FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Super Bowl halftime performer detained after unfurling Sudanese-Palestinian flag
https://abc7chicago.com/post/super-bowl-halftime-performer-detained-unfurling-sudanese-palestinian-flag/15888216/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-2/10/2025
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: Proposal would strip Henry Hyde’s name from courthouse
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/daywatch-proposal-would-strip-henry-hydes-name-from-courthouse/
— Landmarks: Potential church closure could put Park Forest history at risk (COMMENT: What are your connections with Park Forest? I delivered mail there 1966-1969. I attended 8th grade at Hope Lutheran Garde School there 1961-1962. I was confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran at Hope Lutheran Church there in 1962. My father delivered eggs there in the 1960s. I bought lots of items from stores in the Park Forest Plaza in the early 1970s.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/09/landmarks-park-forest-church-closure/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The collection was split between storage pods controlled by the library and the society, the museum and even Hope Lutheran Church, where Nicoll would have to “make an appointment to go to the attic to get newspaper articles people wanted.”)
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans. Who takes the lead in promoting hatred against Republicans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/opinion-holocaust-christian-nationalism-donald-trump/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: What percent or restaurant workers are illegals?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/chicago-restaurant-workers-prepare-as-ice-arrests-cast-fear-uncertainty-over-industry/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders promote Black History Month. My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and had always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/09/donald-trump-black-history-month-ronald-reagan
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrats are hell-bent on making Trump fail
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/09/donald-trump-elon-musk-government-gop-congress
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/05/trump-attacks-federal-workers-democracy-omar-noureldin-mikael-rojas-center-effective-government
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DuPage County board resolution would remove Henry Hyde’s name from courthouse
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250209/news/dupage-county-board-resolution-would-henry-hydes-name-from-courthouse/
(FROM THEW ARTICLE: A resolution before the DuPage County Board on Tuesday would remove the name of the late Congressman Henry J. Hyde from the county’s Wheaton courthouse and rescind previous approval for a monument there in his honor. The courthouse became the Henry J. Hyde Judicial Office Facility in 2010, three years after the Republican lawmaker from Wood Dale died at 83 years old. The new measure, if approved, would rename the building the DuPage County Judicial Office Facility. During an interview Sunday, County Board Chair Deb Conroy referenced the Hyde Amendment, legislation introduced by Hyde in 1976 that prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for abortions, with some exceptions. “While Henry Hyde was a very well respected Republican elected official, the Hyde Amendment is very offensive to women, particularly women in Illinois,” said Conroy, a Democrat from Elmhurst. “I think overwhelmingly women in Illinois believe that all women have the right to health care, regardless of their ability to have private insurance.” Conroy said she told a Daily Herald editorial board in 2022 that she would take this action if elected chair. “I consider myself a woman of my word,” she added. “I very much value my bipartisan board, and we work very well together, which is why I put it off for two years.” If the full board approved the resolution, the Hyde family would receive a plaque that would be removed from the building. James Zay, a Republican county board member from Carol Stream, called the effort to remove Hyde’s name “narrow-minded.” “Henry Hyde did so much for DuPage County,” said Zay, who supported the renaming in 2010. “He brought so much funding into DuPage County for stormwater, for roads.” While the conservative Hyde may be best known for the amendment that bears his name, as well as his leading role in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, Zay noted that he also supported gun control measures like the Brady bill and assault weapons ban. “You can’t rewrite history,” he added. “My question is, who is next? Is it going to be Linda Kurzawa’s name at the health department building? Or Jack Knuepfer? Or Pate Philip?”
But county board member Dawn DeSart, a Democrat from Aurora, said the proposed move reflects a shift away from partisanship. “The fair thing is to make the courthouse nonpartisan,” she said. The board is scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the county board room at 421 N. County Farm Road in Wheaton.)
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— “Repair the damage:” Illinois ADCR Reparations Commission held public hearing at NU (COMMENT: How much damage would your critics/opponents say that your ancestors did? My critics/opponents stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s when slavery was legal in America and that none of them were soldiers in the Union Army. In their defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois, that all of them were Republicans, that they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did discriminate against anyone.)
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/02/09/campus/events-campus/repair-the-damage-illinois-adcr-reparations-commission-held-public-hearing-at-nu/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Fired by Trump, EEOC official fears what the anti-discrimination agency will become (COMMENT: How has EEOC impacted you? I became an IRS Revenue Officer when I was 22 years old in 1971 because my Firestone Store boss had rudely fired me. He did that because I had told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-09/fired-by-trump-eeoc-official-fears-what-the-anti-discrimination-agency-will-become
DEPAULIA
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly more illegal immigration.
https://depauliaonline.com/74854/ladepaulia/a-day-of-love-and-resistance-little-village-residents-protest-chicago-ice-raids/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— HENRY HYDE’S NAME: The DuPage County Board is considering a resolution at that would change the name of the Henry J. Hyde Judicial Office Facility to the Judicial Office Facility, stripping Hyde’s name from the title. Hyde is the late Illinois congressman and abortion-rights opponent who’s known for the Hyde Amendment, which bars the government from helping fund abortions. The reason: “While Congressman Hyde was a well respected Republican elected official, the Hyde Amendment is very offensive to women,” said Board Chair Deb Conway, who’s behind the resolution. “Women who cannot afford private insurance should not have less access to health care.” During her campaign for the board, Conway told the Daily Herald she would remove Hyde’s name from the court building. Conway is a Democrat who previously served in the Illinois House. Her resolution has drawn scrutiny from Jeanne Ives, a Republican who also served in the Illinois House. In her Breakthrough Ideas email, Ives called the resolution “mean-spirited,” noting it follows President Donald Trump’s executive order Enforcing the Hyde Amendment. ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/enforcing-the-hyde-amendment/ ) The DuPage County Republican Party posted a message on its Facebook page urging residents to tell board members to reject the measure.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/10/new-campaign-targets-extremism-00203340
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-453/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Underreported Trump order has sweeping implications for DEI at universities and other federal grant recipients
https://wirepoints.org/underreported-trump-order-has-sweeping-implications-for-dei-at-universities-and-other-federal-grant-recipients-wirepoints/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If/when Trump decides to turn Illinois red again, who will he have lead that effort? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats declared war against Republicans in 1861 to keep slavery. Republicans defeated Democrats in 1865. Today’s Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint today’s Democrats as having been Republicans during the Civil War and b) paint today’s Republicans as having been Democrats during the Civil War. Me, my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents, and all the rest of my ancestors were Republicans. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on buyouts and early retirement offers? In 1993, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of their employees who were Republican, older, White, male, non-veteran, GS-13, and had 25 years or more of federal service. I was “eligible,” that is, I was “targeted” because I was all of the aforesaid. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Their forcing me to retire wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for 18 years and for IRS for 9 years, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees (finance-1997, accounting-1980, and business-1976), c) six job-related professional certifications (forensic accounting-1997, financial services auditing-1996, government financial management-1994, fraud examination-1990, internal auditing-1981, and accounting-1979) and d) earning a job-related professional license (CPA-1981). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are you or someone who you know interested in buying our Iron Gate Motor Condo in Naperville for $600,000. The 2023 listing is at: https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/il/naperville/2112-ferry-rd-114/pid_53550715/ )? If so, please let me know. My wife and I are considering buying a more expensive unit in Iron Gate. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you sold your home on your own? I did. I sold 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton (https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-Wheaton-IL-60187/4436186_zpid/ ) for $104,000 in 1984. Zillow has an article on selling your home on your own at https://www.zillow.com/learn/costs-to-sell-a-house/ . – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Finally happening’: House Republicans rally behind Elon Musk’s efficiency rampage
https://www.washingtontimes.com/
— Trump ends the transgender lunacy
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/9/trump-ends-transgender-lunacy/
NEW YORK POST
— Elon Musk says FEMA sent $59M last week to luxury NYC hotels to house illegal migrants: ‘Violated the law’
https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/us-news/fema-sent-59m-last-week-to-luxury-nyc-hotels-to-house-illegal-migrants-elon-musk-says/
— Bernie Sanders unleashes blistering takedown of Dem party after Harris’ loss: ‘Abandoned working-class people’ (COMMENT: I was a member of the working class 1962-1997. I had to work my way through college. My critics/opponents despise hate the working class. I should write about my critics/opponents whose parents had the most money.)
https://www.aol.com/news/bernie-sanders-unleashes-blistering-takedown-004448284.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— How Trump Is Uprooting Radical ’60s Foundations of Poisonous DEI and CRT Programs
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/09/how-trump-is-uprooting-radical-60s-foundations-poisonous-dei-crt-programs-civil-rights-movement/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Says He’ll Impose 25 Percent Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum on Monday
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-announces-he-will-impose-25-percent-tariffs-on-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-soon-5807010
FOX NEWS
— Homan delivers bold message to sanctuary cities ‘slowing down’ ICE, warns they’re ‘going to keep coming’ Homan doubled down on his pledge to eradicate Tren de Aragua gang members from the US.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/tom-homan-delivers-bold-message-sanctuary-cities-slowing-down-ice-warns-theyre-going-keep-coming
REAL CLEAR PPLITICS
— Democrat Madness Triggered by Sunlight of Common Sense
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/02/09/democrat_madness_triggered_by_sunlight_of_common_sense_640757.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— House Democrat: ‘I don’t contest’ DOGE will likely find ‘awful examples of wasteful spending’ (COMMENT: GAO fights government waste. But the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 used Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, and Republican-led budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. They wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5/12 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) earning a job-relate professional license (CPA), d) earning six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and e) earning three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance).)
https://www.aol.com/house-democrat-don-t-contest-191756661.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump administration orders consumer protection agency to stop work, closes building (COMMENT: My critics/opponents are overwhelmingly a) pro-business and b) anti-consumer.)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-consumer-protection-cease-1b93c60a773b6b5ee629e769ae6850e9
CNN
— Democrats plot strategy in shutdown fight against Trump: ‘Not a lot of good options’
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/09/politics/democrats-spending-trump/index.html
REUTERS
— Consumer protection agency neutralized by Trump’s new chief (COMMENT: Newt Gingrich did more than neutralize GAO in the 1990s, he constructively destroyed it.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-acting-cfpb-chief-halts-all-supervision-companies-2025-02-09/
CBS NEW YORK
— NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ memo on possible ICE raids prompts schools chancellor to reach out to immigrant families
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/ice-raids-new-york-city-public-schools-eric-adams/
ABC LOS ANGELES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests against Trump.
https://abc7.com/post/dozens-rally-downtown-la-protest-trumps-immigration-policies/15885588/
NBC DFW
— What is the Black national anthem and why is it sung before the Super Bowl? (COMMENT: What other groups in America want national anthems for their groups?)
https://www.nbcdfw.com/super-bowl/black-national-anthem-super-bowl-2/3765765/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Orders Treasury Secretary to Stop Minting Pennies (COMMENT: Between 1964 and 1966, I worked for 125 pennies per hour.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/trump-stop-minting-pennies.html
— What is Canada’s attitude toward America? How has Canada treated America?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/world/canada/us-canada-relations-trump-tariffs.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: For Stunned Federal Workers, Sleeplessness, Anger and Tears. One thing lost in the Trump administration’s war on the federal bureaucracy is the collective voice of the employees. But some have begun to speak out. (COMMENT: If I was still working for the federal government, my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/federal-workers-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— As the Trump upheaval continues, are there restraints that could slow him down? Questions remain on what constitutional or other checks can be put on the president and his wide-ranging actions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/09/trump-constitution-checks-balances/
— They trained on diversity under Trump. Now he’s punishing them for it. During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Education Department held diversity trainings. Many who participated were put on administrative leave under new rules. (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. The Democrats who run the federal government require their employees to take lots of DEI training. I should write about the DEI training I had to take.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/02/10/education-department-dei-devos/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Trump trashes equity and diversity as he issues proclamation honoring Black History Month (COMMENT: Democrat leaders promote Black History Month. My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and had always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/09/leonard-greene-trump-trashes-equity-and-diversity-as-he-issues-proclamation-honoring-black-history-month/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting New Yorkers to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/nyregion/nyc-trans-health-care-youth-protest.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— What country’s flag should protesters wave at immigration rallies? (OMMENT: Under Biden, America’s enemies were emboldened to invade, to infiltrate, to infest, and to conquer America. Americans elected Trump to stop that.)
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2025-02-10/what-countrys-flag-should-protesters-wave-at-immigration-rallies
— The Democrat Party is ever-increasingly anti-Israel
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-10/antisemitism-executive-order-donald-trump
BALTIMORE SUN
— Federal workers, Maryland leaders plan Capitol Hill rally to protest Trump’s efforts to slash workforce (COMMENT: When Gingrich slashed GAO’s workforce during the 1990s, virtually no one protested.)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/02/10/federal-workers-elected-officials-plan-capitol-hill-rally-to-protest-trumps-efforts-to-slash-workforce/
USA TODAY
— How advocates are stepping up for Black History month as federal agencies scale back (COMMENT: Democrat leaders promote Black History Month. My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and had always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/09/black-history-month-celebration-federal-pushback/78210271007/
— Despite tariff disputes, Mexico, Canada have been key to US auto industry for decades (COMMENT: I have ordered a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T which will be built in Canada.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/02/04/canada-mexico-car-manufacturing-tariffs/78209847007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Minority Voters Who Love Trump’s Dismantling of DEI. The president has found support from nonwhite voters who feel the nation has become too woke.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-voters-nonwhite-dei-951008e7
— Why Trump Is Right About Birthright Citizenship. Tourists and illegal aliens aren’t subject to the ‘full and complete jurisdiction’ of the United States.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-trump-is-right-about-birthright-citizenship-14th-amendment-citizenship-clause-f63df08a
— Democrat and RINO employers falsely argue that “DEI Didn’t Change the Workforce All That Much.” When I started working for the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were White, male, and/or older. By the time that my Democrat GAO superiors forced me into early retirement in 1997, virtually all of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were minority, female, and/or younger.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/dei-impact-us-company-workforce-charts-2e6a6bb7
FORBES
— Trump’s Approval Rating At 53% In New Poll—But Americans Are Less Sure About Elon Musk
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/02/09/trumps-approval-rating-at-53-in-new-poll-but-americans-are-less-sure-about-elon-musk/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/02/09/everything-to-know-about-trumps-mass-deportation-plans-dhs-head-noem-suggest-non-violent-immigrants-could-be-sent-to-guantanamo/
KWQC
— Concerns about federal employee buyout program (COMMENT: What is your position on buyouts and early retirement offers? In 1993, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of their employees who were Republican, older, White, male, non-veteran, GS-13, and had 25 years or more of federal service. I was “eligible,” that is, I was “targeted” because I was all of the aforesaid. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Their forcing me to retire wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for 18 years and for IRS for 9 years, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees (finance-1997, accounting-1980, and business-1976), c) six job-related professional certifications (forensic accounting-1997, financial services auditing-1996, government financial management-1994, fraud examination-1990, internal auditing-1981, and accounting-1979) and d) earning a job-related professional license (CPA-1981).)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHFuie2wgH8
WASHINGTON STAND
— Americans Rush to Enlist in Trump’s Military Recruitment Boom
https://washingtonstand.com/commentary/americans-rush-to-enlist-in-trumps-military-recruitment-boom-
POLITICO
— White South Africans reject idea they need to flee country for US (COMMENT: In America, to get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) give Blacks more preference and b) discriminate more against Whites.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/09/white-south-africans-us-00203271
NATION
— The Democrat Party is ever-increasingly anti-Israel
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/uchicago-palestine-protests-free-speech-trump/
FED SMITH
— Evaluating Employee Performance and HR Merit System: First Step in the Trump Changes. Previous efforts to improve performance of the federal merit system have not lasted. The Trump administration is more aggressive. Unions may face a backlash from some. (COMMENT: Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government use the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/02/07/evaluating-employee-performance-and-hr-merit-system-first-step-in-the-trump-changes/
ENTERTAINMENT
— Taylor Swift booed at Super Bowl 2025
https://ew.com/taylor-swift-booed-super-bowl-2025-8788703
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Those who hate America use Affirmative Action and DEI to destroy America.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-attack-on-military-diversity-is-doomed-to-fail.html
GUARDIAN
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/feb/10/how-trump-made-diversity-a-dirty-word-podcast
— Democrats declared war against Republicans in 1861 to keep slavery. Republicans defeated Democrats in 1865. Today’s Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint today’s Democrats as having been Republicans during the Civil War and b) paint today’s Republicans as having been Democrats during the Civil War. Me, my parents, my grandparents, my great grandparents, and all the rest of my ancestors were Republicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/we-are-witnessing-the-rise-of-a-new-republican-southern-strategy
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February 8, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Aurora mayoral candidates share their views on city issues at forum (COMMENT: What are the issues in your township, municipality, and school district?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/aurora-mayoral-candidates-share-their-views-on-city-issues-at-forum/
— Donald Trump orders freeze of aid to South Africa citing country’s land expropriation law
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/07/trump-freeze-aid-south-africa/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/community-leaders-speak-out-under-little-village-arch-hundreds-rally-for-day-of-love-and-resistance/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/08/nonprofit-warns-of-vigilantism-against-migrants-after-skokie-family-receives-deportation-threats/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/02/07/trump-immigration-executive-order-refugees-resettlement-united-nations-stop-work-order
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/02/07/illinois-jb-pritzker-revenue-squeeze-trump-congressional-gop-cut-medicaid-expansion-rich-miller
DAILY HEARLD
— Democrats far outspent GOP rivals in suburban U.S. House races — none more than Raja Krishnamoorthi (COMMENT: What discourages you from giving money to Republican candidates? For me, it includes my having less money. In today’s dollars, my federal pension a) is only 44% of what my GAO salary was in 1997 and b) less than what my IRS salary was in 1972. Further, my Social Security is dramatically less because I get a federal pension. Further, far too many unsuccessful Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did much to help elect blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250208/us-congress-politics/democrats-far-outspent-gop-rivals-in-suburban-u-s-house-races-none-more-than-raja-krishnamoorthi/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican candidates in northeast Illinois struggle to compete financially with their rivals across the aisle. Of the eight Republican congressional candidates who ran in the suburbs last year, the 10th District’s Jim Carris of Lake Forest spent the most — nearly $681,000. The campaign spending totals for four others — Rice in the 8th District plus James Marter in the 14th, Jerry Evans in the 11th and Niki Conforti in the 6th — were lower in the six-figure range. Ramirez’s GOP challenger in the 3rd District, John Booras, spent less than $40,000 on his campaign; the 9th District’s Seth Cohen spent less than $8,000 on his race. Postelection and year-end reports weren’t available for 5th District GOP candidate Tommy Hanson.)
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250208/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-in-defense-of-dei-the-phrase-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-may-sound-unga/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250207/nation-and-world-politics/latino-evangelical-churches-gear-up-to-face-possible-immigration-enforcement-in-churches/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois revs up more EV incentives amid uncertain fate of federal rebates
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-revs-more-ev-incentives-amid-federal-uncertainties
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more gambling.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/illinois-generates-17-billion-casino-tax-revenue
ABC7
— Trump announces plans to gut the Kennedy Center board, appoint himself chairman
https://abc7chicago.com/post/kennedy-center-president-donald-trump-says-hes-firing-board-trustees-members-naming-himself-chairman/15882171/
— Trump official’s directive tying transportation grants to birth rates could hinder blue states
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-birth-rates-state-donald-trump-transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-circulates-memo-tying-grants-marriage/15881663/
— Chicago Auto Show 2025: Doors open for Day 1 at McCormick Place
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-auto-show-2025-doors-open-saturday-morning-mccormick-place/15881013/
WGN TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/little-village-protest-trump-deportations/
— Illinois faces funding cut-off for electric vehicle charging stations; Pritzker vows to fight back
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/illinois-ev-funding-cuts/
FOX32
— Time magazine cover puts Elon Musk behind Trump’s desk
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/time-magazine-elon-musk-trump-desk
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/06/illinois-farm-workers-consumers-alert-amid-mass-deportation-threats
WBEZ
— Lurie Children’s Hospital pauses gender care surgeries for those younger than 19. The move comes after President Donald Trump’s executive order that said the federal government would not support these procedures.
https://www.wbez.org/2025/02/07/lurie-childrens-hospital-pauses-gender-care-surgeries-for-those-younger-than-19
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-policies-on-gender-affirming-care-and-passports-for-transgender-people-challenged-in-court/article_a7b7c426-ae4e-58d7-934b-d7c89861987a.html
SOUTHERN
— Here are all the agencies that Elon Musk and DOGE have been trying to dismantle so far
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/08/here-are-all-the-agencies-that-elon-musk-and-doge-have-been-trying-to-dismantle-so-far/
EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/donald-trump-protest-edwardsville-il-20154122.php
WIFR
— Democrat leaders get high school students to promote more illegal immigration
https://www.wifr.com/gallery/2025/02/08/jefferson-high-schoolers-protest-trumps-immigration-policies/
EFFINGHAM RADIO
— IL House Leader McCombie Demands Transparency And Accountability On Immigration
https://www.effinghamradio.com/2025/02/08/il-house-leader-mccombie-demands-transparency-and-accountability-on-immigration/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-245/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders will use their mainstream news media a) to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, b) to demonize, denigrate, and condemn the Republican Party platform, c) to elect Democrat candidates, and d) to defeat Republican candidates. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Crystal Laker Trevor Keegan in Super Bowl
mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/crystal-laker-trevor-keegan-in-super-bowl/
— Blago Being Talked about as Trump Pick for Ambassador to Serbia
https://wwwhttps://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/blago-being-talked-about-as-trump-pick-for-ambassador-to-serbia/
— Lakemoor Refuses Comment on $40 Million Illegal Search and Seizure Hemp Suit
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/lakemoor-refuses-comment-on-40-million-illegal-search-and-seizure-hemp-suit/
— Pritzker Flips on No New Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/pritzker-flips-on-no-new-taxes/
— Tariffs and How Value Added Taxes Are “Backdoor Tariffs”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/tariffs-and-how-value-added-taxes-are-backdoor-tariffs/
— Correcting County Administrator Pete Austin’s Salary Information — Seeking 5.3% Raise
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/correcting-county-administrator-pete-austins-salary-information/
— Major “Sin” Tax Brings in $1.5 Billion
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/07/major-sin-tax-brings-in-1-5-billion/
— Schakowsky on Trump’s Early Days as President
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/schakowsky-on-trumps-early-days-as-president/
— Pritzker Purports to Re-Name Lake Michigan “Lake Illinois”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/08/pritzker-purports-to-re-name-lake-michigan-lake-illinois/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump says DOGE will look into more federal agencies (COMMENTL Will DOGE look into GAO?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/7/trump-says-doge-look-federal-agencies/
— Alaska lawmakers officially oppose Trump’s push to change Denali to Mount McKinley
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/8/alaska-lawmakers-officially-oppose-trump-push-chan/
— Russia is using Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to create a migration crisis. The axis of evil is sending masses of illegal immigrants to flood the southwest border.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/6/russia-using-cuba-nicaragua-venezuela-create-migra/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump ordered Secret Service to provide ‘every bit of information’ on would-be assassins
https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/us-news/trump-ordered-secret-service-to-provide-every-bit-of-information-on-would-be-assassins/
BAPTIST NEWS
— Remember that time Wheaton College congratulated Russell Vought?
https://baptistnews.com/article/remember-that-time-wheaton-college-congratulated-russell-vought/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Want to know how controversial it was for Russell Vought to be confirmed by the Senate as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget? Just ask Wheaton College, where Vought earned a bachelor’s degree. On Friday, Feb. 7, the Christian college posted a note on its Facebook page with Vought’s photo saying, “Wheaton College congratulates and prays for 1998 graduate Russell Vought regarding his senatorial confirmation to serve as the White House Director of the Office of Management and Budget!” Then the alumni base of the Illinois school began to vent their disdain for Vought and their disbelief that their alma mater would highlight someone responsible for creating Project 2025 and saying he wants to make federal employees so miserable they all quit — among other things. By Saturday morning, the post was removed from Facebook.)
