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November 30 Morning Edition

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump taps Cubs’ Todd Ricketts for Deputy Commerce post – Lynn Sweet
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/trump-taps-cubs-todd-ricketts-for-deputy-commerce-post/amp/
— Madigan stays out of mix as budget clock ticks – Tina Sfondeles
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/madigan-stays-out-of-mix-as-budget-clock-ticks/
— Seven ways Trump tries to control the media – Robert Reich  (DIERSEN: Should I write a book about the efforts that have been made to control me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails since 2000?)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/reich-seven-ways-trump-tries-to-control-the-media/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. Berate the media. . .2. Blacklist critical media. . .3. Turn the public against the media. . .4. Condemn satirical or critical comments. . .5. Threaten the media directly. . .6. Limit media access. . .7. Bypass the media and communicate with the public directly.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs promote LGBTQ activity.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-court-should-ban-sexual-orientation-discrimination/
— Megyn Kelly dishes about Chicago – Shia Kapos  (DIERSEN: Is/was your job fulfilling?  Because of GAO’s mission, my job working for GAO 1980-1997 was especially fulfilling.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/kapos-fred-eychaner-builds-gallery-for-aids-arts-show/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly chit-chatted about Chicago with business executives at a party hosted by Dan Goodwin, chairman of Inland Real Estate Group. Kelly sat with Ron Gidwitz, a fundraiser for Donald Trump; investor and philanthropist Muneer Satter; Bill Kunkler, executive vice president of the Crown family’s CC Industries; and Todd Ricketts, the Cubs co-owner who says he’s “honored” to be considered for a position in Trump’s Cabinet. On stage at the Westin Hotel in Lombard, Kelly talked about living in Chicago. Before battling Trump on the air, she was a litigator at the Jones Day law firm in the city. Kelly said she has fond memories of guitar lessons at Old Town School of Folk Music and living in Roscoe Village. But the work wasn’t fulfilling. An episode of “Dr. Phil” hit home. “He said, ‘The only difference between you and someone you envy is that you settled for less.’” A career change followed, and now comes Kelly’s book: “Settle for More.”)

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump nominates Todd Ricketts, Cubs co-owner, for deputy commerce secretary
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-todd-ricketts-trump-deputy-commerce-secretary-20161130-story.html
— Emanuel tries to close deal on city worker pension bill in Springfield – Hal Dardick, Monique Garcia
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rahm-emanuel-laborers-pension-bill-springfield-story.html
— FRONT PAGE: Trump tweet stirs memories of when Chicago was at center of flag-burning debate – Marwa Eltagouri and Vikki Ortiz Healy  (DIERSEN: What do flag-burners think of you?  I am proud to say that flag-burners despise if not hate me.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-trump-flag-burning-chicago-reaction-met-20161129-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: But supporters of a ban on flag burning hailed Trump’s statement, calling on him to ban the desecration of the flag. A top-ranking member of the American Legion, the wartime veterans’ association, said the flag was a symbol that deserved protection and shouldn’t be destroyed even in American protest. “Our brothers and sisters in arms have shed blood, even paid the ultimate sacrifice, in defense of our nation. The American flag represents their sacrifice and our nation’s way of freedom,” National Commander Charles E. Schmidt said in a news release.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps equate Japanese-Americans in 1942 with Muslim-Americans today.  Islam is more like a political party or a country without borders than a religion.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-internment-camps-japanese-muslims-20161129-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PICTURE: Group home provider’s license is pulled over ‘imminent risk’ to residents – Patricia Callahan and Michael J. Berens
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-group-home-license-pull-met-20161129-story.html
— Castro a hero to useful idiots, but not to those he’d broken – John Kass
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-fidel-castro-kass-1130-20161129-column.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— Consolidate debate draws 18 Republicans for Naperville Township seats – Marie Wilson
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161129/news/161128953/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PHOTO OF CHARLIE KIRK: Wheeling High graduate Charlie Kirk behind political ‘Professor Watchlist’ – Kerry Lester
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161130/news/161139969/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Wheeling native is the driving force behind a new website that identifies professors from Illinois and around the country and claims they “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” The Professor Watchlist is part of Turning Point USA, founded by Charlie Kirk, a 23-year-old Wheeling High School graduate. “It’s no secret that some of America’s college professors are totally out of line,’ Kirk wrote in a recent blog post, adding it is “time to expose them.” The website describes itself as “an aggregated list of pre-existing news stories that were published by a variety of news organizations.” Most of the listings, which include professors’ names and photos, give as attribution campusreform.org, which is run by the conservative Leadership Institute. The Professor Watchlist says it will “continue to fight for free speech and the right for professors to say whatever they wish” but states “students, parents, and alumni deserve to know the specific incidents and names of professors that advance a radical agenda in lecture halls.” Kent State history professor Julio Pino, among those named on the site, told The New York Times the site is “a kind of normalizing of prosecuting professors, shaming professors, defaming professors.” According to the list, Darwin Pagnac, an instructor at Des Moines Area Community College, required students to write about climate-change skeptics and address their motivation and who funds their efforts. Dr. David Pook, a professor at Granite State College in New Hampshire, is listed for saying he helped write Common Core standards in order to end white privilege and “that as a white male in society I am given a lot of privilege that I didn’t earn.” Professors from Northwestern University, DePaul University, Columbia College Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Loyola University Chicago are on the list. The Professor Watchlist says Columbia College chemistry and environmental science Professor Keith Kostecka called for the demise of the Tea Party and commented that House Speaker Paul Ryan should go kill himself. Kostecka told the Daily Herald “this all came about due to someone stealing my identity (from Facebook) several years ago and posting some terrible thing supposedly stated by me that I had and have no part of. I am on this list due to that very unfortunate series of events.” Northwestern University engineering professor Alan Butz is on the list for statements he made denying the Holocaust took place. Northwestern officials pointed Tuesday to a statement made by University President Henry S. Bienen in 2006, which noted, “There is no question that the Holocaust is a well-documented historical fact,” but Butz, a tenured professor, “is entitled to express his personal views, including on his personal web pages, as long as he does not represent such opinions as views of the university.”)

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump tweets: I’m leaving businesses to focus on presidency – AP
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161130/NEWS02/161139999

 

STATELINE
— Kellogg pulls ads from Breitbart  Website claims 45 million unique visitors a month – Dylan Byers  (DIERSEN: There are no ads on www.gopillinois.com and in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails, so no there are no ads to be pulled.  He who pays the piper calls the tunes.  My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are furious that I have enough time and enough money to put together and send out a GOPUSA ILLINOIS email every morning and every evening free of charge and without any advertising.)

http://www.mystateline.com/news/kellogg-pulls-ads-from-breitbart
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The cereal brand Kellogg is pulling its advertising from Breitbart News because it disagrees with the right-wing website’s political views. “We regularly work with our media-buying partners to ensure our ads do not appear on sites that aren’t aligned with our values as a company,” Kellogg said in a statement. “We recently reviewed the list of sites where our ads can be placed and decided to discontinue advertising on Breitbart.com. We are working to remove our ads from that site.” That decision comes amid scrutiny over Breitbart’s controversial populist, anti-immigrant worldview, and in the wake of Donald Trump’s decision to appoint former Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon as his chief White House strategist. Should other advertisers follow suit, it could lead to financial troubles for the site. But Breitbart says Kellogg is wrong to dismiss its loyal and extensive readership, which it claims totals 45 million unique visitors in the last month. “Breitbart News Network has built an engaged community of over 45 million loyal readers who are also a powerful consumer group that reflects the values of mainstreet America,” the company said in a statement. “Kellogg’s decision to blacklist one of the largest conservative media outlets in America is economic censorship of mainstream conservative political discourse. That is as un-American as it gets.” Breitbart CEO Larry Solov similarly told The Hollywood Reporter that Kellogg was “buying into a false, left-wing narrative that our 45 million readers are deplorables.”)

 

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Chicago-based U.S. court to hear LGBT-workplace bias appeal – AP  (DIERSEN: If I had not been denied my 7th Amendment rights in Diersen v. GAO, I would have convinced a jury that to meet their Affirmative Action quotas during the 1980s and 1990s, the Democrats who ran GAO discriminated against their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/chicago-based-us-court-to-hear-lgbt-workplace-bias-appeal/article_79807fc1-4aa6-5ce1-a01e-4d5e9d071c79.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE:  A Chicago-based court will consider arguments that protections under the 1964 Civil Rights Act should expand to cover LGBT workers. The full 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rehear Indiana teacher Kimberly Hively’s appeal Wednesday. It vacated a ruling by three of its own judges in July that the landmark workplace-discrimination law doesn’t cover sexual-orientation bias. Hively alleges a college didn’t hire her full time because she is a lesbian. The three-judge panel did criticize the lack of sexual-orientation workplace protections, but said they must come from Congress or the U.S. Supreme Court. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate a social conservative to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, making High Court action on the issue uncertain.)

 

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Gerrymandering? Not in Champaign County – Tom Kacich
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-11-30/kacich-gerrymandering-not-champaign-county.html

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— Closer Look At Banning Flag Burning In Illinois – BRENDAN CULLERTON
http://foxillinois.com/news/local/closer-look-at-banning-flag-burning-in-illinois-11-30-2016

 

PEORIA PUBLIC RADIO
— Republican Legislators Side With Rauner To Kill Automatic Voter Registration – AMANDA VINICKY
http://peoriapublicradio.org/post/republican-legislators-side-rauner-kill-automatic-voter-registration#stream/0

 

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Thanks, taxpayers, for $510,495 in benefits for part-time county leaders – Editorial
http://www.bnd.com/opinion/editorials/article116522433.html

 

ALTON DAILY NEWS
— Governor Paints Bleak Fiscal Picture – Cole Lauterbach
http://www.altondailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=17&id=230490#.WD4-QRHxZZI

 

WBEZ
— Governor Rauner Whittles Down His Plan To Five Key Priorities
https://www.wbez.org/shows/morning-shift/governor-rauner-whittles-down-his-plan-to-five-key-priorities/158128d4-be38-4bfa-84c3-7dfb06576ea7

 

WSIL TV
— Treasury nominee Mnuchin was Trump’s top fundraiser – AP
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/33820562/treasury-nominee-mnuchin-was-trumps-top-fundraiser

 

WJBD
— Rauner Sets Up 2 Workplace Task Forces; Union Is Skeptical  (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, its top priority was a) hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats, and especially Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger and b) making way for them by getting rid of its employees who were Republican, and especially those Republicans who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
http://www.wjbdradio.com/local-news/2016/11/29/rauner-sets-up-2-workplace-task-forces-union-is-skeptical

 

SOUTHERN
— State regulators simplify “intimidating” professional licensure process for applicants with criminal records – MOLLY PARKER (In 1981, I got through Illinois’ “intimidating” professional licensure process to become a licensed CPA.)
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/state-regulators-simplify-intimidating-professional-licensure-process-for-applicants-with/article_ef9b07e9-bfc9-5931-91a7-b899bd3ee235.html

 

DAILY ILLINI
— Administration discusses future of undocumented students, faculty – Megan Jones  (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs put citizens of foreign countries ahead of citizens of America.)
http://dailyillini.com/news/2016/11/29/ui-administration-discusses-future-undocumented-students-faculty/

 

CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— Legendary Documentary Studio Tackles the Illinois Budget Crisis  Kartemquin Films is teaming up with In These Times to tell the stories of those affected by the impasse as another budget fight looms. – WHET MOSER
http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/November-2016/A-Legendary-Documentary-Studio-Tackles-the-Illinois-Budget-Crisis/

 

CHICAGO DAILY OBSERVER
— The Heavy Costs of State of Illinois Bill Paying
http://www.cdobs.com/archive/featured/the-heavy-costs-of-state-of-illinois-bill-paying/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ILLINOIS HOUSE STOPS VOTER REGISTRATION EFFORT FOR NON-CITIZENS
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/illinois-house-stops-voter-registration-effort-for-non-citizens.html

 

CAPITOL FAX
— ILGOP: “Democrats can no longer run from their support of Madigan as their undisputed leader”
http://capitolfax.com/2016/11/30/ilgop-democrats-can-no-longer-run-from-their-support-of-madigan-as-their-undisputed-leader/
— Rauner imposes “reasonable” drug and alcohol testing on workers
http://capitolfax.com/2016/11/30/raumer-imposes-reasonable-drug-and-alcohol-testing-on-workers/
— Rauner administration agrees in principle to Exelon deal
http://capitolfax.com/2016/11/30/rauner-administration-agrees-in-principle-to-exelon-deal/
— CHICAGO CUBS CO-OWNER TODD RICKETTS TO BE TRUMP’S DEPUTY COMMERCE SECRETARY
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/chicago-cubs-co-owner-todd-ricketts-to-be-trumps-deputy-commerce-secretary.html
— Brown: “The lame duck tax increase has been the Rauner strategy all along”
http://capitolfax.com/2016/11/30/brown-the-lame-duck-tax-increase-has-been-the-rauner-strategy-all-along/

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: U. of Illinois to study ‘sanctuary’ status for immigrants – AP
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/30/u-of-illinois-to-study-sanctuary-status-for-immigr/
— Donald Trump to embark on a thank you tour of the heartland – Jennifer Harper  (DIERSEN: If Trump came to Illinois, who would he thank the most?  Who delivered the most votes for Trump in Illinois, in your county, in your township/ward, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/29/donald-trump-to-embark-on-thank-you-tour-2016/
— White House says Obama won’t pardon illegals – Stephen Dinan  (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes could hint/imply/argue/shout that I was a draft-dodger and that I was pardoned for my seeking and obtaining student draft deferments 1966-1970 and for seeking and obtaining a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971.)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/29/white-house-says-obama-wont-pardon-illegals/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pointing to Confederate troops after the Civil War and draft-dodgers after the Vietnam War as groups that had been granted mass pardons, they said the same tool could be used for more than 740,000 Dreamers — young adult illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Mr. Obama granted them a deportation amnesty under his 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.)

 

AMERICANS FOR TRUTH ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY
— Zales Jewelers Commercial Is Slick Propaganda to Normalize Homosexual ‘Marriage’ – Peter LaBarbera
https://americansfortruth.com/2016/11/29/video-zales-jewelers-commercial-is-slick-propaganda-to-normalize-homosexual-marriage/

 

GOPUSA
— Justin Trudeau: Baby-Faced Commie Apologist Unmasked – Michelle Malkin
http://www.gopusa.com/justin-trudeau-baby-faced-commie-apologist-unmasked/

 

NEWSMAX
— Obama: ‘Fox News in Every Bar and Restaurant’ Hurt Dems With Voters – Theodore Bunker
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/obama-fox-news-hurt-democrats/2016/11/29/id/761220/

 

LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES
— Share Your Life – Tim Hetzner  (DIERSEN: How much of your life do you share with others?  Each and every day, I share 10+ hours of my life, that is, I share two GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails, one in the morning, and one in the evening.  How much of their lives do my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes share with you?)
http://devotions.lccharities.org/2016/11/30/share-your-life/

 

THE BLAZE
— Texas Governor Greg Abbott to sanctuary cities: “You are going to comply with the law.” – Brandon Morse (DIERSEN: When will Rauner say that to Chicago and to other sanctuary cities in Illinois?)
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/29/texas-governor-greg-abbott-to-sanctuary-cities-you-are-going-to-comply-with-the-law/

 

BREITBART
— College Dems, SJWs Push for Ole Miss ‘Sanctuary Campus’ – JOHN BINDER
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/11/29/college-dems-sjws-push-ole-miss-sanctuary-campus/

 

GOPUSA
— Obama’s Empty Promise
http://www.gopusa.com/obamas-empty-promise/

 

DAILY CALLER
— Photo: Mitt Romney Looks Really Uncomfortable At His Meeting With Trump – Blake Neff
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/29/photo-mitt-romney-looks-really-uncomfortable-at-his-meeting-with-trump/

 

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Ten Reasons Left-Wingers Cut Trump Voters from Their Lives – DENNIS PRAGER
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442538/why-left-wingers-cut-ties-trump-voters

 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— GAO: Federal student loan subsidies twice as high as expected – JOSEPH LAWLER
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watchdog-federal-student-loan-subsidies-twice-as-high-as-expected/article/2608490

 

THE HILL
— President Obama legitimized Castro’s oppression in life and death – MATT SCHLAPP
http://origin-nyi.thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/307821-president-obama-legitimized-castros-oppression-in-life-and

 

POLITICO
— Trump to leave business to ‘fully focus on running the country’ – LOUIS NELSON
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-companies-231982

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— Mitt Romney After Donald Trump Dinner: He Can ‘Lead Us To That Better Future’  Romney, Trump and Reince Priebus dined on frog legs at a French restaurant at one of Trump’s hotels.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/romney-trump-dinner_us_583e4b96e4b0c33c8e130346
— Top Congressional Watchdog Uninterested In Trump’s Conflicts Of Interest Before He Takes Office  Rep. Jason Chaffetz wants to give Trump “some time.” – Matt Fuller  (DIERSEN: All my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have tremendous conflicts of interest.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chaffetz-trump-conflicts-of-interest_us_583e27b0e4b0ae0e7cdac310

 

AOL NEWS
— Day of Giving: Illinois First Lady Diana Rauner  CBS 2’s Rob Johnson speaks with Diana Rauner on the importance of donating and the impact it makes. (DIERSEN: How much of your life do you give to others?  Each and every day, I give to others 10+ hours of my life, that is, I give two GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails, one in the morning, and one in the evening.  How much of their lives do my critics/opponents give to you?  My critics/opponents have lots of money and lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton, in DuPage County, and in Illinois.  If they wanted to, they could give you lots of money, a new home, a new car, a sweetheart job, a sweetheart contract, favorable legislation, and much more.)
http://www.aol.com/video/view/day-of-giving-illinois-first-lady-diana-rauner/583e1dcc1c68990eaa82616d/

 

ABC NEWS
— Mitt Romney, Donald Trump Dine at Exclusive NYC Restaurant Amid Cabinet Speculation – VERONICA STRACQUALURSI and BEN SIEGEL
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mitt-romney-donald-trump-dinner-tonight-amid-cabinet/story?id=43844307
— Carrier Says It Reached Deal With Trump to Keep Jobs in Indiana – JOHN SANTUCCI, REBECCA JARVIS, and TOM LIDDY
http://abcnews.go.com/US/carrier-reached-deal-trump-jobs-indiana/story?id=43861224

 

NBC NEWS
— Mitt Romney Lavishes Praise on President-elect Trump, Whom He Once Called ‘Fraud’ – ALEXANDRA JAFFE
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/mitt-romney-lavishes-praise-president-elect-trump-whom-he-once-n689946

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— More Law Degrees for Women, but Fewer Good Jobs – ELIZABETH OLSON  (DIERSEN: Is the job that you have a good job?  Were the jobs that you held good jobs?  My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes would tell you that none of the jobs that I held 1964-1997 were good jobs.  Those jobs being bad made it all the more difficult for my employers to hire women, to retain women, and to promote women.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/business/dealbook/more-law-degrees-for-women-but-fewer-good-jobs.html
— Eyeing the Trump Voter, ‘Fight for $15’ Widens Its Focus – NOAM SCHEIBER
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/business/economy/fight-for-15-wages-protests.html
— Trump to Announce Carrier Plant Will Keep Jobs in U.S. – NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/business/trump-to-announce-carrier-plant-will-keep-jobs-in-us.html
— Can the Democrats Move Right? – Ross Douthat
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/opinion/can-the-democrats-move-right.html

 

NEW YORK POST
— Scores arrested in first ‘Fight for $15’ protests since Trump win – Reuters
http://nypost.com/2016/11/29/scores-arrested-in-first-fight-for-15-protests-since-trump-win/

 

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Why (ILLEGALS) won’t self-deport – Wayne A. Cornelius (DIERSEN: QUESTION: Who sides with the illegals? ANSWER: Those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, 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 longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-cornelius-self-deportation-20161130-story.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Donald Trump tweets that he will leave his business ‘in total’ to focus on presidency
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/30/donald-trump-tweets-that-he-will-leave-his-business-in-total-to-focus-on-presidency/
— Hopes for a female president dashed, women take running for office into their own hands – Isaac Stanley-Becker
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hopes-for-a-female-president-dashed-women-consider-entering-politics-themselves/2016/11/26/1620b182-b043-11e6-be1c-8cec35b1ad25_story.html
— Continue diversity efforts under Trump, civil servants urged – Joe Davidson (DIERSEN: If the federal workforce looked like America, half its employees would be Republicans; but virtually all federal employees are Democrats.  While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, its top priority was a) hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats, and especially Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger and b) making way for them by getting rid of its employees who were Republican, and especially those Republicans who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/28/continue-diversity-efforts-under-trump-civil-servants-urged/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President-elect Donald Trump was barely mentioned at the White House Summit on Diversity and Inclusion in Government, but he wasn’t ignored. Top career civil servants and Obama administration political appointees gathered Monday to discuss the importance of a federal workforce that looks like America at all levels, just weeks before the new president, who was overwhelmingly rejected by voters of color, takes office. Trump gained political notoriety by fronting a racist birth certificate campaign to delegitimize Barack Obama, the first black president. Trump then ran a campaign that started with bashing Mexicans and was tarred by his vulgar misogyny. It speaks volumes that he was backed by the Ku Klux Klan, an American Nazi leader, and hailed with Nazi salutes, even as he rejected their support. With that context the summit, planned before his electoral college victory, took on even greater significance. No one was openly critical of Trump during the morning plenary sessions. That would have been impolitic, particularly given the graciousness of the president and first lady toward the incoming occupants of the White House. Indeed, participants seemed to expect the diversity effort to continue under Trump, despite his actions and statements, because it is “imperative,” in the words of acting office of personnel management director Beth Cobert. “The bottom line is simple,” she said in terms Trump can appreciate. “We cannot afford to leave talent and resources on the table.” Yet Trump’s reputation provides good reason for trepidation, as some speakers alluded to — if only obliquely. “Given the nature of this campaign on this issue of diversity and inclusion, I’m sure that there is more than the usual amount of concern and questions,” said Shaun Donovan, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director. That is “all the more reason,” he added, that career officials “should be thinking about how you step up, how you join together in the coming months and years to make sure that this issue gets carried on.” Carrying on efforts to expand federal workforce diversity after Obama’s departure was a repeated message at the summit. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, deputy secretary of energy, said “the work we have begun to date has to be extended across administrations” and how deeply disappointing it would be if that work was “lost or dropped.” Although Gilbert Sandate, chair of the Coalition for Fairness for Hispanics in Government, said the Obama administration has had “inconsistent, spotty success in advancing diversity,” he also praised the president for establishing “one of the most ambitious, multipronged, systematic efforts to institutionalize hiring excellence in government.” The summit grew from Obama’s 2011 Executive Order “establishing a coordinated government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce.” Sandate does not expect similar efforts under Trump. “Trump’s stated and known views about diversity and inclusion in general … do not bode well for a government workforce that looks like America anytime soon,” said Sandate, who was not at the summit. “I’m afraid the challenge under the Trump administration will be to dig in and fight to hold onto the diversity and inclusion gains made thus far, lest they be quickly eroded or eliminated entirely.” Cobert, who this year said that “one of the most challenging barriers to diversity and inclusion is unconscious bias,” cited three examples of “affirmative steps” taken by the administration “to build a diverse workforce”: In November, the federal government “exceeded the president’s goal of hiring 100,000 people with disabilities into the federal workforce over five years.” The Agriculture Department’s use of “blind applications” that don’t include the names of candidates helped increase the percentage of women in its Senior Executive Service (SES) to 39 percent, an increase of almost 50 percent. The Federal Aviation Administration’s “concerted effort to broaden the recruitment effort” led to a significant increase in job offers to Hispanic candidates and women. “These are examples of real progress,” Cobert said in prepared remarks. True. Yet these success stories also tell us how far away parity remains because of the racism, sexism and implicit bias that makes real inclusion an elusive goal. Female senior executives, for example, remain well below their percentage of the general population at the Agriculture Department and across government. The FAA’s efforts resulted in 28 percent of job offers to women, although women hold up half the sky, as Mao Zedong reminded us. Governmentwide, women were 34.4 percent of the SES workforce in fiscal 2015. The Hispanic-Latino category was a minuscule 2.9 percent, according to an OPM report. The percentage of African American senior executives, however, has increased considerably during the Obama years. In 2008, before he took office, black employees were 8.2 percent of the SES. That had increased to 11.3 in 2015. Without mentioning the president-elect, Sherwood-Randall capsulized the call for civil servants to continue the fight for greater diversity under Trump with this simple directive: “Speak truth to power.”)
— Donald Trump has reached a deal with a manufacturer to keep jobs from going to Mexico – Jim Tankersley and Danielle Paquette
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/donald-trump-has-reached-a-deal-with-a-manufacturer-to-keep-jobs-from-going-to-mexico/

