September 8 Morning Edition

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON CHICAGO TIGHTENS: Chicago has already seen more murders and shootings this year than all of 2019. Violence up in most neighborhoods targeted by city. Labor Day weekend shootings punctuated the end of a violent summer in a violent year. – Sophie Sherry
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/9/7/22661103/chicago-more-murders-shootings-than-2019-violence-up-in-neighborhoods
— AS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S STRANGLEHOLD ON COOK COUNTY TIGHTENS: Half a million people in Cook County struggle with food insecurity during the pandemic – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/9/7/22653621/chicago-feeding-america-food-insecurity-hunger-covid-editorial

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— City of Elgin to provide free rental space to firm that offers business help to minority-owned businesses – GLORIA CASAS
(COMMENT: The Republican Party platform promotes equal opportunity, that it, it opposes race and gender based preference giving.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/ct-ecn-elgin-minority-business-lease-space-st-0908-20210907-dbtvsjhvzra2pkuseymyz4ppmu-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: As CPD makes changes to increase diversity, a former candidate questions department’s seemingly unforgiving hiring process. – STEPHANIE CASANOVA
(COMMENT: GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-police-diversity-hiring-20210907-n66oh2qsqnepletmxliiweczlm-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— Setting record straight on official’s firing – Chris Lauzen, Former Kane County Board Chairman
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20210907/setting-record-straight-on-officials-firing
— Give committee what it needs to investigate Jan. 6 riot – Mike Quigley
https://www.dailyherald.com/discuss/20210908/give-committee-what-it-needs-to-investigate-jan-6-riot
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH COLOR PICTURE: They don’t remember 9/11, but suburban teachers say students are intensely interested in it. – Lauren Rohr
(COMMENT: What were you doing on the morning of September 11, 2001? I was delivering reelection campaign press release kits for then State Representative Randy Hultgren.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210908/they-dont-remember-911-but-suburban-teachers-say-students-are-intensely-interested-in-it

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— State lawmaker Brad Halbrook says Pritzker’s vaccine mandate is coercive, disruptive as deadline delayed – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/state-lawmaker-says-pritzker-s-vaccine-mandate-is-coercive-disruptive-as-deadline-delayed/article_d5cab47e-1010-11ec-9179-1bb8776bb5a1.html
— Illinois House to take up energy legislation that some say will hamper reliability – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/illinois-house-to-take-up-energy-legislation-that-some-say-will-hamper-reliability/article_88634ddc-1005-11ec-ade0-6f6a8156d079.html

GLEN ELLYN PATCH
— COD Explores Voter Suppression and Voting Laws COD Explores Voter Suppression and Voting Laws in Honor of Constitution Day
https://patch.com/illinois/glenellyn/cod-explores-voter-suppression-voting-laws

BUR RIDGE PATCH
— Penalties Sought Against Burr Ridge Mayor. Mayor used the courts for political purposes, attorney says. – David Giuliani
https://patch.com/illinois/burrridge/penalties-sought-against-burr-ridge-mayor

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump announces plans to hold two rallies next month – Victor Morton
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/7/trump-announces-plans-hold-two-october-rallies/
— ICE counts 463 sanctuary jails, prisons in U.S. Biden administration blames sanctuaries for difficulty complying with court order. – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/7/ice-counts-463-sanctuary-jails-us/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— South Korea should spend more on defense and spend less time kowtowing to China – Tom Rogan
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/south-korea-should-spend-more-on-defense-and-spend-less-time-kowtowing-to-china

FOX NEWS
— Trump teases 2024 announcement, but is he just playing the media? Either way, Trump wins. If this is just saber-rattling, he gets coverage. If it’s serious, he gets even more coverage – Howard Kurtz
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-teases-2024-announcement-just-playing-media
— Biden blames Northeast storm damage on climate change, calls on Congress to pass infrastructure bill. Biden touted his ‘Build Back Better’ spending as a way to combat future storm damage. – Andrew Mark Miller
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-blames-storm-damage-in-northeast-on-climate-change-calls-on-congress-to-pass-infrastructure-spending

