December 4 Evening Edition

ABC7
— No masks, no distancing at large downstate political gathering – Chuck Goudie
https://abc7chicago.com/health/no-masks-no-distancing-at-large-downstate-political-gathering/8507260/
— Illinois COVID-19 Update: IL reports 10,526 cases, 148 coronavirus deaths; officials detail vaccine distribution plan – Craig Wall, Eric Horng and Jesse Kirsch
https://abc7chicago.com/health/il-reports-10526-covid-cases-148-deaths;-vaccine-distribution-details-released/8492103/
— Biden to call for 100 days of mask-wearing among first acts amid COVID-19 pandemic “On the first day I’m inaugurated, I’m going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask – not forever, just 100 days. And I think we’ll see a significant reduction” in the virus, Joe Biden said. – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/health/among-first-acts-biden-to-call-for-100-days-of-mask-wearing/8477181/
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: House votes to decriminalize marijuana at federal level – AP (DIERSEN: To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.)
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/house-votes-to-decriminalize-marijuana-at-federal-level/8494692/
— Northern Illinois Food Bank meal distribution up 50% due to COVID pandemic needs; helping is more important than ever – Yukare Nakayama
https://abc7chicago.com/8472857/

WGN RADIO
— Biden officially secures enough electors to become president – AP
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/biden-officially-secures-enough-electors-to-become-president/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois to distribute first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine to 50 counties with highest death rates, possibly by mid-December – DAN PETRELLA and JAMIE MUNKS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-illinois-vaccine-update-20201204-7grdhuh7gzf5bif5tpmx5vdbj4-story.html
— 10,526 new COVID-19 cases and 148 additional deaths reported Friday as state says first vaccines will go to 50 counties with highest death rates
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-pandemic-chicago-illinois-news-20201204-qmlgt5qnufh2zaqonevr5icqqe-story.html
— Record number of Illinois residents voted in the Nov. 3 election, and turnout of close to 73% was highest since 1992 – RICK PEARSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-illinois-election-certification-20201204-zalzjruuwfgt7ec64grozercli-story.html
— He ain’t Fast Eddie no more – JOHN KASS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-fast-eddie-vrdolyak-kass-20201205-bvhmze7gmbablncjlay57stv2a-story.html
— ‘He knew exactly where to draw the line.’ Madigan’s record more than enough reason for ouster – EDITORIAL
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-michael-madigan-step-down-20201204-72g4r2gyy5h7bftsec2mogbn5e-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Trump is obsessed with winning. But he keeps losing election lawsuits.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/election-2020/ct-nw-trump-election-lawsuits-20201205-qwdcp2o7wfap3lrlsz5oykhzeu-story.html

— Joe Biden officially secures enough electors to become president after California certifies his victory in the state – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/election-2020/ct-nw-biden-electors-20201205-k7dellhnezfixorx62iosy4bzu-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— What happened when a House Dem leader told Mike Madigan she’ll vote against him for speaker Kathleen Willis talks about the decision that made her the highest-profile Democrat to turn against Madigan in the wake of the Com-Ed scandal. – Rich Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/12/4/22154322/state-rep-kathleen-willis-house-speaker-mike-madigan-democratic-caucus-rich-miller
— Why Biden, ex-presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton will take COVID-19 vaccines: Need to build trust in new drug President-elect Joe Biden and former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have volunteered to get a COVID-19 vaccine in public — when it’s their turn. – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/12/3/22151557/why-ex-presidents-barack-obama-george-bush-bill-clinton-will-take-covid-19-vaccines-to-build-trust
— Over 6 million Illinois residents cast ballots in 2020 election Voter turnout for the Nov. 3 election was 72.9%, the highest since the 1992 general election. – Rachel Hinton
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2020/12/4/22153939/illinois-presidential-election-turnout-voting
— Ex-Ald. Edward Vrdolyak sentenced to 18 months in prison — but it’s unclear when he’ll report The feds asked a judge to send Vrdolyak to prison for more than two years. Vrdolyak’s defense attorneys asked for probation or home confinement. They said he had a brain tumor and pointed to the pandemic. – Jon Seidel
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/12/4/22152622/edward-vrdolyak-sentencing-tax-evasion-tobacco-settlement-fast-eddie

DAILY HERALD
— The suburbs need hundreds of good candidates for April election. – Editorial (DIERSEN: In your municipality, what are the demographics of those who the leaders in your municipality encourage to run?)
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20201204/editorial-you-could-be-a-part-of-the-solution
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Dangerously viral: How Trump, supporters spread false claims.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20201204/news/312049991/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— What Madigan still has going for him Money. Big money. Money to buy ads, hire operatives, punish enemies and make sure members of his caucus know who butters their bread. – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/what-madigan-still-has-going-him

QUAD CITY TIMES
— Illinois GOP gains 1 seat in House; Dems gain 1 in Senate – PETER HANCOCK
https://qctimes.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/illinois-gop-gains-1-seat-in-house-dems-gain-1-in-senate/article_55f88c07-dfe3-5b08-a6e7-b293722e55b9.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— Black Lives Matter faces growing rift with local chapters over finances and transparency – Julian Baron
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/black-lives-matter-faces-rift-with-local-chapters-over-finances

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois still fails its elderly, veterans as COVID deaths hit record highs – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-still-fails-its-elderly-veterans-as-covid-deaths-hit-record-highs/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— RESCUE ILLINOIS RALLY AT DALEY PLAZA SATURDAY
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/12/rescue-illinois-rally-at-daley-plaza-saturday.html
— THORNER: ONLY THE BLIND CANNOT SEE TRUTH ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/12/thorner-only-the-blind-cannot-see-truth-about-the-2020-election.html
— THE CENTER SQUARE: A THIRD OF ILLINOIS SMALL BUSINESSES CLOSED SINCE JANUARY
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/12/the-center-square-a-third-of-illinois-small-businesses-closed-since-january.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Illinois turnout hit 72.92 percent; Voting evenly split between early, mail and in-person
https://capitolfax.com/2020/12/04/illinois-turnout-hit-7292-percent-voting-evenly-split-between-early-mail-and-in-person/
— 10,526 new confirmed and probable cases; 148 additional deaths; 5,453 hospitalized; 1,153 in the ICU; 10.3 percent case positivity rate; 12.1 percent test positivity rate
https://capitolfax.com/2020/12/04/10526-new-confirmed-and-probable-cases-148-additional-deaths-5453-hospitalized-1153-in-the-icu-103-percent-case-positivity-rate-121-percent-test-positivity-rate/
— COVID-19 roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2020/12/04/covid-19-roundup-62/
— 10.4 percent of all new unemployment claims were filed in Illinois last week
https://capitolfax.com/2020/12/04/94-percent-of-all-new-unemployment-claims-were-filed-in-illinois-last-week/
— Despite losing by 1.4 percentage points, Oberweis launches discovery recount
https://capitolfax.com/2020/12/04/despite-losing-by-14-percentage-points-oberweis-launches-discovery-recount/

GOPUSA
— CANCEL EVERYTHING! Democrats Call For Massive Lockdowns… For Everyone Else – Bobby Eberle
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=98747

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Chicago Mayor Lightfoot: Trump “Has Added To Public Skepticism” About COVID Vaccine – Ian Schwartz
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/12/03/chicago_mayor_lightfoot_trump_has_added_to_public_skepticism_about_covid_vaccine.html

THE HILL
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: House passes sweeping reform bill to decriminalize marijuana – ALEX GANGITANO (DIERSEN: To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/528787-house-passes-sweeping-reform-bill-to-decriminalize-marijuana

NEW YORK TIMES
— Millions of U.S. workers have the skills to earn 70 percent more than they do today. (DIERSEN: In 1976, when I was 27 years old, the Democrats who ran IRS started to underpay me when I earned an MBA from Loyola and underpaid me even more in 1979 when I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. In 1980, the Democrats who ran GAO underpaid me big time when I transferred from IRS to GAO and underpaid me even more a) in 1980 when I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, b) in 1981 when I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA, c) in 1990 when I became a Certified Fraud Examiner, d) in 1994 when I became a Certified Government Financial Manager, e) in 1996 when I became a Certified Financial Services Auditor, f) and in 1997 when I became a Forensic Accountant and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT.)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/04/business/us-economy-coronavirus#millions-of-us-workers-have-the-skills-to-earn-70-percent-more-than-they-do-today
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Judge Orders Government to Fully Reinstate DACA Program Up to 300,000 additional undocumented immigrants could be allowed to apply for protection from deportation under a new court ruling. President Trump had sought to cancel the program. – Caitlin Dickerson and Michael D. Shear
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/us/daca-reinstated.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— China Is National Security Threat No. 1 Resisting Beijing’s attempt to reshape and dominate the world is the challenge of our generation. – John Ratcliffe
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-is-national-security-threat-no-1-11607019599

BLOOMBERG
— U.S. Downtowns Yearn for Vaccine as Merchant Traffic Off 70% – Michael Sasso and Andre Tartar
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/u-s-downtowns-yearn-for-vaccine-as-merchant-traffic-falls-70

NARFE
— Tell Congress to Block Executive Order Politicizing Federal Jobs (DIERSEN: Democrats run the federal government. They use Affirmative Action, Diversity, Inclusion, unfair job assignments, unfair performance expectations, unfair performance appraisals, up-or-out, etc. to not hire and to get rid of their employees who are Republican, and especially those who are White, male, and/or non-veteran who they did not promote to GS-13 (currently $101,176) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $119,559) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $140,634) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $170,800) by age 40.)
https://www.narfe.org/legislation/index.cfm?fa=voterVoice&vvsrc=%2fCampaigns%2f77989%2fRespond%3fvvcgUT%3dm-SPaa5ejEZe9sbLYRIdzQ%26vvcgRD%3dBbGzz9MU9F2gf5%26vvsbr%3dlqFLk_1UqtSU8JVYoNzF_w

(FROM THE ALERT: The President signed Executive Order (EO) 13957 on October 21, which threatens the integrity of a professional, nonpartisan civil service – a standard since the late 1800s. The EO does so by creating a broad new exception, Schedule F, to competitive civil service requirements that could convert upwards of hundreds of thousands of civil service positions into essentially political appointments. Civil service rules ensure federal employees are hired or fired based on their competence for the job, or lack thereof, and not their political connections, or lack thereof. The rules protect employees from being removed for choosing adherence to the Constitution, laws and professional standards over politically motivated actions or perceived allegiance to a political party. A competitive, merit-based civil service provides continuity through changing administrations, preserves institutional knowledge and expertise within the federal government, and safeguards the rule of law.)

December 3 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Who gets the COVID-19 vaccine first? Social justice must be a factor – CRAIG KLUGMAN AND ANGIRA PATEL
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-coronavirus-vaccine-order-black-hispanic-20201202-oivauayforghlhwpeuhtyw7zim-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Donald Trump is the superspreader president.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/steve-chapman/ct-column-trump-super-spreader-parties-chapman-20201202-bvurpcnbtfbg3c3pvudd7gi7qi-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Trump and his ‘rigged election’ liars are going to get someone killed.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/rex-huppke/ct-trump-election-giuliani-biden-vote-fraud-death-gop-huppke-20201202-5pn6757tnvgjbckchlrknpwba4-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Madigan confidant, others plead not guilty in bribery case as GOP leader floats bid for speaker’s gavel House GOP leader Jim Durkin said he had 45 of the 60 votes required to become speaker, and he said he planned to appeal to 15 “reform-minded” Democrats in an unlikely bid to get them to support his ascension to speaker. – Jon Seidel and Rachel Hinton
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/12/2/21975490/mike-madigan-confidant-comed-bribery-case-arraignment-michael-mcclain-anne-pramaggiore-jay-doherty
— Lightfoot plans $450M in short-term borrowing to buy time for Congress to ride to the rescue The short-term borrowing is for “less than a year” at an interest rate of 1.95%. If Congress ultimately approves replacement revenue for cities, a long-term, $1.7 billion debt restructuring will be dramatically reduced. – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/12/2/22136300/chicago-city-budget-borrowing-covid-coronavirus-congress-relief-funding-replacement-revenue
— City Council committee extends set-aside program for contracts with firms owned by minorities, women Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th) hopes to use the latest extension and disparity study to justify raising the bar — to 30% for companies owned by minorities, 10% for firms controlled by women. – Fran Spielman (DIERSEN: I should write a book about what the following have done to meet Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion quotas, goals, and targets, that is, what the following have done to get rid of those who are Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, etc.: GAO, IRS, Post Office, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, etc.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/12/2/22087794/minority-women-owned-businesses-contracts-chicago-city-council-set-aside-programs-extension

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— GOP tries to turn political screws on Madigan On the day the speaker’s longtime confidant and others pleaded innocent to federal bribery charges, House GOP Leader Durkin says he has more votes to become speaker than the embattled chamber chief. – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/gop-tries-turn-political-screws-madigan

JOURNAL TOPICS
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Adult Recreational Cannabis Coming To Mount Prospect – Amaris E. Rodriguez
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/village-opts-in-adult-recreational-cannabis-coming-to-mount-prospect/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “President Trump Seriously Considering 2024 Run As He Continues False 2020 Claims.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/president-trump-seriously-considering-2024-run-he-continues-false-2020-claims

EVANSTON PATCH
— Groundbreaking Evanston Reparations Program Takes Shape Black residents who suffered housing discrimination in Evanston from 1919 to 1969, and their descendants, could be eligible for $25,000. – Jonah Meadows (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs are nasty. If you seek a government office or a political office as a Republican and you are a law enforcement officer, Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, non-veteran, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time, expect that your critics/opponents will dig deep into what your parents, your grandparents, your great grandparents, and the rest of your ancestors did to paint you as being a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://patch.com/illinois/evanston/groundbreaking-evanston-reparations-program-takes-shape

CENTER SQUARE
— More than one-in-three small businesses closed since January Illinois small businesses see 39.2 percent drop in revenue this year – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/more-than-one-in-three-small-businesses-closed-since-january/article_65604884-34d3-11eb-97d2-67870937d32e.html
— Illinois high school sports on hold until 2021 – Greg Bishop (DIERSEN: Starting in 7th grade, my having Osgood-Schlatter disease ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%E2%80%93Schlatter_disease ) stopped me from playing sports. I could stand and walk, but I could not run. That led to my spending my junior and senior years in high school and the summer in between washing dishes in the basement of the S.S. Kresges in Chicago Heights.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/illinois-high-school-sports-on-hold-until-2021/article_bc7af4c6-34e1-11eb-bd64-976b264d2068.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Born in Illinois, Moved Out
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/12/02/born-in-illinois-moved-out/
— McHenry Township Republicans Slate Candidates
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/12/02/mchenry-township-republicans-slate-candidates/
— Salaries of Riley Township Officials Show Raises Only for Highway Commissioner and Assessor
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/12/02/salaries-of-riley-township-officials-show-raises-only-for-highway-commissioner-and-assessor/
— Township Officials’ Salaries – Chemung
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/12/01/township-officials-salaries-chemung/
— Illinois Roads Compared with Other State
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/12/02/illinois-roads-compared-with-other-state/
— UPDATED 12/1/20: Smear List Tracks Defamatory Statements Against Kyle Rittenhouse
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/12/01/malkin120120/
— Politico Thinks Underwood in Danger from Redistricting
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/12/01/politico-thinks-underwood-in-danger-from-redistricting/
— MCC Board Approves $25,000 Retention Bonus to Keep President through 2024
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/12/01/mcc-board-approves-25000-retention-bonus-to-keep-president-through-2024/
— State’s Atty. Kenneally versus Governor Pritzker
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/12/01/kenneally-versus-pritzker/
— In the “Physician Heal Thyself” Category
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/12/01/in-the-physician-heal-thyself-category/
— Unemployment Insurance Borrowing from Feds Will Have Long Negative Business Climate Results
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/30/unemployment-insurance-borrowing-from-feds-will-have-long-negative-business-climate-results/

BEIDELMAN KUNSCH
— OBITUARY: Elizabeth Martinez
https://www.beidelmankunschfh.com/obituaries/Elizabeth-Martinez?obId=19134535
(FROM THE OBITUARY: A visitation will be held on Wednesday, December 9, from 10 am until 12 pm at the Beidelman-Kunsch Funeral Homes & Crematory, 516 S. Washington St., Naperville. A graveside service will immediately follow at the Naperville Cemetery.)

