April 8, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 15 shot, 2 killed in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-gun-violence-police/14631219/

WTTW
— Reform Groups Say CPD’s Plan to Handle Protests Around DNC Violates First Amendment, Consent Decree – Heather Cherone
https://news.wttw.com/2024/04/08/reform-groups-say-cpd-s-plan-handle-protests-around-dnc-violates-first-amendment-consent

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Hundreds of migrants still arriving in the suburbs as Chicago consolidates shelters. – NELL SALZMAN (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/08/hundreds-of-migrants-still-arriving-in-the-suburbs-as-chicago-consolidates-shelters/
— It’s going to be a fraught political year. Let’s be respectful of each other at work. – Editorial (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, virtually all of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. Toward the end, there were virtually no Republicans. If I was still working there, they would be making my life even more of a living hell for me because I have always been a conservative Republican, and on top of that. I am White, male, old (born in 1948), draft avoider, Protestant,100% German American, my ancestors have been in America since 1844, Crete resident 1948-1972, and Wheaton resident since 1978. GAO is less than a shell of what it once was because of massive Republican-led budget cuts during the 1980s and 1990s.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/08/editorial-politics-walgreens-trump-biden/
— Democrats use Hank Aaron to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/08/hank-aaron-rose-above-racist-hate-mail-and-threats-in-pursuit-of-ruths-home-run-record-50-years-ago/
— Will Supreme Court affirmative action ruling affect where high school seniors attend college? – Sheldon H. Jacobson (COMMENT: For me, in 1966, UIC was my only realistic choice. I could commute to/from classes there from my parents’ home in Crete.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/04/08/opinion-affirmative-action-college-admissions/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— 300 migrants to be housed at shuttered Catholic church on Northwest Side. New arrivals will begin moving into the shelter mid-April. – Cindy Hernandez
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/04/05/chicago-migrant-crisis-st-bartholomew-shelter-archdiocese-zakat-mayor-brandon-johnson
— Marking six months since Hamas attack, hundreds gather in Highland Park in support of Israel. Protesters pushed for the release of hostages captured in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants. ‘We are not OK until they are all home,’ one speaker said. – Mary Norkol
https://chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas-war/2024/04/07/highland-park-israel-hamas-war-middle-east-gaza-war-terrorism-palestinian-cease-fire-peace

DAILY HERALD
— Kane County sees increase in child exploitation, vehicle theft. – Brenda Schory
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240407/news/panel/

NORTHERN STAR
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://northernstar.info/115134/opinion/make-abortion-constitutional-right-like-france/

WSIL TV
— Democrats use Hank Aaron to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/hank-aaron-rose-above-racist-hate-mail-and-threats-in-pursuit-of-ruths-home-run/article_3eaa9202-df96-5799-9684-9c435499c819.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/heres-where-women-voters-stand-in-the-biden-trump-rematch/amp/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-2-women-who-say-abortion-restrictions-put-them-in-medical-peril-feel-compelled-to-campaign-for-biden/
— Anticipate/expect that under the Democrats and under the RINOs, you will ever-increasingly be called a racist and worse things if you oppose reparations. Democrats and RINOs want reparations for minorities now, but soon they will also want reparations for females, younger people, unmarried people, veterans, those who have less money for others, LGBTQers, non-Protestants, non-Italian Americans, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long times, citizens of foreign countries, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/tennessee-bill-to-ban-slavery-reparations-draws-opposition/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Will it be1968 all over again? – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/04/08/its-1968-all-over-again-00151001

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/04/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-263/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Four more Illinois factories close: Lawmakers fiddle as cities burn – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/four-more-illinois-factories-close-lawmakers-fiddle-as-cities-burn-wirepoints/