FOX BUSINESS
— White House asks Congress for $6.4 billion to resettle tens of thousands of Afghan refugees. The request also includes $14 billion for disaster relief. – Adam Shaw
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/white-house-congress-resettle-tens-of-thousands-afghan-refugees
— Billionaire entrepreneur Marc Lore wants to build nation’s first woke city. Lore last week unveiled plans for his utopia, called Telosa, from the ancient Greek word Telos, meaning ‘highest purpose’ – Will Feuer
(COMMENT: Of course, none of the residents would be law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, 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.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/billionaire-entrepreneur-marc-lore-wants-build-nations-first-woke-city
— ‘Woke Inc.’ author: George Orwell never imagined this kind of censorship
https://www.foxnews.com/media/woke-inc-big-tech-censorship-government-george-orwell-ramaswamy

AMERICAN THINKER
— The administration seems to be acting with malice aforethought – Terry Paulding
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/the_administration_seems_to_be_acting_with_malice_aforethought.html

NEW AMERICAN
— Authoritarianism Pandemic Is the Real Threat – Ron Paul
https://thenewamerican.com/authoritarianism-pandemic-is-the-real-threat/

BREITBART
— Trump: Afghanistan Collapse ‘a Disgrace to this Country’ — ‘Should Have Never Happened’ – JEFF POOR
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/09/07/trump-afghanistan-collapse-a-disgrace-to-this-country-should-have-never-happened/
— Transgender Mortality Rate Twice as High as Those Without Gender Dysphoria – Dr. Susan Berry
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/07/study-transgender-twice-likely-die-than-no-gender-dysphoria/
— Biden Builds the Taliban Back Better: Weapons, Military Equipment Fuel Resurgent Islamists – KRISTINA WONG
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/07/biden-builds-the-taliban-back-better-weapons-military-equipment-fuel-resurgent-islamists/
— Biden Requests $6.4B in Taxpayer Money to Resettle 95,000 Afghans Across U.S. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/07/biden-asks-for-6-4b-to-resettle-95k-afghans/

BLAZE
— Fort McCoy in Wisconsin identifies one case of the measles during Afghan refugee resettlement efforts – ALEX NITZBERG
https://www.theblaze.com/news/fort-mccoy-in-wisconsin-identifies-one-case-of-the-measles-during-afghan-refugee-resettlement-effort

DAILY CALLER
— New York Times Story On Biden’s $3.5 Trillion Budget Repeatedly Refers To Life Beginning At Conception – MARY MARGARET OLOHAN
https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/07/new-york-times-life-conception-joe-biden-roe-v-wade/
— California Liberals Believe They Must Vote For The Rich White Guy To Defeat White Supremacy – NICK PILGRIM
(COMMENT: What do you say a) to Whites who paint themselves as being champions of those who are anti-White, b) to men who paint themselves as being champions of those who are anti-men, c) to older people who paint themselves as being champions of those who are anti-older people, d) to RINOs who paint themselves as being champions of LGBTQers, e) to RINOs who paint themselves as being champions of those who are anti-conservative, and f) to RINOs who paint themselves as being champions of those who are anti-Republican?)
https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/07/pilgrim-california-liberals-vote-rich-guy-white-supremacy/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Marxism Underpins Black Lives Matter Agenda – Mike Gonzalez
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/09/07/marxism-underpins-black-lives-matter-agenda/

PJ MEDIA
— In the Run-Up to the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, Media Pushing Stories About How Muslims Were the Real Victims – ROBERT SPENCER
https://pjmedia.com/columns/robert-spencer/2021/09/07/in-the-run-up-to-the-20th-anniversary-of-9-11-media-pushing-stories-about-how-muslims-were-the-real-victims-n1476717
— The Real ‘Structural Racism’ Is In America’s Union-Run Schools – RICK MORAN
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/09/07/the-real-structural-racism-is-in-americas-union-run-schools-n1476632
— Why Is a Generation of Men Giving Up on College? – RICK MORAN
(COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, employers are under ever-increasing pressure to hire, to retain, and to promote young Democrat women, and especially those who are minority, LGBTQ, disabled, not married, Trump-haters, non-Christian, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, citizens of foreign countries, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time. GAO hired me in 1980 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. IRS hired me in 1971 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office hired me in 1966 because it could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/09/07/why-is-a-generation-of-men-giving-up-on-college-n1476586

