back on Veterans and Teachers
https://democraticgovernors.org/news/rauner-unleashes-controversial-vetoes-on-illinois-turns-back-on-veterans-and-teachers/

August 29 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Chicago Trump adviser George Papadopoulos will admit ‘inaccuracies’ – Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Ross Weidner
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/chicago-trump-adviser-george-papadopoulos-will-admit-inaccuracies/4090655/
— Willowbrook residents concerned about emission of carcinogenic gas from local company – Sarah Schulte
https://abc7chicago.com/health/willowbrook-residents-concerned-about-emission-of-carcinogenic-gas-from-local-company/4081127/

NBC5
— These Are the Candidates Running for Chicago Mayor – Shelby Bremer
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/whos-running-for-chicago-mayor-491904151.html

CBS2
— Thanks To ‘Ashley’s Law,’ Sick Illinois Students Now Can Take Medical Marijuana At School (DIERSEN: Pot pushers are overjoyed.)
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/08/29/ashleys-law-ashley-surin-medical-marijuana-at-school-illinois-law/
— California: Student Allegedly Rips MAGA Hat Off Classmate’s Head, Faces Battery Charges
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/08/29/student-allegedly-rips-maga-hat-off-classmates-head-faces-battery-charges/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Days before school starts, CPS still won’t say how many workers have been disqualified by background checks – Juan Perez Jr., David Jackson and Jennifer Smith Richards
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chicago-school-background-check-results-20180828-story.html
— A taxpayer-funded mural at a CTA stop was reported as graffiti, so city crews destroyed it – Elvia Malagon
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-mural-removed-rivera-paulina-20180828-story.html
— In Trump era, breweries and bars wear politics on their sleeves – Josh Noel
http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/beer/ct-food-craft-beer-politics-0830-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps side with Google against Trump.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-google-search-bias-trump-kudlow-0830-20180829-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, pot pushers use problems with opioids to push pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/pot-patients-advocates-opioid-expansion-medical-marijuana-reaction/
— Cleaner trains, school buses to get share of $109M in new VW settlement plan – Brett Chase
https://chicago.suntimes.com/autos/vw-volkswagen-emissions-scandal-electric-car-charging-stations-trains-school-buses-109-million/
— Google Maps mistakenly shows ‘McCain Senate Office Building’ – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/john-mccain-senate-office-building-google-maps/
— US court says Housing Act covers harassed LGBT tenant in Niles – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/marsha-wetzel-niles-us-court-housing-act-harassed-lgbt-tenant/

DAILY HERALD
— Rauner signs legislation spurred by ex-Des Plaines superintendent’s severance
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180829/rauner-signs-legislation-spurred-by-ex-des-plaines-superintendents-severance
— Google denies Trump charge it rigs “Trump News” searches – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180829/google-denies-trump-charge-it-rigs-x201ctrump-newsx201d-searches
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Trump overstates his job performance ratings.” – Mike Riopell
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180829/fact-check-trump-overstates-his-job-performance-ratings

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— GOP challenger Jason Helland makes Jesse White’s age, 84, an issue in Illinois secretary of state’s race – Mike Riopell
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180829/gop-challenger-makes-jesse-whites-age-84-issue-in-illinois-secretary-of-states-race

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Illinois Lawmakers, Public Health Officials, Denounce Tobacco 21 Veto – SAM DUNKLAU
http://www.northernpublicradio.org/post/illinois-lawmakers-public-health-officials-denounce-tobacco-21-veto

FOX ST. LOUIS
— Illinois law protects breast-feeding mothers in the workplace (DIERSEN: During the early 1990s, to help GAO a) hire, retain, and promote young women and b) to get rid of its employees who smoked (overwhelmingly old White men), GAO gutted the smoking room in its Chicago office and turned it into a lactation room.)
https://fox2now.com/2018/08/29/illinois-law-protects-breast-feeding-mothers-in-the-workplace/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Roskam declines invitation to participate in League of Women Voters candidate forum – ERIC SCHELKOPF
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2018/08/29/roskam-declines-invitation-to-participate-in-league-of-women-voters-candidate-forum/a46myjh/

CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— Why It’s so Hard for Republicans to Win in Illinois Democrats and Republicans were once evenly matched in Illinois. So how did the Party of Lincoln fall behind in his own homeland? – EDWARD MCCLELLAND
http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/August-2018/Why-Its-So-Hard-for-Republicans-to-Win-in-Illinois/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It’s possible to trace the divergent fortunes of the Republican and Democratic parties in Illinois by looking at the voting histories of two counties: DuPage, in the suburbs of Chicago, and Williamson, in Southern Illinois coal country. DuPage was once a bulwark of the Illinois Republican Party, having supported its presidential candidates since the days of Abraham Lincoln. After World War II, DuPage’s villages burgeoned with middle-class homeowners who had fled Chicago’s corrupt political machine, and considered Republicans the party of good government and fiscal responsibility. . .How times have changed. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won Illinois by an even larger margin than her husband, but she won only 12 counties, most of them in the Chicago area. She won DuPage County 53%-38%, and lost Williamson County 67%-28%.)

