March 6, 2023

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 17 shot, 4 fatally in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-today-police-violence/12920058/
— Suspect in custody after possible Bolingbrook home invasion leaves 3 dead, including girl: police Shooting in Bolingbrook left 1 woman injured, 3 people dead – Diane Pathieu
https://abc7chicago.com/bolingbrook-home-invasion-police-lee-lane-shooting/12919740/
— Democrats say that NYC mayor Eric Adams says that Lori Lightfoot’s reelection loss in Chicago is warning sign for the country. Lightfoot’s promoters (minorities, females, LGBTQers, etc.) should be asked why they did not vote for her.
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-election-lost-nyc-eric-adams/12917494/
— Democrats say “Marianne Williamson 2024: Author formally launches Democratic primary challenge to Joe Biden. During her previous campaign, the former Democratic hopeful pushed for the expansion of social safety net programs and reparations to the descendants of slaves.” Who makes who pay reparations? How much reparations have you paid? My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old and b) gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.
https://abc7chicago.com/who-is-marianne-williamson-2024-presidential-campaign-news/12917582/

NBC5
— Democrats say “Amid Presidential Chatter, Pritzker Says He’s Supporting Biden, Focused on Serving as Governor.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/amid-presidential-chatter-pritzker-says-hes-supporting-biden-focused-on-serving-as-governor/3087135/
— Democrats say that New York City Mayor Eric Adams says that Lightfoot’s Loss a Warning Sign’ for the US. Lightfoot’s promoters (minorities, females, LGBTQers, etc.) should be asked why they did not vote for her.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/lori-lightfoot-mayor-chicago-eric-adams-new-york-city/3087161/

FOX32
— Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrats blame Republicans for all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have. Ever-increasingly, Democrats a) paint themselves as having been the Union Army in the Civil War and b) paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Ever-increasingly, Democrats paint the KKK as being a Republican organization and Jim Crow laws as being Republican laws. I should write a book about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that. I would focus on the successes and failures that they had turning my Black GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me. To turn Blacks against me, they stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant (baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran), 100% German American, my ancestors have been in America since 1844, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978. In my defense, I stressed that all my ancestors were Republicans who lived in northeast Illinois.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/biden-talks-voting-rights-during-trip-to-selma-this-fundamental-right-remains-under-assault

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats say “Nearly half of Chicago voters didn’t choose Brandon Johnson or Paul Vallas Tuesday. Winning them over could be key in April.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/elections/ct-chicago-mayors-race-vallas-johnson-voters-20230305-m2nd6vx3azhsrnp32gtygomyu4-story.html
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTIRE: Democrats ever-increasingly promote illegal immigration.
https://news.yahoo.com/migrant-dream-cut-short-woman-110000719.html

DAILY HERALD
— Two adults, one child slain in Bolingbrook home invasion – Griffin Krueger
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20230305/two-adults-one-child-slain-in-bolingbrook-home-invasion

WGN9
— Democrats ask “President JB Pritzker?” and say “Illinois Governor brushes away questions of a White House run.’
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/president-jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-brushes-away-questions-of-a-white-house-run/

JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Democrats say “At CPAC forum, Trump sets eyes on returning to White House.”
https://jg-tc.com/news/national/at-cpac-forum-trump-sets-eyes-on-returning-to-white-house/video_334916d4-a966-5ed8-b4d3-de4c64f90119.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “CPAC shows many in Republican Party aren’t ready to move on from Trump.” Will hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters hint/imply/argue/shout that those Republicans who spoke at and attended the February 20, 2023 DeSantis event in Elmhurst were Trump-haters? They wanted to dictate which Republicans were reported as attending the event. That is why they did everything that they could to stop me from reporting on the event.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-03-05/cpac-shows-many-in-republican-party-arent-ready-to-move-on-from-trump
— Democrats say “Despite Republicans cooling on him, CPAC is still the Trump show.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-03-05/despite-republicans-cooling-on-him-cpac-is-still-the-trump-show

WGLC
— Illinois Democrats releases guide on protections against pregnancy discrimination and reproductive rights.
https://www.wglc.net/illinois-attorney-general-releases-guide-on-protections-against-pregnancy-discrimination-and-reproductive-rights/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROD
— Democrats say “Republicans see growing primary field as boon for Trump.”
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/republicans-see-growing-primary-field-as-boon-for-trump/

