August 20 Evening Edition

ABC7
— COVID 19 Illinois: IL reports 1,832 new coronavirus cases, 27 deaths
https://abc7chicago.com/health/illinois-reports-1832-new-covid-19-cases-27-deaths/6380115/

NBC5
— Several Illinois Counties Installing Drop Boxes for Vote-by-Mail Ballots Cook County announced it will have more than 50 drop boxes available at voting sites in multiple suburbs – Astrid Galvan and Christina A. Cassidy
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/several-illinois-counties-installing-drop-boxes-for-vote-by-mail-ballots/2325619/
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/new-dispensary-2nd-downtown-opens-in-river-north/2325800/
— Citing Threats, Mayor Defends Police Presence, Protest Restrictions at Her Home Chicago Police Supt. David Brown noted that “protesting in neighborhoods is not legal,” referencing a law that declares residential picketing “inappropriate in our society”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/citing-threats-mayor-defends-police-presence-protest-restrictions-at-her-home/2325754/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Mayor Lightfoot defends beefed-up police presence near her home – AP
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/mayor-lightfoot-defends-beefed-up-police-presence-near-her-home

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— President Trump invokes ‘blood-stained sidewalks of Chicago’ in attack on Joe Biden – BILL RUTHHART
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-donald-trump-joe-biden-chicago-attack-20200821-wi4me3dybfc6vc7ije3pxkslsa-story.html
— Coronavirus in Illinois updates: 1,832 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 27 more deaths reported as state sets testing record for second day in a row
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-pandemic-chicago-illinois-news-20200820-szrab7oxkfcsznbv5ihxlfkr64-story.html
— Citing threats, Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends ban on protesters on her block: ‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure’ – GREGORY PRATT, JEREMY GORNER and MEGAN CREPEAU
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-police-lightfoot-home-protests-20200820-s563zjj4uzc2rcbprrruzalwaq-story.html
— Pritzker’s graduated tax follies: He opened his wallet but closed his ears – EDITORIAL
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-pritzker-ivory-black-business-tax-20200820-sfxd72g5yzcdjkmsr2576ea4si-story.html
— Impatience with Mayor Lightfoot — and from her — grows as violence rages – DAVID GREISING
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-unrest-violent-crime-looting-lightfoot-greising-20200820-mjgeovxgpzbhfoga3a7tma6vau-story.html
— Slogan or agenda? The blurry meaning of ‘Black Lives Matter’ – ERIC ZORN (DIERSEN: BLM’s agenda is anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexuals, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Italian American, anti-German Americans, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-zorn/ct-column-black-lives-matter-slogan-marxism-zorn-20200820-sqjz4refn5esxfehqev2gax4sm-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater promotes Biden.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/20/21378020/gov-j-b-pritzker-joe-biden-endorsement-presidential-election-democrats-endorsement
— Lightfoot defends heavy police presence around her home “Given the threats that I have personally received. Given the threats to my home and my family, I’m gonna do everything to make sure that they are protected,” the mayor said Thursday. “I make no apologies whatsoever for that.” – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/8/20/21377608/lightfoot-police-home-security-protests-george-floyd-pandemic-logan-square
— Chicago ‘lefties’ still feelin’ the Bern, but not looking to burn Biden — see Dem nominee as stepping-stone to progress “I fully expect our movement to continue once Joe Biden is elected,” said progressive firebrand Stacy Davis Gates. “Donald Trump is a fascist that has to be put down. We have to focus our attention on removing him from the White House. That’s not in argument.” – Rachel Hinton and Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/8/20/21376183/chicago-progressives-joe-biden-kamala-harris-sanders-democratic-socialist-trump-liberal
— Police union donates nearly $58,000 to former judge looking to unseat Kim Foxx The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police on Wednesday officially endorsed Pat O’Brien, the Republican nominee for Cook County state’s attorney. The FOP announced the decision in a post on the group’s Facebook page.- Fran Spielman and Rachel Hinton
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/8/20/21377709/chicago-police-union-fop-donation-obrien-cook-county-states-attorney-kim-foxx
— Illinois ‘going in the wrong direction’ with 1,832 more coronavirus cases Health officials on Thursday also announced 27 more residents have been killed by the virus, raising the state’s death toll to 7,833. – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/8/20/21377805/illinois-covid-cases-deaths-coronavirus-pritzker-august-20

DAILY HERALD
— DuPage referendums far from ‘pointless’ – Dan Cronin, county board chairman; Robert Berlin, state’s attorney; James Mendrick, sheriff
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20200820/dupage-referendums-far-from-pointless
— Illinois once again averaging 20 COVID-19 deaths per day – Jake Griffin
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200820/illinois-once-again-averaging-20-covid-19-deaths-per-day
— Glen Ellyn mayor won’t seek 2nd term; party recruits municipal candidates – Katlyn Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200820/glen-ellyn-mayor-wont-seek-2nd-term-party-recruits-municipal-candidates
— Facing tax evasion charge, state Sen. Link to step down as Democratic leader in Lake County – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200820/facing-tax-evasion-charge-state-sen-link-to-step-down-as-democratic-leader-in-lake-county

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Battle heats up over graduated income tax  Both friends and foes of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s tax amendment step up their game on a closely contested issue. – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/battle-heats-over-graduated-income-tax

WBBM
— Raoul: Republicans Are Surrendering Their Party To A Racist, Misogynistic Philosophy; Democrats Must Be Bold Enough To Push Back – CRAIG DELLIMORE (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. How soon, if not already, will the Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs on your city council enact ordinances that officially banish Republicans from your municipality?)
https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/raoul-democrats-must-be-bold-enough-to-push-back

FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats pound their message: To oust Trump, you must vote – AP
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/democrats-pound-their-message-to-oust-trump-you-must-vote
— Trump wants SCOTUS OK to block critics on Twitter – AP (DIERSEN: What do you say to my critics/opponents who discourage everyone from reading my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails, but who regularly read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails themselves?)
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-wants-scotus-ok-to-block-critics-on-twitter
(FROM THE ARTICLE: President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to allow him to block critics from his personal Twitter account. The administration said in a high-court filing Thursday that Trump’s @realdonaldtrump account with more than 85 million followers is his personal property and blocking people from it is akin to elected officials who refuse to allow their opponents’ yard signs on their front lawns.)

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— McHenry Township Board Sets Salaries for 2021-25 Term, Removes Monetary Incentive for Running for Trustee
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/20/mchenry-township-board-sets-salaries-for-2021-25-term-removes-monetary-incentive-for-running-for-trustee/
— County, Township Boards Spurn Jack Franks Sexual Allegation Referendum Diversions
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/20/county-township-boards-spurn-jack-franks-sexual-allegation-referendum-diversions/
— State Rep. Tom Weber Surveys Voters
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/20/state-rep-tom-weber-surveys-voters/

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Local Health Departments: Mask As I Say, Not As I Do – JOHN KRAFT & KIRK ALLEN
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2020/08/local-health-departments-mask-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/

CAPITOL FAX
— State Republicans won’t hold any “media advised events” during their convention
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/20/state-republicans-wont-hold-any-media-advised-events-during-their-convention/
— 1,832 new cases, 27 additional deaths, 1,519 hospitalized, 4.4 percent positivity rate
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/20/1832-new-cases-27-additional-deaths-1519-hospitalized-44-percent-positivity-rate/
— Link to resign as Lake County Democratic Chairman on September 15
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/20/link-to-resign-as-lake-county-democratic-chairman-on-september-15/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— BLM Leader Likens U.S. Government to ‘Terrorists’ – Alex Nester
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/blm-leader-likens-u-s-government-to-terrorists/

BREITBART
— Newt Gingrich: Too Much Power Is Concentrated in the Hands of Big Tech CEOs – LUCAS NOLAN
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/08/19/newt-gingrich-too-much-power-is-concentrated-in-the-hands-of-big-tech-ceos/

NEWSMAX
— Republicans Ignore Trump’s Warnings, Tout Mail-In Voting – Jeffrey Rodack
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/republicans-mail-in-voting-absentee-ballots-fraud/2020/08/20/id/983042/
— Harris’s Personal Story Won’t Rally Black Women – Patrice Lee Onwuka
https://www.newsmax.com/patriceleeonwuka/independent-teachers-uber/2020/08/20/id/983146/

FEDERALIST
— Joe Biden’s Flip-Flops Prove He’s Not Running His Own Campaign The truth is that Joe Biden, the candidate, is not the Joe Biden campaign. The left will mold him like clay into anything they want. He is their useful idiot. – Bob Anderson
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/20/joe-bidens-flip-flops-prove-hes-not-running-his-own-campaign/
— House Democrats Propose A Racism Czar To Control National Memorials Section 754 of a bill presented by House Democrats proposes to regulate names on federal property based on ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ which really means discriminating by race and ethnicity. – Krystina Skurk
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/20/house-democrats-propose-a-racism-czar-to-control-national-memorials/

ONE NEWS NOW
— Dems in power births a socialist revolution – J.M. Phelps
https://onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2020/08/20/journalist-dems-in-power-births-a-socialist-revolution

EPOCH TIMES
— Energy Secretary Launches Review, Asks For Investigation After ‘White Privilege’ Training Draws Criticism – PETR SVAB
https://www.theepochtimes.com/energy-secretary-launches-review-asks-for-investigation-after-white-privilege-training-draws-criticism_3469557.html

THE HILL
— Black Lives Matter movement to play elevated role at convention – REBECCA KLAR
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/511932-black-lives-matter-movement-to-play-elevated-role-at-convention

POLITICO
— Conservative think tank asks FEC to probe tech bans on Laura Loomer Twitter and Facebook said Wednesday they do not plan to reinstate Loomer after her primary win. – CRISTIANO LIMA
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/20/fec-probe-tech-bans-laura-loomer-399391

NEW YORK TIMES
— Goodyear: Attire Supporting Police OK, but No Political Wear
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/08/20/business/bc-us-trump-goodyear.html
— Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Jump to 1.1 Million
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/08/20/business/stock-market-today-coronavirus

WASHINGTON POST
— Portland protesters set fire inside county building as tensions continue to escalate – Katie Shepherd
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/19/portland-multnomah-building-fire/

DESERT SUN
— USA Today Network sets new goals for newsroom diversity by 2025 – Julie Makinen (DIERSEN: To set a diversity goal is to stop hiring and to get rid of those who are White, male, and/or older.)
https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2020/08/20/column-usa-today-network-sets-new-goals-newsroom-diversity-2025/3360173001/

FOX 21
— Denver home seller admits taking Black Lives Matter signs – AP (DIERSEN: BLM signs and “Dump Trump” signs discourage those who are the following from buying: law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Christian, Italian American, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.fox21news.com/top-stories/denver-home-seller-admits-taking-black-lives-matter-signs/