WIREPOINTS
— Illinoisans to pay $2.6B in “penalty interest” for state’s fiscal-deadbeat status – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
http://www.wirepoints.com/illinoisans-pay-heavy-penalty-for-states-fiscal-deadbeat-status/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— TAXPAYER-SUBSIDIZED MANUFACTURER SHUTTERS ILLINOIS PLANT – Joe Kaiser
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/taxpayer-subsidized-manufacturer-shutters-illinois-plant/

CAPITOL FAX
— All four contested GOP congressional incumbents have better than even chance of winning
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/29/538-all-four-contested-gop-congressional-incumbents-have-better-than-even-chance-of-winning/
— For at least the second time, Jesse White’s GOP opponent Jason Helland makes ageist remark (DIERSEN: All my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote age discrimination a) to get rid of those who are older than they are and/or b) to curry favor with those who promote age discrimination. Needless-to-say, my Democrat GAO superiors who forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old should be jailed. Previously, they gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take an $19,203 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/29/for-at-least-the-second-time-jesse-whites-gop-opponent-makes-ageist-remark/
— Rep. Miller Walsh appointed to committees
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/29/rep-miller-walsh-appointed-to-committees-as-more-facebook-posts-emerge/
— Simon Institute funding disparity study gets wide coverage
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/29/simon-institute-funding-disparity-study-gets-wide-coverage/
— Rauner’s new digital ad focuses on Pritzker’s opposition to private school tuition tax credit (DIERSEN: My outstanding parents saved Crete-Monee School District 201-U (http://www.cm201u.org/) lots of money during the 1950s and 1960s by sending my brother and me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest to stay with the Missouri Synod.)
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/29/rauners-new-digital-ad-focuses-on-pritzkers-opposition-to-private-school-tuition-tax-credit/
— Pritzker campaign calls Rauner “Governor Veto”
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/29/pritzker-campaign-calls-rauner-governor-veto/

GOPUSA
— Trump warns Evangelicals of Democrats ‘violently’ overturning his agenda
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=53454
— Hogg’s Gun Control Kids Make Demands of Smith & Wesson
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=53392
— 16 Oregon sheriffs ask voters to repeal sanctuary state law
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=53359
— Race-based school criteria roils Asian-Americans – again
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=53336

EAGLE ACTION REPORT
— Social Media Crushing Conservative Free Speech – Michelle Malkin
https://eagleactionreport.com/articles/social-media-crushing-conservative-free-speech

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Jim Jordan speaker bid excites conservatives: ‘The grassroots is starving for principled leadership’ – Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/28/jim-jordan-speaker-house-bid-excites-conservatives/

FOX NEWS
— Trump-backed candidates keep on winning GOP primaries. Here’s what that means for November – David Bossie
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/08/29/trump-backed-candidates-keep-on-winning-gop-primaries-heres-what-that-means-for-november.html

NATIONAL REVIEW
— America Was Meant to Overcome Identity Politics – JIM GERAGHTY (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote identity politics. Ever-increasingly, to get votes from members of Group A, they promise to use government to get rid of members of Group B. Members of Group A are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and members of Group B are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older people, rich people, gun owners, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/america-made-to-overcome-identity-politics/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Generation of Americans Is Entering Old Age the Least Prepared in Decades Low incomes, paltry savings, high debt burdens, failed insurance—the U.S. is upending decades of progress in securing life’s final chapter – Heather Gillers, Anne Tergesen and Leslie Scism
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-generation-of-americans-is-entering-old-age-the-least-prepared-in-decades-1529676033

ILLINOIS BUSINESS IMMIGRATION COALITION
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever increasingly, IBIC promotes mass/illegal immigration. Ever increasingly, IBIC makes it clear that it is anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://mailchi.mp/illinoisbic/vvnms20cdi-811569

FED SMITH
— OPM and GAO Fight Over Tables of Penalties – John W. York (DIERSEN: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take an $19,203 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/08/29/opm-gao-fight-tables-penalties/

FED WEEK
— Court Stresses Role That Law Gives Unions in Federal Workplace (DIERSEN: GAO unionized in 2007. If GAO had been unionized in 1997, I might still be a GAO employee.)
https://www.fedweek.com/issue-briefs/court-stresses-role-that-law-gives-unions-in-federal-workplace/
— OMB Tells Agencies to Streamline Operations (DIERSEN: Democrats run the federal government. For those Democrats, “streamline operations” means getting rid of their employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who they had not promoted to GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.)
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/omb-tells-agencies-to-streamline/

