June 1, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. The Republican Party platform promotes prosperity and safety.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/studies-show-strong-links-between-poverty-violence-chicago/16610703/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/support-same-sex-marriage-gallup

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Huntley ‘Trump Truth’ store hosts dueling rallies as owner vows to stay open
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/31/huntley-trump-truth-store-hosts-dueling-rallies-as-owner-vows-to-stay-open/
— To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn men.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/men-voters-trump-democrats/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Who owns most of the farmland in Illinois? Not farmers.  My great great grandfathers a) homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township and b) sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/illinois-farming-ownership-climate-change/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters side with Harvard against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/editorial-harvard-university-trump-attacks-graduation/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/chicago-history-june-1/
— Illinois lawmakers pass budget with tax hikes on tobacco, gambling — but adjourn without transit, Bears stadium
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/democrats-propose-tax-hikes-on-cigarettes-vaping-and-gambling-to-balance-55b-budget/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Sizzling hot campaign season forecast for Chicago and Illinois. What offices are on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates for those offices? What do you know about them? How strongly are the leaders of the following recruiting candidates: Illinois Republican Party (IRP), your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township party organization? The leaders of the IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have never recruited me to run for anything. Why is that? I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/30/brandon-johnson-dick-durbin-giannoulias-mendoza-krishnamoorthi-stratton-chicago-illinois-rich-miller
— Illinois legislators unveil $55.2 billion spending plan that cuts immigrant health care program.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2025/05/30/illinois-budget-bill-hbia
— 23 students at Whitney Young Magnet High School get perfect ACT scores. My critics/opponents have always stressed that my ACT score was only 24. In my defense, my score would have been higher if I had not spent so many hours washing dishes instead of studying during my junior and senior years.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/30/whitney-young-magnet-high-school-perfect-act-scores
— Is Chicago’s interim U.S. attorney here to stay? The U.S. Attorney in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/05/30/andrew-boutros-interim-us-attorney-chicago-judges-role-pam-bondi

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/big-10-being-black-in-america-5-years-later/article_dfa73136-5167-4984-8ed9-7829b12d8d41.html

STATELINE
— Illinois Democrat leaders one step closer to legalizing medically-assisted suicide
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-one-step-closer-to-legalizing-medically-assisted-suicide/

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/black-lives-matter-solidarity-rally-takes-over-the-streets-of-springfield/video_f982a8a6-d344-55df-b10e-d40652a0ea6a.html
— Illinois House, Senate Democrats send $55.2 billion budget to Pritzker
https://www.wandtv.com/news/illinois-house-senate-democrats-send-55-2-billion-budget-to-pritzker/article_9525cf0d-5345-499a-870c-ad2e0d0841b1.html

ILLINOIS TIMES
— State officials eye Chicago mayor’s race
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/state-officials-eye-chicago-mayors-race-20240906

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. How many limousine liberal Democrats and RINOs live in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How strongly do they want to protect the value of their homes and their personal safety? Can the conservative Republicans who live there count on them to stop the worst Democrat and RINO policies that promote poverty and crime there? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What offices are on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates for those offices? What do you know about them? How strongly are the leaders of the following recruiting candidates: Illinois Republican Party (IRP), your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township party organization? The leaders of the IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have never recruited me to run for anything. Why is that? I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I have always opposed the promotion of LGBTQ. If Democrat and RINO leaders had promoted LGBTQ back then like they do now, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me, b) if the Post Office had hired me, it would have forced me to resign sooner than it did, c) if IRS had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) if GAO had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1986 and would have forced me to resign in 1993 instead of 1997, d) the RINOs who have run the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) since 1999 would not have appointed me as a precinct committeeman in 1999 and they would have defeated me when I ran for precinct committeeman in 2000. If they had failed to defeat me, they never would have made me MTRO webmaster in 2000 and 2008. When I ran for MTRO Treasurer in 2004, I would have gotten zero votes instead of just 13. Topinka dominated the IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How has Gingrich impacted you? I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. What if Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it? GAO would have offered me a promotion instead of a pay cut to transfer from IRS in 1980. GAO would have immediately and always assigned me to audits of IRS. GAO would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service, currently $153,151/year, before I was 40 in 1988. 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. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. All my GAO coworkers who my Democrat GAO 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 were minority, female, and/or younger than me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Those who are liberal or moderate use DEI to get rid of conservatives. Those who are anti-older people use DEI to get rid of older people. Those who are anti-Protestant use DEI to get rid of Protestants. Those who are anti-German American use DEI to get rid of German Americans. Those who are anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time use DEI to get rid of those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Republicans see Darin LaHood as ‘best chance’ for Senate flip in blue Illinois. I hope that he walks in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade. I spoke with his father just before he walked in the parade 20 years ago.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3427031/darin-lahood-republicans-illinois-senate-race/

NEW YORK POST
— Gov. Tim Walz calls on Democrats to be ‘fierce’ and ‘bully the s–t’ out of President Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/05/31/us-news/gov-tim-walz-calls-on-democrats-to-be-meaner-and-bully-the-s-t-out-of-wannabe-dictator-president-trump/

BREITBART
— Giving Illegals Free Health Care Is a Magnet for Illegal Immigration
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/05/31/maher-california-giving-illegals-free-health-care-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigration/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Hopes To Bring ‘Thousands’ Of Refugees From South Africa By Late Summer
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/31/trump-admin-thousands-afrikaner-refugees-south-africa-late-summer/

FOX BUSINESS
— Price of eggs have dropped 61% since Trump took office
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/price-eggs-have-dropped-61-since-trump-took-office

FOX NEWS
— Who is Julius Malema, the South African politician behind ‘kill the farmer’ chant? Critics say politician’s luxurious lifestyle clashes with his calls to protect the country’s poor.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-julius-malema-south-african-politician-behind-kill-farmer-chant
— Trump warns Rand Paul he’s playing into ‘hands of the Democrats’ with ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ opposition. The Kentucky senator said he would support the bill’s ‘wimpy and anemic’ tax and spending cuts if the bill wasn’t going to ‘explode the debt.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-warns-rand-paul-playing-hands-democrats-big-beautiful-bill-opposition

NEW AMERICAN
— Blagojevich: Democrats Are “Monumental” “Hypocrites” and “Liars”
https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/democratic-former-gov-blagojevich-democrats-are-monumental-hypocrites-and-liars/

PJ MEDIA
— Trump Shakes Up ICE Leadership Looking to Speed Deportations
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/05/31/faster-please-trump-shakes-up-ice-leadership-looking-to-speed-deportations-n4940319

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrat and RINO leaders discriminate against those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/31/lgbtq_organizations_seeing_substantial_cuts_in_funding_as_corporations_move_away_from_dei_advocacy.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly dive the stock market down to punish Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/economy/tariffs-apple-401k-savings

ASSOCITED PRESS
— Democrat and RINO sellers raise their prices and blame it on Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/steel-aluminum-tariffs-trump-groceries-0f8bd5f3cd9b8a2860d60125b9e8f2b2

REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump budget cuts for everything that is bad.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-cuts-threaten-safety-training-workers-americas-most-dangerous-jobs-2025-05-31/

MSN
— Pope Leo to hold mass in Chicago – and people think it’s some ‘top tier’ Trump trolling
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-leo-to-hold-mass-in-chicago-and-people-think-it-s-some-top-tier-trump-trolling/ar-AA1FMj1W
— Democrat leaders give minorities preference. Trump gives them prosperity.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-study-reveals-why-trump-is-so-popular-among-minority-voters/ar-AA1FJavr
— Trump administration halts use of race, gender data in federal hiring. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, veteran, or younger person who would take the job.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-halts-use-of-race-gender-data-in-federal-hiring/ar-AA1FJW4C
— ‘America is back’: US military thriving under Trump administration with a surge of new recruits
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/america-is-back-us-military-thriving-under-trump-administration-with-a-surge-of-new-recruits/ar-AA1FR6sQ
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Those who are liberal or moderate use DEI to get rid of conservatives. Those who are anti-older people use DEI to get rid of older people. Those who are anti-Protestant use DEI to get rid of Protestants. Those who are anti-German American use DEI to get rid of German Americans. Those who are anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time use DEI to get rid of those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/here-s-what-the-data-says-about-who-actually-benefits-from-dei/ar-AA1FQFAK
— My critics/opponents a) attribute all their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute all my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trumps-new-wildly-unhinged-assault-is-exposing-magas-deeper-scam-analysis/ar-AA1FDwe4

CNBC
— Democrat and RINO sellers raise their prices and blame it on Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/trump-tariffs-here-are-the-retailers-raising-prices.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama. As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO sellers raise their prices and blame it on Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/doge-cuts-elon-musk-trump.html
— The U.S.-Canada Border Runs Through This Library. That’s Now a Problem. A wealthy widow built a library and opera house on the border between Quebec and Vermont, a symbol of binational friendship. Now U.S. officials are restricting access to Canadians.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/world/canada/haskell-free-library-opera-house-quebec-vermont-border.html

WASHINGTON POST
— White House budget office rebukes GAO over ‘invasive’ probes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/30/white-house-gao-spending-battle/
— Illegals criminally charged after failing to register with U.S. government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/31/trump-immigrants-registry-doj-justice/
— It’s called the Library of Congress. But Trump claims it’s his.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/31/library-of-congress-trump-executive-branch/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Earlier this month, DOGE — the Elon Musk-run cost-cutting effort, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency — sought to “assign a team” to the Government Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog agency, which rejected the request, according to the GAO. . .GAO spokesperson Sarah Kaczmarek said in a statement that the agency had told DOGE that GAO is a legislative branch agency, not subject to executive orders and “has therefore declined any requests to have a DOGE team assigned to GAO. DOGE acknowledged receipt of our letter. GAO considers the matter closed [and] we are focused on our mission of supporting Congress.”)
— The Democrat Party ever-increasingly moves further to the left.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/31/tim-walz-democrats-2028/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I have always opposed the promotion of LGBTQ. If Democrat and RINO leaders had promoted LGBTQ back then like they do now, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me, b) if the Post Office had hired me, it would have forced me to resign sooner than it did, c) if IRS had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) if GAO had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1986 and would have forced me to resign in 1993 instead of 1997, d) the RINOs who have run the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) since 1999 would not have appointed me as a precinct committeeman in 1999 and they would have defeated me when I ran for precinct committeeman in 2000. If they had failed to defeat me, they never would have made me MTRO webmaster in 2000 and 2008. When I ran for MTRO Treasurer in 2004, I would have gotten zero votes instead of just 13. Topinka dominated the IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/06/01/when-pride-month-2025-lgbtq-june-nyc/53a4612e-3e9d-11f0-912d-d5f4792db3e4_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/05/30/world-pride-dc-trump-capital-pride/
— To argue disparate impact is to argue that if you are minority and/or female and have problems, those problems are never your fault, but they are always the fault of those who are White and/or male.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/01/trump-disparate-impact-discrimination-cases-civil-rights/

USA TODAY
— Trump abandons his most impressive presidential legacy: conservative judges. I should write about the judges and justices in the lawsuits that I have filed. I would focus on those who promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, who promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/01/trump-federalist-society-supreme-court-judges/83947867007/
— Musk, the Trump campaign and ketamine: What to know about the powerful drug.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/05/30/elon-musk-ketamine-trump-campaign/83942817007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— America’s enemies want America to be ever-increasingly dependent on foreign countries. Ever-increasingly, what Americans buy is made in foreign countries.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/us-economy-trump-tariffs-forecast-27f5f6a0

BOOMBERG
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly side with Putin against Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-31/trump-s-appetite-for-punishing-putin-is-about-to-get-a-key-test

FORBES
— Homan blasts sanctuary jurisdictions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOg6X9lW1Q

FAST COMPANY
— My critics/opponents a) attribute all their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute all my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91342985/dei-economy-costs-benefits-evidence-research

STATISTA
— A Third of Americans Worry About Manipulated News. The mainstream news media a) promotes the Democrat Party platform and b) demonizes, denigrates, and condemns the Republican Party platform.
https://www.statista.com/chart/34390/survey-news-attitutes-gci/

BROADBAND BREAKFAST
— Republicans Claim Google ‘Throttles’ Conservative Speech in FTC Filing. Scott and Hudson claim Google routes GOP emails to users’ spam. The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://broadbandbreakfast.com/republicans-claim-google-throttles-conservative-speech-in-ftc-filing/

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— White House says it will cooperate with GAO only when it does not ‘unduly burden’ Trump’s agenda
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2025/05/white-house-says-it-will-cooperate-top-watchdog-only-when-it-does-not-unduly-burden-trumps-agenda/405713/

TIME
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. How many limousine liberal Democrats and RINOs live in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How strongly do they want to protect the value of their homes and their personal safety? Can the conservative Republicans who live there count on them to stop the worst Democrat and RINO policies that promote poverty and crime there?
https://time.com/4322883/limousine-liberal-history-excerpt/

GOOD MEN PROJECT
— Land Reparations Are Possible − and Over 225 Us Communities Are Already Working to Make Amends for Slavery and Colonization. If I sought a political or government office, my critics/opponents would stress that my great great grandfathers a) homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township and b) sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/land-reparations-are-possible-%E2%88%92-and-over-225-us-communities-are-already-working-to-make-amends-for-slavery-and-colonization/

POLITICO
— Inside the split between MAGA and the Federalist Society. Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society used to advise Trump on judges. Now the president and his most loyal allies are going after them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/30/trump-federalist-society-leonard-leo-maga-00378303

NEW YORKER
— According to Democrat leaders only, White Republicans are racists.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/trump-makes-americas-refugee-program-a-tool-of-white-racial-grievance

GUARDIAN
— Trump’s pardoning of Black celebrities is a cynical ploy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/31/trump-pardon-nba-youngboy-larry-hoover

FINANCIAL TIMES
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/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 cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.ft.com/content/53db0578-9beb-4369-9d79-b6287f8d031f

May 31, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/2025/05/30/the-racial-reckoning-five-years-later-a-few-wins-and-one-major-loss

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250530/news/neighbors-oppose-marijuana-dispensary-proposed-near-bartlett-day-care-center/
— Soon, under Pritzker, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250530/submitted-content/donations-needed-for-west-suburban-community-pantrys-summer-meals-program-as-family-visits-rise-20/

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wandtv.com/medication-abortion-to-be-added-on-college-campuses-passes-il-senate/video_4fdf96bf-468f-5aa2-8d3e-e816b6bcc56f.html

WIFR
— Illinois program tries to rid people of medical debt, but for many help comes too late. Medical debt has become a key obstacle to upward economic mobility, with many failing to receive debt relief. What did you do to avoid medical debt? I always assured that I had health insurance.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/30/illinois-program-tries-rid-people-medical-debt-many-help-comes-too-late/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s downsizing of GAO to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-appeals-court-keeps-block-on-trump-administrations-downsizing-of-the-federal-workforce/

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote child care subsidies. My father earned enough money during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s that my mother could stay home and raise me and my brother. But he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly in 1969 wane he was 47 and I was 21. Consequently, I had to work my way through college.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/we-are-at-the-mercy-of-child-care/

SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— Soon, under Pritzker, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/gov-pritzker-visits-springfield-food-pantry-amid-proposed-unprecedented-federal-snap-cuts/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS CENTER SQUARE
— IL Democrats propose $55B budget with $7K legislator pay hike, tax increase
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e68b4087-b4f8-4563-ba13-4d42031d0f8e.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Lawmakers considering adding more than $64.5 billion in pension costs in final hours of budget negotiations
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/lawmakers-considering-adding-more-than-64-5-billion-in-pension-costs-in-final-hours-of-budget-negotiations/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— A recently retired SEC attorney demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump. SEE: https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-doge-sec-retirement-27ea213a    When GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, SEC would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited SEC and other federal financial industry regulators for the previous 8 years at the GS-13 Step 4-10 Levels, currently $129,588-$153,151/year. I had just earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT. For that matter, IRS would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,675/year. 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. I became a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor in 1981, and Public Accountant in 1979. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980 and in business in 1976. – Dave Diersen

www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Harvard rejected Trump. Did you apply to Ivy League universities? I did not. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my 1997 IIT degree, my 1980 DePaul degree, my 1976 Loyola degree, and my 1970 NIU degree are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. They stress that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump has a grudge against Harvard because it rejected him and/or his son. Since I was 19 years old in 1968, my Democrat superiors in the federal government have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have a grudge against federal agencies because they took adverse actions against me. To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.  In my defense, the codes of ethics that I have been under since 1979 prohibit me from holding grudges. I became a CPA in 1979 and a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— USDA still discriminating against white farmers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3426279/usda-still-discriminating-against-white-farmers-watchdog-says/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump’s Tariffs Deliver Record $23 Billion Revenue in May. May 22 was the largest day for tariff revenue collections.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/trumps-tariffs-deliver-record-23-billion-revenue-in-may-5865544

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Harvard faces growing calls to tap into its endowment in Trump fight. It won’t be easy. What losses of income have you suffered? In today’s dollars, a) I have suffered a $86,371/year loss of income since 1997, that is $1.85 million, b) my GAO salary was $153,151/year in 1997 and my Civil Service Retirement System pension is only $66,780/year or 56% less, and c) my IRS salary in 1972 was $68,315/year. Further, my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors forced me to suffer a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5326114-harvard-endowment-trump-funding-fight-mcmahon/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce. My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich’s downsizing of GAO to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-firings-doge-lawsuit-4d2d9be4dcefa1c76876fb9b1860c3c7

CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/world/international-students-visas-us-trump-intl
— Trump’s mass firings at several agencies will remain on hold, appeals court rules. If Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts had been stopped, I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I would still be GAO employee.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/politics/appeals-court-decline-trump-request-resume-mass-firings
— Trump called it a disaster. Biden blocked it. Now Trump is traveling to Pittsburgh to celebrate Japan’s takeover of US Steel
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/trump-us-steel-nippon-deal

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbbsXZqA7Ew
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsFjNVD_WKw

