FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois Democrats push redistricting ‘reform’ that maintains their own power
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/24/gerrymandering-redistricting-chris-welch-virginia-political-maps/
— DD: 2.2 million Illinois residents with a criminal record.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/24/opinion-clean-slate-illinois-employers/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois marijuana firms will get a massive tax break from Trump administration’s historic weed shift. DD: Pot is poison, In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton. All my critics/opponents have used pot, are using it, want to use it, want to make money selling it, want the tax revenue from its sale, want votes from those who use it, and/or want to use it to destroy America.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2026/04/23/marijuana-cannabis-trump-blanche-chicago-illinois-verano-cresco
WGN9
— CPS parents demand clarity on May Day agreement.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/cps-parents-demand-clarity-on-may-day-agreement/
STATELINE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran against America.
https://www.mystateline.com/hill-politics/fetterman-iran-must-be-so-excited-by-the-american-media-and-the-democratic-party/
— Bailey visits Rockford, criticizes state policies
https://www.mystateline.com/news/republican-nominee-darren-bailey-visits-rockford-criticizes-state-policies/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug might only be the first step for Trump. President Donald Trump’s decision to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug is a boon for the industry. DD: Pot is poison, In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton. All my critics/opponents have used pot, are using it, want to use it, want to make money selling it, want the tax revenue from its sale, want votes from those who use it, and/or want to use it to destroy America.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/reclassifying-marijuana-as-a-less-dangerous-drug-might-only-be-the-first-step-for-trump/article_fc2ab65f-dacf-57af-9f59-1c004875746e.html
CITY THAT WORKS
— Chicago doubles down on unaffordable housing. In 2025, new affordable units in Chicago will cost *at least* $679K a pop to build.
https://citythatworks.substack.com/p/chicago-doubles-down-on-unaffordable
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/04/24/bears-bill-and-the-senate-red-zone-00890120
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/04/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-723/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/04/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-510/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Vallas: Chicago Media Fuel Anti-Police Hysteria
https://johnkassnews.com/chicago-media-fuel-anti-police-hysteria/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois’ number of high school grads to plunge 32%. Lawmakers still want more college money.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-number-of-high-school-grads-to-plunge-32-lawmakers-still-want-more-college-money/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illegal immigrants and temporary visitors give birth to 9% of U.S. babies
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/23/illegal-immigrants-temporary-visitors-give-birth-9-us-babies/
— Most service workers now have college degrees. DD: When I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21 in 1970, I applied to many fortune 500 firms. Only Firestone Stores offered me a job, and it was for a job that really did not require a college degree. In the name of “training,” my boss used me like I was a car mechanic trainee. All the firms that I applied to were under tremendous pressure from EEOC to hire minorities, females, and veterans. I was not a minority, female, or veteran. To make matters worse, potential employers saw me as being Vietnam War draft bait. They did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved. Beyond that, my GPA was not that great because to work my way through college, I had spent far too many hours delivering mail instead of studying.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/5/report-finds-service-workers-college-degrees/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— When politics becomes your identity, disagreement becomes war
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4539020/politics-becomes-identity-disagreement-becomes-war/
— ‘White supremacy’ was a leftist scam
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4540823/white-supremacy-leftist-scam/
NEW YORK POST
— How NYC’s elite high schools discriminate — on mayor’s orders
https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/opinion/how-nycs-elite-high-schools-discriminate-on-mayors-orders/
AMERICAN THINKER
— California Democrats stick up for illegal alien truck drivers who can’t drive and speak no English. God help California if one of these Democrats gets elected governor.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/california_democrats_stick_up_for_illegal_alien_truck_drivers_who_can_t_drive_and_speak_no_english.html
FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Workplace Raids Are Coming—and They’re Essential. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.fairus.org/opinion/workplace-raids-are-coming-and-theyre-essential
FOX NEWS
— Harvard students revolt over new grading policy they call ‘racist.’ Freshman started the Change.org petition urging Harvard to reject the proposed policy. DD: Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. I had to work my way through college.
https://noticias.foxnews.com/media/harvard-students-revolt-new-grading-policy-call-racist
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “This petition calls on Harvard to reject the proposed grading policy, arguing that it is not merely flawed but racially harmful in effect,” a petition on Change.org started by Angelina Agostini, a freshman at Harvard College, reads. “We center racism as a core concern, contending that although the policy is framed as neutral ‘differentiation,’ it functions as a system of ranking and sorting that mirrors and reinforces existing racial and socioeconomic hierarchies,” the petition reads. “Because first-generation, low-income (FGLI) students and students of color are disproportionately affected by structural inequities long before arriving on campus, the policy would compound those disadvantages rather than correct them.”)
— New HUD rules will stop sheltering illegals in public housing.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/new-hud-rules-stop-sheltering-illegals-public-housing-heres-really-benefits
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Elite Schools Insist It’s About “Belonging”—Critics Say It’s Discrimination All Over Again
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/elite-schools-insist-its-about-belonging-critics-say-its-discrimination-all
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— DOT Pulls $73M From New York Over Failure to Revoke Thousands of Questionable CDLs
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/04/dot-pulls-73m-from-new-york-over-failure-to-revoke-thousands-of-questionable-cdls/amp/
NEW AMERICAN
— Spain Legalizes Half a Million Illegal Aliens. Is Europe Committing Suicide?
https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/spain-legalizes-half-a-million-illegal-aliens-is-europe-committing-suicide/
TOWNHALL
— A Lot of Arrested DACA Recipients Have Criminal Records
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/04/23/daca-criminals-n2674938
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrats hold 6-point advantage in battleground districts
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5845751-democrats-battleground-districts-poll/
ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/woke-conservatives/story?id=93051138
CBS NEWS & CONVERSATION
— For millions, low-wage work really is a dead end. DD: A big reason a) why I took only one graduate evening business course at a time while I worked for IRS 1972-1976 and b) why I took only one graduate evening accounting course at a time while I worked for IRS 1976-1980 and for GAO in 1980 and c) why I took only one graduate evening finance course at a time while I worked for GAO 1992-1997 was the cost of tuition and books.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/low-wage-work-really-is-a-dead-end-for-millions/
https://theconversation.com/for-some-workers-low-paying-jobs-might-be-more-of-a-dead-end-than-a-stepping-stone-202031
AOL
— Federal charges filed against man who returned to U.S. after deportation, convicted in 2023 Palatine shooting. DD: Anticipate/expect that because of strong Democrat and RINO support, many, most, virtually all, if all deportees will return. Democrats want illegals because they vote for Democrats. RINOs want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.aol.com/news/federal-charge-filed-against-man-203043362.html
NEWSWEEK
— Pope Leo Speaks Out Against Cardinal Ordering Blessings for Gay Couples
https://www.newsweek.com/pope-leo-speaks-out-against-cardinal-ordering-blessings-for-gay-couples-11871244
REUTERS
— DD: Those who promote illegal immigration should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-leo-decries-migrants-being-treated-worse-than-house-pets-2026-04-23/
https://wtvbam.com/2026/04/23/pope-leo-decries-migrants-being-treated-worse-than-house-pets/
— Pot firms rally after US reclassifies marijuana as less dangerous drug. DD: Pot is poison, In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton. All my critics/opponents have used pot, are using it, want to use it, want to make money selling it, want the tax revenue from its sale, want votes from those who use it, and/or want to use it to destroy America.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pot-firms-rally-after-us-reclassifies-marijuana-less-dangerous-drug-2026-04-23/
MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/10-celebrities-who-opened-up-about-love-beyond-traditional-marriage/ss-AA1VKOdd
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/opinion/dei-discriminatory-former-leaders.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010840629/they-championed-dei-now-theyre-divided.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote more wokeness and wokeism. To promote wokeness and wokeism is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents promote wokeness and wokeism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/23/stars-stripes-ombudsman-fired-pentagon/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Jury awards $2.25 million to Riverside County sergeant forced to resign after reporting harassment. DD: During the last 8 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO, had my supervisors do everything that they could to get rid of me. They were furious when I refused to take their $25,000 buyout and early retirement “offer” when I was 45 in 1993. The buyout expired in 1994. They succeeded in getting me to take their early retirement “offer” that expired on September 30, 1997. They had my supervisors make it clear that if I did not take their early retirement “offer,” they would make the next 6 years until I would be eligible for regular retirement a living hell for me. They made it clear that they would constructively, if not literally, demote me. That they would give me adverse transfers, bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance evaluations. I continue to ask myself what would have happened if I had not succumbed to their threats.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-22/riverside-county-sheriffs-department-jury-verdict-former-deputy
WSJ
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/u-s-law-schools-have-diverse-takes-on-dei-2ea9674c
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-04-23-2026/card/get-a-whiff-of-these-pot-stocks-YF60HEwBnlv5wuWRbAE7
— KPMG Cutting 10% of U.S. Audit Partners After Voluntary-Retirement Push Falls Short. DD: In 1993, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” a $25,000 buyout and early retirement to get rid of its employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/cfo-journal/kpmg-cutting-10-of-u-s-audit-partners-after-voluntary-retirement-push-falls-short-5fd0d005
FORTUNE
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/23/ron-desantis-dei-white-males-disfavored-group/
FORBES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran against America.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestv/2026/04/23/tammy-duckworth-invites-trump-to-congress-to-justify-presidents-war-of-choice-in-iran/
MARKETPLACE
— Bracing for baby. Serious financial decisions to-be parents should be thinking about. DD: My wife and I got married in 1978 when I was 29 and she was 27. We lived on one of our paychecks in anticipation of our having children. But we gave up trying to have children because we both had major fertility problems. My Democrat GAO superiors used that and our not adopting or becoming foster parents against me big time. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I lied about our efforts to have children. All my Democrat GAO superiors had children. They all complained about their paychecks and the time and money they spent raising their children. Their spouses had little or no income. According to them, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able a) to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt, b) to earn a master’s degree in accounting, c) to pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, or d) to become a licensed CPA.
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2012/03/02/bracing-baby
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— DD: As Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family, there will be more and more and more teen takeovers.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/readers/2026/04/23/bayshore-mall-teen-takeover/89705046007/
MINN POST
— DD: As Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family, there will be more and more and more homeless.
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2026/04/still-homeless-i-was-a-teen-with-a-job/
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Planning for the mental and physical health effects of involuntary retirement. More than half of employees retire earlier than planned. Those who retire involuntarily report more health, mental health, and financial problems. DD: I should write about being forced to retire early.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-life-of-the-american-male/202601/forced-to-retire
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: During the last 8 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO, my supervisor and her supervisor were Jewish females. The Democrats who ran GAO had them do everything that they could to get rid of me. They were furious when I refused to take their $25,000 buyout and early retirement “offer” when I was 45 in 1993. The buyout expired in 1994. They succeeded in getting my Jewish female supervisor and her superior to force me to take their early retirement “offer” that expired on September 30, 1997. They had my Jewish female supervisor and her superior make it clear that if I did not take their early retirement “offer,” they would make the next 6 years until I would be eligible for regular retirement a living hell for me. They made it clear that they would constructively, if not literally, demote me. That they would give me adverse transfers, bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance evaluations. I continue to ask myself what would have happened if I had not succumbed to their threats.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/opportunity-not-enough-female-leadership-says-nancy-yip
RAW STORY
— DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-military-strategy-loyalty/
ROLLING STONE
— DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-wants-to-make-it-harder-for-veterans-to-work-in-government/ar-AA21jXXG
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
AL JAZEERA
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/23/pope-decries-migrants-and-refugees-being-treated-worse-than-house-pets
GUARDIAN
— KPMG Slashes 10% of US Audit Partners. DD: Anticipate that all those slashed will be White, male, and/or older.
https://slguardian.org/kpmg-slashes-10-of-us-audit-partners-in-major-workforce-shake-up/
— Many young people are trapped in low-paid work. Could postgrad study be the way out? DD: If I had not been taking graduate evening business courses, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If I had not earned an MBA in 1976 and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have hired me in 1980. If I had not earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have promoted me in 1986.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/04/have-you-missed-your-chance-postgraduate-degree
Tag: alien
April 19, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS2
— The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools have agreed to use May Day for a “day of civic action” for students and teachers. DD: To promote “civic action” is to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-teachers-union-cps-may-day/
WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/more-than-half-of-americans-say-trump-immigration-agenda-too-aggressive-survey/
— DD: Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer people become productive members of society.
https://wgntv.com/news/1-in-3-us-households-struggle-to-pay-energy-bills-but-the-reality-is-likely-even-worse/
FOX32
— Teens charged after overnight crime wave hits multiple Chicago neighborhoods. DD: Under the Democrats, anticipate/expect that Democrat teens will ever-increasingly commit more crime.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/teens-charged-after-overnight-crime-wave-hits-multiple-chicago-neighborhoods-police
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Bailey seeks distance from Trump, but MAGA shadow looms. DD: The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans. Ever-increasingly pro-Democrat editorials are falsely presented as being news articles.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/19/darren-bailey-illinois-governor-race-maga-distance/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Under the Democrats, soon, everyone in DuPage County will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260417/news/giving-dupage-days-fundraiser-returns-to-help-nonprofits/
— Long-term care spending. Just as early retirement can cause a spending shock at the front end of retirement, long-term care costs can prompt a spending shock later in life. A 2025 report authored by Spencer Look and Jack VanDerhei of the Morningstar Center for Retirement & Policy Studies found that 43% of baby boomers will incur long-term care costs, with the average cost of that care $242,373. The likelihood of needing care correlates with longevity: While just 24% of men and 27% of women who die at age 75 will require long-term care, 52% of men and 60% of women who die at age 95 will require long-term care. Incurring sizable long-term care costs can have catastrophic effects for a financial plan.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260418/finance/how-spending-shocks-affect-retirement-planning/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/more-than-half-of-americans-say-trump-immigration-agenda-too-aggressive-survey/
WGLT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.wglt.org/2026-04-18/tensions-between-president-trump-and-pope-leo-put-american-catholics-in-awkward-spot
WQAD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.wqad.com/video/news/nation-world/pope-leo-addresses-criticism-from-president-trump/526-3b71fc3a-3d3c-4d44-b469-6d2cc25111c9
WISCONSIN WATCH
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take bad jobs because they had wealthy parents. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped more gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent federal taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997.
https://wisconsinwatch.org/2026/01/skilled-but-uncertain-immigrant-workers-and-employers-navigate-hiring-hurdles-under-trump/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois lawmakers seek to eliminate state diversity commission
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_c0142076-cc4c-44f0-9801-44b42370861e.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Muslim Lobby Day in Illinois
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/04/muslim-lobby-day-in-illinois/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— HB 4855 and SEL: Doubling Down on Education Evil
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/hb4855-and-sel-doubling-down-on-education-evil/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Diligently applying SEL has these effects on students: They learn that more racism, not less, is the answer to our social ills. They don’t learn to be good citizens. Rather, they’re encouraged to be social activists, tearing down our culture and society. They learn to disregard their parents’ advice, trusting the school instead.)
