August 20 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Obama administration defends $400 million payment to Iran, says it wasn’t ransom
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-obama-iran-400-million-payment-20160819-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: NBA promotes LGBT activity.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/ct-new-orleans-nba-all-star-20160819-story.html
— Why Putin wants Donald Trump to win – Michael McFaul  (DIERSEN: Russians have a much higher opinion of members of the following groups than Democrats have: Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-putin-wants-donald-trump-win-20160819-story.html

— Trump’s pitch to black voters: ‘What the hell do you have to lose?’ (DIERSEN: Democrats have always shouted at Blacks that Democrats will use the federal government to take jobs, promotions, opportunities, etc. away from Republicans and give those jobs, promotions, opportunities, etc. to Blacks.)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-donald-trump-black-voters-20160819-story.html

 

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Leaving Trump, Manafort may avoid becoming campaign issue – Lynn Sweet
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/sweet-leaving-trump-manafort-may-avoid-becoming-campaign-issue/
— Latest CPS lead-testing results show 113 schools with high levels – Maudlyne Ihejirika
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/cps-lead-testing-totals-113-cps-schools-with-high-levels/
— Is Comrade Trump playing us for fools? – Gene Lyons (DIERSEN: Russians have a much higher opinion of members of the following groups than Democrats have: Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/gene-lyons-is-comrade-trump-playing-us-for-fools/

 

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, the Democrats’ top priorities are promoting pot and LGBTQ activity.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160819/NEWS02/160819810/how-important-is-criminal-justice-reform-in-illinois-elections

 

DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— DeKalb to consider gambling license, limits on terminals – RHONDA GILLESPIE  (DIERSEN: If you promote gambling, you promote vice.)
http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2016/08/19/dekalb-to-consider-gambling-license-limits-on-terminals/aus8zmp/

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS NEWS NOW
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The more that you badmouth Trump, the more that anti-Trumps glorify and praise you.  Anti-Trumps are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.
http://www.cinewsnow.com/news/local/Republican-state-leaders-distance-selves-from-Trump-390757651.html

 

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: To promote diversity is to get rid of those who are Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/handling-diversity-on-campus

 

HERALD & REVIEW
— Trump family values: bonding over bricks, mortar, politics – NANCY BENAC
http://herald-review.com/business/trump-family-values-bonding-over-bricks-mortar-politics/article_53014ca7-c7bb-55c7-aea6-15eb2260ba62.html

 

KANKAKEE DAILY JOURNAL
— Nation’s teacher force lacks diversity – T. Rees Shapiro  (DIERSEN: I transferred from UIC to NIU in 1969.  One of the reasons was that English was a second language for virtually all the mathematics teachers at UIC and it was extremely difficult for me to understand what they were saying.)
http://www.daily-journal.com/news/nation/nation-s-teacher-force-lacks-diversity/article_270ade3d-6965-50f9-924a-7da10d980635.html

 

CHICAGO NOW
— Ten things to know about Trump’s Presidential Campaign Pivot – Jeff Berkowitz
http://www.chicagonow.com/public-affairs-with-jeff-berkowitz/2016/08/ten-things-to-know-about-trumps-presidential-campaign-pivot/

 

CATHOLIC CITIZENS OF ILLINOIS
— Christians in Hillary’s Crosshairs – GEORGE NEUMAYR
http://catholiccitizens.org/views/67401/christians-hillarys-crosshairs/

 

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— America’s Abandonment of Traditional Values Has Hurt the Black Community – Walter E. Williams
https://illinoisfamily.org/faith/americas-abandonment-traditional-values-hurt-black-community/

 

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPS AS ILLINOIS WORKFORCE SHRINKS BY 33,600 DURING SUMMER MOVING SEASON – Michael Lucci
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/july-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-drops-as-illinois-workforce-shrinks-by-33600-during-summer-moving-season/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: What percent of those who want “to reduce the number of nonviolent offenders in prison” want those “nonviolent offenders” to be dumped into their precinct, into their municipality, into their township/ward, and into their county?
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-voters-from-all-political-parties-favor-reducing-state-prison-population/

 

FEDERALIST
— Pressed By Common Core And LGBT Agenda, More Families Homeschool – Nicole Russell (DIERSEN: From what I see, ever-increasingly, promoting LGBTQ activity is public education’s top priority.)
http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/19/pressed-by-common-core-and-lgbt-agenda-more-families-homeschool/

