Tag: protestant

August 15 Evening Edition

NBC5
— DISGUSTING: Chicago Protests: Pepper Spray Used, Clashes Reported as Group Marches to Loop The demonstrations began at Chicago’s iconic Bean before the group traveled to Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive, where multiple incidents were reported
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pepper-spray-used-as-protesters-clash-with-police-while-marching-to-chicagos-loop/2322985/
— DISGUSTING: Demonstrators Clash With Police, March Into the Loop A large group of protesters is marching towards Chicago’s Loop after demonstrators were involved in multiple clashes with police
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-protests-preparations-a-live-blog-of-what-to-expect-this-weekend-2/2322786/
— Illinois Reports 1,828 New Cases of Coronavirus, Along With 5 Additional Deaths
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/illinois-reports-1828-new-cases-of-coronavirus-along-with-5-additional-deaths/2322846/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Protesters bypass march on Dan Ryan Expressway Saturday, head directly downtown
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/protesters-bypass-march-on-dan-ryan-expressway-saturday-head-directly-downtown

ABC7
— Protest against police brutality bypasses Dan Ryan Expressway, march heads down side streets Some Chicago bridges remain raised Saturday – John Garcia
https://abc7chicago.com/community-events/protesters-plan-for-dan-ryan-shutdown-averted/6371985/

WGN TV
— Demonstrators avoid Dan Ryan despite plans to shut down expressway – Judy Wang, Brónagh Tumulty
https://wgntv.com/news/hundreds-expected-to-shut-down-dan-ryan-saturday-to-protest-police-brutality/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Protesters march through Bronzeville after police block them from Dan Ryan Activist and organizer Michael Ben Yosef said state police officials told him the protest had to draw at least 2,200 supporters to go onto the Dan Ryan. In the end, the rally was well below that amount. – Madeline Kenney
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/15/21370268/dan-ryan-protest-chicago-south-side-police-brutality-cpd
— Public health officials announce another 1,828 test positive for COVID-19 across Illinois
https://chicago.suntimes.com/essential-coronavirus-news/2020/8/15/21369718/latest-coronavirus-news-live-updates-chicago-illinois-2020
— Illinois remembers former Gov. ‘Big Jim’ Thompson, a ‘hard-nosed political leader’ with ‘kindness’ Thompson led the state for 14 years and drew praise from both sides of the aisle.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/8/15/21370053/james-thompson-death-reaction-illinois-governor-big-jim

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Former Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson dies at age 84. A Republican from Chicago, ‘Big Jim’ served 4 terms. – RICK PEARSON and ROSEMARY SOBOL
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-gov-thompson-dead-20200815-itcmcnimlvgenbde255np5zfvi-story.html
— Rally against police brutality ends near Grant Park after failed attempt to walk on Dan Ryan Expressway – MADELINE BUCKLEY
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-dan-ryan-protest-thwarted-20200815-6mwabrtgv5c5ri2ko2ska2kozy-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Thompson mourned by suburbanites who knew him well
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200815/thompson-mourned-by-suburbanites-who-knew-him-well
— ‘Ballot harvesting’ targeted amid fight over voting rules – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20200815/news/308159956/
— Fremont Township board member dies from scooter crash injuries – Doug T. Graham
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200814/fremont-township-board-member-dies-from-scooter-crash-injuries

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Remembering Big Jim: The embodiment of a bygone political era The tenure of James R. Thompson—a pro-choice, corporate centrist—marked a time when Illinois Democrats and Republicans could work together to get things done. Now he’s gone—and so is that spirit. – GREG HINZ (DIERSEN: My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors knew full-well a) that my wife had helped elect Thompson and b) that Thompson promoted patronage and political affiliation discrimination. (SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_v._Republican_Party_of_Illinois and http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/13/us/seeking-return-to-ways-of-patronage-in-politics.html ) Because of the Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois decision, my U.S. Senators and their staff members and my U.S. Representatives and their staff members made it very clear that they did NOT want to hear my complaints about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation in the federal government. All my critics/opponents, all their operatives and all their dupes promote patronage and political affiliation discrimination and reject the decision in Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors treated me like I was part of a plot to stop them from hiring, retaining, and promoting young Democrat minorities and young Democrat females. They were fully aware of the arguments that Thompson, Jim Edgar, and Lee Daniels made in Rutan that government employers should be allowed to engage in patronage and political affiliation discrimination.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/obituaries/remembering-big-jim-embodiment-bygone-political-era

DAILY EGYPTIAN
— Saluki Athletics discusses past response to student-athlete’s kneeling protests The recent death of George Floyd at the hands of police has sparked conversation concerning the issues these cheerleaders and other athletes knelt for once again, as individuals worldwide have taken to the streets to protest police brutality. – Janae Mosby (DIERSEN: Soon, if not already, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will try to get rid of you if you do not kneel to them.)
https://dailyegyptian.com/101725/sports/saluki-athletics-discusses-past-response-to-student-athletes-kneeling-protests/

ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Rep. Rodney Davis gains credibility by taking a step away from Trump.”
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-rep-rodney-davis-gains-credibility-by-taking-a-step-away-from-trump/article_0b79cfa0-f30d-5e1e-b36e-bde8bcc3e738.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats Warn Of ‘Assault’ On The Postal Service As Election Nears – MATTHEW S. SCHWARTZ
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/democrats-warn-assault-postal-service-election-nears#stream/0

WGLT
— Election Officials Plan For Influx of Mail-In Ballots With New Ballot Return Options – MARY HANSEN
https://www.wglt.org/post/election-officials-plan-influx-mail-ballots-new-ballot-return-options#stream/0

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— OUTSTANDING: Peoria community members support officers with Back The Blue rally – Darronté Matthews
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/peoria-community-members-support-officers-with-back-the-blue-rally/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Trump Campaign Uses Racist And Sexist Tropes To Attack Kamala Harris.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/trump-campaign-uses-racist-and-sexist-tropes-attack-kamala-harris#stream/0

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Jim Thompson, R.I.P.
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/15/jim-thompson-r-i-p/
— IL-Sen: United in Prayer Vigil in McHenry County Tonight
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/15/il-sen-united-in-prayer-vigil-in-mchenry-county-tonight/
— Reick: “Wear a Damn Mask”
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/15/reick-wear-a-damn-mask/
— 66th House District: Allen Skillicorn Withdrawal Watch
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/14/66th-house-district-allen-skillicorn-withdrawal-watch/
— Conservative PAC Raises Money at Bull Valley Country Club
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/14/conservative-pac-raises-money-at-bull-valley-country-club/
— Crossing the State Line to Shop for Pot
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/14/crossing-the-state-line-to-shop/

CAPITOL FAX
— In memorium: Jim Thompson
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/15/in-memorium/

FOX NEWS
— Fox News Poll: Trump gaining on Biden nationally
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/fox-news-poll-trump-gaining-on-biden-nationally
— Biden campaign doubles down on national mask mandate as Trump, Biden square off over COVID guidance
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/biden-campaign-doubles-down-on-national-mask-mandate-as-trump-biden-square-off-over-covid-guidance

BREITBART
— DISGUSTING, OUTRAGEOUS, UNACCEPTABLE: Big Tech Joins Chamber of Commerce Lawsuit to Import Foreign Workers While 26M Americans Jobless – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/14/big-tech-joins-chamber-of-commerce-lawsuit-to-import-foreign-workers-while-26m-americans-jobless/

NEWSMAX
— Nothing ‘Systemic’ About Avoiding Responsibility – Michael Reagan with Michael R. Shannon (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who focus on destroying traditional marriage and destroying the traditional family. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and to destroy the traditional family.)
https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/brookings-secular-values/2020/08/15/id/982272/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: America doesn’t suffer from “systemic racism.” America suffers from systemic irresponsibility. A lack of responsibility aided and abetted by therapeutic, leftist government. The Heritage Foundation’s multimaedia news organization, The Daily Signal, recently analyzed a report from the Joint Economic Committee of Congress titled “The Demise of the Happy Two-Parent Home.” The numbers are shocking and prove individual decisions determine one’s outcome in life. Not “systemic racism” or some other personal responsibility solvent. The foundation that individual decisions are based on is cultural values and that is where the problems begin. As values erode or are trashed by the prevailing secular culture, the result ripples dangerously through the population. “The report exhaustively presents data showing the shocking collapse of marriage and traditional family in America and then explores possible explanations for why it has happened. “In 1962, 71% of women ages 15-44 were married. “By 2019, this was down to 42%. In 1962, 5% of women ages 30-34 had never been married. By 2019, this was up to 35%. And the percentage of births to unmarried women has risen from 5% in 1960 to 40% in 2018.” The demographic breakdown of those ominous figures explains much of what is ailing and attempting to destroy our nation today. The Center for Equal Opportunity reports, “Late last year, the final data for 2018 were published . . . For all racial and ethnic groups combined, 39.6% of births in the United States were out-of-wedlock. For blacks, the number is 69.4%; for American Indians/Alaska Natives, 68.2% (Native Hawaiians/Other Pacific Islanders were at 50.4%); for Hispanics, 51.8%; for whites, 28.2%; and for Asian Americans, a paltry 11.7%.” Those figures alone explain the different economic outcomes among demographic groups in the USA. Not “systemic racism” or “white privilege.” Two–parent privilege is the most important factor in a young child’s life. Yet big government encourages irresponsible lifestyles by subsidizing dysfunction. The Daily Signal again, “The report examines several possible factors, a major one being the dramatic growth in the welfare state supporting female heads of household. According to the report, ‘The value of the safety net for single-mother families is 133% higher today than in 1940, and 56% higher than in 1960.'” That is the government undermining personal values at the expense of those children’s and the nation’s future. The three keys to success are simple and the formula was offered by a scholar with the leftist Brookings Institution named Ron Haskins: “American adults who follow three rules— finish high school; get a full-time job; and wait until at least age 21 to get married and have children — have a 2% chance of being poor and a 75% chance of being a middle-class wage earner.” Proving it’s not the system blocking progress for minorities in the United States. It’s personal decisions.)

TOWNHALL
— Newsweek Caves to the Rage Mob After Publishing an OpEd About Harris – Beth Baumann
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/08/15/how-an-oped-about-harris-caused-newsweek-to-cave-to-the-rage-mob-n2574422

PJ MEDIA
— ‘Social Justice’ Is Extortion – PHILIP CARL SALZMAN
https://pjmedia.com/columns/philip-carl-salzman/2020/08/15/social-justice-is-extortion-n796691
— California Democrats Propose ‘Wealth Tax’ to Combat Massive Deficit – RICK MORAN (DIERSEN: What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32. Where did your money come from? My money came from what I earned when I did yard work and delivered newspapers 1962-1964; washed dishes 1964-1966; cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966; delivered mail 1966-1969; worked on an automobile assembly line and as a security guard in 1970; sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971; pumped gasoline 1971-1972; collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980; and audited federal agencies 1980-1997 and from my Civil Service Retirement System pension since 1997 and my Social Security since 2010.)
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/08/15/california-democrats-propose-wealth-tax-to-combat-massive-deficit-n794372
— Newsweek Disavows Debate on What the Constitution Says About Harris’s Eligibility to Be VP – RICK MORAN
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/08/15/newsweek-disavows-debate-on-what-the-constitution-says-about-harriss-eligibility-to-be-vp-n794779

NEWS BUSTERS
— Who’s ‘Nasty’? NYTimes ‘News’ Pages Smear Trump, GOP as Sexist, Racist To Kamala – Clay Waters
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2020/08/14/whos-nasty-nytimes-news-pages-smear-trump-gop-sexist-racist-kamala

LAW OFFICER
— Seattle BLM protesters demand white residents ‘give up their homes.’ Agitators try to intimidate local residents. (DIERSEN: Are you a homeowner? If/when the BLMers demand that you give up your home, how will you respond?)
https://www.lawofficer.com/seattle-blm-protesters-demand-white-residents-give-up-their-homes/

THE HILL
— Chicago deploying 1,000 extra officers over weekend to deter looting – KAELAN DEESE (DIERSEN: Are you a Republican? How soon, if not already, will the Democrats loot your municipality, your municipal district, your precinct, your neighborhood, your block, and your home?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/512170-chicago-deploying-1000-extra-officers-over-weekend-to-deter-looting

POLITICO
— Finally, a Female VP Isn’t Being Set Up to Fail Unlike Ferraro and Palin, Kamala Harris isn’t a gambit to save a flailing campaign. Her nomination just feels … normal. And that’s progress. – ELIZABETH RALPH (DIERSEN: The following did everything that they could to set me up to fail: my Democrat superiors in the federal government and my critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter.)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/14/female-vp-395571

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Trump Ads Attack Biden Through Deceptive Editing and Hyperbole.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/politics/trump-campaign-ads-biden.html
— James R. Thompson, Longest-Serving Governor of Illinois, Dies at 84 A relentless campaigner, he served for 14 years after winning an election to a special two-year term in 1976. – Maria Cramer (DIERSEN: My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors knew full-well a) that my wife had helped elect Thompson and b) that Thompson promoted patronage and political affiliation discrimination. (SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_v._Republican_Party_of_Illinois and http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/13/us/seeking-return-to-ways-of-patronage-in-politics.html ) Because of the Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois decision, my U.S. Senators and their staff members and my U.S. Representatives and their staff members made it very clear that they did NOT want to hear my complaints about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation in the federal government. All my critics/opponents, all their operatives and all their dupes promote patronage and political affiliation discrimination and reject the decision in Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors treated me like I was part of a plot to stop them from hiring, retaining, and promoting young Democrat minorities and young Democrat females. They were fully aware of the arguments that Thompson, Jim Edgar, and Lee Daniels made in Rutan that government employers should be allowed to engage in patronage and political affiliation discrimination.)
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/james-thompson-illinois-governor-dead.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Divisions over Chicago protests highlight challenges for activists and police – Mark Guarino
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/chicago-protests-saturday/2020/08/15/92dd5c1c-df32-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Kamala Harris exposes the GOP’s radicalism.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/15/kamala-harris-exposes-gops-radicalism/
— Indians should use the historic VP selection of Kamala Harris to reckon with our own anti-Blackness – Sharmila Sen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/indians-should-use-the-historic-vp-selection-of-kamala-harris-to-reckon-with-our-own-anti-blackness/2020/08/14/54f5bf66-de6a-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html
— The election is a choice between Donald Trump — and Kamala Harris – Kathleen Parker
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-election-is-a-choice-between-donald-trump–and-kamala-harris/2020/08/14/02003b28-de6b-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html

FORBES
— At My Company We Treat Everyone Fairly (and Other Fairy Tales) – Jennica Webster (DIERSEN: I should write a book about leaders who proudly make/made it very clear that they give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, easily manipulated, easily dominated, moderate, liberal, and those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennicawebster/2020/08/14/at-my-company-we-treat-everyone-fairly-and-other-fairy-tales/#71b64cd729f0

OAKLAND PRESS
— Scenes from the unofficial and more political Woodward Dream Cruise – Roy Akers (DIERSEN: Will hate-filled Trump-hating car show organizers succeed in banning American nameplate cars including Chargers, Corvettes, Thunderbirds, and Mustangs?)
https://www.theoaklandpress.com/multimedia/photos-scenes-from-the-unofficial-and-more-political-woodward-dream-cruise/collection_fb1b7d36-df23-11ea-9ede-57c3766e8431.html#1

SLATE
— The Seven Right-Wing Attacks Against Kamala Harris – MOLLY OLMSTEAD (DIERSEN: Who are your critics/opponents and what attacks have they used against you? I should write a book about my critics/opponents and the attacks that they have they used against me.)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/kamala-harris-right-wing-talking-points.html

REASON
— Protests Outside People’s Homes (Residential Picketing) and the First Amendment They can be banned, so long as the ban is content-neutral, and so long as people remain free to generally march through the neighborhood (as opposed to protesting right outside the target’s home). – EUGENE VOLOKH
https://reason.com/2020/08/15/protests-outside-peoples-homes-residential-picketing-and-the-first-amendment/

