December 12 Morning Edition

ABC7

— Chicago shootings: 18 shot, 2 fatally, in weekend violence across city. 16-year-old boy among those shot Saturday night.
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shooting-violence-shootings-gun/11329311/

WGN RADIO
— Used car prices have risen 26.2% year-over-year in Illinois
https://wgnradio.com/news/used-car-prices-have-risen-26-2-year-over-year-in-illinois/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: Illinois has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. Here’s why. – LISA DONOVAN
(COMMENT: What percent of employers in Illinois refuse to hire, retain. and/or promote those who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-illinois-unemployment-rate-among-highest-in-country-20211209-enyamhvclnadnbsta4rrriccj4-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— COMMENT: Expect that forever, Democrats will use Emmett Till to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/12/11/22828275/emmett-till-case-justice-department-cold-case-unit-racial-violence-christopher-benson-op-ed

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The Great American Con. What the political class is stealing from us is our right to self-governance, which is essential to American citizenship. – Tony Woodlief
https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/11/the-great-american-con/

BREITBART
— Sebastian Gorka on Trump in 2024: ‘You Know He’s Running, I Know He’s Running’ – JORDAN DIXON-HAMILTON
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/11/exclusive-sebastian-gorka-on-trump-in-2024-you-know-hes-running-i-know-hes-running/

BLAZE
— New York City BLM leader clashes with Martha MacCallum in heated interview, says Fox anchor comes from a ‘place of white privilege’ – PAUL SACCA
(COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, I have always unfairly and tremendously benefitted because I am White, male, draft avoider, heterosexual, healthy, married since 1978, no children, conservative, Republican, Missouri Synod Lutheran, German American, Crete resident 1948-1972, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes hint/imply/argue/shout that those who have the aforesaid demographics discriminate against those who are minority, female, veteran, LGBTQ, disabled, not married, parents, liberal, moderate, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, Independent, RINO, non-Christian, non-Protestant, non-German American, and those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/blm-leader-fox-news-interview
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Black Lives Matter leader suggested that a Fox News host enjoys “white privilege,” so her opinion on New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams’ remedies for spiking violent crime in the city is irrelevant. . .Newsome then attempted to dismiss MacCallum’s point of view because of her alleged “white privilege.” “But see, you don’t know what it’s like, you don’t know what it’s like to be pulled over and thrown up against walls,” Newsome said, then telling MacCallum, “You live from a place of white privilege.”)

DAILY CALLER
— ‘Take Migrants At Their Word’: Republicans Criticize Process Allowing Illegal Immigrants To Get Through Airport Security Without ID – JENNIE TAER
https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/11/exclusive-rep-gooden-border-tsa-immigrant-airport-id/

PJ MEDIA
— Liberal Pundit: Hispanic Voters are Fleeing Democrats – A.J. KAUFMAN
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ari-j-kaufman/2021/12/11/liberal-pundit-hispanic-voters-are-fleeing-democrats-n1540851
— Did You Know? Inflation is Racist – RICK MORAN
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/12/11/did-you-know-inflation-is-racist-n1540874

CENTER SQUARE
— Americans overwhelmingly oppose plan to hire IRS agents to audit Americans – Bethany Blankley
(COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes stress a) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years and b) that I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/analysis-americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-plan-to-hire-irs-agents-to-audit-americans/article_c36bf0e4-58f5-11ec-a195-a716ed46195c.html

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— Fiery Matt Gaetz Reveals When the Era of RINOs and Weak Republicans Will Finally End – Isa Cox
https://ijr.com/watch-fiery-matt-gaetz-reveals-when-the-era-of-rinos-and-weak-republicans-will-finally-end/

NBC NEWS
— Thousands of Afghan refugees on U.S. bases wait for Americans to welcome them home – Khaled Hosseini
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/thousands-afghan-refugees-u-s-bases-wait-americans-welcome-them-ncna1285785

THE HILL
— Trump struggles to clear GOP field in North Carolina Senate race – MAX GREENWOOD
(COMMENT: Most commonly, in Illinois Republican primaries, moderate candidates defeat conservative candidates because only one moderate runs, but the conservative vote is split between two, three+ conservative candidates.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/585352-trump-struggles-to-clear-gop-field-in-north-carolina-senate-race

