April 3, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Some tuberculosis cases confirmed among migrants in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/migrants-chicago-what-is-tb-tuberculosis-symptoms-test/14608832/
https://abc7chicago.com/videoClip/14608935/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-migrants-can-receive-free-group-therapy-daily-necessities-from-southwest-collective-and-cps-parent-university-in-pilsen/14607707/
— CPD getting 3 new helicopters: 1 ahead of DNC for $11M, 2 with help from DHS. As of October, CPD only had 3 helicopters; it was not clear if new choppers would add to fleet or replace old aircraft.
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-police-department-helicopter-democratic-national-convention-dhs/14607057/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. What percent of those who are struggling have used pot? I have never used pot and I never will. What might have you NOT accomplished if you had used pot? If I had used pot, I doubt that I would have been able to a) get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my class, and get accepted by UIC in 1966, b) work my way through college, c) graduate debt-free from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, d) get hired by Firestone Stores in 1970, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980, e) get promoted by IRS in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and by GAO in 1986, f) earn an MBA from Loyola in 1976, g) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, h) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, i) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and become a licensed CPA in 1981, j) earn professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, or k) earn a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997. If I had used pot, I doubt that I would have been able to a) buy new cars in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1978, etc. b) buy real estate in 1972, 1974, and 1976, c) get married and buy a home in Wheaton with my wife in 1978, d) have a home built in Wheaton in 1984, e) buy collector cars in 1989 and 1994, f) etc.
https://www.aol.com/illinois-marijuana-law-aims-undo-205302473.html

NBC5
— Memories abound at Stratford Square Mall as closure looms
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/memories-abound-at-stratford-square-mall-as-closure-looms/3399800/

CBS2
— Another hike in Chicago budget for migrant crisis
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/another-hike-in-chicago-budget-for-migrant-crisis/
— City of Chicago has spent $235 million on health care staffing firm tasked with helping migrants – Sabrina Franza
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-migrant-health-care-staffing-firm-spending/
— Illinois bill would require schools to remove Native American images and names (COIMMENT: I graduated from Crete-Monee High School in 1966. It is the “Home of the Warriors.”)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-bill-would-require-remove-native-american-images/

WGN9
— Illinois Republicans propose overhaul for Gov. Pritzker’s ‘anti-victim’ parole board after stabbing – Tahman Bradley
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/illinois-republicans-propose-overhaul-for-gov-pritzkers-anti-victim-parole-board-after-stabbing/

FOX32
— ‘Migrant crime’: Trump attacks Biden over border policies. Former President Trump talked immigration and the border during a swing through the Midwest.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1435004

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans. To promote DEI is to lower standards.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/03/clarence-page-dei-corporations-conservatives-heritage-foundation/
— Naperville police make back-to-back loaded gun arrests in Topgolf parking lot – TESS KENNY
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/02/naperville-police-topgolf-gun-related-arrests/
— House speaker’s top lawyer leaves post after being behind ban on lawmakers answering Tribune questions. – RICK PEARSON (COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have done the most to stop me from asking Republican candidates questions at their press conferences. I would focus on Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers. I would focus on the aforesaid who have blamed me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/02/house-speakers-top-lawyer-leaves-post-after-being-behind-ban-on-lawmakers-answering-tribune-questions/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Look for Chicago’s pension mess to become worse. That’s a bad sign for taxpayers. The city took in big tax revenues from federal COVID-19 bailouts, but Chicago’s pension shortfall still grew by $10 billion over the last five years. The warnings about a pension crisis will get worse as the COVID money runs dry. – Ted Dabrowski, Joshua Bandoch, Dennis LaComb and Ed Bachrach
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/04/02/chicago-pensions-shortfall-tax-hike-inequity-taxpayer-alliance-ted-dambrowski-bandoch-lacomb-bachrach
— To run Chicago better, Mayor Johnson needs to hire better. He should take the advice of Warren Buffett when it comes to hiring the people who will execute his plans: ‘Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.’- Terry Takash, Western Springs (COMMENT: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who had a) less work experience than I had, b) less education than I had, c) no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) no professional license like the one I had. It is called patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2024/04/02/mayor-johnson-city-hall-better-hires-interest-rate-cap-payday-lenders-states-attorney-letters

