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December 14 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Illinois Republicans stunned after Gov. Rauner admits to recruiting 4 others to run in November gubernatorial race – Craig Wall
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/illinois-gop-stunned-after-rauner-admits-to-recruiting-4-others-to-run-for-governor/4900233/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison, a leading state Republican, is now calling for an emergency meeting of the State Central Committee to address what the Rauner revelation, which he and others are calling a deeply troubling matter. In a statement, he said: “I personally asked the Governor on two separate occasions before the Primary if he was committed to his re-election. Both times, to my face, he made clear that he was all in – not only for himself but for all statewide candidates…this private surrender by Bruce Rauner shows a lack of loyalty, integrity, and character.” Rauner is being accused of betraying the party. “Stunned and even more disappointed, I didn’t think I could be more disappointed or betrayed because I think that the Governor really betrayed everybody in the party and by extension everyone in the state,” said Chris Robling, a Republican strategist. Sources said that Rauner approached his attorney general candidate Erika Harold the day after the state fair in August, less than three months before the election, and asked her to take his place on the ballot. “It appears in this case he wasn’t really into it and he got more and more out of it the longer the campaign went on,” Robling said. Rauner had also asked then-state Sen. Karen McConnaughay to do the same in April. McConnaughay said first lady Diana Rauner approached her with a similar request the year before. The fallout has Republicans frustrated and angry. “What happened at the top of the ticket brought us down across the whole state, we lost a whole lot of state legislative seats because of what he did and that’s what really hurts, because now Madigan has a super majority and we can’t stop him,” said Chris Cleveland, chairman of the Chicago Republican Party. The chairman of the state Republican Party Tim Schneider said in a statement that “Neither myself nor the staff at the Illinois Republican Party had any knowledge of the discussions Governor Rauner had regarding his candidacy.” Other Republicans are not only shocked by what the governor did, but that he publicly admitted it.)

 

DAILY HERALD
— McConnaughay told Rauner he couldn’t pick his own replacement on ballot – Jake Griffin (DIERSEN: What if Rauner had withdrawn and Ives had been selected to fill the vacancy? The Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) fills vacancies by weighted vote when candidates withdraw in statewide races. In the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate race, I attended all the IRP SCC meetings that were open to the press that resulted in the IRP SCC selecting Alan Keyes to replace Jack Ryan who had withdrawn. I unsuccessfully urged the IRP SCC to select Jim Oberweis because Oberweis had received the second most votes in the primary. Steve Rauschenberger had received the third most votes and Andy McKenna the fourth most. SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois At that time, I was the GOPUSA Illinois Editor, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Vice-Chairman, a Republican Precinct Committeeman, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181214/mcconnaughay-told-rauner-he-couldnt-pick-his-own-replacement-on-ballot
— New DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek drops lawsuit to get records from election commission – Robert Sanchez
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181214/new-dupage-county-clerk-drops-lawsuit-to-get-records-from-election-commission
— District 304 board approves five-year contract with teacher raises totaling 19.6 percent – Justin Kmitch (DIERSEN: While I worked for GAO 1986-1997 as a GS-13 Analyst, in today’s dollars, because of step increases, my salary increased from $96,403 to $125,325, or by 30%. During that time, became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, a Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, a Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and a Forensic Accountant in 1997. In 1997, after taking graduate courses since 1992, I earned a masters’ degree in financial markets and trading from IIT. I worked on audits of a) IRS 1986-1988, b) Department of Defense and Railroad Retirement Board in 1989, and c) federal financial industry regulators 1990-1997.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181214/district-304-board-approves-five-year-contract-with-teacher-raises-totaling-196-percent
– Wheaton middle schooler charged with false threat to the school – Justin Kmitch
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181213/wheaton-middle-schooler-charged-with-false-threat-to-the-school
— Chicago man held on $500,000 bail in Wheaton carjacking – Justin Kmitch
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181214/chicago-man-held-on-500000-bail-in-wheaton-carjacking

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Sensing defeat, Rauner admits seeking other candidates to replace him on ballot – Alexandra Arriaga
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/sensing-defeat-rauner-admits-seeking-other-candidates-to-replace-him-on-ballot/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Indeed, officials said if Rauner had relinquished the nomination, the GOP state central committee would have had eight days to name a replacement, according to State Board of Elections spokesman Matt Dietrich. “Obviously, he could have recommended a preferred replacement, but the decision would have had to be made by the Republican state central committee,” Dietrich said. McConnaughey said Rauner’s tactic was similar to his style of governing. “He tried to end his career as governor the same way he got into it — always this idea he would strong-arm it,” she said. “He never respected the fact that there’s a process to governing. Never accepted responsibility for mistakes he made, always [House Speaker Michael] Madigan or someone else’s fault.” She added: “The Republicans could have and should have had a better candidate. He didn’t bring the kind of energy to the race that was necessary.” During the interview, Rauner also blamed President Trump as a “contributing factor” in his 16-point loss to Pritzker. He believes his chances to stay in office would have been better if Democrat Hillary Clinton had won.)

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Under the Dome Podcast: Rauner tried to drop out of governors race
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20181214/under-dome-podcast-rauner-tried-to-drop-out-of-governors-race

 

WGLT
— Barickman: Rauner Bailout Attempt Tried To Cheat Voters – CHARLIE SCHLENKER
http://www.wglt.org/post/barickman-rauner-bailout-attempt-tried-cheat-voters#stream/0
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Barickman said the report just makes you scratch your head and shake it negatively. “First of all, it’s not the way the process works. Incumbent governors don’t get to select their replacement,” said Barickman. Rauner reportedly asked four different people to take the job of running for governor as late as August. “It’s disingenuous at best. Most importantly it cheats Republican voters from their opportunity to have a say in this. And that’s their voice that gets shut out,” said Barickman. Barickman said this shows Rauner’s failure to understand the political and legislative processes.)

 

WSPY NEWS
— Karen McConnaughay, Former St. Charles Sen., Kane Board Chair Among 4 That Rauner Sought to Replace Himself With Projecting Re-Election Loss
http://www.wspynews.com/news/local/former-st-charles-sen-kane-board-chair-among-that-rauner/article_ea118366-ffa8-11e8-8a84-bfe47379964b.html
— McConnaughay on Declining Rauner Request for Gubernatorial Run: ‘Process is Everything in Government, Politics’
http://www.wspynews.com/news/local/mcconnaughay-on-declining-rauner-request-for-gubernatorial-run-process-is/article_ea118366-ffa8-11e8-8a84-bfe47379964b.html

 

SUBURBAN CHICAGOLAND
— Sean Morrison slams Governor Rauner for abandoning GOP
https://suburbanchicagoland.com/2018/12/14/sean-morrison-slams-governor-rauner-for-abandoning-gop/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Cook County Commissioner and County GOP Chairman Sean Morrison issued the following statement: To learn yesterday that Bruce Rauner secretly tried to abdicate his candidacy – on several occasions – is an affront to everyone in the Illinois Republican Party and the entire State of Illinois. It is an egregious betrayal of trust that countless members of the Republican Party placed in him, and that 1.7 Million residents of Illinois had when they cast their vote for him in November. I personally asked the Governor on two separate occasions before the Primary if he was committed to his re-election. Both times, to my face, he made clear that he was all in – not only for himself but for all Statewide candidates. We now know, by his own admission, that he deceived me and others. Evidently, the deception didn’t end there. After the primary, Bruce explicitly promised a statewide absentee ballot and early voting program to boost Republican turnout. Was the program ever implemented? No. And his answer to questions about this program’s failure was nothing more than continued excuses. . .As a Republican elected official and a member of the Illinois Republican State Central Committee, this kind of betrayal and deception is totally unacceptable and has no place within our party. For this reason, I will call for an emergency meeting of the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee to address this deeply troubling matter and to immediately forge a plan forward to rebuild our party as one that will fight for the working families of Illinois and will challenge Illinois Democratic Party policies that have forced our state into economic peril.)

 

WINNETKA PATCH
— Gov. Rauner Says He Tried To Drop Out Of Race, Handpick Successor The outgoing governor said he tried to recruit four Republicans to replace him on the ballot but they all rejected him. – Jonah Meadows
https://patch.com/illinois/winnetka/gov-rauner-says-he-tried-drop-out-race-handpick-successor

 

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Rauner ‘tried to get out of being the governor,’ sought replacements post-primary – Greg Bishop & Cole Lauterbach
https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/opponents-slam-rauner-following-revelation-he-sought-others-to-take/article_4e5136ca-ffca-11e8-a62a-37ef9654d541.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While such a move would have been unusual, the Illinois State Board of Elections said it’s possible to replace a candidate on the ballot if they want to step down, as Rauner indicated earlier this week he wanted to do. “If Rauner had relinquished the nomination, the GOP state central committee would have had eight days following his withdrawal to name a replacement,” ISBE spokesman Matt Dietrich said. “And this would need to happen at least 15 days before the general election for Rauner’s name to be removed and replaced with the new candidate’s name.” State Rep. Jeanne Ives, who lost to Rauner in the March primary by 2.8 percent, said there was talk about a switch in some GOP circles. She said radio host Dan Proft, a former Republican candidate for governor, had mentioned it. She also said she’d be surprised if party officials didn’t know Rauner had considered leaving the race. “They knew that Rauner was not in for the fight,” said Ives, R-Wheaton. “There’s no doubt in my mind that they knew he asked others to run. [Schneider] can say what he wants to all day long, I do not believe him.” McConnaughay said she didn’t know if GOP officials were aware Rauner wanted someone else to take over in the race against Pritzker. “I only know what I know and I’m not interested in engaging in conspiracy theories, I’ll leave that to Representative Ives,” McConnaughay said. Ives called for Schneider to step down as the party’s leader. She said the GOP leadership “has failed to provide a necessary contrast to the horrible policies of the Democrats and their corrupt dealings.”)

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— COOK COUNTY GOP CHAIRMAN RESPONDS TO RAUNER’S POST-ELECTION COMMENTS; CALLS FOR EMERGENCY IL GOP MEETING
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/12/cook-county-gop-chairman-responds-to-rauners-post-election-comments-calls-for-emergency-il-gop-meeti.html


— RAUNER REVEALS HE DIDN’T WANT TO RUN AGAIN IN 2018, BEGGED FOUR OTHERS TO TAKE HIS PLACE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/12/rauner-reveals-he-didnt-want-to-run-again-in-2018-begged-four-others-to-take-his-place.html

 

CAPITOL FAX
— Morrison wants emergency meeting of ILGOP – McConnaughay explains – Schneider responds *** Rauner says he tried to drop out of race after primary
https://capitolfax.com/2018/12/14/rauner-says-he-tried-to-drop-out-of-race-after-primary/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider: Neither myself nor the staff at the Illinois Republican Party had any knowledge of the discussions Governor Rauner had regarding his candidacy.)

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago’s next mayor is key to political fate of South Suburban Airport – Ted Slowik
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-sta-slowik-south-suburban-airport-st-1216-story.html

 

WLS AM
— Pritzker: Emanuel’s pension plan is not “viable” – Bill Cameron
http://www.wlsam.com/2018/12/14/pritzker-emanuels-pension-plan-is-not-viable/

 

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Attorney for Jack Franks’ Ally’s Printer Refuses to Follow Court Order to Reveal Identities of Originators of Smear Mail, But Admits She Now Represents “s/he/the[m]”
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/12/14/attorney-for-jack-franks-allys-printer-refuses-to-follow-court-order-to-reveal-identities-of-originators-of-smear-mail/
— Capitol Fax Picks McSweeney as GOP State Rep. of the Year
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/12/13/capitol-fax-picks-mcsweeney-as-gop-state-rep-of-the-year/

 

WILL COUNTY GAZETTE
— State Board of Elections asked to investigate Underwood’s voting history – W.J. Kennedy
https://willcountygazette.com/stories/511669527-state-board-of-elections-asked-to-investigate-underwood-s-voting-history

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Ives predicts rise in Geneva property taxes to meet teacher demands – Robert Hadley
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511669612-ives-predicts-rise-in-geneva-property-taxes-to-meet-teacher-demands

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— As Labor Market Tightens, Women Are Moving Into Male-Dominated Jobs Widening opportunities do not automatically translate into better pay or a decline in gender discrimination. – Jed Kolko and Claire Cain Miller (DIERSEN: As all of my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes will attest to, all the jobs that I had were BAD jobs, jobs that were so BAD that qualified Democrats, qualified minorities, qualified women, qualified younger people, and qualified veterans did not want them. 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. 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.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/upshot/as-labor-market-tightens-women-are-moving-into-male-dominated-jobs.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters say “Trump routinely says things that aren’t true. Few Americans believe him.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/political-knowledge-poll-trump-falsehoods/

 

FORBES
— The Federal Employee Pay Penalty: 31% Less Than State and Local Government Workers. Really? – Andrew Biggs (DIERSEN: Are/were you accused of being overpaid? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always accused me of being overpaid. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewbiggs/2018/12/14/the-federal-employee-pay-penalty-31-less-than-state-and-local-government-workers-really/#449726c562e5

 

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
— 86% Of Government Spending Is Now On Autopilot
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/federal-spending-budget-deficits/

December 14 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Sensing re-election loss, Gov. Bruce Rauner looked to replace himself on Nov. 6 ballot – Mike Riopell and Rick Pearson (DIERSEN: According to Greg Bishop, Ives “said there’s no doubt in her mind GOP leadership in Illinois knew about this and ‘let this go on.’ She demanded top leadership step down.” One could ask Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Chairman Tim Schneider and each of the IRP State Central Committee members when did they first learn of this?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-pritzker-trump-governors-meeting-20181213-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Former Republican state Sen. Karen McConnaughay of St. Charles acknowledged to the Tribune that she was recruited by Rauner in mid-April, about a month after he defeated GOP primary challenger state Rep. Jeanne Ives of Wheaton by just 3 percentage points. Sources said Rauner’s recruitment effort also included Todd Ricketts, a member of the family that owns the Chicago Cubs who is now finance chairman of the Republican National Committee; and Erika Harold, an Urbana attorney who at the time was the GOP nominee for attorney general. She ultimately lost to Democratic state Sen. Kwame Raoul. A source close to Harold said Rauner contacted her about replacing him on the ticket in August, mere months before the general election.)
— 3 DuPage County Board members want to end prayer at start of meetings – Suzanne Baker
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-dupage-county-board-prayer-st-1214-story.html
— Former Kane County sheriff left office with $309K deficit and stopped reporting finances in August, new sheriff says – Gloria Casas
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/news/ct-ecn-kane-sheriff-budget-deficit-st-1214-story.html

