August 24, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE & DAILY HERALD & WASHINGTON POST
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Kinzinger ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump. What do the following have to say about Kinzinger’s hatred against Trump: past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county and township/ward party organizations, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, your county, your township/ward, your municipality, and your school district, c) Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in your precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists in your area, and e) religious leaders and activists in your area?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/08/22/dnc-speech-adam-kinzinger/
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240823/illinois-state-politics/saying-trump-has-suffocated-the-soul-of-his-party-former-gop-rep-kinzinger-endorses-harris-at-dn/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/23/theres-reason-adam-kinzinger-defended-democrats-patriotism/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— High-ranking Chicago cop browbeat Palestinian underling about Gaza war amid DNC protests, complaint says. The sergeant who lodged the complaint described Deputy Chief Don Jerome’s comments as “offensive, misogynistic, homophobic, and racist.” – Tom Schuba
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/08/22/high-ranking-chicago-cop-browbeat-palestinian-underling-gaza-war-dnc-protests
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/08/22/political-action-committee-drag-artists-get-out-the-vote-event
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/08/23/kamala-harris-tim-walz-election-movement-crushes-donald-trump-jd-vance-energy-se-cupp
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/08/23/dnc-chicago-host-city-kamala-harris-barack-michelle-obama-tim-walz
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/08/23/mayor-brandon-johnson-democratic-national-convention-chicago-top-cop
— If Harris is elected, she will force America to officially dump Israel.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/08/23/israel-palestinians-gaza-democratic-national-convention-kamala-harris-rummana-hussain
— The hatred that you promote against Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote you.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/08/23/sneed-sunday-michael-cohen-donald-trump-raskin-robert-f-kennedy-jr-chris-kamala-harris

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrats say “What’s at stake for Chicago as Harris rolls out of the DNC to take on Trump.”
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/kamala-harris-donald-trump-will-debate-chicago-issues-hinz

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Our culture of corruption. Dishonest politicians at all levels of Illinois government make a mockery of public service. – RICK PEARSON and RAY LONG (COMMENT: Of those mentioned in this article, George Ryan supporters have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/08/24/illinois-chicago-corruption/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Blagojevich — backed by his influential father-in-law, 33rd Ward Ald. Dick Mell — later ran for governor as a reformer, looking to succeed Republican Gov. George Ryan, who went to federal prison for corruption. In that case, underlings from Ryan’s tenure as secretary of state were found to have sold driver’s licenses for bribes, with some of that money being funneled into Ryan’s campaign fund. The fund became the first in American history to be indicted for racketeering.)
— The Dishonor Roll. Meet the public officials who helped build Illinois’ culture of corruption. – Kori Rumore, Ray Long and John Chase (COMMENT: Of those on this list, George Ryan supporters have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/the-dishonor-roll/

ABC7
— Hate-filled Trump-hating “Republicans” dump Trump. I should write about those hate-filled Trump-hating “Republicans” who have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me the most as being a Trump promoter. I would focus on: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, e) religious leaders and activists, and f) those who I have sued and their lawyers. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work.
https://abc7chicago.com/republicans-spoke-dnc-roster-republican-speakers-slam-trump-democratic-national-convention/15219736/

NBC5
— Democrats crow about the hate-filled Trump-hating “Republicans” who spoke at the 2024 DNC in Chicago. My critics/opponents are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters who demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being a Trump promoter. I should write about them. I would focus on: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, e) religious leaders and activists, and f) those who I have sued and their lawyers. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/dnc-chicago-2024/here-are-the-republicans-that-spoke-at-the-2024-dnc-in-chicago/3530773/
— Is Illinois a swing state this year? When it comes to presidential elections, Illinois has voted Democratic in the eight elections since 1988. However, in 1988 and the five presidential elections prior, Illinois voted Republican. (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government and they discriminate against their employees who are Republican. Starting in 1992 with Clinton’s election, because I was one of their extremely few employees who were Republican, my Democrat Chicago GAO superiors took even more adverse actions against me. Of course, they did not promote me. They forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They ever-increasingly ignored/dismissed/belittled a) my earning job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1980, and 1976, b) my earning job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, and c) my earning a job-related professional license in 1981. They ever-increasingly treated me like I had not done any of the aforesaid. All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. Recently, they did everything that they could to stop me from reporting on the DeSantis event in Elmhurst.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/is-illinois-a-swing-state-this-year-heres-everything-you-need-to-know/3531114/