— When Speech Is Silenced: The Case for Ethics Reform in Talk Therapy
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/child-exploitation/when-speech-is-silenced-the-case-for-ethics-reform-in-talk-therapy/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On March 31, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States ruled 8-1 in Chiles v. Salazar that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy counseling, as applied to licensed professional talk therapy, violated the First Amendment. )
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— ‘Anchor babies’ reach nearly 10% of all US births. DD: Anticipate/expect that ever-increasing, a) Democrat and RINO leaders will encourage pregnant citizens of foreign countries to come to America to give birth and b) foreign countries will send their pregnant citizens to America to give birth.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/us-news/anchor-babies-reach-nearly-10-of-all-us-births-new-data/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pew Research Center revealed that 320,000 of the 3.6 million babies born in the US that year were anchor babies who would not qualify for birthright citizenship if President Trump’s executive order is upheld by the Supreme Court. “Under the current erroneous birthright citizenship interpretation, these children automatically become citizens and unlock food stamps, welfare, specialized schooling for English education, and eventually college aid,” Brandy Perez Carbaugh of the Heritage Foundation told The Post. Of those 320,000, the center said 245,000 were born to parents who were illegal immigrants. Another 15,000 babies were born to mothers who had temporary legal status, while the fathers were not citizens or lawful permanent residents. The remaining 60,000 were born to illegal alien mothers while the child’s father was a citizen or lawful permanent resident. The massive number of US anchor baby births in 2023 is the highest total since 2010, when 325,000 babies were born to illegal immigrant parents, according to Pew data. The number of anchor baby births in the US has increased for three consecutive years. Immigration hawks warn illegal aliens will continue to abuse the generous laws in the Land of the Free while legal US citizens foot the bill. “High volumes of illegal and temporary aliens are having children in the US because they are exploiting the decades-old erroneous interpretation that such children are US citizens,” said Carbaugh. “Emergency Medicaid loopholes allow illegal aliens to qualify for free labor, delivery, and often prenatal care in some states, so taxpayers pay for these ‘anchor babies,’” said the expert. “This has brought alien parents both a claimed shield against deportation and financial benefits through the eligible child. Americans cover the cost as they struggle to provide for their own families,” she said. The Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments April 1 in Trump v. Barbara, a landmark challenge to the president’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, which has been a right enshrined in the 14th Amendment since 1868.)
CITY JOURNAL
— Why We Should Be Skeptical About High Graduation Rates. When state exams and standardized test scores show declining student proficiency, there’s no reason to celebrate.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/graduation-rates-student-proficiency-test-scores
DAILY SIGNAL
— Pilot Ousted for Urging Merit-Based Military. DD: For Democrats, government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/04/18/musk-promotes-story-of-pilot-ousted-for-urging-merit-based-military/
FOX NEWS
— Democrats split on Israel funding as support for military aid slips. Fox News political analyst Reince Priebus explains the growing opposition to U.S. funding for Israel by Democrats. DD: Ever-increasingly, to be a Democrat is to be anti-Jewish.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6393320738112
— Chicago mayor links restaurant industry to ‘slavery’ as tipped wage fight intensifies. Johnson said he is ‘boldly declaring that we need reparations in this city, and that’s why I’m funding it.’ DD: I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the SS Kresge in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. I was the only White male that ever had that job, all the others were minorities and/or females.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-mayor-links-restaurant-industry-slavery-tipped-wage-fight-intensifies
TOWNHALL
— DEI Over Duty: How the Secret Service Put Identity Politics Above Operational Competence. DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, 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 and/or b) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/04/19/dei-over-duty-how-the-secret-service-put-identity-politics-above-operational-competence-n2674609
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Young adults struggle to break into housing market as Congress seeks solution. DD: When I was 24 in 1972, HUD made the new townhome that I bought in University Park ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ ) affordable. I could not have afforded to buy that townhome if it had cost more. In today’s dollars, I paid about $180,000 for it. In today’s dollars, my IRS Revenue Officer salary had increased from $56,409/year to $68,999/year. The down payment came from what I had earned working for IRS for 15 months and for a Firestone Store part-time for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that. According to Zillow, the townhome is currently worth $85,100. That says worlds about real estate values in University Park.
https://thehill.com/business/personal-finance/5836866-young-adults-struggle-housing-market/
NEW YORK TIMES
— ‘Turning Point Was Charlie Kirk’: Why This Student Group Moved On. Students at the University of Arkansas disagreed with Turning Point’s direction, pointing to challenges ahead for the conservative group. (DD: I should write about what Democrat and RINO leaders had their operatives and their dupes do to destroy TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012 and Illinois Center Right Coalition in 2007.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/turning-point-university-arkansas-disbands.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The conservative split over the war in Iran has only amplified the question of what Mr. Kirk would want Turning Point to be in this moment. At the University of Arkansas, the question began to consume the chapter’s leadership. In recent interviews, some chapter members sketched out some of the group’s grievances. Ava Lacey, a student from Mississippi who sits on the executive board, said the chapter wanted to be more political than its nonprofit status allowed. Members were also bothered by Turning Point’s alliance with the Arkansas governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, which they thought hindered insurgent candidates interested in shaking up the state’s Republican establishment.)
— How Many Americans Are Marriage Material? DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote LGBTQ and b) destroy traditional marriage and family. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/opinion/marriage-kearney.html
— Texas Restaurants Are Forcing a Reckoning Over Immigrant Labor. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the SS Kresge in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. I was the only White male that ever had that job, all the others were minorities and/or females.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/texas-restaurants-immigration-work-permits.html
WASHINGTON POST
— States eulogize Charlie Kirk with new laws promoting religion and free speech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/18/charlie-kirk-laws-free-speech/f4ea06a8-3ae9-11f1-90c4-9772c7fabc03_story.html
MSN
— DD: How much success have Democrat leaders had destroying traditional marriage and family in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer men are marriage material.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
— Chicago Mayor Blames Gun Problem on Red States
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chicago-mayor-blames-gun-problem-on-red-states/ss-AA1Mczv7
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING
— Social isolation. DD: Because of ever-increasing success by Democrat and RINO leaders to rid of those who are the following, those who are the following should anticipate/expect that they will be ever-increasingly isolated: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/social-isolation-loneliness-older-people-pose-health-risks
LEE NEWS
— Millions in the US never finished college. DD: What helped you earn a bachelor’s degree? For me, it was a) my working for the Park Forest Post Office part-time during the first 3 years and full time during the summers in between and b) my parents providing me with room and board in Crete during my first 2 years, weekends during my 3rd year, and the summers in between.
https://news.lee.net/news/nation-world/education/millions-in-the-us-never-finished-college-with-targeted-help-reenrollments-are-ticking-up/article_0724cd8f-0a4d-43cb-b5d4-a066c69ba078.html
BLACK CHRONICLES
— The Chicago Teachers Union says Chicago Public Schools leaders have agreed to transform the school day on May 1 to one focused on civic engagement, student voice and standing up to the White House. DD: To promote “civic engagement” is to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to get rid of Republicans.
https://blackchronicle.com/midwest/illinois/illinois-quick-hits-teachers-union-says-cps-to-bus-students-to-rally/
MONEY TALKS
— Half of middle-aged Americans are forced to retire early. That has devastating financial consequences. DD: In today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $154,682. I was forced to retire when I was 49 in 1997. Because of that, my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension and my retirement saving are dramatically less. My CSRS pension ($68,640) is less than what my IRS salary was in when I was 23 in 1972 in today’s dollars ($69,999).
https://www.moneytalksnews.com/heres-why-half-of-middle-aged-americans-are-forced-to-retire-early/
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— More than half of employees retire earlier than planned. Mental and physical health effects of being forced to retire. DD: I was forced to retire when I was 49 in 1997. If you are forced to retire early, for the rest of your life, your critics/opponents will use that to destroy you. I know that from personal experience. Your critics/opponents will hint/imply/argue/shout that you were an extremely bad person and even worse things, and that is why you were forced to retire early. Further, the more qualified that you were for the job that you had, the more that your critics/opponents will hint/imply/argue/shout that proves that you are an extremely bad person and even worse things. My critics/opponents stress that when I was forced to retire early, I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-life-of-the-american-male/202601/forced-to-retire
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Trump Is Nudging Alito and Thomas Toward Retirement. DD: Because of Gingrich-led budget cuts, to get rid of their employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1993 “offered” their employees who had 25 or more years of federal service a $25,000 buyout and early retirement. I was 45 years old in 1993 and I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service. My Democrat GAO superiors falsely led me to believe that they were going to let me work until I was 55 in 2003 and eligible for regular retirement. But in September of 1997, just before their “offer” expired, they succeeded in forcing me to retire.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-is-nudging-alito-and-thomas-toward-retirement.html
ATLANTIC
— America’s ‘Marriage Material’ Shortage. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote LGBTQ and b) destroy traditional marriage and family. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/america-marriage-decline/681518/
April 18, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/04/17/ice-operation-midway-blitz-response-illinois-congressional-delegation-letter
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/04/17/after-mather-student-and-mom-detained-by-ice-a-school-and-soccer-community-are-left-reeling
— Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral record ‘disqualifying’ for a possible presidential contender, Johnson says. DD: What in your record do your critics/opponents use to disqualify you? My critics/opponents use the articles that I have linked to in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and the comments that I have made on them since 2000. In addition, they use what I did as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012 and as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007. They have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that what I have done has caused all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2026/04/16/mayor-brandon-johnson-rahm-emanuel-presidential-bid-2028
DAILY HERALD
— Fenne reelected College of DuPage board chairwoman
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260417/news/fenne-reelected-college-of-dupage-board-chairwoman/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Legal migration of “wealth” issue of growing importance. DD: If you are a Republican in Illinois, the more money that you have, the more that Illinois Democrats do to drive you out of Illinois.
https://archive.ph/yLqU6#selection-3558.0-3558.3
SHAW LOCAL
— 60 dead people found on Illinois jury panel, triggering constitutional challenge
https://www.shawlocal.com/sauk-valley/2026/04/17/60-dead-people-found-on-illinois-jury-panel-triggering-constitutional-challenge/
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/why-the-future-of-marijuana-legalization-remains-22211801.php
WAND TV
— DD: Pot is never safe. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.wqad.com/video/news/is-cannabis-safe-in-pregnancy/526-9edcdee2-2637-433f-997e-8ed54b4c3534
WGLT
— Illinois House Republicans split on bill allowing eligible high schoolers to register to vote
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2026-04-17/illinois-house-republicans-split-on-bill-allowing-eligible-high-schoolers-to-register-to-vote
HYDE PARK HERALD
— ‘Parent takeover’ greets teen gathering on 53rd Street. DD: How soon will Democrat leaders have their teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.hpherald.com/evening_digest/parent-takeover-greets-teen-gathering-on-53rd-street/article_d0f22d1e-09ab-4b11-8e6d-0391be7acd6b.html
SOUTHSDE PATCH
— Chicago Parents, Mentors, Teens Come Together To Discuss Solutions To Teen Takeovers. My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, which hosted the event, is a nonprofit dedicated to improving outcomes for boys and young men of color. DD: How soon will Democrat leaders have their teens takeover your downtown?
https://patch.com/illinois/southside/chicago-parents-mentors-teens-come-together-discuss-solutions-teen-takeovers
CHICAGO TODAY
— Chicago Pension Buyout Proposal Shifts Debt, Fails to Address Broader Fiscal Woes. DD: Since I was 49 in 1997, to stop me from coming to work, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $2 million in today’s dollars. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. GAO audits IRS. They especially do not want Republicans like me to audit IRS. When I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980, I brought with me almost 9 years of experience working for IRS, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988. I also brought with me what I learned earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and a Forensic Accountant in 1997. Because they assigned me to audits of federal financial regulators in 1990, I started taking graduate finance courses at IIT in 1992 and earned a master’s degree in Financial Markets and Trading from IIT in 1997. My Democrat GAO flushed all the aforesaid down their toilets when they succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://nationaltoday.com/us/il/chicago/news/2026/04/15/chicago-pension-buyout-proposal-shifts-debt-fails-to-address-broader-fiscal-woes/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/04/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-506/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago Public Schools will stay open May 1
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-public-schools-will-stay-open-may-1/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Insiders vs. Voters: How Illinois Republicans Shut Out Their Own Base
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/04/insiders-vs-voters-how-illinois-republicans-shut-out-their-own-base.html
— Springfield Lawmakers Name Sandwiches While Illinois Families Face Crime, High Taxes
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/04/springfield-lawmakers-name-sandwiches-while-illinois-families-face-crime-high-taxes.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump seeks to rally youth vote for GOP at Turning Point USA event
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/17/trump-seeks-rally-youth-vote-gop-turning-point-usa-event/
— The pope is wrong on Iran. Here’s why.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/17/pope-wrong-iran-heres/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Marriage is what really matters
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4533807/what-really-matters-is-marriage/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Rep. John Larson (D-CT) has introduced 13 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, House Resolution 1155
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-it-time-to-impeach-trump/
AMERICAN THINKER
— DHS Says It Costs $18,000 To Deport An Illegal Alien. It’s criminal that taxpayers must foot that bill, but it’s worth every penny.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/dhs_says_it_costs_18_000_to_deport_an_illegal_alien.html
DAILY CITIZEN
— Teachers Unions Celebrate ‘May Day’ – A Communist Workers Holiday
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/what-is-may-day/
FEDERALIST
— Racial Preferences in Economic Benefits: From Widely Accepted to Legally Indefensible. DD: During the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they were under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat elected officials to hire, to retain, and to promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasing rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. During the 4 years that I served on the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee and during the 7 years that I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, the organizations were under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to promote more minorities, females, younger people, and/or veterans.
https://fedsoc.org/fedsoc-review/racial-preferences-in-economic-benefits-from-widely-accepted-to-legally-indefensible
FOX NEWS
— Detroit teen takeover spirals into chaos—gunfire reported as police rush in day after leaders call for calm. DD: How soon will Democrat leaders have their teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/teen-takeover-spirals-into-chaos-gunfire-reported-as-police-rush-in-day-after-leaders-call-for-calm/ar-AA20RBzV
— Washington Post columnist argues Muslims shouldn’t have to assimilate in America. ‘I’m tired of proving I belong in America,’ Shadi Hamid wrote.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-columnist-argues-muslims-shouldnt-have-assimilate-america
— Illegal street racing ‘takeover’ explodes as hundreds swarm Atlanta streets and suspects bolt. DD: How soon will Democrat leaders have their teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.aol.com/articles/watch-illegal-street-racing-takeover-184656578.html
NEWSMAX
— As Muslims gain in numbers and influence in the United States, they’ve become more reluctant to assimilate — to become Americanized.