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— EMAILS DETAIL MADIGAN’S USE OF COMED AS CRONY JOB SERVICE – Ben Szalinski (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/emails-detail-madigans-use-of-comed-as-crony-job-service/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Obama: Trump’s ‘stereotypical macho style’ appealed to some Black voters – Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/3/barack-obama-donald-trumps-stereotypical-macho-sty/

GOPUSA
— John Kerry Tells World Economic Forum That American Voters Chose ‘Great Reset’ Over Nationalism (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats paint themselves as being anti-American.)
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=98657

BREITBART
— Victories Would Give Far-Left ‘Unchecked Power’ to Grant Amnesty, Defund the Police – Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/02/watch-jon-ossoff-raphael-warnock-victories-would-give-far-left-unchecked-power-to-grant-amnesty-defund-the-police/

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— WALTER E. WILLIAMS 1936-2020
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/opinion/walter-e-williams-1936-2020/
— TRUMP WON HIS OTHER CAMPAIGN — TO DESTROY MEDIA CREDIBILITY – Larry Elder (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and dupes side with the Democrat news media against me. I should write a book my critics/opponents, their operatives, and dupes. I would focus on those who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and/or in Illinois. I would focus on those who have been candidates on ballots in my precinct. I would focus on those who I have sued.)
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/opinion/trump-won-his-other-campaign-to-destroy-media-credibility/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Calls for ‘Full Forensic Audit’ of Mail-In Ballots – JACK PHILLIPS
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-calls-for-full-forensic-audit-of-mail-in-ballots_3602681.html

HUFFINGTON POST
— Ex-RNC Chair Has 1 Damning Word For People Still Donating To Donald Trump “The grift is on, baby,” warned Michael Steele. – Lee Moran
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-rnc-michael-steele-donald-trump-donations_n_5fc89acfc5b6933ec7dc9479

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “In video, Trump recycles unsubstantiated voter fraud claims.”
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-media-social-media-elections-71d5469ac0bbccbfe601528a2517b239

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Trump, in Video From White House, Delivers a 46-Minute Diatribe on the ‘Rigged’ Election. The president posted a recording on social media of what he said “may be the most important speech I’ve ever made.” It was filled with false allegations about voter fraud.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/us/politics/trump-election-video.html
— What’s Between 30 Million Americans and an Eviction Tsunami? Only government intervention can keep millions of Americans housed. – Francesca Mari
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/opinion/eviction-moratorium-ending.html
— Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation – Richard Frishman (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats hint/imply/argue/shout that if you are Republican, the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that you have outrageously benefitted from their discrimination against minorities and against women.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/travel/ghosts-of-segregation.html
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: U.N. Reclassifies Cannabis as a Less Dangerous Drug – Isabella Kwai
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/world/europe/cannabis-united-nations-drug-policy.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Trump escalates baseless attacks on election with 46-minute video rant.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-video/2020/12/02/f6c8d63c-34e8-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html
— Trump roils Georgia GOP as party waits to see if presidential visit helps — or hurts — in crucial Senate runoffs – Josh Dawsey, Amy Gardner and Cleve R. Wootson Jr. (DIERSEN: Of course, since 2000, my critics/opponents have told Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct that they should not seek my support because my support would hurt them. I should write a book about those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who have talked and/or acted like they have taken that advice. I would focus on those who have talked and/or acted like they believed that the more that they demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me, the more votes that they would get.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-georgia-senate-run-offs/2020/12/03/e777c11e-34bd-11eb-afe6-e4dbee9689f8_story.html
— Trump is said to be livid at Barr, with one official suggesting termination possible – Matt Zapotosky, Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett (DIERSEN: Who have you defended/promoted, but who then turned on you? I should write a book about those who I have defended/promoted during the last 20 years, but who then turned on me. I would focus on a) present/past leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter and b) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-barr-election-fraud/2020/12/02/5717626c-34e2-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Election Went Down to Georgia Sens. Perdue and Loeffler are the last line of defense for conservatives. – Karl Rove
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-election-went-down-to-georgia-11606950727
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Which Schools Leave Parents With the Most College Loan Debt? Typical families at dozens of institutions are borrowing almost $100,000 to finance student education, new data show – Andrea Fuller and Josh Mitchell (DIERSEN: How much money could your parents borrow to send you to college? Neither of my outstanding parents attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He fought type 1 diabetes from age 14 and died suddenly of heart failure in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. He worked in the office of a nasty chemical plant in Chicago Heights. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He did not buy a new car until he was 45 and it was a bottom of the line 2-door Chevy. My mother raised on a farm and never attended high school.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/which-schools-leave-parents-with-the-most-college-loan-debt-11606936947
— M.B.A. Applicants, Brace for ‘Most Competitive Year Ever’ – Patrick Thomas (DIERSEN: If I had not been taking MBA courses at Loyola, IRS may very well have not promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/m-b-a-applicants-brace-for-most-competitive-year-ever-11606924882
— Three Tips for Applying to 2021 M.B.A. Programs – Patrick Thomas (DIERSEN: Loyola might not have admitted me into its MBA program in 1972 when I was 23 years old a) if I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970, b) if I had not worked for IRS for the previous 6 months at the GS-7 level, currently $47,965/year, and c) if had not worked for Firestone Stores for the previous 17 months.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/three-tips-for-applying-to-2021-m-b-a-programs-11606924922

FORBES
— Why America Is In Trouble – 20 Largest Federal Agencies Admit To $2.3 Trillion In Improper Payments Since 2004 – Adam Andrzejewski
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/12/03/why-america-is-in-trouble–20-largest-federal-agencies-admit-to-23-trillion-in-improper-payments-since-2004/


— Many Of The 22 Million Lost Jobs ‘May Never Return’ And A Recovery Is Already ‘Plateauing’: Philly Fed President – Jonathan Ponciano
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/12/02/many-of-the-22-million-lost-jobs-may-never-return-and-economic-recovery-is-already-plateauing-philadelphia-fed-president/

FORD AUTHORITY
— Ford Mexico Named One Of The Best Companies For Young Professionals – Brett Foote (DIERSEN: In 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that Oldsmobile had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. That directly resulted in a) Firestone Stores firing me and b) my accepting a job offer from IRS.)
https://fordauthority.com/2020/12/ford-mexico-named-one-of-the-best-companies-for-young-professionals/

TEXAN
— Dallas Mayor Says ‘Minority Populations’ Should Be Prioritized for Coronavirus Vaccine Mayor Eric Johnson highlighted that racial minority communities have been disproportionately impacted by coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations. – HAYDEN SPARKS (DIERSEN: How much pressure is there on those who lead your municipality, your township, and your county to use government to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, non-Christian, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, moderate, liberal, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Independent, RINO, Trump-haters, and/or citizens of foreign countries and to use government to give preference to those who have health, financial, and/or other problems and/or to those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time?)
https://thetexan.news/dallas-mayor-says-minority-populations-should-be-prioritized-for-coronavirus-vaccine/

JD SUPRA
— Employer’s Longstanding Efforts to Improve Diversity Leads to Accusation of “Reverse” Discrimination – Seyfarth Shaw LLP (DIERSEN: To improve diversity is to not hire and to get rid of employees who are White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-veteran, non-poor, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-24899/
— Interactive Tool Allows Users to Search Data by Sex, Race/Ethnicity, Location and Industry Sector (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, all the jobs that I had were “bad jobs.” That frustrated my employers’ (GAO, IRS, Firestone Stores, Post Office, etc.) efforts to hire, retain, and promote minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, veterans, non-Christians, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, etc. That explains why my employers lowered hiring, retention, and promotion standards for the aforesaid.)
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eeoc-launches-new-data-tool-to-track-75017/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) launched EEOC Explore, a new interactive data query and mapping tool that gives users access to the most current, granular, and privacy protected aggregate EEO-1 data publicly available. EEOC Explore allows users to analyze aggregate data associated with more than 56 million employees and 73,000 employers nationwide. The user-friendly tool enables stakeholders to explore and compare data trends across a number of categories, including location, sex, race and ethnicity, and industry sector without the need for experience in computer programming or statistical analysis.)

GLOBALIST
— A Hard Reckoning for the Democrats: Race, Class and Joe Biden’s Election That Democrats only defeated Donald Trump by so narrow a margin suggests that they need to re-think their political strategy big time. – Jeff Faux (DIERSEN: To vote for Democrats is to call for government to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden and Bill Clinton), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.theglobalist.com/united-states-joe-biden-donald-trump-2020-presidential-elections-republican-party-democratic-party-demographics/

GUARDIAN
— Biden team to meet with Latino lawmakers amid calls for diverse cabinet picks – Daniel Strauss (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will employers, organizations, municipalities, townships, counties, states, countries, etc. officially proclaim that those who are the following are NOT WELCOME: law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden and Bill Clinton), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/02/joe-biden-congressional-hispanic-caucus-latino-cabinet-picks
— ‘Defund the police’ slogan risks turning voters away, says Obama (DIERSEN: IRS Revenue Officers enforce federal tax laws. Since 1971, when I was 22 years old, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have stressed that I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 levels, currently $85,084-$96,431/year.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/dec/03/defund-the-police-slogan-risks-turning-voters-away-says-obama-video

December 2 Morning Edition

ABC7
— Naperville mask mandate fails; Mayor Steve Chirico defends Florida trip for daughter’s wedding Mayor changes stance, voices opposition to mask mandate he previously backed – Michelle Gallardo
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/naperville-mask-mandate-fails-after-mayor-changes-stance/8427788/
— 6 stabbed at Carol Stream apartment complex, fire official says – Jessica D’Onofrio
https://abc7chicago.com/carol-stream-stabbing-leaves-6-hurt-fire-official/8436619/
— ‘Someone’s going to get killed’: GOP official lashes out at Trump’s rhetoric surrounding election in Georgia – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/georgia-elections-official-urges-trump-to-rein-in-supporters/8436717/

WGN TV
— Violence surges in Chicago amid COVID-19 pandemic – Glenn Marshall
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/violence-surges-in-chicago-amid-covid-19-pandemic/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Naperville council weighing expansion of cannabis ordinance to include production-related companies – SUZANNE BAKER (DIERSEN: To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-naperville-cannabis-industry-st-1202-20201201-r54q2rrkhrgohixg5daz3j5kui-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats hint/imply/argue/shout that if you have a health problem, financial problem, or any other kind of problem, it is because Republicans discriminate against you.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-hiv-world-aids-day-pandemic-20201130-kioq5kg55fcctklmjzx7q5zrke-story.html
— The right way to have a more diverse workforce – Editorial (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to not hire and to get rid their employees who are Republican and especially those who are White, male, older, heterosexual, married, conservative, patriotic, non-poor, non-veteran, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-diversity-nasdaq-hiring-california-20201201-fibfcemoa5gq5ebxtqrpr3wwgi-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Lightfoot — not the top cop — is calling the shots at CPD, police union charges The mayor “should stay the hell out of running the police department and let Supt. Brown run it,” said John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police. The mayor’s office called the comments “racist.” – Fran Spielman, Frank Main, and Sam Charles (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who call/called the shots a) at Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce; b) for Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct; and c) etc.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/12/2/21766953/chicago-police-lightfoot-david-brown-john-catanzara-fraternal-order-fop-department-control
— U.S. House could vote to lift nationwide pot prohibition this week — but McConnell could block effort even with weed-friendly Biden presidency looming. “There are the votes to outright end marijuana prohibition in the Senate. The problem is that Mitch McConnell controls the floor,” one cannabis advocate said of a decriminalization bill under consideration in Washington. – Tom Schuba (DIERSEN: To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2020/12/1/21869893/marijuana-legalization-washington-house-senate-more-safe-act-mitch-mcconnell-joe-biden
— AIDS activism sharpened state and local response to coronavirus pandemic, Lightfoot says Chicago’s first openly gay mayor said there was a “straight line” between the two pandemics during a “virtual conversation” with other mayors to commemorate World AIDS Day 2020. – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/12/1/21842625/world-aids-day-2020-lori-lightfoot-bill-deblasio-hiv-coronavirus-covid-19

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Recount after 75-vote difference doesn’t stop DuPage auditor’s office from changing hands – Katlyn Smith (DIERSEN: What voids do you fill? I fill the tremendous Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) communication voids. It is beyond outrageous that Republicans in Illinois first learn of Republican news from the Democrat Facebook, Democrat Google, other Democrat websites, Democrat television stations, Democrat newspapers, Democrat etc. IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO should a) issue press releases and press advisories, b) keep diersen@aol.com on their press release and press advisory lists, and c) send out emails.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20201201/recount-after-75-vote-difference-doesnt-stop-dupage-auditors-office-from-changing-hands
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A new DuPage County auditor took office Tuesday for the first time in 12 years, but his election opponent says the historically close race isn’t over yet. Downers Grove Democrat William “Bill” White assumed the role as the county’s top financial watchdog even as his predecessor, Bob Grogan, prepares for “double overtime” in one of the tightest contests in the suburbs. Grogan has asked for a partial recount of the election results after coming up just 75 votes shy of victory out of more than 466,000 ballots cast. Grogan, a Downers Grove Republican who held the position for three terms, filed for a discovery recount in up to 25% of the precincts countywide. Wheaton Republican Tim Whelan also has requested a partial recount after falling short in his reelection bid for a seat on the forest preserve district board. Official results from last month’s election show Democratic challenger Jeff Gahris defeating Whelan by 718 votes. The recount proceedings are set to begin at 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 7, in the county administration building in Wheaton. Both Grogan and Whelan are represented by attorney Phillip Luetkehans. The exploratory process leaves some uncertainty over races that add to historic gains for Democrats in DuPage. In a partial recount, the county clerk’s office will make election materials available for scrutiny to help candidates determine if there are enough voter discrepancies to seek a court order for a complete recount. Pat Bond, the attorney for the county clerk’s office, said county election officials have had roughly 30 discovery recounts over the past 20 years, but none resulted in a full recount. Election authorities anticipate the partial recounts could be done by Wednesday, Dec. 9, at the earliest, Bond said. Grogan already has put out an appeal for donations if he should decide to forge ahead with a legal challenge. “I have confidence that assuming that we find a critical mass of differences that we’ll be able to fund the full recount if we can get there past the judge,” Grogan said. He’s cautiously hopeful as he prepares for an examination of ballots next week. “Auditors know what to look for, but they don’t know what the results are of what they look for until they’ve done it,” Grogan said Tuesday. “So I’m objective. I have an open mind. I am hopeful, but honestly, mistakes go both directions.”)
— Remote learning widens school achievement gap – Debra J. Saunders
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20201202/saunders-remote-learning-widens-school-achievement-gap

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— University of Illinois fares poorly in student survey of free-speech issues – Jim Dey
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey-ui-fares-poorly-in-student-survey-of-free-speech-issues/article_be6d9dc3-ca86-5827-be87-693a301f27d6.html

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Weight shaming latest weapon in politics – Scott Reeder (DIERSEN: I am happy that I am no longer obese, but I am still overweight.)
https://www.thetelegraph.com/insider/article/Weight-shaming-latest-weapon-in-politics-15765788.php

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DuPage County reports single-day record 1,561 COVID-19 cases Tuesday, 2 deaths – JOSHUA WELGE
https://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2020/12/02/dupage-county-reports-single-day-record-1-561-covid-19-cases-tuesday-2-deaths/al0fkkf/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Enrollment By International Students In U.S. Colleges Plummets – KAVITHA CARDOZA
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/enrollment-international-students-us-colleges-plummets#stream/0

WGLT
— Ex-Spokesperson Sues McLean County, Alleging Race Discrimination – RYAN DENHAM (DIERSEN: Like McNeal, I went public. When I turned 40 in 1988, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. Rather than help the lawsuit succeed, virtually all the members of the class in GAO’s Chicago office “cut deals” with my GAO superiors. Those deals included helping my GAO superiors a) get rid of my mentor, b) keep me off audits of IRS, c) give me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, d) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, e) not promote me beyond GS-13, and f) force me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.wglt.org/post/ex-spokesperson-sues-mclean-county-alleging-race-discrimination#stream/0
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Dion McNeal was the county’s communications specialist and one of the most public voices in its initial COVID-19 response last spring. McNeal, who is Black, was involved in a dispute over a county press release and social media post in June—just after the killing of George Floyd—that linked the trauma of racism and police brutality with public health. McNeal says that put him at odds with some county officials. He then went to the media with his concerns, in which he pointed to a lack of Black leadership in the county’s health department. He says he was fired a few days later. . .So on June 10, McNeal sent out the original version of the press release. The next day, McNeal was told he would have multiple job duties removed, according to the lawsuit. McNeal says he faced “severe adverse employment actions,” in contrast with a white co-worker who also sent a letter to the media June 19 raising concerns about the lack of diversity in the health department. That white co-worker was treated more favorably, the lawsuit claims. McNeal also claims sex discrimination. McNeal has identified himself as a “proud healthy Black queer HIV positive man.” “Similarly situated female employees … did not suffer the same adverse employment action McNeal did and, therefore, were treated more favorably,” his lawsuit reads. McNeal’s accusation of unlawful retaliation is based on how the county and health department reacted to him going public in his June 19 statement. McNeal claims he was “speaking as a public citizen on a matter of public concern and was engaged in activity protected by First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.” “McNeal suffered several adverse actions and deprivations likely to deter his protected activity, including without limitation, increased job scrutiny, placement on administrative leave, placement on a performance improvement plan, and termination of employment,” the lawsuit reads. “McNeal’s legally protected activity was at least a motivating factor in the defendants’ decision to impose the deprivations.”)

ILLINOIS PATCH
— Did Pritzker’s Pandemic Science Preaching Erode Public Trust? KONKOL COLUMN: Politicians who downplay scientific uncertainty of pandemic science that guides policy risk losing public trust, study found. – Mark Konkol
https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/did-pritzkers-pandemic-science-preaching-erode-public-trust

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— LaBarbera on the Biden-Harris Administration Threat – David E. Smith
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/12/spotlight-labarbera-on-the-biden-harris-administration-threat/
— The Disastrous Co-Belligerence of Never-Trumpers and Leftists – Laurie Higgins (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, RINOs make it clear that they are anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexuals, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, anti-draft avoiders (except Joe Biden and Bill Clinton), and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write a book about RINOs. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton.)
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/12/the-disastrous-co-belligerence-of-never-trumpers-and-leftists/

BREITBART
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC, TREASONOUS: Six Republicans to Explore ‘Immigration Reform’ with Amnesty Advocates – John Binder (DIERSEN: Democrats have declared war against Republicans. Democrats see citizens of foreign countries as being soldiers in their army to get rid of Republicans once and for all.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/01/six-republicans-to-explore-immigration-reform-with-amnesty-advocates/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There are an estimated 11 to 22 million illegal aliens currently living in the U.S. This illegal population is in addition to the more than 1.2 million foreign nationals who are given green cards annually and the 1.4 million foreign nationals who are given temporary visas every year. Today, the foreign-born population of the U.S. has boomed to at least 44.5 million. By 2060, the Census Bureau projects the foreign-born population will tick up to an unprecedented 69 million should current legal immigration levels continue.)
— Joe Biden: U.S. Constitution ‘Clearly Requires’ Illegal Aliens Be Included in Congressional Apportionment – JOHN BINDER (DIERSEN: Democrats have declared war against Republicans. Democrats see citizens of foreign countries as being soldiers in their army to get rid of Republicans once and for all.)
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2020/12/01/biden-illegal-aliens-census/

DAILY CALLER
— Will Trump’s ‘Rigged Election’ Claims Hurt The GOP’s Chances In Georgia’s Senate Runoffs? – CHRISTIAN DATOC AND HENRY RODGERS
https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/01/trump-rigged-election-claims-hurt-loeffler-perdue-chances-georgia-senate-runoff-elections/
— ‘I’ll See You In 4 Years’: Trump Hints He’ll Run In 2024 During White House Christmas Party – ANDERS HAGSTROM
https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/01/trump-2024-christmas-party-white-house-run/

CNS NEWS
— White House Press Secretary: Democrats Have Been Trying to Make Election System Less Secure for Years – Melanie Arter
https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/melanie-arter/wh-press-secretary-dems-have-been-trying-make-election-system-less
— The Democrats Praise Their ‘Big Tent’ – Tim Graham (DIERSEN: Political Parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. Beyond outrageously, beyond tragically, the Republican Party lets, if not encourages, its elected/appointed party leaders and government officials get rid Republicans like me who support the traditional family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in its platform.)
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/tim-graham/democrats-praise-their-big-tent

CHRISTIAN POST
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Biden’s LGBT proposals aim to ban therapy for unwanted same-sex attraction, allow trans-athletes in girls’ sports Add ‘X’ gender marker for all gov’t documents – Ryan Foley
https://www.christianpost.com/news/biden-makes-sweeping-promises-lgbt-activists-ban-soce-therapy-trans-athletes-girls-sports.html