CBS2
— Out-of-town photojournalist recounts being arrested during DNC protest in Chicago. – Megan Hickey (COMMENT: I should write a book about the many big adverse actions that the following have taken against me because I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, e) religious leaders and activists, and f) those who I have sued and their lawyers. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. Since 2000, anti-conservative, that is, anti-platform Republican, that is, anti-Republican “Republicans” in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois have worked harder against me than any Democrat.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/out-of-town-photojournalist-arrested-dnc-chicago/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Pat Brady.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/live-updates/democratic-national-convention-chicago-day-4-protests-liveblog/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-dnc-kinzinger-speech/

FOX32
— 1 shot at White Palace Grill while DNC delegates were inside
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1505551
— Secret Service agents on leave over Trump assassination attempt
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1505943
— Democrats crow that “Father Pfleger fires back at JD Vance’s criticism of Chicago.” Under the Democrats, Chicago is ever-increasingly anti-Catholic.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/father-pfleger-jd-vance-chicago

WTTW
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Kinzinger ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2024/08/23/saying-trump-has-suffocated-soul-his-party-former-gop-rep-kinzinger-endorses-harris

WGN9
— University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign among top party schools in America – Jeremy Tanner (COMMENT: I did not party at all while I attended UIC 1966-1968 and NIU 1969-1970. I worked all the part-time hours that I could for the Park Forest Post Office.)
https://wgnradio.com/news/see-the-2025-top-party-schools-in-america-according-to-niche/

WBEZ
— Based on her record, if elected, Harris will do everything that she can to get rid of those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wbez.org/government-politics/dnc-2024/2024/08/23/kamala-harris-dnc-chicago-democratic-nomination-acceptance-donald-trump

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— State, local elections don’t offer much competition to voters. – JIM DEY
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-state-local-elections-dont-offer-much-competition-to-voters/article_e240c2fa-5f38-11ef-bb38-e787a0ae69f7.html

HERALD REVIEW & NPR ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Kinzinger ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://herald-review.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/adam-kinzinger-urges-republicans-gop-vote-kamala-harris-denounce-trump/article_86f43c8f-a6bc-549e-be1d-f32c0903f29b.html
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2024-08-23/republican-adam-kinzinger-welcomed-as-hero-at-dnc-for-opposing-trump-a-weak-man-pretending-to-be-strong

WGLT
— Democrats allege that Harris is “leading in the polls” and ask “can Trump come back?”
https://www.wglt.org/2024-08-23/with-kamala-harris-leading-in-the-polls-can-donald-trump-come-back

WCIA
— Black Lives Matter street signs return outside Governor’s Mansion. – Theodora Koulouvaris
https://www.wcia.com/news/black-lives-matter-street-signs-return-outside-governors-mansion/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Texas, other GOP-led states sue over program to give immigrant spouses of US citizens legal status. – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-texas-other-gop-led-states-sue-over-program-to-give-immigrant-spouses-of-us-citizens-legal-status/

WHEATOIN PATCH
— Public Hearing To Discuss Proposed Roosevelt Road Zoning Amendment. A public hearing of the Wheaton Planning and Zoning Board will be held Aug. 27 to review proposed rezoning along Roosevelt Road. – Lisa Marie Farver (COMMENT: Roosevelt Road in the north border of my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton. Democrat and RINO voters in my precinct do not want me to be involved in this proposed rezoning. I should write about why that is.)
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/public-hearing-discuss-proposed-roosevelt-road-zoning-amendment

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/08/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-148/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Data refutes Pritzker’s DNC claims about Illinois economy. – Kevin Bessler
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4869350e-6190-11ef-9735-9354c92ff6eb.html

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Illinois Family Institute’s Smith: ‘Pritzker and Johnson have a proven track record of supporting policies that are not simply anti-business, but anti-family’
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/663694728-illinois-family-institute-s-smith-pritzker-and-johnson-have-a-proven-track-record-of-supporting-policies-that-are-not-simply-anti-business-but-anti-family

CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Executive Director of Illinois Right to Life: Planned Parenthood mobile clinic at DNC reflects ‘the most aggressively pro-abortion platform in the history of the United States’
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/663694691-executive-director-of-illinois-right-to-life-planned-parenthood-mobile-clinic-at-dnc-reflects-the-most-aggressively-pro-abortion-platform-in-the-history-of-the-united-states

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— No ‘slated’ GOP candidates will be kept off ballot after rulings from Supreme Court, elections board. – JERRY NOWICKI & JENNIFER FULLER (COMMENT: Would Republican organizations slate you to run for an office? Because I am much “too conservative” for the leaders of Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, they would never slate me to run for an office.)
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/no-slated-gop-candidates-will-be-kept-off-ballot-after-rulings-from-supreme-court-elections-board