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Donald Trump Says He Will Be ‘Leaving My Great Business in Total’  President-elect says it is important to avoid appearance of a conflict of interest – DAMIAN PALETTA
http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-says-he-will-be-leaving-my-great-business-in-total-1480507486
— U.S. to Forgive at Least $108 Billion in Student Debt in Coming Years  GAO report offers first full cost estimate of debt-relief programs, berates Education Department over accounting methods – JOSH MITCHELL
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-forgive-at-least-108-billion-in-student-debt-in-coming-years-1480501802
— More Whites Die Than Are Born in One-Third of States  Trend is reshaping the social, political and economic landscape of the U.S. –  JANET ADAMY  (DIERSEN: Of course, obviously, needless-to-say, and without question, anti-Whites are overjoyed about this.  Who are the leading anti-Whites in the world, in America, in Illinois, in your county, in your township/ward, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/more-whites-die-than-are-born-in-one-third-of-states-1480433481

 

PACIFIC STANDARD
— How Political Affiliation Determines Internet Access  Government officials around the world tend to ignore the Internet needs of political opponents and marginalized minority groups, according to a recent study. – Rick Paulas
https://psmag.com/how-political-affiliation-determines-internet-access-fa5d9b2188f5#.xus6yclh2

 

SEATTLE TIMES
— U.S. Rep. DelBene bill would prohibit religious registry – Editorial (DIERSEN: Islam is more like a political party or a country without borders than a religion.)
http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/us-rep-delbene-bill-would-rightly-prohibit-any-religious-registry/

 

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Welcome to Washington. Are You Ready to Lead? – Dan Chenok
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/promising-practices/2016/11/welcome-washington-are-you-ready-lead/133463/

 

SLATE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “The Going Rate for Mitt Romney’s Soul Is Apparently a $215.57 Meal at Jean-Georges.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/11/30/mitt_romney_dines_with_the_devil.html

November 29 Evening Edition

ABC7
— KANSAS SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS SAFETY PINS; SUPT. COMPARES IT TO BAN ON CONFEDERATE FLAG
http://abc7chicago.com/education/kansas-school-district-bans-safety-pins/1630418/

 

NBC5
— More Than 4,000 Vacant Lots on Sale for $1 in Chicago
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/More-Than-4000-Vacant-Lots-on-Sale-for-1-in-Chicago-403596686.html

 

CBS2
— Campaign Cash Flows As Utility Pushes Controversial Energy Bill – Brad Edwards
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/11/28/2-investigators-campaign-cash-flows-as-utility-pushes-controversial-energy-bill/

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— 55 ticketed at ‘Fight for 15’ protest in West Town
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/220391950-story

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Madigan no-shows meeting, Rauner’s GOP launches attack website – Monique Garcia and Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-bruce-rauner-madigan-state-budget-met-1130-20161129-story.html
— Ill. House fails to overturn Rauner’s veto of automatic voter registration bill
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-automatic-voter-registration-bill-veto-20161129-story.html
— Oak Brook makes offer to avoid red light cameras near Oakbrook Center mall – Chuck Fieldman
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/oak-brook/news/ct-dob-red-light-followup-tl-1201-20161129-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “The death of Obamacare would hurt poor, white Trump voters.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-tom-price-obamacare-trump-20161129-story.html
— Forget ‘identity’ politics. Voters still want to be asked for their votes. – Clarence Page  (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs pander to those who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, 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 longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-identity-politics-clinton-democrats-perspec-1130-20161129-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Should political candidates appeal to particular racial, ethnic or gender groups? Or should they broaden their message to appeal to all groups?  Such are the questions that presidential campaigns ask themselves in the circular firing squad of blame that follows a big loss. Four years ago, the big word for Republicans after President Barack Obama’s re-election was “diversity.” After the party had lost the popular vote in five of the previous six presidential elections, the Republican National Committee’s “autopsy” report called for aggressive outreach to blacks, Hispanics, Asians and other growing nonwhite demographic groups that were not voting much for Republicans. Alas, that approach evaporated with the Grand Old Party’s nomination of Donald Trump. Result: The GOP has lost the popular vote in six of the past seven elections — yet bagged enough electoral votes this time to win the White House.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Ban Donald Trump from Twitter.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-twitter-ban-20161129-story.html
— Trump expected to name ex-Goldman banker Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary, sources say – Ylan Q. Mui, Philip Rucker
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-mnuchin-treasury-secretary-20161129-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— House fails to override Rauner veto of automatic voter reg bill – Tina Sfondeles
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/house-fails-in-attempt-to-override-rauner-veto-of-voter-reg-bill/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Traditional marriage opponents crow about their successes.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/illinois-panel-backs-gay-couple-in-civil-union-complaint/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump and his supporters.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/steinberg-the-sword-of-sincere-religious-faith-has-two-edges/

 

DAILY HERALD
— Fewer candidates, more diversity on Elgin ballot – Elena Ferrarin
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161129/news/161128900/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Your favorite restaurant? It’s probably inspected less than you think – GREG HINZ
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161129/BLOGS02/161129900/your-favorite-restaurant-its-probably-inspected-less-than-you-think
— What happens after five people overdose from heroin in a Chicago nursing home – MARGARET DANILOVICH
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161129/OPINION/161129890/what-happens-after-five-people-overdose-from-heroin-in-a-chicago

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Lawmakers seek to block lame-duck session tax – Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20161129/lawmakers-seek-to-block-lame-duck-session-tax

 

NORTHWEST HERALD
— McSweeney, Franks warn of lame-duck tax increase, showcase opposing bills – Kevin CRAVER
http://www.nwherald.com/2016/11/29/mcsweeney-franks-warn-of-lame-duck-tax-increase-showcase-opposing-bills/atnx4dk/

 

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: What do you say to those who give ammunition to anti-Trumps?
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/fundraiser-launched-for-store-manager-berated-on-video/article_a3e5ecf0-55d6-5024-a83e-ef7d510bae93.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Evanston encourages people to come to America illegally, to stay in America illegally, and to bring others to America illegally.
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/evanston-aldermen-pass-strengthened-welcoming-city-law/article_6291cf3e-11b1-5363-9698-ce63607490f1.html

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: What do you say to those who give ammunition to anti-Trumps?
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/harassment-in-schools-skyrockets-after-election-teachers-report

 

WJBD RADIO
— Deadline for Wisconsin Recount Payment of $3,499,689 Looming
http://www.wjbdradio.com/politics/2016/11/29/deadline-for-wisconsin-recount-payment-looming

 

WSIL TV
— Trump suggests ‘consequences’ for any flag-burners – AP  (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, there were consequences for those like me who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran and there were severe consequences for those like me who opposed political affiliation discrimination, opposed reverse discrimination, and/or opposed age discrimination.)
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/33815068/trump-suggests-consequences-for-any-flag-burners

 

RIVER BENDER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats encourage people to come to America illegally, to stay in America illegally, and to bring others to America illegally.
https://www.riverbender.com/articles/details/durbin-dreamers-should-not-be-deported-16776.cfm

 

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Madigan skips Tuesday mornings leaders meeting due to scheduling conflict
http://ilnews.org/11109/madigan-skips-tuesday-mornings-leaders-meeting-due-scheduling-conflict/
— GOP calls Dem tactics at committee hearing “theater”
http://ilnews.org/11104/gop-calls-dem-tactics-committee-hearing-theater/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ILGOP LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE, “BOSSMADIGAN.COM”
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/ilgop-launches-new-website-bossmadigancom.html
— REP. IVES SPELLS OUT OPPOSITION TO EXELON BAILOUT BILL
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/rep-ives-spells-out-opposition-to-exelon-bailout-bill-.html
— CHICAGO CHAMBER, RETAIL MERCHANTS’ REPORT CALLS FOR EXELON BAILOUT TO SAVE NUCLEAR PLANTS
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/chicago-chamber-retail-merchants-report-calls-for-exelon-bailout-to-save-nuclear-plants.html
— AFP-IL EXEC DIRECTOR SAYS “END THE SUBSIDIES, SAY NO TO THE BAILOUT BILL”
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/afp-il-exec-director-says-end-the-subsidies-say-no-to-the-bailout-bill.html
— WHERE’S WEYERMULLER? AT BLACK FRIDAY PROTEST ON CHICAGO’S MAG MILE
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/wheres-weyermuller-at-black-friday-protest-on-chicagos-mag-mile.html

 

DAILY CALLER
— Billionaire Behind NYC Trump Sign Removals Tied To Illinois Gov. Rauner – William J. Kelly
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/29/billionaire-behind-nyc-trump-sign-removals-tied-to-illinois-gov-rauner/
— CNN Anchor: Americans Should Wear Hijabs To Show Solidarity With Fearful Muslims – Chuck Ross
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/29/cnn-anchor-americans-should-wear-hijabs-to-show-solidarity-with-fearful-muslims-video/

 

CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN NEWS
— MORE THAN 800,000 NONCITIZENS MAY HAVE VOTED IN 2016 ELECTION, EXPERT SAYS
http://conservativerepublicannews.com/2016/11/29/more-than-800000-noncitizens-may-have-voted-in-2016-election-expert-says/

 

FOX NEWS CHANNEL
— Trump: Flag-Burning Must Have Consequences, ‘Perhaps Loss of Citizenship or Year in Jail’
http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/11/29/trump-says-burning-flag-must-have-consequences-suggests-loss-citizenship-or-year-jail

 

GOPUSA
— Somali Refugee Wounds 11 with Car and Knife at Ohio State
http://www.gopusa.com/somali-refugee-wounds-11-with-car-and-knife-at-ohio-state/
— Texas governor plans to end sanctuary cities in state  (DIERSEN: Rauner should do the same.)
http://www.gopusa.com/texas-governor-plans-to-end-sanctuary-cities-in-state/
— Treasonous: Maryland schools taking steps to become sanctuary campuses
http://www.gopusa.com/maryland-schools-taking-steps-to-become-sanctuary-campuses/
— Trump’s Tweet on Flag Burning Sets Media Aflame
http://www.gopusa.com/trumps-tweet-on-flag-burning-sets-media-aflame/
— It’s Hard to Win a Swimsuit Contest in a Burkini
http://www.gopusa.com/its-hard-to-win-a-swimsuit-contest-in-a-burkini/

 

BREITBART
— Failed Democrat VP Candidate Tim Kaine Tweets Against ‘Gun Violence’ After OSU Knife Attack – WARNER TODD HUSTON
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/28/failed-dem-vp-candidate-tim-kaine-tweets-gun-violence-osu-knife-attack/

 

THE HILL
— Trump mulls loss of citizenship, jail for flag burning – HARPER NEIDIG
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/307811-trump-proposes-harsh-punishments-for-flag-burning

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: What do you say to those who give ammunition to anti-Trumps?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-hate-incidents_us_583dd8bfe4b0860d6116bf95

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Protesters Across U.S. Demand $15 Minimum Wage – DANIEL VICTOR and NOAM SCHEIBER  (DIERSEN: I did not earn $15 an hour in today’s dollars until I was 18 years old in 1966.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/business/economy/fight-for-15-wages-protests.html

 

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Donald Trump’s claims of massive widespread voter fraud require great investigation — which hopefully his team has done – CHARLES STEWART III
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/trump-voter-fraud-claims-large-not-investigated-article-1.2890634

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Canada Falls Short of Pledge on Border Security and Trade, Watchdog Says  Auditor general sees room for improvement despite pact with U.S. in 2011 – PAUL VIEIRA
http://www.wsj.com/articles/canada-falls-short-of-pledge-on-border-security-and-trade-watchdog-says-1480449525

 

USA TODAY
— Gingrich calls Trump tweet about vote fraud a big mistake – Susan Page
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/11/29/gingrich-calls-trump-tweet-vote-fraud-big-mistake/94604846/

 

PBS
— Low-wage workers across the country protest and strike, demanding $15 minimum wage – KRISTEN DOERER  (DIERSEN: Did you work for less that $15 an hour in today’s dollars?  I worked for far less than $15 an hour in today’s dollars 1964-1966 when I washed in the basement of the S.S. Kresges in Chicago Heights and during 1966 when I cleaned golf shoes at Flossmoor Country Club, chipped slag at Thrall Car in South Chicago Heights, and pumped gasoline at John’s Sinclair in South Chicago Heights.)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/low-wage-workers-across-country-protest-strike-demanding-15-minimum-wage/

 

MONEY MAGAZINE
— Dolly Parton Is Grateful She Grew Up Poor – Reuters (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my parents had far more money than their parents had.  If that is true, why did I a) do yard work and deliver newspapers 1962-1964, b) wash dishes 1964-1966, c) clean golf shoes, chip slag, and pump gasoline in 1966, d) deliver mail 1966-1969, and e) work on an automobile assemble line and work as a security guard in 1970 to pay for a) 1958 Chevy BelAir when I was 16 in 1964, b) a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, c) college expenses in UIC 1966-1968, d) a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, e) a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, and f) college expenses at NIU 1969-1970?)
http://time.com/money/4585236/dolly-parton-money-lessons-dollywood/

November 29 Morning Edition

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Megyn Kelly’s lunch with DuPage Republicans – LISA BERTAGNOLI (DIERSEN: Megyn Kelly spoke at Dan Goodwin’s outstanding Annual Holiday Luncheon Monday, November 28, 2016, at the Westin Hotel in Lombard. She was interviewed by Indiana Governor Elect Eric Holcomb.  The 500+ attendees included Cubs players David Ross, Kyle Schwarber, and Pedro Strop; current and former federal officials Biggert, Hultrgen, Kinzinger, LaHood, and Roskam; current and former Illinois officials Bellock, Brady, Biggins, Coladipietro, Connelly, Daniels, Dillard, Fortner, Ives, Lauzen, McConnaughy, Millner, Munger, Murphy, Oberweis, Reboletti, Sanguinetti, Wehrli, and Winger; current and former county officials Berlin, Bucholz, Cantore, Carlin, Cronin, Eckhoff,Elliott, Fichtner, Grant, Grasso, Grogan, Henry, Hinds, Jorgensen, Kachiroubas, King, Krajewski, Mazzochi, Murphy, Painter, Puchalski, Redick, Ruscitti, Schillerstrom, Schultz, Zaruba, and Zay; township officials Anderson, Dabrowski, Kain, Keller, and Valle; current and former party leaders Brady, Claar, Donovan, Durante, Fisher, Marchese, Minor, Porter, and Schneider; judges Birkett, Diamond, Fawell, Guerin, Jorgensen, Kinsella, Kleeman, McJoynt, and O’Shea; and many others including Bond, Gidwitz, Fitzpatrick, Marquardt, Proft, Ricketts, Shaw, and the Wagners. This outstanding annual event benefits the New Directions Affordable Housing Corporation.)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161129/NEWS07/161129914
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Nov. 28, while the rest of the city was recovering from Thanksgiving, 600 movers and shakers—mostly Republicans from DuPage County—were at the Westin in Lombard for Daniel Goodwin’s annual holiday lunch. Goodwin, a former Chicago Public Schools teacher who is principal and chairman at Inland Real Estate Group in Oak Brook, holds the invitation-only, private luncheon for his friends. It always features a name-brand speaker (George W. Bush and Bruce Rauner in 2014) and this year, that speaker was Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who is promoting her new book, “Settle for More.” If your invitation got lost in the mail, don’t fret. Here’s a recap of what you missed. *Selfie opps with World Series champion Chicago Cubs Kyle Schwarber, David Ross and Pedro Strop. The three hung out in a roped-off corral before lunch, smiling for photos with dozens of guests. Also on hand: Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts, who is reportedly being considered for a cabinet position by Donald Trump. *Wayne Messmer, former Cubs public-address announcer, delivering “God Bless America” and “The Star Spangled Banner” before lunch was served. Messmer, who has performed the National Anthem for Blackhawks, Bears and White Sox games, delivered straight by-the-book performances of both songs. *Lunch with 140 politicians. According to Goodwin, elected officials made up a quarter of the lunch bunch. Goodwin called on two, Illinois Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti and Gov.-elect Eric Holcomb (R) of Indiana, to stand and be recognized. *Mass-autographed copies of Kelly’s book. $32.39. *Holcomb’s 40-minute interview with Kelly, on a stage that held two Christmas trees, two American flags and a menorah. Kelly, careful to the point of near blandness, said she thought the media had learned “very little” during the campaign; that she hoped the “magnanimous Trump, not the thin-skinned, petty Trump” would inhabit the Oval Office; that she would have loved to have interviewed Hillary Clinton during the election cycle; and that Steve Bannon, Trump’s pick for chief strategist, tops her interview wish list. *A two-minute video about New Directions Housing, Goodwin’s nonprofit that provides affordable housing for people who need it, and a gentle ask to contribute. Rodger Brown, New Directions president, said the luncheon, which is primarily a social function and not a fundraiser, usually brings in about $50,000 for New Directions.)

 

POLITICO
— Megyn Kelly’s top interview choice? Steve Bannon  ‘What’s wrong with centrist?’ she asks, thinking of Fox News – NATASHA KORECKI
http://www.politico.com/states/illinois/story/2016/11/megyn-kellys-top-interview-choice-steve-bannon-107658
(FROM THE ARTICLE:  President-elect Donald Trump’s top White House strategist Steve Bannon hasn’t had kind words for Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly; still, Kelly said Monday she’d like to sit down with him one-on-one. Bannon has criticized both Fox News and Kelly specifically, telling the Hollywood Reporter: “Rupert is a globalist and never understood Trump. To him, Trump is a radical. Now they’ll go centrist and build the network around Megyn Kelly.” “My response to that is, we already are centrist,” Kelly said Monday. “What is wrong with centrist? Must the whole nation be polarized now, even the news organizations?” Kelly, visiting here as part of a national tour to promote her new memoir, Settle For More, was interviewed by Indiana Governor-elect Eric Holcomb at the private event, which was hosted by Inland Real Estate CEO Dan Goodwin as part of a holiday fund-raiser. “To delegitimize all of the media has real implications that as a journalist, I think are dangerous,” Kelly said. “And we should put the pause button on accepting this narrative that the media are scum and they’re disgusting and they’re all in the tank and they’re not trustworthy, which I do not believe. I just do not think it’s true.” She also spoke of the amount of “disinformation” during the campaign. “I do think this year was a free-for-all,” Kelly said. “To try to fact check (Trump) would be exhausting. He really told several …. things that were untrue by the hour in the course of an hour. And it was sort of accepted … I hope that doesn’t set a precedent for other politicians.” Kelly marveled that Hillary Clinton never appeared on her show though she said she tried to book her throughout election. “She actually isn’t on my list anymore.” What does she think the media has learned from this past election? Kelly said she did think there was some soul-searching by journalists who completely wrote off Donald Trump and found themselves shocked by the outcome on Election Day. But for the most part: “Very little,” she said, to laughter. “We’re not an introspective group. I think the media in my experience … most of the journalists I know are tough, they’re shoe-leather reporters, they care about getting it right. Nine out of 10 of them make no money. They don’t have any kind of glamorous life and they’re just trying to be First Amendment advocates.”)
— Todd Ricketts ‘honored’ to be under consideration for post with Trump – NATASHA KORECKI
http://www.politico.com/states/illinois/story/2016/11/todd-ricketts-talks-possible-trump-cabinet-post-role-in-fundraising-107645
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts said on Monday that it is “an honor” to be under consideration for a top post in the Trump administration. He met with the president-elect last week. Trump has discussed naming Ricketts as deputy commerce secretary. Ricketts is the son of billionaire TD Ameritrade founder and conservative donor Joe Ricketts, and the brother of Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican. Another brother, Tom Ricketts is chairman of the Cubs. “The reality is, it was an honor to be invited to interview. If something comes of it, that’s great. If nothing happens, I still will have felt honored to be part of the process,” Ricketts told POLITICO Illinois. “We had a really good conversation but nothing was set in stone. A thousand things can happen, so we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait until it’s all officially, official, official.” Family members were not supportive of Trump during the primary season, something the candidate noticed. At one point, Trump tweeted that the family “better be careful, they have a lot to hide!” Trump then threatened to launch ads attacking the family, “telling them all what a rotten job they’re doing with the Chicago Cubs.” In the general election, however, family members came through for Trump. They took control of a super PAC called Future45 and Todd Ricketts reportedly helped raise $30 million from other groups, while Joe and Marlene Ricketts donated $1 million to groups supporting Trump. Ricketts said Monday that he and Trump laughed off their personal differences. “We supported other candidates in the primary, but there was never a time when we weren’t going to support the Republican nominee for the general election,” Ricketts said. Ricketts said his fundraising apparatus ended up filling a void left by other Republicans who traditionally played that role, like Karl Rove. “We had an entity and an organization and relationships that made it easier for us to be that entity to support Trump than many others,” Ricketts said. Ricketts said he believes there is a mandate to address working class wages. “We’ve seen wages stagnate among working class Americans and those are the people who put [Trump] into office,” he said. “So the first thing we need to do is generate some economic growth. I think the quickest way to do that would be some tax reform, we need Dodd-Frank reform, we need Obamacare reform. And with those things I think we’re in the right direction.”)