CWB CHICAGO
— 7 robbed during hour-long crime spree in downtown Chicago
https://cwbchicago.com/2023/03/7-robbed-during-hour-long-crime-spree-in-downtown-chicago.html

CAPITOL FAX
–Democrats say “Morning briefing.”
https://capitolfax.com/2023/03/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-28/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Podcast elicits starkly different views of Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas on woke ideology and critical race theory – Mark Glennon (COMMENT: If you are a Democrat, you have to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, you have to promote CRT, 1619, BLM, reparations, and wokeness/wokeism, that is, you have to promote Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, that is, you have to promote patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, that is, you have to promote hatred against Republicans. Further, if you are a Democrat, you have to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, that is, the destruction of traditional marriage and family, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, and abolition of the First and Second Amendments.)
https://wirepoints.org/podcast-elicits-starkly-different-views-of-brandon-johnson-and-paul-vallas-on-woke-ideology-and-critical-race-theory-wirepoints/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Ives Reports Republicans Trying to Increase Public Employee Pension Benefits
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/03/05/ives-reports-republicans-trying-to-increase-public-employee-pension-benefits/
— Candidates, Target Your Voters
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/03/05/candidates-target-your-voters/
— Illinois Lawmakers Force Property Owners to Subsidize Affordable Housing through Real Estate Taxes
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/03/05/illinois-lawmakers-force-property-owners-to-subsidie-afforable-housing-through-real-estate-taxes/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— MAYOR RACE PITS SCHOOL CHOICE AGAINST MORE POWER FOR CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION – Dylan Sharkey
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/mayor-race-pits-school-choice-against-more-power-for-chicago-teachers-union/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— FEBRUARY 13, 2023 FLASHBACK: March GOP State Central Committee Meeting Now Virtual: Is Don Tracy Afraid of the Grassroots or the Spread of COVID-19? (COMMENT: What is the date of the March 2023 Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee meeting? If it will be in person, where and at what time will it be? If it will be by Zoom, will Illinois Republican Precinct Committeemen/Captains like me and others be allowed to watch/listen and/or to speak during the public comment period?)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2023/02/march-gop-state-central-committee-meeting-now-virtual-is-don-tracy-afraid-of-the-grassroots-or-the-spread-of-covid-19.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Never backing down: Trump faithful see his path to victory in 2024 despite hurdles – Susan Ferrechio and Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/5/never-backing-down-trump-faithful-see-his-path-vic/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Conservative cowardice empowers the radical Left – Elizabeth Stauffer (COMMENT: Who are the conservative leaders in Illinois, in your county, in your township, and in your municipality. I should write an article about how the conservative leaders in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, and in Wheaton treat me and treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/conservative-cowardice-empowers-the-radical-left

NEW YORK POST
— ‘Ridiculous’: Jill Biden suggests Joe will never take competency test – Mark Moore
https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/jill-biden-suggests-prez-will-never-take-competency-test/
— Southern Illinois University professor urges bereavement leave for black educators to process racism trauma – Allie Griffin
https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/illinois-professor-angel-jones-urges-bereavement-for-black-educators-to-process-racism-trauma/
— New Biden equity push builds on efforts that spawned 300 woke programs – Caitlin Doornbos
https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/new-biden-equity-push-builds-on-efforts-that-spawned-300-woke-programs/
— State task force boosts reparations figure to $360K for each black Californian – Katherine Donlevy
https://nypost.com/2023/03/04/californian-boosts-reparations-figure-to-360k-for-each-black-citizen/

CONTRA
— The Soros, Zuckerberg, and Koch Money at CPAC. Matt Schlapp has tried to reinvent the conservative conference as a hub of right-wing populism. But the billionaire dollars swirling around it tell a different story. – Pedro L. Gonzalez (COMMENT: He who pays the piper calls the tunes.)
https://contra.substack.com/p/the-soros-zuckerberg-and-koch-money


FOX NEWS

DAILY CALLER
— Donald Trump Tops National Primary Polls, But Here’s Who Is Leading In Key States – MARY LOU MASTERS
https://dailycaller.com/2023/03/05/here-states-where-desantis-leads-trump-polls/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas and Utah, the former president leads, but no polling for 2023 is available.)
— The New GOP Is The Party Of Parents – JOSH HAMMER (COMMENT: Yes, but what percent of the parents in your school district are Democrat, that is, anti-heterosexual, anti-individual responsibility, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-First and Second Amendment, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time? To be a Democrat is to be the aforesaid.)
https://dailycaller.com/2023/03/05/opinion-the-new-gop-is-the-party-of-parents-josh-hammer/