 

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Rauner tells Chicago TV he sought others to run in his place, blames Trump for re-election loss – Greg Bishop
https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/rauner-tells-chicago-tv-he-sought-others-to-run-in/article_69735202-ffa3-11e8-b4d4-23a2c5afe9f5.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Ives said she was not one of the four asked. “It was obvious from the beginning that he was not serious about winning the race so he destroyed Republicans up and down the ticket by not bowing out politely and letting someone else take the lead,” Ives said. She said there’s no doubt in her mind GOP leadership in Illinois knew about this and “let this go on.” She demanded top leadership step down. “It’s really unfortunate for everybody involved in politics who now completely understand that [Rauner] essentially bought his race and then lied down to the Democrats and was never going to be the watchdog that we need in the face of Pritzker’s tax increase and increased spending that will drive Illinois to the brink of disaster,” Ives said.)
— Highest-in-the-nation cellphone taxes disproportionately hurt poor Illinoisans – Greg Bishop
https://www.ilnews.org/news/economy/report-highest-in-the-nation-cellphone-taxes-disproportionately-hurt-poor/article_db1d345e-fee0-11e8-91d5-33331895be0d.html
— Not all suburban mayors on board with Emanuel’s state gas tax hike proposal – Cole Lauterbach
https://www.ilnews.org/news/statewide/not-all-suburban-mayors-on-board-with-emanuel-s-state/article_f8318532-ff0c-11e8-90a7-475dafe33ac2.html

 

BREITBART
— Bruce Rauner Reveals He Tried to Recruit Other Candidates to Run for Governor of Illinois – Joel B. Pollak
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/14/bruce-rauner-reveals-he-tried-to-recruit-other-candidates-to-run-for-governor-of-illinois/
— Sarah Sanders: ‘Democrats Have to Decide if They Love Our Country More Than They Hate This President’ – Pam Key
https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/12/13/sarah-sanders-democrats-have-to-decide-if-they-love-our-country-more-than-they-hate-this-president/
— Facebook’s ‘Fact Checkers’ Increasingly Alienated — ‘They Threw Us Under the Bus,’ Used Us for ‘Crisis PR’ – Charlie Nash (DIERSEN: What are your qualifications to be a fact checker? While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the last 11 years of which at GS-13 Step 1-10 levels, currently $96,403-$125,325, I increasingly worked as a referencer, that is, as a fact checker. That work required assuring the accuracy and support for each and every word, number, table, graph, chart, conclusion, opinion, and recommendation in GAO reports. I worked for IRS 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 levels, currently $81,071-$91,880. My other fact checking qualifications include my becoming a Forensic Accountant in 1997, a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, a licensed CPA in 1981, a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, and a CPA in 1979.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/13/report-facebooks-fact-checkers-increasingly-alienated-they-threw-us-under-the-bus-used-us-for-crisis-pr/

 

NBC5
— JB Pritzker Joins Fellow Governors in Meeting With President Trump
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/jb-pritzker-joins-fellow-governors-meets-president-donald-trump-502748281.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pragmatic Pritzker, a Trump basher, meets with president at the White House – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/pragmatic-jb-pritzker-donald-trump-basher-meets-president-white-house/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago doesn’t need to gamble on pension bonds Selling debt is a short-term fix that could exacerbate a challenging long-term problem. – BRIAN CHAPPATTA
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chicago-doesnt-need-gamble-pension-bonds

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Sensing re-election loss, Rauner looked to replace himself on Nov. 6 ballot – Mike Riopell and Rick Pearson
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20181213/sensing-re-election-loss-rauner-looked-to-replace-himself-on-nov-6-ballot

(FROM THE ARTICLE: Former Republican state Sen. Karen McConnaughay of St. Charles acknowledged to the Tribune that she was recruited by Rauner in mid-April, about a month after he defeated GOP primary challenger state Rep. Jeanne Ives of Wheaton by just 3 percentage points. Sources said Rauner’s recruitment effort also included Todd Ricketts, a member of the family that owns the Chicago Cubs who is now finance chairman of the Republican National Committee; and Erika Harold, an Urbana attorney who at the time was the GOP nominee for attorney general. She ultimately lost to Democratic state Sen. Kwame Raoul. A source close to Harold said Rauner contacted her about replacing him on the ticket in August, mere months before the general election.)

 

CHICAGO NOW
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON ILLINOIS, ON COOK COUNTY, AND ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Why The Outlook Is So Poor For The Chicago Area Real Estate Market – Gary Lucido (DIERSEN: How soon will the Democrats and RINOs in Lake County, in McHenry County, in Kane County, in DuPage County, and in Will County have enough votes to “consolidate” the aforesaid counties into Cook County? How soon will the Democrats and RINOs in Cook County have enough votes to “consolidate” Cook County municipalities into Chicago?)
http://www.chicagonow.com/getting-real/2018/12/why-the-outlook-is-so-poor-for-the-chicago-real-estate-market/

 

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— The governor-elect — who referred to Trump as “racist and a xenophobe and a misogynist and a homophobe” during the campaign — took the high road in the White House. – Shia Kapos (DIERSEN: Of course, sooner or later, if not already, because Pritzker has called Trump a “racist and a xenophobe and a misogynist and a homophobe,” if you are a Trump supporter, those in your neighborhood, in your precinct, in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois will call you a “racist and a xenophobe and a misogynist and a homophobe.” How should Trump supporters react to that?)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2018/12/14/new-pac-targets-lipinski-land-pritzkers-trumpy-day-another-fed-raid-on-burke-363555

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— THORNER: DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS MUST NOT TRIUMPH
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/12/thorner-death-by-a-thousand-cuts-must-not-triumph.html
— WHO ARE THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN AMERICA? (DIERSEN: Who has the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois? Of course, individuals, organizations, and companies that the powerful a) approve of move up the ladder and b) disapprove of move down the ladder. Are you moving up the ladder or down the ladder?)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/12/who-are-the-most-powerful-people-in-america.html

 

CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
— Border reality: A caravan crosses every day – Daniel Horowitz
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/border-reality-a-caravan-crosses-every-day/

 

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— GOP Leadership Crumbling On Wall Funding – George Rasley
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/29312

 

GOPUSA
— Pelosi tells leftist media not to cover the president’s criminal probes ‘morning, noon and night’ (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents want to dictate the content of GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails, but failing that, they want the Illinois Republican Party, the DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and the Milton Township Republican Central Committee to dictate the content of GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. According to my critics/opponents, all news and commentary is fake except for the news and commentary that they put out or bless.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=61060


— New president of Mexico offers Trump ambitious plan to address migration issue (DIERSEN: Countries commit acts of war when they a) illegally send many millions of their citizens into another country illegally, b) illegally keep many millions of their citizens in another country illegally, and c) send many mountains of illegal drugs illegally into another country illegally. Not only constructively, but actually, Mexico has declared war on America.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=61057

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrats can’t stand the thought of protecting Americans – J. Marsolo
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/democrats_cant_stand_the_thought_of_protecting_americans.html
— The GOP Needs to Stop Being the Stupid Party – Apolo Villalobos
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/the_gop_needs_to_stop_being_the_stupid_party.html
— Calling their bluff – Anna L. Stark
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/calling_their_bluff.html
— When Does Trump Say, ‘Enough Is Enough!’? – Brian C. Joondeph
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/when_does_trump_say_enough_is_enough.html

 

ONE NEWS NOW
— $5B for wall way less than illegals’ $155B annual burden – Michael F. Haverluck
https://onenewsnow.com/national-security/2018/12/13/5b-for-wall-way-less-than-illegals-155b-annual-burden

 

TOWNHALL
— Pelosi and Schumer Show Their Colors – David Limbaugh
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2018/12/14/pelosi-and-schumer-show-their-colors-n2537458

 

LIFE NEWS
— Barack Obama, The Abortion President, Receives Human Rights Award – MICAIAH BILGER
https://www.lifenews.com/2018/12/13/barack-obama-the-abortion-president-receives-human-rights-award/

 

THE HILL
— Some reporters after White House cancels press holiday party: We wouldn’t have gone anyway – ARIS FOLLEY (DIERSEN: Needless-to-say, anti-conservative governments, political organizations, and politicians have never invited me to parties that they have thrown for the press. They pander to and curry favor with the anti-conservative new media by a) failing/refusing to keep diersen@aol.com on their press advisory lists, b) barring me from their press conferences, c) telling me to not speak with anyone at their press conferences, d) telling me to not ask any questions at their press conferences, e) telling me to not report anything about their press conferences, f) throwing me out of their press conferences, and g) having their operatives and their dupes leave threatening messages on my phone answering machine.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/421345-reporters-after-white-house-cancels-press-holiday-party-we-wouldnt-have-gone

 

REUTERS
— Trump says GM shift to electric vehicles is ‘not going to work’ – David Shepardson, Lisa Lambert
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-gm-interview/trump-says-gm-shift-to-electric-vehicles-is-not-going-to-work-fox-idUSKBN1OC2KT

 

CBS NEWS
— Half of America hasn’t recovered from the recession – IRINA IVANOVA
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/half-of-america-hasnt-recovered-from-the-recession/

 

ORLANDO SENTINEL
— Marco Rubio seeks protected status for Venezuelan immigrants – Steven Lemongello (DIERSEN: My Republican U.S. Senators and my Republican U.S. Representatives should have sought protected status for federal employees like me who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran and a) who complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and/or retaliation and b) who did not make GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40. But that would have meant siding with Rutan in Rutan v. Illinois Republican Party (http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/13/us/seeking-return-to-ways-of-patronage-in-politics.html).
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-ne-rubio-venezuelans-protected-status-20181213-story.html

 

EDITOR & PUBLISHER
— How the Media Encourages—and Sustains—Political Warfare – Kyle Jensen and Jack Selzer
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/columns/shoptalk-how-the-media-encourages-and-sustains-political-warfare/

December 13 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Bruce Rauner considered not running for reelection, tried to recruit other candidates – Craig Wall
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/rauner-considered-not-running-for-reelection-tried-to-recruit-other-candidates/4893696/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “This election cycle, I knew it was gonna be very difficult, I knew that early in 2017. Very, very difficult to win, this election cycle and over the course of the election I actually went to two women and two men who I knew well, two who were successful in elected office two who were very successful in business and in law, and asked them to run for governor,” he said. Rauner said all four, whose names he would not reveal, turned him down.)

 

WLS AM
— A diplomatic JB Pritzker meets President Trump – Bill Cameron
http://www.wlsam.com/2018/12/13/a-diplomatic-jb-pritzker-meets-president-trump/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Financial secrecy: 10 of 16 top Chicago mayoral candidates refuse to release full tax returns – Bill Ruthhart
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-chicago-mayor-candidates-tax-returns-20181207-story.html
— Teen quits Walmart job over the store’s intercom: ‘Attention all shoppers … nobody should work here — ever’- Michael Brice-Saddler (DIERSEN: My Democrat GAO superiors took adverse actions against me like they wanted me to sue them. They wanted current and potential GAO employees to see how they waste the careers of and get rid of their employees who complain about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination. They 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 $19,203 (26%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-walmart-video-teen-quitting-intercom-20181213-story.html
— Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker meets with President Trump, other new governors in Washington – Mike Riopell
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-pritzker-trump-governors-meeting-20181213-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— New Dem lawmaker: I’m being ‘threatened’ not to vote against Madigan – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/mike-madigan-anne-stava-murray-democrat-speaker-legislature-springfield

— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater promotes hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/steinberg-adlai-stevenson-trump-president-twitter/

 

DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County panel to examine adult businesses – Robert Sanchez
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181213/dupage-county-panel-to-examine-adult-businesses
— Trump claims ‘money we save’ from trade deal means ‘Mexico is paying’ for border wall – John Wagner and Damian Paletta
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181213/trump-claims-money-we-save-from-trade-deal-means-mexico-is-paying-for-border-wall

 

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Gov.-elect JB Pritzker meets president at White House – Mike Riopell
https://www.pjstar.com/news/20181213/gov-elect-jb-pritzker-meets-president-at-white-house

 

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— State’s huge public-pension problem growing larger – Jim Dey
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/2018-12-12/jim-dey-states-huge-public-pension-problem-growing-larger.html

 

CHANGE
— Keep Prayer of all faiths at our DuPage County Board Meetings – Janice Anderson
https://www.change.org/p/dan-cronin-keep-prayer-of-all-faiths-at-our-dupage-county-board-meetings

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— House honors Breen for four years of service – Kyla Asbury
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511668776-house-honors-breen-for-four-years-of-service
— Ives: ‘We need to tamp things down’ – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511668805-ives-we-need-to-tamp-things-down

 

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://www.ilnews.org/news/economy/cannabis-industry-expert-big-could-bigger-for-marijuana/article_5087bcda-fe48-11e8-ba79-dfcd2997f4c6.html

 

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Marijuana: What Will You Do About It? – Kathy Valente
https://illinoisfamily.org/marijuana-2/what-will-you-do-about-it/

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Absolute hypocrites’: Trump uses Democrats’ own words in border security pitch – Victor Morton
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/13/trump-uses-obama-hillary-clinton-chuck-schumer-quo/

 

GOPUSA
— State panel on Parkland shooting concludes teachers need guns; schools need security
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=61018

 

CONSERVATIVE HQ

— Conservatives Launch All Out Battle For Trump Border Wall
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/29303

 

RUSH LIMBAUGH
— Why Democrats Will Never Fund the Wall
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/12/13/why-democrats-will-never-fund-the-wall/
— Will Trump’s Base Get Tired of Defending Him?
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/12/13/will-trumps-base-get-tired-of-defending-him/
— Did You Hear What the Pope Said About Migrants?
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/12/13/did-you-hear-what-the-pope-said-about-migrants/

 