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH GRAPHIC: The Democrats’ problems run deep, nearly everywhere. This is where voters shifted toward President Trump in each of the last three elections. I should write about the ever-increasing Democrat invasion of DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct since 1978. Because of that, ever-increasingly, leaders of the DuPage County Republican Central Committee and the Milton Township Republican Organization have moved to the left, that is, they have a) dumped more and more and more planks in the Republican Party platform and b) dumped more and more and more Republican Precinct Committeemen like me who support those planks.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-politics-democrats.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/aclu-trump-venezuelan-immigrants-alien-enemies-act.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to Chinese students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/trump-china-student-visas-crackdown-risks.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/asia/us-science-cuts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/china-international-students-trump.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/health/trump-hiv-cuts.html
— The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/google-search-antitrust-chrome.html
— For Federal Workers, Musk’s Chain Saw Still Reverberates. For me, Gingrich’s chain saw still reverberates. My Democrat GAO superiors used his budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/federal-workers-musk-doge.html
— Complaints Languished as Johnson’s Delays Hobbled House Watchdog. The speaker waited more than four months to constitute the Office of Congressional Conduct, preventing it from investigating lawmakers. He has yet to name enough members to allow it to operate at full strength.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/johnson-office-of-congressional-conduct.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump’s visa clampdown plunges 275,000 Chinese students into uncertainty. Chinese students make up nearly a quarter of all international students in the United States. Here’s who they are and what they’re studying. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to Chinese students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/29/chinese-students-data-visa/
— Trump orders could end Chinese drone sales in the U.S. In WWIII, which countries will side with China against America?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/30/trump-executive-orders-china-drones/
— Trump and Musk try to smooth over a threatened rift. Trump and Musk hold an Oval Office news conference as the billionaire officially steps away from his government role.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/30/trump-musk-try-smooth-over-threatened-rift/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly anti-American military.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/05/29/trump-military-parade-washington-dc-compare-countries/83740378007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk, that is, against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/29/elon-musk-tesla-doge-beautiful-bill-leaving-trump/83907213007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/30/trump-judge-blocks-tariffs-agenda/83926026007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— It’s High Times for State-Subsidized Pot Businesses. Marijuana-use disorder is soaring among the very populations advocates of legalization aim to help.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/its-high-times-for-state-subsidized-pot-businesses-marijuana-use-disorder-3f6aaa15?mod=opinion_lead_pos6

FORBES
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Musk abuses drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81dSmnEARBE

BARRON’S
— A recently retired SEC attorney demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump. When GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, SEC would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited SEC and other federal financial industry regulators for the previous 8 years at the GS-13 Step 4-10 Levels, currently $129,588-$153,151/year. I had just earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT. For that matter, IRS would have immediately offered me a job. I had audited IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division for 3 years at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,675/year. 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. I became a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor in 1981, and Public Accountant in 1979. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980 and in business in 1976.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-doge-sec-retirement-27ea213a

BUSINESS INSIDER
–Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more government fraud, waste, and abuse. Their wasting my federal career is just one small example.
https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-cuts-elon-musk-deparature-next-phase-2025-5

ACCOUNTING TODAY
— DEI enters stealth mode; building the business case for DEI in accounting firms. The accounting profession would not have written me off as being too old if I had been a minority or a female. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/dei-goes-into-stealth-mode
https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/building-the-business-case-for-dei-in-accounting-firms

CPA JOURNAL
— Why Are Students Not Choosing Accounting? I should have majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU in 1969 and 1970. I erroneously did not because I was not strong in math and I thought that because of that, I could not pass the CPA examination. But I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. But by then, because I was not a minority or female, the accounting profession wrote me off as being too old.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2025/03/18/why-the-150-hour-rule-is-not-the-only-major-problem-2/

FED SMITH
— From DEI to Meritocracy: The Federal Government’s Shift in Hiring Practices. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, of veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/30/from-dei-to-meritocracy-the-federal-governments-shift-in-hiring-practices/

ECONOMIC TIMES & NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
— Did Harvard reject Donald Trump? Biographer claims it’s at the heart of the feud. Did you apply to Ivy League universities? I did not. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my 1997 IIT degree, my 1980 DePaul degree, my 1976 Loyola degree, and my 1970 NIU degree are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. They stress that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/did-harvard-reject-donald-trump-biographer-claims-its-at-the-heart-of-the-feud/articleshow/121530865.cms
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2025/May/31/biographer-says-trumps-harvard-grudge-might-just-be-a-case-of-bruised-ego-and-its-not-his-son-who-got-rejected

INDIA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/harvard-president-alan-garber-jab-donald-trump-speech-2025-batch-standing-ovation-2733586-2025-05-31

NDTV WORLD
— Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump has a grudge against Harvard because it rejected him and/or his son. Since I was 19 years old in 1968, my Democrat superiors in the federal government have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have a grudge against federal agencies because they took adverse actions against me. To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.  In my defense, the codes of ethics that I have been under since 1979 prohibit me from holding grudges. I became a CPA in 1979 and a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trumps-biographer-michael-wolff-on-why-us-president-has-a-grudge-against-harvard-barron-trump-8551375

May 30, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court for now
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-tariffs-reinstated-by-appeals-court-for-now/3756338/

FOX32
— Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1649490

WGN9
— Cannabis is bad for your heart
https://wgntv.com/news/trending/smoke-it-or-eat-it-cannabis-is-bad-for-your-heart-new-research-shows/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders promote assisted suicide
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/29/illinois-bill-would-allow-terminally-ill-adults-end-their-lives-medical-assistance

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Larry Hoover ‘deserves to be in prison,’ Chicago FBI boss says of Gangster Disciples founder as lawyers praise Trump choice.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/larry-hoover-trump-fbi-boss/
— Democrat leaders use Chinese students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/29/chinese-students-visa/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racist.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/30/traffic-stops-black-drivers-illinois-public-universities-campus-police-departments

DAILY HERALD
— ‘Huge opportunity’ or ‘stealing’ from suburbs? Senate debates funding plan to save transit
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250529/transportation/huge-opportunity-or-stealing-from-the-suburbs-senate-debates-funding-plan-to-save-transit/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/trump-move-chinese-visas-could-impact-chicago-universities

STATELINE
— Gun owners in Illinois face $10K fine if weapon is stolen and used in a crime. Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/gun-owners-in-illinois-face-10k-fine-if-weapon-is-stolen-and-used-in-a-crime/

DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/29/proposed-edible-tasting-room-for-dekalb-dispensary-gets-early-support/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-30/federal-workers-keep-americas-farms-healthy-what-now-under-trump

HOMEWOOD/FLOSSMOOR PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBT in Homewood/Flossmoor
https://patch.com/illinois/homewood-flossmoor/homewood-flossmoor-pride-fest-set-celebrate-diversity-inclusion

IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Chinese students over American students.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/uncertain-future-for-chinese-students-cause-concern-at-uiuc/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/30/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-523/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-315/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— The pension sweetener bill is yet another reminder that lawmakers don’t care about ordinary Illinoisans. Because State of Illinois employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Democrats politicians defend and promote them.  Because federal employees are overwhelmingly Democrat, Illinois Republican politicians demonize, denigrate, and condemn them.
https://wirepoints.org/the-pension-sweetener-bill-is-yet-another-reminder-that-lawmakers-dont-care-about-ordinary-illinoisans-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
—  The sanctuary counties in Illinois that Trump just put on notice include DuPage County ( https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759 ). Is your county on the list? The following Illinois counties are on the list: Adams, Alexander; Bond, Boone, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cook, Crawford, Cumberland, DeKalb, Dewitt, Douglas, DuPage, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Franklin, Fulton, Gallatin, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jackson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lawrence, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Massac, McDonough, McLean, Mercer, Menard, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Perry, Piatt, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richland, Rock Island, Saint Clair, Saline, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Stephenson, Tazewell, Union, Vermilion, Wabash, Warren, Washington, Wayne, White, Whiteside County, Will, Williamson, Winnebago, and Woodford. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on Civil Service protections? Trump wants to cut them. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly stress that Trump is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while I 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, and 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. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Constructively, if not literally, Democrat and RINO leaders rank those who are under them. The more of the following that you are, the more points that they give you: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The more of the following that you do, the more points that they give you: glorify and praise them, pander to them, serve as one of their operatives or dupes, cover up their wrongdoing, and/or give them money. Of course, Democrat and RINO leaders give me no points. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Uber/Lyft and Real Estate Transfer Taxes Proposed to Bail Out CTA
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/uber-lyft-and-real-estate-transfer-taxes-proposed-to-bail-out-cta/
— Sosnowski Introduces Bill to Allow Switch of Casino Sites
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/sosnowski-introduces-bill/
— Four-Year Community College Degree Legislation Still Alive, But Severely Limited
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/four-year-community-college-degree-legislation-still-alive-but-severely-limited/
— Dems Advance Gun Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dems-advance-gun-bill/
— DeWitte Notes Dems’ Revision of Shift from RTA to NITA (Northern Illinois Transit Authority) Takes Power from Suburbs
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/29/dewitte-notes-dems-revision-of-shift-from-rta-to-nita-northern-illinois-transit-authority-takes-power-from-suburbs/
— McLaughlin Bill for Privately-Financed Statue of Pope Leo IV on Capitol Grounds Stuck in Committee
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/mclaughlin-bill-for-privately-financed-statue-of-pope-leo-iv-on-capitol-grounds-stuck-in-committee/
— Ness Goes after Trump
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ness-goes-after-trump/
— Senate Republicans on Electric Rates
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/senate-republicans-on-electric-rates/
— Ugasta’s Views on Democrats’ Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/ugastas-views-on-democrats-budget/
— Johnsburg’s Kirk Donald Running for Re-Election as Vice Chairman of the McHenry County Republican Party
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/johnsburgs-kirk-donald-running-for-re-election-as-vice-chairman-of-the-mchenry-county-republican-party/
— Cook County Homeowners Beginning to Feel the Pain the Rest of Have All Along & How State Law Gives Cook County Homeowners Tax Breaks Not Seen in the Other 101 Counties
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/28/cook-county-homeowners-beginning-to-feel-the-pain-the-rest-of-have-all-along-how-cook-county-homeowners-get-tax-breaks-not-seen-in-the-other-101-counties/
— For Those Interested in a Deep Dive into What DODE Did…
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/for-those-interested-in-a-deep-dive-into-what-dode-did/
— Casten Endorses Biss for Algonquin Township Congressman
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/casten-endorse-biss-for-algonquin-township-congressman/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Assisted Suicide Passes House, Moves to Senate
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/assisted-suicide-passes-house-moves-to-senate/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DHS releases name-and-shame sanctuary list with more than 600 states, cities, counties. DuPage County is in the list.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/29/dhs-releases-name-shame-sanctuary-list-600-states-cities-counties/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago’s government-by-racism is failing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3424244/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-race-comments/
— Trump administration orders ICE to more than triple number of daily arrests
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3425621/trump-ice-triple-arrests/

NEW YORK POST
— ICE shakes up agency with ‘leadership realignment’ in push for a ‘minimum’ of 3,000 migrant arrests per day
https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/us-news/ice-shakes-up-leadership-amid-push-for-3000-migrant-arrests-per-day/

AFPI
— Massive Scale of Chinese Illegal Immigration Threatens National Security
https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/massive-scale-of-chinese-illegal-immigration-threatens-national-security

CENTER SQUARE
— ICE calling law enforcement in all counties to help with deportation efforts
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_efdabd74-5fba-4c22-a3ec-1f8fef4ef79d.html

COLLEGE FIX
— K-12 schools spent $19 million in federal tax dollars on ‘restorative justice,’ ‘equitable grading.’ What depressed your GPA? For me, it was my spending far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/k-12-schools-spent-19-million-in-federal-tax-dollars-on-restorative-justice-equitable-grading/

DAILY CALLER
— Washington’s Spending Party Continues As Elon Musk Bids Farewell To Swamp
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/washingtons-spending-party-elon-musk-bids-farewell-swamp/
— FBI Tells Employees No ‘Pride’ Activities On Company Time. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ever-increasingly required their employees to attend more DEI training and events. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Democrat Black subordinate who ran the office’s Black events.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/29/fbi-employees-no-pride-activites-company-time-june/

EPOCH TIMES
— State Department Says It Will Expand Scrutiny of All Chinese Visa Holders in US. The department has already paused new student visa interviews worldwide and is preparing to revoke visas for Chinese nationals currently in the United States.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/state-department-says-it-will-expand-scrutiny-of-all-chinese-visa-holders-in-us-5865198

FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor calls DOGE ‘an act of war,’ compares second Trump term to Third Reich. ‘You have a president that is cutting off medicine and food [and] working to erase culture,’ Brandon Johnson claimed
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-mayor-calls-doge-an-act-war-compares-second-trump-term-third-reich

NEWSMAX
— Harvard’s Standards Have Dropped. To hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were younger, minority, and/or female, my superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly dropped their hiring, retention, and promotion standards. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970) and three job-related master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and c) my job-related professional license (1981). All my coworkers who they promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, and/or female.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-harvard-dei/2025/05/29/id/1212899/

PJ MEDIA
— The Education Department and the Demise of Our Schooling
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/29/the-education-dept-intellectual-silliness-and-the-demise-of-our-schooling-n4940257

TOWNHALL
— Chaos Erupts Outside Immigration Court As Protesters Clash With Police
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/29/police-arrest-dozens-protesting-outside-immigration-court-in-manhattan-n2657815
— Democrats and Their DEI Albatrosses
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2025/05/30/democrats-and-their-dei-albatrosses-n2657857

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Karl Rove: Trump tariffs could cost GOP their majorities
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5325112-karl-rove-trump-tariffs-could-cost-gop-their-majorities/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— What do your critics/opponents stress the most to hint/imply/argue/shout that you benefitted from slavery? Mine stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that a) on my father’s side, they first worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store and b) on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-university-slave-photos-d9c01b7926bba2a686ff325617e93ce9

REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/universities-seek-lure-us-bound-students-amid-trump-crackdown-2025-05-30/

NEWSWEEK
— The Sanctuary Cities, Counties and States the Trump Admin Just Put on Notice. DuPage County is on the list.
https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-cities-counties-states-trump-admin-just-put-notice-2078759
— Levi’s ever-increasingly promotes more DEI and LGBTQ.
https://www.newsweek.com/levis-pride-collection-dei-programs-2078557

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/29/us/harvard-trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/chinese-students-rattled-by-trump-plan-to-aggressively-revoke-visas.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/trump-china-visas-tariffs.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/29/chinese-students-data-visa/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/29/harvard-international-students-hearing/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct. I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School district 200, and my precinct. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/05/29/pew-lgbtq-poll-transgender-acceptance-trump/6498f882-3c95-11f0-912d-d5f4792db3e4_story.html

USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and stress that he is not a lawyer. How much legal training have you had and how much legal experience do you have? I got lots of legal training and experience while I 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, and 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. Further, I got lots of legal experience serving as an active member in a class action lawsuit and pursuing lawsuits pro se.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/28/trump-due-process-deportations/83824951007/
— Trump lashes out at judges on tariffs, blames Federalist Society for bad legal advice
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/29/donald-trump-federalist-society-judges-tariffs-attacks/83933632007/

TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Florida Attracts Wave Of Newcomers As California, New York, & Illinois See Resident Exodus. Pritzker ever-increasing drives those who are the following out of Illinois, out of DuPage County, out of Milton Township, out of Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and out of my precinct: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct.
https://www.tampafp.com/florida-attracts-wave-of-newcomers-as-california-new-york-illinois-see-resident-exodus/

FORBES
— If Trump’s Tariffs Raise Prices Or Are Perceived To, GOP Will Be Hurt In Midterms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdn-0d7mI-w

PBS
— Trump administration pressures ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ by publishing list of places ‘deliberately obstructing’ immigration enforcement
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-pressures-sanctuary-jurisdictions-by-publishing-list-of-places-deliberately-obstructing-immigration-enforcement

FED SMITH
— Important Changes to Proposed Benefits Cuts in House-Passed Spending Bill. Trump wants to cut Civil Service protections. Were it not for Civil Service protections, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 a) would not have hired me, b) would have done more to waste my career and to get rid of me, c) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, 1974, or 1986, d) would have taken even more/bigger adverse actions against me, and e) would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did. They hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. My qualifications include a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970, c) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/05/28/important-changes-to-proposed-benefits-cuts-in-house-passed-spending-bill/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Election for At-Will Employment  The provision for new hires to elect at-will employment remains in the legislation as well. Newly hired federal employees could opt to become at-will employees in exchange for a lower contribution rate to FERS (the standard 4.4%). This would be an irrevocable decision per the language of the legislation as currently written. However, if employees were to choose to keep their Civil Service protections, they would pay an additional 5% contribution rate to FERS (9.4% total for most federal employees). Federal employees who opt to become at-will employees could face adverse actions, including removal, without notice or the right to appeal the action. Per the language of the bill as currently written, they “may be subject to an adverse action up to and including removal, without notice or right to appeal, by the head of the agency at which the individual is employed for good cause, bad cause, or no cause at all.”)

