April 28, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NBC5
— Unruly crowds, fights lead to early closure of Lake in the Hills spring carnival (COMMENT: Lake in the Hills today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/reported-unruly-crowds-fights-lead-to-early-closure-of-lake-in-the-hills-spring-carnival/3422577/
— Answers sought over use of taxpayer dollars in Thornton Township – Regina Waldroup
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/answers-sought-over-use-of-taxpayer-dollars-in-thornton-township/3422449/

WGN9
— Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity – AP
https://wgntv.com/news/national/ap-student-anti-war-protesters-dig-in-as-faculties-condemn-university-leadership-over-calling-police/

WBEZ
— Hundreds joined pro-Palestinian protests at Chicago universities. Protesters from the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago and Roosevelt University rallied in support of people living in Gaza. – Isabel Funk, Sophie Sherry and Violet Miller
https://www.wbez.org/stories/hundreds-joined-pro-palestinian-protests-at-chicago-universities/a7ad74c9-8332-4fe9-a20c-f74abc833d62
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wbez.org/stories/migrants-get-married-in-chicago-photos/71799276-67d4-4d08-9a1b-639c313849e0

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call for increasing state pensions. Beyond overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes do not have pensions and they have used my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension against me big time as well as the 72% federal health insurance subsidy that my wife and I get. In my defense, I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years and I paid 7% of my salary into the CSRS. Further, my Social Security is dramatically reduced because I get a CSRS pension.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/28/opinion-illnois-tier-2-pension-crisis-fix/
— APRIL 17, 2010 FLACHBACK: GOP outsider Jack Roeser now wants in (COMMENT: Why isn’t there coverage like this of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) selection of its National Committeeman and Committeewoman at its State Convention in Collinsville May 24-25? In 2010, in my role as TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, I conducted a candidate forum for IRP National Committeeman that Roeser participated in.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2010/04/17/gop-outsider-roeser-now-wants-in/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: After decades as the sharp-tongued, angry outsider of Illinois Republican politics, conservative businessman Jack Roeser is trying to get on the inside. He’s given $50,000 to the state GOP. He’s seeking a leading role as the Illinois liaison to the Republican National Committee. And he’s even agreed to help with a big fundraiser honoring statewide Republican candidates, including a man he vilified before the February primary, U.S. Senate nominee Mark Kirk. Ask the 86-year-old Roeser to explain the sudden change of heart, and he cites new party leadership and a desire to stop the circular firing squad the Illinois GOP had become. “Very simply, the Republican Party is very different than it was a short while ago,” said Roeser, the wealthy founder of Otto Engineering, a Carpentersville manufacturing firm.)

DAILY HERALD
— Man on release in domestic charge kills wife, self in Villa Park – Susan Sarkauskas
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240427/news/man-on-release-in-domestic-charge-kills-wife-self-in-villa-park-authorities-say/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Biden’s approval continues to drift along at historic low as rematch with Trump looms – JACKSON SINNENBERG
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/president-joe-bidens-low-approval-continues-to-drift-along-at-historic-downturn-as-rematch-with-donald-trump-looms-2024-election-barack-obama-gallup-pew-research-poll-gaza-israel-palestine-economy-afghanistan-leadership

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & NPR ILLINOIS
— I should write a book about those who reject the right to life plank in the Republican Party platform and who have worked the hardest against me.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/world/ap-a-woman-might-win-the-presidency-of-mexico-what-could-that-mean-for-abortion-rights/
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-04-27/what-abortion-politics-has-to-do-with-new-rights-for-pregnant-workers

WGLT
— Gaza protestors picket White House correspondents dinner, as Biden ribs Trump. – AP
https://www.wglt.org/2024-04-27/gaza-protestors-picket-white-house-correspondents-dinner-as-biden-ribs-trump

