November 16 Morning Edition

NBC5
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Fauci to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/election-latest-trump-campaign-retreats-from-key-claim-in-pa-suit/2372385/

WTTW
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats blame Republicans for the problems that minorities have.
https://news.wttw.com/2020/11/15/poverty-and-pandemic-helping-marginalized-communities-weather-storm

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Richard J. Daley a ‘horribly racist mayor,’ great-grandson says in letter. In an open letter to his cousins, Bobby Vanecko also condemns his great-uncle Richard M. Daley and parents’ cousin Ald. Patrick D. Thompson (11th) for racist policymaking. – Clare Proctor and Tom Schuba (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. Ever-increasingly, to pander to minorities, to pander to women, to pander to young people, and to pander to those who have health, financial, and/or other problems, if you are White, and if you seek a government office or a political office, your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes will paint you, paint your parents, paint your grandparents, paint your great grandparents, and paint the rest of your ancestors as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things. The more clout that the aforesaid have/had, the more that they are painted as being the aforesaid. In my defense, I have never had clout. Further, my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents, and the rest of my ancestors never had clout. My outstanding father fought diabetes from age 14, never attended college, was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma, 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 in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. My outstanding mother never attended high school. My grandparents on my father’s side operated a hardware store in Crete; their parents were farmers. My grandparents on my mother’s side operated a farm in Grant Park; their parents were farmers.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/11/15/21565497/richard-j-daley-letter-racism-bobby-vanecko-daley-family

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Gov. Pritzker, let the legislature work with you on COVID-19 surge, tanking economy – DON DEWITTE AND DAN UGASTE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-governor-pritzker-covid-pandemic-legislature-20201113-wglnetklrnfsnhttzzazpbhcs4-story.html
— Free speech and college campuses: Why are students censoring themselves, and will Joe Biden help? – JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-college-political-thinking-zimmerman-20201113-ayczvbhhnvgxnh5x3olv45d2o4-story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-hater promotes hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/dahleen-glanton/ct-glanton-trump-voter-fraud-voter-suppression-20201116-tgkjzi25s5ajbc6pcjdghb4vv4-story.html
— BOOST YOUR ENERGY; COMBAT PANDEMIC FATIGUE – ELIZABETH HARTKE
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/new-york-daily-news/20201115/282686164759843
— Lightfoot doubles down on property tax hike in private meeting, tells aldermen not to record her – GREGORY PRATT
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-lori-lightfoot-property-tax-increase-aldermen-20201115-apzembox4bgurmsta7qnxk6wga-story.html
— Bullied, badgered, publicly scorned: Suburban school boards feel the heat — and the hate — as they weigh COVID-19 school closings – KAREN ANN CULLOTTA
https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-illinois-school-boards-under-pressure-20201115-py74cgbugvasbhvi2ybwoe4fcy-story.html
— Liberal Democrats envisioned a multiracial coalition on Election Day. Voters had other ideas. – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-liberals-race-election-20201116-qei47m7oszeshfbsq3wdq2zia4-story.html

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Two Will County Republican candidates call for new leadership of state party Party’s lack of support, poor fundraising criticized – ALEX ORTIZ
https://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2020/11/13/two-will-county-republican-candidates-call-for-new-leadership-of-state-party/a2jw067/

JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL COURIER
— Bipartisan calls grow for hearings on state’s pandemic response – Greg Bishop
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Bipartisan-calls-grow-for-hearings-on-15729700.php

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Obama to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/obama-calls-trumps-refusal-concede-another-breach-basic-democratic-norms#stream/0