August 14 Evening Edition

ABC7
— DISGUSTING, OUTRAGEOUS, UNACCEPTABLE: Dan Ryan protest: Expressway march against police brutality planned Saturday
https://abc7chicago.com/community-events/protesters-plan-to-shut-down-dan-ryan-expressway-saturday/6370506/
— Illinois COVID 19 Today: IL reports 2,264 new coronavirus cases, 25 deaths – Ravi Baichwal, Eric Horng
https://abc7chicago.com/health/illinois-reports-2264-new-coronavirus-cases-25-deaths/6370694/
— Postal workers’ union endorses Biden; Obama criticizes Trump’s USPS comments Obama also took to Twitter Friday to criticized the Trump administration over the USPS changes.
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/postal-workers-union-endorses-biden-after-trump-usps-comments/6370780/

NBC5
— Chicago Police Deploy 1,000 Additional Officers After Downtown Looting Chicago Police Supt. David Brown sent a blunt message to potential weekend looters, warning them that “CPD is going to arrest you” and use various strategies to prevent caravans from coming downtown, including puncturing tires.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-police-deploy-1000-additional-officers-after-downtown-looting/2322295/
— Chicago Mayor Has ‘Great Concerns’ About Dan Ryan Protest OEMC said roughly 2,000 protesters are currently estimated to attend
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-mayor-has-great-concerns-about-dan-ryan-protest/2322505/
— Chicago Dan Ryan Protest: Here is the Route Demonstrators Are Expected to Take OEMC said roughly 2,000 protesters are currently estimated to attend
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-dan-ryan-protest-here-is-the-route-demonstrators-are-expected-to-take/2322437/
— Chicago Protests, Preparations: A Live Blog of What to Expect This Weekend Chicago protest tomorrow aims to shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway. Meanwhile, police work to prevent looting and unrest elsewhere in the city
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-protests-preparations-a-live-blog-of-what-to-expect-this-weekend/2322299/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Driving into danger? Truck drivers warned about Dan Ryan protest The Illinois Trucking Association is warning its drivers to stay away from the Dan Ryan Saturday because of the scheduled protest. Truckers say they are facing safety issues across the country due to violent protests.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/840437
— Dolly Parton addresses Black Lives Matter movement: ‘Of course Black lives matter’ – Nate Day (DIERSEN: To promote BLM is to dump those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dolly-parton-addresses-black-lives-matter-movement-of-course-black-lives-matter

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— 3 of 4 people arrested at CPS are Black even as arrests plummet The data released Friday comes during a heated debate about the role of police officers in Chicago Public Schools. – Nader Issa
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2020/8/14/21369270/schools-police-officers-cops-cps-arrests-public-department
— It’s a mayor’s job to rise above Even as we root for Lori Lightfoot, we’re troubled by the mayor’s tiresome habit of publicly shaming critics. – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/14/21368907/mayor-lori-lightfoot-intemperate-lashing-out-politics-kim-foxx-public-shaming

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Those charged with downtown Chicago looting a mix of college students, out-of-work parents and convicted felons. But no apparent link to earlier police shooting in Englewood. – WILLIAM LEE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-looting-court-20200814-hv7kdbzlc5hmdmjkabaebu2yeq-story.html
— GAO finds two most senior Trump Homeland Security officials are ineligible for their positions – BEN FOX (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 when I was 31 years old because GAO could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-homeland-security-chad-wolf-ken-cuccinelli-20200814-rb4k2uw2mnfebj6y7ud3q6fsiu-story.html
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces beefed-up Chicago police plan to track, prevent future looting throughout city – GREGORY PRATT and JEREMY GORNER
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-lori-lightfoot-public-safety-plan-news-conference-20200814-uw36wzrezjeu7h4wjjccbvvupy-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— New COVID-19 cases push past 2,000 again. Kane, Will counties put in ‘warning level’ – Marni Pyke
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200814/new-covid-19-cases-push-past-2000-again-kane-will-counties-put-in-warning-level
— Illinois sees three-month high in new confirmed virus cases – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20200814/news/308149890/
— State Sen. Terry Link remains silent as more politicians call for his resignation – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200814/state-sen-terry-link-remains-silent-as-more-politicians-call-for-his-resignation
— The suburban police that arrest the most drunken drivers, and how they do it – Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200814/the-suburban-police-that-arrest-the-most-drunken-drivers-and-how-they-do-it

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Metro East coach fired after calling Black Lives Matter ‘criminals and terrorists’ – MEGAN VALLEY (DIERSEN: If you criticized BLM, how severely would the following punish you: a) the leaders of your municipality, township, county, and Illinois and b) the leaders of the organizations that you are a member of?)
https://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/metro-east-coach-fired-after-calling-black-lives-matter-criminals-and-terrorists/article_a63855ee-a8ff-58a6-a27b-a058d9dd9c78.html

WGLT
— B-N Educators Back BLM Calls For Racial Equity, But Want To Keep Cops In Schools – ERIC STOCK
https://www.wglt.org/post/b-n-educators-back-blm-calls-racial-equity-want-keep-cops-schools#stream/0

CENTER SQUARE
— Some warn Illinois’ mail-in ballots could mean winners unknown for weeks – Cole Lauterbach
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/some-warn-illinois-mail-in-ballots-could-mean-winners-unknown-for-weeks/article_05bb9a46-de57-11ea-a1de-f7180f056822.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— John Monino has declared his candidacy for Milton Township Supervisor. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE MEMBER DEMOCRAT TERRY LINK ACCUSED OF TAX EVASION
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/senate-ethics-committee-chairman-democrat-terry-link-accused-of-tax-evasion.html
— THORNER: KAMALA HARRIS AS BIDEN’S STAND-IN FOR PRESIDENT
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/thorner-kamala-harris-as-bidens-stand-in-for-president.html
— LONE ILLINOIS BLACK GOP CANDIDATE ERIC WALLACE WON’T SUPPORT BLACK LIVES MATTER HIGHWAY SHUTDOWN
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/lone-illinois-black-gop-candidate-wont-support-black-lives-matter-highway-shutdown.html
— DI LEO: TRUTH, LIES AND JOURNALISM IN DECLINE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/truth-lies-and-journalism-in-decline.html
— WHERE’S WEYERMULLER? SURVEYING CHICAGO’S RIOT DAMAGE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/wheres-weyermuller-surveying-chicagos-riot-damage.html

CAPITOL FAX
— 2,264 new cases, 25 additional deaths, 4.1 percent positivity rates
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/14/2264-new-cases-25-additional-deaths-41-percent-positivity-rates/
— Subscribers know more, but lots of people have been trying to reach Skillicorn lately to find out what he intends to do and when he intends to do it. I mean, there’s only like 82 days until the election is over.
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/14/question-of-the-day-3119/
— Bureau, Cass, Clinton, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Jefferson, Kane, LaSalle, Moultrie, Perry, Union and Will counties put on warning list
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/14/bureau-cass-clinton-franklin-greene-grundy-hancock-jefferson-kane-lasalle-moultrie-perry-union-and-will-counties-put-on-warning-list/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Free-speech lawsuits pile up as cities put brakes on conservative street messages Viewpoint discrimination alleged as cities allow ‘Black Lives Matter,’ block other messages – Valerie Richardson (DIERSEN: Does your mayor claim authority to allow/disallow painting messages on the streets of your municipality?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/10/conservative-street-mural-rejections-amid-black-li/
— Second Amendment advocates warn of ‘gun apocalypse’ under Biden – David Sherfinski
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/13/gun-control-a-sleeper-issue-compared-to-past-elect/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump is giving schools tools to reopen, and they must do so for children’s sake – Kevin Roberts
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trump-is-giving-schools-tools-to-reopen-and-they-must-do-so-for-childrens-sake

BREITBART
— Kamala Harris: Our Ticket Can Say ‘Black Lives Matter’ While Trump Is ‘Sowing Hate’ – Pam Key
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/08/14/kamala-harris-our-ticket-can-say-black-lives-matter-while-trump-is-sowing-hate/

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Guilt consumed Dems and the meaning of a Gettysburg speech – Jeffrey A. Rendall
http://www.conservativehq.com/article/33088-assault-america-day-590-guilt-consumed-democrats-meaning-gettysburg-speech

DAILY WIRE
— Activists Storm Neighborhood, Tell White Residents To ‘Give Black People Back Their Homes’ “Get the f*** out and give sh** back.” (DIERSEN: Do you own your home? If/when BLMers demand that you give them your home, how will your respond?)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/activists-storm-neighborhood-tell-white-residents-give-black-people-back-their-homes

RUSH LIMBAUGH
— We Should Be Terrified of What Will Happen If Democrats Win
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/08/14/we-should-be-very-afraid-of-what-will-happen-if-democrats-win/

FEDERALIST
— Governors Can’t Use Coronavirus To Indefinitely Declare A State Of Emergency In a national panic, Americans permitted executives to take power—to declare states of emergency and to implement lockdowns—and now those executives won’t give that power back. – Molly McCann
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/11/governors-cant-use-coronavirus-to-indefinitely-declare-a-state-of-emergency/

NEW AMERICAN
— The Sinister Side of the Black Lives Matter Movement – John F. McManus
https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/36726-the-sinister-side-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— It’s Time to Hire American – Marie Larson
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2020/08/13/its_time_to_hire_american_501792.html

EPOCH TIMES
— 86 Percent of Americans Believe News Media Is Biased, Major Poll Finds – IVAN PENTCHOUKOV (DIERSEN: The mainstream news media in Illinois provides government and political news and commentary from a Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Independent, RINO, moderate, and/or liberal point of view. GOPUSA ILLINOIS provides government and political news and commentary from a Republican and conservative point of view.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/86-percent-of-americans-believe-news-media-is-biased-major-poll-finds_3460707.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republicans’ concern about media bias is likely the result of overwhelmingly negative coverage of the Trump presidency. Between the beginning of the impeachment proceedings in 2019 and the exoneration vote in February, ABC, CBS, and NBC dedicated 77 times more coverage to impeachment, in terms of time spent, than to President Donald Trump’s economic successes, according to a study by the Media Research Center. The coverage was 93 percent negative when it came to Trump, another study found. The results were in line with MRC’s earlier reviews of coverage in 2017 and 2018, which found that the media was 90 percent negative when covering Trump. The Washington Post had more than 25 times more negative than positive headlines on Trump’s handling of the pandemic. Trump harshly criticized the media on the campaign trail in 2016 and has continued to do so since. The poll respondents were divided on whether these and other attacks on the media were justified. Among Republicans, 61 percent say the attacks are justified, compared to just 22 percent of Democrats. However, concern is growing about all forms of bias. A growing number of people said that more news sources are “reporting from a particular point of view,” that there is “too much bias in the selection of what stories news organizations cover or don’t cover,” and that there is “too much bias” in stories that should be covered objectively. More than 9 in 10 respondents said the bias is a “major problem.”)

THE HILL
— Postal Service warns 46 states mail ballots may not be delivered in time to be counted – MAX GREENWOOD
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/512086-postal-service-warns-46-states-mail-ballots-may-not-be-delivered-in-time-to

WASHINGTON POST
— Oregon police to leave downtown Portland after DA declines to prosecute most protest-related crimes – Simone Sebastian, Jessica Wolfrom and Katie Shepherd
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/14/protests-live-updates-oregon-police-leave-downtown-portland-after-da-declines-prosecute-most-protest-related-crimes/

NEW YORK POST
— Seattle BLM protesters demand white people ‘give up’ their homes – Joshua Rhett Miller (DIERSEN: Do you own your home? If/when BLMers demand that you give them your home, how will your respond?)
https://nypost.com/2020/08/14/seattle-blm-protesters-demand-white-people-give-up-their-homes/

NORTHWEST
— How far does your constitutional right to protest go in Washington and beyond? – Editorial
https://mynorthwest.com/2091505/constitutional-protests-riots-police/

NEW HERALD
— OUTSTANDING: ‘Back the Blue’ rally in Taylor demonstrates support for local police – Jim Kasuba
https://www.thenewsherald.com/news/back-the-blue-rally-in-taylor-demonstrates-support-for-local-police/article_108bcfb8-de43-11ea-95da-7b89a99a5095.html

BLOOMBERG
— Chicago’s 1855 ‘Beer Riot’ Is a Bridge to the Unrest of 2020 In a 19th century uprising, protesters and police faced off, and the city’s mayor used a downtown bridge for crowd control. Sound familiar? – Zach Mortice (DIERSEN: My Protestant ancestors on my father’s side immigrated from what is now Germany to Chicago in 1844 and worked in a brick factory. In 1854, they homesteaded a farm in Crete.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-14/in-chicago-unrest-echoes-of-a-1855-beer-riot
(FROM THE ARTICLE: During the Lager Beer Riot of 1855, Chicago’s leaders also tried to use downtown bridge access to stymie dissent. This took place in the aftermath of an epidemic, after public health concerns shook up the city’s politics, when an aggrieved minority that had been discriminated against and targeted by police refused to take any more abuse. The conflict asked fundamental questions about the structure and function of law enforcement, kicked off a wave of police reform, and tested the city’s commitment to multi-ethnic diversity. If you don’t count the violence against Indigenous communities associated with Chicago’s founding, it stands as the young city’s first wide-scale organized civil unrest. As detailed in The Great Chicago Beer Riot: How Lager Struck a Blow for Liberty, an exhaustive 2015 account by John F. Hogan and Judy Brady, the incident was born of tensions between the native-born Protestant Chicagoans who founded the city and newer German and Irish immigrants. From 1850 to 1860, the population swelled from 30,000 to 112,000; nearly 40% of the city was German or Irish. Native-born locals viewed the newcomers with suspicion: The Germans were widely seen as subversive foreigners, the Irish as a distant species of subhuman. The conservative Chicago Tribune towed the nativist line: “Who does not know that the most depraved, debased, worthless and irredeemable drunkards and sots which curse the community are Irish Catholics?” the paper asked its readers in 1855. The Trib had an ally in Mayor Levi Boone, a pro-slavery, anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic member of the Know-Nothing shadow party that emerged from the declining Whigs. A doctor (and great-nephew of Daniel Boone), he was also staunchly-pro temperance, and rose to prominence as Chicago’s chief health officer, guiding the city through waves of cholera. Per his commitment to teetotaling, Boone and the city council raised liquor license fees up from $50 per year to $300 for three months — directly targeting the beer halls and saloons of the Irish and Germans. Police began enforcing Sunday closing laws that had been on the books since 1843 but were routinely ignored. Hotels and bars owned by native-born were rarely disturbed, according to the Chicago Public Library. Boone also barred Germans and Irish immigrants from the police force and other municipal posts, and purged these ethnicities from these positions if they were already there. He announced the closings on Saturday, March 17: St. Patrick’s Day. Hundreds of bar owners and staff were arrested for refusing to pay the new fees or for staying open on Sunday. These saloons operated much like social clubs and community centers for new Americans. They were a centerpiece of the “continental Sunday” for Germans and Catholics — one day off of work a week to attend church and then file into the beer garden or set out a picnic with friends and family as the drinks flowed, says Dominic Pacyga, historian and professor emeritus at Columbia College in Chicago. This was anathema to the Protestant native-born. “What you were supposed to do on a Sunday was sit at home, drink lemonade, and talk about the Bible,” Pacyga says. German lager represented the foreign and unfamiliar to U.S.-born Chicagoans, but to immigrants it was a beloved signifier of culture and identity. The riot to come was named in its honor. Inside the courthouse at Randolph and Clark Street, both factions agreed to try one test case of the arrested barkeeps, and let that precedent stand for all. The trial was scheduled for April 21. That day, Germans residents crossed the Clark Street Bridge — a brand-new 30-foot-wide structure that spanned the Chicago River on a swivel pivot, allowing masted boat traffic to pass — and swarmed the courtroom, where they were ejected by police. Mayor Boone used this reprieve to supplement police with “some 150 special officers recruited and deputized from nearby stores and warehouses,” according to Hogan and Brady. But by late afternoon, 500 people — mostly German, with some Irish — had gathered north of the bridge, determined to overwhelm the courthouse. They advanced south, with fifes and drums up front, and muskets, pistols and meat cleavers throughout. The mass broke into two groups. The first crossed the bridge, but a second, larger throng was cut off when the bridge tender swung the pivot bridge out, stranding them on the street, and giving police more time to amass. Bafflingly, Boone commanded that the bridge be reconnected to the street, which handed the crowd their own opportunity to reinforce. When the melee began, rioters shouted, “Pick out the stars! Shoot the police!” to help single out police officers, who had stars clipped to shirt collars — the only defining mark that identified the uniform-less force. The chaos resulted in 60 arrests, 19 injuries, and somehow only one death: Peter Martens, who shot a policeman (nonfatally) and was killed by police while attempting to run away. Eventually, police and local militias dispersed the crowd, and the mayor placed the city under martial law. A host of reforms came in the wake of the riot. The police force was professionalized and expanded after 1855 — despite political resistance from North Side aldermen, who had sizable German populations in their wards. North Side leaders feared that a formalized police force would be more like an occupying army, sent from nativist neighborhoods into their own to enforce a very specific vision of social order. “To them, as well as their constituents, the police represented a repressive institution, a tool of the Puritan elite to keep working people from enjoying life as they saw fit,” wrote Hogan and Brady. The city also reduced liquor fees and abandoned the Sunday closure policies. And a wider political backlash brought Thomas Dyer — a Democrat with German and Irish support — to the mayor’s office. “It’s really the beginning in many ways of ethnic voting patterns in Chicago,” says Pacyga. The conflict also helped break apart the old Yankee hegemony that had ruled the city from its earliest history.)

