February 24, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Internal DHS analysis warns of threats posed against 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. – Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Tom Jones (COMMENT: Remember when Democrat violence canceled Trump’s Chicago rally  in 2016?)
https://abc7chicago.com/dnc-2024-chicago-democratic-national-convention-dhs-security-threats/14462581/
— Judge rules Chicago real estate transfer tax primary ballot question invalid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjlX_m3p8og
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. All those who hired me would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have.
https://abc7chicago.com/migrants-in-chicago-work-permit-authorization-unity-initiative/14462070/
https://abc7chicago.com/videoClip/14462126/
— Allegations of sex abuse or assault against Chicago Public Schools staff are up 12% – Leah Hope
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-public-schools-grooming-child-sex-assault-abuse/14462021/

NBC5
— Surveillance video shows Chicago teen, 8 others steal cars worth $583K from Wisconsin dealership. One suspect, a 17-year-old Chicago boy, was arrested Sunday in the southern Wisconsin community of Pleasant Prairie after the stolen vehicle he was driving crashed along Interstate 94. – AP
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-teen-8-others-stole-several-cars-worth-583k-from-wisconsin-luxury-dealership-police-say/3364413/
— Controversial real estate transfer tax removed from primary ballot in Chicago after judge’s ruling
https://www.nbcchicago.com/illinois-election-2024/controversial-real-estate-transfer-tax-removed-from-primary-ballot-in-chicago-after-judges-ruling/3364498/

CBS2
— Judge tosses Chicago referendum on tax hike on sales of million-dollar homes to fight homelessness – Adam Harrington, Todd Feurer, John Odenthal
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/judge-tosses-chicago-referendum-tax-sales-homes-fight-homelessness/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. All those who hired me would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/lack-access-work-permits-migrants-shelters/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FslKOBufrZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku985cpunqo
— Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard accused of misusing public funds, improperly running charity – Megan Hickey, Alex Ortiz
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/dolton-mayor-charity/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuqt74U2Cxc

WGN RADIO
— Where does Chicago rank among cities with people in financial distress – Brian Althimer (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.)
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/where-does-chicago-rank-in-cities-with-the-most-people-in-financial-distress/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Naperville councilman Josh McBroom said no one interested in housing migrants but emails show some people did respond. – TESS KENNY
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/02/23/naperville-councilman-mcbroom-migrant-housing-foi-interest-email/
— Local Russians in exile decry war in Ukraine — and Putin — on invasion’s 2-year anniversary. – ANGIE LEVENTIS LOURGOS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/02/23/local-russians-in-exile-decry-war-in-ukraine-and-putin-on-invasions-2-year-anniversary/
— Illinois agrees to tougher oversight of polluters in low-income communities, resolving civil rights complaint about Chicago scrap shredder. – MICHAEL HAWTHORNE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/02/23/illinois-agrees-to-tougher-oversight-of-polluters-in-low-income-communities-resolving-civil-rights-complaint-about-chicago-scrap-shredder/
— Naperville mansion sells for nearly $8M, making it the suburb’s second-priciest sale in history – BOB GOLDSBOROUGH
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/02/23/naperville-mansion-sells-for-nearly-8m-making-it-the-suburbs-second-priciest-sale-in-history/

DAILY HERALD
— It’s newcomer vs. five-time federal candidate in GOP’s 14th Congressional District contes. – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240223/us-congress-politics/its-newcomer-vs-five-time-federal-candidate-in-gops-14th-congressional-district-contest/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— With IVF under the gun, fertility providers in Illinois face an uncertain future – Jon Asplund
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/alabama-ivf-ruling-creates-uncertain-future-illinois-providers

MADISON RECORD
— Madison County Board passes resolution opposing Illinois’ sanctuary status – Heather Isringhausen Gvillo (COMMENT: Who is leading the effort to get your county to pass such a resolution?)
https://madisonrecord.com/stories/655075553-madison-county-board-passes-resolution-opposing-illinois-sanctuary-status