DAILY HERALD
— The former Trump aides who would rather not see him on the ballot. – Mariana Alfaro (COIMMENT: According to hate-filled, Trump-hating, Trump-haters, Trump fires people only for the wrong reasons. According to my critics/opponents, they take adverse actions against me only for the right reasons.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240402/nation-and-world-politics/the-former-trump-aides-who-would-rather-not-see-him-on-the-ballot/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Walgreens hit with $2.7 billion tax bill after IRS audit – Jon Asplund (COMMENT: IRS hired me in 1971 to be a Revenue Officer, not a Revenue Agent, because I had not majored in accounting. Back then, if not still today, IRS Revenue Agents looked down on IRS Revenue Officers. I started taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul in 1976 and earned a master’s degree in 1980. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. But by then, it was too late because of up-or-out, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination )
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/walgreens-hit-tax-bill-after-irs-audit
— Democrats and RINOs promote Durkin.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/jim-durkin-lands-croke-fairchild-duarte-beres
— Johnson to greenlight four Loop office-to-residential conversions – Danny Ecker (COMMENT: In 1974 I bought an studio apartment to condo conversion in the Outer Drive East building at 400 East Randolph. In 1976, I traded it in to the building’s developer for a one bedroom condo. In 1978, I sold it for a $10,000 ($47,600 in today’s dollars) profit.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/loop-office-residential-conversions-moving-forward

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Rockford state rep: $165 million available to communities willing to help asylum seekers – Chris Green (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect ever-increasingly pressure from the Democrats and the RINOs who run your municipality to seek such money for their illegals.)
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2024/04/03/rockford-state-rep-165m-available-to-help-migrants/73178822007/

SOUTHERN & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use abortion to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/04/02/biden-campaign-argues-abortion-rights-ballot-measure-makes-it-easier-to-flip-florida-from-trump/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-democrats-hope-an-abortion-ballot-measure-could-make-florida-competitive/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use IVF to promote more hatred against Republicans. I should write a book about how my Democrat GAO superiors used IVF to promote hatred against me.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-04-02/new-ad-campaign-from-democrats-targets-vulnerable-republicans-over-ivf
— Democrat leaders want minorities to vote because minorities vote for Democrats.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-04-02/why-theres-a-long-standing-voter-registration-gap-for-latinos-and-asian-americans

FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://foxillinois.com/news/entertainment/john-sinclair-marijuana-activist-immortalized-in-john-lennon-song-dies-detroit-receiving-hospital-guitar-world-flint-michigan-leni-sinclair-patricia-brown

WSIU
— Poll: Americans overwhelmingly reject criminalizing abortion, divided on other issues. – Steve Inskeep, Domenico Montanaro (COMMENT: I have always opposed promoting abortion.)
https://www.wsiu.org/politics-elections/2024-04-03/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-reject-criminalizing-abortion-divided-on-other-issues

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/04/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-260/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/04/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-62/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Hundreds of new sexual abuse and misconduct cases occur in CPS every year because the district never implemented real reforms.
https://wirepoints.org/hundreds-of-new-sexual-abuse-and-misconduct-occur-in-cps-every-year-because-the-district-never-implemented-real-reforms-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Suppose they held an election and nobody showed up? In Illinois, we’re getting there. – Ted Dabrowski and Nick Binotti (COMMENT: Because Pritzker ever-increasingly destroys Republicans in Illinois, it takes more and more and more courage to cast a Republican primary ballot in Illinois. Outstandingly, 133 had the courage to cast a Republican primary ballot in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton. Of course, I will do everything that I can to protect them from Pritzker. I should write a book about what I did to protect the “controversial” Robert Sandberg, a Republican voter in my precinct, from nasty/vicious Democrats and RINOs. SEE: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/chicagotribune/name/robert-sandberg-obituary?id=2825735 and https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/10/23/2-beaten-in-wheaton-store/ and https://www.dailyherald.com/20200716/news/downtown-wheaton-shopkeeper-remembered-for-doing-things-his-own-way/ and https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/09/14/fight-goes-to-the-heart-of-wheaton/ and https://www.dailyherald.com/20230213/news/its-in-good-hands-sandberg-building-sold-in-downtown-wheaton/ and https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/sign-at-former-vietnamese-restaurant-spark-wheaton-protest/ )
https://wirepoints.org/suppose-they-held-an-election-and-nobody-showed-up-in-illinois-were-getting-there-wirepoints/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Illinois Eighth Congressional District candidate: ‘this corrupt administration has and continues to allow deadly fentanyl and other illicit dangerous drugs to pour into our communities’
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/657516473-illinois-eighth-congressional-district-candidate-this-corrupt-administration-has-and-continues-to-allow-deadly-fentanyl-and-other-illicit-dangerous-drugs-to-pour-into-our-communities

