ABC7
— Chicago shootings: 46 shot, 5 fatally, in weekend violence across city. A 2-year-old girl is among the weekend shooting victims in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/46-shot-5-killed-in-chicago-weekend-violence-/10649276/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Tom Dart says he’s spent $38 million during the pandemic on inmates who should have been in state prisons. The Cook County sheriff has told the head of the Illinois Department of Corrections he wants to begin sending hundreds of inmates from the county jail to the state prison system. – Frank Main
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2021/5/17/22436412/tom-dart-illinois-department-corrections-cook-county-jail-covid-pandemic
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Alexi Giannoulias gets Downstate county chairmen’s endorsement for secretary of state Democratic nomination – RICK PEARSON (DIERSEN: Who are all the announced candidates for the offices on the March 15, 2022 Republican primary ballot for your precinct? Those offices include U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois Senate and House offices, countywide offices, county district offices, and judicial offices. I certainly hope that Wheaton has a traditional Independence Day parade and that all the aforesaid candidates on ballots in DuPage County have entries in the parade and help sponsor Wheaton’s Independence Day fireworks and parade.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-alexi-giannoulias-endorsement-secretary-of-state-race-20210517-y6pgvb7ww5g3hcfs6imaso4f2u-story.html
— A humble plea to Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Please resubscribe to the Chicago Tribune – HEIDI STEVENS (DIERSEN: I should write a book about those a) who discourage me from putting together and sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) who discourage everyone from reading those newsletters.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-heidi-stevens-subscribe-to-the-tribune-mayor-lightfoot-0514-20210514-5c5z6lafvvft3j4vqjo6ex4iue-story.html
— What do Chicago’s south suburbs need? New, strong leadership. – EDITORIAL
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-chicago-covid-economic-recovery-south-suburbs-20210517-5u7gpj2kqbei5cg3v5frzmxfti-story.html
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Suburban projects on the list as Illinois lawmakers embrace return of earmarks – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210517/suburban-projects-on-the-list-as-illinois-lawmakers-embrace-return-of-earmarks
WTTW
— Illinois Senate Bill Addresses Black Hair Discrimination in Schools Across State – Erica Gunderson
https://news.wttw.com/2021/05/16/illinois-senate-bill-addresses-black-hair-discrimination-schools-across-state
NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats crow about their success in getting Blacks to hate Whites and to hate police.
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/poll-details-very-different-views-black-and-white-americans-race-and-police#stream/0
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Police punished for speaking out against Black Lives Matter – James Varney (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.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/16/police-punished-speaking-out-against-blm/
FOX NEWS
— Trump heading to battleground NC to headline state GOP convention Trump address will be first outside of his Mar-a-Lago resort since keynote CPAC speech – Paul Steinhauser
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-north-carolina-visit-state-gop-convention
AMERICAN THINKER
— Our Democrat Rulers Can’t Be Serious – Steve Feinstein
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/05/our_democrat_rulers_cant_be_serious.html
— Newsom turns to bribery, opening up a big bag of goodies to Californians in a bid to head off recall – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/05/newsom_turns_to_bribery_opening_up_a_big_bag_of_goodies_to_californians_in_a_bid_to_head_off_recall.html
BREITBART
— Air Force Lt. Colonel Fired After Remarks About Marxism, Critical Race Theory Spreading in Military – KRISTINA WONG (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.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/16/air-force-lt-colonel-fired-remarks-marxism-critical-race-theory-spreading-military/
— SNL Cruelly Mocks Liz Cheney Despite Diehard Never-Trump Virtue Signaling – ALANA MASTRANGELO
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/05/16/snl-cruelly-mocks-liz-cheney-despite-diehard-never-trump-virtue-signaling/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Biden, the Border Crisis, and Flights for Illegal Immigrants – Ken McIntyre
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/05/16/we-hear-you-biden-the-border-crisis-and-flights-for-illegal-immigrants/
TOWNHALL
— The New Bigotry: Vax Discrimination Against Republicans? – Joy Overbeck
https://townhall.com/columnists/joyoverbeck/2021/05/17/the-new-bigotry-vax-discrimination-against-republicans-n2589546
FEDERALIST
— There Is No Way To ‘Fix’ The Equality Act. It’s Identity Politics Or Equality Before The Law, And Republicans Must Choose. There can be no compromise with those whose political program requires erasing American citizens’ constitutionally guaranteed rights to freely speak and freely worship. – Joy Pullmann
https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/17/there-is-no-way-to-fix-the-equality-act-its-identity-politics-or-equality-before-the-law-and-republicans-must-choose/
NEWSMAX
— Hawley’s Once-Canceled Big Tech Book Emerges a Bestseller – Eric Mack
https://www.newsmax.com/us/josh-hawley-big-tech-cancel-culture-bestseller/2021/05/16/id/1021589/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Woke Higher Ed Is A Mixture of “Cancel Culture, Critical Race Theory, and Cruelty” – William A. Jacobson
