March 17 Evening Edition

NBC5
— Man Charged After Fighting Guards, Damaging Property at Trump Tower
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/man-charged-after-fighting-guards-damaging-property-at-trump-tower-507273351.html

 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump again takes aim at John McCain over dossier, prompting rebuke from Meghan McCain – Felicia Sonmez
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-john-mccain-health-care-vote-20190316-story.html
— O’Rourke: Being white male doesn’t put me at disadvantage – AP (DIERSEN: O’Rourke has always been a Democrat and has always worked for Democrats. From what I see, O’Rourke has never had to pay the price of Affirmative Action (AA), Diversity, or Inclusion. Democrats make Republicans pay the price of AA, Diversity, and Inclusion.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-bc-us–election-2020-campaign-rdp-20190316-story.html

 

HERALD & REVIEW
— Elmhurst College professor sues school, campus paper after articles about seating chart that identified students by race – CLIFFORD WARD
https://herald-review.com/elmhurst-college-professor-sues-school-campus-paper-after-articles-about/article_bb62f184-b43c-5154-8f89-586f53921d0f.html

 

DAILY EGYPTIAN
— Rainbow Cafe to host forum on LGBTQ+ issues with Carbondale mayoral candidates – Jacob Lorenz (DIERSEN: From what I see, ever-increasingly, politicians a) promote LGBTQ+ activity and b) dump those who do not promote LGBTQ+ activity. I should write a book about politicians who have dumped me because I do not promote LGBTQ+ activity.)
https://dailyegyptian.com/92629/news/rainbow-cafe-to-host-forum-on-lgbtq-issues-with-carbondale-mayoral-candidates/

 

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters are doing everything that they can to get all the religions of the world 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.
http://www.nprillinois.org/post/we-are-not-safe-unless-we-are-together-interfaith-vigils-follow-mosque-shootings#stream/0

 

FOX ILLINOIS
— President Trump attends church service on St. Patrick’s Day – AP (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. Democrats and Democrat plants are nasty. Libertarians and Libertarian plants are nasty. Greens and Green plants are nasty. RINOs are nasty. The aforesaid demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me in the Wheaton Bowl Banquet Hall and elsewhere as being a religious hypocrite because I am not a member of any church, because I do not attend church services, and because I do not give money to a church. They a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, c) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, d) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, and/or e) are operatives or dupes for the aforesaid.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/president-trump-attends-church-service-on-st-patricks-day

 

CENTER FOR ILLINOIS POLITICS
— Lady Blue: The role of women in deepening an already blue Illinois During the 2018 midterms, already blue Illinois moved further on the color spectrum towards indigo — thanks, in part, to an uptick in the share of votes coming from women for women. (DIERSEN: Trump-haters shout at women, and at everyone else, that Trump and his supporters are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. I would not be surprised if the Trump-hating women in my precinct organized a mob and came to my front door and demanded that I condemn Trump. Only 137 voted for Trump in my precinct while 211 voted for Clinton.)
https://www.centerforilpolitics.org/articles/lady-blue-the-role-of-women-deepening-in-an-already-blue-illinois

 

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— House GOP leader Durkin has change of heart, supports legislation to raise legal tobacco age to 21 – Kyla Asbury
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/512295752-house-gop-leader-durkin-has-change-of-heart-supports-legislation-to-raise-legal-tobacco-age-to-21

 

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters “call on Trump to condemn white supremacy.” To call for someone to condemn something, is to charge that person with being/doing that thing.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/17/tim-kaine-amy-klobuchar-trump-condemn-white-suprem/

 

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump jabs ‘last in his class’ John McCain for role in disseminating dossier – Daniel Chaitin (DIERSEN: What harmed your ability to get better grades? For me, it was my a) working part-time jobs while I attended Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966, UIC 1966-1968, NIU 1969-1970, and Loyola during 1972 and b) my working full-time jobs while attended Loyola 1972-1976, DePaul 1976-1980, and IIT 1992-1997.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-jabs-last-in-his-class-john-mccain-for-role-in-disseminating-dossier

 

BREITBART
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters make it clear that they hate individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/03/17/tlaib-supporters-of-border-wall-are-following-a-white-supremacy-agenda/
— DHS Releases 84.5K Border Crossers, Illegal Aliens into U.S. in Two Months – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/17/dhs-releases-84-5k-border-crossers-illegal-aliens-u-s-two-months/
— Border Crossers ‘Being Dropped Off’ in U.S. While New Wall Has Yet to Be Built – John Binder
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/17/exclusive-brandon-judd-border-crossers-being-dropped-off-in-u-s-while-new-wall-has-yet-to-be-built/

 

BLAZE
— Jeb Bush says Republican needs to challenge President Trump in 2020 to give conservatives ‘a choice’ – Chris Enloe
https://www.theblaze.com/news/jeb-bush-donald-trump-challenge-2020

