November 13 Morning Edition

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, pot pushers push pot.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/cannabis/2019/11/13/20962021/marijuana-fines-recreational-weed-pot-chicago-impound-cars

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: The Rev. Jesse Jackson calls for change at Buffalo Wild Wings after racist incident in Naperville: ‘If we don’t resolve it, there will be a national boycott’ – MADELINE BUCKLEY (DIERSEN: Which individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries boycott you? The following boycott me and boycott my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails: those that are anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, anti-federal employees/retirees, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.) 
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-jesse-jackson-naperville-buffalo-wild-wings-20191112-3dys2uoif5e45n5bpie5ogabay-story.html
— Despite scandal, lawmakers vote to block Illinois Gaming Board from preventing video gambling owners from selling without approval – DAVID HEINZMANN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/ct-illinois-video-gambling-sale-blocked-20191113-qon2nr4tg5cq3h3g47marjacvq-story.html
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Tampons in men’s restrooms? Activists, schools and businesses are serving the menstrual needs of those who don’t identify as women. – Angie Leventis Lourgos
By ANGIE LEVENTIS LOURGOS
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-transgender-menstrual-products-20191112-2rqexd75efezhp2r4oy7njdmju-story.html
— As public hearings begin on Trump impeachment, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s removal provides a guide for the process and the rhetoric – RICK PEARSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-donald-trump-impeachment-process-20191113-6kh45va7qjekrci5b5mpb6ebz4-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, pot pushers push pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-marijuana-law-20191113-u5gkw3djgfeo7lp6pvokufmmvi-story.html
— Aurora event featuring local actor/producer to draw much-needed attention to the diabetes epidemic – DENISE CROSBY
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/opinion/ct-abn-crosby-diabetes-st-1113-20191112-57ztnsh6m5gsrc72vbuokzwfui-story.html
— The apologetic editorial in Northwestern’s student newspaper reveals an issue most black journalists face – Dahleen Glanton
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/dahleen-glanton/ct-glanton-daily-northwestern-newspaper-apology-20191113-fetahc4wajgbbfupyyiguzqv6m-story.html
— Daily Northwestern staffers apologized for recent coverage of Jeff Sessions visit. Then they drew the ire of other journalists. – Dawn Rhodes
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-daily-northwestern-jeff-sessions-apology-20191112-agy5q7t7mbdb7fs3iqlhjimgpm-story.html
— Backlash against The Daily Northwestern’s apology editorial is a better lesson than anything that happens in a college classroom – Heidi Stevens
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-heidi-stevens-tuesday-northwestern-editorial-college-papers-1112-20191112-i7qjo3a3abejpjiwa64qkawrma-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— The Daily Northwestern’s unfortunate apology – Neil Steinberg (DIERSEN: What do your critics/opponents want you to apologize for? My critics/opponents want me to apologize for causing all of their problems, all of your problems, all of my problems, and all of everyone’s problems. They blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails for all the losses that Republicans have suffered in Illinois since 2000. What do you say to my critics/opponents?) 
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2019/11/12/20961126/daily-northwestern-university-editorial-apology-jeff-sessions-campus-protest-steinberg-nu-medill

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— As fed probe deepens, City Club grapples with fallout Amid reports its office was raided and its president paid $3.1 million to lobby for ComEd, the City Club struggles with how to handle the aftermath—including more canceled speeches by public officials. – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/fed-probe-deepens-city-club-grapples-fallout
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, pot pushers push pot.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/marijuanacannabis/chicago-will-cut-weed-users-lot-more-slack

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Algonquin Township to consider placing township elimination question on ballot If approved, measure would become effective in 2037 – BRITTANY KEEPERMAN
https://www.nwherald.com/2019/11/09/algonquin-township-to-consider-placing-township-elimination-question-on-ballot/agxyepg/

KANKAKEE DAILY JOURNAL
— Political newcomer Patrick Joyce joins Senate – David Giuliani (DIERSEN: If you were selected to fill a government or a political office vacancy, what would your critics/opponents call you? I should write a book about my critics/opponents and what they would have a) called me if Wheaton City Council members had selected me to fill the recent West District vacancy and b) called the Wheaton City Council members for selecting me. My critics/opponents 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, anti-federal employees/retirees, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents 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://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/political-newcomer-joins-senate/article_9da14db2-04c1-11ea-96cf-7f12dfc2e8cc.html

WREX
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: 10th cannabis cultivation center approved for adult-use growing
https://wrex.com/category/2019/11/12/10th-cannabis-cultivation-center-approved-fro-adult-use-growing/

