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August 30 Evening Edition

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— OUTSTANDING: TWO IL GOP LAWMAKERS (John Cabello and David McSweeney) FILE EFFORT TO REPEAL SANCTUARY LAW
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/two-il-gop-lawmakers-file-effort-to-repeal-sanctuary-law.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE:  Two Illinois Republican state reps are very concerned about the immigration law enforcement measure Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law Monday. State Reps. John Cabello (R-Rockford) and David McSweeney (R-Barrington) filed a measure Wednesday that would repeal a new law banning law enforcement in Illinois from stopping persons suspected of being in the U.S. illegally. “I swore to uphold the U.S. and Illinois Constitutions when I became a legislator,” Cabello told Illinois Review Wednesday. “As a member of law enforcement, I took a vow to uphold the law. I believe and trust in those oaths, and intend to do all I can to keep them.” The law many are referring to as the “sanctuary law” says law enforcement “shall not” detain or continue to detain any individual solely on the basis of any immigration detainer or non-judicial immigration warrant. Law enforcement “shall not” stop or arrest anyone solely based on the person’s immigration or citizenship status. They are, however, not banned from implementing a “valid” judge-issued federal warrant concerning any suspects. That is the definition of a sanctuary law, Cabello bill co-sponsor David McSweeney told Illinois Review. He pointed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ office comments on the law. “As the Attorney General has said, when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe,” DOG spokesman Devin O’Malley told Fox News. “Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk – especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators.” The attorney general’s views were totally disregarded in a missive sent out by the Illinois Republican Party chairman Tim Schneider and County Chairman Association President Randy Pollard Monday night after Rauner signed the bill into law in front of an enthusiastic Latino audience in Chicago. “I think it is important that people know what Attorney General Sessions thinks about SB 31. Tim Schneider, the chief cheerleader for the ‘Capitol Compromise’ massive tax hike is now presenting more ‘alternative facts,'” McSweeney said. Cabello said lawmakers are supposed to do what’s best for those that are bearing the financial burden for decisions they make at the capitol. Not doing so will ultimately create consequences that political parties may not want, such as the base simply staying home in 2018. “People are telling me they’re so fed up with the party leaders and the governor that they’re just not going to go to the polls in 2018. That’s the opposite of what they should do,” Cabello, who co-chaired the Trump campaign in Illinois, said. “They need their voices to be heard loud and clear. Staying home is not an option.” Only one Republican House member – Bob Pritchard – voted in support of SB 31 on the House floor. Four Republicans – McConchie, McConnaughay, Nybo and Radogno – supported it in the Illinois Senate. Cabello and McSweeney’s repeal bill is HB 4091.)
— HOW THE SPLC USES THE WORD “HATE” TO SILENCE DISSENT
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/how-the-splc-uses-the-word-hate-to-silence-dissent.html

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— In smaller towns, empty storefronts and economic challenges loom large – Lauren Zumbach
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/ct-small-town-department-store-closing-0903-biz-20170830-story.html
— Trump administration halts Obama-era rule to shrink the gender wage gap – Danielle Paquette (DIERSEN: If I had not been denied my 7th Amendment rights in Diersen v. GAO, I would presented the jury many examples in which my Democrat GAO superiors paid higher salaries to their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, and/or younger than they paid their similarly or better qualified employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or older.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-wage-gap-20170830-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— Bernie Sanders talks to Naperville students about ‘Political Revolution’ – Marie Wilson  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps demonize, denigrate, and condemn individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German Americans, draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170830/bernie-sanders-talks-to-naperville-students-about-political-revolution
— Former Maine Township trustee Laura Morask gets $30,000 part-time job in food pantry – Chacour Koop
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170830/former-maine-township-trustee-gets-30000-part-time-job-in-food-pantry

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps blame Trump supporters for crime in Chicago.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170829/OPINION/170829904/springfield-is-complicit-too-in-chicagos-rising-crime-rate

 

WLS AM
— Rauner Likely To Sign School Funding Bill Thursday – Nick Gale
http://www.wlsam.com/2017/08/30/rauner-likely-to-sign-school-funding-bill-thursday/

 

WTTW
— Jim Durkin on School Funding Reform and Other Battles – Alexandra Silets
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/08/30/jim-durkin-school-funding-reform-and-other-battles

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Rauner visits schools to celebrate funding compromise – Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20170830/rauner-visits-schools-to-celebrate-funding-compromise

 

DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Syverson named Deputy Republican Leader – DREW ZIMMERMAN
http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2017/08/30/syverson-named-deputy-republican-leader/aujf4f9/

 

CHICAGO BUSINESS JOURNAL
— WBEZ-FM’s new political reporter Dave McKinney about to face off against nemesis Gov. Rauner – Lewis Lazare
https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2017/08/30/wbez-fms-new-political-reporter-about-to-face-off.html

 

LOYOLA PHOENIX
— Illinois Trust Act Extends Protections for Undocumented Students, Families – Christopher Hacker  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Loyola acts as an arm of the anti-religious Illinois Democrat Party.)
http://loyolaphoenix.com/2017/08/illinois-trust-act-extends-protections-undocumented-students-families/

 

COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Mayor’s order to push developers to hire contractor businesses owned by minorities, women – Mike Thompson  (DIERSEN: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors’ top priority was a) to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger and b) to make way for them by wasting the careers of and by getting rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
http://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/511195443-mayor-s-order-to-push-developers-to-hire-contractor-businesses-owned-by-minorities-women

 

LAKE COUNTY GAZETTE
— McHenry board member to vie for Senate seat held by Althoff – April Bamburg
https://lakecountygazette.com/stories/511201419-mchenry-board-member-to-vie-for-senate-seat-held-by-althoff

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Ives remains steadfast against current K-12 funding measure – Caitlin Nordahl
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511201308-ives-remains-steadfast-against-current-k-12-funding-measure

 

PARENTS OPPOSED TO POT
— STOP LOOKING AT MARIJUANA THROUGH ROSE-COLORED GLASSES
http://www.poppot.org/2017/08/30/stop-looking-marijuana-through-rose-colored-glasses/

 

RUSS STEWART
— DEMOCRATIC WHITE MEN HIT “GLASS CEILING” – RUSS STEWART  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, a) anti-Whites demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites as being racists and b) anti-men demonize, denigrate and condemn men as being sexists.  Overwhelmingly, anti-Whites and anti-men are Democrats.)
http://www.russstewart.com/articles/2017/08-30-2017.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Tokenism, as an adjective defined by Webster’s Dictionary, is an act merely simulated, of slight or no account. As a noun, it is an act of accommodation to a demand by slight and merely formal concessions. For Democrats in Cook County, August’s slatemaking for their 2018 ticket was both a noun and an adjective, particularly regarding white men. Of the 16 candidates endorsed by the party for countywide offices, including judges, a grand total of three are while males, or about 18 percent. In the Democratic Party, men have hit the proverbial “glass ceiling.” Having a white man on the ticket is now of slight or no account. Of the remaining 13, seven are black, of which four are black women. That’s 44 percent. Seven are women. That’s another 44 percent. And two are Hispanics. That’s just 12 percent. As a noun, every key Democratic constituency got more than token accommodation. White males are no longer a key constituency. As expected, the Big Three – County Board president Toni Preckwinkle, House Speaker and state Democratic chairman Mike Madigan, and Alderman Ed Burke (14th) – did the dictating, with Burke picking the judges, and the 50 city and 30 suburban committeemen did the capitulating. Preckwinkle is expanding her empire exponentially, and is at the top of the heap. In the 2016 cycle, Preckwinkle engineered the slating of her county aide, Kim Foxx, for state’s attorney. She easily beat incumbent Anita Alvarez in the primary. She also worked with Madigan, dispatching another aide, Juliana Stratton, to run against independent-minded Ken Dunkin, who had the temerity to defy Madigan on several Illinois House votes. With a flood of Madigan money, Stratton buried Dunkin, and Madigan got another ally in Springfield. Now Preckwinkle and Madigan have worked again, plunking Stratton on J.B. Pritzker’s ticket for lieutenant governor in the March 2018 primary, and then delivering an endorsement of Pritzker for governor. Crafting a Pritzker-Stratton ticket sealed the deal, and Preckwinkle delivered all the black committeemen at slatemaking. And finally, another former Preckwinkle aide, Kim du Buclet, now a state representative, got slated for the 2-year Metropolitan Water Reclamation District term, beating a Hispanic backed by state Representative Luis Arroyo (D-3), and a longtime insider and donor associated with the North Shore Realtors. In the slating for county clerk, a job David Orr is relinquishing after 28 years, Recorder Karen Yarbrough, who is black and a Madigan protege, was slated. For Preckwinkle, despite the soda tax snafu, it’s “Veni, vidi, vici” – “I came, I saw, I conquered.”)

 

CAPITOL FAX
— Illinois Policy Institute calls school funding bill “Chicago bailout”
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/30/illinois-policy-institute-calls-school-funding-bill-chicago-bailout/
— Governor pressed on whether school funding bill is a Chicago “bailout”
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/30/governor-pressed-on-whether-school-funding-bill-is-a-chicago-bailout/
— Manufacturing woes continue here
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/30/manufacturing-woes-continue-here/
— Asked about credit for his chief, Rauner instead praises legislators, self
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/30/asked-about-credit-for-his-chief-rauner-instead-praises-legislators-self/
— Beiser won’t run again
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/30/beiser-wont-run-again/

 

NUMBERS USA
— Illinois Governor Signs Measure Shielding Criminal Aliens
https://www.numbersusa.com/news/illinois-governor-signs-measure-shielding-criminal-aliens

 

DAILY CALLER
— Former Fed Reserve Banker: Houston Will Need ‘Mexican Labor’ To Rebuild After Harvey – Will Racke  (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes a) want cheap labor and b) would never had sought or taken the bad jobs that I had 1962-1997.)
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/30/former-fed-reserve-banker-houston-will-need-mexican-labor-to-rebuild-after-harvey/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Racists want Harvey donations to go to non-Whites.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/30/womens-march-recommends-harvey-donations-go-to-non-whites/

 

FOX NEWS
— Tucker Debates BLM Activist Who Compared Trump to Adolf Hitler
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/29/black-lives-matter-calls-trump-hitler-tucker-carlson-debates-ladawn-jones

 

WASHINGTON POST
— The Trump administration’s ongoing attack on workers – Jared Bernstein and Ben Spielberg  (DIERSEN: I was a lowly worker 1964-1997.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/30/the-trump-administrations-ongoing-attack-on-workers/

 

ONE NEWS NOW
— Rauner puts criminal aliens over Illinois voters – Chad Groening
https://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2017/08/30/fair-gov-rauner-puts-criminal-aliens-over-illinois-voters

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— ANTI-AMERICAN: Federal Judge Blocks Texas’ Ban on ‘Sanctuary Cities’ – MANNY FERNANDEZ
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/judge-texas-sanctuary-cities.html

 

BLOOMBERG
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “What Donald Trump Owes the Dreamers. His conspicuous silence about their future is counterproductive and cruel.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-30/what-donald-trump-owes-the-dreamers

August 26 Evening Edition

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— GOP LAWMAKERS CALL ON GOVERNOR TO VETO BILL PROTECTING NON-CITIZENS LIVING IN ILLINOIS
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/gop-lawmakers-call-on-governor-to-veto-bill-protecting-non-citizens-living-in-illinois.html
— CABELLO: SB 31 SHOULD NOT BE SIGNED
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/cabello-sb-31-should-not-be-signed.html
— IL GOVERNOR AGREES TO MAKE IT EASIER TO ALLOW SEX CHANGES ON BIRTH CERTIFICATES
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/il-governor-agrees-to-make-it-easier-to-allow-sex-changes-on-birth-certificates.html
— RAUNER VETOES STATEWIDE $15 MINIMUM WAGE BILL
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/rauner-vetoes-statewide-15-minimum-wage-bill-.html
— PRO-LIFE GROUPS TO PROTEST PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S TRIVIA NIGHT AT CHICAGO’S REVOLUTION BREWING
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/pro-life-groups-to-protest-planned-parenthoods-trivia-night-at-chicagos-revolution-brewing.html

 

NBC5
— Rauner’s General Counsel Dennis Murashko Escorted From Office a Week Before Planned Exit: Reports – Mary Ann Ahern  (DIERSEN: Have you been fired? In early 1971, after I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in August of 1970, my Firestone Store boss in Chicago Heights ordered me to clean the white walls on display tires that were hanging on the walls of the store showroom while the store was open. That prompted me to tell him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. He immediately flew into a rage, fired me, and threw me out of the store. Then, Oldsmobile withdrew its job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. That Firestone Store boss had not hired me — Firestone Stores regional office had hired me. In my opinion, that Firestone Store boss disapproved of many of my demographics including my religion and my national origin, but most of all, he disapproved that I had avoided the draft.)
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/rauner-general-counsel-dennis-murashko-441813073.html
— Lawmakers to Debate School Funding Agreement Monday – Mary Ann Ahern
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/education-reform-illinois-441779893.html