FORBES
— How Technology Is Fueling Social Justice During A Pandemic – Tal Frankfurt
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/08/20/how-technology-is-fueling-social-justice-during-a-pandemic/
— We Think Social Platforms Censor Political Views. Because Politicians Want Us To. – Rob Pegoraro
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robpegoraro/2020/08/20/we-think-social-platforms-censor-political-views-because-politicians-want-us-to/
— 6 Things To Remove From Your Résumé – Ashira Prossack (DIERSEN: All my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes have always promoted age discrimination.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashiraprossack1/2020/08/20/6-things-to-remove-from-your-resume/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Dates other than listing your work history. Unfortunately age discrimination, whether intentional or unintentional, happens more often than it should. The only dates that belong on your résumé are the dates of your work history. Graduation year and dates from any other certifications or qualifications should also be left off. Your degree and any other qualifications are what matter, not when you got them. Details that give away your age. There are some subtle and not so subtle details that can give insight into your age. Including your GPA, using your school email address, and embellished job descriptions for entry level positions (ie, managed customer expectations while expertly crafting espresso beverages as a description for a barista position) are indicators of a younger candidate. On the other hand, using a font like Times New Roman, having an AOL or Hotmail email address, and even something as subtle as double spacing after a period are indicators of an older candidate. . .A photo. Having a photo opens you up to potential discrimination. Whether that discrimination is unintentional or intentional, it’s still detrimental to your chances of being hired. Your appearance has no bearing on your ability to do the job, so therefore your photo has no place on your résumé.)
— 73% Of U.S. Adults (Especially Republicans) Think Social Media Platforms Censor Posts, Survey Reports – Siladitya Ray
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2020/08/19/73-of-us-adults-especially-republicans-think-social-media-platforms-censor-posts-survey-reports/

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers say “60% of Republicans Support Kamala Harris’ Proposal to Legalize Marijuana Nationwide.”
https://www.newsweek.com/60-republicans-support-kamala-harris-proposal-legalize-marijuana-nationwide-poll-1526421

August 19 Evening Edition

WGN TV
— Illinois counties installing ballot drop-off boxes ahead of election – Erik Runge
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/illinois-counties-installing-ballot-drop-off-boxes-ahead-of-election/

ABC7
— Coronavirus Illinois: 2,295 new COVID-19 cases, 25 deaths Gov. Pritzker to give update at press conference Wednesday
https://abc7chicago.com/health/illinois-reports-2295-new-covid-19-cases-25-deaths/6377757/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Protesters allege rampant physical and verbal abuse by Chicago police at recent demonstrations – DAN HINKEL
https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/ct-chicago-police-protests-complaints-20200820-24yitmvxnferzacsoiv73n35ua-story.html
— Coronavirus in Illinois updates: 2,295 new known COVID-19 cases reported — the most since late May — as FDA gives emergency use authorization for U. of I. saliva test
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-pandemic-chicago-illinois-news-20200819-o7plkjgrkzcgrmbpxrxs5vo75u-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A pot pusher says “Trump to Republicans: Don’t put marijuana on the ballot at the same time you’re running.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/marijuana/sns-trump-marijuana-legalization-not-on-the-ballot-20200819-rojpfydifvezxdb4qtvxywpfsm-story.html
— Metra is falling further behind budget amid COVID-19 ridership decline. Transit agency now projects $682M in lost revenue. – ROBERT CHANNICK
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-chicago-metra-ridership-revenue-decline-20200819-ffl2sbjnujempaex5pbbt5zqta-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Naperville passes zoning rules allowing recreational pot sales – Lauren Rohr
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200819/naperville-passes-zoning-rules-allowing-recreational-pot-sales
— Douglas statue to be removed from Illinois Capitol lawn – JOHN O’CONNOR
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200819/douglas-statue-to-be-removed-from-illinois-capitol-lawn
— McHenry Township board suing county clerk over ballot dispute – SAM LOUNSBERRY
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200819/township-board-suing-county-clerk-over-ballot-dispute
— Republicans slate candidate Seth Lewis in Illinois House District 45
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200819/republicans-slate-candidate-in-illinois-house-district-45
— Drop your vote-by-mail ballot here. Counties installing secure boxes to collect ballots – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200818/drop-your-vote-by-mail-ballot-here-counties-installing-secure-boxes-to-collect-ballots

HERALD & REVIEW
— Panel votes to remove statues of Stephen Douglas, former lieutenant governor from Illinois Capitol grounds – JAMIE MUNKS (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will Democrat panels vote to remove statues of all those who were conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/panel-votes-to-remove-statues-of-stephen-douglas-former-lieutenant-governor-from-illinois-capitol-grounds/article_f6a5bd19-a145-5d6d-b0d8-f7e64422edd9.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump calls for boycott after reported ban on MAGA attire at Goodyear, company responds – Elizabeth Tyree
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-calls-for-boycott-after-reported-ban-on-maga-attire-at-goodyear-company-responds

CHANNEL 3000
— Pence visits Wisconsin – AP
https://www.channel3000.com/pence-visits-wisconsin-attempts-to-counter-dnc-coverage/?fbclid=IwAR0ppzvDRZQprIcmf-PW1YxwsGWCTCeYEsi_B88iTs75x6__OlRRJMe-afs

CENTER FOR ILLINOIS POLITICS
— Census Consequences: Could Two Congressional Seats Be Lost In Illinois? – Jeremy Gantz
https://www.centerforilpolitics.org/articles/census-consequences-could-two-congressional-seats-be-lost-in-illinois

NONPROFIT QUARTERLY
— Young Activists March on Mayor in Chicago, Pleading for their Own Safety – Martin Levine
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/young-activists-march-on-mayor-in-chicago-pleading-for-their-own-safety/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Additional Law Enforcement Trump Sent to Chicago Results in 49 Arrests So Far
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/19/additional-law-enforcement-trump-sent-to-chicago-results-in-49-arrests-so-far/
— FL-19/IL-14: Byron Donalds Wins Primary in Spite of Election Day Despicable Trick
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/19/fl-19-il-14-byron-donalds-wins-primary-in-spite-of-election-day-despicable-trick/
— Ness Gets $2,000 from Alsip Union
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/19/ness-gets-2000-for-alsip-union/
— Franks Continues to Pull Money Out of His Campaign Fund Bank Account
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/19/franks-continues-to-pull-money-out-of-his-campaign-fund/
— Kids Not Safe in Schools, But Other Locations OK
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/19/kids-not-safe-in-schools-but-other-locations-ok/
— Riley Grade School District Tax Protest Case Arguments Complete
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/19/riley-grade-school-district-tax-protest-case-arguments-complete/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— OUTSTANDING: THORNER: LAKE COUNTY REPUBLICANS RALLY TO SUPPORT TRUMP
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/thorner-lake-county-republicans-rally-to-support-trump.html
— DEMOCRAT CONVENTION PUSHES CHINESE GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA ABOUT CORONAVIRUS
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/democrat-convention-pushes-chinese-government-propaganda-about-coronavirus.html
— MORABITO: FORCED ISOLATION IS THE LEFT’S OBEDIENCE SCHOOL
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/morabito-forced-isolation-is-the-lefts-obedience-school.html
— HOW THE MEDIA DRIVES RADICAL ‘WOKENESS’
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/how-the-media-drives-radical-wokeness.html
— DURBIN STILL PUSHING OUT 2016 RUSSIAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE CONSPIRACY
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/durbin-still-pushing-out-2016-russian-election-interference-conspiracy.html

CAPITOL FAX
— 2,295 new cases, 25 additional deaths, 1,519 people in the hospital, more than 50K tests, 4.4 percent positivity rate
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/19/2295-new-cases-25-additional-deaths-1519-people-in-the-hospital-more-than-50k-tests-44-percent-positivity-rate/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— N.Y. Democrats demand Trump rescind Susan B. Anthony pardon: ‘Treated her like a criminal’ – Jessica Chasmar
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/19/ny-democrats-demand-trump-rescind-susan-b-anthony-/

FOX NEWS
— White House urges Goodyear to ‘clarify their policy,’ calls Blue Lives Matter an ‘equity issue’ ‘What was clearly targeted was a certain ideology,’ press secretary says – Brooke Singman
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-goodyear-policy-blue-lives-matter-equity-issue
— Rush Limbaugh blasts ‘pathetic’ DNC over low ratings, ‘awkward’ and ‘ill-conceived’ production ‘There isn’t any enthusiasm in the Democrat Party for Joe Biden,’ radio host says – Charles Creitz
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-dnc-pathetic-ratings-presentation

FOX BUSINESS
— Goodyear employee shares photo of company’s zero-tolerance policy, calls it ‘discriminatory’ The company labeled Black Lives Matter as acceptable while calling Blue Lives Matter and MAGA unacceptable – Stephen Sorace
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/goodyear-zero-tolerance-policy-discriminatory
— Trump says socialism ‘mainstream’ in Biden presidential campaign Trump warned Biden’s platform was brought “so far left” by Sen. Bernie Sanders – Thomas Barrabi
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-socialism-mainstream-biden-presidential-campaign

GOPUSA
— Lightfoot’s Thinly Veiled Threat To Stop Protecting Trump Tower Chicago (DIERSEN: Who leads BLM in Illinois, 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? What protests, vandalism, looting, and rioting do they have planned?)
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=93612
— Harris, Omar And The Democrats’ Great March Leftward
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=93562

BREITBART
— Donald Trump, Jr. to Democrats: ‘If You Can Loot in Person, You Can Vote in Person’ – TRENT BAKER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/19/donald-trump-jr-to-democrats-if-you-can-loot-in-person-you-can-vote-in-person/
— FNC’s MacCallum, BLM Co-Founder Battle over Looting, Police Brutality (DIERSEN: Who leads BLM in Illinois, 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? What protests, vandalism, looting, and rioting do they have planned?)
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/08/18/watch-fncs-maccallum-blm-co-founder-battle-over-looting-police-brutality/
— Trump Pushes Saving Suburbs from Forced Diversity – PENNY STARR
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/19/trump-pushes-saving-suburbs-from-forced-diversity/

BLAZE
— Goodyear employees say company’s new ‘zero-tolerance’ policy bans ‘Blue Lives Matter’ and MAGA gear This isn’t going to settle well – SARAH TAYLOR
https://www.theblaze.com/news/goodyear-zero-tolerance-blue-lives-maga
— Medical school application asks for ‘lessons learned’ about systemic racism to show ‘sociocultural humility’ ‘Right now is a watershed moment in American history’ – CHRIS ENLOE (DIERSEN: What lessons have you learned about systemic racism? I have learned that 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, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/medical-school-application-systemic-racism