INSIDE HIGHTER ED
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give preference to international students, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/05/30/trump-targets-chinese-students-harsh-blow-higher

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German America, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time that all their problems are caused by those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/black-and-empowered/202505/finding-compassion-in-the-darkness-of-racism-and-discrimination

AMAZON
— Proud to be Woke. My critics/opponents act like they are proud to be woke. That is, they discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.amazon.com/Politically-Well-Informed-Socialist-Proud/dp/B0BY2LFD7S

TIMES OF INDIA
— IIT has the highest percentage of international students. IIT admitted me in 1992. But it would have admitted an international student instead of me if it could have.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/which-us-university-has-the-highest-percentage-of-international-students-well-its-not-harvard/articleshow/121513373.cms

May 28, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— To get more votes from minorities, females, and younger people, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at them that Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/opinion-chicago-brandon-johnson-diverse-hiring-trump-lawsuit/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders applaud Mayor Johnson for fanning the flames of his political war against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/05/27/mayor-brandon-johnson-war-of-words-donald-trump
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/27/budget-reconciliation-bill-scapegoating-immigrants-jobs-working-class-america-trump-ben-jealous

DAILY HERALD
— Congressional candidate says she’s hiring security because of comments, vandalism
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250527/us-congress-politics/congressional-candidate-says-shes-boosting-security-because-of-threat-vandalism/
— FRONT PAGE: DuPage County setting up land bank as part of affordable housing push. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when my wife and got married in 1978 and bought a) 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton  ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 ) and b) two new cars. According to them, I was grossly overpaid, that is, I should not have been promoted in 1972, 1973, or 1974.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250527/news/dupage-county-setting-up-land-bank-as-part-of-affordable-housing-push/

ABC7
— Trump asks Supreme Court to make it easier to deport migrants to Sudan and other ‘third’ countries
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-asks-supreme-court-make-easier-deport-migrants-south-sudan-other-third-countries/16567561/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders use NPR to promote the Democrat Party platform
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/npr-sues-trump-over-executive-order-slashing-funding/

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1648113
— Trump wants to cut all federal ties with Harvard
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1648176

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Fitch downgrades Chicago’s credit outlook to ‘negative’
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/fitch-gives-chicago-negative-credit-outlook
— As Trump targets foreign enrollment, IIT could be hardest hit. I took graduate evening courses and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. I did that because my Democrat GAO superiors had made it clear that they would never again assign me to audits of IRS again in 1989, because they had assigned me to audits of federal financial institution regulators since 1990, because I had not taken many courses in finance, and because my supervisor wanted/demanded that her subordinates have master’s degrees in finance.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/illinois-tech-has-high-percentage-international-students

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.wbez.org/criminal-justice/2025/05/27/5-years-after-george-floyds-murder-chicagoans-protest-amid-setbacks-in-racial-justice-and-police-reform

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use slavery to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.sj-r.com/things-to-do/events/?_evDiscoveryPath=/event/3069243-free-ish-juneteenth-and-the-long-legacy-of-1619-a-conversation-with-nikole-hannah-jones

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.nprillinois.org/health-harvest/2025-05-27/what-trumps-cuts-to-medicaid-will-mean-for-nursing-homes-long-term-care-facilities-in-illinois

CITIES 92.9
— Illinois legislators support #StopTheHate campaign to combat antisemitism. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote antisemitism.
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/27/watch-illinois-legislators-support-stopthehate-campaign-to-combat-antisemitism/

CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— Democrat leaders want Pritzker to fight Trump even harder
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/talk-is-cheap-illinois-needs-gov-pritzker-to-act-to-protect-our-students-and-families/

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discourage assimilation. My ancestors were slow to assimilate. Because of that, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/05/27/illinois-bill-aims-to-expand-dual-language-programs/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-521/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-313/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— $800,000 to build a single “affordable” house is not affordable
https://wirepoints.org/800000-to-build-a-single-affordable-house-is-not-affordable-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Why Cook County’s property tax ‘relief fund’ is a hoax
https://wirepoints.org/why-cook-countys-property-tax-relief-fund-is-a-hoax-wirepoints-quickpoint/

CHICAGO PARENT
— DuPage County’s Best Faith-Based Schools Ranked for 2025. Each school offers a unique blend of academic excellence and religious values.
https://www.chicagoparent.com/education/private-schools/faith-based-schools-dupage-county/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have elected officials impacted your career? GAO works for Congress. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Tip O’Neill was the Speaker of the House 1980-1987 and then Jim Wright 1987-1989 and then Tom Foley 1989-1995 and then Newt Gingrich 1995-1997. Gingrich was the Speaker while my lawsuit was pending against GAO in in 1998 and 1999 and then Dennis Hastert 1999-2005. Johnson was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969 and then Nixon in 1969. Nixon was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1974 and then Ford 1974-1977 and then Carter 1977-1980. Carter was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 and 1981 and then Reagan 1981-1989 and then Bush 1989-1993 and then Clinton 1993-1997. Henry Hyde was my Congressman 1978-2007. Peter Fitzgerald was my U.S. Senator 1999-2005. I should write about how each of the aforesaid impacted my career. My Democrat superiors took their biggest adverse actions against me in 1968, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1989, and 1997-2005. I would focus on Hyde, Gingrich, Fitzgerald, and Hastert. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood on Qatari Jet Gift
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/lahood-on-qatari-jet-gift/
— Democrats to Demonstrate on June 8th in Woodstock
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/democrats-to-demonstrate-on-june-8th-in-woodstock/
— After Not-So-Good Memorial Day Weather, See What Celebrating Original Holiday Will Bring This Year
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/after-not-so-good-memorial-day-weather-see-what-celebrating-original-holiday-will-bring-this-year/
— Legislators Becoming Concerned about Data Center Electricity Use Pushing Up Residential Prices
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/27/legislators-becoming-concerned-about-data-center-electricity-use-pushing-up-residential-prices/
— Americans for Prosperity Continue Attempt to Influence Sue Ness to Vote against Tax Hikes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/americans-for-prosperity-continue-attempt-to-influence-sue-ness-to-vote-against-tax-hikes/
— Book by Local Author Worth Ordering on Memorial Day
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/book-by-local-author-worth-ordering-on-memorial-day/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Only 4 states tax services by default, but Illinois may join them
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/only-4-states-tax-services-by-default-but-illinois-may-join-them/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— 11 million? 20 million? 50 million? Estimates of the illegal immigrant population soar. How many illegals are in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Democrat and RINO leaders want them to stay there.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/27/11-million-20-million-50-million-estimates-illegal-immigrant/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The national reaction to George Floyd’s death was unnecessary and destructive.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3422838/national-reaction-george-floyd-death-police-racism/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin pauses all student visas, considers vetting new applicants’ social media. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But if they could have admitted foreign students instead of me, they would have.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/trump-admin-stops-all-new-student-visa-interviews/
— Melania Trump quashes conspiracy theory about Barron Trump and why the president is targeting Harvard
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/melania-trump-quashes-conspiracy-theory-about-barron-trump-and-why-the-president-is-targeting-harvard/
— The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will immediately end/reverse everything that Trump has done. Johnson was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969 and then Nixon in 1969. Nixon was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1974 and then Ford 1974-1977 and then Carter 1977-1980. Carter was President while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 and 1981 and then Reagan 1981-1989 and then Bush 1989-1993 and then Clinton 1993-1997.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/opinion/the-woke-left-will-never-recover-from-donald-trump/

AMERICAN THINKER
— NYT whines about low-information voters supporting Trump… but hides real information about the corruption of big government
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/nyt_whines_about_low_information_voters_supporting_trump_but_hides_real_information_about_the_corruption_of_big_government.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Proudly racist Chicago mayor wants to wish everyone a ‘Happy Africa Day’ for Memorial Day
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/27/proudly-racist-chicago-mayor-wants-to-wish-everyone-a-happy-africa-day-for-memorial-day-1546476/

BLAZE
— Brandon Johnson remains defiant against Trump after civil rights probe from DOJ
https://www.theblaze.com/news/brandon-johnson-remains-defiant-against-trump-after-civil-rights-probe-from-doj

BREITBART
— Anchor Babies Benefit Hugely from Taxpayer-Funded Welfare
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/27/ny-times-admits-anchor-babies-benefit-hugely-taxpayer-funded-welfare/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Illinois Wesleyan University promotes ‘Gender Diversity’ with ‘Rainbow Floor,’ ‘Universal Bathroom Map’
https://www.campusreform.org/article/illinois-wesleyan-university-promotes-gender-diversity-rainbow-floor-universal-bathroom-map-/27987

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Isn’t Turning A Blind Eye To States Who Dole Out Medicaid Benefits To Illegal Migrants
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/27/trump-administration-warns-states-about-crackdown-on-medicaid-spending-for-illegals/

FOX NEWS
— Chicago’s Mayor Johnson is so focused on race he can’t see the truth about humanity
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chicagos-mayor-johnson-so-focused-race-he-cant-see-truth-about-humanity

TOWNHALL
— NYT Twists Itself Into a Pretzel to Avoid Exposing How Illegals Get Access to Welfare Benefits
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/05/27/nyt-twists-itself-into-a-pretzel-to-avoid-exposing-how-illegals-get-access-to-welfare-benefits-n2657689

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump expands list of targets for his ire. Every time the Democrats who ran GAO assigned a new manager to run their Chicago office 1980-1997, they gave that manager a list of employees to get rid of. Of course, I was on all those lists along with the office’s employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I would not have survived until 1997 if I had not a) earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, b) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) became a licensed CPA in 1981, d) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) earned a master’s degree in finance in 1997.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5320937-donald-trump-ire-list-expansion/

CBS NEWS
— Musk says he’s “disappointed” by Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” and what it means for DOGE
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-disappointed-by-trump-big-beautiful-bill-doge/

CNN
— Musk says Trump’s agenda bill ‘undermines’ DOGE mission
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/politics/elon-musk-trump-spending-bill-doge

REUTERS
— Trump administration halts scheduling of new student visa appointments. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But if they could have admitted foreign students instead of me, they would have.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-scheduling-new-student-visa-appointments-2025-05-27/

MSN
— Could you pass the Army’s new physical fitness test?  I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. They blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. My critics/opponent could stress that I was able to stand and wash dishes.
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/health/other/could-you-pass-the-army-s-new-physical-fitness-test/ar-AA1FnjTh
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the first exercise, soldiers are required to deadlift the maximum weight possible three times, using a 60-pound hex bar and plates. Then, they must complete as many hand-release push-ups as possible in two minutes, completely lowering the body to the ground and extending the arms to the side before starting the next push-up. For the sprint-drag-carry exercise, they must perform 5 x 50-meter shuttles as quickly as possible with a 2 x 40-pound kettlebell and a 90-pound sled. Soldiers must then hold the plank position for as long as possible to assess muscular endurance, before finishing off with a two-mile run on a “generally flat outdoor course.”)

NEWSWEEK
— College Graduates Are Feeling Pessimistic About the Job Market. What frustrated your job search? In 1970, potential employers viewed me as being draft bait. They 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 and it was for a job that did not really require a college degree.
https://www.newsweek.com/2025/05/16/jobs-class-2025-college-graduates-2067359.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/immigrants-federal-aid-us-citizens.html

USA TODAY
— Generation Z gives up on the America dream. What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a job related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees. I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/05/27/gen-z-economy-student-loan-debt-online-shopping/83632729007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— King Charles Defends Canada’s Sovereignty From Trump. Rare parliamentary address capped king of Canada’s first visit as monarch.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/king-charles-canada-sovereignty-trump-ccd4a4bf
— My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinate were furious when my wife and got married in 1978 and bought a) 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton  ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 ) and b) two new cars. According to them, I was grossly overpaid, that is, I should not have been promoted in 1972, 1973, or 1974.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/first-time-home-buyers-downsize-amid-tight-supply-high-interest-rates-2b89511b?mod=Searchresults_pos8&page=1
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/starter-homes-smaller-rising-costs-2cc918e6

CHALKBEAT NEW YORK
— Hundreds of NYC students walk out of class for ‘anti-Trump, nonpartisan’ protest
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/05/27/high-school-students-protest-trump-higher-education-immigration/

TRUTHOUT
— Chemical Plants Near Black Neighborhoods Pollute While Hiring Few Black Workers. “People don’t have the jobs here, but people do have cancer.” My father worked in a nasty chemical plant in the Black northeast side of Chicago Heights for 29 years until he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969.
https://truthout.org/articles/chemical-plants-near-black-neighborhoods-pollute-while-hiring-few-black-workers/

ACCOUNTING TODAY
— Illinois passes licensure changes bill. Who do you know who is a licensed CPA? I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 years old in 1981. Very few CPAs become licensed CPAs. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious because my becoming a licensed CPA frustrated their efforts to get rid of me. None of them were licensed CPAs and most were not CPAs. They were also furious that I had also passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination that year and I had earned a master’s degree in accounting the year before.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/illinois-passes-cpa-licensure-changes-bill

GOOGLE AI
— The 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T likely attracts buyers who are enthusiasts with a passion for performance and a desire for a practical, family-friendly vehicle. Dodge’s buyers tend to be younger and represent a diverse range of demographics, including Asian, African American, and Latino customers.  I just bought a new red 2025 Charger Daytona R/T. But I am not young or a minority. I have owned a red 2013 Charger R/T Max since 2012. I owned a blue 1968 Charger R/T show car 1994-2005. I owned a blue 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%222025+dodge+charger+daytona+r%2Ft%22+buyers+demographics

TOP ELECTRIC SUV
— We check out the Dodge Charger Daytona R/T before its discontinuation. I just bought a new red 2025 Charger Daytona R/T. How should I react to its discontinuance?
https://topelectricsuv.com/news/dodge/dodge-charger-daytona-rt/

May 27, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— FBI reopens investigations into cocaine at White House, leaked Dobbs opinion.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/fbi-reopens-investigation-cocaine-white-house-leaked-dobbs-opinion/16555524/

NBC5
— Cuban exiles were shielded from deportation. Now Trump is cracking down.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/cuban-exiles-were-shielded-from-deportation-now-trump-is-cracking-down/3754038/
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS10122HIBg

WTTW
— Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Senior Leadership Team Nearly 50% Black, More Than Half Female.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/27/mayor-brandon-johnson-s-senior-leadership-team-nearly-50-black-more-half-female-analysis
— Can Chicago-Born Pope Leo Remain a U.S. Citizen Now That He’s a Foreign Head of State?
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/25/can-chicago-born-pope-leo-remain-us-citizen-now-he-s-foreign-head-state

WGN RADIO
— Chicago’s own Gary Sinise: Serving military families of the fallen, first responders, veterans, and The Memorial Day concert.
https://wgnradio.com/dave-plier/chicagos-own-gary-sinise-serving-military-families-of-the-fallen-first-responders-veterans-and-the-memorial-day-concert/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— With the Chinese outpacing our tech advances, has our ‘Sputnik moment’ come and gone?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/opinion-us-china-students-education-sputnik/
— Illinois Teacher of the Year from Indian Prairie District 204 has hosted dozens of discussions across the state on belonging. Sadly, if not tragically, the more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the less that you feel like you belong in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. Far too many leaders of the aforesaid organizations reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform. I support all the planks.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/illinois-teacher-of-the-year-from-indian-prairie-district-204-has-hosted-dozens-of-discussions-across-the-state-on-belonging/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/24/what-trumps-cuts-to-medicaid-will-mean-for-nursing-homes-long-term-care-facilities-in-illinois
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/25/northwestern-uic-medical-researchers-diabetes-hiv-trump-funding-budget-cuts

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250526/news/cuts-to-school-mental-health-grants-could-trickle-down-to-local-districts/

WIFR
— Major General John Borling: A Memorial Day Tribute “We Are Americans.” In 2004, Borling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Borling ) was a candidate in the Republican Primary for the United States Senate.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/26/memorial-day-tribute-we-are-americans/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Homeless vets in LA hope that Trump order will create housing for them.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-26/homeless-vets-in-la-hope-that-trump-order-will-create-housing-for-them

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote mote illegal immigration.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-bill-could-allow-immigrants-to-become-driving-instructors/article_0fbe828b-ff74-4e28-9660-d922ed7fffcd.html

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-05-26/where-the-racial-justice-movement-stands-5-years-after-george-floyds-murder

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/26/chicagoans-mark-5-years-since-george-floyds-murder-with-protest-the-work-here-is-far-from-done/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-520/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— What’s behind Chicago’s welcome, but belated, drop in crime
https://wirepoints.org/whats-behind-chicagos-welcome-but-belated-drop-in-crime-wirepoints/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Oberweis’ New Owners Expanding in Congressional District in Which Jim Oberweis Is Running for Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/oberweis-new-owners-expanding-in-congressional-district-in-which-jim-oberweis-is-running-for-congress/
— Tribune Reporter Misinformed about Motive for Consolidating RTA Governing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/tribune-reporter-misinformed-about-motive-for-consolidating-rta-governing/
— Too Cold for the Beach?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/too-cold-for-the-beach/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Legislative Update for the Last Week of May 2025
https://illinoisfamily.org/politics/legislative-update-for-the-last-week-of-may-2025/
— Assisted Suicide Bill Pops Up In Last Week of Session
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/shell-games-with-assisted-suicide-bill/

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Pritzker Calls for “Summer of Love” 2.0?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/pritzker-calls-for-summer-of-love-2-0/
— Illinois School District Defies Title IX… Again
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/illinois-school-district-defies-title-ix-again/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s Department of Education right to combat racial discrimination. Ending DEI policies a legal imperative.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/trumps-department-education-right-combat-racial-discrimination/
— Justice Department says it’s ‘absurd’ and ‘wrong’ to suggest U.S. marshals won’t protect judges.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/justice-department-says-absurd-wrong-suggest-us-marshals-wont-protect/
— Charlie Kirk dismisses SPLC as ‘laughingstock’ for listing Turning Point on ‘hate map.’ My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that  Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were hate groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/charlie-kirk-dismisses-splc-laughingstock-listing-turning-point-hate/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump can’t be bought
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3421969/trump-cant-be-bought-big-tech-finding-out-hard-way/

NEW YORK POST
— US military’s greatest challenge is here at home: How to solve the recruitment crisis.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/opinion/the-us-militarys-biggest-challenge-is-right-here-at-home/
— Pentagon’s new anti-woke ad: ‘No more gender confusion’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/us-news/pentagon-rolls-out-epic-new-ad-touting-end-of-wokeness-under-trump-hegseth-no-more-gender-confusion/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hjyt9QRA20
— ‘Forest Gump’ star Gary Sinise open to Hollywood comeback under ‘right circumstances’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/entertainment/gary-sinise-open-to-hollywood-comeback-under-right-circumstances/

DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Education Secretary Pushed Men Into Women’s Sports.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/26/bidens-education-secretary-who-pushed-men-into-womens-sports-announces-new-gig/
— Trump Announces What He Might Do With $3 Billion He Threatens To Take Away ‘From A Very Antisemitic’ Harvard.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/26/trump-announces-3-billion-threatens-antisemitic-harvard-dei-trade-school/

FOX NEWS
— Trump fires off Memorial Day message targeting ‘SCUM’ who sought to ‘DESTROY’ the US. The president asserts the nation ‘WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN!’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-fires-off-memorial-day-message-targeting-scum-who-sought-destroy-us