 

WGN TV
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, members of the following groups blame hate crimes on Trump: anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.
http://wgntv.com/2017/08/26/vigil-to-be-held-oak-park-church-after-vandalized-with-racial-slurs-swastikas/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Arpaio, 85, hints at run for office: ‘I’ve got a big political message to get out’ – Amy B. Wang
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-arpaio-politics-trump-pardon-20170826-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump says “Trump’s pardon of controversial Arizona ex-sheriff Arpaio fits a pattern: A divider not a uniter.”  Anti-Trumps want Trump to help them get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-arpaio-20170826-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “At 34 percent, Trump setting new records for low presidential approval.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-low-job-approval-20170825-story.html
— Rauner bill approvals include one making birth certificate changes easier for transgender people – Kim Geiger and Monique Garcia
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-bruce-rauner-bill-action-met-0826-20170825-story.html
— In Midwest Trump states, Sanders tries to push Democrats to the left on health care – David Weigel
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-sanders-midwest-health-care-20170826-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— Primary buzz already growing amid Trump political struggles – AP (DIERSEN: Of course, primary challengers would viciously demonize, viciously denigrate, and viciously condemn all Trump supporters as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170826/news/308269954/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— If you want our money, CPS, then come clean – Editorial
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170826/ISSUE07/170829913/cps-finances-are-broken-and-taxpayers-deserve-answers

 

SAUK VALLEY
— No end in sight to video gambling  With no power to control it locally, state or market will determine ceiling – PAM EGGEMEIER  (DIERSEN: If you promote video gambling, you promote destruction.)
http://www.saukvalley.com/2017/08/18/no-end-in-sight-to-video-gambling/aioonnu/

 

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Governor OKs Illinois’ official pet, exercise and wildflower
http://www.bnd.com/latest-news/article169568312.html

 

ENEWS PARK FOREST
— Fast-Food Workers Wage Sit-In at Rauner’s Chicago Office Following Veto of $15/hour for 2.3 Million IL Workers
https://enewspf.com/2017/08/26/fast-food-workers-wage-sit-rauners-chicago-office-following-veto-15hour-2-3-million-il-workers/

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Gorka says he, Bannon, others were ‘systematically undermined’ – SOPHIE TATUM  (DIERSEN: I should write a book about the past and present lead underminers in the Milton Township Republican Central Committee, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, GAO, IRS, Post Office, etc.)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/gorka-says-he-bannon-others-were-systematically-undermined/799091978

 

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— McHenry County Administrator – Two step shuffle – KIRK ALLEN
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2017/08/mchenry-county-administrator-two-step-shuffle/

 

CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Chicago radio hosts argue caricature of racism is not itself racism – Caitlin Nordahl
http://chicagocitywire.com/stories/511196606-chicago-radio-hosts-argue-caricature-of-racism-is-not-itself-racism

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Group launches website in war on Illinois property taxes – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511195487-group-launches-website-in-war-on-illinois-property-taxes
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Homeowners Defense Association (HDA) has launched a website to counter the damage it sees as being done to homeowners across the state by virtue of the runaway property tax system. “DefendHomeowners.com will seek to mobilize homeowners by making them aware of how the state’s tax system is impacting their home,” HDA Executive Director Heidi Holan told the DuPage Policy Journal. “We will be advocating for tax reform and making people aware of what they can do about the current system.” With Illinois residents paying some of the highest property taxes in the country, Holan argues that the situation has reached a crisis point. “High property taxes are the biggest driver of all the outmigration you’re seeing across the state,” she said. “We want the cap to be somewhere around 1 percent; right now it’s at about 2.3 percent, or more than twice as high as where the national average is.” Holan said homeowners can start fighting back by making themselves aware of what options they have and to understand what level of power they hold by banding together. In addition to free individualized property tax reports, HDA members will receive free region-by-region property tax analyses. Membership is free.)
— Analysis: Aurora home prices down 13 percent over past decade; Property tax rates fell to 5.09 percent
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511192006-analysis-aurora-home-prices-down-13-percent-over-past-decade-property-tax-rates-fell-to-5-09-percent

 

CAPITOL FAX
— More Friday veto dump reacts
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/26/more-friday-veto-dump-reacts/

 

DAILY CALLER
— Democrats Officially Label Trump Aides As White Nationalists – Alex Pfeiffer  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats paint themselves as being anti-American.)
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/26/democrats-officially-label-trump-aides-as-white-nationalists/

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— ‘WHITE SHAMING’ IS NEW RAGE ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES  It’s all about ‘deconstructing whiteness,’ the ‘construct of whiteness,’ the ‘ignorance of whiteness’
http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/white-shaming-is-new-rage-on-college-campuses/

 

THE HILL
— In the era of Trump, big government is winning – STUART SHAPIRO
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/348109-in-the-era-of-trump-big-government-is-winning

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-White says “Trump Just Pardoned White Supremacy  Americans of conscience must condemn this unpardonable act.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-just-pardoned-white-supremacy-and-it-is-an-unpardonable_us_59a1c793e4b0d0ef9f1c1473

 

MCCLATCHY DC NEWS
— Illinois governor rejects 2 employment-related measures – AP  (DIERSEN: As everyone knows, private sector employers a) want cheap labor and b) viciously demonize, viciously denigrate, and viciously condemn government employees as being overpaid. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article169598602.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed a proposal limiting what employers screening job applicants can ask, including prior wage or salary history. Rauner rejected the plan Friday, saying he supports the effort but Illinois should follow Massachusetts’ lead, which prevents salary inquiries before the job offer, among other things. Supporters say the proposal would’ve addressed Illinois’ gender wage gap.)

 

DENVER POST
— RNC condemns white supremacy but makes no mention of Trump’s remarks – DAVID WEIGEL (DIERSEN: Of course, anti-Trumps will use this RNC resolution to viciously demonize, to viciously denigrate, and to viciously condemn Trump and all his supporters as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots and even worse things.)
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/25/republican-national-committee-condemns-white-supremacy-donald-trump/

 

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “TRUMP IMPEACHMENT IS MOST POPULAR SOLUTION AMONG AMERICANS.” (DIERSEN: What did you do during the Nixon impeachment process in 1974 (SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_process_against_Richard_Nixon)? I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS’s Collection Division in Chicago. They took their anger against Nixon out on me. Virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. My Democrat IRS superiors a) disallowed the $5/day partial day per diem claims that I had filed (SEE: http://www.gao.gov/products/463866) and b) got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, a minority, a female, or a veteran.)
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-impeachment-most-popular-solution-americans-655556

 

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Illinois Governor OKs Creation of Muslim Advisory Council – AP  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, under Rauner, individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that are members of the following groups feel less and less and less welcome in Illinois: Trump supporter, Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German Americans, draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/illinois/articles/2017-08-26/illinois-governor-oks-creation-of-muslim-advisory-council
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Proponents say establishing the council sends a welcoming message to Muslims.)

 

THE BEAST
— Trump’s Pardon of Joe Arpaio ‘Is a Presidential Endorsement of Racism,’ ACLU Says
http://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-pardon-of-joe-arpaio-is-a-presidential-endorsement-of-racism-aclu-says

August 25 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Rauner, CTU raise concerns over school funding compromise – Craig Wall
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/rauner-ctu-raise-concerns-over-school-funding-compromise/2342033/

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— President Donald Trump tells Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to indefinitely ban transgender recruits – AP
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/276145271-story

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Sessions’ Justice Department responds to Emanuel’s sanctuary city lawsuit – John Byrne
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rahm-emanuel-sanctuary-city-donald-trump-met-20170825-story.html
— SEIU voter engagement drive to target Rauner, other Republican politicians – Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz  (DIERSEN: Will SEIU give me a pass a) because I worked for the minimum wage for 18 months 1964-1966, b) because I was a union member for almost 3 years 1966-1969, c) because I was a union member for almost 3 months in early 1970, d) because I was as union member for almost 9 years 1971-1980, and e) because I do not promote hatred against unions or against union members?)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-seiu-voter-engagement-rauner-0826-biz-20170825-story.html
— Rauner vetoes bill to raise Illinois’ minimum wage to $15
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-rauner-minimum-wage-deadline-0826-biz-20170825-story.html
— That controversial cartoon was a misfire in more than one way – Eric Zorn
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-perspec-zorn-cartoon-rauner-porter-0827-20170825-story.html
— How Chicago MBA programs measure up – Danielle Braff  (DIERSEN: I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 when I was 27 years old.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-bsi-mba-guide-20170825-story.html
— Acapulco, once Mexico’s glamorous resort city, is now its murder capital – Joshua Partlow
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-acapulco-mexico-murder-capital-20170824-story.html
— Don’t topple statues of Founding Fathers, update your thinking about them – Ron Grossman
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-grossman-jefferson-slaves-20170824-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump says “Trump’s wall is a 2,000-mile fraud.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-perspec-chapman-trump-wall-20170825-story.html
— What’s so great about the Hoosier state? It’s not Illinois. – Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-illinois-indiana-business-20170827-story.html
— School-funding deal would help private schools with tax-credit plan – Ted Slowik
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opinion/ct-sta-slowik-school-vouchers-st-0827-20170825-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Day after applauding school deal, Rauner blasts ‘bad things’ in bill – Tina Sfondeles
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/day-after-applauding-school-deal-rauner-blasts-bad-things-in-bill/
— Progressive caucus opposed to private scholarship tax-credits – Lauren FitzPatrick and Tina Sfondeles  (DIERSEN: My outstanding parents saved Crete-Monee School District 201-U (http://www.cm201u.org/) lots of money during the 1950s and 1960s by sending my brother and me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest to stay with the Missouri Synod.  Because my parents did that, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned a) my parents as being filthy rich and b) my brother and me as being born with silver spoons in our mouths, as having always been privileged, and as being filthy rich.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/progressive-caucus-opposed-to-private-scholarship-tax-credits/
— Gov. Rauner vetoes minimum wage hike – Tina Sfondeles  (DIERSEN: Have you ever worked for the minimum wage? I did part-time 1964-1966 while I was a 16 and 17 year old high school student. That job enabled me to earn and save enough money to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint a) that I used to commute to jobs cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline during the summer of in 1966 and delivering mail 1966-1967 and b) that I used to commute to classes at UIC from my parents’ home in Crete 1966-1967. In December of 1967, sold it and used that money and money that I had earned and saved delivering mail to buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/gov-rauner-vetoes-minimum-wage-hike-measure/
— Wives of Rauner, Madigan closer than their husbands – Michael Sneed
http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/sneed-exclusive-wives-of-rauner-madigan-closer-than-their-husbands/
— More than a third of Chicago city workers make $100K-plus – Mitchell Armentrout
http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/city-haul-more-than-a-third-of-chicago-city-workers-make-100k/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump says “Build relationships, not walls, or watch government shut down.”
http://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/chavez-build-relationships-not-walls-or-watch-government-shut-down/
— Confederate statues are scapegoats for American hypocrisy – John Fountain  (DIERSEN: Since they immigrated to America during the 1840s and 1850s, all my ancestors have always lived in northeast Illinois.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/fountain-confederate-statues-are-scapegoats-for-american-hypocrisy/
— Since when is Southern history strictly white history, anyway? – Gene Lyons
http://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/lyons-since-when-is-southern-history-strictly-white-history-anyway/
— OUTRAGEOUS: Driverless cars on the road to the future – Editorial
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-driverless-cars-on-the-road-to-the-future/
— A win, if far from perfect, for Illinois schoolchildren – Editorial
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-a-win-if-far-from-perfect-for-illinois-schoolchildren/

 

DAILY HERALD
— Durbin town hall in Naperville focuses on health care, Democrats’ future – Marie Wilson
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170824/durbin-town-hall-in-naperville-focuses-on-health-care-democrats-future
— Illinois to stop playing ‘war chant’ music at games – AP
http://www.dailyherald.com/sports/20170825/illinois-to-stop-playing-war-chant-music-at-games
— Illinois governor vetoes plan for minimum wage hike – AP
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170825/news/308259864/
— OUTRAGEOUS: Gov OKs bill easing gender-ID change for transgender people – AP  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote gender confusion.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170825/news/308259859/
— Frank Saverino to seek fourth term in Carol Stream in 2019 – Justin Kmitch
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170825/frank-saverino-to-seek-fourth-term-in-carol-stream-in-2019

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Sanctuary city: Trump administration opposes Chicago request for injunction – AP
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170825/NEWS02/170829921/trump-administration-opposes-chicago-request-for-injunction

 

