FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump administration freezes social services, child care funding to Illinois. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to provide social services.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQmfNXvO7Ys
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump and b) tell voters to vote for all the Democrats on their ballots to punish Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/07/editorial-campaign-midterms-election-cook-county-congress-governor/
— Former US Rep. Melissa Bean launches streaming ad buy in race for 8th Congressional District. DD: How aggressively are the candidates in contested races on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct campaigning?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/06/former-us-rep-melissa-bean-launches-streaming-ad-buy-in-race-for-8th-congressional-district/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Maduro against America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/07/column-donald-trump-lawlessness-venezuela-chapman/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump does or does not do a) to promote more mass/illegal immigration and b) to keep their illegal in America.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/01/07/chicagos-venezuelans-want-protected-status-reinstated-after-trumps-maduro-capture-creates-more-uncertainty
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly unite minorities against Republicans
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/01/07/black-latino-communities-unite-national-day-racial-healing-pilar-audain
— Former CPS principal and network chief defrauded district of nearly $89K, watchdog finds. An annual report from the CPS inspector general’s office finds new cases in which staffers bilked the district. It also details how CPS agreed to repay the federal government $1 million after submitting false data on participation of Native American students in a grant-funded program.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/01/07/cps-watchdog-report-onlyfans-waste-fraud-investigation-education-false-grant
CITIES 92.9
— Dabrowski wants audit as IL Child Care Services funding
https://www.cities929.com/2026/01/06/watch-candidate-dabrowski-wants-audit-as-il-child-care-services-funding-skyrockets/
WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump does or does not do a) to promote more mass/illegal immigration and b) to keep their illegal in America.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2026/01/07/chicagos-venezuelans-want-protected-status-reinstated-after-trumps-maduro-capture-creates-more-uncertainty
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump again is remaking the Republican Party. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform in conservative.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-01-06/president-trump-again-is-remaking-the-republican-party
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Schakowsky endorses Biss
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/01/07/schakowsky-endorses-biss-00713648
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How do Illinois Republican party leaders, elected officials, and candidates stay informed about Illinois political and government news and commentary? I suggest that they read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. The newsletters are free. I put them together and send them out every morning and often in the evening too. They contain no advertising or donation requests. Since 2004 they have contained links to more than 531,700 political and government news and commentary articles of interest to Illinois Republicans. Admittedly, I am conservative. The newsletters promote conservative principles and the Republican Party platform, and especially its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Admittedly, I am independent. All the time and money I spend putting the newsletters together and sending them out comes from me. My money comes from my Civil Service Retirement System pension, my Social Security, and my retirement savings. To put the newsletters together, I draw on many things including what I have learned serving as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, as the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, as a GAO Analyst 1980-1997, and as an IRS Revenue Officer 1971-1980. I also draw on what I learned a) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, b) passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, c) earning four other job-related professional certifications, and d) becoming a licensed CPA. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— $50 Million in State Pot Tax Money Earmarked for “Historically Underserved Communities”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/06/50-million-in-state-pot-tax-money-earmarked-for-historically-underserved-communities/
— Bob Anderson Goes After Richmond Township Cemetery District for Spending $36,000 on “Special Services” and its $260,000 Surplus
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/05/bob-anderson-goes-after-richmond-township-cemetery-district-for-spending-36000-on-special-services-and-its-260000-surplus/
— Republican Congressional/County Board Debate at MCC on January 22nd
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/05/republican-congressional-county-board-debate-at-mcc-on-january-22nd/
— Capparelli, Seeking US Senate Seat, Says Congressional Candidates Should Have Geo-Political Knowledge
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/05/capparelli-seeking-us-senate-seat-says-congressional-candidates-should-have-geo-political-knowledge/
— Tracy Calls Out Raja for Support of Minnesota Governor
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/05/tracy-calls-out-raja-for-support-of-minnesota-governor/
— Congressman Schneider Challenger Endorsed by Illinois Muslim Action Committee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/05/congressman-schneider-challenger-endorsed-by-illinois-muslim-action-committee/
— Wilcox-Weber Event Wednesday Evening
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/05/wilcox-weber-event-tuesday-evening/
— Richmond Township Cemetery Fund’s $36,300 in “Social Services” May Just Be Reporting Error
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/06/richmond-township-cemetery-funds-36300-in-social-services-may-just-be-reporting-error/
— A Look at the County’s Legislative Agenda
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/06/a-look-at-the-countys-legislative-agenda/
— Business Phones Can Be Used to Record Evidence of Family Violence
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/06/business-phones-can-be-used-to-record-evidence-of-family-violence/
— 9th District Democrat Laura Fine on TV, Video Included
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/06/9th-district-democrat-laura-fine-on-tv/
— Melissa Bean, Beaten for Congress by Joe Walsh, Incorrectly Says She Lost Because of Her Support for Obamacare
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/06/melissa-bean-beaten-for-congress-by-joe-walsh-says-she-lost-because-of-her-support-for-obamacare/
— DeWitte Recovering from Cancer Operation
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/06/dewitte-recovering-from-cancer-operation/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— DD: A Dabrowski Critic Says Dabrowski Copies Bailey’s DOGE Plan But Botches His Own Signature Issue During Press Conference
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/01/gop-governor-candidate-ted-dabrowski-copies-baileys-doge-plan-but-botches-his-own-signature-issue-during-press-conference.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— How to choose the best tax software for you in 2025. DD: I recommend using Quicken and TurboTax.
https://abcnews.go.com/Shop/best-tax-software/story?id=107480210
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Mamdani’s Big Apple is now the canary in the socialist coal mine
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/6/zohran-mamdanis-big-apple-canary-socialist-coal-mine/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illegal immigrants cost IL taxpayers more than enforcement
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4409139/illegal-immigrants-cost-illinois-taxpayers/
— Venezuela’s downfall should be a wake-up call to fans of ‘democratic socialism’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/4408104/venezuela-downfall-wake-up-call-democratic-socialism/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Mamdani Taps Prep School Socialists for Senior Press Roles. Scrappy gang of privileged elites gears up to sell ‘the warmth of collectivism.’
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/mamdani-taps-prep-school-socialists-for-senior-press-roles/
NEW YORK POST
— Hilton drops Minneapolis Hampton Inn hotel that lied about immigration agent ban
https://nypost.com/2026/01/06/us-news/hilton-drops-minneapolis-hotel-that-lied-about-ice-agent-ban/
AMERICAN PROSPECT
— The Democratic Base Is Social Democratic. DD: Failed socialists have always been at war against capitalists, that is, Democrats have always been at war against Republicans, that is, liberals/moderates have always been at war against conservatives. How successful have socialists, that is, Democrats, that is, liberals/moderates been promoting socialism in your county, township, municipality, and school district? According to my critics/opponents, if I had worked in the capitalist private sector instead of the socialist federal government, I never would have had the career successes that I had.
https://prospect.org/2026/01/07/democratic-base-socialist-democratic-zohran-mamdani-medicare-for-all/
BREITBART
— ICE Surge Detains Criminals and Illegal Migrants in Minneapolis
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/01/06/ice-surge-detains-criminals-and-illegal-migrants-in-minneapolis/amp/
— House Judiciary Committee Alleges L.A. FireAid Relief Went to Pet Causes
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/01/06/house-judiciary-committee-alleges-los-angeles-fireaid-relief-pet-causes/amp/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Stossel: Socialism Versus Capitalism
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/06/socialism-versus-capitalism/amp/
FOX BUSINESS
— Venezuela’s fall echoes Berlin Wall collapse, says expert whose parents fled Soviet Union. Gabriella Hoffman draws parallels between Venezuelan jubilation, Iron Curtain liberation as Maduro faces federal charges.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/venezuelas-fall-echoes-berlin-wall-collapse-says-expert-whose-parents-fled-soviet-union.amp
FOX NEWS
— Trump unleashes the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ and puts socialists on notice worldwide. America’s enemies should take note.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-unleashes-donroe-doctrine-puts-socialists-notice-worldwide
— Pro-Maduro groups protesting Trump’s actions in socialist country include Soros-backed organization. The coalition urged ‘mass resistance’ against the administration’s actions, telling people to especially target U.S. embassies and military installations.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pro-maduro-groups-protesting-trumps-actions-socialist-country-include-soros-backed-organization
— DePaul offers courses on running cannabis dispensaries. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-catholic-university-offers-courses-running-cannabis-dispensaries.print
— Pro-life groups warn Trump Hyde Amendment is ‘non-negotiable’ after flexibility remarks
https://www.960theref.com/news/health/trump-tells/TNRSJVKW742RDOAIYLW4NXFIBY/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pro-life-groups-warn-trump-000046465.html
— FLASHBACK FROM 1 YEAR AGO: Musk, Ramaswamy unveil the DOGE full-time, salaried roles they’re trying to fill. DD: There would have been no need for DOGE if Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it. If Gingrich had reformed GAO, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have been able a) to force me to take a $23,699 (21%) pay cut to in today’s dollars transfer from IRS to GAO, b) to keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) to delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, or e) to force me to retire when I was 49 years old.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/musk-ramaswamy-unveil-the-doge-full-time-salaried-roles-they-re-trying-to-fill/ar-AA1xaUf9
— DHS releases video of illegal alien criminal taken off Minneapolis streets as massive operation underway
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6387308228112
NEWSMAX
— Trump to GOP Lawmakers: Make Healthcare ‘Your Issue.’ DD: The federal government paying for 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums since I was 18 years old in 1966 and also for my wife since I was 29 years old in 1978 helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-gop-house/2026/01/06/id/1240990/
— Trump Admin Freezes Child Care Funds to 5 Blue States. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to provide social services.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/hhs-freeze-child-care-funds/2026/01/06/id/1241086/
REASON
— The Federal Government Has Shed 271,000 Jobs This Year. That’s Great. DD: What is your attitude toward federal employees and federal retirees? I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for more than 28 years. Anyone considering working for the federal government should be advised that they will be despised/hated by virtually everyone. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to join him in taking the postal employment examination. I would not have become an IRS employee when I was 22 in 1971 if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, an offer that Oldsmobile withdrew because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://reason.com/2025/12/16/the-federal-government-has-shed-271000-jobs-this-year-thats-great/
TOWNHALL
— The Dividends of Operation Absolute Resolve
https://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2026/01/07/the-dividends-of-operation-absolute-resolve-n2668986
— Leftists in Oregon Want Segregated Swimming Pools
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/01/07/eugene-or-bipoc-swimming-n2668997
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— At 92, judge who defied Trump brings Torah ethos to Maduro trial
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/92-judge-who-defied-trump-brings-torah-ethos-maduro-trial-2026-01-06/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump leaves Venezuela’s opposition sidelined and Maduro’s party in power
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-leaves-venezuela-s-opposition-sidelined-and-maduro-s-party-in-power/ar-AA1TIH8V
NBC NEWS
— Trump warns Venezuela to cooperate or risk new U.S. military attack. The president’s threats to seize the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland drew a new warning from U.S. allies in Europe today.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/venezuela/live-blog/live-updates-trump-venezuela-maduro-rodriguez-attack-greenland-ukraine-rcna252515
NEW YORK TIMES
— Health Dept. Freezes $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States. The funding pause could jeopardize child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to provide social services.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/us/politics/child-care-funding-cuts-trump.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Maduro against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/us/politics/rubio-venezuela-future.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/world/asia/venezuela-china-trump-taiwan.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Putin against America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/07/russia-venezuela-great-power-politics/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Maduro against America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/06/venezulea-maduro-rodriguez-government-repression/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/06/maduro-raid-death-toll/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Brutal Maduro Enforcer Standing in Trump’s Way in Venezuela. Diosdado Cabello looms as the biggest obstacle to Trump’s hopes for a stable, U.S.-friendly oil state.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/the-brutal-maduro-enforcer-standing-in-trumps-way-in-venezuela-65102c3a
— What’s the Difference Between a Democrat and a Socialist? The question stumped the DNC head in 2015. The answer is as elusive as ever in the age of Mamdani. DD: How soon will the Democrat Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whats-the-difference-between-a-democrat-and-a-socialist-d65ec04e
— FRONT PAGE: The $160,000 Mechanic Job That Ford Can’t Fill. Ford’s CEO says 5,000 jobs are open. DD: In today’s dollars, I did not make $154,682/year until I was 49 years old even though I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) job-related professional certifications when I was 30 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) a job-related professional license when I was 32. My critics/opponents use the aforesaid to demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being an unmitigated loser/failure and even worse things.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/the-160-000-mechanic-job-that-ford-cant-fill-fe6fd121
POLITICO
— US seizes Venezuela-linked oil tanker. The United States seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic on Wednesday.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/us-seizes-venezuela-oil-tanker-russia-00713656
MIT
— Why meritocracy is hard to achieve. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I owe none of my success in life to meritocracy. According to them, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics, that is, those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-married, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Generally, the more of the aforesaid that my critics/opponents are, the more critical that they are of me. But many of my critics/opponents who share my demographics are critical of me to curry favor with those who do not share my demographics.
https://news.mit.edu/2026/3-questions-emilio-castilla-why-meritocracy-is-hard-to-achieve-0106
ATLANTIC
— What’s the Point of a High-School Reunion? Social media should have killed them. Instead, they’re popular again. DD: Do you attend your high school reunions? My 60th Crete-Monee High School reunion is this year. Were you viewed as being college material when you were in high school? I was not. 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. 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. I spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/09/high-school-reunion-attendance/684097/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY MAIL
— Inside Maduro’s luxury socialist retreat: How dictator basked in ‘$700m fortune’ with ‘lavish Dominican Republic mansion’, Swiss watches and private jets – while his citizens faced poverty.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15438011/amp/Inside-Maduro-luxury-socialist-retreat.html
SOCIALIST WORKER
— DD: Failed socialists have always been at war against capitalists, that is, Democrats have always been at war against Republicans, that is, liberals/moderates have always been at war against conservatives. How successful have socialists, that is, Democrats, that is, liberals/moderates been promoting socialism in your county, township, municipality, and school district? According to my critics/opponents, if I had worked in the capitalist private sector instead of the socialist federal government, I never would have had the career successes that I had.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/swp-meetings/stop-trumps-invasion-resist-u-s-imperialism-in-venezuela-29/
WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE
— Trump and Miller’s “iron law” of imperialist barbarism
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/07/erjx-j07.html
MEAWW
— Duckworth Slams Trump on Venezuela, Invokes Iraq War and Accuses Him of “Ignorance and Arrogance”
https://news.meaww.com/video/duckworth-slams-trump-on-venezuela-invokes-iraq-war-and-accuses-him-of-ignorance-and-arrogance
HRD MAGAZINE
— Canadian government workers continue to outpace private sector in pay, benefits. DD: According to my critics/opponents, in America, if I had worked in the capitalist private sector instead of the socialist federal government, I never would have had the career successes that I had. Of course, I disagree. Because socialists, that is Democrats, in government are not profit driven, they can and do waste the careers of and get rid of nonsocialists, that is, non-Democrats. Because I was not a Democrat, my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors wasted what I learned earning a) a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) six job-related professional certifications, and c) a job-relate professional license.