WREX
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: If you promote pot, you are not religious, conservative, or Republican.
https://wrex.com/2020/11/16/americans-across-party-lines-regions-embrace-marijuana/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— LaHOOD’s NOD TO BIDEN. . .REP. DARIN LAHOOD says Joe Biden should be receiving security briefings, a sign he acknowledges the Democrat won the 2020 election. “It is appropriate from a national security perspective for Joe Biden to be afforded access to intelligence and security briefings,” the Republican congressman told Playbook through a spokesman. LaHood’s comment about Biden’s post-election position follows Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who took to Twitter on Nov. 7 to acknowledge Biden’s victory: “Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Our nation deserves two competing parties who can work together when possible, and compete honorably when not.” Other Illinois Republican Party leaders, however, are keeping quiet about their opinions on the outcome of the presidential race. Illinois GOP Executive Director Derek Murphy and party Chairman Tim Schneider didn’t respond to requests for comment, and neither did GOP Reps. Mike Bost (12th), Rodney Davis (13th), or John Shimkus (15th). GOP Rep. Mike Bost tweeted Nov. 8 that he supports Trump’s “efforts to ensure all legal votes are counted… So while Joe Biden & supporters celebrate, our work continues.” Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin and newly named state Senate Minority Leader Dan McConchie said they don’t comment on national security issues. Political strategist Collin Corbett says he’s not surprised some Illinois Republicans are keeping quiet. “Everyone knows Biden has won. It’s a matter of respect [for Trump]. They want to let the guy get through the process.” Corbett, who heads the “right of center” Cor Strategies, expects transfer of power will happen “and it will be peaceful. There’s no sense in angering him in the meantime.” – Shia Kapos
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2020/11/16/eyeing-duckworths-seat-sacks-defends-madigan-lahoods-nod-to-biden-covids-grip-490908

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Leftist State Board of Ed and Lawmakers Collude to Indoctrinate Illinois Students – Laurie Higgins (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, to send your child to a public school is to make your child anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexuals, anti-married people, anti-parent, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. My outstanding parents 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://illinoisfamily.org/education/leftist-state-board-of-ed-and-lawmakers-collude-to-indoctrinate-illinois-students/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Designed to rig elections’: Trump’s legal team demands probe of Dominion voting software. Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney, called for a probe – Alex Swoyer and S.A. Miller (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, voters vote straight ticket ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-ticket_voting ). Yet, according to the DuPage County Election Division, in my precinct, only 154 voted for Trump while 325 voted for Berlin, 240 voted for Jorgensen, 232 voted for Grogan, 228 voted for Walsh, 225 voted for Kachiroubas, 225 voted for Elliott, 224 voted for Whelan, 224 voted for Felice, etc.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/15/trumps-legal-team-claims-issues-with-dominion-voti/
— Trump blasts ‘ANTIFA SCUM’ as D.C. descends into chaos – Jeff Mordock
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/15/trump-blasts-antifa-scum-dc-descends-chaos/

GOPUSA
— Million Maga March Was Huge And Peaceful! — Then Biden Supporters Attacked
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=97837

AMERICAN THINKER
— Biden, the Great Pretender – Fay Voshell
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/biden_the_great_pretender.html
— 60 Minutes’ Scarily Ignorant Interview of Barack Obama – Jack Cashill
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/60_minutes_scarily_ignorant_interview_of_barack_obama.html

BREITBART
— Chicago Mayor Lightfoot: Trump’s ‘Mind-Blowing’ Ignorance Worsened Coronavirus Pandemic – PAM KEY
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/11/15/chicago-mayor-lightfoot-trumps-mind-blowing-ignorance-worsened-coronavirus-pandemic/

DAILY WIRE
— ‘Threat To Democracy’: CNN Sounds Alarm Over Conservatives Leaving Twitter, Facebook
https://www.dailywire.com/news/threat-to-democracy-cnn-sounds-alarm-over-conservatives-leaving-twitter-facebook

EPOCH TIMES
— Dershowitz: Trump May Seek to Deny Biden 270 Electoral Votes, Put Election in Congress – JACK PHILLIPS
https://www.theepochtimes.com/dershowitz-trump-may-try-to-deny-biden-270-electoral-votes-put-election-in-congress_3579716.html

WORLD TRIBUNE
— Bill Gates and Big Tech team up to promote racial revolutionary strife – Joe Schaeffer
https://www.worldtribune.com/bill-gates-and-big-tech-team-up-to-promote-racial-revolutionary-strife/