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/mamdani-roosevelt-sharia/2026/04/17/id/1253302/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/sharia-radical-islam-make-the-case-for-muslim-assimilation/ar-AA2193tY
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Trump holds Turning Point USA rally. DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-holds-turning-point-usa-rally-amid-growing-tensions-with-the-pope-261613637721
AOL
— DC expands juvenile curfew zones across four neighborhoods. DD: How soon will Democrat leaders have their teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.aol.com/news/dc-mayor-bowser-reinstates-limited-125607730.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/politics/republicans-trump-pope-midterms.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: To discourage assimilation is to destroy America. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s from what is now Germany. They were slow to assimilate. All my grandparents spoke German. Consequently, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never attended high school, and I had to work my way through college.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/08/muslims-religion-republicans-assimilation/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— America Loses Its Will to Work. From the War on Poverty to ‘quiet quitting,’ we’ve stopped appreciating the value of honest labor.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-loses-its-will-to-work-85d74fd6
BLOOMBERG
— Mass Migration Has ‘Serious Social Consequences’
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-lionel-shriver-weekend-interview/?embedded-checkout=true
BLOOMBERG GOVERNMENT
— DD: To “work across the aisle,” RINO leaders destroy conservatives like me and destroy conservative organizations like TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition.
https://about.bgov.com/insights/news/moderate-republicans-struggle-to-hold-the-center-as-fringe-grows/
DARTMOUTH
— Looking at the Future of American Democracy. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly use democracy a) to take more and more and more away from Republicans and b) to give it all to Democrats.
https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/04/looking-future-american-democracy
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the future is ever-increasingly bleak for those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I was born way back in 1948. If I had been born later, because I am all of the aforesaid bad demographics, I would not have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree, earn three master’s degrees, earn six job-related professional certifications, and earn a professional license. Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO leaders give more and more and more preference to those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/time-travel-across-borders/202402/why-americans-see-a-gloomy-future-but-others-dont
CATO
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote Islam.
https://www.cato.org/blog/muslim-immigrants-assimilate-even-more-polls-muslims-indicate
DAILY KOS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight assimilation.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/27/2365703/community/why-assimilation-fails-in-the-us/
GAO
— Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request. DD: GAO is supposed to fight fraud, waste, and abuse. But since I was 49 in 1997, to stop me from coming to work, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $2 million in today’s dollars. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. GAO audits IRS. They especially do not want Republicans like me to audit IRS. When I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980, I brought with me almost 9 years of experience working for IRS, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988. I also brought with me what I learned earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and a Forensic Accountant in 1997. Because they assigned me to audits of federal financial regulators in 1990, I started taking graduate finance courses at IIT in 1992 and earned a master’s degree in Financial Markets and Trading from IIT in 1997. My Democrat GAO flushed all the aforesaid down their toilets when they succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-900719
April 12, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
FOX32
— DD: Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push raising taxes on those who make $1 million or more a year. Obviously, few in Illinois make $1 million or more a year and even fewer dream that they might do that.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-millionaire-tax-explainer
DAILY HERALD
— Illinois farmers ease critical labor shortages through the H-2A agricultural visa program. DD: All my employers would have hired non-citizens instead of me if they could have. I never worked on a farm. But I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, and pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. My critics/opponents never had to take such bad jobs and they would never have stooped to take such bad jobs.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260411/agriculture/illinois-farmers-ease-critical-labor-shortages-through-this-agricultural-visa-program/
RIVER BENDER
— DD: How has EEOC impacted you? EEOC had a monumental impact on me when I was 22 in 1971. I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted that job offer. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/republic-services-paying-200000-to-settle-federal-lawsuit-alleging-sex-discrimination-92345.cfm
WSIU
— White House looks to Republican-led states to crack down on illegal immigration
https://www.wsiu.org/2026-04-11/white-house-looks-to-republican-led-states-to-crack-down-on-immigration
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Black Chicagoans Weigh In At City’s 1st Reparations Town Hall: ‘This Didn’t Happen That Long Ago.’ City leaders introduced a five-point agenda for creating a reparations plan at a Thursday town hall as a part of the “Repair Chicago” community engagement series. DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations, that is, they ever-increasingly more hatred against Republicans.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/10/black-chicagoans-weigh-in-at-citys-1st-reparations-town-hall-this-didnt-happen-that-long-ago/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE
— Illinoisans to pay for other’s abortion services under proposed grant program. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_946f6ff5-0f8a-4ccc-80d8-e44df6c32159.html
— Committee’s ‘tone’ criticized for trying to price the poor out of gun ownership. DD: Democrat leaders want to abolish the Second Amendment, that is, they want to disarm Republicans.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f409d3c7-5abb-46eb-a31e-945736183e40.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What adverse actions were taken against you and why? I was throw off the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024 a) because my critics/opponents remembered that I favor direct election of IRP State Central Committee (SCC) members, b) because I expressed concern that efforts would be made to move the platform to the left, and c) because they wanted to assure that I would lose if I ran for IRP SCC in 2026. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Another day of learning lost
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/daily-comics/chicago-teachers-union-civic-action/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— No asylum for America’s enemies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4524171/no-asylum-for-americas-enemies/
NEW YORK POST
— Prosecutor calls deportations of illegals a ‘perversion of justice’
https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/virginia-prosecutor-raked-for-calling-deportations-of-illegals-perversion-of-justice/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Illegal alien in Pennsylvania who voted in 2020, 2024 elections is a career criminal
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/04/11/illegal-alien-in-pennsylvania-who-voted-in-2020-2024-elections-is-a-career-criminal-report-1632125/
BLAZE
— The Dignidad Act is a complete betrayal of Republican voters
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-dignidad-act-is-a-complete-betrayal-of-republican-voters
BREITBART
— IBM Forks Over $17 Million to Settle DOJ Lawsuit For ‘Woke’ DEI Practices. DD: My critics/opponents are woke. To be woke is to be anti-conservative, anti- Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-married people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those who ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2026/04/11/ibm-forks-over-17-million-to-settle-doj-lawsuit-for-woke-dei-practices/amp/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— The Left’s Demand for ‘Equity’ in Immigration Enforcement
https://cis.org/Arthur/Lefts-Demand-Equity-Immigration-Enforcement
FEDERALIST
— The Left Threw Columbus Into The Harbor — Now Trump Is Putting Him Back
https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/10/the-left-threw-columbus-into-the-harbor-now-trump-is-putting-him-back/
NEWSMAX
— Democrats See ‘Blue Wave’ Building for US Midterms
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/democrats-election/2026/04/12/id/1252607/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MS NOW
— DD: I should write about RINO and Democrat plant leaders in Illinois who have ever-increasingly pushed conservatives like me out of the party, that is, who have ever-increasingly pushed platform Republicans like me out of the party, that is, who have ever-increasingly pushed Republicans like me out of the party.
https://www.ms.now/top-stories/latest/republican-party-embraces-extremism-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-rcna243058
WASHINGTON POST
— Early audition for 2028 hopefuls focuses on civil rights issues. A parade of potential Democratic candidates for president were pushed to address voting rights, affirmative action and other civil rights issues before a largely Black audience at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s four-day conference.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/11/early-audition-2028-hopefuls-focuses-civil-rights-issues/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: To get more votes from women, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give women more preference over men and especially over men who are conservative, Republican, America, White, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/women-workplace-dei-feminism.html
— Online and on the Stump, Democrats Embrace a Four-Letter Word. Democratic politicians are swearing with glee. It is usually aimed at Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/politics/democrats-social-media-profanity-f-word.html
USA TODAY
— Young Republicans more skeptical of Iran war, dividing Trump base. Even within Trump’s GOP base, cracks are showing when it comes to the Iran conflict. Younger Republicans are much less likely to support the war.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/12/republicans-divided-age-support-iran-war-trump/89451934007/
FORBES
— How To Get Hired At Deloitte. DD: Your decisions a) to earn a college degree, b) to select the college to earn it from, and c) to select your major are all extremely important. I regret my not majoring in accounting from the beginning. I did not start taking graduate evening accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take the CPA examination and pass it 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 the Certified Internal Auditor examination and pass it on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, because of my bad demographics, the accounting profession considered me to be too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/terinaallen/2025/06/29/how-to-get-hired-at-deloitte-3-insider-tips-from-the-head-of-talent/
BANKING RATES
— Is Now the Time To Improve Your Work Skills? DD: What did you do to get hired, retained, and promoted? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.aol.com/articles/now-time-improve-skills-suze-220006581.html
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
— When Helping is Risky. DD: I should write about those who I have done the most to help, but who have tuned on me. I would focus on those who have blamed me the most for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7614101/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
FRONTLINE
— Scapegoating. DD: My critics/opponents are scapegoaters. They blame me and they blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should start writing about my critics/opponents.
https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/democracy-majoritarian-rule-politics-india-assam/article70624259.ece
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
— Manipulation in politics. DD: According to my critics/opponents, you are not a journalist if you are conservative, if you do not have a degree in journalism, and if you are not paid for what you do. My critics/opponents have a very low opinion of me, they vehemently disapprove of me, they strongly blame me for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should start writing about my critics/opponents.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/economics-and-philosophy/article/manipulation-in-politics-and-public-policy/1C6109A40D8038276F48987A637BF57E
ECONOMIC TIMES
— What jobseekers should do to get hired. DD: What did you do to get hired, retained, and promoted? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/education/what-jobseekers-should-do-to-get-hired-amid-layoffs/articleshow/119338728.cms
April 11, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS2
— Chicago Teachers Union wants May Day off so students, teachers can protest; new CPS CEO says no
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-teachers-union-may-day-school-cps/
— Starting in December, eligible men in the U.S. will be automatically registered for the military draft. Currently, men aged 18 to 26 are required to register through the Selective Service System online or at the DMV. But at the end of 2026 that changes as part of a measure tucked into the annual defense policy bill Congress passed and President Trump signed into law last year. DD: The more likely that you might be drafted, the less likely that you will be hired.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/rep-jonathan-jackson-opposes-automatic-military-draft-registration/
WTTW
— DD: Were it not for America’s military strength, there would be no Christianity, there would be no Catholicism, and there would be no Pope.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/04/10/president-and-pope-world-s-most-influential-americans-odds-over-iran
— Vote Set on Push to Rid CPD of Officers With Ties to Extremist Groups. DD: I should write about those who promoted the most hatred against TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC). I was the TAPOROOT chairman 2005-2012 and an IRCR officer 2003-2007.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/04/10/vote-set-push-rid-cpd-officers-ties-extremist-groups
WBEZ
— DD: What happened to your mentors? My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of my IRS mentor who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of my GAO mentor who arranged my transfer to GAO in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2026/04/10/looking-for-a-mentor-in-chicago-our-illustrated-zine-has-you-covered
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/11/snap-immigrants-illinois-food-assistance/
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats grow bolder on talk about removing Trump from office after his Iran threats
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260409/nation-and-world/democrats-grow-bolder-on-talk-about-removing-trump-from-office-after-his-iran-threats/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— CTU’s May Day stunt puts students in the middle
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/editorials/ccb-ctu-may-day-protest-puts-students-in-middle-20260410/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois farms rely on H-2A visas amid labor shortage
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2026/04/10/illinois-farms-rely-on-h-2a-visas-amid-labor-shortage/89517163007/
HOMETOWN REGISTER
— Pritzker says he supports a strong, free press, but Republican Darren Bailey’s running mate says taxpayer dollars should not be spent on partisan outlets. DD: All the time and money needed to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and to send them out comes from me.
https://www.hometownregister.com/news/state/pritzker-gop-candidate-say-they-support-a-free-press-differ-on-tax-credits/article_8be6cc8d-fea3-51ff-a3c7-fcca14eec213.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: GOP candidate for lieutenant governor Aaron Del Mar said it’s important to support the Constitution and a free press, but taxpayer dollars should not support outlets like some in Chicago that only show one side of issues. “A lot of these not-for-profit organizations are taking positions. They are reporting the news, not independently, but with a bit of a shadow depending on what their political beliefs are,” Del Mar told The Center Square.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/04/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-501/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly celebrate their invasion, infiltration, infestation, takeover, and ultimate destruction of DuPage County.