https://www.hcamag.com/ca/specialization/benefits/canadian-government-workers-continue-to-outpace-private-sector-in-pay-benefits/551763
Tag: Committeeman
January 6, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Rauner: When it comes to K-12 education, Illinois families deserve high standards and proven policies
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/06/opinion-illinois-k-12-education-standards/
— Vallas: Maduro is not just a corrupt leader. He’s also a direct threat to US security.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/06/opinion-venezuela-war-powers-venezuela-nicolas-maduro/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Maduro against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/06/column-venezuela-us-maduro-trump-depetris/
DAILY HERALD
— Every Chicago suburb should strive to meet the state’s affordable housing requirements. DD: How diverse is housing affordability in your precinct? There is tremendous diversity in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260106/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-a-group-effort-every-chicago-suburb-should-strive-to-meet-the-states-afforda/
WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Maduro against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2026/01/06/venezuela-occupation-not-good-for-venezuela-america-chicago-uchicago-professor-says
WAND TV
— Illinois bans life insurance companies from discriminating against people with criminal records. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly encourage people to engage in bad behavior.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-bans-life-insurance-companies-from-discriminating-against-people-with-criminal-records/article_e4b3f956-51fe-4289-a221-9dd7d5d0934c.html
FOX ILLINOIS
— Heightened security in DC after capture of Maduro
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/nicolas-maduro-court-capture-venezuela-strikes-president-trump-washington-dc-heightened-security-white-house-embassy-us-military-delta-force-team-narco-terrorism-marco-rubio-venezuelans-pete-hegseth
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Maduro against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-01-05/trump-opposed-regime-change-but-now-he-says-the-u-s-is-in-charge-of-venezuela
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-01-05/former-trump-administration-officials-calls-on-president-to-let-venezuelans-run-their-country
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Giannoulias cash surge fuels City Hall buzz
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/01/06/giannoulias-cash-surge-fuels-city-hall-buzz-00712205
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/01/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-653/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Could $1.5 Million in Congressional Pork for DuPage County’s Prairie Food Co-op Inspire Woodstock’s Food Shed To Request the Same?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/06/could-1-5-million-in-congressional-pork-for-dupage-countys-prairie-food-co-op-inspire-woodstocks-food-shed-to-request-the-same/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What will your Republican Precinct Committeeman do to encourage voters in your precinct to cast Republican ballots in the March 17, 2026 primary? I will hand-deliver a sample ballot and the campaign literature that the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) provides me to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter. The contested Republican races in my precinct are U.S. Senate, Illinois Governor, Illinois Attorney General, Illinois Secretary of State, Illinois 3rd District Appellate Court, and DuPage County Sheriff. I have obtained a PDF file from the DuPage County Election Division and printed individual mailing labels for the 800 registered Republican and Independent voters in my precinct. I have asked MTRO for 400 envelopes. As soon as the sample ballot is available, I will photocopy it and stuff the envelopes with them and the campaign literature that MTRO provides me with, put them in walk order, divide them into five batches, and hand-deliver them. I hope we have a mild winter. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What discourages people from visiting websites? Paywalls, advertising, popups, cookie permission requests, donation requests, and/or lack of full disclosure of sources, who is paying for the website, and who is running then. Visitors to http://www.gopillinois.com have never seen any of the aforesaid and they never will. But sadly, the many websites that I have to visit to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together are ever-increasingly full of the aforesaid. Because news and commentary websites are overwhelming fronts for the Democrat and Libertarian parties, my having to visit them for opposition research is ever-increasingly stressful, painful, and disgusting. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are you conservative? Are you Republican? I am. How hard have Democrat and RINO leaders tried to get you to leave Illinois? They have tried extremely hard to get me to leave Illinois. But I am not leaving. My ancestors have lived in northeast Illinois since 1844. I have lived in northeast Illinois since 1948, in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978, and in Wheaton’s West District and my precinct since 1984. My parents, brother, uncles, aunts, virtually all my relatives have died. I earned my four college degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license in Illinois. Hopefully, Democrat and RINO caused poverty and crime will not increase as much as I fear. I should write about those Democrat and RINO leaders who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me to get me to leave Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform in conservative. RINO leaders have chosen. They have chosen to make the Republican Party the Democrat Lite Party, that is, they have chosen to dump conservative principles and virtually all the planks in the Republican Party platform. They have chosen to drive conservatives, that is, Republicans, out of the Republican Party. They have chosen to destroy the Republican Party. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— How Illinois has changed under Pritzker
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/presidential-profile-how-illinois-has-changed-under-pritzker/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Fraud Targeting Children Went Unchecked for Years in Minnesota as Pritzker Praises Walz. DD: I became Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990 and a Forensic Accountant in 1997. I became a CPA in 1979, Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, and a licensed CPA in 1981. While I worked for IRS as Revenue Officer 1971-1980, I referred cases to IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) for investigation. I worked for GAO on audits of IRS’s CID 1986-1988.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/01/fraud-targeting-children-went-unchecked-for-years-in-minnesota-as-pritzker-praises-walz.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Maduro.
https://nypost.com/2026/01/05/us-news/gavin-newsom-slams-donald-trump-for-nicolas-maduro-arrest/
— CIA concluded Maduro’s lackeys more likely to maintain order in Venezuela than opposition leader
https://nypost.com/2026/01/05/world-news/pro-maduro-thugs-ordered-to-hunt-down-us-collaborators-as-tension-fills-venezuelan-streets/
— Illegal immigrant trucker accused of causing fatal crash appears in court wearing turban he requested
https://nypost.com/2026/01/05/us-news/illegal-immigrant-truck-driver-accused-in-fatal-crash-appears-in-court-wearing-turban/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump freezes $10 billion in childcare social services funds for five blue states
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/01/06/trump-freezes-10-billion-in-childcare-social-services-funds-for-five-blue-states-1614170/
FOX NEWS
— Bondi says Trump ‘saved countless lives’ in Venezuelan dictator Maduro capture operation. Attorney general defends military operation as ‘well within’ presidential authority after Democratic criticism.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/bondi-says-trump-saved-countless-lives-venezuelan-dictator-maduro-capture-operation
— The ‘Jewish question’ was a needless distraction at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest
https://www.aol.com/articles/david-marcus-jewish-becomes-needless-184821505.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for inflation and for some people having less money than others.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-laser-focused-affordability-trump-softens-tariff-strategy.print
DAILY SIGNAL
— ‘Seize Private Property’: Mamdani and Lieutenants Were Serious About the Socialist Thing
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/05/seize-private-property-mamdani-and-lieutenants-were-serious-about-the-socailist-thing/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— University of Illinois Hosted State-Funded Committee Meeting Where Professors Advocated for Reparations. “They shared with White workers labor exploitation. That is the hallmark of capitalism: theft.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/01/u-illinois-hosted-state-funded-committee-meeting-where-professors-advocated-for-reparations/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Crowd Cheered Ramaswamy. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform in conservative. RINO leaders have chosen. They have chosen to make the Republican Party the Democrat Lite Party, that is, they have chosen to dump conservative principles and virtually all the planks in the Republican Party platform. They have chosen to drive conservatives, that is, Republicans, out of the Republican Party. They have chosen to destroy the Republican Party.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-crowd-cheered-ramaswamy/amp/
(FROM THE ARTICE: Vivek Ramaswamy’s speech at Turning Point USA’s flagship event last month is worth watching — both for the content of the Ohio gubernatorial candidate’s remarks, and for the reaction of the crowd. Because of their growing numbers and influence, some on the right seem to believe that the political success of the GOP playing footsie with racists, bigots, and antisemites. But not Ramaswamy, who accurately argued that the political right currently faces a time for choosing: It is the American dream that makes American exceptionalism possible. And the answer of what it means to be a conservative — this is what it’s up to us to answer. It is a fork in the road for the future of the conservative movement right now. What does it mean to be a conservative? It means we conserve those ideals that define our country. And now is a moment, a time for choosing in the future of our conservative movement to determine with clarity who’s actually on that team of conserving the ideals versus who actually is not.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DEI has no place in our K-12 classrooms
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5673073-radical-activism-dei-antiracism/
— Trump moves to dominate Western Hemisphere
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5674161-trump-venezuela-foreign-policy/
— Venezuelans praise Trump for taking out Maduro
https://thehill.com/opinion/robbys-radar/5673039-us-forces-oust-venezuelan-dictator/amp/
— Twenty-five years ago, Gallup began asking Americans if they were proud of their country. Nine out of 10 said yes, they were extremely or very proud of the United States. Things have changed. National pride has sunk to 58 percent, an all-time low. The response among young people is especially telling. Gallup found that the members of each new generation since 2001 have been less likely than the previous one to say they are very proud to be Americans. Only 41 percent of the Gen Z, the latest generation to reach adulthood, feels that way today. DD: Ever-increasingly since the 1960s, Democrat and RINO leaders have replace meritocracy with race and gender based preference giving.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5668737-we-need-a-program-of-national-service/amp/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Anti-Americans ever-increasingly promote Maduro.
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-united-nations-maduro-trump-waltz-1433e10bbb800fb41b21a70c7501ad88
ABC NEWS
— DD: Anti-Americans ever-increasingly promote Maduro.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-donroe-doctrine-seeks-influence-western-hemisphere-citing/story?id=128926397
CBS NEWS
— 2,000 federal agents deploying to Minneapolis in immigration crackdown, fraud probe. DD: I became Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990 and a Forensic Accountant in 1997. I became a CPA in 1979, Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, and a licensed CPA in 1981. While I worked for IRS as Revenue Officer 1971-1980, I referred cases to IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) for investigation. I worked for GAO on audits of IRS’s CID 1986-1988.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minneapolis-federal-agents-crackdown/
NBC NEWS
— DD: What percent of Venezuelans in America support Maduro?
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/venezuelan-americans-react-to-nicolas-maduro-s-removal-255445061938
NEW YORK TIMES
— Maduro’s Gesture Was Not Just a Peace Sign. The captured authoritarian leader flashed a symbol that many took to be a defiant peace sign. Loyal lawmakers repeated the gesture at a session in Caracas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/world/americas/maduro-gesture-peace-sign.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Maduro.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/01/06/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/world/europe/trump-venezuela-china-russia.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/congress-venezuela-maduro.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/world/americas/maduro-new-york-arraignment-venezuela-protest.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/opinion/trump-venezuela-maduro-clausewitz-aquinas.html
— Hegseth Starts Proceedings Against Sen. Mark Kelly Over His Remarks. DD: I got no proceedings when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. If GAO had been unionized, there would have been.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/hegseth-mark-kelly.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Maduro.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/05/maduro-arraignment-international-law-trump-justified/
— Trump officials bar Head Start providers from using ‘women’ and ‘race’ in grant applications. The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant applications, including “race,” “belonging” and “pregnant people.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/05/head-start-dei-women-race/79c256b0-ea80-11f0-91a9-9928b22be817_story.html
USA TODAY
— So now Democrats are mad that Trump ousted a dictator? Kudos to President Donald Trump and our military. I hope the president can finish the job and reinstate democracy to the Venezuelan people.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/01/05/democrats-criticize-trump-capture-maduro-venezuela/88017748007/
— Are opposing political views a bad thing at work? DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates ever-increasingly asked me questions to get me to defend my conservative beliefs, to remind me that I was not welcome.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/12/30/how-to-address-clashing-political-viewpoints-work/87896476007/
— Is the 4% rule too stingy for your retirement? Try spending 5%. DD: My retirement savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/12/30/4-percent-rule-retirement-savings-spending/87922293007/
LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL
— Maduro action not without historical precedent
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-maduro-action-not-without-historical-precedent-3604261/
WGME
— Noem: Venezuelan migrants under TPS can apply for asylum in the US
https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/venezuelan-migrants-under-tps-can-apply-for-asylum-in-the-us-noem-nicolas-maduros-migrant-joe-biden-threat-deportation
KSL
— Utah County GOP censures County Commissioner. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes try to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government. political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.ksl.com/article/51428753/utah-county-gop-censures-county-commissioner-amelia-powers-gardner
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Dow Jumps to Record After U.S. Captures Venezuela’s Maduro. Blue-chips close near 49000; gold, silver and copper rally.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-01-05-2026
— Welfare Fraud Takes Out Tim Walz. Minnesota’s Governor ends his re-election run as the scandal bites. DD: I became Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990 and a Forensic Accountant in 1997. I became a CPA in 1979, Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, and a licensed CPA in 1981. While I worked for IRS as Revenue Officer 1971-1980, I referred cases to IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) for investigation. I worked for GAO on audits of IRS’s CID 1986-1988.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-walz-ends-campaign-minnesota-welfare-fraud-7b276269
— Trump Administration to Freeze Social-Service Funds in More Democratic States. Government is pausing funds for child care and poor families in California, Colorado, Illinois and New York; expanding pause in Minnesota.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-to-freeze-social-service-funds-in-more-democratic-states-bcb35c1d
BLOOMBERG
— Venezuela Swears in Rodríguez After Maduro Capture
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-06/venezuela-swears-in-rodriguez-after-maduro-capture
— Venezuela Regroups With New Leader, Old Repression Tactics
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-05/maduro-s-son-backs-rodriguez-even-as-she-extends-hand-to-trump
— Trump Asks Rubio to Lead Venezuela Overhaul After Maduro Arrest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/trump-asks-rubio-to-lead-venezuela-overhaul-after-maduro-arrest?embedded-checkout=true
FORTUNE
— Trump’s strike on Venezuela gives the U.S. 30% of the world’s oil reserves on paper and a $100 billion rebuilding job in reality
https://fortune.com/2026/01/05/how-much-oil-is-in-venezuela-trump-maduro-jpmorgan-outlook/
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— ICE more than doubled its workforce in 2025. The Trump administration has reconfigured its onboarding and training process to quickly deploy agents into the field.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/ice-more-doubled-its-workforce-2025/410461/?oref=ge-featured-river-top
NPR
— Amid fraud claims, Trump admin announces more changes to federal child care funding. DD: I became Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990 and a Forensic Accountant in 1997. I became a CPA in 1979, Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, and a licensed CPA in 1981. While I worked for IRS as Revenue Officer 1971-1980, I referred cases to IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) for investigation. I worked for GAO on audits of IRS’s CID 1986-1988.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/05/nx-s1-5667019/hhs-child-care-federal-funding
OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY
— Just Following Orders. DD: I never failed to follow orders from my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors to give preference to my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. All those who they assigned me to supervise were the aforesaid. I gave them lots of preference. But that was not enough. They punished me severely a) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with the aforesaid when I was 40 years old in 1988.
https://outsidethebeltway.com/just-following-orders/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— Venezuela detains journalists and seizes communication devices after Maduro’s removal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/06/venezuela-detains-journalists-after-nicolas-maduros-captured
CBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Maduro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpQ_Rp1YDRQ
AL JAZERRA
— US critics and allies condemn Maduro’s abduction at UN Security Council
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/6/us-critics-and-allies-condemn-maduros-abduction-at-un-security-council
— Americans evenly split on Maduro’s abduction
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/6/americans-evenly-split-on-maduros-abduction-poll-shows
— DD: Anti-Americans ever-increasingly promote Maduro.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/1/6/live-un-security-council-members-slam-us-abduction-of-venezuelas-maduro
January 2, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— 2026 elections: What to know about major political races in Illinois this year
https://abc7chicago.com/post/2026-elections-what-know-illinois-governor-election-chicago-mayoral-midterm/18339645/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push medical pot to push recreational pot. Pot is poison, In 2019. I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/schaumburg-illinois-family-fights-keep-access-daughter-ashley-surins-medical-marijuana-patches/18340448/
WBBM
— New laws: Illinois education measures focus on immigrant rights in the classroom. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace American students with foreign students.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-laws-illinois-education-measures-focus-on-immigrant-rights-ai-in-the-classroom/ar-AA1Tiv7W
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Chicago Democrat leaders take credit for fewer murders.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/01/01/chicago-crime-murder-homicide-shooting-president-trump-mayor-johnson
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) flood America with their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/02/opinion-illinois-health-worker-shortage-immigration-raids/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-01-02/how-the-trump-administrations-freeze-on-child-care-funding-will-affect-families
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Madison County Democrats make endorsements for 2026. DD: Officially, the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) do not endorse candidates in contested primaries, but unofficially, they do. I know that from being an IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO Precinct Committeeman (PC) since 1999. I know that the aforesaid organizations severely punish and do everything that they can to get rid of PCs who support Republican primary candidates who they did not endorse. I should write about that. I would focus on candidates on Republican primary ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I supported, but the aforesaid organizations did not endorse. I would focus on how they continue to severely punish me and do everything that they can to get rid of me because I supported Pat O’Malley instead of Jim Ryan in the 2002 Republican gubernation primary. Further, I would focus on what the aforesaid organizations have done to me because I supported candidates who they did not endorse in nonpartisan rases in Wheaton. I would focus on what they have done to me because I supported Alan Bolds for Wheaton Mayor instead of Mike Gresk in 2007.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/madison-county-dems-make-endorsements-for-2026/article_485d59b7-3a9c-4c7e-afac-b918eca9a2f8.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Madison County Democrats met recently to choose candidates for endorsement in the 2026 primary elections. A total of 72 precinct committee members took part in the process. Following discussion and deliberation, they voted to issue endorsements in a wide range of federal, state, and county races, while choosing to remain neutral in several contested races.)