REPUBLICAN COUNTY CHAIRMEN’S ASSOCIATION
— ILGOP – STATE CONVENTION ’24 May 24-25
https://rcca.gop/event/ilgop-state-convention-24/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you do and who promotes what you do? I put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out every morning. I should write an article about those who promote my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Sadly for me, because so few do that, it would a very short article. Ever-increasingly, I promote my direct competitors. Ever-increasingly, they promote each other, but not me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden administration tees up new test of illegal immigrants’ gun rights – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/7/joe-biden-administration-tees-new-test-illegal-imm/
— House Speaker Johnson calls growing anti-Israel feelings ‘appalling’ on 6-month mark of Hamas attack – Ramsey Touchberry
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/7/mike-johnson-calls-growing-anti-israel-feelings-ap/
— Biden to unveil new student debt relief plan that could cancel balance for 30M Americans – Jeff Mordock (COMMENT: Did you have to work your way through college? I did. If I had not had to do that, I would not have a) washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights four evenings a week and Saturdays during my junior and senior years at Crete Monee High School (CMHS) 1964-1966 and full-time during the summer in between. I would not have cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, or pumped gasoline during the summer of 1966. I would not have worked all the part-time hours that I could for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. I would not have worked on the auto assembly line in Belvidere in 1970. Instead, I would have studied and my GPA at CMHS, UIC, and NIU would have been much higher and my Federal Service Entrance Examination score would have been much higher. I would have majored in accounting instead of management. Nevertheless, my ACT score was 24, I graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and I graduated debt-free from NIU in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in management.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/8/joe-biden-to-unveil-new-student-debt-relief-plan-t/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— A hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/966495/nebraska-state-gop-senator-admits-party-is-enabling-white-supremacy/
— Abbott says Biden uses immigrants as ‘political pawns’ – Jenny Goldsberry (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/2956893/greg-abbott-claims-joe-biden-uses-immigrants-as-political-pawns/
— John Fetterman declares he is ‘not woke’ when asked about squatter’s rights – Annabella Rosciglione
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/2956970/john-fetterman-not-woke-asked-about-squatters-rights/

NEW YORK POST
— Latin American governments rally around Mexico after embassy raid in Ecuador – Reuters
https://nypost.com/2024/04/07/world-news/latin-american-governments-rally-around-mexico-after-embassy-raid-in-ecuador/
— Broken US border fosters disrespect and is an affront to our country. – Martin Gurri
https://nypost.com/2024/04/07/opinion/broken-us-border-fosters-disrespect-and-is-an-affront-to-our-country/
— Democrats’ fracturing nonwhite base – Editorial (COMMENT: To give preference to one racial group is to discriminate against another racial group.)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/07/opinion/dems-fracturing-nonwhite-baase-the-job-creation-ruse-and-other-commentary/

AMERICAN THINKER
— The Battle Against DIE Has Just Begun – Robert Weissberg
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/the_battle_against_die_has_just_begun.html
— Marxist Globalists Will Resort to Terror and Violence. – J.B. Shurk
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/marxist_globalists_will_resort_to_terror_and_violence.html
— Schools in 2024: Low Skills, Leftist Ideals – Jack Wisdom
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/schools_in_2024_low_skills_leftist_ideals.html
— The migrants, up close – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/video_the_migrants_up_close.html
— The road not taken – James Poplar
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/the_road_not_taken.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— No jobs for illegal aliens, period – Mark Meckler
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/04/07/job-program-for-americans-no-jobs-for-illegal-aliens-period-1450760/
— ‘I am not woke’: Fetterman has zero sympathy for squatters, cop killers – Kevin Haggerty
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/04/07/i-am-not-woke-fetterman-has-zero-sympathy-for-squatters-cop-killers-1450694/

