June 5, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/06/04/elected-officials-tried-to-stop-ice-from-making-arrests-in-the-south-loop
— Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media in America is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders. Democrat leaders tell the mainstream news media a) to ever-increasingly blame everything that is bad on Trump and on those who voted for Trump, b) to ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn them, and c) to ever-increasingly promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who have demographics that vote for Republicans, that is, those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/06/04/public-media-trump-cuts-public-boadcasting
https://chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2025/06/04/chicago-public-media-ceo-trumps-rescissions-package-take-back-federal-funding-from-npr
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Cook County erases nearly $665 million in medical debt for more than a half million residents. The three-year-old program has relieved the most debt for people on Chicago’s South and West sides and in the south and west suburbs. What did you do to avoid medical debt? I sought, got, and kept jobs that provided health insurance.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/06/05/cook-county-erases-nearly-665-million-in-medical-debt-for-more-than-a-half-million-residents

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/04/ice-protesters-clash-immigration/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/05/venezuelan-poet-immigration-fight/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/05/emergency-abortion-right/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to international students, that is, they ever-increasingly discriminate against American students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/05/opinion-international-students-target-donald-trump/
— A new chance for school choice in Illinois. Because my parents paid to send my brother and I to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, they had less money to pay for our college expenses. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/05/school-choice-ecca-senate/
— Brandon Johnson turns to taxing groceries
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/05/johnson-grocery-tax-budget-chicago/

ABC7
— Chicago job corps center closing at end of month as feds phase out operations, leaving some homeless. What did you do to get jobs and to keep jobs? I took and passed tests including the postal employment test in 1966 and the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970. I earned a high school diploma in 1966, a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981. But I did much more than that to get and keep jobs. I took jobs that my peers considered to be bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/paul-simon-chicago-job-corps-center-closing-end-month-us-department-labor-phasing-operations-leaving-homeless/16656546/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) that Republicans cause hate crimes, and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long and b) that the next Democrat president will get rid of them once and for all. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans.
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/message-of-hate-mowed-into-lot-in-southern-illinois-village/

FOX32
— Trump’s tax bill will add $2.3 trillion to the deficit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qf4v9LLUU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/ice-detains-immigrants-chicago-dhs-office

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/06/04/elected-officials-tried-to-stop-ice-from-making-arrests-in-the-south-loop

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more homelessness
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/springfield-homeless-organizations-set-to-receive-11-million-aldermen-vote-against-it#

WSIU
— Rep. Mary Miller Introduces Resolution to Recognize June as Family Month. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.wsiu.org/politics-elections/2025-06-04/rep-mary-miller-introduces-resolution-to-recognize-june-as-family-month

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/04/ice-mass-arrest-sparks-chaos-in-south-loop-as-activists-fight-to-disrupt-operation/

CWB CHICAGO
— Sunshine brings crowds, guns to Chicago’s lakefront
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/06/sunshine-brings-crowds-guns-to-chicagos-lakefront.html

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders promote Joe Walsh
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/06/05/joe-walsh-might-run-again-as-a-dem-00388949

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-528/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Politicians treat Illinoisans like we’re ATMs, forgetting that we can move elsewhere
https://wirepoints.org/politicians-treat-illinoisans-like-were-atms-forgetting-that-we-can-move-elsewhere-wirepoints-joins-tom-miller-of-wjpf-carbondale/
— Common sense prevails for once in the Illinois statehouse. According to my critics/opponents, Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pensions are too generous. Because of that, since I was 18 years old in 1966 and started earning credits toward one, my critics/opponents have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me.  I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS.
https://wirepoints.org/common-sense-prevails-for-once-in-the-illinois-statehouse-wirepoints/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Consumers mobilize against corporate DEI programs
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/3429759/consumers-mobilize-against-corporate-dei-programs/

BLAZE
— Leader of Hispanic Caucus angrily suggests Trump is extorting DC mayor into repealing sanctuary city policies
https://www.theblaze.com/news/hispanic-caucus-extortion-sanctuary-city

BREITBART
— Complaint Filed Against Amazon Alleges Civil Rights Violations over Race-Based Sellers Program
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/04/exclusive-complaint-filed-against-amazon-alleges-civil-rights-violations-race-based-sellers-program/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Purdue ‘sunsetting’ DEI, will revise programs focused on ‘underrepresented’ groups. Conservatives, that is, platform Republicans, are grossly unrepresented in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party. I should write about that.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/purdue-sunsetting-dei-will-revise-programs-focused-underrepresented-groups/28015

DAILY CALLER
— Illinois Dems Lay Budget Woes At Trump’s Feet After Taxing Their Citizens Into Ground
https://www.aol.com/illinois-dems-lay-budget-woes-170713111.html

FEDERALIST
— Biden Made Communities Less Safe By Forcing DEI On Police And Fire Departments
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/04/biden-made-communities-less-safe-by-forcing-dei-on-police-and-fire-departments/

NEWSMAX
— Consumers Urged to Stand Firm Against ‘Woke’ Companies. My critics/opponents are woke. They promote wokeness and wokeism, that is, they promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/consumers-research-dei-costco/2025/06/04/id/1213689/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Gingrich: Democrats Are The Party Of Illegal Immigrants, Crooks, And People Who Refuse To Work
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/06/04/gingrich_democrats_are_the_party_of_illegal_immigrants_crooks_and_people_who_refuse_to_work.html
— Laura Ingraham: Democrats Are On A Crusade To Keep Illegal Immigrants Safe From ICE
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/06/04/laura_ingraham_democrats_are_on_a_crusade_to_keep_illegal_immigrants_safe_from_ice.html

TOWNHALL
— Trump Dumps Federalist Society, Turns to MAGA Allies. I should write about how the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have ever-increasingly dumped conservatives, that is, how they have ever-increasingly dumped platform Republicans. I would focus on how they have ever-increasingly dumped me since 1999.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/06/04/federalist-society-and-president-trump-n2658161

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSN
— Robert F. Smith, The Second-Richest Black American, Says Companies Will Continue Hiring Top Talent, And As Result, Diversity Will Follow. My Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had one professional certification while I had six, and d) had no professional license like I had.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/executive-leadership-and-management/robert-f-smith-the-second-richest-black-american-says-companies-will-continue-hiring-top-talent-and-as-result-diversity-will-follow/ar-AA1AfGDr

NEW YORK TIMES
— Russia Targets Child-Free Lifestyles. I should write what my Democrat GAO superiors did to punish me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. According to them, if my wife and I had children, a) I would not have been able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, become a licensed CPA in 1981, etc. and b) my wife would not have been able to keep her good job and earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. All my GAO superiors had children and spouses who had little or no income. They always decried the time and money needed to raise children. None of them had as many master’s degrees or professional certifications as I did. None of them were a licensed CPA like I was.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/world/europe/russia-child-free-lifestyles.html
— The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly a) steer everyone to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) steer everyone away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/google-antitrust-breakup.html
— FRONT PAGE: Were you active in politics while you were in high school and/or college? I was not. If I had been active in Republican politics, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966 would not have hired me, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 would not have hired me, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/brown-university-newspaper-musk-doge.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly want America to be ever-increasingly dependent on foreign countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/business/trump-us-manufacturing.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use foreign countries against America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/05/trump-travel-ban-afghanistan-venezuela-reaction/
— Trump proposes policies that would increase the soaring national debt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/04/trump-debt-big-beautiful-bill/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/05/chicago-ice-immigrant-detention/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly force LGBTQ on everyone. How successful have Democrat leaders 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. They destroy those like me who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/05/worldpride-comes-to-dc-lgbtq-rights/83856523007/
— Long-term unemployment can be a sign of distress. I have been unemployed since I was 49 years old in 1997 because of my Democrat GAO superiors. I should write about that. They did everything that they could to stop me from getting a job appropriate for someone with my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/31/long-term-unemployment-2-year-high/83909279007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations. Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/02/tulsa-black-wall-street-reparations-plan/83998281007/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for antisemitism
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/04/antisemitic-attacks-jewish-community-safety-security/83989144007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/03/trump-deportations-construction-spending-down-economy/83995322007/

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— Bill would allow slavery legacy to be factor in college admissions. According to Democrat leaders, if you are White Republican, the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that you have benefitted from slavery, and therefore, the more reparations that you should pay. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois and they were always Republicans. They never were in a position to discriminate against anyone and they never did. Those whose ancestors were Democrats have benefitted most from slavery, and therefore, they should pay the most reparations.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/bill-allow-slavery-history-factor-college-20361536.php

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump’s Old High School Is in Trouble (Again). Can a Chinese Businessman Fix It?  New York Military Academy, where the president was a cadet, grapples with high debt and decaying buildings. I should write about how Crete-Monee High School ( https://www.cm201u.org/ ) has changed since I graduated from it in 1966.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trumps-old-high-school-is-in-trouble-again-can-a-chinese-businessman-fix-it-68f45c7f?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1

FORTUNE
— Trump said while campaigning he’d give green cards to all foreign college students who graduated in the U.S. If there had been as many citizens of foreign countries in America when I was young as there are now, a) they would gotten the jobs that I got and b) they would have gotten the college admissions that I got. My critics/opponents cannot say that about themselves. They had parents who bought them cars, who paid for their college expenses, and who got them jobs.
https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/trump-give-green-cards-foreign-college-students-graduated-in-us/

NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/g-s1-69896/worldpride-dc-gay-pride-trump-lgbt

PROPUBLICA
— According to my critics/opponents, the jobs and promotions that I got should have been given to those who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. At the same time, according to them, all the jobs that I got were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-black-women-minorities-careers-jobs-dismissed

AXIOS
— Musk, Trump fallout is bad news for Tesla and EVs
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/04/elon-musk-trump-tesla-ev
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/04/trump-pride-month-lgbtq-rights

BBC
— How Trump is militarizing the US-Mexico border
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd3rz47j4o

MAKTOOB MEDIA
— India to conduct census in 2027 in two phases, will include caste enumeration for first time since 1931. 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 father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, d) that my mother never attended high school, e) that my ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, f) that I got no academic scholarships, g) that had jobs that my peers would never stoop to take, h) that I had to work my way through college, i) that none of my degrees are from Ivy League universities, j) that I am Protestant, k) that I am German American, and l) that I was a lowly government employee for almost 30 years.
https://maktoobmedia.com/india/india-to-conduct-census-in-2027-in-two-phases-will-include-caste-enumeration-for-first-time-since-1931/

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 26, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7 & NBC & CBS2 & FOX32 & CHICAGO TRIBUNE & CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/george-floyd-day-action-protest-federal-plaza-downtown-chicago-commemorates-5-years-police-brutality-murder/16545551/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-area-organizations-host-rally-5-years-after-george-floyds-murder/3753730/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/group-protests-chicago-anniversary-murder-george-floyd/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS_pXlHG-VE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mT28bXhpvw
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1647262
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/chicago-protest-george-floyd-anniversary/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05/25/5-years-after-george-floyds-murder-chicagoans-protest-trumps-rollback-on-police-reforms