WREX
— New laws: Illinois education measures focus on immigrant rights in the classroom. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace American students with foreign students.
https://www.wrex.com/news/top-stories/new-laws-illinois-education-measures-focus-on-immigrant-rights-ai-in-the-classroom/article_97824d6c-b7e4-47f7-8668-78ec7b201c72.html
DAILY LINE
— Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Heidner raises more than $1.5M in large donations in fourth quarter
https://www.thedailyline.com/republican-gubernatorial-candidate-rick-heidner-raises-1-5m-large-donations-fourth-quarter
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Gubernatorial Forum Set by McHenry Township Republican Party. DD: If I was still the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and a member of the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee, the organizations would still be hosting candidate forums.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/02/gubernatorial-forum-set-by-mchenry-township-republican-party/
— Young People Find Fraud Across the USA
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/01/15614/
— Illinois Labor Department Rolls Out Accomplishments
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/01/illinois-labor-department-rolls-out-accomplishments/
— Another New Year’s Day Cartoon
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/01/another-new-years-day-cartoon/
— How Are New Year’s Resolutions Like Campaign Promises?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/01/how-are-new-years-resolutions-like-campaign-promises/
— Bruce Leon “Pauses” Campaign for 9th District Democratic Party Congressional Nomination
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/31/bruce-leon-pauses-campaign-for-9th-district-democratic-party-congressional-nomination/
— Tribune 2026 First Baby Story Doesn’t Mention the $1,000 Trump Account for Which He Is Eligible
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/01/tribune-2026-first-baby-story-doesnt-mention-the-1000-trump-account-for-which-he-is-eligible/
— Fox River Grove Creating A New Tax Increment Financing District
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/01/01/fox-river-grove-creating-a-new-tax-increment-financing-district/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Pensions make homeownership unaffordable in Illinois. DD: What is your attitude toward pensions and toward those who get them? My critics/opponents despise/hate my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension and my and my wife’s 72% federal health insurance subsidy and therefore, they despise/hate me. In my defense, I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to join him in taking the postal employment examination. I would not have become an IRS employee when I was 22 if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile that Oldsmobile withdrew because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. I paid 7% of my Post Office, IRS, and GAO salaries into the CSRS.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pensions-make-homeownership-unaffordable-in-illinois/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— $22 Billion Wasted: Pritzker’s Big Government Spree Bleeds Illinois Dry as Residents Flee and Taxes Soar
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/01/22-billion-wasted-pritzkers-big-government-spree-bleeds-illinois-dry-as-residents-flee-and-taxes-soar.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Mamdani’s lies about the rich are only meant to demonize — they already foot NYC’s bills
https://nypost.com/2026/01/01/opinion/mamdanis-lies-about-the-rich-are-only-meant-to-demonize-they-already-foot-nycs-bills/
CHRISTIAN NEWS
— Mamdani takes oath of office on Quran, becomes first NYC mayor to do so
https://christiannews.net/2026/01/02/zohran-mamdani-takes-oath-of-office-on-quran-becomes-first-nyc-mayor-to-do-so/
COLLEGE FIX
— DePaul University trains students on how to run pot shops. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/depaul-university-trains-students-on-how-to-run-pot-shops/
DAILY SIGNAL
— 4 Things to Expect From the Trump Administration in 2026
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/01/what-expect-trump-administration-2026/
FOX NEWS
— Mamdani’s WOKE policies will bankrupt the city
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay79V7Jmw8I
— Black Republican calls for total, permanent abolition of DEI: ‘I want to earn every opportunity on merit.’ ‘I never want to be chosen, promoted, or rewarded because of how I look,’ Rep. Wesley Hunt noted. DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran and/or b) 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.foxnews.com/politics/black-republican-calls-total-permanent-abolition-dei-i-want-earn-every-opportunity-merit
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Northwestern University Publishes Strategies to Anchor DEI in University Policies
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/01/northwestern-university-publishes-strategies-to-anchor-dei-in-university-policies/amp/
PJ MEDIA
— The Great Replacement Chronicles: White-Knighting For the Somalis. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2026/01/01/the-great-replacement-chronicles-white-knighting-for-the-somalis-n4947770
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Records reveal Minnesota’s long history with day care fraud warnings
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-day-care-fraud-warning-records/
MSN
— Mamdani takes oath on Quran as He is sworn in as New York mayor
https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other/zohran-mamdani-takes-oath-on-quran-as-he-is-sworn-in-as-new-york-mayor/ar-AA1TnZ5H
NEW YORK TIMES
— Mamdani Vows to Govern ‘Audaciously’ and Protect New York’s Vulnerable. DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, noncitizen, non-rich, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time NEED PROTECTION from those who are conservative, Republican, American, non-poor, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promise to provide that PROTECTION.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/nyregion/mamdani-inauguration-mayor.html
— Minnesota Families Are Rattled by Threat to Cut Federal Aid for Child Care. After the federal government threatened to withhold funds for Minnesota’s child-care program, citing fraud concerns, parents and providers warned that the effects could be dire.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/us/minnesota-child-care-funding-impact-fraud.html
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, there will be more and more and more homeless.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/12/28/number-of-homeless-students-jumps/87620804007/
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2025/12/30/us-students-forced-to-deal-with-reality-of-homelessness/87961285007/
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2025/12/30/americas-growing-number-of-homeless-students/87959473007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/12/17/homelessness-crisis-caregiving/87381952007/
— Donald Trump’s whirlwind year changed America. Here are eight ways.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/12/30/donald-trump-changing-america/87605660007/
NEWS NATION NOW
— Trump says fraud in California, New York, Illinois worse than Minnesota
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-fraud-california-new-york-illinois-worse-minnesota/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) flood America with their illegals, and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders because illegals vote for Democrats. RINO leaders because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-trump-is-quickly-losing-hispanic-support-aa88d8d0
— The Hindu Attacks on India’s Christians. Modi stays silent as chauvinists in his party assault the religious minority.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-hindu-attacks-on-indias-christians-269f6d83
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
— In Unsteady Times, Job Seekers Need a Reality Check. Mentors Can Help. DD: What happened to those who helped your career? I should write the IRS manager who promoted me to GS-9 in 1972, GS-11 in 1973, and GS-12 in 1974. Because he did that, my Democrat IRS superiors forced him to transfer to Dallas. I should write about the GAO manager who arranged my transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and who was finally able to assign me to audits or IRS and to promote me to GS-13 in 1986. Because he did that, my Democrat GAO superiors forced him to retire in 1987. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me to GS-13. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10, to transfer, b) delayed my promotions back to GS-12 Step 5, c) kept me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988, d) never promoted me to GS-14, e) always ranked me in the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and f) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. In today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is less that what my IRS salary was when I was 23 in 1972.
https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/job-seekers-need-a-reality-check-mentors-can-help
BANKING RATES
— Inflation Affects the Cost of Raising a Child. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors and supervisors always decried their cost of their raising their children. They all had spouses who had little or no income. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that GAO employees who had children should be paid more than GAO employees who did not have children. They viciously used against me my and my wife’s giving up trying to have children, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination in my first attempt in 1981, or d) become a licensed CPA in 1981. They stressed that without my wife’s income and savings, we would not have been able to a) buy a home in Wheaton in 1978, b) buy two new cars in 1978, c) have a new home built in Wheaton in 1984, d) etc.
https://www.aol.com/inflation-affects-cost-raising-child-120605680.html
AARP
— What to Do if You’re Forced Into Early Retirement. DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, 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, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America fora long time. I should write about that. Are you retired? I have been retired since I was 49 years old in 1997. If you are retired, were you forced to retire? I was. What would the rest of your employment had been like if you had not retired? If I had not retired when I did, I would not have eligible to retire for another 6 years. My Democrat GAO superiors had made it extremely clear that if I did not retire, they would make those 6 years a living hell. They would constructively if not literally demote me. They would give me adverse transfers. They would give me bad job assignments. They would give me unfair performance expectations. They would give me unfair performance appraisals. They would rank me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They would treat me like they had treated me in 1989. They could do all of the aforesaid because GAO was not unionized. GAO did not unionize until 2007. I considered asking my Congressman Henry Hyde to come to my defense like I had done in 1989, but I decided not to. There were too many around Hyde who were against me. Further, my Democrat GAO superiors had taken so many big adverse actions against me, I could not see myself surviving another them for another 6 years. But nevertheless, I will always ask myself, what would have happened if I had again asked Hyde to come to my defense. His coming to my defense in 1989 enabled me to survive until 1997. It motived me to earn job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. It motived me to earn a job-related master’s degree in 1997.
https://www.aarp.org/money/retirement/forced-into-early-retirement/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
KHALEEJ TIMES
— Mamdani takes oath on Holy Quran, becomes NYC’S first Muslim mayor
https://www.pressreader.com/uae/khaleej-times/20260102/281801405328872
FINANCIAL EXPRESS
— Three Qurans, One Historic Moment: Mamdani Sworn In as NYC Mayor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHhlYw7y8A4
FROM OTHER SOURCES
MED CITY NEWS
— The Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) Adoption Gap Is Worse Than You Think. DD: I have type 2 diabetes. I delayed using a CGM because my Medicare and BC/BS insurance does cover it. But recently, I bought a Stelo CGM using Amazon for $100/month. It has immediately shown that my glucose spikes to over 250 after I eat, that is, I have high hyperglycemia. I am anxiously awaiting my diabetes doctor’s instructions.
https://medcitynews.com/2025/12/cgm-diabetes-healthcare/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A new study found that continuous glucose monitors can cut healthcare costs by about 20% while also improving outcomes for insulin-dependent diabetes patients, largely by reducing hospitalizations and emergency department visits. Despite these benefits and broad insurance coverage, roughly 80% of eligible patients still are not using the technology — highlighting a significant adoption gap.)
January 1, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— After legal setbacks, Trump says he’s dropping National Guard push in Chicago, other cities, for now
https://abc7chicago.com/post/legal-setbacks-president-donald-trump-says-hes-dropping-push-national-guard-chicago-la-portland-oregon-now/18336668/
— Trump announces National Guard to be removed from Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-backs-off-efforts-maintain-control-california-national-guard-la/18336423/
— HHS freezing child care payments to all states until they prove funds ‘being spent legitimately’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/hhs-says-freezing-child-care-payments-minnesota-fraud-allegations/18335717/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— As federal health tax credits end, Chicago-area leaders warn about costs to Cook County and Illinois hospitals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/31/as-federal-health-tax-credits-end-chicago-area-leaders-warn-about-costs-to-cook-county-and-illinois-hospitals/
— Mamdani is set to be sworn in as mayor as NYC rings in the New Year
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/31/zohran-mamdani-sworn-in-nyc-mayor/
— Merrillville on list for potential ICE facility
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/31/merrillville-potential-ice-facility/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/01/january-1-chicago-history/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use medical pot to push recreational pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251231/news/time-short-for-schaumburg-familys-quest-to-retain-access-to-daughters-medical-marijuana/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— OCTOBER 8, 2015 FLASHBACK: Don’t your collectible cars deserve their own condo? DD: I am interested in American nameplate muscle cars, and especially Chargers, Mustangs, Corvettes, and Thunderbirds. Please contact me if you share my interests. I own a 2025 Charger Daytona R/T, 2013 Charger R/T, 2023 Mustang GT Premium, 2005 Corvette, 1972 Corvette, 1996 Thunderbird LX. I previously owned a 1969 Charger SE and 1968 Charger R/T, 1990 Thunderbird LX, and 1962 Impala SS.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20151008/ISSUE03/151009833/iron-gate-motor-condos-is-a-car-collector-s-haven-in-Naperville
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— New Illinois education laws focus on immigrant rights. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put citizens of foreign countries ahead of citizens of America.
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/education/article314056405.html
POSITIVELY NAPERVILLE
— APRIL 6, 2015 FLASHBACK: Discover a new place for car enthusiasts. DD: I am interested in American nameplate muscle cars, and especially Chargers, Mustangs, Corvettes, and Thunderbirds. Please contact me if you share my interests. I own a 2025 Charger Daytona R/T, 2013 Charger R/T, 2023 Mustang GT Premium, 2005 Corvette, 1972 Corvette, 1996 Thunderbird LX. I previously owned a 1969 Charger SE and 1968 Charger R/T, 1990 Thunderbird LX, and 1962 Impala SS.
https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2015/04/06/real-news-discover-a-new-place-for-car-enthusiasts/41183
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What will your Republican Precinct Committeeman do to encourage voters in your precinct to cast Republican ballots in the March 17, 2026 primary? I will hand-deliver a sample ballot and the campaign literature that Republican candidates provide me to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter. The contested Republican races in my precinct are U.S. Senate, Illinois Governor, Illinois Attorney General, Illinois Secretary of State, Illinois 3rd District Appellate Court, and DuPage County Sheriff. I will obtain from the DuPage County Election Division a PDF file to print individual mailing labels for the registered Republican and Independent voters, photocopy the sample ballot, stuff envelopes, divide them into five batches, and put them in walk order. I hope we have a mild winter. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ever-increasing, the Democrat Party promotes dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and notional origin discrimination. Ever-increasing, to get more votes from those who are the following, they give them more preference: minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, have less money than others, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Democrats and according to RINOs, those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, noncitizen, non-rich, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time NEED PROTECTION from those who are conservative, Republican, American, non-poor, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promise to provide that PROTECTION. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What happened to those who helped your career? I should write the IRS manager who promoted me to GS-9 in 1972, GS-11 in 1973, and GS-12 in 1974. Because he did that, my Democrat IRS superiors forced him to transfer to Dallas. I should write about the GAO manager who arranged my transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and who was finally able to assign me to audits or IRS and to promote me to GS-13 in 1986. Because he did that, my Democrat GAO superiors forced him to retire in 1987. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me to GS-13. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10, to transfer, b) delayed my promotions back to GS-12 Step 5, c) kept me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988, d) never promoted me to GS-14, e) always ranked me in the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and f) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. In today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is less that what my IRS salary was when I was 23 in 1972. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you been in a probationary period? After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO supervisors were furious when they learned that because of my IRS employment, they could not use probationary procedures to get rid of me. In 1970, my Chicago Heights Firestone Store boss unsuccessfully tried to use probationary procedures to not hire me. The Firestone Store Chicago district office had hired me and assigned me to his store. He never would have hired me. He forced me to pass a 2-week probationary period in Firestone’s Gary Indiana Store. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. He disapproved of my being Protestant. He disapproved of my being German American. He disapproved of me and my ancestors living in Crete and their having been in America since 1844. The aforesaid led to my accepting a job offer from Oldsmobile in 1971. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. He rudely fired me because I had accepted that job offer. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you ever served on a jury? If I had not be denied my 7th Amendment right to a jury trial in Diersen v. GAO, and if you had served on that jury, would you have sided with GAO or with me? To justify their denying me a jury trial, the judge and justices hinted/implied/argued that no jury would side with me. But the trial record showed that my Democrat superiors had illegally forced me to retire so that they could my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like I had. In 1993, when I was a 45-year-old GAO employee who had 25 years of federal service, to get rid of their employees a) who they had not promoted into their Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year, b) who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran, and/or c) who had 25 or more years of federal service, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” them a $25,000 buyout if they took early retirement. The buyout “offer” expired in 1 year and the early retirement “offer” expired in 4 years. They succeeded in forcing me to take the early retirement “offer” on September 30, 1997. Things that I had done that helped me survive those 4 years included a) my earning job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1980, and 1976, b) my earing job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, and c) my earning a job-related professional license in 1981. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the less “jury appeal” that you will have, and therefore, the less “justice” that you will have in courts: Republican, non-poor, non-veteran, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. Federal courts would not have denied me my 7th Amendment right to a jury trial in Diersen v. GAO if I had been Democrat, poor, veteran, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or if my ancestors had been in America for a long time. GAO hinted/implied/argued that because of my demographics, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action big time and that I could easily afford to pay that price. GAO’s forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 cut my income by $86,371/year (56%) ($153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year pension) in today’s dollars. Off the record, GAO stressed a) that the federal government would forever pay 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums, b) that my wife had a good job, c) that we had no dependents, d) that we had no debts, e) that we had substantial retirement and other savings, f) that we owned a 13-year-old home in Wheaton, g) that we owned three collector cars, h) etc. Again, if I had not be denied my 7th Amendment right to a jury trial, and if you had served on that jury, would you have sided with GAO or with me?- Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are you retired? I have been retired since I was 49 years old in 1997. If you are retired, were you forced to retire? I was. What would the rest of your employment had been like if you had not retired? If I had not retired when I did, I would not have eligible to retire for another 6 years. My Democrat GAO superiors had made it extremely clear that if I did not retire, they would make those 6 years a living hell. They would constructively if not literally demote me. They would give me adverse transfers. They would give me bad job assignments. They would give me unfair performance expectations. They would give me unfair performance appraisals. They would rank me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They would treat me like they had treated me in 1989. They could do all of the aforesaid because GAO was not unionized. GAO did not unionize until 2007. I considered asking my Congressman Henry Hyde to come to my defense like I had done in 1989, but I decided not to. There were too many around Hyde who were against me. Further, my Democrat GAO superiors had taken so many big adverse actions against me, I could not see myself surviving another them for another 6 years. But nevertheless, I will always ask myself, what would have happened if I had again asked Hyde to come to my defense. His coming to my defense in 1989 enabled me to survive until 1997. It motived me to earn job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. It motived me to earn a job-related master’s degree in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— ‘Grassroots’ – According to the People Who Can’t Stand Them. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Far too many past and present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization are anti-conservative, that is, they are anti-Republican. They reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Instead of defending and advancing the aforesaid planks, they talk and act like they do not exist, and if not that, like they should be officially abolished. At best, they want the Republican Party to be the Democrat-Lite Party. I should write about the aforesaid anti-Republican leaders. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/opinion-grassroots-according-to-the-people-who-cant-stand-them.html
— The Political Agenda Behind Year-End ‘Economic Collapse’ Stories
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/opinion-the-political-agenda-behind-year-end-economic-collapse-stories.html
— FBI Steps In After Illinois Review Exposes Alleged Mail Fraud Targeting Bailey
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/fbi-steps-in-after-illinois-review-exposes-alleged-mail-fraud-targeting-bailey.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois state spending balloons as state economy stagnates
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-state-spending-balloons-as-state-economy-stagnates/
— 1-in-5 city tax dollars go to Illinois police, fire pensions
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/1-in-5-city-tax-dollars-go-to-illinois-police-fire-pensions/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Illinois Democrat, is trying again with his High-Skilled Immigration Reform for Employment (HIRE) Act, first introduced in July 2023. Back then, in the middle of the worst man-made immigration disaster in U.S. history, the bill seemed tone deaf. Now, it just seems nuts. DD: If they could have, all my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/31/hire-bill-expand-h-1b-visas-bad-2023-worse/
— Karoline Leavitt says administration considering denaturalization for Somalis in Minnesota fraud
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/31/karoline-leavitt-says-administration-considering-denaturalization/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Border Patrol’s monthslong deployment to Chicago now expected to go on ‘for years’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4375465/border-patrol-deployment-chicago-go-on-for-years/
— Don’t grant citizenship to people who hate their countrymen
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4378901/not-everyone-deserves-citizenship-alaa-abd-el-fattah/
— Appeals court revives free speech case over school DEI training
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4379004/appeals-court-revives-free-speech-case-school-dei-training/
NEW YORK POST
— Former FBI agent Nicole Parker explains how DEI split the agency and led to disaster: ‘They were hiring idiots’ DD: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and the Post Office 1966-1969 and I have often written about them. Their top priority always was promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/31/us-news/former-fbi-agent-nicole-parker-explains-how-dei-split-the-agency-and-led-to-disaster/
— Harvard professor torches Ivy League school over woke anti-white, anti-male culture in blistering essay
https://nypost.com/2025/12/31/us-news/harvard-professor-torches-ivy-league-school-over-woke-anti-white-anti-male-culture-in-blistering-essay/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— History professor details the decline of education in scathing review of his 40 years at Harvard
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/31/history-professor-details-the-decline-of-education-in-scathing-review-of-his-40-years-at-harvard-1613221/
— NYC Mayor Eric Adams sets up $2M emergency fund for trans care on his way out the door
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/31/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-sets-up-2m-emergency-fund-for-trans-care-on-his-way-out-the-door-1613140/
BREITBART
— Lightfoot Warns Bovino His ‘Day of Reckoning Is Fast Approaching’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/12/31/former-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-warns-border-patrols-greg-bovino-his-day-of-reckoning-is-fast-approaching/amp/
CAPITOL RESEARCH CENTER
— How Left-Wing Nonprofits Exploit American Taxpayers to Fund Their Agendas
https://capitalresearch.org/article/how-left-wing-nonprofits-exploit-american-taxpayers-to-fund-their-agendas-best-of-2025/
FOX NEWS
— Lightfoot tells Border Patrol official his ‘day of reckoning is fast approaching’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-tells-border-patrol-official-his-day-reckoning-fast-approaching.print
— DEI and woke ideology are on life support under Trump’s return to DC, but could come roaring back with rebrand. American Principles Project president Terry Schilling says woke ideology could make a return following future elections.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dei-woke-ideology-life-support-under-trumps-return-dc-could-come-roaring-back-rebrand.amp
— 40-year Harvard professor pens scathing piece on school’s ‘exclusion of white males,’ anti-Western trends.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/40-year-harvard-professor-pens-scathing-piece-schools-exclusion-white-males-anti-western-trends
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Minnesota Governor Calls Somali Fraud Investigations “White Supremacy”
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/tim-walz-desperately-tries-defending-himself-amid-somali-fraud-allegations
NEWSMAX
— Trump: ‘Proud’ of Hispanic Border Patrol Officers
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-border-patrol-paul-perez/2025/12/31/id/1240292/
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Trump: 90% of fraud in Minnesota is carried out by illegals from Somalia, with Rep. Omar being ‘one of the many scammers’
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-90-of-fraud-in-minnesota-is-carried-out-by-illegals-from-somalia-with-rep-omar-being-one-of-the-many-scammers/
PJ MEDIA
— Former Chicago Mayor Lightfoot to Border Patrol Chief: ‘Your Day of Reckoning Is Coming’
https://pjmedia.com/michaelcantrell/2025/12/31/former-chicago-mayor-to-border-patrol-chief-your-day-of-reckoning-is-coming-n4947761
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) Wants to Take Driver’s Licenses Away From ICE Agents, Not Illegal Aliens
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/31/eric-swalwell-wants-to-take-drivers-licenses-away-from-ice-agents-not-illegals-n4947735
— Secretary Duffy Issues Stark Warning to Newsom Over Illegal Licenses
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/31/secretary-duffy-issues-stark-warning-to-newsom-over-illegal-licenses-n4947734
TOWNHALL
— Minnesota’s Fraud Is Blowing the Lid Off a Broken Election System
https://townhall.com/columnists/josh-findlay/2026/01/01/minnesotas-fraud-is-blowing-the-lid-off-a-broken-election-system-n2668731
— If Elected CA Governor, Eric Swalwell Vows to Weaponize Government Against ICE Agents
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/31/swalwell-prosecute-federal-agents-for-kidnapping-n2668739
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Professor Quits After ‘Brilliant’ Student Rejected for Being ‘White Male’ DD: I should write the IRS manager who promoted me to GS-9 in 1972, GS-11 in 1973, and GS-12 in 1974. Because he did that, my Democrat IRS superiors forced him to transfer to Dallas. I should write about the GAO manager who arranged my transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and who was finally able to assign me to audits or IRS and to promote me to GS-13 in 1986. Because he did that, my Democrat GAO superiors forced him to retire in 1987. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me to GS-13. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10, to transfer, b) delayed my promotions back to GS-12 Step 5, c) kept me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988, d) never promoted me to GS-14, e) always ranked me in the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and f) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. In today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is less that what my IRS salary was when I was 23 in 1972.