DAILY WIRE
— Wheaton College Caves to Woke Mob, Apologizes For Congratulating Alum In Trump Admin. Wheaton College posted, and then retracted, a message congratulating Russ Vought on his confirmation to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/christian-college-caves-to-woke-mob-apologizes-for-congratulating-alum-in-trump-admin
FOX NEWS
— Hegseth to look into ‘what went wrong’ in Afghanistan and pledges accountability, slams diversity motto. ‘We will find strength in unity,’ not diversity, Hegseth says.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hegseth-look-what-went-wrong-afghanistan-pledges-accountability-slams-diversity-motto
— Teachers express fears as Trump strips federal funding for schools teaching CRT. ‘Every teacher I’ve talked to is completely freaked out by it,’ one retired teacher told The Boston Globe.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/teachers-express-fears-trump-strips-federal-funding-schools-teaching-crt
NEWSMAX
— Time for Homan to Decisively Act on Defiant Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/homan-cbs-ice/2025/02/08/id/1198327/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-rights-lawsuits-challenge-trump-policies/
WASHINGTON POST
— Attacks on Catholics, Lutherans suggest new Trump approach on religion. Allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, and questioning their efforts to help migrants.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/08/catholic-lutheran-vance-flynn-musk-trump/
— Trump says some white South Africans are oppressed, could be resettled in the US. They say no thanks. Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority have responded to a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, but no thanks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/08/trump-south-africa-afrikaners/ac037124-e633-11ef-ab83-bb30e4340014_story.html
REASON
— America’s enemies want mass immigration.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/02/08/trumps-cruel-assault-on-legal-immigration/
January 28, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Mayor reaffirms Chicago’s welcoming city status amid ICE raids; at least 100 arrested in area. Unclear if mayor will go to Washington to testify next month.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-immigration-raids-today-arrests-continue-mayor-brandon-johnson-called-testify-sanctuary-city-policy/15843173/
— Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-grants-loan-disbursement-paused-white-house/15843367/
— Firings, freezes and layoffs: A list of Trump’s moves against federal employees and programs (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Since the 1960s, they have ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-federal-funding-actions-list-summary-trumps-moves-employees-programs/15844281/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Diversity, equity and inclusion On his second day back at the White House, Trump moved to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. That move followed an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a dismantling of the federal government’s diversity and inclusion programs that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners, programs Trump has called “discrimination.” That action revokes an order issued by President Lyndon Johnson, and curtails DEI programs by federal contractors and grant recipients. It’s using one of the key tools utilized by the Biden administration to promote DEI programs across the private sector – pushing their use by federal contractors – to now eradicate them. While many changes may take months or even years to implement, prominent companies from Walmart to Facebook have already scaled back or ended some of their diversity practices in response to Trump’s election and conservative-backed lawsuits against them. By Friday, federal agencies are expected to develop a plan to execute a “reduction-in-force action” against federal DEI workers in their employ as of Election Day.)
— Trump signs executive order aimed at curtailing gender transitions for everyone under 19 (COMMENT: How much success have Democrats had promoting LGBTQ in your school district?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-signs-executive-order-aimed-curtailing-gender-transitions-everyone-19/15844501/
— IL House lawmakers file almost 1,800 new bills only 2 weeks into legislative session (COMMENT: What bills have your Republican lawmakers filed to defend and advance the Republican Party platform?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/il-house-lawmakers-file-almost-1800-new-bills-2-weeks-legislative-session-including-single-use-plastic-foodware-ban/15844418/
NBC5
— Pritzker calls Trump funding freeze ‘illegal’ after judge blocks order. Pritzker addressed media on Tuesday afternoon amid continuing fallout over the freeze order.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/pritzker-blasts-trump-funding-freeze-medicaid-other-programs/3658478/
— Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., on Tuesday defended the impacts of the White House’s federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving free lunch. (COMMENT: During my freshman and sophomore years in high school, I did yard work. During my freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years in high school, I delivered newspapers. During my junior and senior years, I washed dishes. At the start of my junior year in 1964, I bought a 1958 Chevy Bel Air with the money that I had earned. At the end of my senior year, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint with the money that I had earned that I used it to commute to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete. Because I worked so many hours instead of studying, I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class and my ACT score was only 24. Because of heavy traffic on the Dan Ryan, commuting was difficult.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/republican-congressman-children-free-school-lunches-mcdonalds/3658368/
CBS2
— Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul calls Trump’s federal funding freeze unconstitutional
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-president-trump-freeze-federal-funding/
— Democratic states plan to sue over Trump’s federal grant funding freeze
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-funding-freeze-lawsuit-democratic-attorneys-general/
— Medicaid, Head Start, health centers say they’re locked out of federal funding website (COMMENT: To what extent are those in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct dependent on a) federal aid, b) state aid, c) township aid, d) municipal aid, and e) school district aid?)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/medicaid-head-start-health-centers-trump-funding-freeze/
WGN9
— President Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown continues
https://wgntv.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/president-trumps-sweeping-immigration-crackdown-continues/
FOX32
— Illinois GOP bill would require law enforcement to coordinate with ICE
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-ice-cooperation-trust-act
— Elgin man arrested by ICE, family says
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1584187
WBEZ
— Immigration arrests have quieted Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods. In East Chicago, a neighborhood that is about 80% Mexican, the typically bustling commercial corridor was eerily still on Monday.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/28/immigration-arrests-have-quieted-chicagos-latino-neighborhoods
— Health care providers in Illinois could lose millions in funding under Trump order. Some providers say an order freezing federal financial help could mean cuts in services within days or months. A judge temporarily blocked the order.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/01/28/health-care-providers-in-illinois-could-lose-millions-in-funding-under-trump-order
— Johnson, other ‘sanctuary’ mayors called to testify on ‘obstructionist policies,’ but he’s not sure he’ll show up. On Tuesday, Johnson referred the question to his Corporation Counsel Mary Richardson-Lowry, who said the “invitation” from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is “under legal review.” Johnson and the mayors of Boston, Denver and New York also were asked to hand over all documents related to their cities’ sanctuary status.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/28/mayor-brandon-johnson-house-oversight-committee-sanctuary-city-immigration-deportation
— Chicago’s immigration sweeps have restaurant and food industry employers feeling anxious. Chicago-based American Business Immigration Coalition warns of major economic consequences of mass deportations. (COMMENT: I washed dishes for the minimum wage in Chicago Heights during my junior and senior years in high school and the summer in between. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, one of them would have gotten that job. That job enabled me to earn and save enough money to buy a new car before I graduated, a car that I used to commute to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete.)
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/28/chicago-immigration-sweeps-restaurant-food-industry-employers-feeling-anxious
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— President Trump’s federal funding freeze hits Medicaid in Illinois, slated to disrupt vast array of programs. The temporary federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB Pritzker’s office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in Illinois in 2023, including low-income adults, children, pregnant women and people with disabilities.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/28/illinois-medicaid-federal-funding-freeze-trump-administration
— Mayor Brandon Johnson reaffirms Chicago’s welcoming city status amid ICE raids. CPD says more than 100 have been detained from Chicago area.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-immigration-raids-today-arrests-continue-mayor-brandon-johnson-called-testify-sanctuary-city-policy/15843173/
— Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months’ pay in effort to shrink size of government
Federal employees who don’t want to return to the office can apply for a buyout. Those workers who accept the buyout will need to resign by Feb. 6 and would receive severance paid through Sept. 30. (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/washington/2025/01/28/trump-offers-all-federal-workers-a-buyout-with-7-months-pay-in-effort-to-shrink-size-of-government
— Dr. Phil had no business taking part in ICE immigration raids in Chicago, Durbin says. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Tuesday slammed the decision to grant TV host Dr. Phil McGraw, a psychologist, access to the raids Sunday in Chicago, which McGraw streamed on his channel.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/washington/2025/01/28/durbin-senate-floor-comments-chicago-immigration-raids-ice-dr-phil-mcgraw-homeland-security
— Trump’s moves on electric vehicles will hurt industry and our climate. President Donald Trump’s executive orders target the electric vehicle industry, while Europe and China forge ahead. (COMMENT: Will Democrats say that I am helping the electric vehicle industry and climate with my buying an electric 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T?)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/01/28/evs-electric-vehicles-donald-trump-environment-editorial
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump administration’s surprise federal funding freeze hits Medicaid while raising havoc and sowing confusion across Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/mayor-brandon-johnson-trump-federal-funds-cut/
— Illinois unable to access Medicaid systems hours before President Trump’s freeze on grants was supposed to take effect
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/mayor-brandon-johnson-trump-federal-funds-cut/
— Democrat leaders crow about their manipulation/domination of religious leaders.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/evanston-church-offers-sanctuary-to-immigrants/
— Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months’ pay in effort to shrink size of government (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/trump-federal-workers-buyout/
— CNN’s Jim Acosta, an irritant to Trump, says he’s quitting rather than take a late-night time slot (COMMENT: In 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer.” They hinted that they might let me work another 6 years when I would be eligible for regular retirement if I happily agreed to be downgraded and transferred to a different audit group. I had been assigned to their group that audited federal financial regulators since 1990. I had become a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. I had earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/cnns-jim-acosta-quits/
— If you’re arrested by ICE in Illinois, what happens next? Legal experts explain the process
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/ice-immigration-trump-deportation-know-your-rights/
— Illinois GOP sues over Democratic legislative remap, calling it ‘not just a little corrupt’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/gop-remap-lawsuit/
DAILY HERALD
— Confusion reigns after feds pull plug on aid; Illinois sues and Pritzker blasts White House
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250128/nation-and-world-politics/illinois-joins-5-other-states-seeking-to-block-trump-pulling-plug-on-federal-aid/
— West Chicago mayor candidate wants lottery to determine ballot placement
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250127/local-politics/west-chicago-mayor-candidate-wants-lottery-to-determine-ballot-placement/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump’s federal spending freeze has local recipients reeling
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/uchicago-pauses-research-spending-after-trump-funding-freeze
— Before federal funding freeze, Illinois reports issues accessing Medicaid
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/after-trump-funding-freeze-illinois-reports-issues-accessing-medicaid
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois lawmakers file bill to repeal ‘Trust Act,’ require police to work with ICE
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/01/28/illinois-lawmakers-want-law-enforcement-to-work-with-ice/78000550007/
WSIL TV
— More frequent use of marijuana damages the brain’s working memory, which could lead to issues with safety, communications and work success. (COMMENT: I have never used marijuana and I never will. That helped me a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) earn master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 46, and 48, and d) earn a professional license when I was 32.)
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/more-frequent-marijuana-use-may-damage-an-important-memory-skill/article_d87a02d9-db7c-5ef4-af93-a9fe4151f824.html
DUPAGE COUNTY ELECTION DIVISION
— Unofficial Candidate Listings
https://cms5.revize.com/revize/dupage/Election/Documents/Candidate%20Information/Candidate%20Listings/2025CE/2025CE-0%20Full%20Candidate%20List.pdf
CAPITOL FAX
— Pritzker directs state agencies to report potential impacts of federal funding cuts
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/28/pritzker-directs-state-agencies-to-report-potential-impacts-of-federal-funding-cuts/
— Trump administration starts at least a partial walk-back after furor – Judge pauses – State has access to Medicaid portal – Pritzker: ‘What Donald Trump tried to do in the last 24 hours is illegal’ – Medicaid shutdown ‘not an accident’ – Federal agencies ordered not to speak with states – AG lawsuit posted
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/28/trump-administration-starts-at-least-a-partial-walk-back-after-furor/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-237/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
— America First Means No More Open Borders and Dangerous Criminals
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
(PRESS RELEASE: ICE Raids targeting criminals and gang members have arrived in Chicago. While many Democrats across the country have embraced and even supported President Trump’s targeting of criminal illegal migrants, JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson continue to grandstand side by side prioritizing protecting criminals over the safety of Illinois families. Here’s some of the people that they are protecting: Nine Tren de Aragua terrorists; Seven sexual predators who committed crimes against children; and Two murderers. Tom Homan said it himself – “everybody we arrested in Chicago yesterday was a significant public safety threat.” “The Trump Administration is making our communities safe again and placing the lives and wellbeing of Americans first. I am a proud supporter of the new Administration’s efforts to step up and take the action that Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson are too cowardly to take themselves,” said Illinois Republican Party Chair Kathy Salvi. “This is a nation of laws, laws that Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson are fine ignoring for the sake of their own radical agenda. President Trump is doing exactly what the American people elected him to do, and we stand ready to assist him in his efforts to secure our border and keep our streets safe.”)
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— McConchie Recommends Joe Salvi as Replacement in State Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/mcconchie-recommends-joe-salvi-as-replacement-in-state-senate/
— McLaughlin Seeks to Succeed McConchie in Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/mclaughlin-seeks-to-succeed-mcconchie-as-in-senate/
— More Bias in Illegal Alien Removal Reporting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/more-bias-in-illegal-alien-removal-reporting/
— Chicago Papers Emphasize Human Interest Angles of Illegal Alien Removals
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/chicago-papers-emphasize-human-interest-angles-of-illegal-alien-removals/
— Rep. Sosnowski Takes on Pritzker about Illegal Alien Deportation
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/rep-sosnowski-takes-on-pritzker-about-illegal-alien-deportation/
— Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Holding Fundraiser Wednesday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/28/algonquin-township-road-commissioner-holding-fundraiser-wednesday/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 7 steps to improve Illinois’ social mobility rating
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/press-releases/7-steps-to-improve-illinois-social-mobility-rating/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Promote and encourage the “success sequence.” Research has shown progressing from getting an education, finding full-time work, getting married and then having children is a proven path to improve social mobility and strengthen families. American adults who follow this model have a poverty rate of only 2%, and about 75% joined the middle class.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BLAZE
— Trump to freeze federal funds as admin weeds out ‘wokeness’ in budget
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-to-freeze-federal-funds-as-admin-weeds-out-wokeness-in-budget
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump provokes firestorm with federal freeze
https://thehill.com/newsletters/evening-report/5111767-trump-federal-freeze-johnson-miami-leavitt-peters-medicaid/
CNN
— Trump administration denies it is pausing all federal grants after sweeping memo to government agencies
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/white-house-pauses-federal-grants-loan-disbursement/index.html
NBC NEWS
— Trump’s funding freeze creates widespread confusion. A White House memo set off a flurry of panic across nonprofit groups, who said they were unable to access federal government systems used to withdraw funds.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-federal-funding-freeze-widespread-confusion-rcna189581
CBS NEWS
— Trump administration offering buyouts to government workers unwilling to return to office (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include my a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) my becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) my earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-offering-buyouts-to-government-workers-unwilling-to-return-to-office/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Spending Freeze Sows Confusion and Fear
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/28/us/trump-news-executive-orders
PBS
— Trump orders temporary funding freeze that could affect trillions of dollars
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-orders-temporary-funding-freeze-that-could-affect-trillions-of-dollars
January 28, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— ICE raids continue as Mayor Johnson called to testify on Chicago’s sanctuary city policy
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-immigration-raids-today-arrests-continue-mayor-brandon-johnson-called-testify-sanctuary-city-policy/15843173/
— ICE makes arrests in Chicago, suburbs as part of nationwide immigration raids. The atmosphere of the ICE raids and rumors of raids is creating a chilling effect in some neighborhoods. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn law enforcement.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-immigration-raids-today-ice-agents-make-arrests-city-suburbs-donald-trumps-border-czar-tom-homan-town/15840132/
— Chicago alderman critical of how ICE agents handling immigration mission in city. ‘They had Dr. Phil, you know, which lends a circus atmosphere to this entire thing,’ Ald. Brian Hopkins said. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn law enforcement.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-alderman-critical-how-feds-handling-deportation-mission-threat-illinois-ice-raids-arrests-remains-high/15841859/
— Chicago nonprofits losing resources to help refugees after Trump suspends resettlement program (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-immigration-news-nonprofits-like-world-relief-chicagoland-losing-resources-help-refugees-resettle/15841727/
NBC5
— Brandon Johnson and three other U.S. mayors asked to testify at Congressional hearing on ‘sanctuary cities’ https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/brandon-johnson-congress-testify-chicago-sanctuary-city/3657572/
— Trump addresses House Republican conference in Florida
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/watch-live-trump-addresses-house-republican-conference-in-florida/3657332/
— Florida Republicans upend DeSantis’ plans over Trump’s immigration orders. State GOP legislative leaders abruptly ended a special session called by Ron DeSantis and are pursuing their own immigration proposal, sparking an intraparty battle.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/florida-republicans-upend-desantis-trump-immigration/3657061/
— Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Democrats do not want their illegals to be deported because their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/who-is-ice-targeting-in-chicago-what-to-know-amid-enhanced-operations/3657103/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/waukegan-illinois-woman-devastated-after-ice-takes-her-dad/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ice-agents-conduct-search-cicero-home/
WGN9
— Chicago’s ‘sanctuary city status’ under investigation by federal committee amid immigration raids
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-sanctuary-city-investigation/
FOX32
— According to Pritzker, the following are “midwestern values:” a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/pritzker-takes-aim-at-trump-during-bill-signing-our-midwestern-values-are-under-siege/ar-AA1xBpTr
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders want all the information that they can get to help their illegals avoid deportation.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/27/chicago-immigration-ice-raid-monday
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— US places dozens of senior aid officials on leave, citing possible resistance to Trump orders (COMMENT: I always fully complied with my Democrat GAO superiors’ and supervisors’ orders to give my Democrat subordinates big time preference, and especially those who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. But that was not enough for them. They wanted to and they did force me to retire early and they gave my Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/senior-officials-leave/
— Former Illinois Senate GOP leader Dan McConchie is resigning
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/former-illinois-senate-gop-leader-dan-mcconchie-resigning-to-start-nonprofit-accessibility-group/
— Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Democrats do not want their illegals to be deported because their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/chicago-ice-raids-what-to-know/
— ‘You’re Dr. Phil.’ TV personality says he joined immigration raids in Chicago for ‘transparency.’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/dr-phil-chicago-ice-migrants-raids/
— Democrat leaders continue to use “mistaken ICE report in Chicago” to promote fear
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/28/hamline-elementary-immigration-fear/
— Nate Fields back on ballot as Thornton Township supervisor candidate, judge rules
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/thornton-township-candidate-nate-fields-back-on-ballot/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders have concluded that the only way that they can regain the White House, U.S. Senate, and/or U.S. House is a) to bring in many more millions of their illegals and b) to stop Trump from deporting any of the many millions that they have already brought in. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. Anticipate/expect ever-increasing Democrat effort to hide their illegals in schools, in churches, in apartments, in homes, in empty buildings, in etc.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/01/27/chicago-immigration-ice-raid-monday
— Congressional panel calls Johnson, other sanctuary city mayors to testify about ‘’obstructionist policies’ The mayors of Chicago, Boston, Denver and New York were also asked to hand over all documents and communications related to their cities’ sanctuary status, including those between each city, non-governmental organizations and state officials.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/01/27/mayor-brandon-johnson-house-oversight-committee-sanctuary-city-immigration-deportation
— Chicago’s immigration sweeps have restaurant and food industry employers feeling anxious (COMMENT: I washed dishes for the minimum wage in Chicago Heights during my junior and senior years in high school and the summer in between. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, one of them would have gotten that job. That job enabled me to earn and save enough money to buy a new car before I graduated, a car that I used to commute to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/small-business/2025/01/27/chicago-immigration-sweeps-restaurant-food-industry-employers-feeling-anxious
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: An ‘unwavering’ public servant: Republican state Sen. Dan McConchie resigning
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250127/illinois-state-politics/republican-state-sen-dan-mcconchie-resigning/
— Judge denies request to delay ballot in Glendale Heights case
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250127/local-politics/judge-denies-request-to-delay-ballot-in-glendale-heights-case/
— Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton launching PAC to help potential Senate bid if Durbin does not run again (COMMENT: Stratton was among the first customers to purchase cannabis when Illinois began recreational sale of the drug on January 1, 2020. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22+Juliana+Stratton%22+illinois+pot )
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250127/illinois-state-politics/lt-gov-juliana-stratton-launching-pac-to-help-potential-senate-bid-if-durbin-does-not-run-again/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURES: Democrat leaders have concluded that the only way that they can regain the White House, U.S. Senate, and/or U.S. House is a) to bring in many more millions of their illegals and b) to stop Trump from deporting any of the many millions that they have already brought in. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. Anticipate/expect ever-increasing Democrat effort to hide their illegals in schools, in churches, in apartments, in homes, in empty buildings, in etc.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250127/news/suburban-police-navigating-conflicting-state-federal-directives-on-immigration-crackdown/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago restaurants on guard against ICE (COMMENT: While I was a junior and senior in high school in the 1960s, I washed dishes. Previously, I did yard work and delivered newspapers. Subsequently, I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/chicago-restaurants-guard-against-ice-raids
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Immigration officers say ‘the worst go first,’ but now there’s no ‘free pass’ A week into Donald Trump’s second presidency and his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, federal officers are operating with a new sense of mission.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/immigration-officers-say-the-worst-go-first-but-now-theres-no-free-pass/article_cc43b763-e646-5580-9893-6b84c18b0887.html
EFFINGHAM DAILY NEWS
— Indiana border bill energizes Illinois movement to create nation’s 51st state
https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/local_news/indiana-border-bill-energizes-illinois-movement-to-create-nations-51st-state/article_68fa04f4-80bc-5935-8725-72644c8b520c.html
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders oppose deportation of their illegals because Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans and illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/durbin-duckworth-statement-on-trumps-mass-deportation-actions-in-chicago-79137.cfm?
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump signs executive order taking aim at DEI programs in the military
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-28/trump-signs-executive-order-taking-aim-at-dei-programs-in-the-military
WGLT
— Anticipate/expect that illegals will ever-increasingly hide out in schools and in churches.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-01-27/how-districts-are-responding-after-trump-cleared-the-way-for-immigration-arrests-at-schools
WAND TV
— After-school program providers, parents demand Pritzker admin release grant funding (COMMENT: What did you do while you were in high school? I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, and washed dishes 1964-1966.)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/after-school-program-providers-parents-demand-pritzker-admin-release-grant-funding/article_ee616956-dcf9-11ef-9612-5f6443e958ea.html
WCIA
— Illinois prohibits discrimination on reproductive health decisions with law effective Jan. 1 (COMMENT: All my Democrat GAO superiors and superiors had children and they all painted themselves as being disadvantaged by that big time. They all held it against me big time that my wife and I gave up trying to have children. According to them, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and become a licensed CPA in 1981, d) earn four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, or e) earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. Their wives did not have a good paying job like mine did and they were furiously envious about that.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/illinois-prohibits-discrimination-on-reproductive-health-decisions-with-law-effective-jan-1/ar-AA1wx7sm
25 NEWS NOW
— Reagan Deering (R) of Decatur introduces bill banning transgender student-athletes (COMMENT: Transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete against other transgender athletes.)