BREITBART
— Evanston Wants $20M Grant to Make Abandoned Office Building a Migrant Shelter – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/04/07/liberal-chicago-suburb-evanston-wants-20-million-grant-make-abandoned-office-building-migrant-shelter/
— Joni Ernst Accuses Biden Admin of ‘Stealing’ from Veteran ‘Heroes’ to Fund Illegal Immigrants – JOSHUA KLEIN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/07/exclusive-joni-ernst-accuses-biden-admin-stealing-veteran-heroes-fund-illegal-immigrants/
— Northwest Indiana Overdose Death Leads Authorities to Basement Housing 13 Migrants, Mostly Children – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/04/07/overdose-death-leads-authorities-basement-migrant-squatters/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Says Abortion Restrictions Should Be Left To States – ARJUN SINGH
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/08/trump-abortion-restriction-states/
— No Jobs For Illegal Aliens, Period – MARK MECKLER (COMMENT: What bad jobs have you had? According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. Will illegal aliens take the bad jobs that I had? I a) did yard work 1962-1964, b) delivered newspapers 1962-1966, c) washed dishes 1964-1966, d) cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, 1971, and 1972, e) delivered mail 1966-1969, and f) worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/07/mark-meckler-job-program-americans-illegal-aliens/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I am weary of hearing the trope that we need more illegal aliens because “Americans won’t work those jobs.” My bet is that most Americans share this sentiment as well. Amidst a myriad of concerns about illegal immigration, one prominent worry among Americans is the potential adverse effects on the U.S. workforce. There is apprehension that undocumented migrants could potentially displace native-born workers, leading to job loss and further exacerbating the nation’s tax burden. The media and the left love to dismiss such considerations as fearful, xenophobic, and bigoted, arguing instead that alien workers fill a vital gap in the American workforce. But these concerns, nevertheless, are valid. To argue that the American people refuse to work jobs that must alternatively be filled by undocumented workers is nothing less than a slanderous attack against the natives of this country. Americans will work these jobs… when the pay rates go to market rates and are not depressed by illegal-alien rates.)
— Biden Went To The Mat For Young Voters On Student Loans. Now They’re Abandoning Him – MARY LOU MASTERS (COMMENT: Did you have to work your way through college? I did. If I had not had to do that, I would not have a) washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights four evenings a week and Saturdays during my junior and senior years at Crete Monee High School (CMHS) 1964-1966 and full-time during the summer in between. I would not have cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, or pumped gasoline during the summer of 1966. I would not have worked all the part-time hours that I could for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. I would not have worked on the auto assembly line in Belvidere in 1970. Instead, I would have studied and my GPA at CMHS, UIC, and NIU would have been much higher and my Federal Service Entrance Examination score would have been much higher. I would have majored in accounting instead of management. Nevertheless, my ACT score was 24, I graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and I graduated debt-free from NIU in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in management.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/07/joe-biden-youth-voter-problem-gaza-student-loans-ahead-november-rematch-trump/

FOX NEWS
— ‘Death to America,’ ‘Death to Israel’ chants pour out of Muslim protesters in Michigan on last day of Ramadan. Dearborn has become ‘hotbed for hate,’ according to 1 expert – Michael Lee
https://www.foxnews.com/us/death-america-death-israel-chants-pour-muslim-protesters-michigan-last-day-ramadan
— Fetterman rails against ‘woke’ characterization
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sen-john-fetterman-unloads-squatters-says-they-have-no-rights-not-woke
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6350482996112
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote transgenderism.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-official-rachel-levine-says-early-memories-were-transgenderism-questioning-biological-sex
— Vaccinating migrants like US children would have prevented disease outbreaks at Chicago shelters. As measles and tuberculosis cases emerge in the US, migrants who are stopped at the border and released are rarely medically screened or given vaccines. – Michael Dorgan
https://www.foxnews.com/health/vaccinating-migrants-us-children-prevented-disease-outbreaks-chicago-shelters-experts

NEWSMAX
— Abbott: Migrants Are ‘Pawns’ to Biden – Nick Koutsobinas (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/joe-biden-border-greg-abbott/2024/04/07/id/1160076/

PJ MEDIA
— Can Biden Bribe His Way to Victory in November? – MATT MARGOLIS (COMMENT: To get elected and reelected, Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promise to use government to take more and more and more opportunities and money away from those who have demographics that vote for Republicans and to give those opportunities and that money to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and RINOs.)
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/04/07/can-biden-bribe-his-way-to-victory-in-november-n4927973