PRAVDA
— Those who fire older employees should be jailed – Putin (DIERSEN: How old are you? I am almost 70. All my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote age discrimination a) to get rid of those who are older than they are and/or b) to curry favor with those who promote age discrimination. Needless-to-say, my Democrat GAO superiors who forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old should be jailed. Previously, they gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take an $19,203 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/kremlin/29-08-2018/141468-putin_pension-0/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that one should introduce administrative and even criminal responsibility in Russia for dismissing employees of pre-retirement age. “I deem it necessary to introduce administrative and even criminal responsibility for employers for dismissing workers of pre-retirement age, as well as for refusing to hire citizens for work because of their age,” Putin said in a televised address to the nation in connection with the widely discussed pension reform in Russia. One should envisage such responsibility within in the framework of additional guarantees that will protect interests of older citizens on the labor market. Today, the retirement age in Russia is 60 years for men and 55 years for women. This retirement age was introduced during the 1930s. The need to raise the retirement age in Russia has been discussed for a long time already due to the increased life expectancy and the inability to provide a decent pension while the number of employed individuals in the country is decreasing, and the number of pensioners is growing. In most countries of the world, the retirement age is 60-65 years.)

August 29 Morning Edition

ABC7
— Speaker Paul Ryan campaigns for Democrat-targeted congressman Randy Hultgren – Jesse Kirsch
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/speaker-of-the-house-paul-ryan-hit-the-chicagoland-campaign-trail-tuesday-headlining-a-loop-fundraiser-for-us-rep-randy-hultgren-r-illinois-of-the-states-14th-congressional-district-/4081418/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Rauner defends veto of visa help for immigrant crime victims – AP
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/rauner-defends-veto-of-visa-help-for-immigrant-crime-victims

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Phil Kadner viciously demonizes, viciously denigrates, and viciously condemns Trump and his supporters.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/trump-speaks-american-greatest-strength/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The silence of Pope Francis and the pain of a church – John Kass
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-pope-francis-catholic-church-kass-20180828-story.html
— Someone posted photos of a young councilwoman in California in her underwear. She calls it ‘slut-shaming.’ – Taylor Telford
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-slut-shaming-women-political-candidates-0829-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Republican glorifies and praises McCain.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-robinson-colun-st-0829-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR GRAPHIC AND TABLE: FROM THE ARTICLE: For every dollar DuPage County taxpayers send to Springfield, the state returns 31 cents. That’s the lowest rate of return among all 102 counties in Illinois, according to a recently released study conducted by researchers at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. – Jake Griffin (DIERSEN: One could argue that Illinois is financially dependent on DuPage County. One could argue that without DuPage County, Illinois would have to immediately file for bankruptcy. DuPage County is run by Republicans. One could argue that if more statewide candidates were elected from DuPage County, Illinois would not be having the financial problems that it is having. Aside from Evelyn Sanguinetti, the last statewide candidate from DuPage County elected was Jim Ryan. Further, when James “Pate” Philip from DuPage County was President of the Illinois Senate, Illinois was much more fiscally responsible.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180829/study-suburbs-pay-more-than-what-they-get-back-from-state
— High school marching bands hit the neighborhood streets – Eileen O. Daday (DIERSEN: For many years now, DuPage Republicans have sponsored the Wheaton North and Wheaton South high school bands in Wheaton’s Independence Day parades.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180828/high-school-marching-bands-hit-the-neighborhood-streets
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Republican says “GOP sold its sold, McCain didn’t.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20180829/ignatius-gop-sold-its-sold-mccain-didnt
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURES: A family reunion more than 60 years in the making – Burt Constable (DIERSEN: For many decades, the Diersens held big family reunions every summer at the Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete. But that all ended in 1961 when the pastor of the church succeeded in splitting the church. About half the Diersens stayed with the church as it dumped the Missouri Synod and moved to the Wisconsin Synod. The other half, including my parents, me, and my brother transferred to Hope Lutheran Church in Park Forest to stay with the Missouri Synod.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180829/constable-a-family-reunion-more-than-60-years-in-the-making

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, pot pushers use problems with opioids to push pot.
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180829/marijuana-now-possible-pain-alternative-to-addictive-opioids
— Cullerton says lawmakers will try to override Tobacco 21 veto – Doug Finke (DIERSEN: Democrats do not want children to smoke tobacco but want them to smoke pot.
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180828/cullerton-says-lawmakers-will-try-to-override-tobacco-21-veto

WILLIAM J. KELLY
— Rahm’s GOP foe: I intend to solve Chicago’s Rahm problem
https://www.williamjkelly.org/news/rahms-gop-foe-i-intend-to-solve-chicagos-rahm-problem

CHICAGO NOW
— Berkowitz discuss Chicago’s violence & it’s leadership deficit w/Gary MacDougal
http://www.chicagonow.com/public-affairs-with-jeff-berkowitz/2018/08/watch-berkowitz-discuss-chicagos-violence-it-leadership-deficit-wgary-macdougal-cable-and-web/

WILL COUNTY GAZETTE
— Monee pays property taxes nearly three times national average
https://willcountygazette.com/stories/511544936-analysis-monee-pays-property-taxes-nearly-three-times-national-average