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/01/28/republican-illinois-lawmaker-introduces-transgender-student-athlete-ban-bill/
BATAVIA PATCH
— Democrats push pot in Batavia
https://patch.com/illinois/batavia/1st-recreational-cannabis-dispensary-open-batavia
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— GOP Wants Chicago Mayor To Testify At Congressional Hearing On Sanctuary Cities. It’s unclear if Mayor Brandon Johnson will attend the Feb. 11 hearing on Capitol Hill. (COMMENT: To be a sanctuary city is to reject America’s immigration laws.)
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/27/gop-wants-chicago-mayor-to-testify-at-congressional-hearing-on-sanctuary-cities/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Durbin and those who might run for his office if he does not run again.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/01/28/congressional-panel-calls-chicago-mayor-to-testify-on-obstructionist-policies-00200919
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-444/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-236/
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-443/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
One Week of President Trump
— PRESS RELEASE: It’s been one week of President Trump’s America First agenda and a lot of great policies that improve the lives of Illinois residents went into effect. See for yourself what President Trump did in week one: Declared a national emergency at our southern border; Ended catch-and-release and reinstated the Remain in Mexico policy; Realigned foreign aid to better align with American interests; Returned to America First and Peace through Strength policies; Directed agencies to implement policies that lower the cost of living; Revoked the electric vehicle mandate; Ended DEI mandates across government; and Rescinded 78 Biden-era executive actions. Bottom Line: It’s been just over one week with President Trump back in office and America and Illinois are trending in the right direction. Over the next four years, President Trump will continue to work for the American people to secure our border, fix our economy and Make America Great Again!
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
— PRESS RELEASE: When Will IL Dems Retract Their ICE Lies?
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders have concluded that the only way that they can regain the White House, U.S. Senate, and/or U.S. House is a) to bring in many more millions of their illegals and b) to stop Trump from deporting any of the many millions that they have already brought in. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. Anticipate/expect ever-increasing Democrat effort to hide their illegals in schools, in churches, in apartments, in homes, in empty buildings, in etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What discourages conservatives, that is, platform Republicans, from becoming/remaining Republican Precinct Committeemen in Illinois, in DuPage County and in Milton Township? They see how the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) have treated conservatives like me since 2000, that is, how they have treated platform Republicans like me since 2000. IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO leaders have taken many/big adverse actions against me since 2000. They blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What things do you look forward to this year? I look forward to taking my mind off politics by taking delivery of the red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T (SEE: https://www.dodge.com/charger.html ) that I have ordered and showing it at Iron Gate Motor Condos events. The first event this years is Fiesta Fest on May 10. SEE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iron-gate-motor-condos-association-fiesta-fest-tickets-1217214905549 Please let me know if you share my interests in Chargers, Corvettes, Mustangs, and Thunderbirds. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What if the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and/or Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) asked me to serve as its webmaster? I published MTRO’s first website in 2000 and served as its webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010. I published Milton Township’s first website in 2001 and served as its webmaster 2001-2003. I published Illinois Center Right Coalition’s first website in 2003 and served as its webmaster 2003-2007. I published TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois’ first website in in 2005 and served as its webmaster 2005-2012. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Homer Glen GOP Under Siege: Democrats and RINOs Collude to Undermine Conservative Slate (COMMENT: My critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party are RINOs. They are anti-conservative if not conservative-haters. I should write about them. I would focus on those who falsely paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me recently.)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/01/homer-glen-gop-under-siege-democrats-and-rinos-collude-to-undermine-conservative-slate.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As Homer Glen prepares for the February 25th Republican Primary, local Democrats and establishment Republicans appear to be working together to undermine a conservative slate – an unprecedented alliance that threatens to derail years of principled leadership in this conservative stronghold. The Homer Township Democrats recently shared a Facebook post by Mayor Christina Neitzke-Troike, encouraging residents to request Republican ballots to participate in the primary. The message specifically highlighted the presence of two Republican slates and implied that voting against the conservative slate – led by Steve Balich – is a priority. Mayor Neitzke-Troike has also come under fire for her handling of this contentious election. Following a heated exchange between supporters of the two slates on her Facebook page, the mayor decided to turn off comments entirely, citing negativity and trolling as her reasoning. However, this decision raises serious ethical and legal questions. As an elected official, Neitzke-Troike has a duty to provide transparency and facilitate open dialogue with her constituents. By silencing public discussion and turning off comments on her official page, she may be infringing on her constituents’ rights to engage with their elected representative. Legal experts have pointed out that her actions could potentially violate the First Amendment, which protects free speech, as well as Illinois state law. Specifically, the Illinois Open Meetings Act (OMA) requires that public officials conduct their duties in a transparent and accountable manner. While the OMA primarily applies to formal meetings, it underscores the principle that elected officials must not obstruct public participation or suppress communication with their constituents. Furthermore, there are growing concerns that her decision to hide or disable comments may constitute a violation of the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act, which mandates that public officials avoid conduct that diminishes public confidence in the integrity of government. Critics argue that an elected official using social media to communicate with the public has an obligation to allow citizens to voice their opinions and concerns. Shutting down comments on public platforms undermines the trust between officials and residents, especially during a critical election season. Homer Glen is one of only two townships in Illinois with a primary for the consolidated election.)
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois school boards should provide opportunities to all kids in their districts (COMMENT: My parents sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-school-boards-should-provide-opportunities-to-all-kids-in-their-districts/
MCHENRYCOUNTY BLOG
— Senator Dan McConchie Resigning
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/27/senator-dan-mcconchie-resigning/
— Wilcox Files “No Tax on Tips” Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/27/wilcox-files-no-tax-on-tips-bill/
— Legislative Wish Fulfillment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/27/legislative-wish-fulfillment/
— In the “Don’t Get Your Hopes Up” Category
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/27/in-the-dont-get-your-hopes-up-category/
— Dems Promote Immigration Seminar at Junior College
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/27/demos-promote-immigration-seminar/
— Projected 2025 McHenry County Employee Compensation: To-Vi
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/25/projected-2025-mchenry-county-employee-compensation-to-vi/
— Projected 2025 McHenry County Employee Compensation: Vi-Wi
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/26/projected-2025-mchenry-county-employee-compensation-vi-wi/
— That Revelation of Execution Session Info Pops Up Again
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/26/that-revelation-of-execution-session-info-pops-up-again/
— Steve Reich Presents Analysis of the Current Pension Crisis
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/26/steve-reich-presents-analysis-of-the-current-pension-crisis/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— House opens investigation into four sanctuary cities. Boston, New York, Denver, Chicago face questions protecting illegal immigrants.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/27/house-opens-investigation-four-sanctuary-cities/
— GOP senators roll out ‘Wall Act,’ seek to help Trump fulfill his border vision
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/27/gop-senators-roll-wall-act-seek-help-trump-fulfill/
— Trump deploys the Alien Enemies Act. The law has repeatedly passed muster at the Supreme Court.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/27/trump-deploys-alien-enemies-act/
— White House orders freeze on ‘all federal financial assistance’ besides Social Security and Medicare. (COMMENT: Social Security and Medicare are not financial assistance. I paid into Social Security and Medicare.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/27/trump-freezes-federal-aid-grants/
— Supreme Court rejects Biden voter’s insurrection clause challenge to Trump presidency
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/27/supreme-court-rejects-biden-voter-joe-alter-insurr/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democratic disinformation will ramp up during Trump’s second term
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3301674/democratic-disinformation-will-increase-trump-second-term/
— Senior DOJ official quits after being assigned to target sanctuary cities (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS and GAO, Democrat Affirmative Action and DEI laws required me to give preference big time to my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, disabled, and/or veteran. Virtually all my subordinates were problematic in one way or the other. But I nevertheless gave them big time preference. But that was not enough for my Democrat superiors. They wanted to get rid of me so that they could give my job to one of my subordinates.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3301788/senior-doj-official-quits-assigned-target-sanctuary-cities/
NEW YORK POST
— Catholic Charities draws fire over video coaching illegal migrants on how to duck ICE workplace probes
https://nypost.com/2025/01/27/us-news/catholic-charities-draws-fire-over-video-coaching-illegal-migrants-on-how-to-duck-ice/
BLAZE
— Trump moves to deport 1.4 million migrants admitted under Biden’s parole programs (COMMENT: Everyone has always know that Biden’s parole program was illegal.)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-moves-to-deport-1-4-million-migrants-admitted-under-biden-s-parole-programs
BUZZ FEED
— 22 Unbelievable Things People Have Seen Rich Parents Do For Their Kids (COMMENT: I had to work my way through college. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, and worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970.)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/scarymouse/wild-things-upper-class-parents-do-for-their-kids
CAMPUS REFORM
— McDonald’s faces lawsuit for limiting college scholarship eligibility strictly to Latinos and Hispanics (COMMENT: What if Affirmative Action and DEI were only for those whose parents did not have college degrees?)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/mcdonalds-faces-lawsuit-limiting-college-scholarship-eligibility-strictly-latinos-hispanics/27352
CENTER SQUARE
— GOP senators file POLICE Act to deport those who assault law enforcement officers
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_f2e121ea-dd78-11ef-9037-ef71d64bd7f4.html
— In less than a week, ICE agents make nearly 1,000 arrests nationwide
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_82223158-dcfe-11ef-a6d0-6b06908f30be.html
DAILY WIRE
— Brazil Slams Trump Admin For Shipping Illegals Back In Handcuffs. Handcuffing illegal immigrants on deportation flights has been standard practice by the U.S. government, including under the Biden administration. (COMMENT: It is illegal a) to come into a country illegally and b) to stay in a country illegally.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/brazil-slams-trump-admin-for-shipping-illegals-back-in-handcuffs
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Signs Executive Orders Restricting Transgender Troops, Ending Military DEI Practices
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-signs-executive-orders-restricting-transgender-troops-ending-military-dei-practices-5799359
FEDERALIST SOCIETY
— Trump Issues Executive Order Revoking Biden’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Rules and Axing Affirmative Action (COMMENT: All my Democrat superiors always used Affirmative Action and DEI against me. All my coworkers who they promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/bye-bye-dei-president-trump-issues-executive-order-revoking-biden-s-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-rules-and-axing-affirmative-action
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— President Trump Shuts Down CBP One App; New Data Reveals Hundreds of Thousands of Illegal Aliens Were in the Pipeline
https://www.fairus.org/news/executive/president-trump-shuts-down-cbp-one-app-new-data-reveals-hundreds-thousands-illegal
FOX BUSINESS
— Pritzker is ‘trying to muddle two different topics,’ sheriff says. Terrell County, Texas, Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland weighs in on Illinois Gov. Pritzker threatening opposition to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6367843313112
FOX NEWS
— Illinois ‘super mayor’ conducted ‘systematic’ cover-up of excessive spending, Lightfoot investigation finds. Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard is hounded by financial troubles.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-super-mayor-conducted-systematic-cover-up-excessive-spending-lightfoot-investigation-finds
— Homan demands apology from Illinois governor over ‘lie’ that ICE targeted Chicago school: ‘Sowing fear’ Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker elevated false claim of ICE agents targeting Chicago school.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/homan-demands-apology-from-illinois-governor-over-lie-ice-targeted-chicago-school-sowing-fear
— Chicago PD says it ‘will not assist’ with upcoming ICE deportations
https://www.aol.com/chicago-pd-says-not-assist-003849923.html
— ‘Side-by-side’: Texas deploys hundreds of troops, choppers to help Trump tackle border crisis. The move is the latest troop deployment to the southern border.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-deploys-hundreds-troops-choppers-help-trump-tackle-border-crisis
— Comer launches investigation of sanctuary cities, asks mayors to testify. Rep. James Comer has asked the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York City to testify before lawmakers on the effectiveness of sanctuary city policies.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-launches-investigation-sanctuary-cities-asks-mayors-testify
— Trump administration carries out multiple raids targeting ‘criminal aliens’ in first weekend. ICE agents rounded up illegal immigrants across the US.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-administration-carries-out-multiple-raids-targeting-criminal-aliens-first-weekend
— GOP lawmaker rallies behind Trump’s rapid illegal immigration crackdown: ‘No time to waste’ (COMMENT: Are your GOP lawmakers rallying behind Trump’s rapid illegal immigration crackdown?)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/freshman-gop-lawmaker-rallies-behind-trumps-rapid-illegal-immigration-crackdown
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Biden Admin Spent $15 Million to Provide Contraceptives, Condoms in Afghanistan
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/01/biden-admin-spent-15-million-to-provide-contraceptives-condoms-in-afghanistan/
MRC TV
— Illegals Waving Foreign Flags Descend on ICE Building As Trump Rounds Up Criminals
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/illegals-waving-foreign-flags-descend-ice-building-trump-rounds-criminals
NEWSMAX
— ICE Confirms Operation Against Illegal Migrants in Chicago
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-operations-chicago/2025/01/26/id/1196611/
— House Opens Investigation Into Four Sanctuary Cities: New York, Chicago, Denver, and Boston
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/house-oversight-investigation/2025/01/27/id/1196722/
PJ MEDIA
— Catholic Charities Lies to Illegals to Aid Them Against ICE
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/01/27/catholic-charities-lies-to-illegals-to-aid-them-against-ice-n4936400
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Dr. Phil and Tom Homan Personally Rounding Up Illegals, Bring in Child Sex Predator
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-dr-phil-tom-homan-personally-rounding-illegals-bring-child-sex-predator/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Dems Call Trump’s Mass Firings Of Inspectors General A ‘Chilling Purge’, Is The Move Illegal? (COMMENT: If the IGs were independent, they would have offered me jobs when my GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrzAUqaeEtQ
NEWSWEEK
— Homan Accuses Pritzker of ‘Scaring Children’ with School Targeting Claims (COMMENT: How successful has Pritzker been in your school district promoting hatred against Trump and promoting hatred against the rule of law? Ever-increasingly, Pritzker is a modern day George Wallace. SEE: https://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/school_house_door_speech.htm )
https://www.newsweek.com/tom-homan-jb-pritzker-immigration-ice-raids-school-2021432
TIME
— The Human Cost of Trump Firing All Federal DEI Workers (COMMENT: I should write about the “human cost” of my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors’ use of Affirmative Action and DEI to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://time.com/7210295/cost-trump-firing-dei-workers/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Fast food is a staple of American culture, but some of its workers struggle to survive (COMMENT: During the 1960s, while I was in high school, I worked in fast food in Chicago Heights for the minimum wage part-time for 15 months and full-time for 3 months. With the money that I earned and saved, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in May of 1966 that I used to commute to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/fast-food-is-a-staple-of-american-culture-but-some-of-its-workers-struggle-to-survive/ar-AA1xQtxz
— Hundreds of US visa appointments canceled in Colombia following spat with Trump over deportations
https://apnews.com/article/colombia-visas-deportation-flights-trump-tariffs-d98900b9626bc481daebe0561d8889e8
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders force Blacks to promote DEI.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/black-owned-brands-urge-us-consumers-not-boycott-target-over-end-diversity-2025-01-28/
MSN
— Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Pritzker stands with foreign countries that illegally send their citizens illegally into America illegally. Those illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/video-jb-pritzker-on-trump-s-deportations-we-re-going-to-stand-in-the-way-of-an-unconstitutional-order/ar-AA1xTS6s
MSNBC
— The chilling message behind Trump’s latest firing spree. Congress created the first inspector general position in 1976 in an era of post-Watergate reform. Trump’s recent move to fire 18 of the 73 positions flies in the face of that tradition. (COMMENT: If the IGs were independent, they would have offered me jobs when my GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-firing-inspectors-general-undermine-government-accountability-rcna189459
NEW YORK TIMES
— Vance Defends Immigration Crackdown as Arrests Begin in Chicago
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/26/us/trump-news-updates
— Fired Inspectors General Raise Alarms as Trump Administration Moves to Finalize Purge. The full scope of the Friday night mass firings was coming into sharper view as one fired watchdog official warned of “a never-ending cycle of politicization.” (COMMENT: If the IGs were independent, they would have offered me jobs when my GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/trump-inspectors-general-fired.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Why government needs independent inspectors general. By keeping an eye out for waste and fraud, they make efficiency possible. (COMMENT: If the IGs were independent, they would have offered me jobs when my GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/27/trump-inspector-general-igs-fired/
— DOJ fires officials who worked on Jack Smith’s Trump investigations (COMMENT: Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors were furious when the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and promote me in 1986. They forced him to retire in 1987. They threw me off audits of IRS at the end of 1988. They gave me a very bad audit assignment, unfair performance expectations and evaluation, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance (PFP) in 1989. They made it clear that they would never again assign me to audits of IRS. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for PFP. They forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/27/doj-firings-trump-jack-smith-officials/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DEI is not dead, it is going under the table and off the books.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/is-dei-done/ba50d490-d16e-4b3e-8894-a33c204843ee
POLITICO
— Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of federal aid (COMMENT: To what extent are those in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct dependent on a) federal aid, b) state aid, c) township aid, d) municipal aid, and e) school district aid?)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/27/trump-freezes-federal-aid-omb-00200891
NEWSER
— Pritzker: I’ll ‘Stand in the Way’ of Illegal Trump Orders. He says feds shouldn’t be going after ‘law-abiding’ people with jobs, families. (COMMENT: How successful has Pritzker been in your school district promoting hatred against Trump and promoting hatred against the rule of law? Ever-increasingly, Pritzker is a modern day George Wallace. SEE: https://www.emersonkent.com/speeches/school_house_door_speech.htm )
https://www.newser.com/story/363239/pritzker-ill-stand-in-the-way-of-illegal-trump-orders.html
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL
— Are “bad jobs” dead ends or steppingstones to better things? (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. But those jobs were stepping stones for me to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job related professional license.)
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/social-policy/are-bad-jobs-dead-ends-or-steppingstones-better-things
INC.
— Summertime Opportunity: Packing Wealthy Parents’ Kids Off to Camp (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always outrageously, disgustingly, and falsely painted my parents as having been filthy rich. My critics/opponents ignored/dismissed/belittled that I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, and worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970. They ignored/dismissed/belittled that I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.)
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/summertime-opportunity-packing-wealthy-parents-kids-off-to-camp.html
TECH TARGET
— What is a webmaster? (COMMENT: What if the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and/or Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) asked me to serve as its webmaster? I served as the MTRO webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010. I published Milton Township’s first website in 2001 and served as its webmaster 2001-2003. I served as the Illinois Center Right Coalition webmaster 2003-2007 and as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois webmaster 2005-2012.)
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/Webmaster
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A webmaster is someone who creates and manages the content and organization of a website, manages the computer server and technical programming aspects of a website, or does both. Webmasters are often perceived as the website’s administrators who wear many hats to ensure the website runs seamlessly. What does a webmaster do? What a webmaster does varies significantly depending on the company’s size, industry niche, etc. However, most webmasters are responsible for two or more of the following: Content management. Design and functionality. Performance monitoring. Technical upkeep.)
BENEFITS PRO
— Trump shuts down ‘radical and wasteful’ federal DEI programs. Many of the nation’s largest employers have pulled back on DEI initiatives while others have doubled down. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers are not pulling back on DEI. They are putting DEI under the table and off the books.)
https://www.benefitspro.com/2025/01/27/trump-shuts-down-radical-and-wasteful-federal-dei-programs/
BENEFIT NEWS
— 25 best jobs in 2025 (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. All my critics/opponents had parents who had way more money than mine had.)
https://www.benefitnews.com/list/25-best-jobs-in-2025-for-pay-advancement-work-life-balance
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The top-ranking job is nurse practitioner, with a median salary of $126,260, and 135,500 projected jobs in 2025. Nurse practitioners perform many of the same tasks as physicians and these positions require a master’s degree. Other top jobs are IT manager and physician assistant. IT managers have a median salary of $169,510, have 106,900 projected jobs in 2025 and require a bachelor’s degree. Physician assistants have a median salary of $130,020, have 43,700 projected jobs in 2025 and require a master’s degree. Of the top 25 jobs, 10 are in healthcare or healthcare related industries, six are in technology, three are in business, three are in social services, one is in sales and marketing, one is in engineering, and one is in maintenance and repair.)
GOOGLE AI
— A problematic employee is someone who consistently acts in a way that is harmful to the company or its employees. They may have poor job performance, be uncooperative, or be resistant to change. (COMMENT: All the employees who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were problematic in one way or the other.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22problematic+employee%22+definition
GUARDIAN
— Parental income determines our life chances (COMMENT: Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/29/wealthy-parents-greatest-asset-is-the-assets-they-will-pass-on
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Parents shape our lives. On the financial side, academics focus on intergenerational income persistence (how much parental income determines our own) and its inverse (social mobility).)