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— WHY THE LEFT IS BLAMING TRUMP, WHITES FOR NEW ZEALAND SHOOTING Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson lambasts progressive hypocrisy, evil acts
https://www.wnd.com/2019/03/why-the-left-is-blaming-trump-whites-for-new-zealand-shooting/
— WILL DEMS’ SOCIALIST RHETORIC TORPEDO 2020 BIDS? – Erik Rush analyzes Rahm Emanuel’s recent warning to party leaders
https://www.wnd.com/2019/03/will-dems-socialist-rhetoric-torpedo-2020-bids/

 

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Bogus Lawsuit against Remington – KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/remington-lawsuit-sandy-hook-massacre/

 

EPOCH TIMES
— What’s Wrong With Reparations? – Mark Hendrickson (DIERSEN: What do Democrats use against you to demand that you pay reparations? My critics/opponents stress that I am Trump supporter, Protestant (baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran), conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, old (born in 1948), married, childless, pet-less, non-poor, gun owner, 100% German American, my ancestors have been in America since 1844. In my defense, my ancestors always lived in northeast Illinois and they never had enough money to discriminate against anyone if they wanted to.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/whats-wrong-with-reparations_2840159.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I ask, if slavery was so vile and indefensible, as 99 percent of Americans today know it was, then what is wrong with reparations? With apologies to the poet, “let me count the ways.” Reparations would violate a key principle of justice. It would punish those who have harmed nobody. The drive to penalize innocent Americans solely on the ground that they had a guilty ancestor seems as fanatically demented to me as a Christian zealot who hates Jews because “the Jews” were the ones who had Jesus executed a couple of millennia ago. Reparations are racist. I would be expected to pay compensation to the descendants of American slaves even though my grandparents didn’t come to the United States until after the Civil War. They were poor people who never owned slaves in either the Old World or the New. The only reason I would be expected to pay would be because I am white. My whiteness would be my guilt. But that precept has no more moral justification than blacks being denied their rights for being black. This is just the “two wrongs don’t make a right” principle Reparations are unconstitutional. After the Civil War, Americans voted to abolish the immoral institution of slavery. The 13th Amendment stipulates, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States. …” Since living Americans can’t possibly be convicted of the crime of slavery, it would be unconstitutional to subject white Americans to the economic “involuntary servitude” of having to turn over a share of the fruits of their labor to Americans of a different race. It was wrong when blacks were compelled to work for the enrichment of whites, and it would be wrong today to compel whites to work for the enrichment of blacks. Reparations are selective. Slavery is a sad component of a brutal human history. The practice was widespread, and in fact persists in some parts of the world today. Not only did whites enslave blacks, but so did blacks. And blacks enslaved whites. And let’s not even get into Asia’s history of slavery. Nor was slavery the only way in which human rights were horribly abused. Should the peoples of Eastern Europe and Western Asia be entitled to reparations because of the depredations of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan? Should those descended from English serfs be recompensed for the indignities, deprivations, and bondage they suffered? I mean, how far back do you want to go? If you want to claim reparations for every American with an ancestor who was treated unjustly, brutally, etc., then how can you arbitrarily limit reparations to African-Americans? Reparations are like Pandora’s box—you open it and soon you are plagued with a proliferation of bad things. Reparations are backward-looking. Well, yes, of course they are in the sense that some believe that retribution for past offenses would be rectified by reparations, but I am referring here to the costs of living in the past instead of living in the present for the sake of the future. If you want to see how harmful it is to dwell in the past, take a look at the Middle East. While Jews and Arabs who have buried the past and live and work for a peaceful future for all are to be highly commended, it is self-evident from the recurring conflicts there that too many people just can’t let go of the past. Instead, they are willing to subject their children to the horrors of war in the perennially futile attempt to settle scores that are thousands of years old. Reparations would have us dwell on the worst aspects of our history rather than lifting us above them. Reparations are hypocritical. Craven progressive politicians endorse reparations in the cynical attempt to win “the black vote.” What incredible effrontery this is. Progressives are the ones who have used “urban renewal” as a pretext to bulldoze African-American business districts; the ones who devised welfare programs that incentivized single parenthood with devastating consequence for African-American families and neighborhoods; the ones who today strive to deny African-American children school choice and keep them on the teachers’ unions’ plantations. Now progressive hypocrites seek to portray themselves as champions of justice for the very African-American citizens whom they have repeatedly ruined. Reparations are unaffordable. We can’t afford even a fraction of the Green New Deal, yet the politicians who seem most supportive of reparations tend to be the same ones who want to spend us broke on the Green New Deal. Progressives remain oblivious to the simple reality that we live in a world of finite financial resources, and the astronomical costs of their various policy wish-lists are telling them that they have to prioritize and make choices. For example, do they prefer to try to “fix” the past by paying reparations or do they want to “fix” the future by retooling the American economy? At $22 trillion of national debt and counting, why the eagerness to saddle our children with even more debt?)