ONE NEWS NOW
— The digital election heist. While President Trump’s attorneys continue to challenge the validity of bizarre tallying, anyone interested in free and fair elections should consider the role of Big Tech. – Robert Knight
https://onenewsnow.com/perspectives/robert-knight/2020/12/01/the-digital-election-heist
— Coming to the classroom: White people and their ‘unearned privilege’ – Bob Kellogg (DIERSEN: How privileged are you? According to my critics/opponents, the more of the following that you are, the more undeservedly privileged that you are: conservative, patriotic, Republican, citizen of American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, healthy, non-poor, gun owner, non-veteran, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://onenewsnow.com/education/2020/11/30/coming-to-the-classroom-white-people-and-their-unearned-privilege

CBS NEWS
— Why some Americans are trading in mainstream social networks for ones that tout “freedom of speech” – LI COHEN (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes a) want to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails, b) want to stop everyone from reading those emails, and c) want to get everyone to spend all their time on the anti-conservative Democrat Facebook.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-trade-in-their-mainstream-social-networks-for-ones-that-tout-freedom-of-speech/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump has raised $170 million since Election Day. – Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/politics/trump-has-raised-170-million-since-election-day.html
— Some jobs may never return. Moving those workers into new careers is an enormous challenge. (DIERSEN: What would it take for my GAO job to return? GAO would have to stop getting rid of its employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who did not make GS-13 (currently $101,176) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $119,559) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $140,634) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $170,800) by age 40.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/business/some-jobs-may-never-return-moving-those-workers-into-new-careers-is-an-enormous-challenge.html
— Reinventing Workers for the Post-Covid Economy. Especially in service industries, old jobs may not be coming back. Training programs are aiming to provide skills for more resilient occupations. – Eduardo Porter
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/business/economy/workers-jobs-training.html
— New ‘BTS Law’ Is Passed in South Korea. An Army of Fans Rejoices. The oldest member of BTS was saved at the last minute from having to join the military under the country’s conscription system. – Choe Sang-Hun (DIERSEN: I got student draft deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. Since 1966, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have used that against me big time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/world/asia/korea-bts-law-military-deferment.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump threatens to veto major defense bill unless Congress repeals Section 230, a legal shield for tech giants – Tony Romm (DIERSEN: Since 2000, my critics/opponents have wanted to sue me for a) my including links in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails to articles that they do not like and b) my posting copies of those emails on my www.gopillinois.com website. I should write a book about a) my critics/opponents, b) the articles that they do not like, and c) their failure to sue those who wrote those articles.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/01/trump-repeal-section-230-ndaa/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Section 230 is a broad, decades-old federal law that spares a wide array of sites and services from being held liable for the content posted by their users — and, in the process, the decisions about the posts, photos and videos that tech companies take down or leave online. It is considered one of the Web’s foundational laws, crafted in large part to facilitate free expression digitally. Many lawmakers — Democrats and Republicans — increasingly have come to question whether the protections are outdated, conferring legal immunity on tech giants at a time when they have failed to crack down on hate speech, election disinformation and other harmful content online. But Trump and his Republican allies have seized on the debate to advance their arguments that Facebook, Google, Twitter and others should be penalized for exhibiting systemic political bias against conservatives — a charge for which they have provided scant evidence, and one that tech giants long have denied.)

USA TODAY
— Facebook and Instagram oversight board tackles first cases: hate speech, misinformation, nudity – Mike Snider
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/12/01/facebook-and-instagram-oversight-board-tackles-first-cases/6474744002/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled America-hating America haters say “Donald Trump’s border wall is a monument to racism.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/11/16/donald-trump-border-wall-joe-biden-presidency/6319597002/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Trump election lawsuits targeted areas with large Black, Latino populations” and “Damaging to our democracy.” Democrats have declared war on Republicans. Democrats see Blacks and Latinos as being their soldiers in their army to get rid of Republicans once and for all.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/01/trump-voter-fraud-claims-target-counties-more-black-latino-votes/6391908002/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Nasdaq Seeks Board-Diversity Rule That Most Listed Firms Don’t Meet Exchange operator seeks to require companies to have at least one female board member, plus one from an underrepresented minority group – Alexander Osipovich and Akane Otani (DIERSEN: Do the demographics of the leaders of your city, township, county, Illinois, and America reflect the demographics of the voters in your city, township, county, Illinois, and America? What percent of the leaders of your city, township, county, Illinois, and America share your race, gender, age range, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, national origin, veteran status, position on Trump, have dependents/not have dependents, have health problems/healthy, liberal/moderate/conservative, Democrat/Libertarian/Green/Independent/RINO/Republican, citizenship status, income range, net worth range, renter/homeowner, non-gun owner/gun owner, length of time your ancestors have been in America, etc.?)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nasdaq-proposes-board-diversity-rule-for-listed-companies-11606829244
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: A New Setback for Big Cities as Return to the Office Fades. The low level of employees back at their workplaces is intensifying pain for cities geared toward office life. – Peter Grant (DIERSEN: In 1978, my wife and I paid more for 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton because we worked in the Loop and the home was in walking distance of the College Avenue train station. In 1984, my wife and I paid more for 915 Cove Court in Wheaton because we worked in the Loop and the home was in walking distance of the Wheaton train station.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-setback-for-big-cities-as-return-to-the-office-fades-11606818601
— South Korea Changes Law to Allow K-Pop’s BTS to Defer Military Service for Two Years. Seoul relaxed terms of military draft as group’s global popularity surges, but debates over conscription continue elsewhere in Asia. – James Hookway (DIERSEN: I got student draft deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. Since 1966, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have used that against me big time.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/k-pops-bts-superstars-can-defer-military-service-for-two-years-11606849065
— The Woke Nasdaq The exchange decides it is in the gender and racial quota business. – Editorial (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to not hire and to get rid their employees who are Republican and especially those who are White, male, older, heterosexual, married, conservative, patriotic, non-poor, non-veteran, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-woke-nasdaq-11606865986

NEW UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
— Will Biden’s Cabinet Actually Be A Reflection Of America? – Moh Samhouri (DIERSEN: Do the demographics of the leaders of your city, township, county, Illinois, and America reflect the demographics of the voters in your city, township, county, Illinois, and America? What percent of the leaders of your city, township, county, Illinois, and America share your race, gender, age range, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, national origin, veteran status, position on Trump, have dependents/not have dependents, have health problems/healthy, liberal/moderate/conservative, Democrat/Libertarian/Green/Independent/RINO/Republican, citizenship status, income range, net worth range, renter/homeowner, non-gun owner/gun owner, length of time your ancestors have been in America, etc.?)
https://www.newuniversity.org/2020/12/01/will-bidens-cabinet-actually-be-a-reflection-of-america/

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Political Leadership and Communication – ADAM BUTLER and ROSS GIANFORTUNE (DIERSEN: What voids do you fill? I fill the tremendous Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) communication voids. It is beyond outrageous that Republicans in Illinois first learn of Republican news from the Democrat Facebook, Democrat Google, other Democrat websites, Democrat television stations, Democrat newspapers, Democrat etc. IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO should a) issue press releases and press advisories, b) keep diersen@aol.com on their press release and press advisory lists, and c) send out emails.)
https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/12/govexec-daily-political-leadership-and-communication-during-divisive-times/170405/

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS
— Cuban authorities harass journalists, block social media amid protests (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents want the following to harass me and to block my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails: Google, Facebook, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, etc.)
https://cpj.org/2020/11/cuban-authorities-harass-journalists-block-social-media-amid-protests/

November 23 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Federal agency allows formal Biden presidential transition to begin – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/federal-agency-allows-formal-biden-transition-to-begin/8207658/

NBC5
— Illinois Reports 8,322 New Coronavirus Cases, 47 Additional Deaths Monday
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/illinois-reports-8322-new-coronavirus-cases-47-additional-deaths-monday/2378478/
— Here’s Where Each Illinois Region Stands on Coronavirus Metrics Though most regions saw a gradual incline in positivity rates, many have begun declining in recent days, data shows
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/heres-where-each-illinois-region-stands-on-coronavirus-metrics-2/2378495/
— Controversy Erupts Over Naperville Mayor’s Decision to Attend Daughter’s Florida Wedding; Pritzker Weighs In
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/controversy-erupts-over-naperville-mayor-decision-to-attend-daughters-florida-wedding-pritzker-weighs-in/2378761/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Trump Fears Giuliani, Other Lawyers in Biden Vote Challenge Are ‘Fools That Are Making Him Look Bad'”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-fears-giuliani-other-lawyers-in-biden-vote-challenge-are-fools-that-are-making-him-look-bad/2378560/

WGN TV
— COVID-19 positivity rates flat or falling across Illinois as state reports 8,322 cases, 47 deaths – Mike Ewing
https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/covid-19-positivity-rates-flat-or-falling-across-illinois-as-state-reports-8322-cases-47-deaths/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Recount process in Georgia begins Tuesday morning, after request from Trump campaign – Brooke Zauner
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/recount-process-moves-forward-in-georgia-after-request-from-trump-campaign

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago hits 700 homicides over weekend that saw 6 killed, 46 wounded. The 700th homicide was a man killed in a quadruple shooting early Sunday on the Far South Side. – David Struett
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/11/23/21591210/chicago-homicides-700-murder-shooting-gun-violence-2020
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot. To push pot on individuals, municipalities, townships, counties, states, and countries is to destroy those individuals, municipalities, townships, counties, states, and countries.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2020/11/23/21611637/green-wednesday-black-friday-cyber-monday-illinois-dispensaries-cheap-discount-sale

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Firings, ‘unethical conduct’ claim in Chicago treasurer’s office | Lightfoot, Duckworth headline fundraiser for Democrats in Georgia senate races | Biden appointments have Illinois ties – LISA DONOVAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-conyears-ervin-treasurer-ethics-lightfoot-duckworth-georgia-spin-20201124-jcmvtozg7japrbejw2p7pzwcfa-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/featured/sns-nyt-op-vandalizing-our-democracy-20201123-em35xamwyjghjih3p7764jzqae-story.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/featured/sns-nyt-op-us-without-donald-trump-20201123-rjj5rgmkczbrrfwbm6dguzcmau-story.html

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Why CEOs are united against Trump’s election fight. Executives want an end to the pandemic and divisiveness, and the president is blocking progress on both.”
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/why-ceos-are-united-against-trumps-election-fight

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— ‘Incredibly dire’ economic forecast demands Congress pass new stimulus bill, Pritzker says; Vermilion calls off all jury trials until end of January – Jeff D’Alessio
https://www.news-gazette.com/coronavirus/mondays-coronavirus-updates-incredibly-dire-economic-forecast-demands-congress-pass-new-stimulus-bill-pritzker-says/article_dcd8af26-20a3-53d9-958f-5c4d782e4d2a.html
— Record local turnout helped Biden more than Trump – Tom Kacich
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/tom-kacich-record-local-turnout-helped-biden-more-than-trump/article_9ecd388f-ac93-5d55-ada9-09c967ee53b4.html

WJOL
— Duckworth Introduces Legislation To Keep Non-Vet Presidents, VPs From Arlington (DIERSEN: Democrat Duckworth ridicules Republican Trump for his avoiding the draft. While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, most of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrat veterans. My Democrat superiors stressed to them that I had avoided the draft.)
https://www.wjol.com/duckworth-introduces-legislation-to-keep-non-vet-presidents-vps-from-arlington/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters promote hatred against conservatives.
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/how-right-wing-media-fuels-political-divide#stream/0

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Vote Fraud, McHenry County Style
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/23/vote-fraud/
— Winnebago & Lake Counties Follow Joe Tirio’s Lead to Merge the Recorder’s into the County Clerk’s
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/23/winnebago-lake-counties-follows-joe-tirios-lead-to-merge-the-recorders-into-the-county-clerks/
— Marengo Seeks Maximum Increase in Tax Levy
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/23/marengo-seeks-maximum-increase-in-tax-levy/
— Maine Township Board Lowers Salaries
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/22/maine-township-board-lowers-salaries/
— Comparing Presidential and McHenry County Board Chairman Precinct Results
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/22/comparing-presidential-and-mchenry-county-board-chairman-precinct-results/
— The Demonizing of Donald Trump
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/22/the-demonizing-of-donald-trump/
— IL-14/NY-14: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Kyle Rittenhouse Making Bail
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/21/rittenhouse112220/
— IL-14: Kyle Rittenhouse Released from Jail After Making $2 Million Bail *UPDATE: Pics from the Safe House*
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/21/rittenhouse112020/
IL-14/NY-14: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Kyle Rittenhouse Making Bail *UPDATE Lin Wood: “…trouble is coming AOC’s way…”*
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/23/felons-posing-as-cops-kidnap-suburbanites/

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Lisle Park District To Increase Tax Levy While Commissioners Keep Ripping Off Taxpayers – JOHN KRAFT & KIRK ALLEN
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2020/11/lisle-park-district-to-increase-tax-levy-while-commissioners-keep-ripping-off-taxpayers/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— HOW AMERICA’S CITIES BECAME BASTIONS OF PROGRESSIVE POLITICS
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/11/how-americas-cities-became-bastions-of-progressive-politics.html
— SEN. WHITEHOUSE THREATENS TO PROSECUTE CLIMATE REALISTS IF DEMS TAKE SENATE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/11/sen-whitehouse-threatens-to-prosecute-climate-realists-if-dems-take-senate.html
— THORNER: TRUMP’S LAWYERS UNDER GUN TO PRODUCE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/11/thorner-trumps-lawyers-under-gun-to-produce.html

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Oregon Gov. Kate Brown urges residents to call cops on shutdown violators – Valerie Richardson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/22/oregon-gov-kate-brown-urges-residents-to-call-cops/

GOPUSA
— Ready For A Re-Education Program? New DNC Member Wants To Put You There (DIERSEN: Which Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, Independents, and RINOs want to lead re-education programs in your municipality, in your township, and in your county?)
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=98223
— Oregon Governor Asks Residents To Call Police On Neighbors Who Violate COVID-19 Freeze
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=98258
— Biden Promises To Fight For Transgender Rights (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, employers are under pressure to hire LGHTQers. Ever-increasingly, organizations are under pressure to recruit LGBTQers.)
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=98242

EPOCH TIMES
— DISGUSTING, OUTRAGEOUS, TREASONOUS: Americans Have Billions Invested in Companies With Ties to Chinese Military – FAN YU
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-invested-billions-into-companies-with-ties-to-chinese-military_3587923.html

THE HILL
— Pennsylvania Republicans sue in last-ditch effort to stop election certification – JOHN KRUZEL
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/527157-pennsylvania-republicans-sue-to-stop-election-certification
— Trump tells GSA that Biden transition can begin – MORGAN CHALFANT
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/527278-trump-tells-gsa-to-allow-biden-transition-to-begin

CNN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Michigan certifies Biden’s win as Trump challenges in other key states fizzle.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/politics/michigan-certify-election-results-monday/index.html

NBC NEWS
— Trump’s election fight includes over 30 lawsuits. It’s not going well. Here’s where things stand this week. – Pete Williams
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-s-election-fight-includes-over-30-lawsuits-it-s-n1248289

NEW YORK TIMES
— President Trump authorized his government to begin the transition to President-elect Joe Biden’s administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/23/us/joe-biden-trump

NEWSWEEK
— Kinzinger Says GOP ‘Embarrassing,’ Calls on Party to ‘Denounce’ Trump’s ‘Conspiracy Theories’ – JASON LEMON
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-congressman-says-gop-embarrassing-calls-party-denounce-trumps-conspiracy-1549653

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
— Media Companies Haven’t Made Newsrooms Inclusive. Can Unions? – Maya Binyam (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, the mainstream news media promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, it promotes Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion, that is, it promotes giving preference to young Democrat minorities and to young Democrat females, that is, it promotes political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/media-companies-havent-made-newsrooms-inclusive-can-unions,180671

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Democrats Like One-Party Rule More Than Others (DIERSEN: Liberals and moderates want power to get rid of conservatives once and for all. Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs want power to get rid of Republicans once and for all.)
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2020/democrats_like_one_party_rule_more_than_others

November 23 Morning Edition

ABC7
— Chicago weekend gun violence leaves 50 shot, 5 fatally across city
https://abc7chicago.com/50-shot-5-killed-in-chicago-weekend-violence/8193402/

CBS2
— With COVID-19 Hospitalizations Already Surging, Doctors ‘Very Worried’ About What Happens After Thanksgiving – Jeremy Ross
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/11/21/with-covid-19-hospitalizations-already-surging-doctors-very-worried-about-what-happens-after-thanksgiving/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump campaign legal team tries to distance itself from attorney Sidney Powell days after holding news conference with her – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/election-2020/ct-nw-trump-legal-team-sidney-powell-20201123-fo4n3j6wjzblzfwukvkqvb2n3q-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Naperville council divided on whether proposed ethics rule would improve transparency. Councilwoman who proposed change says it would improve transparency. – Lauren Rohr
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20201123/naperville-council-divided-on-whether-proposed-ethics-rule-would-improve-transparency

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— How a simple elevator ride turned into Chicago’s next logistical challenge. A once-mundane daily ritual has grown exponentially more complex in the age of COVID. Figuring out how to safely move thousands of workers a day in and out of high-rises is the next hurdle on Chicago’s road back to normalcy. – Danny Ecker (DIERSEN: Do/did you use elevators a lot? I did while I a) worked for IRS in downtown Chicago in 1971 and 1973-1980 and for GAO in downtown Chicago 1980-1997, b) lived in the Outer Drive East building in downtown Chicago 1974-1978, c) took graduate business classes at Loyola in downtown Chicago 1972-1976, d) took graduate accounting at DePaul in downtown Chicago 1976-1980, and e) took graduate finance courses at IIT in downtown Chicago 1992-1997.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/how-simple-elevator-ride-turned-chicagos-next-logistical-challenge

NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES
— Illinois agency launches study of gambling addiction – AP (DIERSEN: Government should not promote gambling, booze, pot, or any other type of vice.)
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/illinois-agency-launches-study-of-gambling-addiction/article_f17d9c40-5df3-517c-af34-5938c53be9da.html

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Democrats still bullish on future McHenry County statehouse races after spending big, flipping one GOP seat. Infusion of party resources fails to bring big blue wave as Republicans relish results. – SAM LOUNSBERRY (DIERSEN: When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.)
https://www.nwherald.com/2020/11/19/democrats-still-bullish-on-future-mchenry-county-statehouse-races-after-spending-big-flipping-one-gop-seat/ar1o8io/

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Reducing crime starts by providing hope for the future – Rance Thomas (DIERSEN: When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.)
https://www.thetelegraph.com/insider/article/Reducing-crime-starts-by-providing-hope-for-the-15746288.php
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A recent newspaper editorial page listed some conditions that contribute to the high crime rate in some of the St. Louis areas. Some of these conditions include concentrated poverty, low performing schools, lack of jobs, lack of adequate city services, etc.)

