January 4, 2023

ABC7
— Kevin McCarthy’s bid for House speaker to continue, says Donald Trump backs him
https://abc7chicago.com/kevin-mccarthy-congress-house-speaker-george-santos/12650018/
— House adjourns as Kevin McCarthy falls short in 3rd vote for speaker – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/kevin-mccarthy-congress-house-speaker-george-santos/12645947/

NBC5
— COMMENT: Illinois Democrats say “GOP Speaker Drama Keeps Delia Ramírez, Other Freshmen From Enjoying First Day in Congress.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/gop-speaker-drama-keeps-delia-ramirez-other-freshmen-from-enjoying-first-day-in-congress/3036095/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Among those choosing not to get behind McCarthy’s candidacy is downstate Rep. Mary Miller, who cast her vote for Rep. Jim Jordan, despite the Ohio Republican delivering a speech formally nominating McCarthy for the position.)

CBS2
— House adjourns without electing speaker after McCarthy fails to win in three rounds of voting – KATHRYN WATSON, CAROLINE LINTON
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/live-updates/house-speaker-race-vote-kevin-mccarthy-watch-live-stream-today-2022-01-03/
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats push for more gun control, that is, for more diminishment of Second Amendment rights.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/rallies-gun-control-bill-illinois-springfield/

WGN9
— COMMENT: Illinois Democrats say “Illinois is poised to pass an assault weapons ban” and ask “Will it withstand court challenges?”
https://wgntv.com/news/cover-story/illinois-is-poised-to-pass-an-assault-weapons-ban-will-it-withstand-court-challenges/

FOX32
— COMMENT: Democrats ask “Will the U.S. House elect a speaker today?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1161995
— Controversy surrounds Woodlawn school being used to house migrants – Kasey Chronis (COMMENT: In which buildings will your municipality house illegals?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/controversy-surrounds-woodlawn-school-being-used-to-house-migrants
— McCarthy fails in marathon votes for speaker, not giving up
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1161683
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-vote-january-3-2023

WTTW
— Kevin McCarthy Fails After Marathon Votes for Speaker; House Adjourns – AP
https://news.wttw.com/2023/01/03/kevin-mccarthy-falls-short-first-vote-house-speaker

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— COMMENT: Illinois Democrats crow about their success in gerrymandering the 3rd Congressional District to elect an anti-conservative anti-Republican Hispanic female.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/1/3/23537666/chicago-progressives-in-washington-to-celebrate-one-of-their-own-in-congress-freshman-delia-ramirez

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Area teachers join statewide effort to address racism in schools – Janice Neumann (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats run the schools in Illinois.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-racism-free-schools-st-0104-20230103-lwujhqcov5echk27vlnhjfmhvi-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: According to the federal Government Accountability Office, race-based harassment and hate crimes have doubled in the last five years, Curtin pointed out. But he said the problem was underreported because teachers and students don’t trust the system.)
— SPEAKING OUT: Blame Biden, not Texas: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is crying she needs money for migrants. It’s my understanding she said Chicago was a sanctuary city and Gov. Pritzker said Illinois was a sanctuary state. She is bad mouthing the Texas governor, who is dealing with thousands of migrants on a daily basis, but the Biden administration has caused this by the open border. It’s time to close the border and deport the people that came here illegally.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/opinion/ct-ecn-speak-out-st-0104-20230103-47x55oppbndevksgj4kxukruo4-story.html

DAILY HERALD
–COMMENT: Illinois Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs blame “far-right downstate Republicans” for November 8 Republican losses.
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20230102/letter-downstate-republicans-crippling-the-party/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Legislators return to Springfield for lame-duck session – Patrick Keck
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2023/01/04/legislators-return-to-springfield-for-lame-duck-session/69773818007/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois Rep. Mary Miller part of bloc preventing Kevin McCarthy from House speakership – Mark Walsh
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/mary-miller-opposes-kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker

QUINCY HERALD WHIG
— Germany refuses WWII reparations talks, Poland turns to UN. Poland says it has been informed by Germany that it does not intend to engage in negotiations on any World War II reparations as Berlin considers the matter closed. (COMMENT: In my defense, I have often stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://www.whig.com/ap/international/germany-refuses-wwii-reparations-talks-poland-turns-to-un/article_b08b925e-f5d3-592f-a51b-208e97a3fe7e.html