https://www.newsweek.com/professor-quits-after-brilliant-student-rejected-for-being-white-male-11289605
NEW YORK TIMES
— Federal Judge Blocks Trump Move to Revoke Deportation Protection for Thousands of Migrants. DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, noncitizen, non-rich, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time NEED PROTECTION from those who are conservative, Republican, American, non-poor, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promise to provide that PROTECTION.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/us/politics/judge-blocks-deportation-protections.html
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
— DD: To vote Democrats is to get rid of Americans who are conservative, Republican, non-poor, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-policies-midterm-elections-dei-attacks-20260101.html
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Mamdani.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/01/america-obsessed-with-zohran-mamdani/87941107007/
— More than 317,000 federal employees left the government in 2025. The majority of employees took voluntary buyouts and early retirements as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping efforts to downsize the government. DD: In 1993, when I was a 45-year-old GAO employee who had 25 years of federal service, to get rid of their employees a) who they had not promoted into their Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year, b) who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran, and/or c) who had 25 or more years of federal service, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” them a $25,000 buyout if they took early retirement. The buyout “offer” expired in 1 year and the early retirement “offer” expired in 4 years. They succeeded in forcing me to take the early retirement “offer” on September 30, 1997. Things that I had done that helped me survive those 4 years included a) my earning job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1980, and 1976, b) my earing job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, and c) my earning a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/31/317000-federal-employees-left-us-government-2025/87970708007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— MARCH 3, 2016 FLASHBACK: Iron Gate Motor Condos: Storage Units, Now With Space to Cook, Relax and Entertain. Traditional industrial park-style storage facilities are giving way to customized spaces with kitchens, reclaimed wood and stylish seating areas. DD: I am interested in American nameplate muscle cars, and especially Chargers, Mustangs, Corvettes, and Thunderbirds. Please contact me if you share my interests. I own a 2025 Charger Daytona R/T, 2013 Charger R/T, 2023 Mustang GT Premium, 2005 Corvette, 1972 Corvette, 1996 Thunderbird LX. I previously owned a 1969 Charger SE and 1968 Charger R/T, 1990 Thunderbird LX, and 1962 Impala SS.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/storage-units-now-with-space-to-cook-relax-and-entertain-1457026958
FORTUNE
— Retirement DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, 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, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America fora long time. I should write about that.
https://fortune.com/2025/12/31/retirement-baby-boomers-more-americans-turning-65-aging-demographics/
LEGAL NEWS LINE
— Lake County Circuit Clerk can’t undo $2.5M verdict for workers fired over politics
https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/lake-co-circuit-clerk-can-t-undo-2-5m-verdict-for-workers-fired-over-politics/article_4471f879-d074-4ba4-ad15-b45d101d353c.html
FED SMITH
— OPM Issues Proposal to Narrow Federal Probationary Employee Appeal Rights. DD: Have you been in a probationary period? After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO supervisors were furious when they learned that because of my IRS employment, they could not use probationary procedures to get rid of me. In 1970, my Chicago Heights Firestone Store boss unsuccessfully tried to use probationary procedures to not hire me. The Firestone Store Chicago district office had hired me and assigned me to his store. He never would have hired me. He forced me to pass a 2-week probationary period in Firestone’s Gary Indiana Store. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. He disapproved of my being Protestant. He disapproved of my being German American. He disapproved of me and my ancestors living in Crete and their having been in America since 1844. The aforesaid led to my accepting a job offer from Oldsmobile in 1971. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. He rudely fired me because I had accepted that job offer. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/12/31/opm-proposal-to-narrow-probationary-employee-appeal-rights/
NPR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/31/nx-s1-5660811/the-new-challenges-obtaining-snap-benefits-for-lgbtq-recipients
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the less “jury appeal” that you will have, and therefore, the less “justice” that you will have in courts: Republican, non-poor, non-veteran, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. Federal courts would not have denied me my 7th Amendment right to a jury trial in Diersen v. GAO if I had been Democrat, poor, veteran, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or if my ancestors had been in America for a long time. To justify their denying me a jury trial, the judge and justices hinted/implied/argued that no jury would side with me. But the trial record showed that my Democrat superiors had illegally forced me to retire so that they could my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like I had. GAO hinted/implied/argued that because of my demographics, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action big time and that I could easily afford to pay that price. GAO’s forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 cut my income by $86,371/year (56%) ($153,151/year salary minus $66,780/year pension) in today’s dollars. Off the record, GAO stressed a) that the federal government would forever pay 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums, b) that my wife had a good job, c) that we had no dependents, d) that we had no debts, e) that we had substantial retirement and other savings, f) that we owned a 13-year-old home in Wheaton, g) that we owned three collector cars, h) etc.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/the-importance-of-know-your-rights-education/
CONVERSATION
— DD: My critics/opponents are blacklisters. They blacklist those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and paise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who I have done the most to help elect and reelect since 2000. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://theconversation.com/political-witch-hunts-and-blacklists-donald-trump-and-the-new-era-of-mccarthyism-265389
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY MAIL
— Retiring Harvard professor says college hates brilliant white men and rejects them in favor of inferior minority candidates to boost diversity.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15422541/Harvard-Professor-white-men-rejected-minorities.html
FROM OTHER SOURCES
AUTOWEEK
— The Car Condo Concept Is Still Growing. DD: I am interested in American nameplate muscle cars, and especially Chargers, Mustangs, Corvettes, and Thunderbirds. Please contact me if you share my interests. I own a 2025 Charger Daytona R/T, 2013 Charger R/T, 2023 Mustang GT Premium, 2005 Corvette, 1972 Corvette, 1996 Thunderbird LX. I previously owned a 1969 Charger SE and 1968 Charger R/T, 1990 Thunderbird LX, and 1962 Impala SS.
https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/a68815238/car-condo-concept-still-growing/
CORVETT BLOGGER
— Corvette for Sale: Two-Owner 1972 Corvette LT1 Convertible in Downers Grove for $50,000. DD: One could compare and contrast this 1972 Corvette with my 1972 Corvette which I ordered, took delivery on October 14, 1971, and continue to own. Mine is not a LT-1 or a convertible. But it has only 5,000 mile on it, it has always been garaged, covered, kept on jacks, and is like new. It is a Steele City Gray coupe with the base 350 V-8 engine, black leather interior, automatic, air conditioning, power steering, and AM-FM stereo radio.
https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2025/12/31/corvettes-for-sale-two-owner-1972-corvette-lt1-convertible-offered-on-ebay/
MED CITY NEWS
— The Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) Adoption Gap Is Worse Than You Think. DD: I have type 2 diabetes. I delayed using a CGM because my Medicare and BC/BS insurance does cover it. But recently, I bought a Stelo CGM using Amazon for $100/month. It has immediately shown that my glucose spikes to over 250 after I eat, that is, I have high hyperglycemia. I am anxiously awaiting my diabetes doctor’s instructions.
https://medcitynews.com/2025/12/cgm-diabetes-healthcare/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A new study found that continuous glucose monitors can cut healthcare costs by about 20% while also improving outcomes for insulin-dependent diabetes patients, largely by reducing hospitalizations and emergency department visits. Despite these benefits and broad insurance coverage, roughly 80% of eligible patients still are not using the technology — highlighting a significant adoption gap.)
December 28, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBINE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/chicago-immigration-operation-midway-blitz-2/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/2025-in-review-immigration-enforcement-ice-operation-midway-blitz/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/opinion-2025-chicago-immigration-enforcement-raids/
— Here’s what Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2024 tax returns show
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/mayor-brandon-johnson-2024-tax-returns/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more drug abuse.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/libraries-opioid-reversal-naxalone/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/28/deported-chicago-to-mexico-husband-ice-detention-middway-blitz
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/28/broadview-detainees-operation-midway-blitz-self-deporting-high-rates-analysis-finds
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Kwanzaa.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/bronzeville/2025/12/27/bronzeville-kwanzaa-black-owned-businesses-fair
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: As home prices soar in the suburbs, communities struggle to meet affordable housing goals. DD: Back in the good old days, my wife and I bought 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton when I was 29 in 1978. SEE: https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious. The down payment came from my wife’s savings. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $108,978/year. I sold my one bedroom Outer Drive East condo and with the gain bought a new 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale and a new 1978 Chevrolet Chevette. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/documents/ My Democrat IRS superiors immediately disallowed my education deductions and again made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They had disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. They started being furious when I bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971 and more furious when I bought a new townhome in University Park in 1972 SEE: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ and then condos in 1974 and 1976. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251227/news/as-home-prices-soar-in-the-suburbs-communities-struggle-to-meet-affordable-housing-goals/
WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led a successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/will-marijuana-be-legalized-rescheduled-in-2026/
WGN RADIO
— A college in degree in Illinois can go a long way. DD: If I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1970, Firestone Stores would not have hired me as a Retail Store Manager in 1970 and IRS would not have hired me as a Revenue Officer in 1971. If I had not been taking graduate business evening courses, 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, GAO would not have hired me as an Analyst 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, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986. If I had not been taking graduate evening finance courses, GAO would have forced me to retire when I was 45 in 1993 instead of when I was 49 in 1997.
https://wgnradio.com/outside-the-loop-radio/otl-1002-a-college-in-degree-in-illinois-can-go-a-long-way-the-secret-history-of-kitty-haywood/
SHAW LOCAL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/12/27/illinois-to-increase-funding-for-planned-parenthood/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for the high cost of healthcare.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/12/27/why-are-health-insurance-premiums-spiking-in-2026-heres-what-to-know/
CENTAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led a successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/will-marijuana-be-legalized-rescheduled-in-2026/
FOX ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the high cost of health care. To regain the White House, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that they would make healthcare free in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-eepskjWlY
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The Ivy League is manufacturing America’s adversaries. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote divisiveness. They ever-increasingly turn those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, have less money than others, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time AGAINST those who are conservative, White, male, older, have more money than others, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/4362289/the-ivy-league-manufacturing-america-adversaries/
— The Chinese Communist Party poses a greater threat than Islamism. DD: My critics/opponents have no problem with China and Islam.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4342568/chinese-communist-party-greater-threat-than-islamism/
— Affordability. DD: What helped you afford things? For me, it included my earning more money. The following helped me earn more money: a) my earning a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my earning three job-related master’s degrees, c) my earning six job-related professional certifications, and d) my earning a job-related professional license.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/4356814/subsidizing-demand-not-solve-affordability/
NEW YORK POST
— Musk slams Mamdani’s appointment of Lillian Bonsignore as FDNY commissioner over lack of experience. DD: How have your superiors treated your experience? All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me 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. The leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) ever-increasingly ignore/dismiss/belittle the experience I have gained serving a) as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999 and b) as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and the experience I previously gained serving a) as an American Association of Political Consultant Midwest Chapter director for 3 years, b) as the MTRO webmaster for 6 years, c) as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee officer for 4 years, d) as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman for 7 years, and e) as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks for 16 years.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/elon-musk-slams-mamdanis-fdny-commissioner-pick-over-lack-of-experience-people-will-die/
— LA Mayor Karen Bass calls it ‘sad’ that Hispanics are joining Border Patrol – suggests they’re desperate for money. DD: When were you most desperate for money? For me, it was when my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I was 22 years old in 1971. My application for a financial hardship draft deferment was pending and I was helping support my mother and brother. His firing me directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/26/us-news/la-mayor-karen-bass-calls-it-sad-that-hispanics-are-joining-border-patrol/
— Mamdani-backed Queens Assembly candidate hates American holidays like Veterans Day, July 4th. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who have done the most to harm Wheaton’s Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end my service as the Republican fundraiser for the parades in 2021.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/mamdani-backed-queens-assembly-candidate-hates-american-holidays-like-veterans-day-july-4th/
— ‘Unlucky’ illegal immigrant runs red light, crashes straight into ICE vehicle
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/unlucky-illegal-immigrant-allegedly-runs-red-light-and-crashes-into-ice-vehicle/
— Mamdani gives advice to thwart, evade ICE in video message calling to ‘stand up’ to feds
https://www.aol.com/articles/zohran-mamdani-gives-advice-thwart-205026199.html
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Antisemitism is surging worldwide, but Jews must stay proud, courageous, and vigilant against threats to their people and faith. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, they had my many Jewish superiors and supervisors take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/28/never-again-is-always/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Veiled threat? Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey warns ICE agents they could get killed if they enforce immigration law
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/veiled_threat_minneapolis_mayor_jacob_frey_warns_ice_agents_they_could_get_killed_if_they_enforce_immigration_law.html
— Kid with cell phone exposes $110 million in Somali fraud in Minnesota
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/kid_with_cell_phone_exposes_110_million_in_somali_fraud_in_minnesota.html
— Conservatism through reason and analysis
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/conservatism_through_reason_and_analysis.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As a California resident, I have seen firsthand the mirage that is leftism. Democrats appeal to emotion by espousing the good intentions of their proposed policies (and, more recently, the evil intent of Republicans — e.g., “kill Grandma”). Their policies always lead to disaster. Affirmative action, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, Social justice policing, Appeasement abroad, Free trade (resulting in the destruction of our middle class), Universal public education, No-risk college loans, SNAP benefits for the poor, Medicaid for All (including illegal aliens), Free buses, Rent control, Gun control, Abortion, or the deceptively named “reproductive rights,” Transing of children, or the deceptively named “gender-affirming care,” Mass unfettered illegal immigration, Bend down the (health care) cost curve, If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, and Climate change and the urbanization of the populace into smart cities. Wonderful ideas — in theory. In practice, the outcome of these policies has been disastrous, particularly for those who have bought in to the lie. Inner cities are rife with drugs, crime, and homelessness.)