ABC7
— At least 18 shot, 2 fatally, in Memorial Day weekend violence
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-shootings-weekend-18-shot-2-fatally-memorial-day-gun-violence-city-police-department-says/16543468/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— According to Democrat leaders, only Whites can be racist.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/south-africa-trump-ramaphosa/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Few suburban Congressional candidates met financial disclosure deadline. Federal salaries are public record. My critics/opponents have always viciously demonized, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary increased from $117,807/year in 1986 to $153,151/year in 1997. In my defense, I earned a) job-related professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting), b) job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (finance), 1980 (accounting), 1976 (business), and 1970 (management), and c) a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA).
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250525/us-congress-politics/few-suburban-congressional-candidates-met-financial-disclosure-deadline/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Only three of the more than two dozen candidates for congressional seats serving the North, West or Northwest suburbs turned in federal financial disclosure reports by a May 15 deadline, a Daily Herald analysis revealed. One, 9th District Democratic hopeful and internet personality Kat Abughazaleh, is a political newcomer whose campaign has received national media attention. The other two — Republicans Niki Conforti of the 6th District and Jim Marter of the 14th — are campaign veterans who lost previous bids for federal office. Designed to reveal potential conflicts of interest, the disclosure reports detail information about the source, type and amount of a candidate’s income, personal investments, spousal income, gifts, contracts and more. They’re published online at disclosures-clerk.house.gov. . .A Glen Ellyn resident, Conforti is making her third run at the 6th District seat held by Democrat Sean Casten of Downers Grove since 2019. Last November, Casten beat Conforti by 8 percentage points; she placed third in the 2022 GOP primary. Conforti spent less than $151,000 on her 2024 campaign, a sum dwarfed by the roughly $2.4 million Casten spent. The Conforti campaign ended the first quarter of this year with less than $9,800 in the bank. Casten ended the quarter with more than $947,000 saved. Conforti reported income this year and last from consulting and from an unidentified employer. She didn’t respond to emails asking for more information about that job. She listed bank, credit union and retirement accounts among her assets, and reported a partnership in a Palos Park limited liability company called Existential Matrix. . .An Oswego resident whose four-year term on his local library board ends this week, Marter will make his sixth bid for federal office in 2026. Democratic incumbent Lauren Underwood of Naperville, who’s represented the 14th District since 2019 and is running again, beat Marter by 10 percentage points in November. Marter spent $322,950 on his 2024 congressional campaign, a fraction of the nearly $3.9 million Team Underwood spent. His campaign ended the first quarter with about $5,500 saved, while Underwood ended the quarter with $1.1 million banked. According to his report, Marter’s primary source of income is a global information technology company called Tenthpin Management Consultants. He previously had been a software consultant. Marter reported bank and retirement accounts, life insurance policies and a coin collection among his assets.)

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/05/25/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-fight-against-donald-trump

DEKALB DAILY JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in DeKalb.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/25/edible-tastings-anyone-dekalb-dispensary-proposes-new-in-house-cannabis-experience/

DEPAULIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://depauliaonline.com/77499/news/how-a-trade-war-could-impact-illinois-farmers/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Glenbard South H.S. Senior Wears Keffiyeh to Accept Diploma–Administrators Do Nothing
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/23/glenbard-south-h-s-senior-wears-keffiyeh-to-accept-diploma-administrators-do-nothing
— Illinois’ Most Despicable Lawmaker Kelly Cassidy Hits New Low
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/21/illinois-most-despicable-lawmaker-kelly-cassidy-hits-new-low

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Reick Punches Holes in School Mental Health Screening Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/22/reick-punches-holes-in-school-mental-health-screening-bill/
— Keicher Continues Criticism of Tax Increment Districts
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/23/keicher-continues-criticism-of-tax-increment-districts/
— Keicher-Initiated Idea to End Discrimination against Seniors Concerning Drivers License Tests Passes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/23/keicher-initiated-idea-to-end-discrimination-against-seniors-concerning-drivers-license-tests-passes/
— No Warning from Health Department about Unsanitary Conditions at Applebee’s
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/no-warning-from-health-department-about-unsanitary-condictions-at-applebees/
— Legislature Attacks Human Trafficking
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/legislature-attacks-human-trafficking/
— Defenders Urge Tax Hike to Bail Out RTA Again
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/defenders-urge-tax-hike-to-bail-out-rta-again/
— Congressional Republicans Pass Gas Tax Replacement Fee for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/25/congressional-republicans-pass-gas-tax-replacement-fee-for-electric-and-hybrid-vehicles/
Illinois Has the Mostest Local Governments
— https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/25/illinois-has-the-mostest-local-governments/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump agenda bill’s proposed increase to debt ceiling draws pushback from fiscal hawk in Senate
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/25/rand-paul-kentucky-republican-threatens-oppose-big-beautiful-bill/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— US spent over $6 billion on military recruitment in past three years. Did you try to enlist.? I did not. If I had, would I have been accepted? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green colorblindness. Nevertheless, I was 1-A for the draft. What if I had appealed?. My critics/opponents have always used against me my being 1-A and my avoiding the draft with student draft deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3421763/united-states-spent-over-6-billion-military-recruit-three-years/
(FROM A RELATED ARTICLE: There are five exercises in the test: Three-repetition maximum deadlifts, hand-release push-ups with arm extensions, a sprint-drag-carry exercise, holding the plank position, and finally, a two-mile run.)

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, to keep their jobs and to get promoted, my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who shared my demographics, that is, were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time said there was no political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, veterans preference, religious discrimination, or national origin discrimination. I should write about the aforesaid who helped my Democrat superiors waste my career and get rid of me the most.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/24/insider-case-closed-john-bolton-tells-cnn-theres-no-white-genocide-in-south-africa-1546034/

DAILY CALLER
— Illegal Migrants Can Now Book Their Own Deportation Flights. What percent illegally return to America illegally?
https://www.aol.com/illegal-migrants-now-book-own-150052440.html

EPOCH TIMES
— Beyond Lt. Dan: Gary Sinise Reflects on Grief, Gratitude, and a Life Devoted to Honoring America’s Heroes
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/beyond-lt-dan-gary-sinise-reflects-on-grief-gratitude-and-a-life-devoted-to-honoring-americas-heroes-5862874

TOWNHALL
— This Is Why the Southern Poverty Law Center Claims Turning Point USA Is an ‘Extremist’ Group. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were extremist groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and I was the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/25/this-is-why-the-southern-poverty-law-center-claims-turning-point-usa-is-an-extremist-group-n2657616
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The SPLC put out an article on Thursday, labeling TPUSA as an “anti-government extremist group” for its supposed promotion of white nationalist conspiracy theories, hawkish immigration stance, and Christian nationalism — which has become one of the left’s favorite buzzwords over recent years. Of course, when the organization uses the term “extremist,” they really mean, “anyone who isn’t a progressive.”)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Foreign students at Harvard taking US spots. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with foreign students. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966, but they would have admitted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5318381-trump-targets-harvard-over-foreign-students/

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with foreign students. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966, but they would have admitted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-defends-move-to-block-international-students-from-attending-harvard/

NEWSWEEK
— Anticipate/expect that Trump will get more and more and more support from young voters who are White and/or male. Democrat leaders give tremendous preference to young voters who are minority and/or female, that is, they discriminate against young voters who are White and/or male.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-ratings-young-americans-2075210

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Pope Leo XIV declares ‘I am Roman!’ as he completes formalities to become bishop of Rome. What if you had never left your hometown? I left my hometown of Crete for University Park when I was 24 years old in 1972. I left University Park for Chicago in 1976. I left Chicago for Wheaton when I got married in 1978. The Democrats and RINO who run Wheaton have never accepted me. They continue to treat me as my being a newcomer. They stress that I never attended any schools or churches in Wheaton, that I never sent any children to Wheaton schools, etc. I am too conservative for them, that is, I am too Republican for them. I should write about the biggest adverse actions that they have taken against me. I would focus on those who despise/hate my demographics the most.
https://apnews.com/article/rome-pope-bishop-ceremony-basilicas-ae01507115934e82a15e5f6758d08637
—  Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://coloradosun.com/2025/05/21/immigration-schools-colorado-trump-administration/

CNN
— Trump wants a ‘baby boom,’ but an ultra-conservative agenda may hurt IVF access. I should write what my Democrat GAO superiors did to punish me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. According to them, if my wife and I had children, a) I would not have been able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, become a licensed CPA in 1981, etc. and b) my wife would not have been able to keep her good job and earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. All my GAO superiors had children and spouses who had little or no income. They always decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/25/us/ivf-access-babies-trump-administration

MSN
— Could you pass the Army’s new physical fitness test? Did you try to enlist.? I did not. If I had, would I have been accepted? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green colorblindness. Nevertheless, I was 1-A for the draft. What if I had appealed?. My critics/opponents have always used against me my being 1-A and my avoiding the draft with student draft deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/could-you-pass-the-army-s-new-physical-fitness-test/ar-AA1FncMS
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There are five exercises in the test: Three-repetition maximum deadlifts, hand-release push-ups with arm extensions, a sprint-drag-carry exercise, holding the plank position, and finally, a two-mile run.)
— Trump Criticizes Biden`s DEI Policies in West Point Commencement Speech. Democrat and RINO leaders used DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/watch-trump-criticises-biden-s-dei-policies-in-west-point-commencement-speech/vi-AA1FqAbm

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders continue to use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-race-civil-right-white-men.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-race-civil-right-white-men.html
— We look at “triple-trending counties,” where either the Republicans or the Democrats gained vote share in all of the last three presidential elections. I should write about why Democrat candidates are getting more votes in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. I should write about past and present DuPage County Republican Central Committee and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders who blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for that. Previously, they blamed what I did as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010179976/the-counties-where-trump-made-gains.html
— What have you done that has put you in crosshairs? While I was young, I avoided the draft. While I was a federal employee, I refused to become a Democrat, I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. Since I became Wheaton resident in 1978, I successfully fought the installation of a traffic signal at Harrison and President, I filled lawsuits against Wheaton, its powerful developer, Milton Township, and DuPage County, and I successfully led efforts to stop video gambling and the sale of pot. Since I have been a Milton Township Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, I have sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000, I led Pat O’Malley’s 2002 Republican gubernatorial campaign in Milton Township, I served as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, and I served as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/nyregion/lamonica-mciver-newark-assault-charges.html
— Trump seeks extensive data on international students in pressure campaign to control Harvard. What about getting data on federal employees? All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/may/25/trump-seeks-extensive-student-data-in-pressure-cam/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/police-killings-george-floyd.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-republicans.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Senators eye more budget bill cuts despite House speaker’s plea for few changes. The biggest hurdle in the Senate for Trump’s tax and immigration bill could come — like it did in the House — from deficit hawks who demand more cuts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/25/senate-tax-bill-spending-cuts/

USA TODAY
— Because Democrats run the federal government, to get promoted in the federal government, you have to promote the Democrat Party platform, and especially its Affirmative Action and DEI planks, that is, you have to promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. That stopped IRS from promoting be beyond GS-12 and stopped GAO from promoting me beyond GS-13. I never would have made GS-13 if I had not earned an MBA, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, earned a master’s degree in accounting, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, and became a licensed CPA.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/05/24/dei-medical-schools-wont-be-graded/83815603007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump and against the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-lawsuits-fight-d5f8ec8a

ECON LIB
— My critics/opponents who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, a) say they owe all their successes in life to meritocracy and b) blame all their failures in life on those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critic/opponents who continue to blame me and my GOIPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their failures in life.
https://www.econlib.org/the-ethics-of-inequality/

ADVOCATE
— Democrat leaders evert-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/kennedy-center-drag-season

AXIOS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting sellers to raise their prices. For 2 weeks while I was an IRS Revenue Officer trainee in 1971, Nixon had me and my classmates make phone calls to fight inflation.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/25/trump-tariffs-brands-increase-prices

GOOGLE AI
— The decline of American muscle cars was a multi-faceted process, primarily driven by government regulations and economic factors in the 1970s. My critics/opponents despise/hate cars, and especially American nameplate cars, and especially American nameplate muscle cars. I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, a new 1972 Chevy Corvette in 1971, a 1962 Chevy Impala SS show car in 1989, a new 1990 Ford Thunderbird LX in 1989, a new 1993 Thunderbird in 1992, a 1968 Charger R/T show car in 1994, a new 1996 Thunderbird LX in 1995, a new 2005 Corvette in 2005, a new 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max in 2012, a new 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium in 2023, and a new 2025 Charger Daytona R/T Plus this year. I continue to own the 1972 Corvette, 1996 Thunderbird, 2013 Charger, 2023 Mustang, and 2025 Charger. If you share my interest in any of the aforesaid American nameplate muscle cars, please let me know.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22american+nameplate+muscle+cars”