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Princeton Indoctrination Begins Before Classes Even Start – Edward Yingling & Stuart Taylor Jr.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/09/08/princeton_indoctrination_begins_before_classes_even_start_146365.html

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— How Quickly Teacher Unions Went From Critical Race Theory Is “Not Being Taught” To “Yes, It Is. We Support It.” – William A. Jacobson
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/09/how-quickly-teacher-unions-went-from-critical-race-theory-is-not-being-taught-to-yes-it-is-we-support-it/
— Echoes Of Bolshevik Revolution: Democrat Replacement Of Police With Antifa/BLM Anarchist ‘Authority’ Once they consolidated power, Bolsheviks weren’t particularly interested in protecting ordinary people from the criminal element. – Katya Rapoport Sedgwick
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/09/echoes-of-bolshevik-revolution-democrat-replacement-of-police-with-antifa-blm-anarchist-authority/

POLITICO
— Fears of critical race theory unleash army of school board candidates. Republicans sees a rich opportunity to build a pipeline of new political candidates by pushing the culture war issue. – DANIEL PAYNE
(COMMENT: What are the following doing to fight CRT: a) the leaders of your Republican township/ward party organization, b) the leaders of your Republican county party organization, c) your representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee, and d) the leaders of the IRP?)
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/08/critical-race-theory-school-boards-510381
— Trump builds ‘turnkey’ campaign operation for 2024 – MERIDITH MCGRAW and MICHAEL CAPUTO
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/09/07/trump-builds-turnkey-campaign-operation-for-2024-1390750
— NOVEMBER 10, 2016 FLASHBACK: COMMENT: Who blames you for their problems? I should write a book about unsuccessful Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000, their political consultants, their major donors, their fundraisers, their campaign managers, their campaign staff members, and the their campaign volunteers who have blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their defeats. I would focus on candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois Senate, Illinois House, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton West District, and judicial offices. I would focus on those who blamed what I did as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012 and as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-aides-loss-blame-231215

MSN
— COVID-19 cases in Naperville twice as high now as they were in September 2020, data shows – Suzanne Baker
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/covid-19-cases-in-naperville-twice-as-high-now-as-they-were-in-september-2020-data-shows/ar-AAOdT1p
— Path to increasing minority homeownership goes through Fannie and Freddie – Zach Wichter
(COMMENT: What put you on the path to homeownership? I bought a new town home in University Park in 1972 when I was 24 years old. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. The down payment came from what I earned a) working for IRS full-time for the previous 15 months, first in Chicago, and then in Harvey and b) working for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights part-time for the previous 18 months and full-time for the 7 months before that. That income also enabled me to buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971 and to pay for tuition and books for graduate business courses at Loyola for the previous 9 months.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/path-to-increasing-minority-homeownership-goes-through-fannie-and-freddie/ar-AAOcXEd

NEW YORK TIMES
— Americans have a long history of taking out their grievances on low-level officials – Michelle Cottle
(COMMENT: I should write a book about voters in my precinct who talk and/or act like my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have succeeded in getting them to blame me and to blame what I have done as their Republican Precinct Committeeman and as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor for the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in our precinct have suffered. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes paint themselves as being operatives or as dupes for the leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, and/or unsuccessful Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/opinion/coronavirus-masks-school-board-meetings.html
— How Educational Differences Are Widening America’s Political Rift. College graduates are now a firmly Democratic bloc, and they are shaping the party’s future. Those without degrees, by contrast, have flocked to Republicans. – Nate Cohn
(COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrat educators crow about their success in turning college graduates into operatives and into dupes for the Democrat Party. Democrat educators failed to turn me into a Democrat operative or into a Democrat dupe while I took a) graduate finance courses at IIT 1992-1997, b) Certified Internal Auditor examination review courses 1980-1981, c) graduate accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1980, d) CPA examination review courses 1978-1979, e) graduate business courses at Loyola 1972-1976, f) undergraduate courses at NIU 1969-1970, and g) undergraduate courses at UIC 1966-1968.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/us/politics/how-college-graduates-vote.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Kinzinger: 9/11 ‘changed the trajectory of my life’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/kinzinger-911-changed-the-trajectory-of-my-life/2021/09/07/ac56e34a-0dca-4daa-b9ca-0b7ae1f0d3e7_video.html

