Tag: Precinct

March 23 Evening Edition

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats say “67% of Americans want stricter gun laws.”
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/national/poll-67-of-americans-want-stricter-gun-laws

 

NBC5
— Activists See Election as Opportunity to Mobilize Supporters – Mary Ann Ahern
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Activists-See-Mayoral-Race-Opportunity-to-Mobilize-Supporters-507551241.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump to nominate conservative Stephen Moore for Fed board – AP (DIERSEN: Moore will speak at the Wheaton Bowl Banquet Hall Thursday evening, April 18, at an event hosted by the Illinois Conservative Union and Freedom Works.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/trump-stephen-moore-federal-reserve/
— A message from the I-80 bridge — get out the repair tools, Illinois – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/i-80-bridge-des-plaines-river-caution-infrastructure/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Gov. Pritzker’s pro-family thrust, ironically, could worsen inequality – Bruce Fuller
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-paid-leave-illinois-pritzker-inequality-20190320-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers crow about their success in pushing pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-bc-us–poll-marijuana-20190319-story.html
— Rep. Steve King got doused with glass of water at an Iowa restaurant. Police say it was political. – Katie Mettler
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-steve-king-water-restaurant-20190323-story.html
— Trump: Social media sites discriminate against conservatives – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-bc-us–trump-social-media-20190319-story.html
— Trump to nominate conservative Stephen Moore for Fed board – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-bc-us–federal-reserve-trump-20190322-story.html
— Serious flaws in college admissions revealed in bribery case – Gerald Bradshaw
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/news/ct-ptb-bradshaw-column-st-0324-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— Lake Zurich village board candidate was fired from police department job – Doug T. Graham (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. If you ran for a government office or a political office, what would your critics/opponents stress about you? Mine would stress that GAO forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old. They would stress that I am no longer a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member, Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC) webmaster, Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee member, or American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member. They would stress that they almost succeeded in getting ICRC to censor me and that they defeated my bid to serve as MTRCC Treasurer.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190323/documents-lake-zurich-village-board-candidate-was-fired-from-police-department-job

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Pritzker’s daily schedule includes recommended attire – AP
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190323/pritzkers-daily-schedule-includes-recommended-attire

 

GOPUSA
— Ocasio-Cortez blames uptick in death threats on ‘right-wing media,’ feels safest at home in Bronx (DIERSEN: Are you a Trump supporter? How safe do you feel? In theory, Trump supporters should feel safer in precincts, in municipalities, in townships/wards, in counties, and in states the more voted that Trump got than Clinton got in 2016. In my precinct, a) Trump got only 137 votes in the 2016 general election while Clinton got 211 and b) Trump got only 21 votes in the 2016 Republican primary while Kasich got 93. Further, another indicator is how strongly those who represent you in your precinct, in your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in your state support Trump.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=66913
— Illegal alien accused of four murders in Nevada said he needed money to buy meth
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=66908

 

BREITBART
— Dem Rep. Underwood: We’ll Keep Moving Legislation ‘To Reverse and Block the Republican Sabotage of Affordable Health Care’ – Ian Hanchett
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/03/23/dem-rep-underwood-well-keep-moving-legislation-to-reverse-and-block-the-republican-sabotage-of-affordable-health-care/
— HUD Official Lives in Foul NYC Public Housing; Accuses Mayor de Blasio of Putting Politics Before People – Penny Starr
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/22/hud-official-lives-foul-nyc-public-housing-accuses-mayor-de-blasio-putting-politics-before-people/

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “Donald Trump Just Picked A Laughingstock For A Huge Federal Reserve Job. Stephen Moore is a joke in the economics profession.” Moore will speak at the Wheaton Bowl Banquet Hall Thursday evening, April 18, at an event hosted by the Illinois Conservative Union and Freedom Works.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-moore-federal-reserve-trump_n_5c953977e4b01ebeef0f13e8
— The Death Of ‘Badass’ Kellyanne Conway’s CNN profile proved the word means nothing. – Claire Fallon
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kellyanne-conway-badass-cnn_n_5c954945e4b0a6329e167f3f

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Louisiana GOP warns governor candidates against infighting – MELINDA DESLATTE
https://www.ktbs.com/news/arklatex-politics/louisiana-gop-warns-governor-candidates-against-infighting/article_bfbf126c-a38f-56a8-b566-ae702f8d5f3c.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Legalized Marijuana Gives Hiring Managers a Headache Companies are relaxing drug-testing standards as number of positive results for pot use increases – Heather Haddon
https://www.wsj.com/articles/legalized-marijuana-gives-hiring-managers-a-headache-11553346000

 

DAILY FREEMAN
— Attack of the desperate Democrats – MICHAEL REAGAN
https://www.dailyfreeman.com/opinion/michael-reagan-attack-of-the-desperate-democrats/article_9500a040-4d8d-11e9-a422-77f442308cae.htm

March 17 Evening Edition

NBC5
— Man Charged After Fighting Guards, Damaging Property at Trump Tower
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/man-charged-after-fighting-guards-damaging-property-at-trump-tower-507273351.html

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump again takes aim at John McCain over dossier, prompting rebuke from Meghan McCain – Felicia Sonmez
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-john-mccain-health-care-vote-20190316-story.html
— O’Rourke: Being white male doesn’t put me at disadvantage – AP (DIERSEN: O’Rourke has always been a Democrat and has always worked for Democrats. From what I see, O’Rourke has never had to pay the price of Affirmative Action (AA), Diversity, or Inclusion. Democrats make Republicans pay the price of AA, Diversity, and Inclusion.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us–election-2020-campaign-rdp-20190316-story.html

 

HERALD & REVIEW
— Elmhurst College professor sues school, campus paper after articles about seating chart that identified students by race – CLIFFORD WARD
https://herald-review.com/elmhurst-college-professor-sues-school-campus-paper-after-articles-about/article_bb62f184-b43c-5154-8f89-586f53921d0f.html

 

DAILY EGYPTIAN
— Rainbow Cafe to host forum on LGBTQ+ issues with Carbondale mayoral candidates – Jacob Lorenz (DIERSEN: From what I see, ever-increasingly, politicians a) promote LGBTQ+ activity and b) dump those who do not promote LGBTQ+ activity. I should write a book about politicians who have dumped me because I do not promote LGBTQ+ activity.)
https://dailyegyptian.com/92629/news/rainbow-cafe-to-host-forum-on-lgbtq-issues-with-carbondale-mayoral-candidates/

 

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters are doing everything that they can to get all the religions of the world to be anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/we-are-not-safe-unless-we-are-together-interfaith-vigils-follow-mosque-shootings#stream/0

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— President Trump attends church service on St. Patrick’s Day – AP (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. Democrats and Democrat plants are nasty. Libertarians and Libertarian plants are nasty. Greens and Green plants are nasty. RINOs are nasty. The aforesaid demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me in the Wheaton Bowl Banquet Hall and elsewhere as being a religious hypocrite because I am not a member of any church, because I do not attend church services, and because I do not give money to a church. They a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, c) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, d) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, and/or e) are operatives or dupes for the aforesaid.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/president-trump-attends-church-service-on-st-patricks-day

 

CENTER FOR ILLINOIS POLITICS
— Lady Blue: The role of women in deepening an already blue Illinois During the 2018 midterms, already blue Illinois moved further on the color spectrum towards indigo — thanks, in part, to an uptick in the share of votes coming from women for women. (DIERSEN: Trump-haters shout at women, and at everyone else, that Trump and his supporters are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. I would not be surprised if the Trump-hating women in my precinct organized a mob and came to my front door and demanded that I condemn Trump. Only 137 voted for Trump in my precinct while 211 voted for Clinton.)
https://www.centerforilpolitics.org/articles/lady-blue-the-role-of-women-deepening-in-an-already-blue-illinois

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— House GOP leader Durkin has change of heart, supports legislation to raise legal tobacco age to 21 – Kyla Asbury
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/512295752-house-gop-leader-durkin-has-change-of-heart-supports-legislation-to-raise-legal-tobacco-age-to-21

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters “call on Trump to condemn white supremacy.” To call for someone to condemn something, is to charge that person with being/doing that thing.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/17/tim-kaine-amy-klobuchar-trump-condemn-white-suprem/

 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump jabs ‘last in his class’ John McCain for role in disseminating dossier – Daniel Chaitin (DIERSEN: What harmed your ability to get better grades? For me, it was my a) working part-time jobs while I attended Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966, UIC 1966-1968, NIU 1969-1970, and Loyola during 1972 and b) my working full-time jobs while attended Loyola 1972-1976, DePaul 1976-1980, and IIT 1992-1997.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-jabs-last-in-his-class-john-mccain-for-role-in-disseminating-dossier

 

BREITBART
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters make it clear that they hate individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/03/17/tlaib-supporters-of-border-wall-are-following-a-white-supremacy-agenda/
— DHS Releases 84.5K Border Crossers, Illegal Aliens into U.S. in Two Months – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/17/dhs-releases-84-5k-border-crossers-illegal-aliens-u-s-two-months/
— Border Crossers ‘Being Dropped Off’ in U.S. While New Wall Has Yet to Be Built – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/17/exclusive-brandon-judd-border-crossers-being-dropped-off-in-u-s-while-new-wall-has-yet-to-be-built/

 

BLAZE
— Jeb Bush says Republican needs to challenge President Trump in 2020 to give conservatives ‘a choice’ – Chris Enloe
https://www.theblaze.com/news/jeb-bush-donald-trump-challenge-2020

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— WHY THE LEFT IS BLAMING TRUMP, WHITES FOR NEW ZEALAND SHOOTING Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson lambasts progressive hypocrisy, evil acts
https://www.wnd.com/2019/03/why-the-left-is-blaming-trump-whites-for-new-zealand-shooting/
— WILL DEMS’ SOCIALIST RHETORIC TORPEDO 2020 BIDS? – Erik Rush analyzes Rahm Emanuel’s recent warning to party leaders
https://www.wnd.com/2019/03/will-dems-socialist-rhetoric-torpedo-2020-bids/

 

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Bogus Lawsuit against Remington – KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/remington-lawsuit-sandy-hook-massacre/

 

EPOCH TIMES
— What’s Wrong With Reparations? – Mark Hendrickson (DIERSEN: What do Democrats use against you to demand that you pay reparations? My critics/opponents stress that I am Trump supporter, Protestant (baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran), conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, old (born in 1948), married, childless, pet-less, non-poor, gun owner, 100% German American, my ancestors have been in America since 1844. In my defense, my ancestors always lived in northeast Illinois and they never had enough money to discriminate against anyone if they wanted to.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/whats-wrong-with-reparations_2840159.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I ask, if slavery was so vile and indefensible, as 99 percent of Americans today know it was, then what is wrong with reparations? With apologies to the poet, “let me count the ways.” Reparations would violate a key principle of justice. It would punish those who have harmed nobody. The drive to penalize innocent Americans solely on the ground that they had a guilty ancestor seems as fanatically demented to me as a Christian zealot who hates Jews because “the Jews” were the ones who had Jesus executed a couple of millennia ago. Reparations are racist. I would be expected to pay compensation to the descendants of American slaves even though my grandparents didn’t come to the United States until after the Civil War. They were poor people who never owned slaves in either the Old World or the New. The only reason I would be expected to pay would be because I am white. My whiteness would be my guilt. But that precept has no more moral justification than blacks being denied their rights for being black. This is just the “two wrongs don’t make a right” principle Reparations are unconstitutional. After the Civil War, Americans voted to abolish the immoral institution of slavery. The 13th Amendment stipulates, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States. …” Since living Americans can’t possibly be convicted of the crime of slavery, it would be unconstitutional to subject white Americans to the economic “involuntary servitude” of having to turn over a share of the fruits of their labor to Americans of a different race. It was wrong when blacks were compelled to work for the enrichment of whites, and it would be wrong today to compel whites to work for the enrichment of blacks. Reparations are selective. Slavery is a sad component of a brutal human history. The practice was widespread, and in fact persists in some parts of the world today. Not only did whites enslave blacks, but so did blacks. And blacks enslaved whites. And let’s not even get into Asia’s history of slavery. Nor was slavery the only way in which human rights were horribly abused. Should the peoples of Eastern Europe and Western Asia be entitled to reparations because of the depredations of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan? Should those descended from English serfs be recompensed for the indignities, deprivations, and bondage they suffered? I mean, how far back do you want to go? If you want to claim reparations for every American with an ancestor who was treated unjustly, brutally, etc., then how can you arbitrarily limit reparations to African-Americans? Reparations are like Pandora’s box—you open it and soon you are plagued with a proliferation of bad things. Reparations are backward-looking. Well, yes, of course they are in the sense that some believe that retribution for past offenses would be rectified by reparations, but I am referring here to the costs of living in the past instead of living in the present for the sake of the future. If you want to see how harmful it is to dwell in the past, take a look at the Middle East. While Jews and Arabs who have buried the past and live and work for a peaceful future for all are to be highly commended, it is self-evident from the recurring conflicts there that too many people just can’t let go of the past. Instead, they are willing to subject their children to the horrors of war in the perennially futile attempt to settle scores that are thousands of years old. Reparations would have us dwell on the worst aspects of our history rather than lifting us above them. Reparations are hypocritical. Craven progressive politicians endorse reparations in the cynical attempt to win “the black vote.” What incredible effrontery this is. Progressives are the ones who have used “urban renewal” as a pretext to bulldoze African-American business districts; the ones who devised welfare programs that incentivized single parenthood with devastating consequence for African-American families and neighborhoods; the ones who today strive to deny African-American children school choice and keep them on the teachers’ unions’ plantations. Now progressive hypocrites seek to portray themselves as champions of justice for the very African-American citizens whom they have repeatedly ruined. Reparations are unaffordable. We can’t afford even a fraction of the Green New Deal, yet the politicians who seem most supportive of reparations tend to be the same ones who want to spend us broke on the Green New Deal. Progressives remain oblivious to the simple reality that we live in a world of finite financial resources, and the astronomical costs of their various policy wish-lists are telling them that they have to prioritize and make choices. For example, do they prefer to try to “fix” the past by paying reparations or do they want to “fix” the future by retooling the American economy? At $22 trillion of national debt and counting, why the eagerness to saddle our children with even more debt?)

