September 24 Morning Edition

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ‘The Politician,’ a candidate forum for smug buffoons, gets low approval rating The satirical Netflix series about an ambitious high school senior gets too snarky and soapy. – Richard Roeper
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/9/24/20878475/the-politician-review-netflix-ben-platt-ryan-murphy-gwyneth-paltrow-jessica-lange-series
— Workers are asking, whose side are you on? Auto workers, nurses, pilots, hotel workers — they’re all going on strike. Trump boasts about the “economic miracle,” but most workers aren’t experiencing it. – Jesse Jackson 
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2019/9/23/20880761/general-motors-strike-united-auto-workers-labor-unions-jesse-jackson
— No surrender in Rockford casino competition: Bids sweetened with guitar licks, aquariums, waterparks Three casino developers are vying for the newly authorized Rockford casino license. They presented their plans to the public at a packed Monday night hearing. – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/9/23/20880547/rockford-casino-proposals-illinois-gambling-expansion

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump/Modi-hater says “‘Howdy, Modi!’ was not just cheesy. It was dangerous.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-india-narendra-modi-trump-20190923-i2qaugxoezgvbfjo6u5n4gwbh4-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Jesse White’s office denies Census Bureau request for driver’s license citizenship data – Peter Hancock (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Illinois Democrats illegally encourage citizens of foreign countries to illegally come to Illinois illegally and to illegally stay in Illinois illegally.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190923/jesse-whites-office-denies-census-bureau-request-for-drivers-license-citizenship-data

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— U.S. Census Bureau seeking citizenship data from driver’s licenses – Peter Hancock 
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190923/us-census-bureau-seeking-citizenship-data-from-drivers-licenses

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— More pension problems – Editorial
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorial-more-pension-problems/article_39d741b1-e272-5394-bc6d-ca2ccd362110.html
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: With tax approved, Urbana alderman begin debate on where to allow recreational-cannabis businesses
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/with-tax-approved-urbana-alderman-begin-debate-on-where-to/article_df3795be-e472-5d52-9378-f3dfec711187.html

HERALD NEWS
— Urge local leaders to ban recreational marijuana – Rev. Rick Barnard, Pastor, Pathway Church of Shorewood
https://www.theherald-news.com/2019/09/20/urge-local-leaders-to-ban-recreational-marijuana/ascimhj/

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Collinsville estimates it could get $1 million a year from recreational weed sales – JOSEPH BUSTOS
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article235384227.html

WGEM
— Jil Tracy visits constituents before session, talks vaping and marijuana
https://wgem.com/2019/09/23/jil-tracy-visits-constituents-before-session-talks-vaping-and-marijuana/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Enrollment Exodus: Why So Many Chinese Students Choose That ‘Cornfield’ School In Illinois – DUSTY RHODES
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/enrollment-exodus-why-so-many-chinese-students-choose-cornfield-school-illinois#stream/0

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— OUTSTANDING: Illinois cities turn their backs on pot as legalization approaches As in other states across the country, local governments are banning marijuana businesses within their borders. – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/23/illinois-marijuana-legalization-city-ban-1506494

FOX NEWS
— Stephanie Grisham says reporters used White House press briefings to ‘get famous’ – Brian Flood
https://www.foxnews.com/media/stephanie-grisham-says-reporters-used-white-house-press-briefings-to-get-famous

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Dinesh D’Souza compares climate activist Greta Thunberg to Nazi propaganda – Bailey Vogt
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/23/dinesh-dsouza-compares-climate-activist-greta-thun/
— Stephanie Grisham says press briefings permanently canceled, cites behavior of reporters – Bailey Vogt
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/23/grisham-confirms-press-briefings-are-not-returning/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Progressive politics is the Left’s new religion – Jim DeMint & Rachel Bovard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/progressive-politics-is-the-lefts-new-religion

AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrats Turning the 2016 MAGA Movement into a 2020 Revolution – M. Catharine Evans
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/democrats_turning_the_2016_maga_movement_into_a_2020_revolution.html
— Do Democratic Loyalists Really Know their Party? – Lloyd Marcus
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/do_democratic_loyalists_really_know_their_party.html

