DAILY HERALD
— Don’t boost another addiction-for-profit industry – State Rep. Marty Moylan
(DIERSEN: Needless-to-say, the following should be speaking out strongly
against the marijuana bill in Illinois: Trump and Pence; Illinois Republican
congressmen; Republican Illinois House and Senate leaders; Illinois Republican
Party (IRP) National Committeeman and Committeewoman; IRP officers; your
representative on the IRP State Central Committee; officers of your Republican
township/ward/county party organizations; your Republican Precinct
Committeeman/Captain; Republican officials who represent you in your
municipality, township/ward, county, and Illinois; conservative leaders;
healthcare leaders; religious leaders; education leaders; law enforcement
leaders; firefighter leaders; etc.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20190519/moylan-dont-boost-another-addiction-for-profit-industry
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A pot pusher pushes pot.
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20190519/holmes-facts-vs-fear-in-legalization-debate
HERALD & REVIEW
— In marijuana debate, Decatur city officials would wield power in where pot
is sold – ANALISA TROFIMUK (DIERSEN: Needless-to-say, if you live in a
municipality, please urge the leaders of your municipality, and those who want
to be leaders of your municipality, a) to speak out against the marijuana bill
in Illinois and b) to commit to voting against the sale of marijuana in your
municipality.)
https://herald-review.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/in-marijuana-debate-decatur-city-officials-would-wield-power-in/article_74dc0cfa-af2a-5dbb-b171-ff3fb1d58186.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Opt
out or be open for business? That’s the question Decatur officials will be
facing if Illinois lawmakers take the historic step of legalizing recreational
marijuana. The legislation, a key campaign issue for Democrat J.B. Pritzker, is
being considered by the Democrat-controlled General Assembly in the sprint to
the end of session on May 31. The original legislation allowed expungements for
cannabis-related convictions. The exact language is still under debate, along
with fine-tuning various parts of the plan to meet concerns from law
enforcement, current growers and activists. If the proposal survives the
growing debate in Springfield, it will be left to municipal officials whether
to allow pot dispensaries within their borders. Opting out means losing revenue
generated from sales, as well as permit fees.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers argue that legalizing pot discourages teens
from smoking pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/5/19/18629394/kelly-cassidy-is-right-teen-cannabis-use-is-down-since-pot-legalization
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Illinois expungement proposal for pot convictions one of nation’s broadest –
Dean Olsen (DIERSEN: Based on how they have treated me, I would not be surprised
at all to learn that all of my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their
dupes a) are smoking pot, b) have smoked pot, c) want to smoke pot, d) want to
make money selling pot, and/or e) want governments to take in lots of tax
revenue from the sale of pot.)
https://www.rrstar.com/news/20190518/illinois-expungement-proposal-for-pot-convictions-one-of-nations-broadest
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater promotes hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-davich-good-versus-evil-struggle-st-0519-story.html
— Ageism a fact when you’re over 50 and looking for work – Hilary Decent
(DIERSEN: I am 70 years old. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their
dupes stress that it has been a) 22 years since I worked for GAO, earned a
master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT, and became a
Forensic Accountant; b) 23 years since I became a Certified Financial Services
Auditor; c) 25 years since I became a Certified Government Financial Manager;
d) 29 years since I became a Certified Fraud Examiner; e) 38 years since I
became a Certified Internal Auditor and Licensed CPA; f) 39 years since I
earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul and worked for IRS; g) 40
years since I became a CPA; h) 43 years since I earned an MBA from Loyola; and
i) 49 years since I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/opinion/ct-nvs-decent-column-st-0519-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE:
Today, employers are not allowed to ask applicants their age, although that
could be apparent from the application. Breithaupt suggests age-proofing your
resume. “Employers are interested in what you have been doing most recently,
perhaps in the past 10 years, so you don’t need to tell them when you
graduated,” she said. “An interview is all about getting your foot in the door.
Even if you look older than they expect when you go in, you can still sell
yourself.)