 

CBS NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters use White nationalists to promote hatred of Trump and hatred of Trump’s supporters.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-kaine-on-face-the-nation-says-trump-emboldens-white-nationalists/

 

THE HILL
— Conservatives face a tough fight as Big Tech’s censorship expands – DONALD TRUMP JR. (DIERSEN: Of course, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes want Big Tech to censor me and censor my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/434407-conservatives-face-a-tough-fight-as-big-techs-censorship-expands
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater “says Trump is using language that emboldens white nationalists.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/434440-kaine-says-trump-is-using-language-that-emboldens-white
— Officials dismiss criticism that Trump rhetoric to blame for New Zealand attack – MICHAEL BURKE (DIERSEN: What do your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes blame you for? Mine blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. They blame me and my emails for all the losses that Republicans have suffered in Illinois since 2000.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/434450-administration-officials-dismiss-criticism-that-trump-rhetoric-to
— Trump reignites criticism of McCain months after senator’s death – BRETT SAMUELS (DIERSEN: Those who reject planks in the Republican Party platform promote McCain because he rejected those planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/434448-trump-reignites-criticism-of-mccain-months-after-his-death

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries get rid of you if you do not promote Isalam.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/islamophobia-is-a-global-crisis-and-its-time-we-view-it-that-way_us_5c8e5867e4b0db7da9f48156

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/opinion/trump-violence.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: If you come to America illegally and/or if you stay in America illegally, you are an invader. An America-hater says “Trump sees immigrants as invaders. White-nationalist terrorists do, too. The president’s language sends dangerous signals.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/03/17/trump-sees-immigrants-invaders-white-nationalist-terrorists-do-too/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters promote hatred against Trump and against Trump’s supporters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/17/gops-declaration-moral-bankruptcy/
— In Brenton Harrison Tarrant’s Australian hometown, his relatives remember violent video games, trouble with women – Brett Cole (DIERSEN: Your past predicts your future.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-brenton-harrison-tarrants-australian-hometown-his-relatives-remember-violent-video-games-trouble-with-women/2019/03/17/68c6aafe-48ad-11e9-b871-978e5c757325_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A church service on a blue-skied Sunday interrupts Trump’s weekend of presidential pique
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-church-service-on-a-blue-skied-sunday-interrupts-trumps-weekend-of-presidential-pique/2019/03/17/4c103b68-48d1-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— House Democrats Politicize Banking JPMorgan and Wells Fargo cater to their demands and cut off relationships with disfavored clients. – Megan Keller (DIERSEN: Are you religious, conservative, and/or Republican? How soon, if not already, will the Democrats get your bank to dump you?)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-democrats-politicize-banking-11552848048
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters use White nationalists to promote hatred of Trump and hatred of Trump’s supporters.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumpss-view-of-white-nationalism-sparks-political-debate-11552839789

 

BLOOMBERG
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters make it clear that they hate individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-17/reparations-are-a-political-minefield-for-democrats

 

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater promotes a) hatred of Trump and b) hatred of Trump’s supporters.
https://www.philly.com/opinion/commentary/donald-trump-new-zealand-massacre-white-supremacy-20190317.html

 

BOSTON GLOBE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters call Trump a White supremacist. Constructively, in America today, for a Trump-hater to call someone a White supremacist is to call for that person to be killed.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2019/03/17/white-house-aide-says-trump-not-white-supremacist/UEtCLYdGuOB9dhsPLe5TwK/story.html

 

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: No one who really is a Trump supporter would give ammunition to Trump-haters.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporter-interrupts-new-zealand-massacre-vigil-wall-float-1365578
— TRUMP DEMANDS FOX NEWS ‘BRING BACK’ JEANINE PIRRO, ‘KEEP FIGHTING’ FOR TUCKER CARLSON – BENJAMIN FEARNOW
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-judge-jeanine-pirro-tucker-carlson-fox-news-bring-back-fox-1365708

 

QUARTZ
— Facebook and YouTube still can’t handle mass shootings – Hanna Kozlowska (DIERSEN: What percent of those in America are members of one or more protected group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group)? From what I see, protected groups include minorities, females, LGBTQers, veterans, illegals, non-Christians, non-German Americans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, liberals, moderates, Trump-haters, those who have financial, health, and/or other problems, and those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://qz.com/1574293/facebook-and-twitter-couldnt-handle-the-new-zealand-shooting/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Twitter, where the shooter posted his screed, and where it subsequently spread, told Quartz that it was “proactively working to remove the video content.” The company, which would not comment on individual accounts, stated that its hate-speech policy prohibits “behavior that targets individuals based on protected categories including race, ethnicity, national origin or religious affiliation.” This would include “references to violent events where protected groups have been the primary targets or victims,” which would presumably make the manifesto fall under this policy.)

 

ESQUIRE
— Trump Stands With the Persecuted Hosts of Fox News – GABRIELLE BRUNEY (DIERSEN: Who stands with you? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes stress those in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican, but a) have not stood with me, b) are not standing with me, and c) will not stand with me. They a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, c) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, d) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, and/or e) are operatives or dupes for the aforesaid.)
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26848352/trump-fox-news-hosts/

March 4 Morning Edition

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Two black women running for mayor? For some black men, that’s a nightmare – Laura Washington (DIERSEN: Democrats want Black women and Black men to unite and fight against Republicans.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/chicago-mayoral-election-lori-lightfoot-toni-preckwinkle-african-american-sexism-laura-washington/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters say “Fact checking Trump’s CPAC speech: A 2-hour talk with a dizzying number of falsehoods.” What qualifications do Trump-haters have to be fact checkers? While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the last 11 years of which at GS-13 Step 1-10 levels, currently $96,403-$125,325, I increasingly worked as a referencer, that is, as a fact checker. That work required assuring the accuracy and support for each and every word, number, table, graph, chart, conclusion, opinion, and recommendation in GAO reports. I worked for IRS 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 levels, currently $81,071-$91,880. My other fact checking qualifications include my becoming a Forensic Accountant in 1997, a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, a licensed CPA in 1981, a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, and a CPA in 1979.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/factcheck/ct-trump-cpac-speech-fact-check-20190303-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, those who hate Whites and those who hate men destroy minorities and destroy women who do not share their hatred of Whites and their hatred of men.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/glanton/ct-met-dahleen-glanton-donald-trump-token-friend-20190301-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PHOTO OF PYKE AND COLOR PICTURE OF PACE HEADQUARTERS: Did Pace make a clout hiring, or are critics making ‘absurd claims’? – Marni Pyke (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always promoted patronage. Because I have always been a Republican, were it not for federal civil service protections, a) the Post Office would NOT have hired me in 1966 or let me work there for almost 3 years, b) IRS would NOT have hired me in 1971 or let me work there for almost 9 years, c) IRS would NOT have promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, d) GAO would NOT have hired me in 1980 or let me work there for almost 18 years, and e) GAO would NOT have promoted me in 1986.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190304/did-pace-make-a-clout-hiring-or-are-critics-making-absurd-claims
— How the race for shareholder profits has left workers in the dust – Christopher Ingraham (DIERSEN: Because the federal government does not have to worry about profits, it can focus on a) hiring, retaining, and promoting young Democrat minorities and young Democrat females and b) getting rid of its employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who did not make GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20190303/how-the-race-for-shareholder-profits-has-left-workers-in-the-dust

 

ABC7
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats a) encourage Hispanics to speak Spanish and b) discourage assimilation.
https://abc7chicago.com/society/woman-confronts-man-who-criticized-her-for-speaking-spanish/5166178/

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats encourage children to be promiscuous.
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190303/bill-would-define-consent-in-sex-education-classes

 

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Million dollar impacts from $15 minimum wage hike
https://www.rrstar.com/news/20190302/million-dollar-impacts-from-15-minimum-wage-hike

 

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Crystal Lake Republican aims to challenge Underwood in 2020 – ALEX ORTIZ
https://www.nwherald.com/2019/03/02/crystal-lake-republican-aims-to-challenge-underwood-in-2020/as09kju/

 

HERALD & REVIEW
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats encourage children to engage in LGBTQ activities.
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/illinois-lawmaker-pushes-for-nondiscriminatory-textbooks-that-highlight-lgbt-contributions/article_27bdb970-868e-5c25-9c94-fa297a91256c.html

 

BELOIT DAILY NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats a) hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, and bigots who should be gotten rid of once and for all and b) blame Republicans for all the problems that minorities, that women, and that everyone else has had, is having, and will have.
https://www.beloitdailynews.com/article/20190303/AP/303039899

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Senate seems to have votes to reject Trump’s wall move – AP (DIERSEN: The federal government’s most important obligation to stop invasion.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/senate-seems-to-have-votes-to-reject-trumps-wall-move

 

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Lori Lightfoot holds a nearly two-to-one lead over Toni Preckwinkle – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2019/03/04/first-poll-lori-trounces-toni-chuys-campaign-manager-heads-loris-team-bernie-in-the-chi-403049

 

WIREPOINTS
— Radicals Positioning To Destroy Illinois If Its Fiscal Crisis Doesn’t – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/radicals-positioning-to-destroy-illinois-if-its-fiscal-crisis-doesnt/
— Indiana keeps its AAA credit rating, Illinois is still stuck near junk – Ted Dabrowski
https://wirepoints.org/indiana-keeps-its-aaa-credit-rating-illinois-is-still-stuck-near-junk-quicktake/

 

CHEROKEE LEDGER NEWS
— ‘Fight For 51’ measure highlights regional differences in Illinois – Greg Bishop
https://www.tribuneledgernews.com/extra/news/fight-for-measure-highlights-regional-differences-in-illinois/article_4654fd91-45e6-56cc-bc89-7c2223d91d5b.html

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— BUREAUCRATS TRY TO SQUASH INDEPENDENT THOUGHT
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2019/03/bureaucrats-try-to-squash-independent-thought.html
— IS HARVARD RACIST?
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2019/03/is-harvard-racist.html

 

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— NEHEMIAH SAYS, “BUILD THE WALL.” – Eric M. Wallace, PhD
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/opinion/nehemiah-says-build-the-wall/

 

GOPUSA
— Rand Paul to join RINOs to vote against emergency border declaration
http://www.gopusa.com/rand-paul-to-join-rinos-to-vote-against-emergency-border-declaration/
— Left’s Latest Demand: Race-Based Reparations – Patrick J. Buchanan
http://www.gopusa.com/lefts-latest-demand-race-based-reparations/

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s rousing CPAC speech cements new direction in conservative movement – Stephen Dinan and David Sherfinski
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/3/donald-trump-steers-cpac-message-in-new-direction/
— Reject the sexism, discrimination of Women’s History Month – Rebecca Hagelin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/3/reject-the-sexism-discrimination-of-womens-history/
— Bernie Sanders, Democrats court 2020 black votes with 1620 messages – Cheryl K. Chumley (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrats shout at Blacks that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racist, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. Democrats want Blacks to serve as their operatives and as their dupes.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/4/bernie-sanders-democrats-court-2020-black-votes-16/

 

BREITBART
— Trump Touts Legal Immigration System for ‘Our Corporations’ at Expense of American Workers – John Binder (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, employers make it clear that they rather hire citizens of foreign countries than citizens of America.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/03/trump-immigration-our-corporations/
— Catch and Release, Birthright Citizenship, Sanctuary Cities Continue Unaltered Despite Trump Opposition – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/03/catch-release-birthright-citizenship-sanctuary-cities-continue-unaltered-despite-trump-opposition/

 

DAILY CALLER
— BIG TECH HAS TOO MUCH POWER TO CONTROL INFORMATION – William Davis
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/03/josh-hawley-big-tech-power/

 

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Trump Has Saved the Free Speech Movement – Troy Worden
https://www.amgreatness.com/2019/03/03/trump-has-saved-the-free-speech-movement/

 

FEDERALIST
— How The Obama Presidency Normalized Abortion Extremism Obama helped transform abortion into a rite of Democratic Party politics. – David Harsanyi
http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/04/how-the-obama-presidency-normalized-abortion-extremism/

 

TOWNHALL
— Dumb And/or Dishonest Liberals Insult Your Intelligence – Kurt Schlichter
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/03/04/dumb-andor-dishonest-liberals-insult-your-intelligence-n2542492

 

CANADA FREE PRESS
— AOC’s List Sees Her Chasing Down Something That Doesn’t Exist: “Moderate” Democrats – Judi McLeod (DIERSEN: To get elected in Republican areas, Democrats pretend to be moderate.)
https://canadafreepress.com/article/aocs-list-sees-her-chasing-down-something-that-doesnt-exist-moderate-democr

 

LIBERTY HEADLINES
— Agents in Small Section of U.S.-Mexico Border Average 1,000 Arrests Per Day – Joshua Paladino
https://www.libertyheadlines.com/rio-grande-valley-border-crisis/

 

COLLEGE FIX
— I called for diversity of thought. My peers compared me to a neo-Nazi. – DIANA SORIANO
https://www.thecollegefix.com/i-called-for-diversity-of-thought-my-peers-compared-me-to-a-neo-nazi/

 

THE HILL
— Trump on brink of GOP rebellion over emergency declaration – JORDAIN CARNEY
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/432405-trump-on-brink-of-gop-rebellion-over-emergency-declaration

 

POLITICO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/03/bernie-sanders-chicago-civil-rights-1200723
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The reason I tell you all of this is because my activities here in Chicago taught me a very important lesson that I have never forgotten,” he said. “And that is that whether it is the struggle against corporate greed or against racism, sexism, homophobia, environmental devastation or war and militarism, real change never places from top on down. It always takes place from the bottom on up.“ He spoke about wealth gaps and other inequalities between black and white Americans as well. “Today, the infant mortality rate in black communities is more than double the rate for white communities,” he said, “and the death rates from cancer and almost every disease is far higher for blacks.”)

