February 23, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard accused of corruption, trustees approve call for federal investigation – Michelle Gallardo and Liz Nagy
https://abc7chicago.com/dolton-mayor-tiffany-henyard-illinois-fbi-investigation/14458356/
— Robberies in which criminals demand access to bank, payment apps to steal money are rising – Jason Knowles and Ann Pistone
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-crime-armed-robbery-stolen-money-app-chase-bank/14457765/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting religious leaders to promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-church-helps-migrant-families-secure-work-permits/3363589/
— Chicago-area suburbs warn of 911 call problems amid AT&T outage. A spokesperson for the Lake County sheriff’s office said many residents have been unable to reach emergency services. – Francie Swidler, Ashlee Hill and Nora Rogers
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-area-suburbs-warn-of-911-call-problems-amid-att-outage/3363106/

CBS2
— Palestinian Chicago residents push calls for cease-fire in Gaza, rethink support for Democrats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4utfgwi3xRc

WTTW
— US Department of Education Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Chicago Public Schools, Area Universities Over Gaza Protests – Paris Schutz
https://news.wttw.com/2024/02/22/us-department-education-opens-civil-rights-investigation-chicago-public-schools-area
— The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness, that is, it promotes dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, that is, destruction of traditional marriage and family, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://interactive.wttw.com/firsthand/homeless/without-a-home-in-chicago-homelessness-in-2024-and-whats-to-come

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Who to vote for? Too often, it’s about who’s first on the ballot. Many voters told the Sun-Times they would feel more assured in their picks — and, experts say, a significant share of non-voters might be more inclined to join the process — if they had better access to clear, unbiased information to help them make choices. – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/democracy/2024/02/22/illinois-voters-legwork-on-candidates-elections-democracy-solutions-project
— Chicago is not the City that Bumbles. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s zipped lip makes him putty in the media’s hands. – Neil Steinberg
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/02/22/mayor-brandon-johnson-chicago-media-relationship-image-communication-issues

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Venezuelan migrants charged with burglary and retail theft from Oak Brook stores

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/02/22/venezuelan-migrants-charged-with-burglary-and-retail-theft-from-oak-brook-stores/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emmett Till to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/02/23/today-in-history-mississippi-grand-jury-declines-new-charges-in-emmett-till-killing/
— Wife, son of Calumet City Mayor Thaddeus Jones made six figures working with city – HANK SANDERS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/02/22/wife-son-of-calumet-city-mayor-thaddeus-jones-made-six-figures/
— Democrats aren’t just celebrating Black history. We’re making it. – Carol Moseley Braun (COMMENT: During the last 8 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office, they had my Black subordinate lead the office’s big annual Black History Month events. In September of 1997, they forced me to take their early retirement “offer” and gave my Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/02/23/opinion-black-history-month-importance-moseley-braun/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: FBI investigating Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard while Illinois attorney general orders her charity to stop soliciting donations. – MIKE NOLAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/02/22/illinois-attorney-general-orders-dolton-mayor-tiffany-henyard-charity/

DAILY HERALD
— 11th District GOP congressional candidates complain of ‘moral decline’ in U.S. – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240222/us-congress-politics/11th-district-gop-congressional-candidates-complain-of-moral-decline-in-u-s/

WGN RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame gun violence on guns instead of blaming those who use guns illegally.
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/walter-jacobsons-perspective/walter-jacobsons-perspective-2-22-24-we-need-tougher-gun-control-laws/

SOUTHERN
— Authorities plan for threats to Republican, Democratic presidential conventions – Josh Margolin and Sasha Pezenik
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/02/23/authorities-plan-for-threats-to-republican-democratic-presidential-conventions/

KANKAKEE DAILY JOURNAL
— Governors State awarded $500K grant for addictions studies scholarships. (COMMENT: My outstanding parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and teachers at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete, Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest, and Crete-Monee High School steered me away from vices.)
https://daily-journal.com/news/governors-state-awarded-500k-grant-for-addictions-studies-scholarships/article_4537c4b6-d03d-11ee-90aa-f3da4a643cbc.html

ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH
— Celebrating Black History Month itself has become an act of resistance – Antonio French (COMMENT: During the last 8 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office, they had my Black subordinate lead the office’s big annual Black History Month events. In September of 1997, they forced me to take their early retirement “offer” and gave my Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office.)
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/column/antonio-french/opinion-celebrating-black-history-month-itself-has-become-an-act-of-resistance/article_3f4d8322-d0ee-11ee-b0d3-97e42e02bd6f.html

STATELINE
— Rockford parent group wants parental consent for children’s abortion, gender-affirming procedures – John Clark
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/rockford-parent-group-wants-parental-consent-for-childrens-abortion-gender-affirming-procedures/

WGLT
— It’s been 2 years since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine (COMMENT: Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Trump had been President.)
https://www.wglt.org/2024-02-22/its-been-2-years-since-russia-launched-its-invasion-of-ukraine
— Democrats ever-increasingly push minorities to be pot pushers.
https://www.wglt.org/2024-02-22/new-york-rolls-out-a-social-justice-oriented-weed-legalization-program

WSIL TV
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/dei-supporters-see-echoes-of-america-s-fraught-racial-history-in-attacks-on-diversity-efforts/article_e09fdc94-b0f4-5e4c-8875-bdadad22ca4f.html

WREX
— Rockford’s NAACP Black History Month celebration sheds light on challenges in black community – Samantha Soto (COMMENT: During the last 8 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office, they had my Black subordinate lead the office’s big annual Black History Month events. In September of 1997, they forced me to take their early retirement “offer” and gave my Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office.)
https://www.wrex.com/news/rockfords-naacp-black-history-month-celebration-sheds-light-on-challenges-in-black-community/article_fe5e885a-d202-11ee-bd80-4bbb97f433b6.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Dueling pro-Trump factions in Michigan throw the swing state’s Republicans into disarray – AP (COIMMENT: The conservative faction in the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee is virtually nonexistent.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-a-fight-between-pro-trump-factions-in-michigan-undercuts-republicans-in-a-key-2024-state/
— 48 percent in new poll say they would support 16-week abortion ban – Lauren Sforza
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/48-percent-in-new-poll-say-they-would-support-16-week-abortion-ban/

NPR ILLINOIS
— What GOP infighting in South Carolina can (and can’t) tell us about 2024 – Stephen Fowler (COIMMENT: The conservative faction in the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee is virtually nonexistent.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-02-22/what-gop-infighting-in-south-carolina-can-and-cant-tell-us-about-2024
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote “Principle First summit.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-02-22/principle-first-summit-draws-republicans-who-dont-support-frontrunner-trump

WAND TV
— Native Americans hope Illinois lawmakers can transfer stolen land, ban racist school mascots – Mike Miletich (COMMENT: I should write a book about my GAO coworker for almost 18 years 1980-1997 who shared many demographics with me. We both were DuPage County residents, Republicans, CPAs, White, male, married, non-veteran, Protestant, and our ancestors had been in America for a long time. But he was a Native America. He filled the office’s Native American quota. I would focus on the many ways in which our GAO superiors gave him preference over me. Unlike me, they let him work until he was eligible for regular retirement. We were both very active in the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter. He differed from me in that he was younger than me, he had started his career with GAO, his wife had little or no income, and he had children.)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/native-americans-hope-illinois-lawmakers-can-transfer-stolen-land-ban-racist-school-mascots/article_31803dee-d1ce-11ee-b345-ef2d9a063a7e.html

CHICAGO READER
— Democrats ever-increasingly push pot.
https://chicagoreader.com/best-of-chicago/high-focus-media-cannabis-community-builders/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/02/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-238/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/02/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-39/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WEST CENTRAL REPORTER
— Pritzker’s Budget Proposal Criticized by Illinois House Republican Caucus
https://westcentralreporter.com/stories/655015773-gov-pritzker-s-budget-proposal-criticized-by-illinois-house-republican-caucus

WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker’s 2025 budget is designed for politicians, not people
https://wirepoints.org/pritzkers-2025-budget-is-designed-for-politicians-not-people-wirepoints-on-univision-chicago/
— Pritzker’s 2025 budget address and the kitchen table issues that actually matter – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzkers-2025-budget-address-and-the-kitchen-table-issues-that-actually-matter-wirepoints/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— State appeals court revives challenge to Cook County’s gun, ammo tax – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f703eeae-d1d2-11ee-b5cb-67dadc2024c6.html
— Special interest groups and Democrats push to enhance pension benefits – Catrina Petersen (COMMENT: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, I paid 7% of my salary into the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). My CSRS pension is dramatically less because my Democrat superiors wasted my career and forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. Further, my Social Security is dramatically less because I get a CSRS pension. Notwithstanding the aforesaid, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned my CSRS pension as being much too generous.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_bd62dcb8-d1d3-11ee-b51a-5b9cdd23f2d7.html
— Measure would allow Illinois schools ability to deny polling places – Catrina Petersen
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b321e5d8-d10a-11ee-bee7-33442fa83da8.html

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— Illinois Republican Party State Convention May 24 & 25 in Collinsville (COMMENT: Who will the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) members invite to speak at the convention? How many IRP SCC members support Trump? What is their weighted vote? Who wants to serve as IRP National Committeeman and Committeewoman? How many IRP SCC members support them? What is their weighted vote? Who have the IRP SCC members appointed to serve on IRP State Convention Committees? I have asked to serve on the Platform and Resolutions Committee like I did in 2008.)
https://rcca.gop/event/ilgop-state-convention-24/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Candidate Spotlight: Jerry Evans for Illinois Congressional District 11 – Thomas Mccullagh
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/02/candidate-spotlight-jerry-evans-for-illinois-congressional-district-11.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Principles First Summit looks to replace CPAC as ‘intellectual’ heart of conservative movement – Seth McLaughlin (COMMENT: One could compare and contrast the extent to which each of them promote the individual responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. CPAC’s declining emphasis on the aforesaid planks discourages me from attending CPACs.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/22/principles-first-summit-looks-to-replace-cpac-as-i/
— Trump has always put America first, so let him finish the job – Mike Huckabee
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/22/trump-has-always-put-america-first-so-let-him-fini/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— CPAC? More like ‘sleep’ PAC – Jeremiah Poff (COMMENT: What has discouraged you from attending CPACs? For me, it is CPAC’s declining emphasis on the individual responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2868255/cpac-more-like-sleep-pac/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— California Reparations Bill Would Require State Licensing Boards To Favor Black Applicants – Charles Hilu
https://freebeacon.com/california/california-reparations-bill-would-require-state-licensing-boards-to-favor-black-applicants/

NEW YORK POST
— Google pauses ‘absurdly woke’ Gemini AI chatbot’s image tool after backlash over historically inaccurate pictures. – Thomas Barrabi
https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/business/google-pauses-absurdly-woke-gemini-ai-chatbots-image-tool-after-backlash-over-historically-inaccurate-pictures/
— BLM movement’s social justice politics and ‘queer, trans-affirming’ lessons delivered to kids as young as 5 in NYC school. Aneeta Bhole, Susan Edelman, Emily Crane
https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/us-news/nyc-school-gives-kids-woke-blm-coloring-book-with-queer-trans-affirming-lessons/

AMAC
— 64 Times The Biden Administration Intentionally Undermined Border Security
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/64-times-the-biden-administration-intentionally-undermined-border-security/

AMERICAN THINKER
— We Don’t Need a New GOP. We Need the Old One. – Alicia Colon (COMMENT: The old GOP did much more to defend and advance the individual responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in its platform.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/we_dont_need_a_new_gop_we_need_the_old_one.html