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Women plan march on Washington day after Trump’s inauguration.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-womens-march-on-washington-met-20161128-story.html
— Madigan says he has ‘overwhelming support to be re-elected speaker’ – Monique Garcia and Rick Pearson  (DIERSEN: If you have personally benefited from the problems that Madigan has created, you support Madigan.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rauner-madigan-fall-session-20161128-story.html
— Illinois companies see possibilities in Safe Roads amendment, Trump infrastructure plans – Robert Reed
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/ct-infrastructure-spending-illinois-robert-reed-1128-biz-20161128-column.html
— How Donald Trump’s immigration plan could hurt tech and its workers  Chicago tech business leaders say foreign talent boosts economy – Kate MacArthur  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps a) glorify and praise foreign countries and their citizens and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn America and its citizens.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-immigrants-tech-trump-bsi-20161128-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Five myths about the alt-right.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-alt-right-white-supremacy-neo-nazis-20161128-story.html
— The left’s love affair with Fidel Castro – Cal Thomas
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-liberals-praise-fidel-castro-20161129-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Republicans say Dems divided and in no hurry to solve budget mess – Tina Sfondeles
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/republicans-say-dems-divided-and-in-no-hurry-to-solve-budget-mess/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: What do you say to those who give ammunition to the anti-Trumps?
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/video-of-customer-rant-prompts-10k-in-donations-to-store-worker/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps ask “Does Trump believe every stupid thing, or just say it?”
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-does-trump-believe-every-stupid-thing-or-just-say-it/
— Late-paying charter schools fail Chicago civics class – Editorial
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-late-paying-charter-schools-fail-chicago-civics-class/

 

WBEZ
— TREASONOUS: Evanston Strengthens Sanctuary City Status – Patrick Smith, Odette Yousef
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/evanston-considers-becoming-a-sanctuary-city-to-immigrants/2ab117dc-9d31-43e9-b586-93d14423b824

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Legislative leaders meet, will meet again – Doug Finke
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20161128/legislative-leaders-meet-will-meet-again
—  It’s time for some courageous outrage in Illinois – Editorial
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20161128/our-view-its-time-for-some-courageous-outrage-in-illinois
— Imprisoned Hastert fights for tax-covered pension – AP
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20161128/imprisoned-hastert-fights-for-tax-covered-pension

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump attacks CNN over reporting on false voter fraud claims  Trump issues attacks via Twitter – Dylan Byers
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/trump-attacks-cnn-over-reporting-on-false-voter-fraud-claims
— Panelist: Give Donald Trump ‘his medication’  Republican commentator drew protest from fellow panelist on ‘CNN Tonight’ – Josiah Ryan
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/panelist-give-donald-trump-his-medication

 

SANGAMON SUN
— Illinois election-statistics website releases ‘Post-Mortem’ data report – Jeff Gantt
http://sangamonsun.com/stories/511049384-illinois-election-statistics-website-releases-post-mortem-data-report

 

CHICAGO NOW
— Gov. Rauner wants the same deal he wanted 14 months ago: Watch Berkowitz w/R House Leader Durkin
http://www.chicagonow.com/public-affairs-with-jeff-berkowitz/2016/11/gov-rauner-wants-the-same-deal-he-wanted-14-months-ago-watch-berkowitz-wr-house-leader-durkin-cable-and-web/

 

CHICAGO MAROON
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: University of Chicago encourages people to come to America illegally, to stay in America illegally, and to bring others to America illegally.  That is treasonous.
https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2016/11/29/zimmer-signals-support-daca/

 

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Minority wrongs  Why the losers are winning in the U.S. – James Krohe Jr.
http://illinoistimes.com/article-17956-minority-wrongs.html

 

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Illinois State Police – Only truth will lead to trust – time to step up – Kirk Allen
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2016/11/illinois-state-police-only-truth-will-lead-to-trust-time-to-step-up/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— THORNER: ALL-STAR HEARTLAND PANEL DISCUSS IMPORTANCE OF BREAKING THE DEMOCRATIC SUPER HOUSE MAJORITY (PART 2)
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/thorner-all-star-heartland-panel-discuss-importance-of-breaking-the-democratic-super-house-majority.html

 

GATEWAY PUNDIT
— ONE THOUSAND VETERANS Swarm Liberal Hampshire College After Removal of US Flag – Jim Hoft
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/one-thousand-veterans-protest-liberal-hampshire-college-removal-us-flag-video/

 

PJ MEDIA
— Former Speaker of the House John Boehner says Donald Trump is no ideologue, and that he might be “barely a Republican.” Some would say the same thing about Boehner himself.
https://pjmedia.com/video/john-boehner-trump-is-barely-a-republican/

 

CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN NEWS
— THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ELECTED DONALD TRUMP, NOT THE ALT-RIGHT – Kent Kellar
http://conservativerepublicannews.com/2016/11/29/the-american-people-elected-donald-trump-not-the-alt-right/

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— Decision Time for the GOP Elite – Michael Kimmitt
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/decision_time_for_gop_the_elite.html

 

LIFEZETTE
— Why Mexico Should Embrace Trump’s Wall  Increased border security, better cooperation would slow flow of illegal guns from United States – Brendan Kirby
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/why-mexico-should-embrace-trumps-wall/

 

CHRISTIAN NEWS WIRE
— AFTAH to Trump: ‘Gay Marriage’ Not ‘Settled’ Law  LaBarbera Urges President-elect to Honor His Pledge to GOP Voters to Defend Traditional Marriage by Working to Reverse SCOTUS Obergefell Ruling
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/5444278723.html

 

INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC NEWS
— Over 1500 faith leaders urge Republican lawmakers to reject Trump’s ‘Cabinet of Bigotry’  (DIERSEN: Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, “faith leaders” act as operatives or as dupes for the Democrat Party.)
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=31439

 

BREITBART
— Federal Agencies Ignore Republicans, Push ‘Midnight Regulations’ Before Trump Presidency – ALEX SWOYER
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/28/federal-agencies-ignore-republicans-pushing-midnight-regulations-forward-trump-presidency/

 

THE BLAZE
— Texas Republican resigns from Electoral College: ‘I can not and will not vote for Donald Trump’ – Kate Scanlon
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/28/texas-republican-resigns-from-electoral-college-i-can-not-and-will-not-vote-for-donald-trump/

 

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Department of Homeland Security Overwhelmed by Green Card Catastrophe  DHS issuing thousands of duplicate cards, terrorists can access benefits – Adam Kredo
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/department-homeland-security-overwhelmed-green-card-catastrophe/

 

THE HILL
— Annoyed Dems dismiss recount as ‘waste of time’ – NIALL STANAGE
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/307787-annoyed-dems-dismiss-recount-as-waste-of-time
— Majority expect Donald Trump to keep promises – REBECCA SAVRANSKY  (DIERSEN: What promises have you made?  My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have promised to do little or nothing other than to stop me from putting out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and to stop you from reading those emails.)
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/307791-exclusive-majority-expect-donald-trump-to-keep-promises

 

ROLL CALL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-conservatives say “Liberals Should Welcome Republican Allies in the Age of Trump  Time to reflect after winning the culture wars and losing the governing wars.”
http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/liberals-welcome-republicans-trump

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Professor Watchlist Is Seen as Threat to Academic Freedom – CHRISTOPHER MELE  (DIERSEN: What lists are you on?  Individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, 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 longer than their ancestors HAVE ME ON THEIR LISTS OF THOSE WHO ARE Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/us/professor-watchlist-is-seen-as-threat-to-academic-freedom.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A new website that accuses nearly 200 college professors of advancing “leftist propaganda in the classroom” and discriminating against conservative students has been criticized as a threat to academic freedom. The site, Professor Watchlist, which first appeared Nov. 21, says it names those instructors who “advance a radical agenda in lecture halls.” “We aim to post professors who have records of targeting students for their viewpoints, forcing students to adopt a certain perspective, and/or abuse or harm students in any way for standing up for their beliefs,” wrote Matt Lamb, an organizer of the site. The Professor Watchlist is a project of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization that says its mission is to educate students about “true free market values.” Charlie Kirk, its founder and executive director, wrote in a blog post that “it’s no secret that some of America’s college professors are totally out of line” and that it was time to expose them. But Julio C. Pino, an associate professor of history at Kent State University in Ohio who is among those named on the site, said in an interview, “What we are seeing with this site is a kind of normalizing of prosecuting professors, shaming professors, defaming professors.” “The broader issue it raises is: What kind of country is America going to become in the next four years?” he added. Professor Pino said professors should not fight the creators of the list directly but instead seek allies on and off campus to address what gave rise to the atmosphere that allowed the website to flourish in the first place.)
— Facebook Shouldn’t Fact-Check – JESSICA LESSINNO (DIERSEN: To stop me from putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails together and sending them out, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have to not only fact-check everything in the articles that I link to, but that I have to carry out their blacklist orders. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have millions if not billions of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, countries, etc. on their blacklists.  Because I refuse to carry out their blacklist orders, they blacklist me.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/opinion/facebook-shouldnt-fact-check.html
— Facebook Runs Up Against German Hate Speech Laws – MARK SCOTT and MELISSA EDDY  (DIERSEN: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, if not already, anything said or written by those who are member of one or more of the following groups will be considered to be hate speech: Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owner, German American, draft avoider, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/technology/facebook-germany-hate-speech-fake-news.html
— News Outlets Rethink Usage of the Term ‘Alt-Right’ – SYDNEY EMBER
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/business/media/news-outlets-rethink-usage-of-the-term-alt-right.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Donald Trump’s Lies About the Popular Vote.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/opinion/donald-trumps-lies-about-the-popular-vote.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Threatening Cuba Will Backfire.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/opinion/threatening-cuba-will-backfire.html
— Challenging the Boss in Public? For Kellyanne Conway, It’s Part of the Job – MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MAGGIE HABERMAN  (DIERSEN: What do you say about those who you work/worked for?  Virtually all those who I have worked for demanded total obedience from their subordinates.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump.html
— When Having Insurance Still Leaves You Dangerously Uncovered – Aaron E. Carroll  (DIERSEN: I pay lots of money for dental insurance, but very little is covered.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/upshot/when-having-insurance-still-leaves-you-dangerously-uncovered.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Michael Steele: What Republicans need to do about all ‘the KKK stuff’ – Jonathan Capehart
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/11/22/michael-steele-what-republicans-need-to-do-about-all-the-kkk-stuff/

 

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Trump won by rejecting the political rules” and ask “Will the GOP Senate give him more leeway with Cabinet nominees?”
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-confirmations-20161119-story.html

 

USA TODAY
— Trump adviser Peter Thiel is on Silicon Valley speed dial – Jessica Guynn
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/11/28/peter-thiel-donald-trump-silicon-valley-adviser/94545582/

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for Everything  Beijing wants to give every citizen a score based on behavior such as spending habits, turnstile violations and filial piety, which can blacklist citizens from loans, jobs, air travel – JOSH CHIN and Gillian Wong  (DIERSEN: All my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes want to control not only me, but to control you and to control everyone else and everything else.)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-new-tool-for-social-control-a-credit-rating-for-everything-1480351590
— The Recount Hail Mary  The left may get an unexpected lesson in electoral federalism. – Editorial
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-recount-hail-mary-1480285772
— The Benefits of Being Distracted – SUMATHI REDDY (DIERSEN: What do you focus on?  I focus on putting out two GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails each and every day.)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-benefits-of-being-distracted-1480357109

 

SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
— Should more troops become eligible for food stamps? – Carl Prine
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sd-me-military-compensation-20161121-story.html

 

SACRAMENTO BEE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-conservatives say “Trump’s triumph should signal an end to checklist conservatism.”
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/ben-boychuk/article115581483.html

 

THE BEAST
— Trump: Flag-Burners Should Be Jailed
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/11/29/trump-flag-burners-should-be-jailed.html

 

RIGHT WING WATCH
— Peter LaBarbera: Trump Might Be ‘Actually More Dangerous’ That Clinton In Promoting LGBT Rights – Kyle Mantyla
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/peter-labarbera-trump-might-be-actually-more-dangerous-that-clinton-in-promoting-lgbt-rights/

 

SOCIALIST WORKER
— Now’s the time for socialist organization.  We need to make the demonstrations against Trump’s presidency as big as possible – Danny Katch
https://socialistworker.org/2016/11/29/nows-the-time-for-socialist-organization

 

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Should Presidents Include Political Opponents In Their Cabinets? (DIERSEN: The answer is NO based on my experience serving as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012.  I should write a book about those TAPROOT officers, directors, and members who worked the hardest to destroy me and to destroy TAPROOT.)
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2016/should_presidents_include_political_opponents_in_their_cabinets

November 21 Morning Edition

NBC5
— McCain to Trump: Waterboarding Won’t Be Reinstated  “We will not waterboard. We will not do it,” McCain said – Rob Gillies
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/McCain-to-Trump-US-Will-Not-Bring-Back-Waterboarding-402107836.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Disruption in Chicago ‘Hamilton’ audience ends in man’s arrest – Darel Jevens and Jordan Owen
http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/disruptive-trump-fan-removed-from-chicago-hamilton-audience/
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Chicago murders still outpacing New York and L.A. combined – Sam Charles
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-murders-still-outpacing-new-york-and-los-angeles-combined/
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Close-to-home murders another element of Chicago’s violent year – Sam Charles
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/close-to-home-murders-another-element-of-chicagos-violent-year/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps want selling prices of condos in Trump Tower to drop.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/kapos-jitters-about-trump-tower-property-values/
— Don’t let fake news fake you out – Editorial
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-dont-let-fake-news-fake-you-out/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps a) glorify and praise Islam and b) viciously demonize, viciously denigrate, and viciously condemn those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that do not glorify and praise Islam.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/steinberg-which-are-more-dangerous-muslims-or-gun-owners/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Donald Trump could end up being a good president – Bloomberg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-good-president-20161118-story.html
— Welcome to your new job, Mr. Trump! A note from HR – Lara Weber  (DIERSEN: There are about 1.4 million civilian federal employees and virtually all of them are Democrats.  What if Trump decided make the federal government “look like America.”  What if he said that he going to fire about 700,000 federal employees and replace them with Republicans?  I would be more than happy to help him with that.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-human-relations-trump-hr-perspec-xxx-20161118-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Donald Trump will start his first job as a government employee on Jan. 20. For human resources professionals working with the White House, this must be an “on-boarding” experience like no other. In case none of their existing boilerplate welcome letters fits for this president-elect, I offer an updated version: Mr. Trump: Welcome to the company! We in the Human Resources Department of the United States of America congratulate you on your new job! Your start date is Jan. 20, 2017, and your starting salary will be $400,000 per year as a full-time employee (though we understand that you have opted for the $1/year salary plan; please be sure to complete the appropriate tax forms). Our role as human resources professionals is to help you succeed. You have a big job ahead as president, and we know it might feel overwhelming. We’re here to help you get acclimated and address any concerns you may have regarding your job description: running the free world. We understand you’ve already had a few meetings with your new staff as well as the outgoing executive team. Great. They’re a terrific bunch, with years — in many cases decades — of experience in running the federal government. We reviewed your file and noticed some gaps in work experience. It appears that, aside from a brief internship of sorts with your father, this is your first job as an employee. We can imagine the anxiety you must feel, and so we are making available our full catalog of 6,452 training videos, which you can access from your desktop computer. We highly recommend you watch them all. But because you have never been an actual employee, we thought it important to introduce you to your 314 million or so new supervisors — your bosses. This will be awkward, and we can explain the math further in our first in-person orientation session, but it’s important you know that fewer than half of your new bosses wanted to hire you. More of your new bosses actually wanted to hire another job candidate, but we have a hiring process at this company that dates to its founding more than two centuries ago — and you know how some companies are resistant to change. But we digress … To get you up to speed for your Jan. 20 start date (that’s just about two months, so make time to study!), here is an overview of the people you will be working for. For brevity, we will call them “Americans.” We recognize that you’ve already connected with many Americans who are much like you — the older-than-65, non-Hispanic white males who did not serve in the military and earn far more than the median household income, $53,482. You no doubt will find comfort surrounding yourself with those like-minded Americans, but we encourage you — for the good of the company and for your own professional success! — to get to know your other bosses, as well, including:)

— Your 90-day return policy  Early signs that a new employee is not a good fit – and may need to go – J.T. O’Donnell  (DIERSEN: After I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980 when I was 31 years old, to see how good a fit I would be, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates soon asked me many questions to see how strong a Republican I was. When they learned how strong a Republican that I was, they quickly tried to get rid of me, but they learned that because I had transferred to GAO from another federal agency, I was not under any kind or probationary period at GAO. They were furious.)
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-tribune/20161121/282003262018908

 

DAILY HERALD
— Four candidates file for Wheaton City Council at start of filing period – Jessica Cilella
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161121/news/161129857/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: McNeily, 28, said he is running because he hopes to inspire other millennials to run for public office. He said he is an elected committeeman and has served on the city’s community relations commission for two years.)
— Five candidates file fast for 4 Naperville council seats – Marie Wilson
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161121/news/161129885/
— Four candidates file to run for Aurora mayor – Robert Sanchez
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161121/news/161129875/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Candidate filing begins in Aurora, Naperville, Wheaton – Robert Sanchez
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161121/news/161129897/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Wheaton  All four district seats on the Wheaton City Council are up for grabs.  Incumbents Phil Suess, Thor Saline, John Rutledge and Todd Scalzo are expected to seek re-election. They represent the north, east, south and west districts of the city, respectively. Other residents who have pulled packets from the city clerk’s office include Roger Frye, Lynn Robbins, Joseph Leone, Robert McNeily, Thomas Dymit, Katherine Patel and Scott Lightbody. More than four candidates would need to file for one of the district seats to cause a primary. “We’ve had it in the past where packets have gone out but they have not been filed,” City Clerk Sharon Barrett-Hagen said. “You never know how Monday is going to go. Not everyone wants to come the first day.”)
— ‘Hamilton’ disruption leads to arrest in Chicago
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161120/news/161129929/

 

QUAD CITY TIMES
— ‘Hamilton’ actor: ‘There’s nothing to apologize for’ – MARK KENNEDY
http://qctimes.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/hamilton-actor-there-s-nothing-to-apologize-for/article_57505277-7581-514b-b6f3-d8137adb3376.html

 

NORTHWEST HERALD
— New law requires salon workers in Illinois get domestic violence training – JORDYN REILAND  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasing, Democrats paint men as being domestic abusers and sexual assaulters.)
http://www.nwherald.com/2016/11/18/new-law-requires-salon-workers-in-illinois-get-domestic-violence-training/aht0wr9/

 

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Nightmare finances should lead to the Illinois dream – a balanced, multiyear budget – Editorial
http://www.rrstar.com/opinion/20161120/our-view-nightmare-finances-should-lead-to-illinois-dream—balanced-multiyear-budget

 

JOURNAL GAZETTE
— Schock allegedly used voter visits for profit – AP  (DIERSEN: How lavish is/was your lifestyle?  Because I have always been a Republican, and especially because I am a non-veteran White male Republican, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being undeservedly filthy rich because I bought new cars, paid for college tuition and books, bought real estate, bought collector cars, saved for retirement, etc.)
http://www.journalgazette.net/news/us/Schock-allegedly-used-voter-visits-for-profit-16437367
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The indictment of a 35-year-old disgraced former Republican congressman jolted residents of his central Illinois district, shaken by prosecutors’ claims that Aaron Schock illegally dipped into campaign and government coffers to subsidize a lavish lifestyle, including his Capitol Hill office done up in the style of “Downton Abbey.”)

 

WSIL TV
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Republicans say “GOP’s control of Washington carries risks.”  Anti-Republicans should acknowledge that virtually all federal employees are Democrats who want Republicans to fail.
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/33757779/gops-control-of-washington-carries-risks

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Obama offers ‘wait and see’ approach to Trump  (DIERSEN: Democrats want Republicans to fail.  My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government wanted me to fail.  They wanted the jobs and promotions that I got to be given to Democrats, and especially to Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger.)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/obama-offers-wait-and-see-approach-to-trump-but-adds-hell-be-watching
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who hate Republicans blame Republicans for hate crimes.
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/spike-in-hate-crimes-prompts-special-ny-police-unit

 

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Unofficial Results Show Boosts In Turnout And Third-Party Votes In Areas Of N. IL – JENNA DOOLEY
http://northernpublicradio.org/post/unofficial-results-show-boosts-turnout-and-third-party-votes-areas-n-il

 

LINCOLN COURIER
— Politics and the power games of today – Dan Tackett
http://www.lincolncourier.com/news/20161120/politics-and-power-games-of-today

 

VERNON HILLS PATCH
— VERY SAD: Vernon Hills considering video gambling – Patrick Martin
http://patch.com/illinois/vernonhills/vernon-hills-considering-video-gambling

 

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Illinois Democrats respond to Trump presidency at packed Evanston event – Jeffrey Wang and Sam Krevlin  (DIERSEN: Democrat teachers focus on cranking out “good little Democrats.”)
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2016/11/20/city/illinois-democrats-respond-to-trump-presidency-at-packed-evanston-event/

 

CHICAGO NOW
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: At a “community meeting” in Evanston, Democrats blast Republicans and plan anti-Republican actions.
http://www.chicagonow.com/riding-the-waves/2016/11/what-i-saw-and-heard-at-evanstons-post-election-community-meeting/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ROSKAM ENDORSES POMPEO FOR CIA  (DIERSEN: Outstandingly, both Roskam and Hultgren endorsed me in 2000 when I first ran for Republican Precinct Committeeman for Precinct 9 in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County.)
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/roskam-endorses-pompeo-for-cia.html
— ONE WAY TO STOP PENALIZING MARRIAGE  (DIERSEN: The Diersens have paid the federal income tax “marriage penalty” big time since they got married in 1978.)
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/one-way-to-stop-penalizing-marriage.html

 

CAPITOL FAX
— Scott Kennedy digs down into the 2016 numbers
http://capitolfax.com/2016/11/21/kennedy-digs-down-into-the-2016-numbers/
— Guzzardi proposes bill to ban pension investments in Trump border wall companies  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats a) side with foreign countries, and especially with Mexico, against America and b) side with the citizens of foreign countries, and especially with the citizens of Mexico, against the citizens of America.)
http://capitolfax.com/2016/11/21/guzzardi-proposes-bill-to-ban-pension-investments-in-trump-border-wall-companies/
— What was Schock’s intent?
http://capitolfax.com/2016/11/21/what-was-schocks-intent/

 

GOPUSA
— Childish Theatrics by Democrats Wearing Thin
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=17433
— OUTSTANDING: Legal marijuana may be doomed next year
http://www.gopusa.com/legal-marijuana-may-be-doomed-next-year/
— McCain: I don’t give a damn what the president of the United States wants to do
http://www.gopusa.com/mccain-i-dont-give-a-damn-what-the-president-of-the-united-states-wants-to-do/

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— Decision Time for the GOP Elite – Michael Kimmitt  (DIERSEN: Did you support or oppose Trump after he won the nomination?  What decisions have the GOP Elites in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois made about you?  Those who opposed Trump after he won the nomination should be shown the door.)
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/decision_time_for_gop_the_elite.html
— Bureaucratic Tyranny in Trump’s Crosshairs – Karin McQuillan
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/bureaucratic_tyranny_in_trumps_crosshairs.html

 

LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES
— Stop Being So Critical – Tim Hetzner  (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are extremely critical of me.  Should I start being critical of them?)
http://devotions.lccharities.org/2016/11/21/stop-critical-part-1/

 

