July 6 Morning Edition

FOX NEWS CHICAGO
— 79 shot, 15 fatally, over Fourth of July weekend in Chicago
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/79-shot-15-fatally-over-fourth-of-july-weekend-in-chicago

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Police chiefs and NAACP agree on a way to improve policing, but some activists say it falls far short – Robert McCoppin
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-black-lives-protest-police-agreement-20200706-ysmwflsduvfqfoi4xcll6velni-story.html
— Ten Shared Principles on relationship between law enforcement and communities in Illinois – Robert McCoppin (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-black-lives-protest-police-ten-shared-principles-20200706-h22ukydbwncdhaduvdi7ao74li-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: We support diversity in police departments and in the law enforcement profession. Law enforcement and communities have a mutual responsibility and should work together to make a concerted effort to recruit diverse police departments.)
— A look at how each pro league in America handles the national anthem – AP (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will the leaders of your municipal district, your municipality, your township, your county district, your county, Illinois, America, and the world demand that you kneel in support of BLM, LGBTQ, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, RINOs, and those who are anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexuals, anti-married people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-Protestants, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-national-anthem-sports-20200705-itdx5o3k25gidimr7zjjgvc5wa-story.html
— Social Security benefit keeps shrinking – Catherine Siskos
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-tribune/20200706/281835760985964
— Why caddying is the ideal summer job – PAT ATWOOD (DIERSEN: What did you do with the money that you earned from summer jobs? I did yard work and delivered newspapers during the summers of 1962, 1963, and 1964. I washed dishes during the summer of 1965. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline during the summer of 1966. I delivered mail during the summers of 1967, 1968, and 1969. I used the money that I earned a) to buy a 1958 Chevy BelAir in 1964, b) to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, c) to pay for tuition and books at UIC 1966-1968, d) to buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, e) to buy a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, and f) to pay for room and board, tuition, and books at NIU 1969-1970.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-caddies-golf-summer-job-20200702-fzbtfnff5vgr5ljis7nn25kesa-story.html
— Cook County Board considers nonbinding proposal to shift money from ‘failed and racist’ policing, incarceration systems – ALICE YIN (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats blame law enforcement for problems, including the destruction of traditional marriage and the destruction of the traditional family, caused by the Democrat Party platform.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-cook-county-defunding-police-resolution-20200704-kb53wawhmfbstnsbwlrezh2m4m-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH COLOR PICTURE: ‘Art of Inclusion’ committee forms in Naperville – Marie Wilson (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200706/art-of-inclusion-committee-forms-in-naperville

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Defund the thought police – CHARLES LIPSON (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, a) will employers terminate their employees who do not promote the Democrat, Libertarian, and Green party platforms and b) will organizations terminate their members who do not promote the Democrat, Libertarian, and Green party platforms?)
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary/guest-commentary-defund-the-thought-police/article_a427abbe-acc0-53fd-81e7-1687b9f5c184.html

WCBU
— LGBTQ History To Be Taught In Illinois Classrooms This School Year – MAUREEN FOERTSCH MCKINNEY (DIERSEN: To promote LGBTQ is to promote the destruction of traditional marriage and to promote the destruction of the traditional family.)
https://www.peoriapublicradio.org/post/lgbtq-history-be-taught-illinois-classrooms-school-year#stream/0

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois pension costs will devour a quarter of state budget for 25 more years, and that’s the rosy scenario – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-pension-costs-will-devour-a-quarter-of-state-budget-for-25-more-years-and-thats-the-rosy-scenario-wirepoints/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— ILLINOIS PASSED A RECORD-BREAKING INCOME TAX HIKE 3 YEARS AGO. HERE’S WHERE THE MONEY WENT. – Adam Schuster
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-passed-a-record-breaking-income-tax-hike-3-years-ago-heres-where-the-money-went/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The NFL and the Black National Anthem – Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/the-nfl-and-the-black-national-anthem/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— COVID DAILY DEATHS DOWN 92.4% FROM PEAK, HAVE DECLINES 10 STRAIGHT WEEKS
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/07/covid-daily-deaths-down-924-from-peak-have-declines-10-straight-weeks.html
— ROSSI: THE LIB’S “IGNORANCE PANDEMIC”
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2020/07/rossi-the-libs-ignorance-pandemic.html

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Gingrich: bad people destroying statues, killing children ‘and Trump had the guts to say it’ – S.A. Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/6/gingrich-bad-people-destroying-statues-killing-chi/
— ‘Rattled’ Republicans beg Trump to stop the bleeding as reelection doubts creep in – Dave Boyer
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/5/donald-trump-reelection-doubts-have-republicans-ra/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Shootings in New York City up 205% in weeks since disbandment of plainclothes unit compared to last year – Haley Victory Smith
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/shootings-in-new-york-city-up-205-in-weeks-since-disbandment-of-plainclothes-unit-compared-to-last-year

