November 11 Morning Edition

NBC5

— COMMENT: To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/federal-marijuana-decriminalization-sought-in-gop-rep-maces-bill/2685358/

WGN9
— Downers Grove parents, students clash over removal of LGBTQ graphic novels from school libraries – Meghan Dwyer
https://wgntv.com/news/downers-grove-parents-students-clash-over-removal-of-lgbtq-graphic-novels-from-school-libraries/

FOX32
— Biden signs infrastructure bill, sending billions of dollars to Illinois for projects – Mike Flannery
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/biden-signs-infrastructure-bill-sending-billions-of-dollars-to-illinois-for-projects

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Culture wars explode in Chicago suburb after protesters call H.S. library book ‘porn,’ but students decry censorship. Hundreds of people packed a Downers Grove District 99 High School board meeting Monday where some parents demanded the book, “Gender Queer,” be removed from library shelves — but students asked the board to keep it. – Nader Issa
(DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrat teachers a) manipulate/dominate their students and b) promote LGBTQ.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2021/11/15/22783960/downers-grove-north-book-controversy-schools-gender
— Infrastructure bill: to spur CTA Red Line extension, lead pipe removal, EV Illinois charging stations – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/11/15/22784205/infrastructure-bill-spur-cta-red-line-extension-lead-pipe-removal-illinois-charging-stations
— COMMENT: To push gambling on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/11/15/22783899/illinois-casinos-regulated-online-gaming-gambling-charles-gillespie
— $105K bill sent to parents after 3 students, who weren’t from Chicago, wrongly attended CPS schools. CPS is demanding the students be expelled from their current schools immediately and be banned from attending any selective enrollment school in the future. – Cheyanne M. Daniels
(COMMENT: Crete-Monee School District 201-U did not incur any expenses to educate me, my brother, my father, his sister, my grandfather on my father’s side, etc. grades 1 through 8. My outstanding parents had me baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) in 1948, raised me as a MSL, and had me confirmed as a MSL in 1962. They sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/11/15/22783893/cps-public-schools-pedro-martinez-selective-enrollment-schools-tuition-reimburse

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Black Bench Chicago graduates first group of young Black leaders in public affairs. Creators hope it’s the start of an emerging, ongoing talent pipeline. – DARCEL ROCKETT
(COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats shout at Blacks, and at everyone else, that Republicans are White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/people/ct-life-black-bench-chicago-graduates-tt-1115-20211115-b5cpiescgzdknjxufxkx2vml4i-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— $1 million bail set for father accused of opening fire at Safari Land birthday party – Orrin Schwarz
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20211115/1-million-bail-set-for-father-accused-of-opening-fire-at-safari-land-birthday-party-
— Woke math won’t deliver equity – Debra J. Saunders
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20211116/woke-math-wont-deliver-equity

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Springfield District 186 school board votes to terminate teacher who skirted COVID mandate – Steven Spearie
(COMMENT: My Democrat GAO and IRS superiors in the federal government took adverse actions against me because I did not give enough preference to their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $20,361 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors did not promote me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, got rid of my mentor in 1975, and disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974.)
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2021/11/16/springfield-district-186-board-terminates-teacher-over-covid-mandate/8618663002/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Migrants granted asylum at higher rate under Biden administration, new data shows – Sandra Sanchez
(DIERSEN: Everyone in the world should expect that eventually, all the citizens of all the foreign countries in the world will seek asylum in America. Democrats promise asylum seekers tremendous preference over citizens of America, and especially over citizens of America who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-veteran, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/migrants-granted-asylum-at-higher-rate-under-biden-administration-new-data-shows/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Steve Bannon threatens vengeance after surrendering on criminal contempt charges – Rachel Treisman
(COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have taken severe adverse actions against me and/or have belittled me, admonished me, chastised me, chided me, scolded me, berated me, upbrated me, lambasted me, warned me, and/or threatened me. The aforesaid know that I forgive those who trespass against me and that I accept that “vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.”)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2021-11-15/steve-bannon-threatens-vengeance-after-surrendering-on-criminal-contempt-charges

FOX ILLINOIS
— Senator Blackburn: Biden administration is ‘not enforcing immigration law’ – ELISSA SALAMY
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/senator-blackburn-biden-administration-is-not-enforcing-immigration-law

CHICAGO PATCH
— Ken Griffin Exposes Crack In Pritzker Campaign: Chicago Violence. Billionaire who backed both Republicans and Rahm Emanuel should fund a Democrat outsider to primary Gov. J.B. Pritzker. – Mark Konkol
https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/ken-griffin-exposes-chink-pritzker-campaign-chicago-violence