DAILY WIRE
— Ron DeSantis Torches Gavin Newsom Over ‘Woke Mind Virus’ During Event In California – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-torches-gavin-newsom-over-woke-mind-virus-during-event-in-california

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Tells CPAC: Expect Action, Innovation, End of ‘Wokeness’ in His 2nd Term – Janice Hisle
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-tells-cpac-expect-action-innovation-end-of-wokeness-in-his-2nd-term_5100596.html

FOX NEWS
— Bolingbrook shooting: Possible home invasion leaves 3 dead, including child. Bolingbrook police said one victim, an adult female, has been transported to an area hospital for treatment. – Lawrence Richard
https://www.foxnews.com/us/bolingbrook-shooting-dead-juvenile-possible-home-invasion
— Our country has put wokeness ahead of excellence. – Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation President
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6321866119112
— Ronald Reagan Presidential Library sign vandalized with graffiti ahead of DeSantis book talk. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library employees found the graffiti on Sunday morning. – Andrea Vacchiano
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ronald-reagan-presidential-library-sign-vandalized-graffiti-ahead-desantis-book-talk
— Merchant Marine midshipmen warn of ‘wokeness’ in the academy: ‘We’re no longer focused on excellence’ The Merchant Marine Academy is under the Department of Transportation. – Ashley Carnahan (COMMENT: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors’ top priority was hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats, and especially Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/merchant-marine-midshipmen-warn-wokeness-academy-no-longer-focused-excellence
— DeSantis’ immigration plan would invalidate Gov. Newsom’s IDs for illegal immigrants. Florida illegal immigration proposal is a blueprint for other states, state senator says. – Jon Michael Raasch
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gov-desantis-immigration-plan-invalidate-gov-newsoms-ids-illegal-immigrants
— Activist blasts California board’s claim that reparations for Black Americans would halt crime: ‘A bad idea’ Speaker at Sacramento meeting also claimed reparations would help ‘stimulate the economy’ – Taylor Penley
https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-boards-claim-reparations-blacks-halt-crime-blast-bad-idea
— Southern Illinois University professor demands Black staff get special paid time off to deal with ‘fatigue,’ ‘trauma’ from systemic racism. Critical race theorist Angel Jones says faculty should get special bereavement leave, counseling services. – Hannah Grossman
https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-demands-black-people-special-paid-time-off-deal-fatigue-trauma-systemic-racism
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A critical race theorist and professor demanded that Black people should get special bereavement leave and counseling services in order to deal with issues relating to systemic racism. Angel Jones is a visiting professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville whose work is grounded in critical race theory and critical race feminism. CRT is an ideology and lens that holds America’s institutions are systemically racist and views individuals in an oppressor vs. oppressed narrative. Critical race theory postulates that policies that privilege oppressed people should be implemented in order to achieve equity and make up for historical wrongs. Jones argued that Black faculty should be granted special paid time off and mental health therapy to deal with events of alleged police brutality in an article published in Times Higher Education on Feb. 23. Jones did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether she supported bereavement leave for all minorities in oppressed categories. “I am a proud educator who loves what I do. But before that, I am a Black woman,” she wrote. “A Black woman who is expected to return to ‘business as usual’ on Monday after seeing a member of my community murdered on Friday. Although it is customary for employees to receive support and understanding while grieving the loss of a loved one, the same care is rarely shown to the Black community when we lose someone in horrific and traumatic ways. Where’s our Black bereavement leave?” She called campus-wide statements to students in the aftermath of racial events in the news as “obligatory” and “performative,” adding it didn’t go far enough to address Black faculty’s “trauma,” which they need to “process.” “Where are our counseling services? Where is our grace for missed meetings and deadlines while we mourn? Yes, we have jobs to do and students to support, but we also have trauma to process.” In order to deal with “racial battle fatigue,” the professor said funding should be allocated to the mental health of Black staff. Racial battle fatigue refers to the “psychological and physiological consequences of experiencing racism.” Jones said the proclaimed psychological phenomenon “has been well documented and can have ‘deadly’ symptoms, including ‘suicidal thoughts.’” Racial battle fatigue, the professor said, can also cause “elevated heart rate, tension headaches and stomach ulcers.” “We experience these symptoms on a regular basis as a result of our first-hand racial trauma,” she said. “Free counseling services, by culturally competent counselors familiar with identifying and addressing [racial battle fatigue], should be available at all times.” In addition to counseling, Jones demanded “Black bereavement leave” in order to have the “space and time to grieve.” Bereavement on the basis of race requires a day off, an ability to work from home, a deadline extension and to have their workload reassigned. Including these benefits will help “for the retention of Black faculty and staff.” “Don’t assume you know what they want or need just because you read this article. Anti-Blackness is intentional, so your efforts to combat it must also be,” she said.)