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Local Democratic leader: Outreach is key to ‘blue wave’ in November – Benjamin Yount (DIERSEN: Democrats shout at everyone that to punish Trump, everyone should vote for all the Democrat candidates on the ballot.)
https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/local-democratic-leader-outreach-is-key-to-blue-wave-in/article_d40b7d28-aa22-11e8-9559-9b562b070f5f.html

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— WISCONSIN HIGHLIGHTS STATE ECONOMY IN COMPARISON TO ILLINOIS
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2018/08/wisconsin-highlights-state-economy-in-comparison-to-illinois.html

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— REPUBLICANS CAN, MUST KEEP CONTROL IN MIDTERMS – Star Parker
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/opinion/republicans-can-must-keep-control-in-midterms/
— IMMIGRANTS AND DISEASE – Walter E. Williams
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/opinion/immigrants-and-disease/

WORLD NET DAILY
— STUDY AFFIRMS GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS LEAN LEFT Not the ‘fair and balanced arbiter of facts’ it claims to be – ART MOORE
https://www.wnd.com/2018/08/study-affirms-google-search-results-lean-left/
— THE LEFT’S LONG WAR ON CONSERVATIVE SPEECH Michelle Malkin: ‘If you can’t beat ’em, deplatform ’em. That’s the progressive way’
https://www.wnd.com/2018/08/the-lefts-long-war-on-conservative-speech/
— 16 STATES ASK SUPREMES TO REIN IN TRANSGENDERS Religious liberty fight developed when male worker demanded to dress like woman
https://www.wnd.com/2018/08/16-states-ask-supremes-to-rein-in-transgenders/
— TOXIC FEMINISM STABS WOMEN IN THE BACK Carl Jackson says movement ‘gave good men an excuse to be bad’
https://www.wnd.com/2018/08/toxic-feminism-stabs-women-in-the-back/
— DOES OPEN-BORDERS CROWD WANT MORE TB IN U.S.? Public health issue is ignored by those championing sanctuary cities – WALTER WILLIAMS
https://www.wnd.com/2018/08/does-open-borders-crowd-want-more-tb-in-u-s/

BREITBART
— 10 Times Google’s Far-Left, Anti-Trump Bias Was Exposed – Allum Bokhari
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/28/10-times-googles-far-left-anti-trump-bias-was-exposed/
— ‘Concerned Catholics’ Group Petitions Archbishop to Remove LGBT-Activist Priests from Ministry – Dr. Susan Berry
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/28/concerned-catholics-group-petitions-archbishop-to-remove-lgbt-activist-priests-from-ministry/

TOWNHALL
— Corrupt Democrats Are Not ‘News’- Brent Bozell and Tim Graham Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2018/08/29/corrupt-democrats-are-not-news-n2513875
— The Left’s Long War on Conservative Free Speech – Michelle Malkin
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2018/08/29/the-lefts-long-war-on-conservative-free-speech-n2513901
— Gov. Cuomo Pardoned An Illegal The Same Week One Was Charged With Mollie Tibbetts’ Murder – Matt Vespa
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/08/28/icymi-gov-cuomo-pardoned-another-undocumented-person-the-same-week-an-illegal-w-n2513635

DAILY CALLER
— CONSERVATIVES AT FACEBOOK FORM ‘FB’ERS FOR POLITICAL DIVERSITY’ TO COMBAT COMPANY’S IDEOLOGICAL ECHOCHAMBER – Kyle Perisic (DIERSEN: Conservative Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains in Illinois should organize and form an association. It could be named the “Association of Conservative Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains of Illinois” or ACRPCI. In your township/ward and in your county, what percent of the Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains are conservative? What have they done that shows that they support the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, and the rest of the planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform?)
https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/28/facebook-political-diversity-james-damore/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: More than one hundred conservative Facebook employees have joined an internal employee message board to protest what they call the company’s “intolerant” liberal culture. The group, “FB’ers for Political Diversity,” was created last week, The New York Times reported Tuesday, and aims to promote ideological diversity within the company. Facebook’s workforce of more than 25,000 is viewed as largely liberal. “We are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views,” wrote senior Facebook engineer and group cofounder Brian Amerige in a post, The NYT added. “We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology.” Amerige’s post continues to criticize Facebook’s emphasis on racial and gender diversity and how it, along with the company’s overt liberal bias, threatens the “viability as a company.” Facebook banned a dissenting conservative group in December 2016, Business Insider reported in August 2017. The group, “Facebook Anon,” was an anonymous group chat for supporters of then-candidate Donald Trump. It was shut down for violating Facebook’s policies against anonymous accounts, but Business Insider reported that the talks “turned ugly and … alarmed management.” Amerige’s post echoes similar concerns of a memo former Google engineer James Damore wrote in August 2017 that criticized Google’s “ideological echo chamber,” The Daily Caller reported. “[W]e tear down posters welcoming Trump supporters. We regularly propose removing [tech investor Peter] Thiel from our board because he supported Trump,” Amerige wrote. “We’re quick to suggest firing people who turn out to be misunderstood, and even quicker to conclude our colleagues are bigots.” Amerige added that Facebook has made “all lives matter” a “fireable offense” and that human resources investigates anyone who dares “criticize Islam’s human rights record.” Amerige’s concerns are not without any evidence. Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has donated to left-leaning campaigns in the 2018 and 2020 elections, The Daily Caller News Foundation reported on Aug. 23. Facebook also has a well-documented history of removing conservative content, some of which was restored with an apologized after public backlash. (RELATED: Facebook Flags New York Post Article About Trump Voters As ‘Spam’) Facebook has also removed videos and shadow banned content. Facebook apologize for mistakenly removing videos from the popular conservative page PragerU on Aug. 17, The Daily Caller reported. FB’ers for Political Diversity’s only rule is “if you attack a person’s character, rather than their ideas, you will be banned.”)
— DESPITE PUSH FROM FAR LEFT, JUST ONE QUARTER OF DEMOCRATS WANT TO ABOLISH ICE – Will Racke
https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/28/ap-poll-abolish-ice-democrats/
— CNN’S CHRIS CUOMO ACCUSES TRUMP OF USING GOOGLE’S CENSORSHIP TO ‘DIVIDE’ – Mike Brest
https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/28/cnn-chris-cuomo-trump-google-censorship/

