WGN TV
— City of Chicago prepares for legalized marijuana by inspecting new
dispensaries – MEGHAN DWYER
https://wgntv.com/2019/12/20/city-of-chicago-prepares-for-legalized-marijuana-by-inspecting-new-dispensaries/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Will a centrist or lefty be the next president of the Illinois Senate?
Whether the Democratic caucus’ two wings can learn to fly together is a whole
other story. – Rich Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2019/12/20/21032203/illinois-senate-president-elgie-sims-kimberly-lightford-john-cullerton-don-harmon-rich-miller
— Travelers caught with weed in Chicago airports won’t be busted, police say
The TSA says it will refer any marijuana found on domestic flyers to Chicago
police, who say they won’t confiscate it if the amount is within new legal
limits. – David Struett
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2019/12/20/21026876/marijuana-chicago-airport-law-tsa-customs-cannabis-weed-ohare-midway
DAILY HERALD
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Antioch mayor breaks tie to allow sale of recreational
marijuana – Mick Zawislak
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20191220/antioch-mayor-breaks-tie-to-allow-sale-of-recreational-marijuana
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: On Jan. 1, there will be weed, but not enough Expect
tents, shuttles and staging areas. Lines will be long—for a long time. – JOHN
PLETZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marijuanacannabis/jan-1-there-will-be-weed-not-enough
MDJ ONLINE
— Evangelical magazine Christianity Today, which is based in Illinois (Carol
Stream), says Trump should be removed from office
https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/extra/news/evangelical-magazine-christianity-today-which-is-based-in-illinois-says/article_7e23863e-59d6-5b14-87a8-548ef37b5740.html
CHICAGO READER
— DISGUSTING TRAGIC: Communing with cannabis—underground Even with legalization right around the
corner, these women of color in Chicago feel safest creating spaces for
weed-infused activities on their own terms. – F. Amanda Tugade
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cannabis-underground-community-baking-painting-yoga/Content?oid=76452408
CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Emboldened by restorative justice, shoplifters in Chicago carry winter
clothes from Marshall’s in plain sight of store employees – W.J. Kennedy
(DIERSEN: QUESTION: Who will criminals “emboldened by restorative
justice” take things from? ANSWER: From those who are Trump supporters,
Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older,
gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have
been in America for a long time.)
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/522025500-emboldened-by-restorative-justice-shoplifters-in-chicago-carry-winter-clothes-from-marshall-s-in-plain-sight-of-store-employees
PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— New taxes enough to drive Illinois motorists over the edge, IPI reports –
Glenn Minnis (DIERSEN: I own six cars and a SUV, but I dive them very little
because I spend 10+ hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails
together and sending them out.)
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/522117767-new-taxes-enough-to-drive-illinois-motorists-over-the-edge-ipi-reports
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— IL-14: Sue Rezin Questions House Democrats Priority of Passage of USMCA
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/12/20/il-14-sue-rezin-questions-house-democrats-priority-of-passage-of-usmca/
— A Big Crystal Lake Billboard Supporting Trump
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/12/21/message-of-the-day-a-billboard-16/
— IL-14: Lauren Underwood’s Lower Insulin Costs Now Act Signed Into Law
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/12/21/il-14-lauren-underwoods-lower-insulin-costs-now-act-signed-into-law/
— Ives Goes after Casten on Budget Vote
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/12/21/ives-goes-after-casten-on-budget-vote/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— PRITZKER SIGNS PENSION SWEETENER BILL WITHOUT KNOWING THE COST – Adam
Schuster
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pritzker-signs-pension-sweetener-bill-without-knowing-the-cost/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— There isn’t ‘plenty of blame to go around’ in this disastrous impeachment.
It’s all Democrats’ fault
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/there-isnt-plenty-of-blame-to-go-around-in-this-disastrous-impeachment-its-all-democrats-fault
— 25 Jewish Democrats send letter to Trump demanding Stephen Miller removal –
Mike Brest (DIERSEN: Democrats focus on turning Jews against Republicans. I
should write a book about my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and
subordinates in the federal government and their efforts to turn my many
Democrat Jewish superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me.