SEAN HANNITY
— PARTY’S OVER: President Trump Cancels Media’s White House Christmas Party
https://www.hannity.com/media-room/partys-over-president-trump-cancels-medias-white-house-christmas-party/

 

BREITBART
— RNC Chair McDaniel Calls on Democrats to Work with GOP on ‘Border Crisis’ – Jeff Poor
https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/12/13/rnc-chair-mcdaniel-calls-on-democrats-to-work-with-gop-on-border-crisis/

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— WALL ‘SINGLE GREATEST OBSTRUCTION TO THE FUTURE OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’ Limbaugh: ‘They do not want a wall. They will not support a wall’
https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/wall-single-greatest-obstruction-to-the-future-of-the-democrat-party/
— ISRAEL’S SOUTHERN WALL CUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO ZERO Former mayor in Jewish state concludes ‘it works’
https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/israels-southern-wall-cut-illegal-immigration-to-zero/

 

TOWNHALL
— The DOJ Inspector General Found 19,000 ‘Lost’ Strzok and Page Texts – Katie Pavlich (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government knew that they should not put in writing things that would get them in trouble.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/12/13/breaking-doj-ig-report-strzok-and-page-n2537436

 

NEWS BUSTERS
— The Fury of the Establishment – Cal Thomas (DIERSEN: Who is the establishment in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois? What do they think of you? How do they treat you?)
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/cal-thomas/2018/12/13/fury-establishment
— April Ryan: ‘This Border Wall Thing Is About Controlling the Browning of America’ – Ryan Foley
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/ryan-foley/2018/12/13/april-ryan-border-wall-thing-about-controlling-browning-america

 

CNS NEWS
— Poll: Majority of Democrats Want Their Party to Become Less Liberal – Emily Ward
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/emily-ward/poll-majority-democrats-want-their-party-become-less-liberal

 

NEWSMAX
— Top Dems Voted for Border Barrier Before They Were Against It – Deroy Murdock
https://www.newsmax.com/murdock/pelosi-schumer-saudi-arabia-sfa/2018/12/13/id/894302/

 

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE
— MEXICO TO FIGHT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BY CLOSING GUATEMALA BORDER – Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/272232/mexico-fight-illegal-immigration-closing-guatemala-daniel-greenfield

 

DAILY SIGNAL
— Why Our Country Needs the Wall, and Now – Ted Budd
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/13/why-our-country-needs-the-wall-and-now/

 

DAILY WIRE
— BORDER CONTROL: Mexico Cracks Down On Illegal Immigration By Shutting Border With Guatemala – EMILY ZANOTTI
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39333/border-control-mexico-cracks-down-illegal-emily-zanotti
— Columbia Student ‘Under Investigation’ For Praising White People Responds To Backlash “I was theatrically and sarcastically demonstrating that whites are not allowed to embrace their cultural achievements.” – AMANDA PRESTIGIACOMO
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39324/watch-columbia-student-under-investigation-amanda-prestigiacomo

 

DAILY CALLER
— WHITE HOUSE CANCELS CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR PRESS – Benny Johnson (DIERSEN: Needless-to-say, anti-conservative governments, political organizations, and politicians have never invited me to parties that they have thrown for the press. They pander to and curry favor with the anti-conservative new media by a) failing/refusing to keep diersen@aol.com on their press advisory lists, b) barring me from their press conferences, c) telling me to not speak with anyone at their press conferences, d) telling me to not ask any questions at their press conferences, e) telling me to not report anything about their press conferences, f) throwing me out of their press conferences, and g) having their operatives and their dupes leave threatening messages on my phone answering machine.)
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/13/white-house-cancels-party-for-press/

 

COMMUNITY DIGITAL NEWS
— Trump cancels the underserved White House Press Corps Christmas Party – Jacquie Kubin
https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/trump-cancels-undeserved-white-house-press-corps-christmas-party-110307/

 

NEW AMERICAN
— Migrants Attempt Extortion: Give Us $50K, and We’ll Leave – R. Cort Kirkwood
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/30910-migrants-attempt-extortion-give-us-50k-and-we-ll-leave

 

THE HILL
— Alleged Russian agent Butina pleads guilty to engaging in conspiracy against U.S. – LYDIA WHEELER AND JOHN BOWDEN (DIERSEN: Far too many in America talk and/or act like they are agents for Mexico and/or for other foreign countries who work against the U.S.)
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/421216-butina-pleads-guilty-to-acting-as-unregistered-russian-agent


— Trump’s own undocumented help highlights plight of many immigrants – RAUL REYES (DIERSEN: All illegals use false identifications.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/421012-trumps-own-undocumented-help-highlights-plight-of-many-immigrants

 

ROLL CALL
— With Minority Looming, Could More Republicans Be Headed for the Exits? After the 2006 Democratic wave, 23 Republicans retired – Bridget Bowman (DIERSEN: Demographically (political affiliation, liberal/conservative, race, gender, age, religion, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, income, net worth, etc.), in what ways are/were you a minority a) in the organizations that you are/were a member of, b) where you live/lived, and c) where you work/worked? Everyone wants to be in the majority.)
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/minority-looming-republicans-head-exits

 

REUTERS
— U.S. weekly jobless claims drop to near 49-year low
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy/us-weekly-jobless-claims-near-49-year-low-import-prices-fall-idUSKBN1OC1UV

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers crow about their success in making seniors stoners.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/health/seniors-marijuana-cannabis-pain.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— How tech workers are fueling a new employee activism movement – Jena McGregor (DIERSEN: What percent of tech workers are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/13/how-tech-workers-are-fueling-new-employee-activism-movement/
— Russian Maria Butina pleads guilty in case to forge Kremlin bond with U.S. conservatives – Spencer S. Hsu and Tom Jackman (DIERSEN: Far too many in America talk and/or act like they are agents for Mexico and/or for other foreign countries who work against the U.S.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/russian-maria-butina-pleads-guilty-in-effort-to-forge-kremlin-bond-with-us-conservatives/2018/12/13/c27f2d26-fe4f-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html

 

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Trump’s most disparaging nicknames of 2018 – Eliza Relman
https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-most-disparaging-nicknames-of-2018-2018-12

December 12 Evening Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Milton Township Republican Central Committee held an outstanding Christmas Party Wednesday evening, December 12, 2018, at the Wheaton Bowl Banquet Hall. Candidates on November 6, 2018 ballots at the meeting included Eckhoff and Zay. Other attendees included Almiron, Carlson, Caruso, Cherry, Cooper, Crane, Dangelo, Elliott, Falbo, Fawell, Formento, Galvin, Grogan, Heidorn, Holan, Ives, Jorgensen, Keller, Krzyzewski, C. LeVan, Lollino, McGowen, McNeily, Molitor, Monino, Muehlfelt, Nathwani, Rash, Ryan, Shaw, Tatro, and Whelan. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Rahm Emanuel pushes public pension fix to City Council, including legalized marijuana, Chicago casino, constitutional amendment – Bill Ruthhart and John Byrne
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-rahm-emanuel-casino-legal-weed-amendment-pensions-20181212-story.html
— Former West Chicago state legislator Tom Johnson dies at 73 – Rick Pearson
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-west-chicago-lawmaker-tom-johnson-dies-20181211-story.html
— Hints of Democratic agenda as Google CEO testifies – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-bc-us–google-ceo-congress-20181211-story.html
— Pelosi secures votes to return as House speaker after pledging to serve four years – Mike DeBonis
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-nancy-pelosi-house-speaker-20181212-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Emanuel makes strong pitch for $10B in pension bonds – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/mayor-rahm-emanuel-strong-pitch-10b-pension-bonds/

 

DAILY HERALD
— Some new Democrats want DuPage County Board to cease prayers at meetings – Robert Sanchez
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181211/some-new-democrats-want-dupage-county-board-to-cease-prayers-at-meetings
— Congresswoman to Google CEO: Why when I search ‘idiot’ do I get pictures of Trump? – Colby Itkowitz
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181212/congresswoman-to-google-ceo-why-when-i-search-idiot-do-i-get-pictures-of-trump

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Rauner blasts union representation of agency managers – Doug Finke
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20181212/rauner-blasts-union-representation-of-agency-managers

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— NEVINS: THE ILLINOIS GOP LEADERSHIP’S BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/12/nevins-the-illinois-gop-leaderships-bridge-to-nowhere.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Not surprisingly, the party leadership believes that Donald Trump’s rhetoric created insurmountable obstacles for their candidates that eclipses any difficulties it has with the party’s largely conservative base.)
— ILLINOIS WOMEN’S STUDIES DEPT: ABOLISH ICE AND POLICE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/12/illinois-womens-studies-dept-abolish-ice-and-police.html
— TUCKER CARLSON EXPLAINS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/12/tucker-carlson-explains-illegal-immigration.html
— UNIONS DEFY SUPREME COURT ON MANDATORY DUES, SUIT SAYS
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/12/unions-defy-supreme-court-on-mandatory-dues-suit-says.html

 

PJ MEDIA
— Google’s Trust in the SPLC Undermines Its Denials of Conservative Censorship – TYLER O’NEIL
https://pjmedia.com/trending/googles-trust-in-the-splc-undermines-its-denials-of-conservative-censorship/

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Accused ‘terrorist’ behind migrant caravan members demand of $50,000 apiece to go back home – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/12/migrant-caravan-members-demand-50000-apiece-go-bac/
— Migrants’ audacious blackmail of U.S. won’t end well – Cheryl K. Chumley
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/12/caravan-migrants-show-selves-be-bunch-blackmailers/

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— TRUMP LEADS THE WORLD TOWARD STATE SOVEREIGNTY Andy Schlafly cheers president for rejecting ‘Compact on Migration’ OK’d in Morocco
https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/trump-leads-the-world-toward-state-sovereignty/
— BOY DUMPS LAST NAME ‘TRUMP’ AFTER FIERCE BULLYING Classmates ‘curse at him, they call him an idiot, they call him stupid’ (DIERSEN: The more demographics that you share with Trump, the more that Trump-haters hate you.)
https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/boy-dumps-last-name-trump-after-fierce-bullying/

 

BLAZE
— Central American migrants submit incredible list of demands to Trump administration before they will go back home – Jana J. Pruet
https://www.theblaze.com/news/central-american-migrants-demand-u-s-entry-or-pay-them-50k-to-turn-around

 

NEWS BUSTERS
— Liberal Media Blast Conservatives, Deny Google Bias Exists – Alexander Hall
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/alexander-hall/2018/12/12/liberal-media-blast-conservatives-deny-google-bias-exists
— House GOP Slams Google for Anti-Conservative Bias – Alexander Hall
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/alexander-hall/2018/12/12/highlights-house-gop-slams-google-anti-conservative-bias
— 12 Essential Questions for Google CEO Sundar Pichai
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/nb-staff/2018/12/12/google-questions-ceo-sundar-pichai

 

CHRISTIAN POST
— GOP Congressmen grill Google for making SPLC a ‘trusted flagger’ on YouTube – Michael Grybosk
https://www.christianpost.com/news/gop-congressmen-grill-google-for-making-splc-a-trusted-flagger-on-youtube.html

 

FOX NEWS
— Google is a tricky case but conservatives please stay strong — Reject the temptation to regulate the internet – John Samples
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/google-is-a-tricky-case-but-conservatives-please-stay-strong-reject-the-temptation-to-regulate-the-internet
— Russia threatens to ban Google if it doesn’t ban certain websites – Chris Ciaccia
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/russia-threatens-to-ban-google-if-it-doesnt-ban-certain-websites

 

GOPUSA
— Biden/Romney 2020: RINOs would be all in
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60909
— Gallup says 158 million people now want to migrate to the U.S. (DIERSEN: What percent of these 158 million are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60844
— NPR Shamelessly Exploits Cheap Labor
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60898

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— ‘Can’t anybody here play this game?’: Google skates again. – Colin Flaherty
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/cant_anybody_here_play_this_game_google_skates_again.html

 

TOWNHALL
— America Needs More Immigrants and Less Welfare – Jeff Jacoby
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2018/12/12/america-needs-more-immigrants-and-less-welfare-n2537413

 

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Global Migration Pact: The U.N.’s Attempt to Erode Sovereignty – JONATHAN S. TOBIN
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/united-nations-global-migration-pact-erosion-of-sovereignty/
— Trump’s ‘Great Wall’ Isn’t What’s Being Built – JIM GERAGHTY
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/trumps-great-wall-isnt-whats-being-built/

 

POLITICO
— Trump suggests again the military could build a border wall – GREGORY HELLMAN
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-defense/2018/12/12/trump-suggests-again-the-military-could-build-a-border-wall-453838

 

WASHINGTON POST
— In the Trump era, job satisfaction tumbles in the federal workforce – Lisa Rein (DIERSEN: My superiors in the federal government hinted/implied/argued/shouted that their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, and/or non-German American wanted the federal government to get rid of its employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German-American.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/job-satisfaction-down-at-60-percent-of-federal-agencies-new-survey-says/2018/12/11/b07ed7d2-fd57-11e8-83c0-b06139e540e5_story.html

— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump says “The suburbs, women, some working-class whites and now even a swamp creature abandon Trump.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/12/suburbs-women-some-working-class-whites-now-even-swamp-creature-abandon-trump/
— Report shows sharp drop in federal employee morale under Trump Employee engagement fell at nearly 60 percent of federal agencies – Joe Davidson (DIERSEN: My superiors in the federal government hinted/implied/argued/shouted that their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, and/or non-German American wanted the federal government to get rid of its employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German-American.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/12/report-shows-sharp-drop-federal-employee-morale-under-trump/

 

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trump CFOs Predict 2019 Recession, Majority Expect Pre-2020 Market Crash
https://www.newsweek.com/recession-2020-cfo-economy-market-crash-general-motors-verizon-trump-2019-1255426

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— GM CEO, Under Fire, Navigates Fallout Of Planned Job Cuts, Plant Closures A tense exchange with President Trump is just one sign of the disappointment toward GM in Washington – Mike Colias and Vivian Salama
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gm-ceo-is-under-fire-from-trump-lawmakers-over-restructuring-11544641616

 

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Why Do Libertarians and the Left Have Such Similar Views on Immigration? – Park MacDougald
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/why-are-libertarians-and-the-left-both-for-open-immigration.html