CHICAGO READER
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, pot pushers push pot.
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/winners-losers-marijuana-cannabis-war-on-drugs/Content?oid=75539958

CITY BUREAU
— Government? One-Third of Local Agencies Get Failing Grade for Transparency Dozens of Chicago and Cook County agencies fall short on Open Meetings Act and other open government standards, according to a City Bureau analysis. – Sarah Conway and Pat Sier
https://www.citybureau.org/newswire/2019/11/12/how-open-is-your-government-one-third-of-local-agencies-get-failing-grade-for-transparency

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Insulin price cap, daylight saving time measures advance at Statehouse – JERRY NOWICKI
https://www.capitolnewsillinois.com/Blog/Posts/581/Uncategorized/2019/11/Insulin-price-cap-daylight-saving-time-measures-advance-at-Statehouse/blog-post/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Sick days exemplify teachers union’s unhealthy effect on Chicago, Ives says – Glenn Minnis
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/520013669-sick-days-exemplify-teachers-union-s-unhealthy-effect-on-chicago-ives-says

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Cancellation of gay author’s Wheaton elementary school visit stirs controversy, debate – Glenn Minnis
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/520064622-cancellation-of-gay-author-s-elementary-school-visit-stirs-controversy-debate

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— RECENT FBI RAIDS ON ILLINOIS POLITICIAN A REMINDER OF $9.9B ‘CORRUPTION TAX’ – Bryce Hill
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/recent-fbi-raids-on-illinois-politician-a-reminder-of-9-9b-corruption-tax/

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Laurie Higgins Addresses “Trans” Ideology – David E. Smith
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/11/spotlight-laurie-higgins-addresses-trans-ideology/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— NEXT GENERATION OF AMERICANS WILL EMBRACE SOCIALISM IF WE LOSE ‘WAR ON HISTORY’
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2019/11/next-generation-of-americans-will-embrace-socialism-if-we-lose-war-on-history.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Veto session updates
https://capitolfax.com/2019/11/13/veto-session-updates/
— Corruption roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2019/11/13/corruption-roundup-7/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Moderate Republicans focus on 2022 elections – Ryan Lovelace (DIERSEN: If current trends hold, the many Democrat plant, Libertarian plant, Green plant, and RINO leaders of the Republican Party will officially banish individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/nov/12/moderate-republicans-focus-on-2022-elections/

FOX NEWS
— Northwestern journalism dean reacts to ‘heartfelt, though not well-considered’ newspaper apology for reporting – Joseph A. Wulfsohn 
https://www.foxnews.com/media/northwestern-journalism-dean-newspaper-jeff-sessions-protests

GOPUSA
— Shakedown? Jesse Jackson threatens boycott of Buffalo Wild Wings after incident in Naperville
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=79369

AMERICAN THINKER
— Open borders Hispanic Archbishop will lead U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops – M. Catharine Evans (DIERSEN: Democrats want Catholics to join them in officially declaring war on the United States.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/11/open_borders_hispanic_archbishop_will_lead_us_conference_of_catholic_bishops.html

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Make Democrats Pay For Impeachment
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/31391

DAILY CALLER
— Baby Trump Balloon-Slasher Says He’s Never Seen Liberals ‘Mad About Chopping Up A Baby’ – VIRGINIA KRUTA
https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/12/trump-balloon-slasher-liberals-mad-chopping-up-a-baby/

TOWNHALL
— The Impeachment Hearings Are the Beginning of the End – Paul Curry
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulcurry/2019/11/13/the-impeachment-hearings-are-the-beginning-of-the-end-n2556401

PJ MEDIA
— San Francisco: Where It’s OK to Crap in the Streets But They Arrest People for Eating on a BART Platform – MEGAN FOX
https://pjmedia.com/trending/san-francisco-where-its-ok-to-crap-in-the-streets-but-they-arrest-people-for-eating-on-a-bart-platform/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Meet the ‘American students Last’ lobby – Michelle Malkin
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/11/13/michelle-malkin-meet-the-american-students-last-lobby-852064

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— 70 Percent of Democrats Are Increasingly Mad, Lonely, Because of Politics – Isaac Saul
https://ijr.com/democrats-are-angry-axios-hbo-poll/