BLAZE
— Warning: Come November 2024, illegal immigration might ‘end the Democratic system as we know it’ (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that many millions of illegals will use their false identifications to vote for Biden and for the rest of the Democrats.)
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/warning-come-november-2024-illegal-immigration-might-end-the-democratic-system-as-we-know-it
— Alito warns of a ‘virus’ in affirmative action ruling: ‘Wipe it off the books’ – DANIEL HOROWITZ (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs have always used Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI to get rid of Republicans. I should write a book about those RINOs who have had the most success in using AA and DEI to get rid of me: a) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Wheaton Park District, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, b) major Republican donors, c) conservative leaders, and d) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000.)
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/alito-warns-of-a-virus-in-affirmative-action-ruling-wipe-it-off-the-books

BREITBART
— FBI Probing Illinois Democrat Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard Who Met President Biden at the White House – AMY FURR
https://www.breitbart.com/local/2024/02/22/report-fbi-probing-illinois-democrat-mayor-who-met-president-biden-white-house/
— NY City Council Calls for Investigation into Mayor Eric Adams’ Plan to Hand Illegals $10K Pre-Paid Debit Cards – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/02/22/ny-city-council-calls-investigation-into-mayor-eric-adams-plan-to-hand-illegals-10k-pre-paid-debit-cards/
— Biden Oversees 7.2M Illegal Aliens at Southern Border, Equivalent to 2 Years of U.S. Births – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/22/joe-biden-oversees-7-2m-illegal-aliens-at-southern-border-equivalent-to-2-years-of-u-s-births/
— Climate Change Alarmist Taylor Swift Called Out for Sending Private Jet from Sydney to Hawaii to Bring Travis Kelce Back to Australia – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/02/22/climate-change-alarmist-taylor-swift-called-out-for-sending-private-jet-from-sydney-to-hawaii-to-bring-travis-kelce-back-to-australia/
— Google AI Lead’s Social Media Posts Expose Woke Bigotry – SEAN MORAN
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/02/22/white-privilege-is-fcking-real-google-ai-leads-social-media-posts-expose-woke-bigotry/
— Speaker Johnson Dismisses White House Promise of New Border Curbs – NEIL MUNRO
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/02/22/speaker-johnson-dismisses-white-house-promise-of-new-border-curbs/

CHRISTIAN HEADLINES
— Illinois Bill Labels Parents as Child Abusers for Objections to Abortion, Child Sex Changes – Milton Quintanilla
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/milton-quintanilla/illinois-bill-labels-parents-as-child-abusers-for-objections-to-abortion-child-sex-changes.html

DAILY WIRE
— Google’s AI Caught Red-Handed With Woke Agenda – Ben Shapiro
https://www.dailywire.com/news/googles-ai-caught-red-handed-with-woke-agenda

EPOCH TIMES
— The Money Machine Behind Progressive Election Efforts. The left’s equivalent of the Koch network, Arabella Advisors, is a powerhouse distributor of mega money to progressive PACs and Democrat campaigns. – Austin Alonzo
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/the-money-machine-behind-progressive-election-efforts-5579254

FEDERALIST
— Biden’s Border Invasion Puts The Whole Country At Risk, Not Just Texas – RICH CROMWELL
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/23/by-refusing-to-stand-with-texas-biden-is-putting-the-whole-country-at-risk/
— Transgender Funeral At New York Cathedral Was A ‘Vicious’ Anti-Catholic Hate Crime – SAMUEL MANGOLD-LENETT
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/23/transgender-funeral-at-new-york-cathedral-was-likely-a-vicious-anti-catholic-hate-crime/

FOX BUSINESS
— Chicago mayor sues oil and gas companies over ‘climate dangers’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZsrbjdYTPA
— ‘OUTRAGEOUS’: Kansas AG slams FAA’s DEI hiring practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbyQ8mURYOc

FOX NEWS
— Chicago residents ‘turn their backs’ on Democrats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmhJRFuz0U
— Chicago resident defends Texas Gov. Abbott over migrant influx, says she’ll vote Republican for first time. Residents outraged with state, local officials as Democrat Gov. Pritzker points finger at Texas for migrant surge. – Madeline Coggins
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-resident-defends-texas-gov-abbott-migrant-influx-shell-vote-republican-first-time
— Elon Musk: The woke mind virus is killing Western Civilization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PZ4s7e2pDU