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— South Pacific island to take deportees in exchange for millions in US foreign aid
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/27/south-pacific-island-to-take-deportees-in-exchange-for-millions-in-us-foreign-aid-1612489/
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz claims America ‘can’t afford’ to spend millions deporting illegal aliens
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/27/dws-claims-america-cant-afford-to-spend-millions-deporting-illegal-aliens-1612451/
— Walz’s daughter extends warm Christmas greetings to illegal aliens ‘terrorized’ by ICE
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/27/walzs-daughter-extends-warm-christmas-greetings-to-illegal-aliens-terrorized-by-ice-1612387/
DAILY SIGNAL
— How Illegal Immigration and Government Failure Fuel Identity Theft
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/27/how-illegal-immigration-and-government-failure-fuel-identity-theft/
— Why Western Leaders Won’t Acknowledge ‘Radical Islam’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/22/leaders-fail-when-the-threat-of-radical-islam-is-ignored/
— The Left Framed Trump on ‘Affordability’ Crisis. Here’s What Trump Must Do Now.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/23/the-left-framed-trump-on-affordability-crisis-heres-what-trump-must-do-now/
DAILY WIRE
— Kristi Noem’s Gift? ICE Discloses List Of ‘Worst Of The Worst’ It Arrested On Christmas. The list includes murderers, gang members, and drug traffickers.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homans-gift-ice-discloses-list-of-worst-of-the-worst-it-arrested-on-christmas
FOX NEWS
— ‘Unlucky’ Honduran woman arrested after allegedly running red light and crashing into ICE vehicle
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unlucky-honduran-woman-arrested-allegedly-running-red-light-crashing-ice-vehicle
PJ MEDIA
— Biden Administration Helped Illegals Take Americans’ Housing
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/27/biden-admin-helped-illegals-take-americans-housing-sec-turner-says-n4947576
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump calls for release of any Epstein files naming Democrats: “Embarrass them”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-calls-for-release-epstein-files-naming-democrats/
NBC NEWS
— How tracking blood sugar with continuous glucose monitoring may be helpful. Some experts claim that reducing fluctuations throughout the day can help protect against heart disease, even for people who don’t have diabetes. DD: I have started using Stelo by Dexcom to continuously monitor my blood sugar level. If you have type 2 diabetes like I do and use Stelo, please phone me at 630-653-0462.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heart-health/glucose-monitoring-blood-sugar-tracking-continuous-non-diabetic-know-rcna189881
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Is there a benefit for healthy people to track their blood sugar? Measuring blood sugar has joined sleep and exercise tracking as wellness trends, with some longevity experts claiming that reducing fluctuations throughout the day can help protect against heart disease, even for people who don’t have diabetes. Continuous glucose monitors, or CGMs, are small devices that track blood sugar in real time and can tell wearers how their bodies are reacting to stress, food, sleep or exercise. New versions attach to a user’s arm and can pair with a smartphone to give blood sugar readings throughout the day. CGMs, which the Food and Drug Administration first approved in 1999, have traditionally been prescribed only to patients with diabetes. More recently, the FDA has approved two blood sugar monitors for over-the-counter use, making them available to anyone without prescriptions.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— The U.S. Must Break China’s Chokehold on Our Economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/opinion/the-us-must-end-chinas-rare-earth-dominance.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/opinion/trump-weaker-resistance-stronger.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/opinion/voter-preferences-polls.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would have been no need for DOGE.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html
— How to Tell Your Adult Kids the Bank of Mom and Dad Is Closed. DD: I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. I helped support my mother and brother 1970-1972.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/business/retirement-supporting-adult-kids.html
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— How to Use an MBA to Advance in Your Field or Change Careers. DD: The IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 gave weight to my taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola during that time. GAO would not have hired me in 1980 if I had not earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.
https://www.usnews.com/education/articles/how-to-use-an-mba-to-advance-in-your-field-or-change-careers
ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION
— How to find a career with a purpose. DD: What about the importance of what employers do? The importance of what the Post Office does (deliver mail), what Firestone does (sell tires and automotive services), what IRS does (collect federal taxes), and what GAO does (audit federal agencies) motivated me to not only to accept their job offers, but to withstand tremendous efforts to get rid of me by my Democrat superiors.
https://www.ajc.com/herstory/2025/12/how-to-find-a-career-with-a-purpose-this-atlanta-executive-charted-a-path/
COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN
— When Nixon ended the draft it changed the course of my life. DD: How did the Vietnam War draft impact you? It had a tremendous impact on me. I avoided the draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship deferment 1970-1971. Because of my draft lottery number, the likelihood of my being drafted decreased in 1971. But the draft did not end until 1973. Potential employers viewed me as being draft bait because I was 1-A for the draft. They did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved. That severely harmed my job search. When I graduated from NIU in 1970, I took the only job offer that I got. It was for a job that did not really require a college degree. I was rudely fired from that job because I had accepted a job offer. But that job offer was withdrawn. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS in 1971. But I soon learned that my Democrat IRS superiors who were veterans blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. They despised/hated Republicans like me who avoided the draft. They got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. They disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. They disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. They made it ever-increasingly clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. The aforesaid resulted in my transferring to GAO in 1980. But I soon learned that my Democrat GAO superiors who were veterans also blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. They forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, They delayed my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.columbiamissourian.com/opinion/local_columnists/when-nixon-ended-the-draft-50-years-ago-it-changed-the-course-of-my-life/article_20c863b8-98d7-11ed-8e1c-2b19c458cdaf.html
NPR
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. Because of that, 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://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5369550/trump-federal-workers-schedule-f
MS NOW
— DD: To get more votes from minorities and from females, Democrat and RINO candidates, elected officials, and party leaders ever-increasingly shout at minorities and at females that older Republican White males discriminate against them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUy-mDTryPk
FAST COMPANY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91460622/trump-mass-deportation-campaign-in-2025-devastating-photos
JILL SCHLESINGER
— Labor Market Slowdown: Young Grads Feel the Squeeze. DD: What harmed your job search? Potential employers viewed me as being draft bait because I was 1-A for the draft. They did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved. That severely harmed my job search. I avoided the draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship deferment 1970-1971. Because of my draft lottery number, the likelihood of my being drafted decreased in 1971. But the draft did not end until 1973. When I graduated from NIU in 1970, I took the only job offer that I got. It was for a job that did not really require a college degree.
https://www.jillonmoney.com/blog/labor-market-slowdown-young-grads-feel-the-squeeze
BANKRATE
— 9 myths about home equity. DD: When I sold my Outer Drive East studio condo in 1976, I used the equity to buy a one bedroom condo in that building. When I sold that one bedroom condo in 1978, I used the equity to buy a new 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale and a new 1978 Chevrolet Chevette. When my wife and I sold 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton and my townhome in University Park in 1984, we used the equities to have 915 Cove Court built in Wheaton.
https://www.bankrate.com/home-equity/myths-about-home-equity-what-homeowners-often-get-wrong/
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. Because of that, 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://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/11/final-schedule-f-regulations-describe-civil-service-protections-unconstitutional-overcorrections/409616/
NFFE & FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. Because of that, 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://nffe.org/press-release/trump-administration-creates-new-schedule-g-to-reward-political-lackeys-and-undercut-civil-service-protections/
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/trump-administration-estimates-50000-federal-employees-will-lose-civil-service-protections/
GALLUP
— One in Four U.S. Employees Lack Advancement Opportunities. DD: Democrats run the federal government. To advance in the federal government you have to be a Democrat and the more of the following that you are, the faster that you can advance: minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Because I am none of the aforesaid, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and GAO never promoted me beyond GS-13 even though I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-relate professional license.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/695996/one-four-employees-lack-advancement-opportunities.aspx
LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. Because of that, 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://www.naacpldf.org/five-rights-federal-workers/
MOTHER JONES
— 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, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I dad.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/elon-musk-the-fdny-veteran-who-worked-9-11-and-covid-isnt-qualified-to-lead-the-department/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
FINANCIAL EXPRESS
— Why being good at your job doesn’t guarantee career growth. DD: My Democrat superiors and supervisors have always used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems a) to favor their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and b) to disfavor their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. The aforesaid ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related a) bachelor’s degree, b) three master’s degrees, c) six professional certifications, and d) professional license.
https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/education/article/why-being-good-at-your-job-doesnt-guarantee-career-growth
OTHER SOIURCES
CNET
— Continuous Glucose Monitors for Easy Tracking. DD: I have started using Stelo by Dexcom to continuously monitor my blood sugar level. If you have type 2 diabetes like I do and use Stelo, please phone me at 630-653-0462.
https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/best-continuous-glucose-monitors-according-to-experts/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stelo was the first over-the-counter CGM available in the US when it received FDA approval in 2024. The small sensor sits on the back of your arm and tracks your glucose levels 24/7. You can view your blood sugar levels within the app. . .Each sensor lasts up to 15 days, it’s pretty low maintenance and it’s an easy way to see how your stress, meals and daily habits influence your glucose levels. One pack of two will cost you $99 (lasts about a month) but if you subscribe that price will drop to $89 a month. The pack comes with everything you need: the sensors, applicator and overpatch to secure the sensor in place. Over the two weeks I tested the Stelo, I noticed which habits (like taking a walk after dinner) affected my blood sugar the most. I find this tool helpful for those curious about their overall health and probably not for those with a diabetes diagnosis as it doesn’t send safety alarms when your glucose levels are too high or too low. If you have a diagnosis and would like to try Stelo, I recommend speaking to your doctor to ensure it will give you the insights and alerts you need.)
December 16, 2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— RESTRICTING AND LIMITING THE ENTRY OF FOREIGN NATIONALS TO PROTECT THE SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/restricting-and-limiting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-security-of-the-united-states/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and agents return to Chicago in show of force across city and suburbs
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/border-patrol-activity-cicero-chicago/
— Maryland will consider slavery reparations after Gov. Wes Moore’s veto is overridden. DD: In my defense, I have always stressed that while all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/maryland-will-consider-slavery-reparations-after-gov-wes-moores-veto-is-overridden/
— Illinois could be only 5 years away from electricity shortages, higher bills
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/illinois-electricity-report-shortages-bills/
— Napoleon Harris to appear on ballot in Democratic committeeman race after objections struck down
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/napoleon-harris-ballot-democratic-committeeman/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Bovino’s back: Border Patrol commander leads fresh round of immigration raids in Chicago area. Gregory Bovino returned to Little Village Tuesday after playing a key role in the early phases of Operation Midway Blitz, the immigration enforcement campaign that has stoked fear among Chicago’s immigrant communities and led to thousands of arrests.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/16/greg-bovino-chicago-border-patrol-president-donald-trump-deportation-immigration
ABC7
— Trump to address nation Wednesday night
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-address-nation-wednesday-night/18292669/
— Church Nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids
https://abc7chicago.com/post/church-nativity-scenes-add-zip-ties-gas-masks-ice-protest-immigration-raids-evanston-illinois/18292813/
— Multiple immigration arrests caught on camera as Border Patrol Chief Bovino returns to Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/border-patrol-chicago-today-federal-immigration-agents-seen-little-village-cicero-tuesday-video-shows/18292411/
CBS2
— Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino in Chicago as federal agents detain people in Little Village, Cicero and Berwyn
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-chicago-little-village-cicero-midway/
FOX32
— Illinois approves $1.5B boost to rescue, revamp Chicago-area transit
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-transit-bill
WTTW
— Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Back in Chicago as Federal Immigration Operations Ramp Back Up
https://news.wttw.com/2025/12/16/border-patrol-chief-greg-bovino-back-chicago-federal-immigration-operations-ramp-back
WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/eric-zorn-trump-immigration-policy-is-unpopular/
WBEZ
— Bovino’s back: Border Patrol commander leads fresh round of immigration raids in Chicago area. Gregory Bovino returned to Little Village Tuesday after playing a key role in the early phases of Operation Midway Blitz, the immigration enforcement campaign that has stoked fear among Chicago’s immigrant communities and led to thousands of arrests.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/12/16/greg-bovino-chicago-border-patrol-president-donald-trump-deportation-immigration
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-437/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois Freedom Caucus raises new questions about noncitizen police officer
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_2b70c989-c57f-4e79-a8fe-ea72f04e2625.html
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago Crime, Courts, and Taxes Under Fire as Critics Question City Leadership – Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon Interviewed on Dan Proft’s Morning Answer
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-crime-courts-and-taxes-under-fire-as-critics-question-city-leadership-wirepoints-mark-glennon-interviewed-on-dan-profts-morning-answer/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Hunger Industrial Complex: How America Manufactured a Food Insecurity Crisis
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/the-hunger-industrial-complex-how-america-manufactured-a-food-insecurity-crisis/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Dabrowski Campaign Starts with Illegal Robocalls — Repeating Rauner’s $1 Million Mistake. Political robocalls to cell phones without prior express consent are illegal under federal law.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/dabrowski-campaign-starts-with-illegal-robocalls-repeating-rauners-1-million-mistake.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: That warning makes Dabrowski’s misstep even more striking given who is advising him. Dabrowski’s top campaign advisor is Jeanne Ives, a longtime and outspoken political enemy of Bruce Rauner. Ives built her reputation opposing Rauner’s brand of establishment Republican politics, frequently criticizing his judgment, leadership, and campaign decisions. Yet now, the Dabrowski campaign finds itself ensnared in the very same legal problem that cost Rauner’s campaign $1 million. Illinois law compounds the risk. The state’s Election Code (10 ILCS 5/9-9.5) requires political calls to identify the sponsoring committee and prohibits blocking caller ID. Violations are a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail and fines up to $1,500. The State Board of Elections may also impose civil penalties and refer cases for prosecution.)
— Return to Innocence: A Generation Caught Between Digital Overload and the Erosion of Boundaries, Imagination and Innocence
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/return-to-innocence-a-generation-caught-between-digital-overload-and-the-erosion-of-boundaries-imagination-and-innocence.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— IRS law enforcement expanded reach in 2025: Helped ICE, policed D.C. streets
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/16/irs-law-enforcement-expanded-reach-2025-helped-ice-policed-dc-streets/
— Netflix and the near-complete woke Hollywood takeover. Filmmaking’s future depends on studio independence.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/16/netflix-near-complete-woke-hollywood-takeover/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Never, ever give up your guns
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3918225/never-ever-give-up-your-guns/
AMAC
— Deport Illegal Aliens – Laws Require It
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/deport-illegal-aliens-laws-require-it/
BRETBART
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: Mass Deportations Are Bringing Rents Down for Working-Class Americans
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/12/16/treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-mass-deportations-are-bringing-rents-down-working-class-americans/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago ‘lost its mind’ financially under Mayor Brandon Johnson, Washington Post warns. Washington Post criticizes Chicago’s financial ‘gimmicks’ under Johnson.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-lost-its-mind-financially-under-mayor-brandon-johnson-washington-post-warns
PJ MEDIA
— Newsom Brags About Giving Illegals Healthcare
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/16/newsom-brags-about-giving-illegals-healthcare-n4947140
TOWNHALL
— GOP Lawmakers Slam Critics of Airstrikes Against Venezuelan Boats
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/12/16/gop-lawmakers-slam-critics-of-airstrikes-against-venezuelan-boats-n2667972
— These RINO Senators Backed a Bill Seeking to Overturn Trump Executive Order on Federal Unions
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/12/16/two-republican-senators-back-bill-seeking-to-overturn-trump-executive-order-n2667997
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Even the Washington Post Agrees: Chicago’s Leftism Has Doomed City
https://www.westernjournal.com/even-wapo-agrees-chicagos-leftism-doomed-city/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Illinois Law Generates $1.5B to Save Public Transit From Fiscal Calamity
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-12-16/illinois-law-generates-1-5b-to-save-public-transit-from-fiscal-calamity
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— GOP Leaders See No Chance of ACA Deal by Deadline. Centrists’ proposals stall in House, while Senate leader Thune says agreement could come next month
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/house-gop-aca-obamacare-subsidies-57add6a6
CFO
— How CPA licensure became a CFO issue in 2025. What started as a professional standards debate became a CFO concern tied to audit quality and hiring. DD: I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 years old in 1981. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled that.