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Federal workers grapple with canceled health insurance, bungled benefits after Trump’s layoff chaos
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/politics/federal-workers-benefits-health-insurance

CBS NEWS
— Trump says he’s considering rerouting $3 billion in Harvard grants to U.S. trade schools. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my job-related degrees from NIU (1970), Loyola (1976), DePaul (1980), and IIT (1997) are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government who treated not only my degrees as being worthless, but also my job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997) and my professional license (1981). I would focus on my critics/opponents who have degrees from Ivy League universities.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-harvard-trade-schools-3-billion-grant-money/
— At DNC, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth calls Trump “draft-dodging coward.”  I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. The blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/at-dnc-sen-tammy-duckworth-uses-her-personal-history-to-call-out-donald-trump/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Electric Vehicles Died a Century Ago. Could That Happen Again? Republicans do not target EVs. Republicans target incentives for EVs. I am a Republican. I just bought a EV. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/business/electric-vehicles-history.html
— Republicans do not target EVs. Republicans target incentives for EVs. I am a Republican. I just bought a EV. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/electric-vehicles-house-tax-bill.html
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html
— As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests. The president and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/republican-crackdown-on-aid-to-immigrants-would-hit-us-citizens.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/05/26/hes-throwing-global-pride-trumps-backyard-whos-with-him/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will forever get votes from those who are the following by using government to give them more preference: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger people, LGBTQers, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, those who lack education and/or job skills, those who have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/democrats-language-elite-politically-correct/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/veterans-affairs-cuts-morale-layoffs/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/senate-reconciliation-big-bill/

USA TODAY
— Work till you drop? Here’s why America’s average retirement age keeps rising.  If you are a wage earner in America like I was 1964-1997, and if you are Republican, White, male, or non-veteran, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and that your job will be given to one of your younger coworkers or subordinates who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/22/retirement-age-rising-social-security-medicare/83767525007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing people born in America with people born in foreign countries. Democrat leaders want that because people born in foreign countries vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want that because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.wsj.com/business/california-population-growth-immigration-h-1b-visa-4b526478
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make America more dependent on foreign countries. Most, if virtually all foreign countries despise/hate America.
https://www.wsj.com/business/buy-made-in-america-challenges-e53efd43
— The New Retirement Age in Denmark Is 70. The Danes set an example for timorous American politicians who refuse to reform unaffordable entitlements. If you are a wage earner in America like I was 1964-1997, and if you are Republican, White, male, or non-veteran, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and that your job will be given to one of your younger coworkers or subordinates who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-new-retirement-age-in-denmark-is-70-574b5259

BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/trump-s-research-funding-cuts-create-job-drought-for-scientists

FAST COMPANY
— GM wants to be all-electric by 2035. Why did it lobby to kill California’s EV rule?  GM celebrated the Senate’s vote to block California’s EV mandate—which was also supposed to go fully into effect by 2035.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91339643/gm-wants-to-be-all-electric-by-2035-why-did-it-lobby-to-kill-californias-ev-rule

NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5398042/trump-cuts-could-harm-after-school-programs
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/1253189688/what-trumps-cuts-to-intelligence-could-mean-for-national-security

POLITICO
— GOP declares war on GAO. Republicans are undermining the Government Accountability Office, the century-old agency that roots out waste, fraud and abuse. Who do you know who works for GAO or has worked for GAO? I worked for the Democrats who ran 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.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/gop-declares-war-on-gao-00369762
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The independent Government Accountability Office has served Congress as the nation’s chief investigator of wrongdoing at federal agencies for more than a century. Now it’s under assault. The typically uncontroversial, under-the-radar agency is fighting to retain power against attempts by Republicans in the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill to undercut its legal conclusions and independence — an onslaught that has been fast and furious. . .Vought also claimed that GAO had played “a partisan role” in the “impeachment hoax” of Donald Trump’s first presidency, referencing the House’s vote in 2019 to remove the president ahead of GAO’s conclusion that the administration violated the same “impoundment” law by withholding aid to Ukraine. Sen. Mike Lee piled on a day later. “GAO has lost credibility as an independent body,” the Utah Republican wrote on social media, reacting to Vought’s criticism. Taken together, these events show the extent to which Republicans are increasingly willing to denigrate an agency that has frequently validated their policies and positions, while sometimes delivering findings conservatives don’t like. And this political posture could upend the relationship members of both parties have had with GAO for decades. . .And while GAO is a legislative branch agency, Trump has the ability to dismiss its leader, akin to his firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. GAO spokesperson Jasmine Berry Franklin said in a statement that agency officials “stand behind the quality of our work.” The watchdog’s mission is to deliver “non-partisan, fact-based information to Congress, to help it carry out its constitutional legislative, appropriations, and oversight functions and protect the power of the purse,” she continued. “Our legal decisions do not take a position on the policy goals of a program, they only examine the procedural issues and compliance with the law.” At a recent congressional hearing, Dodaro also stressed that GAO doesn’t want to be in the partisan crosshairs, has no interest in having political sway and is committed to its mandate to respond to requests from lawmakers with the facts. “We’re just responding to help Congress,” Dodaro said. “We’re not trying to influence things one way or the other. We’re nonpartisan. We’re asked a question; we give an answer. It doesn’t matter who it is.”)

PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/catholic-relief-services-faces-uncertain-future-after-trump-cuts-aid-funding

TIME
— How Grads Can Futureproof Themselves As Career Ladders Weaken. Timing is everything. My not majoring in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970 was a very big career mistake. I erroneously though that I could not pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, or veteran.
https://time.com/charter/7286901/how-grads-can-futureproof-themselves-as-career-ladders-weaken/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With the “bottom rung of the career ladder breaking,” according to Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn, new graduates and other workers early in their careers face less certain paths for getting professional toeholds and experience that can serve them over their lifetimes. That also ups the stakes for managers and mentors to help young workers identify and cultivate the skills that will best serve them.)

DC MEDIA GROUP
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject meritocracy a) because they want votes from minorities and from females and b) because with meritocracy, Whites males do better. Overwhelmingly, those who passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on their first attempt like did were White males.
https://dcmediagroup.us/2025/05/26/the-myth-of-meritocracy-diversity-will-never-die/

ECONOMIC TIMES
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I should write about my critics/opponents who are major Republican donors. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trumps-campaign-received-scores-of-donations-from-problematic-donors/articleshow/121429265.cms

JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
— Mass Deportations Would Deliver a Catastrophic Blow to the U.S. Economy. Should America start offering citizens of foreign countries “bad job” employment permits? Fewer and fewer and fewer citizens of American will take bad jobs like I did. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive 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 got those bad jobs because my employers could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take them. Again, should America start offering citizens of foreign countries “bad job” employment permits?
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2024/12/mass-deportations-would-deliver-a-catastrophic-blow-to-the-u-s-economy

KYIV POST
— Ukraine blasts Trump for avoiding the Vietnam War draft. I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. The blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53398

NTD
— What did you do to avoid financial stress? My father frequently decried his not having a college degree. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. To qualify myself for better paying jobs, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45 47, and 48, and c) I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.ntd.com/5-ways-couples-can-curb-financial-stress_1067416.html

AUTO BLOG
— Tesla’s Odometer Lawsuit Could Be EV Industry’s Dieselgate Moment. A class-action suit claims Tesla rigs odometers with software to void warranties early—costing drivers thousands. Could this be Silicon Valley’s Dieselgate?
https://www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-odometer-warranty-lawsuit

May 20, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— DOJ investigating Chicago hiring practices amid backlash over Mayor Johnson’s viral comments. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-department-justice-opens-civil-rights-investigation-chicago-hiring-practices-letter-mayor-brandon-johnson/16472280/
— Ashli Babbitt’s family to receive $5M to settle lawsuit with Trump administration.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ashli-babbitts-family-receive-5-million-settlement-trump-admin-sources/16471666/

NBC5
— Former Chicago Public Schools students say they were groomed by teachers. A months-long investigation by NBC 5 Investigates has uncovered allegations of grooming and teacher misconduct dating back more than a decade at one Chicago public school.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/lessons-in-betrayal-former-chicago-public-schools-students-say-they-were-groomed-by-teachers/3749386/
— DOJ investigates Chicago’s hiring practices following comments by Mayor Johnson. Justice officials are investigating whether the city is violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/doj-investigates-chicagos-hiring-practices-following-comments-by-mayor-johnson/3749322/
— Trump allies shift from well-wishes to suggesting Biden hid his cancer diagnosis
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/donald-trump-allies-suggest-biden-hid-cancer-diagnosis/3749387/

CBS2
— Southwest Side Chicago alderman, state rep said city extended use of migrant shelter without notice
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-extended-use-migrant-shelter-notice/
— Trump questions why Biden’s cancer wasn’t caught earlier
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/president-trump-questions-why-bidens-cancer-wasnt-caught-earlier/
— Justice Department opens discrimination investigation into Chicago city hiring practices.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/justice-department-discrimination-investigation-chicago-city-hiring-practices/

WGN9
— First Trump $1,000 ‘self-deport’ flight conducted by DHS.
https://wgntv.com/news/national/first-trump-1000-self-deport-flight-conducted-by-dhs/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/illinois-mulls-ending-a-health-program-for-some-immigrants-living-in-the-us-illegally/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/19/illinois-lawmakers-discuss-budget-priorities-legislative-deadline-looms

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/05/19/how-birthright-citizenship-ruling-could-affect-illinois

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/trump-venezuelans/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/chicagos-venezuelan-migrants-face-uncertainty-after-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protected-status/
— Cupich says Pope Leo XIV will champion the environment, immigrants. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/pope-leo-chicago-visit/
— Justice Department investigating Mayor Brandon Johnson for racially motivated hiring.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/justice-department-chicago-alleged-racially-motivated-hiring/
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/garrison-school-four-rivers-oversight/
— Chicago’s south and southwest suburbs see population declines — but there are bright spots in census estimates
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/south-suburbs-population-drop-census/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Those seeing decreases of at least 2% but below 3% included Bridgeview, Crestwood, Harvey, Matteson, Oak Forest, Olympia Fields, Palos Hills and Tinley Park. Suburbs having losses over the four years of at least 3% included Alsip, Blue Island, Calumet City, Chicago Heights, Country Club Hills, Dolton, Evergreen Park, Flossmoor, Hazel Crest, Homewood, Lansing, Markham, Midlothian, Oak Lawn, Park Forest and South Holland.)

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Justice Department launches probe into City Hall’s hiring practices, claims they’re solely race-based. The Trump administration on Monday opened a civil rights investigation into Chicago’s hiring practices one day after Mayor Brandon Johnson boasted about the record number of African-Americans he has hired for top city jobs.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/19/justice-department-probe-city-hall-hiring-practices-brandon-johnson-woodlawn
— Venezuelans in Illinois could be deported after Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protected status. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end the Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans, including in Illinois. — Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/05/19/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-strip-protections-from-some-venezuelans-deportations-could-follow

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting vice in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250519/news/new-pot-dispensary-tattoo-parlor-get-approval-from-elgin-city-council/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump officials launch hiring probe after Johnson touts number of Black advisers
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-doj-investigating-chicago-hiring-discrimination

RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “social justice” a) to promote more hatred against Republicans and b) to get more votes from minorities and females.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/siue-east-st-louis-center-for-the-performing-arts-gives-social-justice-rhythm-and-motion-during-its-spring-dance-recital-82614.cfm

NPR ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-05-20/in-the-fight-for-youth-transgender-health-care-illinois-remains-at-the-forefront
— How dependent is your school district on federal spending?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-19/trump-administration-cuts-school-mental-health-grants

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Pritzker to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-says-every-state-faces-financial-challenges-under-trump-but-is-optimistic-illinois-will-have/article_1d68e4ce-9dcb-4e4c-ba07-e9f0c328b9aa.html

JOLIET PATCH
— 2024 Tesla Faces Seizure After Joliet Police Find Marijuana Inside: The EV belongs to Mokena residents Eddy Curry and Mitchell Rashada and is now the subject of a Will County civil forfeiture.
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/2024-tesla-faces-seizure-after-joliet-police-find-pot-forfeiture

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Trump attacks City Hall’s discrimination. It easier for Democrat employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. It is harder for Republican employers to hire minorities and females because they are predominately Democrats. Democrats want to work for Democrats. Republicans want to work for Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/20/trump-attacks-chicago-city-hall-diversity-00358327

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-516/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-308/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Higher and higher salaries means Chicagoans’ public pension problem gets bigger and bigger.
https://wirepoints.org/higher-and-higher-salaries-means-chicagoans-public-pension-problem-gets-bigger-and-bigger-wirepoints-on-full-measure-with-sharyl-attkisson/
— Why expand in Illinois when there’s little economic growth?
https://wirepoints.org/what-one-business-owner-said-to-me-why-expand-in-illinois-when-theres-little-economic-growth-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, Firestone Stores in 1970, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. After I graduated from NIU when I was 21 years old in 1970, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from Firestone Stores. But that job did not really require a college degree. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me in 1971 because I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. He would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. All during my entire life, employers that might have hired me were under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat leaders to hire Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my 1970 (management) bachelor’s degree, b) my 1976 (business), 1980 (accounting), and 1997 (finance) master’s degrees, c) my 1979 (accounting), 1981 (internal auditing), 1990 (fraud examination), 1994 (government financial management), 1996 (financial services auditing), and 1997 (forensic accounting) professional certifications, and d) my 1981 professional license (CPA). Because I complained about the aforesaid, a) my Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969, b) my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and my education deductions in 1978 and never promoted me beyond GS-12, and c) my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and forced me to retire in 1997. My RINO critics/opponents have no problem with what my Democrat superiors did to me. Actually, they applaud it. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What makes candidates for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc. Since 1999, RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed a) the almost 18 years of experience that I gained working for GAO, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) the almost 9 years of experience that I gained working for IRS, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) my bachelor’s degree in management, d) my master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, e) my professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and f) my CPA license. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you avoid the Vietnam War draft? Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The bronze statue of Melania Trump in Slovenia has been chopped off at the feet and stolen. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What did your superiors require you to do? Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

JEFF BERKOWITZ
— Does the IL GOP have competitive US Senate & GOV candidates on deck for 2026?  What makes a candidate for government and political offices competitive? It includes having relevant work experience, education, professional certifications, professional licenses, etc.
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/does-the-il-gop-have-competitive

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— What’s in the Homeschooling Regulation Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/whats-in-the-homeschooling-regulation-bill/
— Nunda Township Officials Sworn into Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/nunda-township-officials-sworn-into-office/
— Connie Cain Flips Parties, Running for Kane County Treasurer as Democrat after Being Fired by GOP Treasurer Chris Lauzen
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/connie-cain-flips-parties-running-for-kane-county-treasurer-as-democrat-after-being-fired-by-gop-treasurer-chris-lauzen/
— No New Face for Conservation District Board, John Henning Being Appointed to a Second Run
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/no-new-face-for-conservation-district-board-john-henning-being-appointed-to-a-second-run/
— Poor Loser Randy Funks Out for the Fifth Time
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/poor-loser-randy-funks-out-for-the-fifth-time/
— Possible Taxes You Might Want to Ask Your Local Democrat to Oppose
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/possible-taxes-you-might-want-to-ask-your-local-democrat-to-oppose/
— With Two Weeks Left in Legislation Session, Sosnowski Gives Take on the Budget
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/with-two-weeks-left-in-legislation-session-sosnowski-gives-take-on-the-budget/
— Rest of Algonquin Township Officials Sworn In
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/rest-of-algonquin-township-officials-sworn-in/
— Another Mailing Asking Voters to Call Sue Ness about Cost of Pension Increases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/another-mailing-asking-voters-to-call-sue-ness-about-cost-of-pension-increases/
— Underwood Not Running for U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/underwood-not-running-for-u-s-senate/
— Is This the Year that Democrats Will Start Taxing Services?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/18/is-this-the-year-that-democrats-will-start-taxing-services/
— Huntley’s Move to Shut Down Trump Store on Route 47 Making Regional News
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/huntleys-move-to-shut-down-trump-store-on-route-47-making-regional-news/
— $500,000 Judgement for Sending Campaign Postcard Found False–“Reckless Regard of the Truth”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/500000-judgement-for-sending-campaign-postcard-found-false-reckless-regard-of-thetruth/
— A Stupidity of the Chicago School System I Missed
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/17/a-stupidity-of-the-chicago-school-system-i-missed/
— Homeland Security Calls Out “Fake News” in Press Releases
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/homeland-security-calls-out-fake-news-in-press-releases/
— GOP Precinct Committeeperson & Candidate Training in Rockford May 31st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/gop-precinct-committeeperson-candidate-training-in-rockford-may-31st/
— Census Reports McHenry County Growth Tips, Plus Population Gains and Losses for All Municipalities
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/16/census-reports-local-growth-tips-population-gains-and-losses-for-all-mchenry-county-municipalities/
— Data Centers among Reasons Electricity Prices Going Up in June
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/data-centers-among-reasons-electricity-prices-going-up-in-june/
— Daniel Biss Raises Big Money in Day after Announcement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/daniel-biss-raises-big-money-in-day-after-announcement/
— Chicago Republican Infighting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/19/chicago-republican-infighting/
— DeWitte Points to Pritzker’s Budget Having Increased 40% Since He Took Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/dewitte-points-to-pritzkers-budget-having-increased-40-since-he-took-office/
— Handful of Local Officials Miss Deadline for Filing Income Disclosure Forms
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/handful-of-local-officials-miss-deadline-for-filing-income-disclosure-forms/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Washington awash with suspicion of a Biden cancer cover-up
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/washington-awash-suspicion-biden-cancer-cover/
— Trump hammers illegal immigrants with full weight of law, criminal prosecutions up 45-fold
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/19/trump-hammers-illegal-immigrants-full-weight-law-criminal/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Brandon Johnson touts diverse administration, says black people run Chicago because ‘we’re most generous’  Democrat leaders use government a) to favor those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) to disfavor those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3415666/brandon-johnson-diverse-administration-black-people-most-generous/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/brandon-johnson-touts-diverse-administration-says-black-people-run-chicago-because-we-re-most-generous/ar-AA1F4UqR