May 25, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump addresses West Point graduates following DEI crackdown at military academies. The school removed diversity related curriculum after Trump order.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-west-point-graduation-2025-president-address-us-military-academy-grads-following-dei-crackdown/16529248/
— 14 suspects wanted in beating, robbery of couple on CTA Red Line downtown.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-14-suspects-wanted-beating-robbery-couple-cta-red-line-train-downtown-printers-row-police-say/16525737/
— Israeli Embassy staffers’ alleged killer railed against Gaza war online, protested at Emanuel’s home.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/elias-rodriguez-washington-dc-shooting-suspect-posted-gaza-war-online-protested-chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuels-home/16532127/
— IL lawmakers push for additional security funds for cultural, religious orgs after DC shooting.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-lawmakers-push-additional-security-funds-cultural-religious-organizations-couple-shot-washington-dc/16524210/
— Chicago Black pastors gather in solidarity with Mayor Brandon Johnson amid DOJ hiring investigation. Gathering appeared to be attempt to help shore up mayor’s political base, but it could be a risky strategy. Chicago Black pastors could stress that Chicago Republican leaders did not come to my defense when my Chicago Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with my Black subordinate. Chicago Black pasters could use that to argue that both Democrats and Republicans want Blacks to get more preference over non-Blacks.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-black-pastors-gather-solidarity-mayor-brandon-johnson-amid-department-justice-hiring-investigation/16523946/

NBC5
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/what-historic-medicaid-snap-cuts-in-house-republican-bill-would-mean-for-coverage/3752913/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/house-republican-tax-bill-skipped-aca-credits-marketplace-health-insurance-will-get-pricier-without-them/3752867/
— House Republican tax bill favors the rich — how much they stand to gain, and why.  How rich are you? My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid, and therefore rich. They stress that in today’s dollars, I earned a) $19.37/hour in when I was 16, b) $55,850/year when I was 22, c) $68,315/year when I was 23, d) $82,655/year when I was 24, e) $99,069/year when I was 25, f) $112,280/year when was 31, g) $117,807/year when I was 38, and h) $153,151/year when I was 49. In today’s dollars, since I was 49 in 1997, my Civil Service Retirement System pension has been $66,780/year. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) a Job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/house-republican-tax-bill-favors-the-rich-how-much-they-stand-to-gain-and-why/3752573/

CBS2
— Trump threatens to hit Apple with 25% tariff on iPhones made outside U.S.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-apple-25-tariff-iphones/

FOX32
— Jewish leaders criticize Chicago mayor over handling of antisemitism. I should write about how my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors had my many Jewish superiors and supervisors take big adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American,  a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/jewish-leaders-criticize-chicago-mayor-handling-antisemitism

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ‘Our people hire our people’: Long before DOJ probe into Mayor Brandon Johnson, racial politics coursed through City Hall hiring. Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, in Illinois, and especially in Democrat-run counties and cities, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/mayor-brandon-johnson-racial-politics-city-hall-hiring/
— Trump’s speech to West Point graduates mixes praise, politics and grievances.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/24/trumps-speech-west-point-graduates/
— New Aurora Mayor John Laesch chooses his leadership team at City Hall. Have leaders chosen you?  My critics/opponents stress that even though I have been a) a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, b) an Illinois Republican Party State Convention delegate since 2000, c) served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010, d) a member of many MTRO Oktoberfest fundraising committees, e) a member of the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee 2003-2007, f) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, and g) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2020, MTRO leaders a) never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer and b) rudely ended my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/24/new-aurora-mayor-john-laesch-chooses-his-leadership-team-at-city-hall/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid
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/columnists/2025/05/23/medicaid-affordable-care-act-health-insurance-nutrition-programs-snap-congress-rich-miller
— Chicago Public Schools lays off hundreds of tutors before CPS school year ends. My mother never attended high school. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/23/chicago-public-schools-lays-off-hundreds-of-tutors

DAILY HERALD
— Trump hails West Point cadets for their accomplishments and takes credit for US military might.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250524/nation-and-world/trump-hails-west-point-cadets-for-their-accomplishments-and-takes-credit-for-us-military-might/

WBEZ
—  How dependent on government spending is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?  He who pays the piper calls the tunes.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/05/25/northwestern-uic-medical-researchers-diabetes-hiv-trump-funding-budget-cuts
https://www.wrex.com/news/illinois-news/state-budget-talks-enter-final-week-amid-fears-of-congressional-cuts/article_a753258a-5fc1-41d9-92c6-b73b0f1ff93b.html

WAND TV
— House passes IL plan allowing first time weapon offenders to apply for FOID cards while participating in diversion programs. I have had a FOID card since I was 20 in 1968.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/house-passes-il-plan-allowing-first-time-weapon-offenders-to-apply-for-foid-cards-while/article_4deb582a-ea35-4f9f-bae5-29f569279a93.html

CWB CHICAGO
— Wilding alert: 14 suspects sought in violent robbery, battery aboard CTA train in downtown Chicago. Chicago today, your municipality tomorrow.
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/05/14-suspects-sought-in-violent-robbery-battery-aboard-cta-train-in-downtown-chicago.html

WHEATON PATCH
— Memorial Day Parade To Honor Fallen Service Members In Wheaton Monday May 26. Please join me in watching the parade. The parade route includes the eastern border of my precinct – Warrenville Road between Roosevelt Road and the Wheaton Cemetery.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/memorial-day-parade-honor-fallen-service-members-wheaton
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Memorial Day is Monday, May 26. Wheaton will honor fallen service members with a Memorial Day Parade that is set to begin at Memorial Park at 10 a.m. Members of the Wheaton Police and Fire Departments will lead the parade. From Memorial Park, the parade will make its way west on Union before heading south on West Street. The parade will end at Wheaton Cemetery, where a ceremony will take place.)
Scheduled for 11 a.m., the Memorial Day Ceremony will be conducted by American Legion Post 76.

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Confused, Starving Reporters Now Desperate for Food After Killing American Journalism. Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://johnkassnews.com/confused-starving-reporters-desperate-for-food-after-killing-and-devouring-journalism/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Republican leaders should reform federal agencies rather than gut them. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat politicians force them to push the Democrat Party platform, that is, to push dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. About 1/3 of Americans are Republicans and about 1/3 are Democrats. The federal workforce should look like America. I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966, hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. In the U.S. Congress, committee membership is determined by a combination of factors, including party affiliation. Federal agencies should be like congressional committees. For example, about 1/3 of their employees at each grade level should be Republicans and about 1/3 should be Democrats. Further, all hiring, retention, and promotion decisions should be based on merit, that is, AA and DEI should be abolished. If that had been the case when I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, I might still be a GAO employee. GAO would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year.  I earned a) job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32. None of my GAO coworkers came close to doing that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on preference giving? Chicago Black pastors could stress that Chicago Republican leaders did not come to my defense when my Chicago Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with my Black subordinate. Chicago Black pasters could use that to argue that both Democrats and Republicans want Blacks to get more preference over non-Blacks. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How rich are you? My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid, and therefore rich. They stress that in today’s dollars, I earned a) $19.37/hour in when I was 16, b) $55,850/year when I was 22, c) $68,315/year when I was 23, d) $82,655/year when I was 24, e) $99,069/year when I was 25, f) $112,280/year when was 31, g) $117,807/year when I was 38, and h) $153,151/year when I was 49. In today’s dollars, since I was 49 in 1997, my Civil Service Retirement System pension has been $66,780/year. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) a job-related professional license when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What have Democrat leaders done to you? I should write about how my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors had my many Jewish superiors and supervisors take big adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have leaders chosen you?  My critics/opponents stress that even though I have been a) a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, b) an Illinois Republican Party State Convention delegate since 2000, c) served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010, d) a member of many MTRO Oktoberfest fundraising committees, e) a member of the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee 2003-2007, f) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, and g) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2020, MTRO leaders a) never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer and b) rudely ended my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Illinois Democrat leaders stress Pritzker’s great success in promoting more of the following in Illinois: a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Illinois Democrat leaders stress that Illinois RINO leaders not only have no problem with the aforesaid, they applaud the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are/were you an American worker, that is, are/were you an American wage earner? I was 1964-1997. My critics/opponents were never wage earners and/or they despise/hate wage earners. The especially despise/hate unions and union members. They stress that I was a union member 1966-1969 and 1971-1980. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had not been a union member, my salary would never have increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars during that time. They ignore/dismiss/belittle that during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and two job-related master’s degrees and b) I earned a job-related professional certification. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To get more votes from those who are minority, female, younger, etc., Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) shout at those who are minority, female, younger, etc. that Republicans cause all the problems that those who are minority, female, younger. etc. have and b) give those who are minority, female, younger, etc. more preference over those who are Republican. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Southern Poverty Law Center has put Turning Point USA on its list of hate groups. 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 I was the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on a) EVs and those who own them and b) American nameplate muscle cars? I should write about the many critical/nasty articles that have been published about the new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV that I just bought. The articles ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact that it does the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH. I have owned my 2013 Charger R/T Max since 2012. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T show car 1994-2005. I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Was your career wasted? I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years 1980-1997. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich has always been extremely critical of GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting GAO, I might still be working for GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980. 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. Instead of forcing me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, GAO should have promoted me to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. GAO should have immediately and always assigned me to audits of IRS. If GAO had done that, I would have soon been promoted to GS-14, currently $139,211/year, GS-15, currently $163,749/year, and Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year. I earned master’s degrees in business in 1976, accounting in 1980, and finance in 1997. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. But the Democrats who ran GAO wasted all that. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years 1986-1988. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. Democrat leaders do not want Republicans to audit IRS. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me that they did. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Pritzker preps for presidential run carrying weight of Illinois failures. Illinois Democrat leaders stress Pritzker’s great success in promoting more of the following in Illinois: a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Illinois Democrat leaders stress that Illinois RINO leaders not only have no problem with the aforesaid, they applaud the aforesaid.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pritzker-preps-for-presidential-run-carrying-weight-of-illinois-failures/
— Illinois’ opaque budget process drives mismanagement, harms taxpayers.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-opaque-budget-process-drives-mismanagement-harms-taxpayers/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump tells West Point cadets he’s returning military to core function: ‘annihilate’ America’s foes. Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly side with America’s foes not only against Trump, but against America.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/24/trump-tells-west-point-cadets-hes-returning-military-core-function/
— Antisemitism may well be the downfall of America. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring into America more antisemites and Jew-haters.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/23/antisemitism-may-well-downfall-america/
— Make America safe for Jews again
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/24/editorial-make-america-safe-jews/

NEW YORK POST
— Pritzker is acting presidential — too bad his state is in such shambles
https://nypost.com/2025/05/25/opinion/jb-pritzker-is-acting-presidential-to-bad-his-state-is-in-shambles/
— Hey, Bruce: The Democrats long ago abandoned the American workers of your lyrics — like roadkill. Are/were you an American worker, that is, are/were you an American wage earner? I was 1964-1997. My critics/opponents were never wage earners and/or they despise/hate wage earners. The especially despise/hate unions and union members. They stress that I was a union member 1966-1969 and 1971-1980. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had not been a union member, my salary would never have increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars during that time. They ignore/dismiss/belittle that during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and two job-related master’s degrees and b) I earned a job-related professional certification.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/opinion/spare-us-your-tds-bruce-springsteen-stick-to-the-hits/
— Republicans aren’t coming CLOSE to cutting Medicaid as much as America actually needs
https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/opinion/republicans-arent-coming-close-to-cutting-medicaid-as-much-as-america-actually-needs/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— How America Went Crazy on Race. A new book traces the genealogy of extremist racial ideas that have gone mainstream. To get more votes from those who are minority, female, younger, etc., Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) shout at those who are minority, female, younger, etc. that Republicans cause all the problems that those who are minority, female, younger. etc. have and b) give those who are minority, female, younger, etc. more preference over those who are Republican. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-america-went-crazy-on-race/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/25/crime-rates-of-illegal-migrants-underreported/