Of course, they stressed that a) I am 100% German national origin, b) that I
was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, and c) that I
lived in Crete 1948-1972.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/25-jewish-democrats-send-letter-to-trump-demanding-stephen-miller-removal
BREITBART
— Christianity Today Backed Amnesty for Illegal Aliens in 2015 – MICHAEL
PATRICK LEAHY
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/20/christianity-today-backed-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens-in-2015/
— Donald Trump Rips ‘Far-Left’ Christianity Today Magazine for Endorsing
Impeachment – Charlie Spiering
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/20/donald-trump-rips-far-left-christianity-today-magazine-for-endorsing-impeachment/
RUSH LIMBAUGH
— We’re in a Battle to Save America As Founded
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/12/20/were-in-a-battle-to-save-america-as-founded/
TOWNHALL
— Pelosi Compared Trump Impeachment to Battle of the Bulge. She Wasn’t the
Only One. – Cortney O’Brien (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats
hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump supporters are Nazis. Ever-increasingly, to
hint/imply/argue/shout that a person is a Trump supporter today is like
hinting/implying/arguing/shouting that a person is a Jew in Germany during the
1930s and 1940s.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2019/12/20/some-of-the-more-intriguing-analogies-democrats-made-at-the-impeachment-debate-n2558278
NEWSMAX
— 25 Jewish Members Of Congress Call For Stephen Miller’s Ouster – Cathy Burke
(DIERSEN: Democrats focus on turning Jews against Republicans. I should write a
book about my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in
the federal government and their efforts to turn my many Democrat Jewish
superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me. Of course, they
stressed that a) I am 100% German national origin, b) that I was baptized,
raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, and c) that I lived in
Crete 1948-1972.)
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/JewishCongressMembersStephenMiller/2019/12/20/id/946891/
LIFE SITE NEWS
— Abortion is the greatest genocide in human history, and Democrats are its
greatest champion – Seth Gruber
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abortion-is-the-greatest-genocide-in-human-history-and-democrats-are-its-biggest-champion
LIFE NEWS
— Chicago Bears Co-Owner Will Speak at March for Life to Condemn Killing 61
Million Babies in Abortion – MICAIAH BILGER
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/20/chicago-bears-co-owner-will-speak-at-march-for-life-to-condemn-killing-61-million-babies-in-abortion/
THE HILL
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “History will not be kind to Trump
and Republicans on impeachment.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/475332-history-will-not-be-kind-to-trump-and-republicans-on-impeachment
— Twenty-five Jewish lawmakers ask Trump to fire Stephen Miller over ‘white nationalist’
comments – TAL AXELROD (DIERSEN: Democrats focus on turning Jews against
Republicans. I should write a book about my Democrat superiors, supervisors,
coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government and their efforts to turn
my many Democrat Jewish superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates
against me. Of course, they stressed that a) I am 100% German national origin,
b) that I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, and
c) that I lived in Crete 1948-1972.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/475584-25-jewish-lawmakers-ask-trump-to-fire-stephen-miller-over-white-nationalist
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Illinois GOP aims to end Holocaust denier’s run for Congress
https://mynorthwest.com/1650606/illinois-gop-aims-to-end-holocaust-deniers-run-for-congress/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Illinois GOP Aims to End Holocaust Denier’s Run for Congress – AP
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/12/20/us/ap-us-congress-illinois-holocaust-denier.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Evangelical Leaders Close Ranks With Trump After
Scathing Editorial Christianity Today’s call for President Trump’s removal gave
voice to his evangelical critics. But they remain a minority in a political
movement that Mr. Trump has reshaped in his own mold. – Elizabeth Dias and
Jeremy W. Peters
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/politics/christianity-today-trump-evangelicals.html
— Why I Voted Against the Trump Impeachment The investigation against
President Clinton was thorough and nonpartisan. The Trump proceedings have been
the opposite in every way. – Jim Sensenbrenner
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/opinion/trump-impeachment-sensenbrenner.html
— JPMorgan Pressed by Senate Democrats on Racial Discrimination Reports –
Reuters (DIERSEN: One could compare and contrast a) how Democrat politicians
defend their constituents and with b) how Republican politicians defend their
constituents. My critics/opponents can stress how, aside from Henry Hyde’s
coming to my defense in 1989, Republicans who represented me in Congress while
I was a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997 and while Diersen v. GAO
was pending 1998-2005 (SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
did little or nothing to defend me from political affiliation discrimination,
reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation for opposing the
aforesaid discrimination while I worked for the Post Office 1966-1969, IRS
1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997. Republicans who represented me in Congress
treated me like they supported “up-or-out” and agreed with the
adverse actions that my Democrat superiors in the federal government took
against me. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49
years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always
ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes,
did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off
audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and
forced me to take a $19,568 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from
IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors did not promote me beyond GS-12,
disallowed my education deductions in 1978, got rid of my mentor in 1975, and
disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974. My Democrat Post Office
superiors forced me resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in
1969 and 1968. One could wonder if Republicans who represented me in Congress
might have come to my defense if I had contributed lots of money to their
campaigns.)