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— PRITZKER SENDS ANOTHER $250K IN TAXPAYER MONEY TO GROUP PUSHING MORE TAXES – Dylan Sharkey
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pritzker-sends-another-250k-in-taxpayer-money-to-group-pushing-more-taxes/

— FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Calculating the human toll of the US exit from Afghanistan three years later
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3129402/calculating-the-human-toll-of-the-us-exit-from-afghanistan-three-years-later/

NEW YORK POST
— Democrats handwave a real election threat: illegal migrants voting. – Editorial (COMMENT: How many millions of illegals are going to vote for Harris/Walz? How many millions voted for Biden/Harris in 2020?)
https://nypost.com/2024/08/24/opinion/democrats-handwave-the-real-election-threat-illegal-migrants-voting/
— Texas Democratic delegate robbed at gunpoint near DNC in Chicago. – Olivia Land
https://nypost.com/2024/08/22/us-news/democratic-delegate-robbed-at-gunpoint-during-dnc-in-chicago/
— Trump vows to impose ‘tough new sentences’ on illegal migrant criminals – including death penalty for sex traffickers. – Victor Nava
https://nypost.com/2024/08/22/us-news/trump-vows-to-impose-tough-new-sentences-on-illegal-migrant-criminals/
— ‘Woke’ Harley-Davidson CEO destroyed biker ‘brotherhood,’ fans say: ‘Stabbed us in the back’
https://nypost.com/2024/08/23/business/woke-harley-davidson-ceo-destroyed-biker-brotherhood-fans-say/

AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS
— Walz attempts to sell himself as a demonstration of Midwestern values.
https://afn.net/ap/politics/walz-attempts-to-sell-himself-as-a-demonstration-of-midwestern-values/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Harris, Walz, and a Peculiar Definition of ‘Freedom’  Enjoy your freedom, but only to do as you’re told. It’s for your own good, after all. – Stephen Soukup
https://amgreatness.com/2024/08/24/harris-walz-and-a-peculiar-definition-of-freedom/

AMERICAN WIRE
— Trump dubs Kamala as the ‘Godmother of deadly Sanctuary Cities’ – Tom Tillison
https://americanwirenews.com/trump-dubs-kamala-as-the-godmother-of-deadly-sanctuary-cities/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump: Just following Lincoln’s lead. – Gretchen Wollert
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/08/23/trump-just-following-lincolns-lead-1482078/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Another Day, Another Shocking Criminal Migrant Report. – Andrew R. Arthur
https://cis.org/Arthur/Another-Day-Another-Shocking-Criminal-Migrant-Report

CHRISTIAN NEWS NETWORK
— Pro-life group’s IRS complaint seeks to strip Planned Parenthood of tax-exempt status.
https://christiannews.net/2024/08/23/pro-life-groups-irs-complaint-seeks-to-strip-planned-parenthood-of-tax-exempt-status/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Trump says he will not enforce law banning abortion pills by mail, angering pro-life groups. – Ryan Foley
https://www.christianpost.com/news/trump-says-he-will-not-enforce-law-banning-abortion-pills-by-mail.html
— Planned Parenthood faces IRS complaint over its DNC mobile abortion van. – Samantha Kamman,
https://www.christianpost.com/news/planned-parenthood-faces-irs-complaint.html

DAILY CALLER
— Kamala-Backed Border Bill Would Allow Illegals Deported By Trump Back Into Country. – Robert McGreevy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-backed-border-bill-would-allow-illegals-deported-by-trump-back-into-country/ar-AA1pl6Hg