FOX NEWS CHANNEL
— Obama Reserves Right to Nag Trump from Sidelines
nation.foxnews.com/2016/11/21/obama-reserves-right-nag-trump-sidelines
— New York City Seeks to Fine Trump Supporter $41G Over Tree Fliers
http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/11/21/new-york-city-seeks-fine-trump-supporter-41g-over-tree-fliers

 

NEWS BUSTERS
— Celebs at AMAs Rage ‘No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA!’ – Alexa Moutevelis Coombs
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/alexa-moutevelis-coombs/2016/11/21/celebs-amas-rage-no-trump-no-kkk-no-fascist-usa

 

NEWSMAX
— Conservative Group Seeks Pepsi CEO Resignation – Eric Mack  (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will Pepsi a) start hiring only those who voted for Clinton, b) fire its employees who did not vote for Clinton, and c) tell everyone who did not vote for Clinton to go to HELL?)
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/pepsico-ceo-indra-nooyi-nlpc-says-resign/2016/11/20/id/759854/

 

BREITBART
— MSNBC Guest: ‘Radical Extremist’ Jeff Sessions Would ‘Start Bringing Civil Rights Cases on Behalf of White People’ – TRENT BAKER  (DIERSEN: To be accepted by the anti-Trumps, you have to be anti-White.)
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/11/20/msnbc-guest-radical-extremist-jeff-sessions-start-bringing-civil-rights-cases-behalf-white-people/
— NPR: After Pollak, No More Live Interviews for Conservatives
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/11/19/npr-pollak-interview-no-live-interviews-right/
— Green Day Chants ‘No Trump, No KKK’ at American Music Awards – DANIEL NUSSBAUM20
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/11/20/green-day-chants-no-trump-no-kkk-american-music-awards/

 

THE BLAZE
— Sean Hannity fires back at Megyn Kelly’s criticism of Fox News’ Trump coverage – Sara Gonzales
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/20/sean-hannity-fires-back-at-megyn-kellys-criticism-of-fox-news-trump-coverage/
— Television reporter fired for pro-Trump posts on her personal Facebook page – Sara Gonzales
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/20/television-reporter-fired-for-pro-trump-posts-on-her-personal-facebook-page/
— ‘SNL’ skewers liberals in ‘The Bubble’ skit – Sarah Lee
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/20/watch-snl-skewers-liberals-in-the-bubble-skit/

 

WEEKLY STANDARD
— Priebus: ‘We’re Not Going to Have a Registry Based On a Religion’  “There are some people that are radicalized, and there are some people that have to be prevented from coming into this country.” (DIERSEN: Islam is more like a political party or a country without borders than a religion.)
http://www.weeklystandard.com/priebus-were-not-going-to-have-a-registry-based-on-a-religion/article/2005475

 

POLITICO
— The heiress quietly shaping Trump’s operation  Major GOP donor Rebekah Mercer has funded many of the groups and figures helping to assemble Trump’s team, and now she’s formally part of it. – KENNETH P. VOGEL
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/rebekah-mercer-donald-trump-231693

 

NBC NEWS
— Donald Trump’s Administration Will Have to Hire as Many as 4,000 People – CARRIE DANN  (DIERSEN: There are about 1.4 million civilian federal employees and virtually all of them are Democrats.  What if Trump decided make the federal government “look like America.”  What if he said he going to fire about 700,000 federal employees and replace them with Republicans?  I would be more than happy to help him with that.)
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-s-administration-will-have-hire-many-4-000-n684251

 

CNN
— CNN panelist: Diversity in Trump’s cabinet? Try diversity in the media – Tatianna Amatruda  (DIERSEN: Virtually all those in the paid media are Democrats who are hell-bent on advancing the Democrat Party platform.)
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/15/politics/trump-cabinet-diversity-new-day-cnntv/
— Pope Francis extends Catholic priests’ right to forgive abortion – Tim Hume  (DIERSEN: Of course, this will dramatically increase the number of abortions.  What do say to those who join churches to get licenses to sin?)
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/21/europe/pope-francis-absolve-abortion/index.html

 

AOL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps a) promote hatred of Trump and b) promote hatred of Trump’s supporters.
http://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/11/21/donald-trump-voodoo-doll-sales-are-surging/21610875/
— Reporter to Obama: Are you worried about being the last Democratic president? – MARK ABADI
http://www.aol.com/article/2016/11/20/reporter-to-obama-are-you-worried-about-being-the-last-democrat/21610501/
— Judge at citizenship ceremony: ‘Go to another country’ if you can’t accept Trump as president
http://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/11/20/judge-at-citizenship-ceremony-go-to-another-country-if-you-ca/21610332/

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: DIERSEN HEADLINE: To be accepted by the anti-Trumps, you must be anti-White.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-donald-trump.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps despise if hate rural America.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/upshot/as-american-as-apple-pie-the-rural-votes-disproportionate-slice-of-power.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats paint themselves as being anti-White.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/opinion/trump-making-america-white-again.html
— Reince Priebus, Normalizer in Chief  As Trump’s new chief of staff, the lifelong G.O.P. loyalist will have to guide an outsider president and his band of radicals through a city they’ve pledged to upend. – MARK LEIBOVICH
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/magazine/reince-priebus-normalizer-in-chief.html
— Indians Rush Frantically to Launder Their ‘Black Money’ – GEETA ANAND  (DIERSEN: How much black money do the residents of your precinct, of your municipality, of your township/ward, of your county, and of Illinois have?)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/world/asia/modi-rupees-india-corruption.html
— DIERSEN: Anti-Trumps glorify and praise Apple.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/how-apple-empowers-and-employs-the-american-working-class.html
— Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Must Defend the Truth – Jim Rutenberg
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/business/media/zuckerberg-and-facebook-must-defend-the-truth.html
— How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study – Sapna Maheshwari
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/business/media/how-fake-news-spreads.html

 

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— The U.S. labor force’s guy problem: Lots of men don’t have a job and aren’t looking for one – Jim Puzzanghera  (DIERSEN: Since the 1960s, the Democrats who run the federal government have demanded a) that employers hire women, retain women, and promote women, that is, b) that employers not hire men, not retain men, and not promote men.)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-labor-force-men-20161121-story.html

 

NEW YORK POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Trump can’t make up his mind on the issues that matter.”
http://nypost.com/2016/11/21/trump-cant-make-up-his-mind-on-the-issues-that-matter/

 

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Laura Ingraham blasts Jay Pharoah and Gigi Hadid after AMA opening mocking President-elect Donald Trump and wife Melania – KATE FELDMAN
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/laura-ingraham-blasts-donald-trump-jokes-amas-article-1.2881561

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump has a plan for government workers. They’re not going to like it. – Lisa Rein  (DIERSEN: There are about 1.4 million civilian federal employees and virtually all of them are Democrats.  What if Trump decided make the federal government “look like America.”  What if he said he going to fire about 700,000 federal employees and replace them with Republicans?  I would be more than happy to help him with that.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/21/trump-republicans-plan-to-target-government-workers-benefits-and-job-security/
— Trump plans to fire federal employees faster – Joe Davidson  (DIERSEN: Democrats run the federal government. They want to fire federal employees who are Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/21/trump-plans-to-fire-feds-faster/

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: RINOs glorify and praise those who were brought to America illegally, those who come to America illegally, those who stay in America illegally, and those who bring others to America illegally.  RINOs want cheap labor.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/young-immigrants-fear-deportation-under-donald-trump-1479671457

 

PARKERSBURG NEWS SENTINEL
— Trump supporters rich with grievances – Mike Myer
http://www.newsandsentinel.com/opinion/local-columns/2016/11/trump-supporters-rich-with-grievances/

 

ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL
— Loss of faith in media can cause immense damage – Kathleen Parker (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, the media acts as an arm of the Democrat Party.)
https://www.abqjournal.com/893228/loss-of-faith-in-media-can-cause-immense-damage.html

 

USA TODAY
— Electric vehicles face uncertain future under Trump – Chris Woodyard
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/11/21/electric-vehicles-face-uncertain-future-under-trump/94203910/

 

ALBANY TIMES UNION
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who hate Republicans blame Republicans for hate crimes.
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Soul-sick-over-intolerance-Cuomo-says-state-10627023.php

 

DAILY NEBRASKAN
— UNL student groups hold ‘Love Trumps Hate’ rally – Noah Johnson  (DIERSEN: Democrat teachers focus on cranking out “good little Democrats.”
http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-student-groups-hold-love-trumps-hate-rally/article_8d61dbfa-afa2-11e6-964e-5f8d88354524.html

 

GLOUCESTER TIMES
— Donald Trump’s mock assassination draws ire at Texas high school – Kristine Guerra
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/cnhi_network/donald-trump-s-mock-assassination-draws-ire-at-texas-high/article_1ebc1286-cb1f-570c-9527-216d28ffd6c6.html

 

DAILY BEAST
— Trump’s Win Was About Culture. Understand This.  The media have way overstated the economic frustration of Trump’s voters. Their anger was cultural. If you get this wrong, you’ll get everything else wrong. – JACK SCHWARTZ
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/21/trump-s-win-was-about-culture-understand-this.html
— Democrats’ Answer Is Always the Same: Move More Left  Nearly every time the Democrats face a crisis, their answer is the same—move left. This time, they’re about to fall off the edge. – Ronald Radosh
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/21/democrats-answer-is-always-the-same-move-more-left.html
— World Leaders Gather to Worry About Trump  At a top annual international security conference this weekend, Trump’s win—and uncertainty about how he’ll handle Russia, Syria, and various international threats—loomed large. – Tim Mak
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/21/world-leaders-gather-to-worry-about-trump.html

 

THE WEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Reince Priebus shrugs off Donald Trump’s potentially huge conflicts of interest.”
http://theweek.com/speedreads/663193/reince-priebus-shrugs-donald-trumps-potentially-huge-conflicts-interest
— Obama says he may return to criticizing Donald Trump after leaving office
http://theweek.com/speedreads/663184/obama-says-may-return-criticizing-donald-trump-after-leaving-office

 

SOCIALIST WORKER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Socialists join with illegals to bring down America.
https://socialistworker.org/2016/11/21/well-make-campuses-safe-for-immigrants
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Socialists join with students to bring down America.
https://socialistworker.org/2016/11/21/seattle-students-walk-out-against-trump

 

DIVERSE EDUCATION
— Trump’s Son-in-law Benefits from White Affirmative Action – Emil Guillermo
http://diverseeducation.com/article/89495/

 

SALON
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Donald Trump’s presidency isn’t looking any better: 6 despicable things the president-elect did last week.  A week and a half after the election, the horror is only mounting.”
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/21/donald-trumps-presidency-is-not-looking-any-better-6-despicable-things-the-president-elect-did-last-week_partner/

November 15 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: FRONT PAGE: As crime surges, more neighborhoods are caught in its grip – David Heinzmann
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-crime-encroachment-20161111-story.html
— Rauner, state workers union face decision day on contract talks – Kim Geiger
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-bruce-rauner-afscme-union-state-contract-ruling-20161114-story.html
— Why Obama should pardon Hillary Clinton – Paula Dwyer
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-trump-hillary-clinton-emails-obama-pardon-20161114-story.html
— Unofficial totals show Hillary Clinton won hometown Park Ridge vote – Jennifer Johnson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/park-ridge/news/ct-prh-how-park-ridge-voted-tl-1117-20161111-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Vrdolyak indicted on income tax evasion, impeding IRS – Jon Seidel
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/vrdolyak-indicted-on-income-tax-evasion-impeding-irs/
— No way all those absent Chicago teachers are ill – Editorial  (DIERSEN: All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the federal government, I took far fewer sick days than my Democrat coworkers and subordinates.  They demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me for that.  They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I took fewer sick days a) because I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth and because I have always been privileged, b) because I am not a veteran because I sought and obtained student draft deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment, and c) because my wife and I gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-no-way-all-those-absent-chicago-teachers-are-ill/

 

DAILY HERALD
— BEYOND TRAGIC: Smoked pot? No college? The police still might hire you – AP  (DIERSEN: All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the federal government, the federal government lowered its hiring and promotion standards so that it could hire, retain, and promote more minorities and more females.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161114/business/311149914/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Some police departments are relaxing age-old standards for accepting recruits. The changes are designed to deal with decreased interest in a job that offers low pay, rigorous physical demands and the possibility of death, all while under public scrutiny. There’s also the need to lure more minorities. The Connecticut State Police is among the agencies wrestling with diversity.)
— $1 million Main West hazing settlement must be cautionary tale for suburban schools – Editorial
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161114/discuss/161119470/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Addison District 4, teachers union reach tentative deal – Katlyn Smith
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161115/news/161119396/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump immigration plan sparks blowback in Chicago – GREG HINZ  (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will the Democrats who run Chicago officially banish from Chicago those individuals, organization, and companies that are Protestant, conservative, 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?)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161114/BLOGS02/161119943/trump-immigration-plan-sparks-blowback-in-chicago
— City, metro job totals finally match their 2000 peak – GREG HINZ  (DIERSEN: From what I see, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, ever-increasingly, employers are more and more and more anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, 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 longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161115/BLOGS02/161119934

 

ABC7
— SOLDIER FROM ILLINOIS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
http://abc7chicago.com/news/soldier-from-illinois-killed-in-afghanistan/1606174/
— TRUMP SUPPORTER BEATEN ON WEST SIDE EXPLAINS WHY HE DIDN’T FIGHT BACK – Chuck Goudie and Christine Tresse  (DIERSEN: To avoid being harmed by Clinton supporters, Trump supporters may want avoid precincts, townships/wards, and counties where lots of people voted for Clinton.  In the interest of full disclosure, about 56% of those in my precinct (on average about one person per residence), 53% in Milton Township, and 53% in DuPage County who voted for U.S. President voted for Clinton.  I could point out homes in my precinct in which one or more of the residents are filled with hatred of not only Trump, but of all those like me who share his demographics.)
http://abc7chicago.com/news/trump-supporter-beaten-on-west-side-explains-why-he-didnt-fight-back/1607016/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Donald Trump supporter who was beaten by a mob of teenagers in a Chicago intersection said he didn’t fight back for a reason. Victim David Wilcox retreated and curled up into a ball, but not because he was afraid of being hurt. He told the I-Team that he was terrified of fighting back and going to prison where he has spent many years of his adult life. The video of the beating was seen by millions around the world, but this is the first time we learn the back story. After the incident, Wilcox told the public: “I’m not a violent person. I haven’t been in a long time.” On Monday, he explained to the I-Team what he meant. Wilcox said he hasn’t been violent since what happened in Chicago’s Sauganash neighborhood in August 1986, the last time Wilcox was attacked on a public street. He was 20 years old at the time and outside a house party on Kenneth Avenue, Wilcox said he and his 16-year-old pregnant girlfriend were attacked by several men he’d been feuding with. “He ran up on me with a baseball bat and beat up on me” Wilcox told the I-Team on Monday. “I stabbed the guy and he died…They were aggressors. They started the fight.” Wilcox was convicted of murder and sent to Stateville prison after he was sentenced to 20 years. He served nearly seven-and-a-half years after an appeal dropped the charge to manslaughter. “I’d rather get stabbed and die than go back to prison,” Wilcox said Monday. For Wilcox, it wasn’t just one experience in prison that has him fearful of being locked up again. According to Illinois Department of Corrections officials, he’s been in state prison nine times in the past 30 years. His was arrested for retail theft and, in 2013, faced a marijuana charge in Cook County. When last week’s traffic altercation grew into a Trump-bashing incident, Wilcox defended himself by retreating and later explained the incident just as he explained the 1986 killing he was involved in. “She was the first one who threw a punch,” Wilcox said. As the punches landed, Wilcox was dazed because he had prayed to god to never put him in a violent situation again. And if those who beat him last week are ever arrested, his hope for their punishment comes from experience: “I’m gonna be at every court date and I’m gonna make sure I can do everything I can to where they get locked up,” Wilcox said. He would like to see them locked up in the kind of place where Wilcox says he was — in Stateville, where in the 1980s he says white inmates were unwelcome guests, adding that he has PTSD from his days there. None of this changes the fact that Wilcox was the victim of an angry crowd. But it does explain why he didn’t fight back.)

 

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— GOP: Dems’ absence in budget talks inexcusable – AP
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/the-latest-gop-dems-absence-in-budget-talks-inexcusable/article_37ba8158-1125-56bb-a0b6-8d85d2ac3a9c.html
— TREASONOUS: Mayors of ‘sanctuary cities’ say they’ll fight Trump’s plans – AP
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/mayors-of-sanctuary-cities-say-they-ll-fight-trump-s/article_dc8eab51-6472-5f3c-b56c-94b5d08697e5.html

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— Message For Islamic Society: You’re ‘Cherished’ – JACLYN DRISCOLL  (DIERSEN: I should write an article, or maybe a book, about “church members” in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who hint/imply/argue/shout that they despise if not hate those who are not a member of their church, and especially those like me who were baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I am not a member of any church.  Ever-increasingly, “church leaders” talk and act like they are operatives or dupes for the Democrat Party.)
http://foxillinois.com/news/local/message-for-islamic-society-youre-cherished

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Trouble dogs Trump transition decisions.”
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/knife-fight-as-trump-builds-cabinet
— Trump considers security clearance for children  Donald Jr., Eric, Ivanka, Jared Kushner play outsized role – CNN  (DIERSEN: I passed background investigations in 1966 when the Post Office hire me, in 1971 when IRS hired me, and in 1980 when GAO hired me.  Many millions have not and will not seek federal jobs because they know that they cannot pass a background investigation.)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/source-trump-considers-security-clearance-for-children

 

SAGAMON SUN
— State GOP: In election’s wake, Democrats may want to rethink allegiance to Madigan – Carol Ostrow  (DIERSEN: In the wake of Trump’s election, Illinois Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains should rethink their allegiance to “Republican” elected officials and party leaders who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, 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 longer than their ancestors.)
http://sangamonsun.com/stories/511044683-state-gop-in-election-s-wake-dems-may-want-to-rethink-allegiance-to-madigan

 

WJBD
— Two More Churches Vandalized with Trump, Racist Graffiti  (DIERSEN: Those who vandalize and who paint graffiti want to harm Trump and to harm Trump’s supporters.)
http://www.wjbdradio.com/national-news/2016/11/15/two-more-churches-vandalized-with-trump-racist-graffiti

 

GLEN ELLYN PATCH
— Glen Ellyn Trustee Tim Elliott to Resign  Former Trustree Diane McGinley will be appointed to complete Elliott’s term. – De Castillo
http://patch.com/illinois/glenellyn/glen-ellyn-trustee-tim-elliott-resign

 

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Election panel debates future of American politics – Matt Casler
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2016/11/15/city/election-panel-debates-future-of-american-politics/

 

REBOOT ILLINOIS
— Illinois contribution limits lifted in 34% of contested legislative races
http://rebootillinois.com/2016/11/11/illinois-contribution-limits-2016-general-election/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— STATE LAWMAKER MCSWEENEY WARNS: BEWARE OF A BUDGET “GRAND BARGAIN”
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/state-lawmaker-warns-beware-of-a-budget-grand-bargain-.html
— THORNER: CONSERVATIVE HERITAGE FOUNDATION OPTIMISTIC ABOUT TRUMP PRESIDENCY
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/thorner-conservative-heritage-foundation-optimistic-about-trump-presidency.html

 

CATHOLIC CITIZENS OF ILLINOIS
— Loyola University’s history course on slavery has a new section on Donald Trump – MATT LAMB  (DIERSEN: Because I share many demographics with Trump, will Loyola revoke the MBA that I earned there in 1976?)
http://catholiccitizens.org/news/68764/universitys-history-course-slavery-new-section-donald-trump/
(CCI Editor Mary Anne Hackett’s note: I called on Cardinal-Elect Cupich to put a stop to this overt racism from a professor of a Catholic University in Chicago.  Filling the minds of young college students with such lies about our history,  destroys their love of America and patriotism which makes them unfit to live in a civil society and endangers the lives of people who may disagree with them.  This is a perfect opportunity to put social justice to work!)

 

CAPITOL FAX
— Republicans claim Madigan trying to “run out the clock” on budget talks
http://capitolfax.com/2016/11/15/republicans-claim-madigan-trying-to-run-out-the-clock-on-budget-talks/

 

DAILY SIGNAL
— As National Debt Nears $20 Trillion, Senator Takes Aim at Government Waste – Rachel del Guidice  (DIERSEN: GAO fights government waste. I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 levels, currently $92,632-$120,427.  But GAO wasted my career and forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old.  GAO would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, a minority, a female, and/or a veteran.)
http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/14/as-national-debt-nears-20-trillion-senator-takes-aim-at-government-waste/

 

ACCURACY IN MEDIA
— Liberal Media Unsure on How to Report on Trump’s Pledge of Not Taking Presidential Salary – Spencer Irvine  (DIERSEN: Toward the bitter end, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates hinted/implied/argues/shouted that I was so filthy stinking rich that I should not take a salary.)
http://www.aim.org/on-target-blog/liberal-media-unsure-on-how-to-report-on-trumps-pledge-of-not-taking-presidential-salary/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The liberal media does not know what to say about Donald Trump’s plan to fulfill his campaign pledge to not take a presidential salary of about $400,000, which would make him the third president to do so, in the footsteps of Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy. Huffington Post could only point out that Trump will be fulfilling a campaign pledge. USA Today insinuated that Trump’s campaign pledge derived from the Republicans’ ire towards Obama and Obama’s golfing trips.  CBS News could only say the following: “From the very beginning, Trump has promised that he’d set businesses concerns aside if he was elected. In fact, he told “Face The Nation” moderator John Dickerson last October that he’s been “phasing out” his role throughout his campaign.”)