DAILY WIRE
— Ivanka Blasted For Posing With A Christian Minister – Paul Bois
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35135/ivanka-blasted-posing-christian-minister-paul-bois

PJ MEDIA
— Ivanka: North American Women ‘Still Underrepresented’ in Boardrooms, Politics, Science – NICHOLAS BALLASY (DIERSEN: What are your demographics? In what areas are those who share your demographics underrepresented? While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, Republicans were grossly unrepresented. Ever-increasingly, conservatives are underrepresented in the Milton Township Republican Central Committee, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, and the Republican Party.)
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ivanka-north-american-women-still-underrepresented-in-boardrooms-politics-science/

NEWS BUSTERS
— Corrupt Democrats Are Not ‘News’ – Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2018/08/28/bozell-graham-column-corrupt-democrats-are-not-news

THE WEEK
— The incredible transformation of the Democratic Party – David Faris (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
http://theweek.com/articles/791291/incredible-transformation-democratic-party

THE HILL
— Former aide: McCain probably would’ve wanted a Latina woman to succeed him – EMILY BIRNBAUM (DIERSEN: What are the demographics of the person who your critics/opponents want to replace you with? My critics/opponents want to replace me with someone who they can manipulate/dominate and who is anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/403907-former-aide-mccain-probably-wouldve-wanted-a-latina-woman-to-succeed-him
— Workers are ready to choose a better America by joining unions – MARC PERRONE (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are vehemently anti-union.)
http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/403995-workers-are-ready-to-choose-unions-and-a-better-america
— California gov candidate backs universal healthcare for undocumented immigrants – MEGAN KELLER
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/404036-dem-calif-gov-candidate-government-should-give-undocumented-immigrants

ABC NEWS
— 160 undocumented workers detained in Texas immigration bust – KARMA ALLEN
https://abcnews.go.com/US/160-undocumented-workers-detained-texas-immigration-bust/story?id=57467248

NEW YORK TIMES
– FRONT PAGE: Trump Accuses Google of Burying Conservative News in Search Results – Adam Satariano, Daisuke Wakabayashi and Cecilia Kang
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/business/media/google-trump-news-results.html
— If G.O.P. Loses Hold on Congress, Trump Warns, Democrats Will Enact Change ‘Quickly and Violently’ – Michael D. Shear (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those in my precinct, in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who are filled with hatred of Trump and filled with hatred of anyone who does not share their hatred of Trump.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/us/politics/trump-evangelical-pastors-election.html
— Dozens at Facebook Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture – Kate Conger and Sheera Frenkel (DIERSEN: Conservative Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains in Illinois should organize and form an association. It could be named the “Association of Conservative Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains of Illinois” or ACRPCI. In your township/ward and in your county, what percent of the Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains are conservative? What have they done that shows that they support the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, and the rest of the planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/technology/inside-facebook-employees-political-bias.html
— What Did Pope Francis Know? The Catholic Church needs leaders who can purge corruption even among their own theological allies. The pope is failing that test. – Ross Douthat
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/opinion/pope-francis-catholic-church-resign.html

WASHINGTON POST
— You can wager Democrats will talk a lot about this issue – Jennifer Rubin (DIERSEN: Roskam should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/08/28/you-can-wager-democrats-will-talk-a-lot-about-this-issue/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump Accuses Google of Suppressing Positive News About His Presidency President says Google, Twitter, Facebook are ‘treading on very, very troubling territory’ – Vivian Salama, Douglas MacMillan and Drew FitzGerald
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-accuses-google-of-suppressing-positive-news-about-his-presidency-1535459748
— Pope Francis in the Dock A former papal nuncio accuses the pontiff of a sex abuse coverup. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pope-francis-in-the-dock-1535497184