WSIL TV
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/biden-administration-restores-protections-for-gay-and-transgender-americans-seeking-health-care/article_02de72da-cf34-5e04-b16e-4768ef30e4ec.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Is the Worst Yet to Come? – Steve Huntley
https://johnkassnews.com/is-the-worst-yet-to-come/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Bill Foster Heckled in Huntley
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/28/bill-foster-heckled-in-huntley/
— Over $500 Million in Subsidies for Chinese Communist Party Gotion, $30 Million for Revitalizing Other Illinois Towns
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/27/over-500-million-in-subsidies-for-chinese-communist-party-gotion-30-million-for-revitalizing-other-illinois-towns/
— Florida Inmates Building Tiny Houses in Public-Private Partnership
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/04/27/florida-inmates-building-tiny-houses-in-public-private-partnership/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pro-Palestinian protesters attempt to disrupt annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner – Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/27/pro-palestine-protest-erupts-annual-white-house-co/
— Republican introduces bill to ban waiving foreign flags on House floor – Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/27/republican-introduces-bill-ban-waiving-foreign-fla/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pro-Palestinian protests result in around 600 student arrests across the country – Gabrielle M. Etzel
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/2981920/pro-palestinian-protests-result-in-around-600-student-arrests-across-the-country/
— NRCC selling ‘F*** Hamas’ T-shirts to counter campus protests – Heather Hunter
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/2978611/nrcc-selling-f-hamas-t-shirts-counter-campus-protests/

NEW YORK POST
— Biden tries to downplay age with jokes, mocks Trump at White House Correspondents Dinner – Patrick Reilly
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/biden-cracks-jokes-about-his-old-age-makes-fun-of-trump-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner/
— Columbia students once rallied against Nazis — now they cheer for them. – Rafael Medoff
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/opinion/columbia-students-rallied-against-nazis-now-they-them-on/
— JPMorgan Chase’s woke DEI style guide nixes terms like ‘manpower,’ ‘blacklist’ – Jon Levine
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/jpmorgan-chase-dei-style-guide-nixes-terms-like-manpower-and-blacklist/
— DEI has ‘gone too far’ in the media: ‘It’s become a religion’ – Jon Levine
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/don-lemon-says-dei-has-gone-too-far-in-the-media/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Is China Rethinking its Invasion of Taiwan? – Mike Phelps
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/is_china_rethinking_its_invasion_of_taiwan.html
— The University of Washington canceled its planned protest because it was too white – Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/the_university_of_washington_canceled_its_planned_protest_because_it_was_too_white.html

BLAZE
— Hundreds of migrants hitch train ride to El Paso border — Texas prepares for another potential riot – CANDACE HATHAWAY
https://www.theblaze.com/news/hundreds-of-migrants-hitch-train-ride-to-el-paso-border-texas-prepares-for-another-potential-riot

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Cheap H-1B Labor – John Miano (COMMENT: My critics/opponents want cheap labor.)
https://cis.org/Miano/Case-Study-Cheap-H1B-Labor

DAILY CALLER
— Anti-Israel Protesters Cause Chaos For White House Correspondents’ Dinner Attendees
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/27/pro-palestine-protesters-white-house-correspondents-dinner-washington-hilton-hotel/

DAILY SIGNAL
— GOP Establishment’s Days Are Numbered – Kevin Roberts
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/27/conservatives-are-winning-soul-of-gop/

FEDERALIST
— To Understand Campus Protesters, The Right Should Dig Much Deeper – EMILY JASHINSKY
https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/27/to-understand-campus-protesters-the-right-should-dig-much-deeper/

FOX NEWS
— Antisemitism on campus surges as agitators take over
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/antisemitism-campus-surges-agitators-take-over-columbia-yale-universities
— Online videos expose how human traffickers are sneaking illegal migrants into US – Adam Shaw
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/us/watch-online-videos-expose-how-human-traffickers-are-sneaking-illegal-migrants-into-us/ar-AA1nAtqk
— White House correspondents’ dinner features jabs at Biden’s age, Trump’s legal woes, mainstream media. President Biden made jokes about his age and took shots at former President Trump. – Landon Mion
https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-house-correspondents-dinner-features-jabs-bidens-age-trumps-legal-woes-mainstream-media

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— University Presidents “have participated in the creation of a monstrous movement on campuses that uses targeting of Jews and Israel as an organizing mechanism” – William A. Jacobson
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/university-presidents-have-participated-in-the-creation-of-a-monstrous-movement-on-campuses-that-uses-targeting-of-jews-and-israel-as-an-organizing-mechanism/

MRC TV
— CNN Touts Book Blaming Racism for Wealth Gap in U.S. – BRAD WILMOUTH (COMMENT: According to Democrats, those who vote for Democrats have less money because of those who vote for Republicans.)
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/cnn-touts-book-blaming-racism-wealth-gap-us

