FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS2
— At least 50 young people involved in fights at Joliet mall over holiday weekend
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/50-young-people-involved-in-fights-at-joliet-mall-holiday-weekend/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrats ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/30/chicago-immigration-citizen-arrests-charges/
— Illinois attorney general ends year filled with lawsuits against the Trump administration with one more challenge. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the Democrat Party platform including more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicaogotribune.com/2025/12/29/illinois-donald-trump-lawsuits-raoul/
— Hundreds of public employees investigated by the state of Illinois improperly took millions in PPP loans
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/29/ppp-loan-fraud-illinois-cook-county/
— CPS says ‘miscellaneous’ school workers shouldn’t be allowed to unionize. DD: If GAO had unionized sooner, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/29/cps-miscellaneous-school-workers-unionize/
— Deteriorating state of St. Irenaeus Catholic Church reflects changing religious culture in Park Forest. DD: In 1961, when I was in eighth grade, my parents transferred from Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete to Hope Lutheran Church in Park Forest to stay with the Missouri Synod. My newly formed eight grade there had only 8 students. I was confirmed in 1962 and my brother in 1968. My father sang in the choir.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/29/column-deteriorating-state-of-st-irenaeus-catholic-church-reflects-changing-religious-culture-in-park-forest/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Hope Lutheran Church with its large tower and gorgeous acoustics, is now home to Lilydale Baptist Church.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Mayor Brandon Johnson stresses New Year’s Eve curfew, hopes to avoid another ‘teen takeover.’ Anyone under 18 is required to be with an adult after 10 p.m. Wednesday night while the city hosts “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” along the Riverwalk. DD: Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, Democrat teens will takeover your downtown.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/public-safety/2025/12/29/chicago-new-years-eve-curfew-teen-takeover-brandon-johnson
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage forest preserve board OKs $151 million budget
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251229/news/dupage-forest-preserve-board-oks-151-million-budget/
WCBU
— Southern Illinois restaurant owner headed for deportation. DD: Noncitizens are future Democrats. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise noncitizens and b) fight their deportation. How many noncitizens are there in your county, township, municipality, and school district? If my employers could have hired noncitizens instead of me, they would have. If my Democrat Post Office superiors could have hired noncitizens, they would have immediately replaced me with a noncitizen. If my Democrat IRS superiors could have hired noncitizens, they would have promoted non-citizens instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If my Democrat GAO superiors could have hired noncitizens, they would have promoted a noncitizen instead of me in 1986 and they would have immediately replaced me with a noncitizen.
https://www.wcbu.org/state-news/2025-12-29/staunton-restaurant-owner-headed-for-deportation
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Call for articles. It would be great if conservative leaders in Illinois would write more articles that promote conservative principles. Far too few articles are being written that promote personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration laws, the damages that vices cause, the importance of the Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Noncitizens are future Democrats. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise noncitizens and b) fight their deportation. How many noncitizens are there in your county, township, municipality, and school district? If my employers could have hired noncitizens instead of me, they would have. If my Democrat Post Office superiors could have hired noncitizens, they would have immediately replaced me with a noncitizen. If my Democrat IRS superiors could have hired noncitizens, they would have promoted non-citizens instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If my Democrat GAO superiors could have hired noncitizens, they would have promoted a noncitizen instead of me in 1986 and they would have immediately replaced me with a noncitizen. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents say about the jobs that you have/had? My critics/opponents could/would argue that all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they and my peers would not want. In my defense, what about my peers who lacked job qualifications? In my defense, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 would not have hired me if I had not earned an MBA in 1976 and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. Extremely few of my peers earned MBAs and/or took the CPA examination, let alone passed it on their first attempt. Further, back in 1980s, GAO’s reputation was much stronger than it is now. Further, the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 would not have hired me if had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination (FSEE). Few of my peers earned bachelor’s degrees and virtually none if not none took the FSEE let alone passed it. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What work experience do you have? Democrats run IRS and GAO. GAO audits IRS. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. IRS had promoted me to GS-9 when I was 23 years old in in 1972. To force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10, to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors dramatically ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed what I had learned a) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) almost completing the requirement for a master’s degree in accounting, and e) that much of what I did for IRS was very similar to what I would do for GAO. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinate used my having to take a pay cut to transfer against me viciously. The hinted/implied/argued/shouted that what I had learned since 1971 was worthless. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did your employers struggle to meet their Affirmative Action (AA) quotas, goals, and targets? My Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors struggled to meet their AA quotas, goals, and targets because few qualified minorities and women wanted to work for the Post Office, IRS, or GAO. Qualified minorities and females could get better paying jobs in the private sector. Consequently, to retain and promote their minority and female employees, my Democrat superiors a) gave them tremendous preference and b) wasted the careers of and got rid of their Republican employees who were White and/or male. All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats who were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran. They all had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Pot is poison. I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019. All my critics/opponents have used pot, use pot, want to use pot, and/or want make money selling pot. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Why do people use pot? From what I see, overwhelmingly, it is because they have problems, because they have trouble dealing with reality, and/or because they want immediate pleasure. But pot drags you down and causes you more problems. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) get an ACT score of 24, b) graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, b) earn a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, c) pass the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, d) earn four more job-related professional certifications, or e) earn a job-related professional license (CPA). I would not have been able to get jobs that enabled me to a) buy a 6-year old car when I was 16, b) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, d) or get married when I was 29. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— A fired IRS employee decries irony of her being hired to ‘make the IRS ‘more efficient.’ Democrats run IRS. Democrats run GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980 after I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. The Democrats who ran GAO wasted my knowledge of IRS. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988 and then they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. They especially do not want Republicans like me who are conservative, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time to audit Democrats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Do you have regrets about how you prioritized your work-life balance? I will forever regret my not taking more than one graduate evening course at a time. I took only one graduate evening business course at a time while I worked for Firestone Stores in 1971 and for IRS 1972-1976. I took only one graduate evening accounting course at a time while I worked for IRS 1976-1980 and GAO in 1980. I took only one graduate evening finance course at a time while I worked for GAO 1992-1997. I did that because of the tuition and book expenses and because wanted to keep my jobs my top priority. But consequently, I did not earn an MBA until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not earn a master’s degree in finance until I was 48. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, it was too late. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you ever sever as the chairman of a political organization? I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, To end my TAPROOT chairmanship and to destroy TATROOT in 2012, my critics/opponents had their TAPROOT officers and their TAPROOT directors charge me with gross incompetence. They argued/shouted that anyone could do a better job of heading TAPROOT than me. They demonized, denigrated, and condemned the speakers who I had recruited for TAPROOT’s monthly meetings, August Picnics, and December Christmas parties. Previously, to end my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee (SC) and to destroy ICRC in 2007, they almost got their ICRC SC members to get ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I have type 2 diabetes. I have started using Stelo by Dexcom to continuously monitor my blood sugar level. If you have type 2 diabetes and use Stelo, please phone me at 630-653-0462. My blood sugar spikes to over 250 after I eat. That means I have high hyperglycemia. I am looking for suggestions to stop blood sugar spikes. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQURE ILLINOIS
— Republicans state Rep. Adam Niemerg, R-Dietrich, welcomes possible Marine deployment after Supreme Court ruling
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_8c3e95d3-082b-4d9e-aebe-ec905fd8c8da.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Test Scores, Costs for McHenry County School Districts, Link to All Illinois Districts. DD: As Democrats move in, test scores drop.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/29/test-scores-costs-for-mchenry-county-school-districts-link-to-all-illinois-districts/
— What’s Going On in Richmond Township? Supervisor, Clerk, Office Administrator Resigning
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/29/whats-going-on-in-richmond-township/
— Chicago Crime Comes to Barrington
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/29/chicago-crime-comes-to-barrington/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— More cases of illegal voting are coming to light as GOP scrubs voter rolls
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/29/cases-illegal-voting-coming-light-gop-scrubs-voter-rolls/
— Jews, get your guns; no one is coming to save the chosen people
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/29/jews-get-guns-no-one-coming-save-chosen-people/
— Russia targeting Mexico with anti-U.S. propaganda. Moscow is exploiting anti-American sentiment in Mexico.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/29/russia-targeting-mexico-anti-us-propaganda/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats move to stop ICE from working with local police nationwide. DD: For Democrat leaders, flooding America with their illegals and keeping them in America is one of their top priorities.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4363620/democrats-stop-ice-working-local-police-nationwide/
NEW YORK POST
— False refugee study used by Dems to justify open borders — and massive spending