USA TODAY
— How doorbell cameras are creating dilemmas for police, neighborhoods – Christina Hall (DIERSEN: Recently, a doorbell camera was used to harass/threaten me. One of the homeowners in my precinct, a registered Republican voter, angrily phoned me, angrily claimed to be out of town, angrily claimed that she had just been alerted by her doorbell camera that I had just left Republican literature on her front door, angrily claimed that literature encouraged burglars to break into her home, and angrily demanded that I immediately come back and take that literature back, which I did. She angrily demanded that I take her off my list and angrily demanded that I never bring Republican literature to her door again. I expect that she is one of the 30 or so voters in my precinct who a) cast Republican primary ballots to do whatever damage they can to the Republican Party and b) always vote for Democrats in general elections.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/08/23/doorbell-camera-videos-police-dilemma/1074952002/
— Sexually transmitted diseases surge for the 4th straight year, CDC reports – Ken Alltucker (DIERSEN: Anti-conservative promote promiscuity.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/28/cdc-reports-surge-gonorrhea-other-sexually-transmitted-diseases/1115411002/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE: Mollie Tibbetts case exposes farms’ worst-kept secret: hiring undocumented immigrants – Alan Gomez (DIERSEN: The worse that jobs are, the more likely that employers will hire illegals to do that those jobs. What bad jobs have you had? According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, all the jobs that I had were bad 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.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/24/iowa-murder-casts-spotlight-farms-hiring-undocumented-immigrants/1075320002/

FINANCIAL TIMES
— Facebook employees’ group criticizes its ‘political monoculture’ Formation of ‘FB’ers for Political Diversity’ comes amid accusations of leftwing bias – Hannah Kuchler (DIERSEN: Conservative Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains in Illinois should organize and form an association. It could be named the “Association of Conservative Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains of Illinois” or ACRPCI. In your township/ward and in your county, what percent of the Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains are conservative? What have they done that shows that they support the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, and the rest of the planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform?)
https://www.ft.com/content/656caf3e-ab23-11e8-89a1-e5de165fa619

WASHINGTON MONTHLY
— Republicans Make a List of Trump Scandals They’re Covering Up – Nancy LeTourneau (DIERSEN: I worked for GAO 1980-1997. One could say that the Democrats who ran GAO in 1997 forced me to take their early retirement “offer” to punish Newt Gingrich.)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/08/28/republicans-make-a-list-of-trump-scandals-theyre-covering-up/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: What Newt saw to is what Paul Glastris and Haley Sweetland Edwards called, “The Big Lobotomy.” A quick refresher: In 1995, after winning a majority in the House for the first time in forty years, one of the first things the new Republican House leadership did was gut Congress’s workforce. They cut the “professional staff” (the lawyers, economists, and investigators who work for committees rather than individual members) by a third. They reduced the “legislative support staff” (the auditors, analysts, and subject-matter experts at the Government Accountability Office [GAO], the Congressional Research Service [CRS], and so on) by a third, too, and killed off the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) entirely…Since 2011, with a Tea Party-radicalized GOP back in control of the House, Congress has cut its budget by a whopping 20 percent, a far higher ratio than any other federal agency, leading, predictably, to staff layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, and drooping morale.)
— JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2014 FLASHBACK: The Big Lobotomy How Republicans Made Congress Stupid – Paul Glastris and Haley Sweetland Edwards (DIERSEN: I worked for GAO 1980-1997. One could say that the Democrats who ran GAO in 1997 forced me to take their early retirement “offer” to punish Newt Gingrich.)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/junejulyaug-2014/the-big-lobotomy/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The third target of Gingrich’s attacks was the legislative support agencies. The Government Accountability Office, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service, and now-defunct Office of Technology Assessment operated on a bipartisan basis, offering measured reports on topics suggested by members themselves. Sometimes, these agencies act as helpful librarians, and sometimes they’re more like referees, carefully adjudicating among the competing quantitative claims of various members and outside groups. Gingrich, perhaps not surprisingly, viewed them all as potential rivals to his singular narrative.)