AMERICAN THINKER
— Will the Supreme Court Succumb to Democratic Party Pressure?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/will_the_supreme_court_succumb_to_democratic_party_pressure.html
— Trump throws back stink bombs at celebrities
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/trump_throws_back_stink_bombs_at_celebrities.html
— Biden was not a decent man, nor was he a public servant
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/joe_biden_was_not_a_decent_man_nor_was_he_a_public_servant.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/
— Flailing Schumer tries to blame DOGE for Mexican ship’s Brooklyn Bridge collision
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/flailing-schumer-tries-to-blame-doge-for-mexican-ships-brooklyn-bridge-collision-1544487/

BLAZE
— Schumer tries to blame Trump for lethal Mexican boat crash into Brooklyn Bridge — but DHS fires back
https://www.theblaze.com/news/schumer-trump-cuauhtemoc-lethal-crash
— ‘Self-deport’ flights begin as some illegal migrants take advantage of Trump’s tempting offer
https://www.theblaze.com/news/self-deport-flights-begin-as-some-illegal-migrants-take-advantage-of-trump-s-tempting-offer-report

BREITBART
— Department of Homeland Security Conducts First Self-Deportation Charter Flight of 64 Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/20/department-of-homeland-security-conducts-first-self-deportation-charter-flight-of-64-migrants/
— U.S. hits Indian travel agencies facilitating illegal migration with visa bans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/u-s-hits-indian-travel-agencies-facilitating-illegal-migration-with-visa-bans/
— Trump’s immigration crackdown targets Washington restaurants
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trumps-immigration-crackdown-targets-washington-restaurants/
— Trump administration agrees to pay nearly $5M to settle suit over Ashli Babbitt shooting in Capitol
https://www.breitbart.com/news/trump-administration-agrees-to-pay-nearly-5m-to-settle-suit-over-ashli-babbitt-shooting-in-capitol/
— Supreme Court allows Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status for Venezuelans
https://www.breitbart.com/news/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-revoke-temporary-protected-status-for-venezuelans/

DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Sudden Cancer Diagnosis Doesn’t Add Up, Doctors Say
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/joe-biden-prostate-cancer-diagnosis-doesnt-add-up-doctors-presidency/
— Trump Suggests Biden Diagnosis Could Be Part Of Bigger Conspiracy
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/19/donald-trump-joe-biden-cancer-diagnosis-conspiracy-cover-up/
— Cash Flowing Into Anti-ICE Group’s Coffers Came From Chinese Gov’t-Linked Sources
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/cpc-bankrolled-by-chinese-government-linked-sources/

DAILY SIGNAL
— There’s No Love Like the Democrats’ Love of Illegal Alien Criminals
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/theres-no-love-like-the-democrats-love-of-illegal-alien-criminals/

DAILY WIRE
— Biden Has Terminal Cancer. The Cover Up Was Way Worse Than We Thought.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1599-member-exclusive

EPOCH TIMES
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remove Protected Status for Venezuelans
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-remove-protected-status-for-venezuelans-5859993

TOWNHALL
— Trump Admin’s ICE Operation Nets Over 400 Arrests and 500 Deportations, Targeting Criminal Immigrants
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/05/19/ice-arrests-422-undocumented-immigrants-deports-528-in-houston-operation-n2657306

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSNBC & NPR
— Democrat leaders want sellers to use Trump’s tariffs to raise their prices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnYR-zYpU0
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5387330/trump-tariffs-china-collect-manufacturing-revenue

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff. I should write about my RINO leaders who are White and/or male and who promote Affirmative Action and DEI. They a) want votes from minorities and/or from females and/or b) have children who are minority and/or female.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-afrikaners-trump-refugees-ramaphosa-c87264523d555a64c0588d8734bba83a

MSN
— My critics/opponents attribute their successes to meritocracy. They attribute my and everyone else’s successes to their benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/the-case-for-meritocracy/ar-AA1EeV7W

REUTERS
— US launches unit to target DEI policies at colleges with civil fraud probes
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-launches-unit-target-dei-policies-colleges-with-civil-fraud-probes-2025-05-20/

ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-sides-venezuelan-man-seeking-return-us/story?id=121968260

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/most-venezuelans-not-at-immediate-risk-despite-tps-decision-immigration-attorney-says/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Melania Trump (the Statue) Vanishes in Slovenia. The bronze sculpture, erected near Ms. Trump’s hometown in eastern Slovenia, was chopped off at the feet and stolen, the police said. The more that you to defend/promote Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. The more demographics that you share with trump, especially his political affiliation, draft status, religion, and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters do to get rid of you. I share many demographics with Trump. I should write about adverse actions that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters have taken against me since 2015. Since 2015, to punish me, they have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. They stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/world/europe/slovenia-melania-trump-statue.html
— DOJ to use false claims act to pursue institutions over their discrimination efforts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/politics/false-claims-act-dei-harvard.html
— The Miners Who Lost Their Jobs, but Not Their Faith in Trump’s Tariffs. With demand for steel down and a trade war underway, miners in the Iron Range of Minnesota are feeling the hit. But they hope better times are ahead. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be working for GAO.  But I was collateral damage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/business/trump-tariffs-mining-steel.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Putin is stringing Trump along, and Trump doesn’t seem to realize it. As Putin stonewalls Trump’s ceasefire efforts, the U.S. president extends him patience and goodwill.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/19/putin-ukraine-ceasefire-trump/

BOSTON GLOBE
— Those who have demographics that vote for Republicans are more likely to enlist.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/20/opinion/military-recruiting-rebound-trump-biden/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders want the Pope to promote the anti-Catholic Democrat Party platform, that is, they want him to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, abolition of the Second Amendment, 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.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/16/pope-leo-catholic-church-lgbtq-harrison-butker/83626547007/
— What should I do if my duties don’t match my job description? What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a) three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2025/05/13/job-duties-dont-match-description-hr/83410689007/
— Thousands of federal employees are on a roller coaster of being fired, rehired. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/federal-employees-fired-rehired-await-court-decision/83600693007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: These fired federal employees are considering running for public office. ‘It’s forced a choice’: Fired federal workers prepare to run for office. Democratic groups want to help. While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the agency shrank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/18/fired-federal-workers-run-politics-office/79329174007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip Biden Status From Venezuelan Migrants
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-migrant-legal-status-a2fc2f8d
— Will Anyone Take the Factory Jobs That Trump Wants to Bring Back to America? The president has pledged to bring more factory work back to U.S., but many manufacturing jobs are already going unfilled. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. Those jobs included two factory jobs: chipping slag and working on an automotive assembly line.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/will-anyone-take-the-factory-jobs-trump-wants-to-bring-back-to-america-f6cd377b

INC.
— Virtually all my subordinates who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise 1980-1997 were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, and/or disabled. They did everything that they could to turn them against me. They required me to give them preference big time. I did that. But that was not enough. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/businesses-csr-corporate-social-responsibility-policies-trump/91190849

FAST COMPANY
— The overall cost of raising a child is now nearly $300,000. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91310203/it-costs-nearly-300000-to-raise-a-child-in-2025

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
— Are/were you collateral damage?  I have been collateral damage since 1964 because I have always been a Republican and virtually all those above me have been Democrats or RINOs.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0403/trump-tariffs-immigration-signal-doge

MEDICAL NEWS
— Study reveals high rates of cannabis use disorder in older US veterans. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have had tremendous grossly unfair advantages in life because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. They stress that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27 and 31, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30 and 32, or e) earn a professional license when I was 32.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250519/Study-reveals-high-rates-of-cannabis-use-disorder-in-older-US-veterans.aspx

EDUCATION WEEK
— Boys Are Struggling in School. What Can Be Done? It’s time to take a hard look at gender equity.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-boys-are-struggling-in-school-what-can-be-done/2025/05

POLITICO
— How Congress could crush Trump’s Qatari plane gift. Lawmakers are weighing everything from sticking amendments in defense legislation to holding up nominees as they try to stop the president from accepting the foreign-owned aircraft.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/19/trump-qatar-jet-gift-congress-block-00357593

AXIOS
— Swift, Beyoncé, Springsteen: Trump’s new political foes are pop stars
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/19/trump-celebrity-investigations-feud-taylor-swift-beyonce-bruce-springsteen

TIMES OF INDIA
— ‘Could he be more racist?’ Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson slammed for ‘only hiring black people’ comment in viral speech. My critics/opponents have always given preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always discriminated against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/could-he-be-more-racist-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-slammed-for-only-hiring-black-people-comment-in-viral-speech/articleshow/121265000.cms

May 19, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— 30-mile protest against President Trump policies links Aurora to Chicago. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/hands-chicagoland-rally-30-mile-protest-president-donald-trump-policies-links-aurora-chicago-ogden-avenue/16462021/
— Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer
https://abc7chicago.com/post/former-president-joe-biden-diagnosed-prostate-cancer-routine-exam-hospital-philadelphia/16461073/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hands Across Chicagoland event stretches from Aurora to Chicago to protest Trump administration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/hands-across-chicagoland-event-stretches-from-aurora-to-chicago-to-protest-trump-administration/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stuebner was one of over 18,000 gathered over a 30-mile stretch across DuPage and Cook counties from Aurora to Chicago on Sunday to protest Trump administration policies, per a news release from the Hands Across Chicagoland event organized by the Democratic Party of DuPage County, Indivisible Illinois, the Illinois Federation of Teachers and other political organizations across the Chicago area. The idea was to “form a human chain of solidarity against Trump’s illegal and authoritarian actions and the GOP’s failure to defend the Constitution,” per the release. Protestors signed up in advance based on their ZIP code, and lined the sidewalk along Ogden Avenue and 26th Street, from Aurora to the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago, on Sunday afternoon. The idea arose out of past protests organized by the DuPage Democratic party, according to the group’s chair Reid McCollum. In March, the group hosted a “Tesla Takedown DuPage” protest against Elon Musk’s efforts to slash and restructure the federal government and decided they wanted to stage a protest that stretched further. Sunday’s demonstration was spurred on by the Trump administration sending individuals — like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the United States — to detention centers, McCollum said. The protest’s goal is to reach a significant number of people passing by the protest so that the people of the U.S. won’t “just slide into authoritarianism without fighting back,” McCollum said. Amongst a few dozen protestors gathered in Lisle, several local officials offered their remarks. Standing in front of an inflatable chicken meant to be a caricature of President Trump, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Matteson, told The Beacon-News that these kinds of demonstrations show that people are “ready to resist” the Trump administration. She described concerns about Medicaid, SNAP and tariffs as some of the everyday issues that are affecting ordinary residents’ lives.
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. To come into a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/19/opinion-immigration-us-donald-trump-jb-pritzker/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/19/trump-maga-fake-news-right-wing-media-lies-fox-propaganda-democracy-andy-shaw

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Is Gov. JB Pritzker the wealthiest person in Illinois? Here’s the top 5.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/05/19/top-5-richest-people-in-illinois-according-to-forbes/83669860007/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/05/19/thousands-line-ogden-avenue-to-protest-trump-administration/

WIFR
— Democrat leaders want Walmart to charge more to punish Trump.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/18/trumps-tariffs-may-mean-walmart-shoppers-pay-more-his-treasury-chief-acknowledges/

TRIBE
— What’s it like to raise teens in 2025? What did you do when you were a teen? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail.
https://thetriibe.com/2025/05/whats-it-like-to-raise-teens-in-2025/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump order targets barcodes on ballots. Democrats object.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-order-targets-barcodes-on-ballots-theyve-long-been-a-source-of-misinformation/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-515/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Open borders + sanctuary status + free benefits + Gov. Abbott = Chicago population growth
https://wirepoints.org/open-borders-sanctuary-status-free-benefits-gov-abbott-chicago-population-growth-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who has had since 2015, who is having, and who will have the biggest impact on you/? For me, because I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, it is Trump. Since 2015, I have ever-increasingly included links to articles that involve Trump in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. My critics/opponents despise/hate Trump, and according to them, my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters promote Trump. Since 2015, to punish me, my critics/opponents have had their operatives and dupes a) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) almost stop me from attending the DeSantis event in Elmhurst in 2023, and d) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024. My critics/opponents stress that even though I have been a member of the Milton Township Republican Organization since 1999, the organization a) has never asked me to serve as one of its officers, b) rudely fired me as its webmaster in 2004 and 2010, and c) rudely defeated my bid to serve as its treasurer in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Release of an important IVF report is approaching. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never had been able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always boasted that they discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Federal Dollars Going to Perv-Promoting Institutions of Baser Learning. On May 8, 2025, Northwestern University’s student newspaper the Daily Northwestern cheerily reported on Sex Week, a three-day event during which free sex toys were distributed at the student union, Norris University Center. Students lined up for the freebies which included “phallic-shaped, glitter-covered candles. … dildos and vibrators,” and “cute, little, squishy penis toys.”
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/15/federal-dollars-going-to-perv-promoting-institutions-of-baser-learning

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump unleashes on justices after Supreme Court blocks Tren de Aragua deportations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/18/trump-unleashes-justices-supreme-court-blocks-tren-de-aragua/
— Bruce Springsteen scorns blessings of being born in the U.S.A.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/16/bruce-springsteen-scorns-blessings-born-usa/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Owner of Trump-themed Huntley shop says local officials are targeting her business
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3411133/owner-trump-themed-shop-local-officials/
— There is only one reason Democrats want to make it easier for noncitizens to vote. They vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3413664/only-one-reason-democrats-want-easier-noncitizen-voting/
— Rubio says people should be ‘celebrating’ US welcoming South African immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3415297/rubio-says-people-should-be-celebrating-us-welcoming-south-african-immigrants/

NEW YORK POST
— The end is near for on-the-job reverse discrimination — another blow to DEI. My Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of their Republican subordinates like me who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/18/opinion/the-end-is-near-for-reverse-discrimination-a-blow-to-dei/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Chicago mayor boasts that he discriminates against white people. My Democrat and RINO superiors have always boasted that they give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, that is, they have always boasted that they discriminate against those 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.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/19/chicago-mayor-boasts-that-he-discriminates-against-white-people-1544511/

BREITBART
— Tim Walz Claims ICE Agents Are ‘Trump’s Modern Gestapo’ Chasing ‘Folks’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/18/tim-walz-claims-ice-agents-trumps-modern-gestapo-chasing-folks/

DAILY CALLER
— Hillary Clinton Appears To Have Learned Nothing From 2016 ‘Basket Of Deplorables’ Remark. I should write about past and present leaders of the following who have ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed/demonized/denigrated/condemned conservatives like me the most: Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/18/hillary-clinton-appears-to-have-learned-nothing-from-2016-basket-of-deplorables-remark/

FEDERALIST
— The Ongoing Failure Of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/19/the-ongoing-failure-of-affirmative-action/

PJ MEDIA
— The Spirit Needed to Win Our Culture War
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/18/the-spirit-needed-to-win-our-culture-war-n4939922
— DEI Deathwatch Vol. XXI: Chicago Mayor Explains Black Hiring Preferences. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/05/18/dei-deathwatch-vol-xxi-chicago-mayor-explains-black-hiring-preferences-n4939927

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Trump warns America’s businesses: Eat my tariffs, or pay the price
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/business/trump-tariffs-price-consumers

AOL
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly call Trump and those who voted for him Nazis.
https://www.aol.com/tim-walz-suggests-ice-trump-025837320.html
— ‘My Coworkers Think I’m DOGE’—A Federal Worker Says, ‘I Receive Mean Looks And Conversations Are Straight-Up Dying When I Walk By’ What did your coworkers do to get pay increases and promotions? My Democrat coworkers in the federal government did everything that they could to help their Democrat superiors and supervisors get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.aol.com/coworkers-think-im-doge-federal-010031089.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump’s big bill advances in rare weekend vote, but conservatives demand more changes
https://apnews.com/article/republicans-tax-cuts-house-trump-johnson-border-f03b7e9cc3015ef9a0ece37b76bc5f66

NEWSWEEK
— Trump called for a “major investigation” into celebrities who aided Kamala Harris’s 2024 election campaign, including Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé, saying their appearances were potentially illegal contributions.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-investigation-beyonce-bruce-springsteen-performances-2073941

NBC NEWS
— Key House committee advances Trump agenda bill after appeasing conservatives
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/key-house-committee-advances-trump-agenda-bill-conservatives-rcna207555

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html
— Key House Panel Approves Trump’s Megabill After Conservatives Relent
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/18/us/trump-news-updates
— Inside the I.V.F. Deliberations at the White House as Key Report Nears. I should write about how my Democrat GAO superiors punished me for my wife and I giving up trying to have children without trying IVF. In 1989, they stressed that our health insurance covered IVF, threw me off audits of IRS, gave me a very bad job assignment, gave me very unfair performance expectations, gave me a very bad performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. According to them, if we had children, I would never had been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earn four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earn a master’s degree in finance in 1997. Further, according to them, my wife would never have had able to keep her good job or earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had spouses who had little or no income and b) decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/ivf-policy-white-house.html
— Everyone Hates ‘Debanking’ But Is Unclear on What to Do. What do the leaders of your bank think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-debanking-crypto.html
— DOGE Seeks to Investigate GAO. GAO rejected the request, saying it reports to Congress and is exempt from oversight by Elon Musk’s budget-cutting group. The Democrat who ran GAO 1980-1997 wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/doge-musk-gao-accountability-office.html

USA TODAY
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents make it clear that they reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/23/what-is-a-rino-in-gop-politics/73817513007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/15/red-states-join-trump-dei-fight/83518866007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/

TAMPAS FREE PRESS
— Victor Davis Hanson Predicts Democratic Shift To Centrist In 2028
https://www.tampafp.com/victor-davis-hanson-predicts-democratic-shift-to-centrist-in-2028/

DESERET NEWS
— Affirmative Action demotivates its recipients. None of the minorities and females who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with in 1997 could have but did not do what I did. He could have but did not become a) a Certified Internal Auditor in 1981, b) licensed CPA in 1981, c) Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, d) Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, e) Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and f) Forensic Accountant in 1997. He could have but did not like I did earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT in 1997. We both had the same superior since 1990. Similarly, she could have done the aforesaid but did not do the aforesaid.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/05/18/jason-riley-affirmative-action-myth-dei/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-approval-rating-charts-eaf089db