STATELINE
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote abortion.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/fda-finalizes-rule-expanding-availability-of-abortion-pills/

SHAW LOCAL
— With Kevin McCarthy striking out so far as House speaker, could Illinois’ Darin LaHood be an option? ‘If the Republicans decide to reshuffle the deck and just get someone who is new, fresh and different, Darin LaHood could be in play,’ one political observer said. – Janelle Walker
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2023/01/04/with-kevin-mccarthy-striking-out-so-far-as-house-speaker-could-illinois-darin-lahood-be-an-option/

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Hollywood and marijuana stumble amid Dem-controlled area exodus – John and Andy Schlafly
https://www.thetelegraph.com/opinion/article/Hollywood-and-marijuana-stumble-as-people-flee-17685939.php

EFFINGHAM DAILY NEWS
— Abortion capital’ not something to be proud of in Illinois – Linda Harvey, Newton
https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-to-the-editor-abortion-capital-not-something-to-be-proud-of-in-illinois/article_b385ab92-8b9f-11ed-a527-7fab994f684c.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-01-03/the-fda-finalizes-rule-expanding-the-availability-of-abortion-pills

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote abortion.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/fda-finalizes-rule-expanding-availability-of-abortion-pills/

KANE COUNTY REPORTER
— Corey Brooks & Jeanne Ives Jan. 11 in Geneva
https://kanecountyreporter.com/stories/638534288-corey-brooks-jeanne-ives-jan-11-in-geneva

WIREPOINTS
— Did Illinois politicians crush their ‘EV hub’ dreams by outlawing Right-To-Work? – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/did-illinois-politicians-crush-their-ev-hub-dreams-by-outlawing-right-to-work-wirepoints/
— Everything about Chicago’s near-empty public schools is sad, they aren’t community hubs, they aren’t places of learning. They’re little more than job centers for the CTU.
https://wirepoints.org/everything-about-chicagos-near-empty-public-schools-is-sad-they-arent-community-hubs-they-arent-places-of-learning-theyre-little-more-than-job-centers-for-the-ctu-wirepoints-on-a/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2023/01/04/morning-briefing-30/
— Might Bailey have just tipped his hand on Bost challenge?
https://capitolfax.com/2023/01/03/might-bailey-have-just-tipped-his-hand-on-bost-challenge/
— State running out of money for bused-in asylum seekers
https://capitolfax.com/2023/01/03/state-running-out-of-money-for-bused-in-asylum-seekers/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2023/01/03/afternoon-roundup-7/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2023/01/03/morning-briefing-29/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump backs McCarthy despite failed speaker votes, urges GOP to snatch victory – Tom Howell Jr.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/4/trump-backs-kevin-mccarthy-despite-failed-speaker-/
— America is showing signs of an early decay. The rise and fall of empires. – Richard W. Rahn
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/3/america-is-showing-signs-of-early-decay/
— House GOP’s agenda, ready to go, is sidelined until Republicans can agree on new speaker – Mica Soellner and Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/3/house-gops-agenda-ready-go-sidelined-until-republi/
— House GOP majority moves to scrap congressional staff unions – Haris Alic (COMMENT: GAO works for Congress. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized in 1997, I might still be a GAO employee. If GAO had been unionized since 1980, the liberal Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office might not have been able a) to force me to take a $21,863 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, b) to give me unfair job assignments, performance expectations, and performance appraisals, c) to keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, d) to force the GAO manager to retire in 1987 who had arranged for my transfer from IRS to GAO, got me assigned to audits of IRS in 1986, and promoted me to GS-13 in 1986, e) to delay my promotions to GS-11, GS-12, and GS-13, f) to stop me from being promoted beyond GS-13, g) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and h) to force me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/3/house-gop-majority-moves-to-scrap-congressional-st/
— Border ‘has never been worse’ – Outgoing Arizona Attorney General
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/3/outgoing-arizona-ag-says-border-has-never-been-wor/
— The leftist media’s reliance on liars and frauds. No source is too unreliable if the narrative is right. – Kelly Sadler
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/3/leftist-medias-reliance-on-liars-and-frauds/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— McCarthy ends first day of speaker’s election on shaky ground – Juliegrace Brufke
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/mccarthy-ends-first-day-speakers-election-shaky-ground
— The GOP’s once-in-a-century sabotage of Kevin McCarthy – Tiana Lowe
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-gops-once-in-a-century-sabotage-of-kevin-mccarthy
— In warning against violence, the New York Times again slimes conservatives – Quin Hillyer (COMMENT: I should write a book about the most anti-conservative past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, and Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, c) unsuccessful Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, e) religious leaders, and f) those who I have sued. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/in-warning-against-violence-the-new-york-times-again-slimes-conservatives
— Dan Crenshaw pitches solution to border crisis to unite Democrats and Republicans – Anna Giaritelli
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/dan-crenshaw-solution-border-crisis-unite-democrats-republicans
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Let’s solve the border crisis in one tweet. Instead of spending billions more on ‘processing,’ spend more money on jet fuel. Pack planes full of migrants who cross illegally and deport them immediately. The crisis will end within months,” Crenshaw wrote in a string of tweets Monday evening. “In summary: fund airplanes, holding facilities, immigration judges, ICE prosecutors, walls, and technology capable of detecting fentanyl. And stop the abuses of our asylum system. That’s what border security would look like,” he wrote. The approach breaks with House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) proposal before the election, which ran along the lines of re-implementing a slew of Trump administration policies that Biden rescinded. Although Republicans and some Democrats have called on the Biden administration not to cease using a pandemic policy that allows illegal immigrants to be immediately sent back to Mexico, Crenshaw said approaches akin to Title 42 are flawed. “Why not just turn them away when they cross? Many have asked why Texas doesn’t do that. Because we have a river. Once they’re in the river, they’re within our jurisdiction. We can’t physically secure the Rio Grande. Even if we did turn them back, they’d cross somewhere else,” Crenshaw said. “So you need jet fuel. You need to be sending people far away from the border, thus making it unimaginable for someone to make the journey all the way north if they’re just gonna be sent back home.”)
— Five top priorities for the new Congress – Ben Carson
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/five-top-priorities-for-the-new-congress

