March 24 Morning Edition

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Racial politics heat up in Chicago mayor’s race with Lori Lightfoot under attack at Toni Preckwinkle rally – Bill Ruthhart and Gregory Pratt
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/elections/ct-met-chicago-mayor-toni-reckwinkle-rally-20190323-story.html
— Lyons Township school officials question treasurer’s office lawsuit, relevance in forum – Jesse Wright, Pioneer Press
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/la-grange/news/ct-dlg-lyons-township-school-treasurer-tl-0328-story.html
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: How do the rich smoke pot? Barneys New York is selling $1,100 hand-blown glass bongs. – Edvard Pettersson
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-marijuana-use-wealthy-market-20190321-story.html
— Stop asking high schoolers where they’re going to college – Heidi Stevens (DIERSEN: Stevens should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who hint/imply/argue/shout that degrees from non-Ivy League universities like NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-life-stevens-thursday-dont-ask-where-youre-going-to-college-0321-story.html

 

DAILY HERALD
— Steans, McMahon spar over legal pot at Aurora town hall – Elena Ferrarin (DIERSEN: If you promote pot, you promote destruction.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190323/steans-mcmahon-spar-over-legal-pot-at-aurora-town-hall
— Can tax deadline be extended? Casten seeks May 20 date – Marni Pyke (DIERSEN: I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 levels, currently $81,071-$91,880/year. I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 levels, currently $96,403-$102,830/year. I should write a book about those who did the most to waste my knowledge of IRS. They include past and present U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives, their staff members, their advisers, and their volunteers. They include my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190323/can-tax-deadline-be-extended-casten-seeks-may-20-date
— Cook County: Bill needed to fix ‘backward’ property assessment process – Ares Dalianis
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20190324/bill-needed-to-fix-backward-property-assessment-process
— The court should steer away from the politics of gerrymandering – George Will (DIERSEN: I should write a book about the 2015 gerrymandering of my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton. I would focus on a) those who ordered the gerrymandering and why they did that, b) those who carried out the gerrymandering and why they did that, c) those who benefitted from the gerrymandering and why, and d) the negative impacts of the gerrymandering.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20190324/the-court-should-steer-away-from-the-politics-of-gerrymandering
— Teacher licensing tests come under fire in Illinois – PETER HANCOCK (DIERSEN: I became a licensed CPA in 1981 when I was 32 years old. Needless-to-say, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious. While some of them had taken the CPA examination, while some of them had passed the CPA examination, while some of them had applied to be licensed, none were licensed CPAs. I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had worked for GAO for little over one year. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190323/teacher-licensing-tests-come-under-fire-in-illinois

 

SAUK VALLEY
— Kinzinger defends McCain, but dodges Trump’s ‘nonsense’ Lawmaker’s op-ed sidesteps any mention of president – Griffin Connolly
https://www.saukvalley.com/2019/03/22/kinzinger-defends-mccain-but-dodges-trumps-nonsense/adv7fxo/

 

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Olsen offers ‘millennial voice’ in race for mayor – F. Amanda Tugade
https://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2019/03/15/olsen-offers-millennial-voice-in-race-for-mayor/abs2w6q/

 

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— ISRA chief Pearson hopes for big turnout at upcoming Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day – Glenn Minnis
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/512321388-isra-chief-pearson-hopes-for-big-turnout-at-upcoming-illinois-gun-owner-lobby-day

 

FOX NEWS
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Michelle Obama are connecting with millions of Americans – here’s the real reason why – Douglas MacKinnon (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats “connect” with a) immigrants, b) minorities, c) females, d) young people, e) poor people, f) non-Protestants, g) non-German Americans, h) veterans, i) etc. by blaming the following for the problems that the aforesaid have: a) those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, b) Whites, c) men, d) older people, e) rich people, f) Protestants, g) German Americans, h) non-veterans, i) etc.)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-michelle-obama-are-connecting-with-millions-of-americans-heres-the-real-reason-why

 

AMERICAN THINKER
— A hundred thousand unvetted migrants here in just three months? – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/a_hundred_thousand_unvetted_migrants_here_in_just_three_months.html

 