WJBD RADIO
— Lieutenant Governor Visits Kaskaskia College Agriculture Program
http://www.wjbdradio.com/local-news/2017/08/25/lieutenant-governor-visits-kaskaskia-college-agriculture-program–

 

WAND
— Governor: New laws help ‘broken’ criminal justice system  (DIERSEN: According to the Democrats, if people commit crime, it is because the criminal justice system is broken. What percent of those who commit crime are Democrats?)
http://www.wandtv.com/story/36213439/governor-new-laws-help-broken-criminal-justice-system

 

CITY LAB
— Illinois Targets Trump’s Immigration Agenda  The Illinois TRUST Act is an effort to resist federal pressure to crack down on undocumented immigrants. – TERESA MATHEW
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/08/illinois-targets-trumps-immigration-agenda/537930/

 

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Want Public Involvement? Turn Backs On Them At Meeting – JOHN KRAFT
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2017/08/want-public-involvement-turn-backs-on-them-at-meeting/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— EDUCATION BILL COMPROMISE IS “TOTAL CAPITULATION” BY GOVERNOR AND GOP LEADERS, LAWMAKERS SAY
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/education-bill-compromise-is-a-total-capitulation-by-the-governor-and-gop-leaders-lawmakers-say.html
— LAKE COUNTY GOP COMMITTEE ASKS RAUNER TO VETO SB 31, SAYS IT’S A MADIGAN PLOY TO FOOL VOTERS
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/lake-county-gop-leaders-ask-rauner-to-veto-sb-31.html

 

CAPITOL FAX
— Rauner transfers $500K to the Illinois Republican Party. (DIERSEN: He who pays the piper calls the tunes.)
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/25/rauner-beefs-up-ilgop-ahead-of-school-funding-vote/
— OUTRAGEOUS: Rauner signs transgender birth certificate bill
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/25/rauner-signs-transgender-birth-certificate-bill/
— Rauner says school funding deal “not fair” because of Chicago, pledges to “fix the problems” in another bill
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/25/rauner-says-school-funding-deal-not-fair-because-of-chicago-pledges-to-fix-the-problems-in-another-bill/
— Pritzker, DGA pounce on Rauner missteps
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/25/pritzker-dga-pounce-on-rauner-missteps/
— Yaffe leaves for greener pastures (DIERSEN: Democrats and Democrat plants, Libertarians and Libertarian plants, Greens and Green plants, and RINOs shout at people like Yaffe a) to not read GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and b) to not let Diersen know about anything.)
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/25/yaffe-leaves-for-greener-pastures/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Hey Rich! This has been an open secret over here for some time, but I wanted you to be the first member of the press to know that Tuesday will be my last day at the ILGOP.)
— Another big Friday afternoon veto and bill-signing dump
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/25/another-big-friday-afternoon-veto-and-bill-signing-dump/

 

GOPUSA
— Antifa wants Balbo monument in Chicago removed
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=29223

 

BREITBART
— Trudeau Rows Back on ‘Refugees Welcome’ as Quebec Hands Migrants $2.6 Million a Month in Welfare – VICTORIA FRIEDMAN
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/25/canada-welfare-migrants-trudeau-backtrack/
— OUTRAGEOUS: Only Six GOP Reps Publicly Defend DACA Amnesty – NEIL MUNRO
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/25/six-gop-reps-publicly-defend-daca-amnesty/

 

NEWSMAX
— Kinzinger: Trump Needs to ‘Do Better at Bringing Folks Together’ – Joe Crowe  (DIERSEN: Anti-Trumps focus on bringing members of the following groups together: anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/adam-kinzinger-donald-trump-do-better-bringing-people/2017/08/25/id/809854/
– Bill O’Reilly to Newsmax: ‘Far-Left Extremists’ Want to Destroy Our Legacy – Mark Swanson
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/bill-oreilly-far-left-extremists-destroy/2017/08/25/id/809844/

 

DAILY CALLER
— Tucker: NFL Players Going ‘Out Of Their Way’ To Show ‘How Much They Hate’ America – Peter Hasson
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/25/tucker-nfl-players-going-out-of-their-way-to-show-how-much-they-hate-america-video/
— Black Lives Matter Founder Claims Trump Is Trying To Commit Hitler-Like Genocide – Peter Hasson
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/25/black-lives-matter-founder-claims-trump-is-trying-to-commit-hitler-like-genocide-video/
— French President Spent Nearly As Much On Makeup As The Average Frenchman Makes In A Year – Thomas Phippen
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/25/french-president-spent-nearly-as-much-on-makeup-as-the-average-frenchman-makes-in-year/

 

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Gender Ideology’s Kindergarten Commissars – ROD DREHER
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/gender-ideology-kindergarten-commissar-transgender/

 

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Illinois Democrats Miss the Point, Again – ALEXANDRA DESANCTIS
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450837/bruce-rauner-cartoon-illinois-policy-institute-not-racist
— Democrats Pressure the Federal Government to Support Racial Discrimination – ELIZABETH SLATTERY & HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY  (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450825/dianne-feinstein-jeff-sessions-affirmative-action
— Professor’s Facebook Rant: ‘All Republicans’ are ‘Racist’ and ‘Scum’ – KATHERINE TIMPF
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450824/clemson-university-professor-calls-republicans-racist-scum

 

POLITICO
— Ditching Trump’s White House is a messy affair – JOSH DAWSEY and BEN WHITE
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/25/quitting-trump-white-house-isnt-easy-242046

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— Dreamers Vow To ‘Fight Like Hell’ To Defend DACA Amid Rumors Trump Will End Program  The White House and Department of Homeland Security have not yet announced a decision. – Elise Foley  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps make it clear that they are going to get rid of Trump and that they are going to get rid his supporters.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-daca_us_599f21f3e4b05710aa5ad224
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Republicans Aren’t Moderates Just Because They Don’t Like Donald Trump.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-kasich-2020-presidential-bid-moderate_us_59a05a32e4b06d67e3375b0c

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Gives Mattis Wide Discretion Over Transgender Ban – MICHAEL R. GORDON and EMILY COCHRANE
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/us/politics/trump-mattis-transgender-ban.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— RNC set to condemn white supremacy but makes no mention of Trump’s remarks – David Weigel  (DIERSEN: Of course, anti-Trumps will use this resolution to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn Trump and to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn all his supporters as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/rnc-set-to-condemn-white-supremacy-but-makes-no-mention-of-trumps-remarks/2017/08/25/cb8c56d2-899d-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Republican National Committee is expected to approve a resolution condemning racism and white supremacy at its summer meeting in Nashville — but don’t call it a rebuke of President Trump. “This has nothing to do with the president,” said the resolution’s sponsor, New Jersey RNC committeeman Bill Palatucci. “This is the RNC saying that racism and bigotry have no place in America.” Palatucci, an attorney who served as general counsel to Trump’s presidential transition committee, said that he began drafting the resolution on August 13, the day after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville ended with the murder of a counterprotester. “The core issue was for us as RNC members to clearly and loudly denounce white supremacists,” explained Palatucci. “There can be no hesitation for the Party of Lincoln.” The resolution itself makes no mention of Trump or the president’s multiple reactions to Charlottesville, which led to three presidential advisory councils being disbanded as their members quit in protest. Instead, it states that “the racist beliefs of Nazis, the KKK, white supremacists and others are completely inconsistent with the Republican Party’s platform,” and urges that “swift and certain justice be meted out to domestic terrorists.” Most of the remaining text focuses on the history of the party, and the need for colorblind policy and politics. “We recall that the Republican Party was founded in the struggle against slavery and a rejection of the racial beliefs underlying the institution of slavery,” the resolution reads. “The Republican Party subsequently led the fight to assure all human beings have equal standing before the law, promoting instead the foundational idea that each person be judged as an individual on merit and not on the color of skin or other circumstance of birth.” The RNC’s resolution nonetheless breaks from the president by condemning white nationalists specifically and not dovetailing into criticism of the left. It’s the latest of several Republican responses that have taken that tone, but have often been buried by coverage of the president. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel gave the party’s first official response to Charlottesville at an ill-timed August 14 event in Detroit designed to demonstrate the party’s ongoing outreach to black voters. “White supremacy, neo-Nazi, KKK and hate speech and bigotry are not welcome and [do] not have a home in the Republican Party,” McDaniel told reporters, as black Republicans waited for a closed-press roundtable to begin. “This isn’t a partisan issue. This is an American issue.” Over the next 10 days, Republicans in every state fended off questions about the president’s markedly different response to Charlottesville — condemning violence on “many sides,” attacking the “alt-left,” and occasionally being congratulated by white nationalist leaders for his tone. It was agonizing for Republicans who had tried, before Trump, to broaden the party’s appeal to non-white voters. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the highest profile black Republican in Congress, told Vice News that Trump’s “moral authority” had been compromised by his Charlottesville response. Michael Steele, who as the first black RNC chairman had apologized for the GOP’s racial politics, said after Charlottesville that his party was making a grave error by defending Trump. “In 2009, I declared the Southern Strategy of the GOP was dead. It was over,” Steele said on an August 15 episode of his Sirius XM radio show. “I am sad to say that in the course of the 2016 campaign, that strategy was revived. And now this seminal moment faces this party, where you’re either going to kill this bastard right off the top, just get rid of the Southern Strategy or you’re going to own it in perpetuity.” Outside of the Opryland complex, other Republicans were engaged in an argument about what else the party needed to do. On Tuesday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) told reporters that a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, should be removed from the state capitol complex. But the leading Republican candidates for governor, including Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), stopped short of that, suggesting that the issue needed further debate in the Republican-controlled state legislature. And further away, the leadership of the Democratic National Committee accused Republicans of distracting from a crisis that they’d enabled long before Trump’s victory. “The Republican Party, led by President Trump, has cultivated a culture of hate through their rhetoric and policies,” said DNC spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa. “A vote on a resolution doesn’t fix the systemic problems within the Republican party. When will they take responsibility, denounce racism and stop pursuing divisive policies like voter identification laws and extreme immigration reforms?” Republican officials, who entered the Nashville meeting celebrating a historic level of control in Washington and states, said that their resolution would at least clear up where they stood and where the president needed to arrive. “I think the vote on the resolution will be unanimous and I support it,” said Steve Duprey, an RNC committeeman from New Hampshire. “I do think it is useful to remind America that our party condemns all of these hate groups, and that while the President may have not articulated it as well as he could have initially, he too has been forceful in condemning racists, supremacists, the alt right, Nazis, and other hate groups.”)

 

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Over the groans of some, Republican National Committee votes to condemn white supremacists – AP  (DIERSEN: Of course, anti-Trumps will use this resolution to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn Trump and to demonize, to denigrate, and to condemn all his supporters as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things.)
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-republican-national-commitee-20170825-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: And though the vote was unanimous, some members had grumbled that the resolution was unnecessary and reflected unnecessary defensiveness. “It’s amazing that we have been lured into this argument that we’re not racists. It’s absurd,” said Colorado Republican Chairman Jeff Hays. “Why would we feel compelled to do that?”)