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— What the Feds Are Teaching in Diversity Training – Aaron Sibarium
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/what-the-feds-are-teaching-in-diversity-training/

NEW YORK POST
— Kevin McCarthy says Trump ‘reiterated his support’ after failed speakership votes – Victor Nava
https://nypost.com/2023/01/03/trump-refuses-to-say-if-he-still-backs-kevin-mccarthy-for-house-speaker/
— Fentanyl is now ‘integrated’ into our lives, thanks to our open southern border and progressive fads – Post Editorial
https://nypost.com/2023/01/03/fentanyl-is-now-integrated-into-our-lives-thanks-to-our-open-southern-border-progressive-fads/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Santos Can’t Touch the Democrats’ Duplicity. It would take considerable doing on the New York Republican’s part even to approximate the dishonesty of the party he ran against.- Paul Gottfried
https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/03/santos-cant-touch-the-democrats-duplicity/
— The Equity Paradox. Equal opportunity rewards excellence. Equal outcomes require tyranny and are indifferent to excellence. – Edward Ring (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats push equal outcome, that is, ever-increasingly, Democrats push discrimination against White males. According to Democrats, White males do better than minorities and females only because they benefit from discrimination against minorities and females.)
https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/03/the-equity-paradox/

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Systemic Disadvantage – Brent Orrell
https://www.aei.org/articles/systemic-disadvantage/

BLAZE
— Democrats attacked GOP governors for busing migrants. Now one Dem governor is transporting migrants to major cities. – CHRIS ENLOE
https://www.theblaze.com/news/polis-colorado-transporting-migrants

BREITBART
— Sanctuary State Colorado Begins Busing Border Crossers to Sanctuary City New York – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/03/sanctuary-state-colorado-sending-border-crossers-sanctuary-city-new-york/
— More than 1.2M Fugitive Illegal Aliens Remain Living Across U.S. Despite Having Final Deportation Orders – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/03/more-than-1-2m-fugitive-illegal-aliens-remain-living-across-u-s-despite-having-final-deportation-orders/
— 844K Known Border Crossers in First Quarter of Fiscal Year – BOB PRICE and RANDY CLARK
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2023/01/03/exclusive-844k-known-border-crossers-in-first-quarter-of-fiscal-year/