 

AOL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-hater Jesse Jackson Sr. promotes hatred of Trump.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/03/03/jackson-trump-belongs-with-the-storm-troopers-at-selma/23682996/

 

CNBC
— DECEMBER 19, 2018 FLASHBACK: 4 simple tips to help you tame your email inbox in 2019 – Courtney Connley (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes do not want you to read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. Failing that, they do not want you read any emails. Failing that, they want you to check your email only infrequently, say, one a week, once a month, once a year, etc. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes want you to waste all your time on Facebook and on Twitter.)
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/12/4-simple-tips-to-help-you-tame-your-email-inbox-in-2019.html

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats demand open borders.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-women.html
— A Dose of Moderation Would Help Democrats They can appeal to moderate voters without betraying progressive values. – David Leonhardt (DIERSEN: In Republican areas, Democrats unethically pretend to be moderate to get elected.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/opinion/2020-moderate-democrats.html
— Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible? – Cade Metz
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/business/ethics-artificial-intelligence.html
— A New Luxury Retreat Caters to Elderly Workers in Tech (Ages 30 and Up) – Nellie Bowles (DIERSEN: How old are you? From what I see, ever-increasingly, White males are written off as being disgusting losers and are flushed down the toilet if they are not making say $100,000/year by age 25, say $200,000/year by age 30, say $300,000/year by age 35, say $400,000/year by age 40, etc.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/modern-elder-resort-silicon-valley-ageism.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Will You Pay More or Less Under the Tax Law? Find out what to expect as you file your taxes for the first time under the 2017 overhaul. – Dylan Moriarty and Richard Rubin (DIERSEN: Trump should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to $20,000 for married filing jointly.)
https://www.wsj.com/graphics/tax-calculator-2019/
— When Planning for Retirement, Don’t Forget Inflation Retirement columnist Glenn Ruffenach also answers questions about budgets and Social Security benefits – Glenn Ruffenach
https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-planning-for-retirement-dont-forget-inflation-11551387373
— When You Buy or Sell a Home, Realty Bites Regulators should do more to encourage competition from sites like Zillow. – Jack Ryan and Jonathan Friedland
https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-you-buy-or-sell-a-home-realty-bites-11551649734

 

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Sebastian Gorka confirms exit from Fox News, after a wild CPAC speech where he compared AOC to Stalin and said she wants to ban hamburgers – Tom Porter
https://www.businessinsider.com/sebastian-gork-fox-news-departure-cpac-speech-2019-3

 

USA TODAY
— Need to sue someone? Here’s how to find the right lawyer – Ken Fisher
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2019/03/03/best-lawyers-finding-attorney-who-help-you-win/3017718002/

 

GO LOCAL PROV
— OUTSTANDING: Congress Gears Up Legislative Efforts to Combat Age Discrimination – Herb Weiss (DIERSEN: All my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes promote age discrimination a) because they want to get rid of those who are older than they are and/or b) because they want to curry favor with those who promote age discrimination.)
https://www.golocalprov.com/news/weiss-congress-gears-up-legislative-efforts-to-combat-age-discrimination
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With the 116th Congress beginning on January 3, 2019, Congress moves quickly to protect older Americans from rampant age discrimination. It is a key reason why Americans, age 40 and over, are fired or offered buyouts (with younger persons being hired in their place) and why they can’t find work after a period of unemployment and struggle to return to the workforce.  On Valentine’s Day, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Ranking Member of the Special Committee on Aging, with cosponsors Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) re-introduced S 485, The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA). The bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Fixing a Supreme Court Ruling Over a decade ago, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Gross v. FBL Financial Services weakened the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) by imposing a significantly higher burden of proof on older workers alleging age discrimination than is required of workers alleging other forms of workplace discrimination. As a result, workers that allege age discrimination must meet an undue legal burden not faced by workers alleging discrimination based on race, sex, national origin or religion. This sent a clear signal to employers: some age discrimination is perfectly fine. Enacting the bipartisan POWADA bill would restore the pre-Gross standard, recognizing once again the legitimacy of so-called “mixed-motive” claims in which discrimination is a, if not the deciding, factor. It would also reaffirm that workers may use any type of admissible evidence to prove their claims.)

 

PC MAGAZINE
— How to Spot Fake News Online Not sure which sources to trust when you’re online? These browser plug-ins and online tools can help you figure out how to detect fake news sites. – Lance Whitney (DIERSEN: What do you suggest that I to improve the ranking that NewsGuard gives www.gopillinois.com ?)

https://www.pcmag.com/feature/366512/how-to-spot-fake-news-online
(FROM THE ARTICLE: NewsGuard relies on a team of journalists who analyze more than 2,000 news and information sites in the United States. Each site is evaluated and ranked on nine different criteria: Does the site repeatedly publish false content? Does it gather and present information responsibly? Does it regularly correct or clarify errors? Does it handle the difference between news and opinion responsibly? Does it avoid deceptive headlines? Does it disclose ownership and financing about itself? Does it clearly label advertising? Does it reveal who’s in charge, including possible conflicts of interest? Does it provide information about content creators? Each criteria is given a certain weighting, or number of points, to determine the site’s overall rating. A site earns a green rating if it meets basic standards of accuracy and accountability. A site is dinged with a red rating if it fails to meet those minimum standards.)

 

WLOS
— John Wayne’s son defends his father over remarks in 1970s interview – Adrienne Vogt (DIERSEN: You can always wonder who will come to your defense after you are dead.)
https://wlos.com/news/nation-world/john-waynes-son-defends-his-father-over-remarks-in-1970s-interview

 

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Defiant U.S. Sheriffs Push Gun Sanctuaries, Imitating Liberals on Immigration – DANIEL TROTTA (DIERSEN: What is your county sheriff more likely to do, protect gun right or protect illegals?)
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2019-03-04/defiant-us-sheriffs-push-gun-sanctuaries-imitating-liberals-on-immigration

 

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump haters promote Trump-haters.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-country-cnn-republicans-loyalty-1350037

 

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— What Does the Radical Left’s Future Look Like? – Eric Levi (DIERSEN: It looks like the radical left will soon complete its takeover of the Democrat Party.)
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/michael-kazin-radical-left-future.html

 

COLLEGE REPORTER
— Jose Antonio Vargas recounts experiences as an undocumented immigrant – Allison Shockley (DIERSEN: I should recount my experiences as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004, a GAO employee 1980-1997, an IRS employee 1971-1980, a Post Office employee 1966-1969, etc.)
http://www.the-college-reporter.com/2019/03/03/jose-antonio-vargas-recounts-experiences-as-an-undocumented-immigrant/

March 2 Morning Edition

FOX NEWS
— Trump’s CPAC speech Saturday to cap tumultuous week for the president – Bradford Betz
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-to-appear-on-final-day-of-cpac
— Democrats block Trump’s border emergency, but their actions are our actual national emergency – Dan Palmer
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-block-trumps-border-emergency-but-their-actions-are-our-actual-national-emergency
— Cindy and Meghan McCain respond after CPAC speaker’s swipe at late Arizona senator – Lukas Mikelionis (DIERSEN: Those who are anti-conservative and those who are anti-Republican often use McCain to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn conservatives and Republicans on immigration and on other issues. When McCain ran for President, I asked those in my precinct who gave lots of money to McCain why they did that. Their answer was McCain’s rejection of planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccain-family-goes-after-conservative-commentator-after-she-take-swipe-at-late-senator-on-immigration
— Ocasio-Cortez defends Tlaib’s charge Trump family friend used as racist ‘prop’ – Victor Garcia
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-defends-tlaibs-charge-trump-family-friend-used-as-racist-prop

 

CNN
— Trump to address CPAC on Saturday – Maegan Vazquez
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/02/politics/donald-trump-cpac-speech-2019/index.html

 

ABC7
— Hinsdale Central, South students canvass for support for $140 million referendum – Evelyn Holmes (DIERSEN: From what I see, teachers have tremendous power over their students. From what I see, ever-increasingly, students in public schools are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://abc7chicago.com/education/hinsdale-students-canvass-for-support-for-$140m-referendum/5163487/?cmp=emc-wls-News_HeadlinesHTML-030219

 

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Preservationists again working to save Glen Ellyn’s McKee House – Katlyn Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190301/preservationists-again-working-to-save-glen-ellyns-mckee-house-
— Why must boards have ‘diversity”? – David Borck, Arlington Heights
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20190228/an-arlington-heights-letter-to-the-editor–a-recent-daily-herald-editorial-spoke-about-the-newspapers–coverage-of-and-recommendations-for-local-elections-however-the-editorial-board-also-included-a-plea-for-x201cdiversityx201d

 

EFFINGHAM DAILY NEWS
— Heated battle, likely passage ahead for Illinois abortion bill Sponsors say updates to law long overdue; opponents say rights to object will be lost – REBECCA ANZEL
https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/local_news/heated-battle-likely-passage-ahead-for-illinois-abortion-bill/article_44bf724c-267f-5eee-b7c0-70d971a56832.html

 

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Republican-haters are overjoyed that “Despite threats, ‘sanctuary’ cities are getting their grants.”
https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article227024234.html

 

TIMES
— Kinzinger has a right to speak his opinion when he’s off-duty – Editorial (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, and while I was “on duty,” I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. In 1988, when I was 40 years old, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. According to laws enforced by EEOC, I had “a right” to do that. According to the EEOC, “It is also illegal to retaliate against a person because he or she complained about discrimination, filed a charge of discrimination, or participated in an employment discrimination investigation or lawsuit. The law forbids discrimination in every aspect of employment.” SEE: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/ My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes side with the federal government against me. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes.)
https://www.mywebtimes.com/2019/03/01/our-view-kinzinger-has-a-right-to-speak-his-opinion-when-hes-off-duty/arhosio/

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— Eyeing 2020, White House steps up ‘socialism’ attack on Dems (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote socialism.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/eyeing-2020-white-house-steps-up-socialism-attack-on-dems

 

NORTH COOK NEWS
— Cook County has 7th highest home vacancy rate among Illinois counties.
https://northcooknews.com/stories/511894836-analysis-cook-county-has-7th-highest-home-vacancy-rate-among-illinois-counties

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— DuPage County has 12th highest home vacancy rate among Illinois counties. (DIERSEN: How many homes are vacant in your neighborhood, in your precinct, in your municipality, in your township/ward, and in your county and why? From what I see, a major reason why members of Group B do not buy homes in my neighborhood, in my precinct, in Wheaton, in Milton Township, and in DuPage County is the rapidly growing power of those who are members of Group A. Members of Group A are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and members of Group B are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older people, rich people, gun owners, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511895337-analysis-dupage-county-has-12th-highest-home-vacancy-rate-among-illinois-counties
— Hinsdale D86 referendum supporters disrupt Burr Ridge Board meeting; police chief steps in – W.J. Kennedy
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511820719-hinsdale-d86-referendum-supporters-disrupt-burr-ridge-board-meeting-police-chief-steps-in

 

SAVE OUR HOME NOW
— Brian & Christina Hansen lose over $193,000 on sale of Downers Grove home
https://saveyourhomenow.org/stories/511787895-market-watch-brian-christina-hansen-lose-over-193-000-on-sale-of-downers-grove-home
— Hewitt Associates loses over $258,000 on sale of Glen Ellen home
https://saveyourhomenow.org/stories/511787906-market-watch-hewitt-associates-loses-over-258-000-on-sale-of-glen-ellen-home
— Christiana Bezanis loses over $150,000 on sale of Hinsdale home
https://saveyourhomenow.org/stories/511786309-market-watch-christiana-bezanis-loses-over-150-000-on-sale-of-hinsdale-home

 

CITY OF WHEATON
— VIDEO: 2019 Mayoral Candidate Forum
https://vimeo.com/320643061
— VIDEO: 2019 City Council Candidate Forum
https://vimeo.com/320748663
— VIDEO: 2019 CUSD School Board Candidate Forum
https://vimeo.com/320751497

 

BREITBART
— Candace Owens at CPAC: The Democrats Are the ‘Party of Slavery, Jim Crow, KKK’ – Alana Mastrangelo (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrats have focused on using Blacks to destroy Republicans.)
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/03/01/candace-owens-at-cpac-the-democrats-are-the-party-of-slavery-jim-crow-kkk/
— Kris Kobach: CPAC Focusing on ‘Other Stuff’ While Immigration Is ‘Number One Issue’ – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/01/exclusive-kris-kobach-cpac-focusing-on-other-stuff-while-immigration-is-number-one-issue/
— Georgia Establishment Legislators Try to Hide Migrant Crime from Voters – Neil Munro (DIERSEN: How much pressure is there from Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and RINOs on law enforcement in your municipality, in your township/ward, and in your county to hide immigrant crime?)
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/03/01/georgia-politicians-try-hide-migrant-crime-voters/
— Sen. Josh Hawley Slams ‘Sweetheart Deals’ Between Government and Big Tech – Allum Bokhari
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/03/01/sen-hawley-slams-sweetheart-deals-between-government-and-big-tech/

 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Cindy McCain fires back at Michelle Malkin over CPAC speech – Zachary Halaschak
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cindy-mccain-fires-back-at-michelle-malkin-over-cpac-speech

 

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrats Are Getting Out on a Dangerously Left-Wing Limb – Michael Barone
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/01/democrats_are_getting_out_on_a_dangerously_left-wing_limb__139616.html

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— DIRE WARNING TO DEMS: ANTI-TRUMP ‘STUFF’ WILL ‘BOOMERANG’ ‘Running a great risk of having this all backfire’
https://www.wnd.com/2019/02/dire-warning-to-dems-anti-trump-stuff-will-boomerang/

 

CANADA FREE PRESS
— Democrats Planning to Eliminate Red States – Ray DiLorenzo
https://canadafreepress.com/article/dems-planning-to-eliminate-red-states

 

FEDERALIST
— New Research: Women Earn Less Not Because Of Sexism, But Because They Prefer To Raise Their Own Kids The research overwhelmingly suggests the sexes’ earnings gap is mostly not caused by sexism. It’s not an unequal pay for equal work issue, it’s largely that women do different work. – Lyman Stone
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/01/new-research-women-earn-less-not-sexism-prefer-raise-kids/

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— America’s Second Civil War Has Already Begun – William L. Gensert (DIERSEN: Constructively, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and RINOs have declared war on Republicans. Constructively, members of Group A have declared war on members of Group B. Members of Group A are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and members of Group B are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older people, rich people, gun owners, German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/americas_second_civil_war_has_already_begun.html
— Who Comes after Trump? – Michael Filozof
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/who_comes_after_trump.html

 

AMERICAN SPECTATOR
— Never Believe the Liberal Media’s CPAC Coverage Witless smears from the Daily Beast. – ROBERT STACY MCCAIN
https://spectator.org/never-believe-the-liberal-medias-cpac-coverage/

 

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE
— MEDIA SHOCKED TO LEARN CHINESE DISSIDENTS BACK TRUMP – Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/273022/media-shocked-learn-chinese-dissidents-back-trump-daniel-greenfield

 

CCN
— Airhead Alert: Ocasio-Cortez Declares Radical Leftist War on Moderate Democrats ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ WANTS TO BLACKLIST REASONABLE DEMOCRATS – Samantha Chang (DIERSEN: Who blacklists you? I should write a book about those activists, candidates, elected officials, party leaders, major donors, political consultants, etc. a) who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican and b) who blacklist me and blacklist my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails.)
https://www.ccn.com/airhead-ocasio-cortez-declares-war-moderate-democrats

 

HOT AIR
— Dems Roiled As AOC Spox Says She’s Keeping “A List” Of Moderates Who Sided With Republicans On Key Vote; Update: AOC Denies (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who focus on destroying me but who deny that they are doing that.)
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/01/dems-roiled-aoc-spox-says-shes-keeping-list-moderates-sided-republicans-key-vote/

 

LIFE SITE NEWS
— Accepting homosexuality led to accepting transgenderism and will likely lead to accepting pedophilia – Denise Shick
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/accepting-homosexuality-led-to-accepting-transgenderism-and-will-likely-lead-to-accepting-pedophilia
— Joe Biden gets blasted for saying Vice President Pence is a ‘decent guy’ – Martin M. Barillas (DIERSEN: Diersen-haters in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois destroy those who come to my defense. I should write a book about the leading Diersen-haters, their operatives, and their dupes.)
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/joe-biden-gets-blasted-for-saying-vice-president-pence-is-a-decent-guy

 

CNS NEWS
— Gallup: Trump Approval Above 50% in 17 States, Including 62% Approval in W.Va. – Michael W. Chapman
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/trump-approval-above-50-17-states-including-62-approval-wva

 