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Republicans Won’t Let Chicago’s School Crisis Go to Waste  In exchange for bailing out the Windy City, Illinois’s Gov. Rauner wants a serious voucher program. – Allysia Finley
https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-wont-let-chicagos-school-crisis-go-to-waste-1503701116

 

WEEKLY STANDARD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Weekly Standard sides with Schock against his prosecutors.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-sordid-prosecution-of-aaron-schock/article/2009425

August 12 Evening Edition

WILLIAM J. KELLY
— MONDAY MEDIA ALERT: “Speak Out Against SB31 Illinois’ Sanctuary State Bill” Rally During Gov. Rauner’s Appearance at WTTW Studios in Chicago
http://www.williamjkelly.org/news/monday-media-alert-speak-out-against-sb31-illinois-sanctuary-state-bill-rally

 

ABC7
— 1 dead, 19 injured after car hits crowd at white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. – AP
http://abc7chicago.com/1-dead-19-injured-after-car-hits-crowd-at-white-nationalist-rally-in-charlottesville-va/2300640/

 

NBC5
— Illinois Officials React to Violence at White Nationalist Rally in Virginia
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/emanuel-rauner-react-virginia-white-nationalist-rally-440073903.html
— Va. White Nationalist Rally: 1 Dead After Car Crashes Into Crowd, 2 Troopers Dead in Helicopter Crash  Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency and police dressed in riot gear ordered people to disperse after chaotic violent clashes between white nationalists and counter protestors – Sarah Rankin
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Injuries-at-University-Virginia-March-440032083.html
— Rauner Hires Sen. Johnson’s Former Campaign Manager Betsy Ankney – Mary Ann Ahern and Shelby Bremer
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/bruce-rauner-campaign-manager-betsy-ankney-440066213.html

 

CBS2
— City Of Chicago Offers Advice In Event Of Nuclear Attack
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/08/10/what-to-do-after-a-nuclear-attack/

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps promote a “racist website.”
http://www.fox32chicago.com/politics/273516609-story

 

WLA AM
— Rauner: Emanuel taking needless risk – Bill Cameron,
http://www.wlsam.com/2017/08/12/rauner-emanuel-taking-needless-risk/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— State Rep. Jeanne Ives responds to Chicago Inc. article
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/ct-state-rep-jeanne-ives-responds-to-chicago-inc-article-20170811-story.html
— Illinois’ abortion notification law harms free speech – Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-abortion-speech-scotus-0814-md-20170811-story.html
— Trump blames ‘many sides’ after violent white supremacist rally in Virginia – AP
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-charlottesville-violence-20170812-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— CPS would lose nearly $500 million under gov’s school funding plan
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/cps-would-lose-nearly-500-million-under-govs-school-funding-plan/
— 1 dead, 19 injured in Charlottesville after white nationalist rally – AP
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/violent-cases-erupt-at-white-supremacist-rally-in-virginia/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— How much more will health care cost your company in 2018? – KRISTEN SCHORSCH
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170812/ISSUE01/170819946/how-much-will-company-health-care-costs-go-up-in-2018

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Spend Governor’s Day at the Capitol this year – Doug Finke
http://www.pjstar.com/news/20170812/statehouse-insider-spend-governors-day-at-capitol-this-year

 

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Legislators should make local schools their priority, not politics – Editorial
http://www.pjstar.com/opinion/20170811/editorial-legislators-should-make-local-schools-their-priority-not-politics

 

HERALD REVIEW
— Rauner: Decatur schools get $3 million more under veto plan – ALLISON PETTY
http://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/rauner-decatur-schools-get-million-more-under-veto-plan/article_c3b91195-66ec-563d-aec3-938198f1fa56.html

 

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— This is how much Illinois spends per inmate each year – ROGER SCHLUETER
http://www.bnd.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/answer-man/article166830882.html

 

PONTIAC DAILY LEADER
— Money not forthcoming creates issues – Paul Westermeyer
http://www.pontiacdailyleader.com/news/20170812/money-not-forthcoming-creates-issues

 

NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION
— What’s Really Happening in Springfield Forum
https://www.nctv17.com/news/whats-really-happening-in-springfield/

 

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— ISBE: Nearly all Illinois school districts would receive more state funding under Rauner reform plan – Dan McCaleb
https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/isbe-nearly-all-illinois-school-districts-would-receive-more-state/article_340a4446-7f74-11e7-b944-afdb58d640ad.html

 

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— NEW COOK COUNTY MINIMUM WAGE, SICK LEAVE MANDATES BURDEN SKOKIE BUSINESSES – Amy Korte
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/new-cook-county-minimum-wage-sick-leave-mandates-burden-skokie-businesses/

 

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Hollywood Profanity Wears Thin with Viewers, but So Does Discernment – Micah Clark
https://illinoisfamily.org/media/hollywood-profanity-wears-thin-viewers-discernment/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— RAUNER EMPHASIZES “BROKEN” 10 TIMES IN NATIONAL CABLE NEWS INTERVIEW
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/rauner-emphasizes-broken-10-times-in-national-cable-news-interview.html
— TRANSCRIPT OF FOX NEWS’ INTERVIEW WITH ILLINOIS GOVERNOR BRUCE RAUNER
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/transcript-of-fox-news-interview-with-illinois-governor-bruce-rauner.html
— WILL COUNTY CONSIDERS VOTE TO SAVE TAXPAYERS BY ENDING ELECTED OFFICIALS’ PENSIONS  (DIERSEN: To qualify for my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension, I had to work 40 hour per week 1971-1997, but I got full-time CSRS credit for 1966-1969 even though I only worked part-time.)
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/will-county-considers-vote-to-save-taxpayers-by-ending-elected-officials-pensions.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Asking Will County taxpayers to contact their board members before Thursday night’s meeting, Balich said there is no enforcement how many hours they work as they answer only to the public. “The IMRF the pension plan only requires 600 hours per year which is 11 ½ hours a week with reporting by the elected office holder. Pension double-dipping is another problem,” he wrote.)

 

CAPITOL FAX
— As expected, Rauner’s AV drastically short-changes CPS
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/12/as-expected-rauners-av-drastically-short-changes-cps/

 

GOPUSA
— GOP senators defend McConnell’s leadership of do-nothing Senate
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=28572
— Farms adjusting to life without illegal alien labor
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=28530
— Pundits stand with Kim Jong Un
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=28577

 

BLAZE
— DNC deputy chairman claims Kim Jong-Un is more responsible than Trump — immediately regrets it – Chris Enloe
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/12/dnc-deputy-chairman-claims-kim-jong-un-is-more-responsible-than-trump-immediately-regrets-it/

 

THE HILL
— Trump condemns violence erupting at white nationalist protest – MAX GREENWOOD
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/346319-trump-condemns-far-right-protests-in-charlottesville?rnd=1502559292
— It’s time for McConnell to fight with Trump instead of against him – JENNY BETH MARTIN
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lawmaker-news/346179-its-time-for-mcconnell-to-fight-with-trump-instead-of
— Three dead after violent clashes at white nationalist rally – JORDAN FABIAN
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/346346-one-dead-after-violent-clashes-at-white-nationalist-rally?rnd=1502578816

 

POLITICO
— Trump condemns ‘bigotry and violence’ in Charlottesville clashes – BRENT D. GRIFFITHS
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/12/trump-denounces-hate-violence-charlottesville-241571

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— State of Emergency Declared in Charlottesville After Protests Turn Violent – SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and BRIAN M. ROSENTHAL
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/us/charlottesville-protest-white-nationalist.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: In an editorial unethically made to look like a news article, anti-Trumps glorify and praise those who come to America illegally, who stay in America illegally, and who bring others to America illegally.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/us/stay-hide-or-leave-hard-choices-for-immigrants-in-the-heartland.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— At least 10 pedestrians struck along route of white nationalist rally in Charlottesville; one fatality, according to mayor – Joe Heim, Ellie Silverman, T. Rees Shapiro and Emma Brown
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html
— Google employees face fear, uncertainty in aftermath of divisive memo – Elizabeth Dwoskin  (DIERSEN: Sooner or later, Democrats will force Google to “look like America,” that is, sooner or later, Democrats will force Google to get rid of its employees who are Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/google-employees-face-fear-uncertainty-in-aftermath-of-divisive-memo/2017/08/11/5edd7a00-7ee1-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Car Strikes Protesters, Killing One, Amid Clashes Over Confederate Statue  Charlottesville city officials said there were ‘multiple injuries’ from the car hitting pedestrians – Cameron McWhirter and  Douglas Belkin
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hundreds-face-off-ahead-of-white-nationalist-rally-in-virginia-1502553066

 

SALON
— Bernie Sanders, the socialist revival and the unexpected upsurge of millennial Marxism  Bernie Sanders proved socialism isn’t dead — and some young people are open to the banished ideas of Karl Marx – CONOR LYNCH
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/12/bernie-sanders-the-socialist-revival-and-the-unexpected-upsurge-of-millennial-marxism/

August 2 Evening Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Rauner takes aim at CPS funding in rewriting education plan – Monique Garcia, Rick Pearson and Hal Dardick
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-bruce-rauner-education-met-0802-20170801-story.html
— Emanuel: Republican lawmakers will feel pressure to defy Rauner on education bill – John Byrne and Monique Garcia
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-rahm-emanuel-bruce-rauner-veto-met-0803-20170802-story.html
— Foxconn — how the cookie crumbles for Illinois’ economy – Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-foxconn-illinois-wisconsin-jobs-edit-0803-jm-20170802-story.html
— Pregnant Beecher mom, 3 young sons killed in crash laid to rest – Zak Koeske
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-sta-beecher-crash-funeral-st-0803-20170802-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Fitch: Rauner veto creates ‘uncertainty,’ could affect school ratings – Tina Sfondeles
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/fitch-rauner-veto-creates-uncertainty-could-affect-school-ratings/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Rauner’s school veto will cause pain beyond Chicago, Dems say. Here’s how. – GREG HINZ
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170802/BLOGS02/170809950/rauners-school-veto-will-cause-pain-beyond-chicago-dems-say-heres-how
— How I fell for Emanuel’s budget spin – GREG HINZ
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170801/BLOGS02/170809982/how-i-fell-for-emanuels-budget-spin
— Over 500 at Allstate lose claims jobs to new app – STEVE DANIELS
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170802/NEWS07/170809946/over-500-at-allstate-lose-claims-jobs-to-new-app

 

DAILY HERALD
— Rauner, Madigan, Cullerton must seek school compromise – Editorial
http://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20170802/editorial-rauner-madigan-cullerton-must-seek-school-compromise
— Sugar Grove trustee Kevin Geary resigns due to move – Susan Sarkauskas
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170801/sugar-grove-trustee-resigns-due-to-move
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Senate Republicans slowly turning their backs on Trump.”
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170802/news/308029972/

 

ABC7
— Report says Trump called White House a ‘dump’ at his golf club – AP
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/report-says-trump-called-white-house-a-dump-at-his-golf-club/2269230/

 

CBS2
— Emanuel: Rauner “Governing Through Anger” In Rewriting School Funding Plan
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/08/02/rahm-emanuel-bruce-rauner-education-funding-veto/

 

WGN TV
— Trump administration prepares to investigate ‘race-based discrimination’ in colleges – CNN
http://wgntv.com/2017/08/02/trump-administration-prepares-to-investigate-race-based-discrimination-in-colleges/

 

WLS AM
— Emanuel accuses Rauner of acting like Trump – Bill Cameron
http://www.wlsam.com/2017/08/02/emanuel-accuses-rauner-of-acting-like-trump/

 

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— With stage set on SB1, lawmakers should choose people they represent over party – Editorial (DIERSEN: What should lawmakers do if the “people they represent” want them to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
http://www.pjstar.com/opinion/20170801/editorial-with-stage-set-on-sb1-lawmakers-should-choose-people-they-represent-over-party

 

MADISON RECORD
— Edgar County Watchdogs file suit in connection with Mautino investigation – Jon Campisi
http://madisonrecord.com/stories/511158604-edgar-county-watchdogs-file-suit-in-connection-with-mautino-investigation

 

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Preservationists worry about fate of house near Wheaton  1887 house was designed by well-known Chicago architect Jarvis Hunt – ERIC SCHELKOPF
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2017/08/02/preservationists-worry-about-fate-of-house-near-wheaton/awxqh9x/

 

REVIEW & HERALD
— Rauner calls for support of school funding changes – RYAN VOYLES
http://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/rauner-calls-for-support-of-school-funding-changes/article_34274eb9-eaf8-5a84-9471-714600ddf2e8.html

 

SOUTHERN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Rauners say “Rauner again seeks to pit Chicago against rest of Illinois when it comes to funding schools.”
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/rauner-again-seeks-to-pit-chicago-against-rest-of-illinois/article_202cfd2d-a6b8-5a04-93e1-d269014f4ca3.html

 

KELLY FOR ILLINOIS
— Chicago radio host to Trump: Help me stop Illinois’ sanctuary state law
http://www.williamjkelly.org/news/chicago-radio-host-to-trump-help-me-stop-illinois-sanctuary-state-law

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Facing an unfair property tax bill?
http://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511167945-facing-an-unfair-property-tax-bill

 

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Bloomington’s Mayor Renner and Co. circling the wagons and making up excuses – JOHN KRAFT
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2017/08/bloomingtons-mayor-renner-and-co-circling-the-wagons-and-making-up-excuses/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— COOK COUNTY SUGARY DRINK TAX KICKS IN
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/cook-county-sugary-drink-tax-kicks-in-.html
— DI LEO: ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THE CHALLENGE OF STATISTICS
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/illegal-aliens-and-the-challenge-of-statistics.html
— TAXES ARE KILLING SMALL BUSINESSES
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/taxes-are-killing-small-businesses.html
— THORNER: ARE WE WILLING TO ACCEPT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS FOR COMMON SENSE IN THE MILITARY?
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/08/thorner-are-we-willing-to-accept-political-correctness-for-common-sense-in-the-military.html

 

CAPITOL FAX
— SDem analysis: Rauner AV would blow a $221 million hole in state budget
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/02/sdem-analysis-rauner-av-would-blow-a-221-million-hole-in-state-budget/
— Proft papers start push for $100 million tax credit program for private school scholarships
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/02/proft-papers-start-push-for-100-million-tax-credit-program-for-private-school-scholarships/
— IL AFL-CIO’s Carrigan responds – CFL’s Ramirez responds – IFT’s Montgomery responds *** ILGOP goes full-on Mother Jones in response to new Pritzker ad
https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/02/ilgop-goes-full-on-mother-jones-in-response-to-new-pritzker-ad/

 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Government is the affirmative action problem, private action is the solution – Neal McCluskey (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to screw Republicans, and especially to screw Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/government-is-the-affirmative-action-problem-private-action-is-the-solution/article/2630442

 

GOPUSA
— Kasich a closet Democrat, says tea party leader – Chad Groening
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=28033
— Transforming the military, one tweet at a time (DIERSEN: All the while that I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years 1966-1969 and 1971-1997, it was “distracted” with hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats, and especially Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger.  It is called patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=28035
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Anything that distracts from the military’s main mission or makes it harder for our troops to survive in combat is a stealth attack on our men and women in uniform. Mr. Trump made it clear that military readiness overrides all other considerations, including hurt feelings or threats by disappointed interest groups.)

