January 26 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Pot pushers push pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-southland-marijuana-sales-st-0128-20200126-g5a27vag5bdl7noesjk22fqksy-story.html
— Now artificial intelligence is screening job seekers’ videos. A new Illinois law requires businesses to disclose their use of the technology. – Abdel Jimenez (DIERSEN: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-illinois-law-limits-online-video-job-interviews-20200124-y2fuvlfzxzftnatx7olabgrule-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Needless-to-say, the worst national origin to have is German. What if I had lied and successfully claimed Swedish ancestry? During the 1840s and 1850s, all my ancestors immigrated to northeast Illinois from what is now Germany. Of course, needless-to-say, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always used that against me as well as the fact that I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran and I lived in Crete 1948-1972. In my defense, I stress that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans during WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans during WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans during WWII if he had not been 4-F. Further, according to http://dna.ancestry.com, my ancestry is 33% Europe West, 28% Scandinavia, 24% Great Britain, 11% Ireland, 2% Europe East, 1% Finland/Northwest Russia, and 1% Italy/Greece. Again, what if I had lied and successfully claimed Swedish ancestry?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-auschwitz-holocaust-anniversary-nazi-germany-20200124-qusc4zoww5hivcbuuvup2rhdw4-story.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-auschwitz-liberation-anniversary-20200122-2bckxg6wzvd6foykcxpasfzl3y-story.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/ct-ptb-holocaust-75-anniversary-st-0126-20200124-r4jbtmhx4bbwzlpdhpaoc4wxzq-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: Naperville city employees to receive up to 12 weeks’ paid parental leave under new policy – ERIN HEGARTY (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. Democrats are nasty. Virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government had spouses and/or children to support. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that employees who had dependents should get preference over employees like me who never had dependents.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-maternity-paternity-paid-sick-leave-employees-st-20200123-4cpxiyqfsjeuzikuotgk2ntslm-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Republican senate candidates disagree about whether a border wall is the solution to illegal immigration – Russell Lissau (DIERSEN: When will the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county/township/ward party organizations host candidate forums? If I was still the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, the organization would be hosting candidate forums for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, DuPage County Recorder, DuPage County Auditor, judicial, etc. candidates.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200126/republican-senate-candidates-disagree-about-whether-a-border-wall-is-the-solution-to-illegal-immigration
— Megxit, Trump and the generational divide – Armstrong Williams
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20200126/megxit-trump-and-the-generational-divide
— HARDCOPY EDITORIAL TITLE: News Literacy Week During election seasons, in particular, we have an obligation as citizens to be informed (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents want you to know ONLY what they tell you. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who are past and present Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois leaders. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout. I would focus on those who reject the traditional family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), and other planks in the Republican Party platform. I would focus on those who promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation for opposing the aforesaid. I would focus on those who focus on a) discouraging me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and b) discouraging everyone from reading those emails.) 
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20200125/editorial-news-literacy-week-and-our-duty-to-a-loving-skepticism
— Partisan purity is derailing our country (DIERSEN: I should write a book about past and present Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party leaders who focused/focus on destroying voters, activists, precinct committeemen/captains, candidates, elected officials, party leaders, major donors, political consultants, organizations, companies, governments, etc. that support the traditional family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), and other planks in the Republican Party platform.) 
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20200126/partisan-purity-is-derailing-our-country
— FRONT PAGE: Towns spending 33% of property taxes on pensions – Jake Griffin
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200126/towns-spending-33-of-property-taxes-on-pensions
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE: DIERSEN HEADLINE: Needless-to-say, the worst national origin to have is German. What if I had lied and successfully claimed Swedish ancestry? During the 1840s and 1850s, all my ancestors immigrated to northeast Illinois from what is now Germany. Of course, needless-to-say, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always used that against me as well as the fact that I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran and I lived in Crete 1948-1972. In my defense, I stress that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans during WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans during WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans during WWII if he had not been 4-F. Further, according to http://dna.ancestry.com, my ancestry is 33% Europe West, 28% Scandinavia, 24% Great Britain, 11% Ireland, 2% Europe East, 1% Finland/Northwest Russia, and 1% Italy/Greece. Again, what if I had lied and successfully claimed Swedish ancestry?
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200125/im-still-in-auschwitz-75-years-after-camps-liberation-holocaust-survivor-remains-haunted-by-memories

SOUTHERN
— Southern Illinois churches weigh armed self-defense – Alexander D. Stuart 
https://thesouthern.com/news/local/southern-illinois-churches-weigh-armed-self-defense/article_d4e3316a-c2d5-5bc7-bae9-3500a8bf059d.html

WGLT
— What They Said: IL-17 GOP Candidates on the Issues – TIM SHELLEY 
https://www.wglt.org/post/what-they-said-il-17-gop-candidates-issues#stream/0

WASHINGTON TIMES
— The eight ways Adam Schiff fudged the facts in prosecuting Trump’s impeachment – Rowan Scarborough
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/25/adam-schiff-fudged-facts-eight-ways-prosecuting-tr/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Warren endorses affirmative action for nonbinary people – Brad Polumbo (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and RINOs promote LGBTQ activity. How soon, if not already, will those who run your municipality, your township/ward, your county, Illinois, America, and the world officially banish, if not get rid of, those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that do not promote LGBTQ activity?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/tokenism-warren-endorses-affirmative-action-for-nonbinary-people

AMERICAN THINKER
— Once again, Covington Catholic High School is in the news – Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/once_again_covington_catholic_high_school_is_in_the_news.html
— Are swing states swinging towards Trump? – Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/are_swing_states_swinging_towards_trump.html