NEWSWEEK
— Chicago Mayor Says Looting Is ‘Never Justifiable’ After Activist Defends Theft as ‘Reparations’ – JENNI FINK
https://www.newsweek.com/chicago-mayor-says-looting-never-justifiable-after-activist-defends-theft-reparations-1525221

INDEPENDENT
— US economist proposes $12 trillion in slavery reparations to eliminate black-white wealth gap ‘The present moment seems to afford more of an opportunity to move forward’ – Louise Hall (DIERSEN: How much reparations will you be expected to pay and why?)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/slavery-reparations-william-darity-black-wealth-gap-race-discrimination-a9671006.html

SUN
— ‘GIVE UP YOUR HOUSE’ Black Lives Matter activists storm neighborhood and demand white residents give up their homes – Erin Van Der Meer (DIERSEN: Do you own your home? If/when BLMers demand that you give them your home, how will your respond?)
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12406818/blm-activists-seattle-white-residents-give-up-homes/

ZILLOW
— FOR SALE: 311 West Park Avenue, Wheaton – $439,900
https://www.zillow.com/wheaton-il/X1-SS1apc9gppw622z_3o1g1_sse/4448239_zpid/

August 13 Morning Edition

WBEZ
— DISGUSTING, OUTRAGEOUS, UNACCEPTABLE: ‘Winning Has Come Through Revolts’: A Black Lives Matter Activist On Why She Supports Looting – Rob Wildeboer, Chip Mitchell
https://www.wbez.org/stories/winning-has-come-through-revolts-a-black-lives-matter-activist-on-why-she-supports-looting/398d0f3f-73d0-4f2e-ae32-04cceba0d322

WTTW
— The Future of Retail: Where Do Stores Stand After Pandemic, Looting? – Blair Paddock
https://news.wttw.com/2020/08/12/future-retail-where-do-stores-stand-after-pandemic-looting

WGN TV
— Chicago announces restricted access to downtown will continue at night through weekend
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-announces-restricted-access-to-downtown-will-continue-at-night-through-weekend/

WGN RADIO
— Illinois Retail Merchants Association doesn’t want to be in the business of enforcing Gov. Pritzker’s mask mandate
https://wgnradio.com/roe-conn/illinois-retail-merchants-association-doesnt-want-to-be-in-the-business-of-enforcing-gov-pritzkers-mask-mandate/

ABC7
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Chicago looting leaves residents feeling unsafe, ready to leave city, property management company tells mayor – Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Ross Weidner
https://abc7chicago.com/property-manager-chicago-homeowners-feel-unsafe-ready-to-leave-after-looting/6367902/
— ComEd power outage leaves 260K across Chicago area in dark ComEd says it could take several days to restore power to all customers – Jessica D’Onofrio, John Garcia, Cate Cauguiran (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who demonize, denigrate, and condemn my 2011 decision to have a whole-house natural-gas-fired backup electric generator installed.)
https://abc7chicago.com/weather/comed-power-outage-leaves-260k-across-chicago-area-in-dark/6365195/

NBC5
— FOP President Pens Letter to U.S. Attorney Blasting Kim Foxx, Asks for Federal Intervention
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/fop-president-pens-letter-to-u-s-attorney-blasting-kim-foxx-asks-for-federal-intervention/2321490/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DuPage board dumps referendums on recorder office merger, cutting board size for questions on law enforcement, PPE – ALICIA FABBRE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-dupage-referendums-law-enforcement-ppe-st-0814-20200813-r53yqxoh6rdrdcjxmitmqp5juq-story.html
— After downtown looting, Paul Vallas calls out Mayor Lightfoot: ‘I don’t think she knows what she’s doing’ – JOHN KASS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-chicago-lightfoot-schools-20200813-22tiwzapefd77e5lxsoeeqn7zy-story.html
— Democrats are waging war against the Constitution – VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-electoral-college-constitution-victor-davis-hanson-20200812-aelvun6eizalfnxbpiyw3jtmr4-story.html
— DISGUSTING, OUTRAGEOUS: Gov. J.B. Pritzker voices support of Black Lives Matter goals – RICK PEARSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-jb-pritzker-black-lives-matter-20200812-5z5clueignerlariyzhel3stfq-story.html
— Mail-in ballots in plague year make sense except to GOP – CHARLES SELLE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/opinion/ct-lns-selle-mail-in-ballots-st-0813-20200812-gatcsti55baprcuqmd5bjfmh6e-story.html
— ‘Nine times out of 10, I was completely brushed off’: Black Chicagoans confront bias in health care, hope for change – LISA SCHENCKER
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-health-care-racism-george-floyd-implicit-bias–20200813-nxrujltiyvg37pks2hyf6iwb7m-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Demonstrators hope to shut down Dan Ryan on Saturday to protest police brutality Led by several organizations, including Tikkun Chai Inter-National and Chicago Activist Coalition for Justice, the demonstration is tentatively set to start at noon Saturday. – Madeline Kenney and Fran Spielman (DIERSEN: I drove the Dan Ryan 1966-1968 to/from my parents’ home in Crete to classes at UIC, in a 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint 1966-1967, and in a 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1968. I bought the Pontiac with money that I earned washing dishes 1964-1966. I bought the Oldsmobile with money that I earned cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline in 1966 and delivering mail 1966-1967.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/12/21365510/demonstrators-hope-to-shut-down-dan-ryan-on-saturday-to-protest-police-brutality
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater says “Before trying to sneak a ringer on the ballot, Trump should have consulted with a few Chicago political operatives. Don’t make it obvious, Mr. Trump. Make reporters work to establish Kanye West’s ties to your campaign.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/12/21365685/kanye-west-2020-presidential-election-political-ringers

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Durbin calls for postal service funding; unsure if Madigan can lead – Bernard Schoenburg
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20200812/durbin-calls-for-postal-service-funding-unsure-if—madigan-can-lead

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— State gives smaller communities the boot on aid issue – Jim Dey
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-state-gives-smaller-communities-the-boot-on-aid-issue/article_dbaca7b3-7bf5-5c15-bde7-da8cb5b69e37.html

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Pritzker: Virus count going wrong way – Kevin Bessler
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Pritzker-Virus-count-going-wrong-way-15481177.php

WGLT
— Illinois County Clerks Raise Concerns Over Running November Election – DANA VOLLMER
https://www.wglt.org/post/illinois-county-clerks-raise-concerns-over-running-november-election#stream/0

WJBC
— Local Democrats say it’s time for Madigan to go
https://www.wjbc.com/2020/08/12/local-democrats-say-its-time-for-madigan-to-go/
— Rodney Davis: Illinois is one state which is doing vote-by-mail properly – Dave Dahl
https://www.wjbc.com/2020/08/13/davis-illinois-is-one-state-which-is-doing-vote-by-mail-properly/

WSIL TV
— Duckworth “all in” for Biden-Harris ticket
https://wsiltv.com/2020/08/12/duckworth-all-in-for-biden-harris-ticket/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Milton Township Republican Organization held its August 12, 2020 meeting at the Holiday Inn in Carol Stream and by Zoom. Jim Zay, the DuPage County Republican Central Committee Chairman, was the keynote speaker. Participants included Almiron, Bohn, Carlson, Cherry, Cooper, Corrigan, Dangelo, Felice, Formento, Grogan, Heidorn, Holan, Holder, Keller, Larsen, McCluskey, McGowen, McNeily, Monino, Muehlfelt, Nathwani, Ryan, Shaw, Smith, Tatro, and Whelan. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— A Sign Linking Com Ed with Corrupt Democrats
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/13/message-of-the-day-a-sign-75/
— Lake County Right to Life Urges People to Vote by Mail
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/13/lake-county-right-to-life-urges-people-to-vote-by-mail/
— Grafton Township Assessor Explains Lakewood Village President’s Assessment Cut
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/13/grafton-township-assessor-explains-lakewood-village-presidents-assessment-cut/
— Pritzker Says His Order Includes “Even Outside”
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/12/pritzker-says-his-order-includes-even-outside/
— Personal PAC Hostile to Allen Skillicorn
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/12/personal-pac-hostile-to-allen-skillicorn/
— Criticism of Road District Legal Fees Draws Response from Commissioner Andrew Gasser
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/12/criticism-of-road-district-legal-fees-draws-response-from-andrew-gasser/
— Nunda Township Board Selects Leda Drain to Replace Lee Jennings as Supervisor
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/12/nunda-township-board-selects/
— IL 14: Oberweis Ice Cream Social in Huntley Saturday
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/12/il-14-oberweis-ice-cream-social-in-huntley-saturday/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 53 MORE ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS CALL FOR MADIGAN’S RESIGNATION – Ben Szalinski
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/53-more-illinois-democrats-call-for-madigans-resignation/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Chicago looters attacked Ronald McDonald House with sick children inside, charity says – Jessica Chasmar
https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/12/chicago-looters-attacked-ronald-mcdonald-house-wit/
— Pandemic gives Biden and Dems an excuse to push socialist agenda Radical elements pull Joe Biden leftward, away from the moderate platform he once championed – Kelly Sadler
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/12/covid-19-pandemic-biden-democrats-push-socialism/
— Trump ramps up push to reopen schools Says sitting at a computer at home doesn’t cut it – Tom Howell Jr.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/12/trump-ramps-push-reopen-schools/
— Soros sees ‘revolutionary moment’ in pandemic: ‘The range of possibilities is much greater’ – Victor Morton (DIERSEN: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters are using the pandemic to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/12/george-soros-sees-revolutionary-moment-coronavirus/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Make Joe Biden and Kamala Harris own the Black Lives Matter chaos
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/make-joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-own-the-black-lives-matter-chaos
— Banned from Twitter, bound for the House? Laura Loomer says she can win in Trump’s backyard – Katherine Doyle (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that are banning me and banning my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton’s West District, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County’s 4th District, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who are leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/banned-from-twitter-bound-for-the-house-laura-loomer-says-she-can-win-in-trumps-backyard

FOX NEWS
— Tucker Carlson accuses Biden, Harris of embracing ‘the Democratic Party’s new pro-criminal agenda’ ‘When the conversation’s about race and policing, it’s not about Wall Street corruption … It is cover for them’ – Victor Garcia
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-biden-harris-democrats-pro-criminal

GOPUSA
— Fox News Crushes All Of TV In Summer Ratings
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=93325

BUSINESS INSIDER
— If wanting to fire people for supporting Trump or Biden isn’t cancel culture, then nothing is – Anthony L. Fisher (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wanted to fire their employees who were Republican, and especially those who were conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, past or present union members, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/cancel-culture-firing-people-donating-major-party-candidate-trump-biden-2020-8

BREITBART
— Trump Ad: Biden’s Amnesty Will Give American Jobs to Illegal Aliens – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/12/watch-trump-ad-bidens-amnesty-will-give-american-jobs-to-illegal-aliens/
— Kamala Harris Further Left than ‘Democratic Socialist’ Bernie Sanders – JOEL B. POLLAK
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/12/govtrack-kamala-harris-further-left-than-democratic-socialist-bernie-sanders/
— Kamala Harris Is Silicon Valley’s ‘Dream of Political Control,’ Say Critics – NEIL MUNRO
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/11/kamala-harris-the-tech-sectors-dream-of-political-control/
— Mike Pence Hosts Cops for Trump Event: You Won’t Be Safe in Joe Biden’s America – CHARLIE SPIERING
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/12/mike-pence-hosts-cops-for-trump-event-you-wont-be-safe-in-joe-bidens-america/

FEDERALIST
— Media Hails Harris As ‘Moderate,’ ‘Centrist’ Although Her Voting Record Is Further Left Than Bernie Sanders’s – Tristan Justice
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/12/media-hails-harris-as-moderate-centrist-although-her-voting-record-is-further-left-than-bernie-sanderss/

TOWNHALL
— Did ‘Catholic Joe’ Pick an Anti-Catholic VP? – Reagan McCarthy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/reaganmccarthy/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-anticatholic-bigotry-n2574212

CNS NEWS
— Progressive Media Mislabels Kamala Harris – Hans Bader
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/hans-bader/progressive-media-mislabels-kamala-harris

NOQ REPORT
— Destroying mainstream media’s ‘pragmatic moderate’ narrative about Kamala Harris They’re already trying to pretend she’s not a radical progressive. It’s up to us to get the truth out there. – JD Rucker
https://noqreport.com/2020/08/12/destroying-mainstream-medias-pragmatic-moderate-narrative-about-kamala-harris/

THE HILL
— Can the Fed reduce racial inequality? – SCOTT SUMNER (DIERSEN: To reduce racial inequality is a) to take opportunities away from Whites and b) to give those opportunities to minorities. My Democrat superiors in the federal government focused on a) taking opportunities away from their employees who were White, Republican, conservative, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time b) giving those opportunities to their employees who were minority, Democrat, moderate, liberal, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and those whose ancestors had not been in America for a long time.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/511687-can-the-fed-reduce-racial-inequality

CNN
— Black women with natural hairstyles are less likely to get job interviews – Jack Guy
http://www.wicz.com/story/42486958/black-women-with-natural-hairstyles-are-less-likely-to-get-job-interviews

NBC NEWS
— Experts are worried about a poll worker shortage. These students are recruiting young people to help. The project hoped to recruit 1,000 young people in its first month — after only three weeks, approximately 1,500 had signed up. – Kalhan Rosenblatt (DIERSEN: Democrats shout at young people, and at everyone else, that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/experts-are-worried-about-poll-worker-shortage-these-students-are-n1236548

MSNBC
— Trump returns to culture wars warning of suburban ‘invasion’ (DIERSEN: What do you say to hypocritical hate-filled hypocritical Republican-haters who hypocritically flee the poverty and crime in Democrat areas and hypocritically move to Republican areas to hypocritically take advantage the prosperity and safety that Republicans created there? How bad is the hypocritical Democrat invasion in your county, in your county district, in your township, in your municipality, in your municipal district, in your precinct, in your neighborhood, and on your block?)
https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/trump-returns-to-culture-wars-warning-of-suburban-invasion-89987653938