 

THE BLAZE
— Radical left Oregon official who fined Christian bakery into shutting down loses election – Brandon Morse
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/14/radical-left-oregon-official-who-fined-christian-bakery-into-shutting-down-loses-election/

 

BREITBART
— CNN’s Sanders Mocks Chicago Man Beaten for Trump Support: ‘Poor White People’ – IAN HANCHETT
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/11/14/cnns-sanders-on-apparent-reference-to-man-beaten-amid-dont-vote-trump-chants-poor-white-people/

 

MICHAEL SAVAGE
— Reince Priebus the ‘enemy within’ the GOP’
http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/2016/11/michael-savage-reince-priebus-the-enemy-within-the-gop/

 

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The New Key to Immigration Reform: More High-Skilled Immigrants – MICHAEL BARONE (DIERSEN: Are/were you high-skilled at anything? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have never been high-skilled at anything.  In my defense, I stress a) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) that I became a licensed CPA in 1981, 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, c) that I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, d) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 levels, currently $77,899-$88,286, and e) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 levels, currently $92,632-$120,427.)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442174/donald-trumps-immigration-reform-could-focus-increasing-skilled-labor

 

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— THE FOUNDERS’ FAITH AND POLITICS – Ben Kinchlow
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/religion/the-founders-faith-and-politics/

 

COLLEGE FIX
— Loyola University’s history course on slavery has a new section on Donald Trump  Also covers ‘recent efforts to suppress the black vote’ and ‘racist police brutality’ – MATT LAMB (DIERSEN: Because I share many demographics with Trump, will Loyola revoke the MBA that I earned there in 1976?)
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29808/

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— How to Reform the Civil Service – Bruce Walker  (DIERSEN: Should I write a book about Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, and RINOs in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who are overjoyed that the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old?)
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/how_to_reform_the_civil_service.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Thomas Lifson has correctly observed that reforming the Civil Service System ought to be a high priority for President-Elect Trump and the new Republican Congress. We need to understand why the Civil Service System first created as a reform in how the federal government operated. “To the victors go the spoils” was the way Andrew Jackson put it almost 200 years ago. Jackson expressed the view that the president has the right – legal and moral – to throw out government employees and replace them with cronies. The size of the federal government was proportionately much smaller then than today, and those political allies rewarded with jobs to deliver the mail or to collect tariffs seemed innocuous enough, at least until President Garfield was assassinated by a disgruntled federal office seeker in 1881.  The Pendleton Act of 1883 created a system in which those who sought federal jobs, except for a layer of high-level executives, had to pass an objective hiring system. The second part of Civil Service System reforms was to create protections that made it difficult – really, almost impossible – for any Civil Service System employee ever to lose his job.  This is the heart of the problem.  Presidents can fill the upper echelon of federal agencies with whomever they want (except for the few who require Senate confirmation), and presidents can fire these people easily enough as well.  But no one – not even these high-level political appointees – can fire anyone. Ironically, the problems with the spoils system had nothing to do with firing federal employees, but only with hiring federal employees.  The right reform is simple enough: allow the president to fire any federal employee in the Executive Branch at will, but keep the system in place only for hiring through the Civil Service System. A president would then have the power to fire lazy, dishonest, rude, or unnecessary federal employees, but he could have no power to fill those positions he caused by firing bad federal employees with his supporters or partisans.  So if a federal employee took the Fifth Amendment in an investigation of federal malfeasance, something that Thomas Lifson correctly noted was intolerable, the next day, that employee could be told, “You can either refuse to answer questions or keep your federal job, but not both.” If President Trump brought in business experts to analyze federal operations and detect waste and inefficiency, then President Trump could do what he did so often in his reality television show and fire those who are unnecessary. Anyone familiar with the internal operations of government knows that 30% is a conservative figure for the number of federal employees who do nothing.  Allowing a tough, business-oriented president like Trump to dramatically reduce the size of the federal government would also reduce the cost of government – and all this could be done expeditiously. Federal employees would instantly become not only more efficient, but more polite and responsive to the public (i.e., the folks who pay their salaries).  More than that, coworkers in offices would strongly encourage politeness and civility, because the more complaints a particular office caused, the more likely that office would be to get a bad reputation, and people in that office would be fired. What about the danger of a president forcing people to support him or lose their jobs?  Civil servants ought to be completely apolitical anyway and ought not to contribute to any political campaign or to work for any candidate.  If that was the case in practice, then the president could not know who did not support him and, because all hiring was objective and removed from the president’s power, he could not hire any friends. If the president could not reward anyone by firing a federal employee but could only punish the federal employee by firing him, he would have every incentive to be fair in firing federal employees.  Politicians know that punishing voters loses votes not only because that voter, who may have supported the president, would be unhappy, but because every fired employee has family and friends and neighbors and congregants at his church, and firing an employee causes ill will among all those close to the fired employee. This is a reform is easy to understand and would make sense to the American voter.  Best of all, it would work.  Civility, efficiency, and integrity in the administration of the federal government would improve almost at once.)

 

POLITICO
— Official: Trump’s children have not sought security clearances – BRENT GRIFFITHS (DIERSEN: I passed background investigations in 1966 when the Post Office hire me, in 1971 when IRS hired me, and in 1980 when GAO hired me.  Many millions have not and will not seek federal jobs because they know that they cannot pass a background investigation.)
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/adam-kinzinger-donald-trump-children-231375
— Priebus defends Steve Bannon as ‘force for good’ on campaign – LOUIS NELSON  (DIERSEN: Who defends you?  The following DO NOT DEFEND ME: THOSE WHO: a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, c) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, d) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, e) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, f) are operatives for the aforesaid, and/or g) are dupes for the aforesaid AND THOSE WHO ARE anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, 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 longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/reince-priebus-defends-steve-bannon-231322
— Mendoza: Lawmakers shouldn’t expect paychecks any time soon – NATASHA KORECKI
http://www.politico.com/states/illinois/story/2016/11/mendoza-lawmakers-shouldnt-expect-paychecks-anytime-soon-107353
— Soros bands with donors to resist Trump, ‘take back power’  Major liberal funders huddle behind closed doors with Pelosi, Warren, Ellison, and union bosses to lick wounds, retrench. – KENNETH P. VOGEL (DIERSEN: Anti-Trumps want to get rid of those who are Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/democrats-soros-trump-231313

 

THE HILL
— Free advice for Trump: Don’t touch the Dreamers – FERNANDO ESPUELAS (DIERSEN: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, ever-increasingly, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that encourage people to come to America illegally, to stay in America illegally, and/or to bring others to America illegally MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THEY ARE anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, 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 longer than their ancestors.)
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/305941-free-advice-for-trump-dont-touch-the-dreamers

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— ACLU Raises Record $7.2 Million In Wake Of Donald Trump’s Election  President-elect, meet the Constitution. – Cristian Farias (DIERSEN: Individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that give money to ACLU are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, 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 longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aclu-record-donations-donald-trump_us_582a4065e4b02d21bbca588b

 

CNN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly anti-Trumps demonize, denigrate, and condemn those who are Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/politics/immigrants-daca-chicago-sanctuary-city/

 

ABC SAN FRANCISCO
— SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR SAYS ELECTION WILL NOT CHANGE THE CITY – Sergio Quintana (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will San Francisco banish from the city all those who are a member of one or more of the following groups: Protestant, conservative, 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?)
http://abc7news.com/politics/san-francisco-mayor-says-election-will-not-change-the-city/1607070/

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly. Democrats and RINOs make it clear that they will use the federal government to get rid of you if you do not glorify and praise refugees.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/refugees-discover-2-americas-one-that-hates-and-one-that-heals.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: QUESTION: Who encourages everyone to hate Stephen Bannon?  ANSWER: Those who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, 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 longer than their ancestors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/turn-on-the-hate-steve-bannon-at-the-white-house.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: QUESTION: Who encourages everyone to spend time and money learning foreign languages?  ANSWER: Those who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, 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 longer than their ancestors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/opinion/the-spanish-lesson-i-never-got-at-school.html
— Trump’s Supreme Court List: Ivy League? Out. The Heartland? In. – ADAM LIPTAK  (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes stress that none of my four degrees are from Ivy League colleges, that is, they badmouth NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-justices.html
— After Trump’s Win, an Anxious Mexico Asks: What’s Next? – AZAM AHMED  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasing, Democrats and RINOs put the interests of Mexico and its citizens ahead of the interests of America and its citizens.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/world/americas/mexico-donald-trump-enrique-pena-nieto.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— The faulty logic behind Trump’s plan to freeze federal hiring – Joe Davidson (DIERSEN: During almost all of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency was under hiring and/or promotion freezes.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/15/the-faulty-logic-behind-trumps-plan-to-freeze-federal-hiring/
— Virginia’s schools are growing more racially and economically segregated – Moriah Balingit
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/virginias-schools-are-growing-more-racially-and-economically-segregated/2016/11/14/2822cc0c-aaa4-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html
— How swing-state military veterans played a key role in Donald Trump winning the White House – Dan Lamothe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/11/10/how-swing-state-veterans-played-a-key-role-in-donald-trump-winning-the-white-house/

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— U.S. Detention Facilities Struggle With New Migrant Surge  Central American families and unaccompanied children overwhelm nonprofit shelters too – MIRIAM JORDAN  (DIERSEN: Individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that encourage people to come America illegally, to stay in America illegally, and/or to bring others to America illegally SHOULD BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-detention-facilities-struggle-with-new-migrant-surge-1479147492
— Legal Marijuana Poses a Problem for Gun Buyers  Firearm purchases by drug users are prohibited by federal law – GARY FIELDS and  KRISTINA PETERSON  (DIERSEN: Because pot destroys your brain, no one who uses pot should be allowed to own a gun.)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/legal-marijuana-poses-a-problem-for-gun-buyers-1479154520
— A Columnist’s Responsibility  In an age of political propaganda, readers deserve independent judgment. – BRET STEPHENS  (DIERSEN: He who pays the piper calls the tunes.  I have enough time and enough money that I do not ask for money, nor will I accept money, for what I do as your GOPUSA Illinois Editor.  He who pays the piper calls the tunes.)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-columnists-responsibility-1479168515

 

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Trump Reportedly Wants His Kids to Run His Businesses and Get Top-Secret Security Clearance – Charley Lanyon  (DIERSEN: I passed background investigations in 1966 when the Post Office hire me, in 1971 when IRS hired me, and in 1980 when GAO hired me.  Many millions have not and will not seek federal jobs because they know that they cannot pass a background investigation.)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/trump-wants-top-secret-security-clearance-for-his-kids.html

 

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH VERY BIG PICTURE: Fox anchor Megyn Kelly describes scary, bullying ‘Year of Trump’ – Rick Hampson  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasing, anti-Trumps use Kelly to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn Trump and to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn Trump’s supporters.)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/11/15/megyn-kelly-memoir-donald-trump-roger-ailes-president-fox-news/93813154/

 

DALLAS NEWS
— Texas House member wants to require retailers to ID when selling to food stamp recipients – J. David McSwane
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2016/11/14/house-member-wants-require-retailers-selling-food-stamp-recipients

 

INSIDE SOURCES
— Did Losing GOP Senate Candidates Falter by Not Backing Trump? – Kyle Plantz
http://www.insidesources.com/losing-gop-senate-candidates-falter-not-backing-trump/

 

NPR
— Who Is Reince Priebus, Trump’s Newly Named Chief Of Staff? – BRIAN NAYLOR  (DIERSEN: When was your star on the rise?  My star was on the rise 1971-1974 while I worked for IRS.  But my star crashed when my Democrat IRS superiors succeeded in getting rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974.  My star was on the rise 1986-1988 while I worked for GAO.  But my star crashed when my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in getting rid of the GAO manager who had hired me in 1980, got me assigned to audits of IRS in 1986, and promoted me in 1986.)
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/14/501984948/who-is-reince-priebus-trumps-new-chief-of-staff
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Priebus, 44, has been the longest-serving RNC chairman, winning the job in 2011 after serving as its general counsel. He unseated his boss, Michael Steele, and took over a party that was some $24 million in debt. Priebus led the famous “autopsy” of the GOP after its loss in the 2012 election, which recommended shortening the primary season and endorsing immigration reform as a way of reaching out to Latino voters. Priebus made an unsuccessful run for the Wisconsin state senate and in 2007 became chairman of the state GOP. In 2010, he helped elect Republican Scott Walker as governor and a GOP majority in the state Legislature, and it was clear his star was on the rise.)

 

THE BEAST
— Was Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s Attack Dog, Paid Illegally?  Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon may have received illegal payments from a Trump super PAC backed by deep-pocketed donors. – Betsy Woodruff  (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois.  How much money do they pay their operatives and their dupes, that is, how much money do they pay their attack dogs?)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/15/was-steve-bannon-donald-trump-s-attack-dog-paid-illegally.html
— Trump Threatened Megyn Kelly for ‘Rape’ Report
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/11/15/trump-threatened-kelly-for-rape-report.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl

 

MARKET WATCH
— Financial services industry is at risk to get even Whiter  More CEOs, not HR, should handle recruiting, says Chicago Fed official – RACHEL KONING BEALS  (DIERSEN: Between 1992 and 1997, as I completed courses toward a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT, more and more and more of my classmates were a) minority, b) female, and/or c) younger.)
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/financial-services-industry-is-at-risk-to-get-even-whiter-2016-11-14

 

FINANCIAL TIMES
— Trump’s choice of Priebus gives hopes for Republican unity  Former party chairman is credited with bringing together establishment and outsiders – Demetri Sevastopulo and Sam Fleming  (DIERSEN: I should write a book about past and present Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Illinois Republican Party (IRP) officials and employees who focus on driving out of the MTRCC, the DCRCC, and the IRP those like me who support the traditional marriage, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, gambling, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), Second Amendment, and other planks in the party’s platform.  The aforesaid talk and act like they are Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, or RINOs.)
https://www.ft.com/content/02ac95e4-aa8f-11e6-ba7d-76378e4fef24

 

FEDERAL TIMES
— Meet the new boss: What President-elect Trump has in store for federal employees – Carten Cordell
http://www.federaltimes.com/articles/meet-the-new-boss-what-president-elect-trump-has-in-store-for-feds
— A frozen federal workforce  A potential hiring freeze, combined with retiring federal employees, could leave a dearth of talent. – Carten Cordell (DIERSEN: During almost all of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency was under hiring and/or promotion freezes.)
http://www.federaltimes.com/articles/a-frozen-federal-workforce

 

SALON
— Donald Trump’s immigration plan is going to be very expensive and very intrusive  Behind the enormous costs, human and financial, of Donald Trump’s central campaign proposal – MATTHEW ROZSA  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps make it clear a) that they side with foreign countries against America and b) that they side with the citizens of foreign countries against the citizens of America. Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps make it clear that they are treasonous.)
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/14/donald-trumps-immigration-plan-is-going-to-be-very-expensive-and-very-intrusive/

 

GUARDIAN
— Bernie Sanders: our job is to oppose Trump’s bigotry vigorously  Vermont senator backs protesters in interview and calls on progressives to mobilize against president-elect – Matthew Weaver
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/15/bernie-sanders-our-job-oppose-trumps-bigotry-vigorously

November 13 Evening Edition

ABC7
— TRUMP IN 1ST POST-ELECTION INTERVIEW SAYS HE’S WILLING TO DEPORT MILLIONS – AP
http://abc7chicago.com/news/trump-in-1st-post-election-interview-says-hes-willing-to-deport-millions/1605149/
— TRUMP NAMES PRIEBUS, BANNON TO SENIOR WHITE HOUSE ROLES – AP
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/trump-names-priebus-bannon-to-senior-white-house-roles/1605228/
— PRECAUTIONS UNDERWAY FOR MORE TRUMP PROTESTS IN CHICAGO – Laura Podesta
http://abc7chicago.com/news/precautions-underway-for-more-trump-protests-in-chicago/1604910/

 

NBC5
— Women Donate to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence’s Name
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/women-donate-to-planned-parenthood-in-mike-pences-name-401016205.html

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Trump plans to deport or imprison up to 3 million, as Emanuel promises Chicago will remain sanctuary  (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs shout that illegals take only the bad jobs that Americans shun, like the ones I took doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, working on an automobile assembly line, working as a security guard, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, collecting delinquent taxes, and auditing federal agencies.  Democrats and RINOs could stress that none of my critics/opponents, their operatives, or their dupes would ever stoop to taking the aforesaid bad jobs.  My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes paint themselves as being “above it all.”)
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/217301509-story
— Trump now has access to nation’s most valuable intelligence
http://www.fox32chicago.com/politics/217267661-story

 

WGN RADIO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps continue to promote Pat Brady.
http://wgnradio.com/2016/11/13/the-sunday-spin-politics-with-rick-pearson-full-show-111316/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— It’s official: The chief of Breitbart News is headed to the West Wing – Aaron Blake
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-stephen-bannon-breitbart-senior-trump-advisor-20161113-story.html
— Donald Trump plans to immediately deport 2 to 3 million undocumented immigrants – Amy B. Wang
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-donald-trump-deport-immigrants-60-minutes-20161113-story.html
— Chicago nursing home fined after residents overdose on heroin – David Jackson and Gary Marx
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-continental-nursing-met-20161113-story.html
— Pastors try to help make sense of Donald Trump’s election – Matthew Walberg and Dawn Rhodes  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, “religious leaders” act as operatives or as dupes for the Democrat Party.  The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-church-sermons-post-election-20161113-story.html
— Anti-Trump protests continue in New York, LA, Philadelphia –
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-anti-trump-protests-20161113-story.html
— To understand Trump’s win, get off the highway – Ron Grossman
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-clinton-loss-missed-signs-grossman-20161113-story.html
— Trump victory is part of a worldwide populist moment – Griff Witte, Emily Rauhala, Dom Phillips
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-worldwide-populist-moment-20161113-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Madigan passes on meeting with Rauner, other leaders – Jon Seidel
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/madigan-passes-on-meeting-with-rauner-other-leaders/
— Trump taps RNC’s Priebus chief of staff; Bannon chief strategist – Lynn Sweet
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/trump-taps-rncs-priebus-chief-of-staff-bannon-chief-strategist/
— Trump retreats from promise to tap special prosecutor for Clinton – Lynn Sweet
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/trump-retreats-from-promise-to-tap-special-prosecutor-for-clinton/
— Up to 6 weeks of training for new police oversight agency jobs – Fran Spielman and Frank Main  (DIERSEN: Back in 1971 when IRS hired me as a GS-7 (currently $43,915/year) Revenue Officer, all new hires got 6 months of classroom and on-the-job training.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/4-to-6-weeks-of-training-for-new-police-oversight-agency-jobs/

 

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Illinois Senate leader to attend Rauner meeting – AP
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/illinois-senate-leader-to-attend-rauner-meeting/article_919fef4a-ff91-5e10-bffb-ed5ad657c0e8.html

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Medical marijuana use grows slow, steady in Illinois – AP  (DIERSEN: If you promote pot in Illinois, you promote the destruction of Illinois.)
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20161113/medical-marijuana-use-grows-slow-steady-in-illinois

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Anti-Trump protests stretch into fifth day  Protester: ‘This is a huge loss’ – CNN
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/antitrump-protests-stretch-into-fifth-day
— Conway: Trump considering ‘special session’ to repeal Obamacare  Says special session would be held on Inauguration Day – CNN
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/conway-trump-considering-special-session-to-repeal-obamacare

 

WAND
— Immigrants demonstrate against Trump – AP
http://www.wandtv.com/story/33697813/the-latest-immigrants-demonstrate-against-trump

 

CAPITOL FAX
— Madigan won’t attend leaders meeting – Cullerton asks for delay until Tuesday
http://capitolfax.com/2016/11/13/madigan-wont-attend-leaders-meeting/

 

NEWSMAX
— Trump Dumps Christie Over Bridge-gate: ‘Stupid Thug Had to Go’
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/trump-dumps-christ-post/2016/11/13/id/758606/
— Gingrich on Draining Swamp: ‘Swing For the Fences’ – Sandy Fitzgerald
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/newt-gingrich-trump-aggressive-first-year/2016/11/13/id/758632/

 

THE BLAZE
— Sen. Ben Sasse in new op-ed: Rooting for Trump’s failure is rooting for America’s failure – Chris Enloe
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/13/sen-ben-sasse-in-new-op-ed-rooting-for-trumps-failure-is-rooting-for-americas-failure/
— ‘Suck it up, buttercup!’: Iowa lawmaker proposes bill punishing schools coddling anti-Trump students – Mike Opelka
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/11/12/suck-it-up-buttercup-iowa-lawmaker-proposes-bill-punishing-schools-coddling-anti-trump-students/

 

DAILY CALLER
— Anti-Trump Protests Funded By Left-Wing ‘Charity’ – Peter Hasson
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/11/anti-trump-protests-funded-by-left-wing-charity/
— Students Demand Expulsions For Classmates Celebrating Trump Victory – Blake Neff
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/11/students-demand-expulsions-for-classmates-celebrating-trump-victory/

 

CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN NEWS
— THE SHOCKING INTOLERANCE OF ANTI-TRUMP LIBERALS – Katie
http://conservativerepublicannews.com/2016/11/11/the-shocking-intolerance-of-anti-trump-liberals/

 

ABC NEWS
— GOP President-Elect Donald Trump Says Same-Sex Marriage Is “Settled” Law – BENJAMIN SIEGEL
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-president-elect-donald-trump-sex-marriage-settled/story?id=43513067

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump pits establishment against populism at the top of his White House team – Katie Zezima
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pits-establishment-against-populism-at-the-top-of-his-white-house-team/2016/11/13/0ec346ee-a9e4-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html
— Trump’s huge transition will start with his tight inner circle – Marc Fisher  (DIERSEN: Who is in your “inner circle?”  Whose “inner circles” are you in?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-style/2016/11/10/138bbd8a-a761-11e6-ba59-a7d93165c6d4_story.html
— Reaction to a Hitler exhibit shows how nervous Germans still are about the Nazis – Stephanie Kirchner and Anthony Faiola  (DIERSEN: Many, if not most of my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are anti-German-American.  They paint themselves  and those who share their national origin as being superior.  What if from the beginning I had pretended to be Swedish-American?  While all my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany to northeast Illinois during the 1840s and 1850s, according to DNA Ancestry at http://dna.ancestry.com, my ancestry is 33% Europe West, 28% Scandinavia, 24% Great Britain, 11% Ireland, 2% Europe East, 1% Finland/Northwest Russia, and 1% Italy/Greece.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/reaction-to-a-hitler-exhibit-shows-how-nervous-germans-still-are-about-the-nazis/2016/11/08/f29bb186-a1d7-11e6-8864-6f892cad0865_story.html
— Many in Washington region turn to church for answers, hope with Trump administration – Michael Alison Chandler and Paul Duggan  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, “religious leaders” act as operatives or as dupes for the Democrat Party.  The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/many-in-washington-region-turn-to-church-for-answers-hope-with-trump-administration/2016/11/13/847c2be6-a9ce-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html

 

USA TODAY
— Trump: No ‘big’ vacations, no salary as president – David M Jackson
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/13/donald-trump-60-minutes-vacation-salary/93778704/

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— RNC Chair Priebus Is Named Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff  Stephen Bannon to serve as chief strategist and senior counselor to the president – MICHAEL C. BENDER
http://www.wsj.com/articles/leading-contender-for-donald-trump-s-chief-of-staff-is-rnc-chairman-reince-priebus-1479069597

 

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Protests against Donald Trump enters fifth straight day in NYC, other cities – DANNY LEWIS and GINGER ADAMS OTIS
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/protests-donald-trump-enters-straight-day-nyc-article-1.2871597
— Donald Trump wants to deport at least 2 million illegal immigrants who are criminals, but softens on border wall – ADAM EDELMAN
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-ryan-discuss-plans-immigration-article-1.2871490

 

INDIANAPOLIS STAR
— 7 arrests made during anti-Trump rally in Indy – Kaitlin L Lange
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2016/11/12/more-than-500-attend-anti-trump-rally-indy/93734148/

 

ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL
— Immigrants demonstrate against Trump as protests continue – AP
https://www.abqjournal.com/888197/immigrants-demonstrate-against-trump-as-protests-continue.html

November 8 Morning Edition

WGN TV
— Duckworth, Kirk make final US Senate push in Chicago area – TAHMAN BRADLEY
http://wgntv.com/2016/11/07/duckworth-kirk-make-final-us-senate-push-in-chicago-area/

 

NBC5
— Can Donald Trump’s Movement Survive Without Donald Trump?  Trump has unleashed a political force that’s more powerful than one man. What it is, however, is difficult to define – NBC News
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Can-Donald-Trumps-Movement-Survive-Without-Him–400360141.html

