CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats may use population estimates for redistricting, raising questions about fairness of maps – RICK PEARSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-illinois-legislative-redistricting-census-20210419-j7mp3towabej7jm57ikatm7tm4-story.html
— A guide to political redistricting in Illinois – RICK PEARSON (DIERSEN: I should write a book about the 2015 gerrymandering of my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9. I went from living in the middle of my precinct to living on its far western edge. I lost about 100 homes that were majority Republican and gained about 100 homes that were majority Democrat surrounding a grade school, a middle school, and the Wheaton Warrenville School District 200 Administration Headquarters.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-cb-illinois-legislative-redistricting-20210419-ijpdxddbf5a7lbzutby4snevpy-story.html
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Naper Pride Fest Coming to Naperville in September (DIERSEN: To promote LGBTQ is to promote the destruction of traditional marriage and the traditional family. What goals to LGBTQ-promoters have this year for turning Naperville heterosexuals into LGBTQers – 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50+%)
https://www.nctv17.com/news/naper-pride-fest-coming-to-naperville-in-september/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— The Illinois GOP has never been a fundraising juggernaut, and yet the first quarter numbers were still pretty bleak. For the first quarter, Illinois GOP reported receiving a little more than $115,000 in donations, leaving $74,374 in the bank after expenses, according to the State Board of Elections. Still, they’re worthy of an asterisk this time after a defeat at the top of the ticket and their new state leader has only been on the job since February. That left the Illinois GOP little time to define the party to potential donors. Is it the party of Donald Trump, for example? Or does it represent Rep. Adam Kinzinger? And what is the vision of party Chairman Don Tracy? The next quarter will be the real test of whether Tracy can galvanize support for his party. Another big question: Will billionaire Ken Griffin step in to help the way he did in the general election by funding opposition forces to the Democrats’ graduated income tax referendum? So far he and other donors have been missing from fundraising. The Democratic Party of Illinois, meanwhile, received about $2 million, leaving it with $2.6 million cash on hand. And Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker reports having $35 million in the bank, thanks to his self-funding. House Minority Leader Jim Durkin raised $125,000 in the first quarter and had about $267,00 on hand after expenses. His House Republican Organization, which funds GOP reps’ campaigns, raised $111,000, leaving a mere $200 in the bank after expenses. And Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie raised $68,000 and has $432,000 cash on hand. His caucus committee raised $206,000 and has $209,000 in the bank. He’s new to the job, so it’s worth adding an asterisk there, too. Democratic Party leaders, who hold the majority, raked in the cash — even with their big fundraiser, former House Speaker Michael Madigan, out of the picture halfway through the quarter. New House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch raised $1.2 million, with the Chicago Teachers Union making the largest donation: $59,900. Welch also contributed to local campaigns, leaving him $1.2 million cash on hand. And Senate President Don Harmon reported raising $402,000 and has nearly $6 million in the bank after spending $1.2 million primarily on the Senate Democrats’ caucus. – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2021/04/19/illinois-gops-asterisk-first-ad-for-2022-cycle-remap-may-have-a-trump-factor-492515
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— This isn’t your parents’ Democratic Party – Bobby Jindal
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/this-isnt-your-parents-democratic-party
AMERICAN THINKER
— How Generations of Presidents (Including Reagan) Wrecked Our Country – Michael Filozof
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/04/how_generations_of_presidents_including_reagan_wrecked_our_country.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Caldwell argues that the new “de facto constitution” has been used to supersede the Bill of Rights and the black-letter law of the traditional Constitution. Forced busing and forced integration violated the First Amendment right to freedom of association, as did affirmative action for blacks and women. Racial and sex-based preferences offend the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. These policies were enacted despite opposition from most Americans. . .Caldwell believes that the upshot of Reagan’s failure to undo the Great Society was the empowerment of minorities, women, immigrants, and wealthy globalist corporate elites (who turned out the be “woke” leftists in contrast with the conservative, buttoned-down corporate culture of the past). The losers were the white, working-class, traditional Americans who still believed in the old Constitution while under relentless wage pressure from immigration, affirmative action, and the offshoring of jobs — and were relentlessly mocked and sneered at by the media, politicians, and corporate oligarchs.)
