May 16 Morning Edition

CBS2
— Rep. Danny Davis Holds Virtual Townhall Meeting On Reparations And Bill Awaiting Vote In Congress
(DIERSEN: Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion are reparations.)
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/05/15/rep-danny-davis-townhall-reparations/

WTTW
— Colleges Pushed Anew for Reparations for Slavery, Racism – AP
(DIERSEN: Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion are reparations. How much more reparations will the college(s) that you graduated from agree to pay in reparations? I attended UIC 1966-1968 and 1971, NIU 1969-1970, Loyola 1972-1976, DePaul 1976-1980, Roosevelt 1980-1981, and IIT 1992-1997. I earned 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 finance from IIT in 1997. Will UIC, NIU, Loyola, DePaul, Roosevelt, and IIT apologize for admitting me instead of Blacks?)
https://news.wttw.com/2021/05/15/colleges-pushed-anew-reparations-slavery-racism
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For Brown University students, the Ivy League college’s next step in its yearslong quest to atone for its legacy of slavery is clear: Pay up. Nearly two decades after the Providence, Rhode Island, institution launched its much-lauded reckoning, undergraduate students this spring voted overwhelmingly for the university to identify the descendants of slaves that worked on campus and begin paying them reparations. At the University of Georgia, community activists want the school to contribute to Athens’ efforts to atone for an urban renewal project that destroyed a Black community in the 1960s to make way for college dorms. And at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., there’s growing dissatisfaction among some slave descendants about the Catholic institution’s pioneering reparations efforts. Nearly a year after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police sparked the latest national reckoning on racism, student and community activists from New England to the Deep South are demanding institutions take more ambitious steps to atone for past sins — from colonial-era slavery to more recent campus expansion projects that have pushed out entire communities of color.)

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Migrant parents separate from kids, send them into US alone – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-migrant-family-separation-20210515-u2cnfzdt3ndphpo7mhox6k5xeq-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A vaccine-promoter says “Vaccinated people don’t shed viral particles.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210516/facts-matter-vaccinated-people-dont-shed-viral-particles

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Cheney removal prompts another example of media bias
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/05/16/local-commentary-on-liz-chaneys-dumping/
— “Neo-Segregation” Not So New
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/05/15/neo-segregation-not-so-new/
— IL-16: Catalina Lauf in DC Introduced by Republican Study Committee Chairman
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/05/15/lauf051521/
— UPDATED with Draft Map: County Board Remap Updates
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/05/14/cbremap050721/
— Pritzker Announces Subsidy for People Wealthy Enough to Buy Electric Cars
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2021/05/14/pritzker-announces-subsidy-for-people-wealthy-enough-to-buy-electric-cars/

WIREPOINTS
— “Equity” hire at Hinsdale District 86 is latest example of how CRTL standards will politicize Illinois classrooms – Ted Dabrowski
https://wirepoints.org/equity-hire-at-hinsdale-district-86-is-latest-example-of-how-crtl-standards-will-politicize-illinois-classrooms-wirepoints/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Dispute over new mask guidelines escalates partisan rancor in House – Susan Ferrechio
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/mask-dispute-escalates-partisan-rancor-house

FOX NEWS
— NYC Pride bans police from events through 2025, LGBT officers slam the move – Caitlin McFall

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-pride-bans-police-from-events-through-2025

AMERICAN THINKER
— A Legal System Corrupted – Clarice Feldman
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/05/a_legal_system_corrupted.html

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Limitations of the Hatred Coalition. – Paul Gottfried
(DIERSEN: The hatred coalition promotes hatred against individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. How successful has the hatred coalition been in your county, in your county district, in your township, in your municipality, in your municipal district, and in your precinct? I should conduct a survey of the voters in DuPage County, DuPage County’s 4th District, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton’s West District, and my precinct.)
https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/15/limitations-of-the-hatred-coalition/

BLAZE
— American Airlines investigating pilot who criticized school district’s ‘diversity and inclusion’ plan – CHRIS ENLOE
(DIERSEN: I should write a book about the adverse actions that my Democrat superiors in the federal government took against me a) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because in 1988, when I was 40 years old, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged GAO with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/american-airlines-investigating-pilot-who-criticized-school-districts-diversity-and-inclusion-plan