NEW YORK TIMES
— ‘Incomprehensible’ Numbers: How Republicans Are Losing New York Suburbs In one county, Democrats grew by more than 150,000, while the number of Republicans dropped by more than 30,000. – Vivian Wang (DIERSEN: If current trends hold, the many Democrat plant, Libertarian plant, Green plant, and RINO leaders of the Republican Party will officially banish individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/nyregion/peter-king-long-island-republicans.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Democrats now outnumber Republicans on Long Island, a once unthinkable development in a traditional conservative stronghold where voters backed every Republican presidential candidate, bar two, from 1900 to 1988. . .The shift mirrors a nationwide trend of historically moderate or conservative suburban voters now slowly tipping left. Just last week, those voters helped flip the Virginia statehouse, ousted the last Republicans in a Philadelphia-area County Council and appear to have unseated the Republican governor of Kentucky. The pattern, if it holds, could prove decisive not only for the 2020 presidential election, but also for the makeup of each party’s base for decades.)
— A Black Paratrooper’s First Veterans Day, and His Last A long struggle to remove the stigma of a questionable Army discharge comes to a close. – Michael Wilson (DIERSEN: Constructively, my Democrat GAO superiors gave me a dishonorable discharge in 1997 when I was 49 years old when they forced me to take they early retirement “offer.”)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/nyregion/veterans-death-military-benefits.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: He made his way to Brooklyn, still carrying the stigma of his discharge. He said he had tried to commit suicide three times. “I struggled with depression, alcohol abuse and the shame of my dishonorable discharge,” he wrote. He eventually pulled himself up and started over, graduating from Adelphi University and going on to earn a master’s degree. “I found stability,” he wrote, “and dedicated my life to helping others.”)

WASHINGTON POST
— The Democrats Are Moving Left. Will America Follow? 32 journalists, wonks, activists and politicians on the party’s dramatic turn — and what it means for 2020.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2019/11/12/democrats-are-moving-left-will-america-follow-perspectives-partys-dramatic-turn/
— Ronald Reagan’s policies helped bring down the Berlin Wall. Now he’s not even welcome there. – Marc A. Thiessen
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/12/ronald-reagans-policies-helped-bring-down-berlin-wall-now-hes-not-even-welcome-there/
— Democrats are dominating state-level races Virginia is the ninth ‘trifecta’ the party has gained since 2016 – Kate Rabinowitz and Ashlyn Still
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trifecta/
— Jesus isn’t interested in America’s two-party division – Michael F. Bird (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters paint Jesus as being 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.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/11/13/jesus-isnt-interested-americas-two-party-division/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— ‘It’s Not the Economy Anymore, Stupid’ A polarized electorate is less swayed by how well the economy performs – Greg Ip
https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-not-the-economy-anymore-stupid-11573570241
— The Tax Increases to Come Democrats in Congress want to raise the top individual rate to 47% – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tax-increases-to-come-11573603018
— Racial Contracts by Force Can a company be required to do business with a minority firm? – Editorial (DIERSEN: Constructively, my superiors in the federal government were forced by Democrat politicians to get rid of their employees who Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who they had not promoted to GS-13 (currently $98,198) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $116,040) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $136,495) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $165,500) by age 40.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/racial-contracts-by-force-11573602945

HOUSTON CHRONICLE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats encourage illegal immigration. 
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Dreamers-are-good-for-America-why-are-we-14830081.php

ATLANTIC
— The ‘Likeability’ Question, In Disguise Is Elizabeth Warren overly “angry”? The media are just asking questions. – MEGAN GARBER
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/11/elizabeth-warren-and-sneak-sexism/601876/

HUMAN RESOURCES EXECUTIVE
— Facebook employees say company tolerates racism Minority employees say the social media giant’s culture “empowers racism.” – Andrew R. McIlvaine
https://hrexecutive.com/facebook-employees-say-company-tolerates-racism/

LADDERS
— The 2 most annoying interview questions Boomers get, and how to answer them – Sheila McClear
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/the-2-most-annoying-interview-questions-boomers-get-and-how-to-answer-them
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. Why would someone with so much experience want this job? . . . 2. What is your upskilling strategy?)

INFO MEDIA
— APRIL 19, 2012 FLASHBACK: Understanding the Importance of Updating Your Website – Jonathan Ford (DIERSEN: I served as the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois webmaster 2005-2012, Illinois Center Right Coalition webmaster 2004-2006, and Milton Township webmaster 2001-2004.)
https://infomedia.com/blog/understanding-the-importance-of-updating-your-website/

SALARY
— Webmaster Salary in the United States
https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/webmaster-salary

(FROM THE ARTICLE: The average Webmaster salary in the United States is $76,903 as of October 30, 2019, but the range typically falls between $65,774 and $88,381. Salary ranges can vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession.)

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.