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— IL GOP National Committeeman Race Heats Up, Includes a Former State Party Chairman and a Wisconsin Voter (COMMENT: In 2008, as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, I organized and moderated a candidate forum for Illinois Republican Party National Committeeman.)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/04/il-gop-national-committeeman-race-heats-up-includes-a-former-state-party-chairman-and-a-wisconsin-voter.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— RNC launches website highlighting Biden’s ‘bloodbath’ border crisis – Mallory Wilson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/2/rnc-launches-website-highlighting-joe-bidens-blood/
— Trump presses advantage on immigration issue, rails against ‘Biden Border Bloodbath’ – Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/2/donald-trump-presses-advantage-on-immigration-issu/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump blasts Biden and Whitmer in Michigan over border crisis: ‘Stealing your money’ – Anna Giaritelli
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2950334/trump-biden-whitmer-michigan-over-border-crisis/
— Harvard professor calls to end mandatory DEI statements – Breccan F. Thies (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO leaders a) require their followers to promote DEI and b) destroy those who do not promote DEI.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2950400/harvard-professor-calls-to-end-mandatory-dei-statements/
— Oregon recriminalizes drugs after state’s ‘huge mistake’ – Annabella Rosciglione
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/2948968/oregon-recriminalizes-drugs-states-mistake/

NEW YORK POST
— Critics rage against NY’s proposed ‘Equal Rights Amendment’ they say curbs parents rights over kids’ transgender surgery. – Carl Campanile
https://nypost.com/2024/04/03/us-news/ny-proposed-era-curbs-parents-rights-over-kids-transgender-surgery-opponents/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Farewell, Columbus Drive – Doug MacGregor
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/farewell_columbus_drive.html
— Resigning RINOs Threaten Trump and America – Brian C. Joondeph
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/resigning_rinos_threaten_trump_and_america.html

BLAZE
— Walter Cronkite journalism school won’t let prospective propagandists graduate without taking radical DEI course – JOSEPH MACKINNON (COMMENT: My critics/opponents stress that I do not have a degree in journalism. But what GAO Analysts do is very similar to what journalists do. I was a GAO Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $115,439-$150,078/year.)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/walter-cronkite-journalism-school-wont-let-prospective-propagandists-graduate-without-taking-radical-dei-course

BREITBART
— Michigan Poll Shows Trump Leading Biden as Voters Express Support for Mass Deportation of Illegal Aliens – NICK GILBERTSON
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/04/02/michigan-poll-shows-trump-leading-biden-as-voters-express-support-for-mass-deportation-of-illegal-aliens/
— Alleged Financial Benefits of Diversity Vanish Under Scrutiny, Study Shows – SEAN MORAN (COMMENT: To promote diversity is to lower standards.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/02/alleged-financial-benefits-diversity-vanish-under-scrutiny-study-shows/

CENTER SQUARE
— GAO reports about $2.7 trillion in improper payments in two decades – Casey Harper (COMMENT: I worked for GAO 1980-1997.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_e0f897fc-f137-11ee-811d-5b4aa35ab139.html

COLLEGE FIX
— Skyrocketing DEI certification programs create army of ‘political commissars.’ – LISA SCHIFFREN (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO leaders a) require their followers to promote DEI and b) destroy those who do not promote DEI.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/skyrocketing-dei-certification-programs-create-army-of-political-commissars-group-warns/

CHRISTIAN POST
— America has become a grooming culture – David Kubal (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly celebrate their success in making everyone sexually active LGBTQers.)
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/america-has-become-a-grooming-culture.html

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Communist China’s Contempt for America – Laurence F. Sanford (COMMENT: Of course, those who promote Communist China oppose me.)
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/communist-china-s-contempt-for-america

DAILY WIRE
— Over One Million Illegal Migrants Encountered At Southern Border In First Six Months Of Fiscal Year 2024 – Spencer Lindquist (COMMENT: How many of them are going to vote for Biden?)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/over-one-million-illegal-migrants-encountered-at-southern-border-in-first-six-months-of-fiscal-year-2024
— ‘Every State Is Now A Border State’: Trump Visits Michigan To Address Illegal Immigrant’s Alleged Murder Of 25-Year-Old Woman – Zach Jewell
https://www.dailywire.com/news/every-state-is-now-a-border-state-trump-visits-michigan-to-address-illegal-immigrants-alleged-murder-of-25-year-old-woman
— Florida Top Destination Of Migrants Flying To U.S. Under Biden Parole Program – Tim Pearce
https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-top-destination-of-migrants-flying-to-u-s-under-biden-parole-program
— Corporate Giants Are Colluding To Demonetize Conservative Platforms. Advertising industry’s anti-conservative blacklist campaign could violate antitrust laws. – Rep. Jim Jordan
https://www.dailywire.com/news/docs-show-corporate-giants-are-colluding-to-demonetize-conservative-platforms-judiciary-committee-says