DAILY MAIL
— CNN slammed for VERY selective reporting of Chicago migrant raids by outraged locals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14331057/cnn-slammed-selective-reporting-chicago-migrant-raids.html
January 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump administration planning ‘large-scale immigration raid’ Tuesday in Chicago. Mass deportation fears grow among Southwest Side food cart vendors, CPS families
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-food-cart-vendors-cps-families-have-growing-fears-mass-deportations-ahead-2nd-donald-trump-presidency/15811312/
— Trump’s inauguration moving indoors due to weather
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trumps-inauguration-moving-indoors-due-weather-sources/15810328/
— What can we expect from Trump’s first 100 days?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-can-expect-trumps-first-100-days/15811201/
— Democrats reject Trump’s election. Democrats reject the rule of law.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-area-suburban-school-districts-try-calm-fears-mass-deportations-ahead-2nd-donald-trump-presidency/15807423/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-food-cart-vendors-cps-families-have-growing-fears-mass-deportations-ahead-2nd-donald-trump-presidency/15811312/
— Retired head of Chicago DEA on shortlist to lead national agency under Trump administration
https://abc7chicago.com/post/retired-head-chicago-dea-jack-riley-short-list-lead-national-agency-donald-trump-administration/15811557/
NBC5
— Here’s what President-elect Trump has vowed to do on Day One. Jan. 20 will be a busy day for the incoming Trump administration.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/mass-deportations-other-day-one-promises-president-elect-trump-has-made/3649305/
— Illinois counties exploring succession would be welcomed in Indiana: House speaker. In the November election, a total of seven counties in Illinois faced a ballot question on exploring the idea of secession. (COMMENT: Pritzker wants to get rid of the 88 Illinois counties that voted for Trump.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-counties-exploring-succession-would-be-welcomed-in-indiana-house-speaker-says/3649511/
— Changes made for Inauguration Day. Here’s the new schedule of events. The last time the ceremony was held indoors was Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration when it was only seven degrees.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/changes-made-for-inauguration-day-heres-the-new-schedule-of-events/3649457/
CBS2
— Parents express concerns over relocation of unhoused near school in Elgin. The hotel where the unhoused group was moved is right across the street from the Elgin Math and Science Academy. (COMMENT: Under the Democrat6s and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/parents-concerned-relocation-unhoused-near-school-elgin/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/migrant-advocacy-groups-prepare-mass-deportation-threat-president-elect-trump/
WGN9
— Mass deportation raids could start in Chicago as soon as Tuesday
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/mass-deportation-raids-threatened-chicago/
FOX32
— Trump Administration to begin immigration raids in Chicago next week
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-administration-begin-immigration-raids-chicago-next-week-wsj-reports
WBEZ
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/01/17/this-immigrant-couple-plans-to-keep-their-family-together-no-matter-what-trump-does
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Should Chicago have a specific mechanism for recalling its mayor? With caveats, yes.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/17/editorial-voters-recall-brandon-johnson/
— Hemp advocates gave campaign donations to lawmakers in fight over regulations
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/18/hemp-cannabis-donations/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats reject Trump’s election. Democrats reject the rule of law.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/01/17/chicago-deportations-trump-ice-raids
— The mainstream news media is an arm of the Democrat Party.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/01/17/donald-trump-undermine-first-amendment-project-2025-kash-patel-tyler-valeska-loyola
DAILY HERALD
— Democratic U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, who led charge to ban TikTok, applauds Supreme Court’s decision
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250117/news/suburban-congressman-who-led-charge-to-ban-tiktok-applauds-supreme-courts-decision/
— Soon, if not already, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250117/submitted-content/fight-hunger-with-food-races-and-golf-northern-illinois-food-banks-2025-event-calendar/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250118/news/illinois-shelter-alliance-calls-for-100-million-state-funding-boost-to-fight-homelessness/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump plans big immigrant raid in Chicago
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-plans-huge-immigrant-raid-chicago-report-says
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chicago-must-fight-workforce-equity-under-trump-op-ed
NPR ILLINOIS
— ICE estimates it would need $26.9 billion to enforce GOP deportation bill. (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs, that is, those who vote for Democrats, should pay that bill.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-16/ice-estimates-it-would-need-26-9-billion-to-enforce-gop-deportation-bill
— Indiana makes an overture for dissatisfied Illinois voters (COMMENT: Pritzker wants to get rid of the 88 Illinois counties that voted for Trump.)
https://www.tspr.org/illinois-public-radio/2025-01-17/state-week-indiana-makes-an-overture-for-dissatisfied-illinois-voters
WAND TV
— Illinois Republicans want to lower the age to get a FOID card (COMMENT: I have had a FOID card since I was 20 years old in 1968.)
https://www.wandtv.com/community/illinois-republicans-want-to-lower-the-age-to-get-a-foid-card/article_74a044a2-d510-11ef-9af8-8f4fd19267c9.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-231/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Attendance/Absence of Current and Former Democratic Party Members of Congress at Trump Inauguration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/17/attendance-absence-of-current-and-former-democratic-party-members-of-congress-at-trump-inauguration/
— McHenry County Democratic Women End Year with $12,400, No Money Identified Supporting Female Candidates
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/16/mchenry-county-democratic-women-end-year-with-12400-no-money-identified-supporting-female-candidates/
— Communist Chinese Party’s Groton Under Attack by LaHood, Others in Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/16/communist-chinese-partys-groton-under-attack-by-lahood-others-in-congress/
— Woodstock Native Comments on Potential New State Flag, Voting Open
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/16/woodstock-native-comments-on-potential-new-state-flag/
— Projected 2025 McHenry County Employee Compensation: Le-Mi
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/16/projected-2025-mchenry-county-employee-compensation-le-mi/
— Sheriff Tadelman Points to Illinois Trust Act’s Restrictions on His Office’s Ability to Assist ICE
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/16/sheriff-tadelman-points-to-illinois-trust-acts-restrictions-on-his-offices-ability-to-assist-ice/
— Campaign for Nunda Township Supervisor Taking Place on Facebook
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/16/campaign-for-nunda-township-supervisor-taking-place-on-facebook/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— How Chicago’s ‘antiracism’ is getting people killed
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3290941/how-chicago-antiracism-getting-people-killed/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Kristi Noem Pledges To Shut Down Biden’s CBP One App That Facilitated Nearly 1 Million Entries
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/kristi-noem-pledges-to-shut-down-bidens-cbp-one-app-that-facilitated-nearly-1-million-entries/
NEW YORK POST
— Biden commutes 2,500 crack sentences — as pot offenders wait to see if he will fulfill promise to free them
https://nypost.com/video/biden-commutes-2500-crack-sentences-as-pot-offenders-wait-to-see-if-he-will-fulfill-promise-to-free-them-reporter-replay/
— ICE officers prepping for big operation across sanctuary cities immediately after Trump inauguration.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/17/us-news/ice-officers-prepping-for-big-f-king-operation-across-sanctuary-cities-after-trump-inauguration/
— Biden decides not to enforce looming TikTok ban — leaving Chinese app’s fate up to Trump
https://nypost.com/video/biden-decides-not-to-enforce-looming-tiktok-ban-leaving-chinese-apps-fate-up-to-trump-as-he-returns-to-white-house-reporter-replay/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Indiana governor signs executive order to replace DEI with ‘Merit, Excellence and Innovation’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/indiana-governor-signs-executive-order-replace-dei-merit-excellence-innovation/27315
DAILY CALLER
— Local Police Departments Are Refusing To Help DC Secure Trump’s Inauguration (COMMENT: Democrats reject Trump’s election. Democrats reject the rule of law.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/17/donald-trump-inauguration-security-metropolitan-police-department/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Letting People ‘Self-Identify’ Gender on Government Documents Poses National Security and Fraud Risks
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/17/letting-people-self-identify-gender-government-documents-poses-national-security-fraud-risks-borderline/
— ‘I Think We’re Going to Take a Lot of Hate,’ Border Czar Tom Homan Says Ahead of Trump’s Inauguration
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/17/people-going-be-pleased-trumps-executive-orders-border-czar-tom-homan-pledges/
DAILY WIRE
— Homan Tells Democrats To ‘Stay Out Of The Way’ When It Comes To Deportations. Homan and Trump have made it clear that they will be removing illegal aliens from the country.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-tells-democrats-to-stay-out-of-the-way-when-it-comes-to-deportations
— Queer Time, Black Shakespeare, and Afrofuturism: The Wokest College Courses In America. This spring, American students can study everything from ‘queer necropolitics and the carceral state’ to ‘The Sexual Life of Colonialism’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/queer-time-black-shakespeare-and-afrofuturism-the-wokest-college-courses-in-america
FOX NEWS
— Chicago Public Schools, teachers union reaffirm being a ‘sanctuary space’ ahead of Trump administration
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/chicago-public-schools-teachers-union-reaffirm-being-a-sanctuary-space-ahead-of-trump-administration/ar-AA1xqiYf
— Trump administration planning illegal immigrant arrests throughout US on ‘day one’ President-elect Trump made targeting illegal immigration a top campaign issue.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-planning-illegal-immigrant-arrests-across-us-day-one
— DOGE eyes suggestions to slash federal DEI programs. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is reportedly looking at a proposal that urges cuts to DEI initiatives. (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government used DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees. The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, female, younger, and/or veteran and who would take the job.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-eyes-suggestions-slash-federal-dei-programs-report
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Trump Posts ‘Blacklist’ of Candidates Who Need Not Apply for Jobs in his White House (COMMENT: I should write about those who have me on their blacklists and why.)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/01/trump-posts-blacklist-of-candidates-who-need-not-apply-for-jobs-in-his-white-house/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Joe Biden’s Constitutional Vandalism
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/joe-bidens-constitutional-vandalism/
STREAM
— Nearly Half of Federal Employees Openly Planning to Resist Trump (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats.)
https://stream.org/the-enemy-within-nearly-half-of-federal-employees-openly-planning-to-resist-trump/
TOWNHALL
— On Eve of Trump’s Inauguration, Appeals Court Rules This Obama-era Illegal Alien Program Is Unlawful
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/01/18/on-eve-of-trumps-inauguration-appeals-court-rules-this-obama-era-illegal-alien-program-is-unlawful-n2650744
— Deportation: Past, Present, and Future
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2025/01/18/deportation-past-present-and-future-n2650697
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Self-Deportations Already Underway as Fear of What Trump Is About to Do Sets In
https://www.westernjournal.com/self-deportations-already-underway-fear-trump-sets/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— ICE planning to ramp up arrests in major U.S. cities after Trump takes office
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-planning-increase-arrests-undocumented-immigrants-major-u-s-cities-after-trump-takes-office/
MSN
— Federal Employees Ready To Resist Trump’s Second Term (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats.)
https://www.msn.com/en-in/lifestyle/smart-living/deep-state-rising-poll-finds-federal-employees-ready-to-resist-trump-s-second-term/ar-BB1rohYw
— Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens fed workers who ‘resist’ Trump (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats.)
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/they-will-come-to-heel-marjorie-taylor-greene-threatens-fed-workers-who-resist-trump/ar-AA1xgf8P
— Sen. Rosen to Hegseth: “How Can You Lead When You Lack the Qualifications to Serve?” (COMMENT: What are your qualifications? My critics/opponents have always ignored, dismissed, belittled, and/or badmouthed my qualifications. I earned a CPA license when I was 32. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance when I was 27, 31, and 48. The Democrats who ran IRS promoted me to GS-12 when was 25 and then to Step 5 (currently $112,280/year) when I was 29 and the Democrats who ran GAO promoted me to GS-13 when I was 38 and then to Step 10 (currently $153,151/year) when I was 49 even though I have the following bad demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, older (born in 1948), non-veteran, Protestant, 100% German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sen-rosen-to-hegseth-how-can-you-lead-when-you-lack-the-qualifications-to-serve/vi-AA1xk2s5
— Trump names and shames 11 people on his White House blacklist for second administration (COMMENT: I should write about those who have me on their blacklists and why.)
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/trump-names-and-shames-11-people-on-his-white-house-blacklist-for-second-administration/ar-AA1xjr7f
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-blacklist-stirs-gop-tension-critics-raise-alarm/ar-AA1xkou4
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/thank-you-for-your-attention-trump-proudly-rattles-off-republicans-he-s-blacklisted/ar-AA1xh6kx
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-reveals-strange-blacklist-for-his-second-term/ar-AA1xjOVQ
CNN
— Trump’s first hours: Mass deportation raids set for major cities
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/video/newsnight-trumps-first-hours-mass-deportation-raids-set-for-major-cities
— Federal agencies quietly edit job descriptions to protect roles from DOGE scrutiny (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned my federal employment. I should post my GS-7 through GS-12 IRS position descriptions (currently $55,850-$112,280/year) and my GS-9 through 13 GAO position descriptions (currently $88,808-$153,151/year).)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/federal-employees-doge-elon-musk/index.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Deportation Plan Is Said to Start Next Week in Chicago. The size of the planned immigration raids is unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect’s goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/us/politics/trump-immigration-raids-chicago.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/17/us/immigrants-trump-deportations.html
— People promote DEI a) because they have, are, and/or want to personally benefit from it, b) because they want to curry favor with and/or to pander to those who are minority, female, and/or younger, c) because they are Democrats and those who vote for Democrats are minority, female, and/or younger, and/or d) because they despise/hate those who are Republican, White, male, and/or older.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/business/dei-trump-meta-zuckerberg.html
— Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/opinion/trump-democracy-autocracy.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats promote protests against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/18/peoples-march-dc-rally-trump-inauguration-2025/
— Biden’s border app is illegal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/17/cbp-one-trump-biden-mexico-border-app/416dc156-d491-11ef-9835-51843d9371d6_story.html
— Democrats and RINOs reject Trump’s election. Democrats and RINOs reject the rule of law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/18/peoples-march-dc-rally-trump-inauguration-2025/
DAILY NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lower standards to advance young Democrat minorities and young Democrat females. My Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered standards to promote their young Democrat minority employees and their young Democrat female employees over me. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. I should write about that.
https://www.ourmidland.com/opinion/voices/article/sham-hegseth-hearing-shows-standards-gone-20036442.php
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday. Chicago will be an early target, with as many as 200 officers being sent to carry out the operation, say people familiar with the planning.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-begin-large-scale-deportations-tuesday-e1bd89bd
— FRONT PAGE: Voters Want MAGA Lite From Trump, WSJ Poll Finds. Survey shows Biden leaves office with record-low approval and a badly tarnished party.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/donald-trump-policy-approval-poll-849feb84
— Left-Wing Cancel Culture Gets Canceled. The election of Donald Trump expressed widespread frustration with the censorious methods of progressives. But conservatives have a cancellation problem too. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents cancel me. I should write about them.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/left-wing-cancel-culture-gets-canceled-9038162c
— FRONT PAGE: Trump Ready to Bypass Congress (COMMENT: Biden bypassed Congress frequently.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-ready-to-bypass-congress-on-border-and-tariffs-a0c24feb
FORBES
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO companies, organizations, etc., will put their DEI under the table and off the books.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/01/17/fbi-shutters-dei-office-here-are-the-organizations-ending-diversity-programs-full-list/
— Tammy Duckworth Predicts ‘Complete Mismanagement Of The Pentagon’s Budget’ Under Pete Hegseth (COMMENT: My critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have always opposed budgeting.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flcmwOWfUnk
FORTUNE
— Apple’s Tim Cook took home $74.6 million last year. But he started out in the world of work with a humble $1.10-an-hour job (COMMENT: What has demonstrated your work ethic? I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. 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.)
https://fortune.com/2025/01/17/apple-ceo-tim-cook-first-job-highest-paid-ceo-work-ethic/
NEW YORKER
— An Oligarchy Is Taking Shape
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/joe-biden-farewell-speech-warns-about-oligarchy
DAILY BEAST
— Federal Agencies Erase DEI Buzzwords From Position Descriptions to Escape Musk’s DOGE Axe (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, my IRS and GAO position descriptions required me to give more and more and more preference to my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/federal-staff-erasing-dei-buzzwords-to-escape-musks-doge-axe/
NEWS ONE
— Conservatives Are Full Of It When It Comes To DEI And Pete Hegseth Is Proof (COMMENT: What are your qualifications? My critics/opponents have always ignored, dismissed, belittled, and/or badmouthed my qualifications. I earned a CPA license when I was 32. I earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance when I was 27, 31, and 48. The Democrats who ran IRS promoted me to GS-12 when was 25 and then to Step 5 (currently $112,280/year) when I was 29 and the Democrats who ran GAO promoted me to GS-13 when I was 38 and then to Step 10 (currently $153,151/year) when I was 49 even though I have the following bad demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, older (born in 1948), non-veteran, Protestant, 100% German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844.)
https://newsone.com/5859444/conservatives-dei-pete-hegseth/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: White America has thoroughly convinced itself that merit is the reason white men have overwhelmingly dominated every major industry in the nation for all of its history as opposed to patriarchy and systemic racism. Meanwhile, clearly underqualified white men are invisible in that world, which is why none of them seem to notice how often white men are able to fail upwards. . .Hell, when Barack Obama first ran for president, the leading narrative of Republicans (who were trying their hardest to pretend they were not racist) was that Obama was underqualified with only four years in the U.S. Senate and eight years in the Illinois state Senate under his belt. Immediately after Obama’s two terms, the same Republicans and white conservatives gleefully elected a white male president who had not a day’s experience in governing, lawmaking or judiciary work. Yet, during the most recent presidential campaign, Trump supporters repeatedly called VP Kamala Harris a “DEI candidate” who is woefully underqualified for the office of commander-in-chief despite her eight years as San Francisco’s 27th district attorney, eight years as California’s 32nd attorney general, four years as a U.S. senator and four years as vice president of the United States. These are examples of racist “DEI” narratives as they relate to the world of politics, but it can easily be applied to white conservatives’ attitudes in the corporate world and the general workforce as well. If the person in a position of power or influence who is perceivably underqualified is Black or a woman (and especially a Black woman) it’s DEI. If the perceivably underqualified person is a white man, well — that’s just America.)
BROOKINGS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. I should write about Democrat and RINO success in doing that in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/will-trumps-inaugural-address-recognize-americas-key-demographic-shifts/
REASON
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/01/17/biden-didnt-cause-the-border-crisis-by-being-too-lax-on-enforcement/
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use birthright citizenship abuse to destroy America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/birthright-citizenship.html
AXIOS
— People promote DEI a) because they have, are, and/or want to personally benefit from it, b) because they want to curry favor with and/or to pander to those who are minority, female, and/or younger, c) because they are Democrats and those who vote for Democrats are minority, female, and/or younger, and/or d) because they despise/hate those who are Republican, White, male, and/or older.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/17/diversity-initiatives-workers-trump
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Voters Concerned for Trump’s Safety at Inauguration
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/voters_concerned_for_trump_s_safety_at_inauguration
WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
— Politicians benefit from real jobs (COMMENT: I benefitted from working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I benefitted from working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.)
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/
January 16, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS2
— Evanston ever-increasingly promotes more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/evanston-illinois-modifies-welcoming-city-ordinance-immigrants/
— Chicago ever-increasingly promotes more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/city-council-vote-sanctuary-city-ordinance/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/family-calls-for-end-to-violence-in-mexico-after-rockford-illinois-man-was-killed/ar-AA1x0YcM
WGN9
— The Illinois National Guard will send 110 soldiers and 30 airmen to help with security at the presidential inauguration next week in Washington, D.C.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-national-guard-trump-inauguration/
FOX32
— Indiana governor signs executive order eliminating DEI initiatives from state government (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/indiana-governor-dei-executive-order
WTTW
— Black Illinois Residents Are Experiencing Homelessness at Higher Rates (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/15/black-illinois-residents-are-experiencing-homelessness-higher-rates-report
— Chicago City Council Votes 39-11 to Reject Push to Scale Back Protections for Undocumented Immigrants (COMMENT: Chicago ever-increasingly promotes more illegal immigration.)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/15/chicago-city-council-votes-39-11-reject-push-scale-back-protections-undocumented
WBEZ
— Chicago Police will not help with deportations after the city council rejects changes to sanctuary status. The council voted 39-11 against a proposal meant to allow Chicago police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. (COMMENT: Chicago ever-increasingly promotes more illegal immigration.)
https://www.wbez.org/city-hall/2025/01/15/chicago-police-will-not-help-with-deportations-after-the-city-council-rejects-changes-to-sanctuary-status
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: City Council sides with Mayor Brandon Johnson on Chicago’s sanctuary city dispute (COMMENT: Chicago ever-increasingly promotes more illegal immigration.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/15/city-council-johnson-preserve-chicago-sanctuary-city-ordinance/
— DECEMBER 15, 2000 FLASHBACK: GOP CHOOSES SLATE FOR MILTON TOWNSHIP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2000/12/15/gop-chooses-slate-for-milton-township/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Wednesday night, Heidorn ran uncontested, as expected, for township supervisor to replace Hank Kruse, who chose not to run again. Current township trustees Ken McNatt and Barbara Murphy also were selected by committeemen to run for another term. However, two-term incumbent trustee John Garrow was edged out by challengers Jim Flickinger and Don Sender, both of Wheaton. Flickinger, a longtime precinct committeeman, has been a fixture at Wheaton-Warrenville District 200 board meetings and ran unsuccessfully for a school board seat in 1997. Sender, also a committeeman and a retired history teacher at Wheaton Central High School, recently resigned as a caseworker for Milton Township. He and Kruse have been instrumental in the cleanup in the last several years of two abandoned cemeteries in the township, St. Stephen’s Cemetery in Carol Stream and Pleasant Hill Cemetery in unincorporated Wheaton. Although a township caucus, which functions as a primary, will take place Jan. 9, no opposition to the Republican slate is expected, and all the candidates and the township’s 108 Republican committeemen agreed Wednesday night to support the Republican slate. No Democratic candidates have surfaced for the April election, although several Republican committeemen said they expect Democratic opposition.)
— Democrat and RINO leaders use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/16/opinion-dont-backtrack-diversity-commitments-affirmative-action/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— RTA seeks expanded authority over CTA, Metra, Pace to remedy transit funding crisis. Chicago’s transit agency leaders spent the past year rejecting the idea of consolidation in exchange for more funding. The Regional Transit Authority now proposes a middle route, asking lawmakers to grant it more authority over CTA, Metra and Pace.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/01/15/rta-cta-metra-pace-fiscal-cliff-kirk-dillard
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: My hate-filled Trump-hating U.S. Representative Delia Ramirez, along with Casten, Krishnamoorthi, and Schakowsky, will boycott Trump’s inauguration. How strongly does your Democrat U.S. Representative hate Trump and hate their constituents like me who voted for Trump?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250115/nation-and-world-politics/i-would-feel-unsafe-some-suburban-reps-plan-to-skip-trumps-inauguration/
— Brad Stephens named to Republican leadership post in state House
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250115/illinois-state-politics/stephens-named-to-leadership-post-in-state-house/
— DECEMBER 5, 2024 FLASHBACK: Milton Township Democrats select full slate of candidates for spring election
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241205/submitted-content/milton-township-democrats-select-full-slate-of-candidates-for-spring-election/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Effort to weaken ‘welcoming city’ protections thwarted at City Council (COMMENT: Chicago ever-increasingly promotes more illegal immigration.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/push-weaken-chicagos-welcoming-city-protections-fails
INDIANAPOLIS STAR
— ‘A low-wage state’: How Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker responded to Indiana’s secession bill
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/15/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-responds-indiana-secession-bill-todd-huston/77728099007/
— I’m more qualified than Pete Hegseth for defense secretary. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents stress that my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 Step 5 (currently $112,280/year) and that my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 (currently $153,151/year). GS-12 is equivalent to Major in the military and GS-13 is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel in the military.)
https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/2025/01/16/pete-hegseth-resume-trump-nomination-defense/77721020007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Hegseth’s military service ended as a major without having qualified for retirement. I, too, was an infantry officer. I rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. I was awarded a single Bronze Star medal and two Commendation Medals for that service, along with a lot of other awards. I led a platoon, a company and commanded as a lieutenant colonel. My service included a peacekeeping tour and combat in Desert Storm, serving as a regular army soldier in an elite army division. My last staff position was as chief of plans of U.S. Army Japan. I spent three times as long serving in the regular Army and twice as long in the Reserve Forces – and qualified for retirement. I commanded ten times more soldiers than Hegseth did before I was even promoted to captain. For the critical position of secretary of defense, based on military experience, I easily beat Hegseth. That moves me to a commanding lead of 3-1 on the major resume items for SECDEF. All this comes with a caveat: I’m not remotely qualified to be defense secretary. I am, however, smart enough to recognize that.)
JOURNAL COURIER
— Newly elected Republican Rep. Kyle Moore joins Illinois Legislative Audit Commission (COMMENT: Democrats run IRS and GAO. They do not want Republicans like me to audit IRS. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980 after I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. The Democrats who run IRS and GAO succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 (1986-1988) of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. In 1992, because they had assigned me to audits of federal financial industry regulators and because it had become all too clear that they would never again assign me to audits of IRS, I started taking graduate evening courses in financial markets and trading at IIT and I earned a master’s degree in that in 1997. Also, I became a Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996. But later in 1997, they forced to retire and flushed all that down their toilet.)