https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/opinion/false-refugee-study-used-by-dems-to-justify-open-borders-and-massive-spending/
— Woke is not dead
https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/us-news/son-of-susan-sontag-warns-against-dancing-on-the-grave-of-wokeness-woke-is-not-dead/
AMERICAN THINKER
— How Jobs Become ‘Jobs Americans Just Won’t Do’ DD: My critics/opponents could/would argue that all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they and my peers would not want. In my defense, what about my peers who lacked job qualifications? In my defense, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 would not have hired me if I had not earned an MBA in 1976 and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. Extremely few of my peers earned MBAs and/or took the CPA examination, let alone passed it on their first attempt. Further, back in 1980s, GAO’s reputation was much stronger than it is now. Further, the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 would not have hired me if had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination (FSEE). Few of my peers earned bachelor’s degrees and virtually none if not none took the FSEE let alone passed it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/12/how_jobs_become_jobs_americans_just_won_t_do.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Mamdani reacts to Musk’s criticism of his new lesbian fire chief’s work experience. DD: What work experience do you have? Democrats run IRS and GAO. GAO audits IRS. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. IRS had promoted me to GS-9 when I was 23 years old in in 1972. To force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10, to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors dramatically ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed what I had learned a) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) almost completing the requirement for a master’s degree in accounting, and e) that much of what I did for IRS was very similar to what I would do for GAO. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinate used my having to take a pay cut to transfer against me viciously. The hinted/implied/argued/shouted that what I had learned since 1971 was worthless.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/29/mamdani-reacts-to-musks-criticism-of-his-new-lesbian-fire-chief-1612678/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani defended his new appointee after Elon Musk called out the fire chief’s lack of “experience.” The soon-to-be sworn-in mayor fired back at the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, declaring that “Experience does matter,” in a post on X. “Experience does matter, which is why I appointed the person who spent more than 30 years at EMS. You know, the workforce that addresses at least 70% of all calls coming into FDNY?” Mamdani wrote. Mandani appointed Lillian Bonsignore, a veteran emergency medical services leader, last week to head up the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), making her the city’s first openly gay fire commissioner. But it is her lack of firefighting experience that irked many who reacted to the 56-year-old coming out of retirement to accept the incoming mayor’s appointment. “People will die because of this. Proven experience matters when lives are at stake,” Musk warned.
CATO INSTITUTE
— Ayn Rand: Affirmative Action, Racial Quotas Are “Unfair, Un-American, Unjust.” DD: My Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors struggled to meet their Affirmative Action quotas, goals, and targets because few qualified minorities and women wanted to work for the Post Office, IRS, or GAO. Qualified minorities and females could get better paying jobs in the private sector. Consequently, to retain and promote their minority and female employees, my Democrat superiors a) gave them tremendous preference and b) wasted the careers of and got rid of their Republican employees who were White and/or male. All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats who were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran. They all had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.cato.org/blog/ayn-rand-affirmative-action-racial-quotas-are-unfair-un-american-unjust
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Best and Brightest. DD: Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly glorify and praise noncitizens. Noncitizens work for less money than citizens and can be much more easily exploited. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://cis.org/Fishman/US-Chamber-Commerce-Second-Thought-H1B-Isnt-Best-and-Brightest-After-All
CENTER SQUARE
— SCOTUS to take up key Second Amendment challenges in 2026. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make clear that thy want to abolish the Second Amendment, that is, that they want get rid of Republicans once and for all.
https://www.kpvi.com/news/national_news/watch-scotus-to-take-up-key-second-amendment-challenges-in-2026/article_b812eb49-e96c-528a-9b28-339b5f2a0fa5.html
COLLEGE FIX
— ‘1619 Project’ professor Nikole Hannah-Jones pens tribute to convicted cop killer
https://www.thecollegefix.com/1619-project-professor-nikole-hannah-jones-pens-tribute-to-convicted-cop-killer/
FOX NEWS
— Gen Z wants a country committed to them and their well-being. DD: What generation are you? I am a baby boomer. I was born in 1948. My parents and teachers stressed personal responsibility, that I should become a productive member of society, that I should make the most of my potential, and that I should get married and have children.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6387054609112
LEGAL NEWS LINE
— Raoul: Marijuana ‘dangers’ justify blocking IL users from owning guns. DD: Pot is poison. I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019. All my critics/opponents have used pot, use pot, want to use pot, and/or want make money selling pot. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/illinois-supports-blocking-marijuana-users-from-owning-guns/article_b289b770-0ba0-4e24-ba69-14611e9693d4.html
MILITARY TIMES
— Department of Veterans Affairs reinstates near-total ban on abortions
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/12/29/department-of-veterans-affairs-reinstates-near-total-ban-on-abortions/
PJ MEDIA
— Chinese Government Threatens America as Its Navy Surrounds Taiwan
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/29/chinese-government-threatens-america-as-navy-surrounds-taiwan-n4947654