CHRISTIANITY TODAY
— Recognizing the ‘Sins of Our Fathers’ Means Admitting We’re Their Children The Bible tells us we only escape original sin through our perfect savior. – CHAD ASHBY (DIERSEN: Government is nasty. Politics is nasty. Ever-increasingly, to pander to minorities, to pander to women, to pander to young people, and to pander to those who have health, financial, and/or other problems, if you are White, and if you seek a government office or a political office, your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes will paint you, paint your parents, paint your grandparents, paint your great grandparents, and paint the rest of your ancestors as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things. The more clout that the aforesaid have/had, the more that they are painted as being the aforesaid. In my defense, I have never had clout. Further, my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents, and the rest of my ancestors never had clout. My outstanding father fought diabetes from age 14, never attended college, was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma, 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 in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. My outstanding mother never attended high school. My grandparents on my father’s side operated a hardware store in Crete; their parents were farmers. My grandparents on my mother’s side operated a farm in Grant Park; their parents were farmers.)
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/october-web-only/reckoning-with-original-sin-race-injustice.html

CNN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Kinzinger to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/11/16/adam-kinzinger-trump-refusal-to-concede-gop-bts-tsr-vpx.cnn

YAHOO NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Bolton to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/1-1-former-trump-national-093806590.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in promoting hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/biden-suburbs-blue-minneapolis.html
— 2020’s Hot Gadget Is the Personal Computer – Shira Ovide (DIERSEN: I have owned and used a personal computer since the early 1980s.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/technology/2020s-hot-gadget-is-the-computer.html
— The Trump Campaign Has Filed 16 Lawsuits Contesting the Election. – Emily Bazelon
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/us/politics/trump-election-lawsuits.html
— FRONT PAGE: Sex-Abuse Claims Against Boy Scouts Now Surpass 82,000. The deluge of sex-abuse filings, coming ahead of a bankruptcy deadline, far surpasses the number of claims filed in Catholic Church cases. – Mike Baker
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/us/boy-scouts-abuse-claims-bankruptcy.html

USA TODAY
— Deep blue and overwhelmingly against racial preferences: What’s going on in California Equality is central to the American creed. The Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and, now, the people of America’s largest state have reaffirmed that fact. – Ward Connerly (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, to get votes from them, politicians promise to give preference to minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, illegals, moderates/liberals, those who have health, financial, and/or other problems, non-Christians, non-Protestants, non-Italian Americans, non-German Americans, veterans, and to those who are anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-married people, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-draft avoiders, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, etc.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/11/13/proposition-16-california-affirmative-action-racial-preferences-column/6241580002/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Democratic Party waging a war over its future just as Joe Biden takes helm.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/15/joe-biden-take-presidency-democrats-battle-over-future-party/6278276002/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How Covid-19 Will Change Aging and Retirement Among other things, expect more aging in place and a wave of innovation to help make that happen – Anne Tergesen
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-covid-19-will-change-aging-and-retirement-11605452401
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 7. We need to save more to retire While stocks for now continue to perform well, lower bond yields caused by the pandemic might make it harder to make ends meet on a fixed income. For years, retirees have relied on the so-called 4% rule, which says you can withdraw 4% from your savings in the first year of retirement, and then give yourself an annual raise to account for inflation, without running a big risk of running out of money. For someone with a $1 million portfolio, that formula produced an initial income of $40,000 and—assuming inflation of 2%—an increase to $40,800 in year two. But today’s low bond yields mean future returns are expected to be lower than in the past, says David Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar Inc. Mr. Blanchett says his safe-spending recommendation is now between 3% and 3.5%. That means that someone who wants to safely withdraw $40,000 in the first year of retirement needs to save closer to $1.2 million than $1 million. . .9. We will work longer Since the 1990s, the percentage of people 55 and older in the labor force has risen steadily, to 40% in 2019 from 29% in 1993, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. With bond yields low, stock values high and Social Security in precarious shape, the trend will accelerate. “There’s so much uncertainty about the future…most people are going to continue to work as long as they can,” says Prof. Carstensen. With companies embracing remote work and flexible hours and the gig economy expanding, it’s easier for many older people to remain employed, says Jack Rowe, a professor of public health at Columbia University. Of course, not everyone has the ability to work into their 70s or beyond. Some are in poor health, have jobs they can no longer perform or are victims of age discrimination. “As a society, we will have to provide ways for people who cannot work to receive support, says Prof. Carstensen.”)
— The Best Books About Aging and Retirement of 2020 – Diane Cole (DIERSEN: I should write a book about early retirement.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-books-about-aging-and-retirement-of-2020-11605312522
— With Interest Rates Low, What’s a Retiree to Do? The investment landscape has changed for older investors. Here’s some advice on how to navigate it. – Michael A. Pollock
https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-interest-rates-low-whats-a-retiree-to-do-11605385320
— Why Democrats Nearly Lost the House. The problem is their policies, not their marketing. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-democrats-nearly-lost-the-house-11605482291

SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE
— John Kass: Take Donald Trump’s charges concerning a rigged election more seriously – John Kass
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/2020/11/15/trump-charges-election-fraud-deserve-open-hearing-court/6282906002/

NEWSWEEK
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Bolton to promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.newsweek.com/john-bolton-urges-gop-leaders-explain-voters-that-trump-lost-this-character-test-1547561

PITT NEWS
— Moderates are holding the Democratic Party back – Ethan Tessler (DIERSEN: Moderate Republicans, that is, RINOs, are holding the Republican Party back. I should write a book about RINOs in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who have focused on driving conservatives out of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, that is, who have focused on driving the base of the Republican Party out of the Republican Party, that is who have focused on destroying the Republican Party.)
https://pittnews.com/article/162181/opinions/opinion-moderates-are-holding-the-democratic-party-back/

SEVEN DAYS VERMONT
— Burlington Candidates Seek Open Council Seat in North District – COURTNEY LAMDIN (DIERSEN: According to your critics/opponents, what baggage do you have? My critics/opponents stress that I am White, male, old (born in 1948), conservative, Republican, Trump supporter, non-poor, childless, pet-less, overweight, diabetic, gun owner, Protestant (baptized, raiser, and conformed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran), draft avoider, 100% German American, my ancestors have been in America since 1844, federal employee for almost 30 years, federal retiree for more than 23 years, etc. They stress the adverse actions that TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township Republican Organization, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, Department of Justice, GAO, IRS, Firestone Stores, Post Office, etc. have taken against me.)
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2020/11/10/burlington-candidates-seek-open-council-seat-in-north-district
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Barlow said the council’s current partisan divide — six Progs, five Dems and one independent — creates “obstacles to dialogue and compromise.” He said he would not seek a party nomination. “It’s probably easier to work on community problems without all the extra baggage and entanglement that comes with party affiliation,” he said.)

ATLANTIC
— Whitewashing the Great Depression – SARAH BOXER (DIERSEN: What did your ancestors do during the Great Depression? My grandparents on my father’s side operated Crete’s only hardware store and raised my father and his sister. My grandparents on my mother’s side operated a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and raised my mother, her sister, and her two brothers.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/whitewashing-the-great-depression/616936/
— Why California Rejected Racial Preferences, Again – Conor Friedersdorf (DIERSEN: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans, and especially to get rid of Republicans who are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/why-california-rejected-affirmative-action-again/617049/

THE WEEK
— Dogs influenced by owner’s expression of preference  Dogs sensitive to owners’ choice despite having own preference
https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/11/16/dogs-influence-by-owner-expression-of-preference.html

YAHOO MONEY
— College students increasingly worried over finances (DIERSEN: What did you do to qualify yourself for better-paying jobs? 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.)
https://money.yahoo.com/college-students-increasingly-worried-over-221645684.html

INSIDE AGEING
— How ageism influences responses to population ageing – Frank Ehrenberg (DIERSEN: What assumptions do you make about federal employees? According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, if you are/were a federal employee who is Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran and if you have a job-related master’s degree, professional certification, or professional license and you do not make GS-13 (currently $101,176) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $119,559) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $140,634) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $170,800), by age 40, it must be because you are a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things.)
https://insideageing.com.au/how-ageism-influences-responses-to-population-ageing/

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.