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Federal anti-terror unit investigated journalists – MARK SHERMAN
https://tulsaworld.com/entertainment/watchdog-federal-anti-terror-unit-investigated-journalists/article_960969d8-44a4-5909-8dd1-6a684beca107.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Helicopters and High-Speed Chases: Inside Texas’ Push to Arrest Migrants – J. David Goodman
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/us/texas-migrant-arrests-police.html
— Elon Musk’s Latest Innovation: Troll Philanthropy – Nicholas Kulish
(COMMENT: He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have lots of money. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have their disgusting operatives and disgusting dupes take adverse actions against me.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/business/elon-musk-philanthropy.html
— Independent Journalism Is at Risk. Here’s How to Save It. – Maria Ressa and Mark Thompson
(COMMENT: I am independent. My critics/opponents a) demand blind loyalty to them and to them only and b) destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. Everyone sees how they treat me and how they treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/opinion/independent-journalism-at-risk-nobel-prize.html

WASHINGTON POST
— To eliminate bias, some seek out doctors of their own race or ethnicity – Eve Glicksman
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/racial-disparity-health-care-doctors/2021/12/10/f154dbf4-433a-11ec-a88e-2aa4632af69b_story.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— One more thing to lose sleep over: Who’s running your state’s elections? – DOYLE MCMANUS
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-12-12/one-more-thing-to-lose-sleep-over-whos-running-your-states-elections

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— New Political Maps Will Kill Swing Districts From Coast to Coast. More races for the U.S. House will start with one party holding a significant advantage. – Aaron Zitner and Chad Day
(COMMENT: After redistricting, which offices on the November 8, 2022 ballot in your precinct do Democrat candidates have a significant advantage?)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-political-maps-will-kill-swing-districts-from-coast-to-coast-11639305003

FORBES
— This New Year’s Set Goals, Not Resolutions – Ashley Stahl
(COMMENT: What more will my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes do to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and to stop everyone from reading those newsletters? This year, they stopped me from raising funds from DuPage Republicans so that DuPage Republicans could help sponsor Wheaton’s Independence Day parade and fireworks.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleystahl/2021/12/09/this-new-years-set-goals-not-resolutions/

BALTIMORE SUN
— Don’t blame media neutrality for a Trump resurgence – ROSS DOUTHAT
(COMMENT: What do you say to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who hint/imply/argue/shout that my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters cause Republican candidates in Illinois to lose general elections a) because conservatives cannot win general elections in Illinois and b) because I paint Republican candidates as being far more conservative than they are? I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois who have blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for losses that Republican candidates on general election ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000.)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1210-douthat-trump-2024-media-role-20211209-vfgwecdmcvacvkd5bgc625zpfm-story.html

DENVER POST
— Election denialism and far-right activism sit firmly within the Colorado GOP – ALEX BURNESS
(COMMENT: One could compare and contrast the Colorado GOP with the Illinois GOP. One could compare and contrast how the Colorado GOP treats conservatives with how the Illinois GOP treats conservatives. I should write a book about those Republican activists, candidates, elected officials, party leaders, political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers who have blamed Republican losses in Illinois since 2000 a) on me, b) on my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000, and c) on what I did serving as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, serving as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and raising funds from DuPage Republicans so that they could help sponsor Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2019.)
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/12/11/colorad-gop-burton-brown-elections/

MORNING CALL
— Overcoming bias starts with appraisers – Zach Wichter (COMMENT: Will appraisers sue Wichter?)
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-morning-call-sunday/20211212/page/25/textview

TAMPA BAY TIMES
— St. Petersburg City Council approves ‘reparations’ to address structural racism – Colleen Wright
(COMMENT: Affirmative Action (AA), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are reparations. Democrats and RINOs use AA, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to make Republicans pay reparations. The more of the following that you are, the more reparations that Democrats and RINOs will make you pay: Trump supporter, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-veteran, non-poor, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.tampabay.com/news/st-petersburg/2021/12/10/st-petersburg-city-council-accepts-structural-racism-study-to-right-wrongs/

TRIBUNE CHRONICLE
— Mass media bias will divide the country – TIM SANTELL, Kinsman
https://www.tribtoday.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2021/12/mass-media-bias-will-divide-the-country/