 

FOX NEWS
— Huckabee Sanders Rips Into Media: ‘You Want to Create a Narrative That Doesn’t Exist’
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/01/sarah-huckabee-sanders-russia-create-narrative-doesnt-exist
— GOP Pulls in $75M in Trump’s First 6 Months, Double Obama’s First 6 Months
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/02/gop-fundraising-trumps-first-6-months-doubles-obamas-first-6-months

 

DAILY CALLER
— Asian Group Comes Out In Support Of DOJ Effort To Curb Affirmative Action – Amber Randall (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to screw Republicans, and especially to screw Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/02/asian-group-comes-out-in-support-of-doj-effort-to-curb-affirmative-action/

 

NEWS BUSTERS
— The View Whines We Need Affirmative Action Because of ‘Systemic Racism’ ‘Slavery’ – Kristine Marsh (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to screw Republicans, and especially to screw Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2017/08/02/view-whines-we-need-affirmative-action-because-systematic-racism

 

ONE NEWS NOW
— D’Souza: Wake up, fight back, or lose to the Left – Billy Davis and Steve Jordahl
https://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2017/08/02/dsouza-wake-up-fight-back-or-lose-to-the-left

 

THE HILL
— Trump, GOP senators unveil measure to cut legal immigration – JORDAN FABIAN AND JORDAIN CARNEY
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344924-trump-gop-senators-unveil-measure-to-cut-legal-immigration

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “White House’s ‘We Don’t Care Much For Brown Folks Week’ Going OK  Could be better, probably couldn’t be worse.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-houses-we-dont-care-much-for-brown-folks-week-going-ok_us_5982442ce4b00f0084adeaea

 

CNN
— Trump backs plan that would curb legal immigration – Sara Murray and Dan Merica
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/02/politics/trump-skills-immigration-plan-cotton-perdue/index.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— The Trump administration takes up the cause of oppressed white people – Paul Waldman (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to screw Republicans, and especially to screw Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/02/the-trump-administration-takes-up-the-cause-of-oppressed-white-people/
— Of course the Trump Justice Department wants to target affirmative action – Philip Bump (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to screw Republicans, and especially to screw Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/08/02/of-course-the-trump-justice-department-wants-to-target-affirmative-action/

 

NEW YORK POST
— White House downplays reports affirmative action being targeted – Marisa Schultz (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to screw Republicans, and especially to screw Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
http://nypost.com/2017/08/02/white-house-downplays-reports-affirmative-action-being-targeted/

 

KANSAS CITY STAR
— NAACP issues first-ever travel advisory for a state — and it’s Missouri – IAN CUMMINGS (DIERSEN: Should Trump issue travel advisories for Trump supporters in those precincts, municipalities, townships/wards, counties, and states which voted for Clinton?  Should Trump supporters wear body cameras to document insults, harassment, threats, etc. from anti-Trumps?)
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article164851802.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— STRUGGLING AMERICANS ONCE SOUGHT GREENER PASTURES—NOW THEY’RE STUCK  The country is the least mobile since after World War II, even in economically depressed rural locales – Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg  (DIERSEN: Where have you lived?  Since the 1840s, all my ancestors have lived in northeast Illinois. I lived in Crete 1948-1972, University Park 1972-1976, Chicago 1976-1978, and Wheaton since 1978.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/struggling-americans-once-sought-greener-pasturesnow-theyre-stuck-1501686801

 

BLOOMBERG
— How Trump’s Attack on Affirmative Action Could Succeed  An aggressive Justice Department could make the case, or wait for the Supreme Court’s makeup to change. – Noah Feldman  (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to screw Republicans, and especially to screw Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-02/how-trump-s-attack-on-affirmative-action-could-succeed

 

KIPLINGER
— Worst Jobs for the Future: Legislator
http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/business/T012-S001-worst-jobs-for-the-future-2017/index.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Total number of jobs: 56,514  Projected job growth, 2016-2026: 1.5%  Median annual salary: $20,500  Typical education: Bachelor’s degree  It’s an ugly time to be in politics. The number of positions for local, state and federal legislators rarely changes, so competition can be fierce as we’ve all seen on the national stage. And despite what you might think about fat-cat politicos, government paychecks for the majority of elected officials are actually pretty light. On the bright side, opportunities to enter the field arise with every election, and pay for the top 10% in the field goes up to above $95,000 a year. Alternate Career  You can still affect change by pursuing a career as a social and community service manager. (And you can always get back into politics from this career path; it worked for Barack Obama.) Like many of our best jobs for the future, this occupation benefits from the aging population. As boomers increasingly lean on social services, such as adult day care and meal-delivery programs, managers of such businesses will be in greater demand. In fact, the number of these managers is expected to grow 15.7% by 2026 from 149,920 currently. Plus, the median salary is much more generous at $62,349 a year. You need at least a bachelor’s degree in social work, urban studies, public administration or a related field to get started. But reaching these managerial heights typically also requires relevant work experience of five years or more. And some employers prefer applicants with master’s degrees.)

 

DAILY BEAST
— Trump Panders to White Fragility – JAMIL SMITH (DIERSEN: Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to screw Republicans, and especially to screw Republicans who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-s-department-of-justice-officially-becomes-the-department-of-retribution

July 28 Evening Edition

ABC7
— Donald Trump replaces Reince Priebus with John Kelly as chief of staff
http://abc7chicago.com/news/donald-trump-replaces-reince-priebus-with-john-kelly-as-chief-of-staff/2258023/
— GOP blame-game begins after Senate sinks health care drive – AP
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/gop-blame-game-begins-after-senate-sinks-health-care-drive/2256887/

 

NBC5
— First Lady Has Complicated Relationship with SB-1 – Mary Ann Ahern and Carol Marin
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/WEB-deep-dish-diana-rauner-bruce-rauner-illinois-democrats-437258393.html

 

CBS2
— Trump Says He Has Chicago’s Crime Problem Solved
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/07/28/trump-crime-problem-solved/

 

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Man shot dead on Near North Side is 400th homicide this year
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/270625847-story

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump ousts Reince Priebus as chief of staff, names Gen. John Kelly as replacement – AP
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-donald-trump-reince-priebus-john-kelly-20170728-story.html
— Illinois election officials to review new request from Trump-formed panel for voter data – Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-donald-trump-illinois-elections-met-0729-20170728-story.html
— How an obscure procedural move became latest flashpoint for Rauner, Democrats – Monique Garcia
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-bruce-rauner-democrats-legislation-on-hold-met-20170728-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Trump in August” and ask “Can his flailing presidency ever deliver results?”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-trump-presidency-failure-edit-0730-20170728-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— CPS finds fewer school-funding allies in suburbs – Mark Brown
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/brown-cps-finds-fewer-school-funding-allies-in-suburbs/
— Trump hits Chicago crime again in New York speech – Lynn Sweet
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/transcript-trump-hits-chicago-crime-again-in-new-york-speech/
— Crime on the L, CTA buses is up; 90% of serious incidents go unsolved – Robert Herguth and Nader Issa
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/crime-on-cta-l-trains-buses-up-but-90-percent-of-serious-incidents-go-unsolved-the-watchdogs/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps and anti-Republicans crow over their success in demonizing, denigrating, and condemning Trump and Republicans.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-gop-lost-on-health-care-because-most-americans-have-a-heart/
http://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/lyons-buyers-remorse-over-trump-creeps-in-flyover-country/
— All Americans deserve the same health care as Sen. John McCain – Phil Kadner  (DIERSEN: What did you do to qualify for the health care insurance that you have now?  I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years to be a member of the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/). What did you do to qualify for Medicare?  I paid into Medicare 1964-1966, 1970 – 1972, and 1983-1997.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/kadner-all-americans-deserve-the-same-health-care-as-sen-john-mccain/
— Mayor Emanuel denies president’s repeated claim on city crime – Micheal Sneed
http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/sneed-mayor-emanuel-denies-presidents-repeated-claim-on-city-crime/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Rauner’s special session a sideshow to fomenting downstate-Chicago clash – RICH MILLER
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170728/NEWS02/170729854/rauners-special-session-a-sideshow-to-fomenting-downstate-chicago
— Fact-checking the school funding fight – GREG HINZ
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170728/BLOGS02/170729857/school-funding-battle-is-loaded-with-fuzzy-springfield-style-math
— GOP blame game begins after Senate sinks health care drive – AP
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170728/NEWS03/170729860/gop-blame-game-begins-after-senate-sinks-health-care-drive

 

EFFINGHAM RADIO
— New Poll: Rauner Approval Rating 34-Percent  (DIERSEN: What is your approval rating?  My approval rating is very low with those who are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors because I am a Trump supporter, Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, old (68), rich, gun owner, 100% German American, draft avoider, and my ancestors have been in America since the 1840s.)
http://www.effinghamradio.com/2017/07/28/new-poll-rauner-approval-rating-34-percent/

 

BELOIT DAILY NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: 19 ATTORNEYS GENERAL PROMOTE LGBTQ ACTIVITY IN THE MILITARY
http://www.beloitdailynews.com/article/20170728/AP/307289819

 

WAND
— Republican and Democrats name education funding reform negotiators – Michon Lindstrom
http://www.wandtv.com/story/35998074/republican-and-democrats-name-education-funding-reform-negotiators
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Republicans assigned to negotiate are Senator Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington, Senator Dan McConchie, R-Hawthorn Woods, Representative Avery Bourne, R-Raymond and Representative Bob Pritchard, R-Hinkley.  The Republicans released a statement late Friday afternoon that urged for quick negotiations.)

 

CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— State reps skip legislative session, volunteer as CPS janitors
http://chicagocitywire.com/stories/511162848-state-reps-skip-legislative-session-volunteer-as-cps-janitors

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Durkin demands Democrats get back to work on school funding bill – Hoang Tran
http://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511162915-durkin-demands-democrats-get-back-to-work-on-school-funding-bill

 

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Temporary Restraining Order sought to halt NIU Presidential Golden Parachute payout – JOHN KRAFT
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2017/07/temporary-restraining-order-sought-to-halt-niu-presidential-golden-parachute-payout/
— Shirley Madigan’s Illinois Arts Council stonewalling public records requests again – JOHN KRAFT
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2017/07/shirley-madigans-illinois-arts-council-stonewalling-public-records-requests-again/

 

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ILLINOIS’ JOBS GROWTH WORSE THAN EVERY NEIGHBORING STATE – Austin Berg and Kevin Angell
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-jobs-growth-worse-than-every-neighboring-state/

 

CAPITOL FAX
— Annual State Fair Democrat Day rally canceled
https://capitolfax.com/2017/07/28/annual-state-fair-democrat-day-rally-canceled/
— Cullerton appoints – GOP urges quick negotiations – Durkin, Brady appoint negotiators *** Madigan responds to Rauner offer, appoints two members to negotiate
https://capitolfax.com/2017/07/28/madigan-responds-to-rauner-offer-appoints-two-members-to-negotiate/
— Martire: Tax hike still leaves Illinois $2.5 billion short
https://capitolfax.com/2017/07/28/martire-tax-hike-still-leaves-illinois-25-billion-short/
— New ILGOP video: “Get back to work”
https://capitolfax.com/2017/07/28/new-ilgop-video-get-back-to-work/

 

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— American Failure – ROD DREHER
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/american-failure/

 

CNN
— Reince Priebus out, John Kelly in as White House chief of staff – Jeremy Diamond
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/28/politics/john-kelly-chief-of-staff/index.html
— Reince Priebus, shortest-serving chief of staff in White House history – Grace Hauck, Dylan Stafford and Ryan Struyk  (DIERSEN: Despite my Democrat superiors’ tremendous efforts to get rid of me, I survived a) almost 18 years as a GAO employee 1980-1997, b) almost 9 years as an IRS employee 1971-1980, and c) almost 3 years as a Post Office employee 1966-1969.)
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/28/politics/reince-priebus-chief-of-staff-white-house-history/index.html