ONE NEWS NOW
— Another college bashes ‘white men’ in name of progress – Bob Kellogg (DIERSEN: What do you say to White men who demonize, who denigrate, and who condemn White men to curry favor with those who hate White men? I should write a book about the aforesaid in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois.)
https://onenewsnow.com/education/2019/03/01/another-college-bashes-white-men-in-name-of-progress

 

CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
— Levin: ‘The immediate threat that we face in this country is from the Democrat party’ – Carmel Kookogey
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/levin-immediate-threat-face-country-democrat-party/

 

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY
— CPAC 2019: Actor Gary Sinise closes out the day by honoring America’s heroes
http://www.liberty.edu/news/index.cfm?PID=18495&MID=312541

 

NRA-ILA
— H.R. 8 Votes Reveal Dem House Leadership Values Illegal Aliens over Law-abiding Gun Owners
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190301/hr-8-votes-reveal-dem-house-leadership-values-illegal-aliens-over-law-abiding-gun-owners

 

THE HILL
— Cruz slams Democrats on border wall: They’ve gone ‘bat-crap crazy’ – TAL AXELROD
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/432181-cruz-slams-democrats-on-border-wall-theyve-gone-bat-crap-crazy
— MSNBC’s Haake: Bush family legacy ‘erased from conservative history’ at CPAC – JOE CONCHA (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, it is clear that the Bushes have always been anti-conservative.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/432280-bush-family-legacy-erased-from-conservative-history-at-cpac

 

POLITICO
— Ted Cruz: GOP wouldn’t have lost the House if border funding had passed – REBECCA MORIN
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/01/ted-cruz-cpac-border-funding-1197452

 

REUTERS
— Centrist Democrats stray on votes, roiling House majority party – Susan Cornwell
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-congress-democrats/centrist-democrats-stray-on-votes-roiling-house-majority-party-idUSKCN1QI57N

 

MSNBC
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Conservative-haters crow about their success in using AOC to demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservatives.
https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/why-are-conservatives-at-cpac-so-fixated-on-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-1450952259895

 

NEW YORK TIMES
–DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater promotes hatred of Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/opinion/trump-michael-cohen-crime.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DIERSEN HEADLINE: America-haters what Mexico to declare war on America and they want Mexico to win that war.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/world/americas/mexico-migration-trump.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Centrist Democrats push back against party’s liberal surge – Michael Scherer and Mike DeBonis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/centrist-democrats-push-back-against-partys-liberal-surge/2019/03/01/a6674430-3c38-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Jussie Smollett and the Hazards of Moral Sentimentality Narratives about ‘racism’ and ‘homophobia,’ stoked by news and social media, stir self-affirming rage. – Lance Morrow
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jussie-smollett-and-the-hazards-of-moral-sentimentality-11551482954

 

CHARLESTON POST AND COURIER
— Reparations surfaced before in a South Carolina Democratic race. It didn’t go so well. – Schuyler Kropf (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always wanted me to pay lots of reparations. They stress that I am a Trump supporter, Protestant (baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran), conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, old (born in 1948), non-poor, gun owner, 100% German American, draft avoider, married, childless, pet-less, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844. They shout that the federal government grossly overpaid me and that my federal retirement benefits are much too generous. In my defense, my ancestors always lived in northeast Illinois, they all were Republicans, and they never had enough money to discriminate against anyone even if they wanted to.)
https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/reparations-surfaced-before-in-a-south-carolina-democratic-race-it/article_38388a58-39fb-11e9-b0f0-f3aed9771331.html

 

NPR
— At CPAC, Conservatives Paint Trump Re-Election Argument In Bold Colors – Domenico Montanaro (DIERSEN: From what you see, how motivated are the following to reelect Trump in 2020: your Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain, the officers of your Republican township/ward/county party organizations, your representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee, the IRP officers, and the IRP National Committeeman and Committeewoman?)
DOMENICO MONTANARO
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/02/699384255/at-cpac-conservatives-paint-trump-re-election-argument-in-bold-colors

 

ATLANTIC
— The Democrats’ New Voting Rights Moment – VANN R. NEWKIRK II (DIERSEN: Democrats want those to vote who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/democrats-hope-restore-key-section-voting-rights-act/583969/

 

NEWSWEEK
— JOHN MCCAIN’S ‘GHOST’ WAS MENTIONED AT CPAC AND HIS FAMILY AREN’T HAPPY – HARRIET SINCLAIR
https://www.newsweek.com/john-mccains-ghost-was-mentioned-cpac-and-his-family-arent-happy-1349730

 

BLOOMBERG
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “Trump’s Base Clings Tight Despite Rising Tide of Troubles.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-02/donald-trump-s-base-clings-tight-despite-rising-tide-of-troubles

 

GOVERNING
— ‘White People Will Not Have Anything to Say’: Ex-Maine Governor Defends Electoral College – Brian Niemietz (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats focus on using minorities to get rid of Republicans.)
http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/tns-paul-lepage-defends-electoral-college.html

 

INDEPENDENT
— Neo-Nazi group’s new leader is black man who plans to destroy it from within Activist seizes control of white nationalist group accused of involvement in Charlottesville rally violence – Tom Barnes (DIERSEN: I should write a book about a) those who are destroying the Milton Township Republican Central Committee, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party from within and b) those who have destroyed TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee, Illinois Center Right Coalition, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter from within.)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/neo-nazi-group-black-man-leader-a8802456.html

February 15 Evening Edition

ABC7

— Aurora shooting: At least 5 dead, multiple wounded including officers at Henry Pratt Company; gunman also dead
https://abc7chicago.com/aurora-shooting-at-least-5-dead-multiple-wounded-including-officers;-gunman-also-dead/5140701/

— President Donald Trump declares national emergency to build border wall – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/trump-declares-national-emergency-to-build-border-wall/5139874/

 

NBC5
— President Trump Congratulates Law Enforcement For Response To Aurora Workplace Shooting
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/15/trump-aurora-shooting/
— Aurora Shooting: Trump Briefed, Illinois Officials Respond
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Aurora-Shooting-Trump-Briefed-Illinois-Officials-Respond-505906381.html

 

CBS2
— Aurora, Illinois: Suspect Shot Dead Following Workplace Shooting
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/15/breaking-active-shooter-report-in-aurora/

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Gunman dead, 4 officers shot in active shooter situation in Aurora
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/police-respond-to-reports-of-active-shooter-in-aurora
— Trump declares national emergency to build border wall
http://www.fox32chicago.com/facebook-instant/border-wall-national-emergency-government-funding-trump

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— 5 dead in Aurora factory shooting; mom says gunman was laid off, ‘stressed out’ – Mitchell Armentrout, Tom Schuba and Luke Wilusz
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/active-shooter-reported-at-west-suburban-aurora-factory/
— Pritzker wants to put off pension payments — as if the future will never arrive – Rich Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/j-b-pritzker-pensions-illinois-finances-rich-miller/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Aurora shooting updates: 5 dead, 5 cops wounded in attack at Illinois manufacturing firm; suspect killed in shootout with police
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/news/ct-abn-aurora-police-st-0217-story.html
— Look out, taxpayers: When governments have more pensioners than employees – Editorial (DIERSEN: I fully expect that GAO has far more retirees than it has employees. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-pensions-cook-county-maria-pappas-20190214-story.html
— Amid census concerns in Aurora, groups are pushing to avoid an undercount: ‘We have a lot at stake’ – Sarah Freishtat
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/news/ct-abn-aurora-census-count-st-0217-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— Cops: Suspect in Aurora mass shooting dead
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190215/cops-suspect-in-aurora-mass-shooting-dead–
— The Latest: Trump says he’ll sign national emergency – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20190215/news/302159933/
— Trump’s national emergency sparks new GOP divide in Congress – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20190215/news/302159903/
— Glenbard superintendent: Marijuana use a growing problem – David F. Larson
https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190215/glenbard-superintendent-marijuana-use-a-growing-problem

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Digging out or shoveling in? Pritzker’s great leap backward By blaming everything on Rauner and the budget impasse, a new assessment by the Pritzker administration hides the reality that our problems are structural, systemic and old. Our government is broken. – MARK GLENNON
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/digging-out-or-shoveling-pritzkers-great-leap-backward
— Ken Griffin aims to give another $1M to Daley’s campaign: sources The financier’s donations—potentially totaling $2 million—would make him the biggest contributor among the major businesspeople supporting Bill Daley’s run. – LISA BERTAGNOLI
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/government/ken-griffin-aims-give-another-1m-daleys-campaign-sources

 

  1. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO
    — JANUARY 23, 2019 FLASHBACK: Stress Over Shutdown Hits Veterans Who Work For The Federal Government Hard – CHAD DAVIS (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes demonize, denigrate, and condemn a) the federal government as being “the employer of last resort,” b) the work experience that federal employees gain as being worthless, and c) past, present, and future federal employees as being disgusting lazy stupid losers who should be gotten rid of.)
    https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/stress-over-shutdown-hits-veterans-who-work-federal-government-hard#stream/0
    (FROM THE ARTICLE: Now veterans and their advocates are worried how financial instability is affecting this group of federal workers’ mental health, especially since many veterans consider the federal government an employer of last resort. “Being unstable financially can cause a whole lot of more issues for our veterans,” Rogers said. “Not only we came to where some of us couldn’t get jobs once we got out the military, we have to be trained because nobody was accepting the jobs we did.”)

 

WILL
— Illinois Lawmakers React To Shutdown Vote, Emergency Declaration – JENNA DOOLEY
https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/illinois-lawmakers-react-to-shutdown-vote-emergency-declaration

 

WEEK
— Illinois Democrats balk, Republicans mum about Trump national emergency declaration
https://week.com/news/political/2019/02/15/illinois-democrats-balk-republican-mum-about-trump-national-emergency-declaration/

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— White House scrambles to find pots of money to use for border wall – AP
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/white-house-scrambles-to-find-pots-of-money-to-use-for-border-wall

 

NPR ILLINOIS
— ‘Donald Trump, We’ll See You In Court’: California To Sue Over Emergency Declaration – CHRIS HAGAN
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/donald-trump-well-see-you-court-california-sue-over-emergency-declaration#stream/0
— Where Funding For Trump’s Border Wall Might Come From – DAVID WELNA
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/where-funding-trumps-border-wall-might-come#stream/0

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— NEVINS TO IL GOP LEADERSHIP: EMBRACE PARTY PLATFORM OR STEP DOWN
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2019/02/nevins-to-il-gop-leadership-embrace-party-platform-or-step-down-.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On February 9th, the Illinois Republican Central Committee held an open-to the public meeting. If you are not aware of this, cut yourself some slack: most of the precinct committeemen I know were also unaware of it-which logically means that their committees weren’t aware of it either. Nevertheless, approximately sixty concerned observers attended the meeting; the public portion lasted three hours after which the committee adjourned to do their sausage making in private. After a bit of jocular banter by Chairman Tim Schneider, a discussion ensued over precisely how much time to allot to non-member statements. In a move that illustrates the leadership’s reluctance to actually listen to its base, the committee members voted to allow sixty seconds per speaker and the microphone was passed around to those interested. Twelve individuals took the opportunity to speak their minds. I was one of them-and – owing to a kind soul who donated his moment in the sun- I took a little more than my allotment.)
— ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS TO REQUIRE HIGHEST MINIMUM WAGE IN MIDWEST (DIERSEN: Democrat and RINO politicians have passed many laws that require employers to do many things, including to give preference to those who are minority, female, and/or veteran, that is, to discriminate against those who are White, male, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2019/02/illinois-to-have-highest-minimum-wage-in-the-nation.html

 

CAPITOL FAX
— Should the state sell the Tollway to boost the pension funds?
https://capitolfax.com/2019/02/15/should-the-state-sell-the-tollway-to-boost-the-pension-funds/
— Southern Illinois state’s attorney Brandon Zanotti vows not to enforce assault weapons ban if it becomes law
https://capitolfax.com/2019/02/15/southern-illinois-states-attorney-vows-not-to-enforce-assault-weapons-ban-if-it-becomes-law/
— Daley would keep hope alive for those who want pension benefit cuts
https://capitolfax.com/2019/02/15/daley-would-keep-hope-alive-for-those-who-want-pension-benefit-cuts/

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump declares national emergency on border, taking extra money for wall – Dave Boyer
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/15/trump-declares-national-emergency-border-wall/

 

NEWSMAX
— Forget ‘New Green’: Here’s My ‘Red, White, Blue’ Deal – Andrew Packer
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/andrewpacker/red-white-blue-deal/2019/02/15/id/902928/

 

NEWS BUSTERS
— Politics Over Art: 53 Illegal Immigrants Become 2019 Grammy Winners – Gabriel Hays
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/gabriel-hays/2019/02/15/politics-over-art-53-illegal-immigrants-become-2019-grammy

 

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— The Democrats and the Diversity Dilemma – PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/the-democrats-and-the-diversity-dilemma/

 

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— President Trump And Texas Governor Greg Abbott Can Use The Constitution To Build The Wall – George Rasley
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/29692

 

DAILY CALLER
— KNOWING EXACTLY NOTHING ABOUT THE AURORA SHOOTING, CHELSEA CLINTON AND OTHERS CALL FOR GUN CONTROL – Tim Pearce
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/15/chelsea-clinton-aurora-gun-control/
— ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS PUSHED BACK-DOOR GUN CONTROL 7 TIMES — IN ONLY 16 DAYS – Virginia Kruta
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/15/illinois-lawmakers-pushed-back-door-gun-control/
— TRUMP SIGNS SPENDING DEAL TO GET $1.375B FOR THE WALL – Amber Athey
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/15/trump-signs-bill-avoid-second-shutdown/

 

GOPUSA
— A Bad Bill That Makes Illegal Immigration Worse – Bobby Eberle
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=65188
— Pelosi warns Democrat president could declare national emergency on guns
http://www.gopusa.com/pelosi-warns-democrat-president-could-declare-national-emergency-on-guns/

 

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Failure of the Deal – JONAH GOLDBERG
https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/the-failure-of-the-deal/

 

THE HILL
— Mandatory E-Verify: The other border wall – R.J. HAUMAN
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/429656-mandatory-e-verify-the-other-border-wall
— Judge rules against Walmart for firing employee with medical marijuana card – ARIS FOLLEY
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/429822-judge-rules-against-walmart-for-firing-employee-with-medical

 

CNN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters say “Trump declares border national emergency to bipartisan skepticism.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/politics/donald-trump-border-national-emergency-immigration/index.html