https://capitolfax.com/2026/04/10/theyre-never-gonna-learn/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Crazed Dems Want the 25th Amendment Invoked
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/04/crazed-democrats-want-the-25th-amendment-invoked/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— SB 3138: The Mental Health Industry’s Latest Power Grab
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/child-exploitation/sb-3138-the-mental-health-industrys-latest-power-grab/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal workforce numbers under Trump at lowest levels since 1960s. DD: In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans who the Democrats who ran GAO hired. While I worked for them 1980-1997, Republicans cut GAO from over 6,000 employees to under 3,000 employees. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me severely for that.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/10/federal-workforce-numbers-trump-lowest-levels-since-1960s/
— In poll of Republicans, Trump trounces friend-turned-foe Tucker Carlson by 61% to 7%
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/10/poll-republicans-trump-trounces-friend-turned-foe-tucker-carlson-61-7/
— ‘I’m going to fight like hell’: Pritzker inches toward 2028 bid
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/9/jb-pritzker-inches-toward-2028-bid-sharptons-nan-event-im-going-fight/
— ICE arrests plunge
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/10/ice-arrests-plunge-pullout-minnesota-criminal-arrests-rise/
— The Supreme Court on Thursday shut down an attempt by Samuel Ronan, a longtime liberal Democrat, to force his way onto the Republican primary ballot for a congressional seat from Ohio. DD: Ever-increasingly, Republican primary candidates hint/imply/argue/shout that they are Democrat Lite.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/9/supreme-court-rejects-longtime-democrat-samuel-ronans-bid-get-gop/
— DD: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/4511081/three-former-fbi-agents-sue-patel-bondi-alleged-unlawful-firing/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats seek to punish voters fleeing their failed policies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4522357/democrats-seek-punish-voters-fleeing-failed-policies/
— ‘Who cares’ about systemic racism when it benefits minorities?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4522146/who-cares-about-systemic-racism-when-it-benefits-minorities/
— DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4522146/who-cares-about-systemic-racism-when-it-benefits-minorities/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— ‘That Ain’t My Party’: Al Sharpton Says It Would Be ‘Crazy’ for Black People To Celebrate America’s 250th as 2028 Dem Hopefuls Pay Homage to Him. ‘They’re going to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the country July 4, but that’s not our celebration,’ Sharpton said.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/that-aint-my-party-al-sharpton-says-it-would-be-crazy-for-black-people-to-celebrate-americas-250th-as-2028-dem-hopefuls-pay-homage-to-him/
NEW YORK POST
— Megyn Kelly slams GOP reps backing ‘amnesty’ for illegal immigrants: ‘Betrayal’
https://nypost.com/2026/04/10/media/megyn-kelly-slams-gop-reps-backing-amnesty-for-illegal-immigrants-betrayal/
CHRISTIAN POST
— Planned Parenthood performs record number of abortions. DD: Why are there so many unwanted abortions?
https://www.christianpost.com/news/planned-parenthood-performed-nearly-500k-abortions-services-drop.html
DAILT CALLER
— Trump Admin Calls On Gamers To Become Air Traffic Controllers
https://dailycaller.com/2026/04/10/trump-admin-gamers-air-traffic-controllers-transportation-department-sean-duffy/
DAILY WIRE
— Plan To Let Millions Of Illegals Stay is an egregious betrayal of American interests, on multiple levels.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-republican-sponsored-amnesty-bill-is-so-much-worse-than-i-thought
FOX NEWS
— Sharpton: America’s 250th anniversary is not a ‘celebration’ for Black people
https://www.foxnews.com/media/al-sharpton-says-americas-250th-anniversary-celebration-black-people-calls-crazy.amp
— Chicago suburb locals hope reparations addresses ‘affordability pressures’ as Black population dwindles. Evanston, Illinois, was first city to implement reparations program for Black residents.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-suburb-locals-hope-reparations-program-address-affordability-pressures-black-population-dwindles
— Trump’s birthright citizenship crusade draws backing from cohort of prominent legal scholars. DD: If they wanted to, foreign countries could send in millions of the pregnant citizens to give birth in America.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-birthright-citizenship-crusade-draws-backing-from-cohort-prominent-legal-scholars
NTD
— Critical Race Theory Is Poisonous
https://www.ntd.com/ntdplus/rep-bishop-critical-race-theory-is-poisonous-hopeful-americans-will-rise-up-against-it_624111.html
— DD: My critics/opponents promote Critical Race Theory, that is, they blame Whites for all the problems that Blacks have. Thy especially blame Whites who are conservative, Republican, American, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.ntd.com/ntdplus/professor-stands-up-to-critical-race-theory_582175.html
PJ MEDIA
— White House: ‘Era of Amnesty Is Over’
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/10/white-house-era-of-amnesty-is-over-n4951661
REASON
— The GOP Is Becoming Anti-Conservative. DD: All my critics/opponents are anti-conservative to one degree or another. Most commonly, they reject the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving).
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/03/04/jonah-goldberg-the-gop-is-becoming-anti-conservative/
TOWNHALL
— Chicago Public Schools Have a May Day Fight on Their Hands
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/04/10/chicago-public-schools-may-day-fight-n2674221
WHITE HOUSE
— Democrats Empower Sick Criminal Illegal Alien Predators to Prey on American Women, Children
https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/04/democrats-empower-sick-criminal-illegal-alien-predators-to-prey-on-american-women-children/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Were it not for America’s military strength, there would be no Christianity, there would be no Catholicism, and there would be no Pope.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-pope-leo-iran-war-relationship-criticism-8473f1d8b8127a77ef94ba2f4ad378fb
MSN
— Trump labor secretary hit with workplace discrimination complaints. DD: To get rid of their Republican employees who were the following, my Democrat superiors in the federal government created hostile workplaces for them: conservative, White, male, older, married, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/trump-labor-secretary-hit-with-workplace-discrimination-complaints/gm-GM40CAB928
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting young people to blame their problems on Trump. What did you blame your problems on when you were young? I blamed my not getting a better ACT score and GPAs. I blamed my avoiding the Vietnam War draft.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/trump-suffers-record-youth-approval-collapse/gm-GM33A57E67
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting those who are the following to protest: liberal, minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/nationwide-no-kings-protests-challenge-trump-policies/gm-GMDF280EE1
WASHINGTON POST
— Chicago teachers want no school on May Day, testing the city’s mayor and school leaders. A tangled political fight over whether Chicago’s public schools will hold classes on May Day has unraveled in the nation’s third-largest city.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/10/schools-chicago-union-protests-may-day/a5e1f67c-3519-11f1-b85b-2cd751275c1d_story.html
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders encourage citizens of foreign countries to falsely claim asylum in America. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/13/trumps-attack-asylum-is-based-entirely-false-claims/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Were it not for America’s military strength, there would be no Christianity, there would be no Catholicism, and there would be no Pope.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pope-leo-criticizes-religious-language-used-by-trump-on-the-war-479850a3
FORBES
— DD: Were it not for America’s military strength, there would be no Christianity, there would be no Catholicism, and there would be no Pope.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/04/10/pope-leo-condemns-iran-war-in-strongest-terms-yet-god-does-not-bless-any-conflict/
BLOOMBERG
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. That is, Democrats ever-increasingly replace those in America who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, and/or Protestant with those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, and/or non-Protestant.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-10/america-s-demographic-stagnation-will-make-it-poorer
— How Coffee Houses Brewed Up Liberalism — and Still Do
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-10/liberalism-was-brewed-up-in-coffee-houses-from-the-uk-to-japan
TARGET JOBS
— All the Big 4 firms have made significant changes to their academic entry requirements in recent years, giving hope to students whose applications in previous years would not have got through initial screening. How will these changes affect your chances of getting employed by EY, Deloitte, KPMG or PwC? DD: Your decisions a) to earn a college degree, b) to select the college to earn it from, and c) to select your major are all extremely important. I regret my not majoring in accounting from the beginning. I did not start taking graduate evening accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take the CPA examination and pass it 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 the Certified Internal Auditor examination and pass it on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, because of my bad demographics, the accounting profession considered me to be too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://targetjobs.co.uk/careers-advice/accountancy-banking-and-finance/big-4s-entry-criteria-and-your-graduate-job-application
MCKINSEY
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the future is ever-increasingly bleak for men, and especially bleak for men who are conservative, White, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/women-in-the-workplace
WEEK
— DD: Democrats and RINOs reject meritocracy. According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, non-citizen, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://theweek.com/politics/hegseth-pentagon-discrimination-military-promotions
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— F-Bombing Trump Is Not a Smart Campaign Message for Democrats
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/f-bombing-trump-isnt-a-smart-campaign-message-for-democrats.html
PULITZER CENTER
— DD: To promote 1619 is to promote hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/chicago-teachers-use-1619-project-analyze-global-news-stories
PEW RESEARCH
— Looking to the Future, Public Sees an America in Decline on Many Fronts. Majorities predict a weaker economy, a growing income divide, a degraded environment and a broken political system. DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if you have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO leaders are ever-increasingly replace those who are the aforesaid with those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, non-citizen, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/03/21/public-sees-an-america-in-decline-on-many-fronts/
POLITICO
— Conservatives balk at Trump’s calls to be ‘flexible’ on abortion coverage in health care talks.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/conservatives-anti-abortion-trump-health-care-gop-00712565
ATLANTIC
— DD: Were it not for America’s military strength, there would be no Christianity, there would be no Catholicism, and there would be no Pope.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/pope-leo-iran-war/686757/
NEWS DAY
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/dei-al-sharpton-democrats-diversity-candidates-t03990
NEW POLITICS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting those who are the following to protest: liberal, minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, and/or noncitizen.
https://newpol.org/demonstrations-and-demographics/
AXIOS
— DD: The more of the following that you are, the more that you should anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/10/jobs-ai-older-boomer
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— Former anti-Trump Republican to run for Congress as a Democrat. DD: Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents who claim to be Republican will officially switch parties and proclaim that they have always really been anti-conservative Democrats.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/06/george-conway-run-congress-democrat
March 31, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders crow about their success using Trump to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/30/south-suburban-relentless-orland-park-no-kings/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/30/no-kings-western-springs/
— Maria Pappas’ property tax numbers don’t lie. Governance in Illinois has been a stark failure for 30 years.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/30/editorial-maria-pappas-property-taxes-inflation-wages-chicago-pritzker/
— DD: In your precinct, what percent of the voters cast Republican ballots in primary elections but then vote for Democrat candidates in general elections?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/31/opinion-ranked-choice-voting-illinois-primaries/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES & WGN9 & ETC.
— DD: Under the Democrats, soon, if not already, if you do not promote LGBTQ, you will be officially banned from sports.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/bulls/2026/03/30/league-source-says-bulls-working-exit-strategy-for-jaden-ivey
https://wgntv.com/sports/bulls/bulls-waive-jaden-ivey-after-anti-lgbtq-social-media-rant/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/bulls-waive-guard-jaden-ivey-after-anti-lgbtq-comments-remarks-about-religion-on-instagram/ar-AA1ZLGEu
https://www.barrons.com/news/nba-bulls-fire-ivey-after-anti-lgbtq-comments-8baee50a
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/bulls-jaden-ivey-anti-lgbtq-remarks/
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48350464/sources-bulls-waive-jaden-ivey-anti-gay-comments
https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/bulls-waive-jaden-ivey-after-anti-lgbtq-comments-pride-month-rant-214109049.html
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nba/pistons/2026/03/30/former-piston-jaden-ivey-released-by-bulls-after-anti-lgbtq-comments/89393543007/
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7159179/2026/03/30/jaden-ivey-waived-bulls-nba-pride-month/
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/nba/chicago-bulls-waive-guard-jaden-ivey-after-anti-lgbtq-comments-remarks-about-religion/4060775/
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/bulls-waive-jaden-ivey-after-he-called-nbas-pride-month-celebration-unrighteousness
https://nypost.com/2026/03/31/sports/jaden-ivey-calls-bulls-liars-over-framing-of-his-release-after-anti-religion-lgbtq-rants/
https://people.com/chicago-bulls-waive-jaden-ivey-after-anti-pride-month-comments-11937802
https://www.aol.com/articles/jaden-ivey-waived-bulls-controversial-020216179.html
FOX32
— Chicago launches ‘Repair Chicago’ forums as part of reparations effort. DD: Since the 1960s, Affirmative Action and DEI have been reparations.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/repair-chicago-reparations
WTTW
— Teen Takeover Raises Questions About Public Safety, Spaces for Young People. DD: When you were a high school and college student, what did you do after school, weekends, and summers? While I was a junior and a senior in high school, instead of studying, I washed dishes for 28 hours a week during the school years and 40 hours a week during the summer in between. During the summer between high school and college, I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline. While I took classes at UIC and NIU, instead of studying, I delivered mail for all the part-time hours that I could during the school years and full-time during the summers in between.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/03/30/teen-takeover-raises-questions-about-public-safety-spaces-young-people
WGLT
— DD: The Democrat Party platform causes a tremendous amount of suffering. It steers people away from being productive members of society. It steers them toward being wards of the state.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2026-03-30/pope-leo-tells-bloomington-normal-mayors-they-have-a-duty-to-reduce-suffering
IPM ILLINOIS
— DD: Overwhelmingly, those who Democrat leaders attract to Illinois a) want/need/demand massive government assistance, b) lack education and/or job skills, c) have health and/or other problems, and/or d) speak little or no English.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/immigrants-lose-access-to-food-aid-in-more-states-as-federal-restrictions-take-effect/
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Pick up an Illinois passport for America’s 250th. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office in the 1990s, they had a diversity event at which we were all encouraged/required to publicly disclose the country/countries that our ancestors immigrated from, when they immigrated, and their religion(s). Of course, I disclosed that all my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s and that they and I have always been Missouri Synod Lutheran. Very few in the office had ancestors who had immigrated from what is now Germany. Most had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. Virtually none were Protestant. Because of Affirmative Action and other reporting requirements, we all already knew each others’ political affiliation, race, gender, age, veteran status, salary and bonuses, marital status, children, federal seniority, etc. We all knew that our GAO superiors’ top priorities were a) retaining and promoting their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran and b) getting rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. They all knew about, if not applauded, the many big adverse actions that my Democrat GAO superiors had taken against me.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2026/03/30/illinois-america-250-passport-historic-sites-chicago-events-cahokia-pullman
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/31/the-strategist-who-beat-the-money-machine-00851414
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Salvi: Vandalism fueled by toxic rhetoric
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_263d745b-4bad-4c28-b43c-beaea36fa1ae.html
— Illinois’ population has continued to narrowly grow this year, despite a significant number of cities in the state losing residents to other states. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly a) drive those who have demographics that vote for Republicans out of the state and b) attract those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6740343e-0d34-4119-a88b-9bb38e9e164d.html
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Bailey Calls for FBI Probe Into Pritzker Spending During Lara Trump Interview, Citing “Immense” Fraud