PJ MEDIA
— Trump’s Vow to Clean Out the Deep State and Reform the Federal Bureaucracy Has CNN TERRIFIED – ROBERT SPENCER (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government proudly painted themselves as being advocates of the Democrat Party platform, that is, as being advocates of patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I should write a book about them.)
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/04/27/trumps-vow-to-clean-out-the-deep-state-and-reform-the-federal-bureaucracy-has-cnn-terrified-n4928564
— Surge of Violent Transgenders Highlights Democrats’ Violent Ideology – CATHERINE SALGADO
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/04/27/surge-of-violent-transgenders-highlights-dems-violent-ideology-n4928556

TOWNHALL
— Illegals Get Separate Line at Airports Because they Don’t Have Documentation Verifying Who They Are – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/04/27/illegals-given-their-own-line-at-airports-because-they-dont-have-documentation-verifying-who-they-were-n2638352
— These Protests are the Result of Bad Parenting and an Education System Churning Out Morons
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/04/28/these-protests-are-the-result-of-bad-parenting-and-an-education-system-churning-out-morons-n2638371

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Percentage of Americans Wanting Mass Deportation Will Terrify Illegals Everywhere – Connor Cavanaugh
https://www.westernjournal.com/shock-percentage-americans-wanting-mass-deportation-will-terrify-illegals-everywhere/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in making students anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-married people, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/opinion/columbia-university-protests.html
— My Democrat superiors in the federal government proudly painted themselves as being advocates of the Democrat Party platform, that is, as being advocates of patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I should write a book about them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/magazine/trump-rallies-rhetoric.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 2024 is our final battle. With you at my side — and you’ve been at my side from the beginning — we will demolish the deep state.)
— A Wealth Shift That Could Leave Some Younger Americans Behind. Assets held by baby boomers are changing hands, but that doesn’t mean their millennial heirs will be set for life. – Martha C. White (COMMENT: Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents had wealthy parents. I should write a book about them.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/business/retirement-millennials-baby-boomers-wealth.html
— New York Is Turning 400. We Should Celebrate. But How? – Russell Shorto
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/new-york-dutch-lenape-slavery.html

USA TODAY
— Republican Party sues over absentee ballots, voter rolls in battleground states – Erin Mansfield
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/27/rnc-targets-absensee-ballots-voter-rolls-2024/73428152007/

BALTIMORE SUN
— Progressives are driving the Democratic Party, and destroying America – Chris Roemer
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/04/28/chris-roemer-progressives-are-driving-the-democratic-party-and-destroying-america-commentary/

SEATTLE TIMES
— A child care crisis is holding parents back – Daniel Beekman, Moriah Balingit and Sharon Lurye (COMMENT: Since I was born in 1948, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have falsely/outrageously/disgustingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my parents were filthy rich because my mother stayed home and raised me. In my defense, my father almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.)
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/in-wa-and-beyond-a-child-care-crisis-is-holding-parents-back/

ABC NEWS
— Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests at White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza. A glitzy election-year roast by President Joe Biden drew journalists, celebrities and politicians — but also hundreds of protesters against the war in Gaza. – AP
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/biden-give-election-year-roast-annual-correspondents-dinner-109720521

NBC NEWS
— College campus protests over war in Gaza show no sign of slowing, new crackdowns on demonstrators
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/college-campus-protests-over-war-in-gaza-show-no-sign-of-slowing-new-crackdowns-on-demonstrators-209833029628

CBS NEWS
— College protesters vow to keep demonstrations as schools shut down encampments amid reports of antisemitism
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-student-protesters-demonstrations-israel-hamas-war-grow/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-campus-student-protests-war-2ab919ad849c50c9d177a32c0309bd1e

CNN
— Pro-Palestinian protests continue at colleges across the US
Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity
— My Democrat superiors in the federal government proudly painted themselves as being advocates of the Democrat Party platform, that is, as being advocates of patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I should write a book about them.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/politics/trump-federal-workers-2nd-term-invs/index.html

AOL & MSN
— Democrats crow about their success in getting churches to promote LGBTQ.
https://www.aol.com/news/united-methodist-church-lgbtq-advocate-090000167.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/white-house-responds-to-pope-condemning-trans-procedures/ss-AA1nM7C5