 

ACCURACY IN MEDIA
— Media Myths of the Homosexual-Transgender Agenda – Peter LaBarbera  (DIERSEN: Because I refuse to blacklist LaBarbera, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that promote LGBT activity blacklist me.)
https://www.aim.org/special-report/media-myths-of-the-homosexual-transgender-agenda/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The purpose of this report is to expose and refute some of the longstanding statistical lies and propagandistic myths of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) activist movement. With media support, homosexual and leftist activists now openly campaign to banish dissenting conservative voices. This dangerous dynamic gives the homosexual-transgender lobby nearly full rein to advance its agenda, which now includes:)

 

TOWNHALL
— Hillary: Colin Powell Told Me to Use Private Email – Cortney O’Brien
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2016/08/19/hillary-colin-powell-told-me-to-use-private-email-n2207383

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— “Gay Olympics” Or Gay Olympics? – John Lewis
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lewis/gay-olympics-or-gay-olymp_b_11527930.html
— These 3 Steps Will Make You Rethink Cultural Fit And Diversity  (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.  IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.  The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-tolan/these-3-steps-will-make-y_b_11589766.html

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— Fewer Than Half of Trump Supporters Think Their Vote Will Be Accurately Counted – BYRON TAU  (DIERSEN: Beyond overwhelmingly, anti-Trumps control vote counting in America.  Anti-Trumps are moral relativists who believe that their end justifies their means.  Anti-Trumps are disciples of Saul Alinsky.  Anti-Trumps are anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/08/19/fewer-than-half-of-trump-supporters-think-their-vote-will-be-accurately-counted/
— Affordable Child Care: The Secret to a Better Economy – Editorial  (DIERSEN: To paint me as being someone who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and as someone who has always been privileged, my critics/opponents have always stressed the fact that my father made enough money that a) my mother could stay home and raise me and b) they could afford to sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod. My father fought type 1 diabetes from age 14, was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma, never attended college, worked in the office of a chemical plant, almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills, and did not buy a new car until he was 45 years old in 1967 and it was a bottom of the line Chevy with almost no options.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/opinion/affordable-child-care-the-secret-to-a-better-economy.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/us/politics/republicans-running-for-congress-struggle-with-an-albatross.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/opinion/campaign-stops/to-trump-even-losing-is-winning.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/opinion/were-winning.html
— Donald Trump Catches Critics by Surprise With One Word: ‘Regret’ – MAGGIE HABERMAN  (DIERSEN: What do your critic/opponents want you to regret?  My critics/opponents in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois want me to regret causing all of their problems, causing all of your problems, causing all of my problems, and causing all of everyone’s problems. My critics/opponents are disgusting scapegoaters. They have lots of religious, government, political, and financial clout in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois. Their disgusting operatives/dupes are unmitigated losers.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/us/politics/donald-trump-speech.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Anti-Trumps say “Trump Falters.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/us/politics/donald-trump-democrats-supreme-court.html
— How Can Police Do a Better Job of Recruiting Officers?  (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.  IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.  The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/08/17/how-can-police-do-a-better-job-of-recruiting-officers
— FRONT PAGE: BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS: Know English? For New York Cabdrivers, That’s No Longer Required – EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/nyregion/new-york-taxi-drivers-english-exam.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Russia Emerges as a Campaign Issue That Can’t Be Ignored – GERALD F. SEIB  (DIERSEN: Russians have a much higher opinion of members of the following groups than Democrats have: Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/08/19/russia-emerges-as-a-campaign-issue-that-cant-be-ignored/
— Mike Pence Releases Financial Disclosure Report  Report appears to show a negative net worth outside of a state pension – REID J. EPSTEIN AND RICHARD RUBIN  (DIERSEN: What is your income?  What is your net worth?  My wife and I are financially secure.  My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout that we have money because a) I avoided the draft, b) I have always been grossly overpaid, c) my wife has always had a job, and d) we gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents.  Virtually all the operatives and the dupes that my critics/opponents send after me have severe financial, health, and/or other problems.)
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/08/18/mike-pence-releases-financial-disclosure-report/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence on Thursday night released a financial disclosure form that appears to show a negative net worth outside of a state pension—the starkest possible contrast from the top of the GOP ticket. While presidential nominee Donald Trump has boasted at length on the size of his financial disclosure statement and his personal net worth, Mr. Pence’s federally mandated disclosure shows the picture of financial simplicity. He reports no significant savings accounts, mutual funds or 401(k) accounts from before he entered elected office. Mr. Pence, who is 57 years old, earned a six-figure congressional salary from 2001 to 2013. Before being elected to the House, Mr. Pence was a talk-radio host in Indiana. His disclosure states he is paid $173,860 as Indiana’s governor. “Our family has been honored to serve our state and nation,” Mr. Pence said in a statement released by the Trump campaign. “Like many American families, we have been fortunate and blessed to raise three wonderful children and put them through college while doing work that we love.” The Trump campaign said Mr. Pence “will release his tax returns in the near future.” Mr. Trump has said he will not release his tax returns because he says he is under an audit from the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, said on CNN on Wednesday that he will not allow Mr. Trump to make his tax returns public until the audit is completed. On the form, Mr. Pence listed as assets a defined-benefit Indiana pension worth up to $1 million and up to $30,000 in other state retirement accounts. He has at most $45,000 in cash and college savings accounts and at least $95,000 in student loans taken out for his three children. He doesn’t list any holdings in stocks, mutual funds or rental property. Those totals don’t include the value of any real estate that he doesn’t rent out. And it doesn’t include any federal pension or defined-contribution retirement plan he has from his time in the U.S. House of Representatives. Those assets aren’t required to be listed on the form, which is designed to reveal conflicts of interest, not net worth.)

