CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ‘The Politician,’ a candidate forum for smug buffoons, gets low approval
rating The satirical Netflix series about an ambitious high school senior gets
too snarky and soapy. – Richard Roeper
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/9/24/20878475/the-politician-review-netflix-ben-platt-ryan-murphy-gwyneth-paltrow-jessica-lange-series
— Workers are asking, whose side are you on? Auto workers, nurses, pilots,
hotel workers — they’re all going on strike. Trump boasts about the “economic
miracle,” but most workers aren’t experiencing it. – Jesse Jackson
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2019/9/23/20880761/general-motors-strike-united-auto-workers-labor-unions-jesse-jackson
— No surrender in Rockford casino competition: Bids sweetened with guitar
licks, aquariums, waterparks Three casino developers are vying for the newly
authorized Rockford casino license. They presented their plans to the public at
a packed Monday night hearing. – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/9/23/20880547/rockford-casino-proposals-illinois-gambling-expansion
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump/Modi-hater says “‘Howdy, Modi!’ was not just
cheesy. It was dangerous.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-india-narendra-modi-trump-20190923-i2qaugxoezgvbfjo6u5n4gwbh4-story.html
DAILY HERALD
— Jesse White’s office denies Census Bureau request for driver’s license
citizenship data – Peter Hancock (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Illinois
Democrats illegally encourage citizens of foreign countries to illegally come
to Illinois illegally and to illegally stay in Illinois illegally.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190923/jesse-whites-office-denies-census-bureau-request-for-drivers-license-citizenship-data
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— U.S. Census Bureau seeking citizenship data from driver’s licenses – Peter
Hancock
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190923/us-census-bureau-seeking-citizenship-data-from-drivers-licenses
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— More pension problems – Editorial
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorial-more-pension-problems/article_39d741b1-e272-5394-bc6d-ca2ccd362110.html
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: With tax approved, Urbana alderman begin debate on where
to allow recreational-cannabis businesses
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/with-tax-approved-urbana-alderman-begin-debate-on-where-to/article_df3795be-e472-5d52-9378-f3dfec711187.html
HERALD NEWS
— Urge local leaders to ban recreational marijuana – Rev. Rick Barnard,
Pastor, Pathway Church of Shorewood
https://www.theherald-news.com/2019/09/20/urge-local-leaders-to-ban-recreational-marijuana/ascimhj/
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Collinsville estimates it could get $1 million a year
from recreational weed sales – JOSEPH BUSTOS
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article235384227.html
WGEM
— Jil Tracy visits constituents before session, talks vaping and marijuana
https://wgem.com/2019/09/23/jil-tracy-visits-constituents-before-session-talks-vaping-and-marijuana/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Enrollment Exodus: Why So Many Chinese Students Choose That ‘Cornfield’
School In Illinois – DUSTY RHODES
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/enrollment-exodus-why-so-many-chinese-students-choose-cornfield-school-illinois#stream/0
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— OUTSTANDING: Illinois cities turn their backs on pot as legalization
approaches As in other states across the country, local governments are banning
marijuana businesses within their borders. – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/23/illinois-marijuana-legalization-city-ban-1506494
FOX NEWS
— Stephanie Grisham says reporters used White House press briefings to ‘get
famous’ – Brian Flood
https://www.foxnews.com/media/stephanie-grisham-says-reporters-used-white-house-press-briefings-to-get-famous
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Dinesh D’Souza compares climate activist Greta Thunberg to Nazi propaganda –
Bailey Vogt
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/23/dinesh-dsouza-compares-climate-activist-greta-thun/
— Stephanie Grisham says press briefings permanently canceled, cites behavior
of reporters – Bailey Vogt
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/23/grisham-confirms-press-briefings-are-not-returning/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Progressive politics is the Left’s new religion – Jim DeMint & Rachel
Bovard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/progressive-politics-is-the-lefts-new-religion
AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrats Turning the 2016 MAGA Movement into a 2020 Revolution – M.