 

FORBES
— Is Verizon’s Voluntary Separation A Plan To Lay Off An Older Generation For A New 5th Generation? – Jack Kelly (DIERSEN: Do you promote age discrimination? All my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote age discrimination a) to get rid of those who are older than they are and/or b) to curry favor with those who promote age discrimination.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2018/12/12/is-verizons-voluntary-separation-a-plan-to-lay-off-an-older-generation-for-a-new-5th-generation/#55373d7a4253
— In Recruiting, Everything Old Is New Again – Jeff Hyman (DIERSEN: Do you promote age discrimination? All my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote age discrimination a) to get rid of those who are older than they are and/or b) to curry favor with those who promote age discrimination.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffhyman/2018/12/12/older/#240875a155ac

 

DAILY MAIL
— Delaware boy, 11, is forced to drop out of school by bullies and change his name because he’s called Joshua . . . TRUMP – JENNIFER SMITH
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6488363/Delaware-boy-11-called-Joshua-Trump-forced-change-bullied.html

December 12 Morning Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— Border security is national security
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600daily/


CBS2
— Mayor Emanuel Proposes Raising Gas Tax by 20 To 30 Cents – Derrick Blakley
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/12/11/mayor-emanuel-proposes-raising-gas-tax-by-20-to-30-cents/

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Conviction upheld for man who left threatening messages for Jeanne Ives – Tom Schuba
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/conviction-upheld-for-man-who-left-threatening-messages-for-jeanne-ives/

 

DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County Board Democrats: Committee assignments skewed against them – Robert Sanchez (DIERSEN: While I worked for almost 30 years for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they always gave preferred assignments to their employees who were Democrat, and especially to those who were minority, female, and/or younger.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181212/dupage-county-board-democrats-committee-assignments-skewed-against-them
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PICTURE: How suburban fire chiefs collect both pensions and paychecks – Jake Griffin
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181212/how-suburban-fire-chiefs-collect-both-pensions-and-paychecks
— Lawmakers too slow to act on road funding – Rep. Tom Morrison, Palatine
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20181210/lawmakers-too-slow-to-act-on-road-funding

 

TIMES
— Find way to operate state government within its means – Scott Reeder
https://www.mywebtimes.com/2018/12/10/statehouse-reeder-find-way-to-operate-state-government-within-its-means/afsy4wl/

 

DAILY LINE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: What do you donate to promote religious, conservative, and Republican principles? I donate GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are free because I can a) afford to donate 10+ hours each and every day to put them together and send them out and b) afford to donate thousands of dollars every year for newspaper subscription and internet costs. GOPUSA ILLINOIS email subscriptions are worth at least $1,000/year.)
https://thedailyline.net/store/

 

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— What’s the Dress Code?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/illinois-family-spotlight-124/

 

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— ACCEPTABLE RACISM – Walter E. Williams
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/uncategorized/acceptable-racism/

 

FOX NEWS
— Migrant group demand Trump either let them in or pay them each $50,000 to turn around – Louis Casiano
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/caravan-migrants-in-mexico-demand-trump-either-let-them-in-u-s-or-pay-them-50000-each-to-go-back-home
— Sacramento paid $300,000 to aid illegal immigrants last year, report says – Stephen Sorace
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sacramento-paid-300g-to-aid-illegal-immigrants-last-year-report-says

 

PUBLIUS FORUM
— Get Ready: 2019 Will Be the Year of Gun Confiscation with Democrats in Power – Warner Todd Huston
http://www.publiusforum.com/2018/12/11/get-ready-2019-will-be-the-year-of-gun-confiscation-with-democrats-in-power/

 

PROPUBLICA
— How the IRS Was Gutted An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy. – Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
— Who’s More Likely to Be Audited: A Person Making $20,000 — or $400,000? If you claim the earned income tax credit, whose average recipient makes less than $20,000 a year, you’re more likely to face IRS scrutiny than someone making twenty times as much. How a benefit for the working poor was turned against them. – Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger
https://www.propublica.org/article/earned-income-tax-credit-irs-audit-working-poor

 

GOPUSA
— Trump ‘not concerned’ about impeachment: ‘The people would revolt’ (DIERSEN: If the Democrats asked the voters in your precinct to display “Impeach Trump” signs, how many would?)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60907
— Shakedown: Central Americans demand reparations to go home
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60904
— Stormy Daniels ordered to pay Trump’s attorney fees in the amount of $293,000
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60918

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— THE PHOBIAS THAT TORMENT THE LEFT Linda Harvey notes anxiety over candy canes, Christmas songs, ‘wrong’ pronouns
https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/the-phobias-that-torment-the-left/

 

DAILY CALLER
— SOME DEMOCRATS UNCOMFORTABLE WITH TRUMP IMPEACHMENT TALK – Kerry Picket (DIERSEN: If the Democrats asked the voters in your precinct to display “Impeach Trump” signs, how many would?)
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/11/democrats-not-ready-impeach-trump-reelection-cleaver-schiff/
— SUNDAR PICHAI DENIES POLITICAL BIAS AT GOOGLE TO CONGRESS AFTER LEAKED COMMUNICATIONS – Evie Fordham

https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/12/11/matt-gaetz-twitter-google/

 

DAILY SIGNAL
— What Conservatives Think of Top Contenders and Wild Cards for Trump’s Next Chief of Staff – Fred Lucas
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/11/what-conservatives-think-of-top-contenders-and-wild-cards-for-trumps-next-chief-of-staff/

 

TOWNHALL
— New Jersey Assaults the First and Second Amendments – Bob Barr
https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbarr/2018/12/12/new-jersey-assaults-the-first-and-second-amendments-n2537331

 

NEWSMAX
— Asylum Claims at Southwest Border Soar 67 Percent – Brian Freeman
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/asylum-border-wall-migrant-caravan-dhs/2018/12/11/id/893993/

 

BREITBART
— Google CEO Sundar Pichai Claims Employees Can’t Manipulate Algorithms and Aren’t Biased – Charlie Nash
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/12/11/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-claims-employees-cant-manipulate-algorithms-and-arent-biased/
— DACA Amnesty Would Render Border Wall Useless, Cost Americans $26B – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/11/daca-amnesty-would-render-border-wall-useless-cost-americans-26b/

 

NEW AMERICAN
— Trump Says Wall Improvements Stopping Illegals, Threatens Gov Shutdown if Dems Deny Funding – R. Cort Kirkwood
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/30892-trump-says-wall-improvements-stopping-illegals-threatens-gov-shutdown-if-dems-deny-funding

 

LIFEZETTE
— Four Outlandish Things Dems Said at the Google Hearing – Kathryn Blackhurst
https://www.lifezette.com/2018/12/four-outlandish-things-dems-said-at-the-google-hearing/

 

PJ MEDIA
— Huffington Post Enraged: UN Pick Heather Nauert Has ‘Relationship’ With Me? – ROBERT SPENCER
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/huffington-post-enraged-un-pick-heather-nauert-has-relationship-with-me/

 

WESTERN JOURNAL
— City Gives AR-15 Owners December Deadline To Submit to Rifle Count – JARED HARRIS
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/city-gives-ar-15-deadline/

 

TPM
— Why Democrats Aren’t Rushing To Impeach Trump – MARY CLARE JALONICK (DIERSEN: If the Democrats asked the voters in your precinct to display “Impeach Trump” signs, how many would?)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/why-democrats-wont-impeach-trump-yet

 

THE HILL
— House Democrats talking more about impeaching Trump – MELANIE ZANONA (DIERSEN: If the Democrats asked the voters in your precinct to display “Impeach Trump” signs, how many would?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/420913-house-dems-talking-more-about-impeaching-trump
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters crow about their success in getting cities to hate Trump, Republicans, America, etc.
https://thehill.com/latino/420909-over-30-cities-oppose-trump-proposal-on-immigration-benefits
— Oval Office clash ups chances of shutdown – NIV ELIS AND ALEXANDER BOLTON
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/420924-oval-office-clash-ups-chances-of-shutdown

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump says “Google Gets Hearing It Wants As Lawmakers Focus On Fake Anti-Conservative Bias.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-bias-congress-privacy_us_5c1024cee4b0ac537179a571
— Most Americans Don’t Feel Well-Represented By Congress – Ariel Edwards-Levy (DIERSEN: What are your demographics? Do those who share your demographics feel well-represented in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, in Illinois, in the courts, in the U.S. House, in the U.S. Senate, and in the White House? Far too few of those elected/appointed to represent me defend and advance the traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, illegal drugs, equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving), and other planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform and the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congress-americans-representation_us_5c10244fe4b00e17a533c813

 

POLITICO
— Kasich’s camp slams GOP effort to head off primary vs. Trump New Hampshire’s Republican Party is weighing measures to make it harder for a Republican to challenge the president in 2020. – CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/11/kasichs-camp-slams-gop-effort-to-head-off-primary-vs-trump-1054858

 

REUTERS
— Trump says he is looking at 10 or 12 candidates for chief of staff job – Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-staff-exclusive/exclusive-trump-says-he-is-looking-at-10-or-12-candidates-for-chief-of-staff-job-idUSKBN1OB08G

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “The Most Powerful Reject in the World” and asks “Is there anyone who wants to hang with Donald Trump?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/opinion/trump-ayers-chief-of-staff-reject.html
— The Misguided Priorities of Our Educational System We spend too much money on college students and not enough on everyone else. – Oren Cass
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/opinion/college-vocational-education-students.html
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: House Sees Trust Gap As It Grills Google Chief – Daisuke Wakabayashi and Cecilia Kang
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/technology/google-pichai-house-committee-hearing.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/business/cannabis-business-altria-canopy-constellation-cronos.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Republican says “Why Republicans pretend that Google searches are biased against them.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/11/why-republicans-pretend-that-google-searches-are-biased-against-them/

 

NEW YORK POST
— What’s ‘immoral’ about caring for America’s poor first? – Betsy McCaughey
https://nypost.com/2018/12/11/whats-immoral-about-caring-for-americas-poor-first/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Not building the wall is what’s truly immoral. Allowing poor migrants to flood across the southern border forces taxpayers to toil longer and pay more taxes to feed and house them, accommodate their children in public schools and pay for their medical care. Americans are already maxed out caring for our own needy, including the homeless sprawled on city streets. This nation has some 40 million people in poverty, one out of every eight people and one of every six children. That’s far higher than the share of people living in poverty in Canada or the UK. Our country doesn’t need to import more poverty. For the same reason, Trump is proposing that only legal immigrants who can support themselves without government handouts be granted green cards. Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted Trump’s proposal as “un-American.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said “the plan is ugly, it is cruel.” Really? Why should Americans be compelled to provide a safety net for throngs pressing to get into the country? Milton Friedman warned two decades ago that America can have open borders or a generous welfare system but not both. Open borders boost a growing economy by providing a source of labor. But that works only so long as immigrants are barred from government benefits. Trump is tightening regulations under a longstanding law, on the books since 1882, that bars immigrants likely to need government benefits from obtaining permanent status. Starting with President Bill Clinton, the law has been applied so laxly that almost no one is denied a green card for that reason. A staggering 63 percent of households headed by a noncitizen depend on Medicaid, food stamps, housing assistance or in some cases all of these taxpayer-funded programs, according to a December 2018 analysis of census data by the restrictionist Center for Immigration Studies. That figure is almost double what it is for households headed by American-born citizens. Right now, newly arrived legal immigrants who earn little or nothing are eligible for fully subsidized ObamaCare plans, with taxpayers footing the entire bill, even for copays and deductibles. And 6.8 million children of immigrants are enrolled in Medicaid, according to the Urban Institute. Meanwhile, millions of American-born taxpayers who fund this giveaway to newcomers are going without insurance themselves, because they can’t afford it. That doesn’t jibe with the ideal that a democracy’s first duty is to protect its own citizens. Don’t expect the American public to buy into open borders and handouts for all comers. All Americans have to do is look across the Atlantic to see the disastrous results of that policy.)

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Google CEO Sundar Pichai Faces Lawmakers Skeptical Over Privacy, Alleged Anti-Conservative Bias House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy made it clear Republicans see a ‘widening gap of distrust’ between tech giants and the American people – John D. McKinnon and Douglas MacMillan
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-faces-lawmakers-skeptical-over-privacy-alleged-anti-conservative-bias-11544544684
— FRONT PAGE: The Loneliest Generation: Americans, More Than Ever, Are Aging Alone Loneliness undermines health and is linked to early mortality—and baby boomers are especially feeling the effects – Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg (DIERSEN: How big is your family? My father died in 1969 and my mother died in 2016. My brother continues to live in Crete. My father’s sister continues to live in Flossmoor. My mother’s sister continues to live in Beecher. Her two brothers have died. During the 1950s, my father’s relatives held big family reunions in Crete and my mother’s relatives held big family reunions in Grant Park.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-loneliest-generation-americans-more-than-ever-are-aging-alone-11544541134
— Survive College-Application Season With the Family in One Piece Tension between parents and high school seniors can run high this time of year—here’s how to keep everyone calm as deadlines and decisions loom – Sue Shellenbarger (DIERSEN: While I was a senior in high school, I applied to and was accepted by UIC. With my parents providing me with room and board, I could “afford” UIC.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/survive-college-application-season-with-the-family-in-one-piece-11544538805
— Racial Preferences Aren’t Only an American Problem Discriminatory programs tend to benefit the well-off instead of the poor. And they never seem to end. – Jason L. Riley (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote race and gender based preference giving a) because they and/or their children/grandchildren benefit from it and/or b) because they want to curry favor with those who promote race and gender based preference giving. To give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/racial-preferences-arent-only-an-american-problem-11544573122

 

BLOOMBERG
— Here’s What Would Happen If There’s a Government Shutdown in December – Erik Wasson, Laura Litvan, and Christopher Flavelle (DIERSEN: Are/were you an essential employee? Of course, since 1971 when I was 22 years old, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have viciously demonized, denigrated, and condemned me as having been a nonessential federal employee while I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-11/shutdown-impact-would-be-limited-as-only-some-agencies-unfunded
(FROM THE ARTICLE: An estimated 400,000 federal employees would work without pay and 350,000 would be furloughed, according to a congressional Democratic aide. The essential employees who work during a shutdown are paid retroactively when the government reopens and payroll operations resume. After previous shutdowns, Congress also has passed legislation to retroactively pay furloughed workers.)