https://www.cfo.com/news/how-cpa-licensure-accounting-talent-became-a-cfo-issue-in-2025/807987/
NEWSONE
— How Descendants Of Enslavers Are Repairing Ancestral Damage. DD: In my defense, I have always stressed that while all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://newsone.com/6689508/how-descendants-enslavers-are-repairing-ancestral-damage/
December 13, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Illinois Democrat leaders gerrymandered the 3rd Congressional District to elect Ramirez
https://abc7chicago.com/post/2022-election-results-delia-ramirez-illinois-3rd-congressional-district/12434540/
WGN9
— New law protects public officials’ personal info from disclosure
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/new-law-protects-public-officials-personal-info-from-disclosure/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/12/nativity-displays-deportation-lake-street-urban-village-church
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251212/lifestyle/letter-writing-campaign-spreads-pride-and-holiday-cheer/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Under Pritzker, soon, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251113/news/we-need-to-act-now-dupage-county-to-shift-funds-to-help-food-pantries-amid-snap-crisis/
NORTHWEST HERALD
— As Pritzker opens door to SAFE-T Act revisions, McHenry County sheriff, state’s attorney want input
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/12/12/as-pritzker-opens-door-to-safe-t-act-revisions-mchenry-county-sheriff-states-attorney-want-input/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrats always want to do more to promote abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-13/fewer-characters-on-tv-had-abortions-this-year-and-more-stories-reinforced-shame
ELMHURST COLLEGE
— Four Career Benefits to Completing Your Degree. DD: If I had not earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 and IRS would not have hired me in 1971. If I had not earned a job-related master’s degree, GAO would not have hired me in 1980. Further, if I had not been taking job-related graduate evening courses, IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Further, if I had not earned a second job-related master’s degree, two job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986.
https://www.elmhurst.edu/blog/four-career-benefits-to-completing-your-degree/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Unlocking Higher Earning Potential. . .Access to Specialized Roles. . .Staying Competitive in a Changing Job Market. . .Expanding Your Professional Network)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Narco-Ranching Fuels Disease, Corruption, and Border Instability — And President Trump Is the Only Leader Treating It as a National Security Crisis
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/narco-ranching-fuels-disease-corruption-and-border-instability-and-president-trump-is-the-only-leader-treating-it-as-a-national-security-crisis.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BRETBART
— Musk Slams Newsom, Says Transgenderism Is ‘Evil Woke Mind Virus’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/12/elon-musk-gavin-newsom-transgenderism-evil-woke-mind-virus/amp/
DAILY WIRE
— Here Are The Illegals Arrested As Anti-ICE Protesters Disrupted Noem’s Testimony
https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-illegals-arrested-as-anti-ice-protesters-disrupted-noems-testimony
FEDERALIST
— Deportation Is The Only ‘Due Process’ Illegal Aliens Deserve
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/12/deportation-is-the-only-due-process-illegal-aliens-deserve/
FOX NEWS
— DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://www.aol.com/articles/illinois-church-nativity-shows-baby-131613906.html
— Kentucky lawmaker sparks firestorm for saying she doesn’t ‘feel good about being White’
https://www.aol.com/news/kentucky-lawmaker-sparks-firestorm-saying-180016752.html
NEWSMAX
— Journalists Can NOT Locate a ‘Far Left’ Anywhere. DD: To get rid of me, my critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being not only far right, but as being too far right. My critics/opponents reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform. They most commonly reject the platform’s personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who are/were a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) conservative leaders, and d) religious leaders.
https://newsbusters.org/node/293164/print
— Trump Allies Put Ind. GOP on Primary Radar After Map Loss. DD: In 2000, my critics/opponents succeeded in getting a registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman, but not since then. In 2015, they drew me into the same precinct with Ives, but that redrawing was rescinded.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/indiana-senate-redistricting-2026-elections/2025/12/12/id/1238162/
PJ MEDIA
— Pritzker Signs Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2025/12/12/pope-fan-boy-gov-jb-pritzker-signs-bill-legalize-assisted-suicide-n4947003
— Another Illegal Alien Truck Driver Causes Deadly Crash
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/12/another-illegal-alien-truck-driver-causes-deadly-crash-n4947005
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump’s Indiana primary threats risk fracturing GOP
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5647183-trump-primaries-indiana-republicans/
— GOP unveils health bill without ACA subsidies. DD: Is/was your healthcare insurance premiums subsidized? Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married I was 29 years old and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/5647134-gop-unveils-health-bill-without-aca-subsidies/amp/
REUTERS
— Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee draws legal challenge from US states. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee-draws-legal-challenge-california-other-states-2025-12-12/
NEW YORK TIMES
— 20 States Sue to Block $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/us/politics/states-lawsuit-h1b-visas.html
— $27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That? DD: Is/was your healthcare insurance premiums subsidized? Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married I was 29 years old and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/opinion/health-care-aca-cost-insurance.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Pot is poison. If I had been a pot user, I would not have been able a) to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) to earn six professional certifications, c) to earn a professional license, d) to buy news cars, e) to buy real estate, f) to get married, g) to etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/12/cannabis-marijuana-rescheduling-trump-administration/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-12-12/church-nativity-scenes-add-zip-ties-gas-masks-ice-to-protest-immigration-raids
— Is $140,000 really a poverty income? Clearly not, but the viral debate underscores the ‘affordability’ issue. DD: I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars. According to my critics/opponents, that proves both a) that I was grossly overpaid and b) that was a career failure because I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/hiltzik-is-140000-really-a-poverty-income-clearly-not-but-the-viral-debate-underscores-the-affordability-issue/ar-AA1S4nOJ
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, a wealth manager named Michael Green published a Substack post arguing that a $140,000 income is the new poverty level for a family of four in America, where the official poverty line is $32,150. The post promptly went viral. One would hope that economic commentators coast-to-coast mentioned Green as their “person I’m most thankful for” at their family gatherings that week, because he gave them something to masticate ever since. On the spectrum from left to right, countless pundits have rerun Green’s numbers to deride or validate his argument.)
USA TODAY
— House narrowly voted against formally reprimanding a Democrat. DD: Censures and attempts to censure are always big news. I should write about the unsuccessful attempt by my critics/opponents to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on my critics/opponents who continue to have their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me.
https://www.aol.com/articles/democrat-texted-epstein-avoids-censure-164814919.html
CNBC
— Affordability is the ‘beating heart’ of the ACA enhanced subsidy debate. DD: Is/was your healthcare insurance premiums subsidized? Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married I was 29 years old and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/12/aca-enhanced-subsidies-democrats-republicans-health-care-plan.html
EL PASO TIMES
— Push to exclude noncitizens from redistricting could have big effect in Texas. DD: How many illegals are in the political jurisdictions that you live in?
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/texasregion/2025/12/12/how-texas-could-fare-if-redistricting-excludes-noncitizens/87731753007/
DESERT NEWS
— Why are Americans growing indifferent to marriage? DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing destroy traditional marriage and family. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer people are marriage material. What helped make you 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 $108,978/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.
https://www.deseret.com/special-series/2025/11/14/american-family-survey-marriage-indifference-needed-family/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The New College Unemployment Line. DD: If I had not earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 and IRS would not have hired me in 1971. If I had not earned a job-related master’s degree, GAO would not have hired me in 1980. Further, if I had not been taking job-related graduate evening courses, IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Further, if I had not earned a second job-related master’s degree, two job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-new-college-unemployment-line-2556ad81
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Prioritizing work-life balance is not a recipe for success — it’s a red flag. DD: While I worked for Firestone Stores in 1971, IRS 1972-1979, and GAO in 1981 and 1992-1997, I took only one graduate business, accounting, internal auditing, or finance course at a time. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, that was a BIG mistake. By the time I earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, became a licensed CPA in 1981, earned four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and earned a master’s degree in finance in 1997, IT WAS TOO LATE.
https://www.businessinsider.com/skims-cofounder-emma-grede-work-life-balance-your-problem-2025-5
BLOOMBERG LAW
— ICE Detainees Successfully ‘Swarm’ Courts Seeking Due Process. DD: Illegals are not entitled to due process.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/ice-detainees-successfully-swarm-courts-seeking-due-process
AXIOS
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/trump-economy-inflation-affordability
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
HRD AMERICA
— Starbucks sued for alleged racial quotas in hiring. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always had Affirmative Action quotas, goals, and targets to meet. They used those quotas, goals, and targets to waste the careers of and to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.hcamag.com/nz/news/general/starbucks-sued-for-alleged-racial-quotas-in-hiring/560027
GAUARDIAN
— DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/12/church-jesus-nativity-scenes-mock-ice-trump
December 7, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly unite against Republicans those who are minority, female, younger, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or in America illegally.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/06/black-chicagoans-latinos-immigrants-operation-midway-blitz
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will forever do everything that they can to illegally bring citizens of foreign countries into America illegally and to illegally keep them in America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/opinion-police-federal-law-enforcement-public-safety-politicization/
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/opinion-republican-party-donald-trump-renaming/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Somalia and Somalians.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/minnesota-somalians-somali-walz-fraud-minnesota/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Illinois’ US Senate primary race shows candidates still must court shrinking downstate Democratic base
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/illinois-senate-race-downstate-democrats/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: From shooting to Slim Jims, immigration agents’ poor tactics made for needless safety risks
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/experts-immigration-agents-poor-tactics-unsafe-policing/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTUTE: DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will make 2026 all about 1619 instead of 1776.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251206/literature/proud-to-be-an-american-st-charles-author-publishes-book-celebrating-250-years-of-america/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251206/religion/were-not-backing-down-feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe-will-go-on-in-des-plaines-despite-immigrati/
OAK PARK
— Candidates need skillsets, not skeletons in the closet. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Voters demand more from Republican candidates than from Democrat candidates. They demand even more from Republican candidates who state that they are conservative. Candidates can always run as Independents. Should political parties have the power to stop candidates from seeking offices as a member of their party? If so, what criteria should be used? Far too many candidates have tremendous skeletons in their closets. When those skeletons come out, not only do they lose, but the party that they ran under loses. When their skeletons come out, far too many Republican candidates blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. But nothing has ever been in my newsletters that was not already in the public realm and/or was already known by the Democrats. Democrat leaders have always falsely claimed to have first learned of Republican negatives from my newsletters. Far too many who are involved in Republican activities are Democrat plants.
https://www.oakpark.com/2021/01/26/candidates-need-skillsets-not-skeletons-in-the-closet/
WCIA
— Trump says Biden to blame for affordability crisis: ‘I’M FIXING IT.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for affordability problems, that is, for some people having less money than others. Why do you have more money than others? I took bad jobs that my peers did not have to take and would not stoop to take. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.wcia.com/news/national/trump-says-biden-to-blame-for-affordability-crisis-im-fixing-it/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats Protecting Maduro’s Narcos
https://johnkassnews.com/why-are-democrats-protecting-narco-terrorists-like-maduro/
GOPUSA ILLINOPIS
— When voters have complaints against Trump, who do take it out on? Sadly, from what I see, ever-increasingly, it will be Republican candidates on the ballot in their precinct and their Republican Precinct Committeeman. I will get a measure of that when I hand-deliver the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot and Republican candidate campaign literature to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one registered Republican voter or one Independent voter. In the 2024 election, Harris got 478 votes and Trump got 373 votes. The mainstream news media ever-increasingly spins everything against Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents have always promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they have always promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. They have done that a) because they benefit personally from the aforesaid or want to benefit personally from the aforesaid and/or b) because they want to curry favor with minorities, females, younger people, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, and/or citizens of foreign countries. Because of the aforesaid and because I have always fought the aforesaid, my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. Because of the aforesaid and because I have always fought the aforesaid, my superiors in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, and Illinois Center Right Coalition wasted my political career and got rid of me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Mamdani’s senseless plan to end homeless camp sweeps will make NYC’s problem worse. DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness because it destroys traditional marriage and family, because it promotes dependency on government and charity, because it promotes vices, and because it destroys meritocracy.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/06/opinion/michael-goodwin-mamdanis-senseless-plan-to-end-homeless-camp-sweeps-has-no-real-solution-in-sight/
— Mamdani’s DSA party pushing China propaganda in new monthly ‘political education’ seminars
https://nypost.com/2025/12/06/us-news/dsa-pushing-china-propaganda-in-new-monthly-political-education-seminar/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump’s optimistic America-First National Security Strategy
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/trump_s_optimistic_america_first_national_security_strategy.html
BREITBART
— Texas ‘Bathroom Law’ Mandates Use Based on Biological Sex
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/12/06/new-texas-bathroom-law-mandates-use-based-on-biological-sex/amp/
DAILY CALLER
— Marines Say ‘Unapologetic’ Standards Drove Recruiting As Pentagon Raises The Bar Across Military. DD: Did you try to enlist? What if I had tried to enlist? I cannot run because I have a bone disease, my eyesight cannot be corrected to 20/20, I have partial red/green color blindness, my ACT score was only 24, I only just barely made into the upper 20% of my high school class, and I demonstrated no leadership potential while I was in grade school, high school, or college.
https://www.aol.com/articles/marines-unapologetic-standards-drove-recruiting-201630633.html
DAILY WIRE
— New Lawsuit Could Topple The Heart Of Race-Based Federal Programs. The government will likely no longer use race to establish “social disadvantage.” DD: My critics/opponents have always painted themselves as being disadvantaged and/or as being champions for the disadvantaged. According to my critics/opponents, if you have successes and you are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, it is because you benefitted from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-lawsuit-could-topple-the-heart-of-race-based-federal-programs
FOX NEWS
— Detained illegal immigrants will face $5K ‘apprehension fee’
https://noticias.foxnews.com/politics/detained-illegal-immigrants-face-5k-apprehension-fee-border-patrol-chief.print
— High-brow New Jersey suburb’s high school launches Socialist Club with Karl Marx imagery. Club flyer tells students to ‘learn ways to solve social problems that don’t involve exploiting the working class.’ DD: Were you exploited? According to my critics/opponents. I was never exploited because I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. According to my critics/opponents, if I had worked in the private sector, that is, if I had worked under capitalists, in today’s dollars, I never would have been able to earn $19.37/hour when I was 18 in 1966, $55,850/year when I was 22, $68,315/year when I was 23, $82,635/year when I was 24, $99,069/year when I was 25, $112,280/year when I was 31, $117,807/year when I was 38, and $153,151/year when I was 49 notwithstanding my earning a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and a job-relate professional license when I was 32.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/high-brow-new-jersey-suburbs-high-school-launches-socialist-club-karl-marx-imagery.amp
— Mamdani-appointed NYC professor who wrote book on ending policing now tasked with shaping community safety
https://www.aol.com/articles/mamdani-appointed-nyc-professor-wrote-110005310.html
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— 1776, Not 1619. DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will make 2026 all about 1619 instead of 1776.
https://www.heritage.org/american-history/commentary/1776-not-1619
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— A Ridiculous Lack of Consequences Week in Education
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/a-ridiculous-lack-of-consequences-week-in-education/
— Some Colleges are Still Requiring Diversity-Related Admissions Essays. “College Transitions, an admissions consulting firm, identified 19 colleges with optional or required diversity essays” DD: UIC admitted me when I was 18 in 1966, NIU when I was 20, Loyola when I was 23, DePaul when I was 27, and IIT when I was 43. But because I oppose race and gender based preference giving, if I was 18, 20, 23, or 43 today, they would not admit me today.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/some-colleges-are-still-requiring-diversity-related-admissions-essays/
PJ MEDIA
— Mamdani Unveils Major New Element of His Plan to Destroy New York City
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/12/06/mamdani-unveils-major-new-element-of-his-plan-to-destroy-new-york-city-n4946771
VEG OUT MAGAZINE
— 9 types of discipline boomers developed that younger generations were never required to build. These forms of discipline still matter today—perhaps more than ever. And younger generations can absolutely develop them, but it requires conscious effort, because modern life removes many of the natural challenges that used to build these habits automatically.
https://vegoutmag.com/lifestyle/gen-9-types-of-discipline-boomers-developed-that-younger-generations-were-never-required-to-build/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. The discipline of delayed gratification. . .2. The discipline of doing things manually. . .3. The discipline of showing up even when you don’t feel like it. . .4. The discipline of living within your means. . .5. The discipline of face-to-face communication. . .6. The discipline of patience in problem-solving. . .7. The discipline of personal accountability. . .8. The discipline of boredom tolerance. . .9. The discipline of making do with what you have.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEW YORK
— Mamdani vows to end homeless ‘sweeps.’ DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness because it destroys traditional marriage and family, because it promotes dependency on government and charity, because it promotes vices, and because it destroys meritocracy.