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Voters line up at local polls – Jodi S. Cohen and Dawn Rhodes
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-election-day-voters-20161108-story.html
— Illinois sues Volkswagen over diesel emissions – Becky Yerak
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-madigan-sues-volkswagen-1108-biz-20161107-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, pot promoters promote pot.  If you promote pot in Illinois, you promote the destruction of Illinois.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-illinois-medical-marijuana-anniversary-met-20161107-story.html
— After final pitches, moment of truth for anxious nation – Anne Gearan, Sean Sullivan, David Fahrenthold
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-presidential-election-20161107-story.html
— Print newspapers are dead? Not after historic elections – AP (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, newspapers act as arms of the Democrat Party.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us–campaign-2016-souvenir-papers-20161107-story.html
— Let’s all help our president-elect unify a divided America – Alexi Giannoulias
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-trump-clinton-lincoln-douglas-kirk-giannoulias-perspec-1108-jm-20161107-story.html
— On Election Day, remember: We are all Americans – Rex Huppke  (DIERSEN: How many of the many millions who are in America illegally will use their false identifications to vote for Clinton and for the other Democrats in the November 8, 2016 election? Ever-increasingly, Democrats side with illegals against Americans.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-trump-clinton-election-day-huppke-20161107-story.html

 

WGN RADIO
— The Madigan list – ‘Haven’t you had enough?’ – STEVE COCHRAN
http://wgnradio.com/2016/11/07/the-madigan-list-havent-you-had-enough/

 

WTTW
— Veterans Issues, Verbal Gaffes Mark Testy Duckworth-Kirk Campaign – Paris Schutz
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/11/08/veterans-issues-verbal-gaffes-mark-testy-duckworth-kirk-campaign
— Rauner, Madigan Grapple for Control as Groups Seek to Tie Up Road Funds – Nick Blumberg
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/11/08/rauner-madigan-grapple-control-groups-seek-tie-road-funds
— Mendoza, Munger Strive for Independence in Illinois Comptroller Race – Evan Garcia
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/11/08/mendoza-munger-strive-independence-illinois-comptroller-race

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— Final Push To Get Out To Vote In Springfield – ERIC FELDMAN
http://foxillinois.com/news/local/final-push-to-get-out-to-vote-in-springfield-11-08-2016

 

NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION
— Naperville Township Tax Cuts
http://www.nctv17.com/naperville-township-tax-cuts/
— Hiring Veterans – November 2016  (DIERSEN: Government is nasty.  Politics is nasty.  What do you say to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes a) who have always stressed that I am not a veteran because I successfully sought and obtained student draft deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971, b) who have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that because of the aforesaid, I am a patriotic hypocrite, a coward, and even worse things, and c) who have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that instead of me, the Post Office should have hired a veteran in 1966; that the Post Office should gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a veteran could have my job; that instead of me, IRS should have hired a veteran in 1971; that instead of me, IRS should have promoted veterans in 1972, 1973, and 1974; that instead of me, GAO should have hired a  veteran in 1980; that instead of me, GAO should have promoted a veteran in 1986; and that GAO should gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a veteran could have my job and my preferred corner office?)
http://www.nctv17.com/81045-2/

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Kolber: Housing slump indicates state is economically stagnant – Hoang Tran
http://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511041776-kolber-housing-slump-indicates-state-is-economically-stagnant
— Analyst: Legislators love constitutional amendments — that don’t affect them
http://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511041756-analyst-legislators-love-constitutional-amendments-that-don-t-affect-them

 

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— After Trump, GOP can still rebound – Jose Trejos
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2016/11/07/opinion/trejos-after-trump-gop-can-still-rebound/

 

DEPAULIA
— Quigley, Schakowsky lead GOTV rally on quad – Brenden Moore  (DIERSEN: The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-Catholic.  Ever-increasingly, DePaul shouts that it is anti-Catholic and that it is an arm of the Democrat Party.)
http://depauliaonline.com/2016/11/08/quigley-schakowsky-lead-gotv-rally-quad/

 

LISA MADIGAN, OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL
— November 7, 2016 Public Access Opinion (concerning Sandack)
https://www.scribd.com/document/330371189/IL-AG-on-SANDACK-case

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump will win – J. Marsolo
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/trump_will_win.html

 

TOWN HALL
— Steep Climb for Anti-Trump Republican Mark Kirk in Illinois Senate Race – Justin Holcomb
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/justinholcomb/2016/11/07/steep-climb-for-antitrump-republican-in-illinois-senate-race-n2242663

 

NEWSMAX
— Fox News Electoral Map Now Favors Trump – Theodore Bunker
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/electoral-map-favors-trump/2016/11/07/id/757508/
— Justice Dept. to Dispatch More than 500 Staffers to Polls
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/US-Campaign-2016-Election-Observers/2016/11/07/id/757575/

 

LIVE ACTION NEWS
— Has DePaul University taken a bigoted stand against bigotry? – Jeannie Deangelis
http://liveactionnews.org/depaul-universitys-bigoted-stand-against-bigotry/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the end, despite citing Catholic and Vincentian values, at DePaul University, it appears that conservative students are becoming the victims of politically correct restrictions imposed on them by university administrators who discriminate against conservative values.)

 

GOPUSA
— FBI Agents Say Comey ‘Stood In The Way’ Of Clinton Email Investigation
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=16842

 

JP MEDIA
— Leaked Documents Reveal Expansive Soros Funding to Manipulate Federal Elections – J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2016/11/07/leaked-documents-reveal-expansive-soros-funding-to-manipulate-federal-elections/

 

POLITICO
— Obamas combine forces with the Clintons to fend off Trump – GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/obama-clinton-trump-philadelphia-230917

 

THE HILL
— Bill Press: GOP owes apology to America  (DIERSEN: Should I write a book about my critics/opponents who want me to apologize for causing all of their problems, for causing all of your problems, for causing all of my problems, and for causing all of everyone’s problems?  My critics/opponents have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois.  However, they are world class disgusting failed scapegoaters.)
https://origin-nyi.thehill.com/opinion/brent-budowsky/304813-press-gop-owes-apology-to-america
— Coulter: Trump would win if only people with US-born grandparents voted – Caitlin Yilek  (DIERSEN: All 8 of my great grandparents were born in northeast Illinois.)
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/304867-coulter-trump-would-win-if-only-people-whose-grandparents-born
— Melania Trump, undocumented immigrant? – Raul A. Reyes
http://origin-nyi.thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/304752-melania-trump-undocumented-immigrant

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— Illinois Early Voting Sees Record Number of Ballots Cast – Kevin Hoffman
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reboot-illinois/illinois-early-voting-see_b_12853620.html
— Coulter: “If only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America were voting, Trump would win in a 50-state landslide.”  (DIERSEN: All 8 of my great grandparents were born in northeast Illinois.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ann-coulter-nazi-like-purity-pitch_us_58216286e4b0aac62486ba2e

 

CNN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Clinton condemns those who do not vote for her as being haters.  If she wins, will she issue a Executive Order to get rid of those who did not vote for her?  Will those who voted for Clinton in your precinct, in your municipality, in your county, in Illinois, in America, and in foreign countries carry out her Executive Order?  Will those who did not vote for her surrender or fight back?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/07/politics/hillary-clinton-campaign-final-day/

 

REUTERS
— Trump gives last campaign speech ahead of election
http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/11/08/trump-gives-last-campaign-speech-ahead-o?videoId=370392996

 

NBC NEWS
— What Happens if Donald Trump Loses and Won’t Concede? – ARI MELBER
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/what-happens-if-donald-trump-loses-won-t-concede-n679481
— Trump Disses Clinton’s Star-Studded Line-Up: ‘We Don’t Need Lady Gaga’
http://www.nbcnews.com/card/trump-disses-clintons-star-studded-line-we-dont-need-lady-n679491
— Next President Could Shape Supreme Court for Generations – MASHAUN D. SIMON
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/analysis-next-president-could-shape-supreme-court-generations-n679326

 

ABC NEWS
— Trump traders: The Republicans trading their vote to install Hillary Clinton in the White House – Jason Om
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-08/trump-traders-republicans-using-their-vote-to-install-clinton/8007000

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote voter fraud.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/opinion/the-real-voter-fraud.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, those who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German national origin, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors LOOK FOWARD TO HISPANICS HELPING THEM GET RID OF THOSE WHO ARE Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German national origin, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/upshot/this-time-there-really-is-a-hispanic-voter-surge.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/opinion/campaign-stops/harry-belafonte-what-do-we-have-to-lose-everything.html
— Australia’s Parliament Rejects Public Vote on Gay Marriage – MICHELLE INNISN
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/world/australia/australia-same-sex-marriage.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Will there be more candidates like Donald Trump? We should hope so.  Lessons for Republicans from the campaign, win or lose – Chris Buskirk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/08/will-there-be-more-candidates-like-donald-trump-we-should-hope-so/

 

NEW YORK POST
— If you resent getting paid to nap, find another job – Editorial  (DIERSEN: The New York Post sides with the New York Department of Education against David Suker.  My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and Illinois side with my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government against me.)
http://nypost.com/2016/11/07/if-you-resent-getting-paid-to-nap-find-another-job/
(FROM THE EDITORIAL: It’s hard not to feel a little sympathy for David Suker: He’s severely unhappy sitting around and even napping in libraries and lounges to “earn” his $94,000 salary. On the other hand, he’s free to find a real job — and the city Department of Education has every right to keep him out of the classroom. As Susan Edelman reported in Sunday’s Post, Suker is trying for a third answer — by suing to return to teaching. DOE actually tried to fire him, but the courts — and the United Federation of Teachers contract — prevented his termination. (He did have to pay a $7,000 fine.) Yet DOE was still unwilling to put him back in the classroom — whether because of his newsmaking confrontations with police as an Occupy Wall Street protester, or other information not made public. So it stuck him in the Absent Teacher Reserve, along with more than 1,300 other DOE staffers, at least 200 of them teachers — earning full pay and benefits but ineligible for overtime. A few ATR-dwellers actually make it back to real work — for example, teachers who take longer than usual to find placement at new schools after their old ones close. Yet most are simply warehoused because they can’t be fired, and no one’s willing to risk putting them in contact with kids. The system set up under the UFT contract makes it near-impossible to fire even serial gropers and other pervs. The real outrage is that they all remain on salary, courtesy of the taxpayers.)

 

USA TODAY
— Jokes about leaving the country aren’t funny – Debbie Kaminer
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/08/trump-liberals-move-to-canada-column/93111918/

 

NORTHWEST ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZETTE
— Illegal aliens invested in election’s outcome – AP  (DIERSEN: How many of the many millions who are in America illegally will use their false identifications to vote for Clinton and for the other Democrats in the November 8, 2016 election? Ever-increasingly, Democrats side with illegals against Americans.)
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2016/nov/08/illegal-aliens-invested-in-election-s-o/

 

MICHIGAN DAILY
— Donald Trump Jr. emphasizes father’s business experience in Michigan ahead of election day – Carly Ryan  (DIERSEN: What experience do you have?  My critics/opponents have always viciously demonized, denigrated, and condemned the experience that I have.  Should I viciously demonize, denigrate, and condemn the experience that my critics/opponents have?)
https://www.michigandaily.com/section/elections/don-trump-jr-rallies-father

 

THE ATLANTIC
— Hillary Clinton and Millennials: Perfect Together  Young voters and the Democratic nominee have a complicated relationship. But her platform is an excellent match for their value – DEREK THOMPSON
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/hillary-clinton-millennials/506882/

 

ALTERNET
— Early Voting and Final Polls Suggest Women and Minorities Will Propel Clinton to Victory – Steven Rosenfeld  (DIERSEN: To get their vote, Democrats promise women and promise minorities that Democrats will a) use government to take jobs, promotions, money, etc. away from non-veteran White male Republicans and b) use government to give those jobs, those promotions, that money to women and to minorities.)
http://s92068.alternet.org/election-2016/early-voting-and-final-polls-suggest-women-and-minorities-will-propel-clinton-victory

 

FEDERAL TIMES
— DOJ Civil Rights Division sending poll monitors to 28 states – Aaron Boyd
http://www.federaltimes.com/articles/justice-civil-rights-division-sending-poll-monitors-to-28-states

 

SOCIALIST WORKER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The more anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German American, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors that you are, the more that you support Clinton and the more that you oppose Trump.
https://socialistworker.org/2016/11/08/coming-out-of-the-sewers-for-trump

 

RAW STORY
— ‘Trump will be kept from the White House by a big, beautiful, brown wall’: CNN panel predicts Clinton win – Sarah K. Burris  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly Democrats paint Hispanics as being their operatives and as being their dupes.)
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/trump-will-be-kept-from-the-white-house-by-a-big-beautiful-brown-wall-cnn-panel-predicts-clinton-win/

November 2 Evening Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Evanston man’s Donald Trump sign burned on his front lawn – Lee V. Gaines
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/evanston/news/ct-evr-evanston-trump-sign-tl-1102-20161102-story.html
— The freebie party is over, aldermen. Welcome to hoi polloi. – Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-aldermen-cubs-tickets-ethics-edit-1103-md-20161102-story.html
— Staples offering employees $100/month to help pay off student loans – Gail MarksJarvis  (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, it offered either no reimbursement for tuition for job-related college courses or just a token reimbursement.  My superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government used that non-reimbursement policy to justify their not taking job-related college courses.  Nevertheless, I spent a tremendous amount of my own time and my own money earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, earning three job-related masters degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, and earning two job-related professional certifications in 1979 and 1981.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-staples-student-loan-help-1102-20161102-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Saples has become the latest company trying to attract and keep young workers who are fretting about how they will pay their college student loans. The company announced Wednesday that it will provide $100 a month for up to 36 months to full-time sales associates and “high potential” and “top performing” employees who are paying off student loans or in the process of earning a degree. With unemployment low, many companies are struggling to pull in and retain dedicated young workers with good skills, and increasingly they are eyeing help with student loans as a means to stand out as an employer, said Gary Kushner, president of Kushner & Co. a Michigan-based benefits consulting firm. While large companies such as Fidelity Investments and PriceWaterhouseCoopers have received national attention for providing the new benefit, small and medium-size companies are especially interested in it as a retention tool, he said. “If you are fortunate enough to get skills and the right cultural fit, you want to hold onto the person as long as you can,” said Kushner. He noted that retailers especially face a struggle. About 4 percent of employers have been offering student loan repayment help this year, according to a Society for Human Resource Management survey of employers. Americans have about $1.2 trillion in student loan debt and about half of those with loans have monthly payments that are excessive based on their incomes, according to a study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Academic research has shown the pressure of college loans is causing some millennials to delay marriage, children and home purchases. . .The company also is offering a tuition reimbursement program for some employees who pursue education while working and gives 30 college scholarships of $3,000 each to children of employees. Helping employees pursue education while on the job is not a new benefit. In contrast to the new perk aimed at new workers with student loans, the old programs were designed to increase skills of existing employees. According to the Society for Human Resource Management, tuition reimbursement programs for employees who go to undergraduate or master’s programs have been cut back in recent years. In 2012, 58 percent of employers were offering the benefit to employees going to graduate school. In 2016, that had dropped to 52 percent. For undergraduate tuition, 61 percent were giving benefits in 2012, but that had dropped to 55 percent in 2016. Tanya Mulvey, researcher for the human resources group, said that employers have been looking for ways to cut some benefit costs to make up for the extra cost of health insurance. The average tuition reimbursement per employee per year was $4,442 in 2016, she said. Companies offering tuition reiumbursements can receive a tax deduction.)

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Rahm’s floor leader: Mistake to pick fight with ‘spiteful’ Trump – Fran Spielman  (DIERSEN: Who are the most spiteful people in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois?  I should write a book about the most spiteful people in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois.  They all blame me for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/rahms-floor-leader-mistake-to-pick-fight-with-spiteful-trump/

 

DAILY HERALD
— Why Kane County taxpayers owe $283,000 to IRS – James Fuller
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161102/news/161109717/
— Dold, Schneider divided on Syrian refugees – Russell Lissau
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161102/news/161109756/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— CPS brags, but new teachers’ deal still whacks taxpayers – GREG HINZ
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161102/BLOGS02/161109945/cps-brags-but-new-teachers-deal-still-whacks-taxpayers
— Chicago wages up almost 3 percent, Glassdoor report says – JUDITH RUIZ-BRANCH
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161102/NEWS07/161039972/chicago-wages-up-almost-3-percent-glassdoor-report-says
— Illinois’ pension woes are not so bad after all* – Bloomberg
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161102/NEWS02/161109955/illinois-pension-woes-are-not-so-bad-after-all
(FROM THE ARTICLE: New Jersey became the state with the worst-funded public pension system in the U.S. in 2015, followed closely by Kentucky and Illinois. The Garden State had $135.7 billion less than it needs to cover all the benefits that have been promised, a $22.6 billion increase over the prior year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Illinois’s unfunded pension liabilities rose to $119.1 billion from $111.5 billion. The two were among states whose retirement systems slipped further behind as rock-bottom bond yields and lackluster stock-market gains caused investment returns to fall short of targets. The median state pension had 74.5 percent of assets needed to meet promised benefits, down from 75.6 percent the prior year. The decline followed two years of gains. The shortfall for states overall was $1.1 trillion in 2015.)
— Conspiracy theories abound – GREG HINZ
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161102/BLOGS02/161109949/trump-rauner-madigan-conspiracy-theories-abound
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This being the election year of the conspiracy theory, allow me to let you in on a couple of the better ones floating around the Land of Lincoln. They’re not quite as provocative as tales about who’s really pulling FBI chief James Comey’s strings, or what Vladimir Putin promised Donald Trump. But anything that involves Bruce Rauner, Mike Madigan, zillions of TV ad dollars and hidden income tax returns reaches a certain level of interest. Story No. 1 concerns the big super PAC that state Sen. Dan Biss put together, the one no one had heard of until a couple of weeks ago, when it suddenly started spending big money—now $10 million or so—on ads tying Gov. Rauner to the GOP presidential nominee, who may be popular in some places but not in most of Illinois.)

 

ABC7
— GOP PLAN FOR A CLINTON PRESIDENCY: BLOCK AND RESIST – AP  (DIERSEN: If Clinton is elected, she will give preference to her supporters, that is, to those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors, that is, she will discriminate against those who are Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
Legal marijuana may be added to Las Vegas’ list of vices

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— 12 percent of Illinois voters have cast ballots – AP
http://www.fox32chicago.com/politics/215170781-story

 

WBEZ
— Campaign Cash: How Rauner’s Money Is Spent – Tony Arnold
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/campaign-cash-how-rauners-money-is-spent/f17e0712-eb89-4b3a-84ae-2bb335140e6f

 

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Election 2016: Top Issues Black People Should Consider – Mary L. Datcher  (DIERSEN: What are your demographics?  What issues should those who share your demographics consider?  Those who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors vote for those candidates who promise to get rid of those who are Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://chicagodefender.com/2016/11/02/election-2016-top-issues-black-people-should-consider/

 

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Crystal Lake City Council sets civil fines for marijuana possession – KEVIN P. CRAVER  (DIERSEN: To promote pot in America is to promote the destruction of America.)
http://www.nwherald.com/2016/11/02/crystal-lake-city-council-sets-civil-fines-for-marijuana-possession/a1vnvor/

 

ROCK RIVER TIMES
— Endorsements: Vote Mendoza for Comptroller
http://rockrivertimes.com/2016/11/02/endorsements-vote-mendoza-for-comptroller/

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Bush family mum on voting for Clinton or Trump  Several members wouldn’t endorse Trump – CNN  (DIERSEN: To not vote for Trump is to vote for Clinton.  Those who do not vote for Trump should be barred from seeking or holding any kind of government or political office as a Republican.)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/bush-family-mum-on-voting-for-clinton-or-trump

 

SIU NEWS
— Business college names ‘Emerging Saluki Leader Award’ winners – Christi Mathis  (DIERSEN: GAO promoted me to GS-13 in 1986 when I was 38 years old.  According to FederalPay.org, at https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2016/GS-13,”A GS-13 employee in civilian government is roughly equivalent to an O-5 in the military, in terms of compensation. In the U.S. Army, O-5 is ranked Lieutenant Colonel” and “Most organizations have a limited number of GS-13 and above positions. GS-13 is typically a team lead position with around 10 people directly below them.”)
http://news.siu.edu/2016/11/110216cjm16168.php

 

NADIG NEWSPAPERS
— Election ‘environment’ portends GOP losses – RUSS STEWART  (DIERSEN: What class are you in? (1) the won’t haves; (2) the entitlement class; (3) the keep what I haves; (4) the haves; or the (5) the wealthy?)
http://nadignewspapers.com/2016/11/02/election-environment-portends-gop-losses/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Instead of having to plow through 1,500 words to ascertain this columnist’s Nov. 8 predictions, here is the list, in the first paragraph: Hillary Clinton, Tammy Duckworth, Susana Mendoza, Brad Schneider, a Democratic U.S. Senate majority, a narrow Republican U.S. House majority, Mike Madigan and a 68-50 House majority, Laura Murphy, a Cook County Democratic tsunami, and, in an oddity, Republican state Representative Mike McAuliffe. The biggest loser will be Bruce Rauner, and the biggest winner will be the status quo. On Nov. 9 the nationwide and Illinois political environment will be barely different from Nov. 8. Environment. In real estate, success in selling famously is determined by location, location, location. In politics, success in winning is determined by environment, environment, environment. The end of the 2016 election campaign is decidedly un-Trump, non-Trump and anti-Trump. Being a Democrat in a Democratic-friendly nation, state or district, is the ticket to victory. That was not always so. The campaign, which began in mid-2015, shaped up as an anti-status quo year. It is ending as a status quo year. There is so much wrong in America and with America — the economy, the political system, the criminal justice system, wealth allocation, the health care system, the education system and the country’s foreign policy. Should not the Obama-Clinton Administration be held accountable? It’s not. It’s all just sound and fury. Up until the 1990s the country was divided between the haves and the have nots. Now it’s schismed between (1) the won’t haves, essentially the Millennial generation, which has maximum debt and minimal job opportunities and which views income redistribution as the solution; (2) the entitlement class, which includes retirees and all those who receive some income from some government source; (3) the keep what I haves, primarily the working class, struggling to pay their bills and affected the most by crime, property taxes and neighborhood change; (4) the haves, those families earning more than $100,000, spending more than they make, worth maybe $1 million, and worried about the future; and (5) the wealthy, the infamous top 1 percent, whose net worth is $10 million and up. Of those demographic sectors, only two in 2016 sought to upset the status quo, the Millennials, who embraced Bernie Sanders’ socialism, and the working class, who embraced Donald Trump’s anti-elitist populism. Each was sending the message no more Clintonism, Obamaism, Bushism, elitism, insiderism and favoritism. Yet, on Nov. 8, all of those “isms” will triumph.)