 

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
— A Secure America Requires A Secure Border Wall: So Build It – Editorial
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/border-wall-secure-america-trump/

 

COMMERCIAL APPEAL
— When newspaper columnists set the national agenda – Philip Glende
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/12/06/when-newspaper-columnists-set-national-agenda-opinion/2160737002/

 

NEW JERSEY HERALD
— Family breakdown explains social unrest – Star Parker
https://www.njherald.com/20181212/family-breakdown-explains-social-unrest#

 

SPECTATOR
— Is cultural conservatism doomed by demographics? Liberals dominate education, entertainment, tech and the media – Daniel McCarthy (DIERSEN: Tragically, hypocritically, ever-increasingly, anti-conservatives move into my precinct, into Wheaton, into Milton Township, and into DuPage County to take advantage of the prosperity and safety that conservatives built here. Tragically, ever-increasingly, to be accepted by these invaders, to be popular with these invaders, and/or to make money off these invaders, those who live in Wheaton, in Milton Township, and in DuPage County dump conservatives like me.)
https://spectator.us/cultural-conservatism-demographics/

 

NEWSWEEK
— MIGRANT CARAVAN: LET US IN OR GIVE EACH OF US $50,000 TO TURN AROUND AND GO HOME – CHANTAL DA SILVA
https://www.newsweek.com/migrant-caravan-let-us-or-give-each-us-50000-turn-around-and-go-home-1255043

 

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters crow about their success in getting Blacks to hate Trump.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/surprise-black-voters-still-dont-like-donald-trump.html

December 11 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Chuck Schumer calls Pres. Trump’s wall threat ‘temper tantrum’ – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/schumer-calls-trump-wall-threat-temper-tantrum/4879400/
— Google CEO grilled by Congress on data breach, political bias, China censorship – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/business/google-ceo-grilled-by-congress-on-data-breach-political-bias/4878601/

 

CBS2
— 9,000 Firearms And Counting: Illegal Guns Flood Chicago
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/12/11/9000-illegal-guns-seized-chicago-auburn-gresham-1000-firearms/

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say President Trump “bickers” with Democratic leaders.
http://www.fox32chicago.com/facebook-instant/president-trump-to-meet-with-democrats-about-border-wall-shutdown

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Emanuel to push for constitutional amendment to solve pension crisis – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/rahm-emanuel-pension-crisis-constitutional-amendment-casino-marijuana/
— Hints of Democratic agenda as Google CEO testifies – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/google-sundar-pichai-house-panel-hearing-privacy-data-breach-china-censorship/
— Emanuel, suburban mayors call for 20- to 30-cents-a-gallon hike in gas tax – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/autos/emanuel-suburban-mayors-20-to-30-cents-a-gallon-hike-gas-tax/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater promotes hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/donald-trump-thinks-we-can-all-be-bought/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Mayor Rahm Emanuel to call for legalized weed, Chicago casino – Bill Ruthhart
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-rahm-emanuel-pension-speech-20181211-story.html
— VERY SAD: Cheers, Chicago! You’re home to the most breweries in the U.S. – Josh Noel
https://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/ct-food-chicago-most-breweries-in-us-20181210-story.html
— Limiting our right to sign candidate petitions is beyond ridiculous – Eric Zorn
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-perspec-zorn-nominating-petitions-signatures-requirement-ridiculous-1212-20181211-story.html
— It only seems like you got all 5.1 billion robocalls
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-robocall-marketer-crime-illinois-madigan-spam-bill-gates-robocop-020181211-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— Lake County Board eliminates credit cards for commissioners – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181211/lake-county-board-eliminates-credit-cards-for-commissioners
— Appellate court upholds conviction of man who threatened Ives – Justin Kmitch
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181211/appellate-court-upholds-conviction-of-man-who-threatened-ives

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Chicago home-equity gains well below national average The average local homeowner has seen value increase about $8,200, nearly two-thirds of the U.S. figure, a report shows. – DENNIS RODKIN
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/chicago-home-equity-gains-well-below-national-average


— COLAs, pot and gambling: It’s not a party—it’s Emanuel’s pension Rx In a Wednesday speech, the mayor will lay out ideas to finish the job of stabilizing city pensions. Among them: A constitutional amendment to cut COLAs, revenue from legalized marijuana and a city casino, and maybe even revisiting that $10 billion bond issue. – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/colas-pot-and-gambling-its-not-party-its-emanuels-pension-rx

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say that Trump “bickers” with Democrat leaders – MATTHEW DALY and CATHERINE LUCEY
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-escalates-shutdown-threat-over-border-walll
— California judge orders Stormy Daniels to pay Trump legal fees – AP
https://foxillinois.com/news/entertainment/california-judge-orders-stormy-daniels-to-pay-trump-legal-fees

 

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— McHenry County Courthouse Blizzard Closing Results in CL City Council Challenger Being Taken Off Ballot in Repeat of 2014 Petition Challenge
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/12/11/mchenry-county-courthouse-blizzard-closing-results-in-cl-city-council-challenger-being-taken-off-ballot-in-repeat-of-2014/
— Jack Franks’ Hit Piece Smearing Ally’s Printer Ordered to Identify Perpetrators by Thursday
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/12/11/jack-franks-hit-piece-smearing-allys-printer-ordered-to-identify-perpetrators-by-thursday/
— Continued Discussion on School Consolidation
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/12/11/replay-school-consolidation-would-cost-taxpayers-plenty-2-copy-copy/

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Ives bemoans loss of manufacturing jobs – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511664078-ives-bemoans-loss-of-manufacturing-jobs
— Ives calls for scuttling new property tax proposal – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511664092-ives-calls-for-scuttling-new-property-tax-proposal
— DuPage had 13th highest abortion rate among largest Illinois counties in 2017
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511661664-dupage-had-13th-highest-abortion-rate-among-largest-illinois-counties-in-2017
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: So far, the DuPage Policy Journal has reported November 6, 2018 election results in 55 precincts of the 130 precincts in Milton Township – precincts 2, 6, 8, 10, 16, 18, 19, 23, 25, 26, 27, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 45, 47, 49, 50, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 63, 65, 66, 68, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79, 80, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 95, 96, 100, 106, 107, 109, and 116. There are many factors that impact election results in a precinct including the demographics of the voters in the precinct. According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, Republican candidates on ballots in my Milton Township Precinct 9 would receive many more votes if they were the Republican Precinct Committeeman or if someone who they manipulate/dominate was the Republican Precinct Committeeman.)
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com

 

CAPITOL FAX
— A constitutional amendment for pensions is just not in the cards
https://capitolfax.com/2018/12/11/a-constitutional-amendment-for-pensions-is-just-not-in-the-cards/

 

FOX NEWS
— Lindsey Graham: Trump should ‘dig in and not give in’ on border wall fight – Alex Pappas
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lindsey-graham-trump-should-dig-in-and-not-give-in-on-border-wall-fight

 

RUSH LIMBAUGH
— Why Don’t the Never Trumpers Ever Get This Angry at Democrats?
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/12/11/why-dont-the-never-trumpers-ever-get-this-angry-at-democrats/

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DHS: More than 3,000 illegals caught in one day – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/11/more-3000-illegals-caught-one-day-dhs/

 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/employers-need-entry-level-workers-asylum-seekers-need-entry-level-jobs-why-cant-we-connect-them

 

CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
— Freedom Caucus taking a stand for the wall and asylum reforms before Dems take over – Nate Madden
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/freedom-caucus-taking-a-stand-for-the-wall-and-asylum-reforms-before-dems-take-over/

 

TOWNHALL
— Trump Forces Chuck and Nancy to Debate Him in Front of America, They Didn’t Like It – Katie Pavlich
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/12/11/trump-tells-chuck-and-nanacy-cmon-were-getting-the-wall-built-n2537314
— Gun Control Fail: Thousands of Illegal Guns Flood Chicago’s Streets – And It’s No Surprise – Beth Baumann
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2018/12/11/gun-control-fail-thousands-of-illegal-guns-flood-chicagos-streets-and-its-no-n2537344

 

BREITBART
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Vatican Stresses Rights of All Migrants ‘Regardless of Their Status,’ that is, the Vatican rejects nations, rejects borders, and rejects laws.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/12/11/vatican-stresses-rights-of-all-migrants-regardless-of-their-status/

 

NEW AMERICAN
— Trump Frustrated on Border Wall As Illegal Immigration Continues – R. Cort Kirkwood
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/30882-trump-frustrated-on-border-wall-as-illegal-immigration-continues

 

DAILY CALLER
— WOMEN’S MARCH FULL OF ANTI-SEMITES, HAS TIES TO NATION OF ISLAM – Joe Simonson
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/11/womens-march-anti-semitism/
— REPUBLICAN MATT GAETZ GRILLS GOOGLE CEO FOR NOT INVESTIGATING ANTI-CONSERVATIVE EMPLOYEE BIAS – Evie Fordham
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/11/matt-gaetz-twitter-google/

 

GOPUSA
— Democrat leaders to Trump: Drop border wall plans
http://www.gopusa.com/democrat-leaders-to-trump-drop-border-wall-plans/
— Trump foes scrambling to derail ‘cruel’ rule requiring immigrants to show they aren’t public burden
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60831
— Project Veritas case: Federal judge rules Americans can secretly record public officials (DIERSEN: What if I had secretly recorded everything that my GAO superiors said to me to force me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old?)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60839
— 32 self-proclaimed faith leaders arrested in border demonstration (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats are having success in making “faith leaders” anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60847
— Asylum denials jump; immigration judges’ discretion attacked
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60824

 

TPM
— Trump Doubles Down On Shutdown Threat: ‘If We Close Down The Country, I Will Take It’ – Matt Shuham
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-doubles-down-on-shutdown-threat-if-we-close-down-the-country-i-will-take-it

 

NOQ REPORT
— Being against illegal immigration is NOT about being against immigrants – JD Rucker
https://noqreport.com/2018/12/10/illegal-immigration-not-immigrants/
— We need the wall. Tell Chuck and Nancy how you feel. – JD Rucker
https://noqreport.com/2018/12/11/need-wall-tell-chuck-nancy-feel/

 

THE HILL
— Pelosi mocks Trump on wall: ‘It’s like a manhood thing for him’ – SCOTT WONG AND MELANIE ZANONA (DIERSEN: Is letting people invade America a womanhood thing for Pelosi?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/420843-pelosi-mocks-trump-on-wall-its-like-a-manhood-thing-for-him

 

POLITICO
— GOP chair: Party will take ‘deep data dive’ into 2018 losses – MATTHEW CHOI (DIERSEN: From what I see and hear, overwhelmingly, the main reason why Democrat candidates got votes in my precinct was to punish Trump.)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/11/gop-deep-data-dive-2018-losses-1057605
— Trump says he’s ‘proud’ to shut down government during fight with Pelosi and Schumer The president battled with the Democratic leaders over his border wall in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting televised for the public. – BURGESS EVERETT, SARAH FERRIS and CAITLIN OPRYSKO
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/11/trump-border-wall-congress-budget-1055433

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters argue against stopping illegal immigration. Others who argue against stopping illegal immigration are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/us/undocumented-immigrant-workers.html
— Trump Battles Pelosi and Schumer Over Wall Funding and a Government Shutdown – Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael Tackett
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/us/politics/trump-border-wall-government-shutdown.html

 

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters say “Trump’s ‘beautiful wall’ is a vanity project and nothing more. Democrats should treat it as such.”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-shutdown-wall-funding-20181211-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasing, anti-Trumps tell illegals to say that they are seeking asylum.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-2-enter-the-fray-no-asylum-seekers-are-not-exploiting-a-1544543683-htmlstory.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump, Pelosi and Schumer have on-camera shouting match as wall talks break down – Erica Werner and John Wagner
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/schumer-pelosi-set-to-meet-with-trump-on-wall-but-house-gop-stands-firm/2018/12/11/2604b1ae-fd56-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html
— Two in three Republicans would rather see a shutdown than Trump compromise on the border wall – James Hohmann
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/12/11/daily-202-two-in-three-republicans-would-rather-see-a-shutdown-than-trump-compromise-on-the-border-wall/5c0f399c1b326b2d6629d42b/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters use Mia Love to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/12/10/mia-love-is-right-the-loss-of-black-republicans-in-congress-will-hurt-the-party-with-black-voters/

 

TIME
— ‘I Will Shut Down the Government.’ Trump Makes Threat Over Border Wall Funding – BRIAN BENNETT
http://time.com/5476903/donald-trump-shutdown-border-wall/

 

BUSINESS INSIDER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats and RINOs say “A large majority of Americans support current or increased levels of immigration.”
https://www.businessinsider.sg/americans-more-open-to-increased-immigration-than-most-europeans-2018-12/

 

BLOOMBERG
— Trump Says Military to Build Border Wall If Congress Won’t Fund It – Terrence Dopp
https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/trump-slams-democrats-on-border-ahead-of-meeting-schumer-pelosi#gs.9uDJkT0

 

FORBES
— Making A Fortune: 19 Million Public Employees Across America Cost Taxpayers Nearly $1 Trillion – Adam Andrzejewski (DIERSEN: From what I see, ever-increasingly, for the rest of my life, I will have to deal with ever-increasing hatred against me because I was a federal employee and because I am a federal retiree. In my defense, 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. Will Andrzejewski publish a) a list of government employees who are/were NOT overpaid and b) a list of government retirees whose pensions and other retirement benefits are/were NOT excessive? Will I be on those lists?)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2018/12/11/making-a-fortune-19-million-public-employees-across-america-cost-taxpayers-nearly-1-trillion/

 

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— How to Create a Culture of Fairness in Government – Stewart Liff (DIERSEN: My superiors in the federal government hinted/implied/argued/shouted that their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, and/or non-German American wanted the federal government to get rid of its employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German-American.)
https://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2018/12/how-create-culture-fairness-government/153423/

 

NEWSWEEK
— MSNBC HOST CHRIS MATTHEWS COMPARES DONALD TRUMP TO HITLER, SAYS BOTH MANIPULATE TRUTH – NICOLE GOODKIND
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-hitler-poland-chris-matthews-russia-investigation-1254631