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Lara Trump Urges RNC to Cover Donald Trump’s Legal Bills, Citing Voter Support – Benzinga
https://pantagraph.com/news/nation-world/government-politics/lara-trump-urges-rnc-to-cover-donald-trumps-legal-bills-citing-voter-support/video_7ff2f17f-968d-540c-9ea1-56de419a6ebf.html

WSIL TV
— Trump says he ‘strongly supports’ IVF and calls on Alabama lawmakers to protect access – AP
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/trump-says-he-strongly-supports-ivf-and-calls-on-alabama-lawmakers-to-protect-access/article_edcf89fe-a58a-5927-8d5e-09a2ff19f36f.html

WAND TV
— Trump tells religious broadcasters he’ll defend Christianity against perceived threats from the left. – AP
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-tells-religious-broadcasters-hell-defend-christianity-against-perceived-threats-from-the-left/article_d74108ec-dd53-5c39-942f-636ecbfb54c1.html
— Trump says he ‘strongly supports’ IVF and calls on Alabama lawmakers to protect access – AP
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-says-he-strongly-supports-ivf-after-alabama-court-ruling-puts-new-pressure-on-republicans/article_6fc5273c-7cc0-5980-9702-b79559ea61e1.html

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump speaks at Black Conservative Gala ahead of GOP primary – KIMBERLEI DAVIS
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-to-speak-at-black-conservative-gala-donald-president-presidential-primary-palmetto-state-columbia-metropolitan-convention-center
— LGBTQ+ rights, abortion & immigration: Trump, Haley’s take on big issues before SC primary – COURTNEY ROWLES, EMMA PARKHOUSE, CONNOR INGALLS and ANDREW JAMES
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/donald-trump-nikki-haley-south-carolina-gop-primary-republican-vote-election-2024-big-issues-abortion-lgbtq-israel-ukraine-war-january-6-immigration-border-patrol

NPR ILLINOIS
— How moving back to the South could give Black Americans’ vote more power – Manoush Zomorodi, Rachel Faulkner White, Sanaz Meshkinpour
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-02-23/how-moving-back-to-the-south-could-give-black-americans-vote-more-power

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— More Trump VP hopefuls speak at CPAC – Justin Kounelias
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/washington/washington-dc/more-trump-vp-hopefuls-speak-at-cpac/
— Rudy Giuliani bankruptcy shows Trump ally drowning in debt – Ella Lee, Zach Schonfeld
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/rudy-giuliani-bankruptcy-shows-trump-ally-drowning-in-debt/amp/
— Trump says his criminal indictments boosted his appeal to Black voters – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-says-his-criminal-indictments-boosted-his-appeal-to-black-voters/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/02/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-40/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Rivian shaping up as another example of why government shouldn’t pick winners and losers – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/rivian-shaping-up-as-another-example-of-why-government-shouldnt-pick-winners-and-losers-wirepoints/
— Wirepoints and Jeff Daly of WZUS run through everything you need to know about Illinois’ 2025 budget
https://wirepoints.org/wirepoints-and-jeff-daly-of-wzus-run-through-everything-you-need-to-know-about-illinois-2025-budget/

CHAMBANA SUN
— Illinois Governor Proposes $1 Billion in Tax Increases for Migrant Crisis Expenses
https://chambanasun.com/stories/655077460-illinois-governor-proposes-1-billion-in-tax-increases-for-migrant-crisis-expenses