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Linda Chavez and Her Opinion Hammer – Erik Root
https://amgreatness.com/2019/03/23/linda-chavez-and-her-opinion-hammer/
— Why the ‘Pay Gap’ Is Really a ‘Choice Gap’ – Rachel Bovard
https://amgreatness.com/2019/03/23/why-the-pay-gap-is-really-a-choice-gap/

 

TOWNHALL
— Attack of the Desperate Democrats – Michael Reagan
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelreagan/2019/03/23/attack-of-the-desperate-democrats-n2543564
— Fake Crimes, Real Hate on College Campuses – Peter Wood
https://townhall.com/columnists/peterwood/2019/03/24/fake-crimes-real-hate-on-college-campuses-n2543594

 

WORLD NET DAILY
— ‘MUSLIM TERRORISTS’ IN NEW MEXICO TIED TO DEMOCRATS New indictment alleges violent plots against government, military
https://www.wnd.com/2019/03/muslim-terrorists-in-new-mexico-tied-to-democrats/
— SUFFOLK COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS RANKS AS AMERICA’S MOST INTOLERANT COUNTY 95% of residents identify as … Democrats
https://www.wnd.com/2019/03/1-county-ranks-as-americas-most-intolerant/
— TOWN DEMANDS FAITH GROUPS ADHERE TO ‘SEXUAL ORTHODOXY’ LGBT ‘nondiscrimination’ ordinance makes churches ‘public accommodation’
https://www.wnd.com/2019/03/town-demands-faith-groups-adhere-to-sexual-orthodoxy/
— LIMBAUGH: REAL REASON TRUMP SOARING IN BATTLEGROUND STATES ‘This wasn’t supposed happen. He was supposed to barely be above 30 now’
https://www.wnd.com/2019/03/limbaugh-real-reason-trump-soaring-in-battleground-states/
— AMERICA 2050: TROUBLE WITH DEBT, INCOME GAP, THREATS TO WORKFORCE Pew Research reveals population also expects terror attack as bad as 9/11
https://www.wnd.com/2019/03/america-2050-trouble-with-debt-income-gap-threats-to-workforce/

 

HOT AIR
— Sanders Campaign Hit With Complaint Over Illegal Alien Staffers – KAREN TOWNSEND
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/23/sanders-campaign-hit-complaint-illegal-alien-staffers/

 

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Ted Cruz blasts airport for bigoted Chick-fil-A ban as customers rally – Vivek Saxena (DIERSEN: If/when Chick-Fil-A came under attack in your municipality, in your township/ward, and in your county, how strongly would Republican elected officials come to Chick-Fil-A’s defense?)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/03/24/come-on-ted-cruz-blasts-airport-for-bigoted-chick-fil-a-ban-as-customers-rally-736323

 

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINES: An America-hater promotes hatred of America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/sunday-review/new-zealand-mass-shootings.html
— A Pied-à-Terre Tax Will Bring Revenue New York Needs – Editorial (DIERSEN: Do/did you own a pied-à-terre? In its 4-page nasty February 1978 article on me, to paint me as being grossly overpaid and undeservedly filthy rich, Money Magazine referred the studio condo that I owned in the Outer Drive East building in downtown Chicago 1974-1976 as being my pied-à-terre. I bought that condo so that I could walk to work at IRS and to graduate business classes at Loyola. I traded it in to the building’s developer for a one bedroom condo in 1976. I lived in a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972 full-time 1972-1974 and weekends 1974-1976. Starting in 1974, I unsuccessfully tried to sell it. I rented it out 1976-1984 because I was unable to sell it for a fair price. I sold it in 1984.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/opinion/sunday/new-york-real-estate-tax.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote LGBTQ activity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/us/transgender-women-border-mexico.html

 

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats make it clear that they want to get rid of 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.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/22/republicans-are-disproportionately-worried-about-americas-changing-demographic-composition/

 

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote Islam.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-bernie-sanders-los-angeles-20190323-story.html

 