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Continued GOP Opposition to Graduated Income Tax Proposals – Greg
Bishop
http://altondailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=17&id=284651#.XOFHDMhKiM8
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Glad to see a new name for that organization – Bernard Schoenburg (DIERSEN:
Since 2005, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have
demonized me, denigrated, me, and condemned be as being like Jeff Gannon. Since
2005, they have viciously used against me what happened with GOPUSA, Talon
News, and White House Correspondent Jeff Gannon. SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talon_News They
paint me as being a clone of Jeff Gannon and even worse things. Ever since I
became a GOPUSA reporter in 2000, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and
their dupes have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I ask bad questions at
press conferences and share privileged information with reporters that have
caused Republican candidates to be defeated and even worse things. Of course, I
should sue my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes. I should
write a book about activists, candidates, elected officials, and party leaders
in Illinois who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican, but a)
who do NOT want me to know about their press conferences, b) who do NOT want me
to attend their press conferences, c) who do NOT want me to ask questions
during their press conferences, d) who do NOT want me to speak with other
reporters, e) who have barred me from attending their press conferences, f) who
have had me thrown out of their press conferences, and/or g) who do not want me
to report on their press conferences. Ever-increasingly, they want me to agree
to not report anything about their fundraisers before they will let me attend
their fundraisers.)
https://www.sj-r.com/opinion/20190518/bernard-schoenburg-glad-to-see-new-name-for-that-organization
JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL COURIER
— Tariff war hits Illinois farmers hard – Cole Lauterbach
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Tariff-war-hits-Illinois-farmers-hard-13857113.php
FOX ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote LGBTQ activity.
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/thousands-attend-9th-annual-springfield-pridefest
PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Ives warns voters to be on alert during this ‘dangerous time’ of ‘backroom
deals’ in Springfield – Glenn Minnis
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/512497085-ives-warns-voters-to-be-on-alert-during-this-dangerous-time-of-backroom-deals-in-springfield
CANADA FREE PRESS
— Fear, loathing, intolerance–and worse – Paul Driessen (DIERSEN: Who ostracizes
you? I should write a book about those who ostracize 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://canadafreepress.com/article/fear-loathing-intolerance-and-worse
(FROM THE ARTICLE:
Throughout history despots had effective ways of reducing dissension in the
ranks. Inquisitors burned heretics. Nazis burned books—before taking far more
extreme measures. Soviets employed famines, gulags, salt mines and executions.
ChiComs and other tyrants starved, jailed and murdered millions. Today’s Green
New Dealers and their allies have mapped out their own totalitarian strategies.
They proclaim themselves socialists, but their economic policies and tolerance
for other viewpoints reflect a different form of government—fascism: A
political system in which authoritarian government does not own businesses and
industries, but strictly regulates and controls their actions, output and
rights—while constraining and suppressing citizens and their thought, speech
and access to information. . .Twitter routinely engages in similar cold,
calculated censorship of views it opposes. Google helps the Chinese government
deny its citizens access to “dangerous ideas”—and says nothing when China sends
a million Uighur Muslims to “reeducation camps.” Its hard-left employees
ostracize any conservatives they still find in their ranks…and claim helping
the US Defense Department with Cloud computing or artificial intelligence
surveillance would “violate their principles.” Facebook “shadow banned” an ad
promoting a Heartland Institute video that called on millennials to reject
socialism and embrace capitalism. Facebook censors told Heartland they “don’t
support ads for your business model” (capitalism) and would not reveal “red
flags” and trade-secret algorithms they use to “identify violations” of their
policies and “help preserve the integrity of our internal processes.” Google
suppressed Claremont Institute ads for a talk on multiculturalism and political
speech restrictions. Twitter routinely engages in similar cold, calculated
censorship of views it opposes. Wikipedia posts distorted or false bios for
climate realist experts and organizations—labeling me an anti-environment
lobbyist—and then pops up ads soliciting money for its biased “educational” material.
Securing corrections is a long, often fruitless process. Even more
totalitarian, the Southern Poverty Law Center uses phony “hate speech” claims
to defund and “deplatform” conservative groups like David Horowitz’s Freedom
Center, by pressuring credit card companies to close off donations to them.
State attorneys general and members of Congress want to prosecute and jail
people for “denying the reality” of “manmade climate cataclysms.” Worst of all,
the callous organizations and policies that Big Tech supports cause millions of
deaths every year, by denying impoverished nations and families access to the
modern energy, insect control and agricultural technologies that its vocal,
racist elements loathe.)