JONATHAN TURLEY
— Should Universities offer Black bereavement leave?
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/04/should-universities-offer-black-bereavement-leave/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— “Fighting against equity discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time.” “There is no future for this country in a system where you discriminate against people in order to get even, or to take retribution on other people…. Don’t give up the country to this pernicious ideology.” – William A. Jacobson
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/03/fighting-against-equity-discrimination-is-the-civil-rights-issue-of-our-time/
— Columbia University Becomes First Ivy League School To Permanently Eliminate Required Standardized Admissions Testing. As affirmative Action likely comes to an end later this SCOTUS term, higher education will not give up its obsession with racial preferences, it’ll just eliminate the key type of evidence relied upon by the Asian students in the Harvard case: Standardized test scores. – William A. Jacobson (COMMENT: My passing standardized tests enable me a) to get hired by the Post Office in 1966, Firestone Stores in 1970, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980; b) to earn a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970, an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) to become a CPA in 1979; and d) to become a Certified Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981.)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/03/hide-the-ball-columbia-u-becomes-first-ivy-league-school-to-permanently-eliminate-required-standardized-admissions-testing/

NEWS BUSTERS
— PBS: CPAC Now a Hotbed of ‘White Grievance Politics’ and ‘Anti-LGBTQ’ – Clay Waters
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2023/03/05/pbs-cpac-now-hotbed-white-grievance-politic

PATRIOT POST
— Fetterman Scandal Spins Out of Control – Days After John’s Hospitalization, His Family Flees and the Senator Goes Silent – Adam Casalino
https://pjnewsletter.com/fetterman-scandal-hospital-family-silent/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Trump: “Day One” I Will Revoke Biden’s Executive Order Installing “Marxist Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Czars” And Fire All Of Them. – Tim Hains
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/flashback-bob-schieffer-visits-selma-with-john-lewis/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrats say “Kari Lake wins CPAC vice president poll, topping DeSantis, Haley.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kari-lake-wins-cpac-vice-president-poll-topping-desantis-haley/ar-AA18fZYQ

NBC NEWS
— Democrats say “Trump and DeSantis take veiled shots at each other as potential primary heats up.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/trump-desantis-take-shots-primary-heats-rcna73521

CBS NEWS
— Democrats say “Transcript: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Face the Nation, March 5, 2023.” Ever-increasing, Democrats make it clear that they want Pritzker to be America’s next President. Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton RINOs would rather see Pritzker be America’s next President than Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-face-the-nation-transcript-03-05-2023/
— COMMENT: Pritzker ever-increasingly makes it clear that he can and that he will destroy Republican candidates,
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-says-republicans-in-2024-have-a-lot-of-extreme-right-wing-candidates/

REUTERS
— Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote hatred against DeSantis.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ron-desantis-attacks-liberals-california-speech-he-mulls-white-house-run-2023-03-05/

MSNBC
— Democrats say “Ron DeSantis’ new book is a gift to his opponents.”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ron-desantis-new-book-may-roadmap-defeat-rcna72922
— Democrats say “DeSantis faces new questions about his personnel decisions.”
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ron-desantis-faces-new-questions-personnel-decisions-rcna73533