CBS NEWS
— How “cancel culture” changed these three lives forever – TAYLOR MOONEY, JUSTIN SHERMAN (DIERSEN: Who takes/took the lead in canceling members of organizations that you are/were a member of? I should write a book about those who take the lead in canceling members of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce. I should write a book about those who took the lead in canceling members of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cancel-culture-changed-lives-forever-cbsn-originals/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Google, Facebook and Others Broaden Group to Secure U.S. Election More tech companies met with government agencies on Wednesday to fight disinformation on social media. – Mike Isaac and Kate Conger (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, all government and political news and commentary is disinformation except for the government and political news and commentary that they put out or bless. I should write a book about my critics/opponents and how they treat me and treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton’s West District, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County’s 4th District, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on my critics/opponents who are leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/google-facebook-coalition-us-election.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want teachers to use the “pandemic and uprisings” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/13/back-school-amid-pandemic-uprisings-gives-teachers-unique-opportunity/

NEW YORK POST
— Touting Kamala Harris as a moderate is a liberal dose of deception – Miranda Devine
https://nypost.com/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-being-moderate-is-a-liberal-dose-of-deception-devine/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DISGUSTING, OUTRAGEOUS: Asian Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement – ZHUORAN YANG
https://highschool.latimes.com/the-literacy-guild/opinion-in-response-to-eileen-huangs-letter-to-the-chinese-community/

USA TODAY
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats want immigrants because immigrants vote for Democrats. RINOs want immigrants because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/08/13/how-immigration-helps-make-american-workers-businesses-thrive-column/3317897001/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Cities Weigh Cutting Police Budgets and Discover How Hard That Is Officers’ pay is a large part of the spending and is often subject to collective bargaining. Pensions are locked in for years. Heather Gillers and Andrea Fuller (DIERSEN: To deal with Republican-led budget cuts during the 1980s and 1990s, the Democrats who ran GAO got rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who they had not promoted to GS-13 (currently $101,176) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $119,559) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $140,634) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $170,800) by age 40. Extremely few GAO employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cities-weigh-cutting-police-budgets-and-discover-how-hard-that-is-11597261079

ECONOMIST
— Smash and grab Chicago, civil unrest and inequality Is it ever legit to loot?
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/08/15/chicago-civil-unrest-and-inequality

FORBES
— Ominous Warning In Spirit Case: Age Discrim. In Hiring May Be Legal – Patricia Barnes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patriciagbarnes/2020/08/12/ominous-reminder-in-spirit-aerosystems-case-age-discrimination-in-hiring-may-be-perfectly-legal/
— Social Media Still Can’t Stop Election 2020 Misinformation – Peter Suciu (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, all government and political news and commentary is misinformation except for the government and political news and commentary that they put out or bless. I should write a book about my critics/opponents and how they treat me and treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton’s West District, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County’s 4th District, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on my critics/opponents who are leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2020/08/12/social-media-still-cant-stop-election-2020-misinformation/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters call conservatives racists.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-biracial-heritage-has-thrown-conservatives-into-a-tailspin/
— Facebook Faces New Flashpoint With Trump Over Campaign To Push Voting By Mail – Isabel Togoh
https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/08/13/facebook-faces-new-flashpoint-with-trump-over-campaign-to-push-voting-by-mail/

HARVARD POLITICS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The Democrat, Libertarian, Independent, and Green party platforms are extremely anti-Christian.
https://harvardpolitics.com/culture/rethink-christian-vote/

NEW REPUBLIC
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote hatred of police.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158725/fear-black-uprising-confronting-racist-policing

INTERNATIONAL NEWS
— Facebook to limit ‘imposter’ news sites from political groups (DIERSEN: I should write a book about “imposter news sites” that falsely claim to be nonpartisan, but promote the Democrat, Libertarian, and/or Green party platforms.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/699896-facebook-to-limit-imposter-news-sites-from-political-groups

August 6 Evening Edition

ABC7 CHICAGO
— Coronavirus Illinois: IL reports 1,953 new COVID-19 cases, 21 deaths
https://abc7chicago.com/health/illinois-reports-1953-new-covid-19-cases-21-deaths/6357754/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— State reports the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases since the end of May as lakefront restaurants are set to reopen this week
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-pandemic-chicago-illinois-news-20200806-b2zp42cdm5f2lgnh4xq62oujai-story.html
— Hinsdale Black Lives Matter group creates outlet for minorities to share experiences – CHUCK FIELDMAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/hinsdale/ct-dhd-hidden-stories-tl-0813-20200806-buvf6vapqfeafie2gzsgwmvite-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Mryan said she was particularly troubled by a comment made on social media about the Hinsdale Black Lives Matter group. “They said that Hinsdale is a utopia, so why would we want this here,” she said. “If it’s going to be a utopia, hearing these stories is very important.” Mryan said all submissions of experiences are anonymous, a decision the group made after consideration. “It was about weighing the possibility of someone making up a story that is told versus the possibility of someone with a story not telling it,” she said. “I have faith in the people who are sharing their stories.” The Hinsdale Black Lives Matter group attracted about 500 people to its June 6 demonstration. Mryan said the demonstration was organized in the wake of the May 25 death of George, but added that there is more to it than that incident.)

DAILY HERALD
— State legislator argues Pritzker should rescind orders or go to jail – Rebecca Anzel
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200806/state-legislator-argues-pritzker-should-rescind-orders-or-go-to-jail

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Leftist Effort to Revise American History – Walter E. Williams
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/08/leftist-effort-to-revise-american-history/

CAPITOL FAX
— Second member of state party central committee calls on Madigan to resign
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/06/second-member-of-state-party-central-committee-calls-on-madigan-to-resign/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Arrests of illegal border crossers have spiked 237% despite Trump effort to deter migrants – Anna Giaritelli
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/arrests-of-illegal-border-crossers-have-spiked-237-despite-trump-effort-to-deter-migrants

GOPUSA
— Anthony Fauci Says U.S. Did Not Reach A Low Enough Coronavirus Baseline Before Reopening
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=93026
— Gretchen Whitmer Declares Racism A Public Health Crisis; Orders Bias Training For All State Employees (DIERSEN: The bias training industry promotes hatred not only against Trump, but against individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=92994
— Los Angeles Mayor Says City May Shut Off Water, Power At Houses Hosting Large Parties
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=93008
— Portland Protests Continue On Day 70 Downtown, Throughout City
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=93014
— Seattle City Council Moves Ahead On Initial Police Department Layoffs, Other Changes
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=93012

BREITBART
— Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR): Google Suppression of Political News Critical of Democrats Is Election Interference – KRISTINA WONG (DIERSEN: Ever-increasing, Google News Alerts are to non-credible articles on non-credible websites written by non-credible authors that promote hatred against Trump and against individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/06/exclusive-cotton-google-suppression-of-political-news-critical-of-democrats-is-election-interference/
— Chicago College Students Demand Schools Cut Ties with ‘White Supremacist Cult’ Police – TOM CICCOTTA
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/08/06/chicago-college-students-demand-schools-cut-ties-with-white-supremacist-cult-police/
— Joe Biden: ‘Unlike the African American Community … the Latino Community Is an Incredibly Diverse Community’ – JOEL B. POLLAK (DIERSEN: How diverse does Biden see the White community as being?)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/06/joe-biden-unlike-the-african-american-community-the-latino-community-is-an-incredibly-diverse-community-nabj/

CNS NEWS
— Palatine High School Teacher Unconstitutionally Fired for Facebook Post Rejecting Concept of ‘White Privilege’ – Hans Bader (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, if you do not promote the Democrat Party’s position on White privilege, the Democrats and the RINOs get rid of you. )
https://cnsnews.com/commentary/hans-bader/teacher-unconstitutionally-fired-facebook-post-rejecting-concept-white

DAILY SIGNAL
— Pence: ‘The Choice We Face Is Whether America Remains America’ – Rob Bluey
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/08/05/pence-the-choice-we-face-is-whether-america-remains-america/
— Barack Obama and His Race Card – Larry Elder
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/08/06/barack-obama-and-his-race-card/

CNS NEWS
— University Removes Director Who Mildly Criticized Affirmative Action – Hans Bader (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans, and especially to get rid of Republicans who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/hans-bader/university-removes-director-who-mildly-criticized-affirmative-action
— AP Opens New Front in the Social Justice Crusade – Bill Donohue
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/bill-donohue/ap-opens-new-front-social-justice-crusade

THE HILL
— Giuliani says Black Lives Matter is ‘domestic terrorist’ group – KAELAN DEESE
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/510953-giuliani-says-black-lives-matter-is-domestic-terrorist-group
— Voters should channel the Black Lives Matter energy at the polls – MICHAEL HIGGINBOTHAM AND KIMBERLY WEHLE (DIERSEN: BLM is an arm of the Democrat Party.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/510824-voters-should-channel-the-black-lives-matter-energy-at-the-polls-in
— Duckworth: Republican coronavirus package would ‘gut’ Americans With Disabilities Act – ZACK BUDRYK (DIERSEN: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, at one time or another, they assigned me to supervise all the disabled employees who they hired.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/510789-duckworth-republican-coronavirus-package-would-gut-americans-with

CNN
— Congressman Rodney Davis with Covid says it’s ‘terrible’ Capitol Hill has no testing program – Sruthi Palaniappan
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/politics/rodney-davis-capitol-hill-testing-program-cnntv/index.html

NBC NEWS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Biden wants Latinos to hate Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-racism-against-latinos-baked-trump-presidency-n1236076

NEW YORK TIMES
— After a Lull, the Number of Migrants Trying to Enter the U.S. Has Soared – Kirk Semple (DIERSEN: Democrats want immigrants, and especially immigrants who are minority, female, and/or younger, because immigrants vote for Democrats. RINOs want immigrants, and especially immigrants who are minority, female, and/or younger, because RINOs want cheap labor. Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs give immigrants who are minority, female, and/or younger preference over citizens of America who are White, male, and/or older.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/americas/after-a-lull-the-number-of-migrants-trying-to-enter-the-us-has-soared.html

WASHINGTON POST
— New York attorney general seeks to dissolve NRA in suit accusing gun rights group of wide-ranging fraud and self-dealing – Carol D. Leonnig
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nra-lapierre-ny-attorney-general/2020/08/06/8e389794-d794-11ea-930e-d88518c57dcc_story.html

FORBES
— Trump Likened To ‘Violent Racists’ In Biden Ad, Aimed At Blacks – Karen Robinson-Jacobs (DIERSEN: The hate-filled Trump-hating Biden urges Backs to hate Trump.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/karenrobinsonjacobs/2020/08/06/trump-likened-to-violent-racists-in-biden-ad-aimed-at-blacks/
— Facebook Stock Hits New All-Time High Despite A Pretty Bad News Day – Matt Perez (DIERSEN: What percent of those who promote Facebook own Facebook stock?)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/08/06/facebook-stock-hits-new-all-time-high-despite-a-pretty-bad-news-day/

NEWSWEEK
— Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Says Black Lives Matter Led by ‘Killers’ Who ‘Hate White People’ – JOCELYN GRZESZCZAK
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-says-black-lives-matter-led-killers-who-hate-white-people-1523325

BLOOMBERG
— Trump Says He’s Being Unfairly Censored by Facebook, Twitter – Mario Parker and Josh Wingrove
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/trump-says-hes-being-unfairly-censored-by-facebook-twitter

WNEP
— OUTSTANDING: Yard signs show support to ‘Back the Blue’ – Chelsea Strub
https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/yard-signs-show-support-to-back-the-blue/523-328b27b6-3757-4b1b-ad51-05e5369d5753

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Politics at work: Even if you can, it’s a bad idea – Tom Temin
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/mike-causey-federal-report/2020/08/politics-at-work-even-if-you-can-its-a-bad-idea/

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Most Say Trump Sides With Police, Democrats With Protesters In Violent Protests
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/social_issues/most_say_trump_sides_with_police_democrats_with_protesters_in_violent_protests

ZILLOW
— FOR SALE: 843 South Wheaton Avenue, Wheaton – $465,000
https://www.zillow.com/wheaton-il/X1-SS1apc9gppw622z_3o1g1_sse/4448344_zpid/

July 25 Evening Edition

ABC7
— ‘Shut it down now:’ U.S. health experts call for 2nd coronavirus shutdown ‘There’s nothing that’s ever been less political than the coronavirus,’ one doctor who signed the letter explains – Amanda del Castillo (DIERSEN: Will a 2nd coronavirus shutdown be imposed only on those who are old, overweight, and/or have health problems?)
https://abc7chicago.com/health/us-health-experts-call-for-2nd-covid-19-shutdown/6334320/
— Rally, march in Homan Square demands city defund Chicago police, reinvest in social services
https://abc7chicago.com/society/rally-march-in-homan-square-demands-city-move-cpd-funding-to-social-services/6333831/

CBS2
— ‘Back The Blue’ March, ‘Defund The Police’ Protesters Square Off In Countering Downtown Rallies – Marissa Parra
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/07/25/back-the-blue-march-defund-the-police-protesters-square-off-in-countering-downtown-rallies/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— 1,426 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Illinois, 12 additional deaths
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/1426-new-cases-of-covid-19-confirmed-in-illinois-12-additional-deaths

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Goodbye, Columbus. Now let democracy, not violence, decide what monuments we keep The time has come to deliberately and democratically decide which monuments to keep, redefine or throw away. – Editorial (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats in Chicago have enough votes to democratically get rid of all individuals, all organizations, all companies, and all governments that are pro-law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/7/24/21337583/christopher-columbus-statue-grant-park-little-italy-chicago-monuments-battle-fort-dearborn-ronan
— Will Illinois shut down again? What you need to know about Pritzker’s new ‘tier’ plan The new guidelines and region breakdown aims to take a more granular approach to coronavirus mitigation, targeting smaller areas than the original plan did and separating Chicago into its own region. – Caroline Hurley (DIERSEN: Will a 2nd coronavirus shutdown be imposed only on those who are old, overweight, and/or have health problems?)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/essential-coronavirus-news/2020/7/24/21335850/pritzker-illinois-shutdown-phase-tier-coronavirus-covid-region-restaurants

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Demonstrators for opposing causes rally and protest in the Loop Saturday – STACY ST. CLAIR, JOHN KEILMAN, DAN HINKEL and PAIGE FRY
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-saturday-protests-loop-20200725-mvijddzapfdf5lrrcih34cbd5i-story.html
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/marijuana/illinois/ct-southern-illinois-marijuana-cannabis-20200725-uyixtjqn6faa5efl3pgyrkkqee-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— ‘Unmasked’ rally defies school virus rule, Pritzker critique – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20200725/news/307259926/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The ‘Million Unmasked March,’ which took its name from the social-justice march a quarter-century ago, drew about 250 people, including a stalwart group of counter-demonstrators who periodically let loose their own shouted protests from across the street. It came a day after Pritzker put four of Illinois 102 counties on ‘warning level’ status for dangerously increased numbers of COVID-19, which officials traced to ‘risky behavior’ such as large gatherings and out-of-state travel. Saturday, officials announced 1,426 newly confirmed cases of the illness, with 12 new deaths. COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, has now contributed to 7,397 deaths among 169,883 cases, although many of those infected have recovered.)
— How Evelyn Sanguinetti plans to fight for fair housing in the suburbs – Marie Wilson (DIERSEN: What about political affiliation discrimination? From what I see as a resident of DuPage County, DuPage County’s 4th District, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978 and as a resident of Wheaton’s West District and Milton Township’s Precinct 9 since 1984, it seems ever-increasingly clear that Democrats are being steered into the aforesaid political jurisdictions. It seems ever-increasingly clear that Democrats are being told that Republicans are rapidly dying off and that Democrats will soon control all the units of government in DuPage County. Further, it seems ever-increasingly clear that Democrats are being told that those who are older, conservative, Protestant, German American, heterosexual, married, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time are also rapidly dying off. Further, it seems ever-increasingly clear that Democrats are being told about the ever-increasing number of votes that Democrat candidates get in the aforesaid political jurisdictions. Further, it seems ever-increasingly clear that those who are minority, female, younger, and/or non-poor AND who are religious, conservative, and/or Republican are being steered away from the aforesaid political jurisdictions. The aforesaid is political affiliation discrimination.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200725/how-evelyn-sanguinetti-plans-to-fight-for-fair-housing-in-the-suburbs

WTTW
— Open Letter Demands Lightfoot, Dart Not Cooperate with Federal Agents Coming to Chicago – Quinn Myers
https://news.wttw.com/2020/07/25/open-letter-demands-lightfoot-dart-not-cooperate-federal-agents-coming-chicago

EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Reparations Subcommittee Decides on Three Housing Programs, $25,000 for Each – Larry Gavin
https://evanstonroundtable.com/Content/City-News/City-News/Article/Reparations-Subcommittee-Decides-on-Three-Housing-Programs-25-000-for-Each-/15/26/18318
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Eligibility of Applicants Under the housing remedy proposal, people seeking to participate in one of the three housing programs must meet one of the following two criteria: First, “Be a Black resident and suffered discrimination in housing as a result of City ordinance, policy or practice;” OR Second, “is a direct descendent of a Black Evanston resident who resided in Evanston between 1919 to 1969 who suffered discrimination in housing as a result of City ordinance, policy or practice.” (Sometimes called the “legacy” provision). These criteria have not change since they were last discussed by the Subcommittee. Ald. Simmons said, “I think that is an area that we are going to have to rely heavily on our law staff.” Nick Cummings, Deputy City Attorney, said applicants must demonstrate that they meet one of the two criteria. He said if an applicant was seeking to qualify under the legacy provision, there were a lot of historical documents, recorded deeds, census data and other records available. In addition, Dino Robinson, the founder of Shorefront, and Dr. Jenny Thompson, Director of Education at the Evanston History Center, are putting together a report providing information about historic policies and practices, both governmental and societal, that discriminated against Black people in Evanston. Whether an applicant could rely on this report to prove a legacy claim is not yet clear. Mr. Cummings added that if a person was claiming they personally suffered discrimination at the hands of the City, “that is certainly something else entirely different and may require or may necessitate the assistance of an attorney,” Mr. Cummings said, “but I can’t say that for certain.” The Subcommittee has not yet considered who would decide if an applicant satisfied one of the two criteria. Mr. Cummings said, “It certainly is the understanding, you don’t expect it to be City staff to make those decisions solely.” He suggested that the determination might be made by the proposed Stakeholders Reparations Authority.)