 

EDITOR & PUBLISHER
— Time Magazine Honor Slain and Imprisoned Journalists as Person of the Year 2018 – Karl Vick
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/time-magazine-honor-slain-and-imprisoned-journalists-as-person-of-the-year-2018/

December 8 Evening Edition

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/marlboro-cannabis-michigan-legalizes-pot-wiz-khalifa-marlboro-cannabis-marijuana/
— No regrets speaking out about abuse: Trump resort worker – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/no-regrets-speaking-out-about-abuse-trump-resort-worker/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The path to legal immigration — and the risk of being a ‘public charge’ – Jasmine Saavedra
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-immigration-public-charge-medicaid-chip-trump-1210-20181205-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Democrat letter writer ignores the fact that Paul Hind’s “biggest responsibility will be to oversee the treasurer office’s transition next year to a new property tax administration system. Henry said she was planning to hire a consultant to help with the implementation of the new system. Now that’s no longer necessary.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20181207/how-to-really-save-money
— A pension system that needs fixing – Jack Guttentag
https://www.dailyherald.com/entlife/20181208/a-pension-system-that-needs-fixing

 

SUBURBAN LIFE

— OCTOBER 2, 2014 FLASHBACK: DuPage County clerk candidate Jean Kaczmarek says opponent used government resources for campaign – NATHAN LURZ
https://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2014/09/30/dupage-county-clerk-candidate-says-opponent-used-government-resources-for-campaign/aq59scb/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: During her remarks, she also said the clerk’s office gave employee Adam Johnson paid leave to try to unseat State Rep. Jeanne Ives, R-Wheaton, in this spring’s Republican primary election, for which she said the county’s personal leave policy had no provision. Kaczmarek compared the allegations against Hinds to recent lawsuits against DuPage County Sheriff John Zaruba. Several veteran deputies have claimed they were punished by Zaruba for unionizing and refusing to support the sheriff politically. One suit has been settled, but more are pending. “Prohibited political activity is a big problem in DuPage County. It impacts all of us,” she said. “Yet, this problem is so easy to fix with tougher policies, better training and a willingness to enforce laws which already exist. Our county officials have chosen to do nothing and here we are today.” Hinds did not respond to requests for comment and Paul Darrah, spokesman for the state’s attorney’s office, confirmed receipt of the complaint but said he could not speak further on the matter.)

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— A decade later, shock of Blagojevich arrest not all gone – Bernard Schoenburg
https://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20181208/bernard-schoenburg-decade-later-shock-of-blagojevich-arrest-not-all-gone

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— For first time, prosecutors connect Trump to a federal crime – AP
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/for-first-time-prosecutors-connect-trump-to-a-federal-crime

 

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump Golf Club Allegedly Employed Undocumented Immigrants – IAN STEWART
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/trump-golf-club-allegedly-employed-undocumented-immigrants#stream/0

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Governor race: Republican Rauner wins voter tally in Milton Township Precinct 79
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511638365-governor-race-republican-rauner-wins-voter-tally-in-milton-township-precinct-79
— Sanguinetti committee reports nearly $2K in contributions during third quarter
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511657825-sanguinetti-committee-reports-nearly-2k-in-contributions-during-third-quarter

 

GOPUSA
— Et tu Tucker?
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=60742

 

FOX NEWS CHANNEL
— Media use coverage of Bush funeral to criticize Trump – Dan Gainor
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/media-use-coverage-of-bush-funeral-to-criticize-trump

 

BREITBART
— Retiring Paul Ryan Pushes Stealth Outsourcing, Amnesty for Irish Lobbies – Neil Munro
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/08/paul-ryan-pushes-stealth-outsourcing-amnesty-irish/
— Migrant Family Border Apprehensions Skyrocket 270 Percent in Nov. over Prior Year – Bob Price
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/12/08/migrant-family-border-apprehensions-skyrocket-270-percent-in-nov-over-prior-year/

 

NBC NEWS
— Nick Ayers, Mike Pence’s right hand, likely to be Trump’s next chief of staff The 36 year-old has a reputation as a polarizing and hard-charging fixture in Republican politics. – Vaughn Hillyard, Hallie Jackson, Kristen Welker, Geoff Bennett and Carol E. Lee
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/nick-ayers-mike-pence-s-right-hand-likely-be-trump-n945656

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— The Case Against Meritocracy An aristocracy that can’t admit it. – Ross Douthat (DIERSEN: What tests have you passed and what do your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes attribute that to? I passed all the tests that were necessary to get hired by the Post Office in 1966 when I was 18 years old, to earn a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970, to get hired by IRS in 1971, to earn an MBA from Loyola in 1976, to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, to earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, to pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and to earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes attribute the aforesaid to my being born a healthy White male, my avoiding the draft, my getting married, my wife and I giving up trying to have children, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/sunday/wasps-meritocracy-ross-douthat.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— How a chilling Saudi cyberwar ensnared Jamal Khashoggi – David Ignatius
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-a-chilling-saudi-cyberwar-ensnared-jamal-khashoggi/2018/12/07/f5f048fe-f975-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “When Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, he didn’t know he was walking into a killing zone,” Ignatius writes. “He had become the prime target in a 21st-century information war — one that involved hacking, kidnapping and ultimately murder — waged by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his courtiers against dissenters. “How did a battle of ideas, triggered by Khashoggi’s outspoken journalism for The Post, become so deadly? That’s the riddle at the center of the columnist’s death.”)

 

USA TODAY
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/12/06/recreational-marijuana-legal-michigan-what-does-say-talker/2225426002/

 

NEW JERSEY
— Trump says he doesn’t hire undocumented immigrants. Here’s how it happened at his N.J. golf club – Kelly Heyboer
https://www.nj.com/expo/news/erry-2018/12/9a8eb82994256/trump-says-he-doesnt-hire-undo.html

 

ECONOMIST
— Donald Trump is kryptonite for centre-right media The Weekly Standard, a bastion of conservative criticism of the president, appears to be closing
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/12/08/donald-trump-is-kryptonite-for-centre-right-media

 

MOTLEY FOOL
— Americans’ 5 Biggest Budget-Busters, and What to Do About Them Are these items zapping your money as well? – Maurie Backman (DIERSEN: Because my retirement income is only 43% of what my salary was in 1997 in today’s dollars, I spend far less on meals out, clothing, entertainment, etc.)
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2018/12/08/americans-5-biggest-budget-busters-and-what-to-do.aspx

 

LGBTQ NATION
— The new head of the Log Cabin Republicans calls Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies ‘hiccups’ – Daniel Villarreal (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, sooner or later, politicians get rid of you if you do not promote LGBTQ activity.)
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/12/new-head-log-cabin-republicans-calls-trumps-anti-lgbtq-policies-hiccups/

 

ON TOP MAGAZINE
— Leader Of Gay GOP Group Describes Trump’s Attacks On LGBT Community As ‘Hiccups’ – CARLOS SANTOSCOY (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, sooner or later, politicians get rid of you if you do not promote LGBTQ activity.)
http://www.ontopmag.com/article/46484/Leader_Of_Gay_GOP_Group_Describes_Trumps_Attacks_On_LGBT_Community_As_Hiccups

 

COLDWELL BANKER
— Community Stats for 518 West Roosevelt Road, WHEATON, IL 60187
https://www.coldwellhomes.com/Property/Community/MRED/10150761/518-West-Roosevelt-Road-WHEATON-IL-60187

December 6 Evening Edition

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Denmark plans to banish unwanted migrants to small, remote island (DIERSEN: According to anti-Trumps, there is no such thing as an unwanted migrant.)
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dont-miss/denmark-plans-to-banish-unwanted-migrants-to-small-remote-island

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— NRA settles dispute with artist who created The Bean over sculpture’s use in Dana Loesch video – Liam Ford
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-anish-kapoor-nra-the-bean-ad-20181206-story.html
— Ex-Berwyn police chief, who left job after bar fight charge, made vice president at Morton College — with $177K salary – Ted Gregory
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/ct-met-morton-college-raise-ex-berwyn-chief-20181204-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-michigan-legal-marijuana-illinois-20181205-story.html
— Don’t say marijuana is harmless. A stoned driver killed my daughter. – Corinne Gasper
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-marijuana-pot-drugged-driver-daughter-killed-1207-20181206-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— GOP schemes in Wisconsin, Michigan go against will of the people – Editorial (DIERSEN: What do Democrats say that the “will of the people” is in your precinct, in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, in Illinois, in America, and in the world? From what I see, Democrats say it is to get rid of Trump once and for all, as well as those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/wisconsin-michigan-gop-republican-tony-evers-governor-election-power/

 

DAILY HERALD
— Here’s what individual teachers would get under Geneva school board’s offer – Susan Sarkauskas (DIERSEN: Federal employees do not get pay increases for earning job-related degrees, job-related professional certifications, or job-related professional licenses. I worked for the federal government 1966-1969 and 1971-1997. I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181206/heres-what-individual-teachers-would-get-under-geneva-school-boards-offer

(FROM THE ARTICLE: The report lists certified personnel from A to Z. It shows their current salaries, years with the district (“step”) and graduate-level education (“lane”). It also shows what they would be paid as their experience increases over the four years of the proposed contract. For some, it also includes a pay increase because of additional graduate education. According to the district’s calculations, individual teachers’ pay would increase, in four years, by as little as 6.56 percent to up to 44.71 percent for one individual. Actual dollar increases per person range from $4,044 over those four years to $28,796. The first figure is for a teacher who is on step 17 and does not have any graduate credits. The latter is for a teacher who is on step 16 with a master’s degree but who has now attained either a doctorate or a second master’s degree.)

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Caterpillar to cut more jobs in Joliet The company notified the state it will lay off 285 workers, 55 more than when it first announced it would move plant production to Mexico. – CLAIRE BUSHEY
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing/caterpillar-cut-more-jobs-joliet

 

MCHENHRY COUNTY BLOG
— OUTSTANDING: McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally Opposes Legalization of Recreational Pot
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/12/06/pot/

 

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Ives speaks out against TIF legislation – Kyla Asbury
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511652128-ives-speaks-out-against-tif-legislation

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Governor race: Republican Rauner wins voter tally in Milton Township Precinct 65
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511638358-governor-race-republican-rauner-wins-voter-tally-in-milton-township-precinct-65

 

CAPITOL FAX
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Capitol Fax, that is, Rich Miller, promotes pot.
https://capitolfax.com/2018/12/06/dont-be-fooled-by-junk-marijuana-science/

 

FOX NEWS CHANNEL
— House Democrats could revoke rule allowing lawmakers to have guns on Capitol grounds – Kaitlyn Schallhorn
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democrats-could-revoke-rule-allowing-lawmakers-to-have-guns-on-capitol-grounds
— New York Democrat Gillibrand mocked for saying future is ‘female’ and ‘intersectional’ – Lukas Mikelionis (DIERSEN: What do you say to those who want to use government to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-yorks-kirsten-gillibrand-mocked-for-saying-future-is-female-and-intersectional

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illegal immigrant families shatter records in November – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/6/illegal-immigrant-families-shatter-records-novembe/

 

GOPUSA
— New welfare numbers show the burden of immigrants on the American taxpayers – Matthew Boyle
http://www.gopusa.com/new-welfare-numbers-show-the-burden-of-immigrants-on-the-american-taxpayers/

 

DAILY CALLER
— GOP SENATORS INTRODUCE BILL TO FUND THE BORDER WALL IN FULL – Molly Prince
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/06/republican-senators-fund-wall/

 

TOWNHALL
— Marco Rubio Destroys Kirsten Gillibrand’s Identity Politics Nonsense – Katie Pavlich
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/12/06/marco-rubio-destroys-gillibrand-for-her-identity-politics-nonsense-n2537081

 

BREITBART
— White House to Host Google CEO Amid Cloud of Concerns over Company’s Silencing of Conservatives
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/06/white-house-to-host-google-ceo-amid-cloud-of-concerns-over-companys-silencing-of-conservatives/
— Sen. Jim Inhofe Introduces Bill to Build Wall ‘Paid for by Mexico’ – Sean Moran
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/06/exclusive-sen-jim-inhofe-introduces-bill-build-wall-paid-mexico/

 

CHRISTIAN POST
— Caravan supporters disgrace legal immigrants and endanger fellow citizens Caravan supporters disgrace legal immigrants and endanger fellow citizens – Brigitte Gabriel
https://www.christianpost.com/voice/caravan-supporters-disgrace-legal-immigrants-and-endanger-fellow-citizens.html

 

CNS NEWS
— Pregnant Migrant Woman Gives Birth on U.S. Soil 24 Hours After Climbing Border Wall – Melanie Arter
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/melanie-arter/pregnant-migrant-woman-gives-birth-us-soil-24-hours-after-climbing-border-wall

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— Wisconsin Democrats complain GOP lawmakers thwarting the ‘will of the voter’ – Rick Moran (DIERSEN: The “will” of those who vote for Democrats is not only to punish Trump, but to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/wisconsin_democrats_complain_gop_lawmakers_thwarting_the_will_of_the_voter_.html
— Caravan: The first anchor baby arrives – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/caravan_the_first_anchor_baby_arrives.html

 

NEW AMERICAN
— Birth of Migrant Anchor Baby Raises Birthright Citizenship Issue Again – R. Cort Kirkwood
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/30833-birth-of-migrant-anchor-baby-raises-birthright-citizenship-issue-again

 

LIFE ZETTE
— New York’s Gillibrand Insists the ‘Future Is Female’ and ‘Intersectional’ Liberal senator is earning ire on social media – Lukas Mikelionis (DIERSEN: What do you say to those who want to use government to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.lifezette.com/2018/12/new-yorks-gillibrand-insists-the-future-is-female-and-intersectional/

 