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/kyle-moore-joins-legislative-audit-commission-20034612.php
— Davidsmeyer reappointed as assistant minority leader
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/cd-davidsmeyer-illinois-assistant-minority-leader-20033597.php
EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Evanston promotes DEI, that is, Evanston promotes more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/01/14/evanston-public-library-seeks-applicants-for-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-belonging-committee/
TELEGRAPH HERALD
— Chesney: Illinois lame-duck sessions unnecessary and dangerous
https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/opinion/article_1262294a-cfa7-11ef-aa4d-c3a7cecba88a.html
HYDE PARK HEARLD
— Nearly 300 new Illinois laws take effect in 2025 (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates stressed their family responsibilities and they decried that I did not have any. According to them, if I had family responsibilities like they did, I would not have been able to earn the college degrees, professional certifications, and professional license that I did.)
https://www.hpherald.com/evening_digest/nearly-300-new-illinois-laws-take-effect-in-2025/article_0d2b8422-c16e-11ef-a4dd-5771787037f4.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Caregiver discrimination House Bill 2161 adds family responsibilities to the list of categories protected from discrimination and retaliation in the workplace. The new law prevents employers from taking adverse action against employees because of their responsibilities as a caregiver for a family member, which could cause them to miss work. Bill sponsor Rep. Will Guzzardi, D-Chicago, told a House committee in April that pregnant women are a good example of who the bill is designed to help. He said pregnant women shouldn’t be passed up for a promotion or face other consequences at work in anticipation that they will be taking time off to care for their baby. Guzzardi stressed the bill does not protect employees who fail to meet job performance requirements.)
FOX2
— ‘State of New Illinois’ committee continues push to secede from Cook County
https://fox2now.com/news/illinois/state-of-new-illinois-committee-continues-push-to-secede-from-cook-county/
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Democrats, activists push to decriminalize prostitution in Illinois. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote prostitution. Soon, if not already, they will be teaching prostitution in schools and they will be offering associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in prostitution.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/democrats-activists-push-to-decriminalize-sex-work-in-illinois/article_1424f858-d294-11ef-aca5-dfa77669c426.html
— Elik returns to leadership post
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/elik-returns-to-leadership-post/article_a50c465e-d367-11ef-96c1-af0fa800bc7c.html
WCIA
— Illinois Democrat lawmakers propose ‘Bill of Rights’ for prostitutes. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote prostitution. Soon, if not already, they will be teaching prostitution in schools and they will be offering associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in prostitution.
https://www.wcia.com/news/illinois-democratic-lawmakers-propose-bill-of-rights-for-sex-workers/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Illinois counties should secede and join Indiana, its House speaker says
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-01-15/illinois-counties-should-secede-and-join-indiana-its-house-speaker-says
— Democrats ever-increasingly blame Republicans for inflation.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-15/inflation-remains-stubbornly-high-for-many-americans-could-it-get-worse-under-trump
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Illinois medical debt relief program wipes out debt for over 52,000 residents (COMMENT: One reason to put up with the many negatives of being a federal employee and retiree is that the federal government pays 72% of your and your spouse’s health insurance.)
https://newschannel20.com/newsletter-daily/illinois-medical-debt-relief-program-wipes-out-debt-for-over-52000-residents#
CWB CHICAGO
— Pickpockets are prowling downtown Chicago restaurants
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/01/pickpockets-are-prowling-downtown-chicago-restaurants-police-say.html
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-shelter-alliance-calls-for-100m-state-funding-boost-to-fight-homelessness/
SPRINGFIELD PATCH
— Giannoulias Aims To Offer Digital Driver’s Licenses By End Of Year For Apple Users Only. Despite blown deadlines, Patch has obtained a confidential agreement with Apple executives signed by the secretary of state in August 2024.
https://patch.com/illinois/springfield-il/illinois-aims-offer-digital-ids-end-year-apple-users-only
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF MILTON TOWNSHIP
— Indivisible Illinois Kicks Off the New Year with an Inspiring Fundraiser!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/141390082555472
https://www.facebook.com/indivisibleillinois/videos/573923788749308
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Over 90 passionate supporters gathered in Downers Grove to celebrate grassroots activism and civic engagement at our New Year Kickoff Fundraiser. We were honored to hear powerful remarks from U.S. Representatives Sean Casten and Raja Krishnamoorthi, alongside a stellar lineup of speakers including former U.S. Rep. Marie Newman, Appellate Justice Linda Davenport, Kane County Board Chair Corinne Pierog, Asian American Caucus Chair Holly Kim, State Senators Cristina Castro and Mark Walker, State Representative Nicole Grasse, DuPage County Forest Preserve President Daniel Hebread, DuPage County Board Members Sadia Covert, Yeena Yoo, and Saba Haider, DuPage County Dems Chair Reid McCollum, Lisle Township Supervisor Diane Hewitt, and Operation Swing State/ New Trier Dems President Patrick Hanley. Additional community figures in attendance included nearly appointed DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Christina Kye, Wheaton City Council Member Erica Bray-Parker, Hanover Park Village Trustee Yasmeen Bankole, College of DuPage Trustee Flo Appel, Glenbard District 87 Board President Margaret DeLaRosa, Township High School District 211 Board Vice President Steven Rosenblum, and District 99 Board Member Christopher Espinoza. Special thanks to all the incredible community leaders and supporters who joined us to reflect on our accomplishments and commit to the work ahead. Together, we are building a stronger, more inclusive future. Let’s continue to make a difference in 2025!)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-437/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-229/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MILTON TOWNSHIP REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION
— DECEMBER 4, 2024 FLASHBACK: PRESS RELEASE: Last night the Milton Township Republican Organization held its Township Caucus
https://www.facebook.com/MiltonRepublicans/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois state Rep. David Friess, R-Red Bud, also a veteran: Duckworth ‘shameful’ for behavior during Hegseth hearing
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b527e95e-d35c-11ef-a373-f7c6b9e67f84.html
WIREPOINTS
— Nobody’s defending Chicagoans against more tax hikes for CPS
https://wirepoints.org/nobodys-defending-chicagoans-against-a-tax-hike-for-cps-wirepoints-on-univision-chicago/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Tell the Sun-Times Why You Voted For or Against Trump Today (COMMENT: I voted for Trump because the Republican Party platform is conservative and Trump ran as a Republican. I owe all my successes in life to my following conservative principles. If I had not followed conservative principles, I would not have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and a professional license when I was 32. I would not have been able to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. I would not have been able to buy real estate when I was 24, 25, and 27. I would not have been able to get married when I was 29 and buy a home with my wife when I was 29 and have one built with her when I was 35.)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/15/tell-the-sun-times-why-you-voted-for-or-against-trump-today/
— Projected 2025 McHenry County Employee Compensation: Ju-Ko
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/13/projected-2025-mchenry-county-employee-compensation-ju-ko/
— Projected 2025 McHenry County Employee Compensation: Ko-La
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/14/projected-2025-mchenry-county-employee-compensation-ko-la/
— Projected 2025 McHenry County Employee Compensation: La-Le
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/15/projected-2025-mchenry-county-employee-compensation-la-le/
— Trump’s Using Left-Wing Strategies to Change the Status Quo
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/15/trumps-using-left-wing-strategies-to-change-the-status-quo/
— Keicher Makes Another Run at Equalizing Old Folks’ Driver’s Test to All Other States
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/15/keicher-makes-another-run-at-equalizing-old-folks-drivers-test-to-all-other-states/
— Chinese Firm Admits to Trying to Steal Digital Mobile Radio Technology from Motorola
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/14/chinese-firm-admits-to-trying-to-steal-digital-mobile-radio-technology-from-motorola/
— Mike Shorten Denounces Nepotism in Announcement of Run for Nunda Township Supervisor
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/14/mike-shorten-denounces-nepotism-in-announcement-of-run-for-nunda-township-supervisor/
— Ness Introduces Bill to Ban Plastic and Paper Bags for Restaurants and Grocery Stores
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/14/ness-introduces-bill-to-ban-plastic-and-paper-bags-for-restaurants-and-grocery-stores/
— Tribune Editorial Cartoonist Finally Draws an Anti-Biden Cartoon
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/14/tribune-editorial-cartoonist-finally-draws-an-anti-biden-cartoon/
— Bill To Be Introduced to Take Prostitution Out of Criminal Code
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/14/bill-to-be-introduced-to-take-prostitution-out-of-criminal-code/
— Padiddle May Have Let to Pot Charge
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/14/padiddle-may-have-let-to-pot-charge/
— Rep. Keicher Re-Appointed GOP House Conference Chairman
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/14/rep-keicher-re-appointed-gop-house-conference-chairman/
— DeWitt Points Out Pritzker’s Seeming Encouragement of Voter Registration of Illegal Aliens, Seeks Protections
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/13/dewitt-points-out-pritzkers-seeming-encouragement-of-voter-registration-of-illegal-aliens/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Tim Ozinga Resigns from Illinois Republican State Central Committee Amid Ongoing Party Struggles (COMMENT: Who represents you on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC)? What does he/she think of you? How does he/she treat you? I should write about how my representatives on the IRP SCC have treated me since 2000.)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/01/tim-ozinga-resigns-from-illinois-republican-state-central-committee-amid-ongoing-party-struggles.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pam Bondi pledges to end era of America’s weaponized federal government (COMMENT: Because virtually all federal employees are Democrats, the federal government is weaponized against Republicans. I should write a book about that. I would focus on the many big adverse actions that my Democrat superiors took against me while I worked for them for almost 30 years.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/15/pam-bondi-pledges-end-era-america-weaponized-feder/
— Women’s March rebrands as ‘People’s March’ in bow to inclusion ahead of Trump inaugural
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/15/women-march-rebrands-people-march-bow-inclusion-ah/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Duckworth says standards are ‘being lowered’ for Hegseth (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrat minorities and more Democrat females.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3288268/tammy-duckworth-standards-being-lowered-pete-hegseth/
NEW YORK POST
— Ex-Los Angeles sheriff blasts wokeness crippling city’s wildfire response: ‘Disaster is not the fires, it’s this ideology’
https://nypost.com/2025/01/15/us-news/ex-la-sheriff-blasts-wokeness-crippling-wildfire-response/
— Biden’s final border lie: That hundreds of thousands of migrants can’t be deported
https://nypost.com/2025/01/15/opinion/bidens-final-border-lie-that-hundreds-of-thousands-of-migrants-cant-be-deported/
ACLJ
— Springfield City Council Bans Rosanna Pulido’s Trump Shirt in Blatant Violation of the First Amendment
https://aclj.org/free-speech/illinois-city-council-bans-trump-shirt-in-blatant-violation-of-the-first-amendment
AMERICAN SYSTEM NOW
— In April 1775, the Americans took the international lead against slavery by establishing the first formal anti-slavery organization ever recorded. (COMMENT: All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois.)
https://americansystemnow.com/1775-americans-take-the-lead-against-slavery/
AMERICAN THINKER
— How Can Trump Overcome the Resistance?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/01/how_can_trump_overcome_the_resistance.html
BREITBART
— Vatican Promises Stiff Penalties for Illegal Aliens Crossing its Border
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/01/16/vatican-promises-stiff-penalties-for-illegal-aliens-crossing-its-border/
— Illegal Migrant Suspected of Arson in L.A. Wildfires Faced ‘Multiple Encounters’ with Law Enforcement
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/15/illegal-migrant-suspected-arson-la-wildfires-faced-multiple-encounters-law-enforcement/
CENTER SQUARE
— Survey of best states to live places Illinois near bottom
https://www.aol.com/survey-best-states-live-places-211700535.html
DAILY CALLER
— Pam Bondi Tells Senators ‘Partisan Weaponization’ Of DOJ Will End On Her Watch (COMMENT: The “Republican” DOJ under Bush sided with GAO in Diersen v. GAO, that is, it promoted political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/15/pam-bondi-senators-partisan-weaponization-justice-department-will-end/
— Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell downplays Hegseth’s military service (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always downplayed my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/15/scott-jennings-erupts-wapo-columnist-hegseths-fox-news-secdef/
— China Blacklists Four US Companies Over Arms Sales To Taiwan (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who blacklist me. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/15/china-blacklists-four-us-companies-over-arms-sales-to-taiwan/
— Republicans All Bark, No Bite On Top Culture War Battle
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/15/republicans-transgender-athletes-gop-house-bill-woke/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago blocks proposal that’d allow law enforcement to cooperate with ICE on targeting criminal migrants. Ald. Ray Lopez of the 15th ward and Ald. Jessica Tabares of the 26th ward first introduced the measure in 2023.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-blocks-proposal-thatd-allow-law-enforcement-cooperate-ice-targeting-criminal-migrants
LIFE NEWS
— Liberal Media Trashes Pro-Life Christians
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/01/15/liberal-media-trashes-pro-life-christians-theyre-trying-to-take-over-the-country/
LIVE ACTION
— Is the abortion industry supporting Illinois lawmakers’ move to decriminalize ‘sex work’?
https://www.liveaction.org/news/abortion-industry-illinois-lawmakers-decriminalize-sex-work/
MINDING THE CAMPUS
— DEI Statements Erode the Diversity That Matters. Qualified Candidates Can’t Get Jobs. (COMMENT: To advance minorities and females, Democrat and RINO leaders dump meritocracy. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/01/16/dei-statements-erode-the-diversity-that-matters-qualified-candidates-cant-get-jobs/
NEW AMERICAN
— Government Spent Millions on “Indigenous Knowledge” to Fight California Wildfires
https://thenewamerican.com/us/government-spent-millions-on-indigenous-knowledge-to-fight-california-wildfires/
TOWNHALL
— California Politicians Cut Fire Department Funding Because of These Three Things
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/01/16/you-could-probably-guess-where-ca-diverted-the-funds-they-cut-from-the-fire-department-n2650630
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Bondi faces a skeptical reception from Democrats at confirmation hearing over her loyalty to Trump (COMMENT: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, d) who refuse to coverup their wrongdoing, and/or e) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.wdio.com/front-page/world-national/bondi-faces-a-skeptical-reception-from-democrats-at-confirmation-hearing-over-her-loyalty-to-trump/
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that some of their illegals are self-deporting.
https://wtop.com/national/2025/01/some-immigrants-are-already-leaving-the-us-in-self-deportations-as-trumps-threats-loom/
MSNBC
— Those slanderous hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters who ever-increasingly slander Hegseth as being unqualified should be sued for slander.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/hegseth-hearing-trump-cabinet-gop-affirmative-action-rcna187822
MSN
— Hiring Managers Say Gen Z Workers ‘Lack Work Ethic’ (COMMENT: What has demonstrated your work ethic? 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.)
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/career/hiring-managers-say-gen-z-workers-lack-work-ethic/ar-AA1xgwFT
REUTERS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/migrants-frontline-trumps-mass-deportation-plan-2025-01-16/
AOL
— Bill proposing women register for draft not signed into law (COMMENT: When I graduated from NIU when I was 21 years old in 1970, I was 1-A for the Vietnam War draft. Potential employers viewed me as being draft bait and that frustrated my job search big time. Potential employers did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got, it was for a job that did not really require a college degree.)
https://www.aol.com/bill-proposing-women-register-draft-100410621.html
ABC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that some of their illegals are self-deporting.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/immigrants-leaving-us-deportations-trumps-threats-loom-117734619
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that some of their illegals are self-deporting.
https://www.newsweek.com/self-deportation-us-immigrants-amid-trump-presidency-2015850
NEW YORK TIMES
— Drunkenness, Women and Wokeness: A Dramatic Confirmation Hearing for Pete Hegseth (COMMENT: Almost all my GAO superiors were Democrats. Almost all of them were older, White, and male. Almost all of them were big drinkers. They did not approve of me being a non-drinker at all.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/podcasts/the-daily/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats’ crisis of the future: the biggest states that back them are shrinking. California, Illinois and New York are shrinking. (COMMENT: To be a Democrat is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/16/electoral-college-democrats-2030-census-election-republican/4407e308-d3c7-11ef-9835-51843d9371d6_story.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/15/corporare-dei-retrenchment-worrisome/
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that some of their illegals are self-deporting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/01/16/immigration-self-deportation-trump/c416fb9e-d3cf-11ef-9835-51843d9371d6_story.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-01-16/mexico-braces-trump-mass-deport-remain-in-mexico
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Even Harvard M.B.A.s Are Struggling to Land Jobs. The latest crop of elite business-school graduates are taking months to find new jobs. (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors ignored, dismissed, and belittled my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/harvard-mba-employment-rate-job-hunt-difficulty-addfc3ec
— Trump AG Pick Pam Bondi Balances Loyalty and Independence During Hearing (COMMENT: I take it as a badge of honor that my critics/opponents say that “You can’t tell Diersen what to do.” My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. I should write about them. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, b) who destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money, and c) who have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against. I would focus on the pretexts that they use.)
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/on-the-news/trump-ag-pick-pam-bondi-balances-loyalty-and-independence-during-hearing/BFB4D8E0-6D3A-4222-AE12-F6AE75BAC7EE
— To advance minorities and females, Democrat and RINO leaders dump meritocracy. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/you-blamed-dei-for-hurting-your-career-now-what-6150c575
FORBES
— Duckworth tries to offset her raw viciousness by complementing Rubio. Duckworth had her thugs throw me out of her 2006 press conference in Wheaton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC8UfYsiZdc
— DeSantis Unveils Plan To Stymie Illegal Immigrants Sending Remittances To Their Nations Of Origin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxvasgYIW-4
FED SMITH
— Federal Employees Face Hiring Freeze on Trump’s First Day (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, the agency was almost always under Republican-led promotion freezes. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious about that. They took their anger out on me, one of the very few Republican employees in the office.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/01/11/telework-hiring-freeze-likely-first-day-trump-administration/
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW
— Will Progressive and Mainstream Audiences Keep Switching off the News? (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media promotes more hatred against Trump, and therefore, more hatred against the 77 million who voted for him.).
https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/progressive-mainstream-righting-news-deserters-avoidance-trump-bump.php
MS MAGAZINE
— How I Broke Through the Fertility Industry’s False Promises to Become a Mom at 44 (COMMENT: I should write about how and why my Democrat GAO superiors punished me big time because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF in the 1980s.)
https://msmagazine.com/2025/01/16/ivf-fertility-older-women-age-black-brown-pregnancy-maternal-health/
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Students who graduated from an Illinois high school, no matter where they’re currently enrolled, will soon be guaranteed transfer admission to any University of Illinois system institution—including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which has a regular acceptance rate below 50 percent. (COMMENT: UIC accepted in 1966 because I had graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class and my ACT score was 24.)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/01/16/illinois-guarantees-transfer-all-state-high-school-grads
NEWS ONE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly analogize illegals to fugitive slaves.
https://newsone.com/5851343/what-were-the-slave-narratives/
NEW PRESS
— The more of the following that you are, the more reparations that Democrat and RINO leaders want you to pay: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://thenewpress.com/blog/book-excerpts/read-excerpt-from-price-they-paid
NEWS BUG
— Boomers Own 36.0% of Illinois Homes, 11th Fewest in the U.S. (COMMENT: I am a boomer. I have owned real estate in Illinois since I was 24 years old in 1972. I bought a new town home in University Park in 1972, a studio condo in downtown Chicago in 1974, and a one bedroom condo there in 1976. My wife and I bought 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton in 1978 and we had 915 Cove Court built in Wheaton in 1984.)
https://www.newsbug.info/news/national/illinois/boomers-own-36-0-of-illinois-homes-11th-fewest-in-the-u-s/article_02e438ab-9339-57b3-a05b-f33c01e379bb.html
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that some of their illegals are self-deporting.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/will-trumps-mass-deportation-depend-on-self-deportation.html
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.splcenter.org/racial-justice-issues/dismantling-white-supremacy/
CATO
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cato.org/blog/biden-didnt-cause-border-crisis-part-1-summary
CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/letting-asylum-seekers-work-not-pull-factor
January 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Zuckerberg to cohost reception with Republican billionaires for Trump inauguration
https://abc7chicago.com/post/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-cohost-reception-republican-billionaires-trump-inauguration/15800259/
— High-stakes Thornton Township meeting happening Tuesday as political standoff continues
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tiffany-henyard-news-high-stakes-thornton-township-meeting-happening-tuesday-political-standoff-continues/15800428/
— Democrat leaders want federal aid for LA fire victims to be unconditional.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/house-speaker-mike-johnson-suggests-conditions-needed-federal-aid-los-angeles-wildfire-victims/15797835/
— High-stakes Thornton Twp. meeting abruptly ends in chaos, blindsiding Henyard: ‘Call the police!’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tiffany-henyard-news-high-stakes-thornton-township-meeting-happening-tuesday-political-standoff-continues/15800428/
NBC5 & CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote prostitution. Soon, if not already, they will be teaching prostitution in schools and they will be offering associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in prostitution.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-could-become-first-state-to-decriminalize-sex-work-under-proposed-law/3646041/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SEUKkAJSNM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/proposed-illinois-legislation-decriminalize-sex-155600339.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/illinois-state-lawmakers-propose-legalizing-consensual-sex-work/ar-BB1rrBcl
NBC5
— Who will be at Trump’s inauguration? Notable names on – and off – the guest list
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/who-will-be-at-trumps-inauguration-notable-names-on-and-off-the-guest-list/3646197/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Supervisor Tiffany Henyard sues two Thornton Township trustees over meeting absences
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/14/supervisor-tiffany-henyard-sues-thornton-township-trustees/
— Eight candidates vying for Calumet Township trustee (COMMENT: Who are the candidates running for Supervisor, Clerk, Highway Commissioner, Assessor, and Trustee in your township?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/14/eight-candidates-vying-for-calumet-township-trustee-gary-councilman-no-longer-running/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Duckworth, other female senators grill Defense nominee Hegseth on his objections to women in combat. Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth told Pete Hegseth he was “wholly unprepared” to be confirmed as defense secretary: “You’re not qualified, Mr. Hegseth, you’re not qualified.” (COMMENT: In 2014, Hegseth was promoted to the rank of Major. My critics/opponents stress that my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 Step 5 (currently $112,280/year) and that my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 (currently $153,151/year). GS-12 is equivalent to Major in the military and GS-13 is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel in the military.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/01/14/tammy-duckworth-defense-secretary-nominee-pete-hegseth-senate-confirmation-hearing
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTIRE: Elgin launches new webpage to keep residents informed on ‘Tent City,’ homelessness initiatives (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, if not already, there will be tent cities in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250114/news/elgin-launches-new-webpage-to-keep-residents-informed-on-tent-city-homelessness-initiatives/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: What’s in Giannoulias’ plan to end road test for drivers 86 and younger? Let families report at-risk drivers.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250114/transportation/whats-in-giannoulias-plan-to-end-road-test-for-drivers-86-and-younger-let-families-report-at-risk/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— City Council to mull weakening ‘welcoming city’ law that made Chicago a target of immigration hawks (COMMENTS Illegals destroy municipalities, townships, counties, states, and countries.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/city-council-mull-weakening-chicago-welcoming-city-law
BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— A bill introduced in the Indiana legislature by its Republican House Speaker would create a commission to embrace 33 Illinois counties that have voted for a symbolic measure to leave Illinois and create a new state. (COMMENT: Crete Township borders Indiana. I lived in Crete Township 1948-1976.)