Catharine Evans
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/democrats_turning_the_2016_maga_movement_into_a_2020_revolution.html
— Do Democratic Loyalists Really Know their Party? – Lloyd Marcus
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/do_democratic_loyalists_really_know_their_party.html
BREITBART
— Documents Reveal State Department Efforts to Undermine Trump – TOM FITTON
(DIERSEN: According to my Democrat superiors in the federal government, they
had a congressional mandate to get rid of their employees who were Republican,
White, male, and/or non-veteran who they had not promoted to GS-13 (currently
$98,198) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $116,040) by age 30, GS-15 (currently
$136,495) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $165,500) by age
40. They saw me as being someone who undermined their achieving that
mandate.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/23/fitton-documents-reveal-state-department-efforts-to-undermine-trump/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Adam Andrzejewski: For Bureaucrats, It’s ‘Christmas in September’ – Rachel
del Guidice
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/09/24/for-bureaucrats-its-christmas-in-september/
FEDERALIST
— NeverTrump Candidate (Weld) Suggests Trump Should Be Executed Over Ukraine
Call – Tristan Justice
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/23/nevertrump-candidate-suggests-trump-should-be-executed-over-ukraine-call/
EPOCH NEWS
— Accounts Suspended, Latinos for Trump Accuse Twitter of Political Bias –
PATRICK HOWLEY
https://www.theepochtimes.com/accounts-suspended-latinos-for-trump-accuse-twitter-of-political-bias_3092578.html
THE HILL
— Consequential GOP class of 1994 all but disappears – REID WILSON (DIERSEN:
Democrats and RINOs used the Contract with America to get rid of GAO’s
employees who were White, male, and/or non-veteran who GAO had not promoted to
GS-13 (currently $98,198) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $116,040) by age 30,
GS-15 (currently $136,495) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently
$165,500) by age 40.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/462705-consequential-gop-class-of-1994-all-but-disappears
(FROM THE ARTICLE:
Twenty-five years ago Friday, 367 Republicans running for Congress lined up on
the Capitol steps on a clear September day weeks before the midterm elections
to sign the Contract with America. . .When the lawmakers signed Gingrich’s
contract, Republicans had no experience running the legislative branch. The
last Republican Speaker of the House, Joseph Martin, had died 26 years before
Gingrich took control. Gingrich pledged that a new way of business was coming
to Washington, seizing power from committee chairmen who had never held a gavel
themselves and making himself the most powerful Speaker in generations, a trend
his successors have followed. Gingrich “was making all sorts of proclamations,
and he was saying the presidency didn’t really matter. For a moment or two, we
thought he might be right,” said Pat Griffin, Clinton’s director of legislative
affairs at the time. “We were feeling terribly depressed, everybody was
pointing fingers at everyone else.” For the next two years, the new Republican
majority forced Democrats and the Clinton White House to react to their agenda.
Clinton, his reelection hopes suddenly in doubt, moved to compromise with
Republicans where he could and set himself apart from an increasingly unpopular
Congress — including his own party — where possible.)
HUFFINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “Dems’ Challenge: Impeaching Trump
Without Riling Up His Base But even impeachment-skeptical Democrats are starting
to believe Trump’s open lawlessness is making harder to justify not impeaching
him.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-base-impeachment_n_5d89378be4b0d2694652f580
POLITICO
— DNC raises threshold to make November debate stage – ZACH MONTELLARO
(DIERSEN: What if Wheaton had thresholds for candidates to meet for appointment
to fill vacant Wheaton City Council seats? For example, for vacant district
seats, getting at least ten signatures on nominating petitions from voters in
each of the precincts in the district?)
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/23/dnc-debate-1508516
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democratic Debate Rules Will Make It Harder to Get Onstage – Reid J. Epstein
and Matt Stevens (DIERSEN: What if Wheaton had thresholds for candidates to
meet for appointment to fill vacant Wheaton City Council seats? For example,
for vacant district seats, getting at least ten signatures on nominating
petitions from voters in each of the precincts in the district?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/us/politics/democratic-debate-criteria.html
— How Similar Are Your Political Views to Those of Your Parents? On which
specific candidates, issues, policies or political theories do you agree? On
which do you disagree? – Natalie Proulx
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/learning/how-similar-are-your-political-views-to-those-of-your-parents.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: According to Trump-haters, to be patriotic is
to be anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic,
anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people,
anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-draft avoiders, anti-German Americans,
and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/opinion/democrats-republicans.html
WASHINGTON POST
— November debate thresholds will imperil several more Democratic presidential
campaigns – Michael Scherer (DIERSEN: What if Wheaton had thresholds for
candidates to meet for appointment to fill vacant Wheaton City Council seats? For
example, for vacant district seats, getting at least ten signatures on
nominating petitions from voters in each of the precincts in the
district?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/november-debate-thresholds-will-imperil-several-more-democratic-presidential-campaigns/2019/09/23/d555c37e-de2d-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Under
the new November rules, candidates will have to demonstrate they have 165,000
unique donors, an increase of 30,000 from the October qualification levels.