MSN
— How To Become a Millionaire If You Weren’t Born Into Wealth – Deborah Sabinus (COMMENT: Virtually all my critics/opponents have/had wealthy parents. I should write a book about them. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.msn.com/en-my/money/personalfinance/ramit-sethi-how-to-become-a-millionaire-if-you-weren-t-born-into-wealth/ar-AA1noMRT?ocid=weather-verthp-feeds

YAHOO
— ‘Buying a first home is harder when you’re single’ – Kevin Peachey (COMMENT: Back in the good old days, in September of 1972, when I was single and 24 years old, my $66,942/year IRS salary in today’s dollars and my part-time Firestone Store salary enabled me to buy a new town home in University Park. In October of 1971, my $54,728/year IRS salary in today’s dollars and my part-time Firestone salary enabled me to buy a new 1972 Corvette. In addition, starting in January of 1972, my IRS salary enabled me to pay for tuition and books for graduate evening business courses at Loyola.)
https://au.news.yahoo.com/buying-first-home-harder-youre-001029638.html
— My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. I should write a book about that.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/m-average-middle-class-retiree-130020378.html

ARIZONA CENTRAL
— The Arizona Republican Party just elected indicted Sen. Jake Hoffman and expelled Rep. Liz Harris to represent Arizona on the RNC. Could this party get any more nutso? – Laurie Roberts (COMMENT: Why isn’t there coverage like this of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) selection of its National Committeeman and Committeewoman at its State Convention in Collinsville May 24-25? In 2010, in my role as TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, I conducted a candidate forum for IRP National Committeeman that Jack Roeser participated in.)
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2024/04/28/this-just-in-from-the-arizona-republican-party-we-be-crazy/73489433007/

KVNU
— Utah Republicans to select national committee members at statewide gathering (COMMENT: Why isn’t there coverage like this of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) selection of its National Committeeman and Committeewoman at its State Convention in Collinsville May 24-25? In 2010, in my role as TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, I conducted a candidate forum for IRP National Committeeman that Jack Roeser participated in.)
https://kvnutalk.com/utah-republicans-to-select-national-committee-members-at-statewide-gathering-on-april-27-news/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: SALT LAKE CITY – One of the responsibilities of Republican delegates from Cache County at the upcoming statewide convention on April 27 will be selecting a committeeman and committeewoman to represent Utah on the Republican National Committee. In addition to deciding which GOP candidates do or don’t make it to the June statewide primary and the November election, delegates will also chose between six candidates for RNC committeeman and two candidates for RNC committeewoman. Those candidates for RNC committeeman are Ty Jensen, a candidate in Utah’s 2nd Congressional District; author and climate scientist William Pekny; Dustin Kearl, a certified public accountant and financial consultant; businessman Michael Pierce; entrepreneur Brad Bonham; and David Yonan of Ogden. The candidates for RNC committeewoman are Teena Horlacker, a distance educator for the Western Governor’s University, and Kim Coleman, a former member of the Utah Legislature. The primary role of delegates is to represent their precincts in selecting candidates for the primary and general elections, according to Cache GOP chair Geoff Cox. They will also need to exercise sound judgment in determining the fitness and fidelity to Republican principles of the aforementioned candidates for the national GOP committee. According to the agenda for its convention, the Utah GOP’s state delegates will begin gathering at the Salt Palace Convention Center starting at 7 a.m. for credentialing. They are scheduled to begin considering nominating candidates for multi-county elections, including several state school board, state House and state Senate races at 8 a.m. Throughout the afternoon, delegates will also hear speeches and vote on candidates for state-level races, including nominations for state auditor, attorney general and the governor. The goal of the RNC is to officially nominate and confirm candidates for president and vice president; adopt a comprehensive party platform; unify the party; and publicize and launch the fall campaign. The high-profile Republicans who will fill the roles of chair and vice chair of the RNC have already been chosen. Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican who has echoed President Donald Trump’s charges of a voter fraud in the 2020 election, has been selected as the party’s new national chairman. He will be assisted by Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, as co-chair.)

BUSINESS TIMES
— Latest victim of diversity backlash – your workplace affinity group (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors promotes affinity groups for their employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, parents, etc.)
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/working-life/latest-victim-diversity-backlash-your-workplace-affinity-group

FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI to not hire Republicans, to not retain their Republican employees, and to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91113957/4-common-arguments-against-dei-and-how-to-dismantle-each-one

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.