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— DeSantis: Congress Needs To Stop Program Where Biden Is “Illegally Legalizing” Foreign People To Come To U.S. – Tim Hains (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/04/07/desantis_congress_needs_to_stop_program_where_biden_is_illegally_legalizing_foreign_people_to_come_to_us.html
— Sen. J.D. Vance: Much Of The Job Growth Under Biden Has Gone To The Foreign-Born And Illegal Immigrants – Tim Hains
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/04/07/sen_jd_vance_much_of_the_job_growth_under_biden_has_gone_to_the_foreign-born_and_illegal_immigrants.html

TOWNHALL
— USA Today Wants You to Believe Joe Biden ‘Clamped’ Down on the Illegal Immigration – Sarah Arnold (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/04/07/usa-today-biden-n2637473
— Colorado to Illegal Immigrants: ‘No More Freeloading’ – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/04/07/colorado-to-illegal-immigrants-no-more-freeloading-n2637469
— Fetterman’s Latest Remarks on Squatters Rights and Crime Won’t Please Leftists – Matt Vespa
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/04/07/john-fetterman-reminds-us-that-hes-not-woke-n2637470
— The U.S. Has No Choice but to Undertake Radical Economic Change – Scott Powell
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottpowell/2024/04/08/the-us-has-no-choice-but-to-undertake-radical-economic-change-n2637481

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— To give illegals work permits is to promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.aol.com/permits-grow-undocumented-immigrants-left-100000909.html
— Abbott: Biden is ‘using illegal immigrants as political pawns’ – MIRANDA NAZZARO (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4579464-abbott-biden-is-using-illegal-immigrants-as-political-pawns/
— For true higher-ed diversity, we must break the testing monopoly. – JENNIFER FREY (COMMENT: What standardized tests have you taken and passed? I took and passed standardized tests virtually every year 1953-1997 to earn a) a grade school diploma in 1962, b) high school diploma in 1966, c) bachelor’s degree in 1970, d) MBA in 1976, e) master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and f) master’s degree in finance in 1997. I got an ACT score of 24 and I graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I passed the Postal employment test in 1966 and the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970. I wonder how much easier Democrats have made the aforesaid standardized tests to enable Democrats to pass them.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4576783-for-true-higher-ed-diversity-we-must-break-the-testing-monopoly/

AOL
— Here’s how much reparations for slavery could cost the U.S. government
https://www.aol.com/heres-much-reparations-slavery-could-193640282.html

MSN
— Hochul signs legislation to create slavery reparations commission (COMMENT: New York today, Illinois tomorrow.)
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/us/n-y-gov-hochul-signs-legislation-to-create-slavery-reparations-commission/ar-AA1lKp1O?ocid=U508DHP
— California lawmakers warn black residents not to get hopes up for seven-figure reparations checks
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/california-lawmakers-warn-black-residents-not-to-get-hopes-up-for-seven-figure-reparations-checks/ar-AA1b9GY0
— Because I worked for GAO in Chicago, I could not go “judge shopping” in Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/republicans-tell-right-wing-judges-to-ignore-new-judge-shopping-rules/ar-BB1jTYpC?ocid=msedgntp
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/as-florida-bans-legal-abortion-where-will-84-000-women-go/ar-BB1l7Q3S

NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote early voting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/us/politics/trump-turning-point-action-chase-vote.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say that Trump has a “grip on the GOP, the conservative movement and American democracy.” From what I see, anti-Trumpers dominate the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/washington-post-live/2024/04/09/election-2024-trumps-grip-gop-conservative-movement-american-democracy/
— Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen? Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn’t really want to talk about it. – Ron Lieber (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, degrees from non-Ivy League colleges are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/your-money/paying-for-college/100k-college-cost-vanderbilt.html