Read more at: https://www.bnd.com/news/politics-government/article298546833.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.bnd.com/news/politics-government/article298546833.html
— $120K per year working for Illinois? Check out state jobs open now & what they pay. (COMMENT: I did not earn $120,000/year in today’s dollars until I a) had worked for GAO for almost 8 years, b) had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, c) had a CPA license for more than 6 years, d) had been a Certified Internal Auditor for more than 6 years, e) had a master’s degree in accounting for more than 7 years, f) had been a CPA for more than 8 years, and g) had an MBA for more than 11 years.)
https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article298116288.html
INDIANAPOLIS STAR
— Should Illinois counties be able to secede and join Indiana? Indiana speaker says yes (COMMENT: Crete Township borders Indiana. I lived in Crete Township 1948-1976.)
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/14/indiana-general-assembly-bill-allows-illinois-counties-succeed-join-indiana/77696471007/
FOX59
— Lawmakers announce intent to redraw boundary between Indiana, Illinois (COMMENT: Crete Township borders Indiana. I lived in Crete Township 1948-1976.)
https://fox59.com/news/politics/lawmakers-announce-intent-to-redraw-boundary-between-indiana-illinois/
CBS4
— Indiana bill looks to absorb Illinois counties into Indiana (COMMENT: Crete Township borders Indiana. I lived in Crete Township 1948-1976.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI0fMLJvBbE
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Ivanka Trump: Politics ‘a very dark, negative business’ (COMMENT: Politics and government are nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. I should write about my critics/opponents and their judgement-proof operatives and dupes.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ivanka-trump-politics-a-very-dark-negative-business/
ILLINOIS PATCH
— IL Guide To Donald Trump’s Inauguration As 47th President. Swearing-in ceremonies begin about noon local time Monday at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/il-guide-donald-trump-s-inauguration-47th-president
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Indiana makes a play for Illinois counties (COMMENT: Crete Township borders Indiana. I lived in Crete Township 1948-1976.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/01/15/indiana-makes-a-play-for-illinois-counties-00198336
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-436/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-228/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
— The Republican Party of Illinois has announced that Tim Ozinga has resigned from his position as State Central Committeeman for the 1st Congressional District on January 12th. (COMMENT: Who represents you on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC)? What does he/she think of you? How does he/she treat you? I should write about how my representatives on the IRP SCC have treated me since 2000.)
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, what are the biggest things that you would have done differently? I would NOT have succumbed to my Democrat GAO superiors’ forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997. I would have fought it. The sigma of being forced to retire early is tremendous. Beyond the tremendous financial loss that I continue to suffer, my critics/opponents in the following continue to use it against me: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, conservative organizations, and religious organizations. They continue to hint/imply/argue/shout that I must be an extremely bad person if not even worse things because of the qualification that I had when GAO got rid of me: a) a job-related professional license, b) six job-related professional certifications, c) three job-related master’s degrees, d) almost 18 years of GAO work experience, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, and e) almost 9 years of IRS work experience, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. Further, if I had not retired early, my critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party could not have blamed me for George Ryan’s problems, for Jim Ryan losing to Blagojevich, or for Andy McKenna losing to Jack Ryan. – Dave Diersen
http:///www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Salary freezes, firings and school closings are needed to get CPS finances back on track
https://wirepoints.org/salary-freezes-firings-and-school-closings-are-needed-to-get-cps-finances-back-on-track-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pete Hegseth still on track to lead Defense Department after confirmation hearing
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/14/pete-hegseth-still-track-lead-defense-department-c/
— Democrats skipping Trump’s inauguration aren’t calling it a boycott (COOMENT: The leaders of the DuPage County Republican Central Committee boycotted the 2024 Illinois Republican Party State Convention.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/14/democrats-skipping-donald-trump-inauguration-aren-/
— Biden ends term with nearly 11 million illegal border crossers (COMMENT: How many illegals are in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district? Illegals drag everything down.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/14/joe-biden-ends-term-nearly-11-million-illegal-bord/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Biden’s open border aided terrorists and made America unsafe
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3285965/biden-open-border-aided-terrorists/
— Hegseth and Republican defenders bash Pentagon’s DEI efforts (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3286409/pete-hegseth-republicans-bash-pentagon-dei-efforts/
— Hegseth fights back against ‘smear campaign’ as Democrats charge he is unqualified to lead Pentagon (COMMENT: In 2004, my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) critics/opponents blamed me for George Ryan’s problems, for Jim Ryan losing to Blagojevich, and for Andy McKenna losing to Jack Ryan. Because of that, they did not want me to serve as the MTRO Treasurer. Because I was highly qualified to serve as the MTRO Treasurer, they did not attack my qualifications. Instead, they slandered me and defamed me. I should write about that.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3285801/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing-senate-trump-defense-nominee/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Hegseth Emerges From Committee Hearing Unscathed. Senate Armed Services Committee staffers expect vote to advance would-be defense sec’s nomination next week.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/hegseth-emerges-from-committee-hearing-unscathed/
NEW YORK POST
— Hegseth confirmation hearing live updates: Trump’s defense secretary nom slams ‘anonymous smears’ at Senate grilling (COMMENT: In 2004, my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) critics/opponents blamed me for George Ryan’s problems, for Jim Ryan losing to Blagojevich, and for Andy McKenna losing to Jack Ryan. Because of that, they did not want me to serve as the MTRO Treasurer. Because I was highly qualified to serve as the MTRO Treasurer, they did not attack my qualifications. Instead, they slandered me and defamed me. I should write about that.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/14/us-news/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing-for-defense-secretary-live-updates-reactions-more/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Border Agents Discover “Sophisticated” Illegal Immigrant Tunnels Built During Biden Administration
https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/14/border-agents-discover-sophisticated-illegal-immigrant-tunnels-built-during-biden-administration/
— Hegseth Fires Back at Contentious Hearing
https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/15/morning-greatness-hegseth-fires-back-at-contentious-hearing/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Dem senator plumbs the ‘despicable’ depths by using Pete Hegseth’s young daughter to smear him
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/01/15/dem-senator-plumbs-the-despicable-depths-by-using-pete-hegseths-young-daughter-to-smear-him-1516100/
BLAZE
— Wokeness/wokeism is not going away, it is going under the table, off the books.
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/blaze-news-tonight/wokeness
BREITBART
— House Passes Bill to Shield K-12 Sports from Transgenderism
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/14/house-passes-bill-shield-k-12-sports-transgenderism/
— Exiting Border Chief Mayorkas’ Parole Inflow to Hit 1.5 Million Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/01/15/mayorkas-parole-programs-near-1-5-million-migrants/
DAILY CALLER
— Bush-Era Republicans Flourished As Anti-Trumpers — Scott Jennings Took A Different Path (COMMENT: My critics/opponents are anti-Trumpers.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/14/scott-jennings-cnn-bush-anti-trump-path-profile/
— ‘It’s Weakening Our Military’: Marine Vet Defends Hegseth, Says Military’s Push For Diversity Undermines Recruitment
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/14/pete-hegseth-military-dei/
— Dem Rep Distraught That Immigrants Who Already Broke Law By Crossing Border Could Be Detained Under Laken Riley Act
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/dem-rep-distraught-that-immigrants-who-already-broke-law-by-crossing-border-could-be-detained-under-laken-riley-act/ar-BB1rnMf5
DAILY CITIZEN
— Hegseth Promises to Reinstate Unfairly Discharged Servicemembers With Back Pay (COMMENT: Have you been fired? To force me to resign, my Democrat Post Office superiors falsely claimed that I was not available to work enough part-time hours in 1969. To fire me, my Democrat Firestone Store boss used my accepting a job-offer from Oldsmobile in 1971. To fire me, that is, to force me to retire at least 6 years early, my Democrat GAO superiors made it all too clear to me that they could and that they would have made my next 6 years beyond a living hell if I did not retire when I was 49 in 1997. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should stayed and fought them. Being forced to retire carries with it tremendous stigmas.)
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/pete-hegseth-promises-to-reinstate-unfairly-discharged-servicemembers-with-back-pay/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Praises DeSantis For Leading On His Agenda, Urges Other Governors To Follow. The special session focuses largely on implementing Trump’s agenda on illegal immigration.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-praises-desantis-for-leading-on-his-agenda-urges-other-governors-to-follow
— As Trump 2.0 Approaches, NGOs Continue To Fund Mass Migration With U.S. Tax Dollars. New U.N. planning docs show billions of dollars budgeted for debit cards, transportation, shelter, food and cash.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/as-trump-2-0-approaches-ngos-continue-to-fund-mass-migration-with-u-s-tax-dollars
EPOCH TIMES
— 5 Key Takeaways From Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation Hearing. Hegseth was the first of roughly a dozen Trump’s appointees slated to go before Senate committees this week.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/key-takeaways-from-pete-hegseths-confirmation-hearing-5791992
FEDERALIST
— Democrats Beclown Themselves At Hegseth Confirmation Hearing
https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/15/jag-off-day-in-a-word-democrats-beclown-themselves-at-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Hegseth Shuts Down Warren: ‘I’m Not a General, Senator’ Generals cannot work in the defense industry until 10 years after retirement. How can Hegseth make a pledge to do that when he’s not a general!? (COMMENT: In 2014, Hegseth was promoted to the rank of Major. My critics/opponents stress that my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 Step 5 (currently $112,280/year) and that my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 (currently $153,151/year). GS-12 is equivalent to Major in the military and GS-13 is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel in the military.)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/01/hegseth-shuts-down-warren-im-not-a-general-senator/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Military rank is relevant because Hegseth’s proposed rule applies only to general and flag officers leaving US military service. The rule doesn’t apply to him because he was only a major.)
NEWSMAX
— Tuberville: Military Is Weakest It’s Ever Been
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/tommy-tuberville-military-weak/2025/01/14/id/1195084/
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Biden Announces One-Time $770 Payments For Calif. Fire Victims
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/biden-announces-one-time-770-payments-for-calif-fire-victims/
RED STATE
— Duckworth Went Full Lunatic During the Hegseth Hearing and Completely Beclowned Herself (COMMENT: My critics/opponents continue to blame me for Roskam almost losing to Duckworth in 2006. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/01/14/tammy-duckworth-went-full-lunatic-during-pete-hegseth-hearing-and-ended-up-playing-the-fool-n2184336
TOWNHALL
— Laken Riley Act Is Not Enough
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnandandyschlafly/2025/01/15/laken-riley-act-is-not-enough-n2650550
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Cut smart, not blind: How DOGE should be approaching government waste (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 a) because I was a Republican with bad demographics and b) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5083499-cut-smart-not-blind-how-doge-should-be-approaching-government-waste/
ABC NEWS
— Duckworth hones in on Hegseth’s alleged budgeting inexperience (COMMENT: Since 1999, I have unsuccessfully encouraged the leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party to budget, that is, to prepare a budget each year, to get it approved, and to follow it.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/sen-tammy-duckworth-hones-hegseths-alleged-budgeting-inexperience-117668174
CBS NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more discrimination against Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/walmart-dei-policies-meta-mcdonalds-ford/
— Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg to attend Trump’s inauguration
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-trump-inauguration/
MSN
— How The Chevy Impala Became Chevrolet’s Best-Selling Car for Decades (COMMENT: I owned a 1962 Impala SS collector car 1989-2005. I owned a 1962 Bel Air 1971-1978.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/other/how-the-chevy-impala-became-chevrolet-s-best-selling-car-for-decades/ar-BB1rd3qV
— Looking for a job? (COMMENT: From what I see, the more of the following that you are, the less likely that you will find a job that is appropriate for your work experience, education, professional certifications, and/or professional license: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/looking-for-a-job-tips-for-the-2025-job-market/vi-BB1rrDIu
MSNBC
— My Democrat IRS superiors were furious when I got promoted in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious when I got promoted in 1986.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/pete-hegseths-confirmation-hearing-brings-overlapping-failures-focus-rcna187754
WASHINGTON POST
— Hegseth said he wants a military rooted in a meritocracy because it is now rooted in diversity, equity and inclusivity nonsense.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/01/14/robin-givhan-pete-hegseth-hearing/
USA TODAY
— According to Democrats and to RINOs, when Democrat and RINO candidates win, they have a mandate, but when Republican candidates win, they do not.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/01/13/trump-presidency-mandate-maga-republicans/77563407007/
CBS12
— Meta cutting 5% of lowest-performing staff in company’s latest shakeup (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO instituted pay-for-performance in 1989. They used its subjectivity to get rid their employees like me who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers.)
https://cbs12.com/news/nation-world/meta-cutting-5-of-lowest-performing-staff-in-companys-latest-shakeup-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-instagram-tech-social-media
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Will ‘Rejoice’ After Ending ‘Woke’ Policies
https://www.wsj.com/video/pete-hegseth-says-us-troops-will-rejoice-after-ending-woke-policies/F1B84CFE-F9A5-4F38-AF0A-A06E50231401
— What Has Hegseth Said About ‘Wokeness’ and Diversity Programs? (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing/card/what-has-pete-hegseth-said-about-wokeness-and-diversity-programs–ChQmNCwZrdZT6gCkxAm8
— Hegseth Weathers Fiery Senate Hearing, Putting Confirmation on Stronger Footing. Democrats called Trump’s Pentagon pick unqualified, but Republicans said he would bring a needed change to the Defense Department. (COMMENT: You go with what you got. I have always stressed my qualifications. I stress my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, my job-related professional license, my almost 18 years working for GAO, and my almost 9 years working for IRS. My critics/opponents stress the adverse actions that they have taken against me.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing-trump-cabinet-b569c525
— Make America Ageless: Trump’s Health Picks Take Longevity Movement Mainstream. Antiaging scientists and entrepreneurs hope the new administration will make it easier to develop treatments. (COMMENT: I am 76 years old. I have fought age discrimination since I was 25 years old in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors used “up-or-out” to deem me to be too old to be promoted to GS-13. To fight age discrimination, I a) earned an MBA from Loyola in when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32, e) earned four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and f) earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT when I was 48. Further, I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my GAO superiors with age discrimination when I was 40. Further, I sued GAO for age discrimination when I was 49.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/anti-aging-longevity-maha-movement-5ee62310
FORBES
— Hegseth Lambasts DEI & Critical Race Theory In The Military During Questioning (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs4bZ0Rt4QM
BLOOMBERG
— A $78 Billion Affirmative Action Policy Set for Legal Attack (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/federal-contracting/a-78-billion-affirmative-action-policy-set-for-legal-attacks
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Hegseth says troops forced out of the military over the COVID vaccine could be ‘re-recruited’ with back pay and an apology (COMMENT: Will Trump say that Republican federal employees like me who were forced to retire early should be re-recruited with back pay and an apology?)
https://www.businessinsider.com/pete-hegseth-backs-trump-plans-for-military-covid-vaccine-refusers-2025-1
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to promote LGBTQ.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/cardinal-cupich-advocates-inclusion-and-listening-lgbtq-catholics
NEWS NATION NOW
— Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are solders in the Democrat Army.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/perfectly-legal-if-sanctuary-cities-dont-help-with-mass-deportations-law-scholar-says/
POLITICO
— Trump praises DeSantis, urges other governors to follow his lead on immigration. DeSantis has called for a special session, but legislative leaders in the state have pushed back. (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will call a special session to get rid of Illinois Republicans once and for all.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/14/donald-trump-florida-special-session-00000339
— Trump inauguration ‘potential target’ for threats, agencies warn. The possible threats detailed in a security assessment ahead of the inauguration reflect the heightened political — and potentially violent — environment in which Trump will assume power.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/14/trump-inauguration-security-threats-00198275
GOOD MORNING AMERICA
— Pam Bondi to face questions on loyalty to Trump (COMMENT: I take it as a badge of honor that my critics/opponents say that “You can’t tell Diersen what to do.” My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. I should write about them. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, b) who destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money, and c) who have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against. I would focus on the pretexts that they use.)
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/pam-bondi-face-questions-loyalty-trump-lobbying-ties-117640295
AXIOS INDIANAPOLIS
— Indiana House speaker proposes annexing Illinois counties (COMMENT: Crete Township borders Indiana. I lived in Crete Township 1948-1976.)
https://www.axios.com/local/indianapolis/2025/01/14/indiana-annexing-illinois-counties
HR DRIVE
— Illinois law banning caregiver employment discrimination takes effect (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates stressed their caregiver responsibilities and they decried that I did not have any. According to them, if I had caregiver responsibilities like they did, I would not have been able to earn the college degrees, professional certifications, and professional license that I did.)
https://www.hrdive.com/news/illinois-caregiver-leave-law/736411/
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— L.A. Wildfires: 77% of Democrats Blame Climate Change (CIOMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather and for everything else that is bad.)
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/l_a_wildfires_77_of_democrats_blame_climate_change
January 14, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— In blue state Illinois, demand outstrips supply for Trump inauguration tickets. Trump’s improving numbers in the Chicago area and the rest of the state should be sending messages to Democrats as they plot their course in the coming second Trump era.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/01/13/trump-inauguration-tickets-blue-state-illinois-demand
— Illinois could become first state to decriminalize sex work under proposed law. “The threat of arrest and prosecution keeps sex workers unsafe and in the shadows, and this threat must be eliminated,” Brian Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois, said Monday at a news conference announcing the proposed bill. “This law is essential now more than ever.” (COMMENT: How soon will Democrats legalize prostitution in Illinois? How soon will Democrats teach prostitution in Illinois schools?)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/01/13/proposed-bill-illinois-decriminalize-sex-work
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— McDonald’s sued over Hispanic scholarship program one week after rolling back some diversity goals (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/13/mcdonalds-sued-over-hispanic-scholarship-program-one-week-after-rolling-back-some-diversity-goals/
— Advisory referendum question on political contribution rules thrown out by Aurora Electoral Board
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/13/advisory-referendum-question-on-political-contribution-rules-thrown-out-by-aurora-electoral-board/
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/13/illinois-medical-marijuana/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/14/opinion-immgration-refugee-resettlement-united-states/
— CPS on the ‘financial brink’ and state takeover shouldn’t be out of the question, Civic Federation report says
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/13/report-cps-on-the-financial-brink-state-takeover-not-out-of-the-question/
— Hegseth could lead troops who’d face getting fired for actions he’s done in the past
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/13/hegseth-troops/
DAILY HERALD
— Judge rules Aurora alderman candidate can’t be on ballot
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250113/local-politics/judge-rules-aurora-alderman-candidate-cant-be-on-ballot/
— Millions have had student loans canceled under Biden — despite the collapse of his forgiveness plan (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships and my having to work my way through college.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250113/education/millions-have-had-student-loans-canceled-under-biden-despite-the-collapse-of-his-forgiveness-plan/
— For voters and for their own good, candidates should be accessible by email
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250114/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-the-email-drumbeat-for-voters-and-for-their-own-good-candidates-should-be-ac/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— McDonald’s sued over Hispanic student scholarship in latest DEI battlefront (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/mcdonalds-sued-over-hispanic-student-scholarship-program
CBS2
— Activists protest proposed changes to Chicago’s sanctuary city ordinance (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/activists-protest-proposed-changes-chicago-sanctuary-city-ordinance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DKu6V8AUzTIA
WGN9
— Tiffany Henyard asks judge to force trustees to show-up to meetings
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/tiffany-henyard-asks-judge-to-force-trustees-to-show-up-to-meetings/
— Illinois will give you a $4K rebate to purchase an electric vehicle in 2025 (COMMENT: Please let me know if you share my interest in the 2025 Dodge Charger EV. I own a 2013 Charger R/T Max and I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971 and a 1968 Charger R/T 1994-2005.)
https://wgntv.com/news/traffic/illinois-ev-electric-vehicle-rebate-2025/
FOX32
— Fight brews over Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance amid Trump era fears (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/fight-brews-over-chicago-welcoming-city-ordinance-trump-fears
— Chicago aldermen propose weakening sanctuary city protections. As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office with promises of mass deportations, a proposal to amend Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance is reigniting debate over the city’s sanctuary status. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1576011
— Could Illinois be the next state to decriminalize prostitution? (COMMENT: How soon will Democrats legalize prostitution in Illinois? How soon will Democrats teach prostitution in Illinois schools?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T32DSkM7_OE
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DT32DSkM7_OE
WTTW
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/13/wttw-news-explains-how-did-chicago-become-sanctuary-city
— Advocates, Lawmakers Seek to Legalize Sex Work in Illinois: ‘People Deserve Respect. Work is Work’ (COMMENT: How soon will Democrats legalize prostitution in Illinois? How soon will Democrats teach prostitution in Illinois schools?)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/13/advocates-lawmakers-seek-legalize-sex-work-illinois-people-deserve-respect-work-work
WBEZ
— Illinois could become first state to decriminalize sex work under proposed law. “The threat of arrest and prosecution keeps sex workers unsafe and in the shadows, and this threat must be eliminated,” Brian Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois, said Monday at a news conference announcing the proposed bill. “This law is essential now more than ever.” (COMMENT: How soon will Democrats legalize prostitution in Illinois? How soon will Democrats teach prostitution in Illinois schools?)
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/01/13/proposed-bill-illinois-decriminalize-sex-work
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Incoming Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security Council about their loyalty. Incoming senior Trump officials have begun questioning career civil servants serving on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for, their political contributions in the 2024 election and whether they’ve made social media posts that could be considered incriminating by the Trump team. (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. Virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. They all were loyal to the Democrat Party platform. They focused on getting rid of Republican federal employees.)
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/incoming-trump-team-is-questioning-civil-servants-at-national-security-council-about-their-loyalty/article_dfcfb082-5b71-516b-b0d5-c184547e415c.html
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Evanston boosts noncompliance with federal deportation efforts (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/01/14/city/evanston-boosts-noncompliance-with-federal-deportation-efforts/
AUSTIN WEEKLY
— Homelessness spikes by 116% in Illinois in 2024, mostly in Chicago. The national increase from 2023 was 18%, according to an annual HUD report; multiple reasons cited. (COMMENT: What percent of illegals are homeless?)
https://www.austinweeklynews.com/2025/01/13/subruban-cook-county-homelessness-increase/
CITIES 92.9
— Former IL GOP AG candidate Thomas DeVore sues House GOP leader Tony McCombie, alleging social media censorship
https://www.cities929.com/2025/01/13/former-il-gop-ag-candidate-sues-house-gop-leader-alleging-social-media-censorship/
X95 RADIO
— Windhorst Re-appointed State House Republican Floor Leader
https://www.x95radio.com/2025/01/14/windhorst-re-appointed-state-house-republican-floor-leader/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DeSantis calls special session to implement Trump’s immigration policies (COMMENT: Will Pritzker call a special session to fight Trump’s immigration policies?)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-desantis-calls-special-session-to-implement-trumps-immigration-policies/
FOLEY & LARDNER
— Illinois Human Rights Act Now Protects Employees With “Family Responsibilities” (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates stressed their family responsibilities and they decried that I did not have any. According to them, if I had family responsibilities like they did, I would not have been able to earn the college degrees, professional certifications, and professional license that I did.)
https://www.foley.com/insights/publications/2025/01/illinois-human-rights-act-now-protects-employees-with-family-responsibilities/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Dozens Gather In Pilsen To ‘Stand Up And Fight Back’ Against Trump’s Deportation Plans. Protestors condemned the Trump administration’s plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and urged city leaders to protect Chicago’s “Welcoming City” status. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/13/dozens-gather-in-pilsen-to-stand-up-and-fight-back-against-trumps-deportation-plans/
CHICAGO TREACHERS UNION
— Fighting for our students, standing up for sanctuary protections (COMMENT: Who fights for you? My critics/opponents can cite many examples that the following do not fight for me: a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and d) religious leaders and activists.)