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Southwestern Illinois Democrats mum on Mike Madigan’s future as House speaker – KELSEY LANDIS
https://www.bnd.com/news/politics-government/article247314699.html

ST. LOUIS AMERICAN
— Biden’s first 100-day challenge: Transitioning to a more inclusive economy. Policy group calls for fair housing, Black business assistance and more – Charlene Crowell (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. In 1972, when I was 24 years old, I bought a new town home in University Park. I lived in it full-time 1972-1974 and then part-time 1974-1976. I started renting out in 1976 and I sold it in 1984. SEE: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1291.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Park,_Illinois If I sought a government office or a political office, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes would hint/imply/argue/shout that the aforesaid proves that I am a racist.)
http://www.stlamerican.com/news/columnists/charlene_crowell/biden-s-first-100-day-challenge-transitioning-to-a-more-inclusive-economy/article_c6fe8e20-2d12-11eb-ad97-57b9e9f0892e.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Race Is The Big Lie Of The Trump Era.”
http://www.stlamerican.com/news/columnists/race-is-the-big-lie-of-the-trump-era/article_aa3b6f52-2d02-11eb-9751-6bb19ed09128.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump Is Running Out Of Time As Key States Set To Certify That Biden Won – DOMENICO MONTANARO
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/trump-running-out-time-key-states-set-certify-biden-won#stream/0

ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
— Share your career success – Susan Whitsitt (DIERSEN: How successful is/was your career? According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, if you are a federal employee who is Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran and you did not make the following promotion deadlines, you are a disgusting failure and even worse things: GS-13 (currently $101,176) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $119,559) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $140,634) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $170,800) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines.)
https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2020/11/share-your-career-success/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— AARP IS A SALES FRONT FOR HEALTH INSURANCE, REPORT STATES
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/11/aarp-is-a-sales-front-for-health-insurance-report-states.html
— POLITICS BREEDS FEAR AND ANGER
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/11/politics-breeds-fear-and-anger.html

WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘One kind of fraud’: Biden won thousands of illegal votes by noncitizens, study shows – Rowan Scarborough
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/22/joe-biden-won-illegal-votes-thousands-noncitizens-/

FOX NEWS
— Protesters take to the streets in California to bash Newsom’s curfew orders The new curfew went into effect Saturday at 10 p.m. and will remain until Dec. 21 unless conditions worsen. – Bradford Betz
https://www.foxnews.com/us/protestors-streets-california-bash-newsoms-curfew-orders

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
— MSNBC Spreads Misinformation About Border Security – Brad Wilmouth
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/msnbc-spreads-misinformation-about-border-security

THE HILL
— Juan Williams: Obama’s dire warnings about right-wing media – JUAN WILLIAMS (DIERSEN: What do you say to Illinois RINOs a) who give scopes to, b) who glorify and praise, b) who pander to, c) who serve as operatives or dupes for, and/or d) who give money to Capitol Fax and to the rest of the Democrat news media in Illinois? What do you say to RINOs who demonize, denigrate, and condemn a) me, b) my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails, and c) you and others who read the emails?)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/527097-juan-williams-obamas-dire-warnings-about-right-wing-media

NBC NEWS
— ‘A huge catastrophe’: Democrats grapple with congressional and state election losses. Biden’s win obscures deeper problems that have left the party with an uncertain future. – Alex Seitz-Wald and Benjy Sarlin
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/huge-catastrophe-democrats-grapple-congressional-state-election-losses-n1248529

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An illegal drug pusher pushes illegal drugs. To push illegal drugs on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/opinion/international-world/war-on-drugs-mexico-us.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Inauthenticity Behind Black Lives Matter. Insisting on the prevalence of ‘systemic racism’ is a way of defending a victim-focused racial identity. – Shelby Steele
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-inauthenticity-behind-black-lives-matter-11606069287
— Student Loan Losses Seen Costing U.S. More Than $400 Billion. Projected toxic debt approaches subprime-mortgage losses incurred by lenders during financial crisis. – Josh Mitchell
https://www.wsj.com/articles/student-loan-losses-seen-costing-u-s-more-than-400-billion-11605963600
— Tumbling Community-College Enrollment Highlights Pandemic’s Broad Impact. Students’ limited internet access, financial worries and uncertainty halt longstanding trend of enrollment rising when economy falters. – Melissa Korn
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tumbling-community-college-enrollment-highlights-pandemics-broad-impact-11606064400

FORBES
— Should You Really Build Leaders At Every Level Of Your Organization? – Doug Sundheim (DIERSEN: Of course, you can tell who controls organizations by looking at the demographics of their members who they dump. From what I see, generally, the more of the following that you are, the more that organizations dump you: Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owner, draft avoider, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougsundheim/2020/11/17/should-you-really-build-leaders-at-every-level-of-your-organization/

HOUSTON CHRONICLE
— Ted Cruz digs in for congressional battle over ‘censorship’ on Twitter, Facebook
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Ted-Cruz-digs-in-for-congressional-battle-over-15740624.php

PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE
— Racism hides best in our beliefs about crime – Larry Krasner (DIERSEN: When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.)
https://www.phillytrib.com/special_sections/raceinamerica/justice/krasner-racism-hides-best-in-our-beliefs-about-crime/article_b2654cdc-79b5-5784-ac1a-10e4968218c2.html

ALBANY RECORD
— Crime discussion needs more focus on root causes – Charles Ochie (DIERSEN: When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.)
https://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/charles-ochie-crime-discussion-needs-more-focus-on-root-causes/article_3e48635c-2ceb-11eb-9f95-dff6d6e71c56.html

MY NORTHWEST
— Mass exodus worsens with 34 more Seattle police out, as Council defunds – JASON RANTZ (DIERSEN: When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase. As more and more and more Democrat move into your municipality, how soon will they succeed in defunding the police?)
https://mynorthwest.com/2325045/rantz-mass-exodus-34-seattle-police-council-defunds/

WATERLOO CHRONICLE
— Looking at the root causes of crime means we’re looking downstream. Communities have an obligation to address the adverse conditions that can lead to increased crime – Mike Farwell (DIERSEN: When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.)
https://www.waterloochronicle.ca/opinion-story/10272252-looking-at-the-root-causes-of-crime-means-we-re-looking-downstream/

KOAA
— Gun sales surge amid COVID-19 pandemic, stores face ammunition shortage – Mayo Davison
https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/gun-sales-surge-amid-covid-19-pandemic-stores-face-ammunition-shortage

ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES
— Affordable housing development’s approval had ‘zero transparency,’ bristles neighbors – Derek Lacey (DIERSEN: How strongly do those who run your municipality and those who want to run your municipality want to build affordable housing in your municipal district, in your precinct, and in your neighborhood?)
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2020/11/18/affordable-housing-developments-approval-had-zero-transparency-bristles-neighbors/6329086002/

FEDWEEK
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Draft Policies Issued on Downplaying Educational Credentials (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, to meet Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion quotas, goals, and targets, employers lower hiring, retention, and promotion requirements. I should write about how my Democrat superiors in the federal government retained and promoted over me my coworkers and subordinates who were Democrat, minority, female, and/or younger than me and who had less job-related work experience, less job-related education, and/or fewer job-related professional certifications and/or licenses than I had.)
https://www.fedweek.com/federal-managers-daily-report/draft-policies-issued-on-job-qualifications-candidate-assessment/

TECH BULLION
— Tips on How You Can Handle a Job Loss – Angela Scott-Briggs (DIERSEN: Have you lost a job? In 1997, when I was 49 years old, my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer.” Since then, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have used that against me. Before that, they stressed that my Democrat GAO superiors 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 a $20,157 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Before that, they stressed 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. Before that, they stressed that my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://techbullion.com/tips-on-how-you-can-handle-a-job-loss/

November 21 Morning Edition

ABC7
— CDC coronavirus update: Agency says most COVID-19 infections spread by people without symptoms
https://abc7chicago.com/health/cdc-says-most-covid-19-infections-spread-by-asymptomatic-people/8144335/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-11/21/2020

CBS2
— Illinois State Police Enforcing Indoor Dining Ban As Local Governments Flout Restrictions
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/11/20/indoor-dining-ban-enforcement-illinois/

WGN RADIO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “With silence, GOP enables Trump’s risky endgame.”
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/analysis-with-silence-gop-enables-trumps-risky-endgame/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump’s election challenges falling flat in court.”
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/explainer-trumps-election-challenges-falling-flat-in-court/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— 13,012 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases and 126 more deaths reported as Tier 3 restrictions go into effect across state (DIERSEN: According to Google, the Chicago Tribune has lifted its paywall on this story and says “To support essential reporting, please consider becoming a subscriber.”)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-pandemic-chicago-illinois-news-20201120-r5iy2hfrj5ac3euaibm2za4ihi-story.html
— Social media: Everyone’s sharing, no one is taking responsibility – CLARENCE PAGE (DIERSEN: Unlike my competitors, that is, unlike my critics/opponents, I practice full attribution. I highlight the source, title, author, and unhidden hyperlink of articles in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and on www.gopillinois.com . I take full responsibility for what I do. Those who object to the aforesaid articles should take their complaints to the sources of those articles and to the authors of those articles. To post something on a website is to put it in the public domain. My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending out the emails, but failing that, they want to stop everyone from reading the emails, but failing that, they punish me for including links in the emails to articles published by authors who they blacklist. My critics/opponents have hundreds, if not thousands, if not millions of authors on their blacklists. My critics/opponents blacklist me because I refuse to carry out their blacklist orders. I should write a book about a) my critics/opponents, b) authors who they blacklist, and c) why my critics/opponents blacklist those authors.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/clarence-page/ct-column-dorsey-zuckerberg-cruz-page-20201120-bbiumybyo5gjtbjpzwwi635kfe-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— In Illinois, U.S. Reps. John Shimkus, Adam Kinzinger and GOP House Leader Jim Durkin exceptions to Trump enablers. A few Republicans start to acknowledge reality: Joe Biden is the president-elect. – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/11/20/21587999/2020-presidential-election-biden-trump-electoral-votes-recounts-republicans
— Local businesses brace for impact new COVID restrictions: ‘We’re not Amazon. We’re not Google.’ “There are guidelines that we’re trying to follow as best we can … but it does make it very difficult to make ends meet,” said Tony Marquez, owner of EFK Martial Arts in Edgewater. “We’re not this giant company that can take a sustained hit.” – Sam Charles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/11/20/21587841/illinois-coronavirus-business-restrictions-covid-capacity-limits

HERALD & REVIEW
— 9 have filed for spot on ballot for Decatur City Council (DIERSEN: Questions to ask City Council candidates: If elected, would you encourage or discourage the following: reparations, BLM, LGBTQ, dependency on government, dependency on charity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, more gun controls, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination?)
https://herald-review.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/9-have-filed-for-spot-on-ballot-for-decatur-city-council/article_9ea4d77a-0cf4-5a6d-90f3-5671a29cad57.html

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Retiring Illinois State University president says COVID-19 didn’t push him out – Lenore Sobota (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, if you are a White male who retires, your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes hint/imply/argue/shout that you were pushed out, and that you should have been pushed out.)
https://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/education/watch-now-retiring-illinois-state-university-president-says-covid-19-didnt-push-him-out/article_df10413d-5b53-5327-a089-fbebca4cad95.html

BUREAU COUNTY REPUBLICAN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters glorify and praise Kinzinger.
https://www.bcrnews.com/2020/11/18/our-view-congressman-adam-kinzinger-is-leading-by-example/a6xot8p/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DuPage County reports 370 cases Friday, 8 deaths, region’s positivity rate drops to 14.6% – JOSHUA WELGE
https://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2020/11/21/dupage-county-reports-370-cases-friday-8-deaths-regions-positivity-rate-drops-to-14-6/apkc883/

WGLT
— McLean Among Very Few Counties To Flip In Election
By CHARLIE SCHLENKER & CATRINA PETERSEN
https://www.wglt.org/post/mclean-among-very-few-counties-flip-election#stream/0

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump’s Futile Fight To Overturn Election Loss Breeds Turmoil, Risk.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/trumps-futile-fight-overturn-election-loss-breeds-turmoil-risk#stream/0

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Stop the Steal rally Saturday in DuPage features Moms for America speaker – Juliette Fairley
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/565789508-stop-the-steal-rally-saturday-in-dupage-features-moms-for-america-speaker
— Mark Curran finds silver lining in session cancellation: ‘The less they’re there, the fewer bad laws they can pass’ – Glenn Minnis
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/565213493-curran-finds-silver-lining-in-session-cancellation-the-less-they-re-there-the-fewer-bad-laws-they-can-pass

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ILLINOIS LOSES 1,100 JOBS IN OCTOBER, UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FALLS LARGELY FROM WORKERS GIVING UP – Bryce Hill (DIERSEN: In 1998, when I was 49 years old, I gave up trying to find a job appropriate for someone with my education, work experience, professional certifications, and professional license. Employers do not want to hire those who oppose political affiliation discrimination, oppose reverse discrimination, or oppose age discrimination. Employers do not want to hire those who do not help them meet their Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion quotas, goals, and targets. Employers do not want to hire those who are draft avoiders. Employers do not want to hire those who have had adverse actions taken against them. 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 a $20,157 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. 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. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-loses-1100-jobs-in-october-unemployment-rate-falls-largely-from-workers-giving-up/

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— How To Swing an Election, Illinois Style – David E. Smith
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/11/spotlight-how-to-swing-an-election-illinois-style/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Sorry, But I’m Not Buying Obama’s Portrait of Racist America – Dr. Michael L. Brown (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will governments and political organizations require candidates for government and political organization offices who are conservative, Republican, Trump supporters, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders, and/or if their ancestors have been in America for a long time to proclaim the aforesaid are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all?)
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/sorry-but-im-not-buying-obamas-portrait-of-racist-america/

FOX NEWS
— Squad member Rashida Tlaib, accused of being anti-Semitic, to speak on panel about anti-Semitism Tlaib was criticized after describing the ‘calm feeling’ she experienced when thinking about the Holocaust – Sam Dorman (DIERSEN: Democrats always paint Republicans as being anti-Semitic. The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrats paint you as being anti-Semitic: Republican, conservative, German national origin, Lutheran, if your ancestors have been in America for a long time, patriotic, White, male, older, non-poor, draft avoider, and/or gun owner. My Democrat superiors in the federal government stressed the aforesaid about me to my Jewish superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates. Further, they stressed that I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and that I have lived in Wheaton since 1978. In my defense, I stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rashida-tlaib-anti-semitism-panel-squad

BREITBART
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump hater says “Founders Intended to Count Illegal Aliens in Congressional Apportionment.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/20/george-will-founders-intended-to-count-illegal-aliens-in-congressional-apportionment/
— Establishment Failures at National Review Trash Breitbart Readers – JOHN NOLTE (DIERSEN: Of course, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes trash those who read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails, that is, they rash you. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes. Better yet, I should sue them. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton’s West District, in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County’s 4th District, in DuPage County, and in Illinois.)
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/11/20/nolte-establishment-failures-at-national-review-trash-breitbart-readers/

THE HILL
— GOP lawmaker patience runs thin with Trump tactics – ALEXANDER BOLTON
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/526962-gop-lawmaker-patience-runs-thin-with-trump-tactics

REUTERS
— Why Republican voters say there’s ‘no way in hell’ Trump lost – Brad Brooks, Nathan Layne, Tim Reid
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-fraud-insight/why-republican-voters-say-theres-no-way-in-hell-trump-lost-idUSKBN2801D4?il=0

ABC NEWS
— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, expanded ‘Squad’ demand Biden deliver on Green New Deal Progressives are facing off with the New Democrat Coalition. – John Parkinson
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-expanded-squad-demand-biden/story?id=74297506

POLITICO
— Illinois Democrats threaten Michael Madigan’s decadeslong hold on power. House Speaker Michael Madigan, known as the “Velvet Hammer,” also runs the state Democratic Party, but his connection to a federal investigation has undercut him. – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/20/illinois-democrats-michael-madigans-438672
— Culture wars fuel Trump’s blue-collar Latino gains. “Most Latinos identify first as working-class Americans. And Trump spoke to that.” – MARC CAPUTO (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents look down on the working class. I was a 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.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/culture-wars-latinos-trump-438932

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Duo (Ward Connerly and Wenyuan Wu) That Defeated the ‘Diversity Industry’ Californians rejected racial preferences even more soundly this year than in 1996. Will the Supreme Court reverse itself next? – Tunku Varadarajan (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans, and especially to get rid of Republicans who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write a book about the aforesaid Democrats and RINOs in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-duo-that-defeated-the-diversity-industry-11605904415
— Can the Democratic Center Hold? Even in some of the most left-leaning states, the appetite for progressivism is limited. – Yascha Mounk
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lessons-of-the-2020-election-what-democrats-and-republicans-must-now-do-to-win-11605887801
— Can Republicans Build a Multiracial Coalition? Not all nonwhites see themselves as members of marginalized minorities. – Reihan Salam
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lessons-of-the-2020-election-what-democrats-and-republicans-must-now-do-to-win-11605887801

PITTSBURG POST GAZETTE
— They want to shut you up – BEN SHAPIRO (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operates, and their dupes want to shut me up. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operates, and their dupes. Better yet, I should sue them.)
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2020/11/21/Ben-Shapiro-They-want-to-shut-you-up/stories/202011210016

DESERET NEWS
— Did Drudge Report and Fox News turn blue in 2020? Once seen as staunchly Republican, the news site and cable news network raised eyebrows in their coverage of Trump – Jennifer Graham
https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2020/11/20/21575721/did-drudge-report-and-fox-news-turn-blue-in-2020-donald-trump-conservatives-joe-biden-election

INDIANAPOLIS BUSINESS JOURNAL

— To win, candidates must focus on their own brands – Brad Rateike (DIERSEN: From what I see, the overwhelming reason why down ballot Republican candidates lost was hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hates who voted for Democrat candidates to punish Trump.)
https://www.ibj.com/articles/brad-rateike-to-win-candidates-must-focus-on-their-own-brands

November 19 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Illinois COVID-19 Update: IL reports 14,612 new coronavirus cases, 168 deaths; more than 6K hospitalized – Craig Wall, Eric Horng, Michelle Gallardo
https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-covid-coronavirus-19-today-restrictions/8097967/
— Mike Madigan confidant and ex-ComEd CEO charged with bribery in lobbying scheme; speaker denies wrongdoing – Diane Pathieu and Craig Wall
https://abc7chicago.com/madigan-denies-wrongdoing-after-confidant-ex-comed-ceo-charged/8089949/