 

CBS NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters use White nationalists to promote hatred of Trump and hatred of Trump’s supporters.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-kaine-on-face-the-nation-says-trump-emboldens-white-nationalists/

 

THE HILL
— Conservatives face a tough fight as Big Tech’s censorship expands – DONALD TRUMP JR. (DIERSEN: Of course, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes want Big Tech to censor me and censor my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/434407-conservatives-face-a-tough-fight-as-big-techs-censorship-expands
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater “says Trump is using language that emboldens white nationalists.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/434440-kaine-says-trump-is-using-language-that-emboldens-white
— Officials dismiss criticism that Trump rhetoric to blame for New Zealand attack – MICHAEL BURKE (DIERSEN: What do your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes blame you for? Mine blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. They blame me and my emails for all the losses that Republicans have suffered in Illinois since 2000.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/434450-administration-officials-dismiss-criticism-that-trump-rhetoric-to
— Trump reignites criticism of McCain months after senator’s death – BRETT SAMUELS (DIERSEN: Those who reject planks in the Republican Party platform promote McCain because he rejected those planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/434448-trump-reignites-criticism-of-mccain-months-after-his-death

 

HUFFINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries get rid of you if you do not promote Isalam.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/islamophobia-is-a-global-crisis-and-its-time-we-view-it-that-way_us_5c8e5867e4b0db7da9f48156

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/opinion/trump-violence.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: If you come to America illegally and/or if you stay in America illegally, you are an invader. An America-hater says “Trump sees immigrants as invaders. White-nationalist terrorists do, too. The president’s language sends dangerous signals.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/03/17/trump-sees-immigrants-invaders-white-nationalist-terrorists-do-too/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters promote hatred against Trump and against Trump’s supporters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/17/gops-declaration-moral-bankruptcy/
— In Brenton Harrison Tarrant’s Australian hometown, his relatives remember violent video games, trouble with women – Brett Cole (DIERSEN: Your past predicts your future.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-brenton-harrison-tarrants-australian-hometown-his-relatives-remember-violent-video-games-trouble-with-women/2019/03/17/68c6aafe-48ad-11e9-b871-978e5c757325_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A church service on a blue-skied Sunday interrupts Trump’s weekend of presidential pique
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-church-service-on-a-blue-skied-sunday-interrupts-trumps-weekend-of-presidential-pique/2019/03/17/4c103b68-48d1-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— House Democrats Politicize Banking JPMorgan and Wells Fargo cater to their demands and cut off relationships with disfavored clients. – Megan Keller (DIERSEN: Are you religious, conservative, and/or Republican? How soon, if not already, will the Democrats get your bank to dump you?)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-democrats-politicize-banking-11552848048
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters use White nationalists to promote hatred of Trump and hatred of Trump’s supporters.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumpss-view-of-white-nationalism-sparks-political-debate-11552839789

 

BLOOMBERG
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters make it clear that they hate individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-17/reparations-are-a-political-minefield-for-democrats

 

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater promotes a) hatred of Trump and b) hatred of Trump’s supporters.
https://www.philly.com/opinion/commentary/donald-trump-new-zealand-massacre-white-supremacy-20190317.html

 

BOSTON GLOBE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters call Trump a White supremacist. Constructively, in America today, for a Trump-hater to call someone a White supremacist is to call for that person to be killed.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2019/03/17/white-house-aide-says-trump-not-white-supremacist/UEtCLYdGuOB9dhsPLe5TwK/story.html

 

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: No one who really is a Trump supporter would give ammunition to Trump-haters.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporter-interrupts-new-zealand-massacre-vigil-wall-float-1365578
— TRUMP DEMANDS FOX NEWS ‘BRING BACK’ JEANINE PIRRO, ‘KEEP FIGHTING’ FOR TUCKER CARLSON – BENJAMIN FEARNOW
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-judge-jeanine-pirro-tucker-carlson-fox-news-bring-back-fox-1365708

 

QUARTZ
— Facebook and YouTube still can’t handle mass shootings – Hanna Kozlowska (DIERSEN: What percent of those in America are members of one or more protected group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group)? From what I see, protected groups include minorities, females, LGBTQers, veterans, illegals, non-Christians, non-German Americans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, liberals, moderates, Trump-haters, those who have financial, health, and/or other problems, and those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://qz.com/1574293/facebook-and-twitter-couldnt-handle-the-new-zealand-shooting/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Twitter, where the shooter posted his screed, and where it subsequently spread, told Quartz that it was “proactively working to remove the video content.” The company, which would not comment on individual accounts, stated that its hate-speech policy prohibits “behavior that targets individuals based on protected categories including race, ethnicity, national origin or religious affiliation.” This would include “references to violent events where protected groups have been the primary targets or victims,” which would presumably make the manifesto fall under this policy.)

 

ESQUIRE
— Trump Stands With the Persecuted Hosts of Fox News – GABRIELLE BRUNEY (DIERSEN: Who stands with you? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes stress those in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican, but a) have not stood with me, b) are not standing with me, and c) will not stand with me. They a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and/or the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, c) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, d) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, and/or e) are operatives or dupes for the aforesaid.)
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26848352/trump-fox-news-hosts/

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.