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Declares National Emergency to Build Border Wall – Peter Baker
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/us/politics/national-emergency-trump.html
— Supreme Court to Hear Case on Census Citizenship Question – Adam Liptak
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/us/politics/supreme-court-census-citizenship.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— At least 5 civilians dead and 5 officers wounded in shooting in Aurora, Ill., officials say – Michael Brice-Saddler, Emily Wax-Thibodeaux and Reis Thebault
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/15/active-shooter-aurora-illinois/
— Shutdown averted: President Trump has signed a sweeping spending bill hours before funding expired for parts of the government – John Wagner, Josh Dawsey and Damian Paletta
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-border-emergency-the-president-plans-a-10-am-announcement-in-the-rose-garden/2019/02/15/f0310e62-3110-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html
— Supreme Court takes up Trump administration’s plan to ask about citizenship in census – Robert Barnes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-takes-up-trump-administrations-plan-to-ask-about-citizenship-in-census/2019/02/15/1e0ce8e8-3138-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html
— Trump’s border emergency: Democrats vow to fight ‘phony’ declaration – John Wagner, Josh Dawsey and Damian Paletta
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-border-emergency-the-president-plans-a-10-am-announcement-in-the-rose-garden/2019/02/15/f0310e62-3110-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Gunman Kills Five in Illinois Factory Shooting – Erin Ailworth
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gunman-injures-four-officers-and-several-civilians-in-aurora-ill-factory-11550272497
— Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Legality of Census Citizenship Question The 10-year questionnaire to U.S. residents is used to allocate government funding and reshape the number of congressional seats – Brent Kendall and Janet Adamy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-agrees-to-decide-legality-of-census-citizenship-question-11550255991

February 5 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE

— State of the Union  Tonight, at 9 p.m. ET, President Donald J. Trump will deliver his second State of the Union Address

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sotu/

 

ABC7
— State of the Union 2019: What time is Trump’s address Tuesday? 8:00 PM CST
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/state-of-the-union-2019-when-to-watch-trumps-address-/5120653/

 

NBC5
— State of the Union Guests: Who Illinois Lawmakers Invited to Trump’s Speech Illinois Dems keep focus on shutdown with State of the Union guests; GOP invites first responders – Benjamin Conboy
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/state-of-the-union-guests-illinois-lawmakers-invited-to-trump-speech-505375041.html
— ‘Not Welcome in Chicago’: Emanuel Slams Ricketts’ Racist Emails Splinter News published a cache of emails Monday that appear to show the billionaire evaluating conspiracy theories and passing along chain emails disparaging people of various minority backgrounds – Shelby Bremer
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/joe-ricketts-emails-rahm-emanuel-chicago-505369001.html

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Atheist to give invocation before start of DuPage County Board meeting in March – Alicia Fabbre
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-atheist-invocation-dupage-board-meeting-st-0206-story.html
— State of the Union: Bitter partisanship on full display hours before Trump’s address – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-state-of-the-union-address-20190205-story.html
— Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s sin looks more like obliviousness than racism – Eric Zorn
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-perspec-zorn-northam-blackface-racism-obliviousness-0206-20190205-story.html
— Yes, the Illinois Exodus is ‘as serious as a heart attack.’ – Editorial (DIERSEN: Who takes the lead in driving Republicans out of your neighborhood, out of your precinct, out of your municipality, out of your township/ward, and out of your county? I should write a book about those who take the lead in driving Republicans out of my neighborhood, out of my precinct, out of Wheaton, out of Milton Township, and out of DuPage County. They have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, in Milton Township, and in DuPage County.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-exodus-illinois-taxes-new-york-cuomo-20190205-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater uses Northam to promote hatred of Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-perspec-page-northam-virginia-governor-trump-yearbook-blackface-0206-20190205-story.html
— Why Republican senators might stop Trump’s wall — it’s really about them – Noah Feldman
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-trump-wall-republican-gop-senators-power-0206-20190205-story.html
— Leading Chicago business group proposes raising income taxes and taxing retirement income to fix Illinois’ finances
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-illinois-finances-civic-committee-20190205-story.html
— Over 60 percent of voters – including half of Republicans – support Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax, poll shows – Christopher Ingraham
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-warren-wealth-tax-poll-20190205-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Civic Committee recommends cuts, taxes and long-term planning to fix fiscal mess – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/civic-committee-report-state-budget-cuts-income-sales-taxes-pension-reform-retirement-income/
— City should annex suburbs, McCarthy says. No thanks, suburbs say – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/annex-suburbs-mayoral-candidate-garry-mccarthy/
— Joe Ricketts slammed by Rahm, local Muslim group over leaked racist emails – Madeline Kenney
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/rahm-emanuel-obama-joe-ricketts-racist-emails-birther-fan-reaction-chicago-cubs/
— State of the Union depressing for people who always need more – Phil Kadner
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/state-union-materialism-phil-kadner/

 

DAILY HERALD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters use illegals and federal employees to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190205/7-year-old-immigrant-and-federal-workers-from-suburbs-head-to-state-of-the-union-

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— City’s most elite biz group backs a big tax hike for state pensions The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club says the time for delay has ended, and urges $6 billion in tax hikes with no cuts in pension benefits. – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/citys-most-elite-biz-group-backs-big-tax-hike-state-pensions

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Chicago business leaders: Illinois must cut budget, raise taxes – Doug Finke
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190205/chicago-business-leaders-illinois-must-cut-budget-raise-taxes
— Supporters push for passage of Tobacco 21 law in Illinois – Cassie Buchman
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190205/supporters-push-for-passage-of-tobacco-21-law-in-illinois

 

MADISON RECORD
— Parents beware: Punishing kids may be too provocative under parental bullying legislation – Brian Brueggemann
https://madisonrecord.com/stories/511757351-parents-beware-punishing-kids-may-be-too-provocative-under-parental-bullying-legislation

 

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Montini students participate in March for Life
https://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2019/02/05/montini-students-participate-in-march-for-life/a5xnllb/

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— Congressman Rodney Davis hopes Trump’s address inspires bipartisanship (DIERSEN: Bipartisanship is code for Republicans surrendering to Democrats, to Libertarians, and to Greens.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/congressman-rodney-davis-hopes-trumps-address-inspires-bipartisanship

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Illinois failing most categories in annual state of tobacco control report – Coty Diaz (DIERSEN: If a state cannot control tobacco, it certainly cannot control pot.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/illinois-failing-most-categories-in-annual-state-of-tobacco-control-report/1756890302

 

CHICAGO NOW
— Ralph Northam, Democrats and the insanity of a circular firing squad – Bob Abrams
http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-board-tirade/2019/02/ralph-northam-democrats/

 

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Illinois House Democrats the only legislative caucus without leadership term limits – Glenn Minnis (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote term limits. They stress how much better off a) TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, b) Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, c) Milton Township Republican Central Committee, d) Illinois Center Right Coalition, e) American Association of Political Consultants, f) GAO, g) etc. are without me.)
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511750687-illinois-house-democrats-the-only-legislative-caucus-without-leadership-term-limits

 

WILL COUNTY GAZETTE
— TRAGIC: Bottom Will County school districts ranked by math test scores
https://willcountygazette.com/stories/511754501-bottom-will-county-school-districts-ranked-by-math-test-scores

 

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Republican lawmaker files bill to cut most property tax levies by 10 percent before freezing them – Brett Rowland
https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/republican-lawmaker-files-bill-to-cut-most-property-tax-levies/article_bac5f4a6-2966-11e9-9392-17df691918d3.html
— Advocates say this is the year for Tobacco 21 in Illinois – Benjamin Yount
https://www.ilnews.org/news/health/advocates-say-this-is-the-year-for-tobacco-in-illinois/article_74dd8472-2975-11e9-8493-83af2a9bf1bf.html

 

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Ever-increasingly, pot pushers use problems with opioids to push pot.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pilot-program-for-medical-marijuana-as-alternative-to-opioids-goes-into-effect/
— BIPARTISAN TOWNSHIP CONSOLIDATION BILL REINTRODUCED IN SPRINGFIELD – Joe Barnas
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/bipartisan-township-consolidation-bill-reintroduced-in-springfield/

 

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Revival of “In God We Trust” in Schools – Timothy J. Dailey
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/the-revival-of-in-god-we-trust-mottos-in-schools-2/

 

CAPITOL FAX
— Skillicorn mulls Underwood challenge
https://capitolfax.com/2019/02/05/skillicorn-mulls-underwood-challenge/
— Pritzker starts talking like the state’s chief marketing officer
https://capitolfax.com/2019/02/05/pritzker-starts-talking-like-the-states-chief-marketing-officer/
— Gun Dealer Licensing Act consequences? (DIERSEN: How many licensed gun dealers are there in your municipality, in your township, and in your county?)
https://capitolfax.com/2019/02/05/gun-dealer-licensing-act-consequences/
— Less than a thousand exempt slots now under governor’s control
https://capitolfax.com/2019/02/05/less-than-a-thousand-exempt-slots-now-under-governors-control/

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Cheer up: Countdown is on for CPAC – Jennifer Harper
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/5/inside-the-beltway-cheer-up-countdown-is-on-for-cp/
— GAO: Trump’s trips to Mar-a-Lago cost $4 million apiece – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/5/trumps-trips-mar-lago-cost-4-million-apiece-gao/

 

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Capitol Hill’s Invisible GOP “Leaders” – Richard A Viguerie
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/29620
— ‘DIABOLICAL’: GOV CUOMO BLAMES TRUMP AS CITIZENS FLEE NEW YORK FOR LOW TAX RED STATES – Chris White
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/05/trump-tax-cuts-flee-new-york/

 

CONSERVATIVE DAILY NEWS
— Gov Cuomo Blames Trump As Citizens Flee New York For Low Tax Red States – Chris White
https://www.conservativedailynews.com/2019/02/gov-cuomo-blames-trump-as-citizens-flee-new-york-for-low-tax-red-states/

 

DAILY CALLER
— TED CRUZ SLAMS SENATE DEMS FOR HOLDING A ‘THEOLOGICAL COURT OF INQUISITION’ OVER TRUMP NOMINEES – Molly Prince and Tim Pearce
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/05/cory-booker-ted-cruz-neomi-rao/
— DEMOCRATS COPE WITH STATE OF THE UNION BY ACTING OUT – Charlie Kirk
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/05/kirk-state-union/

 

NEWSMAX
— Gary Cohn: Wealth Tax ‘Harmful’ to Economy
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/gary-cohn-wealth-tax-harmful/2019/02/05/id/901378/

 

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The State of the Border – CHIP ROY
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/border-status-losing-control-enforcement-solutions/

 

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
— US considers a tax on wealth, even as other nations back away – Laurent Belsie
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2019/0205/US-considers-a-tax-on-wealth-even-as-other-nations-back-away

 

THE HILL
— GAO: Trump’s early Mar-a-Lago trips cost $14 million – JOHN BOWDEN
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/428537-gao-trumps-early-mar-a-lago-trips-cost-14-million

 

ABC NEWS
— GAO: Trump’s early trips to Mar-a-Lago cost nearly $14 million – Benjamin Siegel
https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Politics/trumps-early-trips-mar-lago-cost-14-million/story?id=60853784

 

CBS NEWS
— GAO: Trump’s first 4 trips to Mar-a-Lago cost taxpayers $13.6 million – CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-trips-to-mar-a-lago-cost-taxpayers-13-6m-watchdog-report/

 

REUTERS
— Senator Lindsey Graham warns of ‘war’ among Republicans over Trump border wall
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-graham/senator-warns-of-war-among-republicans-over-trump-border-wall-idUSKCN1PU00B

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Montana lawmaker proposes bill to protect press from assault (DIERSEN: Thugs who work for Democrat plant, Libertarian plant, Green plant, and RINO candidates treat me like I am not a “working journalist” except when they treat me like I am a “working journalist” to stop me from attending their candidates’ events or to throw me out of their candidates’ events. I should write a book about the aforesaid candidates and their thugs and a) their events that they unsuccessfully tried to stop me from attending, b) their events that they successfully stopped from attending, and c) their events that they threw me out of.)
https://www.apnews.com/a9227915711046e48a5d6c1a110162de
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Woods says his bill is critical to protect a free press. He proposes increasing the maximum penalty for misdemeanor assault from a $500 fine and six months in jail to up to a $5,000 fine and a year in jail if the victim is a working journalist. Woods says journalists should be protected because they are necessary to a functioning republic.)

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s State of the Union Address Unlikely to Bring Harmony – Peter Baker
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/us/politics/trump-state-of-the-union.html
— ‘It’s the Human Way’: Corruption Scandals Play Out in Big Cities Across U.S. – Richard Fausset, Monica Davey and Tim Arango
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/us/fbi-corruption-investigations.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Think you know which platform will beat Trump? Think again. – David Byler (DIERSEN: From what I see, ever-increasingly, to bring down Trump, Trump-haters bring down those who share Trump’s demographics – Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, married, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoider, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/04/think-you-know-which-platform-will-beat-trump-think-again/
— GAO: Trump’s travel to Mar-a-Lago alone probably cost taxpayers more than $64 million – Philip Bump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/05/trumps-travel-mar-a-lago-alone-likely-cost-taxpayers-more-than-million/

 

BLOOMBERG
— GAO: Mar-a-Lago on $1 Million a Day: Taxpayer Costs for Trump Trips – Jennifer Epstein
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-05/a-trump-mar-a-lago-trips-cost-u-s-3-4-million-gao-estimates

 

BARRONS
— Future Returns: Is Wealth Tax a Feasible Way to Narrow Income Inequality? – Fang Block
https://www.barrons.com/articles/future-returns-is-wealth-tax-a-feasible-way-to-narrow-income-inequality-01549404801

 

FORBES
— Ignore The Class Warriors, Wealth Creation Is Poverty’s Most Implacable Enemy – John Tamny
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2019/02/05/when-they-seek-wealth-taxes-to-fix-poverty-class-warriors-argue-with-themselves/#458b5fa53080

 

BOND BUYER
— Red ink means Illinois bill backlog at risk of rising
https://www.bondbuyer.com/news/red-ink-means-illinois-bill-backlog-at-risk-of-rising

 

GLOBE AND MAIL
— America’s rich are facing a reckoning. It’s about time – Lawrence Martin
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-americas-rich-are-facing-a-reckoning-its-about-time/

 

PEOPLE’S WORLD
— Raise the Wage Act would hike salaries for 40 million – MARK GRUENBERG
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/raise-the-wage-act-would-hike-salaries-for-40-million/

February 2 Evening Edition

ABC7
— ‘Choosing greatness’: Pres. Trump’s State of the Union aims for a unifying tone – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/choosing-greatness-trumps-state-of-the-union-aims-for-a-unifying-tone/5118023/
— Va. Governor Northam admits to previous blackface incident but says he is not in racist photo, will not resign – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/va-governor-northam-admits-to-previous-blackface-incident-but-says-he-is-not-in-racist-photo-will-not-resign/5117943/

 

NBC5
— Governor Pritzker Calls on Northam to Step Down After Controversial Photo Emerges After initially apologizing, Gov. Northram now says he wasn’t in the controversial photo
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/governor-jb-pritzker-calls-on-ralph-northram-to-resign-after-blackface-photo-505246351.html
— Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Won’t Resign, Says He Wasn’t In Racist Photo Northam admitted to wearing blackface with a Michael Jackson costume at a dance contest, but denied appearing in a racist 1984 yearbook photo – Sophia Barnes and Christian Paz
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Virginia-Gov-Ralph-Northam-Facing-Immense-Pressure-to-Resign-Over-1984-Photo-of-Blackface-KKK-Robe-505244632.html