AMERICAN THINKER
— What Causes White Guilt – John Eidson (DIERSEN: Are you White? If so, how has that impacted you? My Democrat, Libertarian, Green, and RINO critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that because of discrimination against minorities and because of discrimination against females, if I had been a minority or a female, a) I never would have been able to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48; job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48; and a job-related professional license when I was 32 and b) the Post Office would not have hired me when I was 16, Firestone would not have hired me when I was 21, Oldsmobile would not have offered me a job and IRS would not have hired me when I was 22, IRS would not have promoted me when I was 23, 24, and 25, GAO would not have hired me when I was 31, GAO would not have promoted me when I was 38, etc.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/what_causes_white_guilt.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The U.S. education system has been thoroughly infiltrated by Marxist faculty and administrators hell-bent on doing their part to help dismantle America’s two-party constitutional democracy in favor of single-party socialist rule. One of their most potent weapons in turning politically malleable young minds against their parents — and their country — is white privilege indoctrination. Most parents have no idea of what’s being taught in public schools. In “Bill Ayers, the ‘Critical Pedagogy’ Movement, and ‘Cultural Marxism,” conservative writer Geoffrey Britain wrote this: “In many of our public schools, impressionable young children are no longer being taught to be proud of being Americans. Their school teachers, who traditionally embody socially approved values, are teaching them to be ashamed of being Americans. Spreading out from the schools that teach our teachers, this ideology is being inculcated into our nation’s K-12 schools, and is anti-American in the most profound meaning of the term. It is a movement that is teaching future generations that capitalism and traditional American values are intrinsically evil. Critical pedagogy and its advocates, in their vehement antipathy towards capitalism, private property and traditional American values amount to a fifth subversive column, no less dangerous to freedom than communism. Its advocates are seeking to radically transform our society by covertly indoctrinating the young through an essentially clandestine and subversive transformation of our culture.” The kind of teachers to whom Britain referred have two things in common: (1) they all have turned to the side of the hammer and sickle, and (2) they all are Democrats. . .In public schools across America, activist Democrat teachers are pushing a failed and oppressive ideology on captive young minds, often with the tacit approval of their superiors. You can bet everything you own that activist Democrats in academia are also infecting their students with white privilege guilt. As a major part of the Democratic Party’s election strategy, white privilege ideology is taught to thousands of teachers and administrators at annual white privilege conferences. . .One of the Third Reich’s most devastating propaganda techniques is known as the “Big Lie”: If you’re going to lie, make it a Big Lie, keep repeating it, and people will believe it. That’s what Democrats do with white privilege ideology — relentlessly repeat it until people believe it. Writing in his weekly column “Our Broken Moral Compasses,” black American professor Dr. Walter Williams exposed white privilege for the Big Lie it is: “Then there’s white privilege. Colleges have courses and seminars on “whiteness.” One college even has a course titled “Abolition of Whiteness.” According to academic intellectuals, whites enjoy advantages that nonwhites do not. They earn higher incomes and reside in better housing, and their children go to better schools and achieve more. Based on those socio-economic statistics, Japanese-Americans have more white privilege than white people.” . . . Despite horrible injustices of the past, no country in history has done more than this country to correct wrongs once committed against an oppressed minority of its own citizens. Democrats know that, but acknowledging it would undercut their most poisonous Big Lie: that even after all these years, America is still a racist hellhole, as it most definitely was when Knight Riders in white robes and white hoods served as the violent enforcement arm of Democrat governors, mayors, and police chiefs.)

BREITBART
— Never Trump Republicans Plot to Give Democrats the Senate Majority – SEAN MORAN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/05/never-trump-republicans-plot-give-democrats-senate-majority/
— Will Joe Biden Sign a Pledge to Protect American Monuments? – JAMES P. PINKERTON
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/07/05/pinkerton-will-joe-biden-sign-a-pledge-to-protect-american-monuments/

DAILY WIRE
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Duckworth Rips Mount Rushmore, Wants ‘National Dialogue’ About Removing Washington Statues. Here’s What She Said Running For Senate Five Years Ago. – Hank Berrien (DIERSEN: What if Duckworth had defeated Roskam in 2006? I should write a book about those who have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my serving as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2006, my serving the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2006, my serving as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member in 2006, and my serving as a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member in 2006 almost caused Roskam to lose to Duckworth in 2006. Better yet, I should sue the aforesaid.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/duckworth-rips-mount-rushmore-wants-national-dialogue-about-removing-washington-statues-heres-what-she-said-running-for-senate-five-years-ago

TOWNHALL
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Duckworth Shows Interest in Removing Monuments to George Washington – Katie Pavlich
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/07/06/another-democrat-shows-interest-in-removing-monuments-to-george-washington-n2571916

CNS NEWS
— The Shared History of NAACP and Black Lives Matter – Allen West
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/allen-west/shared-history-naacp-and-black-lives-matter

TPM
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Biden Campaign Seriously Considering Sen. Duckworth As Potential Running Mate – Cristina Cabrera
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/biden-campaign-seriously-considering-sen-duckworth-as-potential-running-mate

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Sen. Tammy Duckworth: “Listen To The Argument” For Removing Statues Of George Washington – Tim Hains
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/07/05/sen_tammy_duckworth_listen_to_the_argument_for_removing_statues_of_george_washington.html