FEDERALIST
— Where Black Lives Matter Rioters Learned To Call Looting ‘Reparations’ What rioters on the street hear as ‘it’s okay to steal from people who have more stuff than I do’ in NPR and The Atlantic’s offices sound like ‘The Case for Reparations.’ – Joy Pullmann (DIERSEN: Who leads BLM in Illinois, 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? What protests, vandalism, looting, and rioting do they have planned?)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/19/where-black-lives-matter-rioters-learned-to-call-looting-reparations/
— How Libraries Are Indoctrinating Kids To Think All White People Are Racists The ‘anti-racist’ books being pushed by the American Library Association replace history with the politics of resentment and fuel the flames of anger. – Maureen Mullarkey
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/19/how-libraries-are-indoctrinating-kids-to-think-all-white-people-are-racists/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Duke prof proposes $12 trillion in reparations….$800k per eligible Black household – Ben Zeisloft (DIERSEN: How much reparations do hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters want you to pay?)
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15473

THE HILL
— Trump urges boycott of Goodyear tires over MAGA attire policy – MORGAN CHALFANT
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512690-trump-urges-boycott-of-goodyear-tires-after-maga-attire-report

CBS NEWS
— “Cancel culture” seems to have started as an internet joke. Now it’s anything but. – CHRISTOPHER BRITO (DIERSEN: In your municipal district, in your municipality, in your township, in your county district, and in your county, who determines who is canceled?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cancel-culture-internet-joke-anything-but/

NEW YORK POST
— Black Lives Matter speaker declares war on ‘filthy, disgusting animal’ cops – Lee Brown
https://nypost.com/2020/08/19/blm-speaker-declares-war-on-filthy-disgusting-animal-cops/

FORBES
— What The Goodyear Episode Can Teach Us About Diversity Training – Ilana Redstone (DIERSEN: Diversity training promotes hatred against 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 Bill Clinton), and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ilanaredstone/2020/08/19/what-the-goodyear-episode-can-teach-us-about-diversity-training/

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— How Will the RNC Counter The Diversity of the DNC? – Ed Kilgore (DIERSEN: Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs want the Republican Party to dump Republicans 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, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/how-will-the-rnc-counter-the-diversity-of-the-dnc.html

DAILY MAIL
— New York BLM leader Hawk Newsome defends looters while comparing the US to ‘terrorists’ during heated exchange with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum – after Rudy Giuliani urged Trump to declare group a ‘domestic terrorist organization’ – KAREN RUIZ (DIERSEN: Who leads BLM in Illinois, 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? What protests, vandalism, looting, and rioting do they have planned?)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8643543/New-York-BLM-leader-Hawk-Newsome-defends-looters-compares-America-terrorists.html

ZILLOW
— FOR SALE: 403 West Park Avenue, Wheaton – $375,000
https://www.zillow.com/wheaton-il/X1-SS1apc9gppw622z_3o1g1_sse/4447728_zpid/

August 18 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Illinois COVID-19: IL reports 1,740 new coronavirus cases, 27 deaths Gov. Pritzker, IDPH announce new COVID-19 mitigation efforts take effect.
https://abc7chicago.com/health/illinois-reports-1740-new-coronavirus-cases-27-deaths/6376200/
— Vote by mail: US reps visit USPS Chicago HQ amid mail concerns
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/live-us-reps-visit-usps-chicago-hq-amid-mail-concerns/6375826/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Minneapolis officer’s attorney alleges George Floyd overdosed on fentanyl, says charges should be dropped
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/minneapolis-officers-attorney-alleges-george-floyd-overdosed-on-fentanyl-says-charges-should-be-dropped

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Lightfoot responds to President Trump’s criticism for raising Chicago bridges, says move protects Trump Tower – GREGORY PRATT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-lightfoot-trump-tower-security-20200818-glal7nxsavdnli7vlvnpw5lpoi-story.html
— Viral video claims people were caught on Chicago River bridge as it was being raised. City says they actually climbed up. – KATHERINE ROSENBERG-DOUGLAS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-bridge-viral-video-chicago-20200818-m3b57tibffcdzphebcigi47avu-story.html
— Democratic National Convention ignores the elephant in the virtual room: Big-city violence – JOHN KASS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-democratic-convention-big-city-violence-kass-20200818-co3qa2qj3zcwbn7xdegrssbcne-story.html
— 1,740 new known COVID-19 cases and 27 more deaths reported as Wisconsin removed from Chicago’s travel quarantine order
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-pandemic-chicago-illinois-news-20200818-wqrey3g3nbfgjkfawliv5aelfa-story.html
— S&P 500 closes at a record, erasing last of pandemic losses – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-coronavirus-stock-market-sp-record-20200818-zuakyzgcdja3hercxxdzss7cn4-story.html
— Residents of liberal New York enclave see their values tested when homeless move into fancy hotel – DANIEL E. SLOTNIK (DIERSEN: What do you say to those who want to dump people who are the following into your county, into your county district, into your township, into your municipality, into your municipal district, into your precinct, and/or into your neighborhood: Trump-haters, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, RINOs, liberals, moderates, homeless people, BLMers, LGBTers, minorities, females, young people, non-married people, non-Christians, non-Italian Americans, non-German Americans, those who have financial problems, those who have health problems, and/or those ancestors have not been in America for a long time?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-nyt-homeless-hotels-liberal-neighborhood-new-york-20200818-5k5myysobngathfscstdotjs3e-story.html
— The ethics reforms Illinois needs: Remove Mike Madigan. Clean house. – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-madigan-step-down-corruption-comed-20200818-sy3jdruvo5dqfgnox4icytpxxy-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Madigan proving the very real elephant in the virtual room for Illinois Democrats during convention Thorny questions about Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan have followed state party leaders to their virtual convention. – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/8/18/21374347/madigan-illinois-democratic-convention-comed-bribery-case-kelly-mendoza
— Dozens call for defunding of Chicago police at City Hall rally “The city of Chicago constantly prioritizes police over Black and Brown youth, especially in terms of funding,” said Destiny Harris, 19, of Austin. – Clare Proctor
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/18/21374102/defund-police-rally-city-hall-black-lives-matter
— Illinois Dem congressional delegation accuses Trump of trying to ‘sabotage’ the Postal Service “President Trump is attempting to gangster the Postal Service, to use it for his own political purposes,” U.S. Rep. Danny Davis said. – Stefano Esposito
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2020/8/18/21373736/postal-service-mail-ballots-illinois-democratic-congressional-delegation-accuses-trump-sabotage
— Lightfoot warns of layoffs and furloughs without revenue replacement money from Congress “If we don’t get help from the federal government, we have nothing but bad choices, including looking at layoffs and looking at furloughs,” Lightfoot said during a “COVID and the Economy” panel at the virtual Democratic convention. – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/8/18/21374039/democratic-convention-coronavirus-congress-stimulus-revenue-replacement-layoffs-furloughs
— FOP says ‘dozens’ of officers unfairly stripped of police powers since George Floyd’s death The complaint to the Illinois Labor Relations Board says sidelining cops during pending investigations should be done only if their actions are ‘going to lead to criminal charges or firing.’ – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/8/18/21373660/chicago-police-union-fop-complaint-george-floyd-investigations-officers-stripped-powers
— Chicago has $2.7B shortage of infrastructure dollars, aldermen told Budget Director Susie Park and other city officials outlined the magnitude of the capital funding shortage for the City Council’s Committee on Capital and Economic Development on Tuesday. – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/8/18/21374198/chicago-infrastructure-city-council-aldermen-construction-funding-shortfall
— 3 more charged in recent looting, including woman on bond for same crime One man allegedly said that once he was at the store, “he decided to do what everybody else was doing,” prosecutors said. – David Struett
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/8/18/21374374/looting-charges-hermes-brunello-cucinelli
— Illinois reports 1,740 new COVID-19 cases — and highest daily rate of positive test results in two and half months The state has reported four-digit caseloads of COVID-19 for four straight weeks. – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/8/18/21374180/illinois-covid-testing-positivity-increase-pritzker-cases-deaths-august-18
— Navy Pier to close until next spring as crowds dwindle amid COVID-19 pandemic The lakefront tourist attraction will shut down Sept. 8. The clout-heavy not-for-profit that runs it got nearly $2.5 million in federal coronavirus stimulus money. – David Roeder
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2020/8/18/21373710/chicago-navy-pier-close-covid-coronavirus-tourism-shakespeare-theater
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/18/21373201/democratic-national-convention-dnc-2020-obama-unity-trump-oskosh-guns-immigration
— ‘Never have we seen the kind of vitriol and anger’ that police are enduring now: Illinois FOP Recent protests have shown a sharp increase in radical actors whose goals center more on destroying property and injuring innocent citizens and police than on enacting social change. – Chris Southwood
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/18/21373993/police-brutality-protests-illinois-fraternal-order-of-police-social-unrest-justice-reform-op-ed

DAILY HERALD
— Illinois records highest single-day positivity rate since June 5 – Jake Griffin
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200818/illinois-records-highest-single-day-positivity-rate-since-june-5
— Counties installing secure boxes for dropped-off ballots ahead of election – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200818/counties-installing-secure-boxes-for-dropped-off-ballots-ahead-of-election

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Former Gov. Blagojevich to headline fundraiser in St. Charles for GOP State Senate candidate
https://www.nwherald.com/2020/08/18/former-gov-blagojevich-to-headline-fundraiser-in-st-charles-for-gop-state-senate-candidate/aslbhi0/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Mazzochi bill targets Madigan, corruption as she urges others to say ‘Take a hike, Mike’ – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/545746705-mazzochi-bill-targets-madigan-corruption-as-she-urges-others-to-say-take-a-hike-mike

CAPITOL FAX
— 15 Democratic state legislators issue statement condemning “lawless” protesters, supporting CPD
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/18/15-democratic-state-legislators-issue-statement-condemning-lawless-protesters-supporting-cpd/
— 1,740 new cases, 27 additional deaths, 1,510 in hospitals, 4.3 percent positivity rate
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/18/1740-new-cases-27-additional-deaths-1510-in-hospitals-43-percent-positivity-rate/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— How toxic sanctuary laws are ruining America’s suburbs – Dale Wilcox
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/18/how-toxic-sanctuary-laws-are-ruining-americas-subu/

BREITBART
— Chicago Mayor Lightfoot: ‘Reckoning’ Seen in Chicago ‘an Incredible Moment in Our Civic History’ – TRENT BAKER
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/08/18/chicago-mayor-lightfoot-reckoning-seen-in-chicago-other-cities-an-incredible-moment-in-our-civic-history/
— AOC Slams John Kasich: Someone Who ‘Fights Against Women’s Rights’ Cannot Speak for Democrats – Penny Starr
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/18/aoc-slams-john-kasich-someone-who-fights-against-womens-rights-cannot-speak-for-democrats/