BREITBART
— Documents Reveal State Department Efforts to Undermine Trump – TOM FITTON (DIERSEN: According to my Democrat superiors in the federal government, they had a congressional mandate to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who they had not promoted to GS-13 (currently $98,198) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $116,040) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $136,495) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $165,500) by age 40. They saw me as being someone who undermined their achieving that mandate.) 
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/23/fitton-documents-reveal-state-department-efforts-to-undermine-trump/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Adam Andrzejewski: For Bureaucrats, It’s ‘Christmas in September’ – Rachel del Guidice 
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/09/24/for-bureaucrats-its-christmas-in-september/

FEDERALIST
— NeverTrump Candidate (Weld) Suggests Trump Should Be Executed Over Ukraine Call – Tristan Justice
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/23/nevertrump-candidate-suggests-trump-should-be-executed-over-ukraine-call/

EPOCH NEWS
— Accounts Suspended, Latinos for Trump Accuse Twitter of Political Bias – PATRICK HOWLEY
https://www.theepochtimes.com/accounts-suspended-latinos-for-trump-accuse-twitter-of-political-bias_3092578.html

THE HILL
— Consequential GOP class of 1994 all but disappears – REID WILSON (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs used the Contract with America to get rid of GAO’s employees who were White, male, and/or non-veteran who GAO had not promoted to GS-13 (currently $98,198) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $116,040) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $136,495) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $165,500) by age 40.) 
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/462705-consequential-gop-class-of-1994-all-but-disappears
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Twenty-five years ago Friday, 367 Republicans running for Congress lined up on the Capitol steps on a clear September day weeks before the midterm elections to sign the Contract with America. . .When the lawmakers signed Gingrich’s contract, Republicans had no experience running the legislative branch. The last Republican Speaker of the House, Joseph Martin, had died 26 years before Gingrich took control. Gingrich pledged that a new way of business was coming to Washington, seizing power from committee chairmen who had never held a gavel themselves and making himself the most powerful Speaker in generations, a trend his successors have followed. Gingrich “was making all sorts of proclamations, and he was saying the presidency didn’t really matter. For a moment or two, we thought he might be right,” said Pat Griffin, Clinton’s director of legislative affairs at the time. “We were feeling terribly depressed, everybody was pointing fingers at everyone else.” For the next two years, the new Republican majority forced Democrats and the Clinton White House to react to their agenda. Clinton, his reelection hopes suddenly in doubt, moved to compromise with Republicans where he could and set himself apart from an increasingly unpopular Congress — including his own party — where possible.)

HUFFINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “Dems’ Challenge: Impeaching Trump Without Riling Up His Base But even impeachment-skeptical Democrats are starting to believe Trump’s open lawlessness is making harder to justify not impeaching him.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-base-impeachment_n_5d89378be4b0d2694652f580

POLITICO
— DNC raises threshold to make November debate stage – ZACH MONTELLARO (DIERSEN: What if Wheaton had thresholds for candidates to meet for appointment to fill vacant Wheaton City Council seats? For example, for vacant district seats, getting at least ten signatures on nominating petitions from voters in each of the precincts in the district?) 
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/23/dnc-debate-1508516

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democratic Debate Rules Will Make It Harder to Get Onstage – Reid J. Epstein and Matt Stevens (DIERSEN: What if Wheaton had thresholds for candidates to meet for appointment to fill vacant Wheaton City Council seats? For example, for vacant district seats, getting at least ten signatures on nominating petitions from voters in each of the precincts in the district?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/us/politics/democratic-debate-criteria.html
— How Similar Are Your Political Views to Those of Your Parents? On which specific candidates, issues, policies or political theories do you agree? On which do you disagree? – Natalie Proulx
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/learning/how-similar-are-your-political-views-to-those-of-your-parents.html

— DIERSEN HEADLINE: According to Trump-haters, to be patriotic is to be anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-draft avoiders, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/opinion/democrats-republicans.html