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/12/20/us/20reuters-jpmorgan-senate.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A
group of five U.S. senators sent a letter on Thursday to JPMorgan Chase &
Co., asking it to explain what it was doing to address what they described as
“a troubling list of discriminatory practices” related to race. The
letter was signed by five prominent Democrats, including presidential candidate
Elizabeth Warren and the top Democrat on the Senate banking panel, Sherrod
Brown. The letter referred to a New York Times article last week that reported
( https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/business/jpmorgan-banking-racism.html )
cases of racial discrimination at some of the bank’s branches in the Phoenix,
Arizona area.)
— As Modi Pushes Hindu Agenda, a Secular India Fights Back Protesters are
speaking out against what they say is a government bent on attacking diversity,
the foundation on which India was built. – Maria Abi-Habib and Sameer Yasir
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/world/asia/india-muslims-citizenship.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— ‘OK Boomer’: A Defining Generation Becomes a Label for Irrelevance After decades
of outsize influence, baby boomers are getting taunted by a younger cohort in a
bit of sly intergenerational warfare – Ben Zimmer (DIERSEN: Democrats,
Libertarians, Greens, and RINOs want to get rid of those who are older than
they are.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ok-boomer-a-defining-generation-becomes-a-label-for-irrelevance-11576904461
NEW YORK POST
— AOC is right to stand up to Democratic establishment on SALT – Editorial
(DIERSEN: Constructively, those who support the SALT cap demonize, denigrate,
and condemn those like me who pay more than $10,000 a year in SALT taxes as
being undeservedly filthy rich. Trump should increase the $10,000 SALT cap to
$20,000 for married filing jointly.)
https://nypost.com/2019/12/20/aoc-is-right-to-stand-up-to-democratic-establishment-on-salt/
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters hint/imply/argue/shout that because George P.
Bush condemns racism, sooner or later, he will call for the Republican Party to
dump individuals, to dump organizations, to dump companies, to dump
governments, and to dump countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant,
conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, gun owners,
German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America
for a long time.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/12/20/george-p-bush-has-led-republicans-in-condemning-racism-is-he-the-future-of-the-party-in-texas/
NEWSWEEK
— JEWISH HOUSE DEMOCRATS WANT STEPHEN MILLER OUSTED, SEND LETTER TO WHITE
HOUSE: ‘HATEFUL IDEOLOGY IS NOT JUST UNACCEPTABLE’ – JEFFERY MARTIN (DIERSEN:
Democrats focus on turning Jews against Republicans. I should write a book
about my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the
federal government and their efforts to turn my many Democrat Jewish superiors,
supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me. Of course, they stressed
that a) I am 100% German national origin, b) that I was baptized, raised, and
confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, and c) that I lived in Crete 1948-1972.)
https://www.newsweek.com/jewish-house-democrats-want-stephen-miller-ousted-send-letter-white-house-hateful-ideology-not-1478583
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT
— 1 in 3 federal workers less likely to report wrongdoing after GOP
whistleblower attacks – Dan Desai Martin (DIERSEN: Potential federal employees
and current federal employees can see how the federal government treats its
employees like me who are Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran
who oppose patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse
discrimination, and/or age discrimination. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )
https://americanindependent.com/federal-whistleblowers-gop-attacks-donald-trump-impeachment-ukraine/
JD SUPRA
— Have You Heard? Six Steps to Protect Your Company from Hostile Work
Environment Claims Based on Workplace Rumors – Baker Donelson (DIERSEN: While I
worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, to justify getting rid
of me, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates always
stressed to each other that I opposed patronage, political affiliation
discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation,
that I was a Republican, that I avoided the draft, that I was conservative,
that I was 100% German National Origin, that I was baptized, raised, and
confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, that I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and in
Wheaton since 1978, that I was born in 1948, that my ancestors had been in
America since 1844, that my wife had a good job, that we did not have children,
that we bought real estate, that I bought new cars and collector cars, that we
saved for our retirement, that in 1988 I became an active member in a class
action lawsuit that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse
discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation, that IRS did not promote
me beyond GS-12, that GAO did not promote me beyond GS-13, etc.)
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/have-you-heard-six-steps-to-protect-88124/