ENTREPRENEUR
— 6 Ways Healthy Office Competition Builds Teams and Improves Productivity – John Rampton (DIERSEN: When you got promotions, what competition did you face? GAO is in the legislative branch. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates had a very low opinion of executive branch employees like I was for almost 12 years (Post Office 1966-1969 and IRS 1971-1980). They always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I got promoted in 1972, 1973, and 1974 only because the IRS employees who I competed against for those promotions were inferior people. They always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that GAO would never have hired me in 1971, and if it had, it would never have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974. They stressed that I did not earn an MBA until 1976, that I did not pass the CPA examination until 1979, and that I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until 1980.)
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/317603

INDEPENDENT
— Economic inequality, not gender oppression, drives women to take sexy selfies, says study ‘When a young woman adjusts her bikini provocatively with her phone at the ready, don’t think of her as vacuous or as a victim. Think of her as a strategic player in a complex social and evolutionary game’ – Maya Oppenheim
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/women-sexy-selfies-why-social-media-economic-inequality-gender-oppression-a8511121.html

August 28 Evening Edition

ABC7
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: POT PUSHERS ARE OVERJOYED: Rauner signs bill legalizing medical marijuana as opioid alternative – Craig Wall
https://abc7chicago.com/health/rauner-signs-bill-legalizing-medical-marijuana-as-opioid-alternative/4080820/

NBC5
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: POT PUSHERS ARE OVERJOYED: Marijuana Now Possible Pain Alternative to Addictive Opioids
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/illinois-marijuana-pain-alternative-491928851.html
— Chicago Aldermen Have Millions in Campaign War Chests, State Records Show – Carol Marin, Don Moseley and Shelby Bremer
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/chicago-aldermen-have-millions-in-campaign-war-chests-state-records-show-491883101.html

CBS2
— House Speaker Paul Ryan Attends Campaign Luncheon For Congressman Randy Hultgren
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/08/28/house-speaker-paul-ryan-attends-campaign-luncheon-for-congressman-randy-hultgren/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: POT PUSHERS ARE OVERJOYED: Marijuana now pain alternative to addictive opioids in Illinois – AP
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/marijuana-now-pain-alternative-to-addictive-opioids

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: POT PUSHERS ARE OVERJOYED: Rauner signs medical marijuana expansion bill allowing drug as painkiller alternative – Robert McCoppin
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-medical-marijuana-opioids-illinois-expansion-20180827-story.html
— GOP challenger Jason Helland makes Jesse White’s age, 84, more than a number in Illinois secretary of state’s race – Mike Riopell
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-jesse-white-jason-helland-secretary-of-state-20180827-story.html
— Trump’s economic adviser: ‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated – Tony Romm
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-google-searches-regulation-20180828-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: POT PUSHERS ARE OVERJOYED: Rauner OKs medical marijuana to replace opioids – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/illinois-medical-marijuana-alternative-opioids-bruce-rauner/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Mexico says a) it will never stop sending many millions of its citizens into America illegally and b) it will never stop keeping many millions of its citizens in America illegally. Constructively Mexico reaffirms its constructive declaration of war against America. Anti-Trumps side with Mexico and side with all the other countries of the world that have constructively declared war on America.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/luis-videgaray-caso-donald-trump-enrique-pena-nieto-mexico-border-wall/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers promote the advantages of legal pot over illegal pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/cannabis-marijuana-toxic-pesticides-illegal-california-pot-farms/
— Trump-endorsed DeSantis wins Florida GOP gubernatorial primary – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/ron-desantis-donald-trump-florida-gubernatorial-primary-rick-scott/
— Trump takes on Google in complaints about social media – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/social-media-conservative-voices-donald-trump-larry-kudlow-google/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Many Americans struggling to get by despite strong economy.” What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32. Anyone should be able to do what I did because according to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, I am extremely stupid. But out of the other side of their crooked mouths they shout that I had tremendous unfair advantages in life including that I was born a White male, that my ancestors have been in America since 1844, that I avoided the draft, that I worked for the federal government, that I got married, that my wife has always had income, that we gave up trying to have children, that we did not adopt, and that we did not become foster parents, etc.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/americans-struggle-basic-needs-strong-economy-urban-institute-survey/
— And what’s your share, folks, of our local public debt? $126,000 – Madeleine Doubek
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/and-whats-your-share-folks-of-our-local-public-debt-126000/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers push pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/pot-patients-advocates-opioid-expansion-medical-marijuana-reaction/

DAILY HERALD
— Rauner effectively kills bill targeting Lake County chief assessment officer – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180828/rauner-effectively-kills-bill-targeting-lake-county-chief-assessment-officer
— Trump’s economic adviser: ‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated – Isaac Stanley-Becker and Brian Fung
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180828/trumps-economic-adviser-were-taking-a-look-at-whether-google-searches-should-be-regulated
— DuPage sheriff’s officials change reason for canceling J.U.S.T. program – Justin Kmitch
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180828/dupage-sheriffs-officials-change-reason-for-canceling-just-program
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps shout at women that Trump is a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things. Anti-Trumps want women and everyone else to hate Trump. How should Trump respond?
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20180828/roberts-women-hold-key-to-democrats-bid-to-rein-in-trump
— DuPage County Board agrees to spend $260,000 on lobbyists – Robert Sanchez
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180828/dupage-county-board-agrees-to-spend-260000-on-lobbyists

SUBURBAN LIFE
— People’s Resource Center revamps food pantry to better serve clients – ERIC SCHELKOPF (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats, more and more and more people a) depend on government, b) depend on charity, and c) are getting charity and/or are handing out charity.)
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2018/08/22/peoples-resource-center-revamps-food-pantry-to-better-serve-clients/doil4i8/