HERALD REVIEW
— The many ways a porous border means crime without boundaries – James Varney and Abigail Degnan
https://www.myheraldreview.com/opinion/commentary/the-many-ways-a-porous-border-means-crime-without-boundaries/article_42e7d1c6-f1f1-11ee-8b34-1f379911e060.html

DALLAS NEWS
— Democrat leaders deny that their illegals use their false identifications to vote for Democrats.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2024/04/07/fact-check-no-evidence-of-widespread-voter-registration-by-noncitizens-in-texas/

APPLE INSIDER
— Protesters close Chicago Apple Store over Palestinian employee firing – Charles Martin
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/07/protesters-close-chicago-apple-store-over-palestinian-employee-firing

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/asylum-claims-driving-migrant-crisis-ebdffcb6
— Constructively, to give illegals work permits is to let them stay in America forever.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/cities-packed-shelters-with-migrants-now-they-are-limiting-stays-9948021e
— FRONT PAGE WITH GRAPHIC: A growing number of businesses are subsidizing child care as a solution for staffing problems. – Harriet Torry and Esther Fung (COMMENT: All my superiors and supervisors 1962-1997 were married and had children. All of them spent a tremendous amount of their time and money raising their children. Almost all of their spouses had little or no income. Ever-increasingly, they painted themselves as having been passed over for promotions because they lacked job-related masters degrees, professional licenses, and/or professional licenses. I did not marry until I was 29, my wife always had good-paying jobs, we gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents. Ever-increasingly, my Democrat superiors and supervisors used the aforesaid against me, they ever-increasingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the aforesaid gave me tremendous unfair advantages over them and over everyone else and that if I had gotten married earlier and had children like they did, I would not have been able to earn job-related a) master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a professional license when I was 32. I should write a book about the aforesaid.)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/child-care-ups-benefits-777c632a
— I’ll Get Back to You Later – Laura Vanderkam (COMMENT: If you were me, how would you deal with those who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, who paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican, but who fail/refuse to take/return my infrequent phone calls?)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/uptime-review-ill-get-back-to-you-later-5ab636cb

FORBES
— What helped you deal with problems at work? While I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, I focused on the importance of the agency’s missions. I focused on earning job-related college degrees, professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecastrillon/2024/03/17/how-to-find-a-greater-sense-of-purpose-at-work/

FORBES
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanharmeling/2024/04/07/the-quiet-bomb-how-dei-went-from-aspiration-to-conflagrationand-how-to-put-out-the-fire/

SHRM
— What Are You Thankful For? – Kathy Gurchiek (COMMENT: Careerwise, because of my bad demographics (conservative, Republican, White, male, Protestant, German American, and my ancestor have been in America since 1844), I am thankful that I was not born any later than I was. Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, career advancement is more difficult if not impossible for those who share my demographics. The Democrats who ran the Post Office when I was 16 in 1966, IRS when I was 22, and GAO when I was 31 hired me despite my bad demographics, but if I was 18, 22, or 31 today, they would not hire me today. The Democrats who ran IRS in 1972, 1973, and 1974 promoted me when I was 23, 24, and 25 despite my bad demographics, but if I was 23, 24, or 25 today, they would not promote me today. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1986 promoted me when I was 38 despite my bad demographics, but if I was 38 today, they would not promote me today.)
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/what-are-you-thankful-for

POLITICO
— Nation’s leading anti-abortion group rebukes Trump. “We are deeply disappointed in President Trump’s position,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. – NATALIE ALLISON
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/08/trump-anti-abortion-group-ban-00151037
(FROM THE ARTICLE: One of the nation’s most prominent anti-abortion groups rebuked former President Donald Trump Monday, accusing him of ceding the debate to Democrats. Trump said abortion rights should be left to the states, forgoing the chance to endorse a federal ban on the procedure, which many anti-abortion groups were hopeful he would do.)

NEWSWEEK
— Abbott Accuses Eric Adams of ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Immigration Crisis
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-abbott-accuses-new-york-adams-aiding-abetting-immigration-crisis-1887718

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.