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Northam denies being in racist yearbook photo, says he will not be resigning as governor
http://www.fox32chicago.com/facebook-instant/virginia-democrats-call-on-gov-northam-to-resign-over-racist-photo

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, pot pushers use problems with opioids to push pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/opioid-patient-medical-marijuana-buy-dispensary-illinois/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/papadopoulos-pot-startup-trump-george-idrasil-russia-mueller/
— No way to know if feds have any leverage on Madigan – Rich Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/michael-madigan-edward-burke-daniel-solis/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Virginia governor says he wasn’t in racist photo and will not resign, but admits to dressing in blackface – Laura Vozzella and Gregory S. Schneider
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-virginia-governor-blackface-kkk-20190202-story.html
— Gov. Pritzker, Jesse Jackson join prominent Democrats calling on Virginia’s governor to resign for yearbook photo
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-pritzker-ralph-northam-photo-20190202-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who are filled with hatred use Jussie Smollett to promote hatred against those who are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/glanton/ct-met-dahleen-glanton-jussie-smollett-attack-20190201-story.html
— Racist yearbook photo becomes a test for 2020 Democrats – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us–election-2020-virginia-governor-20190202-story.html
— Trump appears to sour on congressional border security talks – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/technology/sns-bc-us–trump-border-security-20190131-story.html
— 90 state lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct since 2017 – AP90 state lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct since 2017
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us–sexual-misconduct-state-legislatures-glance-20190202-story.html
— Naperville residents with ties to Family Shelter Service will attend State of the Union as guests of local legislators – Erin Hegarty
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-congress-underwood-casten-state-of-the-union-st-0203-story.html
— ‘Can You Afford to Retire?’ Class Set for Feb. 20th at Wheaton Park District – Matt Baron
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/hinsdale/community/chi-ugc-article-can-you-afford-to-retire-class-set-for-feb-8-2019-02-01-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— Virginia’s Gov. Northam says that wasn’t him in racist photo – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20190202/news/302029908/
— Retirement expert to offer ‘Can You Afford to Retire?’ Feb. 20 in Wheaton – Matt Baron
https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20190201/retirement-expert-to-offer-can-you-afford-to-retire-feb-20-in-wheaton

 

KANKAKEE DAILY JOURNAL
— The manure-spreaders of media sensationalism – Michelle Malkin
https://www.daily-journal.com/opinion/columnists/michelle-malkin-the-manure-spreaders-of-media-sensationalism/article_38b6f918-249f-11e9-a6e1-2b7c03ef74a8.html

 

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Pritzker may get minimum wage hike as first big victory – Doug Finke
https://www.pjstar.com/news/20190202/statehouse-insider-pritzker-may-get-minimum-wage-hike-as-first-big-victory

 

GALESBURG REGISTER MAIL
— Democrats are obstructionists, hate mongers – Thomas E. Mosher, Victoria
https://www.galesburg.com/opinion/20190202/letter-dems-are-obstructionists-hate-mongers

 

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— In the crosshairs? State of Illinois sets sights on gun rights ‘Assault weapon’ ban, other gun bills working through General Assembly – Scott Cousins
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/In-the-crosshairs-State-of-Illinois-sets-sights-13584107.php

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— President Trump on golf course with Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods – AP
https://foxillinois.com/sports/president-trump-on-golf-course-with-jack-nicklaus-tiger-woods

 

CHICAGO NOW
— Does New York love abortions? – James Kirk Wall
http://www.chicagonow.com/an-atheist-in-illinois/2019/02/does-new-york-love-abortions/

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Watchdogs say Burgess must resign from DuPage township board before he can be named supervisor – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511750270-watchdogs-say-burgess-must-resign-from-dupage-board-before-he-can-be-named-supervisor

 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— CNN misidentifies Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam as a Republican during his apology for racist yearbook photo – Allison Elyse Gualtieri
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cnn-misidentifies-virginia-gov-ralph-northam-as-a-republican-during-his-apology-for-racist-yearbook-photo

 

BREITBART
— Nancy Pelosi Calls ‘Racist’ Ralph Northam Photo Un-American but Doesn’t Demand Resignation – Joshua Caplan
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/02/nancy-pelosi-calls-racist-ralph-northam-photo-un-american-but-doesnt-demand-resignation/

 

GOPUSA
— NFL grant goes to anti-ICE, anti-cop group
http://www.gopusa.com/nfl-grant-goes-to-anti-ice-anti-cop-group/

 

FOX NEWS
— Kamala Harris’ State of the Union guest will be a federal employee financially affected by shutdown, she says – Elizabeth Zwirz (DIERSEN: Have you been financially affected by the Democrats who run the federal government? I have been financially affected big time, but none of my Republican U.S. Senators or Republican U.S. Representatives ever invited me to be their guest at a State of the Union address.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-state-of-the-union-guest-will-be-a-federal-employee-affected-by-shutdown-she-says

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrats roll out their big border security package – featuring an icebreaker for the Arctic Circle – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/democrats_roll_out_their_big_border_security_package__featuring_an_ice_breaker_for_the_coast_guard.html
— Border cowards – Robert Potts
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/border_cowards.html
— Northam campaign used racist ‘separate but equal’ campaign flyer omitting his black running mate – to cater to white racists? – Thomas Lifson
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/northam_campaign_used_racist_separate_but_equal_campaign_flyer_omitting_his_black_running_mate__to_cater_to_white_racists.html

 

CHRISTIAN POST
— MAGA: Make America Godly Again – Michael Brown
https://www.christianpost.com/voice/maga-make-america-godly-again.html

 

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump: ‘Good Chance’ He’ll Declare National Emergency to Fund Border Wall
https://www.theepochtimes.com/videos-of-the-day-trump-good-chance-hell-declare-national-emergency-to-fund-border-wall_2787654.html
— More Central American Asylum Seekers Returned to Mexico Under New Policy – KIMBERLY HAYEK
https://www.theepochtimes.com/more-central-american-asylum-seekers-returned-to-mexico-under-new-policy_2788269.html

 

COLLEGE FIX
— The Jussie Smollett case sounds a lot like college race hoaxes – DAVE HUBER
https://www.thecollegefix.com/the-jussie-smollett-case-sounds-a-lot-like-college-race-hoaxes/

 

THE HILL
— Northam says he will not resign over blackface, KKK photo – TAL AXELROD
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/428187-northam-backtracks-says-he-does-not-believe-he-was-in-blackface-kkk

 

ABC NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats use children as cannon fodder.
https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Health/immigration-concerns-parents-kids-health-services/story?id=60802163

 

CNN
— Northam denies being in racist photo but recalls darkening his skin in Michael Jackson dance contest in 1984 – Dan Merica and Ryan Nobles
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/02/politics/northam-racist-yearbook-photo/index.html

 

RT
— ‘R’ is for… Democrat? CNN labels Virginia governor ‘Republican’ in segment on KKK photo
https://www.rt.com/usa/450421-cnn-calls-northam-republican/

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Virginia Governor, Ralph Northam, Defies Calls to Resign Over Racist Photo – Jonathan Martin, Trip Gabriel and Alan Blinder
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/us/politics/ralph-northam-virginia-governor.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— If Democrats want to be the party of diversity, they need to push Northam out There’s no way to defend his 1984 medical school yearbook photo. – Eugene Scott (DIERSEN: What were you doing in 1984? I completed my fourth year working for GAO. My wife and I sold 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton and had 915 Cove Court built in Wheaton. My wife worked for the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. We went on vacations in connection with her business trips. We continued to try to have children. We owned a 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale, a 1978 Chevette, and a 1972 Corvette.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/02/if-democrats-want-be-party-diversity-they-need-push-northam-out/
— Ralph Northam is resigning. He just doesn’t know it yet. – Dana Milbank
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-backlash-to-ralph-northam-is-backlash-to-the-trump-era/2019/02/02/4c008844-26fd-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html
— ‘Shocked, saddened and offended’: Swift reaction to Va. Gov. Ralph Northam’s racist photo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/shocked-saddened-and-offended-swift-reaction-to-va-gov-ralph-northams-racist-photo/2019/02/01/ee319196-269c-11e9-ad53-824486280311_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: What do you say to those who ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that the older that you are, the more that you are a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/02/02/this-is-yearbook-not-don-lemon-blasts-gov-northams-racist-photo/
— Ralph Northam is about to moonwalk out of the governor’s mansion – Dana Milbank
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-backlash-to-ralph-northam-is-backlash-to-the-trump-era/2019/02/02/4c008844-26fd-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Virginia Gov. Northam Says He Won’t Resign Over Racist Yearbook Photo The 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School picture depicted one person in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan garb – Jon Kamp and Scott Calvert
https://www.wsj.com/articles/virginia-governor-to-make-statement-amid-calls-for-ouster-over-racist-photo-11549125616

 

FORTUNE
— Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Refuses to Resign Over Racist Yearbook Photo – KIM CHIPMAN, SARAH KOPIT, and BLOOMBERG
http://fortune.com/2019/02/02/ralph-northam-racist-yearbook-photo/

 

BOSTON GLOBE
— Virginia governor now says he did not appear in offensive yearbook image – Kim Chipman and Sarah Kopit
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/02/01/virginia-governor-medical-school-yearbook-page-shows-men-blackface-kkk-robe/bBqqtCqp2ew0QmV2ylQ45N/story.html
— Question for Democrats: Are some candidates too old? – Robert Weisman (DIERSEN: How old are you? All my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes promote age discrimination a) to get rid of those who are older than they are and/or b) to curry favor with those who promote age discrimination. Will they get the Milton Township Republican Central Committee, the DuPage County Republican Central Committee, the Illinois Republican Party, and the Republican Party to set maximum age limits for a) Precinct Committeemen/Captains (21?), township/ward party officers (25?), county party officers (30?), state central committee members (35?), state party officers, national committeemen, and national committeewomen (40?)? Will they get the aforesaid to set maximum age limits for municipal, township, and ward officials (25?), county officials (30?), state officials (35?), U.S. Representatives (40?), U.S. Senators (45?), and U.S. Presidents (50?)?)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/02/01/too-old-lead-nation-that-sounds-like-ageism-some/n30ZMSfRYG02utQ6A5Ya8M/story.html

 

DES MOINES REGISTER
— Trump has history and economy working in favor of his re-election – Jonathan Yates
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2019/02/02/trump-has-history-and-economy-working-favor-his-re-election/2728530002/

 

CLEBURNET TIMES REVIEW & FORT BEND HERALD
— Who benefits from immigration? Not you! – ANN COULTER
https://www.cleburnetimesreview.com/opinion/ann-coulter-who-benefits-from-immigration-not-you/article_6ad35930-266d-11e9-94ca-6fdd6aca347d.html
http://www.fbherald.com/opinion/who-benefits-from-immigration-not-you/article_4aa76299-53f9-5b8a-98cf-999e3b5f41d5.html

 

GREENFIELD REPORTER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “Trump’s border wall is another Maginot Line.”
http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/2019/02/02/michael_adkins_trumps_border_wall_is_another_maginot_line/

 

STARS AND STRIPES
— The left’s irrational behavior is what stands in the way of an immigration compromise – Rick Scott
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/the-left-s-irrational-behavior-is-what-stands-in-the-way-of-an-immigration-compromise-1.567049

 

MEXICO NEWS DAILY
— Remittances hit a new record high of $33 billion in 2018 Increase attributed to US President Trump’s stance on illegal immigration and a strong economy (DIERSEN: How much money do illegals send to Mexico from your neighborhood, from your precinct, from your municipality, from your township/ward, from your county, and from Illinois each year?)
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/remittances-hit-a-new-record-high/

 

GLOBE AND MAIL
— Welcome to the Asian century Asia is the most powerful force reshaping world order today. Asians once again see themselves as the center of the world – and its future – PARAG KHANNA (DIERSEN: America-haters have absolutely no problem with that.)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-welcome-to-the-asian-century/

January 28 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Government shutdown cost U.S. economy at least $6B, S&P says
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/government-shutdown-cost-us-economy-at-least-$6b-s-p/5109651/

 

CBS2
— The Coldest Days Ever In Chicago: This Week’s Temps Come Close (DIERSEN: How have cold temperatures harmed you? Cold temperatures, including 21 below zero on December 23, 1983, 25 below zero on December 24, 1983, 20 below zero on January 20, 1984, and 22 below zero on January 21, 1984 when the foundation of my home was being constructed, caused the foundation footings to crack and large cracks to form in the basement floor.)
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/01/28/coldest-days-ever-in-chicago-2/

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Pelosi invites Trump to give State of the Union speech Feb. 5
http://www.fox32chicago.com/facebook-instant/house-speaker-pelosi-asks-trump-to-deliver-the-state-of-the-union-address-on-feb-5
— Government report says US budget deficit set to hit $897B
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/government-report-says-us-budget-deficit-set-to-hit-897b-1
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Most Americans oppose President Trump’s foreign policy.”
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/most-americans-oppose-president-trump-s-foreign-policy-according-to-new-poll

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DePaul freshman David J. Krupa accuses Madigan, Quinn of using fraud and intimidation – Fran Spielman (DIERSEN: What do your critics/opponents want to stop you from doing? Krupa’s critics/opponents want to stop him from running for an office. My critics/opponents what to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and from serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman. Previously, my critics/opponents succeeded in stopping me from serving as a a) TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, b) Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member in 2011, Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC) webmaster in 2010 and 2004 and Treasurer in 2004, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee (ICRC) member in 2007, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member in 2004, GAO employee in 1997, etc. Krupa’s critics/opponents have a lot in common with my critics/opponents. I should write a book about what my critics/opponents did, including what they tried to do to get ICRC to censure me in 2006 and what they did to stop me from becoming a MTRCC Treasurer in 2004.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/depaul-freshman-david-krupa-mike-michael-madigan-marty-quinn-ballot-petitions-challenge-fraud-intimidation-13th-ward-chicago-election-2019/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps promote LGBTQ activity.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/i-am-a-military-veteran-and-transgender-and-nobody-cares-in-the-trenches-of-war/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump doubts negotiators will strike budget deal he’d accept – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-budget-negotiations-border-wall-20190128-story.html
— 13th Ward hopeful David Krupa files lawsuit alleging House Speaker Michael Madigan, Ald. Marty Quinn violated his civil rights – Gregory Pratt
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-david-krupa-alderman-candidate-lawsuit-20190128-story.html
— Tom Brokaw apologizes, and then some more, for inflammatory remarks about Latinos – Lorraine Ali (DIERSEN: Democrats do not want immigrants to assimilate. Democrats want immigrants to be dependent on the Democrat Party, to serve as operatives for the Democrat Party, to serve as dupes for the Democrat Party, and of course, to vote for Democrats.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-ent-tom-brokaw-apology-20190128-story.html
— One big shutdown lesson: Americans need to save more – Tyler Cowen (DIERSEN: For the shutdown, Trump-haters painted federal employees like they were God-like and grossly underpaid.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-savings-shutdown-broke-paycheck-mr-money-mustache-0129-20190128-story.html
— Why the Illinois exodus? The rich get bashed, and off they go – Kristen McQueary (DIERSEN: What are the demographics of a) those who have left Illinois and b) those who want to leave Illinois? What is their income and net worth? Democrats want those who are members of the following groups to leave Illinois: Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-mcqueary-illinois-exodus-taxing-the-rich-20190128-story.html
— Teachers succeed by framing strikes as for common good – AP (DIERSEN: Democrats succeed by framing Republicans as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse thing who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us–teacher-strikes-20190126-story.html
— Avenue open to drive off some township road posts – Charles Selle
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/opinion/ct-lns-selle-township-road-elimination-st-0129-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County continues using former election commission attorney Pat Bond – Robert Sanchez
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190128/dupage-county-continues-using-former-election-commission-attorney
— Why College of DuPage is truly ‘our community college’ – Brian Caputo
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190128/why-college-of-dupage-is-truly-our-community-college–