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/03/bailey-calls-for-fbi-probe-into-pritzker-spending-during-lara-trump-interview-citing-immense-fraud.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— CPAC faces tough questions about its fading political clout
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/30/cpac-faces-tough-questions-fading-political-clout/
— White House says Trump still believes CPAC is relevant despite skipping conference
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/30/white-house-says-trump-still-believes-cpac-relevant-despite-skipping/
— Democrats’ endless fight for illegal aliens costing American lives
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/30/democrats-endless-fight-illegal-aliens-costing-american-lives/
— Lessons for Iran from the Vietnam War. Trump must explain why it’s worth fighting.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/30/lessons-iran-vietnam-war/
BREITBART
— Chicago: Pro-Gun Control Mayor’s ‘Armed Security’ Detail Costing Taxpayers $30 Million A Year
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/03/30/chicago-pro-gun-control-mayors-armed-security-detail-costing-taxpayers-30-million-a-year/
— New Yorkers Who Vote over 80 Percent Democrat Protest Against Homeless Shelter
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/30/nolte-new-yorkers-who-vote-over-80-percent-democrat-protest-against-homeless-shelter/amp/
FEDERALIST
— The Latest ‘No Kings’ Protest Is The Sound Of A Tired Old Thing Trying To Not Die
https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/30/the-latest-no-kings-protest-is-the-sound-of-a-tired-old-thing-trying-to-not-die/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago’s Brandon Johnson blasts ‘assaults against immigrants’ as slain Sheridan Gorman is laid to rest. Suspect Jose Medina-Medina, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, was released into the U.S. in 2023 under the Biden administration, DHS says.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-brandon-johnson-blasts-assaults-against-immigrants-slain-sheridan-gorman-laid-rest
— DD: Pentagon cites ‘meritocracy’ as reported officer promotion removals draw Democratic criticism. DD: Most if not virtually all of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were minorities and/or female. All of them had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had fewer professional certifications than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. During the last 8 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO, all my Chicago office superiors and supervisors were women who were younger than me and did not share my conservativism, my Republicanism, my religion (Protestant), or my national origin (German). All of their parents were immigrants while my ancestors have been in America since 1844. When I was 49 in 1997, they took the lead in forcing me to retire. I should write about that.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-cites-meritocracy-officer-removals-draw-democratic-criticism
HOMELAND SECURITY
— ICE Agents Under Attack While Attempting to Arrest Criminal Illegal Alien in Sacramento, California
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/03/30/ice-agents-under-attack-while-attempting-arrest-criminal-illegal-alien-sacramento
INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES
— DD: Were you college material? When I was in high school, no one thought I was college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. Nevertheless, I a) took college preparatory courses, b) got an ACT score of 24, c) graduated in the upper 20% of my class, d) got accepted by UIC, e) worked my way through college, and f) graduated debt-free from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in business when I was 21 in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://ifstudies.org/blog/yes-youre-smart-enough-to-homeschool-your-kids
JUDICIAL WATCH
— Federal Court Allows Lawsuit against Reparations Program to Move Forward—Evanston, Illinois, Gives $25,000 Gov’t Payments to Blacks Only. DD: Since the 1960s, Affirmative Action and DEI have been reparations.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/evanston-illinois-reparations-program-continue/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Hundreds of College DEI Officers Attend Conference to Complain About ‘Chaos’ Caused by Trump. DD: Virtually all educators are Democrats. For them, education exists to crank out good little Democrats who are liberal, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/03/hundreds-of-college-dei-officers-attend-conference-to-complain-about-chaos-caused-by-trump/
NEWSMAX
— Democrats ‘Doubling Down on Misery’ in DHS Shutdown
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/danmeuser-newsmax-dhs/2026/03/30/id/1251244/
TOWNHALL
— The New York Times Runs Sob Story About a WI Dairy Farmer Who Might Lose His ‘Undocumented’ Laborers
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/30/peter-baker-nyt-wi-farmers-undocumented-workers-n2673661
— Sanctuary Cities Aren’t Compassion – They’re Criminal Protection Rackets.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/03/31/sanctuary-cities-arent-compassion-theyre-criminal-protection-rackets-n2673658
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— Duckworth presses Trump on IVF pledge. DD: Duckworth has an extremely low opinion of Trump. What does she think of you? Both Trump and I avoided the Vietnam War draft. We are both conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and our ancestors have been in America for a long time. In 2006, Duckworth had me throw out of her press conference with Michael J. Fox in Wheaton. SEE: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/10/25/celebrity-and-controversy-mark-6th-race/ Further, my wife and I gave up trying to have children with trying IVF. We did not adopt. We did not become foster parents.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/duckworth-presses-trump-on-ivf-pledge/gm-CE9D21BE61
AOL
— Spring Break. DD: When you were in college, did you take spring breaks? My Democrat Park Forest Post Office superiors were veterans and they were furious when I took vacation days for a spring break in 1969 and drove to Daytona Beach with three of my female NIU classmates in my 1969 Dodge Charger SE. In 1970, I repeated the aforesaid. My Democrat Firestone Store boss who was a veteran was furious that I went on a student package trip to the Bahamas while I was taking a graduate evening business course at UIC in the spring of 1971. My aforesaid superiors and boss were furious that I took the aforesaid vacations because I had avoided the Vietnam War draft with student deferments and a financial hardship deferment at a time when my peers were dying in Vietnam. They blamed Republicans like me for America losing the Vietnam War. Further, while I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997, many, most, and at times virtually all my of superiors and supervisors were Democrat veterans who also blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. They were also furious when took vacations every year starting in 1973. For them, the federal government existed to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrat veterans. In my defense, the four vacations to the Bahamas, Hawaii, Mexico, and Jamacia 1973-1976 were budget packages offered by the National Treasury Employees Union.
https://www.aol.com/30-photos-show-spring-break-144652401.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat leaders give them more and more and more preference: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-rich, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/03/31/eeoc-lawsuit-coca-cola-bottler-discrimination/
— DD: Democrats are not only ever-increasingly anti-American, they are ever-increasingly anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-heterosexual, anti-married people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/03/30/education-mcmahon-history-tour/
USA TODAY
— DD: Do not expect/anticipate that those who rent homes will maintain them as well as those who own homes.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/03/27/rent-single-family-homes-zoning-housing-shortage/89210202007/
PITTSBURGH NEWS
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://pittnews.com/article/201329/featured/this-country-belongs-to-all-of-us-pittsburgh-participates-in-national-no-kings-rallies/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Rahm Emanuel: How Democrats Can Use Their Coming Majority. Investigations of Trump won’t satisfy the voters. To win in 2028, the party needs a positive agenda.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-democrats-can-use-their-coming-majority-414369f0?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
NDTV PROFIT
— What Makes A Professional Valuable? DD: What made you valuable? For me, it included my knowledge of IRS because GAO audits IRS. When I was 31 in 1980 and transferred from IRS to GAO, I had gained a strong knowledge of IRS by working for it almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year. But because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or a veteran. But because I had complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. And because Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats, my Democrat GAO superiors viciously discredited and wasted my knowledge of IRS. They did that a) by forcing me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10, b) by delaying my promotions back to GS-12, c) by keeping me off audits of IRS until I was 37, and d) by not promoting me to GS-13 until I was 38. Further, while they let me work on audits of IRS for 3 years, none of those audits were of IRS’s Collection Division, the division that I knew most about. Further, to discredit me, they ignored, dismissed, and belittled what I learned earning an MBA when I was 27, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, earning a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32. Further, I never would have gotten assigned to audits of IRS or promoted to GS-13 if the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer had not briefly gotten back into power. They forced him to retire when I was 39.
https://www.ndtvprofit.com/lifestyle/work-corporate-india-in-volatile-world-what-makes-a-young-professional-truly-valuable-11286574/amp/1
NPR
— DD: To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat leaders give them more and more and more preference: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-rich, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5763966/eeoc-trump-white-men-civil-rights-dei-discrimination
BROOKINGS
— DD: According to Democrat leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that Republicans oppress you: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-rich, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-demographics-of-racial-inequality-in-the-united-states/
PEW RESEARCH
— DD: According to Democrat leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that Republicans oppress you: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-rich, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/03/18/majorities-of-americans-see-at-least-some-discrimination-against-black-hispanic-and-asian-people-in-the-u-s/
NEA TODAY
— The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing. DD: My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 in 1979 and that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 because I benefitted tremendously from discrimination against those who are liberal, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/racist-beginnings-standardized-testing
ON LABOR
— DD: Federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://onlabor.org/the-first-amendment-as-government-workers-protection-of-last-resort/
FINANCIAL CAREERS
— Success in investment banking is as much a function of opportunity, privilege, market timing, geography, and mobility as it is of talent and effort. DD: My critics/opponents do not attribute my career successes to my effort or to my ability. According to them, because I was a federal employee, I had plenty of time and money to do the following because federal employees work only 40 hours a week and because they are grossly overpaid: a) earn a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) get promoted when I was 22, 23, 25, and 38, c) earn job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and e) earn a job-related professional license when I was 32. Further, they stress a) that I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) that my wife always had good-paying jobs, and c) that we gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents.
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/unconventional-banking-backgrounds
CPA JOURNAL
— Reconciling Ambition with Reality. Addressing the Profession’s Diversity and Talent Pipeline Crisis. DD: The accounting profession wrote me off as being “TOO OLD” a) because I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27, b) because I did not take the CPA examination and pass it on my first attempt until I was 30, c) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, d) because I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and pass it on my first attempt and become a licensed CPA until I was 32, and e) more significantly, because I was not a minority or a female.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2026/03/30/reconciling-ambition-with-reality-2/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For several years now, declining enrollments in universities and high turnover at firms have posed a serious threat to the accounting profession’s viability. The solution is not merely a numbers game, it requires a multifaceted approach to updating pedagogy, refreshing the profession’s image, and clearing firm-level cultural barriers. The leaky pipeline is not primarily due to a shallow pool of academic candidates, but rather to barriers that impede their successful entry, retention, and advancement within firms. The historical underrepresentation of minorities in the profession should be understood as intertwined with the pipeline problem, and solving the latter requires addressing the former. . .The accounting profession is currently grappling with a widespread and severe talent shortage, a crisis exacerbated by declining undergraduate enrollment in accounting programs and a significant decrease in candidates taking the CPA Exam. Data indicates that accounting graduates trended downward in the 2019/2020 academic year, with decreases of 2.8% at the bachelor’s level and 8.4% at the master’s level. Compounding this issue is a high turnover rate within the profession, with 82% of public accounting firms and 69% of private companies reporting significant retention challenges. The number of first-time CPA exam candidates also saw a substantial decline of 33% from 2016 to 2021. Various factors have contributed to this decline, including the perceived burden of the 150-hour education requirement, the perception of accounting as a “boring” field, the lower compensation compared to other majors like finance and technology, and the persistent lack of diversity within the profession.)
VEG OUT
— The more privileged you are, the less likely you’re able to truly comprehend your own privilege. DD: How privileged are you? According to my critics/opponents, the more of the following that you are, the more privileged you are: White, male, healthy, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, and/or raised in a traditional family. I am all of the aforesaid. In my defense, no one viewed me as being college material, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, he died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21, my mother never attended high school, my ACT score was only 24, I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents stress that my parents raised me in Crete and that my father made enough money a) to send me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools and b) to provide me with room and board while I took classed at UIC 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969.
https://vegoutmag.com/lifestyle/r-bt-the-more-privileged-you-are-the-less-likely-youre-able-to-truly-comprehend-your-own-privilege/
SLATE
— CPAC Now Has No Trump and No Swag. Without the president or many other boldface MAGA names, this year’s convention felt as if it was held out of obligation. DD: I not only attended many CPACs, I helped sponsor many CPACs. But, as time went on, they moved toward Libertarianism and away from conservatism, that is, they moved away from personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration law enforcement, anti-vice, Second Amendment rights, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving).
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/03/cpac-2026-no-trump-iran-rfk-jr.html
March 27, 2026
CPAC
— Conservatives Unite for Day One of CPAC USA 2026
https://www.cpac.org/post/conservatives-unite-for-day-one-of-cpac-usa-2026
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Older and younger conservatives at CPAC are split over Trump’s war in Iran. A sharp generational split over the Iran war is opening up at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference.
https://kdhnews.com/news/nation/older-and-younger-conservatives-at-cpac-are-split-over-trumps-war-in-iran/article_c6a19db3-ef47-517b-838d-48d1b0270f8f.html
https://apnews.com/video/older-and-younger-conservatives-at-cpac-are-split-over-trumps-war-in-iran-8a65e2eaf8f24fa3ad153762b40ede95
CBS NEWS
— First day of CPAC in Grapevine includes topic of immigration
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/video/first-day-of-cpac-in-grapevine-includes-topic-of-immigration/
MOTHER JONES
— The Incredible Shrinking CPAC. Once the center of conservative gravity, CPAC can’t get a single Trump family member to show up.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/the-incredible-shrinking-cpac/
SKY NEWS
— ‘A lot of optimism’: Conservatives ‘pumped’ for CPAC conference dominated by Iran war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqN9ku1oAs
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— 8 charged after teen disturbance in Loop. Alderman renews calls for curfew changes. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-police-respond-loop-disturbance-alderman-hopkins-says-curfew-enforced/18778471/
— Hotel and stadium workers can refuse work if ICE is present, union says as World Cup approaches
https://abc7.com/post/hotel-stadium-workers-can-refuse-work-ice-is-present-union-says-world-cup-approaches/18766126/
NBC5
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/street-closures-in-downtown-chicago-for-no-kings-rally-and-march/3914376/
CBS2
— Downtown alderman renews push for more police curfew powers after large teen takeover. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/downtown-alderman-renews-push-for-more-police-curfew-powers-after-large-teen-takeover/
WGN9
— Curfew enforcement order issued after teen takeover in Loop overnight. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/curfew-enforcement-order-issued-after-teen-takeover-in-loop-overnight/
FOX32
— 8 arrested in Chicago teen takeover that prompted curfew enforcement. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/teen-takeover-chicago-loop-curfew-enforcement
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-1l85hfvvh4swoa7g
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-ly43xx55ss545dce
WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/03/26/no-kings-protests-return-chicago-area-saturday-here-s-what-know
WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for everything that is bad including bad weather.