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Texas Republican Operative Matthews Joins McGuireWoods in Austin
(COMMENT: I should write a book about Republican operatives. I would focus on those who paint themselves as being operatives for the following: a) past and present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) past and present Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, c) conservative and religious leaders, d) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, and e) those who I have sued.)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/texas-republican-operative-matthews-joins-mcguirewoods-in-austin

LOYOLA MAROON
— Cancel culture isn’t real – Daniel Schwalm
(COMMENT: My critics/opponents cancel those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, c) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, d) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or e) who refuse to give them money. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes.)
https://loyolamaroon.com/10033468/oped/opinion-cancel-culture-isnt-real/

NPR
— Black communities are shrinking in once predominantly-Black US cities – SCOTT SIMON
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/11/1063337613/black-communities-are-shrinking-in-once-predominantly-black-us-cities

HISTORY NEWS NETWORK
— SEVEN EX-PRESIDENTS HAVE TRIED TO RECLAIM THE OFFICE. WILL THERE BE AN EIGHTH? – Ronald L. Feinman
https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154567
(FROM THE ARTICLE: If he ends up running, Trump would be the 8th former president to attempt to return to the office. Only one, Grover Cleveland, was successful. Three others—Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, and Theodore Roosevelt—-ran as third party candidates. Three others—Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, and Gerald Ford— attempted to run after leaving the Presidency, but failed to accomplish that goal. . .Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) (1893-1897) is the only president to win, then lose, and then regain the presidency. In an era of Republican dominance, the conservative Cleveland was the only Democratic president between James Buchanan before the Civil War and Woodrow Wilson in 1913. He is best remembered for supporting the Interstate Commerce Act (1887), supporting a lower protective tariff that only came about in his second term, demonstrating white supremacist views toward African Americans, native Americans, and Asian Americans, intervening in the suppression of the Pullman Strike of 1894 in his second term, and opposing the western free silver crusade headed by William Jennings Bryan in 1896. Cleveland also appointed four Supreme Court Justices in his two terms, and utilized the veto power more times than any president, except for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cleveland was also an anti imperialist, refusing to annex Hawaii when Benjamin Harrison tried to arrange a treaty as he left office in 1893, refusing to intervene directly in the Cuban war against their Spanish masters in 1895, and opposing the Spanish American War and American intervention in the Filipino Insurrection under his successor, William McKinley.)

PSY POST
— Exposure to partisan news is not associated with polarization, study finds – Mane Kara-Yakoubian
(COMMENT: What do you say to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who hint/imply/argue/shout that my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters cause Republican candidates in Illinois to lose general elections a) because conservatives cannot win general elections in Illinois and b) because I paint Republican candidates as being far more conservative than they are? I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois who have blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for losses that Republican candidates on general election ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000.)
https://www.psypost.org/2021/12/exposure-to-partisan-news-is-not-associated-with-polarization-study-finds-62238

HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR
— At-will employment: Everything you need to know – Coann Labitoria
(COMMENT: Far too many Republican county, township, and ward party chairmen in Illinois prefer having precincts to be vacant than having a precinct committeeman/captain who they cannot manipulate/dominate.)
https://www.hcamag.com/us/specialization/employment-law/at-will-employment-everything-you-need-to-know/318985

AXIOS
— Republicans are betting that Democrats have gone too far in addressing systemic racism — so they’re leaning into culture wars over school curriculum, college admissions, voting rights, hiring practices and policing. – Margaret Talev
https://www.axios.com/republicans-systemic-racism-backlash-bb9d83aa-27e5-416b-8c51-d4ef9699437b.html

LGBTQ NATION
— Joe Biden appoints out gay man to lead the White House’s personnel office. LGBTQ leaders and advocates are cheering the news of Gautam Raghavan’s new appointment as the head of hiring within the White House. – Juwan J. Holmes
(COMMENT: I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write a book about the many adverse actions that LGBTQ-promoters, their operatives, and their dupes have taken against me. This year, they stopped me from raising funds from DuPage Republicans so that DuPage Republicans could help sponsor Wheaton’s Independence Day parade and fireworks.)
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/12/joe-biden-appoints-gay-man-lead-white-houses-personnel-office/

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.