FEDERALIST
— Democrat Media Are Horrified At Trump’s Plan To End Federal Racial Discrimination – BRIANNA LYMAN (COMMENT: From what I see, virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are also minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, and/or have ancestor who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/02/democrat-media-are-horrified-at-trumps-plan-to-end-federal-racial-discrimination/
— Four Years Later, Conservative Voters Haven’t Forgotten How Covid Tyrants Acted In Crisis – CHRISTINE WHITMORE
https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/03/four-years-later-conservative-voters-have-not-forgotten-how-covid-tyrants-acted-in-a-time-of-crisis/

FOX NEWS
— Migrant squatters found in NYC apartment with child face gun, drug charges – Michael Dorgan (COMMENT: NYC today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/suspected-migrant-squatters-found-nyc-222724395.html

MRC TV
— Analyzing Biden’s Prioritization of Transgender Issues Over Easter Holidays- TIERIN-ROSE MANDELBURG
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/tierin-rose-mandelburg/bidens-trans-easter-chestfeeding-lizzo-mrctvs-tierin-rose-mandelburg

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Stolen-Election Litmus Tests Could Blacklist Competent Conservatives from Serving Trump – DAN MCLAUGHLIN (COMMENT: How many millions of illegals in America used their false identifications to vote for Biden?)
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/stolen-election-litmus-tests-could-blacklist-competent-conservatives-from-serving-trump/

NEWSMAX
— RNC’s New Website Focuses on Biden’s Border ‘Bloodbath’ – Sandy Fitzgerald
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/rnc-trump-biden/2024/04/02/id/1159527/

POST MILLENNIAL
— 90% of illegal immigrants entering US in Biden’s program allowing scheduled surrender arrive in Texas and Florida. The program lists 40 locations, but the two largest hubs are home to two of Biden’s most vocal state opponents on immigration. – Thomas Stevenson
https://thepostmillennial.com/90-of-illegal-immigrants-entering-us-in-bidens-program-allowing-scheduled-surrender-arrive-in-texas-and-florida

TOWNHALL
— Chicago Resident STUNS ENTIRE ROOM With FIERY SPEECH SLAMMING Illegal Immigrant Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuwzriP4R2s
— Pete Buttigieg Really Said These Remarks About Electric Cars – Matt Vespa
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/04/02/pete-buttigieg-is-the-worst-car-salesman-n2637284
— Here’s How Many ‘Known Gotaways’ Slipped Into the U.S. Last Week – Spencer Brown
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/04/02/number-of-known-gotaways-illegally-entering-the-us-continues-to-spike-n2637267

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump says Election Day will be referred to as ‘Christian Visibility Day’ after attacks over transgender holiday – CAROLINE VAKIL
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4571038-trump-election-day-will-be-christian-visibility-day-after-attacks-over-transgender-holiday/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4570571-lgbtq-americans-twice-likely-experience-discrimination-health-care-poll/

MSN
— Because workers who were killed in the bridge collapse were migrants filling potholes, Democrats call pothole filling dangerous work.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/advocates-call-for-immigrant-protection-after-workers-killed-in-bridge-collapse/ar-BB1kY659
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/advocates-immigrant-protection-workers-killed-key-bridge-collapse/60373970

REUTERS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote Durkin.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/growing-chicago-firm-hires-former-leading-republican-state-lawmaker-2024-04-02/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thai-lgbt-activists-celebrate-vote-that-brings-marriage-equality-closer-2024-04-02/

CNN & MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/02/health/lgbt-health-care-discrimination-kff-survey/index.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/best-cities-for-lgbtq-people-to-raise-a-family/ar-BB1kXLZD