YAHOO & BARRON’S & REUTERS & CNN & PBS & BLOOMBERG & ABC NEWS & CBS NEWS & NEW YORK TIMES
— Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrats blame Republicans for all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have. Ever-increasingly, Democrats a) paint themselves as having been the Union Army in the Civil War and b) paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army in the Civil War. Ever-increasingly, Democrats paint the KKK as being a Republican organization and Jim Crow laws as being Republican laws. I should write a book about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that. I would focus on the successes and failures that they had turning my Black GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me. To turn Blacks against me, they stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant (baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran), 100% German American, my ancestors have been in America since 1844, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978. In my defense, I stressed that all my ancestors were Republicans who lived in northeast Illinois.
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-chides-gop-trying-hide-215426951.html
https://www.barrons.com/news/in-selma-biden-says-us-must-face-the-good-the-bad-of-its-history-ec622c2b
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-spotlight-voting-rights-black-voters-bloody-sunday-selma-visit-2023-03-05/
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/05/selma-biden-voting-rights-00085570
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/politics/joe-biden-selma-bloody-sunday/index.html
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/news-wrap-biden-pushes-for-voting-rights-during-visit-to-selma
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-05/biden-to-mark-selma-s-1965-bloody-sunday-with-eye-on-2024-race
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/president-biden-marks-anniversary-bloody-sunday-selma-alabama-97646952
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/flashback-bob-schieffer-visits-selma-with-john-lewis/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/us/politics/biden-voting-rights-selma.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote hatred against DeSantis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/us/ron-desantis-florida-legislature.html
— Democrats say “Republican Votes Helped Washington Pile Up Debt.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/us/politics/federal-debt-republicans-democrats.html
— Democrats say that Paul Ryan says that even MAGA diehards believe Trump can’t win in 2024.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/06/magazine/paul-ryan-interview.html
— Democrats say “It Would Be Foolish to Ignore What Just Happened in Chicago.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/opinion/chicago-crime-democrats-masks.html
— Democrats say “You Can’t Help but Feel That the Magic of CPAC Is Running Out.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/opinion/cpac-trump-republicans.html
— What Republican Parents Really Want – Patrick T. Brown (COMMENT: What percent of the parents in your school district are Democrat, that is, anti-heterosexual, anti-individual responsibility, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-First and Second Amendment, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time? To be a Democrat is to be the aforesaid.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/opinion/republican-family-policy.html
— How Young People Save: Living With Mom and Dad – Isabella Simonetti (COMMENT: My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. After I graduated from NIU in August of 1970, I lived with and helped my mother and brother and helped support them until I bought a new town home in University Park in September of 1972.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/business/adults-living-home-parents-saving.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “Trump pitches a sequel, but shies away from attacking rivals.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-cpac-gop-nomination-campaign/2023/03/04/84878714-baea-11ed-b0df-8ca14de679ad_story.html
— Ever-increasingly, Democrats encourage illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/migration-asylum-miami-catholic-church/2023/03/05/90e31bc6-bb5e-11ed-9350-7c5fccd598ad_story.html
— Republican bills in Florida fight Democrat domination of education.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/05/florida-bills-would-ban-gender-studies-transgender-pronouns-tenure-perks/
— Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote hatred against DeSantis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/05/desantis-california-reagan-library-speech/
— Democrats say “Where New York’s Asian Neighborhoods Shifted to the Right.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/05/nyregion/election-asians-voting-republicans-nyc.html
— Democrats promote Underwood’s life choices.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/03/04/congresswoman-lauren-underwood-profile/

USA TODAY
— Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote hatred against DeSantis.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/05/2024-desantis-book-florida-trump/11407306002/
— Democrats ever-increasingly pay reporters and pay journalists to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/03/06/desantis-threatens-first-amendment-florida-defamation-bill/11389752002/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Stretch of Canadian Border Bustles With Migrants. Officials for U.S. and Canada encounter unprecedented numbers. – Alicia Caldwell
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-stretch-of-canadian-border-bustles-with-migrants-1503efb0
— Trump vs. DeSantis: A Shadow Presidential Contest Revs Up and Heads to Iowa. Dueling events this weekend highlight contrasts and jabs between the front-runners. – Eliza Collins and Alex Leary
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-vs-desantis-a-shadow-presidential-contest-revs-up-and-heads-to-iowa-2880da78
— How to prod people to increase retirement savings – Shlomo Benartzi (COMMENT: Factors that prodded my wife and I to save more for our retirement included her working for the U.S. League of Savings Institutions 1970-1992, and especially after the League ended her defined-benefit pension.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/retirement-savings-behavioral-techniques-f2f17985