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— U.S. could block asylum on public health grounds under Trump regulation. DD: What percent of illegals have serious health problems?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/u-could-block-asylum-public-163024770.html
— Trump renews his threat to bring a lawsuit against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for what he called “gross incompetence.” DD: To end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship and to destroy TAPROOT in 2012, my critics/opponents had their TAPROOT officers and their TAPROOT directors charge me with gross incompetence. They argued/shouted that anyone could do a better job of heading TAPROOT than me. They demonized, denigrated, and condemned the speakers who I had recruited for TAPROOT’s monthly meetings, August Picnics, and December Christmas parties. Previously, to end my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee (SC) and to destroy ICRC in 2007, they almost got their ICRC SC members to get ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-threatens-sue-feds-powell-will-announce-replacement-next-month-2025-12-29/
ABC NEWS
— Fired IRS employee decries irony of being hired to ‘make the IRS ‘more efficient’ DD: Democrats run IRS. Democrats run GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980 after I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. The Democrats who ran GAO wasted my knowledge of IRS. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988 and then they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. They especially do not want Republicans like me who are conservative, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time to audit Democrats.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fired-irs-employee-decries-hired-make-irs-efficient/story?id=119017800
ABC SAN FRANCIACO
— SF to develop 15-story affordable housing building for LGBTQ+ seniors as aging population grows. “As folks age, incomes become restricted, the cost of living rises and so the need for affordable housing becomes even greater.” DD: How successful have Democrats and RINOs been promoting LGBTQ+ in your county, township, municipality, and school district, that is, how successful have they been destroying traditional marriage and family in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://abc7news.com/post/san-francisco-developing-15-story-affordable-housing-building-lgbtq-seniors-aging-population-grows/18330872/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Justice Department Sues Virginia Over Tuition Aid for Unauthorized Immigrants. DD: UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992, but they would have admitted noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Virtually all noncitizens are minorities. Democrats and RINOs have always preferred a) noncitizens over citizens and b) minorities over Whites.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/us/politics/us-sues-virginia-tuition-immigrants.html
USA TODAY
— You have a right to love or hate Charlie Kirk. DD: Your attitude toward Kirk and toward his assignation say more about your attitude toward conservatives than anything that you can say about yourself.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/12/29/charlie-kirk-free-speech-first-amendment-lawsuits/87885212007/
— Safest and most dangerous cities to live in 2025. DD: When Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase. If you move to get away from Democrat poverty and Democrat crime, anticipate/expect that Democrats will follow you and bring their Democrat poverty and Democrat crime with them.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2025/12/29/ranking-safest-and-most-dangerous-cities-to-live-in-2025/87948778007/
— Popular jobs had their ‘professional’ tag axed. Don’t take it personally. Only 11 made the cut, and many people were quick to point out degrees such as nursing, accounting, architecture and physical therapy were excluded. DD: My greatest successes include my a) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 in 1979, b) passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, and c) becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/12/14/professional-jobs-tag-student-loan-debt/87720305007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Andersen’s IPO Makes It Hard for Investors to See Straight. Stock’s debut comes two decades after reversal of namesake accounting firm’s criminal conviction. DD: My next door neighbor was in line to lead Arthur Andersen but he did not succeed. If he had succeeded, my career might have been very different. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 in 1979. I earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32. I became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/andersens-ipo-makes-it-hard-for-investors-to-see-straight-27b6a14e
— I Tried Answering a Big Unknown in Retirement Planning: How Long Will I Live? Longevity calculators can give more-personalized estimates on how many years your savings need to last. DD: How old are you? I am 77. According to Social Security, I have 10.6 years to live and I will die when I am 87.8. But the estimate does “not take into account a wide number of factors such as current health, lifestyle, and family history that could increase or decrease life expectancy.”
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/i-tried-answering-a-big-unknown-in-retirement-planning-how-long-will-i-live-9ef468df
DAILY JOURNAL
— How consumer arbitrators balance fairness, efficiency and economy. DD: I have been an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority since 1998.
https://www.dailyjournal.com/article/389170-how-consumer-arbitrators-balance-fairness-efficiency-and-economy
WVTF
— Democrat leaders do not want Trump to fight crime. Criminals vote for Democrats.
https://www.wvtf.org/2025-12-29/trump-sent-in-the-national-guard-to-fight-crime-in-2025-results-were-unclear
HACKENSACK
— Hackensack HS Students Offered Nearly $2M in Merit Scholarships. DD: My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me. They have always used that to falsely hint/imply/argue/shout that I am stupid and that my parents were filthy rich.
https://www.tapinto.net/towns/hackensack/sections/education/articles/hackensack-hs-students-offered-nearly-2m-in-merit-scholarships
(FROM THE ARTICLE: HHS reported some amazing stats from the event: 211 offers of admission. $1,985,800 in Merit Scholarships offered. Totals to $7,943,200 over a four-year term.)