NEWSMAX
— Is the The Ivy League Guilty of Progressive Racism? – Patrick Buchanan
https://www.newsmax.com/patrickbuchanan/asian-connerly-conservatives-yale/2020/08/18/id/982649/
— Blagojevich to Newsmax TV: I Don’t Recognize Democratic Party – Brian Trusdell
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/blagojevich-democrats-recognize-socialism/2020/08/18/id/982800/

NEWS BUSTERS
— New York Times Blind to Racial Bias at Yale – Clay Waters
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2020/08/18/galling-new-york-times-blind-racial-bias-yale-sees-it-improv-and

RUSH LIMBAUGH
— Thank Liberals for the Rolling Blackouts in California
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/08/18/thank-liberals-for-the-rolling-blackouts-in-california/

LIFE NEWS
— Facebook and Twitter Censor Hundreds of Conservative Users Before Joe Biden’s Nomination – CORINNE WEAVER
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/08/18/facebook-and-twitter-censor-hundreds-of-conservative-users-before-joe-bidens-nomination/

THE HILL
— Democrats’ platform is built with a lot of ‘We hate Trump’ planks – BERNARD GOLDBERG
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/512551-democrats-platform-is-built-with-a-lot-of-we-hate-trump-planks
— Five things to know on the Democratic platform – JONATHAN EASLEY, CRISTINA MARCOS AND MIKE LILLIS
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/512404-five-things-to-know-on-the-democratic-platform

POLITICO
— Postal Service cuts imperil ladder to middle class for many Black Americans – ELEANOR MUELLER and KELLIE MEJDRICH (DIERSEN: Since 1966 when I was 18 years old, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted a) that instead of me, the Post Office should have hired a Black American in 1966 and b) that the Post Office should gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a Black American could have my job.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/18/postal-service-cuts-imperil-ladder-to-middle-class-for-many-black-americans-398190
(FROM THE ARTICLE: That ticket to economic security could be in jeopardy now. If President Donald Trump and Congress fail to resolve their fight over Postal Service funding, it won’t just put the agency’s financial future at risk. It could imperil one of the country’s longest-running and most reliable civil service jobs, potentially forcing steep cuts to an estimated 669,000-person workforce that is more than one-quarter Black — a rate more than double that of the national labor force. The sheer reach of the post office in all 50 states combined with the federal government’s anti-discrimination policies have made employment there more accessible than most industries to generations of Black workers. The agency’s pay and benefits often allowed them to share in the American Dream even when racial discrimination was everywhere in the country. A unionized postal worker can make as much as $75,000 a year, well above the national average income.)

REUTERS
— Trump: ‘suburban’ Americans don’t want low-income housing foisted on them
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-suberbs/trump-suburban-americans-dont-want-low-income-housing-foisted-on-them-idUSKCN25E1X4

FORBES
— The Billionaires Backing Joe Biden’s Campaign – Michela Tindera
https://www3.forbes.com/business/the-billionaires-backing-joe-bidens-campaign-vue/

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 11 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Joe Biden selects California Sen. Kamala Harris as running mate – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/biden-selects-california-sen-kamala-harris-as-running-mate/6365843/
— Chicago cleans up after looting devastates Michigan Avenue, Loop, Gold Coast; More than 100 arrested, police say Access to the downtown area will be restricted from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. – Jessica D’Onofrio, Chuck Goudie, Michelle Gallardo, Eric Horng, Diane Pathieu
https://abc7chicago.com/looting-task-force-established-as-chicago-cleans-up-devastated-downtown-businesses/6365158/
— Chicago looting update: Mayor Lightfoot, CPD Supt. Brown face criticism over city’s response plan Many wonder why officers didn’t have body cameras at Englewood shooting scene that sparked looting – Craig Wall
https://abc7chicago.com/mayor-faces-criticism-over-citys-widespread-looting-response-plan/6366065/

NBC5
— Overnight Restrictions to Continue Downtown ‘for Foreseeable Future,’ Mayor Says Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications said the closures will continue Tuesday evening, beginning at 9 p.m.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/overnight-restrictions-to-continue-downtown-for-foreseeable-future-mayor-says/2320761/
— State Supreme Court Consolidates Lawsuits on Pritzker Orders – Sophia Tareen
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/court-illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-wont-have-to-appear-in-downstate-court/2320845/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Lightfoot acknowledges residents, businesses justifiably ‘fearful’ after second round of looting “People are fearful. They are afraid. And it’s up to us as leaders to offer concrete solutions and a path forward. And that’s what we’re gonna continue to do,” the mayor said. – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/8/11/21364020/chicago-looting-mag-mile-businesses-lightfoot-residents
— New Weed Street pot shop looted in 2nd burglary in 2 weeks; Highland Park dispensary also hit Cannabis stores that largely only accept cash have been attracting burglars since the drug was legalized for recreational use at the start of the year. – Tom Schuba
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2020/8/11/21364156/chicago-looting-weed-cannabis-marijuana-dispensary-weed-street-windy-city
— Seventh House Democrat calls on Madigan to hand over speaker’s gavel now: ‘It’s the right thing to do’ The freshman North Shore legislator has received nearly $247,000 from Madigan. She said she called the speaker to let him know she’d be calling for him to step down, but didn’t offer more details about their call. – Rachel Hinton
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/11/21363913/house-democrat-madigan-leadership-comed-speaker-chairman-gong-gershowitz
— DIERSEN HEADLINE Hate-filled Trump-haters say “Cook County Republicans’ attempt to block full and fair elections undermines democracy.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/11/21363994/mail-in-voting-elections-cook-county-republicans-liberty-justice-center
— When Chicago cops don’t wear body cameras, trust in policing erodes After a police shooting in Englewood on Sunday, so much false information and ill will could have been avoided had the officers been wearing bodycams. – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/11/21363816/chicago-police-cpd-body-cameras-latrell-allen-englewood-chicago-crime-editorial

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Joe Biden picks California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, passes over Sen. Tammy Duckworth – BILL RUTHHART and RICK PEARSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/election-2020/ct-tammy-duckworth-joe-biden-vice-president-pick-20200811-2g5xjbgocfgxzmligffwcoarju-story.html
— After Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she’s ‘quite shocked’ President Trump hadn’t weighed in on Chicago looting, he repeats offer to send federal help – GREGORY PRAT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-looting-trump-offers-federal-help-20200811-3su4njj4b5g5fe5ceggvqesxzm-story.html
— In the wake of controversial Englewood shooting, Mayor Lightfoot says all Chicago police officers dealing with public need to have body cameras – GREGORY PRATT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-englewood-shooting-lightfoot-body-cameras-20200811-wpi5imumvrbclovnswm6kqug6i-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— DuPage scraps plan for referendum on abolishing recorder’s office – Robert Sanchez
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200811/dupage-scraps-plan-for-referendum-on-abolishing-recorders-office
— Some Lake County employees face pay cuts through unpaid holidays – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200811/some-lake-county-employees-face-pay-cuts-through-unpaid-holidays
— Lake County Board extends emergency declaration until Sept. 8
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200811/lake-county-board-extends-emergency-declaration-until-sept-8
— St. Charles seeking candidates to fill Third Ward council vacancy – Lauren Rohr
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200811/st-charles-seeking-candidates-to-fill-third-ward-council-vacancy
— Pritzker’s mask rule survives legislative panel vote – Peter Hancock
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200811/pritzkers-mask-rule-survives-legislative-panel-vote
— Kane County is ready for votes by mail – Harry Hitzeman
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200810/kane-county-is-ready-for-votes-by-mail
— Suburbs averaging 769 new COVID-19 cases a day, up from 403 a month ago – Jake Griffin
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200811/suburbs-averaging-769-new-covid-19-cases-a-day-up-from-403-a-month-ago
— Accurate voting rolls – Jan Shaw, Wheaton
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20200810/accurate-voting-rolls

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Latest downtown looting has some rethinking commitment to city A second wave of looting this week has discouraged business owners and residents, some of whom are calling for a safety plan or help from the federal government. – LYNNE MAREK
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/government/latest-downtown-looting-has-some-rethinking-commitment-city
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Homeowners questioning city life after this week’s unrest “People are now shifting ideas about where they want to live and work. Some are deciding they no longer have to be in a city center. The latest violence has prompted people to consider new options for the first time.” – H. LEE MURPHY
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/homeowners-questioning-city-life-after-weeks-unrest

CENTER SQUARE
— Illinois municipal group says state’s control over local stimulus funds ‘unfortunate’ – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/illinois-municipal-group-says-state-s-control-over-local-stimulus-funds-unfortunate/article_f8f14268-dc1f-11ea-b9a8-d7e2a120c790.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Coronavirus Cases in Illinois Currently Decoupled from Hospitalizations and Death
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/11/coronavirus-cases-in-illinois-currently-decoupled-from-hospitalizations-and-death/
— Reader Calls Out McHenry Grade School for Ignoring Special Ed Children
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/11/reader-calls-out-mchenry-grade-school-for-ignoring-special-ed-children/
— McHenry County Electoral Board Grants Ballot Access to Libertarian Party Candidates for Auditor and Coroner
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/11/mchenry-county-electoral-board-grants-ballot-access-to-libertarian-party-candidates-for-auditor-and-coroner/
— Anothehttps://capitolfax.com/2020/08/11/rep-jennifer-gong-gershowitz-calls-on-madigan-to-resign/ Attack on Madigan, This Time a Civil RICO Suit
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/11/another-attack-on-madigan-this-time-a-civil-rico-suit/
— Algonquin Township Board to Set Officials’ Compensation at Wednesday Meeting
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/11/algonquin-township-board-to-set-officials-compensation-at-wednesday-meeting/
— Illinois Supreme Court Keeps Pritzker from Discovering Where Clay County Is
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/11/illinois-supreme-court-keeps-pritzker-from-discovering-where-clay-county-is/
— How Are Working Parents to Cope with Continued Remote Learning?
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/11/how-are-working-parents-to-cope-with-continued-remote-learning/
— FBI Seeks Tips about Looters
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/11/fbi-seeks-tips-about-looters/
— More Dems (Only Marengo’s Peter Janko from McHenry County) Call for Madigan to Resign as Party Chairman
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/11/more-dems-only-marengos-peter-janko-from-mchenry-county-call-for-madigan-to-resign-as-party-chairman/

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Governor JB Pritzker Runs to Illinois Supreme Court Who Granted Motion to Stay Motion for Contempt in Bailey Case – KIRK ALLEN & JOHN KRAFT
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2020/08/governor-jb-pritzker-runs-to-illinois-supreme-court-who-granted-motion-to-stay-motion-for-contempt-in-bailey-case/
— JCAR “Approved” IDPH / Gov. Pritzker’s Fines On Local Businesses – JOHN KRAFT & KIRK ALLEN
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2020/08/jcar-approved-idph-gov-pritzkers-fines-on-local-businesses/