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/bargaining-update-fighting-for-our-students-standing-up-for-sanctuary-protections/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— House Republican Leader Tony McCombie has been sued in federal court by Tom DeVore, a former Republican attorney general candidate who says McCombie blocked him on Facebook. . .House Republican leaders named. List here https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000194-62bd-d639-a395-7ebd8fd30000
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/01/14/illinois-gop-leader-sued-over-social-media-actions-00198034
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-435/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-227/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Adults murdering kids. Kids murdering kids. “Random” bullets killing kids. Nearly 100 dead youth in Chicago in 2024.
https://wirepoints.org/adults-murdering-kids-kids-murdering-kids-random-bullets-killing-kids-nearly-100-dead-youth-in-chicago-in-2024-wirepoints/
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Cook County gun, ammo tax unconstitutional still, judge says
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/667585272-cook-county-gun-ammo-tax-unconstitutional-still-judge-says
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Southern Illinois thrown a ‘bone’ after federal spending bill provides disaster aid (COMMENT: What bones have you been thrown? My Democrat GAO superiors reluctantly let me work for them for almost 18 years 1980-1997 and reluctantly promoted me in 1986. My Democrat IRS superiors reluctantly let me work for them for almost 9 years 1971-1980 and reluctantly promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors reluctantly let me work for them for almost 3 years 1966-1969.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/legislator-southern-illinois-thrown-a-bone-after-federal-spending-bill-provides-disaster-aid/ar-BB1rh5v7
ILLINOIS LEAKS
— Henyard Filed Another Frivolous Suit Against Thornton Township Trustees
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2025/01/henyard-filed-another-frivolous-suit-against-thornton-township-trustees/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Smearing Trump’s nominees thwarts the will of the people (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/13/smearing-trump-nominees-thwarts-people/
NEW YORK POST
— McDonald’s sued over Latino scholarships despite rolling back DEI (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/13/business/mcdonalds-sued-over-latino-scholarships-despite-rolling-back-dei/
— Suspect arrested with ‘flamethrower’ near LA Fire is an illegal immigrant
https://nypost.com/2025/01/13/us-news/suspect-arrested-with-flamethrower-near-kenneth-fire-is-an-illegal-immigrant-report/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Sanctuary hell: Illegal alien picked up with a blow torch in a fire zone may have avoided charges to shield him from deportation
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/sanctuary_hell_illegal_alien_picked_up_with_a_blow_torch_in_a_fire_zone_may_have_been_let_go_to_shield_him_from_deportation.html
BLAZE
— Deportations are mass enforcement, not mass deprivation of ‘rights’
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/deportations-are-mass-enforcement-not-mass-deprivation-of-rights
BREITBART
— Pro-Migrant Activists Hold Chicago Rally to Protest Trump Deportation Policy
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/01/13/pro-migrant-activists-hold-chicago-rally-protest-trump-deportation-policy/
— Laken Riley Act Momentum Grows as Senate Democrats Vote to Begin Debate
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/13/laken-riley-act-momentum-grows-as-senate-democrats-vote-to-begin-debate/
DAILY CALLER
— Dems Are Terrified Pete Hegseth Might Bring A Little Common Sense To The Pentagon
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/13/opinion-dems-are-terrified-pete-hegseth-might-bring-a-little-common-sense-to-pentagon-nicole-kiprilov/
— Dem Rep Distraught That Immigrants Who Already Broke Law By Crossing Border Could Be Detained Under Laken Riley Act
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/13/dem-rep-immigrants-crossing-border-detained-laken-riley-act/
DAILY SIGNAL
— States Should Conduct Their Own Censuses, Count Citizens Only for Redistricting.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/13/states-should-conduct-their-own-censuses-use-citizens-only-redistricting-heres-how/
FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Despite Criminal Activity, Governor Healey Asks Legislature to Spend Millions More in Taxpayer Dollars to House Illegal Aliens
https://www.fairus.org/news/state-and-local/despite-criminal-activity-governor-healey-asks-legislature-spend-millions-more
FOX BUSINESS
— DEI is not dying, it is just going under the table, off the books.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/dei-dying-heres-list-companies-have-rolled-back-woke-policies
FOX NEWS
— Chicago official slams Brandon Johnson’s new ICE guidelines: ‘Who is the mayor trying to protect?’ Alderman wants to remove those arrested for ‘gang-related activity, drug-related activity, prostitution and human trafficking, or sex crimes involving minors’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-official-slams-brandon-johnsons-new-ice-guidelines-who-mayor-trying-protect
— Massachusetts county ignores ICE detainers against illegal immigrant charged with rape. The immigrant is charged with a series of violent felonies, including rape and extortion with threat of injury.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blue-state-county-has-policy-ignoring-ice-requests-against-illegal-immigrants
— Man arrested near LA fires with possible blowtorch is an illegal immigrant: ICE sources. ICE is expected to put a detainer on him, but does not believe it will be honored.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/man-arrested-near-la-fires-possible-blowtorch-illegal-immigrant-ice-sources
— DOGE reps launch meetings with federal staffers in effort to cut government waste. Aides for Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy are reportedly meeting with staffers from more than a dozen federal agencies. (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 a) because I was a Republican with bad demographics and b) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-reps-launch-meetings-federal-staffers-effort-cut-government-waste-report
— DNC hires former Harris staffers behind @KamalaHQ for social media response to Trump. The DNC claims Trump is already ‘screwing over the American people.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-hires-former-harris-staffers-behind-kamalahq-social-media-response-trump
HUMAN EVENTS
— The Enemy Within – Nearly Half of Federal Employees Openly Planning to Resist Trump (COMMENT: If I was still working for the federal government, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would kill me figuratively if not literally.)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-enemy-within-nearly-half-of-federal-employees/id1585243541?i=1000683852550
NEW AMERICAN
— Hate-Trump Heretic Appointed Archbishop of Washington, D.C.; Covered for Priest Rapist
https://thenewamerican.com/us/hate-trump-heretic-appointed-archbishop-of-washington-d-c-covered-for-priest-rapist/
NEWSMAX
— Congress Desperately Needs DOGE-Focused Hearings (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 a) because I was a Republican with bad demographics and b) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.newsmax.com/scotfaulkner/doge-gao-inspector/2025/01/13/id/1194899/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The subcommittee can become a key forum for informing the public of existing waste, fraud, and abuse, building the nonpartisan case for cutting budgets and eliminating programs. . .Witnesses from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the 73 inspector general offices could review the last 10 years of their findings. Each year they collectively report over $650 billion in ongoing waste and provide recommended actions. Few of their recommendations were implemented. . .Waste is not partisan. No one wants public funds misspent. . .The handful of “public” witnesses represented Washington-based stakeholder organizations. No one from oversight groups documenting government waste and abuse were invited to testify.)
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— DNC Creates Team To Combat ‘Republican Disinformation Machine’ Ahead Of Trump’s Inauguration (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters are full of disinformation.)
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/dnc-creates-team-to-combat-republican-disinformation-machine-ahead-of-trumps-inauguration/
PJ MEDIA
— Woke Equity Is the Reason Why Pacific Palisades Is Now a Moonscape
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/01/13/is-equity-the-reason-why-pacific-palisades-is-a-moonscape-now-n4935920
— As Wildfires Rage, California Dems Want $50 Million to Protect Illegals From Deportation
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/13/as-wildfires-rage-california-dems-want-50-million-to-protect-illegal-from-deportation-n4935927
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Woke Ideology Is Replacing Merit-Based Standards In Military
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/13/william_thibeau_woke_ideology_is_replacing_merit-based_standards_in_military.html
TOWNHALL
— A homeless man who was trying to start fires with a blowtorch near a Los Angeles wildfire is an illegal immigrant. The suspect, Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, is a Mexican national living in the states illegally.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/01/13/suspect-who-was-trying-to-start-fires-in-la-is-an-illegal-alien-n2650424
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Border Czar Homan Rolling Out Way for Individual Americans to Personally Help Deport Illegals
https://www.westernjournal.com/border-czar-homan-rolling-way-individual-americans-personally-help-deport-illegals/
— Would-Be Arsonist Caught by Citizens Is Illegal Immigrant
https://www.westernjournal.com/arsonist-caught-citizens-illegal-immigrant-ice-reporter/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— News Outlets Take Unusual Steps to Prepare for Onslaught From Trump. Media organizations are preparing for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the new administration. (COMMENT: I should write about those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have blamed me the most for their defeats.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/business/trump-media-threats.html?searchResultPosition=6
WASHINGTON POST
— Protest crowd estimates down, ticket demand high for Trump inauguration. Many of D.C.’s elected leaders either did not say or were noncommittal about whether they will show up to celebrate Trump’s return.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/13/trump-inauguration-protests-safety-dc/
UPI
— U.S. blacklists online White supremacist group as terrorist organization (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who blacklisted the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. I served as an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I would focus on my critics/opponents 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 taken big adverse actions against me recently.)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/01/13/Terrorgram-Collective-terrorist-designation/9661736821662/
MARINE TIMES
— Hegseth’s track record falls short of military standards: Dem senators (COMMENT: In 2014, Hegseth was promoted to the rank of Major. My critics/opponents stress that my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 Step 5 (currently $112,280/year) and that my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 (currently $153,151/year). GS-12 is equivalent to Major in the military and GS-13 is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel in the military.)
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/opinion/2025/01/14/hegseths-track-record-falls-short-of-military-standards-dem-senators/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While we respect his service in the Army Reserve and National Guard, he did not rise to a command position where he would learn the management, joint forces operations, logistics and other skills relevant to the role he’s up for now. He never commanded a task force or a detachment — nothing near the scale or scope of the 3 million people who make up the DOD. These military experiences aren’t requirements for the job, but his civilian leadership experience is not just limited, it is also fraught with evidence that he is not an effective or trusted leader. He financially mismanaged two veterans political organizations, with his staff alleging that he misused funds, was frequently drunk in front of them and fostered an environment where sexual harassment was an issue. He spent the last seven years as a Fox News host, where his alcohol consumption was also a concern among his co-workers. We would not tolerate this kind of reckless behavior from recruits — there is absolutely zero reason we should tolerate it from the man who is supposed to be their leader.)
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— GOP Voters Back Trump on Greenland, Panama Canal
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/gop_voters_back_trump_on_greenland_panama_canal
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— McDonald’s Sued Over Latino Scholarships, One Week After Retreating on Diversity. Activist Edward Blum, who challenged affirmative action, sets his sights on college aid. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/mcdonalds-sued-over-latino-scholarships-one-week-after-retreating-on-diversity-dc7a2438
— Employers want cheap labor.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-immigrants-america-needs-policy-reform-8bf8c942
— Pete Hegseth Faces a Skeptical Senate. The Defense nominee must overcome doubts about his qualifications. (COMMENT: In 2014, Hegseth was promoted to the rank of Major. My critics/opponents stress that my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 Step 5 (currently $112,280/year) and that my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 (currently $153,151/year). GS-12 is equivalent to Major in the military and GS-13 is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel in the military.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/pete-hegseth-nomination-pentagon-defense-secretary-senate-armed-services-committee-51ff216f
BARRON’S
— Democrat and RINO leaders promote illegals.
https://www.barrons.com/amp/news/migrants-fret-over-asylum-appointments-scheduled-after-trump-s-inauguration-825fe476
FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91257841/how-the-dei-backlash-impacts-women-at-work
BORDER REPORT
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election, they reject the rule of law.
https://fox40.com/news/border-report/perfectly-legal-if-sanctuary-cities-dont-help-with-mass-deportations-law-scholar-says/
AMERICAN WIRE
— Gingrich warns mass deportations could backfire on Trump (COMMENT: Because of Gingrich’s massive budget cuts, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://americanwirenews.com/newt-gingrich-warns-mass-deportations-could-backfire-on-trump/
POLITICO
— Trump made the GOP a big-tent party. Now, he’s stuck with the infighting. The clashes are a preview to the challenges the president-elect faces.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/14/trump-republicans-bannon-musk-00197996
— Democrats look to sink Pete Hegseth’s nomination in first day of confirmation hearings. The treatment of Trump’s Pentagon pick will likely determine how other nominees fare.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/13/what-to-watch-pete-hegseths-hearing-00197922
DAILY BEAST
— Duckworth Knocks Hegseth’s Military Record: ‘Pretty Low Ranking’ (COMMENT: In 2014, Hegseth was promoted to the rank of Major. My critics/opponents stress that my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12 Step 5 (currently $112,280/year) and that my Democrat GAO superiors never promoted me beyond GS-13 Step 10 (currently $153,151/year). GS-12 is equivalent to Major in the military and GS-13 is equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel in the military.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/duckworth-knocks-hegseth-military-record-162535858.html
January 11, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Chicago’s mayor can’t be recalled under Illinois law. A new bill aims to change that. Rep. LaShawn Ford has been trying to get such a mechanism on the books since 2015, in the wake of the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald by then-Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicagos-mayor-cant-be-recalled-under-illinois-law-a-new-bill-aims-to-change-that/3643166/
— Meta announces end of DEI programs. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents continue to promote DEI big time.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/read-the-memo-meta-announces-end-of-its-dei-programs/3642960/
— According to my critics/opponents, conservative candidates on ballots in my precinct cannot win. According to my critics/opponents, a) I paint Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct as being more conservative than they want to be painted, b) I promote Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who are too conservative to win, and c) therefore, I cause Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to lose. They stress that 10 of the 13 Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in my precinct lost. In my defense, I stress that 11 of the 13 Republican candidates on that ballot in my precinct got more votes than their Democrat opponents got.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/dillard-too-conservative-to-be-electable/1932061/
FOX32
— Illinois Attorney General urges Walmart to continue DEI programs (COMMENT: Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXyii4RDI64
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump is planning 100 executive orders starting Day 1 on border, deportations and other priorities
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/10/trump-100-executive-orders-day-1-border-deportations/
— Trump can still vote after sentencing, but can’t own a gun and will have to turn over DNA sample
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/10/trump-can-vote-turn-over-dna-sample/
— Meta nixes diversity and inclusion program as it prepares for second Trump administration
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/10/meta-nixes-diversity-and-inclusion-program-trump-administration/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Meta nixes diversity and inclusion program as it prepares for second Trump administration. Other companies that have ended DEI programs recently include McDonald’s, automaker Ford, Walmart and Moline-based farm equipment maker John Deere.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/technology/2025/01/10/meta-nixes-diversity-inclusion-program-prepares-second-trump-administration
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage Forest Preserve District earns top S&P rating
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250110/submitted-content/dupage-forest-preserve-district-earns-top-sp-rating/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— For Chicago, bankruptcy is not the answer
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chicago-should-not-follow-detroits-path-bankruptcy-op-ed
— Illinois AG pushes back on Walmart’s plans to roll back DEI programs (COMMENT: Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/workplace/illinois-ag-urges-walmart-keep-dei-programs
JOURNAL & TOPICS
— DECEMBER 6, 2024 FLASHBACK: Del Mar To Step Down Next Year As State GOP Co-Chair To Seek Statewide Office
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/del-mar-to-step-down-next-year-as-state-gop-co-chair-to-seek-statewide-office/
INDIANA GAZETTE
— The military that cried ‘White supremacy’
https://www.indianagazette.com/opinion/ann-coulter-the-military-that-cried-white-supremacy/article_ce27e03b-594b-50a3-94f3-de89339ab21b.html
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Sen. Rand Paul highlights government waste in annual Festivus Report
https://newschannel20.com/news/nation-world/senator-rand-paul-highlights-government-waste-annual-festivus-report-pickleball-border-science-experiments-cats-paraguay-trump-doge
KCCI
— Group files lawsuit against Des Moines Register for ‘misleading subscribers’ with Iowa Poll (COMMENT: My critics/opponents disapprove of if not hate many, most, if not virtually all of the articles linked in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter, and especially articles that promote personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, enforcement of immigration laws, discouragement of vices, Second Amendment rights, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), and other conservative principles.)
https://www.kcci.com/article/des-moines-register-iowa-poll-class-action-lawsuit-2024/63361223
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A lawsuit has been filed against the Des Moines Register for “misleading subscribers” with its final 2024 Iowa Poll that showed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris leading Republican nominee — and eventual election winner — Donald Trump among likely voters just days before the election. The Center for American Rights, a Chicago-based nonprofit law firm, filed the suit in Polk County on behalf of a West Des Moines resident who “felt like the Register was disserving him and other readers when [the poll] ran and when its results were compared to the final outcome.” In a news release, the center states it is seeking certification as a class action lawsuit on behalf of all Des Moines Register subscribers. The complaint filed in Polk County alleges there are approximately 40,000 Des Moines Register subscribers on Sundays, the day the results of the final poll were published. The poll showed Harris with a lead of 3 percentage points among likely Iowa voters. Trump won the state with 57% of the vote to Harris’ 43%. The lawsuit alleges the Register “utterly failed to live up to” its mission statement of being a trustworthy news organization and says the Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer ignored red flags that should have indicated the results would be inaccurate. It cites a section of Iowa Code about consumer fraud. President-elect Trump filed a similar lawsuit against the Register regarding consumer fraud last month.)
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wbez.org/2025/01/10/immigration-advocates-warn-a-proposal-for-chicago-police-to-help-ice-could-be-illegal
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats glorify and praise illegals.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-10/as-los-angeles-burned-latino-immigrants-rushed-in-to-put-out-fires
ELMHURST PATCH
— 56% Raise For Addison Township Supervisor. The official is taking over township roads, something voters weren’t told about before a recent referendum.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/56-raise-addison-township-supervisor
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use IVF to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/ivf-patients-in-illinois-worry-feel-uncertain-about-access-and-treatments-as-trump-returns-to-office/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-226/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Independent candidate for Milton Township Supervisor John Monino efforts failed to boot the eight Republican Township candidates from the April 1, 2025 Milton Township ballot based on late filing of their petitions. But Michael Nachman’s effort succeeded in booting the assessor candidate based on late filing of his qualifications statement. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To prove slander, a plaintiff must usually establish the following elements: Defamatory statement: The statement was false and intended to harm the plaintiff’s reputation: Publication: The statement was communicated to at least one other person; Harm: The plaintiff’s reputation was damaged; Fault: The defendant was at least negligent in publishing the statement; Special damages: The plaintiff suffered actual harm, such as financial loss, being fired, or losing customers. (SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=slander+prove+elements ) Politics is nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have their judgement-proof operatives and their judgement-proof dupes slander me. I should write about my critics/opponents and their operatives and dupes. Better yet, I should sue them. I would focus on my critics/opponents who falsely hint/imply/argue/shout to others that I share information with Democrats that harm Republicans. In 2006, because the Roskam campaign feared that it would lose to Duckworth, its scapegoating members falsely and maliciously hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I shared information with the Democrat news media and with the Duckworth campaign that harmed the Roskam campaign. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— A congestion tax for Chicago would be a terrible and uncompetitive idea
https://wirepoints.org/a-congestion-tax-for-chicago-would-be-a-terrible-and-uncompetitive-idea-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois home to fifth most illegal immigrants in country
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4c94066c-cf73-11ef-8d4d-c32bd379ee48.html
— Thirteen states’ attorneys general question Walmart’s retreat from DEI (COMMENT: Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d5642886-cf79-11ef-acb4-7f61eaea621c.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Addison Township voters at the April 1 election will tell state lawmakers where they stand on legislative map gerrymandering and state leaders making demands without providing money. Nearly 650,000 Illinoisans’ concerns about major state issues will be represented by these votes.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/voters-near-ohare-to-take-up-gerrymandering-unfunded-mandates/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— DeVore Files Lawsuit Against McCombie, Says GOP Leader Violated First Amendment Rights by Blocking, Deleting Comments on Official Facebook Page
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/01/devore-files-lawsuit-against-mccombie-says-gop-leader-violated-first-amendment-rights-by-blocking-deleting-comments-on-official-facebook-page.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Biden admin announces sweeping deportation shield for nearly 1M migrants (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/10/us-news/biden-admin-announces-sweeping-deportation-shield-for-nearly-1m-migrants/
— Rudy Giuliani found in contempt of court — again — for defaming Georgia election workers. (COMMENT: Politics is nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have their judgement-proof operatives and their judgement-proof dupes defame me. I should write about my critics/opponents and their operatives and dupes. Better yet, I should sue them.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/10/us-news/rudy-giuliani-found-in-contempt-of-court-for-defaming-georgia-election-workers/
— Foreign leaders desperately jockeying for invite to Trump’s inauguration: ‘They’re all going crazy’
https://nypost.com/2025/01/11/us-news/foreign-leaders-jockeying-for-invite-to-trump-inauguration-theyre-all-going-crazy/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— President-elect Trump Plans Many Ambitious Executive Orders on Immigration
https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/10/report-president-elect-trump-plans-many-ambitious-executive-orders-on-immigration/
AMERICAN THINKER
— A few suggestions for California Republicans
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/a_few_suggestions_for_california_republicans.html
BLAZE
— Trump doesn’t need Congress to suspend immigration
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-brutal-truth-trump-doesnt-need-congress-to-suspend-immigration
— NYC spent $50M on lawyers for illegal aliens — including criminals — while city agencies faced budget cuts (COMMENT: Democrats want illegals because illegals vote for Democrats.)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/nyc-spent-50m-on-lawyers-for-illegal-aliens-including-criminals-while-city-agencies-faced-budget-cuts-report
— Republican Buddy Carter introduces bill to eliminate IRS and income tax — but replace it with 23% national sales tax
https://www.theblaze.com/news/buddy-carter-fairtax-act-2025
DAILY CITIZEN
— DEI Not Dead Yet
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/hrc-lgbt-corporate-equality-index/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Deport Millions, Finish the Wall, Tax Remittances, and End Birthright Citizenship
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/10/deport-millions-finish-wall-tax-remittances-birthright-citizenship/
FOX NEWS
— LA County cut fire budget while spending heavily on DEI, woke items
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/la-county-cut-fire-budget-while-spending-heavily-dei-woke-items-midnight-stroll-transgender-cafe
— Schools nationwide brace for Trump, including measures compelling teachers not to cooperate with ICE. Several K-12 school districts are training teachers how to interact with ICE. (COMMENT: How anti-Trump, that is, how anti-conservative, anti-Republican, and anti-American is your school district?)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schools-nationwide-brace-trump-including-measures-compelling-teachers-not-cooperate-ice
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Second Circuit Revives Sarah Palin’s Defamation Suit Against The New York Times (COMMENT: Politics is nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have their judgement-proof operatives and their judgement-proof dupes defame me. I should write about my critics/opponents and their operatives and dupes. Better yet, I should sue them.)
https://natlawreview.com/article/second-circuit-revives-sarah-palins-defamation-suit-against-new-york-times
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Although Palin ultimately succeeded on appeal, Palin’s broader efforts to have the Supreme Court revisit the “actual malice” requirement set by New York Times v. Sullivan may have hit a dead end. Public-figure defamation plaintiffs need to prove actual malice, which requires showing that an allegedly defamatory statement was made “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.” Sullivan, 376 U.S. at 280. In St. Amant v. Thompson, the Supreme Court explained that proof that a defamatory article was published “recklessly, though not knowingly” is not sufficient to prove actual malice. Rather, the evidence must show that the defendant had “an awareness…of the probable falsity” of the publication. Later, in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., the Court defined “reckless disregard of the truth” to mean “subjective awareness of probable falsity.” On appeal, Palin argued that “the actual malice standard is either no longer good law or should not apply to her case.” The Second Circuit rejected these arguments as barred by the “law of the case” doctrine because they were ripe for review at the time of Palin’s initial appeal but were not raised. Additionally, Palin challenged the district court’s ruling that, regardless of the First Amendment, she was required to prove actual malice as an element of her claim under New York’s amended Anti-SLAPP law, N.Y. Civil Rights Law § 76-a. The November 2020 amendment to New York’s Anti-SLAPP law imposes an actual malice fault standard in any action concerning the “exercise of the constitutional right of free speech in connection with an issue of public interest.” However, “because the First Amendment and New York’s amended Anti-SLAPP Statute share the same substantive requirement (that a public-figure defamation plaintiff must prove actual malice by clear and convincing evidence),” the Second Circuit stated, “we need not decide—and do not decide—whether the Anti-SLAPP Statute’s amendment applies retroactively.”)