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ILLINOIS’ REAL ‘STATE OF THE STATE’ – Paul Vallas
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/paul-vallas-illinois-real-state-of-the-state/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— MAY 30, 2023 FLASHBACK: Don Tracy, IL GOP Leaders Endorsed a Pro-Choice, Pro-Same Sex Marriage, Pro-Transgender Candidate (Bob Fioretti) Who Voted for Barack Obama, Violating GOP Party Platform
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2023/05/don-tracy-il-gop-leaders-endorsed-a-pro-choice-pro-same-sex-marriage-pro-transgender-candidate-who-voted-for-barack-obama-violating-gop-party-platform.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Hispanic Democrat lawmakers blast Biden over embrace of Trump solutions for asylum, border – Mallory Wilson and Stephen Dinan (COMMENT: Hispanic Democrat lawmakers want to flood America with Hispanics.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/23/hispanic-democrat-lawmakers-blast-biden-over-embra/
— Mike Pompeo is obvious and best choice for Trump’s running mate – Michael McKenna
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/23/mike-pompeo-is-obvious-and-best-choice-for-trumps-/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago skips crime and school issues to kick police out of schools – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2873445/chicago-skips-crime-and-school-issues-to-kick-police-out-of-schools/
— CPAC 2024: Kristi Noem says Biden could reverse border crisis ‘within 24 hours’ – Julia Johnson
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2873048/cpac-2024-kristi-noem-biden-could-reverse-border-crisis-24-hours/
— Stephen Miller: ‘Seal the border, deport all the illegals’ – Paul Bedard
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2870904/stephen-miller-seal-the-border-deport-all-the-illegals/
— Passengers getting bumped from flights for asylum-seekers – Luke Gentile
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2870559/passengers-getting-bumped-flights-asylum-seekers-report/
— CPAC 2024: Kristi Noem says ‘I know I could’ help Trump win as his vice presidential choice – Julia Johnson
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2872162/cpac-2024-kristi-noem-help-trump-vp-choice/
— CPAC 2024: Trump fans dish on vice presidential favorites at confab of MAGA faithful – David Sivak
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2870247/cpac-2024-trump-vice-president-straw-poll/
— CPAC 2024: Megyn Kelly calls on parents to fight against child gender transitions – Julia Johnson
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2874721/cpac-2024-megyn-kelly-child-gender-transitions/
— CPAC 2024: Once a Republican bastion, annual gathering brings fringe movement to the mainstream – Cami Mondeaux
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2873188/cpac-2024-republican-bastion-fringe-movement-mainstream/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Biden’s Approval on Immigration Reaches New Low – Matthew Xiao
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/bidens-approval-on-immigration-reaches-new-low-poll/
— California Reparations Bill Would Require State Licensing Boards To Favor Black Applicants – Charles Hilu (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, I was the office’s only licensed CPA. Not only were those promoted over me not licensed CPAs, they had no professional certification or fewer than I had, they had less education than I had, and/or they had less work experience than I had. They all were Democrat DEI hires.)
https://freebeacon.com/california/california-reparations-bill-would-require-state-licensing-boards-to-favor-black-applicants/
— Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 82)
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-joe-bidens-senior-moment-of-the-week-vol-82/

NEW YORK POST
— Ex-Google exec claims he was denied promotion by woke tech firm because he’s a white man – Ariel Zilber
https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/business/ex-google-exec-claims-he-was-denied-promotion-by-woke-tech-firm-because-hes-a-white-man/

AMAC
— How should American lawmakers react to the Biden administration’s orders giving illegal immigrants a pathway to vote in our elections? (COMMENT: Absolutely NO!)
https://amac.us/poll/how-should-american-lawmakers-react-to-the-biden-administrations-orders-giving-illegal-immigrants-a-pathway-to-vote-in-our-elections/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Court Strikes Down New York City Law Allowing Illegal Aliens to Vote
https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/23/court-strikes-down-new-york-city-law-allowing-illegal-aliens-to-vote/

AMERICAN FAMILY RADIO
— Is Your Church Woke? And Why Do You Owe It to God to Leave If They Are. – ALEX MCFARLAND
https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2024/02/is-your-church-woke/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Texas’s Ken Paxton takes on the open-borders NGO juggernaut – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/texass_ken_paxton_takes_on_the_openborders_ngo_juggernaut.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— AOC latest squad member to turn on Biden for doing Trump ‘impressions’ – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/02/23/aoc-latest-squad-member-to-turn-on-biden-for-doing-trump-impressions-1439452/