AMERICAN THINKER
— Anti-gun radicals are on a misguided mission – Dan Wos
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/antigun_radicals_are_on_a_misguided_mission.html
BREITBART
— Border Patrol Official: Migrants Won’t Be Sent to Florida at this Time
Following Blowback – JOSHUA CAPLAN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/18/border-patrol-official-migrants-wont-be-sent-to-florida-at-this-time-following-blowback/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Tucker Carlson: Rep. Ilhan Omar “A Symbol of America’s Failed
Immigration System” – Ian Schwartz (DIERSEN: What percent of immigrants
are 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?)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/18/tucker_carlson_rep_ilhan_omar_a_symbol_of_americas_failed_immigration_system.html
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Merit of Merit-Based Immigration – KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON (DIERSEN: Do you
have merit? I have absolutely no merit according to my critics/opponents, their
operatives, and their dupes in the Milton Township Republican Central Committee
(MTRCC), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party,
TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce (WCC), Illinois
Center Right Coalition (ICRC), American Association of Political Consultants
(AAPC) Midwest Chapter (MC), GAO, etc. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related
bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I
was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30,
32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was
32. IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. GAO promoted me in 1986. I
survived as a) TAPROOT chairman for 7 years, b) WCC Government Affairs
Committee member for 8 years, c) MTRCC webmaster for 6 years, d) ICRC Steering
Committee member for 4 years, e) AAPC MC board member for 3 years, f) GAO
employee for 18 years, g) IRS employee for 9 years, and h) Post Office employee
for 3 years.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/merit-based-immigration-plan-serves-us-interests/
WORLD NET DAILY
— EQUALITY ACT ‘INCOMPATIBLE WITH GOD’S WORD, TOP CHRISTIANS WARN ‘We cannot
remain silent and allow this lie to harm countless men, women, and children’
https://www.wnd.com/2019/05/equality-act-incompatible-with-gods-word-top-christians-warn/
— GOOGLE’S ‘TOP STORIES’ SHOWS OBVIOUS LEFT-WING BIAS, AUDIT REVEALS
University study finds 3 news sources dominate (DIERSEN: According to my
critics/opponents, all news and commentary is fake except for the news and
commentary that they put out or bless. Of course, my critics/opponents, their
operatives, and their dupes blacklist me and blacklist my GOPUSA ILLINOIS
emails. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and
their dupes who falsely claim to be religious, conservative, and/or
Republican.)
https://www.wnd.com/2019/05/googles-top-stories-shows-obvious-left-wing-bias-audit-reveals/
(FROM THE ARTICLE:
Noting that Google’s search algorithm is “perhaps the most powerful mediator of
online attention to news,” a team of university scholars conducted an audit
that found just 20 news sources account for more than half of article
impressions, and most lean left. The top 20 percent of sources — 136 of 678
sampled — accounted for 86 percent of article impressions. And the top three
accounted for 23 percent: CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post,
according to Assistant Professor Nicholas Diakopoulos and his team at the
Computational Journalism Lab at Northwestern. In an article for Columbia
Journalism Review, he wrote that “for all the influence Google has in directing
attention, we know painfully little about how its algorithm selects and curates
news.” “Which sites does it direct traffic toward? And how does Google’s news
curation impact the diversity of information found?” he asked. The audit
examined Google Top Stories in terms of ideological lean, based on the
self-reported political affiliation of Facebook users sharing content from
those sources. The team’s data showed that 62.4 percent of article impressions
were from sources rated as left-leaning. Just 11.3 percent were from sources
rated as right-leaning. “These statistics underscore the degree of
concentration of attention to a relatively narrow slice of news sources,”
Diakopoulos wrote. . .‘News blacklist’ In April, a newly obtained document
showed Google maintains a “news blacklist” and manipulates its search results
manually, contrary to the company’s official denials. WND reported in March a
Google manager allegedly responded to an employee who questioned the company’s
war on “fake news” by arguing that fake news and “hate speech” had to be
stopped, because “that’s how Trump won.” In November, the Daily Caller reported
Google employees debated whether to bury the reporting of conservative media
outlets in the company’s search function in response to Trump’s election.
Employees similarly sought to manipulate search results to combat Trump’s
travel ban, the communications showed. In an interview with WND at the time,
Robert Epstein – who was famed behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner’s last
Ph.D. student at Harvard – said Google’s effort to defeat Trump confirms his
extensive, peer-reviewed research over the past half decade. “Not only does
Google have the power to shift votes and opinions on a massive scale, they
actually use that power,” Epstein said. During the 2016 election campaign,
Epstein concluded that Google heavily biased results in favor of Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, possibly shifting as many as 3 million
votes. A video leaked in September showed Google executives at their first
weekly meeting after Trump’s election exhibiting panic and dismay while
expressing their determination to thwart the new administration’s agenda as
well as the emerging global populist movement.)