— The Federal Reserve Should Not Finance Insane New Spending – Jon N. Hall
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/04/the_federal_reserve_should_not_finance_insane_new_spending.html
— BLM conspicuously quiet about massive numbers of Black deaths – Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/blm_conspicuously_quiet_about_massive_numbers_of_black_deaths.html
BREITBART
— Boehner: ‘Cruel’ America First Caucus Wants to Stop Country from Being a ‘Land of Immigration’ – Pam Key
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/04/18/boehner-cruel-america-first-caucus-wants-to-stop-country-from-being-a-land-of-immigration/
— The Pandemic Was an ‘Insidious Encroachment on Our Bill of Rights’ – JACOB BLISS
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/18/exclusive-mike-garcia-pandemic-insidious-encroachment-our-bill-rights/
— Pew: 20 Percent More Americans Call Illegal Immigration ‘Very Big Problem’ Under Joe Biden – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/18/pew-research-center-20-percent-more-americans-call-illegal-immigration-very-big-problem/
— Michael Savage Warns of Civil War — ‘You Should Be Very Frightened’ – JOSHUA KLEIN (DIERSEN: The left, that is, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs, has declared war against the right, that is, against Republicans. The left sees members of the following groups as being their soldiers in their army to get rid of Republicans once and for all: minorities, women, younger people, LGBTQers, non-married people, moderates, liberals, illegals, poor people, rich people, those who have financial, health, and/or other problems, non-gun owners, non-Christians, non-Protestants, non-Italian Americans, non-German Americans, and those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/18/michael-savage-warns-civil-war-you-should-very-frightened/
DAILY WIRE
— What’s Happening At The Border Is Far Worse Than We’re Being Told – CANDACE OWENS
https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-owens-whats-happening-at-the-border-is-far-worse-than-were-being-told
DAILY CALLER
— John Boehner: ‘I’d Rather Set Myself On Fire’ Than Run For Office Again – BRANDON GILLESPIE (DIERSEN: From what I see, ever-increasingly, you have little or no chance of winning an election unless those who have the most government, political, and/or financial clout ask you to run. I should write a book about those who have had the most government, political, and/or financial clout in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 2000. I would focus on those who have blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their candidates’ losses.)
https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/18/john-boehner-run-for-office-again-republican-party/
NEWSMAX
— Big Business Joins Other Crumbling Pillars of Society – Conrad Black
https://www.newsmax.com/conradblack/bastian-delta-grant-roosevelt/2021/04/19/id/1018103/
TOWNHALL
— Standing Strong Against the Left’s American Nightmare – Terry Paulson
https://townhall.com/columnists/terrypaulson/2021/04/19/standing-strong-against-the-lefts-american-nightmare-n2588106
PATRIOT POST
— The Crisis of American Civilization
https://patriotpost.us/articles/79226-in-brief-the-crisis-of-american-civilization-2021-04-19
PJ MEDIA
— Chris Cuomo Says ‘White People’s Kids’ Need to Be Killed for Police Reform to Happen – MATT MARGOLIS
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/04/18/watch-chris-cuomo-says-white-peoples-kids-need-to-be-killed-for-police-reform-to-happen-n1440781
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— The Myths of FDR & LBJ Guide Biden’s Presidency. – J. Peder Zane
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/04/19/the_myths_of_fdr__lbj_guide_bidens_presidency_145608.html
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Border Crisis: Biden Admin Set To Release Into The U.S. 400 Illegal Alien Families Per Day
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/04/border-crisis-biden-admin-set-to-release-into-the-u-s-400-illegal-alien-families-per-day/
THE HILL
— Republicans fret over divisive candidates – TAL AXELROD (DIERSEN: According to hate-filled Republican-hating Republican -haters, the more of the following that you are, the more divisive that you are: Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/548749-republicans-fret-over-divisive-candidates
NBC NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “Trump’s Florida clubs remain a must stop for Republican stars and hopefuls alike. The GOP’s fealty to the former president doesn’t just inflate his ego, of course. It also pads his bottom line.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-florida-clubs-remain-must-stop-republican-stars-hopefuls-ncna1264441
NEW YORK TIMES
— After the January 6 riot at the Capitol, scores of companies vowed to pause their political donations. Some stopped giving to all politicians, while others shunned only those 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the presidential election results. A recent deadline for candidates to release fund-raising details for the first quarter revealed more details about how corporate giving has changed. – Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/business/dealbook/corporate-donations-capitol-riot.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Moving our focus from equality to equity won’t defeat racism. It’s another kind of racism. – Ben Carson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/18/ben-carson-equity-equality-racism/
— Flagship universities say diversity is a priority. But Black enrollment in many states continues to lag. Students, advocates say the universities should do more to recruit a student body that resembles the population of their states. – Lauren Lumpkin, Meredith Kolodner and Nick Anderson (DIERSEN: UIC accepted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But because I am a White male Republican, I doubt that they would accept me today.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/04/18/flagship-universities-black-enrollment/
— RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel comes under pressure to show more independence from Trump – Josh Dawsey
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rnc-chairwoman-ronna-mcdaniel-comes-under-pressure-to-show-more-independence-from-trump/2021/04/16/0b6647ea-9dfe-11eb-8a83-3bc1fa69c2e8_story.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Education Reform Can’t Ignore What’s Being Taught. Bobby Jindal and Joe Ricketts focus only on the location and organizational structure of education, overlooking its content. – Samuel Frazer, Fort Myers, Fla.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/education-reform-cant-ignore-whats-being-taught-11618755879
— Princeton Gets $20 Million From Bloomberg Philanthropies Toward Diversity. Ivy League school aims to boost support for first-generation and low-income students while helping other schools with their programs. – Melissa Korn (DIERSEN: What if Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion were only for those whose parents did not have college degrees? Neither of my outstanding parents attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/princeton-gets-20-million-from-bloomberg-philanthropies-toward-diversity-11618824600
FORBES
— $4+ Billion Cost To Give Federal Employees A New Paid Holiday On Election Day – Adam Andrzejewski (DIERSEN: Ever since I started working part-time for the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office in 1966 when I was 18 years old, I have been viciously demonized, denigrated, and condemned as being overpaid. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/04/18/new-4-billion-cost-to-give-federal-employees-a-paid-holiday-on-election-day/
— Why Tammy Duckworth issued her ultimatum over AAPI cabinet representation: ‘I needed to take action’ – EMMA HINCHLIFFE (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to not hire and to get rid of Republicans.)