NBC5
— More Than a Dozen Illinois House Democrats Say They Won’t Back Madigan for Speaker, Appearing to Leave Him Short of Votes Needed
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/more-than-a-dozen-illinois-house-democrats-say-they-wont-back-madigan-for-speaker-appearing-to-leave-him-short-of-votes-needed/2375940/

CBS2
— South Suburban Homeowners Have Seen Staggering Property Tax Bill Increases, Officials And Resident Want To Know Why – Dana Kozlov
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/11/19/south-suburban-homeowners-have-seen-staggering-property-tax-bill-increases-officials-and-resident-want-to-know-why/
— Pritzker Calls On Madigan To ‘Answer Every Last Question’ About ComEd Bribery Scandal After New Indictments Tied To Speaker
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/11/19/pritzker-calls-on-madigan-to-answer-every-last-question-about-comed-bribery-scandal-after-new-indictments-tied-to-speaker/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Irked Illinois governor to Speaker: End ‘political circus’- AP
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-governor-to-speaker-end-political-circus

WGN TV
— GOP lawmakers call for Madigan to step down following indictments in ComEd bribery scheme – Julian Crews
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/gop-lawmakers-call-for-madigan-to-step-down-following-indictments-in-comed-bribery-scheme/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Political parties can caucus despite health concerns during pandemic, judges rule – TED SLOWIK
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-slowik-township-caucus-complaint-st-1120-20201119-tb4vsddha5bxbdsc6ddwnp3f6i-story.html
— Madigan says alleged ComEd scheme was ‘never made known’ to him | Lightfoot’s budget plan advances, vote could happen next week | Trump summons Michigan lawmakers to Washington
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-the-spin-madigan-pritzker-city-budget-trump-michigan-20201120-rn436rg76vgqjaszztvcbjvpoe-story.html
— What the ComEd scandal means, and what it costs – Editorial (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and even worse things.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-indictments-michael-madigan-comed-corruption-20201119-hdzr4t2awzcu5bqjnddc7wdbfi-story.html
(FROM THE EDITORIAL: When the first lid blew off the ComEd corruption case last summer, federal prosecutors and investigators, along with Internal Revenue Service officials, largely confined their case to the conduct of ComEd the company, the corporate entity, the electricity utility. They exposed how private sector patronage works in the ComEd world: hire certain firms and associates as directed, and the interests of the company writ large within the government sector will get favored treatment.)
— Madigan’s hold on speaker’s post in peril as more Democrats turn away; Pritzker says he should resign if he can’t “answer every last question” about corruption probe – JAMIE MUNKS and DAN PETRELLA
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-michael-madigan-illinois-democrats-20201119-nnfoomr55vgf7d6wjurbt7sq2e-story.html
— Illinois Democrats are finally standing up to Madigan. – Eric Zorn
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-zorn/ct-column-madigan-comed-scandal-trump-zorn-20201119-vxp5jw2255dcnootts37cj7y54-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Final nail in ‘The Velvet Hammer’s’ political coffin? Madigan’s record run as speaker could be nearing an end Madigan said he has taken no bribes, adding “I take offense at any notion otherwise.” But three more Democratic House members said they would vote for “a new direction with different leadership,” a move that could deny Madigan the post he’s held for all but two years since 1983. – Rachel Hinton
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/11/19/21575357/speaker-michael-madigan-commonwealth-edison-bribery-indictment-reaction-michael-mcclain
— Pot firm tied to fading Illinois political dynasty claims it lost out after state mishandled its application Two partners say the firm is tied to controversial Republican Bill Fawell, who lost his bid for Congress this year and has supported conspiracy theories in the past. – Tom Schuba
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2020/11/19/21573938/bill-scott-fawell-illinois-pot-lottery-dispensary-republican-lottery

DAILY HERALD
— In Wisconsin, long shot recount may just be prelude to court – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20201119/news/311199801/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Survival odds now tilt against Madigan Springfield insiders say the beleaguered speaker—facing allegations the governor calls “unspeakably wrong”—now has an uphill battle to retain his post as head of the Illinois House. Here are the latest signs of his unraveling fortunes. – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/survival-odds-now-tilt-against-madigan

HERALD NEWS
— Warren Dorris running for Joliet City Council – BOB OKON (DIERSEN: Questions to ask City Council candidates: If elected, would you encourage or discourage the following: reparations, BLM, LGBTQ, dependency on government, dependency on charity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, more gun controls, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination?)
https://www.theherald-news.com/2020/11/19/warren-dorris-running-for-joliet-city-council/alg4ypc/

DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— State initiative launched to help Illinoisans expunge marijuana arrests, convictions New Leaf Illinois is a state-funded alliance of 20 nonprofits providing free legal representation – RAYMON TRONCOSO (DIERSEN: What if you had been a pot user? If I had been a pot user, I never would have been able to earn 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. The Post Office would not have hired me in 1966. Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970. Oldsmobile would not have offered me a job in 1971. IRS would not have hired me in 1971. GAO would not have hired me in 1980. Using pot shows that you have horrifically bad judgment, that you disrespect the rule of law, and even worse things.)
https://www.daily-chronicle.com/2020/11/19/state-initiative-launched-to-help-illinoisans-expunge-marijuana-arrests-convictions/atgk9po/

RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth, Durbin Help Peters Introduce Bill to Block Trump Order Stripping Federal Employees of Critical Protections (DIERSEN: Democrats run the federal government. They use Affirmative Action, Diversity, Inclusion, and up-or-out to not hire and to get rid of federal employees who Republican, and especially those who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.riverbender.com/articles/details/duckworth-durbin-help-peters-introduce-bill-to-block-trump-order-stripping-federal-employees-of-critical-protections-45934.cfm

ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH
— Madison County shuts down vote on ‘Blue Lives Matter’ resolution following outcry – Taylor Tiamoyo Harris
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/madison-county-shuts-down-vote-on-blue-lives-matter-resolution-following-outcry/article_7576a7a4-196e-51ed-ad02-e6ba08ff5804.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump Administration Labels Movement To Boycott Israel ‘Anti-Semitic’ – COLIN DWYER (DIERSEN: National origin discrimination and religious discrimination are illegal, Nevertheless, my Democrat superiors in the federal government stressed to my supervisors who were Jewish a) that I was 100% German national origin, b) that I was Missouri Synod Lutheran, and c) that I had lived in Crete 1948-1972. I should write a book about the success that they had in forcing my Jewish supervisors to take adverse actions against me.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/trump-administration-labels-movement-boycott-israel-anti-semitic#stream/0

ORLAND PARK PATCH
— Tammy Wendt defeats Dan Patlak and the radical Left. Tammy Wendt easily defeats Dan Patlak in Cook County’s First District election for the Board of Review with a margin of 10,123 votes. – Ray Hanania (DIERSEN: What percent of those who voted for Wendt did so to punish Trump?)
https://patch.com/illinois/orlandpark/tammy-wendt-defeats-dan-patlak-radical-left

CENTER SQUARE
— Rural Illinois residents voted for Trump, against progressive tax – Kevin Bessler (DIERSEN: What are your connections with farming? On my father’s side, my ancestors homesteaded a farm in Crete in 1854 and my grandmother was born on a farm in Crete. On my mother’s side, my ancestors were sharecroppers on a farm in Grant Park on the Indiana border. My mother was born on that farm. I spent many summer days there during the 1950s and early 1960s.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/rural-illinois-residents-voted-for-trump-against-progressive-tax/article_61748e3e-2a8c-11eb-b071-5325517c54d6.html

MCHENRY COUNTRY BLOG
— Slideshow Tribute to County Board Member Chuck Wheeler
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/slideshow-tribute-to-chuck-wheeler/
— IL-14: Jim Oberweis on Final Vote Tally and Discovery Recount
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/oberweis111920/
— Madigan Uses Sgt. Schultz Defense: “Never Made Known to Me”
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/madigan-on-the-defensive-never-made-known-to-me/
— Shutting Down More of Economy
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/shutting-down-more-of-economy/
— Tom Weber on Latest Indictments
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/weber/
— Spring Grove Human Trafficking Arrests
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/human-trafficking-arrests/
— Algonquin Appoints Maggie Auger as Village Clerk
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/auger111920/
— Homeland Security Agent Indicted
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/homeland-security-agent-indicted/
— Dan Ugaste: Resign, Madigan
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/ugaste-resign-madigan/
— Northwest Herald Carriers’ Tips Taken by District Manager
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/northwest-herald-carriers-tips-taken-by-district-manager/
— Time to Run for Office for Boards that Levy Most of Your Property Taxes
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/time-to-run-for-office-for-boards-that-levy-most-of-your-property-taxes/
— The Mike Madigan Tee Shirt
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/19/message-of-the-day-a-tee-shirt-275/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— MADIGAN’S LEGACY OF CORRUPTION WILL SURVIVE HIS DOWNFALL, UNLESS … – Joe Tabor
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/madigans-legacy-of-corruption-will-survive-his-downfall-unless/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— THREE GOP LAWMAKERS RENEW CALL, “MADIGAN MUST GO”
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/11/three-gop-lawmakers-renew-call-madigan-must-go.html
— IL HOUSE SPEAKER RESPONDS TO FEDERAL INDICTMENTS OF MULTIPLE ALLIES
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/11/il-house-speaker-responds-to-federal-indictments-of-multiple-allies-.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Madigan again claims no wrongdoing, does not address new defections in statement
https://capitolfax.com/2020/11/19/madigan-again-claims-no-wrongdoing-does-not-address-new-defections-in-statement/
— Durkin: “Madigan and his long list of defenders need to be removed from power” (DIERSEN: My Democrat IRS superiors removed my mentor who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors removed my mentor who had hired me in 1980, got me assigned to audits of IRS in 1986, and promoted me in 1986.)
https://capitolfax.com/2020/11/18/durkin-madigan-and-his-long-list-of-defenders-need-to-be-removed-from-power/
— HDems still resisting HGOP calls to restart investigative committee
https://capitolfax.com/2020/11/19/hdems-still-resisting-hgop-calls-to-restart-investigative-committee/
— 742,000 new unemployment claims nationwide – 46,526 in Illinois – State unemployment rate fell 3.6 points to 6.8 percent in October
https://capitolfax.com/2020/11/19/742000-new-unemployment-claims-nationwide-46526-in-illinois-state-unemployment-rate-fell-36-points-to-68-percent-in-october/
— 14,612 new confirmed and probable cases, 168 additional deaths, 6,037 hospitalized, 1,192 in ICU, 12 percent case positivity rate, 14 percent test positivity rate
https://capitolfax.com/2020/11/19/14612-new-confirmed-and-probable-cases-168-additional-deaths-6037-hospitalized-1192-in-icu-12-percent-case-positivity-rate-14-percent-test-positivity-rate/
— “It’s over for the little guy” (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and even worse things.)
https://capitolfax.com/2020/11/19/it%e2%80%99s-over-for-the-little-guy/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Wisconsin recount begins with a partisan fight over recount rules – Zachary Halaschak
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/wisconsin-recount-begins-with-a-partisan-fight-over-recount-rules
— Possible 2024 contenders Chris Christie and Nikki Haley raise cash for Georgia runoffs – David M. Drucker
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/possible-2024-contenders-chris-christie-and-nikki-haley-raise-cash-for-georgia-runoffs

GOPUSA
— Are Pandemic Lockdowns A Dry Run For The ‘Climate Crisis’?
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=98054
— They Want To Shut You Up – Ben Shapiro
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=98081

BREITBART
— Conservatives Funded by Big Tech Scramble to Defend Industry from Congress – ALLUM BOKHARI (DIERSEN: He who pays the piper calls the tunes. All the time and all the money needed to put together and to send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and to post copies of those emails on www.gopillinois.com comes from me.)
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/11/19/conservatives-funded-by-big-tech-scramble-to-defend-industry-from-congress/

BLAZE
— National Democratic Party official suggests re-education for Trump supporters: ‘How do you deprogram 75 million people?’ Some murky territory here – Sara Taylor (DIERSEN: No matter how hard they try to make me the following, I will never be anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-married people, anti-anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/national-democratic-party-official-deprogram-trump-supporters
— Masks now required inside Pennsylvania homes when members of different households gather Plus those traveling to the state must test negative for COVID-19 within 72 hours prior to arrival – DAVE URBANSKI
https://www.theblaze.com/news/masks-required-inside-pennsylvania-homes

CBN NEWS
— Bias on Campus: It’s OK to Call Trump Voters ‘Craven’, ‘Evil’, ‘Terrorists’, but Call Biden Voters ‘Anti-American’ and You’re Out – Kayla Root
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/november/bias-on-campus-its-ok-to-call-trump-voters-craven-evil-terrorists-but-call-biden-voters-anti-american-and-youre-out

ONE NEWS NOW
— Wayne County situation a preview of Biden’s America? – Chad Groening
https://onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2020/11/19/wayne-county-situation-a-preview-of-bidens-america
— GOP sounding alarm, crying foul in GA recount – Billy Davis
https://onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2020/11/18/gop-sounding-alarm-crying-foul-in-ga-recount

EPOCH TIMES
— Arizona Governor Won’t Accept Election Results Until All Lawsuits Are Settled – JACK PHILLIPS
https://www.theepochtimes.com/arizona-governor-wont-accept-election-results-until-all-lawsuits-are-settled_3585098.html

CREATORS SYNDICATE
— The Censorious Left Is Obliterating Free Speech – David Limbaugh
https://www.creators.com/read/david-limbaugh/11/20/the-censorious-left-is-obliterating-free-speech

WASHINGTON POST
— Walmart and McDonald’s have the most workers on food stamps and Medicaid, new study shows – Eli Rosenberg (DIERSEN: One reason why I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980 when I was 31 years old was GAO’s claim that it was “nonpartisan.” I soon learned that claim was false. If I had been a Democrat, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have a) forced me to take a $20,157 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, b) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) gotten rid of my mentor in 1987, d) given me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, e) failed/refused to promote me beyond GS-13, f) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and g) forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/18/food-stamps-medicaid-mcdonalds-walmart-bernie-sanders/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A sizable number of the recipients of federal aid programs such as Medicaid and food stamps are employed by some of the biggest and more profitable companies in the United States, chief among them Walmart and McDonald’s, according to a new report from Congress’s nonpartisan watchdog. The Government Accountability Office undertook the study at the behest of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to answer questions about the relationship between employers and the federal assistance programs. The report draws on February data from agencies in 11 states that administer Medicaid and the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP, or food stamps.)
— The very different view of the election from pro-Trump media – David Weigel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/19/trailer-very-different-view-election-pro-trump-media/

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Teen gunman Kyle Rittenhouse used coronavirus stimulus money to buy rifle used in Wisconsin shooting – NELSON OLIVEIRA
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-kyle-rittenhouse-used-covid-stimulus-money-to-buy-rifle-kenosha-20201119-mydnun2yafhshcpgtmzr5pfxmq-story.html

November 17 Morning Edition

CBS2
— Suburban Restaurants Could Be Criminally Charged For Defying Governor’s Indoor Dining Ban – Chris Tye
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/11/16/indoor-dining-ban-criminal-charges-illinois/

NBC5
— Here’s What Gov. Pritzker Has Said About Another Stay-at-Home Order for Illinois
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/heres-what-gov-pritzker-has-said-about-another-stay-at-home-order-for-illinois-as-coronavirus-metrics-rise/2372646/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Cash-strapped state turning down $100M in pot taxes, industry says. Some cannabis insiders say the industry has been hampered by Gov. Pritzker’s interpretation of the legalization law that won’t allow existing medical dispensaries to move and also sell recreational marijuana. – Tom Schuba (DIERSEN: To push pot on an individual, municipality, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, county, state, or country.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2020/11/17/21570668/illinois-dispensaries-pot-cannabis-marijuana-tax-budget-deficit

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Obama promoters promote Obama.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-books-barack-obama-promised-land-1117-20201116-mgx4jh45wbfhdoj4rqponh3wg4-story.html
— Real Clear Politics, a site once popular among political junkies of all stripes, took a sharp right turn in Trump era. Here’s what happened. – JEREMY W. PETERS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-real-clear-politics-20201117-nyrlekkuezd7jgjw2oiqkg2bva-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— A salute to all veterans – Mike Formento, Commander, Glen Ellyn American Legion, Post 3
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20201111/a-salute-to-all-veterans
— Rollback the rollback – Evelyn Sanguinetti – Executive Director, HOPE Fair Housing Center (DIERSEN: In 1972, when I was 24 years old, I could afford to buy a new town home in University Park, but I could not have afforded to buy that new town home if it had been in a more expensive municipality, township, or county. In 1978, my wife and I could afford to buy a home in Wheaton, but we could not have afforded to buy that home if it had been in a more expensive municipality, township, or county. In 1984, my wife and I could afford to have a new home built in Wheaton, but we could not have afforded to have that home built in a more expensive municipality, township, or county. Since 1972, when I bought a new town home in University Park, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that because of discrimination against minorities and because of discrimination against females, if I had been a minority or a female, I would not have been able to buy that town home. The down payment for that town home came from what I had earned and saved a) working for IRS in Harvey for the prior 9 months and in Chicago for 6 months before that and b) working for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights for the prior 18 months part-time and for 7 months before that full-time. That money also enabled me to a) buy a new Corvette in 1971 and b) pay tuition for graduate business courses at Loyola. Firestone hired me in 1970 because it could not find a qualified minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. In 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that Oldsmobile had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. That directly resulted in a) Firestone Stores firing me from full-time employment and b) my accepting a job offer from IRS. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. My wife and I bought a home in Wheaton in 1978. The down payment came from what she had earned and saved working for the U.S. League of Savings Institutions the prior 8 years and for the FBI for the 2 years before that. My wife and I had a home built in Wheaton in 1984. The down payment came from the sale of our Wheaton home and my University Park town home which I had rented out since 1976. By then, my wife had worked for the U.S. League of Savings Institutions for 14 years and I had worked for GAO for more than 4 years and for IRS for almost 9 years before that.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20201116/rollback-the-rollback
(FROM THE LETTER: It’s no secret that institutional racism in housing disproportionately impacts Black, Native American and Latinx household, making the rollback more impactful on low-income renters of color. During this time, Americans are still trying to process George Floyd’s tragic death and have observed firsthand the glaring inequities in underserved communities with the administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even the National Association of Realtors maintained that “now is not the time” to change a policy that could hinder progress against institutional racism in housing.)