BREITBART
— NGO Smuggles Migrants Away from Border Before Federal Inspection – Rep. Tom Tiffany
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2024/02/23/rep-tom-tiffany-ngo-smuggles-migrants-away-from-border-before-federal-inspection/

COLLEGE FIX
— White supremacy goes back to ‘early church’: Oxford professor – MICAIAH BILGER (COMMENT: In my defense, I have always stressed that all my ancestors have always lived in northeast Illinois.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/white-supremacy-goes-back-to-early-church-oxford-professor/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The most egregious thing that we have to wrestle with is the normalization of white supremacy,” Reddie said. Although Christianity “was created as a movement for those who are marginalized and oppressed,” he said white leaders quickly began using the religion as a weapon to seize land and oppress other cultures. Reddie traced the distortion back to the early Christians who blamed the Jews for killing Jesus, instead of Roman leader Pontius Pilate, according to the report. “Pilate represents white supremacy, and white supremacy now becomes normalized and effectively becomes the religion of Jesus, the religion of God,” the professor said. As time went on, more and more people began to believe Jesus was a white European, like them, Reddie said.
Baptist News Global reports: That’s why few white Christians flinched at the claim that Jesus called European and American Christians to travel the globe to oppress brown- and Black-skinned people, he said, explaining that a Christianity suffused with white supremacy enabled plantation owners in the American South to see no contradiction between their faith and owning other human beings. “They saw people who are other as inferior and that it was OK to kill or enslave them for their own good.” Those attitudes clearly continue to exist and in the U.S. are evident in the rise of Trumpism, the British scholar said. Because white supremacy has been connected with Christianity for so long, he said it has “distorted the very fabric of what we call Christianity and the nature of church.” The Baylor conference is part of a “three-year sequences of programs on confronting racism in the white church and seeking God’s justice,” according to the event website. More than a dozen pastors, theologians, and Christian leaders participated. Baylor is a private, Protestant Christian university in Texas. Earlier this year, a Catholic university professor also linked white supremacy with the early Christian church in a new book, “Christian Supremacy.” The author, Fordham University Professor Magda Teter, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that white supremacists’ ideology “is rooted in Christian ideas of social and religious hierarchy.”)

DAILY SIGNAL
— Under Biden, US Failing to Push Latin American Nations to Stem Illegal Immigration – Simon Hankinson
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/23/under-biden-us-failing-push-latin-american-nations-stem-illegal-immigration-borderline/

DAILY WIRE
— Illinois Dem Gov Says He Didn’t Ask For ‘Crisis’ Of Immigrants. Look What He Stated In 2021. – Hank Berrien
https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-dem-gov-says-he-didnt-ask-for-crisis-of-immigrants-look-what-he-stated-in-2021
— Biden Prepares Basement For Reelection Campaign. – Andrew Klavan
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-prepares-basement-for-reelection-campaign
— Microsoft Brags That It Pays White Employees Less Than Non-White Employees Despite ‘Same Job Title’ The admission came in the company’s diversity report, which hones in on a “pay equity” initiative. – Spencer Lindquist
https://www.dailywire.com/news/microsoft-brags-that-it-pays-white-employees-less-than-non-white-employees-despite-same-job-title

EPOCH TIMES
— Jury Finds NRA Head Wayne Pierre Liable, Must Pay $4.3 Million in Damages. The jury found that LaPierre misused charitable funds on a lavish lifestyle. – Caden Pearson
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/jury-finds-nra-head-wayne-pierre-liable-must-pay-4-3-million-in-damages-5594053

FOX NEWS
— AOC heckled in town hall: ‘all you care about is illegal aliens’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6347476464112
— Sen. Tom Cotton torches Google AI system as ‘racist, preposterously woke, Hamas-sympathizing’ – Jamie Joseph
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-tom-cotton-torches-google-ai-system-as-racist-preposterously-woke-hamas-sympathizing