https://abc7ny.com/post/mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani-vows-end-homeless-sweeps-nyc/18255064/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will forever do everything that they can to illegally bring citizens of foreign countries into America illegally and to illegally keep them in America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/us/politics/biden-immigration-trump.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that if you vote for Democrats, healthcare will be free. The federal government paid 72% of my healthcare insurance while I was a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997, it has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance since I was forced to retire in 1997, and it has paid 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance since we got married in 1978. That helped me endure tremendous efforts my Democrat superiors to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/politics/republicans-congress-health-care.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do everything that they can to discourage/end traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/opinion/marriage-divorce-happy.html
— Carbondale is at the Center of a Seismic Shift in Abortion Access. A liberal enclave within driving distance of 10 states with abortion bans, Carbondale has become a hub for the procedure. Last year there were nearly 11,000 abortions in this city of 21,000. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/us/politics/abortion-carbondale.html
— DD: The Democrat Party is ever-increasingly more anti-Christian, more anti-American.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/opinion/trump-hegseth-christian-nationalism.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for affordability problems, that is, for some people having less money than others. Why do you have more money than others? I took bad jobs that my peers did not have to take and would not stoop to take. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/06/trump-affordability-inflation-prices-economy/
DAILY JOURNAL
— Justin Shegerian wins $103M in age bias case. DD: I have been fighting age discrimination since I was 25 years old in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors deemed me to be too old to be promoted to GS-13. I ultimately did make GS-13, but not until I was 38 and had a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.dailyjournal.com/article/388886-justin-shegerian-wins-103m-in-age-bias-case-in-first-time-as-first-chair
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump’s Top Advisers Wage Campaign to Shift His Focus to High Prices. During closed-door meetings in recent weeks, the president’s aides have pressed him to calibrate his message on affordability. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for affordability problems, that is, for some people having less money than others. Why do you have more money than others? I took bad jobs that my peers did not have to take and would not stoop to take. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-economy-affordability-lower-prices-308f93ee
FORBES
— Hegseth Trashes ‘Weakness, Wokeness, War’ During Reagan National Defense Forum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY1wSXzgo1A
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly call Trump hateful things.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/usccbs-racial-justice-chair-discourages-dehumanizing-language-after-trump-somali-comments
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say anything like that because they did not have to take bad jobs like I had to. I had to work my way through college. Their parents had lots of money. They bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent federal taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997.
https://www.epi.org/blog/immigrants-are-not-hurting-u-s-born-workers-six-facts-to-set-the-record-straight/
FROM FOREIGN SOURSES
ECONOMIC TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for inflation.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/affordability-crisis-rocks-2026-race-trumps-poll-numbers-tank-in-key-battleground-states/amp_articleshow/125805857.cms
NDTV
— US Rolls Out $5,000 Penalty For Migrants Caught After Illegal Entry. The penalty is approved under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-rolls-out-5-000-penalty-for-migrants-caught-after-illegal-entry-9765903
DAILY MAIL
— New Jersey high school launches socialist club and uses Karl Marx imagery to promote it. DD: How soon, if not already, will Democrat leaders launch socialist clubs in the schools in your school district?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15359321/zohran-mamdani-new-jersey-socialist.html
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/new-jersey-high-school-launches-socialist-club-and-uses-karl-marx-imagery-to-promote-it/ar-AA1RQxbF
November 27, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois sues USDA to block changes to SNAP eligibility of immigrants. DD: What percent of SNAP recipients do not meet any of the new requirements?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/26/illinois-immigrant-snap-eligibility-lawsuit-raoul
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Under the Democrats, more and more and more people will be on SNAP.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/27/chicago-snap-thanksgiving/
— Students at Lincoln-Way West apply to form Club America, a Turning Point USA affiliate. DD: Who heads TPUSA in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/lincoln-way-west-turning-point-usa/
— Electoral Board removes one Will County board candidate, other cases pending
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/electoral-board-removal/
— Napoleon Harris, Thornton Township supervisor and state senator, challenged in committeeman race
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/napoleon-harris-thornton-township-democratic-leadership/
— Republican reversal on Indiana redistricting session leaves Dems reeling
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/republican-reversal-on-redistricting-session-leaves-dems-reeling/
— DACA recipients are being arrested despite deportation protection
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/26/daca-recipients-arrested-deportation/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Illinois ‘Clean Slate’ bill that would speed sealing of many criminal convictions awaits Pritzker signature. DD: When I was 49 years old in 1997, I knew that there could be no “clean slate” for me. My Democrat GAO superiors had forced me to retire. Previously, they had delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. Previously, my Democrat IRS superiors had never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions, and disallowed my travel vouchers. Previously, my Democrat Post Office superiors had disallowed my sick leave requests and forced me to resign.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/27/illinois-convictions-clean-slate-legislation/
FOX32
— DuPage County officials accuse clerk of financial mismanagement in censure. DD: In 2006, my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes try to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They failed and they continue to refuse to put their accusations against me in writing. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me before and after 2006.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dupage-county-clerk-censure
WTTW
— Work Requirements for SNAP Are Changing. DD: What percent of SNAP recipients do not meet any of the new requirements?
https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/26/work-requirements-snap-are-changing-here-s-what-know-illinois
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The new requirements state that people ages 18 to 64 must work or volunteer a minimum of 80 hours per month or participate in certain training or education to receive SNAP benefits. Those who meet one of the following identifications may be exempt from the requirements: People younger than 18 or older than 64, A parent or other member of a household that includes a child under 14, People who are medically certified as physically or mentally unable to work, People who are pregnant, Some Native Americans, A parent or other member of a household with responsibility for the care of an incapacitated person, A regular participant in a drug addiction or alcohol treatment and rehabilitation program.)
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Anti-Trumps ever-increasingly ascribe bad/evil motives to Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-11-26/trumps-desire-for-recognition-legacy-drive-his-push-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine
SHAW LOCAL
— DD: Under the Democrats, more and more and more people will be on SNAP.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/11/27/northern-illinois-food-bank-sees-25-increase-in-need-higher-than-pandemic-times-this-holiday-season/
CWB CHICAGO
— Boys, ages 14 and 16, charged with murdering man outside Loop pub
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/11/boys-ages-14-and-16-charged-with-murdering-man-outside-loop-pub.html
WHEATON PATCH
— New Video Gaming Spot On Butterfield? Wheaton Council To Weigh In. The city council will discuss a conditional use permit and zoning variances for a proposed video gaming spot at Butterfield and Route 53. DD: In 2009, I led a successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/new-video-gaming-spot-wheaton-council-weigh
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHM KASS
— I, like many, have sworn off the CTA
https://johnkassnews.com/never-again/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— From bake sales to boycotts, anti-ICE sentiment sweeps the U.S. DD: How successful have Democrat and RINO leaders been promoting hatred against ICE in your county, township, municipality, and precinct? I will get a measure of that when I hand-deliver sample ballots and campaign literature to 400 residences in my precinct for the March 17, 2026 Republican primary.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/26/bake-sales-boycotts-anti-ice-sentiment-sweeps-us/
— American children can’t read. DD: Democrats run education in America. They focus on cranking good little Democrats who hate Republicans. My parents sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. That put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/26/american-children-cant-read/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump’s warm embrace of Mamdani complicates 2026 GOP messaging. DD: Who has warmly embraced you? My IRS manager promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. But then, my Democrat IRS superiors forced him to transfer to Texas. My GAO manager arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me to GS-13 in 1986. But then, my Democrat GAO superiors forced him to retire.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3896671/trump-warm-embrace-mamdani-complicates-2026-gop-messaging/
BREITBART
— Disney Blasted for Calling Magic Kingdom Christmas Tree ‘Holiday Tree’ DD: The Democrat Party ever-increasingly makes it clear that it is anti-Christian.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/11/26/disney-blasted-for-calling-magic-kingdom-christmas-tree-holiday-tree/amp/
— Sen. Mark Kelly Slammed for Post Responding to Shooting of National Guardsmen. In response to a now-deleted post from the Associated Press, Kelly called the shooting “horrific” and thanked the first responders for bring a “suspect into custody.” Kelly’s post came after he and several other Democrats released a video encouraging military members to disobey President Donald Trump’s orders.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/26/sen-mark-kelly-slammed-for-post-responding-to-shooting-of-national-guardsmen/
DAILY SIGNAL
— ‘Act of Terror’: Trump Says National Guard Shooting Suspect Afghan Who Entered US Through Biden Program
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/27/trump-biden-let-in-national-guard-shooting-suspect/
DAILY WIRE
— Exposing Every Lie In The New Anti-American Documentary From Ken Burns. It is, in many respects, a very well-produced piece of propaganda.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exposing-every-lie-in-the-new-anti-american-documentary-from-ken-burns
HOT AIR
— Journalism Standards, Anyone?
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/11/25/journalkism-standards-anyone-n3809247
NEWS BUSTERS
— Fox News Highlights New York Times Sympathy for Illegal Alien ID Fraud Perpetrator. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more sympathy for their illegals.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2025/11/26/fox-news-highlights-new-york-times-sympathy-illegal-alien-id
NEWSMAX
— Blue State AGs Sue Trump Admin Over SNAP Cuts for Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/blue-states-lawsuit-snap-cuts/2025/11/26/id/1236176/
— Judge Expands Bond Hearing Access for Immigrants Nationwide
https://www.newsmax.com/us/immigration-bond-hearings-dhs/2025/11/26/id/1236213/
PJ MEDIA
— The Danger of Sanctuary City Policies
https://pjmedia.com/michael-a-letts/2025/11/26/the-sudden-danger-of-sanctuary-city-policies-n4946429
— Is American Urban Culture Beyond Repair?
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/11/26/is-american-urban-culture-beyond-repair-retail-reparations-pt-iii-n4946418
TEXAS KENDALL COUNTY GOP
— Merry MAGA Christmas Party. DD: At the 2010 TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Christmas Party, all the Lieutenant Governor candidates spoke including Don Tracy and Jason Plummer.
https://www.kcrptx.com/
TOWNHALL
— University of MN Labels Whiteness a ‘Pandemic,’ Demands ‘Re-Education’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/11/27/thurs-u-mn-whitness-pandemic-n2667074
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump directs review of Afghans who entered US under Biden after National Guard shooting
https://thehill.com/homenews/5624568-trump-biden-afghan-review-dc-shooting/
— Tucker Carlson eviscerates GOP establishment for straying from ‘America First.’ DD: According to Google AI, “The term America First in contemporary politics refers to a prominent conservative, nationalistic, and protectionist faction within the Republican Party, largely defined by the agenda of President Donald Trump. This ideology diverges from traditional conservative principles like internationalism and free trade.”
https://thehill.com/video/tucker-carlson-eviscerates-gop-establishment-for-straying-from-america-first-rising/11299619/
— Greene’s abrupt departure could reshape ‘America First’ debate in Congress. DD: According to Google AI, “The term America First in contemporary politics refers to a prominent conservative, nationalistic, and protectionist faction within the Republican Party, largely defined by the agenda of President Donald Trump. This ideology diverges from traditional conservative principles like internationalism and free trade.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5622686-marjorie-taylor-greene-america-first-congress/
ABC NEWS
— National Guard shooting ‘act of evil,’ Trump says; suspect ID’d as Afghan national
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2-military-personnel-appearing-national-guard-shot-white/story?id=127905871
NEWSWEEK
— National Guard Shooting Halts Immigration Processing for Afghan Nationals
https://www.newsweek.com/national-guard-shooting-halts-immigration-processing-for-afghan-nationals-11118238
REUTERS
— FBI probes gunman’s motive in ambush shooting of Guardsmen near White House
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-probes-gunmans-motives-ambush-shooting-guardsmen-near-white-house-2025-11-27/
CBS NEWS
— Trump administration sending 500 more National Guard troops to D.C. after shooting, Hegseth says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-500-more-national-guard-troops-washington-dc-after-shooting-hegseth/
NEW YORK TIMES
— A 29-year-old Afghan man suspected of shooting two National Guard members came to the United States in September 2021 through a program known as Operation Allies Welcome, the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said Wednesday night.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/operation-allies-welcome-dc-shooting.html
— What We Know About the Shooting of National Guard Troops
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/national-guard-dc-shooting-suspect.html
— I’m 62. Stop Telling Me I’m Old. DD: I was 62 way back in 2010.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/opinion/aging-seniors-medicare.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Anti-Trumps stress that Trump is 79 year old and that he is aging. How old are you? I am 77. Nevertheless, I continue to have the ability, motivation, experience, time, and money to spend 10+ hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out. When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to be promoted to GS-13. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. I ultimately made GS-13 when I was 38, but not until after I had earned an MBA when I was 27, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, transferred to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/politics/trump-age-health.html
— DD: Under the Democrats, more and more and more people will be on welfare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/opinion/hunger-food-insecurity-affordability.html
USA TODAY
— Media did Biden’s bidding. Now they freak out over Trump. DD: My critics/opponents who have had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and paise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. They reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform. Most commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of clout and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/01/29/trump-news-media-bias-biden/77968482007/
KOMO NEWS
— A federal court on Wednesday ruled that President Donald Trump and his former attorney Alina Habba are responsible for a nearly $1 million penalty tied to their lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and James Comey, as well as several other defendants. The court described it as a “frivolous” lawsuit, which Trump filed in 2022 in connection to Russian collusion allegations. DD: I sued GAO in 1998. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf GAO never succeeded in getting the court to dismiss my lawsuit. But GAO did succeed in getting the court to grant GAO summary judgment, that is, GAO succeeded in getting the court to deny me my 7th Amendment rights. GAO hinted/implied/argued/shouted that no jury would ever rule in my favor. I have very bad jury appeal. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844. How bad is your jury appeal?
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/trump-and-ex-lawyer-hit-with-1m-penalty-after-losing-lawsuit-against-clinton-and-comey-alina-habba-racketeer-influenced-and-corrupt-organizations-act-rico-russia-russian-collusion-2016-election-politics
FORBES
— Thanksgiving Memo To Mamdani: The Pilgrims Learned The Hard Way That Socialism Doesn’t Work. DD: My critics/opponents have no problem with socialism if not promote socialism. They ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VphDj-ppggI
AFL-CIO
— Tell Your Representative to Pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act. DD: My critics/opponents are anti-union. They are furious that while I was a union member 1966-1980, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars. But during that time, I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU. I earned an MBA from Loyola. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. I earned a master’s degree from DePaul.
https://aflcio.org/2025/11/20/call-tell-your-representative-pass-protect-americas-workforce-act
ATLANTIC
— America’s ‘Marriage Material’ Shortage. Adults are significantly less likely to be married or to live with a partner than they used to be. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer people are marriage material. What helped make you 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 $108,978/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. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/documents/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/america-marriage-decline/681518/
ROLLING STONE
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. They use Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI to waste the careers of and to get rid of their Republican employees who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. They certainly used AA and DEI to waste my career and to get rid of me. All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats who were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran. They all had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. When I was 49 years old in 1997, they forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, who had less education than I had, who had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/the-affirmative-action-decision-doesnt-have-to-do-with-meritocracy-1234782275/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY MAIL
— Chicago’s top prosecutor turns on woke judge who freed 72-time arrestee accused of setting devout Christian woman, 26, on fire on train.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15328259/chicago-train-woman-fire-prosecutor-record.html
INDEPENDENT
— Two members of the Illinois National Guard said they would refuse orders to carry out the Trump administration’s long-stated goal of sending federal troops into Chicago. DD: Have you refused orders? I have not. Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. While I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997, all of my subordinates were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, and/or had major performance problems. I never refused orders to give them preference. I gave them lots of preference. But that was not enough for my Democrat superiors. Because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, they ever-increasingly wasted my career, ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me, and ultimately forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.aol.com/articles/two-illinois-national-guard-members-035249184.html
NDTV
— Amid H-1B Visa Debate, Team Trump’s Call To “Prioritize Qualified Americans” The Trump administration said that the project aims to “safeguard the rights, wages, and job opportunities of highly skilled American workers.” DD: To qualify myself for better paying jobs, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But nevertheless, all my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/amid-h-1b-visa-debate-team-trumps-call-to-prioritize-qualified-americans-9701889
INDIA TODAY
— Amid H-1B debate, US companies asked to hire Americans or face fines under Project Firewall. The Trump administration has vowed to ensure that employers follow H-1B visa rules and “prioritize qualified Americans” over immigrants. Under Project Firewall, federal agencies will monitor abuses such as layoffs of US workers replaced by H‑1B visa holders, or wage discrepancies. Here’s all about the initiative. DD: To qualify myself for better paying jobs, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. But nevertheless, all my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/project-firewall-explained-us-trump-admin-to-strengthen-h1b-visa-enforcement-american-workers-dol-chennai-maga-2826499-2025-11-26
TIMES OF INDIA
— Candace Owens recalls college moment she felt feminism was a lie and reveals the class blamed men for all problems. DD: To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame men for all the problems that women have.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us-streamers/candace-owens-recalls-college-moment-she-felt-feminism-was-a-lie-and-reveals-the-class-blamed-men-for-all-problems/articleshow/125576678.cms
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— MAGA vs America First threatens Trump’s agenda. DD: According to Google AI, “The term America First in contemporary politics refers to a prominent conservative, nationalistic, and protectionist faction within the Republican Party, largely defined by the agenda of President Donald Trump. This ideology diverges from traditional conservative principles like internationalism and free trade.”
https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/maga-vs-america-first-threatens-trump-s-agenda-101764172456476.html
PRESS READER
— Indian Americans face rising racism
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/garavi-gujarat-usa/20251129/281719800881916
November 26, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago city employee charged with threatening Illinois state senator from Freeport in emails
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/illinois-senator-chesney-threats-charges/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINES
— State cannabis taxes slipping as prices continue to fall. DD: To use pot is to put yourself on track to be a ward of the state.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/state-cannabis-taxes-slipping-prices-continue-fall
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— The Democrats who run Springfield ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/11/26/springfield-scored-perfectly-on-an-lgbtq-inclusivity-index/87365201007/
CAPITOL CITY NOW
— New federal rules could put formerly unhoused people back out on the streets across Illinois. The Trump administration is dramatically cutting the money available to help pay for housing for people in need, including those with mental illness or disabilities. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. That is why America produces fewer and fewer and fewer productive members of society and more and more and more people in need. That is why employers prefer noncitizens.