DAILY CALLER
— Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is planning to transport illegal immigrants to New York City. – JENNIE TAER
https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/03/dem-governor-will-start-transporting-illegal-immigrants-to-new-york-city-mayor-says/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Arizona Gov. Ducey’s Makeshift Border Wall Comes Down, Leaving Gaps Amid Crisis – Virginia Allen
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/03/arizona-gov-duceys-makeshift-border-wall-comes-down-leaving-gaps-immigration-crisis/
— Here’s What You Should Expect From the 118th Congress – Virginia Allen
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/04/heres-what-you-should-expect-from-the-118th-congress/
— George Santos, Child of Woke America – Star Parker (COMMENT: What are you a child of? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always stressed a) that I lived in Crete 1948-1972, b) that I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, c) that my parents sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod, d) that I am 100% German American, and e) that my ancestors have been in America since 1844.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/04/george-santos-child-of-woke-america/
— The New, New Antisemitism – Victor Davis Hanson
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/03/the-new-new-antisemitism/

DAILY WIRE
— Trump Appears To Flip On Kevin McCarthy After Calling Him ‘My Kevin’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-appears-to-flip-on-kevin-mccarthy-after-calling-him-my-kevin

EPOCH TIMES
— Texas Troops Rush to Add More Razor Wire to Secure Border Amid ‘Federal Government’s Absence’: Abbott – Tom Ozimek
https://www.theepochtimes.com/texas-troops-rush-to-add-more-razor-wire-to-secure-border-amid-federal-governments-absence-abbott_4958656.html
— Colorado Governor to Send Illegal Immigrants to New York, Other Cities – Samantha Flom
https://www.theepochtimes.com/colorado-governor-to-send-more-illegal-immigrants-to-new-york-other-cities_4960180.html
— McCarthy Fails in Votes for Speaker of the House; Bitter Battle Erupts Among GOPers – Mark Tapscott and Madalina Vasiliu
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/mccarthy-fails-in-first-vote-for-speaker-of-the-house-bitter-battle-erupts-among-gopers_4959177.html
— Home Depot Co-founder Fears Demise of Capitalism Amid Rise of ‘Woke’ Socialism – Samantha Flom
https://www.theepochtimes.com/home-depot-co-founder-fears-demise-of-capitalism-amid-rise-of-woke-socialism_4953505.html

FEDERALIST
— Time Magazine Stigmatizes Exercise As White Supremacist – TRISTAN JUSTICE
https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/03/time-magazine-stigmatizes-exercise-as-white-supremacist/
— The New House Majority Must Impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – JONATHAN S. TOBIN
https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/03/the-new-house-majority-must-impeach-dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas/

FOX NEWS
— Amid 2022’s massive migrant surge, numbers in ICE detention remain low. There were approximately 23,000 illegal immigrants detained in December. – Adam Shaw
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/amid-2022s-massive-migrant-surge-numbers-ice-detention-remain-low
— Mother speaks out after school chose ‘wokeness’ over merit – Ingraham Angle
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6318166638112

GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA
— ILLINOIS LEGISLATORS ARE SOON VOTING TO BAN COMMONLY OWNED FIREARMS! – Michael Csencsits
https://www.gunowners.org/il01032023/

NEWSMAX
— Mass Amnesty for Migrants Will Worsen Crisis – Sandy Fitzgerald
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/christopher-olivarez-border-mass-amnesty/2023/01/03/id/1102807/
— House Republicans Push to Prohibit Congressional Staff Unions – Sandy Fitzgerald (COMMENT: GAO works for Congress. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized in 1997, I might still be a GAO employee. If GAO had been unionized since 1980, the liberal Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office might not have been able a) to force me to take a $21,863 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, b) to give me unfair job assignments, performance expectations, and performance appraisals, c) to keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, d) to force the GAO manager to retire in 1987 who had arranged for my transfer from IRS to GAO, got me assigned to audits of IRS in 1986, and promoted me to GS-13 in 1986, e) to delay my promotions to GS-11, GS-12, and GS-13, f) to stop me from being promoted beyond GS-13, g) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and h) to force me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/republicans-congress-staff/2023/01/03/id/1102861/