AMERICAN WIRE
— ‘Racist’ Chicago mayor changes subject to ‘monster Trump’ in response to DOJ probe.
https://americanwirenews.com/racist-chicago-mayor-changes-subject-to-monster-trump-in-response-to-doj-probe/

BREITBART
— Trump Delivers West Point Commencement Speech: You ‘Have the Bravest Hearts and Noblest Souls’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/24/donald-trump-delivers-west-point-commencement-speech-you-have-bravest-hearts-noblest-souls/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Southern Illinois University accused of offering unlawful race-based scholarships in federal complaint
https://www.campusreform.org/article/southern-illinois-university-accused-offering-unlawful-race-based-scholarships-federal-complaint/27929

DAILY SIGNAL
— Southern Poverty Law Center Puts Largest Conservative Grassroots Youth Group (Turning Point USA) on ‘Hate Map’ With Klan Chapters. 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 I was the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/24/southern-poverty-law-center-puts-largest-conservative-grassroots-youth-group-hate-map-klan-chapters/

NATIOINAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER
— How Soros Created & Underwrote the Illegal Immigration Crisis.
https://nlpc.org/government-integrity-project/how-soros-created-underwrote-the-illegal-immigration-crisis/

PJ MEDIA
— Will Sanctuary Cities Survive the Coming Political Reckoning?
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/24/will-sanctuary-cities-survive-the-coming-political-reckoning-n4940124

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly increase government spending. How dependent on government spending is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?  He who pays the piper calls the tunes.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-research-funding-cuts-brain-drain-f1ac9fe5c8a90f5d5ec9b2726475e10e

MSN
— Biden was a ‘figurehead’ controlled by unelected bureaucrats. Democrat and RINO leaders got Biden elected by falsely painting him as being a centrist, a moderate.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/joe-biden-was-a-figurehead-controlled-by-unelected-bureaucrats/ar-AA1FfYuH

NEW YORK TIMES
— How Electric Vehicles are Targeted by the Republican Policy Bill. The measure, passed by the House, would roll back incentives for people to buy electric vehicles and for automakers to make them in the U.S.  I should write about the many critical/nasty articles that have been published about the new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV that I just bought.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/electric-vehicles-house-tax-bill.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Springsteen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/opinion/bruce-springsteen-trump-conflict.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-republicans.html

WASHINGTON POST
— America’s enemies want America to be dependent on America’s enemies. Hate-filled Trump-hating Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/25/siemens-medical-devices-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders will forever use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/24/george-floyd-murder-dei-police-reform/
— The U.S. has more than 1 million foreign students. Here’s who they are. International students are at the center of Trump’s latest escalation against Harvard University. 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.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/25/international-students-harvard-trump/

NEW YOR DAILY NEWS
— Did you pay less federal income tax because you itemized? I did starting in 1972 and my wife and I did starting in 1978. But SALT ended that. My critics/opponents have always been furious that I deducted my graduate evening a) business and accounting course 1972-1980 and b) finance courses 1992-1997.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/25/big-not-beautiful-house-budget-bill-is-a-mess-that-must-be-amended/

USA TODAY
— Schools that promote Affirmative Action and DEI are in Trump’s crosshairs, that is, schools that promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination are in Trump’s crosshairs.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/trump-k-12-public-school-funding-dei-order/83458073007/
— Car shaming is real: What to do if someone criticizes your gas-powered vehicle. I should write about the many critical/nasty articles that have been published about the new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV that I just bought.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/2025/05/23/gas-electric-rentals-summer-road-trips/83774805007/
— The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will again import as many millions of illegals as they can.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/republican-senators-trump-border-wall/83823629007/
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/24/george-floyd-murder-five-year-anniversary-memorials/83621486007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Judges Weigh Taking Control of Their Own Security Amid Threats. U.S. marshals, sworn to protect federal judges, ultimately answer to President Trump, who has ramped up criticism of the judiciary. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years 1980-1997. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich has always been extremely critical of GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting GAO, I might still be working for GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980. 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. Instead of forcing me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, GAO should have promoted me to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. GAO should have immediately and always assigned me to audits of IRS. If GAO had done that, I would have soon been promoted to GS-14, currently $139,211/year, GS-15, currently $163,749/year, and Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year. I earned master’s degrees in business in 1976, accounting in 1980, and finance in 1997. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. But the Democrats who ran GAO wasted all that. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years 1986-1988. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. Democrat leaders do not want Republicans to audit IRS. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me that they did.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-judges-security-marshals-6e080ac6

May 21, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Huntley Trump store owner claims fines from village, eviction notice are ‘political’  Village says store owner cannot keep items in right-of-way.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-truth-store-owner-claims-fines-village-huntley-illinois-eviction-notice-are-political-im-gonna-fight/16486152/
— Chicago mayor Johnson says Trump administration reflects ‘country club’ in response to DOJ investigation of Chicago’s hiring practices. How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trumps-administration-reflects-country-club-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-says-response-doj-investigation/16482731/
— Multiple citations issued, 2 arrested in large Naperville teen gatherings. Naperville today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/naperville-illinois-news-multiple-citations-issued-2-arrested-downtown-another-teen-takeover-police-say/16483549/
— Chicago committee approves controversial ‘snap curfew’ ordinance; full city council to vote Wednesday. Chicago today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-teen-takeovers-youth-leaders-join-mayor-brandon-johnson-discuss-summer-safety-intitiatives-including-snap-curfuews/16483642/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad including price increases.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/national-restaurant-association-show-2025-chicago-restaurants-feeling-impact-struggling-us-economy/16486189/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/venezuela-deportation-news-roughly-50k-arrived-chicago-last-2-years-limbo-trump-tps-ruling/16486487/
— Dolton plans to take ownership of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home through eminent domain
https://wirepoints.org/dolton-plans-to-take-ownership-of-pope-leo-xivs-childhood-home-through-eminent-domain-abc7-chicago/

NBC5
— Defiant Chicago mayor calls for investigation into Trump administration hiring.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/defiant-chicago-mayor-calls-for-investigation-into-trump-administration-hiring/3750328/
— Trump fails to convince ‘SALT Caucus’ to back tax bill. Before SALT, my wife and I paid less federal income tax by itemizing, both of us staring in 1978 and I starting in 1972. My critics/opponents were always furious about that. I deducted my graduate business and accounting course expenses 1972-1980 and my graduate finance course expenses 1992-1997.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-fails-to-convince-salt-caucus-to-back-tax-bill/3749988/
— Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan. The group of LGBTQ activist climbers said the flag, which is 55 feet by 35 feet, is the largest ever displayed on the face of the world-famous rock climbing destination. By way of contrast, I displayed a 18X12-foot American flag in my previous two Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville. But because my new condo there does not have high or wide enough wall space, I cannot do that there.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/yosemite-climbers-transgender-pride-flag-el-capitan/3750359/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/venezuelans-chicago-temporary-protected-status-deportation-supreme-court/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use alleged hate crimes to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/woman-brutally-attacked-carpentersville-because-lesbian/
— Naperville School District 203 board meeting packed after trans student wins at junior high track meet. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/naperville-school-district-203-board-meeting-trans-student-junior-high-track-meet/

FOX32
— Naperville ‘teen takeover’: Police respond to large gatherings, issue citations and arrest two. Naperville today. Your municipality tomorrow.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/naperville-teen-takeover-police-respond-large-gatherings-issue-citations-arrest-two

WTTW
— DOJ Announces Probe of Mayor Johnson After He Lauds Record of Hiring Black Chicagoans in Senior Positions. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors were very proud of their success in forcing me to retire and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/19/feds-announce-probe-mayor-johnson-after-he-lauds-record-hiring-black-chicagoans-senior
— Mayor Brandon Johnson: ‘We’re Not Going to Be Intimidated’ By DOJ Hiring Probe
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/20/mayor-brandon-johnson-we-re-not-going-be-intimidated-justice-department-hiring-probe

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Naperville councilman McBroom, DuPage GOP, Awake Illinois battle District 203 over transgender female athletes. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/naperville-school-district-203-transgender-sports/
— Victims’ group alleges that Pope Leo XIV failed to ‘properly investigate’ child sexual abuse in Chicago.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/pope-leo-priest-sex-abuse/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/illinois-americorps-cuts/
— The more crime in a zip code, the more insurance claims.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/21/opinion-illinois-car-insurance-credit-score-alexi-giannoulias/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote pro-Palestinian activists
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/05/05/trump-pro-palestinian-activists-jailing-deporting-immigrants-chinese-asian-american-rick-baldoz

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Naperville parents voice objections after transgender student competes in track meet. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250520/other-sports/naperville-parents-voice-objections-after-transgender-student-competes-in-track-meet/
— Chicago suburbs listed among 250 elite towns by U.S. News & World Report. He who sets the criteria determines the outcome.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250520/news/by-the-numbers-chicago-suburbs-listed-among-250-elite-towns-by-u-s-news-world-report/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Dolton plans to take Pope Leo’s childhood home through eminent domain.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/dolton-plans-take-popes-old-home-through-eminent-domain
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote federal spending and b) fight federal spending cuts.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/durbin-duckworth-question-cuts-illinois-hospitals
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/brandon-johnson-slams-lack-diversity-trump-cabinet

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote federal spending and b) fight federal spending cuts.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-senior-advocacy-groups-department-on-aging-urge-congress-to-fully-fund-older-americans-act/article_cb14c002-c7d8-41bd-b93c-011225a7ff2a.html

WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.wsiu.org/2025-05-21/how-two-women-owned-businesses-are-navigating-trumps-tariffs

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Wheaton Memorial Day Parade:10 a.m. Monday, May 26. Hosted by American Legion Post 76, the parade steps off at Hale and Union streets, proceeds west on Union to West Street, then south on West to Wheaton Cemetery, 1209 S. Warrenville Road.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/2025/05/20/where-to-find-memorial-day-ceremonies-and-parades-in-dupage-county/

DES PLAINES PATCH
— Over 25,000 diverse individuals attended the Skokie Cultural Festival. To be diverse you must be 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. Because I am none of the aforesaid, Democrat and RINO leaders get rid of me. Diverse Democrats and diverse RINOs get rid of non-diverse Republicans.
https://patch.com/illinois/desplaines/over-25-000-diverse-individuals-attended-skokie-cultural-festival

JUST THE NEWS
— Illinois GOP Rep. Mary Miller says SALT deduction is a ‘handout’ to rich donors. SALT is a tax break that allows taxpayers to deduct part or all of what they paid in state and local taxes from their federal tax return. Before SALT, my wife and I paid less federal income tax by itemizing, both of us staring in 1978 and I starting in 1972. My critics/opponents were always furious about that. I deducted my graduate business and accounting course expenses 1972-1980 and my graduate finance course expenses 1992-1997.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/illinois-gop-rep-mary-miller-says-salt-deduction-handout-rich-donors

CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/statement-doj-investigation/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-517/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-309/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois education officials look to hide their failures by lowering reading, math standards. Just say no.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-education-officials-look-to-hide-their-failures-by-lowering-reading-math-standards-just-say-no-wirepoints/
— Lawmakers’ latest attempt to boost public pension benefits.
https://wirepoints.org/today-join-wirepoints-afp-and-ipi-for-a-virtual-roundtable-all-about-lawmakers-latest-attempt-to-boost-public-pension-benefits/
— Is Mayor Johnson really saying such things aloud?
https://wirepoints.org/is-mayor-johnson-really-saying-such-things-aloud-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Bill Proposes $10,000 for Student Teachers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/20/bill-proposes-10000-for-student-teachers/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Lawmakers investigate federal spending on gambling, adult entertainment and more
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_7fa3a6bf-e87f-4854-8f73-edba9f9e910c.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To be diverse you must be 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. Because I am none of the aforesaid, Democrat and RINO leaders get rid of me. Diverse Democrats and diverse RINOs get rid of non-diverse Republicans. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference that they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When were you under the radar? I was under the radar at IRS until I was 25 years old in 1973 and my IRS manager gave me a big high-profile developmental assignment and promoted me to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) because of my performance on it. Because of the aforesaid, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of him and a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976, c) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, c) ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and e) ever-increasingly made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. According to them, that development assignment should have been given to a Democrat who was a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I got the assignment because of my job performance and because I was taking graduate evening business courses. The aforesaid and Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me drew attention to the fact that I was conservative, Republican, a Vietnam War draft avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, and I had been a Crete resident 1948-1972. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
—  What were your superiors proud of? When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors were very proud of their success in forcing me to retire and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Musk, the Republican Party’s biggest donor, says he will cut political spending. I should write about a) the biggest donors to the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party since 2000 and b) what they think of me. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Too much local government makes Illinois inefficient, raises property taxes
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/too-much-local-government-makes-illinois-inefficient-raises-property-taxes/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Resentment of ICE, backlash against its agents and mission rise alongside Democrats’ condemnations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/20/attacks-ice-rise-alongside-democrats-anti-ice-comments/
— Colleges dump ‘segregated’ graduations after Trump DEI ban
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/20/colleges-dump-segregated-graduations-trump-dei-ban/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Top IRS division appears packed with anti-Trump officials
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3417397/trump-irs-democrat-officials-bias/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley Tells College Grads: ‘Freedom of Speech is Under Attack’ By Trump Administration. Pelley’s speech came just before CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon announced her resignation amid clashes between the network and parent company Paramount. Democrat leaders run the mainstream news media in America. The mainstream news media in America is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://freebeacon.com/media/60-minutes-scott-pelley-tells-college-grads-freedom-of-speech-is-under-attack-by-trump-administration/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Race Fatigue in the United States. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote minorities, females, and younger people because they vote for Democrats and b) get rid of Whites, males, and older people because they vote for Republicans.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/race_fatigue_in_the_united_states.html
— Putin’s cold and dark soul
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/putin_s_cold_and_dark_soul.html
— Trump’s ‘big’ and ‘beautiful’ tax bill retains hundreds of billions (maybe trillions?) in ‘Green New Deal’ spending
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/trump_s_big_and_beautiful_tax_bill_retains_hundreds_of_billions_maybe_trillions_in_green_new_deal_spending.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump’s historic first $1,000 self-deportation flight takes off. Here’s how it’s going …
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/20/trumps-historic-first-1000-self-deportation-flight-takes-off-heres-how-its-going-1544944/

BREITBART
— 1.4 Million Illegals Ordered Deported but ‘Roaming Free’ in U.S. Due to Lack of Detention Space
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/20/expert-witness-tells-congress-1-4-million-illegals-ordered-deported-but-roaming-free-in-u-s-due-to-lack-of-detention-space/
— Spike Lee Slams Trump at Cannes Film Festival
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/05/20/spike-lee-slams-trump-at-cannes-film-festival/

DAILY CALLER
— GOP Pushes Tax To Pay For Trump Agenda And Depress Illegal Immigration In One Fell Swoop
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/gop-tax-pay-for-trump-agenda-disincentivize-illegal-immigration/
— The Biden Cover Up Is Worse Than You Can Possibly Imagine
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/20/joe-biden-cancer-diagnosis-rebelcast-media-cover-up/

FOX NEWS
— Naperville board meeting erupts over transgender athlete policy: ‘Clear divide on this issue’  Awake Illinois founder Shannon Adcock joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss the debate over transgender athletes in girls’ sports after female track runners were defeated by a biological male.  Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373126420112

NEWSMAX
— DOJ Investigating Chicago Mayor Over Black Hires. How have Democrat hiring practices impacted you? 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat and promote their discriminatory employment practices. They took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their discriminatory employment practices. I should write about that. I would focus on the tremendous preference that they forced me to give, and that I did give, my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/chicago-justice-department-brandon-johnson/2025/05/20/id/1211653/

PJ MEDIA
— DHS Slams Walz’s ‘Gestapo’ Comments, Highlights Criminals Arrested
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/05/20/dhs-slams-walzs-gestapo-comments-details-criminals-arrested-n4939960

REAL CLEAR DEFENSE
— Buh-Bye West Point
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/05/20/buh-bye_west_point_1111220.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEWSWEEK
— Walmart Responds To Trump’s Order To ‘Eat The Tariffs’
https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-responds-donald-trump-eat-tariffs-trade-policy-2075063
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.newsweek.com/talk-suspending-habeas-corpus-hand-grenade-americas-heart-opinion-2074845

REUTERS
— Musk, the Republican Party’s biggest donor, says he will cut political spending. I should write about a) the biggest donors to the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party since 2000 and b) what they think of me. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me lately.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/elon-musk-says-he-is-still-committed-being-tesla-ceo-5-years-time-2025-05-20/

CNN
— Trump’s IRS layoffs could lead to billions in lost revenue as agency sheds auditors
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/irs-staffing-cuts-revenue-loss-trump-dg

MSN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/u-s-hits-brakes-on-trade-war-with-china/ar-AA1F9pdS

CBS NEWS
— Biden’s last prostate cancer blood test was in 2014, spokesperson says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-prostate-cancer-blood-test-2014/

NEW YORK TIMES
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, only non-Whites can be refugees.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000010169282/inside-trumps-exception-for-white-south-african-refugees.html
— Trump-Supporting Christians Accusing Jews of Antisemitism. Jews in America are overwhelmingly liberal. Jews in Israel are overwhelmingly conservative. Liberals get rid of conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/antisemitism-israel-palestine-esther.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/nyregion/nyc-pride-sponsors-trump-tariffs.html
— Democrat leaders encourage Democrats to move into Elmhurst.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/realestate/elmhurst-illinois-real-estate-guide.html
— Democrat Leaders Say How Trump Has Targeted New Groups for Deportation
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/21/us/trump-immigration-policy.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump drafts America’s business titans to burnish his image at home and abroad
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/21/trump-apple-walmart-tariffs-ceos-middle-east/2b609ad6-35f9-11f0-9c9e-0db2d748bea7_story.html

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/20/transgender-pride-flag-yosemite-el-capitan-lgbtq/83750904007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Joe Biden Had Unrivaled Medical Care. How Did His Cancer Go Undetected? Other presidents, including Donald Trump, have undergone and released their prostate screening results.
https://www.wsj.com/health/joe-biden-had-unrivaled-medical-care-how-did-his-cancer-go-undetected-93d735d4

FORTUNE
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/20/scrapping-dei-without-benefits-morally-unjust-bankrupt/

BLOOMBERG
— When were you under the radar? I was under the radar at IRS until I was 25 years old in 1973 and my IRS manager gave me a big high-profile developmental assignment and promoted me to GS-12 (currently $99,069/year) because of my performance on it. Because of the aforesaid, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of him and a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976, c) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, c) ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and e) ever-increasingly made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. According to them, that development assignment should have been given to a Democrat who was a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I got the assignment because of my job performance and because I was taking graduate evening business courses. The aforesaid and Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on me drew attention to the fact that I was conservative, Republican, a Vietnam War draft avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, and I had been a Crete resident 1948-1972. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/5-affordable-under-the-radar-vacations-to-take-this-summer

ATLANTIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/third-country-deportations/682857/

HR BREW
— Democrat and RINO employers will forever use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025/05/20/why-dei-is-not-disappearing-any-time-soon-for-hr

PEW RESEARCH
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy Republicans who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/05/20/how-much-discrimination-do-americans-say-groups-face-in-the-u-s/

GOOGLE AI
— The Illinois Republican Primary in 2026 will be held on March 17th, 2026. This primary will determine the Republican candidates who will appear on the ballot for the November 3rd, 2026 General Election. Here’s what you need to know:
https://www.google.com/search?q=republican+primary+illinois+2026
(FROM THE POSTING: Governor: Some potential or declared Republican candidates include James Mendrick, Joseph Severino, Aaron Del Mar, Richard Porter, Jeanne Ives, and Blaine Wilhour. Attorney General: The Republican primary for Attorney General in 202(2) saw Thomas DeVore win with 44.2% of the vote, followed by Steve Kim and David Shestokas. Secretary of State: Dan Brady won the Republican primary for Secretary of State with 76.4% of the vote, defeating John Milhiser.)

GOOGLE AI
— DuPage Countywide Republican Primary 2026
https://www.google.com/search?q=republican+primary+dupage+%222026%22+%22countywide%22+offices
(FROM THE POSTING: DuPage Countywide Offices: Generally, DuPage Countywide offices that would be on the ballot include: County Board Chairman, County Clerk, Sheriff, Treasurer.  Republican Candidates (as of May 21, 2025): It’s still early in the election cycle, and a complete list of Republican candidates for DuPage County offices in 2026 is not yet available. However, there is news about the Sheriff’s race: Sheriff James Mendrick has announced he will not be seeking re-election as DuPage County Sheriff. He is instead running for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois. Mendrick has endorsed Undersheriff Eddie Moore as his successor for DuPage County Sheriff.)

WIKIPEDIA
— Illinois U.S. Senate election 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_elections#Illinois
(FROM THE POSTING: Among Republicans, former police officer John Goodman has announced his candidacy. Potential Republican candidates include Congressman Darin LaHood and state Representative Tom Demmer.)
— 2026 Illinois gubernatorial election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Illinois_gubernatorial_election#Candidates
(FROM THE POSTING: Republican Primary Candidates: Declared: James Mendrick, DuPage County Sheriff (2018–present), Running mate: Robert Renteria, author and businessman; Phil Perez, member of the Posen Park District Commission; Joseph Severino, capital management professional and nominee for Illinois’s 10th congressional district in 2022. Publicly expressed interest: Aaron Del Mar, Palatine Township Highway Commissioner, chair of the Cook County Republican Party, and candidate for lieutenant governor in 2022; Richard Porter, former member of the Republican National Committee and the Illinois State Police Merit Board. Potential: Jeanne Ives, former state representative, candidate for governor in 2018, and nominee for Illinois’s 6th congressional district in 2020; Blaine Wilhour, state representative.)

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 18, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Medicaid to promote more hatred against Trump. How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/republicans-proposing-medicaid-cuts-part-president-donald-trump-spending-bill-leaving-americans-worried/16439037/
— DHS says it’s in beginning stages of ‘vetting process’ for immigrant reality TV show
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-homeland-security-says-beginning-stages-vetting-process-immigrant-reality-show-citizenship/16447461/

NBC5
— Joliet surpassed by fellow Chicago suburb as Illinois’ third-largest city. Naperville is now the state’s third-largest city, according to recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/joliet-surpassed-fellow-chicago-suburb-illinois-third-largest-city/3748213/

FOX32
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tells-walmart-eat-tariffs

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/south-africa-afrikaners-refugee-white/
— Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me a) to paint me as being stupid and b) to paint my parents as having been filthy rich. They stress that my ACT score was only 24, that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, and that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/federal-dei-crackdown-threatens-illinois-graduate-student-scholarship-program/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/05/16/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents

DAILY HERALD
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly paint the Pope as being a Democrat, that is, as being anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250517/news/pope-leo-xiv-not-registered-as-a-republican-in-illinois/

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Candida Cain leaves GOP, announces run for Kane treasurer as a Democrat. Move could lead to potential 2026 contest against her former boss.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/18/candida-cain-leaves-gop-announces-run-for-kane-treasurer-as-a-democrat/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Candida “Connie” Cain on Saturday declared her intent to seek the Democratic nomination in the March 17, 2026 primary for Kane County Treasurer. A Certified Public Account from Gilberts, Cain had worked for current Treasurer Chris Lauzen as Director of Financial Operations from May 2023 until he fired her Nov. 22. In an email, Lauzen, a Republican elected as treasurer in 2022, did not state if he planned to seek a second term. If Lauzen goes for another term, and Cain wins the Democratic nomination, the contest would pit Cain against her former boss in the general election on Nov. 3, 2026. A former Republican, Cain said she has now transitioned to the Democratic Party.)