TOWNHALL
— Leftist Battle Cry: Cancel All Things Conservative – Tim Wildmon
https://townhall.com/columnists/timwildmon/2020/01/26/leftist-battle-cry-cancel-all-things-conservative-n2560123

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Iowa Dad to Elizabeth Warren: “those of us who did the right thing get screwed” under your student debt forgiveness plan – Mike LaChance (DIERSEN: Did you expect your parents to pay for your college expenses? I did not. Neither of my outstanding parents attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He fought type 1 diabetes from age 14. I worked in the office of a nasty chemical plant in Chicago Heights. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He did not buy a new car until he was 45 and it was a bottom of the line 2-door Chevy. He died suddenly of heart failure when he was 47. My mother never attended high school.) 
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/01/iowa-dad-to-elizabeth-warren-those-of-us-who-did-the-right-thing-get-screwed-under-your-student-debt-foregiveness-plan/

THE HILL
— Clinton says Zuckerberg has ‘authoritarian’ views on misinformation – MARINA PITOFSKY (DIERSEN: Democrats want Facebook to get rid of Republican individuals, Republican organizations, Republican companies, and Republican governments once and for all.)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/479940-clinton-says-zuckerberg-has-authoritarian-views-on-facebook-ads

POLITICO
— Trump finds nearly unwavering loyalty from Republicans after Dem case After three marathon days of Democratic arguments at Trump’s impeachment trial, GOP senators haven’t budged. – JOHN BRESNAHAN and BURGESS EVERETT
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/24/trump-senate-impeachment-republicans-103968

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans as being racists. Ever-increasingly, to call a person a racist in America today is like calling a person a Jew in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/politics/racism-in-america-20-questions.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, to be a Democrat is to be anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/democrats-republicans-polarization.html
— 20 (More) Questions With Democrats (DIERSEN Questions to ask candidates: If elected, how would the following help you carry out your duties: a) your education, b) your political experience and work experience, c) your professional certifications and licenses, and d) length of time that you have lived in your municipality, township/county, county, and Illinois? What have you done and what will you do if elected to: a) discourage the sale and use of pot, b) discourage gambling, c) discourage the sale and drinking of booze, d) promote traditional marriage and the traditional family, e) promote homeownership, f) discourage abortion, g) discourage mass/illegal immigration, h) discourage diminution of First and Second Amendment rights, i) discourage patronage and political affiliation discrimination, j) discourage reverse discrimination, k) discourage age discrimination, l) encourage people to save for their retirement, m) discourage dependency on government, and n) discourage dependency on charity?) 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/politics/democratic-candidates-20-questions.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Biden and Sanders are breaking away from the pack of candidates among Democrats nationwide, Washington Post-ABC News poll finds – Dan Balz and Emily Guskin 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-and-sanders-are-breaking-away-from-the-pack-of-candidates-among-democrats-nationwide-washington-post-abc-news-poll-finds/2020/01/25/068ca9b8-3eef-11ea-baca-eb7ace0a3455_story.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Someone who hates Trump and hates Evangelicals says “Evangelicals have a role in political life. It isn’t fawning over Trump.”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-24/i-questioned-trumps-moral-fitness-for-office-in-christianity-today

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Jeff Sessions Stresses Trump Loyalty in Alabama Senate Race – AP (DIERSEN: Those activists, candidates, elected officials, party leaders, major donors, political consultants, etc. who paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican, but who focus on destroying me a) demand blind loyalty to them and to them only, b) focus on destroying those who are not blindly loyal to them and to them only, and c) reject most if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. I should write a book about the aforesaid. They have done tremendous damage to the Illinois, to DuPage County, to Milton Township, to Wheaton, to Milton Township Republican Organization, to TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, to Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, to Illinois Center Right Coalition, to American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, to etc.)
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-01-25/jeff-sessions-stresses-trump-loyalty-in-alabama-senate-race

TRIBUNE CHRONICLE
— Gary Steinbeck chosen to fill Warren council at-Large seat – ASHLEY FOX (DIERSEN: If the official who represented your municipal district resigned and the voters in your municipal district could vote to fill the vacancy, want percent would vote for candidates who promote dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation for opposing the aforesaid? What percent would vote for candidates who shared their demographics? What percent of the voters in your municipal district are White, male, older, Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, non-poor, gun owners, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?) 
https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2020/01/gary-steinbeck-chosen-to-fill-warren-council-at-large-seat/

SAN ANGELO LIVE
— Local GOP Candidates Tout Experience at Overflow Republican Women Lunch – Yantis Green (DIERSEN: Needless-to-day, candidates should stress their experience that is relevant to the offices that they seek.) 
https://sanangelolive.com/news/politics/2020-01-25/local-gop-candidates-tout-experience-overflow-republican-women-lunch

CLEBURNE TIMES REVIEW
— Republican candidates have their say – Matt Smith (DIERSEN: When will the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county/township/ward party organizations host candidate forums? If I was still the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, the organization would be hosting candidate forums for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, DuPage County Recorder, DuPage County Auditor, judicial, etc. candidates.)
https://www.cleburnetimesreview.com/news/republican-candidates-have-their-say/article_847df4de-3efa-11ea-9980-ef01f8675cc9.html

PRESS DEMOCRAT
— If demographics are destiny, what happens now? – PETE GOLIS (DIERSEN: According to Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and RINOs, fewer and fewer and fewer voters are the following, and therefore, they should be dumped: Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.) 
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/opinion/10624742-181/golis-if-demographics-are-destiny

REDLANDS DAILY FACTS
— Demographic undestiny – JOEL KOTKIN (DIERSEN: According to Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and RINOs, fewer and fewer and fewer voters are the following, and therefore, they should be dumped: Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2020/01/25/demographic-undestiny/

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.