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-new-federal-rules-could-put-formerly-unhoused-people-back-out-on-the-streets-across-illinois/
— A week later, Springfield citizens are still mad about landlord registry vote. Citizens allege corruption and racism around the horseshoe. DD: Are/were you a landlord? I was a landlord 1976-1984 because I could not sell my University Park townhome unless I took a big loss.
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-a-week-later-public-still-mad-about-landlord-registry-vote/
CWB CHICAGO
— 3 Venezuelan migrant teens randomly robbed and murdered a homeless man in the Loop
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/11/3-venezuelan-migrant-teens-randomly-robbed-and-murdered-a-homeless-man-in-the-loop-prosecutors-say-updated.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Trump turns turkey pardon into Chicago attack
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/11/26/trump-turns-turkey-pardon-into-chicago-attack-00669501
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Eight Illinois Congressional Democrats Vote Against Bipartisan Resolution Condemning Socialism. Two Others Don’t Vote.
https://wirepoints.org/eight-illinois-congressional-democrats-voted-against-bipartisan-resolution-condemning-socialism-two-others-didnt-vote-wirepoints-quickkpoint/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Mamdani is ‘clearly the leader of the Democratic Party.’ Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. Who leads the Republican Party in Illinois, in your congressional district, in your county, and in your township? What do you say about their leadership? I should write about those Republican leaders who have blamed the Republican Party’s platform for the party’s problems the most. They most commonly blame its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5622112-treasury-secretary-bessent-mamdani/amp/
— More and more and more people are becoming addicted to pot. I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019. Of course, since then, those in Wheaton who want pot have done everything that they could to get rid of me. I should write about those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2019. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— DuPage County has censured its Clerk. SEE: https://www.dupagecounty.gov/county_board/dupage_county_board_censures_clerk_jean_kaczmarek_1590.php and https://www.dailyherald.com/20251125/local-politics/dupage-county-clerk-censured-by-county-board/ I should write about my critics/opponents who unsuccessful had their operatives and their dupes try to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on my critics/opponents who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest/most adverse actions against me before 2006 and after 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When asked “What’s a positive spin on Diersen’s role?” Google AI says: “Examining the positive aspects of an individual’s role within a political context often involves looking at their contributions to informing the public, engaging with their community, and working towards goals they believe will benefit their political party or area. Such a role could be viewed positively by highlighting their efforts to: Inform Constituents: Curating and sharing political news and commentary can be seen as an effort to keep fellow members of a political community informed on relevant issues and perspectives. Promote Discussion: By sharing information from various sources, an individual might aim to encourage broader discussion and understanding of different viewpoints within their political group. Support Party Goals: Engaging in activities that align with a political party’s platform and working to support candidates who represent those values can be viewed as a positive contribution to the party’s objectives. Demonstrate Civic Engagement: Volunteering time and effort in political activities demonstrates a commitment to civic participation and can inspire others to get involved. Contribute to Historical Record: Long-term involvement can contribute to the institutional memory and continuity of a political organization.” SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22david+Diersen%22+republican – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— How millions of illegal immigrants got jobs in the US. 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 like I had to because their parents had lots of money. Their parents bought them cars, paid their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3897219/how-millions-illegal-immigrants-got-jobs-us/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Millions of illegal immigrants residing in the United States have managed to get jobs despite their immigration status. The fact that 8.5 million illegal immigrants have obtained work in the country is a result of employers paying workers under the table, unknowingly hiring workers who have committed document fraud, and hiring non-U.S. citizens whom the government authorizes to work temporarily. The largest number of illegal immigrants work in construction, followed by accommodation, food services, and manufacturing. Immigrants who are paid under the table are the most difficult for the federal government to track because they are often employed in person-to-person gigs. These include workers hired at home improvement stores or as house cleaners who offer their services on social media marketplaces, as well as businesses such as landscaping companies and restaurants. All employers in the U.S. are legally required to verify that new hires have completed an I-9 form, which requires the applicant’s Social Security number, proof of identity, and work authorization documentation. Select immigrants navigating immigration proceedings in court or who are temporarily protected from deportation may be issued a Social Security card for the purpose of working legally in the U.S., but this document does not confer U.S. citizenship or lawful presence. The Bipartisan Policy Center defended workers who are illegal immigrants and said many choose to file federal taxes on their own at the year’s end despite working off the books. In this case, workers without Social Security numbers use an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number issued by the IRS to report income and pay taxes on what they earn. “Many undocumented immigrants find ways to legally pay both federal income and payroll taxes even if they don’t have a Social Security number (which is normally required) and even if their income was earned by working illegally,” the BPC wrote in an analysis on illegal immigrants in the workplace. “Though there are many undocumented immigrants who are paid ‘under the table’ for their work and do not pay taxes on their income, many others do pay in the hope that it will someday help them become citizens,” the BPC analysis reads.)
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Mamdani’s Appalling Transition Team Takes Shape. Plus, Soros-funded anti-Semitism curriculum downplays anti-Semitism.
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/zohran-mamdanis-appalling-transition
NEW YORK POST
— Empowering New Yorkers through affordability. DD: What did you do to afford things? I took bad jobs that my peers would not stoop to take. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1971-1972. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. According to my critics/opponents, I was grossly overpaid for those jobs and my pension and retirement benefits are much too generous. To qualify myself for better paying jobs, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://nypost.com/dispatch/empowering-new-yorkers-through-affordability/
— White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s ‘criminal illegal alien’ relative detained by ICE
https://nypost.com/2025/11/26/us-news/white-house-karoline-leavitt-criminal-illegal-alien-relative-bruna-caroline-ferreira-detained-by-ice/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Donald Trump or Don Rickles? POTUS has press rolling over jab at ‘fat slob’ Pritzker
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/11/26/donald-trump-or-don-rickles-potus-has-press-rolling-over-jab-at-fat-slob-pritzker-1605880/
BREITBART
— Biden Admin Made Airports Less Safe by Housing Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/25/report-biden-admin-made-airports-less-safe-using-them-to-house-migrants/amp/
— Hegseth moves to sever Pentagon ties with Scouting America
https://www.breitbart.com/news/hegseth-moves-to-sever-pentagon-ties-with-scouting-america-report/amp/
CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK
— Alive and Ambulatory? Let’s Be Thankful for These Blessings. DD: I am thankful that my critics/opponents in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois have let me serve as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999. I am thankful that they let me serve as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2021, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster 2008-20210 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004. I am thankful that they let me stop video gambling in Wheaton in 2009 and the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019. Obviously, the aforesaid is sarcastic. I should write about my critics/opponents. According to my critics/opponents, I have never been thankful enough. According to them, I did not really earn what I have and I certainly do not disserve what I have. They stress that I avoided the Vietnam War draft with student deferments and a financial hardship deferment 1966-1971; that my parents provided me with room and board while I took classes at UIC 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969; that I graduated debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE; that S.S Kresge hired me in 1964, the Post Office in 1966, Firestone Stores in 1970, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980; that IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974; that GAO promoted me in 1986; that I earned master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a professional license in 1981; that I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air in 1964 and new cars in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1978, etc.; that I bought real estate when I was 24, 25, and 27; that I got married in 1978 and we bought a home that year and had one built in 1984; and that we gave up trying to have children and we did not adopt or become foster parents. According to my critics/opponents, I owe everything that I have to my benefitting from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://cbn.com/news/health/alive-and-ambulatory-lets-be-thankful-these-blessings
COLLEGE FIX
— CUNY course requires students to engage in antifascist activism
https://www.thecollegefix.com/cuny-course-requires-students-to-engage-in-antifascist-activism-watchdog-finds/
DAILY CALLER
— Pritzker Said Cashless Bail Would Keep Cities Safe — Then A Woman Was Burned Alive
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/25/jb-pritzker-safe-t-act-cashless-bail-woman-burned-alive-72-arrests/
— Pentagon To Cut Ties With ‘Genderless’ Boy Scouts
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/25/pentagon-to-cut-ties-with-genderless-boy-scouts-leaked-docs-obtained-by-npr-show/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Democrats Who Told Military Not to Obey ‘Illegal’ Orders Are ‘Not Being Honest’ DD: They are saying that Trump’s orders ARE illegal.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/25/victor-davis-hanson-the-french-revolutionary-jacobins-urging-the-defying-of-trump/
FOX NEWS
— Trump slams ‘liberal judges,’ governor and mayor after woman set on fire on Chicago train, vows to make city safe
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385578565112
— Trump calls Chicago ‘out of control’ after train attack left woman critically burned. The president again demanded that the National Guard be deployed to the Windy City.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-chicago-out-control-after-train-attack-left-woman-critically-burned
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— The H-1B Visa Needs Drastic Reform to Put Americans First. 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 like I had to because their parents had lots of money. Their parents bought them cars, paid their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://www.heritage.org/border-security/report/the-h-1b-visa-needs-drastic-reform-put-americans-first
JUST THE NEWS
— More Democrats are leaning toward socialism. DD: By their failing/refusing to promote personal responsibility and by their promoting dependency on government, my critics/opponents make it clear that they want socialism.
https://justthenews.com/videos/are-more-democrats-leaning-towards-socialism
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— Vatican issues sweeping defense of traditional marriage
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-issues-sweeping-defense-traditional-marriage-pushing-back-polygamy
NEWSMAX
— Pentagon Mulls Ending Scouts Aid Over DEI, Gender
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pentagon-boy-scouts-support/2025/11/25/id/1235962/
TOWNHALL
— Two Paths for America: Capitalism or socialism. DD: By their failing/refusing to promote personal responsibility and by their promoting dependency on government, my critics/opponents make it clear that they want socialism.
https://townhall.com/columnists/les-rubin/2025/11/26/two-paths-for-america-n2667010
— The New Yorker Vies for Worst Illegal Alien Sympathy Report Yet
https://townhall.com/columnists/bradslager/2025/11/25/the-new-yorker-vies-for-worst-illegal-alien-sympathy-report-yet-and-defending-the-defenseless-dems-video-n2667013
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— H-1B Visa Update: Department of Labor to ‘Prioritize Qualified Americans’ DD: What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree. I earned three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.newsweek.com/h-1b-visa-update-department-labor-americans-11104262
ABC NEWS
— Can military members refuse orders? They can refuse orders but could face consequences if the order is lawful. DD: Have you refused orders? I have not. Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. While I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997, all of my subordinates were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, and/or had major performance problems. I never refused orders to give them preference. I gave them lots of preference. But that was not enough for my Democrat superiors. Because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, they ever-increasingly wasted my career, ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me, and ultimately forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/explainer-military-members-refuse-orders/story?id=127865412
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Trump is right about affordability.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010540099/fact-check-is-trump-right-about-affordability.html
WASHINGTON POST
— With great presidential power comes great presidential blame. DD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad. My critics/opponents have more difficulty blaming me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for defeats suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct after they succeeded in a) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2021, b) ending my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship 2005-2012, and c) ending my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership 2003-2007.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/23/donald-trump-executive-branch-power/
— Trump got his start with $1 million loan from his father. DD: My father provided me with room and board while I took classes at UIC 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969. That, along with what I earned delivering mail for the Part Forest Post Office 1966-1969, enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-fact-checking-and-analysis-of-the-final-2016-presidential-debate/fact-check-trumps-claim-that-he-built-his-company-with-1-million-loan/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Struggles to Sell MAGA on H-1Bs. 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 like I had to because their parents had lots of money. Their parents bought them cars, paid their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-struggles-to-sell-maga-on-h-1bs-3788449a
FORBES
— Trump’s Chummy Embrace Of Mamdani Is Sabotaging Himself And Republicans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdtekRBHOBc
BANKING RATES
— Are Boomers Really To Blame for Our Money Struggles? DD: Compared to our peers, my wife and I spent far less of our income for immediate pleasures and saved far more of our income for our retirement. My critics/opponents stress that we would not have been able to save as much for our retirement if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft and if we had children.
https://www.aol.com/articles/rachel-cruze-boomers-really-blame-161605313.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Because baby boomers have lived more within their means, avoiding overly expensive vacations and things like home remodels, and sometimes staying at the same jobs for years or even decades, Cruze calls them a very “content generation.” Millennials, on the other hand, are “trying to keep up with the Joneses” and often lead unsustainably expensive lifestyles, she said. Boomers may have been more content because when they turned 30, jobs were stable and housing was affordable. Millennials reached that age amid soaring costs, student loans and fewer long-term guarantees regarding the job market. Although the U.S. today is harder to afford for young people, millennials are leading the renovation trend, with 60% planning projects in 2025, according to Housing Wire. Millennials also are one of the biggest groups that were planning to increase their spending on travel at the end of 2024, according to Deloitte. Millennials’ spending habits have landed them deeper in debt, and there has been a huge increase in members of the generation entering debt consolidation, as per USA Today. Their debt can’t be directly attributed to the boomer generation, though. Instead, it may simply be that millennials are making costlier choices than their parents, along with, of course, living in a costlier world in general.)
WEEK
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://theweek.com/news/society/958504/pros-and-cons-of-affirmative-action
PENN STATE
— Poor health is the primary driver of involuntary retirement. DD: Political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination are the reasons why the Democrats who run the federal government force their employees to retire as soon as they are eligible who they have not promoted to GS-15 ($163,749-$195,200/year) and who are Republican, White, male, and/or nonveteran. I should write about that.
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/poor-health-primary-driver-involuntary-retirement-researchers-report
COURTHOUSE NEWS
— Aging New York judges lose challenge to forced retirement at 76. The suing judges, all in their 70s, intend to appeal. DD: The Democrats who run the federal government force their employees who they have not promoted to GS-15 ($163,749-$195,200/year) and who are the following to retire as soon as they are eligible: Republican, White, male, and/or nonveteran. I became eligible for early retirement when I was 45 years old in 1993. I survived until I was 49 in 1997. I would not have those 4 years if I had not earned three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), earned six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and earned a job-related professional license (1981). So far, the Democrats who run the federal government have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.)
https://courthousenews.com/aging-new-york-judges-lose-challenge-to-forced-retirement-at-76/
AXIOS
— Republicans consider quitting Congress early over death threats and infighting. DD: I will be hand-delivering sample ballots and campaign literature to the 400 homes in my precinct that have at least one Republican or one Independent registered voter. Based on my doing that in the recent past, I anticipate/expect that I will encounter more voters who are filled with hatred against Trump, who make it clear that they will continue to vote for Democrats to punish Trump, and who will take their hatred against out on me. How should I deal with that? Many, most, if not virtually all of the voters in my precinct are insulated from the terrible problems caused by the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/25/congress-retirements-mtg-threats-censures-trump
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
FINANCIAL TIMES
— DEI-linked pay awards drop sharply. DD: My Democrat IRS superiors made it clear that they would not promote their employees beyond GS-12 if they did not promote Affirmative Action and DEI big time, that is, if they did not discriminate against their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran big time. My Democrat GAO superiors made it clear that they would not promote their employees beyond GS-13 if they did not promote Affirmative Action and DEI big time, that is, if they did not discriminate against their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran big time.
https://www.ft.com/content/a7640355-001e-41de-a95b-3e5c777e69dd
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL AND BUSINESS SERVICES GROUP
— FY2025 H-1B Visa Approvals Surge for Top U.S. Tech Companies. 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 like I had to because their parents had lots of money. Their parents bought them cars, paid their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://bizlegalservices.com/2025/11/25/fy2025-h-1b-visa-approvals-surge-for-top-u-s-tech-companies/
HINDUSTAN TIMES & TIMES OF INDIA & INDIA TODAY
— ‘One district in India got 220,000 H-1B visas’: US economist alleges massive fraud in system. 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 like I had to because their parents had lots of money. Their parents bought them cars, paid their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/one-district-in-india-got-220-000-h-1b-visas-us-economist-alleges-massive-fraud-in-system-chennai-101764128908634.html
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/one-district-in-india-got-220000-h-1b-visas-economist-explains-fraud-says-only-12-comes-from-china/articleshow/125572625.cms
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/h1b-visa-fraud-india-chennai-consulate-claims-exceed-cap-glbs-2825994-2025-11-26
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/h1b-industrial-scale-fraud-what-former-us-embassy-official-lawmaker-reveal-chennai-hydrabad-techie-visa-applications-2826235-2025-11-26
SKY NEWS
— Mamdani begs New Yorkers to ‘cough up’ cash for his team after ‘promising free everything’
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/mamdani-begs-new-yorkers-to-cough-up-cash-for-his-team-after-promising-free-everything/video/7945651ddef6b6a5022eff060b229fca
— Mamdani supporters disapproved seeing him ‘so chummy’ with Donald Trump
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/mamdani-supporters-disapproved-seeing-him-so-chummy-with-donald-trump/video/25c8195d478d9b9f2b6551c8d186d3ed
MEAWW
— Mamdani vows to make NY a ‘sanctuary city’ where trans youth are ‘protected and celebrated’
https://news.meaww.com/zohran-mamdani-vows-to-make-ny-a-sanctuary-city-where-trans-youth-are-protected-and-celebrated
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Karoline Leavitt’s relative detained after living in US for decades, ICE says she is criminal illegal alien from Brazil
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-karoline-leavitts-relative-detained-after-living-in-us-for-decades-ice-says-she-is-criminal-illegal-alien-from-brazil/articleshow/125582823.cms