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Reince Priebus Pushed Out After Rocky Tenure as Trump Chief of Staff – PETER BAKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/us/politics/reince-priebus-white-house-trump.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps demonize, denigrate, and condemn rich people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/being-rich-wrecks-your-soul-we-used-to-know-that/2017/07/28/7d3e2b90-5ab3-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Names Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as New Chief of Staff  Kelly to replace former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus – Rebecca Ballhaus and Peter Nicholas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-names-homeland-security-secretary-john-kelly-as-new-chief-of-staff-1501275333

 

NEWSWEEK
— TRUMP’S DONE LITTLE TO STOP CHICAGO’S GUN ‘CARNAGE’ – AIDAN QUIGLEY (DIERSEN: What did Obama do to stop the carnage?)
http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-done-little-stop-chicagos-gun-carnage-643602

 

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Ten Republicans Urge Oversight Committee Chair Not to Cut Retirement Benefits for Feds – Erich Wagner  (DIERSEN: How many Republican federal employees and Republican federal retirees live in your precinct, your municipality, in your township/ward, in your county, and in Illinois?  How viciously are they targeted?)
http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2017/07/republicans-pen-letter-disavowing-retirement-cuts-feds/139794/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It also would . . . reduce COLAs for Civil Service Retirement System workers by 0.5 percent. The Republicans who wrote Wednesday’s letter cited the “significant numbers of federal workers” in their districts, and said those people “have already sacrificed” in the name of deficit reduction. Signatories were Reps. Rob Bishop, R-Utah; Tom Cole, R-Okla.; Rob Wittman, R-Va.; Chris Smith, R-N.J.; Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.; Barbara Comstock, R-Va.; Walter Jones, R-N.C.; Frank LoBiondo, R-N.J.; Peter King, R-N.Y.; and Austin Scott, R-Ga. “Our strongest objection is how the proposals break a promise to employees and retirees who have based career planning on longstanding promised benefit calculations,” the lawmakers wrote. “They and their families don’t deserve to be treated in this cavalier manner. No one needs to remind us of the deficit and the debt problem our nation faces, but federal employees are an easy political target.”)

 

FEDERAL NEWS RADIO
— 10 House Republicans and 18 senators speak out against federal retirement cuts – Nicole Ogrysko
https://federalnewsradio.com/your-money/2017/07/10-republicans-remind-oversight-leader-of-their-opposition-to-federal-retirement-cuts/
— Last-minute Veterans Choice funding bill filled with key VA hiring flexibilities – Nicole Ogrysko (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.  IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.  The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://federalnewsradio.com/veterans-affairs/2017/07/last-minute-veterans-choice-funding-bill-filled-with-key-va-hiring-flexibilities/

 

DAILY KOS
— The Government Accountability Office is investigating Trump’s abuses against the ACA – Walter Einenkel
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1684591

July 16 Morning Edition

ABC7
— John McCain surgery for blood clot could complicate Senate vote – AP
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/john-mccain-surgery-for-blood-clot-could-complicate-senate-vote/2222292/
— Congresswomen protest for ‘right to bare arms’ – CNN  (DIERSEN: While I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997, I wore a suit and tie.)
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/congresswomen-protest-for-right-to-bare-arms/2221728/

 

NBC5
— Senator Bernie Sanders Addresses Health Care at Rainbow PUSH Convention – James Neveau  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasing, Democrats hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans should provide Democrats with free health care.)
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/senator-bernie-sanders-speaks-at-rainbow-push-coalition-convention-434722153.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— McConnell delays action on health care bill after McCain surgery – AP
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/mcconnell-delays-action-on-health-care-bill-after-mccain-surgery/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps crow over their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/trump-approval-rating-at-36-percent-washington-post-abc-news-poll/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: In a front page top of fold editorial in the Naperville Sun with a big color picture unethically made to look like a news article, Democrats promote LGBTQ activity big time.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-foster-forum-lgbtq-issues-naperville-st-0716-20170715-story.html
— Will County plans to lower property tax rate, finance chairman says – Susan DeMar Lafferty
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-sta-will-lowers-taxes-st-0714-20170706-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON ILLINOIS TIGHTENS: FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR GRAPHIC: Why Illinois’ personal income growth is 49th in nation – Anna Marie Kukec
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170715/why-illinois-personal-income-growth-is-49th-in-nation

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Governments must do more to listen to citizens – Andy Shaw  (DIERSEN: What about “citizens” who want governments to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?  Ever-increasingly, members of the aforesaid groups are buying firearms and ammunition for their self-defense.)
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20170715/andy-shaw-governments-must-do-more-to-listen-to-citizens
— Medicaid alternatives seen as ‘unrealistic’ by ACA supporter – Dean Olsen
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20170715/medicaid-alternatives-seen-as-unrealistic-by-aca-supporter
— Now hiring: Low unemployment complicates search for workers – Tim Landis  (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.  IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.  The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20170715/now-hiring-low-unemployment-complicates-search-for-workers

 

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— School-funding formula is next big fight – Editorial
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2017-07-16/school-funding-formula-next-big-fight.html

 

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Quiet after the budget storm? Of course not – Doug Finke
http://www.pjstar.com/news/20170715/statehouse-insider-quiet-after-budget-storm-of-course-not

 

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— Hey, congressman, mind if we punch you? – Editorial
http://www.bnd.com/opinion/editorials/article161583218.html

 

NORTHWEST HERALD
— McHenry’s Fiesta Days offers free refreshments to designated drivers – Jordan J. Wilson
http://www.nwherald.com/2017/07/12/mchenrys-fiesta-days-offers-free-refreshments-to-designated-drivers/axdygo1/

 

ALTON DAILY NEWS
— Bulk Of Illinois Tax Increase Aimed at Tackling Pension Crisis – Greg Bishop
http://www.altondailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=17&id=248369#.WWtdcIjyuM8
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON ILLINOIS TIGHTENS: Homeownership For Millenials Increasing, But Not In Illinois – Cole Lauterbach
http://www.altondailynews.com/news/details.cfm

 

NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote LGBTQ activity in Naperville big time.
https://www.nctv17.com/bill-foster-hosts-lgbtq-panel-in-naperville/

 

NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES
— OUTSTANDING: Indiana already sharing extensive voter data with Trump advisory commission leader – Dan Carden
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/indiana-already-sharing-extensive-voter-data-with-trump-advisory-commission/article_2c595abf-3d3d-5096-bc78-821f4601b8f8.html

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Housing vouchers continue to stir debate in Naperville – Glenn Minnis
http://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511112820-housing-vouchers-continue-to-stir-debate-in-naperville
— Hultgren meets five Yorkville workers who escaped persecution around globe – Brent Zell  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps shout at immigrants and at refugees that members of the following groups are racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things: Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511130911-hultgren-meets-five-yorkville-workers-who-escaped-persecution-around-globe

 

SANGAMON SUN
— GOP denounces House passage of ‘radical’ abortion bill – Caitlin Nordahl
http://sangamonsun.com/stories/511112231-gop-denounces-house-passage-of-radical-abortion-bill
— Chicago schools again get huge funding preference, GOP alleges – Caitlin Nordahl
http://sangamonsun.com/stories/511123533-chicago-schools-again-get-huge-funding-preference-gop-alleges

 

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE
— Phyllis Schlafly’s Proposal to Replace Do-Nothing, Professional Republican Legislators – Nancy Thorner
http://blog.heartland.org/2017/07/phyllis-schlaflys-proposal-to-replace-do-nothing-professional-republican-legislators/

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— How Universal College Admission Tests Help Low-Income Students – SUSAN DYNARSKI (DIERSEN: What was your ACT score?  Mine was only 24.  Sooner or later, if you seek a government office or a political office, your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes will use your ACT score against you.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/upshot/how-universal-college-admission-tests-help-low-income-students.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps demonize, denigrate, and condemn Breitbart.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/opinion/sunday/no-one-cares-about-russia-in-the-world-breitbart-made.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps crow over their success in driving Trump’s poll numbers down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-finds-trump-standing-weakened-since-springtime/2017/07/15/2decf03a-68d2-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html

 

TIMES TRIBUNE
— Courts review political redistricting issues – G. TERRY MADONNA AND MICHAEL YOUNG
http://thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/courts-review-political-redistricting-issues-1.2219377

 

TWIN CITIES PIONEER PRESS
— Growing disgust with the ethos of college campuses does not mean a rejection of higher education – Esther Cepeda  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrat teachers crank out “good little Democrats” who despise if not hate individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.twincities.com/2017/07/16/esther-cepeda-growing-disgust-with-the-ethos-of-college-campuses-does-not-mean-a-rejection-of-higher-education/

July 9 Evening Edition

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— Sanctuary cities promise to make 1 million immigrants citizens in 2017  (DIERSEN: From what I see, anti-Trumps do everything that they can to make immigrants anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/national/266784786-story

 

WGN RADIO
— Could Illinois be the first to ban performing elephants? – JASMINE COOPER  (DIERSEN: The elephant is the symbol of the Republican Party. In 2007, I had the honor of raising $2,000 from DuPage Republicans on short notice to sponsor an elephant that walked behind Congressman Peter Roskam in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade. Outstandingly, Roger Claar contributed $500 of that $2,000.  SEE: http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2007/07/photos-from-the.html)
http://wgnradio.com/2017/07/09/could-illinois-be-the-first-ban-performing-elephants/

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., suggest bill to repeal health care law ‘dead’ – AP
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2-gop-senators-suggest-bill-to-repeal-health-care-law-dead/

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mnuchin dismisses idea of 40 percent top tax rate for the rich – Bloomberg  (DIERSEN: What tax rate do your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes want you to pay?  My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always wanted me to pay higher tax rates. Why?  They hint/imply/argue/shout that I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth and that I have always been privileged, that I avoided the draft, that the federal government grossly overpaid me, that my wife and I gave up trying to have children, that we did not adopt, and that we did not become foster parents, that my federal retirement benefits are too generous, I do not give money to churches, etc.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-mnuchin-tax-plan-20170709-story.html
— Cyclists face barriers in car-centric Chicago suburbs: study – Mary Wisniewski (DIERSEN: Wheaton is not car-centric.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-suburbs-biking-getting-around-met-20170709-column.html
— Tool kit offered to improve Chicago’s Pedway; city should put it to use – Blair Kamin  (DIERSEN: While I lived in the Outer Drive East building 1974-1978, I walked to work at IRS’s Loop office and to graduate business and accounting classes at Loyola and DePaul.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-pedway-proposals-kamin-met-20170707-column.html
— Trump minimizes hacking allegations and seeks to ‘move forward’ with Russia – Philip Rucker
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-putin-russia-20170709-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— Staying connected makes aging easier to accept – Ken Potts  (DIERSEN: Virtually all my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote age discrimination.  They agree that non-veteran White male federal employees are “bad” employees and should be gotten rid of if they do not make GS-13 ($94,610) by age 25, GS-14 ($111,801) by age 30, GS-15 ($131,508) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($161,900) by age 40.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/entlife/20170709/staying-connected-makes-aging-easier-to-accept

 

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Will budget battle help or hurt Gov. Rauner’s re-election chances? – AP
http://www.pjstar.com/news/20170709/will-budget-battle-help-or-hurt-gov-rauners-re-election-chances

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Ives holds out hope to continue property tax battle – Carrie Bradon
http://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511134739-ives-holds-out-hope-to-continue-property-tax-battle
— State Rep. Unes on tax hike: “I hate it” – Paul Cicchini (DIERSEN: Some of my Democrat GAO superiors might say that they hated forcing me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, not promoting me beyond GS-13, keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forcing me to take an $18,847 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Some of my Democrat IRS superiors might say that they hated not promoting me beyond GS-12, disallowing my education deductions in 1978, and disallowing my partial day per diem claims in 1974. Some of my Democrat Post Office superiors might say that they hated forcing me resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.  The aforesaid would say that they were just “following orders.”)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/state-rep-unes-on-tax-hike-i-hate-it/760472416
— Unpaid fine for Lombard-based campaign committee totaled $150 in January 2017
http://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511134934-unpaid-fine-for-lombard-based-campaign-committee-totaled-150-in-january-2017

 

ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Wheeling Village Trustee Ken Brady tells woman to “SHUT UP!” – JOHN KRAFT
http://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2017/07/wheeling-village-trustee-ken-brady-tells-woman-to-shut-up/

 

FOX NEWS
— Washington Post article linking Scalise shooter to conservative radio host sparks online outrage
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/09/washington-post-article-linking-scalise-shooter-to-conservative-radio-host-sparks-online-outrage.html

 

TOWNHALL
— The Ongoing Frustration of Trump’s Conservative Critics – David Limbaugh
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2017/07/07/the-ongoing-frustration-of-trumps-conservative-critics-n2351540

 

NEWSMAX
— 5 Reasons Pay Isn’t Rising Much for Many Despite Low Unemployment
http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/unemployment-pay-wages-salary/2017/07/06/id/800230/