WIREPOINTS
— Chicago Devoured by the Tiger JFK Warned About – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-devoured-by-the-tiger-jfk-warned-about-wirepoints/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Illinois GOP Slams Press Corps for Failure to Press Democratic Governor On Corruption of Top Ally Federal investigators say that Illinois House speaker Michael Madigan took bribes from top utility – Alex Nester
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/illinois-gop-slams-press-corps-for-failure-to-press-democratic-governor-on-corruption-of-top-ally/

FOX NEWS
— City refuses to let Trump supporter paint MAGA mural on street after allowing BLM mural (DIERSEN: To promote BLM is to promote hatred against individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are pro-law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/city-refuses-to-let-trump-supporter-paint-maga-mural-on-street-after-allowing-blm-mural
— Ben Carson: Riots, protests can bring ‘long-lasting destruction’ to US cities ‘They blame Donald Trump for everything,’ Carson says – Victor Garcia
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ben-carson-riots-protests-can-bring-long-lasting-destruction-to-us-cities
— With 100 days until election, enthusiasm gap points to reelection for President Trump In 100 days our country will be confronted with the “time for choosing” Ronald Reagan spoke of, and there’s no doubt the stakes are high. – Ronna McDaniel
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/100-days-election-enthusiasm-gap-trump-ronna-mcdaniel

TOWNHALL
— The New DNC Platform is an Anti-White Screed – Bronson Stocking
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/07/25/proposed-dnc-platform-is-an-antiwhite-screed-n2573107

BREITBART
— Ken Cuccinelli: Federal Agents Could Sue Pelosi for Libel — ‘Speaker of the House Knows That She’s Using Nazi Allusions’ – JEFF POOR (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-haters use Nazi allusions against Trump and against those who do not hate Trump.)
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/07/25/ken-cuccinelli-federal-agents-could-sue-pelosi-for-libel-speaker-of-the-house-knows-that-shes-using-nazi-allusions/

PJ MEDIA
— USPS Fails Mail-In Ballot Test – RICK MORAN
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/07/25/usps-fails-mail-in-ballot-test-n697455

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats have used “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” to turn Republican counties like DuPage County, townships like Milton Township, and municipalities like Wheaton into Democrat counties, Democrat townships, and Democrat municipalities.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/508348-suburban-americans-should-reject-trumps-regressive-housing-offerings

USA TODAY
— Seattle police declare a riot – Joel Shannon (DIERSEN: How soon will BLM riots, that is, Democrat riots, be declared in your municipality?)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/25/protest-live-blog-portland-chicago-nyc-louisville-updates/5501660002/

NEWSDAY
— Controversial rocker Ted Nugent opts out of ‘Back the Blue’ event in East Meadow – Zachary R. Dowdy
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/ted-nugent-police-back-the-blue-rally-1.47273877

July 24 Morning Edition

ABC7
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Chicago Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park at center of protest taken down by city Little Italy Columbus statue on Taylor Street will also be removed – Will Jones (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands? Back the Blue has a rally scheduled where the statue was tomorrow, Saturday, July 25, 2020, at 2:00 PM (SEE: https://www.facebook.com/events/289870235563729 ) How soon will the Democrats take down statues of all those who were White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, conservative, veterans, patriotic, Republican, American, gun owners, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and those whose ancestors were in America for a long time?)
https://abc7chicago.com/columbus-statue-in-grant-park-taken-down-by-city/6332380/
— Unemployment up in all Illinois metro areas as state reports record jobless rate in June – Mark Rivera
https://abc7chicago.com/society/illinois-reports-highest-june-unemployment-rate-on-record/6331218/

NBC5
— Mayor’s Office Releases Statement After Columbus Statues Removed in Chicago (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/mayors-office-releases-statement-after-columbus-statues-removed-in-chicago/2310757/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/watch-as-christopher-columbus-statues-were-taken-down-in-chicago/2310813/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Still, some Italian-Americans in Chicago said they did not support the move. “Columbus is a symbol of hope who we’ve celebrated for years and maybe we all forgot why we celebrated Christopher Columbus,” Sergio Giangrande, president of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian American said. “To take someone who’s a symbol of hope for us? We are not OK with that.” Giangrande added, however, that the group understands the safety concerns but hoped for a compromise. “I can guarantee you that Italian Americans are not happy about this,” he said. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday that she would announce a process in which the city will take inventory of the various monuments, paintings “and other things that memorialize” Chicago’s past and history. “In time, our team will determine there are no monuments to African Americans in this city,” Lightfoot said. “There are no monuments to women. There are no monuments that reflect the contributions of people in the city of Chicago who contributed to the greatness of this city.”)

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Mayor Lightfoot removes Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/mayor-lightfoot-plans-to-remove-christopher-columbus-statue-in-grant-park-report

WGN TV
— Christopher Columbus statues removed from Chicago’s Grant Park, Little Italy – Judy Wang, AP (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/christopher-columbus-statues-removed-in-grant-park-and-little-italy/
— Black Lives Matter Chicago files lawsuits against CPD, police union and federal government – Kelly Davis
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/blm-file-lawsuit-against-chicago-police-fop-and-fed-government/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot has Christopher Columbus statue removed from Chicago’s Grant Park in middle of the night – GREGORY PRATT, PETER NICKEAS and ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-christopher-columbus-statue-grant-park-lori-lightfoot-20200724-2hsbobbt7ndmpmkgyh6vfl7cvq-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, to call someone a racist in America today is like calling someone a Jew in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/election-2020/ct-joe-biden-trump-racist-20200723-btcoo3fe6ncifnw4liu6bt7bmi-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Christopher Columbus statue taken down hours after Lightfoot ordered its removal Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) told the Chicago Sun-Times late Thursday that the mayor made “a unilateral decision” to take that statue down along with another in Arrigo Park on the Near West Side. – Tom Schuba (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2020/7/23/21336740/lightfoot-removal-statue-christopher-columbus-grant-park
— Barack Obama, Joe Biden buddy up in 2020 campaign video punching at Donald Trump When it comes to jabbing, Donald Trump, Barack Obama and Joe Biden know a thing or two about translating rope-a-dope strategy into the political ring. – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/7/23/21336228/barack-obama-joe-biden-buddy-up-in-2020-democratic-campaign-video-punching-at-donald-trump
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hater promotes hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/7/23/21336172/trump-out-of-control-federal-response-covid-19-mona-charen
— CPD locks down headquarters for activists’ ‘block party’ About 25 people associated with the group Good Kids Mad City showed up to play music from their cars, blow bubbles and write on the sidewalks with chalk. Roughly 50 CPD officers guarded the main doors, while at least a dozen more guarded auxiliary entrances around the sprawling building. – Sam Charles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/7/23/21336175/chicago-police-department-cpd-lockdown-headquarters-for-activists-block-party

DAILY HERALD
— Mayors may have to play hardball with residents over COVID complacency – Editorial (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20200724/editorial-mayors-may-have-to-play-hardball-with-residents-over-covid-complacency
— DuPage County launches annual budget survey – Evan Shields
https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20200723/dupage-county-launches-annual-budget-survey
— There are plenty of dangers with voting by mail – Byron York
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20200724/there-are-plenty-of-dangers-with-voting-by-mail

WBEZ
— Nonprofit To Chase Bank: Give Chicago’s Black And Latino Neighborhoods $1 Billion – Linda Lutton
https://www.wbez.org/stories/nonprofit-to-chase-bank-give-chicagos-black-and-latino-neighborhoods-1-billion/b6f1824c-c483-4251-8a19-1f2784a23e35

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, BLM makes it clear that it wants to destroy every municipality in America.
https://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/black-protesters-say-focus-on-feds-hasnt-derailed-message/article_3ff4bd13-794f-5cb1-983e-fe332308e59a.html

WIREPOINTS
— Seven facts parents and teachers should know about the risks of reopening Chicago Public Schools – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/seven-facts-parents-and-teachers-should-know-about-the-risks-of-reopening-chicago-public-schools-wirepoints/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Choosing the Gay Lifestyle Over Family and Christ – Israel Wayne
https://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/choosing-the-gay-lifestyle-over-family-and-christ/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— WHY MANY HAVE COME TO DESPISE THE NFL
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/07/why-many-have-come-to-despise-the-nfl.html

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley accuses Trump of fueling chaos in Portland – Alex Swoyer (DIERSEN: If/when the Democrats destroy your municipality, who will your mayor blame?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/23/oregon-sen-jeff-merkley-accuses-donald-trump-fueli/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— 186,700 illegal immigrants from 130 nations stopped by Trump’s coronavirus border closure – Paul Bedard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/186-700-illegal-immigrants-from-130-nations-stopped-by-trumps-covid-border-closure
— ‘Do something’: Portland mayor tear gassed alongside protesters demanding his resignation – Madison Dibble (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/do-something-portland-mayor-tear-gassed-alongside-protesters-demanding-his-resignation

TOWNHALL
— Chicago Mayor Surrenders to Mob Over Columbus Statues – Leah Barkoukis (DIERSEN: Needless-to-say, this motivates hate-filled Trump-haters to promote even more hatred against those who are the following: law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Italian American, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/07/24/christopher-columbus-statue-chicago-n2573056

FOX NEWS
— Chicago anti-police protesters target mayor’s home after her call with Trump The mayor and President Trump recently discussed plans for federal officers to deploy to the city – Brie Stimson (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-anti-police-protesters-target-mayors-home-after-her-call-with-trump –
— Chicago needs federal help to stop senseless killings Overall, so far this year, 2,150 people have been shot in the city of Chicago – Tucker Carlson (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-chicago-federal-help-killings
— Colorado GOP lawmaker describes Antifa’s ‘total violence’ at ‘Back the Blue’ rally Rep. Neville says the clash was ‘the most dangerous situation’ he’s been in since his Army combat duty – Julia Musto
https://www.foxnews.com/media/colorado-lawmaker-antifa-attack-back-blue-rally

BREITBART
— Chicago’s Lightfoot Appeases Mob, ‘Unilaterally’ Removes Columbus Statue – JOHN NOLTE (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/24/nolte-chicagos-lightfoot-appeases-mob-unilaterally-removes-columbus-statue/
— Blue State Blues: What ‘Peaceful Protest’ Really Is — and What It Is Not – JOEL B. POLLAK (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/24/blue-state-blues-what-peaceful-protest-really-is-and-what-it-is-not/

DAILY WIRE
— Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) Introduces Bill That Would Have Democrat Party Change Name Or ‘Be Barred From Participation In The House’ Due To Past Support Of Slavery, Confederacy – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/congressman-introduces-bill-that-would-have-democratic-party-change-name-or-be-barred-from-participation-in-the-house-due-to-past-support-of-slavery-confederacy

PJ MEDIA
— Joe Biden Says America Has ’Never’ Had a More Racist President Than Trump. Here Are 8. – TYLER O’NEIL
https://pjmedia.com/election/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/22/what-joe-bidens-gobsmackingly-absurd-claim-about-trumps-racism-n672404

NEWSMAX
— Big Tech Unmasked as Anti-conservative by Project Veritas – Michael Cozzi
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/big-tech-censorship-conservatives-project-veritas/2020/07/24/id/978786/

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-haters say “Sinking Trump seeks to squash GOP dissent.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/508758-sinking-trump-seeks-to-squash-gop-dissent

POLITICO
— 8 Big Reasons Election Day 2020 Could Be a Disaster You may think you know how bad Nov. 3 will be. But all signs point to something far, far worse. – GARRETT M. GRAFF
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/24/2020-election-disaster-perfect-storm-372778

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Facebook’s voting labels on candidate posts sow confusion – BARBARA ORTUTAY
https://apnews.com/d965d369956e2b54b39636cda5b7eb0b

CNN
— Christopher Columbus statue taken down after Chicago mayor orders its removal – Mallika Kallingal (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/us/chicago-mayor-planning-to-remove-columbus-statue/index.html
— Tips for surviving a financial crisis – Madeleine Stix (DIERSEN: Have you had a second job? I worked for Firestone Stores part-time 1971-1972 while I worked for IRS full-time. The money that I earned helped me a) buy a new Chevy Corvette in 1971, b) pay for tuition and books for graduate business courses at Loyola in 1972, and c) buy a new town home in University Park in 1972.)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/economy/surviving-coronavirus-job-loss-tips/index.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The decision to get a second job in 2018 was a way of boosting her income as her kids started college, but also as protection from the fear she had of putting too much power into the hands of one employer.)