 

FORTUNE
— These Companies Are Changing the World—and They’re Hiring – Erika Fry  (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will employers officially announce that they will not hire you, and that they will fire you if you already have a job there, if you do not a) promote LGBTQ activity, b) promote abortion, c) promote mass/illegal immigration, d) promote race and gender based preference giving, d) promote age discrimination, e) promote pot, booze, gambling, and other vices, f) promote abolition of the Second Amendment, and g) promote hatred of those who are Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
http://fortune.com/2016/08/19/companies-change-world-hiring-jobs/

 

FORBES
— A Guy 15 Years Younger Than Me Is Now My Boss — What Do I Do? – Kathy Caprino  (DIERSEN: During my last 4 years at GAO, my boss was not only younger than me, she was a female while I am a male, she was a liberal Democrat while I am a conservative Republican, she was Jewish while I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, she was of Russian national origin while I am German national origin, her ancestors were recent immigrants while mine were not, she lived in Lincoln Park while I lived in Wheaton, she was not a gun owner while I have owned guns since I was in high school, and she drove foreign nameplate cars while I drove American nameplate cars.)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2016/08/19/a-guy-15-years-younger-than-me-is-now-my-boss-what-do-i-do/#6bb0539277ca

 

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Corporate diversity programs don’t work, and a new study shows why – James Dennin  (DIERSEN: Since at least the 1960s, the federal government’s top priority has been a) to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran and b) to make way for them by getting rid of federal employees who are Republican, and especially those who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/corporate-diversity-programs-dont-work-and-a-new-study-shows-why-2016-8

 

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT DAILY
— EEOC continues push for LGBT rights at work  (DIERSEN: Soon, if not already, if you do not promote LGBT activity, EEOC will put you out of business.
http://www.businessmanagementdaily.com/46890/eeoc-continues-push-for-lgbt-rights-at-work#_

 

GLOBE AND MAIL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps make it clear that they want to get rid of “white people, especially white men, who don’t have college degrees.”  If Clinton wins, how fast will she get rid of “white people, especially white men, who don’t have college degrees?” After she gets rid of the aforesaid, how fast will she get rid of those who are Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, older, rich, gun owners, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/republicans-continue-to-rely-on-a-shrinking-base/article31478705/

 

WASHINGTON BLADE
— Pence opposed U.S. efforts to promote gay rights abroad  (DIERSEN: From what I see, those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that promote LGBTQ activity want the federal government to destroy individuals, destroy organizations, destroy companies, destroy governments, and destroy countries that do not promote LGBTQ activity.)
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/08/19/pence-opposed-u-s-efforts-promote-lgbt-rights-abroad/

 

TOWLEROAD
— Provincetown Carnival Went Back to the ’80s – Andy Towle
http://www.towleroad.com/2016/08/provincetown-carnival/

 

WINDY CITY TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: GSA promotes LGBTQ activity.
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/New-GSA-restroom-rule-model-for-other-sectors/56224.html

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.