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-investigations/2025/05/17/trump-gut-consumer-product-safety-commission-hhs-kids-parents

LOOP NORTH NEWS
— Bally’s drops racial preferences for Chicago casino IPO. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they were always under tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians to give preference to their employees who were Democrat, and especially to those who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that. Further, since I have been involved in Republican politics since 1999, those above me have been under tremendous pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.loopnorth.com/news/casino0518.htm

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/article_48b5b309-272a-5089-a031-5ad51d5443d8.html
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/article_70550ee6-0906-5acd-9d87-56f31d030b0e.html

KWQC
— Battle over video gaming terminals in Illinois. I led the successful effort to stop video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.kwqc.com/2025/05/17/battle-over-video-gaming-terminals-illinois/

WMBD
— LaHood reacts to Trump Administration announcements
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/05/17/lahood-reacts-to-trump-administration-announcements/

CITIES 92.9
— SEIU spends big on politics, little on members
https://www.cities929.com/2025/05/17/report-seiu-spends-big-on-politics-little-on-members/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders use Walz to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-walz-calls-trump-a-tyrant-who-is-trampling-americans-rights-and-violating-the-rule-of-law/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries who have demographics that vote for Democrats to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally. Those who vote for Democrats are liberal, socialist, communist, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, want/need/demand massive government assistance, lack education and/or job skills, have financial, health, and/or other problems, etc.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-asylum-seekers-still-arrive-at-the-us-border-but-what-will-happen-to-them/
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-budget-would-cut-ocean-data-and-leave-boaters-anglers-and-forecasters-scrambling-for-info/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-libraries-are-cutting-back-on-staff-and-services-after-trumps-order-to-dismantle-small-agency/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trumps-clash-with-the-courts-raises-prospect-of-showdown-over-separation-of-powers/

NPR ILLINOIS
— The Democrats who run Congress run GAO. They do the bidding of Democrat leaders against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/how-doge-has-tried-to-embed-beyond-the-executive-branch
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to stop voter fraud.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-doj-focuses-in-on-voter-fraud-with-a-murky-assist-from-doge
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-17/trumps-attacks-on-dei-are-complicating-corporate-sponsorship-of-pride-events

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. I should write about the success that they have had in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2025-05-16/attorneys-general-ask-educators-for-courage-on-dei-policies

CWB CHICAGO
— DuPage judge refuses to detain man accused of robbing postal worker, trafficking checks stolen from the mail
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/05/judge-refuses-to-detain-man-accused-of-robbing-postal-worker-trafficking-checks-stolen-from-the-mail.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Fleeing persecution, South African arrivals scramble refugee politics. The next Democrat or RINO President will send them back.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3414599/fleeing-persecution-south-african-refugees-scramble-politics/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://freebeacon.com/culture/assessing-the-wreckage-of-affirmative-action/

AMERICAN THINKER
— 86 47 and what madness the U.S. is coming to
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/86_47_and_what_madness_the_u_s_is_coming_to.html
— Robert De Niro’s Trump obsession and Hollywood’s hypocrisy
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/robert_de_niro_s_trump_obsession_and_hollywood_s_hypocrisy.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Democrats push misleading ‘cuts to Medicaid’ narrative after enrolling 1.4 million illegals
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/dems-push-misleading-cuts-to-medicaid-narrative-after-enrolling-1-4-million-illegals-1544202/
— Trump blasts SCOTUS for blocking effort to deport illegal Venezuelan ‘gang members’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/17/trump-blasts-scotus-for-blocking-effort-to-deport-illegal-venezuelan-gang-members-1544193/

BREITBART
— Court allows Trump to stop collective bargaining for thousands of federal workers. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having been tremendously overpaid by the federal government. In today’s dollars, between 1966 and 1997, my federal pay increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151 /year. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned three job-related master’s degrees, c) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and d) I earned a job-related professional license. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on what they could done, but failed to do, to qualify themselves for better paying jobs.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/court-allows-trump-to-stop-collective-bargaining-for-thousands-of-federal-workers/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Columbia College Chicago says DEI values remain despite program rebranding
https://www.campusreform.org/article/columbia-college-chicago-says-dei-values-remain-despite-program-rebranding/27913

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Refusing Radical Demands Week in Education
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/refusing-radical-demands-week-in-education/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action. Since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action to get rid of me. I should write about my critics/opponents and the adverse actions that took against me.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/05/18/assessing_the_wreckage_of_affirmative_action_646859.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District and my precinct.
https://apnews.com/article/institute-museum-library-services-funding-cuts-trump-d3a236243b3a5c2b04e85d2004d1a946

MSN
–Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will foist the sins of your ancestors on 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.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-knew-the-pain-of-apartheid-how-dare-trump-embrace-afrikaners-as-refugees/ar-AA1EWbdx
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-judge-rules-it-s-ok-to-discriminate-against-lgbtq-people/ar-AA1EVI6U
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-funding-cuts-to-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-will-have-lethal-consequences/ar-AA1EI5C1
— 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/expect 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 preference that American citizenship gives minorities and females over Whites and males.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-freaks-after-scotus-trashes-his-birthright-citizenship-arguments/ar-AA1EUxfs
— Those who promote muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T. Should Stellantis start demonizing, denigrating, and condemning the muscle cars that compete against the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/dodge-is-already-pulling-the-plug-on-its-cheapest-muscle-car/ar-AA1EW4Jt
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2025/05/17/dodge-charger-daytona-ev-canceled-slow-sales/83675336007/
https://www.motortrend.com/news/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-r-t-discontinued-ram-ev-delays
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/you-arent-buying-it-so-dodge-might-kill-the-electric-charger-daytona-r-t/
https://moparinsiders.com/2026-dodge-charger-daytona-scat-pack-brings-big-changes/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/denying-due-process-pritzker-sends-clear-message-in-blow-to-trump/ss-AA1EYa6X

MSNBC
— Episcopalians help Democrat leaders promote hatred against South African Whites.
https://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/watch/episcopal-church-refuses-trump-and-says-it-won-t-help-resettle-white-south-africans-239823942002
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zL9mESgmU

NEWSWEEK
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-latest-polls-2072624
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-democrats-trump-2028-president-2073019

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders are overjoyed that Pence criticizes Trump on tariffs and key foreign policy issues as he watches from afar.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/mike-pence-criticizes-trump-tariffs-key-foreign-policy-issues-watches-rcna206755

NEW YORK TIMES
— A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for U.S. Citizenship? D.H.S. Is Considering It. A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said the agency was happy to review “out-of-the-box pitches.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/homeland-security-immigration-reality-show.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/opinion/trump-politics-corruption.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/us/politics/courts-immigrants-venezuelans-garcia-trump.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/16/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-deportation-el-salvador/
— DOJ’s defense of GAO in Diersen v. GAO was politically motivated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/17/trump-justice-department-prosecutions/
— Democrat leaders use college newspapers to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/17/college-newspapers-trump-international-students/
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/17/walmart-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders say Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/18/trump-enforcement-halt-regulations-laws/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/18/usaid-withdrawal-africa-healthcare/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-05-17/bruce-springsteen-president-trump-manchester-concert
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote student loans. I never got any student loans. If I had, my GPA would have been higher. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes 1964-1966 and delivering mail 1966-1969.  But that enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-17/student-loans-have-been-confusing-lately-heres-a-guide-to-know-where-you-stand

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/18/supreme-courts-decisions-trump-religion-transgender-care/83675865007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/trump-big-beautiful-bill-immigration-tax/83697340007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that the Pope despises/hates Trump
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/donald-trump-jd-vance-pope-leo-marco-rubio/83672296007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans. 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.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/18/why-trump-is-trying-to-kill-dei/83647800007/
— Democrat leaders say that Vance is a brawler for Trump who avoids Harris and Pence mistakes and his assertive public profile sets him up for 2028 Republican support.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/vice-president-jd-vance-visibility-outspoken/83630581007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-attacks-walmart-for-tariff-related-price-increases-63ef9db8

FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders say that major companies are anxiously awaiting to see whether or not they will be targeted by the federal government for a DEI investigation.
https://fortune.com/article/trump-dei-deadline-investigation-companies-federal-government/

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Walmart uses tariffs to raise prices. Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO sellers will ever-increasingly a) raise prices and b) blame Trump for that. For 2 weeks in 1971, at Nixon’s direction, IRS had me and my coworkers make phone calls to fight price increases.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-walmart-tariffs-trade-rising-prices-2025-5

NPR
— Democrat leaders promote dependency on government. Trump fights it. How strongly are the following dependent on federal spending: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/18/1252312214/us-competitive-autocracy

BILLBOARD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-trump-unfit-president-stage-speech-1235974885/

PRESS READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn White South Africans. Musk is a White South African American.
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/sunday-world-8839/20250518/281711210554249
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/making-of-elon-musk-childhood-apartheid-south-africa

May 12, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump admin poised to accept luxury jet as gift for Trump from Qatar
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-administration-poised-accept-boeing-747-8-jumbo-jet-gift-new-air-force-qatar-royal-family-sources/16382889/

WTTW
— Pope Leo XIV Indicates He Will Closely Follow Francis
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/10/pope-leo-xiv-indicates-he-will-closely-follow-francis-says-ai-represents-major-challenge

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— First group of 49 white South Africans leaves for the US after Donald Trump offered them refugee status
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/white-south-africans-trump-refugee-status/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/editorial-china-tariffs-trump-consul-general/
— Qatar says no final decision made on gifting Donald Trump a jet to use as Air Force One
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/qatar-says-no-final-decision-made-on-gifting-trump-a-jet-to-use-as-air-force-one/
— Who will fill Dick Durbin’s US Senate seat in Illinois? Here are the candidates. Will LaHood walk in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade this year? His father  was considering running for governor when he walked in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade in 2005. I spoke with him before that parade kicked off.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/dick-durbin-senate-seat-illinois-candidates/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Darin LaHood, U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, 16th. While the eventual Democratic nominee is expected to have the advantage in a state where party members have held all statewide elected offices since 2019, Republican U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood of Peoria has acknowledged he is considering a Senate bid. LaHood, the son of former longtime GOP congressman and Obama transportation secretary Ray LaHood, had nearly $5.9 million in his federal campaign fund as of April 1. One of only three House Republicans in Illinois’ 17-member congressional delegation, LaHood has served since 2015 in Congress and has been a strong supporter of Trump.)
— Illinois grows more soybeans than any other state. What happened to the Republican support? During the 1950s and early 1960s, I spent lots of time at my grandparents’ farm along the Indiana border in Grant Park. They grew lots of soybeans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/12/editorial-soybeans-illinois-lab-funding-gop-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/09/east-aurora-newcomer-center/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against everyone who voted for Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/11/united-states-donald-trump-robert-francis-prevost-pope-leo