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Destruction Is Easy; Creation Is Hard – JIM GERAGHTY (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who have worked the hardest to destroy the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, etc. I would focus on those who falsely claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican to give themselves power to destroy the aforesaid.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/destruction-is-easy-creation-is-hard/

CNN
— Formula One drivers divided as several choose not to kneel in support of Black Lives Matter movement – Matias Grez (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will the leaders of your municipal district, your municipality, your township, your county district, your county, Illinois, America, and the world demand that you kneel in support of BLM, LGBTQ, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, RINOs, and those who are anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexuals, anti-married people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-Protestants, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/05/motorsport/f1-austrian-grand-prix-drivers-kneel-and-stand-hamilton-bottas-spt-intl/index.html

NBC NEWS
— Formula One drivers wear ‘End Racism’ shirts and take a knee before season opener – Isobel van Hagen (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will the leaders of your municipal district, your municipality, your township, your county district, your county, Illinois, America, and the world demand that you kneel in support of BLM, LGBTQ, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, RINOs, and those who are anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexuals, anti-married people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-Protestants, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/formula-one-drivers-wear-end-racism-shirts-take-knee-season-n1232925

CBS BALTIMORE
— Faith Leaders March In Baltimore For Racial Equality (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will “faith leaders” officially march for getting rid of all individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, heterosexual, married, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/07/05/faith-leaders-march-in-baltimore-for-racial-equality/

MSN
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Protesters burn American flag outside White House after Trump’s July Fourth address – Brooke Seipel
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/protesters-burn-american-flag-outside-white-house-after-trumps-july-fourth-address/ar-BB16li2G

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Chicago Gun Violence Spikes and Increasingly Finds the Youngest Victims Nine children under the age of 18 have been shot dead in Chicago since June 20. – Neil MacFarquhar and Robert Chiarito
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/us/chicago-shootings.html
— Everyone’s an Antiracist. Now What? – Erin Aubry Kaplan (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters hint/imply/argue/shout that those who they cannot manipulate/dominate are racists and even worse things. I should write a book about such Trump-haters in my neighborhood, in my precinct, in Wheaton’s West District, in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County’s 4th District, in DuPage County, and in Illinois. Better yet, I should sue them.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/opinion/antiracism-what-comes-next.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Duckworth emerging as a contender to be Biden’s running mate – Sean Sullivan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/duckworth-emerging-as-a-contender-to-be-bidens-running-mate/2020/07/05/285fed3e-be60-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, RINOs, and other Trump-haters want to abolish Independence Day.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-turned-july-fourth-into-a-partisan-event-the-damage-could-be-long-lasting/2020/07/05/1d268484-bef4-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.html
— Black female voters say they want what they’re owed: power – Errin Haines (DIERSEN: Trump-haters shout at Black females, and at everyone else, that Trump is a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/06/black-female-voters-say-they-want-what-theyre-owed-power/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: How Black Hollywood is rising up to support Black Lives Matter – LAURA ZORNOSA
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-07-06/tessa-thompson-michael-jordan-black-hollywood-black-lives-matter-protests

USA TODAY
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters want Facebook to do even more to get rid of the following once and for all: individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/07/06/trump-hate-speech-facebook-advertising-boycott-black-lives-matter-george-floyd/5350210002/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater promotes Duckworth.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/03/joe-biden-choose-war-hero-tammy-duckworth-vice-president-column/5350685002/
— July 4th protesters: ‘We refuse to celebrate’ – Grace Hauck (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those who have worked the hardest to discourage Republican candidates a) from walking in Wheaton’s Independence Day parades and b) from helping sponsor Wheaton’s Independence Day parades.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/04/fourth-july-holiday-protests-refuse-celebrate-independence/5372733002/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Affirmative Action Will Be on California Ballots in November Referendum to ask whether to restore racial and gender preferences 24 years after voters banned them. – Jim Carlton (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/affirmative-action-will-be-on-california-ballot-in-november-11593035799
— The future of Equality (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://futureof.wsj.com/event/future-of-equality/
— Campus Culture Seizes the Streets Taxpayers, parents and donors need to save higher education from activists who claim to be scholars. – John M. Ellis
https://www.wsj.com/articles/campus-culture-seizes-the-streets-11593973851
— Joe Biden Bows to the Teachers Unions ‘You’ll have an NEA member in the White House,’ he says. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-bows-to-the-teachers-unions-11593978756
— Trump at Mount Rushmore Progressives deride his defense of America’s founding principles. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-at-mount-rushmore-11593978913

NEWSWEEK
— VP Contender Tammy Duckworth Demurs on Biden Choosing Black Running Mate – CHANTAL DA SILVA
https://www.newsweek.com/vp-contender-tammy-duckworth-demurs-biden-choosing-black-running-mate-1515568

UNION JOURNAL
— Police declare a riot twice on July 4 amid protests in Portland – Carlos Christian
https://theunionjournal.com/police-declare-a-riot-twice-on-july-4-amid-protests-in-portland/

PERSONNEL TODAY
— Top law firms commit to robust ethnic equality measures – Adam McCulloch (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will law firms officially get rid of their partners and employees who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, heterosexual, married, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/top-law-firms-commit-to-robust-ethnic-equality-measures/

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.