They will also have to meet a new polling criteria, either by scoring 3 percent
in at least four national or state polls approved by the party, or by receiving
at least 5 percent in two approved single-state polls from Iowa, New Hampshire,
South Carolina or Nevada. The polls must have been released between Sept. 13
and one week before the date of the November debate, which has not yet been
announced. The donors must also be geographically dispersed, with at least 600
coming from 20 individual states.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— California’s Hobo Paradise Homelessness explodes, but the state’s liberals
are in denial. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-hobo-paradise-11569280953
— The Dangers of Hiring for Cultural Fit – Sue Shellenbarger (DIERSEN: GAO
hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority,
female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971
because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran
who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not
find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the
job.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dangers-of-hiring-for-cultural-fit-11569231000
— Trump Stands Up for Religious Freedom He champions the issue at the U.N.
more vigorously than any of his predecessors. – Kelsey Zorzi (DIERSEN: In
America, ever-increasingly, Trump-haters infiltrate, manipulate, and dominate
religions. Ever-increasingly, religions in America are anti-Trump,
anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican,
anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people,
anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have
been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents in Wheaton have always
hinted/implied/argued/shouted that they not only dominate all the churches in
Wheaton, but that they also dominate all the government entities, businesses,
schools, organizations, residents, etc. in Wheaton.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-stands-up-for-religious-freedom-11569279353
FORBES
— President Trump Tells Businesses To Protect Religious Freedom – Ewelina U.
Ochab (DIERSEN: In America, ever-increasingly, Trump-haters infiltrate,
manipulate, and dominate religions. Ever-increasingly, religions in America are
anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic,
anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people,
anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those
whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents in
Wheaton have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that they not only dominate
all the churches in Wheaton, but that they also dominate all the government
entities, businesses, schools, organizations, residents, etc. in Wheaton.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2019/09/23/president-trump-tells-businesses-to-protect-religious-freedom/#458b94af4df1
USA TODAY
— Ageism is never acceptable in the workplace – Johnny C. Taylor Jr. (DIERSEN:
Prospective federal employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or
non-veteran should be advised that they will be gotten rid of if they do not make
GS-13 (currently $98,198) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $116,040) by age 30,
GS-15 (currently $136,495) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently
$165,500) by age 40. It is called patronage, political affiliation
discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, Affirmative Action,
Diversity, Inclusion, and/or up-or-out.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2019/09/24/older-employees-should-never-face-age-related-discrimination-work/2389150001/
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: Giving 2 weeks’ notice not always the best idea –
Russ Wiles (DIERSEN: In 1971, when I was 22 years old, my Firestone Stores boss
rudely fired me when I gave him my 2 weeks notice. Then, the job that I thought
I had fell through. Oldsmobile had offered me a job and I had accepted. But
then Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop
hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. The aforesaid directly resulted in
my accepting a job offer from IRS.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2019/04/29/jobs-7-myths-looking-work/3591835002/
SPECTRUM
— Here are the applicants for St. George City Council’s vacant seat – Lexi
Peery (DIERSEN: Who represents you on your city council? To what extent do they
represent your demographics, your religious beliefs, your political beliefs,
etc.?)
https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2019/09/23/st-george-city-council-vacant-seat-applicants/2419355001/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The
new council member will be decided next week, on Monday, Sept. 30, at a public
meeting. Each applicant will be given a set amount of time to give their pitch
to the current city council and the mayor. The council and mayor will then
deliberate after everyone has a chance to talk and answer questions. A new
member will be decided that night and will begin their duties as city council
member in the next few days.)
NEW REPUBLIC
— The Democrats’ Disappointing Rhetoric on LGBTQ Rights Some candidates seem
to believe that their past support for marriage equality is enough to win the
community’s support. – MELISSA GIRA GRANT (DIERSEN: LGBTQ activists demand that
LGBTQ elected officials and party leaders get rid of those who do not promote
LGBTQ activity.)
https://newrepublic.com/article/155156/democrats-disappointing-rhetoric-lgbtq-rights
ATLANTIC
— ‘Howdy, Modi!’ Was a Display of Indian Americans’ Political Power A
thousands-strong rally to honor the Indian prime minister—and the legions of
protesters outside—showed how the community’s influence is growing ahead of
2020. – SONIA PAUL
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/09/howdy-modi-rally-trump-divides-indian-diaspora/598600/