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Conservative Leaders To GOP Congress: Build The Wall, Defend American Sovereignty (DIERSEN: Who are the conservative leaders in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois? What do they do to defend and advance the Illinois Republican Party and Republican Party platforms, including their traditional family, right to life, immigration, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks? Do they have a website and do they post to it regularly? Do they send out emails regularly? How many visit their websites and read their emails? Who visits their websites and reads their emails? What do you say to those who claim to be conservative leaders in Illinois, in DuPage County, and in Wheaton, but who a) discourage me from putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails together and sending them out and b) discourage everyone from reading those emails? They treat me like me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails never existed. They fail/refuse to keep diersen@aol.com on their press advisory and press release lists. They do not want me a) to know about their events and other activities, b) to promote their events and other activities, c) to attend their events, and d) to report on their events and other activities. They read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails to get information to use against me.)
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/29257

 

CBS NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters crow about their success in using “religious people” to promote hatred of Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-jesus-in-cage-churchs-immigration-themed-nativity-scene-dedham-2018-12-06/

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Making President Trump’s Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers At the president’s New Jersey golf course, an undocumented immigrant has worked as a maid since 2013. She said she never imagined she “would see such important people close up.” – Miriam Jordan
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/us/trump-bedminster-golf-undocumented-workers.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A WASP-hater demonizes, denigrates, and condemns WASPs. How soon, if not already, will individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries officially take steps to get rid of WASPs once and for all?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/im-not-calling-to-revive-wasp-culture-just-to-learn-from-it/2018/12/06/a19d5eea-f99d-11e8-863c-9e2f864d47e7_story.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-American business leaders voice concern about Trump plan to crack down on immigrants using public benefits. In a letter signed by more than 100 anti-American executives, they said the proposed rule would impede hiring and impose unduly legal burdens.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/business-leaders-voice-concern-about-trump-plan-to-crack-down-on-immigrants-using-public-benefits-1544133724

 

FORBES
— For IBM, Reskilling The Workforce For AI Takes On A New Urgency – Joe McKendrick (DIERSEN: Have you ever reskilled yourself? I have. In 1992, when I was 43 years old, after my Democrat GAO superiors had made it clear that they would never again assign me to audits of IRS, after they had assigned me to audits of federal financial institution regulators, I began taking graduate courses at IIT, and in 1997, when I was 48 years old, I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2018/12/04/for-ibm-reskilling-the-workforce-for-ai-takes-on-a-new-urgency/#50bff4a6763e
— Why Employers Should Support The Expansion Of Social Security – Nancy Altman (DIERSEN: All my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes promote age discrimination a) because they want to get rid of those who are older than they are and/or b) because they want to curry favor with those who promote age discrimination.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nancyaltman/2018/12/06/why-employers-should-support-the-expansion-of-social-security/#6e693f784be5
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The nation is facing a looming retirement income crisis where workers will be unable to retire and maintain their standards of living. Age discrimination laws properly prohibit employers from firing older workers simply because of their age. An expanded Social Security will provide those older workers with greater opportunity to enjoy some leisure after a lifetime of work. It will also lower employer costs, since older workers are often the most expensive, and allow younger workers to move forward in their careers. Moreover, retirees are consumers. As they age, they tend to stop saving and start spending what savings they were able to accumulate during their working years. The goods and services they purchase are essential for a strong economy. A report published a half-decade ago found that Social Security’s combined payments in 2012 resulted in the production of approximately $1.4 trillion in economic output, the creation of over 9.2 million jobs, and an increase in the tax revenues of local, state, and federal governments that exceeded $222 billion. And that was a half-decade ago. Those positive effects are substantially larger today. And an expanded Social Security would produce even greater returns.)

 

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Nat’l Science Foundation seeks to ‘lower the barriers’ to reskilling federal workforce – Jory Heckman (DIERSEN: Have you ever reskilled yourself? I have. In 1992, when I was 43 years old, after my Democrat GAO superiors had made it clear that they would never again assign me to audits of IRS, after they had assigned me to audits of federal financial institution regulators, I began taking graduate courses at IIT, and in 1997, when I was 48 years old, I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT.)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2018/12/natl-science-foundation-seeks-to-lower-the-barriers-to-reskilling-federal-workforce/

 

THE WEEK
— 5 Republicans who could challenge Trump in 2020 – Matthew Walther (DIERSEN: How many of these 5 will hint/imply/argue/shout that for Republicans to win in 2020, the Republican party must dump voters, dump organizations, dump companies, dump governments, and dump countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://theweek.com/articles/811016/5-republicans-who-could-challenge-trump-2020

 

NEWSWEEK
— TRUMP-SUPPORTING PASTOR SAYS NEWLY ELECTED CONGRESS WILL ‘LOOK LIKE AN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC’ – ALEXANDRA HUTZLER
https://www.newsweek.com/conservative-pastor-says-newly-elected-congress-resembles-islamic-republic-1247868
— ‘WAKE UP, DUDES’: RETIRING REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER SAYS GOP WILL BE ‘GRANDPARENTS’ PARTY IF IT DOESN’T BRING IN WOMEN – CHANTAL DA SILVA
https://www.newsweek.com/wake-dudes-retiring-republican-lawmaker-says-gop-will-be-grandparents-party-1246785
— DONALD TRUMP LITERALLY HAD HIS BED MADE AND TOILET CLEANED BY AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT – CHRISTINA ZHAO
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-literally-had-his-bed-made-and-toilet-cleaned-undocumented-1247890
— ‘I FELT LIKE A CRIMINAL’: U.S. OFFICIALS TRIED TO HANDCUFF CARAVAN ASYLUM SEEKER MOMENTS AFTER SHE GAVE BIRTH – JASON LEMON
https://www.newsweek.com/i-felt-criminal-us-officials-tried-handcuff-caravan-asylum-seeker-moments-1247269

December 3 Evening Edition

NBC5
— Candidates Busy Preparing for Potential Petition Challenges – Mary Ann Ahern
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/candidates-preparing-to-challenge-petitions-at-monday-deadline-501746911.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump keeps up pressure on Democrats over border wall – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/border-wall-donald-trump-democrats/
— George H.W. Bush: last in a line of American presidential military heroes – Neil Steinberg
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/george-h-w-bush-last-in-a-line-of-american-presidential-military-heroes/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Fitch Ratings Inc. says Illinois’ out-migration a ‘long-established’ trend that hasn’t hurt state’s economic growth – Rick Pearson
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-fitch-ratings-illinois-outmigration-20181203-story.html
— New assessor Kaegi cleans house of Berrios workers, says change will take time – Hal Dardick
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-fritz-kaegi-cook-county-assessor-20181203-story.html
— Toni Preckwinkle to challenge more than 14K of Susana Mendoza’s petition signatures in Chicago mayoral race – John Byrne
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-preckwinkle-mendoza-challenges-20181130-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— No more GOP majority on Lake County Board: Sandy Hart named its first Democratic leader – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181203/no-more-gop-majority-on-lake-county-board-sandy-hart-named-its-first-democratic-leader
— Civic Betterment slate chosen for spring election in Glen Ellyn – Katlyn Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181203/civic-betterment-slate-chosen-for-spring-election-in-glen-ellyn

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Mendoza, Daley among 12 mayoral hopefuls facing petition battle Lori Lightfoot, Garry McCarthy and Dorothy Brown will also have to fight to get on the ballot after challenges from Toni Preckwinkle, Willie Wilson and Paul Vallas. – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/mendoza-daley-among-12-mayoral-hopefuls-facing-petition-battle

 

DAILY LINE
— Republicans vent frustrations after loss, and find no clear path forward – Hannah Meisel (DIERSEN: Illinois Republicans anxiously await the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) to publish a report on its December 1, 2018 State Central Committee (SCC) meeting in Bolingbrook. The meeting included reports by IRP Chairman Tim Schneider, IRP National Committeeman Richard Porter, and IRP National Committeewoman Demetra Demonte. IRP SCC members are listed at: https://illinois.gop/who-we-are/officials/. Meeting attendees included Carol Davis, Marianne DeMeritt, Jim Dodge, Diane Evertsen, Jason Helland, Babette Holder, Jeanne Ives, James Marter, Jan Shaw, Ken Shepro, and Allen Skillicorn.)
http://thedailyline.net/chicago/12/03/2018/republicans-vent-frustrations-after-loss-and-find-no-clear-path-forward/
(THE FREE PART OF THE ARTICLE: The grounds of the Bolingbrook Golf Club melted from white with five-day-old snow back to its former green as day wore on Saturday during the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committeeman meeting, as those inside the Taylor ballroom pondered what went wrong for their party on Nov. 6. FROM THE ARTICLE PER CAPITOL FAX: The main takeaway from the presentation was that Republicans actually did quite well bringing out their own voters. The problem for the GOP, the presenters said, was that the Democrats did much better. Precisely 912,979 more Illinoisans voted on Nov. 6 than did when Rauner was first elected in 2014, the presenters said. Rauner only lost 61,232 votes compared with his vote total in 2014, but Pritzker gained 794,763 more votes than Gov. Pat Quinn received in 2014. It’s this gap, the presenters said, that the GOP should focus on.)

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— STUDY PROVIDES FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT MARIJUANA IS A GATEWAY DRUG
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/12/study-provides-further-evidence-that-marijuana-is-a-gateway-drug.html
— HOW TO SOLVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: BUILD THE WALL
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/12/how-to-solve-illegal-immigration-build-the-wall.html

 

CAPITOL FAX
— As expected, Ives joins call for ILGOP shakeup (DIERSEN: Illinois Republicans anxiously await the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) to publish a report on its December 1, 2018 State Central Committee (SCC) meeting in Bolingbrook. The meeting included reports by IRP Chairman Tim Schneider, IRP National Committeeman Richard Porter, and IRP National Committeewoman Demetra Demonte. IRP SCC members are listed at: https://illinois.gop/who-we-are/officials/. Meeting attendees included Carol Davis, Marianne DeMeritt, Jim Dodge, Diane Evertsen, Jason Helland, Babette Holder, Jeanne Ives, James Marter, Jan Shaw, Ken Shepro, and Allen Skillicorn.)
https://capitolfax.com/2018/12/03/as-expected-ives-joins-call-for-ilgop-shakeup/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Let’s circle back to Hannah Meisel’s report this morning…“We no longer have a governor to lead us, so it’s up to us and it’s up to me to lead this party forward,” [Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider] said. “You’re never going to have to fire me. Because if I can’t do this job, I’m going to quit. But I’m not going to quit because we can win and we can achieve victory and we can do great things as an Illinois Republican Party.” It was about then that outgoing State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton), who narrowly lost to incumbent Gov. Bruce Rauner in the March primary running far to the right of the governor, picked up her belongings and exited the room. “I’ve got better things to do with my time to listen to that,” Ives told The Daily Line when asked why she was leaving the meeting only an hour in. * From the Illinois Conservative Union…Almost one month has passed since the November 6th midterm elections. Many have analyzed the losses suffered by the Republican Party in Illinois. To the base of the Party – Conservatives who stand firmly on the adopted Republican Party platform – the causes are abundantly clear. Party leadership made no attempt to unify the Party, failed to support good candidates and failed to effectively communicate to voters the principles of the Republican Party. Due to this failure of leadership and lack of accepting any responsibility for the losses, Illinois Conservative Union (ICU) calls for Tim Schneider to step down from his position as Chairman. “It’s obvious that some of those in Party leadership are out-of-touch with mainstream grassroots Republicans. The grassroots want leadership to support the Party platform; support candidates approved by the Party base—not those hand-picked by leadership; support and defend the Constitution of the United States and support the policies of the President”, said Babette Holder-Youngberg, Communications Director for ICU. “They [IL GOP leadership] need to know we will work with them and be a force multiplier or we will work around them, but we are the workers in the Party, from every corner of the state,” said Jeanne Ives, Senior Fellow, ICU. The group was founded by the West Suburban Patriots. It has no active political action committee, but it does have a Facebook page with 420 “likes” and several conspiracy theories.)
— Baise warns Republicans: “Democrats start out with a natural advantage in this state” (DIERSEN: According to Democrats, people are naturally anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://capitolfax.com/2018/12/03/baise-warns-republicans-democrats-start-out-with-a-natural-advantage-in-this-state/

 

FOX NEWS
— Caravan organizer says most migrants not bad people, tells Trump: ‘Let these people in!’ – Griff Jenkins (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, the more of the following that you are, the more BAD that you are: Trump supporter, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owner, German American, draft avoider, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write a book about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/caravan-organizer-says-most-migrants-not-bad-people-tells-trump-let-these-people-in

 

NEWSMAX
— Border Security Is Required by the US Constitution – Steve Gruber
https://www.newsmax.com/stevegruber/caravan-immigration-constitution/2018/12/03/id/892969/

 

BREITBART
— Nancy Pelosi Promises to Pass Illegal Alien Amnesty via Dream Act – Sean Moran
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/03/nancy-pelosi-promises-pass-illegal-alien-amnesty-dream-act/
— DHS Opposes GOP’s Stealth Bill to Outsource College Graduate Jobs – Neil Munro
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/03/dhs-opposes-gops-stealth-bill-outsource-college-graduate-jobs/
— Migrant Caravan Organizer to Trump: ‘Let These People In,’ They’re Not Bad – Katherine Rodriguez (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, the more of the following that you are, the more BAD that you are: Trump supporter, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owner, German American, draft avoider, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write a book about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/03/migrant-caravan-organizer-to-trump-let-these-people-in-theyre-not-bad/
— Frustrated Caravan Migrants Begin Scaling U.S. Border Fence – Bob Price
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/12/03/photos-frustrated-caravan-migrants-begin-scaling-u-s-border-fence/

 

DAILY CALLER
— MOST MIGRANTS AREN’T TRULY SEEKING ASYLUM AND SHOULD TAKE REFUGE IN PANAMA, SAYS DAN BONGINO – Nick Givas
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/03/bongino-trump-illegal-immigration-panama/

 

DAILY WIRE
— Sixty-Nine-Year-Old Man Loses Lawsuit To Lower His Age By 20 Years “We can make our own decisions if we want to change our name, or if we want to change our gender.” – KASSY DILLON
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38978/sixty-nine-year-old-man-loses-lawsuit-lower-his-kassy-dillon

 

HOT AIR
— Reporters Are Just Watching Illegals Cross The Border – JAZZ SHAW
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/12/03/reporters-just-watching-illegals-across-border/

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— Pelosi, Dems to pass DREAM Act in next congress – Rick Moran
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/pelosi_dems_to_pass_dream_act_in_next_congress.html
— Caravan organizers dump migrants, flee responsibility – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/caravan_organizers_dump_migrants_flee_responsibility.html