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Lawmakers have just days to save Metra, Pace and CTA from massive cuts. How important is/was Metra to you? A big reason why my wife and I bought a home in Wheaton in 1978 and had one built in Wheaton in 1984 was that they were in walking distance from Metra. We both worked in the Loop.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250511/transportation/are-we-going-over-the-cliff-lawmakers-have-just-days-to-save-metra-pace-and-cta-from-massive-cuts/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pope’s old Dolton house tells a familiar south suburban story. I lived in 1286 Wood street in Crete 1954-1972. I should write about that home. My grandparents had it built in 1926. My parents inherited it from them. My brother and I inherited it from our parents. I inherited it when my brother died. It had been regularly maintained and upgraded, but not after my father died suddenly in 1969. SEE: https://www.estately.com/listings/info/1286-wood-street-crete-il-60417
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/popes-childhood-home-tells-south-suburban-story
— Small businesses need Congress to make Trump tax cuts permanent
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/small-biz-needs-trump-tax-cuts-be-permanent-opinion
— What happens when employers have to pay a higher minimum wage. Did you work for the minimum wage? I did part-time while I was a junior and senior in high school and the summer in between 1964-1966. With the money that I earned and saved, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint (a poor man’s GAO) in May of 1966. It was red, black interior, 3-speed Hurst on the floor, and 3.55 rear end. I used it to get to/from a) jobs during the summer of 1966, b) classes at UIC 1966-1967, and c) my Park Forest Post Office job 1966-1967. I sold it and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in December of 1967.  SEE: https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/higher-minimum-wage-workers-employers
— Pritzker’s EV vision faces speed bumps as key projects falter
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/editorial/ev-plans-stall-stellantis-lion-electric-pull-back-editorial

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Part of the fabric of the Midwest: Central Illinois county fairs kick off in late May. What is the status of your county’s fair?
https://www.sj-r.com/story/entertainment/2025/05/12/county-fair-season-in-illinois-starts-in-late-may-what-to-know/83133115007/

JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Overwhelmingly, nonprofits exist to promote the Democrat Party platform
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-and-regional/article_e08a4c8b-adf6-5c76-878a-3bec6e50793f.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-late-abortions-are-rare-the-us-just-lost-a-clinic-that-offered-the-procedure-for-over-50-years/

NPR ILLINOIS & WGLT
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-05-11/what-trumps-cuts-to-federal-climate-research-could-mean-for-illinois
https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2025-05-11/what-trumps-cuts-to-federal-climate-research-could-mean-for-illinois

WQRF
— UAW: Stellantis has scrapped plans for battery plant, parts hub in Belvidere
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/uaw-stellantis-has-scrapped-plans-for-battery-plant-parts-hub-in-belvidere/ar-AA1EyTYf

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-510/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Why do people get involved in Republican politics? For far too many, it is to get the Republican Party to strike the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in its platform. I promote the aforesaid planks. I should write about those Republican candidates, elected officials, party leaders, activists, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, etc. in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois a) who reject one or more of the aforesaid planks and b) who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. I would focus on those who reject the equal opportunity plank. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who wants you to pay more taxes? My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes. According to them, I can and should pay more taxes a) because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) because I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, and c) because my wife and I gave up trying to have children. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were wealthy and who bought them cars, paid for their colleges expenses, got them jobs, etc. I would focus on those who benefitted the most from Affirmative Action and/or DEI, that is, who benefitted the most from race and/or gender based preference giving. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To get more votes from minorities and from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give minorities and women more preference. All the minorities and women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) were Democrats, b) had less work experience than I had, c) had less education than I had, d) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or e) had no professional license like the one I had. All were younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If your critics/opponents were asked what limited your career, what would they say? Mine would stress a) that my ACT score was only 24, b) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, c) that while I have four college degrees, my GPAs were not that great, none of the colleges are Ivy League, and I did not earn my master’s degrees until I was 27, 31, and 48, d) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, I did not do that until I was 30 and 32 and my scores were not that great, e) that while I became a licensed CPA, it was not until I was 32, and f) that while I earned four more professional certifications, it was not until I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. My critics/opponents ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact a) that my superiors were always under tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians to give preference to their employees who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, b) that I avoided the Vietnam War draft, c) that I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and d) that I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation when I was 40. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What lists are/were you on? Mine include a) Vietnam War draft avoiders, b) federal employees who never made GS-14, c) employees who complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination, d) lawsuit filers, and e) employees who were forced to retire early. What do you think of people who are/were on the aforesaid lists? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, 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, national origin discrimination, and even worse things. Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, want the Pope to promote the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ever-increasingly, to be a Democrat is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
–138 registered Republican voters in my precinct (38% of its 361 registered Republican voters) who voted in the April 1, 2025 election. In a precinct letter that I am considering sending, I would a) thank them for voting, b) recap the April 1, 2025 election results, c) list the offices on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in our precinct, and d) stress my efforts to encourage the Milton Township Republican Organization to promote Wheaton’s and Glen Ellyn’s  July 4, 2026 Independence Day parades and to encourage Republican participation in those parades. I hope that Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Illinois statewide, Illinois senate and house, DuPage countywide, and DuPage County District 4 will all have entries. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Purple Prose from Enemies of Chicago Children: the CTU
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/08/purple-prose-from-enemies-of-chicago-children-the-ctu

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans seek distance from Trump’s willingness to hike taxes on wealthiest Americans. Who wants you to pay more taxes? My critics/opponents have always wanted me to pay more taxes. According to them, I can and should pay more taxes a) because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) because I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, and c) because my wife and I gave up trying to have children. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were wealthy and who bought them cars, paid for their colleges expenses, got them jobs, etc. I would focus on those who benefitted the most from Affirmative Action and/or DEI, that is, who benefitted the most from race and/or gender based preference giving.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/11/republicans-seek-distance-trumps-willingness-hike-taxes-wealthiest/
— Democrats can’t seem to give up the transgender madness
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/11/democrats-cant-seem-give-transgender-madness/
— Biden administration gave protected status to Afghans despite terrorism flags. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem moves to end Temporary Protected Status
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/12/joe-bidens-dhs-gave-protected-status-afghans-despite-terrorism-flags/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Donald Trump, Pope Leo XIV and Mercy. MAGA and Catholicism aren’t at odds—mercy has borders, and a new American pope offers hope for unity between faithful patriots and the Church they call home.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/12/donald-trump-pope-leo-xiv-and-mercy/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Will Trump Suspend Habeas Corpus for Illegals?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/will_trump_suspend_habeas_corpus_for_illegals.html
— What Do Democrats Do Next?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/what_do_democrats_do_next.html

BLAZE
— Who can lead the Democrats out of the wilderness? Ever-increasingly, to be a Democrat is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/who-can-lead-the-democrats-out-of-the-wilderness

FOX NEWS
— The ‘corrupt media enterprise’ is bitter about losing to Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372683766112

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— The Democrat mainstream news media not only had no problem with Biden’s Executive Orders, it promoted them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/legal-experts-habeas-corpus-stephen-miller-rcna206130

CNN
— Trump is visiting three of the world’s richest nations. Here’s what’s on their wish lists. What is on your enemies’ wish lists? My enemies want the Republican Party to strike its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents and the planks they want stricken. I would focus on my critics/opponents who want the equal opportunity plank stricken.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/11/middleeast/trump-visit-gulf-arab-states-saudi-uae-qatar-intl

REUTERS
— Trump plans to accept luxury 747 from Qatar to use as Air Force One
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/trump-set-accept-luxury-747-qatar-use-air-force-one-abc-news-says-2025-05-11/

NEWSWEEK
— Trump Will Get To Keep Qatar Jet Even After He Leaves Office
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-qatar-plane-air-force-one-2070761
— Trump Responds to Qatar Plane Backlash: ‘World Class Losers’
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-responds-qatar-plane-backlash-2070758

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight budget cuts.
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-family-generations-trump-memorial-651841d216202f1a8fa25476dab799fc

NEW YORK TIMES
— In Illinois Senate Race, Old Grudges and a Test of Pritzker’s Power. Few policy differences have emerged among the Democrats vying to replace the retiring Senator Richard J. Durbin, while Gov. JB Pritzker’s influence looms large.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/politics/illinois-senate-race-durbin-pritzker.html
— Trump Is Said to Be Getting Qatari 747 for Air Force One, and Post-Presidency Travel
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/11/us/trump-news
— Google ever-increasingly steers everyone a) to websites that promote liberal leaders, that is, Democrat leaders, and the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote conservative leaders, that is, Republican leaders, and the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/technology/google-chrome-monopoly-remedies.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Qatar’s gift to Trump reveals a loophole big enough to fly a jumbo jet through. A $400 million present shows how presidential libraries remain a blind spot in U.S. corruption law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/11/qatar-jumbo-jet-gift-loophole/

USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/12/supreme-court-trump-transgender-military-ban/83499410007/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasing use the Pope to get rid of those who do not promote LGBTQ. I do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/10/pope-leo-xiv-lgbtq-issues-advocates-hopeful/83413859007/

PALM BEACH POST
— Pope Leo XIV and Trump graduated from colleges less than 20 miles away from each other. Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from America, graduated from Villanova University, mere miles from the Wharton School of Business, Trump’s alma mater.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2025/05/12/pope-leo-chicago-trump-graduate-villanova-theological-union/83573642007/

DES MOINES REGISTER
— To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give women more preference. All the women who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) were Democrats, b) had less work experience than I had, c) had less education than I had, d) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or e) had no professional license like the one I had. All were minority, younger than me, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time..
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2025/05/11/pete-hegseth-wps-woke-divisive-military-safety-leadership/83502722007/

TENNESSEE OUTLOOK
— What lists are/were you on? Mine include a) Vietnam War draft avoiders, b) federal employees who never made GS-14, c) employees who complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination, d) lawsuit filers, and e) employees who were forced to retire early. What do you think of people who are/were on the aforesaid lists?
https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/12/trumps-massive-deportation-database-puts-students-at-risk-advocates-warn/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The GAO Tries to Save a Bad Biden Rule. It bows to Democrats and ignores its own clear precedent. GAO is run by Democrats. When I was 31 years old in 1980, I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. They did everything that they could to waste my career and to get rid of me. They forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS. 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 them. 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 years old in 1997.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-gao-tries-to-save-a-bad-biden-rule-california-emissions-regulations-waivers-2b0434ca

WALLET HUB
— Best & Worst Places to Start a Career. The more of the following that you are, the more that Illinois is the worse state to start a career in: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-cities-to-start-a-career/3626

CEO TODAY
— Qatar’s $400M Jet Gift to Trump Sparks Outrage: Is This the New Air Force One?  Reports suggest that Qatar may be gifting former U.S. President Donald Trump a $400 million luxury jet—raising serious questions about ethics, influence, and international diplomacy. As both critics and allies react with suspicion, the gesture could mark a new chapter in the blurred lines between politics, power, and foreign interests.
https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2025/05/qatars-400m-jet-gift-to-trump-sparks-outrage-is-this-the-new-air-force-one/

NPR
— Trump is looking to use the IRS for his own political ends. Nixon tried it, too. 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 for America’s 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.kosu.org/politics/2025-05-12/trump-is-looking-to-use-the-irs-for-his-own-political-ends-nixon-tried-it-too

ATLANTIC
— Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, 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, national origin discrimination, and even worse things. Anti-religious people, that is, Democrats, want the Pope to promote the aforesaid.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/anti-christian-bias-task-force/682755/

ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.epi.org/blog/trump-attacks-on-temporary-immigration-protections-like-tps-hurt-the-economy-and-strip-millions-of-their-workplace-rights/

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Gold walls, opulent furnishings: All about $400m ‘flying palace’ from Qatar
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-trump-qatari-jet-gold-walls-opulent-furnishings-all-about-400m-flying-palace-from-qatar-which-trump-will-use-as-air-force-one/articleshow/121103068.cms

GUARDIAN
— US presidential gifts and the rules governing them. Reports that Donald Trump’s administration is planning to accept a jet valued at $400m from Qatar have raised ethical questions over gifts from foreign leaders. I should write about the gifts that my critics/opponents have given their operatives and their dupes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/us-presidential-foreign-gifts-laws-rules-ntwnfb

SABC NEWS
— 50 white South Africans relocated to the US as refugees. They should be advised that the next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will send them back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85I6rwxIzoc