REASON
— According to Democrat leaders a) only Whites discriminate and b) only Whites should pay for the sins of their forefathers.
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/05/18/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees/

CHRISTIAN SICENCE MONITOR
— Belvidere aims for economic revival – but will Trump tariffs help?
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0519/trump-tariffs-midwest-manufacturers?icid=rss

RAW STORY
— Snubbed: Pope gives JD Vance just 17 seconds — but has long meetings with other leaders
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-pope-2672071466/

AUTOPIAN
— Direct competitors of the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the muscle car. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle car’s direct competitors?
https://www.theautopian.com/dodge-is-blaming-the-tariffs-for-killing-the-charger-daytona-r-t-a-car-seemingly-no-one-wanted-anyway/

SAVING ADVICE
— 7 Cars That Only The 1% Can Afford. The 5 vehicles that I have at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville are among the least expensive ones there: 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2021 Chevrolet Malibu Premier, 2019 Ford Escape Titanium, and 2005 Corvette.
https://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2025/05/15/10156332_7-cars-that-only-the-1-can-afford.html

May 17, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

WGN9
— Illinois Democrat leaders focus on turning Illinois farmers against Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/farming-anxieties-rise-among-illinoisans-as-trade-war-affects-crop-exports/ar-AA1EVUzf

FOX32
— Democrat and RINO leaders got the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s Alien Enemies Act deportations. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/supreme-court-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump’s bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/supreme-court-rejects-trump-deportations/
— Democrat leaders say that the Republican tax bill is filled with illogicalities, craven giveaways
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/editorial-republicans-tax-bill-tips-salt-overtime/
— Under Trump, Republican leaders fight Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, they fight race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/16/trump-dei/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/16/tariffs-trump-maga-corruption-democracy-america-voters-mona-charen
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/05/16/chicago-catholics-pope-leo-xiv-marriage-lgbtq
— House speaker on Crespo ouster: ‘Can’t allow someone to go rogue’  “He’s free to speak his mind. He’s free to vote his conscience,” House Speaker Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch, said, but added that no one would be allowed to use their official leadership roles “to pursue an agenda that is antithetical to our shared goals” of passing a budget. Since I was 53 years old in 2001, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have rudely dumped me forever because I supported Pat O’Malley in the primary for governor instead of their candidate Jim Ryan. I ran O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. They continue to blame me not only for Ryan’s loss in the 2002 general election, but for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since then. I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/16/emanuel-chris-welch-fred-crespo-ouster-house-commitee-seperate-budget-rich-mller

DAILY HERALD
— GOP candidates for state offices will host discussion in St. Charles Saturday morning
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250516/illinois-state-politics/gop-candidates-for-state-offices-will-host-discussion-in-st-charles-saturday-morning/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250517/news/illinois-seeks-to-prevent-feds-from-tying-funding-for-states-to-immigration-enforcement/

WBEZ
— A quarter of Chicago high schoolers missed more than a month of school last year. When you were in grade school and high school, how many days did you miss? I missed extremely few.
https://www.wbez.org/

SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote protests against Trump
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/05/15/thousands-to-line-ogden-avenue-sunday-to-protest-trump-administration/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— AUGUST 16, 2012 FLASHBACK: GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters: A bunch of political info — daily
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2012/08/16/bernard-schoenburg-bunch-political-info/41733104007/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Republicans forge their tax bill in Trump’s image, with ‘MAGA accounts’ and more
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-republicans-forge-their-tax-bill-in-trumps-image-with-maga-accounts-and-more/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DOGE tried assigning a team to GAO. GAO refused. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They wasted my career and they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They rudely flushed down their toilet a) my three job-related master’s degrees (business-1976, accounting-1980, and finance-1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997), c) my job-related professional license (CPA-1981), and d) what I had learned about IRS by working 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 would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-16/doge-tried-assigning-a-team-to-the-government-accountability-office-it-refused
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5401008/doge-gao-congress
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its attempts to expand its reach beyond executive branch agencies, this time seeking to embed in an independent legislative watchdog that finds waste, fraud and abuse in the government. But the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a legislative branch entity that helps audit government spending and suggest ways to make it more efficient, rejected that request on Friday by noting that GAO is not subject to presidential executive orders. The request to GAO had cited President Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order creating DOGE, which, despite its name, is not a formal agency. DOGE’s request to GAO and its response was first reported by NOTUS. A spokesperson for GAO confirmed DOGE’s outreach, and reiterated that “as a legislative branch agency, GAO is not subject to Executive Orders and has therefore declined any requests to have a DOGE team assigned to GAO.” In an announcement to employees posted Friday afternoon, GAO leadership said they sent a letter to Acting Administrator of DOGE Amy Gleason and notified members of Congress, according to a copy of the notice shared with NPR by an employee not authorized to speak publicly. The GAO regularly releases reports that highlight ways to improve government efficiency, like a May 13 review of federal programs with fragmented, overlapping, or duplicative actions it says could save over $100 billion in spending. But there’s been little overlap between GAO’s work and DOGE’s actions so far. “DOGE’s attempted intrusion into an independent, nonpartisan legislative branch agency is a direct assault on our nation’s sacred separation of powers,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which oversees GAO, in a statement to NPR. “DOGE cannot and must not have any access to GAO. Oversight Democrats are monitoring this situation closely and stand behind GAO’s well-established status as a critical legislative branch agency.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about DOGE’s attempts to place a team at GAO. . .DOGE’s efforts to embed at GAO also heighten growing tensions between Congress and the executive branch. Last week, President Trump abruptly fired the Librarian of Congress, a year before the end of her term — raising concerns from members of Congress including Senate Majority leader John Thune. Meanwhile, the watchdog agency has dozens of investigations underway into whether the White House violated the law by freezing funding that had already been allocated by Congress. “ We have right now 39 different investigations underway,” Gene Dodaro, the current head of the GAO, told a Senate hearing on Apr. 29. “We’re trying to get the information from the agencies about what their legal position is for not expending the money,” Dodaro told lawmakers.)

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/community/springfield-pridefest-celebrates-15th-year-on-saturday/article_b8a69af1-3e9c-4178-ae65-55fc98fd9fe5.html

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Vacancy Tax On Landlords Could Help Fill City’s Affordable Housing Gap, UChicago Students Say. I was a reluctant landlord 1976-1984 because I could sell my University Park town home only if I sold it at a big loss.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/16/vacancy-tax-on-landlords-could-help-fill-citys-affordable-housing-gap-uchicago-students-say/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-307/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— The state and the media refuse to ask the proper questions about Chinese companies in Illinois
https://wirepoints.org/the-state-and-the-media-refuses-to-ask-the-proper-questions-about-chinese-companies-in-illinois-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/

JEFF BERKOWITZ
— IL GOP US Senate & GOV candidates can win in 2026
https://jeffberkowitz208.substack.com/p/il-gop-us-senate-and-gov-candidates

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Illinois Freedom Caucus: “Cut the Waste & Bloat”
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/illinois-freedom-caucus-cut-the-waste-bloat-in-budget/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Kids and Marijuana – A Bad Combination
https://illinoisfamily.org/marijuana-2/kids-and-marijuana-a-bad-combination/
— Papal Warmup
https://illinoisfamily.org/faith/papal-warmup/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL prioritizes $3.2B for immigrants, leaves working families behind
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b7099305-d374-404e-8bfd-ee4bc3037919.html
— Illinois home to 15th largest share of roads in poor conditions across country. The smaller the vehicle that you drive, the more adversely that you are impacted by bad roads.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e4846ca4-5b89-4254-b9de-8a0437342e10.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Under Trump, Republican leaders fight Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, they fight race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat and RINO leaders use AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Since I was 53 years old in 2001, leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have rudely dumped me forever because I supported Pat O’Malley in the primary for governor instead of their candidate Jim Ryan. I ran O’Malley’s campaign in Milton Township. They continue to blame me not only for Ryan’s loss in the 2002 general election, but for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since then. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— DOGE has tried to assign a team to GAO. GAO refused. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They wasted my career and they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. They rudely flushed down their toilet a) my three job-related master’s degrees (business-1976, accounting-1980, and finance-1997), b) my six job-related professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997), c) my job-related professional license (CPA-1981), and d) what I had learned about IRS by working 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 would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that minorities, females, younger people, and veterans should get reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. All my coworkers who were the aforesaid and who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors and supervisors who despised/hated me the most because I was a Republican and/or because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I would focus on my Democrat superiors who flushed down their toilets my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The White House has launched a Drudge Report lookalike website. I should write about the many GOPUSA ILLINOIS lookalike websites and newsletters that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes publish since 2005. Sooner or later, they all go dark. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— India’s Caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am low Caste. They have aways stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that my mother never attended high school, and d) that I had to work my way through college. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ernst & Young was one of the many CPA firms that had no interest in me because I was too old, that is, a) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, b) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, c) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, and d) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, I was not a minority, female, or veteran. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you attend you senior prom? I did not. I was not viewed as being college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I had spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I was viewed as being draft bait. I had been accepted by UIC, but UIC is not Ivy League. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Federal employees do not have to take a vow of poverty. But few federal employees make GS-13 ($117,807/year). Fewer make GS-14 ($139,211/year). Even fewer make GS-15 ($163,749/year). Extremely few make Senior Executive Service (SES) ($195,200/year). Becoming a federal employee severely limits your earning potential. Unless you are a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government waste your career and get rid of you if they do not promote you to GS-13 by age 25, GS-14 by age 30, GS-15 by age 35, and SES by age 40. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines. They especially use against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. In my defense, I did not earn a) my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) my professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45 , 47 and 48, and c) my professional license until I was 32. Further, I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Congresswoman leading reparations movement says wealthy Black Americans deserve payments, too. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/16/rep-summer-lee-leading-reparations-movement-says-wealthy-black/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Harvard slams ‘abusive and retaliatory’ DOJ investigation over race-based admissions. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if they could have found a qualified minority, female, younger person, and/or veteran, they would have admitted them instead of me.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3414475/harvard-slams-doj-investigation-race-based-admissions/
— GOP should be codifying Trump’s executive orders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3413695/gop-not-dems-should-codify-trump-executive-orders-lauren-boebert/

NEW YORK POST
— Supreme Court again blocks quick deportations under Alien Enemies Act in new blow to Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/supreme-court-again-blocks-quick-deportations-under-alien-enemies-act-in-new-blow-to-trump/
— Trump’s ‘knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution’ is tackling long-festering ills no one else would
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/opinion/trump-is-taking-on-long-festering-ills-no-one-else-would-via-his-knock-down-drag-out-counterrevolution/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘U.S. owes us a debt’: Dems demand trillions in reparations ‘NOW’ Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/16/u-s-owes-us-a-debt-dems-demand-trillions-in-reparations-now-1543940/

BREITBART
— Trump Slams SCOTUS for Ruling on Alien Enemies Act: ‘This Decision Will Let More Criminals Pour’ In
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/16/ttrump-slams-scotus-for-ruling-on-alien-enemies-act-this-decision-will-let-more-criminals-pour-in/

DAILY CALLER
— IRS Quietly Puts On New Face, Ousts Anti-Trump Spokeswoman With Drunk Driving Record. I should write about my Democrat IRS superiors and supervisors who despised/hated me the most because I was a Republican and/or because I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I would focus on those who a) disallowed my travel vouchers, b) disallowed my education deductions, and c) stopped me from being promoted to GS-13. I would focus on those who flushed down their toilets my earning master’s degrees in business and accounting and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/16/exclusive-irs-ousts-anti-trump-spokeswoman-arrest-record/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Bashes Supreme Court Following Order Further Blocking Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Illegal Gang Members
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/16/trump-bashes-supreme-court-following-order-further-blocking-use-of-alien-enemies-act-to-deport-illegal-gang-members/

FOX NEWS
— Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to deport Venezuelan migrants under Alien Enemies Act. Conservative justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the court’s decision.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-blocks-trump-effort-deport-venezuelan-migrants-under-alien-enemies-act
— Trump says Comey knew ‘assassination’ meaning behind deleted social media post. President Trump claims deleted Instagram post was deliberate call for assassination as Justice Department investigates.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-says-comey-knew-assassination-meaning-behind-deleted-social-media-post
— Trump admin wants 20K National Guard troops to help with mass deportation effort
https://nypost.com/2025/05/16/us-news/trump-admin-wants-20k-national-guard-troops-to-help-with-mass-deportation-effort/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— House Democrat Launching Resolution for U.S. to Spend ‘Trillions’ on Reparations. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations.  My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/house-democrat-launching-resolution-for-u-s-to-spend-trillions-on-reparations/

MRC TV
— Trump Signs EO Redirecting Funds Used to Help Illegals to Build a National Center for Homeless Vets
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/nick-kangadis/trump-signs-eo-redirecting-funds-used-help-illegals-build-national-center

NEWSMAX
— Academia’s ‘Mafia’ Cares Little for American Dream, Students
https://www.newsmax.com/parthachakraborty/columbia-sinwar-stem/2025/05/16/id/1211267/

PJ MEDIA
— Most U.S. Voters Want Deportations to Continue
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/16/poll-most-us-voters-want-deportations-to-continue-n4939865

POST MILLENNIAL
— Dem lawmakers demand TRILLIONS in reparations for black Americans. Affirmative action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My Democrat superiors in the federal government used AA and DEI to hire, to retain, and to promote Blacks. All my Black coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-lawmakers-demand-trillions-in-reparations-for-black-americans

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5302561-trump-administration-diversity-equity-inclusion/
— White House launches Drudge Report lookalike site. I should write about the many GOPUSA ILLINOIS lookalike websites that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes publish since 2005. Sooner or later, they all go dark.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5277015-white-house-drudge-report-dupe-site/

ABC NEWS
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-weigh-blocks-trumps-order-end-birthright/story?id=121710507

NBC NEWS
— Conservatives block Trump’s big tax breaks bill in a stunning setback. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, named with a nod to Trump, is teetering at a critical moment.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/conservatives-block-trumps-big-tax-breaks-and-spending-cuts-bill-in-a-stunning-setback/3747778/

ASSOCIATED PRESS & NEWS NATION NOW
— Police investigate disappearance of Melania Trump’s statue in her native Slovenia
https://apnews.com/article/melania-trump-statue-slovenia-9440b43a0a6771256522290fb219efce
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/melania-trump-statue-slovenia-stolen/

CNN
— India’s Caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census? What Caste were you born into? My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am low Caste. They have aways stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that my mother never attended high school, and d) that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.news8000.com/news/national-world/india-s-caste-system-is-controversial-and-discriminatory-so-why-is-it-being-included-in/article_87c15db9-3951-5039-a397-265ef3c3efde.html
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/takeaways-from-the-supreme-court-arguments-on-birthright-citizenship-and-nationwide-injunctions/ar-AA1ER4zr

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-workers-eeoc-trump-texas-lgbtq-harassment-ab89a52aca37c3b0319ed665852d6252

MSN
— American Pope promises to have an ‘active social media presence’ after using his old account to criticize Trump. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to destroy not only Trump, but to destroy all those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/american-pope-promises-to-have-an-an-active-social-media-presence-after-using-his-old-account-to-criticize-trump/ar-AA1EIpLH

MSNBC & PRETORIA NEWS & NATION
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, a) only Whites discriminate and b) only Whites should pay for the sins of their forefathers.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-afrikaners-apartheid-refugees-genocide-rcna206660
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/pretoria-news/20250516/281672555844566
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/white-south-african-refugees-trump/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. They ever-increasingly do everything that they can to drive his approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Republicans Push to End Immigrant Benefits in Democratic States. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/immigrant-trump-states-california.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/nyregion/nyc-migrants-legal-help-ending.html
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010163960/can-trump-really-end-birthright-citizenship.html
— How many able-bodied people are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/opinion/medicaid-work-requirements-pointless.html

WASHINGTON POST & MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-deportation-el-salvador/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/supreme-court-trump-venezuelan-migrants-gang/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/16/trump-immigration-asylum-lawsuit-courts/46e1364c-320e-11f0-8498-1f8214bba2d2_story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d6-LRpPzwA

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump bashes Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift on Truth Social
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/16/trump-bruce-springsteen-taylor-swift/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/trans-organizers-describe-prides-importance-under-trump/2025/05/16/85974861-97af-46c7-a279-e585e43a2fec_video.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Pope Took a Vow of Poverty. He May Still Need to File U.S. Taxes.  The first American pontiff has special circumstances but may want to file a return even if he doesn’t owe anything. Federal employees do not have to take a vow of poverty. But few federal employees make GS-13 ($117,807/year). Fewer make GS-14 ($139,211/year). Even fewer make GS-15 ($163,749/year). Extremely few make Senior Executive Service (SES) ($195,200/year). Becoming a federal employee severely limits your earning potential. Unless you are a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, the Democrats who run the federal government waste your career and get rid of you if they do not promote you to GS-13 by age 25, GS-14 by age 30, GS-15 by age 35, and SES by age 40. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines. They especially use against me my not making the aforesaid promotion deadlines even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. In my defense, I did not earn a) my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, b) my professional certifications until I was 30, 32, 41, 45 , 47 and 48, and c) my professional license until I was 32. Further, I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/pope-leo-xiv-us-taxes-f7f1de28
— It Was a Mistake to Skip My Senior Prom. Did you attend you senior prom? I did not. I was not viewed as being college material. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I had spent my junior and senior years and the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness. I was viewed as being draft bait. I had been accepted by UIC, but UIC is not Ivy League.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/never-be-too-cool-for-your-own-life-why-it-was-a-mistake-to-skip-my-senior-prom-c7900da0
— Americans Are Redefining Old Age. Are you old? I am 76. If you are old, what are you doing with your life? I spend 10+ hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/americans-in-their-80s-and-90s-are-redefining-old-age-5f8ae8a6?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1

BLOOMBERG
— Chicago Taps Ernst & Young to Close $1 Billion Gap as Trump Threatens Funds. Ernst & Young was one of the many CPA firms that had no interest in me because I was too old, that is, a) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, b) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, c) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination until I was 32, and d) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, I was not a minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-16/chicago-taps-ey-to-close-1-billion-gap-as-trump-threatens-funds