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— DuPage Township: Illegal loans, advance pays – JOHN KRAFT
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2018/08/dupage-township-illegal-loans-advance-pays/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— IRS MOVES TO BLOCK ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS’ TAX CREDIT WORKAROUND SCHEME New IRS rules make clear that lowering the actual tax burden, not complicated workarounds, is the correct way to respond to tighter federal restrictions on SALT deductions. – Adam Schuster (DIERSEN: Roskam should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/irs-moves-to-block-illinois-lawmakers-tax-credit-workaround-scheme/

CAPITOL FAX
— DISGUSTING, OUTRAGEOUS: POT PUSHERS ARE OVERJOYED: Rauner finally comes around a little on medical marijuana
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/28/rauner-finally-comes-around-a-little-on-medical-marijuana/#comments
— Casten is first candidate out of the gate with Metra response
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/28/casten-is-first-candidate-out-of-the-gate-with-metra-response/
— Illinois Policy Institute begins mailing public employees about Janus
https://capitolfax.com/2018/08/28/illinois-policy-institute-begins-mailing-public-employees-about-janus/

DAILY CALLER
— SOUTH AFRICA WITHDRAWS BILL TO SEIZE LAND FROM WHITE FARMERS — FOR NOW – Chris White
https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/28/south-africa-land-white-farmers/

BREITBART
— Google Responds to Trump: ‘No Political Bias in Google Search’ – Lucas Nolan
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/28/google-responds-to-trump-no-political-bias-in-google-search/
— Gavin Newsom Vows Universal Healthcare for All of California’s Illegal Immigrants – Joshua Caplan
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/28/gavin-newsom-california-illegal-immigrants-universal-healthcare/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The anti-Trump Michael Steele says “You Get a First Class Ride to Stupidland on the Trump Train.”
https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/08/28/michael-steele-you-get-a-first-class-ride-to-stupidland-on-the-trump-train/

GOPUSA
— Americans mostly unsatisfied with K-12 education
http://www.gopusa.com/americans-mostly-unsatisfied-with-k-12-education/
— Rate of home ownership among black and Latino millennials is strikingly low, study finds
http://www.gopusa.com/rate-of-home-ownership-among-black-and-latino-millennials-is-strikingly-low-study-finds/
— Jacksonville gunman has mental history, took anti-psychotic drugs
http://www.gopusa.com/court-records-jacksonville-gunman-has-mental-history-took-anti-psychotic-drugs/

PJ MEDIA
— Judge Invalidates Parts of Executive Order That Made It Easier to Fire Federal Workers – BRIDGET JOHNSON
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/judge-invalidates-parts-of-executive-order-that-made-it-easier-to-fire-federal-workers/

DAILY WIRE
— The Media Properly Honor John McCain After His Death. Their Scorn For Him In 2008 Helped Make Trump. – BEN SHAPIRO
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35076/media-properly-honor-john-mccain-after-his-death-ben-shapiro

CHECK YOUR FACT
— FACT CHECK: ARE ONLY HALF OF 30-YEAR-OLDS DOING BETTER THAN THEIR PARENTS AT THE SAME AGE? – Emily Larsen (DIERSEN: When you were 30, were you doing better financially than your father was doing when he was 30? I was, but my father had fought type 1 diabetes from age 14. While he had earned a high school diploma, none of his ancestors had done that. While I have never had children, he and my mother had the financial burden of raising me.)
http://checkyourfact.com/2018/08/28/fact-check-millennials-income-mobility/

THE HILL
— Trump: Google suppressing conservative voices, hiding ‘good’ news and information – EMILY BIRNBAUM
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/403905-trump-google-suppressing-conservative-voices-hiding-good-news-and
— Google responds to Trump: Denies favoring ideologies in search results – HARPER NEIDIG
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/403950-google-responds-to-trump-denies-favoring-ideologies-in-search-results

CBS NEWS
— “We’re taking a look at it,” says WH econ advisor Larry Kudlow, asked if the Administration thinks Google searches should be regulated, following @POTUS complaint today that it’s rigged against him.
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1034429503911677953

NEWSWEEK
— WILL POPE FRANCIS RESIGN? – JAKUB LEWANDOWSKI
https://www.newsweek.com/will-pope-francis-resign-1091787

FED WEEK
— Planning to Retire – Social Security Reductions for CSRS Retirees
https://www.fedweek.com/reg-jones-experts-view/planning-to-retire-social-security-reductions-for-csrs-retirees/

FED SMITH
— Strong Protections Still Exist for Disabled Employees in the Federal Workplace – Eric Pines (DIERSEN: While I worked for GAO in its Chicago office 1980-1997, my Democrat superiors assigned me to supervise all the office’s disabled employees at one time or another.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/08/28/strong-protections-still-exist-disabled-employees-federal-workplace/