 

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Tribune Reports Reick Has Received $1.3 Million, Bartman $305,000 in Race to Replace Franks
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2016/11/02/tribune-reports-reick-has-received-1-3-million-bartman-305000/
— GOP Letter from Dorr Township Precinct Committeeman
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2016/11/01/gop-letter-from-dorr-township-precinct-committeeman/
— Lying Jack Franks Makes an Even Bigger False Promise: “No More High Property Taxes in McHenry County”
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2016/11/01/99312/
— Another Dissatisfied with Huntley Park District Voting Machines
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2016/10/31/another-dissatisfied-with-huntley-park-district-voting-machines/

 

REBOOT ILLINOIS
— Rauner’s silence on Trump – Kevin Hoffman
http://rebootillinois.com/2016/11/02/rauner-silence-trump-crains/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ILLINOIS CONGRESSWOMAN CALLS FACEBOOK RACIST
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/illinois-congresswoman-calls-facebook-racist.html
— COOK COUNTY TO TAX MINORITIES FOR BEING FAT
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/cook-county-to-tax-minorities-for-being-fat.html
— 9TH CD VOTERS DEMAND INVESTIGATION IN SCHAKOWSKY’S DARK DEALINGS WITH HUSBAND’S FIRM
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/9th-cd-voters-demand-investigation-in-schakowskys-dark-dealings-with-husbands-firm.html
— NEW JERSEY TOPS ILLINOIS AS STATE WITH WORST-OFF PENSION SYSTEM
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/new-jersey-tops-illinois-as-state-with-worst-off-pension-system.html
— PROFESSOR FINDS THAT MOST COLLEGE STUDENTS THINK AMERICA INVENTED SLAVERY  (DIERSEN: How long have your ancestors been in America? Are you White?  Ever-increasingly, Democrats hint/imply/argue/shout that if you are White, the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that you benefited from your ancestors’ racism, sexism, bigotry, and even worse things.)
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/professor-finds-that-most-college-students-think-america-invented-slavery.html
— THORNER: WOMEN IN POLITICS ‘STAND BY FIRE’ AS LEGISLATORS AND CANDIDATES
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/women-in-politics-who-stand-by-the-fire-as-legislators-and-candidates.html
— TAXPAYERS DON’T REALIZE THEY’RE PAYING BILLIONS TO SERVICE THE NATIONAL DEBT
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/11/taxpayers-dont-realize-theyre-paying-billions-to-service-the-national-debt.html

 

CAPITOL FAX
— Another million for Munger
http://capitolfax.com/2016/11/02/another-million-for-munger/

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illinois governor, wife to downsize during mansion revamp – AP
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/2/illinois-governor-wife-to-downsize-during-mansion-/

 

GOPUSA
— The Podesta emails show who runs America – and how they do it
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=16648
— DOJ warns against filing voter challenges
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=16682
— A Fifth Clinton Presidency? Hill, No! – Michelle Malkin
http://www.gopusa.com/a-fifth-clinton-presidency-hill-no/

 

BREITBART
— Donald Trump Hammers America First Trade Policy in Pennsylvania, Reaches Out to Bernie Sanders Backers – JULIA HAHN
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/11/02/trump-targets-pennsylvania/
— Starbucks Unveils Cup to Promote Unity During ‘Divisive Time’ in America – JEROME HUDSON  (DIERSEN: Individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors WANT TO UNITE EVERYONE AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/02/starbucks-unveils-cup-promote-unity-divisive-time-america/

 

NEWSMAX
— Poll: Trump Tied With Clinton on Returning Support From Women – Mark Swanson
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Poll-Trump-Tied-Clinton/2016/11/02/id/756578/

 

FEDERALIST
— Despite Investigations, Obama’s IRS Has Never Stopped Targeting Conservatives  The next Tea Party scandal is not only coming, it may already be happening. When it does, the charade will begin anew, and no one will pay a price. – Paul Jossey
http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/01/despite-investigations-obamas-irs-never-stopped-targeting-conservatives/

 

DAILY CALLER
— Donald Trump Jumps Ahead Of Hillary Clinton In This Poll For The First Time Since May – Alex Pappas
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/01/trump-jumps-ahead-of-clinton-in-this-poll-for-the-first-time-since-may/
— Undecideds Fuel Trump’s Rise In Recent Poll – PHILLIP STUCKY
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/01/undecideds-fuel-trumps-rise-in-recent-poll/

 

HUFFINGTON POST
—  Illinois Opportunity Project Denies Sitting On People’s Ballot Applications  But state Democrats suspect a voter suppression effort. – Arthur Delaney
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/illinois-ballot-applications_us_581a1a26e4b08f9841aca2d3
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pat Hughes, the co-founder of the Illinois Opportunity Project, the conservative group that distributed the applications, said the criticism is bogus because the applications have, in fact, been submitted to the clerk. “It’s a red herring,” Hughes said. “It’s a pretext for harassment.” The Illinois attorney general’s office last week warned voters that if they filled out vote-by-mail ballot applications, they should “stay alert and monitor whether they then receive a ballot in the mail.” The office, which is headed by Lisa Madigan, a Democrat, sent several letters last month to the Illinois Opportunity Project demanding information about its vote-by-mail efforts in Rock Island and six other Illinois counties. Maura Possley, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office, said people were confused because the group’s vote-by-mail solicitation didn’t say who it was coming from. “Because the Illinois Opportunity Project’s mailings do not identify that organization and, instead, are sent from ‘[Name of County] County Vote By Mail Center’, they have led to voter confusion regarding whether they are official documents from the counties,” Possley said in an email. The Illinois Opportunity Project has ties to Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican. One of the group’s co-founders, the conservative radio host Dan Proft, also heads up a big-spending political action committee that is funded partly by Rauner. The governor is looking to chip away at Democrats’ supermajority in the state legislature. Madigan’s father, state Rep. Michael Madigan (D), has been speaker of the Illinois House for decades. The Illinois kerfuffle is one of several voting controversies, some more serious than others, unfolding in various states as Election Day nears.)

 

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Is Donald Trump a tax criminal? With so many red flags, it’s time for the government to investigate – DAVID CAY JOHNSTON  (DIERSEN: I should write a book about how my Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates treated me because I deducted my graduate business and accounting courses.)
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/david-cay-johnston-donald-trump-tax-criminal-article-1.2855817

 

SEATTLE TIMES
— Republicans have all but given up on winning over urban voters – EMILY BADGER and QUOCTRUNG BUI  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats shout at urban voters that Republicans are racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things.)
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/republicans-have-all-but-given-up-on-winning-over-urban-voters/

 

KOAM TV
— TRAGIC: Legal marijuana may be added to Las Vegas’ list of vices – AP
http://www.koamtv.com/story/33591032/legal-marijuana-may-be-added-to-las-vegas-list-of-vices

 

MONEY MAGAZINE
— 1.8 Billion People Use Facebook Every Month  And most of them use the social networking app on their phone. – Reuter
http://time.com/money/4555687/facebook-user-growth-q3-earnings/

 

THE WEEK
— Americans might actually move to Canada after the presidential election
http://theweek.com/speedreads/659248/americans-might-actually-move-canada-after-presidential-election

 

NEW YORKER
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON AMERICA TIGHTENS: TWO AMERICAS: WHY DONALD TRUMP STILL HAS A LOT OF SUPPORT – John Cassidy
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/two-americas-why-donald-trump-still-has-a-lot-of-support

 

FEDERAL TIMES
— Something to take for granted on Election Day: Federal employees – Ron Sanders, Booz Allen Hamilton  (DIERSEN: I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and because of my Democrat GAO superiors, I have been a federal retiree for more than 19 years.)
http://www.federaltimes.com/articles/something-to-take-for-granted-on-election-day-feds

 

FED WEEK
— Pay Gap Little Changed at 34 Percent  (DIERSEN: Are you non-veteran, White, male, and/or older?  Are/were you accused of being overpaid? My critics/opponents 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 33.)
http://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/pay-gap-little-changed-34-percent/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The federal-private sector pay gap remains essentially unchanged from a year ago at 34.07 percent, the Federal Salary Council has reported. While that represents the official word, based on BLS data, it likely will have little to no impact on the prospects for the January 2017 federal employee raise, which will be 1.6 percent unless political leaders take up the raise issue. They have shown no sign of interest in doing so this year, similar to the pattern of the prior three years when the council also reported a pay gap in the 34-35 percent range but raises only in the 1-2 percent range were paid—also in each case by default when no figure was enacted. The 1.6 percent raise is to be paid as 1 percentage point across the board and the 0.6 percent divided as locality pay. The largest gaps, and thus the largest locality pay portions to be paid, were found to be in the San Francisco, Washington-Baltimore, New York, Los Angeles and Sacramento areas. However, even in those areas, the raise likely will be only in about the 1.8 percent range. The lowest-paid locality, meanwhile, is the catchall rest of U.S., which covers areas in the contiguous states outside one of the 44 city areas (Alaska and Hawaii are separate localities in their entirety) as well as U.S. territories and possessions. The raise in those areas likely will be around 1.4 percent; exact figures are to be set by a late-year executive order formalizing the raise. Locality rates are paid according to where employees work, not where they live, and reflect comparisons of labor market conditions, not cost of living.)

 

DAILY KOS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Trump-incited ‘patriot’ militias could never carry off a coup, but could spread murderous terror.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/2/1590177/-Trump-incited-patriot-militias-could-never-carry-off-a-coup-but-could-spread-murderous-terror

 

AUTO WORLD NEWS
— 10 KEYS WHY FORD MUSTANG IS THE BEST-SELLING SPORTS CAR – Mariechris Felipe
http://www.autoworldnews.com/articles/22317/20161102/10-keys-why-ford-mustang-is-the-best-selling-sports-car.htm

October 26 Evening Edition

NBC5
— Joe Walsh: ‘If Trump Loses, I’m Grabbing My Musket’  The former Illinois congressman tweeted that he plans to take up arms if the Republican nominee loses on Election Day – Tom Schuba
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/joe-walsh-if-trump-loses-im-grabbing-my-musket-398762101.html
— Cook County Board of Commissioners Vote to Increase Minimum Wage
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/cook-county-minimum-wage-increase-vote-398707161.html
— Wisconsin Clerk Refused to Set Up Early Voting Site, Fearing it Would Help Democrats – Todd Richmond
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/wisconsin-green-bay-clerk-early-voting-college-helping-democrats-398696651.html

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Critics rip Rauner for funding cuts after chat on breast cancer awareness – Monique Garcia  (DIERSEN: What do your critics rip you for?  My critics rip me a) for my including links in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails to articles that they disapprove of, b) for my including links in the emails to articles written by people who they disapprove of, c) for my including comments in the emails in support of planks in the Republican Party platform and/or in the Illinois Republican Party platform that they disapprove of, d) for my including comments in the emails in support of the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling, and e) for my promoting, attending, and/or reporting on political events that they disapprove of.  My critics focus on destroying those individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that they cannot manipulate/dominate.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-bruce-rauner-facebook-breast-cancer-met-1027-20161026-story.html
— ‘Fascinated with sex’? Newt Gingrich tries to slut-shame Megyn Kelly on Fox News – Heidi Stevens
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-megyn-kelly-newt-gingrich-trump-balancing-1026-20161026-column.html
— Donald Trump aide makes apparent threat against Megyn Kelly after on-air tiff – Ed O’Keefe
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-megyn-kelly-newt-gingrich-threat-dan-scavino-20161026-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Clinton supporters hint/imply/argue/shout that if Clinton wins, they will get rid of White male Republicans once and for all.  If Clinton wins, to avoid being gotten rid of, how many White male Republicans will become White male RINOs or White male Democrats?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-trump-newt-gingrich-megyn-kelly-sex-20161026-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-donald-trump-ignorance-trade-perspec-1027-md-20161026-column.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson endorses Clinton
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/black-lives-matter-activist-deray-mckesson-endorses-clinton/
— County’s $13 minimum wage puts $15 in sight – Mark Brown
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/brown-countys-13-minimum-wage-puts-15-in-sight/
— Aldermen unleash their anger about Cubs yanking ticket offer – Fran Spielman
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/aldermen-unleash-their-anger-about-cubs-yanking-ticket-offer/

 

DAILY HERALD
— Proft: Without suburbs, GOP will never regain majority in Illinois – Kerry Lester  (DIERSEN: Proft “holds DuPage County Republicans responsible for loss of influence at the polls.”  What does Proft say to Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, and RINOs in the Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC), the DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) who hold me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails responsible for all the losses that Republicans have suffered in Illinois since 2000?  I could stress a) that I have never been a MTRCC officer, a DCRCC officer, or an IRP officer and b) that I have never been an IRP State Central Committee member.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161026/news/161028959/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Wheaton native Dan Proft has emerged as a key behind-the-scenes player in Illinois politics as the head of Liberty Principles PAC, a political action committee funneling millions of dollars to Republicans in races across the suburbs and state. Proft, a conservative radio host and 2010 candidate for governor in the Republican primary, has about $4 million in cash on hand to spend on campaigns, according to the most campaign finance filings with the Illinois State Board of Elections. In recent weeks, that has meant more than $250,000 spent in radio and television ads supporting Park Ridge Republican Mel Thillens’ campaign for 28th state Senate, more than $175,000 for ads supporting Republican Heidi Holan of Glendale Heights in her campaign for 46th House, and more than $225,000 on ads in support of Dawn Abernathy of Mundelein in her campaign for 59th state House, among others. Proft recently created political mailings designed to look like newspapers, including the Lake County Gazette and DuPage Policy Journal, holds DuPage County Republicans responsible for loss of influence at the polls, and offers some support of Donald Trump’s bid for president. Here’s a conversation with Proft, edited for length. . .Q. Do you see the DuPage GOP stronghold as eroding?  A. Clearly, DuPage is less competitive than it was when I was growing up. It’s self-inflicted wounds. It’s our own bad actors and bad actions. It’s cycle after cycle of bad candidates in bad races and bad political leadership and being junior partners to the Democrats and some people think DuPage should be run like a mini Cook County. Think about this: In 1998, George Ryan got 72 percent of the vote in DuPage County. And in 2010, Bill Brady got 52 percent. For the second most populous county, most Republican county, that is an unbelievable amount of attrition in a relatively short period of time. When demographics change, you incorporate new people into the party. We didn’t do that, partly because we told people to wait your turn. It was an outdated system that pushed talent away and bred corruption and incompetence.)
— Yingling and Drobinski in another bitter Illinois House campaign – Bob Susnjara
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161026/news/161029034/
— Suburbs consider opting out of Cook County minimum wage hike – Eric Peterson
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161026/news/161029009/
— Opponents emerge against Illinois road fund ballot question – AP
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161026/news/161029007/
— Trump’s infrequent remarks on abortion draw strong reactions – AP
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161026/news/310269975/
— Police investigate destruction of Trump’s Hollywood star – AP
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161026/news/310269835/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: At Benedictine University, anti-Whites blame Whites for problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161026/submitted/161029026/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Cook County approves $13 minimum wage
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161026/NEWS02/161029874/cook-county-approves-13-minimum-wage
— Here’s one problem McDonald’s CEO hasn’t solved – Bloomberg
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161026/NEWS07/161029893/heres-one-problem-mcdonalds-ceo-hasnt-solved

 

PEORIA PUBLIC RADIO
— Comptroller Munger Dodges Public Support of Trump – AMANDA VINICKY
http://peoriapublicradio.org/post/comptroller-munger-dodges-public-support-trump#stream/0

 

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Sen. Kirk Again Calls For Donald Trump To Drop Out Of Presidential Race – TONY ARNOLD (DIERSEN: To not endorse Trump is to endorse Clinton.)
http://northernpublicradio.org/post/sen-kirk-again-calls-donald-trump-drop-out-presidential-race

 

JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Rauner’s Facebook Live session on breast cancer draws critics – Dan Petrella
http://jg-tc.com/jg-tc/rauner-s-facebook-live-session-on-breast-cancer-draws-critics/article_0cebd1ad-d1d8-571e-8f01-50947cd7ba47.html

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump and Trump’s supporters.
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20161025/esther-cepeda-anger-and-resentment-stoked-by-trump-will-persist-after-election-day
— LaHood endorsed in 18th Congressional District
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20161025/our-opinion-lahood-endorsed-in-18th-congressional-district

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump mixes business and politics with opening of new hotel – CNN
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/trump-mixes-business-and-politics-with-opening-of-new-hotel
— Howard Stern on Trump’s misogynistic talk: ‘This is who Trump is’  ‘None of this was hidden,’ Stern says – Andrew Kaczynski
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/entertainment/howard-stern-on-trumps-misogynistic-talk-this-is-who-trump-is

 

WSIL TV
— Trump praises Gingrich for criticism of Kelly – AP
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/33483893/trump-praises-gingrich-for-criticism-of-kelly
— Trump: I’ll run America like my business. Clinton: Let’s not – AP
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/33483230/trump-ill-run-america-like-my-business-clinton-lets-not

 

SAUK VALLEY
— Illinois in a state of neglect  Government buildings, parks, finances suffer – Doug Finke
http://www.saukvalley.com/2016/10/25/illinois-in-a-state-of-neglect/cqp3kyj/

 

CHICAGO NOW
— Funny Madigan documentary parody video Gov. Rauner tried to censor – William J. Kelly
http://www.chicagonow.com/kelly-truth-squad/2016/10/watch-madigan-documentary-parody-rauner-censor/

 

LOYOLA PHOENIX
— Mock Border Wall Sparks Immigration Dialogue – Chris Hacker  (DIERSEN: I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. How soon, if not already, will Loyola officially announce that it will only admit students who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors?)
http://www.loyolaphoenix.com/2016/10/mock-border-wall-sparks-immigration-dialogue/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Build the wall” has become a rallying cry for millions of conservative Americans who feel left behind by an increasingly diverse America. And “build the wall” is exactly what a group of Loyola students did, but for a very different reason than some conservatives might. “It isn’t about some wall hundreds of miles away,” said junior Addison Mauck, who organized the Mock Border Wall project that was displayed on Loyola’s West Quad from Oct. 18–20. “The purpose of this project is to humanize the topic of immigration and combat the negative rhetoric of the current political season.” The words, “No human being is illegal” and “We are a nation of immigrants,” were displayed on hand-painted banners that hung from the wall’s steel fencing. Despite the project’s supportive message, it garnered harsh criticism from undocumented students who felt they weren’t given a voice in the installation. About 20 signs that read, “Majority of undocumented students were not consulted for this,” were posted on the wall in protest. “We had a student [in] our organization who represented the community of undocumented students because we do not want to force anyone to speak about something that can be very personal and private,” Mauck said in response to the criticism. That student to whom Mauck referred, who wished to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of her immigration status, said her role in the project was not very significant. “It raises the question of why more students weren’t reached out to by anyone other than me, because I was not an organizer of the project,” she said. “Our community, both undocumented and immigrant, does have a voice on campus, and other people should not be speaking for us.” Loyola has taken steps to support that community of undocumented students. In 2001, Loyola became involved in the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which provides a pathway to citizenship for children of undocumented parents. Since 2012, about 150 students and faculty have completed “Share the DREAM,” which is training to become an ally for undocumented students, offered by Loyola’s Department of Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs (SDMA), said SDMA director Joe Saucedo. The training is a three-hour long session that covers DREAM Act legislation, the barriers undocumented students face and the personal stories that those students bring with them, according to Joe Saucedo. “It’s important to know that these students’ status of being undocumented is one aspect of who they are, but it’s not all of who they are,” Saucedo said. “[The training] indicates to someone who may carry those identities that this is a safe space and there are people who get them and understand.”  In order to make it easier for undocumented students to attend Loyola, students voted in 2015 to include a $2.50 fee to each student’s tuition, creating the Magis Scholarship Fund, which provides free tuition and housing to five undocumented students every year. One recipient of the scholarship, sophomore Vince Garcia, said he appreciated Loyola’s support of undocumented students but revealed that he hasn’t received any communication or resources from the university since receiving the scholarship. He said his academic advisor hasn’t completed the DREAM ally training. “I’d say they should communicate better, because I always have questions about health insurance, for example, and I feel like I don’t have anyone to talk to,” said Garcia, a social work major who wants to help undocumented students like himself get a head start. “I think we’re getting better at this. Part of our job is taking stock of the barriers that students face, and we try to bring in the students themselves and ask them how they feel,” said Saucedo. “The most important thing we can do, as people with citizenship privilege who can vote, is to continue to elect politicians who will support these programs and keep the interests of undocumented students in mind.”)