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
— 10 essential skills you’ll need for career success. DD: Democrats run the federal government. For them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. To advance in the federal government, you have to be more than just a Democrat, you have to excel at a) advancing Democrat employees who are minority and/or female and b) wasting the careers of and getting rid of Republican employees who are White and/or male.
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/04/17/10-essential-skills-youll-need-career-success
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Prioritizing work-life balance is not a recipe for success. DD: I will forever regret my not taking more than one graduate evening course at a time. I took only one graduate evening business course at a time while I worked for Firestone Stores in 1971 and for IRS 1972-1976. I took only one graduate evening accounting course at a time while I worked for IRS 1976-1980 and GAO in 1980. I took only one graduate evening finance course at a time while I worked for GAO 1992-1997. I did that because of the tuition and book expenses and because wanted to keep my jobs my top priority. But consequently, I did not earn an MBA until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32. I did not earn a master’s degree in finance until I was 48. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, it was too late.
https://www.businessinsider.com/skims-cofounder-emma-grede-work-life-balance-your-problem-2025-5
ATLANTIC
— The Lonely New Vices of American Life. Booze is down and weed is up, and that’s doing something to us as a country. DD: Democrat and RINO candidates, elected officials, and party leaders ever-increasingly promote vices to get more votes from LGBTQers, boozers, gamblers, and stoners.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/11/american-vice-national-character/684785/
FROM OTHER SOURCES
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
— MAY 19, 1997 FLASHBACK: COURT KILLS ODOMETER EXEMPTION FOR OLD VEHICLES. DD: There were more than enough facts to make the Chicago Car Exchange (CCE) suspicious of the car’s claimed mileage, and therefore, to verify its claimed milage. The court left out many of those facts in its written decision. Further, CCE refused to offer to pay me the car’s loss in value because of the odometer discrepancy or the thousands of dollars of improvements that I had made to the car. The odometer exemption decision was rendered moot when the BIG THREE had Congress modify the Federal Odometer Act. I appealed the rest of the decision to the Supreme Court, but Supreme Court refused to hear it.
https://www.autonews.com/article/19970519/ANA/705190719/court-kills-odometer-exemption-for-old-vehicles/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A federal appeals court has tossed out a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulation that exempts motor vehicles more than 10 years old from odometer disclosure requirements. In a unanimous decision, the three-judge panel in Chicago ruled that Congress did not authorize the secretary of transportation to exclude older vehicles from the disclosure provisions of the Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act, also known as the Odometer Act. Unless overturned on further appeal, the decision binds sellers of vehicles in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, the three states covered by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Liz Neblett, a NHTSA public affairs officer in Washington, said, ‘We are aware of the case but were not named in the suit. We are looking at the situation to see what, if anything, should be done in the future.’ The decision means a seller must provide an odometer disclosure statement to the purchaser of any car or truck, regardless of age, according to Christopher Langone, who argued the appeal for Chicago Car Exchange. His client specializes in classic and antique vehicles. ‘Dealerships, whether new or used, should give a disclosure statement with every transaction,’ Langone said. In the same decision, however, the appeals court said plaintiff David Diersen cannot press his odometer fraud claim against Chicago Car Exchange. In 1984, he paid $16,790 for a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T. He failed to present evidence that the dealership deliberately misrepresented the car’s mileage, the 7th Circuit panel said. Diersen, an auditor for the federal government, contended the disclosure statement he received falsely listed about 22,600 original miles. Instead, he asserted, the actual mileage was about 75,000. The dealership denied that the statement was inaccurate and said it had no reason to disbelieve the sworn statement of the seller. Diersen turned down the dealership’s offer to refund the full purchase price. A judge dismissed the lawsuit without trial. Diersen, representing himself, appealed. In the new decision, Appeals Judge John Coffey rejected the dealership’s argument that the Odometer Act doesn’t cover vehicles more than 10 years old. The 1988 NHTSA regulation purporting to exempt such vehicles is invalid, according to the court. ‘The text of the law does not, either explicitly or implicitly, exempt any class of motor vehicles from its odometer disclosure requirements,’ the appeals court said. Diersen has asked the appeals court for a new hearing on the fraud issue. If he loses there, ‘I’m going to the Supreme Court.’)