NIU TODAY
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, NIU pushes pot. To push pot on an individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country is to destroy that individual, municipality, township, county, state, or country.
https://www.niutoday.info/2021/11/15/niu-law-to-host-conversation-on-cannabis-and-restorative-justice/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Wheaton, Illinois School District’s Wokest Board Member – Laurie Higgins
(COMMENT: Both the Wheaton Warrenville School District 200 headquarters and the Jeanne Ives headquarters are in my precinct.)
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/wheaton-illinois-school-districts-wokest-board-member/

CAPITOL FAX
— COMMENT: I have sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000. Since 2004, those newsletters have gone out each and every morning, and since 2015, each and every evening too. Since 2004, those newsletters have included links to more than 414,300 articles and information on many upcoming events.
https://capitolfax.com/2021/11/16/open-thread-400/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Cargo ship backup worsens after Biden attempts to untangle supply chain – Joseph Clark
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/15/cargo-ship-backup-worsens-after-biden-attempts-unt/
— Democrats preparing to fight GOP to be ‘party of the parents’ in 2022 midterms – Seth McLaughlin
(COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors and supervisors painted themselves as being champions of parents. I should write a book about them and how they used my wife and I giving up trying to have children, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents to take adverse actions against me. They stressed the 4-page article about us in Money Magazine’s February 1978 issue in which we stated our intent to have children and they hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my wife and I had lied. They painted my wife and I as being disgusting selfish DINKs (double income, no kids). They painted themselves as being GOD-LIKE because they had children, because they had adopted, and/or because they were foster parents. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if my wife and I had children, adopted, or became foster parents a) my wife would NOT have been able to keep her job with the U.S. League of Savings Institutions and she would NOT have earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986 and b) I would NOT have passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, NOT gotten hired by GAO in 1980, NOT earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, NOT passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, NOT became a licensed CPA in 1981, etc. The adverse actions that they took against me included a) forcing me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, b) giving me unfair job assignments, performance expectations, and appraisals, c) always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, d) not promoting me beyond GS-13, e) getting rid of my mentor in 1987, e) keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and f) forced me to take a $20,361 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/15/democrats-preparing-fight-gop-be-party-parents-202/

FOX NEWS
— Kamala Harris’ niece pens WaPo article on how parents can teach ‘anti-racism’ at home. Meena Harris previously defended the teachings of critical race theory in schools. – Joseph A. Wulfsohn
https://www.foxnews.com/media/meena-harris-washington-post-anti-racism

BREITBART
— Obama Presidential Center Brings Rising Costs to Low-Income Chicago Residents – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/15/obama-presidential-center-brings-rising-costs-to-low-income-chicago-residents/

DAILY CALLER
— Red Flag Gun Laws Rarely Used In Major Cities – KAYLEE GREENLEE
https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/15/red-flag-gun-laws-infrequently-used/

DAILY WIRE
— Wyoming Republican Party Votes To Stop Recognizing Liz Cheney As Member Of Party – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/wyoming-republican-party-votes-to-stop-recognizing-liz-cheney-as-member-of-party

NEWSMAX
— Vermont’s Free Condoms at Schools Mandate Goes in Effect – Luca Cacciatore (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats encourage children to have sex.)
https://www.newsmax.com/us/free-condoms-sex-education-vermont-republican/2021/11/15/id/1044784/

TOWNHALL
— What Many of Us White Americans Still Do Not Understand – Michael Brown
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2021/11/16/what-many-of-us-white-americans-still-do-not-understand-n2599094

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Wyoming GOP Votes to Expel Liz Cheney over Trump Criticism – CAROLINE DOWNEY
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/wyoming-gop-votes-to-expel-liz-cheney-over-trump-criticism/

THE HILL
— COMMENT: A hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-hater promotes hatred against conservatives.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/581496-juan-williams-a-guide-to-combating-right-wing-lies

ABC NEWS
— The American Civil Liberties Union spoke out against the FBI’s “raid” at Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s home, stating the raid was uncalled for and could have “serious consequences for press freedom.” – ANN DAILEY MORENO
https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/prominent-nonprofits-rally-around-james-okeefe-after-fbi-raided-his-home

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE: How critical race theory went from conservative battle cry to mainstream powder keg. – Phillip M. Bailey, Chelsey Cox and Aleszu Bajak
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/2021/11/12/critical-race-theory-outrage-built-multi-year-conservative-effort/6337814001/