CAPITOL FAX
— 1,549 new cases, 20 additional deaths, 4.1 percent positivity rate
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/11/1549-new-cases-20-additional-deaths-41-positivity-rate/
— Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz calls on Madigan to resign
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/11/rep-jennifer-gong-gershowitz-calls-on-madigan-to-resign/

GOPUSA
— Black Lives Matter Holds Rally Supporting Chicago Looters: ‘That Is Reparations’
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=93227

BREITBART
— OUTSTANDING: Hundreds Attend ‘Back the Blue’ Rally in North Carolina – AMY FURR
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/08/10/video-hundreds-attend-back-the-blue-rally-in-north-carolina/

FEDERALIST
— How Forced Isolation Makes Huge Power Grabs Possible Today’s wannabe social controllers are clearly using the virus as a sort of obedience school where we can be conditioned through isolation to conform to their demands. – Stella Morabito
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/11/how-forced-isolation-makes-huge-power-grabs-possible/

NEW YORK POST
— Black Lives Matter organizer calls Chicago looting ‘reparation’ – Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
https://nypost.com/2020/08/11/black-lives-matter-organizer-calls-chicago-looting-reparation/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Mayhem Continues, Protest Narrative Crumbles Looters rampage in Chicago and arson returns in Portland. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mayhem-continues-protest-narrative-crumbles-11597101805

August 8 Evening Edition

ABC7
— COVID-19 executive orders: A breakdown of Trump’s actions on $400 weekly unemployment boost, evictions, student loans, payroll taxes – Alex Meier
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/what-to-know-about-trumps-covid-related-executive-orders/6361542/
— Gov. Pritzker to appear in Clay County court over state’s emergency order or face contempt, judge says The governor is facing an arrest warrant unless he shows up in court
https://abc7chicago.com/jb-pritzker-clay-county-appear-in-court-illinois-emergency-order/6361071/

NBC5
— Vote-By-Mail Worries: A ‘Leaky Pipeline’ in Many States Amid the coronavirus pandemic, voting by mail in a contactless and socially distant way seems like a no-brainer – Frank Bajak and Christina A. Cassidy
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/vote-by-mail-worries-a-leaky-pipeline-in-many-states/2319208/
— Bikers Descend on Sturgis Rally With Few Signs of Pandemic The motorcycle rally is expected to draw up to 250,000 people – Stephen Groves
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/bikers-descend-on-sturgis-rally-with-few-signs-of-pandemic/2319190/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Statewide count of confirmed COVID-19 cases surpasses 2,000 for the second day in a row
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-pandemic-chicago-illinois-news-20200808-ktjoq7n25zbt5mlber2vvwnwaq-story.html
— Trump signs executive orders for $400-a-week unemployment benefit, deferral of payroll tax and federal student loan payments – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-second-coronavirus-stimulus-check-updates-20200808-onmao3lsnne65a67q4lihtv42e-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois’ COVID-19 rise continues with second straight 2,000-case day
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/8/21359734/latest-coronavirus-news-live-updates-chicago-illinois-2020
— “I had to look at my daughters and remind them what it means to do what’s right” It will be fascinating to see what happens with Terra Costa Howard in the coming weeks after she publicly called for Mike Madigan to step down as House speaker. – Rich Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/8/7/21359284/terra-costa-howard-mike-madigan-ethics-scandal-illinois-politics-rich-miller

WBBM
— Durbin Blasts Trump For Using Executive Powers To Extend Economic Relief After Congress Failed To Strike Deal – JIM GUDAS
https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/durbin-blasts-trump-for-using-executive-powers-for-relief

HERALD & REVIEW
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: To push pot on an individual, organization, company, government, or country is to destroy that individual, organization, company, government, or country.
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/marijuana-is-no-longer-a-dirty-little-secret-weed-sales-are-soaring-in-illinois-and/article_01cc7bb0-a309-5ab0-b99d-1a3b51fb8741.html

FOX NEWS
— Leo Terrell: Joe Biden gets pass on ‘diversity’ comment because he’s Democrat ‘If Trump made the same remark, there would be ‘riots in the streets,’ he says – Joshua Nelson
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/leo-terrell-joe-biden-diversity-democrat
— Trump says Biden is no longer worthy of the Black vote following diversity remark
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/trump-says-biden-is-no-longer-worthy-of-the-black-vote-following-diversity-remark
— ‘Cancel culture’ distorts history to portray US as evil nation that must be transformed The repercussions of this massacre of our nation’s history are real and significant ​ – Cabot Phillips
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/cabot-phillips-cancel-culture-distorts-history-to-portray-us-as-evil-nation-that-must-be-transformed

BREITBART
— De Blasio to New Yorkers Wary of Public Transport over Coronavirus: ‘Do Not Buy a Car’ – NATE CHURCH
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/07/de-blasio-to-new-yorkers-wary-of-public-transport-over-coronavirus-do-not-buy-a-car/
— Donald Trump: Democrats Want to Use Coronavirus Aid Bill to Steal the Election – CHARLIE SPIERING
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/08/donald-trump-democrats-want-to-use-coronavirus-aid-bill-to-steal-the-election/

TOWNHALL
— Why Don’t These Black Lives Matter? – Paul Driessen
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2020/08/08/why-dont-these-black-lives-matter-n2573964

PJ MEDIA
— How to Achieve Woke Justice – PHILIP CARL SALZMAN
https://pjmedia.com/columns/philip-carl-salzman/2020/08/08/how-to-achieve-woke-justice-n766100
— Ilhan Omar Won’t Get Prosecuted for Immigration Fraud, Showing Who Really Has the Privilege – ROBERT SPENCER
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2020/08/08/ilhan-omar-wont-get-prosecuted-for-immigration-fraud-showing-who-really-has-the-privilege-n766805

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Tucker: Left weaponizes pandemic to turn U.S. on its head, transform country until it’s unrecognizable – Samantha Chang
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/08/07/tucker-left-weaponizes-pandemic-to-turn-u-s-on-its-head-transform-country-until-its-unrecognizable-956867

CCN
— 7 Companies You Should Boycott If You Truly Despise Donald Trump – Aaron Weaver
https://www.ccn.com/7-companies-you-should-boycott-if-you-truly-despise-donald-trump/

THE HILL
— Both parties need to create a pro-aging party platform – PETER KALDES (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who promote age discrimination. Better yet, I should sue them. 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 falsely paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican. I would focus on those who are present and past leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/511158-both-parties-need-to-create-a-pro-aging-party-platform
— Raise a toast to alcohol reform – MICHAEL LAFAIVE AND JARRETT DIETERLE (DIERSEN: Virtually all my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes are heavy drinkers. The more booze that they drink, the ruder that they get. I should write a book about the rudest heavy-drinking people that I have had to deal with during the last 20 years. I would focus on present and past activists, candidates, elected officials, party leaders, major donors, political consultants, campaign managers, government employees, etc. in my precinct, in Wheaton’s West District, in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County’s 4th District, in DuPage County, and in Illinois. I would focus on those who falsely paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/510753-raise-a-toast-to-alcohol-reform

MSNBC
— Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist: Eradicating racism is every elected official’s responsibility – ALI VELSHI (DIERSEN: Eradicating racism is code for getting rid of Whites who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, 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.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/lt-governor-garlin-gilchrist-eradicating-racism-is-every-elected-official-s-responsibility-89780293885

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hater says “Trump sent agents to quell unrest. But protest is what Portland does best.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/08/trump-sent-agents-quell-unrest-protest-is-what-portland-does-best/

STAR HERALD
— Losing trust in media, it’s easy to see why – JONAH GOLDBERG
https://starherald.com/opinion/columnists/syndicated/jonah-goldberg-losing-trust-in-media-it-s-easy-to-see-why/article_8a987610-cc43-5dfb-aa1e-69ec52beafa8.html

DANBURY NEWS OBSERVER
— OUTSTANDING: ‘All lives matter:’ Back the Blue NC gathers in downtown Raleigh to support police – VIRGINIA BRIDGES
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article244819907.html

FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM
— OUTSTANDING: More than 100 ‘back the blue’ at rally in Fort Worth, oppose defunding police – JACK HOWLAND
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article244827747.html

KELOLAND
— OUTSTANDING: ‘Sioux Falls Area Back the Blue Rally’ sees large crowd – Lauren Soulek
https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/sioux-falls-area-back-the-blue-rally-sees-large-crowd/

DANBURY NEWS TIMES
— OUTSTANDING: Danbury rallies at police station to ‘Back the Blue’ – Julia Perkins
https://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Danbury-rallies-at-police-station-to-Back-the-15469396.php

WRAL
— OUTSTANDING: Back the Blue: Rally to support Raleigh police draws large crowd in downtown
https://www.wral.com/back-the-blue-rally-to-support-raleigh-police-draws-large-crowd-in-downtown/19226576/

TULSA WORLD
— Tulsa one of many communities grappling with implications of ‘Black Lives Matter’ street paintings – Kevin Canfield and Stetson Payne
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/tulsa-one-of-many-communities-grappling-with-implications-of-black-lives-matter-street-paintings/article_80aa3e63-c378-5f76-9635-ca4c4f05916d.html

NEWSWEEK
— Portland Mayor Says Rioters Are ‘Prop’ for Trump’s Reelection Campaign – JEFFERY MARTIN
https://www.newsweek.com/portland-mayor-says-rioters-are-prop-trumps-reelection-campaign-1523739
— Former NFL Player, GOP Congressional Candidate Burgess Owens Demands NBA, NFL Players ‘Stand Up, Man Up’ for National Anthem – BENJAMIN FEARNOW
https://www.newsweek.com/former-nfl-player-gop-congressional-candidate-demands-nba-nfl-players-stand-man-national-1523797