GOPUSA
— While Biden Pushes Ukraine To Fight, He Demands Israel Surrender
https://www.gopusa.com/while-biden-pushes-ukraine-to-fight-he-demands-israel-surrender/

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Catholic NGO, accuses the ‘charity’ of engaging in human trafficking at the border – Pat Droney
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/texas-ag-ken-paxton-sues-catholic-ngo-accuses-the-charity-of-engaging-in-human-trafficking-at-the-border

MRC TV
— Border Patrol Encounters Plummet in Gov. Abbott’s Texas, Surge in Newsom’s California, Hobbs’ Arizona – CRAIG BANNISTER
https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/border-patrol-encounters-plummet-gov-abbotts-texas-surge-newsoms-california
— Illegal Aliens Unleashed onto the Streets of San Diego by Border Patrol – CRAIG BANNISTER
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/illegal-aliens-unleashed-streets-san-diego-border-patrol

NEWS BUSTERS
— GOP Attorney General on Biden’s FAA ‘Making Passenger Safety Take a Back Seat to Diversity’ – Tom Olohan
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/tom-olohan/2024/02/23/watch-gop-attorney-general-bidens-faa-making-passenger-safety
— Hostin Conspiracy: GOP Only Support IVF to Stave Off White Replacement – Nicholas Fondacaro
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2024/02/23/hostin-conspiracy-gop-only-support-ivf-stave-white
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Good things don’t last long on ABC’s The View. After defending embryos as children earlier in the week, staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) found her angle of attack against Republicans on Friday, in the wake of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling on in vitro fertilization. According to her, the only reason Republicans were now coming out in defense of IVF was because it was how they planned to stave off white people being replaced by minorities. “On the one hand, they want you to not have an abortion and then they also don’t want you to have more children. Make up your minds. Whatever that means,” Friday moderator Joy Behar kvetched, keeping with the narrative that the GOP was trying to stop people from using IVF, for some reason. Before cracking open the lid on her crazy conspiracy theory, Hostin suggested she was on the trail of something major. “I think they do want you to have more children and they just not saying the quiet part out loud,” she teased. “Which is, multicultural Americans are going to become the majority population by 2050,” she began to unwind her crazy. “By 2050, the Hispanic Americans are expected to have the most population growth, an increase of about six percent, while the white population is expected to decrease by about 11 percent. At this time, the birth rate for white Americans in this country has been falling since the great recession and it’s dropped almost 23 percent between 2007 and 2022.”)

NEWSMAX
— Trump Strongly Supports IVF After Alabama Court Ruling
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-ivf-abortion/2024/02/23/id/1154747/

TOWNHALL
— There Are More Illegal Migrants in the U.S. Than the Population of 36 States. – Sarah Arnold (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect those millions of illegals to use their false identifications to vote for Biden and for the rest of the Democrat candidates.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/02/23/there-are-more-illegal-migrants-in-the-us-than-the-population-of-36-states-n2635643
— Nikki Haley Says America Will Have a ‘Female President’ in 2024, Either Her or Kamala Harris – Madeline Leesman
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/02/23/nikki-haley-kamala-harris-remark-n2635655
— Newsom Blames Republicans After Border Patrol Releases Hundreds of Illegal Aliens In San Diego – Sarah Arnold (COMMENT: I should write a book about those who blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/02/23/san-diego-migrant-center-closes-after-aliens-are-mass-released-in-california-n2635657
— Don’t Want to Pay for Health Care or Groceries? Then Don’t. Pretend to Be an Illegal Alien Instead. – Carolyn Phippen (COMMENT: What percent of those in your hospital’s emergency room are illegals?)
https://townhall.com/columnists/carolyn-phippen/2024/02/24/dont-want-to-pay-for-health-care-or-groceries-then-dont-pretend-to-be-an-illegal-alien-instead-n2635661
— Woke Google AI Erases U.S. History – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/02/23/google-ai-erases-us-history-n2635631