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— What laws? Mexican Authorities establish checkpoint near ‘San Judas Break’ border wall gap – Matthew Holloway
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/mexican-authorities-establish-checkpoint-near-san-judas-break-border-wall-gap

MRC TV
— NY School Passes Out BLM ‘Trans Affirming’ Activity Book to Kids – TIERIN-ROSE MANDELBURG
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/tierin-rose-mandelburg/ny-school-passes-out-blm-trans-affirming-activity-book-kids

NEWS BUSTERS
— Google AI Gemini Raked Over Coals for Anti-White and Pro-CCP Bias – Catherine Salgado
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/catherine-salgado/2024/02/22/dont-be-evil-google-ai-gemini-raked-over-coals-anti
— Warner Bros DEI Chief Officer Endorses Pushing Out Non-Woke Employees – Tom Olohan
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/tom-olohan/2024/02/22/first-mrc-warner-bros-dei-chief-officer-endorses-pushing-out

PJ MEDIA
— The Illegal Immigration Invasion Isn’t Due to ‘Incompetence.’ It’s the Plan. – VICTORIA TAFT
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/02/22/san-diego-county-invasion-mayor-wonders-n4926667
— Show Me the Way to Go Home: Are Some Illegals Trying To Get Deported? – LINCOLN BROWN
https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2024/02/22/show-me-the-way-to-go-home-are-some-illegal-trying-to-get-deported-n4926679

POST MILLENNIAL
— Google pauses ‘woke’ Gemini’s AI after it shows white historical figures as ‘racially diverse’ Elon Musk called Google’s AI software “woke” and “racist.” – Katie Daviscourt
https://thepostmillennial.com/google-pauses-woke-geminis-ai-after-it-shows-white-historical-figures-as-racially-diverse

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— CPAC is denying press passes to ‘left-wing’ journalists – DOMINICK MASTRANGELO (COMMENT: I have always fully disclosed that I am conservative. I attended many CPACs, although not recently, and I reported on them as a journalist for GOPUSA. According to my Democrat and RINO critics/opponents, you are not a “real” journalist unless you claim to be nonpartisan. RINOs are anti-conservative. I should write a book about high-profile RINO event organizers in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, and in Wheaton who have barred me from attending their events and/or who have had me thrown out of their events since 2000.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4482821-cpac-denying-press-passes-journalists-2024/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Many believe the founders wanted a Christian America. Some want the government to declare one now. — Peter Smith (COMMENT: I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I should write a book about those who have used that against me the most.)
https://apnews.com/article/american-founders-christian-nation-conservative-beliefs-4ea388e8d80c54016a6a4460cbef9b82
— It’s an election year, and Biden’s team is signaling a more aggressive posture toward the press. – David Bauder
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/election-year-bidens-team-signaling-aggressive-posture-press-107401292

CNN
— Democrats ask “CPAC or TPAC?” and say “This year’s conservative gathering is all about Trump.” (COMMENT: What has discouraged you from attending CPACs? For me, it is CPAC’s declining emphasis on the individual responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/politics/cpac-trump-republican-president-election/index.html

MSNBC
— The hate-filled Trump-hating former RNC chairman Michael Steele says “Trump’s takeover of the RNC will destroy it from within. His hand-picked candidates to lead the party don’t show an understanding of what the job actually entails, and the GOP will pay the price.”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-lara-ronna-mcdaniel-rnc-chair-rcna139993

MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage Blacks to be LGBTQers.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-lgbtq-folks-helped-lead-the-civil-rights-movement-homophobia-buried-their-stories/ar-BB1iIG6I

NEW YORK TIMES
— Inside the G.O.P.’s State Party Problem. Financial woes and other issues in state parties in crucial swing states such as Arizona and Michigan have caused deepening concern among top Republican officials. – Shane Goldmacher and Nick Corasaniti
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/politics/gop-state-party-dysfunction.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/nyregion/st-patricks-day-parade-lgbtq.html

BOSTON HERALD
— Illegal immigration just fine with progressives – Editorial
https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/02/23/editorial-illegal-immigration-just-fine-with-progressives/