August 7 Evening Edition

WGN TV
— Pritzker issues rule to penalize businesses that violate mask requirements with fines up to $2,500 – Erik Runge
https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/gov-pritzker-expected-to-announce-new-covid-19-restrictions/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Coronavirus in Illinois updates: For first time in more than 2 months, over 2,000 new COVID-19 cases reported; Gov. Pritzker announces new emergency rules for mask requirements
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-pandemic-chicago-illinois-news-20200807-zbh6jqouwbe2hiys4nkwjl4k3u-story.html
— President Trump hates mail-in voting, until he doesn’t – CLARENCE PAGE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/clarence-page/ct-column-donald-trump-absentee-ballots-mitch-mcconnell-page-20200807-5ksiexr57bafdllsjgiy3eottm-story.html
— A lesson in contrasts: How the GOP purged its leader amid corruption allegations – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-corruption-madigan-comed-lee-daniels-20200807-3q6u23z34ncvrii6mlctw2ydwy-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In June 2002, then-Illinois Republican Party Chairman Lee Daniels abruptly announced his resignation from that party post as pressure mounted, including from the GOP state attorney general, to remove unwanted “distractions” in an election year. Daniels and his chief of staff had fallen under the radar of federal prosecutors who were investigating whether GOP staff members did campaign work on state time. “The party deserves to serve its purpose without unwarranted distractions,” Daniels, who as House minority leader was House Speaker Michael Madigan’s counterpart, said in announcing he would step down as party chair. “For that reason, it is best that I refocus my energy and encourage others to refocus theirs.” Not long after, the House Republican caucus voted 33-18 to install a new House leader, Rep. Tom Cross, after Daniels lost support among his colleagues in that role too. Daniels had not been charged and was only peripherally linked to a time sheet scandal, but the whiff of a federal corruption probe pushed his members to force him out of leadership. Three years later, Daniels’ chief of staff, Michael Tristano, formally was indicted and later pleaded guilty to a fraud charge as part of a probe into state workers’ diverting taxpayer resources to campaigns. Tristano also was accused of working out a deal with a real estate group to put a Republican candidate on its payroll. In exchange, the real estate group’s project received more than $1 million in state funds, prosecutors said. Other statehouse insiders, including Madigan, then-Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka and Senate President Emil Jones, also had been asked to turn over records as part of a state-resources-to-campaigns scandal. Shortly after Tristano’s indictment in 2005, Daniels announced he would retire from his remaining position as a state representative. Daniels was not implicated in Tristano’s indictment, and he was never charged with wrongdoing. But he left anyway. A top GOP party and policy leader in the state who once held three positions of power was gone, pushed out by his own members and a nudge from the previous GOP attorney general, Jim Ryan, who had forwarded corruption allegations to federal investigators. Under the lens of compare and contrast, then and now, one takeaway is this state’s breathtaking tolerance for corruption. It has settled into the system of governance and politics as its own permanent institution. Corruption is an expected byproduct of serving in public office, like wind makes waves.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A disgusting pot pusher says “Marijuana is no longer a ‘dirty little secret.’ Weed sales are soaring in Illinois, and the pandemic is helping.” To push pot on an individual, organization, company, government, or country is to destroy that individual, organization, company, government, or country.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/marijuana/illinois/ct-biz-pandemic-drives-marijuana-demand-illinois-20200807-apayvzzapbcz7fgia2elfm7vwu-htmlstory.html
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Naperville City Council expected to vote on recreational marijuana dispensaries this month – ERIN HEGARTY (DIERSEN: To push pot on an individual, municipality, organization, company, government, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, organization, company, government, or country.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-recreational-marijuana-sales-zoning-st-20200807-hk4ygrbkxragxdq74gde6fndvi-story.html
— Who would Gov. Pritzker choose to fill Tammy Duckworth’s Senate seat if she becomes VP? – ERIC ZORN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-zorn/ct-column-senate-seat-duckworth-pritzker-pick-zorn-20200807-qhxwsahfongv3pzbusniczrt3m-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— 4 top legislators use ‘millionaire’s exemption,’ other loophole to avoid campaign cash limits House Speaker Michael Madigan, Senate President Don Harmon and top Republicans Rep. Jim Durkin, Sen. Bill Brady all have gotten around post-Blagojevich-era reforms. – BGA
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/8/7/21358791/michael-madigan-don-harmon-jim-durkin-bill-brady-millionaires-exemption-campaign-finance-blagojevich
— OUTRAGEOUS: Black Lives Matter movement street art, murals see a surge in Chicago post-George Floyd – Clare Proctor
https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2020/8/7/21340321/chicago-murals-black-lives-matter-darius-dennis-dred-ske-wicker-park-leons-bar-b-q-sounding-boards
— Illinois’ new COVID-19 cases top 2,000 — but are Pritzker’s proposed ‘common sense’ masking rules really ‘a slap in the face?’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/essential-coronavirus-news/2020/8/7/21358456/latest-coronavirus-news-live-updates-chicago-illinois-2020

DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County Board candidate Hadiya Afzal says Democrats abandoned her when going got tough – Katlyn Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200807/dupage-county-board-candidate-says-democrats-abandoned-her-when-going-got-tough

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-haters promote Goya boycott.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/consumer-products/goya-boycott-gives-opening-la-preferida-will-it-capitalize
— CHICAGO’S 100 BEST PLACES TO WORK IN 2020 (DIERSEN: Democrats run the federal government. One would expect that the federal government would be the best place to work for employees who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or younger because the Democrats who run the federal government get rid of their employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who they did not promote 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 government employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/employment/chicagos-best-places-work-2020-list

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Ohio governor’s COVID-19 results show test’s imperfections – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ohio-governors-covid-19-results-show-tests-imperfections/

POSITIVELY NAPERVILLE
— Leaders of DuPage and Kane counties unite to prevent increase of virus activity
https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2020/08/07/leaders-of-dupage-and-kane-counties-unite-to-prevent-increase-of-virus-activity/114469

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Gov Pritzker Ordered to Appear in Clay County Court: Rule to Show Cause – JOHN KRAFT & KIRK ALLEN
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2020/08/gov-pritzker-ordered-to-appear-in-clay-county-court-rule-to-show-cause/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— FACEBOOK SLAPS ILLINOIS REVIEW’S WRIST FOR SHARING BREITBART STORY
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/facebook-slaps-illinois-reviews-wrist-for-sharing-breitbart-story-.html
— PRITZKER ORDERED TO APPEAR BEFORE CLAY COUNTY JUDGE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/pritzker-ordered-to-appear-before-clay-county-judge-.html
— THORNER: BALLOT HARVESTING AS A SOURCE OF VOTING FRAUD
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/thorner-ballot-harvesting-as-a-source-of-voting-fraud-.html
— ILLINOIS GOVERNOR ORDERS BUSINESSES TO ENFORCE COVID MASK MANDATE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/illinois-governor-orders-businesses-to-enforce-covid-mask-mandate.html
— BUSINESSES ORGANIZE TO RESIST GOV PRITZKER’S PLAN MAKING THEM COVID MASK ENFORCERS
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/businesses-organize-to-resist-gov-pritzkers-plan-making-them-covid-mask-enforcers.html
— BIDEN’S DISASTROUS INTERVIEW PROVES CRINGEWORTHY
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/08/bidens-disastrous-interview-proves-cringeworthy.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Governor’s office responds *** Durkin expands special session call to face-mask issue
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/07/durkin-expands-special-session-call-to-face-mask-issue/
— Governor’s office calls order “procedurally improper, violating elementary principles of fairness” *** Pritzker ordered to appear in Clay County
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/07/pritzker-ordered-to-appear-in-clay-county/
— COVID-19 roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/07/covid-19-roundup-51/
— 2,084 new cases, 21 additional deaths, 4.1 percent positivity rate
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/07/2084-new-cases-21-additional-deaths-41-percent-positivity-rate/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— OUTSTANDING: AG Barr stops motorcade to thank ‘Back the Blue’ demonstrators – Jessica Chasmar (DIERSEN: Organizations and companies that are religious, conservative, and/or Republican and Republican candidates on November 3, 2020 ballots should buy Back the Blue yard signs in large bulk quantities and distribute them to homeowners who are religious, conservative, and/or Republican.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/7/william-barr-stops-motorcade-to-thank-back-the-blu/

GOPUSA
— Is Covid Testing Trustworthy? 2nd, Deeper Test Says Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Doesn’t Have It
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=93084

FOX NEWS
— Feds discover ‘most sophisticated’ cross-border tunnel with extensive ventilation, rail system – Sam Dorman
https://www.foxnews.com/us/cross-border-tunnel-sophisticated-us-history

BREITBART
— OUTSTANDING: Massachusetts ‘Back the Blue’ Rally Sees Record Turnout – NATE CHURCH
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/07/massachusetts-back-the-blue-rally-sees-record-turnout/

BLAZE
— New York treating law-abiding Americans as criminals, while promoting criminals and illegal aliens With violent gang members and shooters being released, there’s no deterrent against crime – DANIEL HOROWITZ
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-new-york-treating-law-abiding-americans-as-criminals-while-promoting-criminals-and-illegal-aliens

NEWSMAX
— Campus Dissent Felled by Resurgent Orwellian State – Ziva Dahl
https://www.newsmax.com/zivadahl/college-campus-dissent/2020/08/07/id/981019/

ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK
— Black Lives Matter, Antifa Terrorist Using Nazi Tactics
https://www.oann.com/black-lives-matter-antifa-terrorist-using-nazi-tactics/

EPOCH TIMES
— OUTRAGEOUS: Kansas City Council Votes in Favor of Painting Black Lives Matter Street Murals – ISABEL VAN BRUGEN
https://www.theepochtimes.com/kansas-city-council-votes-in-favor-of-painting-black-lives-matter-street-murals_3453561.html

WORLD TRIBUNE
— Organizer of Asheville ‘Back the Blue’ rally got no support from city, media (DIERSEN: Do the following back Back the Blue OR do they back Black Lives Matter: a) the leaders of your municipal district, your municipality, your township, your county district, and your county; b) your state representative; c) your state senator; d) your U.S. representative; and e) the candidates on the November 3, 2020 ballot for your precinct?)
https://www.worldtribune.com/organizer-of-asheville-back-the-blue-rally-got-no-support-from-city-media/

THE HILL
— Barr pulls over to thank pro-police rally in Virginia – MARINA PITOFSKY
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/511029-barr-pulls-over-to-thank-pro-police-rally-in-virginia

NEW YORK TIMES
— Leaving New York: How to Choose the Right Suburb Set your priorities — walkable town, easy commute, good schools, waterfront access or something else? Then start exploring. – Julie Lasky (DIERSEN: What do you say to hypocritical hate-filled Republican-haters who hypocritically flee Democrat areas and come 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.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/realestate/coronavirus-escape-suburbs-new-york.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Impugning faith has long been in Trump’s playbook, but Biden won’t let it slide – James Hohmann (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who have impugned my faith. 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 promote booze, gambling, pot, and other vices. They stress that unlike them, I am not a member of a church, I do not attend church services, and I do not give money to a church. They stress that on Saturday evenings or Sunday mornings, instead of attending church services like they do, I put GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails together and send them out. I would focus on those who hate Missouri Synod Lutherans (MSL). I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a MSL. My outstanding parents sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with MSL.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/07/daily-202-impugning-faith-has-long-been-trumps-playbook-biden-wont-let-it-slide/

AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE
— 9 Tips for Covering Election Misinformation – ANDREW ROCKWAY, JOHN HERNANDEZ, AND JOY MAYER
https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/elections/9-tips-election-misinformation/

RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 27% With Guns in the House Bought One in Last Six Months
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/gun_control/27_with_guns_in_the_house_bought_one_in_last_six_months