FOX NEWS
— Chicago schools slammed for delayed calendar, encouraging student attendance at DNC. Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten was a DNC climate panel’s keynote speaker. – Charles Creitz (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, for Democrat teachers, cranking out good little Democrats is their top priority. What if my parents had sent me to Crete Elementary 1953-1962 instead of Trinity Lutheran 1953-1961 and Hope Lutheran 1961-1962? Without the conservative principles that I learned, I doubt that I would have a) gotten an ACT score of 24, b) graduated in the upper 20% of my Crete-Monee class in 1966, c) gotten accepted by UIC in 1966, d) etc.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-schools-slammed-delayed-calendar-encouraging-student-attendance-dnc
— Chicago schools’ sex ed curriculum teaches elementary school kids about gender identity, puberty blockers. Only 31% of elementary students in the Chicago public school system are considered proficient in reading, while just 19% are proficient in math. – Alec Schemmel
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-schools-sex-ed-curriculum-teaches-elementary-school-kids-about-gender-identity-puberty-blockers
— Rich DNC speakers like Oprah, Obamas rail against wealth inequality, US fixation on money. Former President Obama, whose net worth is $70 million, said our culture ‘puts a premium on things that don’t last: money, fame, status, likes’ – Gabriel Hays
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rich-dnc-speakers-like-oprah-obamas-rail-against-wealth-inequality-u-s-fixation-money
— Biden-Harris admin launched new illegal migrant ‘amnesty’ while DNC was underway. ‘This is a massive amnesty that Congress never authorized.” – Fred Lucas
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-harris-admin-launched-new-illegal-migrant-amnesty-while-dnc-underway-critics
— House GOP demands elite universities counteract ‘dangerous’ anti-Israel protests in the fall semester. A letter to the universities says ‘the problem of antisemitic harassment, disruption, and violence has not been resolved’ – Aubrie Spady (COMMENT: Democrats are ever-increasingly anti-Israel.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-gop-demands-elite-universities-counteract-dangerous-anti-israel-protests-fall-semester
— Bill Maher: Kamala Harris avoiding journalists is ‘worse’ than Trump calling them ‘enemy of the people’ – Joseph A. Wulfsohn (COMMENT: I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. I should write a book about how Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have treated me since then.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-kamala-harris-avoiding-journalists-worse-than-trump-calling-them-enemy-people

GOPUSA
— Trump Highlights Violent Crimes Committed By Foreign Nationals At Border Event
https://www.gopusa.com/trump-highlights-violent-crimes-committed-by-foreign-nationals-at-border-event/

JUDICIAL WATCH
— Judicial Watch: Secret Service Records Reveal DEI Is Prioritized for All Agency Employees in ‘Every Action, Every Day’ (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, their top priority was hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.judicialwatch.org/secret-service-dei/

LIFEZETTE
— Kamala Pledges Pathway To Citizenship For Millions Of Illegals In DNC Speech
https://www.lifezette.com/2024/08/kamala-pledges-pathway-to-citizenship-for-millions-of-illegals-in-dnc-speech-videos/

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
— Chicago Pregnancy Center Vandalized as Democratic National Convention Closes. The act of vandalism was caught on the center’s security camera. The footage has now been turned over to police. – Peter Pinedo (COMMENT: To promote abortion is to promote hatred against Catholics.)
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/cna-20240823-chicago-vandalism

PJ MEDIA
— Texas AG Paxton Targets Organizations That Register Illegals to Vote. – CATHERINE SALGADO (COMMENT; How many illegals are registered to vote in your county, in your township, in your municipality, in your school district, and in your precinct? Illegals vote for Democrats.)
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/08/23/texas-ag-paxton-targets-orgs-registering-illegals-to-vote-n4931929
— Phil Donahue: The Nightmare Has Come Full Circle. – Paula Bolyard
https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2024/08/23/nightmare-come-full-circle-n4931924

PARENTS DEFENDING EDUCATION
— Chicago Public Schools’ health education ‘scope and sequence’ includes teaching pre-kindergarteners to “correctly identify body parts typically considered private including nipples, penis, anus and vulva”; requires first graders to define “gender identity”; tells third graders that “sex is assigned at birth”; and introduces fifth graders to “puberty blocker medications.” (COMMENT: How much success have Democrats had making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?)
https://defendinged.org/incidents/chicago-public-schools-health-education-scope-and-sequence-includes-teaching-pre-kindergarteners-to-correctly-identify-body-parts-typically-considered-private-including-nipples-penis-anus-an/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Newsom to Give Illegals Taxpayer-Funded Health Care on Jan. 1 Amid $68 Billion Budget Shortfall. – Warner Todd Huston
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/newsom-to-give-illegals-taxpayer-funded-health-care-on-jan-1-amid-68-billion-budget-shortfall/ar-AA1mfzh5

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Several Secret Service employees put on administrative duties following Trump assassination attempt. – Whitney Wild and Holmes Lybrand
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/politics/secret-service-employees-trump-shooting