YAHOO NEWS
— OUTSTANDING: Long Island hosts largest Back the Blue rally
https://news.yahoo.com/long-island-hosts-largest-back-094705568.html

NBC NEWS
— Chicago removes Columbus statue in Grant Park overnight after protesters tried to topple it  The city temporarily removed Columbus statues from both Grant Park and Little Italy “in response to demonstrations that became unsafe for both protesters and police,” a statement said. (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chicago-removes-columbus-statue-grant-park-overnight-after-protesters-tried-n1234791

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats crow about their success in making Whites in Portland hate those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. How full of hatred against the aforesaid are the Whites in your municipality?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/us/portland-oregon-protests-white-race.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-haters promote hatred against America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/american-exceptionalism-was-our-preexisting-condition/2020/07/22/158f5ab0-cabc-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The hate-filled Trump-hating “Biden predicts that Trump will try to ‘indirectly steal’ the election.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-predicts-that-trump-will-try-to-indirectly-steal-the-election/2020/07/23/cc55fe98-cd3c-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html

NEW YORK POST
— Chicago protesters rally outside mayor’s home to demand defunding of police – Tamar Lapin (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/hundreds-protest-outside-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoots-home/

NEW YORK DALY NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: According to Democrats, the fewer Democrats who live in your municipality, in your municipal district, in your precinct, and in your neighborhood, the more that the residents of the aforesaid are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-trumps-racist-play-for-the-suburbs-20200724-vy4qz57arjgjblfclsimbgyta4-story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: According to hate-filled Trump-haters, the following demographics are extremely bad: White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, gun owner, and if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-u-s-census-documenting-multiracial-heritage-is-harder-than-it-sounds-11595583000

USA TODAY
— Portland mayor tear-gassed by federal officers, warns ‘somebody’s going to die’ during chaotic protests – Trevor Hughes (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/23/portland-protests-mayor-warns-somebodys-going-die/5487981002/
— Chicago removes Christopher Columbus statues from parks after vandalism, protests – AP (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/24/chicago-christopher-columbus-statues-taken-down-after-protests/5500429002/
— 7 ideas to reduce political polarization. And save America from itself. Partisanship becomes equated with patriotism, and destroying the other side becomes the ultimate goal. This is how democracies fall apart. – Rachel Kleinfeld and Aaron Sobel (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs focus on destroying Republicans.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/23/political-polarization-dangerous-america-heres-how-fight-column/5477711002/
— John Lewis urged journalists, ‘be a headlight, not a taillight’ – Nicole Carroll (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating mainstream journalists focus on destroying Trump.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/24/john-lewis-supported-journalists-challenged-them-courageous-civil-rights-truth/5481256002/

AUSTIN STATESMAN
— Hundreds warn City Council to slash Austin police’s budget or ‘we will show you out’ – Ryan Autullo (DIERSEN: How will the mayor of your municipality respond to BLM and LGBTQ demands?)
https://www.statesman.com/news/20200723/hundreds-warn-city-council-to-slash-austin-policersquos-budget-or-lsquowe-will-show-you-outrsquo

JACKSONVILLE FREE PRESS
— Most Americans Say Social Media Companies Have Too Much Power, Influence in Politics – MONICA ANDERSON
http://jacksonvillefreepress.com/most-americans-say-social-media-companies-have-too-much-power-influence-in-politics/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: About nine-in-ten conservative Republicans (89%) think these companies have too much power, versus 74% of moderate or liberal Republicans.)

NBC CONNECTICUT
— OUTSTANDING: ‘Back the Blue’ Rally to Take Place in Hartford
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/back-the-blue-rally-to-take-place-in-hartford/2306519/

COLUMBUS TELEGRAM
— OUTSTANDING: Officers, community take part in Back the Blue – Hannah Schrodt
https://columbustelegram.com/news/local/officers-community-take-part-in-back-the-blue/article_0287e8e5-0f38-5d0a-9a46-23361a863921.html

SAN ANGELO LIVE
— OUTSTANDING: ‘Back the Blue’ March Set for Saturday in San Angelo
https://sanangelolive.com/news/san-angelo/2020-07-23/back-blue-march-set-saturday-san-angelo

KMPH
— OUTSTANDING: Crowds gather in downtown Fresno to march in support of police – Marie Edinger
https://kmph.com/news/local/crowds-gather-in-downtown-fresno-to-march-in-support-of-police

ROCKLAND REPORT
— POLICE & FIREBack The Blue Rally Planned for August 2 in Pearl River
https://www.rocklandreport.com/back-the-blue-rally-planned-for-august-2-in-pearl-river/

NEWS HERALD
— OUTSTANDING: ‘Back the Blue’ Downriver Rally to show support for law enforcement officers – Jim Kasub
https://www.thenewsherald.com/news/back-the-blue-downriver-rally-to-show-support-for-law-enforcement-officers/article_647ca386-ccfa-11ea-9f06-c3f804bda699.html

CAPITAL GAZETTE
— OUTSTANDING: Maryland Republicans delegates host Back the Blue rally in Annapolis to support law enforcement – BROOKS DUBOSE
https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/annapolis/ac-cn-annapolis-police-rally-20200724-20200723-jl4lfbqgbjhxlhcv4hzfzunr2i-story.html

PROPUBLICA
— What People Who Live in Mostly White Towns Need to Know About History – Logan Jaffe (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who demonize, denigrate, and condemn my hometown of Crete as having been full of conservative German American Missouri Synod Lutheran Republicans through the 1970s. I would focus on those in Wheaton’s West District, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County’s 4th District, DuPage County, and Illinois who have demonstrated their hatred for those who are conservative, German American, Missouri Synod Lutheran, and/or Republican. I would focus on those who have/had lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout.)
https://www.propublica.org/article/what-people-who-live-in-mostly-white-towns-need-to-know-about-history

NEWSWEEK
— Colorado GOP Lawmaker Urges Trump to Deploy Feds in Denver Over ‘Violence’ – BRENDAN COLE
https://www.newsweek.com/colorado-denver-gop-trump-deploy-feds-violence-1520209

July 22 Morning Edition

ABC7
— Illinois mail in voting ballot applications at record levels for 2020 presidential election – Sarah Schulte
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/chicago-prepares-for-record-vote-by-mail-in-2020-presidential-election/6328073/

CBS2
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Funeral Home Gun Violence Marks 30th Mass Shooting In Chicago This Year
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/07/22/funeral-home-gun-violence-marks-30th-mass-shooting-in-chicago-this-year/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Chicago shooting near funeral home is city’s latest eruption of violence
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-shooting-near-funeral-home-is-citys-latest-eruption-of-violence

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Something grows in the big cities run by Democrats: An overwhelming sense of lawlessness – JOHN KASS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-federal-agents-chicago-lightfoot-kass-20200722-x5shq556ynew5hoteoaw4abpuq-story.html
— At least 15 people shot in exchange of gunfire at funeral in Gresham neighborhood on South Side, authorities say – PETER NICKEAS, PAIGE FRY, MORGAN GREENE and JEREMY GORNER
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-gresham-mass-shooting-chicago-violence-20200722-d2ycyolqfvdsnjc2igldpe2g2u-story.html
— An estimated 4,400 Chicago-area businesses have closed during the pandemic. 2,400 say they’ll never reopen. – ALLY MAROTTI
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-chicago-business-closures-yelp-20200722-nmhvpmv72fdyzdjgvzoun7rima-story.html

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— It’s a debate over debates in this congressional contest In the Chicago area’s hottest race for Congress; Republican Jeanne Ives is pushing for more matchups against incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Sean Casten. – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/its-debate-over-debates-congressional-contest

HERALD & REVIEW
— Pritzker vows to prevent federal agents from coming to Chicago – Kelsey Landis
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/pritzker-vows-to-prevent-federal-agents-from-coming-to-chicago/article_0fb6c5df-2b08-57be-83ec-72369adf667e.html

WAND TV
— Mail-in voting: Safe or target for fraud? – Doug Wolfe
https://www.wandtv.com/news/mail-in-voting-safe-or-target-for-fraud/article_7a0cab86-cb8f-11ea-ae1b-eb8174667eec.html

WGLT
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats and RINOs want all the citizens of all the foreign countries of the world who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, not married, poor, sick, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Protestant, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time to claim asylum in America. Democrats want asylum seekers because asylum seekers vote for Democrats. RINOs want asylum seekers because they want cheap labor. Democrats and RINOs shout at asylum seekers that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse thing who should be gotten rid of once and for all. Democrats and RINOs use asylum seekers to get rid those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wglt.org/post/trump-administration-making-it-more-difficult-seek-asylum-legal#stream/0

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-haters side with criminals.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/trump-to-send-federal-agents-to-chicago-maybe-other-cities/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Missed Opportunity for Statues–Of Denny Hastert & Mike Madigan
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/07/22/missed-opportunity-for-statues-of-denny-hastert-mike-madigan/
— McSweeney District Has Third Challenger
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/07/22/mcsweeney-district-has-third-challenger/
— McHenry County College Enrollment Down about 4%
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/07/21/mchenry-county-college-enrollment-down-about-4/
— Republican State Reps. Pound Dems for Silence on Madigan
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/07/21/republican-state-reps-pound-dems-for-silence-on-madigan/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— “Education” in a Pro-Propaganda Culture – Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/education-in-a-pro-propaganda-culture/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Facebook slaps ‘voting info’ label on Trump post about mail-in ballots – Spencer Neale
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/facebook-slaps-voting-info-label-on-trump-post-about-mail-in-ballots

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— The New War on Merit The left calls for racial quotas in the name of progress – Editorial (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors in the federal government were furious that I earned job-related college degrees, professional certifications, and a professional license because the younger Democrat minorities and the younger Democrat females who they wanted to and did promote over me had far less of the aforesaid and far less work experience. I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
https://freebeacon.com/culture/the-new-war-on-merit/

FOX NEWS
— Trump to expand DOJ’s ‘Operation Legend’ to Chicago, Albuquerque amid unrest The president is expected to make the announcement during a “law and order” event Wednesday – John Roberts, Brooke Singman
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-operation-legend-expand
— Potential Biden VP pick says Sanders campaign has significant influence in drafting DNC platform Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms chairs the DNC’s Platform Drafting Committee – Tyler Olson
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/potential-biden-vp-pick-says-sanders-campaign-has-significant-influence-in-drafting-dnc-platform

GOPUSA
— Lightfoot Tweets Vow To Never Allow Federal Police In Chicago As 15 Shot At Funeral
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=92225

BREITBART
— 14 Wounded in Mass Shooting Outside Chicago Funeral Home as Mayor Lightfoot Publicly Rejects Trump’s Help – HANNAH BLEAU
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/21/14-wounded-in-mass-shooting-outside-chicago-funeral-home-as-mayor-lightfoot-publicly-rejects-trumps-help/
— Dick Durbin Plans to Fast-Track Amnesty, Visa-Worker Giveaway Bills – NEIL MUNRO
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/21/dick-durbin-reportedly-plans-to-fast-track-amnesty-visa-worker-giveaway-bills/
— ACLU: Constitution Requires Illegal Aliens Be Counted in Congressional Apportionment – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/21/aclu-constitution-requires-illegal-aliens-be-counted-in-congressional-apportionment/
— Business, Progressives Ally to Sneak Illegals into Licensed Jobs – NEIL MUNRO (DIERSEN: I became a licensed CPA in 1981 when I was 32 years old.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/22/business-progressives-ally-to-sneak-illegals-into-licensed-jobs/

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Portland, Oregon Joins The Confederate States Of America – George Rasley (DIERSEN: Will Chicago officially be next?)
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/32936

NEWSMAX
— McCloskeys to Newsmax: ‘We’re Not Going to Back Down’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/st-louis-black-lives-matter-mark-mccloskey-patricia-mccloskey/2020/07/21/id/978337/

EPOCH TIMES
— Rep. Rodney Davis Calls for Capitol to Open to Visitors, Claims Dems are Blocking It – MARK TAPSCOTT
https://m.theepochtimes.com/rep-davis-calls-for-return-of-visitors-to-capitol-claims-dems-are-purposely-avoiding-return-to-normalcy_3433107.html

THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-haters say “majority support for Black Lives Matter.” To support BLM is to promote hatred against those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://thehill.com/policy/508254-americans-largely-support-black-lives-matters-but-dont-back-removal-of-monuments-poll

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Rich Americans spew more carbon pollution at home than poor – SETH BORENSTEIN
https://apnews.com/be099434a414a0cb647640ce45f8e6fc

NBC NEW YORK
— NYPD Cops With Riot Shields Clear Out City Hall Protest Encampment Overnight Organizers called the encampment “Occupy City Hall,” a nod to the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement a few blocks away in Zuccotti Park; they’ve been outside City Hall since June 24 – Katherine Creag and Kiki Intarasuwan (DIERSEN: If hate-filled Trump-hating BLMers and LGBTQers occupied your city hall, how would your mayor respond?)
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/swarm-of-nypd-officers-clear-out-encampment-outside-city-hall-before-crack-of-dawn/

NEW YORK TIMES
— ‘Blue Lives Matter’ and ‘Defund the Police’ Clash in the Streets – Juliana Kim and Michael Wilson (DIERSEN: If a Blue Lives Matter rally was held in your municipality, in your township, or in your county, a) who would organize the rally, b) which Republican activists, candidates, elected officials, party leaders, major donors, political consultants, campaign managers, etc. would attend the rally and which would speak at the rally, and c) what percent of the attendees would be law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/nyregion/ny-back-the-blue-lives-matter-rallies.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-haters promote crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/us/portland-protests.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/us/politics/trump-portland-federal-agents.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: To promote BLM is to promote hatred against those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/business/whole-foods-black-lives-matter.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters promote Trump haters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/us/politics/biden-2020.html
— India Rounds Up Critics Under Shadow of Virus Crisis, Activists Say – Sameer Yasir and Kai Schultz
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/world/asia/india-activists-arrests-riots-coronavirus.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s reelection effort has spent more than $983 million, a record sum at this point in the campaign – Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Anu Narayanswamy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/21/trumps-reelection-effort-has-spent-more-than-983-million-record-sum-this-point-campaign/
— Democrats propose new draft to party platform, revealing shifts in focus since 2016 – Michael Scherer (DIERSEN: Democrats want to use the federal government to get rid of those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-propose-new-draft-to-party-platform-revealing-shifts-in-focus-since-2016/2020/07/22/e9fc9062-cbbe-11ea-bc6a-6841b28d9093_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-haters promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/21/portland-feds-protests/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/22/why-trump-has-grown-more-insistent-preserving-confederate-icons/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/22/schools-cant-open-safely-pretending-they-can-only-helps-trumps-gaslighting/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/22/why-is-donald-trump-using-little-green-men-american-cities/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conservative-media-helps-trump-perform-law-and-order-in-portland-with-risks-for-november/2020/07/22/c12b95a4-cb85-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html
— Congress weighs kicking racist chief justice Roger B. Taney from Capitol – AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/congress-weighs-kicking-racist-chief-justice-from-capitol/2020/07/22/7daf1550-cbd3-11ea-99b0-8426e26d203b_story.html

NEW YORK POST
— Joe Biden may pay for the chaos in major cities – Michael Goodwin
https://nypost.com/2020/07/21/joe-biden-may-pay-for-the-chaos-in-major-cities-goodwin/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Black Lives Matter Sign Stirs Debate in a Boston Suburb Many residents in predominantly white communities are divided over the message or whether bigotry is prevalent in their towns – Jennifer Levitz (DIERSEN: Who promotes BLM in your municipality? To promote BLM is to promote hatred against those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-black-lives-matter-sign-stirs-debate-in-a-boston-suburb-11595410200
— Facebook Creates Teams to Study Racial Bias, After Previously Limiting Such Efforts – Deepa Seetharaman and Jeff Horwitz (DIERSEN: Facebook exists a) to promote the Democrat, Libertarian, and Green party platforms and b) get rid of those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-creates-teams-to-study-racial-bias-on-its-platforms-11595362939
— WSJ Journalists Ask Publisher for Clearer Distinction Between News and Opinion Content – Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wsj-journalists-ask-publisher-for-clearer-distinction-between-news-and-opinion-content-11595349198
— Chicago: With Indoor Dining Upended, Some Restaurants Call It Quits After withstanding months of coronavirus restrictions, eateries are closing as pandemic cases surge – Heather Haddon
https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-indoor-dining-upended-some-restaurants-call-it-quits-11595323800
— Coronavirus May Give Trump an Edge His voters are more enthusiastic than Biden’s, and may be less fearful of going to the polls. – Ted Rall
https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-may-give-trump-an-edge-11595373340
— Black Regulators Rarely Appointed to Oversee Wall Street Just 10 of 327 appointees to roles atop financial watchdog agencies since their founding have been Black, research finds – Dave Michaels (DIERSEN: I worked for GAO on audits of federal financial industry regulator for almost 9 years, the last almost 8 years of which at the GS-13 Step 4-10 levels, currently $111,295-$131,532/year.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-regulators-rarely-appointed-to-oversee-wall-street-11595372699

FORBES
— NBA Unveils Court With ‘Black Lives Matter’ Logo On It – Adam Zagoria (DIERSEN: To promote BLM is to promote hatred against those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamzagoria/2020/07/21/nba-unveils-court-with-black-lives-matter-logo-on-it/#1940c1861618

BLOOMBERG
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-haters promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-21/the-mixed-messages-in-trump-s-latest-war-on-cities

HERALD NET
— Aiming at Trump, Goya boycott hits civility Goya president’s statement was a polite gesture, but it was all the left needed to find a political angle. – Debra J. Saunders
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/saunders-aiming-at-trump-goya-boycott-hits-civility/

LAW OFFICER
— OUTSTANDING: Oklahoma prosecutor charges rioters with acts of terrorism
https://www.lawofficer.com/oklahoma-prosecutor-charges-rioters-with-acts-of-terrorism/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Two teenagers are the latest to face terrorism charges after reportedly helping to break in the windows of an Oklahoma City bail bonds business in late May during the riots that swept the nation in the wake of the custodial death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Several dozen protesters conducted a sit-in at the office of Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater on Monday to demand that he drop the terrorism charges and resign, Fox News reported. But Prater maintained last month that those who incite violence in the streets are “criminals” who “have subverted peaceful protests and impaired the open discussion regarding race in our country.” “When you employ these tactics for a political purpose, you are a terrorist,” he said. Prater also accused Black Lives Matter protestors of trying to intimidate him and law enforcement and of defending “criminals who are violent, exploitive and unscrupulous.” The district attorney said: “It is my job to protect innocent citizens and their property and I will continue to do it to the best of my ability.” Haley Lin Crawford and Sydney Lunch, who both turned 18 within the past month, were charged last week with acting with a large crowd to unlawfully break the windows of CJ’s Bail Bonds in Oklahoma City on May 30, the Oklahoman reported. The charges came after investigators identified the two young women using Facebook Live video streamed by other demonstrators and tips to CrimeStoppers.)