ZILLOW
— FOR SALE: 225 West Park Avenue, Wheaton – $350,000
https://www.zillow.com/wheaton-il/X1-SS1apc9gppw622z_3o1g1_sse/4448245_zpid/

August 3 Evening Edition

WHITE HOUSE
— President Trump just signed an executive order to protect American jobs from foreign labor (DIERSEN: I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years. Because federal employees have to be citizens of America, I was protected from foreign labor.)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600daily/

NBC5
— Illinois’ 7-Day Positivity Rate Reaches 4% as State Reports Nearly 1,300 New Cases The last time the state went above 4 percent in that category was on June 11, according to data compiled by the NBC 5 Investigates team
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/illinois-7-day-positivity-rate-reaches-4-as-state-reports-nearly-1300-new-cases/2316004/
— House Panel Calls New Postal Chief to Explain Mail Delays Hearing comes following changes that eliminated overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal workers – Matthew Daly
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/house-panel-calls-new-postal-chief-to-explain-mail-delays/2316235/

CBS2
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Illinois Marijuana Sales Break Another Record, With $61 Million Sold In July (DIERSEN: When you were young, instead of pot, booze, gambling, other vices, and other immediate pleasures, what did you spend your money on? I spent lots of my money on a) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970, b) earning job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, and c) earning job-related professional certifications when I was 30 and 32.)
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/08/03/illinois-marijuana-sales-break-another-record-with-61-million-sold-in-july/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Vote to renominate Donald Trump will be conducted in private – AP
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/vote-to-renominate-donald-trump-will-be-conducted-in-private

WGN RADIO
— Illinois State Board of Elections: ‘Really plan your vote this year’ – John Williams
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/illinois-state-board-of-elections-really-plan-your-vote-this-year/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Recreational marijuana sales reached almost $61 million in July, shattering previous record – ALLY MAROTTI (DIERSEN: When you were young, instead of pot, booze, gambling, other vices, and other immediate pleasures, what did you spend your money on? I spent lots of my money on a) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970, b) earning job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, and c) earning job-related professional certifications when I was 30 and 32.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/marijuana/illinois/ct-biz-july-recreational-marijuana-sales-illinois-20200803-mje53r54afalnbeknigy76vviu-story.html
— Oswego rally aims to keep focus on social injustice, reform – DAVID SHAROS (DIERSEN: When will there be a Back the Blue rally?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct-abn-oswego-rally-st-0804-20200803-2wcgivzrtfhxxfuli32astlj3i-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Record pot sales continue with $61M in July; total for 2020 eclipses $300M July sales of recreational weed shattered the June record by nearly 30 percent. – Tom Schuba (DIERSEN: When you were young, instead of pot, booze, gambling, other vices, and other immediate pleasures, what did you spend your money on? I spent lots of my money on a) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970, b) earning job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, and c) earning job-related professional certifications when I was 30 and 32.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2020/8/3/21352865/chicago-dispensaries-illinois-weed-cannabis-pot-marijuana-july
— Teachers, activists rally to keep CPS schools closed during COVID-19 pandemic Multiple demonstrations Monday were held to halt a plan to send most students back to school two days per week. – Nader Issa
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2020/8/3/21352513/cps-public-schools-pandemic-reopen-close-ctu-covid-remote-learning

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Citibank will replace destroyed Gresham branch—but maybe not in Gresham One of just three banks in the South Side’s most populated Black neighborhood, the location on 79th Street was in a strip mall that was burned during the looting in late May. – STEVE DANIELS
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/finance-banking/citibank-will-replace-destroyed-gresham-branch-maybe-not-gresham
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Illinois weed sales set record in July Pot purchases surged 28 percent to $60.9 million, beating a strong increase in June. – JOHN PLETZ (DIERSEN: When you were young, instead of pot, booze, gambling, other vices, and other immediate pleasures, what did you spend your money on? I spent lots of my money on a) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970, b) earning job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, and c) earning job-related professional certifications when I was 30 and 32.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marijuanacannabis/illinois-weed-sales-set-record-july

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Legislator calls on Illinois state Rep. John Cabello to step down after Facebook comments – Corina Curry
https://www.rrstar.com/news/20200803/legislator-calls-on-illinois-state-rep-john-cabello-to-step-down-after-facebook-comments

WREX
— Winnebago County State’s Attorney calls Rep. Cabello’s comment ‘complicit in unlawful activity’ – Jena Kleindl
https://wrex.com/2020/08/03/winnebago-county-states-attorney-calls-rep-cabellos-comment-complicit-in-unlawful-activity/

CENTER SQUARE
— Republicans take Democrats to task for taking campaign funds under Madigan control – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/republicans-take-democrats-to-task-for-taking-campaign-funds-under-madigan-control/article_b4c04296-d5c2-11ea-9885-0399ef9559e9.html

CAPITOL FAX
— 1,298 new cases, 10 additional deaths, 4.0 percent positivity rate
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/03/1298-new-cases-10-additional-deaths-40-percent-positivity-rate/
— COVID-19 roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/03/covid-19-roundup-50/
— Because… Radical Madigan!
https://capitolfax.com/2020/08/03/because-radical-madigan/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats use COVID-19 unemployment to buy votes – Cheryl K. Chumley
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/3/democrats-use-covid-19-unemployment-buy-votes/
— Gun sales surge an estimated 135% in July amid coronavirus, rioting fears – David Sherfinski
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/3/gun-background-checks-jump-79-july-amid-coronaviru/

GOPUSA
— Again? Mitt Romney Sides With Democrats On Mail In Voting Amid Coronavirus
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=92885

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION
— ACU FOUNDATION LEGISLATIVE RATINGS FOR ILLINOIS 2019
http://acuratings.conservative.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/09/CLA_Illinois_2019_web.pdf

BREITBART
— Chicago-Area Leaders: Cancel U.S. History Classes – DR. SUSAN BERRY
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/03/chicago-area-leaders-cancel-u-s-history-classes/
— American Worker Advocates Celebrate H-1B Visa Reforms: ‘This Is Why America Elected Trump!’ – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/03/american-worker-advocates-celebrate-h-1b-visa-reforms-this-is-why-america-elected-trump/
— Communist Party Leader Endorses Joe Biden – ALANA MASTRANGELO
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/03/communist-party-leader-endorses-joe-biden/
— Sean Hannity: Joe Biden Keeps Moving Left, Unlike Previous Democrat Nominees – ROBERT KRAYCHIK
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/03/sean-hannity-joe-biden-keeps-moving-left-unlike-previous-democrat-nominees/

FEDERALIST
— Antifa’s Support For Open Borders Proves They’re Anti-American, Not Antifascist In its attempts to defend and legitimize Antifa, the elite media has tried to claim the movement has a long ‘antifascist’ and communist pedigree, a deep historical lineage, and an ideological coherency – Brad Betters
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/03/antifas-support-for-open-borders-proves-theyre-anti-american-not-antifascist/
— Americans Are Turning Away From Religion Toward Dangerous Secular Cults On the right and the left, pseudo-religious cults are ensnaring a growing number of Americans as traditional religions decline. – John Daniel Davidson
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/03/americans-are-turning-away-from-religion-toward-dangerous-secular-cults/

NEWSMAX
— Burning Bibles Won’t Bring Utopia – James Hirsen (DIERSEN: Just kidding, but how soon will my critics/opponents print out copies of my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and burn them in front of a) government buildings in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, b) Wheaton Chamber of Commerce headquarters, c) Wheaton Downtown Association headquarters, d) Milton Township Republican Organization election headquarters (if/when it opens), e) Ives campaign headquarters in my precinct, f) etc.?)
https://www.newsmax.com/jameshirsen/christ-king/2020/08/03/id/980285/

NBC NEWS
— For richer and poorer, Uncle Sam’s coronavirus response widened the gulf Experts say there are strong reasons to believe that less-well-to-do business owners have suffered disproportionately and gotten less help from the government during the crisis. – Jonathan Allen
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/richer-poorer-uncle-sam-s-coronavirus-response-widened-gulf-n1234073

WASHINGTON POST
— Why not everyone was kneeling during the NBA anthem demonstration – Ben Golliver (DIERSEN: Are YOU a Republican? If YOU are a Republican, soon, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs will demand that YOU kneel before them. How will YOU respond?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/03/nba-kneeling-national-anthem/
— It is diversity that makes ‘suburban dreams’ come true – Velma Smith, Falls Church (DIERSEN: What do you say to hypocritical hate-filled Republican-haters who hypocritically flee Democrat areas and come to Republican areas to hypocritically take advantage the prosperity and safety that Republicans created there?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/it-is-diversity-that-makes-suburban-dreams-come-true/2020/08/03/04b001de-d33d-11ea-826b-cc394d824e35_story.html

NEW YORK POST
— De Blasio admits city skipped permit process to paint Black Lives Matter murals – Julia Marsh (DIERSEN: What kinds of murals do those who run your municipality want painted on the street in front of your home?)
https://nypost.com/2020/08/03/de-blasio-admits-city-skipped-permit-process-to-paint-blm-murals/

CHATTANNOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS
— Trump fires TVA chair, cites hiring of foreign workers – AP
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2020/aug/03/trump-takes-disciplinary-action-against-tva-leadership/528926/#/questions

FORBES
— White House Reportedly Now Requiring Staff Coronavirus Testing After Trump Bashed Increased Diagnostics – Lisette Voytko
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/08/03/white-house-reportedly-now-requiring-staff-coronavirus-testing-after-trump-bashed-increased-diagnostics/

BLOOMBERG
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-haters shout at Blacks, and at everyone else, that Trump has caused all their problems.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-08-03/nba-coaches-for-racial-justice-video

August 2 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Coronavirus Illinois: 1,467 new COVID-19 cases, 14 deaths 11 Illinois counties considered ‘warning level’ for COVID-19: health officials
https://abc7chicago.com/health/illinois-reports-1467-new-covid-19-cases-14-deaths/6349051/
— Garfield Ridge Dunkin’ employee charged with spitting in Illinois state trooper’s coffee  Coffee shop located on Chicago’s Southwest Side on Archer Avenue
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-dunkin-employee-charged-with-spitting-in-state-troopers-coffee/6349210/
— Evanston group calls for history class to be updated with contributions from underrepresented groups (DIERSEN: To “update” history is to dump contributions by those who were conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Italian American, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://abc7chicago.com/community-events/evanston-group-calls-for-current-history-class-to-be-cancelled-/6349330/

NBC5
— RNC: Decision on Private Trump Renomination Vote Not Final While Trump called off the public components of the convention in Florida last month, citing spiking cases of the virus across the country, 336 delegates are scheduled to gather in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Aug. 24 to formally vote to make Trump the GOP standard-bearer once more – Kevin Freking
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/gop-renomination-of-trump-to-be-held-in-private/2315494/
— Clock Is Ticking on Trump Comeback as Early Voting Nears Aides are increasingly worried that the 2020 campaign may already be defined as a referendum on Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and will feature a historic shift to remote and early vote options – Jonathan Lemire and Zeke Miller (DIERSEN: The “clock is ticking” for all the candidates.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/clock-is-ticking-on-trump-comeback-as-early-voting-nears/2315720/