NEW YORK POST
— US troops’ rage at their leaders will grow unless there’s deep reform – Glenn H. Reynolds
https://nypost.com/2021/09/07/us-troops-rage-at-their-leaders-will-grow-unless-theres-deep-reform/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Black Lawmakers, Now Winning in White Communities, Call for End to Packing Black Voters in House Districts. More say majority-Black districts, once a key to Black political power, hurt Democratic efforts to gain seats. – Aaron Zitner
https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-lawmakers-now-winning-in-white-communities-call-for-end-to-packing-black-voters-in-house-districts-11631106001
— Democrats Are Back to Hating Voter ID. The House passes H.R.4, which would suspend many ID rules. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-are-back-to-hating-voter-id-house-passes-hr-4-11629928966
— Chicago’s Bloody Past Is Very Present. Bus tours of Al Capone’s haunts are popular, but the city’s bloodshed makes nostalgia for gangsters a tough sell. – Bob Greene
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chicago-bloody-shootings-mob-crime-11631043899
— Is Donald Trump Finished? Admit it: You don’t want him to run again yet his absence hasn’t solved any problem. – Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-biden-2024-2020-president-election-immigration-crime-critical-race-theory-covid-11631044792
— Get Ready for the Blackouts. Mismanagement and the push for renewables are degrading the reliability of the U.S. electrical grid. – Robert Bryce
https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackouts-generac-electric-grid-texas-california-biden-decarbonize-renewables-climate-11631043410

NEXSTAR MEDIA WIRE
— ‘Tent cities’ springing up across US; some believe pandemic is to blame – Evan Lambert
https://whnt.com/news/tent-cities-springing-up-across-us-some-believe-pandemic-is-to-blame/
https://www.wkrn.com/news/tent-cities-springing-up-across-us-some-believe-pandemic-is-to-blame/
https://www.wreg.com/news/national/tent-cities-springing-up-across-us-some-believe-pandemic-is-to-blame/

NEWSROOM
— What were you doing on the morning of September 11, 2001?
(COMMENT: I was delivering reelection campaign press release kits for then State Representative Randy Hultgren.)
https://thenewsroom.net/news/what-were-you-doing-on-the-morning-of-september-11-2001-tell-us-to-folha-06-09-2021-readers-panel/

NATIONAL FINANCIAL EDUCATION COUNCIL
— New NFEC Survey Indicates High Support for Employee Financial Wellness Programs
(COMMENT: Overwhelmingly, federal employees are Democrats. My superiors in the federal government acted like they had surveyed their Democrat employees who were moderate, liberal, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or those whose ancestors had not been in America for a long time and found that they wanted the federal government to get rid of its employees who were Republican, conservative, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors had been in America for a long time.)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-nfec-survey-indicates-high-support-for-employee-financial-wellness-programs-301369157.html

PHYCOLOGY TODAY
— The Essence of Wokeness – Jeremy E. Sherman Ph.D., MPP
(COMMENT: To be woke is to be anti-law enforcement, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-traditional marriage/family, anti-non-poor people, anti-gun owners, anti-Christian, anti-Protestant, anti-Italian American, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/jerkology/202109/the-essence-wokeness

LOS ANGELES BLADE
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, if you do not promote LGBTQ, the following discriminate against you: Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, and RINOs.
https://www.losangelesblade.com/2021/09/07/one-in-ten-lgbt-workers-experienced-discrimination-at-work/

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.