 

DAILY CALLER
— You’re Fired! Trump’s VA Terminates 500, Suspends 200 For Misconduct – Luke Rosiak  (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes agree with the adverse actions that my Democrat superiors took against me including a) my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, not promoting me beyond GS-13, keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forcing me to take an $18,847 pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors not promoting me beyond GS-12, disallowing my education deductions in 1978, and disallowing my partial day per diem claims in 1974; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors forcing me resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/09/youre-fired-trumps-va-terminates-500-suspends-200-for-misconduct/

 

DAILY WIRE
— HYPOCRITE: Open Borders Advocate George Clooney Moving Back To U.S. — For Security Reasons – JOSEPH CURL
http://www.dailywire.com/news/18345/open-borders-advocate-george-clooney-moving-back-joseph-curl

 

CNBC
— Why Illinois budget Armageddon will spread to other states – Jake Novak
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/07/illinois-budget-pain-will-spread-to-other-states-commentary.html

 

REUTERS
— Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Mario Rubio deride Trump’s idea for cyber security unit with Russia – Valerie Volcovici and Yasmeen Abutaleb  (DIERSEN: Would they deride a Trump idea for a cyber security unit with Mexico?)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cyber-idUSKBN19U0P4

 

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Former ethics watchdog who resigned: ‘The fairly explicit threat from Reince Priebus’ was ’emblematic’ of the Trump White House – AP  (DIERSEN: I should write a book about the threats that my GAO superiors and supervisors made to get me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois side with my Democrat GAO superiors and supervisors against me.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-former-ethics-director-decries-threat-from-wh-chief-of-staff-2017-7

 

FORBES
— How Illinois Courts Are Bankrupting The State – Omri Ben-Shahar
https://www.forbes.com/sites/omribenshahar/2017/07/08/how-illinois-courts-are-bankrupting-the-state/#ab297df3f82f

 

PARADE
— Tiny Houses – Diana Reese  (DIERSEN: The Outer Drive East studio condo that I lived in 1974-1976 was tiny, but I also owned a town home in University Park.)
https://parade.com/584592/dianareese/tiny-houses-are-big-meet-the-people-who-traded-square-footage-for-a-simpler-way-of-life/

July 8 Evening Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— End of state budget impasse brings stability, disappointment for business – Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz and Ally Marotti
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-illinois-budget-business-impact-0709-biz-20170706-story.html
— ‘A questionable expense’: Aurora Housing Authority spent thousands on luxury patio, office fireplace – Sarah Freishtat and Hannah Leone
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/news/ct-abn-aurora-housing-authority-fireplace-patio-st-0627-20170707-story.html
— Illinois’ financial challenges remain despite income tax increase – Kim Geiger and Monique Garcia
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinois-budget-tax-hike-finances-met-0709-20170707-story.html

— Illinois taxpayers: After the whomping, do we stay or do we go? – John Kass  (DIERSEN: The Democrats who run Illinois increasingly make it clear that they want individuals, organizations, and companies that are members of Group A to stay in the state and members of Group B to leave the state. Group A is anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors and Group B is Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German Americans, draft avoiders (except Bill Clinton), and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.  In aggregate, members of Group B pay far more taxes than members of Group A.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-illinois-tax-hike-kass-met-0709-20170707-column.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— Trump, with Putin, predicts ‘positive things’ for US, Russia – AP
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170707/news/307079978/
— Lake Michigan water flows into new areas of Lake County – Mick Zawislak
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170708/lake-michigan-water-flows-into-new-areas-of-lake-county

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Did Rauner really win the budget fight? – GREG HINZ  (DIERSEN: One could ask “Did those who won the fight against TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee, Milton Township Republican Central Committee, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, and GAO really win?”)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170708/ISSUE05/170709930/how-illinois-budget-veto-override-will-affect-governor-race
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Rauners ask “What, exactly, was the point of all this, Governor?”
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170708/ISSUE07/170709939/crains-editorial-how-gov-rauner-failed-illinois
— Poll: On budget battle, Crain’s readers pick side
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170708/ISSUE07/170709937/on-budget-battle-crains-readers-pick-side

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Rauner retaliation? Time will tell – Bernard Schoenburg
http://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20170708/bernard-schoenburg-rauner-retaliation-time-will-tell

 

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Service agencies: Budget deal may be ‘too little, too late’ – Paul Swiech
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/government-and-politics/service-agencies-budget-deal-may-be-too-little-too-late/article_3c4bff13-9680-59cd-a5c2-5c8bf8db1172.html

 

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Doing my job, voting for balanced budget – Mike Unes
http://www.pjstar.com/opinion/20170708/spotlight-doing-my-job-voting-for-balanced-budget

 

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— You will work 28 hours to pay new Illinois tax. How about 14 to change things? – Editorial
http://www.bnd.com/opinion/editorials/article159970434.html

 

KANKAKEE DAILY JOURNAL
— Who is the real public today? – Dennis Marek  (DIERSEN: Are/were you rich?  All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the federal government, my Democrat superiors, Democrat supervisors, Democrat co-workers, and Democrat subordinates demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being rich. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, a minority, a female, or a veteran.)
http://www.daily-journal.com/opinion/columnists/local/dennis-marek-who-is-the-real-public-today/article_dee873ef-db72-531b-86cb-65bf3cafd71d.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As I, and most of America, get more nauseated by the political scene each day, something else arises. We, of Illinois, are the victims of a state with little hope. Last month, it was announced Illinois ranks 50th in the financial stability of all the states. We have no budget as I write this. We have no cooperation between the governor and the legislature. We have no money. All we have is self-righteous rich men and women running our state into utter bankruptcy. Is the general public rich or poor? I suppose that depends on the definition of rich. Obviously, this also depends on the person who is defining the term. If a person is on Social Security, public assistance, or is unemployed, someone earning $30,000 is rich. If one is a professional earning $150,000 per year, then the multimillionaire is rich. And if you are Gov. Rauner who has millions, then Bill Gates is rich. It is all in the point of view. So, let’s be fair. Let’s say the well-off person is from a family that nets after all deductions and itemizations more than $50,000. Then, let’s say the present budget impasse between Michael Madigan and Rauner is on the proposed increase in the Illinois income tax rate. The House, with the help of 15 Republicans, passed Madigan’s bill increasing the state income tax for individuals from 3.75 to 4.9 percent and the corporate tax from 5.25 to 7 percent. We are a broke state. Do we tax more or spend less to get out of debt? That is one of the major differences between the political parties today. Democrats want to tax the rich more and keep programs going. The Republicans want to “lower” everyone’s taxes (mostly theirs) and cut spending everywhere. So, who is right? Rauner wants to redo the worker’s compensation system, something that was fought over forever 50-plus years ago. Rauner wants to cut Medicaid and fees charged by doctors. He wants to leave Illinois taxes low. Remember, not that long ago, we actually paid 5 percent state income tax. Let’s look at who really gets help if we do not raise state taxes. Take a $50,000 family. If the tax stays at 3.75 percent, the family pays $1,875 in Illinois tax. If it goes to 4.9 percent, the family pays $2,450 or $575 more. But if you are in the 20 percent Federal tax bracket and itemize, you save $115 on your Federal tax because your state income tax is another deduction. So, this bill that passed the House cost this family $460. Yet, it is predicted across the state such an increase would bring the state $4.3 billion. The increase in the corporate rate from 5.25 percent to 7 percent would bring in another $460 million. So, the middle income family pays an added $460 per year. Who do you think really pays the balance of the $4.3 billion? The super-rich. The Rauners and the Pritzkers. The very people who want to run the State of Illinois.)

 

WSIL TV
— Trump pledges $50 million to help women entrepreneurs  (DIERSEN: The Republican Party platform calls for equal opportunity, that is, no race or gender based preference giving.)
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/35838690/trump-pledges-50-million-to-help-women-entrepreneurs

 

UPSTREAM IDEAS
— “Fire The 15” Campaign Launch
http://upstream-ideas.com/upstream-ideas/ideas/fire-the-15-campaign-launch

 

KANE COUNTY REPORTER
— ‘Lipstick reforms’ won’t cover up Illinois’ problems, Wheeler contends – Hoang Tran
http://kanecountyreporter.com/stories/511145582-lipstick-reforms-won-t-cover-up-illinois-problems-wheeler-contends

 

CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Rauner described as giving in to compromise yet failing anyway – Caitlin Nordahl
http://chicagocitywire.com/stories/511143198-rauner-described-as-giving-in-to-compromise-yet-failing-anyway

 

SANGAMON SUN
— Policy writer Austin Berg argues budget plan has no solutions for Illinois – Caitlin Nordahl
http://sangamonsun.com/stories/511143454-policy-writer-argues-budget-plan-has-no-solutions-for-illinois

 

LAKE COUNTY GAZETTE
— Barbara Wheeler: Illinoisans are leaving, and budget is another shove out the door – Hoang Tran
http://lakecountygazette.com/stories/511145586-wheeler-illinoisans-are-leaving-and-budget-is-another-shove-out-the-door

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— DuPage board member Brian Krajewski saddened, not surprised, by Radogno departure – Justin Stoltzfus
http://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511143155-dupage-board-member-saddened-not-surprised-by-radogno-departure
— DuPage County taxpayers will pay an extra $557M with passage of tax hike law
http://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/511144677-dupage-county-taxpayers-will-pay-an-extra-557m-with-passage-of-tax-hike-law

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— IL GOP RELEASES NEW VIDEO ATTACKING SPEAKER MADIGAN’S TAX HIKE
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/07/il-gop-releases-new-video-attacking-speaker-madigans-tax-hike.html

 

GOPUSA
— Oregon governor to sign bill providing free abortions to all
http://www.gopusa.com/oregon-governor-to-sign-bill-providing-free-abortions-to-all/
— DeVos’ conservatism questioned over transgender pronouns  (DIERSEN: Conservatives do not do anti-conservative things.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=26765

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— Despite passing a budget, Illinois bonds could still drop to junk status – Rick Moran
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/07/despite_passing_a_budget_illinois_bonds_could_still_drop_to_junk_status.html

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: An anti-Trump charges Trump with “Dissing Jews.”  While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, many of my superiors and supervisors were Jewish.  My Democrat superiors, supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates reminded them a) that I am 100% German national origin and b) that I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. In my defense, I stressed a) that all my ancestors immigrated to northeast Illinois during the 1840s and 1850s, b) that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, c) that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and d) my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/opinion/sunday/why-does-donald-trump-keep-dissing-jews.html

June 28 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago trolls Trump Tower with ‘Real Fake’ sculpture – Kim Janssen
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-real-fake-trump-tower-0628-chicago-inc-20170627-story.html
— Democrats ramping up pressure on Rauner over Trumpcare – Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-bruce-rauner-health-care-20170628-story.html
— Unafraid of Trump, GOP senators feel free to ‘go their own way’ – Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Ashley Parker
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-gop-senators-20170627-story.html
— Everybody panic (again) about looming (or not) IDOT construction shutdown – Dan Moran
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/opinion/ct-lns-moran-county-road-projects-stopping-st-0628-20170627-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Emanuel flexes home-rule muscle on pensions – Fran Spielman
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/emanuel-flexes-home-rule-muscle-on-pensions/
— Without state budget, Powerball, Mega Millions drawings end this week – Tina Sfondeles
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/without-state-budget-powerball-mega-millions-drawings-end-this-week/

 

DAILY HERALD
— Madigan to bring 4-year property tax freeze to vote Wednesday –
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170627/madigan-to-bring-4-year-property-tax-freeze-to-vote-wednesday
— Officials: DuPage County bracing for worst-case state budget scenario – Robert Sanchez
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170628/officials-dupage-county-bracing-for-worst-case-state-budget-scenario
— Will Cook County soda tax make you pay for the ice in your drink? – Jake Griffin
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170628/will-cook-county-soda-tax-make-you-pay-for-the-ice-in-your-drink
— Why an Elgin man says he painted rainbow on Victorian home – Elena Ferrarin
http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170628/why-an-elgin-man-says-he-painted-rainbow-on-victorian-home

 

WTTW
— Illinois House Democrats Propose Own Budget Plan – Amanda Vinicky
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/06/27/illinois-house-democrats-propose-own-budget-plan

 

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOIRNAL REGISTER
— OUTRAGEOUS, TRAGIC: Sliders asking park board for video (GAMBLING) terminals – John Reynolds
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20170627/sliders-asking-park-board-for-video-gaming-terminals
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Springfield Park Board on Wednesday will consider a proposal from the Springfield Sliders baseball team to have video gaming machines at Robin Roberts Stadium. Todd Miller, owner and general manager of the summertime team comprised of college players, said he’s been approached by fans who requested the machines. “I’ve been asked by many people… They were wondering why we didn’t have slot machines,” Miller said Tuesday. “We’re trying to accommodate the fans.”)
— House Democrats outline budget, will vote Wednesday on pension reform – Doug Finke
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20170627/house-democrats-outline-budget-will-vote-wednesday-on-pension-reform
— Rally planned at Capitol to defend religious freedom –  Mary Hansen
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20170626/rally-planned-at-capitol-to-defend-religious-freedom