AOL
— Rhode Island GOP party goes ‘all volunteer’ after executive director steps down. What that means. – PATRICK ANDERSON (COMMENT: Who is the conservative outreach/volunteer coordinator for the Illinois Republican Party?)
https://www.aol.com/ri-gop-party-goes-volunteer-191219620.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Rhode Island Republican Party’s executive director has stepped down and, at least in the short term, will not be replaced. Jesus Solorio, who was hired as state GOP executive director in March 2022, announced Monday that he had left the party to form his own political consultancy. “It’s been an honor serving as the Rhode Island GOP executive director for the past two years,” Solorio wrote in a news release, which described the specialty of his new firm, Homan Street Strategies, as “empowering candidates with the precise tools and strategies needed to turn blue seats red.” During his time at the Rhode Island Republican Party, Solorio saw very few blue seats turn red in Rhode Island as Democrats maintained their grip on statewide offices and most city halls and commanding majorities in the General Assembly. State party Chairman Joe Powers Monday said the organization had “not put in a plan to fill the position straight away” and would be returning to the all-volunteer arrangement that was in place from 2018 until Solorio’s hiring in 2022. Solorio came to Rhode Island from Illinois, where he had been the Latino outreach/volunteer coordinator for then-candidate and future one-term governor Bruce Rauner before launching his own unsuccessful campaign for Congress. Solorio was alerted to the Rhode Island job by Ashley Kalus, a fellow Rauner campaign alum who won the Republican nomination for governor of Rhode Island in 2022, but lost to Gov. Dan McKee. More recently, Solorio came under pressure in January when the party struggled to collect the necessary signatures to get all Republican presidential candidates on the state primary ballot. The four Republicans challenging presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump did ultimately qualify for the primary ballot.)

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Illinois Republicans propose overhaul for Gov. Pritzker’s ‘anti-victim’ parole board after stabbing. – AP
https://wtop.com/national/2024/04/illinois-republicans-propose-overhaul-for-gov-pritzkers-anti-victim-parole-board-after-stabbing/

NEWSWEEK
— Texas Installs New Anti-Climb Fence at Border
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-installs-new-anti-climb-fence-border-1886199
— Donald Trump Warns ‘Housewives’ That Migrants Will Crawl in Their Windows
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-migrants-border-speech-michigan-1886238

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat and RINOS leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/us/politics/legal-pathway-refugees-election.html
— Tesla’s Sales Drop, a Sign That Its Grip on the E.V. Market Is Slipping. Sales of the company’s electric cars dropped in the first three months of the year, even as other automakers sold more battery-powered vehicles. – Jack Ewing and Neal E. Boudette
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/business/tesla-auto-sales-first-quarter.html

USA TODAY
— The amount of money Americans think they need to retire comfortably hits record high – Medora Lee (COMMENT: My Civil Service Retirement System pension and my retirement 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.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2024/04/02/retirement-magic-number-study/73170172007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/03/27/immigration-lawyers-court-deportation-fairness-freedom-act/73029742007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Trump Leads Biden in Six of Seven Swing States, WSJ Poll Finds. Incumbent trails in most battlegrounds that decided 2016 and 2020 elections. – Aaron Zitner (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will flood these swing states with their illegals who will use their false identifications to vote for Biden.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-biden-poll-swing-states-ad594acb
— The New Magic Number for Retirement Is $1.46 Million. Here’s What It Tells Us. There is no single formula for how much you need to save in your 401(k). – Anne Tergesen (COMMENT: My retirement savings are significantly 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.)
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/retirement-savings-needed-increased-2024-9f7c01e0
— Gen Z is determined to be richer than their parents, so they’ll return to the office and ditch their social life if it means getting a pay rise. – Eleanor Pringle (COMMENT: What did you do to “be richer?” I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. But my critics/opponents stress that with all that, I still never made more than $150,075/year in today’s dollars.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/gen-z-is-determined-to-be-richer-than-their-parents-so-they-ll-return-to-the-office-and-ditch-their-social-life-if-it-means-getting-a-pay-rise/ar-BB1jOPWb
— IRS’s Most Wanted: The $200,000 Man. Sixty-three percent of new audits last year were aimed at middle-class filers. – Editorial (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education deductions in 1978 when I was a 29 year old $106,785/year (in today’s dollars) Revenue Officer mainly because I had complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, but also because I had avoided the draft and because I was a White male and that did not help them meet their Affirmative Action quotas. They outrageously and falsely argued that the graduate Loyola business and DePaul accounting courses I deducted were not related to my job duties, did not maintain or improve my job skills, qualified me for a new trade or business, and were taken by me to get a job in the private sector. They outrageously and falsely ignored/dismissed/belittled that fact that the employee manual they gave me encouraged me to take the courses, the content of my position descriptions, and the reasons I gave for my taking the courses in my Loyola and DePaul applications. I should write a book about the aforesaid.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-tax-collectors-audit-middle-class-tigta-5071d622

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.