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump supporters turn out in force at CPAC
https://thehill.com/video/trump-supporters-turn-out-in-force-at-cpac/9458431/

CBS NEWS
— Potential Trump VP picks speaking at CPAC
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/potential-trump-vp-picks-speaking-at-cpac/

CBS NEWS & FOX NEW YORK
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/staten-island-to-hold-st-patricks-day-parade-welcoming-lgbtq-groups-for-the-first-time/
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/video/dozens-gather-at-state-capitol-in-support-of-legislation-focused-on-supporting-lgbtq-community/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AIhxiycXmo
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/staten-island-st-patricks-day-parade-lgbtq

MSN
— MAGA fans predict who will be Trump’s VP: Daily Mail asks CPAC attendees if Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem, Ben Carson, Elise Stefanik should be at the top of his running mate shortlist.
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/maga-fans-predict-who-will-be-trump-s-vp-daily-mail-asks-cpac-attendees-if-tulsi-gabbard-kristi-noem-ben-carson-elise-stefanik-should-be-at-the-top-of-his-running-mate-shortlist/ar-BB1iMvR7

MSNBC
— To get votes from voters who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, Democrat and RINO candidates ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn voters who are conservative, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyuhk7V8wCo

NEWSWEEK
— California’s Gen Z, Millennials Sour on Benefits of Migrants – Nick Mordowanec
https://www.newsweek.com/california-gen-z-millennials-migrants-burden-survey-1872848

NEW YORK TIMES
— Biden Tries to Flip the Politics of Immigration. – Michael D. Shear (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders falsely argue that Republican leaders tanked “the border restrictions they have demanded for years.”)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/us/politics/biden-immigration-executive-action.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Biden’s Student Loan Boast: The Supreme Court ‘Didn’t Stop Me’ The President ignores the law again as he forgives more student debt. The total is now $138 billion and counting. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-student-debt-forgiveness-supreme-court-0c5204fe
— How Trump Turned Conservatives Against Helping Ukraine. GOP’s transformation is on full display at CPAC gathering: ‘The war is the fault of the U.S.’ – Molly Ball (COMMENT: Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Trump had been President.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/how-trump-turned-conservatives-against-helping-ukraine-d9f75b3b
— Blue-State Residents Streamed Into South Carolina. Here’s Why It Stayed Ruby Red. Conservatives who leave Democratic states are often looking for a politically favorable new home. – Eliza Collins, Paul Overberg, and Anthony DeBarros
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/blue-state-residents-streamed-into-south-carolina-heres-why-it-stayed-ruby-red-a049c74c
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “People do look for their own cohorts,” said Paul Westcott, L2’s executive vice president. In South Carolina, he said, “People see a lower cost of living, lower taxes, and are looking for that cohort that matches their own. Maybe they’re not thinking about it consciously, but they are finding themselves among other conservatives there.”)

JOURNAL
— The harm of illegal immigration – Joseph de Soto
https://www.journal-news.net/the-harm-of-illegal-immigration/article_c9808989-5d8e-523e-9930-014905502d12.html

EURASIA REVIEW
— Welfare For Migrants Ensures The Border Crisis Will Continue – Ryan McMaken
https://www.eurasiareview.com/24022024-welfare-for-migrants-ensures-the-border-crisis-will-continue-oped/

INDEPENDENT
— Nikki Haley calls Congress ‘most privileged nursing home in the country’
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/nikki-haley-trump-south-carolina-biden-b2501677.html

BNN
— At CPAC, Trump Supporters Forecast a ‘Civil War’ if Election Loss Occurs
https://bnnbreaking.com/politics/at-cpac-trump-supporters-forecast-a-civil-war-if-election-loss-occurs

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.