FORBES
— 8 Policy Changes To Let Older Workers Work Longer – Chris Farrell (DIERSEN: My Democrat GAO superiors might have let me work 6 more years until I was eligible for regular retirement in 2003 when I would have been 55 if I had agreed a) to be downgraded; b) to drop my opposition to political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination; and c) to talk and act like the adverse actions that they had taken against me were justified. They had a) given me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, c) not promoted me beyond GS-13, d) gotten rid of my mentor in 1987, e) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and f) forced me to take a $19,203 (26%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2019/03/24/8-policy-changes-to-let-older-workers-work-longer/#7ee87ad44d94

 

PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE
— The war on MAGA hats rages on Trump supporters keep getting beat up because of the caps they wear – DEROY MURDOCK
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2019/03/23/div-class-libPageBodyLinebreak-The-war-on-MAGA-hats-rages-on-br-div/stories/201903230006
— Addressing pregnancy discrimination is important – JENNIE DUQUETTE, Oakland (DIERSEN: Democrats shout at women that men have an unfair advantage in life because men cannot get pregnant.)
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2019/03/24/Addressing-pregnancy-discrimination-is-important/stories/201903210120

 

NEW JERSEY
— 5 tricks Jerseyans used to get into college – Judi Franco
https://nj1015.com/5-tricks-jerseyans-used-to-get-into-college/

 

HARTFORD COURANT
— Despite a good law, age discrimination is still common – JOE CARBONE (DIERSEN: All my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote age discrimination a) because they want to get rid of those who are older than they are and/or b) because they want to curry favor with those who promote age discrimination.)
https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-carbone-age-discrimination-0324-20190324-5abuapcslbbdhm5xxbr64weo3i-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Research from AARP indicates that nearly two out of three workers age 45 and older have seen or experienced age discrimination on the job. While few doubt its existence, even skeptics acknowledge that it’s unlike the age discrimination of the past. This class of discrimination is subtle, seemingly invisible — but it has gone viral. There are scores of economists and political leaders who see it as the latest inevitable fallout from the Great Recession. To be fair, technology, for all its benefits, must share some blame. Search engines do the work for you, which sometimes produces hundreds of applicants, which totally overwhelms most human resources departments. Data make it painfully clear that the insidious practice of stereotyping based on age has become a cultural norm — and shamefully, it’s flourishing. When I turned 50, I was shocked to receive a greeting letter from AARP, realizing this marked a new stage in life. Now at age 50, individuals in the job market are subject to a value comparison with younger generations. A common first step in the applicant review process is to determine age without asking. Many times, an unsuspecting job applicant will list their graduation year, use a chronological resume or an email account format that becomes a giveaway for their age. Conventional wisdom in talent search is to go younger. Some employers, perhaps many, assume that millennials will have better tech skills and little to no interest in retirement or even health benefits. So, younger folks have the advantage. This is classic stereotyping, it’s unfair, it’s wrong and it will prove in short order to have been a strategic mistake.)

 

VANITY FAIR
— “MEN ARE SCUM”: INSIDE FACEBOOK’S WAR ON HATE SPEECH The company blew it on privacy and fake news. Can it do better against trolls and racists? An exclusive embed with Facebook’s shadow government. – SIMON VAN ZUYLEN-WOOD
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/men-are-scum-inside-facebook-war-on-hate-speech

 

BLAVITY
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, White-haters promote hatred of Whites.
https://blavity.com/almost-half-of-white-america-believes-diversity-and-a-non-white-majority-would-weaken-american-customs

 

SALON
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats use White nationalism to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites and Americans.
https://www.salon.com/2019/03/23/white-nationalism-born-in-the-usa-is-now-a-global-terror-threat_partner/

 

GUARDIAN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you if you do not promote Islam.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/24/silencing-islamophobes-is-as-futile-as-banning-quran

 

TIMES
— Revealed: the bloody record of hunter Guy Gorney, who killed sleeping lion – Will Pavia
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revealed-the-bloody-record-of-hunter-guy-gorney-who-killed-sleeping-lion-3gxjlr3hv

(FROM THE ARTICLE: The trophy hunter who shot a sleeping lion in a video clip that caused outrage has been named as a churchgoer and longtime shooting enthusiast from Illinois. Guy Gorney, who hails from a small town southwest of Chicago, could be seen taking aim with a rifle mounted on a tripod at a lion sleeping at the edge of scrubland.)

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.