WASHINGTON POST
— November debate thresholds will imperil several more Democratic presidential campaigns – Michael Scherer (DIERSEN: What if Wheaton had thresholds for candidates to meet for appointment to fill vacant Wheaton City Council seats? For example, for vacant district seats, getting at least ten signatures on nominating petitions from voters in each of the precincts in the district?) 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/november-debate-thresholds-will-imperil-several-more-democratic-presidential-campaigns/2019/09/23/d555c37e-de2d-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under the new November rules, candidates will have to demonstrate they have 165,000 unique donors, an increase of 30,000 from the October qualification levels. They will also have to meet a new polling criteria, either by scoring 3 percent in at least four national or state polls approved by the party, or by receiving at least 5 percent in two approved single-state polls from Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada. The polls must have been released between Sept. 13 and one week before the date of the November debate, which has not yet been announced. The donors must also be geographically dispersed, with at least 600 coming from 20 individual states.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— California’s Hobo Paradise Homelessness explodes, but the state’s liberals are in denial. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-hobo-paradise-11569280953
— The Dangers of Hiring for Cultural Fit – Sue Shellenbarger (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dangers-of-hiring-for-cultural-fit-11569231000
— Trump Stands Up for Religious Freedom He champions the issue at the U.N. more vigorously than any of his predecessors. – Kelsey Zorzi (DIERSEN: In America, ever-increasingly, Trump-haters infiltrate, manipulate, and dominate religions. Ever-increasingly, religions in America are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents in Wheaton have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that they not only dominate all the churches in Wheaton, but that they also dominate all the government entities, businesses, schools, organizations, residents, etc. in Wheaton.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-stands-up-for-religious-freedom-11569279353

FORBES
— President Trump Tells Businesses To Protect Religious Freedom – Ewelina U. Ochab (DIERSEN: In America, ever-increasingly, Trump-haters infiltrate, manipulate, and dominate religions. Ever-increasingly, religions in America are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents in Wheaton have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that they not only dominate all the churches in Wheaton, but that they also dominate all the government entities, businesses, schools, organizations, residents, etc. in Wheaton.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2019/09/23/president-trump-tells-businesses-to-protect-religious-freedom/#458b94af4df1

USA TODAY
— Ageism is never acceptable in the workplace – Johnny C. Taylor Jr. (DIERSEN: Prospective federal employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran should be advised that they will be gotten rid of if they do not make GS-13 (currently $98,198) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $116,040) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $136,495) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $165,500) by age 40. It is called patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, Affirmative Action, Diversity, Inclusion, and/or up-or-out.) 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2019/09/24/older-employees-should-never-face-age-related-discrimination-work/2389150001/
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: Giving 2 weeks’ notice not always the best idea – Russ Wiles (DIERSEN: In 1971, when I was 22 years old, my Firestone Stores boss rudely fired me when I gave him my 2 weeks notice. Then, the job that I thought I had fell through. Oldsmobile had offered me a job and I had accepted. But then Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. The aforesaid directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS.) 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2019/04/29/jobs-7-myths-looking-work/3591835002/

SPECTRUM
— Here are the applicants for St. George City Council’s vacant seat – Lexi Peery (DIERSEN: Who represents you on your city council? To what extent do they represent your demographics, your religious beliefs, your political beliefs, etc.?)
https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2019/09/23/st-george-city-council-vacant-seat-applicants/2419355001/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The new council member will be decided next week, on Monday, Sept. 30, at a public meeting. Each applicant will be given a set amount of time to give their pitch to the current city council and the mayor. The council and mayor will then deliberate after everyone has a chance to talk and answer questions. A new member will be decided that night and will begin their duties as city council member in the next few days.)

NEW REPUBLIC
— The Democrats’ Disappointing Rhetoric on LGBTQ Rights Some candidates seem to believe that their past support for marriage equality is enough to win the community’s support. – MELISSA GIRA GRANT (DIERSEN: LGBTQ activists demand that LGBTQ elected officials and party leaders get rid of those who do not promote LGBTQ activity.) 
https://newrepublic.com/article/155156/democrats-disappointing-rhetoric-lgbtq-rights

ATLANTIC
— ‘Howdy, Modi!’ Was a Display of Indian Americans’ Political Power A thousands-strong rally to honor the Indian prime minister—and the legions of protesters outside—showed how the community’s influence is growing ahead of 2020. – SONIA PAUL
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/09/howdy-modi-rally-trump-divides-indian-diaspora/598600/