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— LGBT group filing complaint after printer refuses job Yorke Printe Shoppe in Lombard cited religious beliefs for turning down a brochure for the LGBT Community Fund, which raises money for nonprofits. – LISA BERTAGNOLI (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, if you do not promote LGBTQ activity, those who promote LGBTQ activity get rid of you.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/lgbt-group-filing-complaint-after-printer-refuses-job

 

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Hundreds attend Casten’s district swearing-in ceremony in Wheaton – Mary Stroka
https://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2019/01/27/hundreds-attend-castens-district-swearing-in-ceremony-in-wheaton/ammdzl1/

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— President Trump tweets support for Bible classes in schools – Kaylin Jorge
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/president-trump-bible-literacy-classes-in-schools-is-great

 

NPR ILLINOIS
— The Extent Of Segregation In Illinois – SEAN CRAWFORD (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, according to the Democrats, the fewer minorities that live in an area, the more racist that those who live in that area are if they are Republican.)
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/extent-segregation-illinois#stream/0
— Shutdown Victor: Pelosi. Shutdown Loser: Trump, Jonah Goldberg Says
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/shutdown-victor-pelosi-shutdown-loser-trump-goldberg-says#stream/0

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Five million pieces of IRS mail went unopened during the shutdown, watchdog says
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/five-million-pieces-of-irs-mail-went-unopened-during-the-shutdown-watchdog-says/1732705704

 

REPRESENTATIVE GRANT WEHRLI
— Rep. Grant Wehrli Hosts Informational Session on BNSF Line Service Disruptions (DIERSEN: Have you ridden the BNSF? I rode the BNSF 1992-1997 while I worked at GAO and took graduate finance classes at IIT in downtown Chicago. My wife rode the BNSF 1992-2000 while she worked for MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, 2000-2003 while she worked for the Arthur Foundation in Berwyn, and 2014-2017 while she worked for the Arthur Foundation in Riverside.)
http://www.repwehrli.com/2019/01/rep-grant-wehrli-hosts-informational.html

 

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— 31 States Permit Full-Term Abortions – Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/31-states-permit-full-term-babies-to-be-killed-in-the-womb-for-virtually-any-or-no-reason/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police: Top priority is killing homegrown in legalization bill
https://capitolfax.com/2019/01/28/illinois-association-of-chiefs-of-police-top-priority-is-killing-homegrown-in-legalization-bill/
— ILLINOIS’ GUN LAW PROPOSAL “ORWELLIAN,” NEW SENATOR JASON PLUMMER SAYS
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2019/01/illinois-gun-law-proposal-orwellian-new-senator-says.html
— NEW YORK WRITER CALLS FOR $33 MINIMUM WAGE (DIERSEN: When did you start earning $33/hour in today’s dollars? I did in 1973 when I was 24 years old. I had worked for IRS for 2 years. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I was taking graduate business courses at Loyola. I had bought a new town home in University Park in 1972. I had bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971.)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2019/01/new-york-writers-calls-for-33-minimum-wage-.html

 

CAPITOL FAX
— 13th Ward candidate David Krupa files suit against Speaker Madigan, Ald. Quinn and their political operations
https://capitolfax.com/2019/01/28/13th-ward-candidate-files-suit-against-speaker-madigan-ald-quinn-and-their-political-operations/
— Illinois has eleventh highest per capita tax burden
https://capitolfax.com/2019/01/28/illinois-has-eleventh-highest-per-capita-tax-burden/

 

IMMIGRATION REFORM
— New York’s Political Leaders Favor Illegal Aliens Over Legal Residents – MATTHEW TRAGESSER
https://immigrationreform.com/2019/01/28/new-yorks-political-leaders-favor-illegal-aliens-over-legal-residents-immigrationreform-com/

 

GOPUSA
— Religious bigotry is rife in America
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=64183

 

FOX NEWS
— How much would ‘Medicare for All’ cost? Democrats’ health care plan explained – Jennifer Earl
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/how-much-would-medicare-for-all-cost-democrats-health-care-plan-explained

 

BLAZE
— California college trustee board drops Pledge of Allegiance over ‘white nationalism’ ‘I also object to the phrase ‘one nation under God’ – Aaron Colen
https://www.theblaze.com/news/california-college-trustee-board-drops-pledge-of-allegiance-over-white-nationalism

 

DAILY CALLER
— WASHINGTON POST’S NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT CALLS TRUMP SUPPORTERS ‘RUBES’ – Joe Simonson
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/28/washington-post-weigel-rubes-trump/
— RETIRED NYU PROFESSOR EXPLAINS WHY COLLEGE STUDENTS PREFER SOCIALISM – Nick Givas
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/28/nyu-professor-why-college-students-prefer-socialism/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The [professors] are 40 percent socialist. And that’s a large number,” he continued. “We have about 90 percent are leftist and 40 percent of the total are socialists in the humanities and social sciences.” Rectenwald also said he’s seen people dismissed from Ph.D. programs simply because they were conservative. “There’s a bubble and they don’t want to hire anyone,” he said. “And I’ve seen people actually thrown out of degree programs, Ph.D. programs, for being conservative.” “This is a huge indoctrination process that’s going on. And it’s not just called socialism now. They’re calling it social justice as well,” Rectenwald added. “It leads to the kind of forced egalitarianism that you saw in the Soviet Union, where you have to squash people down so that everyone’s ‘equal.’ And it led to 94 million people being murdered, combined in all the communist regimes in the 20th century.”)

 

CNBC
— Trump tells WSJ another government shutdown is ‘certainly an option’ – Yen Nee Lee
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/28/trump-on-government-shutdown-border-wall-funding-deal-wsj.html

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Dealmakers Dominate Panel Tasked to Reach Border Security Agreement – Sheryl Gay Stolberg
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/us/politics/trump-congress-border-wall.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— ‘Maybe I didn’t return her phone call’: Trump ridicules Ann Coulter, slams Fox News in fallout over wall – Isaac Stanley-Becker
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/28/maybe-i-didnt-return-her-phone-call-trump-ridicules-ann-coulter-slams-fox-news-fallout-over-wall/

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Gets New Date for State of the Union Speech Speaker Pelosi invites president to address Congress on Feb. 5 – Natalie Andrews
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pelosi-invites-trump-to-give-state-of-union-on-feb-5-11548711802

 

DENVER GAZETTE
— Denver marijuana business owners plead guilty in landmark case – AP
https://gazette.com/news/denver-marijuana-business-owners-plead-guilty-in-landmark-case/article_1883ac73-2731-5742-88a8-84f47ddf7f9c.html

 

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “More Voters See A Divided Nation, Blame Trump.”
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/january_2019/more_voters_see_a_divided_nation_blame_trump

January 27 Evening Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump is again considering invoking emergency powers to build border wall without congressional approval – Robert Costa and Felicia Sonmez
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-border-wall-funding-20190127-story.html
— In a Trump retreat, shutdown ends without wall money for now – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us–government-shutdown-20190126-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters promote Bloomberg.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us–election-2020-bloomberg-20190125-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Why do we tell voters they can vote when there’s no ballot? – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/chicago-early-voting-elections-law-quirk/

 

DAILY HERALD
— Give first round to Pelosi over Trump in shutdown skirmish – AP (DIERSEN: Republicans stand up for America and for its citizens. Democrats stand up for foreign countries and for their citizens. To punish Trump, to punish America, and to punish Republicans, how soon, if not already, will Democrat employers officially a) stop hiring, b) stop retaining, c) stop promoting, and d) get rid of their employees who are Republican?)
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20190127/news/301279956/
— White House: Trump OK with second shutdown over border spat – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20190127/news/301279951/
— The number of women in the Illinois Legislature has increased slightly, though the numbers still fall behind a state panel’s goal of having equal representation. – AP (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action (AA), Diversity, and Inclusion quotas, goals, and targets to not hire, to not retain, to not promote, and to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. How have AA, Diversity, and Inclusion impacted you? AA, Diversity, and Inclusion impacted me extremely negatively. While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, because I am Republican, White, male, and non-veteran, my Democrat superiors did everything that they could to not hire me, to not retain me, to not promote me, and to get rid of me. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $19,203 (26%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors did not promote me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, got rid of my mentor in 1975, and disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20190127/news/301279968/

 

ABC7
— Aide says President Trump OK with second shutdown over border spat – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/aide-says-trump-ok-with-second-shutdown-over-border-dispute/5108843/

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Border Patrol struggles to hire new agents; 3,000 jobs open (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. Many millions have not and will not seek a job with the federal government a) because the pay and benefits are terrible, b) because the advancement opportunities are terrible, c) because they lack required education, work experience, professional certifications, and/or professional licenses, d) because they cannot pass an employment examination, e) because they cannot pass a background investigation, f) because they cannot pass a physical examination, g) because they cannot take the demonization, denigration, and condemnation that comes with being a federal employee or federal retiree, and/or h) because they are Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran and they know that the federal government discriminates against the aforesaid.)
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/national/border-patrol-struggles-to-hire-new-agents-3-000-jobs-open

 

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Local GOP’s November defeat was a costly one – Tom Kacich
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2019-01-27/tom-kacich-local-gops-november-defeat-was-costly-one.html
— It looks like business as usual in Illinois – BRAD HALBROOK
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary/2019-01-27/guest-commentary-it-looks-business-usual-illinois.html
— Irrational exuberance in a post-Rauner Illinois – TED DABROWSKI
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary/2019-01-27/guest-commentary-irrational-exuberance-post-rauner-illinois.html

 

SOUTHERN
— Without Rauner, where will state GOP get campaign funds? – Rich Miller
https://thesouthern.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-rich-miller-without-rauner-where-will-state-gop-get/article_398e82c8-3971-5580-9021-0f93bade3930.html

 

RIVER CITIES’ READER
— Frugality and the Illinois GOP – Rich Miller
https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/frugality-and-illinois-gop

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump donates $100,000 from salary to alcoholism research
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-donates-100000-from-salary-to-alcoholism-research-01-27-2019

 

MC HENRY COUNTY BLOG
— When an Attorney Contradicts Himself
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/01/27/when-an-attorney-contradicts-himself/

 

NEWSMAX
— Report: Team Trump Worried About 2020 Primary Challenge – Cathy Burke (DIERSEN: Will the Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, and RINOs succeed in getting Kasich to run? Who promotes Kasich in Illinois, in your county, in your township/ward, in your municipality, and in your precinct?)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-2020-campaign-congress/2019/01/27/id/899991/

 

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Elizabeth Warren is not proposing a tax; she’s proposing asset forfeiture. The Kulaks Must Be Liquidated as a Class – KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/elizabeth-warren-tax-plan-is-asset-forfeiture/
— Involuntary Identity Politics – KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON (DIERSEN: Have you been dumped? How bad are your demographics? From what I see, ever-increasingly, Trump-haters in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois are succeeding in getting individuals, organizations, companies, and governments to dump those who are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/covington-catholic-students-progressive-identity-politics/

 

COLLEGE FIX
— New York State legislation permits college financial aid for illegal immigrants
https://www.thecollegefix.com/new-york-state-legislation-permits-college-financial-aid-for-illegal-immigrants/
— USC student leaders want veto power over conservative speakers – GREG PIPER
https://www.thecollegefix.com/usc-student-leaders-want-veto-power-over-conservative-speakers/

 

THE HILL
— Republicans distance themselves from shutdown tactics – BRETT SAMUELS (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, disgustingly, tragically, a) Democrats fight harder for the Democrat Party platform, b) Libertarians fight for the Libertarian Party platform, and c) Greens fight for the Green Party platform than Republicans fight for the Republican Party platform.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/427160-republicans-distance-themselves-from-shutdown-tactics
— Sacrifices made by federal workers reveal their integrity, dedication – RYAN TRAPANI
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/427012-sacrifices-made-by-government-workers-reveal-their-honor-integrity
— Trump boosts fight against surprise medical bills – PETER SULLIVAN (DIERSEN: My wife and I pay $500/month in health insurance premiums plus Medicare to fight against surprise medical bills.)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/427066-trump-boosts-fight-against-surprise-medical-bills?userid=3526

 

ABC NEWS
— More than 25,000 workers strike at Mexican border factories – AP
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/25000-workers-strike-mexican-border-factories-60648215

 

WASHINGTON POST
— Backlogs, deadlines and a massive bureaucratic reboot await federal workers after shutdown’s end – Lisa Rein, Juliet Eilperin and
Sarah Kaplan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/backlogs-deadlines-and-a-massive-bureaucratic-reboot-await-federal-workers-after-shutdowns-end/2019/01/26/ed67e020-2189-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html
— Americans are being left behind. Here’s how we fix it. – Henry M. Paulson Jr., Erskine Bowles and Melissa S. Kearney
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americans-are-being-left-behind-heres-how-we-fix-it/2019/01/27/073d8528-1f3b-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Skeptical He Would Accept Any Congressional Border Deal The president in an interview says he doubts lawmakers will find a resolution in coming weeks – Peter Nicholas and Kristina Peterson
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-to-debate-border-immigration-as-next-shutdown-threat-looms-11548614760
— President Trump, After Shutdown Ends, Says ‘We Will Build the Wall’ Mr. Trump hews to a hard-line stance, insisting on a physical barrier with Mexico – Peter Nicholas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/president-trump-day-after-shutdown-ends-says-we-will-build-the-wall-11548538067
— Returning Government Workers Likely to Confront Glitches Issues include locked computers with expired passwords, large backlogs and uncertainty about paychecks – Kate Davidson
https://www.wsj.com/articles/returning-government-workers-likely-to-confront-glitches-11548461568

 

FORBES
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeadams/2019/01/27/snubbed-medical-marijuana-super-bowl-ad-not-accurate-of-where-u-s-is-headed-with-legalization/

 