https://fortune.com/2021/04/19/tammy-duckworth-aapi-cabinet-interview/
YAHOO FINANCE
— How Much Is President Joe Biden Worth? – Gabrielle Olya
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-president-joe-biden-worth-120007103.html
LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Celebrities Embrace Commercial Cannabis Opportunities – Ethan McDowell (DIERSEN: To promote LGBTQ is to promote the destruction of traditional marriage and the traditional family. What goals to LGBTQ-promoters have this year for turning heterosexuals in America into LGBTQers – 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50+%)
https://labusinessjournal.com/news/2021/apr/19/celebrities-embrace-commercial-cannabis-opportunit/
FILLMORE COUNTY JOURNAL
— Tribal America – Stan Gudmundson, Peterson, MN
http://fillmorecountyjournal.com/tribal-america/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Obviously, there was much that needed correction. We tried to, with all sorts of schemes to include reverse discrimination, through programs like affirmative action, i.e., “black privilege.” But what dead people did to other dead people could not and cannot be fixed by discriminating against living innocents. Individual freedom should not have been sacrificed for tribal collectivism. I once toyed with the idea of becoming an FBI agent but I was advised not to apply. I was the wrong color and gender. The problem with the group rights “solutions” is that there is no fair way to determine who is entitled to what. Moreover, that approach transmutes constitutional guarantees of individual liberty into mere tribalism. It created, and still creates the impetus to further divide and subdivide us into more individual gangs, a consequence not clearly foreseen at the time. We are now split into many more tribes who now even have legally defined special rights. Gender, sexual preference, racial minorities to include black, Hispanic, Indian, illegal immigrants and on and on. Standing is based on power, therefore tribes must compete for attention, favors, resources, and legal status. That promotes unease and even provokes fear and hate of other gangs who are not part of the tribe. It also created a race-baiting industry whose advocates cannot allow racial problems to be solved. They would have to find other employment. The smallest minority is the individual. Our founders understood that and established a constitution based on individual liberty. When individual rights are protected, group rights are protected. A system based on group rights, rather than individual rights, completely obliterates the nature and character of America and the constitution our system is based on. That is why, despite the racial problems we had, group rights collectivization has been and is so dangerous. In the long run, giving tribes/gangs/mobs/hordes/packs legal group rights was never justified. The long-term damage and problems caused by wrecking the constitution, by far outweigh the civil rights issues of those days, despite being as bad as they might have been. Again, the imperative of individual liberty should never have been abandoned. Unless we eliminate the tribal system and unless we return to the system of individual constitutional liberty, the divide in America will become worse. Unfortunately, we will not get rid of tribalism and society/politics will become still nastier. Count on it.)
LGBTQ NATION
— Lori Lightfoot laughs off absurd-sounding “homophobic” sex scandal rumors. Social media was abuzz with the claim that Chicago’s first out mayor would step down. She made light of the rumors, but had stern words for serious calls for her to resign as well. – Juwan J. Holmes
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/04/lori-lightfoot-laughs-off-absurd-sounding-homophobic-sex-scandal-rumors/
DAILY MAIL
— Ted Cruz slams Maxine Waters for ‘encouraging riots and violence’ after she called on BLM protesters to get ‘more confrontational’ – hours before two National Guardsmen were injured in drive-by shooting in Minneapolis – HARRIET ALEXANDER and KEITH GRIFFITH and HOLDEN WALTER-WARNER
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9485063/Cruz-leads-Republicans-accusing-Maxine-Waters-actively-encouraging-riots-violence.html