ONE AMERICA NEWS NOW
— The Vote For House Speaker Continues – Geraldyn Berry
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/house-speaker-vote-continues/

TOWNHALL
— Kevin McCarthy Loses Ground on Third Ballot – Spencer Brown
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/01/03/third-round-speaker-vote-n2617832

WESTERN JOURNAL
— One Look at the Record Reveals the True Epicenter of Anti-Semitism – Richard Moss (COMMENT: I should write a book about the success that Democrat Chicago politicians had in forcing my many Jewish GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors to take many adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, 100% German American, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978. In my defense, I stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://www.westernjournal.com/op-ed-one-look-record-reveals-true-epicenter-anti-semitism/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A cursory exam of the record will demonstrate that Trump is the most pro-Israel, pro-Jewish president we have ever had. . .The Palestinian Liberation Organization is a terrorist entity stained with Jewish and American blood. It pays stipends to families of terrorists responsible for killing Jews and is the most successful Jew-killing operation since World War II. Trump closed its diplomatic mission in Washington, D.C. Obama upgraded it. Obama also increased U.S. funding to the PLO while Trump cut it. Biden has reinstated it. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency is an anti-Semitic body that supports Hamas and indoctrinates young Palestinians to hate Jews. Trump stopped funding the organization while Obama expanded it. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the anti-Semitic UN Human Rights Council. Obama joined it, as did Biden. Obama spent 20 years in the Trinity Church of Jeremiah Wright, an anti-Semite and bigot. Wright and Obama were associates of black nationalist, racist and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, who recently referred to Jews as “termites.” Farrakhan has spoken of his admiration of Hitler for killing millions of Jews (as has Hamas).)

THE HILL
— Trump attacks McConnell, wife over GOP ‘turmoil’ after McCarthy fails to win Speakership.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3797518-trump-attacks-mcconnell-wife-over-gop-turmoil-after-mccarthy-fails-to-win-speakership/

ROLL CALL
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Democrats break out the popcorn for Republicans’ speaker fight. McCarthy makes history Tuesday, much to his chagrin.”
https://rollcall.com/2023/01/03/democrats-break-out-the-popcorn-for-republicans-speaker-fight/

NBC NEWS
— McCarthy enters Day Two of uncertainty as House resumes speaker votes. All eyes will be on the nearly two dozen conservatives who prevented Rep. Kevin McCarthy from winning the speaker’s gavel and are rallying behind conservative Rep. Jim Jordan. – Scott Wong
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mccarthy-enters-day-two-uncertainty-house-resumes-speaker-votes-rcna64154

MSN
— COMMENT: Democrat say “Speaker standoff highlights deep GOP divisions.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/speaker-standoff-highlights-deep-gop-divisions/ar-AA15Wrcw

REUTERS
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Hardliner Jim Jordan emerges as a Republican alternative for U.S. House speaker.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hardliner-jim-jordan-emerges-republican-alternative-us-house-speaker-2023-01-03/

CNN
— Here are the 20 House Republicans who voted against McCarthy for speaker on the third ballot – Annie Grayer, Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson, Jessica Dean and Sonnet Swire (COMMENT: The list included Mary Miller.)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/politics/20-republicans-voted-against-mccarthy/index.html

YAHOO NEWS
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote McCarthy, that is, ever-increasingly, Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans who oppose McCarthy.
https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-kevin-mccarthy-getting-devoured-093000561.html

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— As Popularity of Weed Edibles Rises, So Do Accidental Poisonings in Kids
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-01-03/as-popularity-of-weed-edibles-rises-so-do-accidental-poisonings-in-kids

NEW YORK TIMES
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Speaker Fight Reveals a Divided and Disoriented House Majority. In failing to coalesce around Kevin McCarthy for speaker, Republicans showcased divisions that portend real difficulties in governing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/us/house-speaker-mccarthy-election.html