USA TODAY
— ‘Who is the real Nikki Haley?’: South Carolina voters criticize mixed messages on racism – Savannah Kuchar and Deborah Barfield Berry
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/02/23/nikki-haley-south-carolina-confederate-flag/72553596007/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/23/transgender-national-survey-myths-misinformation/72640839007/
— FRONT PAGE WITH CHART: Meet the ‘Beatlemania boomers.’ They face a looming retirement crisis. – Daniel de Visé (COMMENT: I am an early boomer. My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/02/21/late-boomers-401k-ira-retirement-wealth/72668356007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Biden, Trump and American Vanity. The old WASP elites often had terrible judgment, but we should miss their ideals of leadership and service. – Lance Morrow (COMMENT: I am a WASP. Ever-increasingly, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have used that against me.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-trump-and-american-vanity-we-should-miss-old-elites-ideals-of-leadership-service-90f2d0e4
— Biden Executive Actions on Border Would Face Steep Legal, Political Hurdles. White House considers ways to act unilaterally to stem flow of migrants, but courts already have blocked some options. – Michelle Hackman and Tarini Parti (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-executive-actions-on-border-would-face-steep-legal-political-hurdles-d8a5cc4d
— Black Lives Matter, Now at Home Depot. A ruling will force employers to permit political sloganeering. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/home-depot-nlrb-black-lives-matter-antonio-morales-49657800
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders encourage/force teachers to stress that “slavery’s legacy lingers.”
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/most-teachers-say-schools-should-teach-that-the-legacy-of-slavery-persists-37a756ca

NPR
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote “Principle First summit.” (COMMENT: Which past and present leaders of your municipality, school district, park district, chamber of commerce, township, and county have demonstrated their hatred against Trump the strongest? I should write a book about those past and present leaders of Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, Wheaton Park District, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township, and DuPage County who have demonstrated their hatred against Trump the strongest. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2015.)
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/22/1233089965/principle-first-summit-draws-republicans-who-dont-support-frontrunner-trump

LAWYER MONTHLY
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, there is no such thing as illegal immigration.
https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2024/02/what-counts-as-illegal-immigration/

PEW RESEARCH
— Democrat leaders want students to be sexually active LGBTQers who hate Republicans.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/02/22/race-and-lgbtq-issues-in-the-classroom/
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/02/22/what-teens-want-to-learn-in-school-about-race-and-lgbtq-issues/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in painting Jesus as being a typical Democrat who hates Republicans, and especially hates Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: heterosexual, conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or has ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/02/23/whom-would-jesus-cancel-opinion

HECHINGER REPORT
— Did your college application essay mention race? Talk to us about it. (COMMENT: In my 1971 Loyola and 1976 DePaul applications, I stressed that I was an IRS Revenue Officer and that my employee manual encouraged me to take graduate business and accounting courses and that I wanted to take those courses to maintain and improve my job skills as an IRS employee. But in 1978, to get rid of me, my IRS superiors disallowed the courses that I had taken ignoring/rejecting what I had stated in my applications and falsely arguing that I the courses a) did not relate to my job duties, b) did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) were taken by me to get a job in the private sector, and d) qualified me for a “new trade or business.” They would not have done that nor would they have disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and gotten rid of the IRS manager in 1975 who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 if I had not complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I would not have complained about the aforesaid discrimination if my Democrat IRS superiors had not taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://hechingerreport.org/did-your-college-application-essay-mention-race-talk-to-us-about-it/

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Anything seems obvious, after the fact. – Angela Duckworth Ph.D. (COMMENT: What have you spent lots of your time, effort, and/or money on? In retrospect and with benefit of hindsight, what did you learn? Would you have done those things if you knew then what you know now? If so, what would you have done differently? I should write a book about that. I would focus on my serving as a) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2019, b) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, c) the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, and d) an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer 2003-2007. I would focus on those who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me because I did the aforesaid. I would focus on those who have blamed me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. I would focus on those who destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/actionable-advice-to-help-kids-thrive/202401/hindsight-bias

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.