WTTW
— Joe Walsh: ‘We Can’t Normalize’ President Trump’s Behavior – Nick Blumberg (DIERSEN: The more that you promote hatred against Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote you.)
https://news.wttw.com/2020/11/16/joe-walsh-we-cant-normalize-president-trumps-behavior

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— AUGUST 16, 2012 FLASHBACK: A bunch of political info — daily – Bernard Schoenburg
https://www.sj-r.com/x1782330063/Bernard-Schoenburg-A-bunch-of-political-info-daily
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There are lots of websites that compile political news, and I think it’s time I share one that I find quite interesting. There are lots of websites that compile political news, and I think it’s time I share one that I find quite interesting. It’s at www.gopillinois.com , and, as you can tell by its address, it has a Republican flavor. That is an understatement reinforced with the comments added by the compiler himself — DAVID DIERSEN of Wheaton. He introduced a recent UPI story about Republicans’ views on the drought and wildfires by saying: “Democrats blame everything bad, including bad weather, on Republicans, especially on Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor and non-veteran.” And talking of a New York Times article about a photographer arrested while on assignment in the Bronx, Diersen wrote that since 2000, he has been thrown out of, barred from, or not advised of news conferences “by Democrats, Democrat plants, RINOs (Republicans in name only), their operatives, and their dupes.” Thus, if you don’t want to read some very pointed comments, you may not want to go to gopillinois.com. But you would be missing a treasure of links to the day’s news and opinion. Diersen, 63, is a retired federal employee who became the Illinois editor of a national GOP website in 2000, and since 2004 has put out his own Illinois compilation every day. There’s usually about 50 articles daily, he says. He’s generally up by 3 a.m. He says he spends at least 10 hours a day on this passion of his, with no pay, and has put out links to more than 117,000 articles. As his comments above hinted, party regulars don’t always greet his work with relish. He includes dissident voices within the GOP tent, and some whose credibility is questionable. But he puts it all out there. He’s a GOP precinct committeeman, and he believes in people having information. He also wants to help elect Republican candidates who “will defend and advance the party’s platform.” The site makes available plenty of Diersen history, too, including how his “liberal Democrat superiors,” in his view, forced him to take early retirement at 49 from the U.S. General Accounting Office, “because of his opposition to race and gender based preference and his participation in a class action lawsuit” on that subject. He wouldn’t mind my telling you that he also passed his CPA and Certified Internal Auditor exams on first attempts more than three decades ago. Agree or disagree with him, but Diersen provides a bunch of interesting information — every day.)

SUBURBAN LIFE
— DuPage County Board to consider additional restaurant funding at Tuesday meeting
https://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2020/11/16/dupage-county-board-to-consider-additional-restaurant-funding-at-tuesday-meeting/avebu84/

CENTER SQUARE
— Illinois Municipal League wants more local input on COVID-19 management – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/illinois-municipal-group-wants-more-local-input-on-covid-19-management/article_19a84d12-2838-11eb-b833-afa273556a41.html

HINSDALE PATCH
— Hinsdale Muslim Student Fights Hindu Extremism Central junior says she sees parallels between Trump and India’s Modi. – David Giuliani
https://patch.com/illinois/hinsdale/hinsdale-muslim-student-fights-hindu-extremism

CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— Could Trump Lose Trump Tower Chicago? On paper, he owes more than $50 million to his own LLC affiliated with the building. It’ll take a court to crack open the reason why, but that could happen now with the New York AG circling. – WHET MOSER
http://www.chicagomag.com/real-estate/November-2020/Could-Trump-Lose-Trump-Tower-Chicago/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— McHenry Township GOP Holding a Caucus to Select Township Candidates, Appellate Court Says Party Caucuses Must Be Accessible to All
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/11/16/mchenry-township-gop-holding-a-caucus-to-select-township-candidates-appellate-court-says-party-caucuses-must-be-accessible-to-all/

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Titans set to depart SJ-R Schoenburg, Finke will leave Dec. 1 – Bruce Rushton
https://www.illinoistimes.com/springfield/titans-set-to-depart-sj-r/Content?oid=12835001
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A pair of heavyweights are leaving the State Journal-Register. Political writer and columnist Bernard Schoenburg and statehouse reporter Doug Finke have accepted buyouts and will be departing the paper on Dec. 1. Finke has worked at the SJ-R since the 1970s; Schoenburg’s first byline appeared in the paper in 1990. Their departures will leave the daily newspaper with two news reporters and an equal number of sports reporters, presuming Finke and Schoenburg are not replaced before their departures and current staff isn’t reassigned. The paper, which has no fulltime courts reporter or police reporter or city hall reporter or education reporter, has posted jobs for a statehouse/politics reporter as well as a cultural, diversity and inclusion reporter who will “focus coverage on culture, diversity and inclusion trends across central Illinois,” according to a job listing posted by Gannett, the SJ-R’s parent company.)

CAPITOL FAX
— Schoenburg, Finke take SJ-R buyouts
https://capitolfax.com/2020/11/17/schoenburg-finke-take-sj-r-buyouts/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— The liberal women’s group UltraViolet urges Facebook to crack down harder on right-wing misinformation – Ryan Lovelace (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, all government and political news and commentary is misinformation except for the government and political news and commentary that they put out or bless. My critics/opponents want the following to crack down harder on me and on my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails: AOL, Google, Facebook, ConstantContact, WordPress, Comcast, AT&T, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce (WCC), Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. Previously, my critics/opponents ended my service as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, WCC Government Affairs Committee member, MTRO webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, GAO employee, etc.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/16/liberal-advocacy-group-urges-facebook-crack-down-h/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— OUTSTANDING: Conservative Journalist Successfully Sues State of Minnesota for Access to Coronavirus Briefings State officials buckle, allowing PowerLine’s Scott Johnson to join media briefings – Collin Anderson (DIERSEN: I have been a conservative journalist since 2000. I should write a book about RINO candidates, RINO elected officials, and RINO party leaders who have barred me from their press briefings and taken other adverse actions against me. Better yet, I should sue them. They blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. The aforesaid ended my service as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, WCC Government Affairs Committee member, MTRO webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member.)
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/conservative-journalist-successfully-sues-state-of-minnesota-for-access-to-coronavirus-briefings/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A conservative journalist barred from Minnesota‘s daily coronavirus briefings successfully sued the state to regain access. In a settlement signed Friday, Minnesota’s Department of Health agreed to reinstate PowerLine cofounder Scott Johnson’s access to the state’s COVID-19 Conference Line “as long as and whenever” the department holds a briefing. Johnson sued the Department of Public Health when he was barred from their conference line in May without explanation. Johnson had until then participated in the calls and posed questions skeptical of Democratic governor Tim Walz’s approach to combating the coronavirus. Health department officials also stopped responding to Johnson’s written inquiries. Those officials told the Washington Free Beacon that the briefings were limited to “professional journalists,” but did not offer a definition of the term. In his lawsuit, Johnson argued that the state had discriminated against him on the basis of political ideology and demanded to be included in the briefings. The Minnesota Department of Public Health declined to comment on the settlement agreement. Johnson has been critical of the state’s handling of the pandemic, challenging Walz’s decision to keep the state shut down in April given that, at the time, more than 80 percent of Minnesota‘s coronavirus deaths occurred in nursing homes and residential care facilities. That number dipped to more than 70 percent as of mid-October, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Johnson, a retired attorney and accredited reporter, argued that his exclusion constituted “an ongoing deprivation … [of his] First Amendment rights under the United States Constitution.” Friday’s settlement acknowledges his exclusion from the briefings and guarantees him immediate access: Health department communications director Michael Schommer is required under the agreement to answer up to three of Johnson’s pandemic-related questions per week.)

GOPUSA
— The Obamas Show Their Ugly Side
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=97986
— Is Parler A ‘Threat To Democracy’? CNN Blasts Parler, Newsmax As ‘Dangerous’ – Bobby Eberle (DIERSEN: If the past predicts the future, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes will hint/imply/argue/shout at the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct who lost and at their political consultants, at their major donors, at their campaign managers, at their campaign staff, at their campaign volunteers, at etc. that they lost because of my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. My critics/opponents will hint/imply/argue/shout that if the GOPUSA Illinois Editor was someone who they manipulated/dominated, NONE OF THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT IN MY PRECINCT WOULD HAVE LOST.)
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=97931
— No Police: Chicago Wants To Send A Paramedic And A Clinician To Mental Health Calls
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=97929

BREITBART
— Mailchimp Blacklists Conservative Groups – LUCAS NOLAN (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, all government and political news and commentary is misinformation except for the government and political news and commentary that they put out or bless. My critics/opponents want the following to blacklist me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails: AOL, Google, Facebook, ConstantContact, WordPress, Comcast, AT&T, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce (WCC), Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. Previously, my critics/opponents ended my service as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, WCC Government Affairs Committee member, MTRO webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, GAO employee, etc.)
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/11/16/mailchimp-blacklists-conservative-groups/
— Anti-Trumpers Look to Blacklist Trump’s Election Lawyers: ‘Make Them Famous’ – JOSHUA KLEIN (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who blacklist me and blacklist my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. Better yet, I should sue them.)
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/11/10/anti-trumpers-look-to-blacklist-trumps-election-lawyers-make-them-famous/

DAILY CALLER
— Georgia Secretary Of State Says Fellow Republicans Have Pressured Him To Exclude Legal Ballots In Recount – MARLO SAFI
https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/16/georgia-secretary-of-state-brad-raffensperger-republicans-pressure-toss-legal-ballots/
— Liberal Media Suggests Biden Should Take Aggressive Approach To Censoring Conservative Media – MARY MARGARET OLOHAN (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, all government and political news and commentary is misinformation except for the government and political news and commentary that they put out or bless. My critics/opponents want the following to censor me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails more aggressively: AOL, Google, Facebook, ConstantContact, WordPress, Comcast, AT&T, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce (WCC), Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. Previously, my critics/opponents ended my service as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, WCC Government Affairs Committee member, MTRO webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, GAO employee, etc.)
https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/16/liberal-media-suggests-biden-should-take-aggressive-approach-to-censoring-conservative-media/

FEDERALIST
— If Americans Can No Longer Trust Our Elections, We’re In Big Trouble This is an incredibly dangerous moment for the country and may be a pivotal point in the future of America’s democratic republic. Did we just cross the Rubicon? – Willis L. Krumholz (DIERSEN: Democrats are moral relativists. They believe that their end justified their means.)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/17/if-americans-can-no-longer-trust-our-elections-were-in-big-trouble/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Prepare for the Great Decoupling – Deplatforming moves downstream to WordPress.com and Mailchimp – William A. Jacobson (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, all government and political news and commentary is misinformation except for the government and political news and commentary that they put out or bless. My critics/opponents want the following to deplatform me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails: AOL, Google, Facebook, ConstantContact, WordPress, Comcast, AT&T, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce (WCC), Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. Previously, my critics/opponents ended my service as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, WCC Government Affairs Committee member, MTRO webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member, GAO employee, etc.)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/11/prepare-for-the-great-decoupling-deplatforming-moves-downstream-to-wordpress-com-and-mailchimp/

EPOCH TIMES
— Dershowitz: ‘Biden Is Not the President Elect’ – MIMI NGUYEN LY
https://www.theepochtimes.com/dershowitz-biden-is-not-the-president-elect_3581931.html

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Republicans start turning the page on Trump era.” Hate-filled Trump-hating RINOs want to use Trump’s problems to get rid of conservatives, that is, to get rid of the base of the Republican Party.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/526247-republicans-start-turning-the-page-on-trump-era
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Trump campaign sees election lawsuits fizzle.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/526249-trump-campaign-sees-election-lawsuits-fizzle

NEW YORK TIMES
— Fox News’s ‘partisan right’ audience on YouTube is dropping, researchers say. – Daisuke Wakabayashi
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/technology/fox-news-youtube-election.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Republicans sound alarm on Georgia Senate runoffs as they privately weigh Trump’s influence – Robert Costa and Tom Hamburger (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, I have always been a “political burden” for Republican candidates. My critics/opponents shout at Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who lose races that they lost because of me and because of my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. Previously, my critics/opponents shouted at them that they lost because of what I did as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/georgia-senate-runoffs-gop-t/2020/11/16/9d7c0678-2848-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican leaders are increasingly alarmed about the party’s ability to stave off Democratic challengers in Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections — and they privately described President Trump on a recent conference call as a political burden who despite his false claims of victory was the likely loser of the 2020 election. . .Some on the call expressed particular concern about Georgia’s fast-changing electorate, driven by the increasingly liberal metro Atlanta region and the push by 2018 gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to register more Democratic voters, especially in the state’s communities of color. Democrats hope that the candidate challenging Loeffler in the runoff, the Rev. Raphael Warnock — the pastor at Atlanta’s iconic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached — will help energize Black voters. Perdue, elected in 2014, faces Democrat Jon Ossoff, a documentary filmmaker running his first statewide race. “They changed, dramatically, the face of the electorate in Georgia. Many of these new voters are from California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and they’re not of the conservative persuasion,” Perdue said on the call.)

NEW YORK POST
— Trump campaign blasts ‘fake news’ coverage of Pennsylvania lawsuit – Bruce Golding (DIERSEN: I should write a book about newspaper coverage of the lawsuits that I have filed. Of course, the newspapers sided with the defendants in those lawsuits.)
https://nypost.com/2020/11/16/trump-campaign-blasts-fake-news-coverage-of-pa-lawsuit/

USA TODAY
— Be upfront with your new employer about your past – Johnny C. Taylor (DIERSEN: What “past” did you have when you started with new employers? When I started with GAO in 1980 when I was 31 years old, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates stressed a) that my Democrat GAO superiors had forced me to take a $20,157 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) 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, c) that my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968, d) that I was a conservative Republican, e) that I had been baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, f ) that I was 100% German national origin, g) that my ancestors had been in America since 1844, h) that I was a draft avoider, i) that I had lived in Wheaton since 1978, j) that I had lived in Crete 1948-1972, k) that I opposed political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, l) etc.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2020/11/10/should-you-disclose-reckless-driving-charge-when-applying-job/6221747002/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, but misinformation will continue to win.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/11/13/trump-administration-ending-misinformation-age-continues-after-election/6128246002/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Christine Todd Whitman says “Beyond irresponsible: Republicans must put Americans and reality ahead of fealty to Trump. Republicans are embarrassing America. It’s past time to admit Trump lost, congratulate Biden, stop spouting misinformation and move on to a transition.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/11/14/republicans-admit-trump-lost-biden-won-start-transition-column/6270990002/
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats encourage children to be LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/11/13/transgender-awareness-week-young-trans-people-say-they-are-thriving/6078136002/

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
— Trump’s legal push to disrupt Pa.’s election results is on its last legs. What’s his campaign still fighting in court? – Jeremy Roebuck (DIERSEN: I should write a book about newspaper coverage of the lawsuits that I have filed. Of course, the newspapers sided with the defendants in those lawsuits.)
https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-lawsuits-pennsylvania-election-results-supreme-court-federal-judge-20201116.html

CHARLOTTE  OBSERVER
— Don’t blame progressives for blue wave washout – BARRY SAUNDERS (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, I have always been a “political burden” for Republican candidates. My critics/opponents shout at Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who lose races that they lost because of me and because of my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. Previously, my critics/opponents shouted at them that they lost because of what I did as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member.)
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article247100997.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Year of the Woman Really, Finally Did Arrive in 2020 As voters, as candidates and as campaign leaders, women were—and now are—in the driver’s seat as never before – Gerald F. Seib (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats shout at women, and at everyone else, that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-year-of-the-woman-really-finally-did-arrive-in-2020-11605539331
— New International Student Enrollment Plunges 43% This Fall Survey of more than 700 schools shows harsh impact of pandemic, Trump administration restriction – Melissa Korn (DIERSEN: IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. If there had been as many foreign students back then as there are now, I may very well have not been admitted.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-international-student-enrollment-plunges-43-this-fall-11605548907

WBUR
— Why Voters Are Rejecting The War On Drugs – Dorey Scheimer and Meghna Chakrabarti (DIERSEN: To push pot on an individual, municipality, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, county, state, or country.)
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/11/17/a-shift-in-american-drug-policy

ABC TAMPA BAY
— Pandemic highlights affordable housing problems across the country – Vanessa Araiza (DIERSEN: In 1972, when I was 24 years old, I could afford to buy a new town home in University Park, but I could not have afforded to buy that new town home if it had been in a more expensive municipality, township, or county. In 1978, my wife and I could afford to buy a home in Wheaton, but we could not have afforded to buy that home if it had been in a more expensive municipality, township, or county. In 1984, my wife and I could afford to have a new home built in Wheaton, but we could not have afforded to have that home built in a more expensive municipality, township, or county.)
https://www.abcactionnews.com/rebound/coronavirus-stress/pandemic-highlights-affordable-housing-problems-across-the-country

NEWSWEEK
— Trump Administration Officials Face Tough Time Finding New Jobs – NAVEED JAMALI AND TOM O’CONNOR (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my unsuccessful efforts during 1997 and 1998 when I was 49 years old to find a job appropriate for someone with my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license after my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer.” Factors that frustrated my job search included a) the adverse actions that my Democrat GAO superiors had taken against me, b) my being an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat GAO my opposing with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, c) none of my four degrees were from Ivy League universities, d) my having filed lawsuits, e) my being White, male, 49 years old, draft avoider, 100% German American, Missouri Synod Lutheran, conservative, Republican, a former IRS employee, a Wheaton resident since 1978, a Crete resident 1948-1972, etc.)
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-officials-tough-time-new-jobs-1547859
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The presence of Trump loyalists in positions across the government has also had an effect on the jobs themselves. Rather than blacklist people for their affiliation alone, one Democratic congressional staffer who asked to remain anonymous told Newsweek that former administration officials should be judged based on their performance, which the staffer said often came second to ideology. “There are many appointees who were hired, promoted, or retained because of their loyalty to Trump and Trumpism,” the staffer said. “Many of these people actively harmed the very people and institutions they were charged with serving. They engaged in or were complicit in tremendous cruelty. Those are the reasons not to hire someone.” The staffer said this standard should apply to those who left office early as well, such as former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who has been critical of the commander-in-chief he served, but has not apologized for having implemented some of his controversial policies.)

FINANCIAL TIMES
— Comfortable in court: Donald Trump reprises playbook for election fight Veterans of real estate industry say hard-nosed legal strategy was honed over decades – Joshua Chaffin (DIERSEN: Even though I have not filed a lawsuit since 1998, if I sought a government office or a political office, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes would demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being litigious. I should write a book about the lawsuits that I have filed, the defendants in those lawsuits, and the retaliation that those defendants continue to take against me.)
https://www.ft.com/content/74d8a848-4dad-4017-9226-5deb0a005045

(FROM THE ARTICLE: Donald Trump gained a reputation as one of the most litigious real estate developers in the US. . .But to veterans of the New York City real estate world, the president’s actions since the November 3 election are familiar, and consistent with the playbook he honed for decades as a highly litigious property developer. . .“I don’t think he ever had a particularly impressive track record of winning anything. But he was sufficiently litigious that it was a deterrent.” Even in the litigious blood sport of New York real estate, Mr. Trump stood out.)