BALTIMORE SUN
— OUTSTANDING: Maryland delegates organize rally to support police in Annapolis (DIERSEN: If a Back the Blue rally was held in your municipality, in your township, or in your county, a) who would organize the rally, b) which Republican activists, candidates, elected officials, party leaders, major donors, political consultants, campaign managers, etc. would attend the rally and which would speak at the rally, and c) what percent of the attendees would be law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/news/cc-delegates-police-support-rally-20200721-4k6szxkftnc27f5wetclsf6dqm-story.html

WCTI 12
— OUTSTANDING: ‘Back the Blue’ events held to support local law enforcement – Allen Fairbanks, Megan Scarano and Sydney Basden
https://wcti12.com/news/local/back-the-blue-rally-held-to-support-local-law-enforcement

YOUR VALLEY
— OUTSTANDING: ‘Back the Blue Rally’ held in Apache Junction – Pam Burks
https://www.yourvalley.net/stories/burks-back-the-blue-rally-held-in-apache-junction,174031

NEWS CHANNEL 6
— OUTSTANDING: Back the Blue event in Bowie
https://www.newschannel6now.com/2020/07/21/back-blue-event-bowie-tuesday/

NEWS 9
— OUTSTANDING: Oklahoma Lawmakers Get To Work On ‘Back The Blue’ Legislation – Kelsey Kernstine
https://www.news9.com/story/5f175d5cf441190bb3b22e77/oklahoma-lawmakers-get-to-work-on-back-the-blue-legislation

FRANKLIN PRESS
— OUTSTANDING: Back the Blue event set for downtown – Lee Buchanan
https://www.thefranklinpress.com/local-news/back-blue-event-set-downtown

WAXAHACHIE DAILY LIGHT
— OUTSTANDING: ‘Back the Blue Appreciation Day’ brings residents from Ellis County
https://www.waxahachietx.com/news/20200721/rsquoback-blue-appreciation-dayrsquo-brings-residents-from-ellis-county

BLUE RIDGE NOW
— City Council delays vote on Black Lives Matter installation, angers activists – Jonathan Haynes (DIERSEN: How would the members of your city council vote on BLM and LGBTQ installations? BLM and LGBTQ promoters promote hatred against those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.blueridgenow.com/news/20200722/wilmington-delays-vote-on-black-lives-matter-signs-angers-activists

FED WEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: “Office of Special Counsel” promotes hatred against those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/black-lives-matter-and-the-hatch-act-osc-issues-guidance/

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
— People Who Need to Take Extra Precautions (DIERSEN: Will those who are older and/or have medical conditions be discouraged from attending meetings? I am 71 years old, I have Type 2 diabetes, I have skin cancer, and my BMI is 28.6. Should all potential meeting attendees be required to disclose their age and medical conditions?)
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-with-medical-conditions.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: People at Increased Risk for Severe Illness: Older Adults, People with Medical Conditions. . .People of any age with the following conditions are at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19: Cancer, Chronic kidney disease, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from solid organ transplant, Obesity (body mass index [BMI] of 30 or higher), Serious heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, or cardiomyopathies, Sickle cell disease, Type 2 diabetes mellitus COVID-19 is a new disease. Currently there are limited data and information about the impact of underlying medical conditions and whether they increase the risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Based on what we know at this time, people with the following conditions might be at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19: Asthma (moderate-to-severe), Cerebrovascular disease (affects blood vessels and blood supply to the brain), Cystic fibrosis, Hypertension or high blood pressure, Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) from blood or bone marrow transplant, immune deficiencies, HIV, use of corticosteroids, or use of other immune weakening medicines, Neurologic conditions, such as dementia, Liver disease, Pregnancy, Pulmonary fibrosis (having damaged or scarred lung tissues), Smoking, Thalassemia (a type of blood disorder), Type 1 diabetes mellitus)

July 20 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Federal agents will deploy to Chicago as part of anti-violence effort; Mayor Lightfoot responds in letter to President Trump – Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel, Ross Weidner and Cate Cauguiran
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/federal-agents-will-deploy-to-chicago-as-part-of-anti-violence-effort/6325587/

NBC5
— Lightfoot Has ‘Great Concerns’ About Possibility Trump Could Send Feds to Chicago Chicago’s top cop had a different reaction
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/lightfoot-has-great-concerns-about-possibility-trump-could-send-feds-to-chicago/2307935/

CBS2
— Protesters March From Federal Plaza Toward Trump Tower In Wake Of Report Of 175 Federal Agents Coming To Chicago
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/07/20/protesters-march-from-federal-plaza-toward-trump-tower-in-wake-of-report-of-175-federal-agents-coming-to-chicago/
— In Letter, Mayor Lightfoot Urges President Trump Not To Send Federal Agents To Chicago, Saying It ‘Would Spell Disaster’
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/07/20/mayor-lori-lightfoot-concerned-about-trump-possibly-deploying-federal-agents-in-chicago-thats-not-what-we-need/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Republicans mandate at-home COVID-19 pre-convention test for attendees as cases spike in Florida The RNC said it will pay for the “in-home” COVID-19 testing for anyone attending the Jacksonville presidential convention next month. – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/7/20/21331975/republicans-mandate-home-covid-19-pre-convention-test-attendees-cases-spike-florida
— As violence skyrockets in Chicago, Trump’s ‘police state’ strategy isn’t the solution Good police work — not a police state — is essential to bringing down crime rates. But we also have the means as a city and a nation to do so much more. – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/7/20/21331788/gun-violence-trump-federal-agents-shootings-chicago-portland-suntimes-editorial

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Coronavirus in Illinois updates: 1,173 new known COVID-19 cases as Lightfoot bans indoor service at Chicago bars and city adds other restrictions
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-pandemic-chicago-illinois-news-20200720-2bspyeyzqfe6nbvievfif7xxae-story.html
— Homeland Security making plans to deploy some 150 agents in Chicago this week, with scope of duty unknown – GREGORY PRATT and JEREMY GORNER
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-police-dhs-deployment-20200720-dftu5ychwbcxtg4ltarh5qnwma-story.html
— Chicago fast-food workers join ‘Strike for Black Lives’ with march downtown – ABDEL JIMENEZ
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-chicago-workers-strike-for-black-lives-20200720-i2dz3k4vyjasrl3td3wyy46dee-story.html
— The right way to remove statues – Editorial (DIERSEN: Remove statutes of Confederates today, and then tomorrow, remove statutes of those who were conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-columbus-chicago-protest-lightfoot-20200720-54rhivdry5flvf5nqxpinsbssq-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Madigan’s still in, leaving Democrats sending mixed messages about corruption probe – Marni Pyke
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200720/madigans-still-in-leaving-democrats-sending-mixed-messages-about-corruption-probe
— DuPage allocates $1 million to promote hotels, other businesses – Robert Sanchez
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200720/dupage-allocates-1-million-to-promote-hotels-other-businesses
— Workers protest racial inequality on day of national strike – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200720/workers-protest-racial-inequality-on-day-of-national-strike
— LGBTQ+ group condemns hateful vandalism found in Wheaton park – Katlyn Smith (DIERSEN: Anti-LGBTQ+ vandalism is used to promote LGBTQ+ activity.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200720/lgbtq-group-condemns-hateful-vandalism-found-in-wheaton-park
— ‘It’s not too much to mask’: McHenry County leaders launch campaign to encourage face coverings – Kelli Duncan
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200720/its-not-too-much-to-mask-mchenry-county-leaders-launch-campaign-to-encourage-face-coverings

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago rolls back some reopening rules amid COVID rise Bars, restaurants, gyms and indoor gatherings are all affected by the city tightening up restrictions. – A.D. QUIG
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/government/chicago-rolls-back-some-reopening-rules-amid-covid-rise

JOURNAL COURIER
— Calls grow louder for speaker resignation Powerful state leader caught up in utility scheme admission – Cole Lauterbach
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Calls-grow-louder-for-speaker-resignation-15419685.php

HERALD & REVIEW
— Charges filed against St. Louis couple who had guns outside home – ROBERT PATRICK
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/charges-filed-against-st-louis-couple-who-had-guns-outside-home/article_b7d46286-875f-5b92-9143-904d967796c3.html

WHEATON PATCH
— Anti-Gay Vandalism Found In Adams Park In Wheaton “After a successful pride month, this is a massive blow to the LGBTQ+ community,” OUTspoken Leaders said in a statement. – Lisa Marie Farver (DIERSEN: Anti-LGBTQ+ vandalism is used to promote LGBTQ+ activity.)
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/anti-gay-vandalism-found-adams-park-wheaton-reports

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Dems’ “Keep Mike in Office” Mantra Continues
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/07/20/dems-keep-mike-in-office-mantra-continues/
— McConchie on Pensions
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/07/20/147597/
— Postage for Jack Franks Taxpayer-Financed Puff Piece
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/07/20/postage-for-jack-franks-taxpayer-financed-puff-piece/
— Townships Labeled “A Tar Pit”
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/07/19/townships-labeled-a-tar-pit/
— Ugaste Calls for Madigan’s Resignation, Pritzker to Call Ethics Session
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/07/18/ugaste-calls-for-madigans-resignation-pritzker-to-call-ethics-session/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— NEW TRUMP AD: YOU WON’T BE SAFE IN JOE BIDEN’S AMERICA
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/07/new-trump-ad-you-wont-be-safe-in-joe-bidens-america.html
— COMED $200M FINE WILL END UP HURTING ILLINOIS RESIDENTS, SAYS GOP STATE SENATE CANDIDATE ERIC WALLACE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/07/comed-200m-fine-will-end-up-hurting-illinois-residents-says-gop-state-senate-candidate-eric-wallace.html

CAPITOL FAX
— 1,173 new cases, 6 additional deaths, 3.0 percent positivity rate
https://capitolfax.com/2020/07/20/1173-new-cases-6-additional-deaths-30-percent-positivity-rate/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Allen West elected chairman of Texas GOP, vows no more ‘watered down conservatism’ – Jennifer Harper
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/20/allen-west-elected-chairman-of-texas-gop-vows-no-m/

FOX NEWS
— Trump vows to send feds into cities facing violence, as DHS reportedly drafts Chicago deployment plan ‘We will have more federal law enforcement,’ Trump says – Andrew O’Reilly
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-vows-to-send-federal-agents-dhs-chicago

GOPUSA
— Law And Order Will Win Election
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=92066

BREITBART
— Michelle Malkin, Others Assaulted by Antifa at Pro-Police Rally in Denver – ALLUM BOKHARI
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/20/michelle-malkin-others-assaulted-by-antifa-at-pro-police-rally-in-denver/
— Donald Trump Vows Deployment of More Federal Forces in Major Cities – CHARLIE SPIERING
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/20/donald-trump-vows-deployment-more-federal-forces-major-cities/
— Workers protest racial inequality on day of national strike – AP (DIERSEN: Fighting racial inequality is code for getting rid of Republicans, and especially for getting rid of Republicans who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.breitbart.com/news/thousands-to-walk-off-job-to-protest-racial-inequality/

FEDERALIST
— Teaching Robin DiAngelo’s ‘White Fragility’ Will Get You Sued Legions of ‘trainers’ holding up ‘White Fragility’ are indoctrinating government agencies, corporate workforces, and schools. People subjected to it have good grounds for a lawsuit. – Adam Mill (DIERSEN: The anti-racism training industry promotes hatred not only against Trump, but against individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/20/teaching-robin-diangelos-white-fragility-will-get-you-sued/

TOWNHALL
— Brace for the Backlash – Kurt Schlichter
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/07/20/brace-for-the-backlash-n2572721

PATRIOT POST
— Democrats: Make Illegal Immigration Great Again Despite the economic devastation borne by Americans, Dems are pushing for illegals. – Arnold Ahlert
https://patriotpost.us/articles/72259-democrats-make-illegal-immigration-great-again-2020-07-20

ONE NEWS NOW
— America heading toward a bad case of the Blues A tea party activist says patriotic Americans need to stop worrying about the coronavirus and, instead, start worrying about losing their freedoms under a Democrat-run federal government. – Chad Groening, Jody Brown
https://onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2020/07/20/america-heading-toward-a-bad-case-of-the-blues

EPOCH TIMES
— Former Rep. West Elected Texas Republican Party Chairman – ZACHARY STIEBER
https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-rep-allen-west-becomes-chairman-of-texas-gop_3430781.html
— Trump Vows to Send Federal Agents Into Cities Facing Violence President names Chicago, Detroit, New York, Baltimore, Oakland, and Philadelphia – JACK PHILLIPS
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-vows-to-send-federal-agents-into-cities-facing-violence_3431187.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Thousands of U.S. workers walk out in ‘Strike for Black Lives’ Organizers say economic inequality and systemic racism have only worsened since the pandemic – Jacob Bogage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/20/strike-for-black-lives/

MARIETTA TIMES
— OUTSTANDING: Public turns out for ‘Back the Blue’ rally – Madeline Scarborough
https://www.mariettatimes.com/uncategorized/2020/07/public-turns-out-for-back-the-blue-rally/

KAIT8
— OUTSTANDING: ‘Back the Blue’ rally held in Myrtle Beach to show support for law enforcement – Katherine Phillips
https://www.kait8.com/2020/07/20/back-blue-rally-held-myrtle-beach-show-support-law-enforcement/

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Voters See Media A Lot More Eager To Help Biden Than Trump
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/voters_see_media_a_lot_more_eager_to_help_biden_than_trump

July 19 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Chicago Columbus statue protest: Local Italian Americans, other leaders call for peace, threaten ‘war’ in Little Italy’s Arrigo Park (DIERSEN: Will the organizations that you are a member of stand with Italian Americans?)
https://abc7chicago.com/community-events/chicago-italian-americans-call-for-peace-threaten-war-after-protesters-target-columbus-statue-/6324377/
— Head of Chicago police union turns to Pres. Trump for help with ‘chaos’ in city, criticizes Mayor Lightfoot
https://abc7chicago.com/head-of-chicago-police-union-turns-to-trump-for-help-with-chaos-in-city/6323952/
— Coronavirus Illinois: IL reports 965 COVID-19 cases, 6 deaths as state poised to receive millions in federal relief
https://abc7chicago.com/health/illinois-reports-965-new-covid-19-cases/6324632/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-haters say that “if he loses,” Trump “is not ready to commit to election results.”
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/trump-not-ready-to-commit-to-election-results-if-he-loses/6324590/
— Chicago weekend violence leaves 53 shot, 8 dead across city Man, woman shot on Wabash near Trump Tower in Loop
https://abc7chicago.com/53-shot-8-dead-in-chicago-weekend-violence-so-far/6324154/