MSN
— President Trump Promises to End All DEI Programs Across America: What It Means  (COMMENT: What it means is a return to meritocracy.)
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/president-trump-promises-to-end-all-dei-programs-across-america-what-it-means/ar-BB1h63Hm
— Haunting images show enormous car graveyard in China where millions of vehicles are left to rust by their owners. (COMMENT: I hate rust. I regret my not having always garaged all the vehicles that have owned.)
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/haunting-images-show-enormous-car-graveyard-in-china-where-millions-of-vehicles-are-left-to-rust-by-their-owners/ar-AA1plvPN
— Democrats and RINOs say “Fearing Trump, LGBTQ Americans out in force for vote.” Ever-increasingly, to vote for Democrats is to force LGBTQ on everyone.
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/world/fearing-trump-lgbtq-americans-out-in-force-for-vote/ar-AA1pgw3R
— Democrats and RINOs want more and more and more LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/transgender-issues-were-largely-absent-from-the-dnc-agenda/ar-AA1pkzBX
— Harris promises swing-state voters she’ll be ‘tough’ on border — but criticized Obama in 2019 for deporting illegal immigrants. -Taylor Walters, Mark A. Kellner
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/harris-promises-swing-state-voters-she-ll-be-tough-on-border-but-criticized-obama-in-2019-for-deporting-illegal-immigrants/ar-AA1p90Dd

NEW YORK TIMES
— The Black Identity in Kamala Harris’s Jamaican Roots. — Brent Staples  (COMMENT: What do you say to those who have advised me to downplay my German national origin is not pretend to be Swedish American?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/opinion/kamala-harris-family-jamaica.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “Illinois Supreme Court upholds unconstitutionality of Democrats’ law banning slating of candidates. The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that tossed out a law barring political parties from choosing candidates for the General Assembly when they had no one run in a primary election.”  (COMMENT: Would Republican organizations slate you to run for an office? Because I am much “too conservative” for the leaders of Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, they would never slate me to run for an office.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/23/illinois-elections-slating-candidates-supreme-court/de28c1fc-619c-11ef-ae22-cef4d8785d67_story.html
— Democrats say they “once strove to ‘go high’ against Trump. Not anymore. This year’s convention culminated recent efforts to needle Trump on topics known to strike a nerve in the former president, with some Democrats saying they are tired of being polite.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/08/23/democrats-harris-trump-attacks-campaign/

USA TODAY
— Democrats decry that “Some Black voters greet Harris campaign, DNC with apathy in Chicago.” Democrats ever-increasingly give Hispanics more preference than they give Blacks.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/22/black-voters-chicago-election-harris-trump/74773069007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— ‘I Cannot Understand Putin’s Hold on Trump’ Like his predecessors George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Trump was overconfident in his ability to improve relations with the dictator in the Kremlin. In an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir, H.R. McMaster details the clashes over Russia that led President Trump to fire him as national security adviser.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/i-cannot-understand-putins-hold-on-trump-8d045461?page=1
— Tim Walz Is Richer Than His Net Worth Suggests. The vice presidential candidate accumulated pensions as a teacher, soldier and elected official. –  Anne Tergesen (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who decried my Civil Service Retirement System pension the most.)
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/tim-walz-retirement-savings-pension-a9e3eb27
— RFK Jr.’s Double-Edged Trump Endorsement. The Kennedy scion could help Trump in battleground states, but he’d be a nightmare in government.-  Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-endorses-donald-trump-2024-nicole-shanahan-kamala-harris-715235a1
— What Being a Parent Really Means. Having a child, like getting married, requires making a lifelong commitment—in this case, to someone you’ve never met. – Jennifer A. Frey (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who have decried the most my wife and I giving up trying to have children, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents.)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/three-books-on-what-being-a-parent-really-means-1a83bb23?page=1

NAPOLITAN INSTITUTE
— The majority of respondents in a poll published Friday said they believe a large amount of people who are in the country illegally will actually vote in November’s general election. The poll, conducted by the Napolitan News Service, found that 54% of respondents said they believe illegal immigrants will vote in November, and 75% of respondents said they do not support allowing illegal immigrants to vote in federal elections. An even larger percentage of the survey takers (87%) support requiring voter ID in order to vote in federal elections, according to the poll.
https://napolitaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GCM24-0821-Mini-Toplines-Photo-ID.pdf

JEWISH JOURNAL
— Anti-Israel Network Now Bird-Dogs Anyone Who Supports Israel. – Asra Q. Nomani (COMMENT: I have always been a Republican. Republicans have always supported Israel. Because my many Democrat Jewish superiors and supervisors in the federal government were liberal, that is, because they were anti-conservative, that is, because they were anti-Republican, did not support Israel. They took many big adverse actions against me. I should write a book about that.)
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/374323/dispatches-from-chicago-anti-israel-network-now-bird-dogs-anyone-who-supports-israel/

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.