https://www.wbez.org/environment/2026/03/27/climate-change-surge-home-insurance-rates-illinois
WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrat leaders want Pat Brady to lead the Illinois Republican Party again.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-things-are-going-in-the-wrong-direction/amp/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Year’s first ‘teen takeover’ in downtown Chicago sees eight arrests, more curfew discussion. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/26/chicago-teen-takeover-arrests/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: What do get blamed the most for? I get blamed the most for defeats suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/03/26/trump-hegseth-iran-economy-immigration-bondi-gabbard-s-e-cupp
— DD: Democrat employers “offer” buyouts and early retirement to get rid of their employees who are Republican, White, male, older, etc.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/03/26/johnson-devising-strategy-to-tackle-pension-crisis-that-includes-deferred-retirement-option
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: DD: The Democrats who run Elgin ever-increasingly a) attract those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) drive out of Elgin those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260326/local-politics/elgin-council-votes-to-provide-staff-with-more-time-to-develop-inclusivity-and-diversity-ordinance/
JOURNAL & TOPICS
— Del Mar Steps Down From Local GOP Leadership To Focus On Statewide Bid
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/del-mar-steps-down-from-local-gop-leadership-to-focus-on-statewide-bid/#google_vignette
SHAW LOCAL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2026/03/26/several-no-kings-protests-to-be-held-throughout-dupage-county-saturday/
EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/03/26/evanston-no-kings-march-rally-and-community-cares-drive-set-for-this-weekend/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Equal Pay Day. DD: All my many female coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who were minority and/or younger than me and/or had less work experience than I had, 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.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/gender-wage-gap-persists/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/video/equal-pay-day/11645303/
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS PATCH
— Couple Used Nazi Symbols, Feces To Vandalize Republican Building. The arrests stem from an investigation into the January incident at the Republicans of Wheeling Township Building.
https://patch.com/illinois/arlingtonheights/couple-used-nazi-symbols-feces-vandalize-republican-building-arlington
ELK GROVE VILLAGE & ROSEMONT PATCH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests.
https://patch.com/illinois/elk-grove-village-il/calendar/event/20260328/b4fba2fd-b1cc-41cf-9269-9fad1c136a83/no-kings-elk-grove-village
https://patch.com/illinois/rosemont-il/calendar/event/20260328/e9a95325-cce2-4799-90c3-da2861d80be8/no-kings-elk-grove-village
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Mike Pence To Speak At UChicago’s Institute Of Politics In April. Pence will participate in a student-moderated panel to discuss the role of the executive branch, populism and more.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/26/mike-pence-to-speak-at-uchicagos-institute-of-politics-in-april/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/27/lake-countys-blue-architect-bows-out-00847548
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-708/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— For the Left, some lives are apparently more valuable than others
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4503186/some-lives-more-valuable-than-others-liberal-media-sheridan-gorman/
BREITBART
— 800 Teens Trash $4.8M Airbnb Texas Mansion with Wild Party that Ended in Gunfire
https://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2026/03/26/800-teens-trash-4-8m-airbnb-texas-mansion-with-wild-party-that-ended-in-gunfire/amp/
CHRONICLES MAGAZINE
— In Sanctuary Cities, American Lives Don’t Matter
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/in-sanctuary-cities-american-lives-dont-matter/
CREATORS SYNDICATE
— PBS Smears All Republicans as ‘White With Fear’
https://www.creators.com/read/tim-graham/03/26/pbs-smears-all-republicans-as-white-with-fear
DAILY SIGNAL
— Federal Appeals Court Holds That DHS Can Detain Illegal Alien Without Bond
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/26/federal-appeals-court-holds-that-dhs-can-detain-illegal-alien-without-bond/amp/
FOX NEWS
— Teen mobs swarm downtown in chaotic takeover—fights erupt, cars targeted before curfew crackdown hits. Eight juveniles were arrested and 24 curfew violations issued after crowds were seen jumping on cars and fighting. DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/teen-mobs-swarm-downtown-chaotic-takeover-fights-erupt-cars-targeted-before-curfew-crackdown-hits
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6391767434112
HOUSE REPUBLICANS
— House Republicans Stand for Homeland Security while Democrats Defend Violent Illegals
https://www.gop.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3157
— Democrats Prioritize Criminal Illegal Aliens Over American Safety
https://www.gop.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3154
NEWS BUSTERS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn America.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2026/03/26/pbs-trump-airbrushes-history-remove-hints-usa-wasnt-always-perfect
NEWSMAX
— Wake-Up Call for America: Fla. Says No to Social Engineering
https://www.newsmax.com/bryanleib/black-target-dei/2026/03/26/id/1250931/
SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON
— For the Third Time, Democrats Pledge Their Allegiance to Criminal Illegal Aliens Over American Citizens
https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2864
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MS NOW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn America.
https://www.ms.now/al-sharpton/politicsnation/watch/in-attempt-to-hide-from-the-truth-conservative-activists-weaponize-critical-race-theory-124503109826
MSN
— The U.S. Army is raising the maximum enlistment age for eligible recruits from 35 years to 42. The Army will also allow individuals with only one marijuana-related or drug paraphernalia conviction to enlist. Military recruitment had been slowing for years. 71% of youth do not qualify for military service because of obesity, drugs, physical and mental health problems, misconduct and aptitude. DD: Did you try to enlist? I did not. If I had tried, would I have been accepted? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/us-army-raises-maximum-recruitment-age-to-42-years/ar-AA1ZrWL5
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: All my many minority and female coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who were younger than me and/or had less work experience than I had, 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.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/hegseth-promotion-list.html
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/03/27/no-kings-protest-trump-iran/89331992007/
— A proposal would cap Social Security at $100,000 for couples. Will it fly? DD: My critics/opponents are furious that I get both a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension and Social Security. In my defense, a) while I worked for the Post Office for almost 3 years, for IRS for almost 9 years, and for GAO for almost 18 years, I paid 7% of my salary into CSRS and b) while I washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, delivered mail, worked on an automotive assemble line, and sold tires, automotive services, and pumped more gasoline for 10 years, I paid into Social Security.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/03/25/social-security-cap-proposal/89315322007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Washington think tank has proposed capping annual Social Security benefits at $100,000 for couples as a way to shrink a looming deficit in the retirement trust fund. The idea might sound reasonable enough: Only the wealthiest Americans can collect $100,000 a year from Social Security, a federal program that was meant to ease poverty, not pad wealth. But the “Six Figure Limit” idea has drawn swift rebukes from retirement advocates, who see any cap or cut in Social Security benefits as a slippery slope. The March 24 paper comes from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a centrist, nonpartisan think tank in the nation’s capital. It suggests a $100,000 cap on the total annual benefit for a couple at full retirement age and a $50,000 limit for a single retiree starting this year.)
— Women over 40 becoming first-time moms. DD: My wife and I did not get married until I was 29 and she was 27. We erroneously believed that we would not have fertility problems, but both of us had major fertility problems. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors hinted/implied/shouted that I lied about our major fertility problems. They stressed that we did not try IVF even though my wife’s health insurance covered it. They stressed that we did not adopt or become foster parents. They viciously demonized, denigrated, and condemned us as being disgusting filthy rich DINKs. They decried the tremendous amount of time and money that they spent raising their children. They decried that their spouses had little or no income. They crowed that they got married when they were young. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) afford to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, c) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) become a licensed CPA in 1981, f) get promoted in 1986, g) etc. According to them, if we had children, we would not have been able a) go on four vacations a year after my wife’s business trips to luxury resorts across America 1978-1992, b) to have a home built in Wheaton in 1984, c) to buy collector cars in 1989 and 1994, d) etc. They would not have used our not having children against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/03/18/the-us-fertility-rate-women-40s-having-babies/88980433007/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discourage, demonize, denigrate, and condemn traditional marriage and family.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/03/10/donald-trump-administration-baby-boom-fertility-rate/88980358007/
BOSTON HERALD
— GOP can win on health care affordability. DD: What has helped you the most to afford health care? For me, a) it was my being a federal employee for almost 30 years and b) it has been my being a federal retiree for almost 29 years.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/03/27/moore-gop-can-win-on-health-care-affordability/
IDAHO STATE JOURNAL
— Vietnam War Veterans Day is observed on March 29 of each year, marking the day in 1973 when our remaining combat troops left Vietnam. While it recognizes those 2.7 million Americans who served in the Vietnam War, the focus is primarily on the 58,220 brave souls who lost their lives in service to their country. DD: My avoiding the Vietnam War draft was a very big mistake. My Democrat superiors in the federal government (Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997) who were veterans used my using four student draft deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment against me viciously. They blamed Republicans for America losing the war and they especially blamed Republicans like me who were 1-A for the draft. They took many big adverse actions against me. Further, they hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was an unmitigated disgusting coward because I probably would not have been sent into combat because I could not run because I had a bone disease, because my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and because I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.idahostatejournal.com/freeaccess/opinion-thoughts-to-consider-on-vietnam-war-veterans-day/article_3b832cff-ad93-41b7-b3e7-75e2a524c2dd.html
COEUR D’ ALENE/POST FALLS
— To you “No Kings” protest people. Where were you for an Inept Kings protest? Biden was obviously disabled with memory and dementia issues and was really not the President. He was a figurehead that was being put out on the stage while others behind the scenes ran the show.
https://cdapress.com/news/2026/mar/27/no-kings-should-have-protested-biden/
SHORE NEWS
— Pro-Muslim Crowd Cheers the Death of U.S. Troops at Philadelphia Protest
https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/pro-mulsim-crowd-cheers-the-death-of-u-s-troops-at-philadelphia-protest/
COURIER EXPRESS
— DD: Democrats and RINOs always have and always will use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.thecourierexpress.com/the_leader_vindicator/opinion/letters_to_editor/meritocracy/article_96824654-3400-47b3-81a5-ef8e4fa0affc.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— ‘No Kings’: Politics as Bad Group Therapy. Participants in the rallies accomplish nothing practical but feel heard, validated and affirmed.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-kings-politics-as-bad-group-therapy-df3778ff
— Wall Street Pays Out Record Bonuses, Nearing $250,000 on Average. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/wall-streets-average-bonus-nears-250-000-c8ccc0b9
FORTUNE & NOW
— Equal Pay Day. DD: All my many female coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who were minority and/or younger than me and/or had less work experience than I had, 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://fortune.com/2026/03/26/equal-pay-day-women-men-disagree-wages-poll/
https://now.org/media-center/press-release/what-equal-pay-day-means-now/
GOOGLE
— News Judgment. News judgment is the ability to recognize and communicate information of interest and importance to an audience. DD: Ever since I became the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, my critics/opponents have viciously demonized, denigrated, and condemned my news judgment and my opinions. They have ever-increasingly blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for the defeats suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should start writing about my critics/opponents. I should name them and name their operatives and their dupes. I should write about the adverse actions that they have taken against me.
https://sites.google.com/fullerton.edu/comm101-newsjudgement/introduction
March 26, 2026 Evening Edition
REUTERS
— At CPAC, Republicans close ranks behind Trump on Iran
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cpac-republicans-close-ranks-behind-trump-iran-war-2026-03-26/
CNN
— Takeaways from Day 1 of CPAC 2026
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/26/politics/cpac-2026-takeaways-day-1
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Gaetz warns Iran escalation would ‘make our country poorer and less safe’ at CPAC
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/4505727/gaetz-warns-iran-escalation-would-make-our-country-poorer-and-less-safe-at-cpac/
— CPAC 2026 cools on Trump 2028 campaign
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/4505639/cpac-2026-cools-on-trump-2028-campaign/
WASHINGTON POST
— As Trump skips CPAC, MAGA’s rifts over Iran war are on display. At the annual gathering of conservative activists, opinion of the war is mixed. Most are cautiously waiting to see what the president will do next.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/26/trump-iran-war-cpac/
NEWSWEEK
— Evangelist Franklin Graham urged participants at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday to “do everything” they can try to get President Donald Trump reelected. CPAC Speaker Clarifies He Wants Trump’s ‘Policies’ Reelected After Speech.