NPR
— Democrats say “CPAC shows many in Republican Party aren’t ready to move on from Trump.” Of course, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters hint/imply/argue/shout that those Republicans who spoke at and attended the February 20, 2023 DeSantis event in Elmhurst were Trump-haters. They wanted to dictate which Republicans were reported as attending the event. That is why they did everything that they could to stop me from reporting on the event.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/05/1161221969/cpac-shows-many-in-republican-party-arent-ready-to-move-on-from-trump

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Democrats say that the ACLU Florida chapter says that “A proposed law that would require people (PAID FOR) blogging about Ron DeSantis to register with the state is a clear violation of the First Amendment:” Government is nasty/vicious. Politics is nasty/vicious. I should write a book about those who since 2000 have talked and/or acted the most like they have paid people and/or have had people paid, including government employees, a) to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and/or b) paid to stop everyone from reading those newsletters. I would focus on Republican elected officials in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton.
https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-blogger-registration-bill-violates-first-amendment-aclu-2023-3
(FROM THE ARTICLE: If passed, the law would also mandate that these bloggers submit monthly reports about their work, outlining how much payment they received, and who paid them. When asked about the bill, Brodeur told the website Florida Politics he thinks “paid bloggers are lobbyists who write instead of talk.” It’s unclear if DeSantis personally supports Brodeur’s proposed law. In a message to Insider on Friday, a spokesman for DeSantis said the governor’s communications office is “reviewing the bill.” “As usual, the governor will consider the merits of a bill in final form if and when it passes the legislature,” the spokesman told Insider.)

POLITICO
— Democrats say “DeSantis sells California GOP on Florida vs. California.’ Will the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) invite DeSantis to speak? If DeSantis does speak, will the IRP let me report who the high-profile Republican attendees were?
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2023/03/06/desantis-sells-california-republicans-on-florida-versus-california-00085609
— Democrats say “When Ron DeSantis met the swamp. The Florida governor used his six-year House career as a stepping-stone rather than a platform, leaving to find true national prominence.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/06/ron-desantis-house-00085523
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Rodney Davis “wants DeSantis to run for president.”)
— The mainstream news media ever-increasingly a) promotes Pritzker and b) demonizes, denigrates, and condemns DeSantis, that is, the mainstream news media ever-increasingly a) promotes the Democrat Party platform and b) demonizes, denigrates, and condemns the Republican Party platform.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/05/desantis-florida-education-race-gender-00085545

ATLANTIC
— Democrats say “The Martyr at CPAC. Donald Trump came to the conservative conference to air some grievances.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/03/donald-trump-cpac-speech-message/673288/

NEW YORK MAGAZINE:
— Democrats say “CPAC Was a Janky Half-Empty Trump Convention This Conservative Political Action Conference lacked both conservatives and action.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/cpac-was-a-janky-half-empty-trump-convention.html

EDUCATION WEEK
— Democrats say “Chicago’s Next Mayor Will Be a Former Educator.” I am a former GAO Analyst. I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $109,142,650/year. I am a former IRS Revenue Officer. 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 $92,279-$104,583/year.
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/chicagos-next-mayor-will-be-a-former-educator/2023/03

AXIOS
— Democrats say “CPAC exposes conservative split.”
https://www.axios.com/2023/03/05/cpac-trump-exposes-conservative-split
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform in conservative. Since at least 2000, the top priority for the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) has been to get rid of conservatives like me, that is, to get rid of platform Republicans like me, that is, to destroy and dissolve the IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO.
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/09/americas-top-priorities-biden-congress-partisan-split

WIKIPEDIA
— Non-partisanism (COMMENT: Non-partisanism does not exist.
If you are a Democrat, you have to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, you have to promote CRT, 1619, BLM, reparations, and wokeness/wokeism, that is, you have to promote Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, that is, you have to promote patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, that is, you have to promote hatred against Republicans. Further, if you are a Democrat, you have to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, that is, the destruction of traditional marriage and family, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, and abolition of the First and Second Amendments.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisanism

TELEGRAPH
— Democrats say “Illinois launches slavery reparations commission website.” Expect that Pritzker will make those in Illinois who are the following pay the most reparations: heterosexual, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, healthy, non-poor, homeowners, those in traditional marriages, gun-owners, Christians, Protestants, Italian American, German American, are/or those whose ancestor have been in America for a long time. Expect that the more of the aforesaid that you are, the more reparations that Pritzker will make to pay.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/reparations-17816607.php

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.