November 16 Morning Edition

NBC5
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Fauci to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/election-latest-trump-campaign-retreats-from-key-claim-in-pa-suit/2372385/

WTTW
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats blame Republicans for the problems that minorities have.
https://news.wttw.com/2020/11/15/poverty-and-pandemic-helping-marginalized-communities-weather-storm

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Richard J. Daley a ‘horribly racist mayor,’ great-grandson says in letter. In an open letter to his cousins, Bobby Vanecko also condemns his great-uncle Richard M. Daley and parents’ cousin Ald. Patrick D. Thompson (11th) for racist policymaking. – Clare Proctor and Tom Schuba (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. Ever-increasingly, to pander to minorities, to pander to women, to pander to young people, and to pander to those who have health, financial, and/or other problems, if you are White, and if you seek a government office or a political office, your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes will paint you, paint your parents, paint your grandparents, paint your great grandparents, and paint the rest of your ancestors as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things. The more clout that the aforesaid have/had, the more that they are painted as being the aforesaid. In my defense, I have never had clout. Further, my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents, and the rest of my ancestors never had clout. My outstanding father fought diabetes from age 14, never attended college, was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma, worked in the office of a nasty chemical plant in Chicago Heights, almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills, and died in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. My outstanding mother never attended high school. My grandparents on my father’s side operated a hardware store in Crete; their parents were farmers. My grandparents on my mother’s side operated a farm in Grant Park; their parents were farmers.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/11/15/21565497/richard-j-daley-letter-racism-bobby-vanecko-daley-family

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Gov. Pritzker, let the legislature work with you on COVID-19 surge, tanking economy – DON DEWITTE AND DAN UGASTE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-governor-pritzker-covid-pandemic-legislature-20201113-wglnetklrnfsnhttzzazpbhcs4-story.html
— Free speech and college campuses: Why are students censoring themselves, and will Joe Biden help? – JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-college-political-thinking-zimmerman-20201113-ayczvbhhnvgxnh5x3olv45d2o4-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-hater promotes hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/dahleen-glanton/ct-glanton-trump-voter-fraud-voter-suppression-20201116-tgkjzi25s5ajbc6pcjdghb4vv4-story.html
— BOOST YOUR ENERGY; COMBAT PANDEMIC FATIGUE – ELIZABETH HARTKE
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/new-york-daily-news/20201115/282686164759843
— Lightfoot doubles down on property tax hike in private meeting, tells aldermen not to record her – GREGORY PRATT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-lori-lightfoot-property-tax-increase-aldermen-20201115-apzembox4bgurmsta7qnxk6wga-story.html
— Bullied, badgered, publicly scorned: Suburban school boards feel the heat — and the hate — as they weigh COVID-19 school closings – KAREN ANN CULLOTTA
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-illinois-school-boards-under-pressure-20201115-py74cgbugvasbhvi2ybwoe4fcy-story.html
— Liberal Democrats envisioned a multiracial coalition on Election Day. Voters had other ideas. – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-liberals-race-election-20201116-qei47m7oszeshfbsq3wdq2zia4-story.html

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Two Will County Republican candidates call for new leadership of state party Party’s lack of support, poor fundraising criticized – ALEX ORTIZ
https://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2020/11/13/two-will-county-republican-candidates-call-for-new-leadership-of-state-party/a2jw067/

JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL COURIER
— Bipartisan calls grow for hearings on state’s pandemic response – Greg Bishop
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Bipartisan-calls-grow-for-hearings-on-15729700.php

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Obama to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/obama-calls-trumps-refusal-concede-another-breach-basic-democratic-norms#stream/0

WREX
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: If you promote pot, you are not religious, conservative, or Republican.
https://wrex.com/2020/11/16/americans-across-party-lines-regions-embrace-marijuana/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— LaHOOD’s NOD TO BIDEN. . .REP. DARIN LAHOOD says Joe Biden should be receiving security briefings, a sign he acknowledges the Democrat won the 2020 election. “It is appropriate from a national security perspective for Joe Biden to be afforded access to intelligence and security briefings,” the Republican congressman told Playbook through a spokesman. LaHood’s comment about Biden’s post-election position follows Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who took to Twitter on Nov. 7 to acknowledge Biden’s victory: “Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Our nation deserves two competing parties who can work together when possible, and compete honorably when not.” Other Illinois Republican Party leaders, however, are keeping quiet about their opinions on the outcome of the presidential race. Illinois GOP Executive Director Derek Murphy and party Chairman Tim Schneider didn’t respond to requests for comment, and neither did GOP Reps. Mike Bost (12th), Rodney Davis (13th), or John Shimkus (15th). GOP Rep. Mike Bost tweeted Nov. 8 that he supports Trump’s “efforts to ensure all legal votes are counted… So while Joe Biden & supporters celebrate, our work continues.” Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin and newly named state Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie said they don’t comment on national security issues. Political strategist Collin Corbett says he’s not surprised some Illinois Republicans are keeping quiet. “Everyone knows Biden has won. It’s a matter of respect [for Trump]. They want to let the guy get through the process.” Corbett, who heads the “right of center” Cor Strategies, expects transfer of power will happen “and it will be peaceful. There’s no sense in angering him in the meantime.” – Shia Kapos
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2020/11/16/eyeing-duckworths-seat-sacks-defends-madigan-lahoods-nod-to-biden-covids-grip-490908

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Leftist State Board of Ed and Lawmakers Collude to Indoctrinate Illinois Students – Laurie Higgins (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, to send your child to a public school is to make your child anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexuals, anti-married people, anti-parent, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. My outstanding parents sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod.)
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/leftist-state-board-of-ed-and-lawmakers-collude-to-indoctrinate-illinois-students/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Designed to rig elections’: Trump’s legal team demands probe of Dominion voting software. Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney, called for a probe – Alex Swoyer and S.A. Miller (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, voters vote straight ticket ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-ticket_voting ). Yet, according to the DuPage County Election Division, in my precinct, only 154 voted for Trump while 325 voted for Berlin, 240 voted for Jorgensen, 232 voted for Grogan, 228 voted for Walsh, 225 voted for Kachiroubas, 225 voted for Elliott, 224 voted for Whelan, 224 voted for Felice, etc.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/15/trumps-legal-team-claims-issues-with-dominion-voti/
— Trump blasts ‘ANTIFA SCUM’ as D.C. descends into chaos – Jeff Mordock
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/15/trump-blasts-antifa-scum-dc-descends-chaos/

GOPUSA
— Million Maga March Was Huge And Peaceful! — Then Biden Supporters Attacked
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=97837

AMERICAN THINKER
— Biden, the Great Pretender – Fay Voshell
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/biden_the_great_pretender.html
— 60 Minutes’ Scarily Ignorant Interview of Barack Obama – Jack Cashill
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/60_minutes_scarily_ignorant_interview_of_barack_obama.html

BREITBART
— Chicago Mayor Lightfoot: Trump’s ‘Mind-Blowing’ Ignorance Worsened Coronavirus Pandemic – PAM KEY
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/11/15/chicago-mayor-lightfoot-trumps-mind-blowing-ignorance-worsened-coronavirus-pandemic/

DAILY WIRE
— ‘Threat To Democracy’: CNN Sounds Alarm Over Conservatives Leaving Twitter, Facebook
https://www.dailywire.com/news/threat-to-democracy-cnn-sounds-alarm-over-conservatives-leaving-twitter-facebook

EPOCH TIMES
— Dershowitz: Trump May Seek to Deny Biden 270 Electoral Votes, Put Election in Congress – JACK PHILLIPS
https://www.theepochtimes.com/dershowitz-trump-may-try-to-deny-biden-270-electoral-votes-put-election-in-congress_3579716.html

WORLD TRIBUNE
— Bill Gates and Big Tech team up to promote racial revolutionary strife – Joe Schaeffer
https://www.worldtribune.com/bill-gates-and-big-tech-team-up-to-promote-racial-revolutionary-strife/

CHRISTIANITY TODAY
— Recognizing the ‘Sins of Our Fathers’ Means Admitting We’re Their Children The Bible tells us we only escape original sin through our perfect savior. – CHAD ASHBY (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. Ever-increasingly, to pander to minorities, to pander to women, to pander to young people, and to pander to those who have health, financial, and/or other problems, if you are White, and if you seek a government office or a political office, your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes will paint you, paint your parents, paint your grandparents, paint your great grandparents, and paint the rest of your ancestors as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things. The more clout that the aforesaid have/had, the more that they are painted as being the aforesaid. In my defense, I have never had clout. Further, my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents, and the rest of my ancestors never had clout. My outstanding father fought diabetes from age 14, never attended college, was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma, worked in the office of a nasty chemical plant in Chicago Heights, almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills, and died in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. My outstanding mother never attended high school. My grandparents on my father’s side operated a hardware store in Crete; their parents were farmers. My grandparents on my mother’s side operated a farm in Grant Park; their parents were farmers.)
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/october-web-only/reckoning-with-original-sin-race-injustice.html

CNN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Kinzinger to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/11/16/adam-kinzinger-trump-refusal-to-concede-gop-bts-tsr-vpx.cnn

YAHOO NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Bolton to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/1-1-former-trump-national-093806590.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in promoting hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/biden-suburbs-blue-minneapolis.html
— 2020’s Hot Gadget Is the Personal Computer – Shira Ovide (DIERSEN: I have owned and used a personal computer since the early 1980s.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/technology/2020s-hot-gadget-is-the-computer.html
— The Trump Campaign Has Filed 16 Lawsuits Contesting the Election. – Emily Bazelon
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/us/politics/trump-election-lawsuits.html
— FRONT PAGE: Sex-Abuse Claims Against Boy Scouts Now Surpass 82,000. The deluge of sex-abuse filings, coming ahead of a bankruptcy deadline, far surpasses the number of claims filed in Catholic Church cases. – Mike Baker
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/us/boy-scouts-abuse-claims-bankruptcy.html

USA TODAY
— Deep blue and overwhelmingly against racial preferences: What’s going on in California Equality is central to the American creed. The Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and, now, the people of America’s largest state have reaffirmed that fact. – Ward Connerly (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, to get votes from them, politicians promise to give preference to minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, illegals, moderates/liberals, those who have health, financial, and/or other problems, non-Christians, non-Protestants, non-Italian Americans, non-German Americans, veterans, and to those who are anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-draft avoiders, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, etc.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/11/13/proposition-16-california-affirmative-action-racial-preferences-column/6241580002/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Democratic Party waging a war over its future just as Joe Biden takes helm.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/15/joe-biden-take-presidency-democrats-battle-over-future-party/6278276002/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How Covid-19 Will Change Aging and Retirement Among other things, expect more aging in place and a wave of innovation to help make that happen – Anne Tergesen
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-covid-19-will-change-aging-and-retirement-11605452401
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 7. We need to save more to retire While stocks for now continue to perform well, lower bond yields caused by the pandemic might make it harder to make ends meet on a fixed income. For years, retirees have relied on the so-called 4% rule, which says you can withdraw 4% from your savings in the first year of retirement, and then give yourself an annual raise to account for inflation, without running a big risk of running out of money. For someone with a $1 million portfolio, that formula produced an initial income of $40,000 and—assuming inflation of 2%—an increase to $40,800 in year two. But today’s low bond yields mean future returns are expected to be lower than in the past, says David Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar Inc. Mr. Blanchett says his safe-spending recommendation is now between 3% and 3.5%. That means that someone who wants to safely withdraw $40,000 in the first year of retirement needs to save closer to $1.2 million than $1 million. . .9. We will work longer Since the 1990s, the percentage of people 55 and older in the labor force has risen steadily, to 40% in 2019 from 29% in 1993, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. With bond yields low, stock values high and Social Security in precarious shape, the trend will accelerate. “There’s so much uncertainty about the future…most people are going to continue to work as long as they can,” says Prof. Carstensen. With companies embracing remote work and flexible hours and the gig economy expanding, it’s easier for many older people to remain employed, says Jack Rowe, a professor of public health at Columbia University. Of course, not everyone has the ability to work into their 70s or beyond. Some are in poor health, have jobs they can no longer perform or are victims of age discrimination. “As a society, we will have to provide ways for people who cannot work to receive support, says Prof. Carstensen.”)
— The Best Books About Aging and Retirement of 2020 – Diane Cole (DIERSEN: I should write a book about early retirement.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-books-about-aging-and-retirement-of-2020-11605312522
— With Interest Rates Low, What’s a Retiree to Do? The investment landscape has changed for older investors. Here’s some advice on how to navigate it. – Michael A. Pollock
https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-interest-rates-low-whats-a-retiree-to-do-11605385320
— Why Democrats Nearly Lost the House. The problem is their policies, not their marketing. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-democrats-nearly-lost-the-house-11605482291

SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE
— John Kass: Take Donald Trump’s charges concerning a rigged election more seriously – John Kass
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/2020/11/15/trump-charges-election-fraud-deserve-open-hearing-court/6282906002/

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Bolton to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.newsweek.com/john-bolton-urges-gop-leaders-explain-voters-that-trump-lost-this-character-test-1547561

PITT NEWS
— Moderates are holding the Democratic Party back – Ethan Tessler (DIERSEN: Moderate Republicans, that is, RINOs, are holding the Republican Party back. I should write a book about RINOs in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who have focused on driving conservatives out of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, that is, who have focused on driving the base of the Republican Party out of the Republican Party, that is who have focused on destroying the Republican Party.)
https://pittnews.com/article/162181/opinions/opinion-moderates-are-holding-the-democratic-party-back/

SEVEN DAYS VERMONT
— Burlington Candidates Seek Open Council Seat in North District – COURTNEY LAMDIN (DIERSEN: According to your critics/opponents, what baggage do you have? My critics/opponents stress that I am White, male, old (born in 1948), conservative, Republican, Trump supporter, non-poor, childless, pet-less, overweight, diabetic, gun owner, Protestant (baptized, raiser, and conformed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran), draft avoider, 100% German American, my ancestors have been in America since 1844, federal employee for almost 30 years, federal retiree for more than 23 years, etc. They stress the adverse actions that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township Republican Organization, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Department of Justice, GAO, IRS, Firestone Stores, Post Office, etc. have taken against me.)
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2020/11/10/burlington-candidates-seek-open-council-seat-in-north-district
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Barlow said the council’s current partisan divide — six Progs, five Dems and one independent — creates “obstacles to dialogue and compromise.” He said he would not seek a party nomination. “It’s probably easier to work on community problems without all the extra baggage and entanglement that comes with party affiliation,” he said.)

ATLANTIC
— Whitewashing the Great Depression – SARAH BOXER (DIERSEN: What did your ancestors do during the Great Depression? My grandparents on my father’s side operated Crete’s only hardware store and raised my father and his sister. My grandparents on my mother’s side operated a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and raised my mother, her sister, and her two brothers.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/whitewashing-the-great-depression/616936/
— Why California Rejected Racial Preferences, Again – Conor Friedersdorf (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans, and especially to get rid of Republicans who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/why-california-rejected-affirmative-action-again/617049/

THE WEEK
— Dogs influenced by owner’s expression of preference  Dogs sensitive to owners’ choice despite having own preference
https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/11/16/dogs-influence-by-owner-expression-of-preference.html

YAHOO MONEY
— College students increasingly worried over finances (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://money.yahoo.com/college-students-increasingly-worried-over-221645684.html

INSIDE AGEING
— How ageism influences responses to population ageing – Frank Ehrenberg (DIERSEN: What assumptions do you make about federal employees? According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, if you are/were a federal employee who is Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran and if you have a job-related master’s degree, professional certification, or professional license and you do not make GS-13 (currently $101,176) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $119,559) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $140,634) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $170,800), by age 40, it must be because you are a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things.)
https://insideageing.com.au/how-ageism-influences-responses-to-population-ageing/

November 15 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump supporters rally in D.C. for ‘Million MAGA March,’ insisting he won presidential race; arrests and at least one stabbing reported
https://www.chicagotribune.com/election-2020/ct-trump-rally-washington-dc-20201114-esvjkvw7svekdlo6bxsriokxqy-story.html
— Nurturing puppy love From walking buddies to next-door neighbors, these Chicagoans are moving for the sake of their dogs – Darcel Rockett
https://www.chicagotribune.com/real-estate/ct-re-dog-best-friends-1400-monroe-tt-1026-20201027-yk6hwgcur5a2dewfvjjedbclgi-story.html
— Under Cook County budget proposal, sheriff’s office faces 4% budget cut. Activists who support less funding for law enforcement say that’s ‘not enough’ – ALICE YIN (DIERSEN: The more Democrats who invade a state, a county, a township, or a municipality, the more that poverty and crime increase in that state, county, township, or municipality.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-cook-county-2021-budget-sheriffs-office-20201114-zhlx7pbdk5conczk73dbtdolqu-story.html
— Electoral College designed to protect against uncompromised concentration of power – ARTHUR I. CYR (DIERSEN: Those who voted for Biden want to get rid of those who voted for Trump once and for all. The following voted for Biden: 267 (62%) in my precinct, 39,315 (59%) in Milton Township and 279,251 (58%) in DuPage County. One could argue that when those who share your demographics become a minority, it is time to move. In what ways are those who share your demographics a minority? What percent of those in your precinct, municipal district, municipality, township, county district, county, and Illinois share the following: your race, gender, age group, education, professional certifications/licenses, occupation, sexual orientation, marital status, dependents/no dependents, health status, Trump supporter/hater, political affiliation, liberal/moderate/conservative, religion, national origin, income group, homeowner/renter, net worth group, years of residency in your municipal district and municipality, veteran status, length of time your ancestors have been in America, drinker/non-drinker, gambler/non-gambler, pot user/non-pot user, etc.?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/opinion/ct-lns-cyr-electoral-college-st-1114-20201111-jxnqrtssondkxnzdk4p6qw73hu-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE IN NAPERVILLE SUN: Tears and inspiration: Naperville’s Indian community reacts to Kamala Harris’ rise to VP-elect – SUZANNE BAKER (DIERSEN: What percent of voters vote for candidates because they share their demographics? For example, their race, gender, age group, education, professional certifications/licenses, occupation, sexual orientation, marital status, dependents/no dependents, health status, Trump supporter/hater, political affiliation, liberal/moderate/conservative, religion, national origin, income group, homeowner/renter, net worth group, years of residency in your municipal district and municipality, veteran status, length of time your ancestors have been in America, drinker/non-drinker, gambler/non-gambler, pot user/non-pot user, etc.?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-indian-community-reaction-harris-vp-st-1113-20201113-nrz64ynidza6vpasaftfl6hcwy-story.html
— In rural ‘dead zones,’ school comes on a flash drive – DAN LEVIN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/featured/sns-nyt-rural-internet-dead-zone-virtual-school-20201115-3ydisdwb65hzvcpsxmclzmzpve-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— ‘A lot of times we are judged’: Black U-46 students meet to discuss race and equity – John Lemon (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents are extremely judgmental. They focus on destroying those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to give them money, and/or f) who sued them.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20201114/a-lot-of-times-we-are-judged-black-u-46-students-meet-to-discuss-race-and-equity
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PICTURE: DIERSEN HEADLINE: To push pot on a municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that municipality, township, county, state, or country.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20201114/suburban-voters-saying-yes-to-marijuana-sales-but-some-concerns-persist