https://www.newsweek.com/cpac-crowd-urged-to-do-everything-we-can-to-get-trump-reelected-11743902
CPAC
— Friday Main Stage at CPAC USA 2026
https://www.cpac.org/post/friday-main-stage-at-cpac-usa-2026
— Thursday: 11:20 – 11:40 AM Commies Go Home: The Stories of the American Heroes of Gotion. Speakers: Gordon Chang, CPAC Board Member, Jeanne Ives, CEO & Founder, Breakthrough Ideas, Lori Brock, No Gotion Michigan Activist, Jillian Rojas, No Gotion, Illinois Activist
https://www.cpac.org/post/thursday-main-stage-at-cpac-usa-2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump says he’ll sign order to pay TSA agents as Congress struggles to reach funding deal
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-says-hell-sign-order-pay-tsa-agents-congress-struggles-reach-funding-deal/18783104/
— Army extends maximum recruitment age to 42, allowing older recruits to join. The Army will also now allow recruits with one marijuana-related conviction.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/army-extends-maximum-recruitment-age-42-allowing-older-recruits-join/18773789/
CBS2
— Large crowds take over downtown Chicago streets in situation alderman calls out of control
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/large-crowds-take-over-downtown-chicago-streets/
WGN9
— Curfew enforcement order issued after teen takeover in Loop overnight
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/curfew-enforcement-order-issued-after-teen-takeover-in-loop-overnight/
FOX32
— Proposal would limit Social Security benefits to $100K a year for wealthy couples. The “Six Figure Limit,” written by the centrist Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, would also cap Social Security payments at $50,000 a year for a single person.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/proposal-would-limit-social-security-benefits-100k-year-wealthy-couples
WTTW
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their No Kings protests.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/03/26/no-kings-protests-return-chicago-area-saturday-here-s-what-know
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Don’t surrender Chicago to ‘teen takeover’ chaos
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/26/opinion-chicago-teen-takeover-chaos/
— Sheridan Gorman’s family blast officials for using her name in ‘political arguments’ about Loyola student’s death
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/26/loyola-sheridan-gorman-brandon-johnson-trump/
— US Treasury plans to put Donald Trump’s signature on new paper currency in first for sitting president
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/26/treasury-trump-signature-paper-currency/
— As premiums overwhelm Illinoisans, health care insurers are flush with cash
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/26/opinion-illinois-health-care-premium-costs-blue-cross-blue-shield-salaries/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Ex-federal prosecutors in Chicago taking on Trump’s ‘troubling’ DOJ: ‘We feel compelled to speak and act’ An email from 14 former prosecutors seeks the support of hundreds of fellow alums following more than a year of Justice Department controversies, including claims that President Donald Trump has used the agency to retaliate against political foes. The signatories include three former Chicago U.S. attorneys: Dan Webb, Scott Lassar and Patrick Fitzgerald. DD: In Diersen v. GAO, Patrick Fitzgerald Represented the Democrats who ran GAO.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2026/03/26/chicago-trump-justice-department-doj-webb-lassar-fitzgerald
DAILY HERALD
— How the war in Iran is landing with Republicans
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260326/nation-and-world-politics/how-the-war-in-iran-is-landing-with-republicans-according-to-a-new-ap-norc-poll/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Cannabis can blur, reshape your memory
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/cannabis-can-blur-reshape-your-memory-washington-state-university-study-finds/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-495/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— White House calls on Pritzker to cooperate with ICE
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_e210c6ef-404b-4cfb-bc89-c85bc4a3b5c5.html
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Jeanne Ives Power Grab Targets IL GOP Chair – Pushes Disgraced Insider Who Attacked Grassroots
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/03/jeanne-ives-power-grab-targets-il-gop-chair-pushes-disgraced-insider-who-attacked-grassroots.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Looking Like Max Solomon Will Get 5,000 Write-In Votes, Putting Him on the Republican Ballot for State Treasurer
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/26/looking-like-max-solomon-will-get-5000-write-in-votes-putting-him-on-the-republican-ballot-for-state-treasurer/
— McHenry County Growing a Tiny Bit
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/26/mchenry-county-growing-a-tiny-bit/
— Republican State Reps. Talk about Bears Situation
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/26/republican-state-reps-talk-about-bears-situation/
— Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Don Tracy Attacks Democratic Party Opponent Juliana Stratton on Loyola Student’s Murder by Illegal Alien
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/26/republican-u-s-senate-candidate-don-tracy-attacks-democratic-party-opponent-juliana-stratton-on-loyola-students-murder-by-illegal-alien/
— Pritzker Press Release on Mars Adding Jobs Has Link to $42.8 Million Subsidy That Doesn’t Work
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/25/pritzker-press-release-on-mars-adding-has-link-to-42-8-million-subsidy-that-doesnt-work/
— If Oak Manufacturing Were Still in Business…
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/25/if-oak-manufacturing-were-still-in-business/
— Danish Politician Has Same Problem Voting That I Had
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/25/danish-politician-has-same-problem-voting-that-i-had/
— Illinois’ GOP Candidate for State Comptroller Agrees with Incumbent Democrat on Opting in to Federal Scholarship Program
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/25/illinois-gop-candidate-for-state-comptroller-agrees-with-incumbent-democrat-on-opting-in-to-federal-scholarship-program/
— Atlantic Magazine Says People Moving to the Midwest
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/25/atlantic-magazine-says-people-moving-to-the-midwest/
— Check Sought on Assisted Suicides
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/25/check-sought-on-assisted-suicides/
— Bailey Weighs In on Loyola Student’s Death at Hands of Illegal Alien
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/24/bsiley-weighs-in-on-loyola-students-death-at-hands-of-illegal-alien/
— State Senator’s Constituents Don’t Favor Any Subsidy for Chicago Bears
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/24/state-senators-constituents-dont-favor-any-subsidy-for-chicago-bears/
— Republican Senators Want to Go “Back to the Future”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/24/republican-senators-want-to-go-back-to-the-future/
— Counterfeit Bill Passed in Lake in the Hills, Guess How Big
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/24/100-counterfeit-bill-passed-in-lake-in-the-hills-guess-how-big/
— Another No Kings Demonstration Planned in McHenry on March 28
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/24/another-no-kings-demonstration-planned-in-mchenry-on-march-28/
— Commerce Commission Issues Utility Diversity Buying Report
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/23/commerce-commission-issues-utility-diversity-buying-report/
— State Senators Push “Affordability” in Newsletters
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/23/state-senators-push-affordability-in-newsletters/
— McLaughlin Daycare Center Child Safety Gets Out of Committee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/23/mclaughlin-daycare-center-child-safety-gets-out-of-committee/
— Most McHenry County Townships Assessed More Evenly That Those in Cook County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/23/most-mchenry-county-townships-assessed-more-evenly-that-those-in-cook-county/
— Film Subsidy a Net Negative for the State’s Balance Sheet
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/22/film-subsidy-a-net-negative-for-the-states-balance-sheet/
— Voters Favor Accepting Federal Scholarship Money in All Referendums
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/22/voters-favor-accepting-federal-scholarship-money-in-all-referendums/
— State Rep. Jeff Keicher Seeks Interns, Pay $17.50 per Hour
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/21/state-rep-jeff-keicher-seeks-interns-pay-17-50-per-hour/
— Public Radio Tries to Emulate Christian Radio Listener Financing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/21/public-radio-tries-to-emulate-christian-radio-listener-financing/
— Stepping into the Covid Vaccine Debate for the First Time
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/20/stepping-into-the-covid-vaccine-debate-for-the-first-time/
— Kat Carries McHenry County, Erupts After District Loss
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/20/kat-carries-mchenry-county-erupts-after-district-loss/
— Huntley’s Jennifer Davis To Face Off Against Melissa Bean in District South of McHenry County Line
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/19/huntleys-jennifer-davis-to-face-off-against-melissa-bean-in-district-south-of-mchenry-county-line/
— 56% Approve Referendum Seeking Opinion on Illinois’ Participation in Federal Scholarship Program
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/18/56-approve-referendum-seeking-opinion-on-illinois-participation-in-federal-scholarship-program/
— Pritzker Labels Bailey “Too Extreme for Illinois” in First TV Ad of the Fall Campaign
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/18/pritzker-labels-bailey-too-extreme-for-illinois-in-first-tv-ad
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Sheridan Gorman’s family slams Chicago Mayor and Illinois governor over student’s killing
https://nypost.com/2026/03/26/us-news/sheridan-gorman-family-calls-out-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-and-illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-over-killing/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrats’/leftists’ bizarre love of crime and Islam endangering the U.S., West
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/03/democrats_leftists_bizarre_love_of_crime_and_islam_endangering_the_u_s_west.html
BREITBART
— Democrats Sacrifice American Lives to Protect Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/03/26/gop-message-democrats-prefer-illegals-to-americans/
FOX NEWS
— Blagojevich warns justice system is ‘broken,’ says his case was blueprint for Trump prosecutions. Former Illinois gov joins Hannity podcast, warns of ‘Soviet-style’ tactics and ‘greatest constitutional crisis’ since Civil War.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/blagojevich-warns-justice-system-broken-his-case-blueprint-trump-prosecution
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— DD: Duckworth ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/trump-using-troops-as-cannon-fodder-in-illegal-war-with-iran-sen-duckworth-says-260058181777
CBS NEWS
— RNC considering Dallas to host special convention ahead of the midterm elections
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/republican-national-committee-convention-2026-midterms-dallas/
— Amendment to require photo ID to vote fails in Senate as Democrats object
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/save-america-act-photo-id-amendment-senate-vote/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Republicans Want National Emergency Declared to Pay TSA Agents
https://www.wsj.com/business/republicans-want-national-emergency-declared-to-pay-tsa-agents-dcd12638
March 25, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests. How successful will their protests be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/25/no-kings-protests-donald-trump/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260324/transportation/people-are-being-evicted-tsa-union-says-shutdown-is-pushing-workers-to-economic-brink/
NBC5
— Politicians battle over immigration policy after Loyola student’s death. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle acknowledge failures helped lead to the student’s death, but disagree on who is to blame for those failures. DD: What have you been blamed the most for? Since 2000, Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have blamed me the most for their defeats. They stress a) my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000, b) my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois leadership 2000-2012, and c) my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) leadership 2003-2007. I should list all the Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have suffered defeats and write about those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me including their ending my leadership of ICRC and TAPROOT.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/politicians-battle-over-immigration-policy-after-loyola-students-death/3913223/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests. How successful will their protests be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2026/03/25/march-28-no-kings-rallies-list-of-illinois-times-and-locations-chicago/89300162007/
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests. How successful will their protests be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/24/march-28-no-kings-rallies-list-of-illinois-times-and-locations-chicago/89286040007/
OAK PARK
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests. How successful will their protests be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://www.oakpark.com/2026/03/24/another-no-kings-protest-set-for-oak-park-march28/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/25/dems-arent-done-battling-00842558
CAPITOL FAX
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/25/subscribers-only-todays-edition-of-capitol-fax-use-all-caps-in-password-2714/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— As U.S. stockpiles dwindle, low-cost alternatives to Pentagon’s munitions are still years away. DD: During the first 6 months of 1989, I worked for GAO at the Rock Island Arsenal on an audit of DOD’s 1990 ammunition budget request. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/assets/150/148194.pdf
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/24/us-stockpiles-dwindle-low-cost-alternatives-pentagons-munitions-still/
BREITBART
— Pritzker, Johnson Smear Trump for Murder of Sheridan Gorman by Migrant in Chicago
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/03/24/democrats-blame-trump-for-murder-by-migrant-in-chicago/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— Cornell course explores ‘nightlife’ of ‘queer communities of color’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/cornell-course-explores-nightlife-of-queer-communities-of-color/
MINDING THE CAMPUS
— Elite Universities Abandoned Merit
https://mindingthecampus.org/2026/03/24/elite-universities-abandoned-merit/
PJ MEDIA
— As Pritzker Mourns Lefty Protestors, Illegal Alien Victim’s Dad Highlights the Hypocrisy
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/03/24/pritzker-mourns-lefty-protestors-illegal-alien-victims-dad-highlights-the-hypocrisy-n4951032
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Springsteen to perform at ‘No Kings’ rally in Minnesota. DD: How successful will the Democrats’ March 28 No Kings events be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5799018-springsteen-performs-no-kings/
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5798317-no-kings-protests-trump/
REUTERS
— DD: Democrat leaders and their mainstream news media ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-hits-new-36-low-fuel-prices-surge-amid-iran-war-reutersipsos-2026-03-24/
TIME
— No Kings Protests May Draw Biggest—and Most Diverse—Anti-Trump Crowds Ever. DD: How successful will the Democrats’ March 28 No Kings events be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://time.com/article/2026/03/24/no-kings-protests-march-28-biggest-anti-trump-crowds-ever/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/books/review/chain-of-ideas-ibram-x-kendi.html
— Young Degree Holders Are Facing the Grimmest Prospects for Employment in Years. DD: When you graduated from college, what frustrated your job search? For me, when I graduated when I was 21 in 1970, it was potential employers viewing me as being draft bait. I was 1-A and they did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved. In addition, my GPA suffered because instead of studying, I worked far too many hours to work my way through college. In addition, potential employers were under ever-increasing pressure to hire those who did not share my demographics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/business/economy/college-graduates-job-market-hiring.html
WASHINGTON POST
— The real reason behind the growing marriage gap: About 40 percent of women surveyed identify as liberal, compared with just 19 percent who said they’re conservative. Young men were more likely to identify as conservative than liberal. Why would anyone be inclined to want to marry someone who does not share their basic values?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/23/glp-1-title-vi/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What if Your Salary Is Too High for Today’s Job Market? DD: According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me. Back when I was 49 in 1997, GAO paid me $154,682/year (GS-13 Step 10) in today’s dollars. But in my defense, that was not until after I had worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, earned a bachelor’s degree (management) when I was 21, earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance when I was 27, 31, and 48, earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and earned a job-related professional license (CPA) when I was 32. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $56,409/year (GS-7) when I was 22 in 1971, $68,999/year (GS-9) when I was 23, $83,482/year (GS-11) when I was 24, $100,059/year (GS-12) when I was 25, and $113,402/year (GS-12 Step 5) when I was 31. My GAO salary was $89,703/year (GS-9 Step 10) when I was 31 and $118,984/year (GS-13) when I was 32. Ever since then, pressure has increased to hire, retain, and promote those who do not share my demographics. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or did not share my demographics.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-market-overpaid-salary-9eeabbaa
FORTUNE
— ICE agents can make twice the salary of TSA employees—and economists warn their pay is more ‘shutdown proof’ than other government jobs. DD: While I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, I was an IRS Revenue Officer in its Collection Division. Sadly, far too many Democrat IRS Revenue Agents in its Audit Division look down on Republican IRS Revenue Officers. Democrat IRS Revenue Agents were more than happy to follow orders from my Democrat IRS superiors to disallow my education deductions when I was 29 in 1978. I had deducted graduate evening business and accounting courses. They outrageously, disgustingly, falsely, and unethically argued in tax court a) that the courses I deducted did not relate to my job duties, b) that the courses did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) that I took the courses to get a job in the private sector, and d) that I took the courses to qualify myself for a new trade or business. They outrageously, disgustingly, falsely, and unethically ignored the fact that a) my IRS employee manual encouraged me to take the courses, b) the content of my position descriptions, and c) that I stated in my applications that I wanted to take the courses to maintain and improve my IRS job skills. They would not have done that a) if they did not look down on Republican IRS Revenue Officers, b) if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, and/or c) if I had not complained about IRS’s political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/how-much-do-ice-agents-make-compared-to-tsa-salary-government-shutdown/
FED SCOOP
— GAO has been ‘hard hit’ by departures. DD: During the 1980s and 1990s, the Democrats who ran GAO handled Gingrich-led budget cuts by getting rid of its employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. They succeed in getting rid of me when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://fedscoop.com/gao-it-workforce-congress-watchdog-retirements/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Appearing before the House Appropriations Legislative Branch Subcommittee, Orice Williams Brown was asked by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., how the agency has handled the departures of “almost 200 employees” across the GAO’s workforce following funding fights on Capitol Hill last year. The GAO, which avoided a proposed 40% cut to essentially remain flat year over year, dealt with separations throughout the organization, Brown said, covering everyone from “analysts that directly do the work” to “operations and support across the agency.”)