— ACOSTA ‘MISREPRESENTS’ PRESIDENT’S REMARKS
https://www.wnd.com/2019/05/acosta-misrepresents-presidents-remarks/
THE HILL
— Trump fires back at ‘loser’ GOP lawmaker who said he’d engaged in ‘impeachable
conduct’ – JUSTIN WISE (DIERSEN: Should I start firing back against those a)
who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican and b) who
demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/444441-trump-fires-back-at-loser-gop-lawmaker-who-said-hed-engaged-in
— Welcome back, federalism — Democrats begin to champion state’s rights –
FORMER U.S. REP. JOHN HOSTETTLER
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/444387-welcome-back-federalism-dems-begin-to-champion-states-rights
POLITICO
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers want more success in pushing pot.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/19/democrats-marijuana-legalization-1331710
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Dozens protest Pence at Taylor University commencement
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/05/18/dozens-protest-pence-at-taylor-university-commencement/23729580/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Breaking With Party, G.O.P. Lawmaker Says Trump’s Conduct Reaches ‘Threshold
of Impeachment’ – Glenn Thrush (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my
critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who are Libertarians, but
who falsely claim to be religious, conservative, and or Republican.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/us/politics/trump-justin-amash-impeachment.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This
is not the first time Mr. Amash, who considers himself a libertarian and strict
constitutionalist, has defied the White House and bucked his party’s Capitol
Hill leadership. Mr. Amash was one of 14 Republicans to side with Democrats in
their unsuccessful attempt to override the president’s first veto, which upheld
an emergency declaration to divert funding from other federal projects to build
a wall along the southwestern border.)
— Abortion Fight or Strong Economy? For G.O.P., Cultural Issues Undercut 2020
Message – Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/us/politics/republicans-abortion-economy-issues.html
NEW YORK POST
— Ocasio-Cortez accuses prosecutors of going easy on white supremacists – Mary
Kay Linge (DIERSEN: Are you White? What would you do if someone called you a
White supremacist? Would you sue them?)
https://nypost.com/2019/05/18/ocasio-cortez-accuses-prosecutors-of-going-easy-on-white-supremacists/
WASHINGTON POST
— Facebook, Twitter and the Digital Disinformation Mess – Shelly Banjo
(DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, all news and commentary is fake
except for the news and commentary that they put out or bless.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/facebook-twitter-and-the-digital-disinformation-mess/2019/05/18/7417d9d0-79ba-11e9-a7bf-c8a43b84ee31_story.html
NBC LOS ANGELES
— Weed Delivery Driver Shot by Customer in Attempted Robbery, Police Say –
Katherine Picazo and Shahan Ahmed
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Pot-Delivery-Driver-Shot-by-Customer-Attempted-Robbery-Police-Say-510130741.html
COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE
— Pot-impaired driver gets 8 years for crash that killed Colorado woman –
Janet Oravetz (DIERSEN: Legalizing pot for recreational use dramatically
increases pot-impaired driving.)
https://gazette.com/news/pot-impaired-driver-gets-years-for-crash-that-killed-colorado/article_b61ece62-7972-11e9-9cb4-073e687ad45c.html
FORT WAYNE JOURNAL GAZETTE
— Mexico welcoming American migration (DIERSEN: One could expect that U.S.
citizens who are members of the following groups would renounce their U.S.
citizenship and immigrate to Mexico: 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.journalgazette.net/news/us/20190519/mexico-welcoming-american-migration
YAHOO FINANCE
— Marijuana Companies Lied to You, Major Pot CEO Alleges – Sean Williams
(DIERSEN: One should expect that those who want to make money from pot would
also want make money from booze, from gambling, from prostitution, and from
other terrible things.)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/marijuana-companies-lied-major-pot-130600988.html
BLOOMBERG
— China Doesn’t Want to Be Like the West The Trump administration has
underestimated the strength of resistance to a foreign order imposed by force.
– Michael Schuman
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-19/china-s-history-foretold-breakdown-of-u-s-trade-talks
ATLANTIC
— Social Media Are Ruining Political Discourse The endless flow of content
doesn’t need to make sense to create engagement. – JAY DAVID BOLTER
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/why-social-media-ruining-political-discourse/589108/