WASHINGTON POST
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/01/03/us-policies-like-title-42-make-migrants-more-vulnerable-smugglers/
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Time Is Running Out for Afghan Refugees.” When did time run out for you? Time ran out for me in 1973 when I was a 25-year-old White male non-veteran Republican IRS employee who had not made GS-13, currently $109,732/year. While I did make GS-12, currently $92,279/year, in 1974, my IRS career was over. My IRS superiors were under tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians to use Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to hire, to retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. Because of that, they ignored, dismissed, belittled, and badmouthed my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. Because of that, I successfully applied for a transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/time-is-running-out-for-afghan-refugees/2023/01/03/ba714db0-8b6f-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Why Millennials Are Following Boomers to the South.” The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. Those who move to Republican areas to escape Democrats should consider the success that Democrats have had in invading, infesting, taking over, and destroying the once-Republican DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. Ever-increasingly, poverty and crime increases in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. The closer that Democrat areas are to Republican areas and/or the more that those areas are connected with public transportation and/or major roads, the faster that Democrats will invade, infest, take over, and destroy those areas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/why-millennials-are-following-boomers-to-the-south/2023/01/03/8a91d438-8b6b-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The GOP’s Chaos Caucus Returns. A rump faction blocks McCarthy’s Speaker bid, and for what? – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gops-chaos-caucus-is-back-kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-vote-republicans-matt-gaetz-hakeem-jeffries-11672787296
— Should You Give Up Your Salary and Go to Grad School? Inflation, student-loan rates complicate calculus to leave labor market for higher degree. – Lindsay Ellis (COMMENT: I took one graduate evening business course at a time at Loyola while I worked for IRS 1972-1976. I took one graduate evening accounting course at a time at DePaul while I worked for IRS 1976-1980 and then for GAO in 1980. I took one graduate evening finance course at a time at IIT while I worked for GAO 1992-1997. I took evening and weekend CPA examination review courses in 1978 and 1979 and Certified Internal Auditor review courses in 1980 and 1981.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fear-in-the-job-market-is-rising-is-it-time-to-go-to-grad-school-11672716930

MILTARY
— Navy Halts Up or Out Rules in Bid to Keep Ranks Filled – Konstantin Toropin (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use up-or-out to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/12/22/navy-halts-or-out-rules-bid-keep-ranks-filled.html

PBS
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote abortion.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fda-finalizes-rule-change-allowing-mail-order-abortion-pills
— Democrats are again claiming the Senate majority, but much of the chamber’s focus is on the top Republican as Mitch McConnell becomes the longest serving Senate leader in history. – AP (COMMENT: Democrats want Republicans to lose. Democrats glorify and praise McConnell.)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-senate-opens-mcconnell-expected-to-speak-after-becoming-longest-serving-party-leader

HUFFINGTON POST
— COMMENT: Democrats say “A Far-Right Gang Of House Members Will Hold Power Over Their Caucus — With A Megaphone. The GOP lawmakers, who have spent years becoming far-right influencers, are poised to hold a concerning amount of control over the new Congress.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republican-far-right-coalition-congress-power_n_63a486e9e4b05d9e6c24a3c4

REASON
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Ever-increasingly, there are fewer and fewer and fewer in America who are conservative, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, homeowners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestor have been in America for a long time.
https://reason.com/2023/01/03/population-growth-still-isnt-a-problem-anti-immigrant-groups-still-think-it-is/

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats crow about their success in getting White citizens of America a) to be LGBTQers, b) to not get married, c) to have fewer children, d) to have no children, and e) to have abortions.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/americas-population-could-use-a-boom.html

POLITICO
— Colorado plans to send more migrants to New York – JOE ANUTA (COMMENT: How soon, if not already, will Democrats send illegals to your county, to your township, and/or to your municipality? What have/will the leaders of the aforesaid done/do with them?)
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/03/colorado-migrants-new-york-00076115

ATLANTIC
— COMMENT: From what I see, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the future is ever-increasingly bleak for those who are American, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, homeowners, patriotic, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. What should the aforesaid do about it?
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/09/what-do-when-future-feels-hopeless/616448/

GUARDIAN
— Almost 1 million immigrants granted US citizenship in 2022 – Erum Salam (COMMENT: Democrats hint/imply/argue/shout at immigrants, and especially at immigrants who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, poor, lack education, lack job skills, and/or non-Protestant, that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. Democrats a) run America, b) have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans, and c) intend to use new citizens to get rid of Republicans once and for all.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/03/us-citizenship-immigrants-naturalization-covid

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.