FAST COMPANY
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, according to Democrat and RINO leaders, to provide equity is to discriminate against those 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.fastcompany.com/91335032/trump-attacks-digital-equity-act-rural-internet

POLITICO
— Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit, citing rising debt. What percent of Moody’s employees despise/hate Trump?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/moodys-downgrade-us-debt-00355217

ATLANTIC & NPR
— Anticipate/expect that foreign countries will ever-increasingly illegally send more and more and more of their pregnant citizens into America to give birth in America. Anticipate that more and more and more pregnant citizens of foreign countries will illegally give birth in America to qualify their children for the tremendous Affirmative Action and DEI benefits that American citizenship gives minorities and females.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/supreme-court-national-injunctions/682824/
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5399779/supreme-court-justices-seem-divided-in-birthright-citizenship-arguments

PEW RESEARCH
— Among Republicans, conservatives are less likely to trust information from national news media. The mainstream news media exists to elect and to reelect Democrats.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/05/08/republicans-have-become-more-likely-since-2024-to-trust-information-from-news-outlets-social-media/

May 14, 2025

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should write a book about Wheaton Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on Republican participation in those parades. I would focus on those who are working the hardest to diminish/end Republican participation in this year’s Wheaton and Glen Ellyn parades. They argue that the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) cannot afford the $1,500 cost of entry fees and candy for the parades. In 2007, I succeeded in raising $2,000 on short notice so that an elephant could walk behind U.S. Congressman Peter Roskam in Wheaton’s 2007 parade. SEE:  https://gopillinois.com/uncategorized/july-4-evening-edition-2/  I served as the Republican fundraiser for the Wheaton Independence Day parades 2005-2021. In my book, I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end what I did. I have urged MTRO to encourage Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congressional District 3, Illinois statewide offices, Illinois senate, Illinois house, DuPage countywide offices, DuPage County District 4, etc. to participate in this year’s parades. Please join me in urging MTRO to participate in the parades. Please join me in urging Republican candidates to participate in the parades. I certainly hope that LaHood walks in both parades. His father walked in Wheaton’s 2005 parade. I spoke with him before the parade kicked off. Bob Dole walked in Wheaton’s 1996 parade, Jim Ryan in its 2002 parade, and Obama and his wife in its 2004 parade. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Will the Illinois GOP show up for the 2026 state elections?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-illinois-republican-party-candidates-2026-funding/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: We are in the important pre-primary phase of the 2026 elections in Illinois (circulation of petitions opens in September), when prospective candidates strut their endorsements — and money raised — in efforts to scare off possible opponents. In our basically one-party state, Democratic wannabes are coming off a long bench to make their cases. In contrast, Republicans have no bench of experienced, well-known prospects to speak of. Because of extreme gerrymandering, the GOP has few state legislators and no statewide officials whatsoever. Attractive but no-name candidates are being counseled by Republican insiders that this is a no-win year for the GOP and it’s better to stay out. Will the GOP even show up with a slate of credible candidates for the U.S. Senate, the governorship and all other statewide offices? After all, the party in the White House generally does poorly in the midterm election. And Gov JB Pritzker has more money than Croesus ($3.7 billion, according to Forbes) and seemingly giddy enthusiasm for spending it. Recent history shows he stands ready to bankroll all the Democratic statewide candidates with more than enough money to blow away the opposition. After all, he wants to show national Democrats that he leads his party to victory up and down the line. GOP woes don’t end there. Illinois Republicans are divided into a downstate (outside the seven metro Chicago counties) that is enthusiastically pro-Donald Trump, versus the suburbs, where moderates and Democrats reign. For example, DuPage County and its 920,000 residents used to be largely white and GOP. But the times, they are a’changin’. According to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), a language other than English is now spoken at home in nearly one-third of the households in the six counties surrounding Cook. Republican George Ryan won the governorship in 1998 with 70% of the DuPage County vote, whereas Trump garnered 42% of that county’s vote in 2024. GOP nominees for the U.S. Senate and governorship will have to declare their position on Trump, a no-win situation: Come out strongly for Trump and lose the suburbs or come out against Trump and watch voters downstate sit on their hands in November. Be wishy-washy on Trump, and lose votes across the board. And who will bankroll GOP candidates in the face of such dour prospects? Billionaire Ken Griffin has departed Illinois for Florida, with his millions for GOP causes. Make no mistake: Big money has replaced party organization as the engine of candidate success. Lightning does strike, however. In 2004, little-known state Sen. Barack Obama entered a crowded field that sought an open seat in the U.S. Senate. Trailing in the polls throughout in the Democratic primary, Obama surged to victory when, near the end of the primary, the front-runner’s candidacy imploded almost overnight as a result of juicy revelations of messy marital discord. In the general election campaign that followed, the attractive GOP nominee dropped out of the race because of sexual peccadilloes revealed in unsealed divorce records, and Obama skated into the U.S. Senate. The rest, as they say … I expect there will be no-name and, maybe otherwise, very attractive candidates on the ballot next year for the GOP but with little money. I have mentioned money several times in this essay. In the past decade, Pritzker has spent $400 million on his own and associates’ campaigns. A Democrat, he even sabotaged the Republican primary campaign for governor in 2022. In that year, according to this newspaper, Pritzker spent $24 million to boost the nomination of possibly the weakest of his possible opponents for the general election. Pritzker’s money advertised that Darren Bailey was “too extreme” for Illinois — which was, irony definitely intended, an attractive message for a big swath of conservative GOP primary voters. Shameful politics. Big money, corrosive of democracy, could be the overarching issue for Republican candidates in 2026: “You can’t buy my vote! Don’t let JB Pritzker continue to buy elections in Illinois!” Lightning does strike. But you have to show up.)
— 2002 FLASHBACK: Politicians parade for voters at 4th fests.  Jim Ryan, the Republican candidate for governor, began his parade marching in Wheaton in DuPage County, the heart of GOP territory in the Chicago area. Ryan looked fresh and cool after stepping out of an air-conditioned van into the boiling morning heat. He and his wife, Marie, joined the procession just as his sweaty supporters, who had been standing in the sun waiting for him, began their way down North Main Street. “All politics is local–never forget your base,” Ryan said. Indeed, blue-and-white Ryan balloons were fastened to lawn chairs, strollers and benches along the parade route. Only an occasional sign for his Democratic rival, Rod Blagojevich, could be spotted. . .. .But political jockeying surely was in play Thursday. An old political tradition holds that the more influence a politician wields, the closer he will be to the front of the parade line. For example, in GOP-laden Wheaton, U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) launched the parade, with Ryan right behind him. In third place was Republican Joe Birkett, the DuPage County state’s attorney who is running for Illinois attorney general. His Democratic rival, Lisa Madigan, was placed far back.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/07/05/politicians-parade-for-voters-at-4th-fests/
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Trump-themed shop in Huntley could be closed over code issues, but owner says it’s political
— Federal judge OKs use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans who are labeled gang members
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/alien-enemies-act-deport-venezuelans/
— Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge in immigration case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/wisconsin-judge-immigration-case/
— The mainstream news media ever-increasingly serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/column-journalism-decline-chicago-local-news-washington/
— From what I see, in the Chicagoland area, jurors are overwhelmingly Democrats
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/opinion-juror-act-trial-reform-paul-st-louis/
— Why is CPS treating charter and private schools like liquor stores?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/14/chicago-charter-schools-vacant/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— City Council committee OKs removal of college degree requirement for city jobs. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/05/13/city-council-committee-paper-ceiling-college-degree-city-jobs
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote hated against Republicans.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/14/five-years-george-floyds-murder-national-urban-league-racial-justice-dei-police-reform-marc-morial

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker budget team slashes state’s revenue forecast by $536 million
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-budget-office-cuts-revenue-forecast-536m
— State Farm cleared to hike California homeowner premiums 17%
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/insurance/state-farm-cleared-hike-california-homeowner-rates-17

ABC7
— Federal judge in Pennsylvania rules that Trump’s invocation of Alien Enemies Act is lawful
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-judge-pennsylvania-rules-trumps-invocation-aea-is-lawful/16406471/
— Inflation eased after Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/new-inflation-data-reveal-impacts-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs/16400850/

NBC5
— Senate Republicans react to Qatar gifting Trump a $400 million jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/watch-senate-republicans-react-to-qatar-gifting-trump-a-400-million-jet/3744811/
— Democrat leaders promote a Trump critic
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/commentator-hasan-piker-detained-ohare-airport/3744867/
— Chuck Schumer to block Trump DOJ nominees over Qatari jet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/chuck-schumer-pauses-trump-justice-department-nominees-over-qatari-jet/3744418/

FOX32
— 22 Chicago students ingest weed edibles at South Side elementary school. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/22-chicago-students-ingest-weed-edibles-south-side-school
— A new SmartAsset study ranked the 10 wealthiest counties in Illinois based on income, home values, and investment income. Lake, DuPage, and Kendall counties took the top three spots. Cook County, which includes Chicago, ranked ninth overall.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-wealthiest-counties-study
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone in America will be on Medicaid. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer in America are on track to become productive members of society.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1640556

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emma Shafter to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2025/05/13/family-of-emma-shafer-felt-exploited-by-recent-kristi-noem-visit/83568796007/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump’s plan to accept free Air Force One replacement from Qatar raises ethical and security worries
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trumps-plan-to-accept-free-air-force-one-replacement-from-qatar-raises-ethical-and-security/article_909d5190-12f5-59fe-b541-d2d9b9ed1829.html

SOUTHERN
— Republicans dodge, laugh off questions about Trump’s gift plane from Qatar
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/13/republicans-dodge-laugh-off-questions-about-trumps-gift-plane-from-qatar/

RIVER BENDER
— Attorney General Raoul Leads Coalition Suing Trump Administration Over Illegal Immigration Conditions Placed On Billions In Federal Funding. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-leads-coalition-suing-trump-administration-over-illegal-immigration-conditions-placed-on-billions-in-federal-funding-82440.cfm?

NPR ILLINOIS
—  Jewish people in Israel are overwhelmingly conservative. Jewish people in America are overwhelming liberal. Enough said.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-14/multiple-trump-white-house-officials-have-ties-to-antisemitic-extremists

WGLT
— Before Trump weaponized the IRS to advance his political agenda, there was Nixon. How did Nixon impact you? Nixon was president while I worked for the Democrats a) who ran the Post Office in 1969 and b) who ran IRS 1971-1974. They despised/hated Nixon. They blamed Nixon, and therefore Republicans, for America losing the Vietnam War. They punished me, a draft avoider, to punish Nixon. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave request and forced me to resign in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, they disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and they made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They did the aforesaid even though a) I earned an MBA in 1976, b) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and c) I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980.
https://www.wglt.org/2025-05-13/before-trump-weaponized-the-irs-to-advance-his-political-agenda-there-was-nixon

WMBD RADIO
— Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/13/illinois-seeks-to-prevent-feds-from-tying-funding-for-states-to-immigration-enforcement/

DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Democrat leaders cite Democrat think tanks
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/12/campus/northwestern-study-finds-democrats-left-leaning-think-tanks-cite-scientific-studies-more-than-republicans/

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://newschannel20.com/question/vote-do-you-support-the-irs-sharing-data-with-ice-to-help-track-down-illegal-migrants-question-of-the-day-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-border-patrol-deportation-trump-administration

NPR ILLINOIS
— Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition. According to Democrat leaders, only Whites discriminate. White Afrikaners should anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will deport them.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-12/episcopal-church-refuses-to-resettle-white-afrikaners-citing-moral-opposition
— According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League colleges are worthless, that is, my degrees from NIU, Loyola, DePaul, and IIT are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.nprillinois.org/education-desk/2025-05-13/new-study-suggests-changes-to-illinois-community-college-university-pipeline

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn Native Americans against Republicans.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/our-identity-has-been-frozen-in-time-how-native-american-advocates-are-influencing-springfield/

WHEATON PARK DISTRICT
— 2016 FLASHBACK: WHEATON PARK DISTRICT HOSTS INDEPENDENCE DAY “CELEBRATION!” At press time, sponsors for the Independence Day Celebration included Jerry Haggerty Chevrolet, DuPage County Republicans, and the City of Wheaton.
https://wheatonparkdistrict.com/wheaton-park-district-hosts-independence-day-celebration-july-3-and-4/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-512/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-304/
— Democrat leaders blame Trump and Musk for revenue dip. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump and Musk for everything that is bad.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/manar-trump-musk-are-to-blame-for-revenue-dip/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Illinois DOGE Profile: Centro De Trabajadores Unidos gets $4 million to help illegal aliens evade ICE
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/671354954-illinois-doge-profile-centro-de-trabajadores-unidos-gets-4-million-to-help-illegal-aliens-evade-ice

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL House Republicans call out $1B for NGOs, plan their own budget proposal
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_105bd8f5-b568-41b5-b567-bf49c03bfc51.html
— Legislation would limit how consumers can buy an electric vehicle in Illinois. I should write my experience buying a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV. Please let me know if you share my interest in that American nameplate muscle car. I also own a 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium, 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 Corvette, 1996 Ford Thunderbird LX, and 1972 Corvette. Phone: 630-653-0462 (home) and 630-414-6079 (cell). Email: diersen@aol.com
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1352ecca-a4b6-41f6-b0ae-b18e6dc01128.html

WIREPOINTS
— These NGO funds don’t help ordinary Chicagoans, they sustain networks that keep failed politicians in power.
https://wirepoints.org/these-ngo-funds-dont-help-ordinary-chicagoans-they-go-to-sustain-networks-that-keep-failed-politicians-in-power-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lower standards. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to a recent study, White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Is David Axelrod Pimping for Rahm?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/is-david-axelrod-pimping-for-rahm/
— Americans for Prosperity Send Second Postcard Seeking to Put Pressure on Sue Ness to Vote against Hiking Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/americans-for-prosperity-send-second-postcard-seeking-to-put-pressure-on-sue-ness-to-vote-against-hiking-taxes/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Protesters swarm House committee as Republicans take up cuts to Medicaid, taxes
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/13/protesters-swarm-house-committee-republicans-take-cuts-medicaid-taxes/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— There’s no such thing as a free jet. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I value my independence. I do not seek money, nor do I accept money to cover the substantial costs that I pay to put together and to send out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I am fortunate that I have the necessary money, time, ability, experience, and motivation to put my newsletters together and to send them out. My critics/opponents should understand that the more that they have had their disgusting operatives and their disgusting dupes do to discourage/stop me, the more motivated that I am. Last year, they rudely removed me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005. Their previous adverse actions against me include their rudely ending my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, their rudely ending my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, and their rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3409713/trump-qatar-jet-gift-air-force-one/
— Trump’s deal for illegal immigrants will increase deportations and decrease spending
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/3410142/trump-deal-illegal-immigrants-increase-deportations-decrease-spending/

NEW YORK POST
— Officials describe persecution of South African refugees who are arrived in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te_Syuqog8A
— Trump recklessly accepting a plane from Qatar is the type of unnecessary risk that could ruin his presidency
https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/opinion/michael-goodwin-trump-accepting-financial-gifts-from-qatar-is-one-of-the-many-ways-he-can-ruin-his-legacy/

BREITBART
— Saudi Arabia Sets Up Mobile McDonald’s for Trump’s Visit to the Middle East
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/saudi-arabia-sets-up-mobile-mcdonalds-for-trumps-visit-to-the-middle-east/
— Pope Leo’s Brother: The Pope Is Not Woke — He Will ‘Be Down the Middle’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/13/pope-leos-brother-the-pope-is-not-woke-he-will-be-down-the-middle/

FOX NEWS
— Gianno Caldwell seeks justice for brother killed in blue city ‘enamored with criminals’ rights’: alderman  Gianno Caldwell’s 18-year-old brother was fatally shot, along with a female victim, in Chicago in June 2022
https://www.foxnews.com/us/gianno-caldwell-seeks-justice-brother-killed-blue-city-enamored-criminals-rights-alderman

MEGYN KELLY
— Racist and Hypocritical Left and Media Attack White Afrikaners Arriving in United States as Refugees
https://www.megynkelly.com/watch/racist-and-hypocritical-left-and-media-attack-white-afrikaners-arriving-in-united-states-as-refugees/

NRCC
— Hardworking Californians Get the Bill, Illegals Get the Benefits
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/05/13/hardworking-californians-get-the-bill-illegals-get-the-benefits-2/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Medical Schools Are Still Discriminating by Race
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/medical-schools-are-still-discriminating-by-race/

NEWSMAX
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lgbtq-rfk-hhs/2025/05/13/id/1210803/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use your ancestors against you. What did your ancestors do? On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago, then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township, then raised and sold horses in Crete, and then operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border and then bought that farm.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/13/msnbc_panel_trumps_refugees_descendents_of_the_people_who_created_the_most_diabolical_system_of_white_supremacy_in_human_history.html

TOWNHALL
— Democrats Just Can’t Stop Pushing Nonsensical Assault Weapon Bans
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2025/05/13/the-democrats-just-cant-stop-pushing-nonsensical-assault-weapon-bans-n2656972

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5298112-house-democrats-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-funding-cuts/
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5296524-x-tiktok-meta-youtube-instagram-lgbtq-users-glaad/

ASSOCIATE PRESS
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly blame Trump’s tariffs for all price increases.
https://apnews.com/article/inflation-economy-tariffs-trump-5436b90e8e5a003f228c1bd08186589c

NEW YORK TIMES
— Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/milwaukee-judge-hannah-dugan-immigration.html
— Trump Leadership: If You Want Welfare and Can Work, You Must
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-welfare-medicaid-requirements.html
— Democrat leaders pay “researchers” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing promote more hatred against those who voted for Trump. Who are the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How successful have they been?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/trump-due-process-habeas-corpus.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/13/trump-democrats-sanctuary-lawsuit-immigration/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race based preference giving, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate more against Whites.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/13/black-doctors-scholarship-ohio/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for bad weather.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-05-14/trump-guts-fema-as-climate-disasters-worsen
— Democrat leaders used Voice of America to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-14/voice-of-america-pbs-npr-trump