 

CHAMPAIGB/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Far different from a ‘stunt’ – Editorial
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2017-06-28/far-different-stunt.html

 

PEORIA PUBLIC RADIO
— Illinois Democrats Introduce Budget Plan; Republicans Bristle At Cell Phone Fee Demand – BRIAN MACKEY
http://peoriapublicradio.org/post/illinois-democrats-introduce-budget-plan-republicans-bristle-cell-phone-fee-demand#stream/0

 

JOURNAL COURIER
— $15 minimum wage bill arrives at governor’s desk – Cole Lauterbach  (DIERSEN: If jobs that do not require any education, any job skills, or any work experience should pay at least $15/hour, a) jobs that require a high school diploma should pay at least $25/hour, b) jobs that require a bachelor’s degree should pay at least $35/hour, c) jobs that require a master’s degree should pay at least $45/hour,  d) jobs that require a professional certification should pay at least $55/hour, and e) jobs that require a professional license should pay at least $65/hour.)
http://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/111096/15-minimum-wage-bill-arrives-at-governors-desk

 

JOURNAL STANDARD
— Lieutenant governor visits Lawfer dairy farm in Kent – Emily Massingill
http://www.journalstandard.com/news/20170627/lieutenant-governor-visits-lawfer-dairy-farm-in-kent

 

WSIL TV
— Sarah Palin sues New York Times  Politician says newspaper made mistake on purpose  (DIERSEN: The New York Times is a moral relativist that believes that its end justifies its means.  It is a disciple of Saul Alinsky.)
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/sarah-palin-sues-new-york-times/752405625
— Former Trump campaign chairman registers as foreign agent – AP  (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats talk and act like they are agents for foreign countries, mainly Mexico.)
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/35766103/former-trump-campaign-chairman-registers-as-foreign-agent

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— Republicans unsatisfied with House Democrats proposed budget – Rachel Droze
http://foxillinois.com/news/local/republicans-unsatisfied-with-house-democrats-proposed-budget-06-28-2017

 

KANE COUNTY CONNECTS
— KANE COUNTY MIGHT PUT MORATORIUM ON HIRING (DIERSEN: While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency was almost always under hiring freezes and/or promotion freezes.)
http://kanecountyconnects.com/2017/06/kane-county-might-put-moratorium-on-hiring/

 

DUPAGE COUNTY
— DuPage County Wins Distinguished Budget Award
http://www.dupageco.org/Content.aspx?id=55280

 

UPSTREAM IDEAS
— Bruce Rauner’s Capitulation
http://upstream-ideas.com/upstream-ideas/ideas/bruce-rauners-capitulation

 

ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
— Illinois cities, towns, villages trapped paying ‘Illinois Penalty’ because of state’s poor credit rating – Greg Bishop
https://www.ilnews.org/news/statewide/illinois-cities-towns-villages-trapped-paying-illinois-penalty-because-of/article_17a2a02e-5c0f-11e7-ba46-7fe97f2ed5db.html
— GOP leaders’ property tax freeze plan criticized by rank-and-file for having too many loopholes – Greg Bishop
https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/gop-leaders-property-tax-freeze-plan-criticized-by-rank-and/article_59cfb4be-5b42-11e7-a483-ffbbc8ad976e.html

 

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— RAUNER’S REFORM DEMANDS: FROM 44 TO 0  Gov. Bruce Rauner has compromised over and over to strike a deal, to the point of abandoning every reform he once demanded. But no matter how much Rauner gave, House Speaker Mike Madigan never budged. – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/rauners-reform-demands-from-44-to-0/
— $70,000 A DAY IN INTEREST — THE COST FOR CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO BORROW $387M  In two separate deals with JPMorgan, CPS borrowed $387M to make a teacher pension payment at end of June and as a result of the deal, will accumulate at least $7M in interest. – Marianna Schmiesing
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/cps-borrows-387m-with-70000-in-interest-daily/

 

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Failure of Leftist Restraint – Jonathon Clay de Hale
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/failure-leftist-restraint/

 

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Exposé of Fake News Machine CNN – Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/expose-of-fake-news-machine-cnn/

 

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ILLINOIS TEEN WITH RARE CONDITION MEETS WITH VICE PRESIDENT PENCE OVER HEALTH CARE DILEMMA
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/06/illinois-teen-with-rare-condition-meets-with-vice-president-pence-over-health-care-dilemma.html

 

GOPUSA
— 63% of Hispanic U.S. immigrants not literate in English (DIERSEN: If you live in America, and you fail/refuse to learn English, that indicates many negative things.)
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=26258

 

FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— THE COST OF MEDICAID – Star Parker  (DIERSEN: According to Democrats, if you are not on Medicaid, you are rich.)
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/opinion/the-cost-of-medicaid/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The number of Americans enrolled in Medicaid has increased from 29 million in 1990 to 73 million today — an increase of 252 percent over a period when the nation’s population increased 30 percent. Total spending on Medicaid today is $574 billion, 275 percent above the $209 billion of 2000. Medicaid amounts to about 40 percent of the total spending on the 10 largest means-tested federal government programs targeted at low-income Americans. According to the Congressional Budget Office, spending on these programs has tripled as a percentage of our GDP over the last 40 years. Does all this mean we are becoming a more fair and compassionate nation? That might have been the intention. But if we honestly look at what is happening, we will see things have gone badly astray.)

 

DAILY CALLER
— Sen. Durbin’s Office Won’t Release Emails With GOP Baseball Shooter – Justin Caruso
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/27/exclusive-sen-durbins-office-wont-release-hodgkinson-emails/

 

CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN NEWS
— MORE DISHONEST “POVERTY” RESEARCH THAT DOESN’T MEASURE POVERTY – Kent Kellar  (DIERSEN: The majority, if not the overwhelming majority, of poor people are Democrats. Democrats always a) blame poverty on Republicans and b) hint/imply/argue/shout that government should take more money away from Republicans and give that money to Democrats.)
http://conservativerepublicannews.com/2017/06/27/more-dishonest-poverty-research-that-doesnt-measure-poverty/

 

FOX BUSINESS
— Americans Slept Less, Worked More in 2016 – By Sarah Chaney
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/06/27/americans-slept-less-worked-more-in-2016.html

 

CNBC
— Condoleezza Rice: Trump stands for American values and seeks to act in the best interests of the US – Matthew J. Belvedere
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/28/condoleezza-rice-president-donald-trump-stands-for-american-values.html

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats’ Best Chance to Retake the House? 8 Types of G.O.P. Districts to Watch – Nate Cohn
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/upshot/best-chance-to-retake-the-house-8-types-of-gop-districts-to-watch.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Suburban Survivors: Mike Coffman, Colo. 6; Erik Paulsen, Minn. 3; Ryan Costello, Pa. 6; Peter Roskam, Ill. 6; Pat Meehan, Pa. 7; Rodney Frelinghuysen, N.J. 11; Dave Reichert, Wash. 8; John Katko, N.Y. 24; Frank LoBiondo, N.J. 2  Democrats often look at the seats where Mrs. Clinton won and assume those are the easiest seats to win in 2018. But any Democrat familiar with the names in this section knows it’s not so easy. These battle-tested incumbents generally represent classic battleground districts, like the suburbs around Denver or Philadelphia. Yet they have consistently run far ahead of the national party’s performance in presidential elections. These seats would instantly be among the top Democratic targets in the country — if the Republican incumbents retired. As it is, none of these incumbents will be easy for Democrats to defeat. A few, like Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey, might escape without a competitive race at all. But most of these representatives will probably find themselves in highly competitive races. In a tough year for Republicans, several would probably lose. But many would probably survive, despite their district’s Democratic lean in presidential elections. Many of these representatives even survived the big Democratic waves in 2006 and 2008. If Washington’s Dave Reichert wins re-election, he will be the only Republican to have won in 2006 and 2008 in a district carried by Al Gore and John Kerry, and to win re-election in 2018 in a district carried by Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton.  Most have survived in part by amassing a moderate voting record to please their moderate constituents. True to form, six of them voted “no” on the Republican health care bill, including Mr. Reichert. The three who voted for the bill — Peter Roskam, Erik Paulsen and Rodney Frelinghuysen — might now find it harder to pitch themselves as moderate voices in Washington.)
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: What do you say to those who encourage poor people to use illegal drugs?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/opinion/drug-test-poor-medicaid-walker-trump.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps ask “Who’s afraid of Trump?” and say “Not enough Republicans — at least for now.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whos-afraid-of-trump-not-enough-republicans–at-least-for-now/2017/06/27/cee56720-5b57-11e7-9b7d-14576dc0f39d_story.html

 

NATIONAL JOURNAL
— New Anti-Rauner Group Forms, Runs Ad  Pritzker is running robocalls that blame Rauner for the budget impasse. – Zach C. Cohen
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/654655/pritzker-robocalls-blame-rauner-budget-impasse

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— ObamaCare’s Victims Need Relief Now  More than 1,000 counties have only a single insurer. Doug Lake lives in one—and rates are going up 43%. – Thomas E. Price
https://www.wsj.com/articles/obamacares-victims-need-relief-now-1498605262
— North Korea Compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler  Language reflects Pyongyang’s hardening line on U.S. president – Jonathan Cheng
https://www.wsj.com/articles/north-korea-compares-trump-to-hitler-1498541392
— Maine Lawmakers Debate Whether to Keep Voter-Backed Tax on High-Income Earners  The state risks shutting down if lawmakers can’t hash out a deal before the fiscal year ends Friday night – Jon Kamp
https://www.wsj.com/articles/maine-lawmakers-debate-whether-to-keep-voter-backed-tax-on-wealthy-1498585761

 

MONEY MAGAZINE
— This Is Why the Number of Ultra-Rich Americans Is Surging – Rob Wile (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans as being rich.  According to Democrats, you are rich if you are not on welfare. How many of the 73,110 ultra-high-net-worth individuals in America are Republican and how many are Democrat?)
http://time.com/money/4833875/ultra-wealthy-americans-millionaire-billionaire/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There were 73,110 ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals in America in 2016, an increase of 6.7% from the year before, according to new data from the wealth information firm Wealth-X. The total is roughly the equivalent to the seating capacity of New Orleans’ Superdome. Another way to look at it is that one in every 4,500 Americans now has an ultra-high net worth, defined as $30 million or more. The surge was driven large by a strengthening U.S. dollar, which in turn drove equities, Wealth-X says.)

 

GAMBLING COMPLIANCE
— Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren Wants U.S. Military To Screen For Gambling Addiction – CHRIS SIEROTY  (DIERSEN: How many have gambling and other addictions in Illinois, in your county, in your township/ward, in your municipality, and in your precinct?  Government should not promote addictions.)
https://gamblingcompliance.com/premium-content/insights_analysis/massachusetts-senator-wants-us-military-screen-gambling-addiction

 

FEDERAL NEWS RADIO
— Price hike for your retirement package? – Mike Causey  (DIERSEN: One reason why my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 was that I would get COLAs.  However, those COLAs have always been far less than inflation.)
https://federalnewsradio.com/mike-causey-federal-report/2017/06/price-hike-for-your-retirement-package/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Reduce future COLAs ( (cost-of-living adjustments) for current and future CSRS  (Civil Service Retirement System) retirees by 0.5 percent below the actual rate of inflation, as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.)

 

FED SMITH
— Labor Department Begins Monitoring Federal Employees’ Opioid Use – Ian Smith
https://www.fedsmith.com/2017/06/27/labor-department-begins-monitoring-federal-employees-opioid-use/

 

FED WEEK
— Senate Could Address Base Closings, Veterans Preference  (DIERSEN: 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 veteran in 1966, b) that the Post Office should gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a veteran could have my job, c) that instead of me, IRS should have hired a veteran in 1971, d) that instead of me, IRS should have promoted veterans in 1972, 1973, and 1974, e) that instead of me, GAO should have hired a veteran in 1980, f) that instead of me, GAO should have promoted a veteran in 1986, and g) that GAO should have gotten rid of me much sooner than it did so that a veteran could have my job and my preferred corner office.)
http://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/senate-address-base-closings-veterans-preference/

 

VAULT
— Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality – Kristina Rudic  (DIERSEN: Obviously, if you do not promote LGBTQ activity, do not waste your time seeking a job at these places.)
http://www.vault.com/blog/workplace-issues/best-places-to-work-for-lgbt-equality