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/05/woke-higher-ed-is-a-mixture-of-cancel-culture-critical-race-theory-and-cruelty/
THE HILL
— Republicans seize on conservative backlash against critical race theory – JULIA MANCHESTER
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/553631-republicans-seize-on-conservative-backlash-against-critical-race-theory
POLITICO
— Rise of a megadonor: Thiel makes a play for the Senate – ALEX ISENSTADT (DIERSEN: He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I should write a book about Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have talked and/or acted like those who gave them lots of money wanted/demanded that they a) stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, b) stop everyone from reading my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, c) end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship, d) end my Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee membership, e) end my Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster service, f) end my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership, and/or g) end my American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board membership. I would focus on candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois Senate and House offices, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage county district offices, Milton Township offices, Wheaton city-wide offices, Wheaton West District offices, and judicial offices.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/17/peter-thiel-senate-megadonor-488799
MSN
— Josh Hawley’s ‘canceled’ book on Big Tech is now a best-seller – Melissa Koenig
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/josh-hawleys-canceled-book-on-big-tech-is-now-a-best-seller/ar-BB1gO0wB
— Majority of Republicans agree with decision to replace Cheney: Poll – Lawrence Richard
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/majority-of-republicans-agree-with-decision-to-replace-cheney-poll/ar-BB1gNGcu?li=BBnbcA1
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE WITH COLOR PICTURE: DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats illegally encourage citizens of foreign countries to illegally come to America illegally and to illegally stay in America illegally. Democrats should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/us/migrants-border-coronavirus-pandemic.html
— Why Justice Breyer May Resist Calls for His Retirement In a recent speech on “the peril of politics,” Justice Stephen G. Breyer said judges must renounce loyalty to “the political party that helped to secure their appointment.” – Adam Liptak (DIERSEN: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. I should write a book about candidates in ballots in my precinct since 2000 who got elected as Republicans, but then dumped many, most, if not virtually all of the planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its traditional marriage/family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/us/justice-breyer-retirement.html
WASHINGTON POST
— The NRA just had a major legal setback. But its hold on the gun-control debate endures. – Tom Hamburger, Mike DeBonis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nra-gun-control-debate/2021/05/15/30b7cf04-b475-11eb-a980-a60af976ed44_story.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: To elect Biden, Democrats falsely painted him as being a moderate. They stressed that he was White, male, old, Catholic, Irish American, heterosexual, married, his ancestors have been in America for a long time, etc.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-05-16/joe-bidens-governing-as-a-progressive-thats-a-surprise-only-if-you-werent-paying-attention
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Can Freedom Survive the Narratives? We live in the age of supercharged story lines, most of which are demagogic nonsense. – Lance Morrow
https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-freedom-survive-the-narratives-11621185599
— Biden’s Plan for Free Community College Faces Resistance – Josh Mitchell (DIERSEN: What motivated you to work while you were in high school and college? For me, it was to earn money to pay for college expenses and new cars to drive to/from classes and work. I paid for my college expenses at UIC 1966-1968 and NIU 1969-1970 and new cars with money that I earned washing dishes 1964-1966; cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline in 1966; delivering mail 1966-1969; and working on an automobile assembly line and as a security guard in 1970. I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, and a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-plan-for-free-community-college-faces-resistance-11621170004
— Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe Into Prior Relationship With Staffer – Emily Glazer, Justin Baer, Khadeeja Safdar and Aaron Tilley
https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-directors-decided-bill-gates-needed-to-leave-board-due-to-prior-relationship-with-staffer-11621205803
— Facebook’s ‘Fact Checks’ Suppress Debate. The social-media site seeks to discredit a review of my book on climate science. – Steven E. Koonin
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-fact-checks-suppress-debate-11621194172
ALIOS
— Franklin Graham worries Trump too old to run in 2024 (DIERSEN: I was born in 1948. All my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always promoted age discrimination. What would you stress in defense of your age? I stress that neither health problems nor any other kind of problem has stopped me from putting together and sending out a GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter a) each and every morning since 2004 and b) each and every evening too since 2015. Further, I have the best record by far for attending Milton Township Republican Organization meetings and fundraisers since 1999.)