NBC5
— Sen. Dick Durbin Blasts Mark Curran After Candidate’s Criticism of Rep. John Lewis Curran criticized Lewis’ support of abortion rights during a speech Sunday in Chicago
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sen-dick-durbin-blasts-mark-curran-after-candidates-criticism-of-rep-john-lewis/2307677/
— Lightfoot Spokesperson Dismisses FOP President’s Letter to Trump as ‘Political Stunt’
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/lightfoot-spokesperson-dismisses-fop-presidents-letter-to-trump-as-political-stunt/2307613/

CBS2
— Elected Officials Condemn Chicago FOP President’s Letter To President Trump Calling For Federal Help To Fight ‘Chaos’ In Chicago
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/07/19/elected-officials-condemn-chicago-fop-presidents-letter-to-president-trump-calling-for-federal-help-to-fight-chaos-in-chicago/
— FOP President John Catanzara Jr. Issues Letter To President Trump, Asking For Help From Federal Government In Fighting ‘Chaos’
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/07/18/fop-president-john-catanzara-jr-issues-letter-to-president-trump-asking-for-help-from-federal-government-in-fighting-chaos/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Help Wanted: Poll workers, preferably on the younger side – AP
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/help-wanted-poll-workers-preferably-on-the-younger-side
— Many of Indiana’s counties named for men tied to slavery – AP
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/many-of-indianas-counties-named-for-men-tied-to-slavery

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ‘Boystown’ needs a name that reflects real change By deep-sixing ‘Boystown,’ the leadership of Chicago’s LGBTQ community would abandon a name of exclusion. – Laura Washington
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/7/19/21328926/laura-washington-boystown-north-halsted-suntimes

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— As Trump ignores virus crisis, Republicans start to contradict him – ALEXANDER BURNS, JONATHAN MARTIN AND MAGGIE HABERMAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-nyt-coronavirus-trump-republicans-20200719-ex3dla2alre7dgkvondml2xvq4-story.html
— How buying Goya beans became a political statement as Trump seeks to keep his share of Hispanic voters – FARAH STOCKMAN, KATE KELLY AND JENNIFER MEDINA
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-trump-goya-beans-20200719-hk2npdkv25ac7lb5vqkvgaxany-story.html

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Davis, Londrigan neck and neck in fundraising – TOM KACICH
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/tom-kacich-davis-londrigan-neck-and-neck-in-fundraising/article_4daf3e23-70f8-535c-8d4b-dc5f4ca9cee5.html

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— OUTSTANDING: Military bans NFL, LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter flags from all installations – JOHN KRAFT & KIRK ALLEN
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2020/07/military-bans-nfl-lgbtq-and-black-lives-matter-flags-from-all-installations/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump blames Democrats for violence in cities, warns they will cancel religion – Alex Swoyer
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/19/trump-blames-democrats-violence-cities-warns-they-/

BREITBART
— Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago: 50 Shot, at Least 6 Killed, Since Friday Evening – AWR HAWKINS
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/19/mayor-lightfoots-chicago-50-shot-at-least-6-killed-since-friday-evening/
— Trump on Opposition to Renaming Confederate-Named Bases: Are We Going to Name Them After Al Sharpton? – Pam Key
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/07/19/trump-on-opposition-to-renaming-confederate-named-bases-are-we-going-to-name-them-after-al-sharpton/

THE HILL
— Trump downplays virus, disputes bad polls in testy interview with Fox’s Wallace – MORGAN CHALFANT
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/508009-trump-downplays-virus-dispute-bad-polls-in-testy-interview-with-foxs
— Some Republicans dig in against mask mandate as bipartisan consensus in favor grows – ZACK BUDRYK
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/508024-divisions-over-mask-orders-deepen

NEW YORK TIMES
— 3 Weeks After Primary, N.Y. Officials Still Can’t Say Who Won Key Races Tens of thousands of absentee ballots in New York are still uncounted and many races have yet to be called. What will November look like? – Jesse McKinley and Luis Ferré-Sadurní
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/nyregion/election-absentee-ballots-primary.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Navy’s Cultural Ship Is Listing The service is trying to do too much with too little public support, as the chain of command frays. – Kate Bachelder Odell (DIERSEN: What percent of IRS and GAO employees at the GS-12 (currently $85,084/year) level and up a) have passed the CPA and/or Certified Internal Auditor examinations, b) have passed the aforesaid examinations on their first attempt, c) are licensed CPAs, d) have master’s degrees in business, accounting, and/or finance, e) have at least 5 years of experience at the GS-12 level or higher, and f) have at least 10 years of experience at the GS-13 (currently $101,176/year) level or higher? What percent are Certified Fraud Examiners, Certified Government Financial Managers, Certified Financial Services Auditors, and/or Forensic Accountants?)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-navys-cultural-ship-is-listing-11595024930
— Your Company Says Diversity Is a Higher Priority. Now What? – Rachel Feintzeig (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs use Diversity to get rid of Republicans, and especially to get rid of Republicans who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, childless, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/your-company-says-diversity-is-a-higher-priority-now-what-11595163600

UNION JOURNAL
— Teen Vogue Says Sleep Is For Privileged White People – Carlos Christian
https://theunionjournal.com/teen-vogue-says-sleep-is-for-privileged-white-people/

WBTW
— OUTSTANDING: Myrtle Beach joins nationwide ‘Back the Blue’ rally to support police – Lauren Crawford
https://www.wbtw.com/news/myrtle-beach-joins-nationwide-back-the-blue-rally-to-support-police/

SOUTH TAHOE NOW
— OUTSTANDING: South Lake Tahoe rally held to support local law enforcement
https://southtahoenow.com/story/07/19/2020/south-lake-tahoe-rally-held-support-local-law-enforcement

SPECTRUM LOCAL NEWS
— OUTSTANDING: Finger Lakes’ Back the Blue Ride Shows Support for Police
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/rochester/news/2020/07/19/finger-lakes–back-the-blue-ride-shows-support-for-police

CORVALLIS GAZETTE TIMES
— OUTSTANDING: Philomath sees heavy turnout for Bridge the Blue rally – Brad Fuqua
https://www.gazettetimes.com/community/philomathexpress/news/philomath-sees-heavy-turnout-for-bridge-the-blue-rally/article_4e851719-684e-5a22-91dd-b0553e55ae58.html

WHEC
— OUTSTANDING: ‘Back the Blue’ ride and rally promotes support of law enforcement
https://www.whec.com/ontario-county-ny-news/back-the-blue-ride-and-rally-promotes-support-of-law-enforcement/5799708/?cat=565

WATAUGA DEMOCRAT
— OUTSTANDING: Hundreds attend Back the Blue rally in Boone – Abby Whitt
https://www.wataugademocrat.com/community/hundreds-attend-back-the-blue-rally-in-boone/article_9f9faa21-95d6-5141-96fb-6303219edae0.html

WTAP
— OUTSTANDING: Parkersburg community rallies behind law enforcement “Back the Blue” rally held in downtown Parkersburg – Mitchell Blahut
https://www.wtap.com/2020/07/19/back-the-blue-march-and-rally/

July 19 Morning Edition

ABC7
— Protestors gather near Lightfoot’s Logan Square home over city’s handling of Grant Park demonstration (DIERSEN: For some Trump-haters, Lightfoot does not hate Trump enough.)
https://abc7chicago.com/protestors-stand-off-with-officers-while-demonstrating-near-lightfoots-home-/6324143/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters say that Biden has a double-digit lead over Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/poll-biden-has-15-point-lead-over-trump-among-registered-voters/6324286/
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Chicago weekend violence leaves 50 shot, 7 dead; 2 shot, 1 killed in Loop Man, woman shot on Wabash near Trump Tower in Loop
https://abc7chicago.com/50-shot-7-killed-in-chicago-weekend-violence-so-far/6324154/
— Black Lives Matter mural painted on Chicago’s South Side (DIERSEN: To paint a BLM mural is to promote hatred against individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://abc7chicago.com/society/black-lives-matter-mural-painted-on-south-side/6323995/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: Kane County: Applications to vote-by-mail in November election being sent to registered voters as an option to in-person voting – GLORIA CASAS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/ct-nvs-vote-by-mail-dupage-kane-will-st-0719-20200717-od6xjk2mmjcj5afzzzqjgm6jti-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— OUTSTANDING: Small crowd endures heat to support police in Arlington Heights rally – Burt Constable
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200717/small-crowd-endures-heat-to-support-police-in-arlington-heights-rally
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Only hate-filled Trump-haters use the term “lily-white.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200718/constable-white-author-learned-early-how-black-lives-matter

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Outside group spending $350,000 on ads promoting Davis, bill – Bernard Schoenburg
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20200718/schoenburg-outside-group-spending-350000-on-ads-promoting-davis-bill

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Hundreds Protest On Lightfoot’s Block Day After Violent Clash Between Activists, Police Activists called on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to defund the Chicago Police, remove officers from schools and keep students learning at home when classes begin. – Kelly Bauer
https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/07/19/hundreds-protest-on-lightfoots-block-day-after-violent-clash-between-activists-police/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Virus, what virus? GOP delegates raring to go to Trump’s convention – David M. Drucker
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/virus-what-virus-gop-delegates-raring-to-go-to-trumps-convention
— Turley: Seattle councilmember ‘wants to fire white officers due to their race alone’ – Dominick Mastrangelo (DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wanted to fire their employees who were Republican, and especially those who were conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/turley-seattle-councilmember-wants-to-fire-white-officers-due-to-their-race-alone

FOX NEWS
— As city violence surges, liberal mayors engage in social media feuds with Trump officials President Trump has not dialed down tensions, either – Adam Shaw
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/city-violence-liberal-mayors-social-media-feuds-trump-officials
— Biden would dangerously increase illegal immigration and drug smuggling if elected president Biden would throw a giant welcome mat across our southern border for illegal immigrants – Tom Homan
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/illegal-immigration-biden-tom-homan
— Left’s identity politics obsession – Newt Gingrich (DIERSEN: What do you say to those who are White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time who demonize, denigrate, and condemn the aforesaid to curry favor with those who despise/hate the aforesaid? What do you say to those who falsely claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican to give themselves standing to demonize, denigrate, and condemn the aforesaid?)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/lefts-identity-politics-obsession-rob-smith-newt-gingrich

BREITBART
— Senate Democrats Propose $350 Billion Reparations Measure to ‘Address Systemic Racism’ – HANNAH BLEAU (DIERSEN: Who do your critics/opponents want you to pay lots of reparations? My critics/opponents want the following to pay lots of reparations: those who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, childless, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/18/senate-democrats-propose-350-billion-reparations-measure-to-address-systemic-racism/

BLAZE
— Teen Vogue article explains a new way to ‘fight systemic racism during sleep’ ‘Black Power Naps’
https://www.theblaze.com/why/black-power-naps

PJ MEDIA
— OUTSTANDING: ACT for America Plans 80 ‘Back the Blue’ Rallies in 30 States: ‘We Are a Nation of Law and Order’ – TYLER O’NEIL
https://pjmedia.com/culture/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/18/act-for-america-plans-80-back-the-blue-rallies-in-30-states-we-are-a-nation-of-law-and-order-n661145

NEW YORK TIMES
— The Real White Fragility Does the white upper class feel exhausted and oppressed by meritocracy? – Ross Douthat (DIERSEN: If you are a White male, have you had to pay the price of Affirmative Action (AA), Diversity, or Inclusion? I should write a book about White males a) who have not had to pay the price of AA, Diversity, or Inclusion and b) who serve as operatives or as dupes for those who promote AA, Diversity, or Inclusion. I would focus on those who had/have wealthy parents. I would focus on those who have never worked for Democrats.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/opinion/sunday/white-fragility-meritocracy.html
— 5 Ways the Coronavirus Has Changed Suburban Real Estate Thousands of New Yorkers left the city and headed to the suburbs during the pandemic, and real estate there hasn’t been the same since. – Lisa Prevost
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/realestate/coronavirus-suburbs-real-estate.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters promote socialism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/business/investment-society-economic-public.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: For Trump-haters, Biden is not far enough to the left.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-davich-the-best-two-leaders-america-has-to-offer-st-0708-20200707-xv3z4d74affkjibxkswmijqosa-story.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters say “Biden leads by double digits as coronavirus takes a toll on the president.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-leads-by-double-digits-as-coronavirus-takes-a-toll-on-the-president-post-abc-poll-finds/2020/07/18/8d041884-c840-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html

FORBES
— The Diversity Employers Need To Remember: Age Diversity – Stefanie K. Johnson
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2020/07/19/the-diversity-employers-need-to-remember-age-diversity/

PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-haters demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump as being a racist.
https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/editorials/editorial-trump-plays-into-racial-divisions/article_7c611be1-1f75-5d1f-8a95-50dfabf37ab8.html

CBS SACRAMENTO
— OUTSTANDING: Law Enforcement Supporters Rally At Sacramento City Hall – Richie Ramos
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/07/18/law-enforcement-supporters-rally-at-sacramento-city-hall/

WATERLOO CEDAR FALLS COURIER
— OUTSTANDING: County GOP plans Back the Blue events
https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/county-gop-plans-back-the-blue-events/article_b03f340b-cf21-5d92-a270-f7d30f5785e6.html

GRAND JUNCTION DAILY SENTINEL
— OUTSTANDING: Hundreds march for pro-police rally – James Burky
https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western_colorado/hundreds-march-for-pro-police-rally/article_96799490-c947-11ea-bef3-b3ce9b847d11.html

WETV INDIANAPOLIS
— OUTSTANDING: Hoosiers rally to ‘Back the Blue’ in downtown Indianapolis – Nicole Griffin
https://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/hoosiers-rally-to-back-the-blue-in-downtown-indianapolis

REDDING RECORD
— OUTSTANDING: About 200 people came to the Back the Blue march in Redding in support of law enforcement.
https://www.redding.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/07/19/back-blue-marchers-came-support-law-enforcement-officers/5466669002/

KRCR TV
— OUTSTANDING: Hundreds attended “Silent No More” rally in support of local law enforcement – Daisy Caballero
https://krcrtv.com/news/local/hundreds-attended-the-localsilent-no-more-rally-in-redding-saturday

FOX 61
— OUTSTANDING: “Back The Blue” rally in Torrington held to support police in tumultuous times – Brian Didlake II
https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/back-the-blue-rally-in-torrington-held-to-support-police-officers-thin-blue-line-police-accountability-defund/520-c385af41-36be-4478-91fa-105248234e2a

KOB 4
— OUTSTANDING: Rio Rancho rally shows support for law enforcement – Hawker Vanguard
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/rio-rancho-rally-shows-support-for-law-enforcement/5799278/

ACTION NEWS NOW
— OUTSTANDING: PEOPLE IN REDDING TURN OUT FOR ‘WE BACK THE BLUE’ RALLY – Karen Alvarez
https://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/news/People-in-Redding-turn-out-for-We-Back-the-Blue-rally-571821891.html

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Unemployed Should ‘Find Something New,’ Urge Heirs to Fred Trump’s Fortune – Jonathan Chait (DIERSEN: Should everyone be required to disclose how much education, money, and power that their parents have/had? Neither of my outstanding parents attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My father fought type 1 diabetes from age 14, he worked in the office of a nasty chemical plant in Chicago Heights, he almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills, he did not buy a new car until he was 45 in 1967 and it was a bottom of the line 2-door Chevy, and he died suddenly of heart failure in 1969 when I was 21 years old.)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/find-something-new-trump-donald-ivanka-unemployment.html

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Those who want to defund police want Biden to win.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-biden-fox-news-defund-police-1518828