NEW AMERICAN
— NYC Spent Millions on Deportation Defense for Migrants — Who Were Crippling the City
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/nyc-spent-millions-on-deportation-defense-for-migrants-who-were-crippling-the-city/
PJ MEDIA
— Two Chicago Officials Want to Tighten up the City’s Sanctuary Status
https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2025/01/10/two-chicago-officials-want-to-tighten-up-the-citys-sanctuary-status-n4935870
— This One Video Exposes Everything Wrong With DEI
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/10/this-one-video-exposes-everything-wrong-with-dei-n4935854#google_vignette
TOWNHALL
— Chicago Dems Push to Undo Sanctuary Law, Aid Trump in Deporting Criminals
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/01/10/chicago-democrats-take-trumps-side-n2650345#google_vignette
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— SALT-focused Republicans to meet with Trump as they threaten to hold up bill
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5079670-salt-focused-republicans-to-meet-with-trump-as-they-threaten-to-hold-up-bill/
CBS NEWS
— Biden extends legal status of nearly 1 million immigrants covered by program in Trump’s crosshairs (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-temporary-protected-status-tps-extended/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the longer that your ancestors have been in America and the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, and/or German American.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-probe-of-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-says-no-avenue-for-criminal-case-in-connection-to-attack/ar-BB1rfGqa
https://halifax.citynews.ca/2025/01/10/federal-probe-of-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-says-no-avenue-for-criminal-case-in-connection-to-attack/
MSN
— ‘Woke’ L.A. Fire Department Blew Seven-Figure Sums on DEI Before Deadly Wildfires
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/woke-l-a-fire-department-blew-seven-figure-sums-on-dei-before-deadly-wildfires/ss-BB1reSK1
MSNBC
— ‘Humiliation’: Trump’s now the first president-elect to be a convicted felon (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors humiliated me big time when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They flushed down their toilets me and my job-related professional license, my six job-related professional certifications, my three job-related master’s degrees, my almost 18 years of GAO work experience, and my almost 9 years of IRS work experience.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtIMY-UKA5o
NEW YORK TIMES
— Biden Issues Sweeping Deportation Protections Before Trump Takes Office. The move allows hundreds of thousands of people from Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela to stay in the country temporarily. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/us/politics/biden-temporary-protected-status-immigration.html
— Judge Finds Giuliani in Contempt for Continued Defamation of Election Workers (COMMENT: Politics is nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have their judgement-proof operatives and their judgement-proof dupes defame me. I should write about my critics/opponents and their operatives and dupes. Better yet, I should sue them.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/us/politics/giuliani-contempt-defamation-election-workers.html
— To advance minorities and females, Democrat and RINO leaders dump meritocracy. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or b) had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/opinion/ramaswamy-meritocracy.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: With Sentence, Trump Will Now Be First Felon To Occupy Oval Office. Penalty Carries Stigma but No Jail Time. (COMMENT: I should write about the tremendous stigma of being forced to retire early. The more qualifications that you have, the greater the stigma. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years before that.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/nyregion/trump-hush-money-sentencing-convicted-felon.html
— As L.A. Fires Rage, Trump and Newsom’s Hostilities Resurface. California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, and President-elect Donald J. Trump have long feuded. Can the rancor be set aside to help a devastated city recover?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/politics/los-angeles-fires-trump-newsom.html
— Republicans Can Slow but Not Stop Electric Vehicles. More car buyers are expected to eventually pick battery-powered cars and trucks as prices fall and technology improves, even if Biden-era incentives disappear.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/business/energy-environment/trump-republicans-electric-vehicles-automakers.html
RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH
— Youngkin backs push for cutting federal workforce, spending (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. They use budget cuts first to get rid of any remaining employees who are Republican and then employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/youngkin-trump-doge/article_e2d17acc-cf93-11ef-a44e-1f234deb1288.html
DAILY BEAST
— A New York appeals court on Thursday rejected Fox Corp’s attempt to be dismissed from Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed against the media company and its Fox News network. (COMMENT: Politics is nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have their judgement-proof operatives and their judgement-proof dupes defame me. I should write about my critics/opponents and their operatives and dupes. Better yet, I should sue them.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-loses-last-ditch-effort-to-stop-27-billion-smartmatic-defamation-lawsuit/
January 9, 2025
ILLINOIS RECORD
— Upcoming ILGOP State Central committee meeting will be open to the public (COMMENT: What Congressional District do you live in? The following represent you on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee: 1-Tim Ozinga, 2- Judy Diekelman, 3-Jeanne Ives, 4-Jay Reyes, 5-Aaron Del Mar, 6-Sean Morrison, 7-Mark Hosty, 8- Debbie Kanarowski, 9-Joan Lasonde, 10- Mark Shaw, 11- Laura Pollastrini, 12-Rhonda Belford, 13-Myles Nelson, 14-Larry Smith, 15-Jason Plummer, 16-Jan Weber, and 17-Chad Weaver. The IRP Platform is at: https://illinois.gop/2024-state-convention-platform-and-resolutions/ . The IRP By-Laws are at: https://illinois.gop/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Amended-Bylaws-as-approved-April-25-2020.pdf .)
https://www.illinoisrecord.com/p/upcoming-ilgop-state-central-committee
(FROM THE POSTING: Saturday, January 11, 2025, 10 am – 2 pm, Whitetail Ridge Golf Club, 7671 Clubhouse Dr. Yorkville)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Will County judge rejects effort to restore Homer Glen candidates to April ballot (COMMENT: Independent candidate for Milton Township Supervisor John Monino is seeking to boot all eight Republican Township candidates from the April 1, 2025 Milton Township ballot. A hearing on that is scheduled for 2:00 PM tomorrow, Friday, January 10, 2025, in the Wheaton City Council Chambers. For slating purposes, Monino got only 3 votes from Milton Township Republican Precinct Committeemen while Dan Milinko got 40 votes In 2021, Monino sided with my critics/opponents who ended my 16-year-long service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks. Since 2021, many of my critics/opponents have promoted Monino.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/08/booted-homer-glen-candidates-lose-appeal/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Will County Judge Ben Braun dismissed an appeal filed on behalf of eight Homer Glen trustee candidates who were removed from the ballot because the paperwork was not filed in compliance with Illinois Election Code.)
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Calls for unity, naked partisanship mark inauguration ceremonies in Springfield
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/08/calls-for-unity-naked-partisanship-mark-inauguration-ceremonies-in-springfield/
— Trump arrives on Capitol Hill as GOP struggles to agree on legislative strategy ahead
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/08/trump-capitol-hill/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Freshly inaugurated Illinois legislators meet ‘critical moment’ after lame-duck infighting. Gov. JB Pritzker waved off concerns that a fiery House Democratic caucus meeting that tanked one of his prized legislative priorities would throw off his party as it faces a budget crunch and a second Trump administration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2025/01/08/illinois-general-assembly-inauguration-jb-pritzker
— Democrats ever-increasingly shout at non-Whites that Republicans cause all the problems that non-Whites have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/01/08/trump-racial-justice-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei-civil-rights-national-urban-league-marc-morial
— Zuckerberg’s move to end Meta fact-checking is a disservice to users — and truth (COMMENT: During the last 11 years that I worked for GAO at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, I often worked as a fact checker.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/01/08/zuckerberg-meta-fact-checkers-facebook-threads-trump-x-musk-editorial
— Giannoulias pushes bill to raise age for mandatory road tests to 87 for older drivers. Bipartisan legislation introduced in Springfield would also create a system for relatives to ask the state to step in if they think their aging loved ones are no longer capable of driving.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2025/01/09/aging-drivers-road-test-age-bill-giannoulias-illinois-safety
NBC5
— President-elect Donald Trump joins visitors to Jimmy Carter’s casket in Capitol Rotunda
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/donald-trump-joins-visitors-jimmy-carter-casket-capitol-rotunda/3641410/
— Taxpayer Advocate urges Congress to preserve IRS funding for service, technology (COMMENT: GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. The Democrats who run IRS and GAO do not want Republicans to audit IRS. They kept off audits of IRS for all but 3 (1986-1988) of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They wasted what I had learned about IRS while I worked for it for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. They wasted what I had learned earning a MBA from Loyola in 1976, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, etc. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/taxpayer-advocate-urges-congress-to-preserve-irs-funding-for-service-technology/3641033/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins has urged Congress to preserve IRS funding for taxpayer service and technology amid Republican scrutiny. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 originally authorized nearly $80 billion for the agency, but tens of billions of dollars have already been rescinded. More IRS funding could be at risk with Republican control of Congress and the White House. As the IRS faces scrutiny from a Republican-controlled Congress, the agency’s internal watchdog has urged lawmakers to preserve taxpayer service and technology funding. The National Taxpayer Advocate on Wednesday released its annual report to Congress, which criticized the “extreme imbalance in funding priorities” when comparing the billions of dollars allocated via the Inflation Reduction Act. While the tens of billions earmarked for enforcement has “generated controversy,” there’s been “strong bipartisan support” for taxpayer services and technology modernization, wrote Erin Collins, national taxpayer advocate.)
CBS2
— Lost and stolen electronic devices are costing Chicago Public Schools dearly
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/lost-stolen-electronic-devices-chicago-public-schools/
FOX32
— Chicago should work with feds to deport some undocumented immigrants, alders say
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-migrants-sanctuary-city-cooperation
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— New Illinois General Assembly sworn in as House, Senate take different tones
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/new-illinois-general-assembly-sworn-in-as-house-senate-take-different-tones/article_5417c3be-ce20-11ef-b308-1bd70af28158.html
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— In 2024, more people moved from Illinois than moved in. Here’s where we rate nationally.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2025/01/08/illinois-outbound-migration-rate-second-in-united-states-study/77491721007/
NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES
— Indiana attorney general endorses mass deportation, other Trump immigration policies
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/todd-rokita-trump-immigration-policies/article_53f6eb78-cdd8-11ef-9ebb-bf8b06b960a3.html
STATELINE
— Illinois will give you a $4K rebate to purchase an electric vehicle in 2025 (COMMENT: Please let me know if you share my interest in the 2025 Dodge Charger EV ( https://www.dodge.com/charger.html ). I own a 2013 Charger R/T Max and I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971 and a 1968 Charger R/T 1994-2005.)
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-will-give-you-a-4k-rebate-to-purchase-an-electric-vehicle-in-2025/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Fetterman likens Trump’s Greenland push to Louisiana Purchase: ‘Responsible conversation’
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/fetterman-likens-trumps-greenland-push-to-louisiana-purchase-responsible-conversation-john-fetterman-trump-panama-canal-canada-imperialism-politics
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump’s inaugural committee has already raised a record $170M in donations
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-inaugural-committee-has-already-raised-a-record-170m-in-donations/
74 MILLION NEWSLETTER
— 40% of Chicago Teachers Are Chronically Absent. Those Gaps Carry Real Costs
https://www.the74million.org/article/40-of-chicago-teachers-are-chronically-absent-those-gaps-carry-real-costs/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-432/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/01/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-224/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— State Sen. Steve McClure, R-Springfield, raises concerns over noncitizens registering to vote in Illinois
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_8be2abf2-cde3-11ef-bca3-4385671f5ab6.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: McClure said he was notified by an immigrant rights advocate that when noncitizens apply for state aid, the Illinois Department of Human Services is sending packets to them that include voter registration forms already addressed to local county clerks’ offices.)
WIREPOINTS
— States like Texas and Florida grow organically by attracting citizens. Illinois only grows by importing illegal migrants.
https://wirepoints.org/states-like-texas-and-florida-grow-organically-by-attracting-citizens-illinois-only-grows-by-importing-illegal-migrants-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/
ILLINOIS CENTER SQUARE
— Pritzker outlines Illinois plans for the upcoming year (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other 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 national origin discrimination.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7df8833e-ce0d-11ef-86bd-ebea0adfd8f4.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Law Allowing Seizure of Guns without Notice Condemned, Roll Calls Included
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/08/law-allowing-seizure-of-guns-without-notice-condemned-roll-call-included/
— Pot Taxes Leveling Off
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/08/pot-taxes-leveling-off/
— Illinois Advertises Five-Weeks of Vacation First Year of Employment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/08/illinois-advertises-five-weeks-of-vacation-first-year-of-employment/
— Gun Confiscation Bill Passes Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/08/gun-confiscation-bill-passes-senate/
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Illinois Elementary School Offers Confidential Sexuality Club for Fifth Graders
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/01/07/illinois-elementary-school-offers-confidential-sexuality-club-for-fifth-graders
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— IL House GOP Conference Chair Jeff Keicher Defends Vote to Expand Transgender Patient Rights, Then Angrily Drops F-Bomb During Call with Female Constituent
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/01/il-house-gop-conference-chair-jeff-keicher-defends-vote-to-expand-transgender-patient-rights-then-angrily-drops-f-bomb-during-call-with-female-constituent.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump downplays strategy fight after huddle with Senate Republicans: ‘Great unity’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3281092/trump-downplays-strategy-fight-huddle-senate-republicans-unity/
— Trudeau resignation proves the point of Trump tariffs
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3280012/trudeau-resignation-proves-point-trump-tariffs/
— Why the Pentagon needs Pete Hegseth
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/3279964/pentagon-needs-pete-hegseth/
— Students are being conditioned to sympathize with terrorists
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3279603/students-conditioned-sympathize-terrorists/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump says Gov. Gavin ‘Newscum’ chose to save an extinct fish instead of sending water to Southern California to fight ‘apocalyptic’ wildfires
https://nypost.com/2025/01/08/us-news/trump-says-gov-gavin-newscum-chose-to-save-an-endangered-fish-instead-of-sending-water-to-southern-california-to-fight-apocalyptic-wildfires/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Taxpayers Paid $3 Billion for Radical DEI Kickbacks Under Biden. The Democrats’ Marxist equity agenda was costly and prioritized dismantling American exceptionalism over national security and economic prosperity.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/01/09/taxpayers-paid-3-billion-for-radical-dei-kickbacks-under-biden/
BLAZE
— Biden admin to refund $55M to illegal aliens after mass amnesty program falls apart
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-admin-to-refund-55m-to-illegal-aliens-after-mass-amnesty-program-falls-apart
BREITBART
— Denver’s Democrat Mayor is covertly dumping illegal migrants — including criminals — into nearby Colorado cities, and the mayor of Aurora is demanding answers. (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that soon, if not already, Chicago Democrats will dump their illegals on suburban municipalities.)
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/01/08/mayors-of-denver-and-aurora-fight-over-illegal-migrants-dumped-from-denver/
CAMPUS REFORM
— California State University, Long Beach Journalism Professor Jesus Ayala recently celebrated the fact that the students enrolled in his fall 2024 journalism course were ‘100% students of color.’ (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/csulb-prof-celebrates-course-enrollment-100-students-color/27260
— Course will teach students how to ‘resist’ ‘abortion bans’ and ‘anti-LGBT legislation’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/intersectional-feminist-theory-course-will-teach-students-how-to-resist-abortion-bans-and-anti-lgbt-legislation/27261
CENTER SQUARE
— 20 Republican AGs express support for Trump immigration policies
https://www.thecentersquare.com/alabama/article_59e89dba-cdfb-11ef-a7f1-3bef77453145.amp.html
DAILY CALLER
— California’s DEI Hiring In Fire Departments, ‘Not Muscularity, Not Experience,’ Just DEI
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/08/victor-davis-hanson-california-dei/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Wokeness Depresses College Students (COMMENT: Instead of getting depressed, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, earned six job-related professional certifications, earned a job-related professional license, and was active in professional associations.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/08/victimhood-u/
DAILY WIRE
— Los Angeles Fire Chief Says DEI Is A Top Priority
https://www.dailywire.com/news/lafd-fire-chief-says-dei-is-a-top-priority
EPOCH TIMES
— 5 Dead, 100,000 Under Evacuation Orders as Fires Sweep Across Los Angeles. A state of emergency has been declared by California’s governor.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/more-than-30000-evacuated-in-los-angeles-as-wildfires-rage-5788209
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Sanctuary Politicians: Soon to be out of Excuses.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/01/08/sanctuary-politicians-soon-be-out-excuses
FIREARM NEWS
— Illinois Passes Law to Seize Firearms Without Due Process. What are you going to do about it, President Trump?
https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/Illinois-Law-Seize-Firearms-Without-Due-Process/514253
PJ MEDIA
— How Wokeism Created the L.A. Wildfire Crisis
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/08/how-wokeism-created-the-la-wildfire-crisis-n4935802
— Archbishop Calls Out Clerics Who Profit From Illegal Migration
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/01/08/archbishop-calls-out-clerics-who-profit-from-illegal-migration-n4935805
— Democrat Policies Hurt the Very People Dems Claim to Help
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/01/08/democrat-policies-hurt-the-very-people-dems-claim-to-help-n4935782
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the pursuit of truth? (COMMENT: During the last 11 years that I worked for GAO at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, I often worked as a fact checker.)
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-politics-trump-verification-misinformation-00bc57b4a3c348a1363610c1cbbfd8ca
MSN
— How much scholarship is granted by world’s top 10 business schools? (COMMENT: Did you get scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. They use that to hint/imply/argue/shout that I am dumb and that my parents were rich.)
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/how-much-scholarship-is-granted-by-world-s-top-10-business-schools/ar-BB1r7TR6
— Pritzker Says Illinois Is ‘On Guard’ for Any Trump Hit to Budget (COMMENT: GAO would not be less than a shell of what it once was today if its head Charles Bowsher had fought GOP-led budget cuts during the 1980s and 1990s.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pritzker-says-illinois-is-on-guard-for-any-trump-hit-to-budget/ar-BB1r7on9
ABC NEWS
— Trump and Senate Republicans still divided on how to implement his agenda. After meeting on the Hill, senators appear unmoved by Trump’s argument. (COMMENT: The Republican Party platform is Trump’s agenda. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-meet-gop-senators-same-page-advance-agenda/story?id=117468862
CBS NEWS
— Trump meets with GOP senators on Capitol Hill to push legislative agenda. President-elect Donald Trump met with Republican senators Wednesday night on Capitol Hill to discuss his “big beautiful bill” and all the pieces of his agenda it could hold.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-meets-gop-senators-capitol-hill-push-legislative-agenda/
— Congress certifies Trump’s 2024 election victory, 4 years after Capitol attack (COMMENT: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hates reject Trump’s election.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/congress-election-electoral-college-2025/
NBC NEWS
— How Mark Zuckerberg pivoted Meta to the right. In recent months, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a series of specific moves to signal that Meta may embrace a more conservative administration.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/mark-zuckerberg-pivoted-meta-right-rcna186687
NEW YORK TIMES
— This Is What It Looks Like When Mark Zuckerberg Runs Out of Ideas
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-trump-meta-lobbying.html
— Tax Cuts or the Border? Republicans Wrestle Over Priorities. President-elect Donald J. Trump has waffled on his preferences for how his party tackles his agenda, adding to the uncertainty for Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/us/politics/tax-cuts-immigration-republicans-trump.html
— I Quit Drinking Four Years Ago. I’m Still Confronting Drinking Culture. (COMMENT: Most, if not virtually all of my older White male critics/opponents are/were big drinkers. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, many of my older White male Democrat superiors were big drinkers. Their leader wasted my career and got rid of me. He forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. He gave me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals. He turned my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me. He delayed my promotions. He kept me off audits of IRS except 1986-1988. He forced my mentor to retire in 1987. He always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. He had his operatives and his dupes force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. If he had not gone on extended sick leave in 1985 because of his very big drinking, my GAO mentor would not have been able to assign me to audits of IRS in 1986 or to promote me to GS-13 in 1986. But he came back in 1987 and forced my mentor to retire.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/opinion/alcohol-drinking-dry-january.html
AUDACY
— Trump gathers SALT-focused Republicans before tax fight, as Hochul says cap is costing NY $12B a year (COMMENT: Starting in 1972, I paid less federal income tax by itemizing. But the Republican SALT limit ended that in 2017.)
https://www.audacy.com/1010wins/news/trump-gathers-salt-focused-republicans-before-tax-fight
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Much of the group is likely to attend and plans to discuss increasing the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, which has disproportionately hurt voters in the three high-tax states, according to US Representative Nick LaLota, who represents eastern Long Island in New York.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Canada Suddenly Has No Leader, and No Plan, for a Trump Trade Fight. Justin Trudeau’s decision to resign hamstrings Canada as it faces tariff threats and Trump’s threat of a takeover with ‘economic force’
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/canada-suddenly-has-no-leader-and-no-plan-for-a-trump-trade-fight-341a5f0c
POLITICO
— Florida Republicans answer Trump’s call on illegal immigration
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/florida-playbook/2025/01/09/florida-republicans-answer-trumps-call-on-illegal-immigration-00197227
— A new Dem strategy: Embrace Trump’s winning agenda. New York Democrats don’t want to fight Trump, but are going on offense on the issues that propelled him to the White House.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/ny-democrats-trump-agenda-strategy-00197000
— The impact of Trump’s agenda will depend on the state you live in. State lawmakers and governors will play a big role in implementing — or thwarting — Trump’s agenda.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/trump-agenda-priorities-state-policy-fights-00196815
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/01/09/academic-freedom-requires-dei-aaup-gets-it-opinion
ABA JOURNAL
— Latest try at rewriting ABA diversity standard for law schools gets pushback from GOP attorneys general
https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/latest-try-at-rewriting-aba-diversity-standard-for-law-schools-gets-pushback-from-gop-ags#google_vignette
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— ‘Drastic’ Cuts? Most Voters Like It (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. The Democrats who run the federal government use budget cuts first to get rid of any remaining Republican employees and then employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/drastic_cuts_most_voters_like_it
VANCOUVER SUN
— Canada’s fight with Donald Trump isn’t just economic, it’s existential (COMMENT: What if Canada voted on becoming the 51st state?)
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/stewart-prest-canada-fight-donald-trump-economic
AMERICAN KAHANI
— My Professor and Mentor Ved Prakash Nanda was a Titan in the World of Law and Beyond (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of my IRS mentor who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of my GAO mentor who arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and finally succeeded in getting me assigned to audits of IRS and promoting me 1986.)
https://americankahani.com/perspectives/my-professor-and-mentor-ved-prakash-nanda-was-a-titan-in-the-world-of-law-and-beyond/