MIAMI TIMES
— White women benefit more from DEI than Black people. All the White women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were White women and who took the biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who during my last 9 years at GAO a) kept me off audits of IRS, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and c) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/business/studies-show-white-women-benefit-more-from-dei-than-black-people/article_f0bb761e-334c-4151-832d-f3fa0026531a.html

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/12/slowing-inflation-trump-tariffs/83524058007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about Democrat and RINO leaders who destroy me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/14/gay-pride-month-lgbtq-forum/83583013007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/13/democratic-lawmakers-urge-kennedy-to-save-lgbtq-lifeline/83600490007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How the Ivy League Earned Donald Trump’s Ire. Too many instructors at Harvard, Columbia and elsewhere are less interested in teaching and more interested in student indoctrination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-the-ivy-league-earned-donald-trumps-ire-higher-education-colleges-universities-96631031
— The U.S. Once Built Airplanes Quickly. At its peak, a Ford factory produced one B-24 bomber an hour during World War II.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-u-s-once-built-airplanes-quickly-7e526511
— FRONT PAGE: The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send White Afrikaners back
https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/trump-afrikaner-south-africa-refugee-d5ad7b94
— How Young People Are Coping With Economic Anxiety. I should write about how my avoiding the Vietnam War draft negatively impacted my career big time.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/your-money-matters/how-young-people-are-coping-with-economic-anxiety/3ea69cb0-9736-49c5-8f94-f5c1f9be316a

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— How successful have Democrat leaders been taking over Catholic organizations in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.ncronline.org/news/catholic-college-presidents-decry-trump-administrations-interference-higher-ed

GUARDIAN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/us-mexico-border-surveillance

May 13, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope’s oldest brother against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/05/12/pope-leo-brother-louis-prevost-magna-facebook-nancy-pelosi
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Which Democrat leaders want Pritzker to run for President. Which want him to instead run for Governor again?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/05/13/gov-jb-pritzker-reelection-third-term-president
— The Catholic church’s social service arm in Chicago uses lobbying firm that also represents abortion provider. Catholic Charities uses Cozen O’Connor for state government lobbying. So does Rush University Medical Center, which performs abortions, and CVS Health, whose pharmacies dispense prescriptions that end pregnancies.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/12/catholic-charities-lobbyist-abortion-provider-chicago-cardinal-blase-cupich-rush-university-cozen-oconnor

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/editorial-jb-pritzker-house-republicans-sanctuary-states/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/mundelein-cannabis-store-proposal/
— Illinois homeowners insurance premiums up 50% over three years
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/illinois-homeowners-insurance-premiums/
— Depression, isolation and substance use all are up. Are Illinois teens OK? Back in the good old days, back when I was in high school in the 1960s, I could be optimistic about earning a college degree even though no one saw me as being college material. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease, my vision could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. During my junior and senior years, I spent my weekday evenings and Saturdays and full-time during the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my graduating class. Nevertheless, I got accepted by UIC.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/teens-depression-drinking-drugs-technology/
— The school board president is trying to nix the superintendent requirement. Why does it matter? While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. I should write about that.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/cps-superintendent-explainer/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/13/opinion-pete-hegseth-naval-academy-books-removed/

ABC7
— Harvey residents seek investigation into mayor’s office after alderwoman arrested during meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUDlrc5TVOg
— Trump defends Qatar jumbo jet offer, says would be ‘stupid’ to turn away free plane
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-defends-qatar-jumbo-jet-offer-says-would-stupid-turn-away-free-plane/16393995/

NBC5
— ‘We will not hide’: Little Village committed to Mexican Independence Day parade. The recent wave of rising political tensions is not stopping the community from hosting its annual event.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/we-will-not-hide-little-village-committed-to-mexican-independence-day-parade/3743882/

WGN9
— Little Village Mexican Independence Day Parade to proceed despite ICE concerns
https://wgntv.com/news/little-village-mexican-day-parade-2025-chamber-commitment/
— Illinois ranks 36th out of the 50 states. Under the Democrats, for those in Illinois, the more of the following that they are, the bleaker that their future is: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Anticipate/expect that the more of the aforesaid that those in Illinois are, the sooner that they will leave Illinois.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/where-illinois-ranks-among-best-states-in-country-in-list-by-u-s-news-world-report/

FOX32
— House GOP unveils spending bill that includes massive Medicaid cuts. What percent are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Why are they on Medicaid?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/money/house-republicans-medicaid-cuts
— Illinois teens say they drink nearly twice as much as U.S. average. I have never been a drinker. I discourage drinking. If I had been a drinker, with all my limitations, I would not have been able to earn an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, earn a bachelor’s degree, earn three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, earn a professional license, etc.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/illinois-teens-say-they-drink-nearly-twice-as-much-as-us-average-survey-finds/ar-AA1EztEo
— Controversy swirls over Trump Qatar trip, gifted plane
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1640122

WGN RADIO
— Alder pulls back the curtain on Mayor Johnson’s patronage scheme
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-alder-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-mayor-johnsons-patronage-scheme/

SOUTHERN
— Trump defends Qatar jumbo jet offer, says it would be ‘stupid’ to turn away free plane
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/12/trump-defends-qatar-jumbo-jet-offer-says-it-would-be-stupid-to-turn-away-free-plane/
— Trump administration defends white South African refugee program amid group’s US arrival. Anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/05/12/trump-administration-defends-white-south-african-refugee-program-amid-groups-us-arrival/

STATELINE
— States are telling sheriffs whether they can — or can’t — work with ICE. Cooperation between sheriffs and ICE lies at the heart of Trump’s immigration policy. Federal law trumps state law. What is your county sheriff’s position on this?
https://stateline.org/2025/05/13/states-are-telling-sheriffs-whether-they-can-or-cant-work-with-ice/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-bill-odor-cannabis-probable-cause/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Ethics experts worry about the implications of Trump accepting Qatar’s luxury plane
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-12/ethics-experts-worry-about-the-implications-of-trump-accepting-qatars-luxury-plane

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— IRS Ramps Up Collections. I worked for IRS’s Collection Division 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. I should write about those who continue to use that against me the most.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1026164/clear-start-tax-warns-taxpayers-irs-ramps-up-collections-amid-office-closures-and-funding-push/

WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.wqad.com/article/tech/science/environment/trumps-cuts-federal-climate-research-illinois-impact/526-c4365134-ca06-46a4-8081-e522120ad75c

WHEATON PATCH
— Expansion Sought By St. Michael Church To Accommodate More Students. The church and school is seeking zoning approval to expand its property to better serve its more than 500 students.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/expansion-sought-st-michael-church-accommodate-more-students

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— On the GOP side. Congressman Darin LaHood “said he had been talking with Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the majority leader, and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the chairman of the Senate GOP campaign committee, about entering the race.” And former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he’s weighing a run, too.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/05/13/tensions-rise-dominoes-fall-00343872

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-511/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-303/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— DOJ asks for preliminary injunction against Illinois over E-Verify obstruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqubx_uurNI
— Funding proposal for higher education schools in Illinois meeting opposition
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7ce0769e-4548-484f-9ec7-4c8064712e65.html

WIREPOINTS
— Tax cuts, Gov. Pritzker?
https://wirepoints.org/tax-cuts-gov-pritzker-wirepoints/
— The Bally’s ripoff
https://wirepoints.org/the-ballys-ripoff-wirepoints/
— Illinois politicians will always find new ways to take your money.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-politicians-will-always-find-new-ways-to-take-your-money-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
— Politics Is Threatening to Erode the Quality of the Chicago Fire Department
https://wirepoints.org/paul-vallas-politics-is-threatening-to-erode-the-quality-of-the-chicago-fire-department-chicago-contrarian/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “In both hiring and promotion, the Chicago Fire Department has embraced a DEI-driven agenda that has led to political grandstanding and the dangerous erosion of standards. There is growing pressure on the Fire Academy to carry minority candidates who do not meet basic physical requirements. This is not only irresponsible — it is dangerous.”)

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Eighteen, But Not All Incumbent Black Members of Congress Endorse Robin Kelly for U.S. Senate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/13/eighteen-but-not-all-incumbent-black-members-of-congress-endorse-robin-kelly-for-u-s-senate/
— Fox River Valley State Senator Positioning Himself to Lead the Way to Higher RTA Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/fox-river-valley-state-senator-positioning-himself-to-lead-the-way-to-higher-rta-taxes/
— Parkinson’s Found Higher Near Golf Courses
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/parkinsons-found-higher-near-golf-courses/
— Why Are County’s Proposed Zoning Signs So Small?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/why-are-countys-proposed-zoning-signs-so-small/
— Kat Gets Major Boost from Chicago Tribune
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/12/kat-gets-major-boost-from-chicago-tribune/
— Moraine Hills State Racks Up 774,000 Visitors
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/11/moraine-hills-state-parks-racks-up-774000-visitors/
— Prison Rape Returns to the News
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/11/prison-rape-returns-to-the-news/
— Left Out of the Chicago Tribune’s Retrospective Look at the Thompson Center
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/11/left-out-of-the-chicago-tribunes-retrospective-look-at-the-thompson-center/
— Man Arrested in Marengo with Cock Fighting Paraphernalia & Six Roosters
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/10/man-arrested-in-marengo-with-cock-fighting-paraphernalia/
— Blacks Doing Worst in Chicago
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/10/blacks-doing-worst-in-chicago/
— Jack Franks’ Finest Hour
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/10/jack-franks-finest-hour/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— SEIU Illinois spends just 3% of members’ money representing workers. NTEU spent lots of time and money representing me in Diersen v. IRS. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11-0
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/seiu-illinois-spends-just-3-of-members-money-representing-workers/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— JD Vance will be the nominee in 2028
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3408875/jd-vance-republican-nominee-2028-jim-banks/

NEW YORK POST
— Qatar’s ‘Palace in the Sky’ jet is NOT a ‘free gift’ — and Trump shouldn’t accept it as one
https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/opinion/no-pres-trump-qatars-palace-in-the-sky-jet-isnt-a-free-gift-and-you-shouldnt-accept-it-as-one/

AMAC
— Democrats Normalizing Violence
https://amac.us/newsline/society/democrats-normalizing-violence/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Al Sharpton disapproves of South African refugees fleeing black violence
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/12/al-sharpton-disapproves-of-south-african-refugees-fleeing-black-violence-1542752/

CHRISTIAN POST
— Episcopal Church ends partnership with US gov’t over white Afrikaners resettlement dispute
https://www.christianpost.com/news/episcopal-church-cuts-ties-with-us-govt-over-white-afrikaners.html

DAILY CALLER
— House GOP Plans To Strip Billions From States That Give Illegal Migrants Free Healthcare. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/12/house-gop-plan-would-strip-billions-from-states-that-give-illegal-migrants-free-healthcare/
— House GOP Floats Proposal To Ensure Non-Citizens Do Not Receive Tax-Funded Food Stamps
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/12/exclusive-house-gop-floats-proposal-to-ensure-non-citizens-do-not-receive-tax-funded-food-stamps/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Administration Is Exposing the Hubris of Institutional DEI
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/12/trump-administration-exposing-hubris-institutional-dei/

FEDERALIST
— Medical School Accreditor Suspends ‘Diversity’ Requirements After Trump Executive Order
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/13/medical-school-accreditor-suspends-diversity-requirements-after-trump-executive-order/

FOX NEWS
— Democrats’ bizarre affection for illegal aliens. President Trump was elected president last year by Americans furious that Joe Biden had allowed millions of people to storm across our border illegally
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-democrats-bizarre-affection-illegal-aliens

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Top Medical School Accreditor Suspends Diversity Requirements After Trump Executive Order
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/top-medical-school-accreditor-suspends-diversity-requirements-after-trump-executive-order/

ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Trump Admin Rapidly Increasing Weekly Deportation Flights
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-admin-rapidly-increasing-weekly-deportation-flights/

PIERS MORGAN
—  ‘My brother the pope is not woke,’ says Louis Prevost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML2M9icrrKw

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— GOP to increases the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap from $10,000 to $30,000
https://thehill.com/newsletters/business-economy/5296471-house-gop-unveils-sweeping-tax-plans/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Hate filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/democracy-trump-voice-america-usaid-state-department-f5959e4d3b8d21f22a8c88bfc89842b8

ABC NEWS
— Pope rejects ‘war of words,’ applauds journalists
https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/pope-leo-xiv-live-updates-pope-delivers-anti/?id=121703106

CBS NEWS
— White South Africans arrive in U.S. after Trump administration grants refugee status. Anticipate/expect that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-south-africans-afrikaners-arrive-us-trump-administration/

NEWSWEEK
— New Bill Could Ban Pornography Across US
https://www.newsweek.com/pornography-ban-us-bill-2071409

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity. When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/trump-crypto-coin-auction.html
— Trump Declares High-Speed Internet Program ‘Racist’ and ‘Unconstitutional’  Trump denounced the Biden-era Digital Equity Act as “woke handouts based on race,” raging in a social media post against a broad effort to improve high-speed internet access.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/trump-biden-digital-equity-act.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/harvard-trump-court-case-negotiation.html
— Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/pope-leo-american-catholic.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/world/asia/pope-leo-voice-platform.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/republicans-budget-cuts-medicaid.html

USA TODAY
— $7,500 EV tax credit hasn’t gone away — at least not yet. Eligibility requirements for cars include an MSRP under $55,000. Therefore, my 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus is not eligible.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/05/10/ev-federal-tax-credit-2025/83537061007/
— To his classmates in Chicago, Pope Leo was the right pick. How were you viewed when you were in high school? No one saw me as being college material. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I could not run because I had a bone disease, my vision could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. During my junior and senior years, I spent my weekday evenings and Saturdays and full-time during the summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my graduating class. Nevertheless, I got accepted by UIC.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/10/pope-leo-xiv-chicago-classmates-st-mary-assumption/83523767007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/04/guatemalan-mother-immigration-fast-track-deportation/83443273007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The GOP Surrenders on Medicaid. The House bill shrinks from a fight over able-bodied men on the dole.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/medicaid-reform-house-republicans-budget-bill-gop-entitlements-8201c7e5
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/an-american-pope-in-the-era-of-trump-prevost-leo-xiv-83d2488b
— Jonathan Clements gave people financial advice. Money Magazine did not select me to be the subject of its February 1978 “One person’s finances” article ( https://gopillinois.com/documents/ ) to give me financial advice. It selected me because it intended to and it did a) paint me as being grossly overpaid, b) foist negative government employee stereotypes on me, and c) get IRS to disallow my education deductions. I should write about that.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-wsjs-jonathan-clements-wants-to-leave-a-living-legacy-19f1738d

NEBRASKA EXAMINER
— How have you dealt with those who defame you? So far, my policy has been to forgive them. But I am reconsidering that. I am considering writing about them. Possibly suing them. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/18/jury-deliberating-whether-2020-nebraska-gop-campaign-mailer-defamed-legislative-candidate/

SILVER SPRING PATCH
— Free Virtual Workshop for our 50+ Displaced Federal Employees/Contractors
https://patch.com/maryland/silverspring/calendar/event/20250515/97765a5d-61fe-406f-af78-329c6a802c6e/free-virtual-workshop-for-our-50-displaced-federal-employees-contractors

INSURANCE BUSINESS
— Illinois lawmakers question fairness of insurance rates. State targets ZIP codes, credit scores, and age in insurance rate study.
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/illinois-lawmakers-question-fairness-of-insurance-rates-532122.aspx
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Supporters of the measure say it responds to long-standing complaints from consumers who believe non-driving-related variables unfairly increase their premiums. According to Wandreeka McBride, chief of staff to Rep. Rita Mayfield, the bill reflects concerns raised by residents who feel burdened by pricing tied to financial or demographic data. “These practices can disproportionately impact low-income communities and communities of color, leading to higher premiums for individuals who may already face economic challenges. Further regulation may be necessary to ensure that underwriting practices are both fair and transparent,” McBride told AM Best.)
— Illinois bill against auto insurance ‘bias’ gets major backing. Insurance industry, on the other hand, expresses strong opposition.
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/auto-motor/bill-against-auto-insurance-bias-gets-major-backing-478834.aspx

BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE
— Is There Any Way to Resuscitate the Seventh Amendment Right to Jury Trial? Law professor Suja Thomas discusses why precious few cases ever make it to a jury and how this trend could be reversed. Have you been denied due process? I have. Four times courts denied my 7th Amendment rights. I should write about that.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/there-any-way-resuscitate-seventh-amendment-right-jury-trial
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Amendment VII: In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. The American Bar Association commissioned a four-year study in 2016 to examine why there are so few federal civil jury trials in the United States. According to its findings, “The percentage of federal lawsuits decided by jury trial dropped from 5.5 percent in 1962 to 0.8 percent in 2013. The percentage of federal criminal cases decided by jury trial dropped from 8.2 percent in 1962 to 3.6 percent by 2013.” The reasons for the decline aren’t hard to discern: jury trials are less predictable, slower, and more expensive for civil litigants. While lawyers and judges say the benefits of jury trials outweigh their costs, they aren’t the ones spending the money to litigate their civil claims. No responsible attorney should ever promise a client that they will win at trial or recommend that a client not at least try to negotiate in good faith to reach a settlement short of trial. Yet there still must be a role for the jury in our legal system. There still must be a way for a litigant to get a jury of peers to render judgment in a dispute. The framers of the Constitution understood this, or at least tried to. One of the least controversial components of the Bill of Rights is the Seventh Amendment’s guarantee of a right to a federal civil jury trial.)

NEWS PRESS
— Have you been denied due process? I have. Four times courts denied my 7th Amendment rights. I should write about that.
https://www.news-press.com/story/opinion/2025/05/11/due-process-under-threat-for-everyone-including-citizens-opinion/83509311007/

WESTLAW
— What adverse actions have been taken against you? My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests and forced me to resign. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers and education deductions and never promoted me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old. The aforesaid is more significant a) because I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) because I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) because I earned six job-related professional certifications, and d) because I earned a job-related professional license.  The aforesaid is more significant a) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My Democrat superiors would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://today.westlaw.com/Document/Ic77f069f2f5d11f0b346bf2b04662841/View/FullText.html