https://www.axios.com/franklin-graham-trump-2024-president-054ab9ca-f55e-4588-baa0-b564cefa0592.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Rev. Franklin Graham says a potential 2024 presidential bid by Donald Trump would “be a very tough thing to do,” the prominent Christian leader told “Axios on HBO.” Why it matters: Graham, the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, was among Trump’s earliest and most prominent evangelical defenders. Graham told “Axios on HBO” that a Trump comeback would be difficult because of his advancing age and eating habits. ““I think for him, everything will depend on his health at that time. If he still has energy and strength like he does. I don’t.” “You know the guy does not eat well, you know, and it’s amazing the energy that he has.” “He’s lost weight, fifteen pounds, Maybe. So he might be in good health and in good shape. I don’t know.” Trump would be 78 in 2024, the same age as Joe Biden in 2020. The big picture: Graham stood by Trump through repeated scandals, telling “Axios on HBO” in 2018 that he saw Trump as a defender of the faith. “Now people say ‘Well Frank but how can you defend him, when he’s lived such a sordid life?’ I never said he was the best example of the Christian faith. He defends the faith. And I appreciate that very much.”)
WASHINGTON BLADE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs promote LGBTQ. How soon, if not already, will the following officially ban you if you do not promote LGBTQ: the organizations that you are a member of, your employer if you are still employed, your municipality, your township, your county, Illinois, America, and the world?)
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2021/05/17/u-s-announces-global-lgbtq-rights-priorities/
FINANCIAL TIMES
— A revolt against the rich could be sparked by basic demographics. There are now far more millennial adults, some with children, for whom the economy is not delivering. – RHYMER RIGBY (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have demonized, denigrated, and condemned me the most for my being a union member for almost 12 years. During those almost 12 years (1966-1969 and 1971-1980), my federal salary increased from $16.81/hour to $97,395/year in today’s dollars. In my defense, I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970 and an MBA from Loyola in 1976, I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and I started taking graduate accounting courses at DePaul in 1976.)
https://www.ft.com/content/39a68887-0277-4be8-bc1e-310601522f0a
(FROM THE ARTICLE: US President Joe Biden made a remarkable speech at the end of March: “I’m a union guy. I support unions. Unions built the middle class. It’s about time they start to get a piece of the action.” He said this at a carpentry trade school outside the rust-belt city of Pittsburgh, which only served to underscore the message. The idea that a political leader in an Anglosphere country might be interested in what unions have to say felt like a seismic shift — and one that took me back. One of the great stories of my adult life has the widespread acceptance that it is all right, even desirable, to be filthy rich.)
MANAGEMENT TODAY
— Should you ban political talk at work? – Orianna Rosa Royle (DIERSEN: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government 1966-1969 and 1971-1997, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates frequently asked me questions to get/confirm information to use against me. For example, that I was a Republican, that I was conservative, that I opposed political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, that I opposed promotion of dependency on government, that I opposed dependency on charity, that I opposed the promotion of LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, and diminishment of First and Second Amendment rights, that I avoided the draft, that I had been baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, that I was 100% German national origin, that my ancestors had been America since 1844, that I had lived in Crete 1948-1972 and Wheaton since 1978, that my wife and I had given up trying to have children, that we did not adopt, and that we did not become foster parents, that I bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, a 1962 Chevy Impala SS collector car in 1989, and a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T collector car in 1994, that my wife and I bought a home in Wheaton in 1978 and that we had one built there in 1984, etc.)
https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/ban-political-talk-work/food-for-thought/article/1716074