WGN RADIO
— What mandate? Biden’s agenda faces a divided Congress – AP (DIERSEN: From what I see, in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, and in Wheaton, Democrats and RINOs perceive that they have a mandate to get rid of the following once and for all: individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden and Bill Clinton), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. How soon, if not already, will Democrats and RINOs in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton officially banish the aforesaid?)
https://wgnradio.com/news/political-news/what-mandate-bidens-agenda-faces-a-divided-congress/

HERALD NEWS
— Two Will County Republican candidates call for new leadership of state party
https://www.theherald-news.com/2020/11/13/two-will-county-republican-candidates-call-for-new-leadership-of-state-party/a2jw067/

HERALD & REVIEW
— No to JB’s lack of transparency – Editorial
https://herald-review.com/opinion/editorial/our-view-no-to-jbs-lack-of-transparency/article_43ac4cdf-ce36-5be5-846f-cf4c40dd2cb5.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Conservatives Flock To Mercer-Funded Parler; Claim Censorship On Facebook And Twitter.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/conservatives-flock-mercer-funded-parler-claim-censorship-facebook-and-twitter#stream/0

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker downplays special session powers while COVID-19 orders continue, dismisses calls for public oversight hearings – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/pritzker-downplays-special-session-powers-while-covid-19-orders-continue-dismisses-calls-for-public-oversight/article_1ef2bcd4-25dc-11eb-afff-d3a58796fd7c.html

GLEN ELLYN CIVIC BETTERMENT PARTY
— ELECTION RESULTS (DIERSEN: OUTSTANDING: With 1,024 votes (61%), Mark Senak is Glen Ellyn’s new Village President. Senak is a Republican Precinct Committeeman, an attorney, and in his second term as village trustee.)
http://civicbetterment.com/?fbclid=IwAR3ehhIzuEfz4Rsb8RArIcKqfw3lbRzNvj-U6tNuTB9blp14MkfXibSlrPM

WIREPOINTS
— Lightfoot Caves On Paltry Union Layoffs, Illustrating Multiple Vices In Chicago Finance – Mark Glennon (DIERSEN: To what extent do your municipality and your county depend on tax revenue from vices, that is, to what extent do your municipality and your county promote vices?)
https://wirepoints.org/lightfoot-caves-on-paltry-union-layoffs-illustrating-multiple-vices-in-chicago-finance-wirepoints/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— How Democrats tried to handcuff Trump from the start – Rowan Scarborough
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/15/how-democrats-tried-handcuff-donald-trump-start/

FOX NEWS
— What Butler rally tells us about Trump and his support – Tucker Carlson
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/tucker-carlson-what-butler-rally-tells-us-about-trump-and-his-support

BREITBART
— Divorced from the GOP Establishment, Trump’s Working Class Coalition Says They Are Only Just Getting Started – JOHN BINDER (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents despise the working class. I was a 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.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/11/10/divorced-from-the-gop-establishment-trumps-working-class-coalition-says-they-are-only-just-getting-started/

BLAZE
— Several Trump supporters brutally assaulted at Million MAGA March, man knocked unconscious – Paul Sacca
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-supporters-assaulted-million-maga-march
— BLM and anti-fascist supporters attack multiracial family at Million MAGA March – Paul Sacca
President Trump made a surprise visit to the Million MAGA March
https://www.theblaze.com/news/million-maga-march-antifa-attack

TOWNHALL
— Demographics Are Not Destiny – Derek Hunter (DIERSEN: Those who voted for Biden have made it clear that they want Biden to use the federal government to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. The following voted for Biden: 267 (62%) in my precinct, 39,315 (59%) in Milton Township and 279,251 (58%) in DuPage County. How strongly will those who lead your municipality, your township, your county, Illinois, America, and the world take the aforesaid as a mandate to get rid of Republicans?)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2020/11/15/demographics-are-not-destiny-n2580095

DAILY WIRE
— California Trump Supporter Requests Restraining Order After Biden Supporters Allegedly Harassed His Family – Hank Berrien (DIERSEN: How many voted for Biden in your precinct, in your township, and in your county? The following voted for Biden: 267 (62%) in my precinct, 39,315 (59%) in Milton Township and 279,251 (58%) in DuPage County. How strongly do those who voted for Biden want to get rid of the remaining Republicans in your precinct, in your township, and in your county? What are the remaining Republicans in your precinct, in your township, and in your county doing for their self-defense?)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ca-trump-supporter-requests-restraining-order-after-biden-supporters-allegedly-harassed-his-family

LIFE SITE NEWS
— Tens of thousands of Trump supporters flood streets of DC, urge pres. ‘do not quit!’ as he fights for fair election. Trump has vowed to fight, launching lawsuits in multiple battleground states and questioning the accuracy of the vote count. – Martin Bürger
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-supporters-flood-streets-of-dc-urge-president-do-not-quit-as-he-fights-for-fair-election
— Pro-abortion ‘soldier’ would be Biden’s Chief of Staff if he takes the White House – Calvin Freiburger
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biden-taps-pro-abortion-naral-soldier-for-white-house-chief-of-staff

ONE NEWS NOW
— Dem calls out ‘crazy socialist agenda,’ gets AOC’s ‘death stare’ – Michael F. Haverluck
https://onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2020/11/15/dem-calls-out-crazy-socialist-agenda-gets-aocs-death-stare
— Eyeing a White House win, angry Left vows to purge ‘Nazis’ in name of unity – Billy Davis, Steve Jordahl (DIERSEN: How many voted for Biden in your precinct, in your township, and in your county? The following voted for Biden: 267 (62%) in my precinct, 39,315 (59%) in Milton Township and 279,251 (58%) in DuPage County. How strongly do those who voted for Biden want to get rid of the remaining Republicans in your precinct, in your township, and in your county? What are the remaining Republicans in your precinct, in your township, and in your county doing for their self-defense?)
https://onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2020/11/13/eyeing-a-white-house-win-angry-left-vows-to-purge-nazis-in-name-of-unity
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Donald Trump insisted more than once the “Resistance” movement that attempted to stop his presidency was really attacking American voters who put him in the White House, and now the Kristallnacht-like Resistance has proven him right. Bolstered by Joe Biden’s expected win over Trump, the so-called Resistance movement of Democrats and “Never Trump” Republicans is blatantly calling for Trump supporters to be punished if they voted for him and put out a yard sign, cheered for him and defended his policies, or served in his administration. “Shunning, shaming these people is a statement of moral indignation,” Jennifer Rubin, the Washington Post columnist, suggested on MSNBC over the weekend, “that these people are not fit for polite society.” Rubin made those comments (see video below) after reminding the cable news network she had cheered when then-press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was run out of a Washington, D.C. restaurant. That incident dates back to 2018 and it appears Rubin, the Post’s supposedly conservative reporter, has no regrets about punishing political enemies two years later. “It’s not only that Trump has to lose,” she further stated, “but that all his enablers have to lose.” From ‘reconciliation’ to ‘accountability’ Even before Election Day, Berkeley economics professor Robert Reich raised eyebrows when he suggested via Twitter there should be a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” if Trump loses re-election. What would such a commission do? “It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness,” he wrote, “and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.” When fellow Twitter users pushed back on the suggestion, Reich, who served as labor secretary for Bill Clinton, scoffed at warnings his idea was “undemocratic.” Then came Election Day. Democrats not only celebrated a projected win for Joe Biden but predicted an angry, crying Donald Trump would be marched out of the White House and his Hitler-endorsing, white supremacist minions should be punished, too. But there needs to be a record, right? The history of despotic regimes has shown The Right Thinkers have to take names, and document wrongdoing, in order to punish The Wrong Thinkers. One self-described revolutionary who was thinking ahead was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist lawmaker. She asked via Twitter is anyone was “archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future.” Yes, infact, some people were doing just that. Just three days after Election Day, the Trump Accountability Project was born with the motto, “Remember what they did.” The group, founded by staffers associated with Pete Buttigieg, vowed to “not allow the following groups of people profit from their experience: Those who elected him. Those who staffed his government. Those who funded him.” CNN: No more ‘Kristallnacht’ Following on the heels of vows to punish Trump and his supporters, CNN reminded its viewers this week that Nov. 9 marked the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” in 1938. On that night, Nazi Party members torched Jewish homes and schools, vandalized synagogues, and arrested approximately 30,000 Jews and marched them off to concentration camps. Another 100 Jews were killed. The horrors or Kristallnacht, CNN’s anchor Christiane Amanpour opined, included an attack on “facts, knowledge, history and truth” when the Nazis tossed thousands of books into the fire. “After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump,” Amanpour summarized, “the Biden-Harris team pledges a return to normal.” For supporters of Donald Trump, who are not Nazis and don’t know one, the obvious question is: What in the world is going on? According to psychiatrist Dr. Karl Benzio, it boils down to emotions detached from reality, which Trump supporters have named Trump Derangement Syndrome for the bizarre, unhinged behavior of the Left. “The definition of psychosis is when somebody isn’t able differentiate reality from non-reality,” Dr. Benzio tells OneNewsNow. “The definition of delusion is a fixed, false belief.” A human being’s emotional volume is always competing with our rational volume, Dr. Benzio says, like when a rabid sports fan reacts angrily when their beloved team fails to reach the end zone or, worse, loses the game and the grief-stricken fan fails to cope with the loss. In the case of President Trump, he is the opposing team that “stole” the game from the home team — then dances in the end zone to rub it in. When the trolling, counter-punching commander in chief posts a sarcastic tweet, or drops a new nickname for a politician beloved by Democrats, Benzio says, it only makes his enemies angrier. And now those angry enemies, who likely won the game on Election Day, are plotting revenge.)

EPOCH TIMES
— Illinois Voter Mackenzie Graham Says Censorship Won’t Stop Rallies or Trump Support
https://www.theepochtimes.com/illinois-voter-says-censorship-wont-stop-rallies-or-trump-support_3579269.html
— Trump Supporters Hold Rally in Washington to Protest Vote Fraud, Media – EMEL AKAN
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-supporters-hold-rally-in-washington-to-protest-vote-fraud-media_3579324.html
— Trump: Biden ‘Only Won in the Eyes of the Fake News Media’ – JACK PHILLIPS
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-biden-only-won-in-the-eyes-of-the-fake-news-media_3579540.html

CENTER SQUARE
— Why is national media not digging deeper into voting issues? – Chris Krug
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/the-sunday-read-why-is-national-media-not-digging-deeper-into-voting-issues/article_50cf5544-25bb-11eb-a084-1bbc15f339ec.html

REUTERS
— Social media platform Parler gets backing from Mercer family
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-parler-funding-mercer/social-media-platform-parler-gets-backing-from-mercer-family-wsj-idUSKBN27V00R

NBC NEWS
— 70% of Asian Americans support affirmative action. Here’s why misconceptions persist. With the Harvard affirmative action case a step closer to the Supreme Court, Asian American activists say much of their work involves dispelling myths about affirmative action’s impacts. – Kimmy Yam (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs support Affirmative Action (AA). Democrats and RINOs use AA, Diversity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans. To promote AA is to promote hatred against Republicans and especially against Republicans who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/70-asian-americans-support-affirmative-action-here-s-why-misconceptions-n1247806

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DIERSEN HEADLINE: How many voted for Biden in your precinct, in your township, and in your county? The following voted for Biden: 267 (62%) in my precinct, 39,315 (59%) in Milton Township and 279,251 (58%) in DuPage County. How strongly do those who voted for Biden want to get rid of the remaining Republicans in your precinct, in your township, and in your county? What are the remaining Republicans in your precinct, in your township, and in your county doing for their self-defense?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/14/us/politics/biden-trump-republicans.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater asks “As a G.O.P. Playbook on Voter Fraud Falls Flat, Some Ask: What’s Next?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/14/us/republican-voter-restrictions-absentee.html
— ‘Women’s Work’ Can No Longer Be Taken for Granted – Anna Louie Sussman (DIERSEN: Because all the jobs that I had were viewed as being bad jobs, it was far more difficult for my superiors to find qualified minorities, qualified females, and qualified younger people to take them. I 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.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/opinion/sunday/women-pay-gender-gap.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “After thousands of Trump supporters rally in D.C., violence erupts when night falls.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/11/14/million-maga-march-dc-protests/
— After ambitious campaign promises, Biden faces a governing grind – Michael Scherer and Matt Viser (DIERSEN: Those who voted for Biden have made it clear that they want Biden to use the federal government to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. The following voted for Biden: 267 (62%) in my precinct, 39,315 (59%) in Milton Township and 279,251 (58%) in DuPage County. How strongly will those who lead your municipality, your township, your county, Illinois, America, and the world take the aforesaid as a mandate to get rid of Republicans?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-agenda-republicans/2020/11/14/e0651ef4-25d0-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html

BALTIMORE SUN
— Let majority rule and override Electoral College (DIERSEN: Those who voted for Biden want to get rid of those who voted for Trump once and for all. The following voted for Biden: 267 (62%) in my precinct, 39,315 (59%) in Milton Township, and 279,251 (58%) in DuPage County. One could argue that when those who share your demographics become a minority, it is time to move. In what ways are those who share your demographics a minority? What percent of those in your precinct, municipal district, municipality, township, county district, county, and Illinois share the following: your race, gender, age group, education, professional certifications/licenses, occupation, sexual orientation, marital status, dependents/no dependents, health status, Trump supporter/hater, political affiliation, liberal/moderate/conservative, religion, national origin, income group, homeowner/renter, net worth group, years of residency in your municipal district and municipality, veteran status, length of time your ancestors have been in America, drinker/non-drinker, gambler/non-gambler, pot user/non-pot user, etc.?)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/readers-respond/bs-ed-rr-electoral-college-problem-letter-20201112-7mmxascf7vcmld67bsvc5xysiq-story.html

FORBES
— How Would A Biden Presidency Aid Your Retirement? – Taylor Tepper (DIERSEN: I have been a federal retiree for more than 23 years. Because federal retirees are overwhelmingly Democrats, it would be less likely that Biden would cut/eliminate a) Civil Service Retirement System pensions, b) COLAs, and/or c) the 72% health, dental, and vision insurance subsidies that federal retirees and their spouses get. I should write a book about those who are beyond furious that my wife and I get the aforesaid. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois.)
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/retirement/biden-presidency-retirement/

BLOOMBERG
— Charitable Organizations and Illinois’ ROT – Erin McManus
https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/weekend-insights-charitable-organizations-and-illinois-rot

DAILY UNION
— Daily Union moving to metered paywall (DIERSEN: GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails drive traffic to websites. What do you say to those who do not want GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails to drive traffic to their websites? I should write a book about those who do not want GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails to drive traffic to their websites.)
https://www.dailyunion.com/news/editors_pick/daily-union-moving-to-metered-paywall-thursday/article_9e07fb11-9e59-5a7f-942b-e5b98e497b30.html

SHREVEPORT TIMES
— Retire to what? – Byron Moore (DIERSEN: In today’s dollars, since 1997, my income has been $77,604/year (59%) less. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $131,532/year, but my Civil Service Retirement System pension is only $54,168/year, or 59% less. My wife and I have responded to this by spending less.)
https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/money/business/2020/11/14/retire-what/6257588002/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: You won’t know what kind of retirement lifestyle you can afford until you know what your retirement income will be. . .Will those accumulated assets last? Will you spend only the interest they earn, or will you dip into your principal? With interest rates historically low, will you invest those funds? If so, what if markets fluctuate (as they do about 100% of the time!). Could a prolonged economic downturn cause you to run out of money? Or will you get scared and simply reduce your lifestyle – no more vacations, no helping the kids, fewer trips to see the grandkids… We’re back to what are you planning to retire to? Is it the lifestyle you want…or the lifestyle you can afford?)

WASHINGTONIAN
— GW Students Finally Get Digital Access to Major Publications A long-running quest for online access to the Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal has been fulfilled – ANDREW BEAUJON (DIERSEN: GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails drive traffic to websites. What do you say to those who do not want GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails to drive traffic to their websites? I should write a book about those who do not want GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails to drive traffic to their websites.)
https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/11/10/gw-students-finally-get-digital-access-to-major-publications/

YAHOO FINANCE
— Brits can’t afford to buy their first home until 34, study finds – Abigail Fenton (DIERSEN: I bought a new town home in University Park in 1972 when I was 24 years old. The down payment came from what I had earned and saved a) working for IRS in Harvey for the prior 9 months and in Chicago for 6 months before that and b) working for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights for the prior 18 months part-time and for 7 months before that full-time. That money also enabled me to a) buy a new Corvette in 1971 and b) pay tuition for graduate business courses at Loyola.)
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/brits-cant-afford-to-buy-their-first-home-until-34-study-finds-133820690.html

BOZEMAN DAILY CHRONICLE
— Climate change sways homebuying decisions, study finds – Jeff Ostroswski
https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/ap_news/business/jeff-ostrowski-climate-change-sways-homebuying-decisions-study-finds/article_ba817adb-0732-5aa8-9551-1b0c5ab2c6b0.html

COASTAL BREEZE NEWS
— Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? – Darcie Guerin (DIERSEN: Whatever you do, you should be on track to save at least $1 million for your retirement.)
https://www.coastalbreezenews.com/articles/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go-now/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Question: I’m trying to weigh out the pros and cons and financial costs of either staying in our home as we get older or considering a continuous care retirement community/assisted living situation. What items should I consider?)

GUARDIAN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump will cast a long shadow over Republican party despite defeat.” My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes despise Trump.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/15/republican-party-donald-trump-influence

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Only 56% of Biden Voters Say They Were Voting FOR Biden (DIERSEN: What percent of those who voted for Biden did so to punish Trump? While only 154 voted for Trump in my precinct, 325 voted for Berlin, 240 voted for Jorgensen, 232 voted for Grogan, 228 voted for Walsh, 225 voted for Kachiroubas, 225 voted for Elliott, 224 voted for Whelan, 224 voted for Felice, etc.)
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/only_56_of_biden_voters_say_they_were_voting_for_biden