NEWSWEEK
— The Parents Right Amendment – KURT LASH
(COMMENT: My outstanding parents had me baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) in 1948, raised me as a MSL, and had me confirmed as a MSL in 1962. They sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod. Further, my parents were 100% German national origin. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me the most because of the aforesaid. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois.)
https://www.newsweek.com/parents-right-amendment-opinion-1649539
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Neither state nor national government shall make or enforce any law abridging the fundamental right of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their children.” It is time to make the above proposed constitutional amendment part of the U.S. Constitution.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Left-Leaning Media Seek a Misinformation Monopoly. They peddle their own falsehoods while trying to drive opposing views out of circulation entirely. – Gerard Baker
(COMMENT: I should write a book about those who have worked the hardest since 2000 a) to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading those newsletters. I would focus on a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, etc.; b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Wheaton Park District, etc.; c) conservative leaders; d) religious leaders; and e) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, campaign volunteers, etc.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mainstream-media-misinformation-disinformation-rittenhouse-hunter-biden-inflation-cuomo-11636991841
— Who Stole Americans’ Confidence in Elections? The Clinton campaign and Stacey Abrams spread falsehoods about vote theft years before Trump’s loss. – Brad Raffensperger
https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-stole-americans-confidence-in-elections-steele-dossier-trump-abrams-georgia-rigged-11637010420
— Book Review: ‘Rigged’ and ‘Our Broken Elections’ Voting fraud happens, but is it ‘massive’? Mollie Hemingway and others weigh in with new books. – Kyle Peterson
https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-rigged-and-our-broken-elections-11637019090
— How to Become Calm in America. Avoid politics and social media. Play a sport, listen to music, maybe even start a business. – Stephen Miller
(COMMENT: I should write a book about those who have worked the hardest since 2000 a) to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading those newsletters. I would focus on a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, etc.; b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Wheaton Park District, etc.; c) conservative leaders; d) religious leaders; and e) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, campaign volunteers, etc.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/calm-in-america-politicians-anger-family-traffic-serenity-news-media-leftwing-rightwing-11637009769

FORBES
— Not Your Parents’ Career—Or Is It? Parents Exert Significant Influence On Kids’ Career Choices – Mark C. Perna
(COMMENT: Neither of my outstanding parents attended college. My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He worked in the office of a nasty chemical plant in Chicago Heights, almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills, and died suddenly of heart failure in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. Because he had brittle type 1 diabetes from age 14, his doctors discouraged him from going to college because that would cause him too much stress. He frequently said his not having a college degree harmed his career opportunities. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markcperna/2021/11/16/not-your-parents-career-or-is-it-parents-exert-significant-influence-on-kids-career-choices/

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
— Exploiting the local news desert. Are political and foreign interests profiting from the locals’ loss? – Henry Scott
(COMMENT: I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000; NOT the GOPUSA DuPage County Editor, NOT the GOPUSA Milton Township Editor, and NOT the GOPUSA Wheaton Editor. Ever-increasingly, government and political news and commentary of interest to Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton voters comes from anti-religious, anti-conservative, and/or anti-Republican sources. This year, those anti-religious, anti-conservative, and anti-Republican sources did NOT report that that Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs had stopped DuPage Republicans from helping sponsor Wheaton’s Independence Day parade and fireworks. Last year, they did NOT report that in June, it was Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs who had great success in promoting LGBTQ in downtown Wheaton.)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/exploiting-the-local-news-desert,207894
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In recent years at least 1,400 local news publications, most of them digital, have begun to fill America’s large and growing local news desert. But are they really “greening” that desert by filling it with legitimate local news? Or are they just trying to exploit it financially and politically?)

WIKIPEDIA & BUZZFEED
— DINK
(COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors and supervisors painted themselves as being champions of parents. I should write a book about them and how they used my wife and I giving up trying to have children, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents to take adverse actions against me. They stressed the 4-page article about us in Money Magazine’s February 1978 issue in which we stated our intent to have children and they hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my wife and I had lied. They painted my wife and I as being disgusting selfish DINKs (double income, no kids). They painted themselves as being GOD-LIKE because they had children, because they had adopted, and/or because they were foster parents. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if my wife and I had children, adopted, or became foster parents a) my wife would NOT have been able to keep her job with the U.S. League of Savings Institutions and she would NOT have earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986 and b) I would NOT have passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, NOT gotten hired by GAO in 1980, NOT earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, NOT passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, NOT became a licensed CPA in 1981, etc. The adverse actions that they took against me included a) forcing me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, b) giving me unfair job assignments, performance expectations, and appraisals, c) always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, d) not promoting me beyond GS-13, e) getting rid of my mentor in 1987, e) keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and f) forced me to take a $20,361 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DINK
https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/reasons-people-did-not-have-kids-reddit

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.