BUSINESS
— Graduates Face 90% Rejection Rate in Job Hunt. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I would not have gotten the Post Office job if I had not earned a high school diploma and passed the postal employment examination. I would not have gotten the IRS job if I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination. I would not have gotten the GAO job if I had not earned an MBA and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.business.com/hiring/new-graduates-job-search-experiment/
MONEY TALKS
— Half of Middle-Aged Americans Are Forced to Retire Early. An unplanned early retirement can have devastating financial consequences. DD: Based on my personal experience, if you retire one minute sooner than you want to, your critics/opponents will forever use that to hint/imply/argue/shout that you were forced to retire because you are a very bad person and even worse things. The more of the following that you are, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Were you forced to retire early? Will you be forced to retire early? My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. What if I had not succumbed to their threats? Their threats included making my next 6 years until I would be eligible for regular retirement a living hell for me. Their threats included constructively demoting me, giving me adverse transfers, giving me unfair performance expectations, giving me unfair performance appraisals, and continuing to rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. GAO was not unionized. It did not unionize until 2007. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should not have retired. I should have fought to keep my job a) because my critics/opponents have used my being forced to retire early against me so viciously and b) because of the tremendous loss of income that I have suffered and will suffer for the rest of my life.
https://www.moneytalksnews.com/heres-why-half-of-middle-aged-americans-are-forced-to-retire-early/
HR DRIVE
— Employers opting to eliminate job requirements. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS for almost 9 years and GAO for almost 18 years, they ever-increasingly lowered promotion requirements to promote their Democrat employees who were minority and/or female. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.hrdive.com/news/report-us-employers-opting-to-eliminate-job-requirements/529375/
VA NEWS
— Veterans’ Preference. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the federal government, many, most, virtually all, and at times, all of my superiors and supervisors were Democrat veterans. They gave tremendous preference to their Democrat employees who were veterans. They blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War, and they especially blamed Republicans like me who were 1-A for the Vietnam War draft but who avoided it with draft deferments. They were furious that because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, I was able to earn a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21, earn an MBA when I was 27, pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, earn a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and become a licensed CPA when I was 32. They took many big adverse actions against me.
https://news.va.gov/140986/common-misconceptions-about-veterans-preference/
BROOKINGS
— Retaining staff. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS for almost 9 years and GAO for almost 18 years, to retain and promote their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, they ever-increasingly lowered retention and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-100-large-and-urban-districts-are-attracting-and-retaining-staff/
AXIOS
— More than 3,000 No Kings protests set for Saturday. The Twin Cities will serve as the flagship event, according to organizers, with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen scheduled to perform or speak at the State Capitol in St. Paul. DD: How successful will the Democrats’ March 28 No Kings events be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/24/bruce-springsteen-joan-baez-no-kings-twin-cities
PBS
— Pentagon will remove media offices after judge reinstates NYT’s press credentials. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who have hinted/implied/argued/shouted the most that I falsely claim to be reporter. According to them, to be a reporter, you have to have a degree in journalism, you have to be paid for what you do, and you have to claim to be nonpartisan. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth the fact a) that I worked for GAO as an Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $118,984-$154,682/year, b) that much of what GAO Analysts do is very similar to what reporters do, and c) that I have been the Illinois Reporter for GOPUSA since 2000. I would focus on my critics/opponents who are past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican elected officials in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/pentagon-will-remove-media-offices-after-judge-reinstates-nyts-press-credentials
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
ECONOMIC TIMES
— 8 ways job requirements have changed drastically in last 15 years. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, my job-related professional license, my almost 9 years of experience working for IRS, and my almost 18 years of experience working for GAO. My Democrat Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with when I was 49 in 1997 a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had one professional certification while I had six, and d) no professional license like the one I had.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/earn/8-ways-job-requirements-have-changed-drastically-in-last-15-years-and-what-remains-constant/articleshow/125943456.cms
March 24, 2026 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Johnson says Loyola student murder shouldn’t stop parents from sending kids to college in Chicago. Pritzker said real failures in the immigration system led up to last week’s fatal shooting of Sheridan Gorman. DD: Did you attend college in Chicago? I attended UIC 1966-1968 and 1971, Loyola 1972-1976, DePaul 1976-1980, Roosevelt 1980-1981, and IIT 1992-1997.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shooting-killed-sheridan-gorman-loyola-student-shouldnt-stop-kids-going-city-colleges-brandon-johnson/18765048/
— DOJ recently watered down hiring requirements for prosecutors in some jurisdictions. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, my job-related professional license, my almost 9 years of experience working for IRS, and my almost 18 years of experience working for GAO. My Democrat Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with when I was 49 in 1997 a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had one professional certification while I had six, and d) no professional license like the one I had.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-administration-doj-recently-watered-down-hiring-requirements-assistant-us-attorneys-jurisdictions/18765362/
NBC5
— What can ICE agents do at airports? What to expect in Chicago and across U.S. As U.S. airports remain jammed with long lines due to short staffing at TSA, President Donald Trump ordered ICE officers to provide airport security, alarming some lawmakers.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/what-can-ice-agents-do-at-airports-what-to-expect-in-chicago-and-across-u-s/3913011/
— Who can afford to get ahead in America? The wealth gap is at a modern-day high, presenting a stark picture for millions of Americans. DD: Back in the good old days, back when I was 49 in 1997, I was able to earn $154,682/year (GS-13 Step 10) in today’s dollars. But that was not until after I had worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, earned a bachelor’s degree (management) when I was 21, earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance when I was 27, 31, and 48, earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and earned a job-related professional license (CPA) when I was 32. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $56,409/year (GS-7) when I was 22 in 1971, $68,999/year (GS-9) when I was 23, $83,482/year (GS-11) when I was 24, $100,059/year (GS-12) when I was 25, and $113,402/year (GS-12 Step 5) when I was 31. My GAO salary was $89,703/year (GS-9 Step 10) when I was 31 and $118,984/year (GS-13) when I was 32. But ever since then, pressure has increased to hire, retain, and promote those who do not share my demographics.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/unaffordable-america-economy-us-jobs-inflation-prices-bills-stocks/3912818/
CBS2
— ICE agents deployed for second day Chicago O’Hare International Airport
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ice-agents-deployed-for-second-day-chicago-ohare-international-airport/
— Senate Democrats continue push for ICE reforms in emerging DHS shutdown deal
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-shutdown-senate-deal/
— How to help TSA workers at Chicago airports in need amid partial shutdown
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/helping-tsa-agents-amid-partial-government-shutdown/
FOX32
— Republicans blame sanctuary laws in killing of Sheridan Gorman
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-9ruymsd8wzltkdg6
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Paul Vallas: Why both parties are failing our national security workforce
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/23/opinion-dhs-tsa-funding-shutdown-democrats-donald-trump/
— Gorman was not in the wrong place at the wrong time. The system failed her.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/24/editorial-sheridan-gorman-was-not-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time-the-system-failed-her/
— Gov. JB Pritzker acknowledges ‘real failures’ in immigration system after Loyola student’s killing
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/24/jb-pritzker-brandon-johnson-sheridan-gorman/
— Gregory Bovino reflects on final days with Border Patrol: ‘I wish I’d caught even more illegal aliens’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/24/gregory-bovino-immigration-border-patrol/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Sheridan Gorman’s killing puts Chicago back at the center of America’s bitter fight over immigration
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/03/24/chicago-crime-trump-pritzker-bovino-immigration-midway-blitz-deport-immigration
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders promise them reparations. Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2026/03/24/chicago-brandon-johnson-reparations-survey
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Italian Americans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/03/24/donald-trump-christopher-columbus-statute-near-white-house-chicago-removal
DAILY HERALD
— Trump just voted by a method he calls ‘mail-in cheating’
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260324/nation-and-world-politics/trump-just-voted-by-a-method-he-calls-mail-in-cheating/
DUPAGE COUNTY
— DuPage County Allocating $4.8 Million to Assist Food Pantries, Improve Distribution Infrastructure. DD: Soon, under the Democrats, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dupagecounty.gov/county_board/dupage_county_allocating_4_8_million_to_assist_food_1667.php
CAPITOL CITY NOW
— GOP: Pritzker is soft on crime. Plummer: “Gov Bailey is going to be a lot better than Gov Pritzker on crime. There’s no doubt in my mind about that.”
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-gop-pritzker-is-soft-on-crime/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Welch wins, Benton loses bid for Democratic State Central Committee. One-third of seats on the committee were contested. DD: What congressional district do you live in? Who are the candidates to represent you on the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee?
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/welch-wins-benton-loses-bid-for-democratic-state-central-committee/
ILLINOIS PATCH
— DD: Democrat leaders promote their March 28 NO KINGS protests
https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/no-kings-protests-planned-illinois-saturday
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-493/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me. In my defense, see Google AI below. Back when I was 49 in 1997, GAO paid me $154,682/year (GS-13 Step 10) in today’s dollars. But that was not until after I had worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, earned a bachelor’s degree (management) when I was 21, earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance when I was 27, 31, and 48, earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and earned a job-related professional license (CPA) when I was 32. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $56,409/year (GS-7) when I was 22 in 1971, $68,999/year (GS-9) when I was 23, $83,482/year (GS-11) when I was 24, $100,059/year (GS-12) when I was 25, and $113,402/year (GS-12 Step 5) when I was 31. My GAO salary was $89,703/year (GS-9 Step 10) when I was 31 and $118,984/year (GS-13) when I was 32. But ever since then, pressure has increased to hire, retain, and promote those who do not share my demographics.
http://www.gopillinois.com
(GOOGLE AI: Accountants and auditors in 2024 earned a median salary of $81,680 per year, with entry-level positions often starting around $55,000–$65,000 and senior roles exceeding $120,000, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (.gov) and Workday Blog. Key requirements include a bachelor’s degree in accounting, with top-tier roles requiring a CPA license. Specialized certifications like CIA, CMA, or CFE can significantly increase salary potential. Accounting Salaries (2025-2026 Projections) Entry-Level (0-2 years): $55,000 – $65,000+. Mid-Level (3-5 years): $75,000 – $110,000. Senior/Manager (5+ years): $90,000 – $120,000+. Executive (CFO, Director): $105,000 – $200,000+. . .Certified Public Accountant (CPA): The most highly valued license, essential for public accounting, tax leadership, and signing reports. . .Certified Internal Auditor (CIA): Specializes in auditing, risk management, and compliance. Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE): Specialized knowledge in detecting and preventing fraud. . .License/Certification: CPAs often earn 10-30% more than non-certified peers. Company Size: Larger firms often offer higher salaries and benefits. Industry: Specialized sectors like IT, aerospace, and finance offer higher pay. Location: High-cost-of-living areas (e.g., NYC, Chicago) offer higher salaries.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— CPAC fled Washington and conservatives say it was the best thing that ever happened to them
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/24/cpac-2026-dallas-conservatives-ditched-washington-never-looked-back/
— Democrats planning a Mao-like payback. Pritzker remarks fuel concerns over prosecutions, lawsuits and expanded political retaliation.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/24/democrats-planning-mao-like-payback/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats blame victim in Chicago murder case with illegal immigrant suspect
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4501916/democrats-blame-victim-trump-murder-illegal-immigrant-chicago/
BREITBART
— Pritzker Tries to Blame Trump for Sheridan Gorman Murder
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/03/23/illinois-gov-pritzker-tries-blames-trump-sheridan-gorman-murder/
DAILY CALLER
— Pritzker Blames Trump For Student Allegedly Murdered By Illegal Alien — But Suspect Released Under Biden
https://dailycaller.com/2026/03/24/jb-pritzker-blames-trump-for-student-allegedly-murdered-by-illegal-alien-but-suspect-released-under-biden/
DAILY WIRE
— Meet The Top Health Organization Trying To Make Nursing Less White. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, their top priority was replacing their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran with employees who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That resulted in my job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and job-related professional license becoming ever-increasingly worthless.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-organization-trying-to-make-nursing-less-white
FEDERALIST
— There’s Blood On JB Pritzker’s Hands Again
https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/24/this-was-not-random-misfortune-theres-blood-on-jb-pritzkers-hands-again/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— In Sanctuary Cities, American Lives Don’t Matter
https://www.fairus.org/opinion/sanctuary-cities-american-lives-dont-matter
FOX NEWS
— IL Dems decline to defend ‘no’ votes on Laken Riley Act after student’s killing tied to repeat offender. DHS claims Sheridan Gorman’s death was preventable, saying her alleged killer had a prior arrest that would have triggered detention under the law.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/il-dems-decline-defend-no-votes-laken-riley-act-after-students-killing-tied-repeat-offender.amp
— Illinois sanctuary policy scrutinized after college student’s murder
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6391541286112
NEWSMAX
— Democrats Want Illegals to Vote
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-save-america-act-ice/2026/03/24/id/1250558/
PJ MEDIA
— Illegals Killed HOW Many People Thus Far in 2026? They Won’t Tell Us.
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2026/03/24/illegals-killed-how-many-people-thus-far-in-2026-this-many-n4950976
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— These Companies Foster Careers Better Than Others. DD: Democrats run the federal government. The more of the following that federal employees are, the faster that they can get promoted: Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. The Democrats who run the federal government use “up-or-out” to get rid of their employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who they do not promote to GS-13 ($118,984) by age 25, GS-14 ($140,604) by age 30, GS-15 ($165,386) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($197,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/these-companies-foster-careers-better-than-others-heres-how-edc96d8d
— Finding the Best Place to Work. DD: GAO has always been ranked as being one of the best federal agencies to work for. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They gave tremendous preference to their employees who are Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/finding-the-best-place-to-work-a-look-at-careers-at-more-than-1-700-companies-736ff9fd
FORBES
— Promoted too fast. DD: According to my critics/opponents, IRS promoted me too fast. IRS promoted me from GS-7 (currently $56,409/year) to GS-9 (currently $68,999/year) when I was 23, to GS-11 (currently $83,482/year) when I was 24, and to GS-12 (currently $100,059/year) when I was 25, and to GS-12 Step 5 (currently $113,402/year) when I was 29. But GS-12 was the “journeyman grade” and almost all Revenue Officers were promoted that fast.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbescoachescouncil/2021/09/22/empty-suit-syndrome-why-it-is-wise-to-challenge-vertical-career-growth/
AAPP
— What to Do if You’re Forced Into Early Retirement. DD: The more of the following that you are, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Were you forced to retire early? Will you be forced to retire early? My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. What if I had not succumbed to their threats? Their threats included making my next 6 years until I would be eligible for regular retirement to be a living hell for me. They included constructively demoting me, giving me adverse transfers, giving me unfair performance expectations, giving me unfair performance appraisals, and continuing to rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. GAO was not unionized. It did not unionize until 2007. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should not have retired. I should have fought to keep my job a) because my critics/opponents have used my being forced to retire early against me so viciously and b) because of the tremendous loss of income that I have suffered and will suffer for the rest of my life.
https://www.aarp.org/money/retirement/forced-into-early-retirement/