DAILY SIGNAL
— How Biden Aims to Take Critical Race Theory to the Next Level in Your School – Lindsey Burke
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/05/15/how-biden-aims-to-take-critical-race-theory-to-the-next-level-in-your-school/

TOWNHALL
— Chilling Changes Are Coming Out of the Biden Administration’s HHS Redefining Sex – Rebecca Downs
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/05/15/chilling-changes-are-coming-out-of-the-biden-administrations-hhs-redefining-sex-n2589520
— Biden is the New Jimmy Carter, But He’s Even Worse – Craig Shirley
https://townhall.com/columnists/craigshirley/2021/05/16/biden-is-the-new-jimmy-carter-but-hes-even-worse-n2589517

PJ MEDIA
— OUTRAGEOUS: Space Force Unit C.O. Relieved of Duty for Criticizing Marxism in the Military – BRYAN PRESTON
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2021/05/15/outrageous-space-force-unit-c-o-relieved-of-duty-for-criticizing-marxism-in-the-military-n1447237

POST MILLENNIAL
— American Boy Scouts have gone WOKE: Eagles now required to earn ‘diversity and inclusion’ badges. The Boy Scouts of America organization has released a lengthy letter iterating their support for the BLM organization and explaining the implementation of new diversity measures. – James Anthony
https://thepostmillennial.com/american-boy-scouts-have-gone-woke-eagles-now-required-to-earn-diversity-and-inclusion-badges

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Burgess Owens Introducing Legislation to Fight Biden Rollback of Trump Ban on Critical Race Theory. “Critical Race Theory preserves this way of thinking and undermines civil rights, constitutionally guaranteed equal protection before the law, and U.S. institutions at large.” – Mike LaChance
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/05/burgess-owens-introducing-legislation-to-fight-biden-rollback-of-trump-ban-on-critical-race-theory/

ECONOMIST
— The souls of white folk White Americans are realizing that they belong to a race too.
(DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, if you are White, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs get rid of you if you fail/refuse to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things. They especially want everyone to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write a book about a) Whites who promote hatred against Whites to curry favor with White-haters, b) men who promote hatred against men to curry favor with men-haters, c) older people who promote hatred against older people curry favor with those who hate older people, d) heterosexuals who promote hatred against heterosexuals to curry favor with those who hate heterosexuals, e) RINOs who promote hatred against Republicans to curry favor with Republican-haters, f) etc.)
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/05/14/the-souls-of-white-folk

THE HILL
— Trump tells followers not to give money to Karl Rove – MAX GREENWOOD
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/553628-trump-tells-followers-not-to-give-money-to-karl-rove

REUTERS
— Biden says unemployed offered jobs must take them or lose benefits – Nandita Bose
(DIERSEN: What about bad jobs? According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I did yard work and delivered newspapers in Crete 1962-1964; washed dishes in Chicago Heights 1964-1966; cleaned golf shoes in Flossmoor, chipped slag in Chicago Heights, and pumped gasoline in Chicago Heights in 1966; delivered mail in Park Forest 1966-1969; worked on an automobile assembly line in Belvidere and as a security guard in DeKalb in 1970; sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances in Chicago Heights 1970-1971; and pumped gasoline in Chicago Heights 1971-1972.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-says-unemployed-americans-offered-181318416.html

MSN
— McCarthy dings Biden after meeting: Doesn’t have ‘energy of Donald Trump’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mccarthy-dings-biden-after-meeting-doesnt-have-energy-of-donald-trump/ar-BB1gLEz9?li=BBnb7Kz

MSNBC
— Essential workers balk at GOP’s ‘lazy’ label, skip out on low wage standard
(DIERSEN: What about bad jobs? According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I did yard work and delivered newspapers in Crete 1962-1964; washed dishes in Chicago Heights 1964-1966; cleaned golf shoes in Flossmoor, chipped slag in Chicago Heights, and pumped gasoline in Chicago Heights in 1966; delivered mail in Park Forest 1966-1969; worked on an automobile assembly line in Belvidere and as a security guard in DeKalb in 1970; sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances in Chicago Heights 1970-1971; and pumped gasoline in Chicago Heights 1971-1972.)
https://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/watch/essential-workers-balk-at-gop-s-lazy-label-skip-out-on-low-wage-standard-112036421858