CBS2
— Large Group Of Protesters Gathers Downtown For Police Reform, Against ICE Saturday night – Jeremy Ross
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/08/01/large-group-of-protesters-gathers-downtown-for-police-reform-against-ice/

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— 9 killed, 21 wounded so far in weekend shootings across Chicago
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/9-killed-21-wounded-so-far-in-weekend-shootings-across-chicago

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Only Republicans free from influence of Madigan – Henry Thompson, Naperville
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/opinion/ct-nvs-naperville-letters-st-0803-20200731-nz2lwvfhgfej5lwhrkq7kfhw74-story.html
— As real estate agents, we want to end housing discrimination – MAURICE HAMPTON AND MICHELLE MILLS CLEMENT (DIERSEN: What are potential home buyers being told about demographic trends in your precinct, in your municipal district, in your municipality, in your township, in your county district, in your county, and in Illinois? It seems that ever-increasingly, they are being told that soon, if not already, the aforesaid political jurisdictions will be majority anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexuals, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christians, anti-Italian Americans, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-race-redlining-real-estate-discrimination-20200731-ksdtbroj55hixjlq7r4nvuewqy-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hates promote Duckworth.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/8/2/21351978/joe-biden-weighs-vice-presidential-pick-what-sen-tammy-duckworth-has-that-her-rivals-dont

DAILY HERALD
— The Lincoln Project’s plan: Drive Trump out of office by driving him nuts – Roxanne Roberts
https://www.dailyherald.com/entlife/20200802/the-lincoln-projects-plan-drive-trump-out-of-office-by-driving-him-nuts

WBBM
— Educators Want Schools To Remove Old History Books Until A More Inclusive History Curriculum Can Better Teach Students – BRANDON ISON (DIERSEN: To be more inclusive is to dump contributions by those who were conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Italian American, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/educators-want-schools-to-remove-old-history-books

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Bernard Schoenburg: LaHood lone Illinoisan to vote against bill to remove statues in D.C. – Bernard Schoenburg
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20200802/bernard-schoenburg-lahood-lone-illinoisan-to-vote-against-bill-to-remove-statues-in-dc

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Illinois needs good judges for civil-justice reform – Evelyn Sanguinetti (DIERSEN: The judges in Diersen v. GAO rejected the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform, that is, they wanted political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation for opposing the aforesaid.)
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary/guest-commentary-illinois-needs-good-judges-for-civil-justice-reform/article_37071c9b-1c82-51f0-94a7-87ae99627c0c.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— McHenry Township Board Seeks to Override County Clerk’s Denial of November Ballot Access for Abolition Referendum
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/02/mchenry-township-board-seeks-to-override-county-clerks-denial-of-november-ballot-access-for-abolition-referendum/
— A Government’s Losing a Tax Protest Doesn’t Help Most Property Owners
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/02/a-governments-losing-a-tax-protest-doesnt-help-most-property-owners/
— Pritzker on Madigan and GOP on Pritzker
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/01/pritzker-on-madigan-and-gop-on-pritzker/
— Evidence of “Peaceful” Portland Protesters, Including the Dumbest
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/01/evidence-of-peaceful-portland-protesters-including-the-dumbest/
— Franks, via Northwest Herald, Floats Another Diversion from Springfield Sex Problem
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/01/franks-via-northwest-herald-floats-another-diversion-from-springfield-sex-problem/
— Illinois Nursing Home Skimming
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/01/nursing-home-skimming/
— Critiquing “Whiteness” Smithsonian Museum Poster
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/08/01/149409/
— Pro-Life Group Has Innovative Outdoor Movie Theater Fundraiser Scheduled
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/07/31/pro-life-group-has-innovative-fundraiser-scheduled/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Law and order’: Trump counts on riots, looting to help him win in suburbs – David Sherfinski (DIERSEN: How strongly will suburban Democrats riot to defeat Trump?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/2/trump-law-and-order-campaign-sees-rioting-way-win-/
— Liberal media blurs cost of ongoing Black Lives Matter/Antifa race riots We must never forget the reality of the Democrats’ experiment in street justice – Robert Knight
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/2/liberal-media-blurs-costs-and-destruction-of-ongoi/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ‘This is who they are’: Portland protesters filmed burning Bibles and American flag amid violence in city – Emma Colton (DIERSEN: Just kidding, but how soon will my critics/opponents print out copies of my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and burn them in front of a) government buildings in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, b) Wheaton Chamber of Commerce headquarters, c) Wheaton Downtown Association headquarters, d) Milton Township Republican Organization election headquarters (if/when it opens), e) Ives campaign headquarters in my precinct, f) etc.?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/this-is-who-they-are-portland-protesters-filmed-burning-bibles-and-american-flag-amid-violence-in-city

BREITBART
— Pelosi: Mail-in Voting Is ‘Essential’ — People Shouldn’t Have to Choose Between Health and Vote – Pam Key
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/08/02/pelosi-mail-in-voting-is-essential-people-shouldnt-have-to-choose-between-health-and-vote/
— Poll: 7-in-10 Voters Support Trump’s Exclusion of Illegal Aliens in Congressional Apportionment – John Binder (DIERSEN: How successful have the Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and RINOs been in bringing illegal aliens to your county, to your county district, to your township, to your municipality, to your municipal district, and to your precinct?)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/02/poll-7-in-10-voters-support-trumps-exclusion-of-illegal-aliens-in-congressional-apportionment/

BLAZE
— Cuban immigrant says activist group using ‘mafia tactics’ to intimidate Louisville business owners The group demands business have ‘a minimum of 23% inventory of Black retailers OR make a recurring monthly donation of 1.5% of net sales to Black local organizations’ – PAUL SACCA
https://www.theblaze.com/news/cuban-immigrant-louisville-activist-mafia

DAILY WIRE
— DC Mayor Exempts John Lewis Funeral Attendees From City’s Quarantine Restrictions “Government activity is essential, and the Capitol of the United States is exempt from the Mayor’s Order.” – Jon Brown
https://www.dailywire.com/news/dc-mayor-exempts-john-lewis-funeral-attendees-from-citys-quarantine-restrictions

JP MEDIA
— Minneapolis Police, Defunded by City Council, Advise Residents to Obey Criminals – BRYAN PRESTON
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/08/02/minneapolis-police-defunded-by-city-council-advise-residents-to-obey-criminals-n742610
— Louisville Black Lives Matter Using ‘Mafia Tactics’ on Hispanic Business Owners – RICK MORAN
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/08/02/louisville-black-lives-matter-using-mafia-tactics-on-hispanic-business-owners-n741579

CANADA FREE PRESS
— Democrat-Run KKK Burnt Crosses, Democrat-Run BLM Burn Bibles – Judi McLeod (DIERSEN: Just kidding, but how soon will my critics/opponents print out copies of my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and burn them in front of a) government buildings in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, b) Wheaton Chamber of Commerce headquarters, c) Wheaton Downtown Association headquarters, d) Milton Township Republican Organization election headquarters (if/when it opens), e) Ives campaign headquarters in my precinct, f) etc.?)
https://canadafreepress.com/article/democrat-run-kkk-burnt-crosses-democrat-run-blm-burn-bibles

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Urges GOP to Sue Over Nevada Mail-In Voting, Ballot Harvesting – MATTHEW VADUM
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-urges-gop-sue-over-nevada-mail-in-voting-ballot-harvesting_3447399.html

AMERICAN SPECTATOR
— Anti-Trump Republicans Show Dysfunctional Love for the GOP Going beyond the Democrats’ idea of good Republicans. – DEBRA J. SAUNDERS
https://spectator.org/anti-trump-republicans-show-dysfunctional-love-for-the-gop/

THE HILL
— GOP lawmaker: Democratic Party ‘used to be more moderate’ – JOHN BOWDEN (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, the Democrat Party is anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexuals, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christians, anti-Italian Americans, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, (except Joe Biden), and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/510200-gop-rep-democratic-party-used-to-be-more-moderate

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-haters crow about their success in making young people hate-filled Trump-haters.
https://wtmj.com/ap-wi-news-feed/2020/07/28/faith-in-protest-as-young-people-find-fervor-on-the-street/

WASHINGTON POST
— Republican National Committee disputes GOP convention spokesperson’s claim that Trump’s renomination will be closed to media – Felicia Sonmez (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media a) functions as an arm of the Democrat, Libertarian, and Green parties and b) is anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexuals, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, anti-draft avoiders (except Joe Biden), and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-national-committee-disputes-gop-convention-spokespersons-claim-that-trump-will-be-renominated-in-private/2020/08/02/e13928ee-d4d5-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html

CBS NEW YORK
— Black Lives Matter Mural Painted Across From City Hall In Elizabeth, New Jersey (DIERSEN: To promote BLM is to promote hatred against 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://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/08/01/black-lives-matter-mural-elizabeth-nj/

ROCHESTER FIRST
— ‘OUTSTANDING: Back the Blue’ Ride & Rally attracts thousands: ‘these are the people we rely on when we need help’ – Eriketa Cost
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/back-the-blue-ride-rally-attracts-thousands-these-are-the-people-we-rely-on-when-we-need-help/

CBS ALBANY
— OUTSTANDING: Hundreds gather on Capitol Steps for ‘Back The Blue’ rally – Briana Supardi
https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/hundreds-gather-on-capitol-steps-for-back-the-blue-rally

LONG ISLAND NEWS
— OUTSTANDING: 1,500 people attend ‘Back the Blue’ rally in Sayville
http://longisland.news12.com/story/42441974/1500-people-attend-back-the-blue-rally-in-sayville

DELAWARE COUNTY DAILY TIMES
— OUTSTANDING: ‘Back the Blue’ shows support for cops in Ridley – Pete Bannan
https://www.delcotimes.com/news/back-the-blue-shows-support-for-cops-in-ridley/article_de777f32-d504-11ea-9e36-ffb57b5f767c.html

CITIZEN
— OUTSTANDING: Diverse Trump supporters rally in Fayetteville – Ben Nelms
https://thecitizen.com/2020/08/02/diverse-trump-supporters-rally-in-fayetteville/

WTSP
— OUTRAGEOUS: ‘Back the Blue’ mural painted outside Tampa Police Department The mural was painted by a group of about 40 people who wanted to show support to the department.
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/back-the-blue-mural-painted-tampa-police-headquarters/67-a2471df9-c290-4163-a62c-3d7744168f08

CREATORS SYNDICATE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Trump-hater uses Herman Cain to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.creators.com/read/susan-estrich