 

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Problems with Voting for Trump on Huntley Machines – Cal Skinner
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2016/10/26/problems-with-voting-for-trump-on-huntley-machines/

 

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— We Were Right About the Slippery Slope of Homosexual Marriage – Micah Clark
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/right-slippery-slope-homosexual-marriage/

 

PROGRESS ILLINOIS
— Chicago Protesters Press Walmart To Stop Selling Trump Merchandise – Ellyn Fortino
http://progressillinois.com/quick-hits/content/2016/10/26/chicago-protesters-urge-walmart-stop-selling-trump-merchandise

 

GOPUSA
— Leaked: How Hillary Pandered to the Press  (DIERSEN: Should I write a book about activists, candidates, elected officials, party leaders, major donors, political consultants in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who are Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, or RINOs a) who pander to Rich Miller and the rest of the Democrat press, b) who discourage me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails, and c) who discourage everyone from reading the emails?)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=16417
— Teaching bias against whites at the college level  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, anti-Whites are gaining control of America and of the world.  What do you say to Whites who demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites a) to curry favor with anti-Whites and/or b) to stay alive a little longer?)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=16329
— Gingrich finally gets enough of Megyn Kelly’s biased sniping
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=16419

 

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE
— HILLARY AND WEAPONIZED IMMIGRATION  How international terrorists would turn Clinton’s “compassionate” immigration proposals against us. – Michael Cutler
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264610/hillary-and-weaponized-immigration-michael-cutler

 

THE BLAZE
— The post-election war for the soul of the GOP is heating up, and it is going to be ugly – Leon Wolf  (DIERSEN: I am going to be on the side that supports the Republican Party platform.)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/10/26/the-post-election-war-for-the-soul-of-the-gop-is-heating-up-and-it-is-going-to-be-ugly/

 

BREITBART
— Report: 97 Percent of DOJ Employee Political Donations Went to Hillary Clinton – MATTHEW BOYLE2
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/26/report-97-percent-doj-employee-political-donations-went-hillary-clinton/

 

CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN NEWS
— WHAT RECENT HACKING ATTACK REVEALS ABOUT ELECTION SECURITY – Kent Kellar
http://conservativerepublicannews.com/2016/10/26/what-recent-hacking-attack-reveals-about-election-security/

 

PJ MEDIA
— Sean Hannity: ‘I’m Pissed’ About Never-Trump Republicans
https://pjmedia.com/video/sean-hannity-im-pissed-about-never-trump-republicans/

 

TOWNHALL
— DNC Suing RNC Because Trump Claims The Election Is Rigged – Christine Rousselle
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2016/10/26/dnc-suing-rnc-because-trump-claims-the-election-is-rigged-n2237585

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Conservative leaders step up for Trump – Jennifer Harper
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/26/inside-the-beltway-conservative-leaders-step-up-fo/
— GAO: Obama’s golf weekend with Tiger Woods in 2013 cost taxpayers more than $3.6M – Dave Boyer
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/26/obama-golf-weekend-tiger-woods-2013-more-36m/

 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— So far, Trump not sinking down-ballot Republicans – MICHAEL BARONE
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/barone-so-far-trump-not-sinking-down-ballot-republicans/article/2605663
— GOP: Feds risking taxpayer dollars on Obamacare – ROBERT KING
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-feds-risking-taxpayer-dollars-on-obamacare/article/2605660

 

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— There Might Be Consequences for the GOP Presidential Candidates Who Won’t Endorse Donald Trump – JOE PERTICONE (DIERSEN: To not endorse Trump is to endorse Clinton.)
http://ijr.com/2016/10/720822-there-might-be-consequences-for-the-gop-presidential-candidates-who-wont-endorse-donald-trump/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: But a handful of Republicans have opted out of that promise to endorse Donald Trump, including Ohio Governor John Kasich, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, former New York Governor George Pataki and Sen. Lindsey Graham. In addition, businesswoman Carly Fiorina withdrew her previous endorsement of Trump.)
— I’m Not Voting “For” Donald Trump. I’m Voting To Stop The Clintons From Consolidating Power. – RIT VARRIALE
http://ijr.com/opinion/2016/10/260972-voting-trump-curtail-clinton-power-presidency/

 

THE HILL
— Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star destroyed in sledgehammer attack – Neetzan Zimmerman
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/donald-trump-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed-sledgehammer-pickaxe-jamie-otis
— Polls tighten for Trump, Clinton – Niall Stanage
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/302956-polls-tighten-for-trump-clinton

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— Mark Kirk Won’t Say Who Has His Vote For President  The Republican senator has now changed his mind four times. – Jennifer Bendery  (DIERSEN: To not endorse Trump is to endorse Clinton.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mark-kirk-donald-trump-2016_us_580fc7f1e4b02b1d9e637739

 

REUTERS
— Republicans may be on verge of losing Senate majority – Richard Cowan
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-senate-idUSKCN12Q2D3

 

NBC NEWS
— Donald Trump Outlines His ‘New Deal For Black America’ – ALI VITALI
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-outlines-his-new-deal-black-america-n673566

 

CNN
— Donald Trump says he will dramatically ramp up donations in final stretch of campaign – Teddy Schleifer and Dana Bash
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/26/politics/donald-trump-dana-bash/

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump leaves campaign trial to open his new downtown D.C. hotel – Ed O’Keefe, Sean Sullivan and Katie Zezima  (DIERSEN: Since I became its Illinois Editor in 2000, I have never left the GOPUSA campaign trail.  Since 2004, GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails have gone out each and every morning, and since 2015, they have gone out each and every evening to.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-leaves-campaign-trail-to-open-his-new-downtown-dc-hotel/2016/10/26/02cca882-9b96-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html
— Sane Republicans should pack their bags and flee the GOP – Jennifer Rubin  (DIERSEN: The following should leave the Republican Party: those who are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/10/26/sane-republicans-should-pack-their-bags-and-flee-the-gop/
— Trump christens D.C. hotel, lauds Newt Gingrich for sparring with Megyn Kelly – Ed O’Keefe and Sean Sullivan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-aide-makes-apparent-threat-against-megyn-kelly-after-on-air-tiff/2016/10/26/59f260fe-9b71-11e6-9980-50913d68eacb_story.html
— Anti-abortion activists face headwinds with Clinton leading and Trump stumbling on women’s issues – Sandhya Somashekhar and Katie Zezima
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/antiabortion-activists-face-headwinds-with-clinton-leading-and-trump-stumbling-on-womens-issues/2016/10/21/a17bc29c-96dc-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html

 

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— No, there is no evidence that thousands of noncitizens are illegally voting and swinging elections – Joseph Tanfani  (DIERSEN: How many of the many millions who are in America illegally will use their false identifications to vote for Clinton and for the other Democrats in the November 8, 2016 election?)
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-noncitizen-voters-20161025-snap-story.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Republicans Rode Waves of Populism Until They Crashed the Party  Donald Trump seized on GOP’s failure to change enough to accommodate four decades of newcomers; a post-election split? – Gerald F. Seib and Patrick O’Connor  (DIERSEN: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform.  Far too many Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, and RINOs hold leadership positions in the Republican Party.  They focus on getting rid of Republicans like me who a) support all the planks in the Republican Party platform and in the Illinois Republican Party platform including the traditional family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks and b) support the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling.)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-rode-waves-of-populism-until-it-crashed-the-party-1477492356

 

BLOOMBERG
— Trump Has No Doubts About Winning White House  “We are gonna win,” the Republican presidential nominee told Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin on Wednesday. – Kevin Cirilli
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-26/trump-has-no-doubts-about-winning-white-house

 

COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE
— Hundreds protest bake sale parodying affirmative action in Austin, Texas – AP
http://gazette.com/hundreds-protest-bake-sale-parodying-affirmative-action/article/feed/414685

 

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— The Oddly Snobbish Anti-Intellectualism of Donald Trump – Jonathan Chait
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/the-oddly-snobbish-anti-intellectualism-of-donald-trump.html

 

THE BEAST
— Ex-Rep. Joe Walsh: If Hillary Wins, ‘I’m Grabbing My Musket’
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/10/26/ex-rep-joe-walsh-if-hillary-wins-i-m-grabbing-my-musket.html

 

DAILY MAIL
— Who the 1% really are: Researchers say the 1.6 million wealthiest Americans are actually people running medium sized family firms – STACY LIBERATORE
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3875410/Who-1-really-Researchers-say-1-6-million-wealthiest-Americans-actually-people-running-medium-sized-family-firms.html

 

AUTO BLOG
— Democrats see themselves as Teslas, Republicans as Corvettes  Respondents said Trump should drive an Escalade, Clinton a Mercedes GL-Class. – Danny King  (DIERSEN: The cars that you own say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself.  I have owned my 1972 Chevy Corvette since 1971, my 2005 Chevy Corvette since 2005, my 2016 Ford Mustang since 2016, my 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max since 2012, my 2003 Chevy Cavalier LS since 2010, and my 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX since 1995.)
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/10/26/democrats-tesla-republicans-corvettes/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Given a tidy sum of money to spend on a vehicle, many Democrats would buy a Tesla Model S electric vehicle, while a lot of Republicans would choose a Chevrolet Corvette. That’s one politically quirky result of a poll taken by Swapalease last month, which linked respondent’s political preferences to car choices. About 2,500 people participated in the unscientific, opt-in survey. When asked what kind of car best suited their personalities, Democrats were most likely to choose the Tesla, while Republicans saw themselves as ‘Vette-like. The Tesla/Corvette dichotomy also split down gender lines, as many men wanted Corvettes (no shock there) and women preferred Teslas. Other cars that registered on the “personality” list were big sellers such as the Honda Accord and Ford F-150 as well as the Hummer and the Chevrolet Volt. Take a look here for Swapalease’s data from the survey results. Granted, the results of the poll were tilted a bit, as the respondents were two-thirds male, while Republicans outnumbered Democrats by a 3-to-2 margin. When guessing which cars the presidential candidates would prefer to drive, the respondents said Republican candidate Donald Trump would drive a Cadillac Escalade, while Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would choose a Mercedes-Benz GL Class. With the survey pool leaning Republican, 39 percent of those polled said they would vote for Trump, 36 percent would choose Clinton, and the rest would choose the always-elusive “Someone Else.” On that note, when given various choices to describe the “personality of this year’s election,” a third of those polled said “a driverless car.” As for how long the respondents said they’d keep their cars, most ranged from 21 to 36 months. Which is quite a bit shorter than a presidential term. Even with the unscientific methods at use here, we can perhaps learn a little something, since the connection between electric cars and Democrats has been seen before. But, naturally, we know that Republicans can like Tesla, too. Some of them even buy five of them. They just might be outliers.)

October 14 Morning Edition

CBS2
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Second City cast member Peter Kim blames Trump for “offensive behavior from audiences.”  Are you an anti-Trump?  If so, what do you blame Trump for?)
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/10/13/another-second-city-cast-member-quits-after-offensive-audiences/

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— CPS deal with CTU would cost about $8.9 billion over 4 years – Fran Spielman and Lauren FitzPatrick
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/cps-deal-with-ctu-cost-8-9-billion-over-4-years/
— Metra board to weigh alternatives to planned 8.5% fare increase – Rosalind Rossi
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/metra-board-weighs-fare-increase/
— Endorsement: Bob Dold goes for the smart middle ground  (DIERSEN: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform.  The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you reject, the more that anti-Republicans like you, but they will still vote for the Democrat candidate.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/endorsement-bob-dold-goes-for-the-smart-middle-ground/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DuPage renews third-party worker’s comp firm contract; New office furniture, carpeting – Gary Gibula
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/wheaton/news/ct-nvs-dupage-board-workers-comp-st-1014-20161012-story.html
— Gays and Catholicism: Pope’s words open door to confusion – AP  (DIERSEN: The Pope asks “Who am I to judge?”  My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois are extremely judgmental. They blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems.  The blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails for all the losses that Republicans have suffered in Illinois since 2000.  They hint/imply/argue/shout that they will send straight to HELL any individual, any organization, any company, any government, or any country that does not join them in destroying me.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us–catholics-gays-20161012-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: An ideological tug of war over the firing of a Rhode Island church music director for marrying his same-sex partner illustrates the confusion that permeates some U.S. Roman Catholic parishes over Pope Francis’ words on homosexuality. Francis’ famous declaration “Who am I to judge?” in 2013 energized Catholics who had pushed the church to accept gays and lesbians. Now, some gay Catholics and supporters who hoped for rapid acceptance find themselves stymied by many bishops and pastors. Francis is being cited by both the music director, Michael Templeton, and by Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin, known for taking a hard line on church teaching about marriage and abortion. Tobin has criticized Francis, writing after the pope’s summit on the family two years ago that “Francis is fond of ‘creating a mess.’ Mission accomplished.” The pope has upheld Catholic teaching on homosexuality, reiterating the church’s opposition to same-sex relationships. But his shift in tone and broad statements about mercy have left a trail of comments that amount to a Rorschach test open to interpretation, say those who have closely followed Francis.)
— Tammy Duckworth for U.S. Senate from Illinois – Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-tammy-duckworth-senate-endorsement-mark-kirk-edit-20161014-story.html
— SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 FLASHBACK: Wheaton group home (SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_home) for developmentally disabled moves forward  Proposed 15-resident care location would be northeast of downtown Wheaton – Bob Goldsborough
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-09-13/news/ct-tl-wheaton-group-home-20120913_1_group-care-home-wheaton-stars
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Plans for a proposed 15-resident group care home for developmentally disabled individuals just northeast of downtown Wheaton cleared another hurdle, as the city’s Group Care Home Commission voted 3-1 to grant the project a necessary group care home license. The Wheaton-based nonprofit STARS Family Services, which operates another four-person group care home called Washington House on Wheaton’s north side, wants to construct a new group care home on vacant land at the southeast corner of Cross Street and Union Avenue. The project would be constructed on land currently owned by St. John Lutheran Church, zoned for single-family residential use and used for two parking lots. Plans call for two structures that would be linked by a common courtyard. Each would have six private bedrooms, a great room, a shared kitchen and shared baths for each pair of bedrooms. The project also will include housing for a couple who would live in the home and oversee the evening and the overnight. A volunteer or staff person also will be present in the home during the day. The project has drawn opposition from some neighbors, who criticize the scale of the proposal. In addition, they have questioned STARS’ financial strength and how the home would be used were STARS to no longer be economically viable. “None of the neighbors oppose a group care home,” said neighbor Kathy Langlois. “We embrace it, we applaud it and we welcome it. And it’s absolutely not a case of ‘Not in my back yard.’ It’s a question of scale.” Langlois also said she and her neighbors would welcome the construction of one single-family home on the site. “What happens if STARS runs out of money?” she asked. “This will be a group care home. It can’t go back to being a single-family home.” STARS president Ray Chase noted that the organization has taken great pains to ensure its financial viability. STARS plans to pay cash for the land and has vowed never to open a group care home until it has 150 percent of that home’s projected first year’s operating expenses. In addition, STARS’ College Avenue resale shop generates more than 40 percent of the group’s annual need, he said. “I think we’re pretty stable,” he said. “I think we’ve taken a very conservative approach financially.” Chase also said the group is continuing to try to work with neighbors. “We’ve also done some things to make sure the home looks like it would fit in a neighborhood and isn’t overwhelming in size,” Chase said. “There even are architectural variations between the two homes so they look like different homes.” Wheaton’s Planning and Zoning Board unanimously voted in June to recommend that the City Council approve the project. Last week, three-fourths of the Group Care Home Commission’s members signed off on the project as well. Group Care Home Commission board member Chris Ellerman praised STARS for proposing two linked structures rather than one larger one. He also lauded the group’s model, which involves a married couple living with the developmentally disabled adults, with the adults’ aging parents or relatives being involved on a weekly basis and typically coming by to visit over the dinner hour. “In terms of a home for disabled adults in the community they have grown up in, absolutely,” Ellerman said. “This is their town. I live two blocks away, and I’d be ashamed if I didn’t want to welcome them in my community..” Group Care Home Commission board member Matthew McNear was the lone vote against the license. In an interview on Friday, he noted his concerns about the “scope” of the proposed home and some of the other issues that neighbors had raised. “I think STARS is a great organization and they do a lot of good there, but I think this probably could use some more discussion or some more review,” he said. With the group care home license now in hand, the proposal next heads to the Wheaton City Council for its consideration, likely sometime in October, said Jim Kozik, the city’s director of planning and economic development.)
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: Job-matching program results promising – Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz  (DIERSEN: In 1997, in today’s dollars, I was earning $120,427 a year.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-skills-for-chicagolands-future-outcomes-1014-biz-20161013-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s supporters.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-giuliani-ben-carson-pence-perspec-1014-jm-20161014-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— Endorsement: Grogan for DuPage auditor
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161014/discuss/161019353/
— New programs ease homebuyers’ path to mortgages – Ken Harney  (DIERSEN: How old were you when you got your first mortgage?  I was 24 years old in 1972 when I got my first mortgage; it was for a new town home at 774-5 Sunset Court in University Park (current Zillow estimate is $59,012).  I worked for IRS in its Harvey office as a GS-9 (currently $53,717) Revenue Officer, and in addition, I worked part-time for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights.  I owned a 1972 Corvette and a 1962 Chevy Impala.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161014/entlife/161019449/
— APRIL 10, 2015 FLASHBACK: Five women ‘STARS’ looking to new group home in Wheaton  STARS Ministry opens new facility for women in Wheaton – Susan Dibble
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20150408/news/150409083/
— What do political candidates owe to their voters? – Gail Chaney Kalinich
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161014/discuss/161019361/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— FOR CONDOS, A LOST DECADE  When the housing market crashed in 2006, Chicago was awash in unsold condominiums—and the wave tripled in size as the crisis deepened. The meter is still running. Today, condos are worth about 7 percent less than they were 10 years ago. – DENNIS RODKIN  (DIERSEN: My wife and I got married in 1978.  In 1978, a) after owning a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building for less than 2 years, sold it a $10,000 profit; b) I used that profit to buy a new 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale and a new 1978 Chevy Chevette; and c) my wife and I bought 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton using her savings for the 20% down payment.)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/section/housing-crash-condos

 

WTTW
— Michael Madigan: The Movie – Paris Schutz
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/10/13/michael-madigan-movie

 

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Endorsement: U.S. Senate: Mark Kirk
http://www.nwherald.com/2016/10/13/endorsement-u-s-senate-mark-kirk/a6ag5z3/

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JPURNAL REGISTER
— Rauners to live at fairgrounds during Executive Mansion closure – Tim Landis
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20161013/rauners-to-live-at-fairgrounds-during-executive-mansion-closure

 

JOURNAL COURIER
— Will Rauner be Madigan’s next scalp? – Jay Jamison
http://myjournalcourier.com/uncategorized/101322/commentary-will-rauner-be-madigans-next-scalp

 

PEORIA PUBLIC RADIO
— Rauner Vague About Trump Support – AMANDA VINICKY
http://peoriapublicradio.org/post/rauner-vague-about-trump-support#stream/0

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Ryan, McConnell scramble to protect GOP majorities amid Trump turmoil  GOP majorities in jeopardy – CNN
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/ryan-mcconnell-scramble-to-protect-gop-majorities-amid-trump-turmoil
— Tweets show why women don’t report sex assault  #WhyWomenDontReport followed #NextFakeTrumpVictim – CNN
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/tweets-show-why-women-dont-report-sex-assault
— Trump has ‘betrayed First Amendment values,’ journalists say – CNN  (DIERSEN: What do you say to “Republican” politicians in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Wheaton, and in Glen Ellyn a) who do not want me to know about their events or their activities, b) who do not want me to promote or report on their events or activities, c) who do not want me to attend their events, and/or d) who pander to Rich Miller and to the rest of the Democrat news media?)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/trump-has-betrayed-first-amendment-values-journalists-say

 

THE SOUTHERN
— Prison issue looms large for Southern Illinois politicians – K. JANIS ESCH
http://thesouthern.com/elections/prison-issue-looms-large-for-southern-illinois-politicians/article_37ba6abf-36a3-50a2-9e7e-dfec88c6b171.html

 

SUBURBAN LIFE
— League of Women Voters to hold candidate forum Oct. 16 – Nathan Lurz
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2016/10/10/league-of-women-voters-to-hold-candidate-forum-oct-16/aov7uyt/

 

CHICAGO LNNO
— Donald Trump Has a 0% Chance of Winning the Election, According to U of I Computer Scientists  Election forecasting group at the University of Illinois says their model is better than FiveThirtyEight. – Jim Dallke
http://chicagoinno.streetwise.co/2016/10/10/donald-trump-has-a-0-chance-of-winning-the-election-according-to-u-of-i-computer-scientists/

 

CAPITOL FAX
— “Low blow and cheap shot” *** Citing Kirk’s stroke, Tribune endorses Duckworth
http://capitolfax.com/2016/10/14/citing-kirks-stroke-tribune-endorses-duckworth/
— “Their minds or their bodies are too broken for them to work”  (DIERSEN: The Democrats who run the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old.  They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, a minority, a female, or a veteran.)
http://capitolfax.com/2016/10/14/their-minds-or-their-bodies-are-too-broken-for-them-to-work/

 

CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN NEWS
— NATIONAL DEBT WENT UP EVERY YEAR BILL CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT – Kent Kellar
http://conservativerepublicannews.com/2016/10/14/national-debt-went-up-every-year-bill-clinton-was-president/

 

TOWNHALL
— Donald Trump’s Invisible Shackles – Michael Barone (DIERSEN: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform.)
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2016/10/14/donald-trumps-invisible-shackles-n2231773
— NBC Held Trump ‘P***y Grab’ Tape For Maximum Election Impact – Guy Benson (DIERSEN: What do you say to those who wanted Trump to win the Republican primary because they believed he would be the easiest to defeat in the general election?)
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/10/13/tmz-nbc-held-trump-py-grab-tape-for-maximum-election-impact-n2231514

 

AMERICAN FREE PRESS
— SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 FLASHBACK: Is Charlotte Our Future? – Patrick J. Buchanan
http://americanfreepress.net/is-charlotte-our-future/

 

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— After Michelle Responds to Lewd Tape, White House Issues Warning to Trump About Attacking First Lady – JUSTEN CHARTERS
http://ijr.com/wildfire/2016/10/713839-after-michelle-responds-to-lewd-tape-white-house-issues-warning-to-trump-about-attacking-first-lady/

 

POLITICO
— Clinton camp’s cozy relationship with Coca-Cola – Catherine Boudreau
http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-agriculture/2016/10/clinton-camps-cozy-relationship-with-coca-cola-216866

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Donald Trump vs. a Free Press – Editorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/opinion/donald-trump-vs-a-free-press.html?ref=opinion
— The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity — Then Lost Her Job  When Larycia Hawkins, the first black woman to receive tenure at Wheaton College, made a symbolic gesture of support for Muslims, the evangelical college became divided over what intellectual freedom on its campus really meant. – RUTH GRAHAM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/the-professor-wore-a-hijab-in-solidarity-then-lost-her-job.html
— A 44% Pay Divide for Female and Male Law Partners, Survey Says – ELIZABETH OLSON
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/business/dealbook/female-law-partners-earn-44-less-than-the-men-survey-shows.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— What happened to ‘America’s Mayor’? How Rudy Giuliani became Trump’s attack dog. – Paul Schwartzman and Ben Terris
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-happened-to-americas-mayor-how-rudy-giuliani-became-trumps-attack-dog/2016/10/13/c6fdebd4-8fc1-11e6-9c85-ac42097b8cc0_story.html
— The shocking pain of American men – Jeff Guo  (DIERSEN: The Democrats who run the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old.  They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, a minority, a female, or a veteran.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/13/a-record-number-of-men-arent-working-this-might-finally-explain-why/

 

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PICTURE OF CLINTON: HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: Clinton courts Trump’s core: White man – Heidi M. Przybyla
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/13/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-male-voters-president/92006180/
— Where do I vote? Google now will tell you, and show you the ballot – Jessica Guynn
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/13/google-election-ballot-polling-place/91966650/

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump’s Path to Victory Diminishes  Donald Trump angrily denies sexual misconduct claims amid fresh polls that indicate his path to the White House is constricting – MICHAEL C. BENDER and JANET HOOK
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-path-to-victory-diminishes-1476403134
— The Press Buries Hillary Clinton’s Sins  As reporters focus on Trump, they miss new details on Clinton’s rotten record. – KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-press-buries-hillary-clintons-sins-1476401308
— Voters’ Education Level a Driving Force This Election  Whites without college degree tend to back Donald Trump, many of those with four-year degree back Hillary Clinton – AARON ZITNER and DANTE CHINNI
http://www.wsj.com/articles/voters-education-level-a-driving-force-this-election-1476401440

 

BLOOMBERG
— RNC Transfers $6.35 Million to Down Ballot Races  The move comes at a difficult moment for the Trump campaign. – Kevin Cirilli
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-14/rnc-transfers-6-35-million-to-down-ballot-races
— It’s Official: This Election Is Driving Americans Nuts  And it’s the oldest among us who are suffering the most. – Deena Shanker
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-13/it-s-official-this-election-is-driving-americans-nuts

 

HERALD ONLINE
— Chicago Tribune endorses Duckworth, cites Kirk’s health – AP
http://www.heraldonline.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article108205257.html

 

BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWS
— GM honored by chamber for $770K investment – CHARLES A. MASON
http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/gm-honored-by-chamber-for-k-investment/article_424c1ecd-519f-5e25-95b2-ab6fb4c176f9.html

 

RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE
— Rutherford Institute Defends First Amendment Rights of Federal Employee Prohibited From Displaying Pro-Trump Political Sign on His Personal Vehicle
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/rutherford_institute_defends_first_amendment_rights_of_federal_employee_pro

 

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
–Committee to Protect Journalists Says Trump is Threat to Press Freedom
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/committee-to-protect-journalists-says-trump-is-threat-to-press-freedom/
— Should There be Legislation in Place Preventing Politicians from Banning the Press? – Sean Stroh  (DIERSEN: What do you say to “Republican” politicians in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Wheaton, and in Glen Ellyn a) who do not want me to know about their events or their activities, b) who do not want me to promote or report on their events or activities, c) who do not want me to attend their events, and/or d) who pander to Rich Miller and to the rest of the Democrat news media?  These “Republican” politicians talk and act like they are Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, or RINOs.)
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/columns/critical-thinking-should-there-be-legislation-in-place-preventing-politicians-from-banning-the-press/