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— THE CHILDREN, THE CARAVAN AND THE CONTAGIONS Jane M. Orient, M.D., warns of dangerous diseases coming over border
https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/the-children-the-caravan-and-the-contagions/

 

CONSERVATIVE DAILY NEWS
— Most Migrants Aren’t Truly Seeking Asylum And Should Take Refuge In Panama – Nick Givas
https://www.conservativedailynews.com/2018/12/dan-bongino-most-migrants-arent-truly-seeking-asylum-and-should-take-refuge-in-panama/

 

THE HILL
— Trump says country ‘would save billions’ if Democrats agreed to fund border wall – BRETT SAMUELS
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/419417-trump-says-country-would-save-billions-if-democrats-agreed-to-fund

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— ‘He Did Not Lead on AIDS’: For Bush, (LBGTQ) Activists See a Mixed Legacy – Liam Stack
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/george-bush-hiv-aids.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Americans use citizens of foreign countries against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/opinion/vietnam-refugees-trump-immigration.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump says “Americans overall seem to be getting more positive about immigration and free trade.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-the-age-of-trump-where-is-the-populist-surge-1543846344

 

THE WEEK
— Republican lawmakers decry a lack of ‘introspection’ in the party after midterm losses
https://theweek.com/speedreads/810552/republican-lawmakers-decry-lack-introspection-party-after-midterm-losses

 

GOVERNING
— As Abortion Restrictions Spread, 5,500 Women Traveled to Illinois for the Procedure – Angie Leventis Lourgos
http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/tns-abortions-illinois-restrictions-midwest.html

 

FEDERAL TIMES
— Federal employees warned to avoid ‘resistance’ advocacy at work – Jessie Bur
https://www.federaltimes.com/management/2018/11/30/feds-warned-to-avoid-resistance-advocacy-at-work/

December 2 Morning Edition

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Illinois Republicans anxiously await the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) to publish a report on its December 1, 2018 State Central Committee (SCC) meeting in Bolingbrook. The meeting included reports by IRP Chairman Tim Schneider, IRP National Committeeman Richard Porter, and IRP National Committeewoman Demetra Demonte. IRP SCC members are listed at: https://illinois.gop/who-we-are/officials/. Meeting attendees included Carol Davis, Marianne DeMeritt, Jim Dodge, Diane Evertsen, Jason Helland, Babette Holder, Jeanne Ives, James Marter, Jan Shaw, Ken Shepro, and Allen Skillicorn. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

 

DAILY HERALD
— Misinformation or disinformation? It’s all about intent – Jim Baumann (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, all information is misinformation or disinformation except for the information that they put out or bless.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181202/grammar-moses-misinformation-or-disinformation-its-all-about-intent
— Ballot Access – Editorial (DIERSEN: Democrats focus on promoting ballot access only to those who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20181201/editorial-david-orr-and-ballot-access-reform
— Idleburg sworn in as Lake County sheriff, replacing Curran
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181201/idleburg-sworn-in-as-lake-county-sheriff-replacing-curran

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES & DAILY HERALD
— Mexico gets 1st leftist leader (Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador) after 32 years of technocrats – AP (DIERSEN: Of course, anti-Americans want Obrador to get Mexico to officially declare war on America. Acts of war include a) illegally sending many millions of your citizens illegally into another country illegally, b) illegally keeping many millions of your citizens illegally in another country illegally, and c) illegally sending many mountains of illegal drugs illegally into another country illegally.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-mexico-gets-1st-leftist-leader-after-32-years-of-technocrats/
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20181201/news/312019948/

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Ex-Harvey schools chief wins $400,000 over ‘ass-kicking’ comment by board member – Frank Main
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/denean-adams-harvey-school-district-152-former-superintendent-ass-kicking-retaliation-lawsuit-award/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The surprisingly high number of Americans getting absolutely no raises – Evan Horowitz (DIERSEN: Have you gotten pay raises? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes want cheap labor. They continue to be furious that because of COLAs, step increases, and/or promotions, my pay increased every year that I worked for the federal government 1966-1969 and 1971-1997, except for 1980 when I took a $19,203 (26%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and GAO promoted me in 1986. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-little-wage-growth-low-unemployment-20181130-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote gender confusion and promote LGBTQ activity. Ever-increasingly, Democrats make it clear that they want to destroy traditional marriage and the traditional family.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-life-stevens-friday-steph-curry-girls-shoes-1130-story.html
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an anti-Trumper who is surprisingly Trump-like – Clarence Page (DIERSEN: Democrats love Trump-like Democrat activists, Trump-like Democrat candidates (like Casten), Trump-like Democrat elected officials, Trump-like Democrat party leaders, Trump-like Democrat major donors, and Trump-like Democrat political consultants a) who promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation and b) who want to use government to get rid of the following once and for all: individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-perspec-page-donald-trump-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi-1128-20181127-story.html

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois gears up for 200th birthday party Monday – AP
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20181201/illinois-gears-up-for-200th-birthday-party-monday
— Eliminate liberals? Just banter, aldermanic candidate TOM SHAFER says – Bernard Schoenburg (DIERSEN: In Illinois, to vote for Democrats is shout that you want Democrats to drive individuals, organizations, and companies out of Illinois that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly, Democrats make it clear that they want to turn Illinois into a bankrupt poverty-stricken and crime-stricken third-world country.)
https://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20181201/bernard-schoenburg-eliminate-liberals-just-banter-aldermanic-candidate-says

 

KANKAKEE DAILY JOURNAL
— When money should not rule – Dennis Marek (DIERSEN: Democrats a) glorify and praise Democrats who have money and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans who have money.)
https://www.daily-journal.com/opinion/columnists/dennis-marek-when-money-should-not-rule/article_4e71e0e0-f24c-11e8-ae3e-0fd81611c5d5.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It seems everything is measured in the amount of wealth one has. In the latest gubernatorial race in Illinois, how many times did we hear Bruce Rauner had $500 million at his command, and J.B. Pritzker was worth three times that? (And it would appear Rauner still couldn’t afford a tie at times.) The ads were without end, costing each candidate millions of dollars. An average person seeking such office could not ever compete. So, wealth is the answer. Sad.)

 

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Nothing like an outgoing governor offering ‘Be afraid’ as parting words – Doug Finke (DIERSEN: In Illinois, to vote for Democrats is shout that you want Democrats to drive individuals, organizations, and companies out of Illinois that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly, Democrats make it clear that they want to turn Illinois into a bankrupt poverty-stricken and crime-stricken third-world country.)
https://www.pjstar.com/news/20181201/statehouse-insider-nothing-like-outgoing-governor-offering-be-afraid-as-parting-words

 

OUR QUAD CITIES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps “hold rally for asylum seekers at U.S.-Mexico border.”
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-groups-hold-rally-for-asylum-seekers-at-us-mexico-border/1631227801

 

DEWITT DAILY NEWS
— GOVERNOR RAUNER DISAPPOINTED IN ACTION DURING THE FALL VETO SESSION
http://dewittdailynews.com/local-news/412658

 

WAND
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps “protest against treatment of migrants at U.S.-Mexico border.”
https://wqad.com/2018/11/30/local-groups-protest-against-mistreatment-of-migrant-at-u-s-mexico-border/

 

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— MSNBC: Majority of Caravan Members Are Men, Some Not Talking About Asylum – David Rutz
https://freebeacon.com/issues/msnbc-majority-of-caravan-members-are-men-some-not-talking-about-asylum/

 

LIFE SITE NEWS
— Wheaton College students claim black pro-lifer’s talk made people of color feel ‘unsafe’ – Dorothy Cummings McLean
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/christian-college-students-claim-black-pro-lifers-talk-made-people-of-color
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Three student officials at a Christian college have alleged that an African-American speaker made other people of color feel “unheard, underrepresented, and unsafe” with his pro-life talk. Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation gave a presentation entitled “Black Lives Matter In and Out of the Womb” at the evangelical Wheaton College on November 14. He was the guest of the Wheaton College Republicans. Bomberger’s talk touched on the “hypocrisy” of the BLM leadership in announcing its solidarity with Planned Parenthood, the “leading killer of black lives.” In response to Bomberger’s interactive talk, Lauren Rowley, Wheaton’s student body president, Tyler Waaler, the student body vice-president, and Sammy Shields, the “EVP” of the college’s Community Diversity, signed an email directed to the entire college claiming that Bomberger’s talk distressed “many” people of color. “As many of you know, a special interest club hosted an event on Wednesday night titled, ‘Black Lives Matter: In and Outside the Womb.’ The speaker of this event, Ryan Bomberger, made several comments at the event that deeply troubled members of our community. His comments, surrounding the topic of race, made many students, staff, and faculty of color feel unheard, underrepresented, and unsafe on our campus,” they wrote. Without supplying any examples, Rowley, Waaler, and Shields called Bomberger’s opinions “offensive rhetoric” and suggested that they “compromised” the college’s mission. “As Student Government, we are committed to the College’s mission to promoting student programming that ‘pursues unity, embraces ethnic diversity, and practices racial reconciliation so that it will contribute to the education of whole persons,’ and therefore, felt it necessary to respond to the offensive rhetoric from the speaker at this event that compromised this mission,” they stated. Bomberger, who is a biracial African American conceived in rape and then raised in a mixed-race family, responded indignantly to the allegations, saying that Rowley, Waaler, and Shields had demonized him. He said also that many students had told him that out of the three, only Shields had attended his talk. “I would think it would be against the college’s mission to intentionally mislead students,” Bomberger wrote in response to the student leaders’ backlash against him. He noted that the student leaders had not provided any evidence for what they allege. “As typical with ‘progressivism’ one only needs to make the claim of offense without allowing people to examine the alleged ‘offense.’ The Dean of Student Engagement, Steve Ivester…praised me for the way in which I approached such heavy issues. But it seems that only some people’s opinions matter,” Bomberger wrote.)

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— NOVEMBER 22, 1991 FLASHBACK: Reaffirming Commitment, Bush Signs Rights Bill – ANDREW ROSENTHAL (DIERSEN: Of course, my Democrat GAO superiors took this as a directive to get rid of once and for all their employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who they had not promoted to GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.)
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/22/us/reaffirming-commitment-bush-signs-rights-bill.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Bush today signed the 1991 Civil Rights Act, hoping to end a bruising two-year fight over job discrimination, but instead found himself embroiled in a political furor over an effort within the Administration to put a conservative interpretation on the new law. Facing protests from civil rights leaders, lawmakers from both parties and members of his Cabinet, Mr. Bush this morning moved to end the uproar caused when the White House Counsel, C. Boyden Gray, circulated a draft of a directive Wednesday night that would have ended the use of racial preferences and quotas in Federal Government hiring. That draft gave rise to reports that the President would order all Federal agencies today to phase out the use of racial preferences and quotas in hiring to underscore his opposition to affirmative action. Some political opponents and those who have voiced doubt about his commitment to civil rights suggested that Mr. Bush was trying to undo by executive action what he could not achieve in his fight with Congress over the wording in the Civil Rights Act. Disputes Flare Anew Moving quickly to try to dispel that impression, Mr. Bush this morning had his press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, say that Mr. Gray had acted without his knowledge, and the White House called civil rights leaders who had been invited to the signing ceremony to assure them that the affirmative action regulations dating from 1965 were not being wiped out. Still, some of his critics raised doubts about whether Mr. Bush really intended to abandon Mr. Gray’s effort. And late in the day, controversy erupted again over another aspect of the formal signing statement that was made public after Mr. Bush signed the bill at a ceremony in the Rose Garden. Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike criticized a passage in the statement in which Mr. Bush endorsed a hotly debated interpretation of certain provisions of the new anti-discrimination law that gives employers the broadest discretion in citing “business necessity” to defend policies that exclude blacks, women and other minority groups from hiring. In his speech, which amounted to a highly unusual repudiation of a close aide and followed a chaotic overnight review of the proposed changes in Federal hiring practices, the President cast aside Mr. Gray’s language on affirmative action.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Constructively, an anti-Trump argues that America surrender to Mexico and to surrender the rest of the foreign countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/opinion/sunday/border-detention-tear-gas-migrants.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats want to fill America with illegals and use illegals to get rid of Republicans once and for all.

— It’s Now Donald Trump’s America. But George Bush’s Stamp Endures. – Peter Baker
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/us/politics/trump-bush-praise-history.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Peter Finch argues that your total expenses in retirement will decline as you get older because you will spend less on immediate pleasures and other discretionary items. That will not be true for me. Since 1997, when I was 49 years old, when my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer,” I have spent far less on immediate pleasures and on other discretional items. My retirement income is only 43% of what my salary was in 1997 in today’s dollars. While you can cut/eliminate spending on immediate pleasures and on other discretionary items like I have done big time, you will still face ever-increasing non-discretionary expenses including taxes, medical, food, and housing.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/business/retirement/retirement-spending-calculators.html
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: Protests in Heart of Paris Over ‘Two Frances’ Descends Into Violence – Alissa J. Rubin (DIERSEN: France today, America tomorrow. Paris today, Chicago tomorrow.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/world/europe/france-yellow-vests-protests-macron.html
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: ‘The List’ Controls Migrants’ Fates in Tijuana – Kirk Semple (DIERSEN: What lists were you on? While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years (Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997), I was always on my Democrat superiors’ and my Democrat supervisors’ lists of employees to get rid of. While I served as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, Milton Township Republican Central Committee(MTRCC) webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004, I was always on the lists of the following to get rid of me: those who a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the MTRCC resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, c) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, d) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, and/or e) are operatives or dupes for the aforesaid. Since my becoming a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999 and the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, I have always been on the lists of the aforesaid to get rid of me.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/world/americas/caravan-migrants-tijuana-mexico.html

 

USA TODAY
— Paris protesters damage Arc de Triomphe monument in worst riot in a decade; Macron vows action
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/12/01/french-police-struggle-quell-riot-paris-yellow-jacket-taxes-cost-living/2174493002/

 

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Beware the Bush Family Image-Rehab Machine – Sam Tanenhaus
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/george-h-w-bush-and-george-w-bushs-liberal-image-rehab.html