BLOOMBERG
— Telegraph to Pay Melania Trump ‘Substantial’ Damages for Article – Kelly Gilblom
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/telegraph-to-pay-melania-trump-substantial-damages-for-article

 

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Unemployment is low only because ‘involuntary’ part-time work is high – Jim Edwards
https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-vs-involuntary-part-time-work-underemployment-2019-1

January 25 Evening Edition

ABC7
— President Trump, Congress agree to end longest government shutdown – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/trump-congress-agree-to-end-longest-government-shutdown/5106488/

 

NBC5
— Trump, Congress Leaders Reach Deal to End Shutdown Without Wall Funding “I have a very powerful alternative but I didn’t want use it at this time and hopefully it won’t be necessary,” Trump said – Danielle Abreu
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Government-Shutdown-Solutions-Urgency-Senate-White-House-504867681.html

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Congress, Trump reach temporary deal to end government shutdown – AP
http://www.fox32chicago.com/facebook-instant/president-trump-to-make-announcement-regarding-government-shutdown

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Senate passes deal to temporarily reopen government after longest shutdown in U.S. history – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-government-shutdown-20190125-story.html
— Illinois lawmakers demand answers about monitoring for cancer-causing chemical during government shutdown – Michael Hawthorne
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-sterigenics-medline-vantage-epa-letter-20190125-story.html
— As shutdown ends, federal workers have little faith about future – AP (DIERSEN: With budget cuts, soon, if not already, the Democrats who run the federal government will have gotten rid of all their employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who they did not promote to GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40. Soon, if not already, they will have to get rid of their employees who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-government-shutdown-workers-20190125-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “The wall, the shutdown and the make-believe presidency.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-perspec-chapman-shutdown-wall-trump-crime-20190125-story.html
— The end of the shutdown, and what comes next – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-shutdown-end-trump-pelosi-20190125-story.html
— Early voting starts Tuesday
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-early-voting-money-mayors-race-ig-ferguson-code-silence-20190124-story.html
— Watchdog: CTA staffer tied to state senator likely hired for political reasons, didn’t work full shift most days – Mike Riopell
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-cta-hiring-illinois-senate-20190125-story.html

— Can Pritzker keep promise to stop Illinois gerrymandering? – Austin Berg
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-sta-berg-column-st-0127-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Increase in ‘sick leave’ causing flight delays at LaGuardia – AP (DIERSEN: While I worked part-time for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969, I worked many more hours because my coworkers had called in sick.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/increase-in-sick-leave-causing-flight-delays-at-laguardia/
— Leaving Legislature lucrative for Ed Burke brother now drawing $160K in pensions – Robert Herguth
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/burke-daniel-dan-edward-pensions-legislative-chicago-city-hall/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters say “Trump tried to burn down the house and he got burned.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/federal-shutdown-donald-trump-nancy-pelosi/
— Illinois GOP facing dire financial straits – Rich Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/jb-pritzker-campaign-spending-democrats-illinois-republicans-dire-financial-straits/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Democratic Party of Illinois ended the year with about $1.4 million in the bank. The Illinois Republican Party finished with $313,000. The IL GOP is going to have to be frugal for a while until they can raise some dough. Rauner has been the state GOP’s most reliable donor. The former governor contributed $36.9 million to the state party since June 13th of 2014. The party raised another $20 million or so on top of that since that same date, but a large chunk of that money was pass-through cash from the two legislative caucuses for direct mail costs. The unofficial leader of the Republican Party’s wealthy Chicago-area “donor class” was Ron Gidwitz. He helped raise a ton of money for his party over the years. But Gidwitz is now the US Ambassador to Belgium, so he can’t do them any good. Bottom line: The Republican Party in this state is in very dire straits.)

 

DAILY HERALD
— Staffing shortages that slowed flights could have been ‘final straw’ to end shutdown – Marni Pyke
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190125/staffing-shortages-that-slowed-flights-could-have-been-final-straw-to-end-shutdown-
— Report: Financial incentives needed to get data centers in Illinois – Susan Sarkauskas
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20190125/report-financial-incentives-needed-to-get-data-centers-in-illinois

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump announces deal to reopen government for 3 weeks The stopgap measure includes no money for a border wall, sources say, but the accord would set up a period of negotiations on border security measures, and the president added he will make sure federal workers get back pay quickly. – Bloomberg
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/government/trump-announces-deal-reopen-government-3-weeks

 

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— As shutdown dragged on, and Trump’s polling went down, Bost stuck with president – JOSEPH BUSTOS
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article225077090.html

 

WPSD
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/2019/01/24/medical-marijuana-to-be-available-to-more-illinoisans-under-new-program/

 

DEERFIELD PATCH
— Assault Weapons Ban, Gun Buyer Social Media Search Proposed Democrats introduced new legislation to ban certain semi-automatic firearms and add restrictions on who can legally buy a gun in Illinois. – Jonah Meadows
https://patch.com/illinois/deerfield/assault-weapons-ban-gun-buyer-social-media-search-proposed

 

WEST COOK NEWS
— Underwood, Casten did not sign letter to Pelosi about shutdown – Glenn Minnis
https://westcooknews.com/stories/511740722-underwood-casten-did-not-sign-letter-to-pelosi-about-shutdown

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Wheaton Bowl owner Sal Falbo says he was targeted by Council candidate Bray-Parker – Glenn Minnis (DIERSEN: In 2002, I succeeded in getting the Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC) to hold its monthly meetings in the Wheaton Bowl Banquet Hall and the MTRCC has held its monthly meetings there ever since.)
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511739295-wheaton-bowl-owner-says-he-was-targeted-by-council-candidate-bray-parker
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Sal Falbo thinks Erica Bray-Parker could use a new lesson plan. “I don’t think her actions were the right thing to be teaching her students,” Falbo told the DuPage Policy Journal as rumors of Bray-Parker’s attempting to bully him and other business owners in Wheaton into removing signs from their properties that were for political candidates she doesn’t agree with continue to swirl. “We all have a right to freedom of speech, and as a teacher you would think she would know and understand that,” he added. According to local business owner Jane Shaw, all the drama began when Bray-Parker, who teaches at Glenbard North and is an instructor at the Civics Club, penned a letter to Falbo and other local business owners demanding that they remove posters of former state Rep. Jeanne Ives, a Republican of Wheaton, from in front of their businesses, vowing never to return to their establishments if they failed to comply. Bray-Parker, who is running for Wheaton City Council in District 4, is also accused of using her students as part of her “bullying” campaign, Shaw added. “I don’t live in Wheaton but if I did there’s no way I would vote for her,” said Faldo, part owner of Wheaton Bowl. “She’s obviously an activist, but part of the responsibility in that is understanding that everyone has the same free speech rights that you do. On top of that, the signs she was complaining about weren’t even on my property; they were in front. She’s really made an issue out of a nonissue.” Meanwhile, Ives, who relinquished her seat in Springfield with the start of the legislative session, has been adamant in expressing her opinion that she doesn’t think what she calls Bray-Parker’s brand of politics is right for Wheaton. “Erica Bray-Parker should not be elected; make sure she isn’t,” she told the DuPage Policy Journal. “She is unfit to represent business owners and the respectful, hard-working taxpayers of Wheaton. She is a civics teacher who is not civil.” Bray-Parker also raised eyebrows in May 2018, when she penned a letter in the Daily Herald assailing Peter Breen, a Republican of Lombard who was a state representative at the time, over what she perceived to be his inadequate stance on the issue of gun control.)

 

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— McGlasson discouraged by lack of response to meeting request – W.J. Kennedy (DIERSEN: What do the following have to say about this: your Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain, the officers of your Republican township, ward, and/or county party organizations, your representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee, the IRP officers, the IRP National Committeeman, and the IRP National Committeewoman?)
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/511740588-mcglasson-discouraged-by-lack-of-response-to-meeting-request
(FROM THE ARTICLE: All that Republican Committeeman John McGlasson says he is likely to get out of his call for a special meeting of the state GOP after the shellacking the party took in November is a chance to speak his mind at the party’s regularly scheduled meeting on Feb. 9 in Bolingbrook. If he can make his way onto the agenda. “Never heard back from anyone,” McGlasson, referring to his request for a special meeting, told Prairie State Wire. “I’m completely discouraged. I’ll try to give my viewpoints at the regular party meeting, if I get a chance.” The conservative McGlasson, committeeman from the 16th Congressional District, seconded fellow Committeeman’s Sean Morrison’s call for a special meeting after the embarrassing revelation in mid-December that Bruce Rauner sought someone to take his place on the ballot soon after his near loss to former State Rep. Jeanne Ives, a Republican of Wheaton, in the March primary. Again, he heard nothing. “We should be out looking hard for someone to challenge (U.S. Senator Dick) Durbin in 2020,” he said. “A good, enthusiastic candidate will help other candidates in down-ticket races. Maybe we could take a few of the House seats back. But they seem to be content with the way things are.” McGlasson needs five of the 18 Republican Central Committee members to call a special meeting of the party. He says with Bob Winchester’s legal claim for his Committee spot in the 15th Congressional District still in legal limbo, he doesn’t have them. “It is my opinion that the party needs to return to its roots as expressed in our party platform,” he said. “And we need to search for a leader that will lead us back to the basics of conservatism.” McGlasson said that a move is on to have Ives speak in Bolingbrook, but she told the Prairie State Wire that she has yet to receive an invitation. “I would tell them that they are disorganized and rudderless,” Ives said. “We need a fiscal contract with Illinoisans and a strategy to carry it out.” “We need new leadership,” she added, “after that bloodbath in November, and (the) revelation about Rauner. They (party leaders) can’t claim ignorance about that. He’s been funding the party for years.”)

 

ILLINOIS TIMES
— Anti-Muslim post appears on clerk’s Facebook page Circuit clerk says it was hack job – Bruce Rushton
https://illinoistimes.com/article-20874-anti-muslim-post-appears-on-clerks-facebook-page.html

 

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— A Crisis When It Suits Their Purpose – Robert Knight
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/01/a-crisis-when-it-suits-their-purpose/

 

TOWNHALL
— Trump Announces a Deal to Reopen the Government – Katie Pavlich
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/01/25/breaking-trump-announces-a-deal-to-reopen-the-government-n2540272

 

BREITBART
— NewsGuard’s Advisory Board Has History of Fake News, Unethical Journalism – Charlie Nash
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/25/newsguards-advisory-board-has-history-of-fake-news-unethical-journalism/

 

DAILY CALLER
— NEW YORK TO SPEND MILLIONS PUTTING DREAMERS THROUGH COLLEGE – Jason Hopkins
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/25/new-york-college-dreamers/

 

GOPUSA
— Trump flinched … and Pelosi will dig in
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=64041
— Do you ‘have it coming’ if you wear a MAGA hat? (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that “I had it coming” a) because I avoided the draft, b) because I refused to become a Democrat, and c) because I refused to help them get rid of federal employees because they were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran and who had not made GS-13 (currently $96,403) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $113,920) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $134,000) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $164,200) by age 40.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=64081
— Europe is failing because it’s been hijacked by activists determined to impose a socialist agenda
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=63961

 

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Trump Agrees to Three-Week Spending Bill Without Wall Funding to End Shutdown – JACK CROWE
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/donald-trump-agrees-to-three-week-spending-bill-with-no-wall-funding-to-end-shutdown/

 

THE HILL
— Trump agrees to end shutdown without getting wall funding – JORDAN FABIAN AND BRETT SAMUELS
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/427004-trump-agrees-to-end-shutdown
— Senate votes to reopen government after Trump agrees to end shutdown – JORDAIN CARNEY
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/427041-senate-votes-to-reopen-government-after-trump-agrees-to-end-shutdown

 

POLITICO MAGAZINE
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Why 2019 Could Be Marijuana’s Biggest Year Yet A green tide in Congress raises hopes that pot could be legal under federal law by year’s end. – JAMES HIGDON
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/21/marijuana-legalization-congress-224031

 

CBS NEWS
— Trump says he’ll sign bill to reopen government for 3 weeks – live updates – GRACE SEGERS
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-deal-reached-trump-speech-announcement-opens-government-shutdown-over-today-live-updates-2019-01-25/

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Announces Deal to Reopen Government, in Surprise Retreat From Wall – Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Nicholas Fandos and Peter Baker
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/us/politics/trump-shutdown-deal.html
— ‘We Didn’t Get Ph.D.s Just to Sit Around’: Civil Servants’ Good Will Erodes – Campbell Robertson
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/us/civil-servants-government-work.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— At least 14,000 unpaid IRS workers did not show up for work as broad shutdown disruption hits tax agency, according to House aides – Jeff Stein and Danielle Paquette (DIERSEN: I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and I worked for GAO on audits of IRS 1986-1988.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/25/least-unpaid-irs-workers-did-not-show-up-work-broad-shutdown-disruption-hits-tax-agency-according-house-aides/
— Trump announces deal for government to reopen for three weeks, ending longest shutdown; no money for his border wall – Erica Werner and Mike DeBonis and John Wagner
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-leaders-continue-to-seek-a-deal-to-end-shutdown-that-will-satisfy-trump/2019/01/25/09c898dc-20ad-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters say “Trump disapproval swells as president, Republicans face lopsided blame for shutdown.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-majority-of-americans-hold-trump-and-republicans-responsible-for-shutdown/2019/01/25/e7a2e7b8-20b0-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html
— Rep. Wittman, a Virginia Republican, wants to stop members of Congress from flying first class – Jenna Portnoy (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government 1966-1969 and 1971-1997, overwhelmingly, my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates painted themselves and painted all federal employees as being underpaid and as having financial problems. They did not like it at all, and some were furious, when I a) bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, b) bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, c) bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, d) bought a new town home in University Park in 1972, e) bought a studio condo in the Outer Drive East building in 1974, f) bought a one bedroom condo in that building in 1976, g) bought a home in Wheaton with my wife in 1978, h) had a home built with my wife in Wheaton in 1984, i) bought a 1962 Chevy Impala SS collector car in 1989, j) bought a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T collector car in 1994, k) paid for tuition and books to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, and l) paid for tuition and books to earn job-related professional certifications when I was 30 and 32.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/rep-wittman-a-virginia-republican-wants-to-stop-members-of-congress-from-flying-first-class/2019/01/24/78b2508e-2013-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “I don’t think [flying first class] sets the right example,” he said in an interview. “I think members of Congress ought to be held to the same standard as others flying on government business.”)

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-considering-agreeing-to-sign-three-week-spending-bill-as-early-as-friday-11548439078
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-considering-agreeing-to-sign-three-week-spending-bill-as-early-as-friday-11548439078

 

NEWSBUG
— Illinois Republican Party in dire straits – Rich Miller
http://www.newsbug.info/illinois-republican-party-in-dire-straits/article_2590b6ef-c671-5b89-879e-5e09a973dc06.html

 

FED SMITH
— Short-Term Agreement Reached to Re-Open Government – Ralph R. Smith
https://www.fedsmith.com/2019/01/25/short-term-agreement-reached-re-open-government/