NEW YORK TIMES
— Pride Group Bars Police From March In New York – Michael Gold
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/nyregion/nyc-pride-nypd-banned.html
– Two Candidates and the Disparate Wages of Political Sins. Before harassment allegations, city comptroller Scott Stringer, center, was a leading candidate in the mayoral race. – Ginia Bellafante
(DIERSEN: Needless-to-say, if you paint yourself as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican and if you have ever done anything that subjects you to blackmail, you should not seek or hold any of government or political office. What do you say to those who paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican and who expect/demand that I not include links in GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to credible articles on credible websites written by credible authors that report serious charges against them?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/nyregion/nyc-mayor-election-scott-stringer-eric-adams.html

NEWSWEEK
— Miles Taylor Disputes Kevin McCarthy Saying GOP Is ‘Big Tent,’ Calls for Breakaway 3rd Party – NATALIE COLAROSSI
(DIERSEN: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, Independent plants, and RINOs use the Republican Party’s “Big Tent” policy to destroy the Republican Party. I should write a book about the success that Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, Independent plants, and RINOs have had in destroying the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Party, Milton Township Republican Organization, etc.)
https://www.newsweek.com/miles-taylor-disputes-kevin-mccarthy-saying-gop-big-tent-calls-breakaway-3rd-party-1591847

FORBES
— How Employers Can Cultivate Bravery In A Cancel-Culture World – Kimberly A. Whitler
(DIERSEN: The more of the following that their employees were, the more that my Democrat superiors in the federal government canceled them: Republican, conservative, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owner, Protestant, German American, and/or if their ancestors had been in America for a long time.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimberlywhitler/2021/05/15/how-employers-can-cultivate-bravery-in-a-cancel-culture-world/

DESERET NEWS
— The 1619 Project and critical race theory rewrite history through the lens of ‘wokeness’ – Chris Stewart
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2021/5/15/22434644/utah-critical-race-theory-in-schools-1619-project-education

SAND POINT READER
— Two Fourths equal a whole lot of trouble. As the city lays the debate to rest, how exactly did the 2021 Fourth of July parade become a hearsay showdown? – Zach Hagadone
https://sandpointreader.com/two-fourths-equal-a-whole-lot-of-trouble/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Perhaps it’s fitting that a holiday commemorating the commencement of a world-historical conflict should generate controversy. So it has been with Sandpoint’s traditional Fourth of July celebration — canceled by its longtime sponsors, the Lions Club, in 2020 in an abundance of caution over COVID-19 exposure and picked up by an independent group, Sandpoint Independence Day. The nonprofit SID organization, helmed by local conservative activists Steve Wasylko and Ron Korn, purported to “save” Independence Day in 2020, making claims that the Lions Club — which had put on the parade and fireworks show for nearly 70 years — had “pass[ed] the baton.” In that spirit, SID again applied for a permit to put on the parade in 2021, which the city denied. SID organizers then appealed the denial, arguing their case before City Council at its May 5 regular meeting. “They [the Lions] wanted to give this up,” Wasylko told the council, with Korn adding: “We were told by Janice [Rader, current vice president] that the Lions Club was no longer interested in hosting the event.”)

NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Conservatives Excommunicated the Last Republican President Who Lost – Jonathan Chait
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/republicans-excommunicated-bush-for-losing-but-not-trump.html

ATLANTIC
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrat teachers teach their students to be anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-traditional marriage/family, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/civics-education-1619-crt/618894/

DAILY MAIL
— BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors blasts ‘white supremacy’ of the housing market just weeks after her luxury $3MILLION property portfolio was revealed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9583359/Marxist-Black-Lives-Matter-founder-Patrisse-Cullors-bemoans-racism-inside-housing-market.html

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.