May 4, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/may-day-2025-3rd-rallies-downtown-chicago-continue-efforts-unite-president-trumps-administrations-policies/16314144/
— US imposes sanctions on Mexican cartel linked to drug trafficking and fuel-theft network
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-imposes-sanctions-mexican-cartel-linked-drug-trafficking-fuel-theft-network/16311920/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing fight to keep their control of NPR and PBS
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/npr-and-pbs-vow-to-fight-trumps-funding-cuts/

WGN9
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-coalition-trump-agenda-march/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptrxIgBqb_s

FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/may-day-protests-stretch-3-days-chicago-activists-rally-against-trump-policies
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABfj-b6Qus

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing fight to keep their control of NPR and PBS
https://www.wbez.org/pressroom/2025/05/03/letter-from-the-ceo-public-media-is-a-public-good-and-its-under-threat

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: With the state’s grocery tax set to end, many municipalities are adopting their own, even as food prices climb. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for rising food prices. Then again, they ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/illinois-grocery-tax-municipalities/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/03/far-left-groups-try-to-grow-chicago-ranks-at-rally-against-donald-trump-at-union-park/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/03/at-evanston-may-day-rally-protesters-decry-trump-administration-cuts/
— Democrat Chicago leaders allege that there has been a crime downturn and take credit for that.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/column-chicago-crime-brandon-johnson-donald-trump-page/
— Many, if not most, if not virtually all nonprofits are arms of the Democrat Party.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/opinion-nonprofit-funding-federal-cuts/
— Today in History: Haymarket Square demonstration turns deadly. Virtually all my Republican critics/opponents are vehemently anti-union. According to them, union members are grossly overpaid. They stress that while was a union member 1966-1969 and 1971-1980, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars. They ignore/dismiss/belittle that during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) I earned a job-related master’s degree, and c) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/today-in-history-haymarket-square-demonstration-turns-deadly/
— American women are having fewer children. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that your children are, the bleaker that their future is: American, conservative, Republican, White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/editorial-should-we-worry-about-american-women-having-fewer-kids/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Sooner or later, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be on Medicaid.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/03/trump-musk-tax-cuts-rich-economy-doge-federal-funding-medicaid-health-insurance-ralph-martire

DAILY HERALD
— New Illinois, an organization that wants to create a state separate from Chicago and urban Cook County, drew about 60 people to a meeting Saturday at the Palatine Township Republican Organization office. Illinois counties that are run by Democrats are completely different from Illinois counties that are run by Republicans. Sooner or later, Illinois counties that are run by Democrats promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ (the destruction of traditional marriage and family), abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, prostitution, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about the Democrat invasion, infiltration, infestation, conquering, and inevitable destruction of DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250503/news/new-illinois-supporters-meet-in-palatine-discuss-urban-rural-divide/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Any separation would have to be passed by the Illinois General Assembly as well as by the United States Congress. The last successful separation measure was the split of West Virginia from Virginia. West Virginia arrived at statehood in 1863 but its final composition wasn’t determined until an 1871 Supreme Court ruling.)
— GOP balks at approving even a fraction of Musk’s DOGE cuts. During the 1980s and 1990s, RINO senators and RINO representatives did not balk at Gingrich’s GAO budget cuts. The Democrats who ran GAO used Gingrich’s budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s remaining Republican employees including me. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250502/nation-and-world-politics/gop-balks-at-approving-even-a-fraction-of-musks-doge-cuts/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing fight efforts to reduce voter fraud.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250503/nation-and-world-politics/doj-civil-rights-division-to-focus-on-voting-conspiracies-and-prioritize-trump-election-order-memo/
— How dependent on Communist China are the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250503/business/nowhere-to-turn-small-businesses-dependent-on-imports-from-china-are-feeling-more-desperate-2/

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for bad weather
https://chicagodefender.com/when-the-heat-and-storms-come-lies-will-not-save-us/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/article_c1806378-b12c-48bc-a8d0-1907b655fe6d.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/watch-now-illinois-u-s-rep-marie-newman-and-republican-marjorie-taylor-greene-feud-over/article_4e95cb54-d6ea-5e81-bd42-fd929ba23925.html

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE & ILLINOIS VALLEY & DEKALB DAILY CHRONICLE & HERALD NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/05/03/st-charles-hands-off-rally-targets-trump-policies-musks-actions/
https://www.shawlocal.com/illinois-valley/2025/05/04/mostly-people-are-fearful-of-losing-our-democracy-protest-takes-place-in-princeton/
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/03/laborers-in-dekalb-protest-trump-era-attacks-on-unions-higher-education/
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/05/03/were-going-to-come-back-anti-trump-protesters-return-to-joliet-streets-for-may-day-rally/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Musk slams critics for Nazi comparisons: ‘Character assassination’
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/musk-slams-critics-for-nazi-comparisons-character-assassination/?nxsparam=4
— Democrat leaders use indigenous-activists against Trump
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-indigenous-activists-see-trumps-columbus-day-rhetoric-as-cause-for-continued-advocacy/
— Trump brands his opponents as communists. Today’s Democrats have no problem with communism. They promote socialism. Socialism is a step on the road to communism.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-brands-his-opponents-as-communists-a-label-loaded-with-the-baggage-of-american-history/

NPR ILLINOIS
— After paying people to leave, one federal agency is scrambling to fill positions
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-03/after-paying-people-to-leave-one-federal-agency-is-scrambling-to-fill-positions
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-03/economic-uncertainty-remains-amid-trumps-tariffs
— Sweeping cuts hit NEA after Trump administration calls to eliminate the agency
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-03/sweeping-cuts-hit-nea-after-trump-administration-calls-to-eliminate-the-agency

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs against him.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-05-03/trumps-trade-war-contracts-the-economy-but-job-market-holds-up
— Mexico’s president says she rejected Trump’s plan to send US troops across the border. Constructively, Mexico had declared war on America. FROM GOOGLE AI: The US military maintains a significant global presence with thousands of troops and hundreds of bases across nearly every continent. While the exact number of bases is difficult to determine due to varying classifications and ongoing changes, estimates range from 750 to over 900. The US has the largest number of overseas military bases compared to any other country, accounting for roughly 75-85% of the total. Key Locations and Troop Distribution: Japan, Germany, and South Korea: These countries host the largest number of US military bases and troops. Japan alone has over 50,000 US troops. Middle East: The US maintains a considerable military presence in the Middle East, with forces in numerous countries and on ships in the region’s waters, particularly in response to threats from Iran and its affiliated groups. Europe: The US has a significant military presence in Europe, particularly in countries like Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, with many bases being NATO interoperable.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-05-04/mexicos-president-says-she-rejected-trumps-plan-to-send-us-troops-across-the-border

WREX
— Democrat leaders always fight for more government spending.
https://www.wrex.com/news/illinois-news/plan-to-overhaul-higher-education-funding-meets-u-of-i-opposition/article_212dc72f-eef5-4af9-b9de-eb9f244f5471.html

25 NEWS NOW
— Trump jokes that he’d “like to be Pope,” but then said, “I don’t know. I have no preference.”
https://www.25newsnow.com/video/2025/05/03/trump-jokes-that-hed-like-be-president/

IPM NEWSROOM
— Democrat leaders fight government spending cuts, but they did not fight Gingrich’s cutting GAO’s budgets 1980-1997.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/npr-stations-targeted-for-cuts-by-trump-have-provided-lifelines-to-listeners-during-disasters/

CWB CHICAGO
— Mag Mile mail thief had 52 credit cards, was on pretrial release for the same thing
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/05/mag-mile-mail-thief-had-52-credit-cards-was-on-pretrial-release-for-the-same-thing-chicago-police.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN BIVER
— What a Volunteer Organization Like the GOP is Unable to Do
https://johnbiver.com/what-a-volunteer-organization-like-the-gop-is-unable-to-do/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Which Republican candidates are going to walk in Wheaton’s 2025 Independence Day parade? There will be a U.S Senate office, five Illinois statewide offices, and five DuPage countywide offices on the November 3, 2026 ballot. At the 2000 Illinois Republican Party State Convention in Springfield, I urged Governor George Ryan to invite Bush to walk in Wheaton’s 2000 Independence Day parade. While Bush did not walk in that parade, he and Cheney did walk in Naperville’s 2000 Labor Day parade. I was there at the rally before the parade started when the “open mike” incident occurred because the Bush team refused to let Ryan introduce Bush. Dole walked with Edgar in Wheaton’s 1996 Independence Day parade. Obama and his wife walked in Wheaton’s 2004 Independence Day parade. I served as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks from 2005 until Democrat and RINO DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton leaders succeeded in having their operatives and dupes end that in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are the biggest losses that you have suffered? Mine include the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had wasting my career and forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They flushed down their toilets my almost 27 years of work experience, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. But worse than that, since 1997, far too many Republican leaders have sided with my Democrat superiors and have used the aforesaid to hint/imply/argue/shout that I disserved the aforesaid because I am a very bad person and even worse things. I should write about those Republican leaders who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— The Line-Up to Replace Schakowsky
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/the-line-up-to-replace-schakowsky/
— Johnsburg Pro-Life Ministry Exec Reacts to Federal Court Decision’s Significant Victory, Partial Set-Back
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/johnsburg-pro-life-ministry-exec-reacts-to-federal-court-decisions-significant-victory-partial-set-back/
— Democrats Ahead in Filling Empty Precincts with Workers on the Ground
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/democrats-ahead-in-filling-empty-precincts-with-workers-on-the-ground/
— Democrats Get Another Candidate to Replace Schakowsky–Justin Ford
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/democrats-get-another-candidate-to-replace-schakowsky/
— Defenders Make Another Pitch for RTA Tax Hike
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/defenders-make-another-pitch-for-rta-tax-hike/
— Trump Administration Risks Being Labeled in Favor of Prison Rape with Elimination of Funding for the National Prison Rape Resource Center, Problem Seems to Still Exist in Cook County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/02/trump-administration-risks-being-labeled-in-favor-of-prison-rape-with-elimination-of-funding-for-the-national-prison-rape-resource-center/
— Potty-Mouthed Democrats Stimulate Editorial Cartoon
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/02/potty-mouthed-democrats-stimulate-editorial-cartoon/
— Underwood Not Throwing in Towel to Pritzker’s Choice
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/02/underwood-not-throwing-in-towel-to-pritzkers-choice/
— UPDATE: Duckworth Endorses Stratton for U.S. Senate, Israeli May Be Stimulus for Pritzker Displeasure with Underwood
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/02/duckworth-endorses-stratton-for-u-s-senate/
— Did Underwood Hurl Indirect Attack at Pritzker?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/03/did-underwood-hurl-indirect-attack-at-pritzker/
— Looking at Kane County GOP Election Loses and Replacement Possibilities for Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Should He Run for Durbin’s Seat
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/03/looking-at-kane-county-gop-election-loses-and-replacement-possibilities-for-congressman-raja-krishnamoorthi-should-he-run-for-durbins-seat/
— City/Village Fathers and Mothers Forced to Take Responsibility for Taxing Groceries, “Free Money” Days Partially Gone
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/04/city-village-fathers-and-mothers-forced-to-take-responsibility-for-taxing-groceries-free-money-days-partially-gone/
— “Red State” Picks Up on My Question about Why 314 Action Fund, a PAC, Considers Lauren Underwood, a Nurse, a Scientist
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/04/red-state-picks-up-on-my-question-about-why-314-action-fund-a-pac-considers-lauren-underwood-a-nurse-a-scientist/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Microsoft hires anti-Trump law firm
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3398418/microsoft-support-europe-hires-anti-trump-law-firm/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump suggests Vance, Rubio could succeed him — as he gives final answer on a third term
https://nypost.com/2025/05/04/us-news/president-trump-suggests-jd-vance-marco-rubio-could-succeed-him-as-he-gives-final-answer-on-a-third-term/

BLAZE
— Who are the Leftist Judges Trying to Sabotage Trump’s Agenda?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3zQ9FOHdcU

BREITBART
— Showdown Looms as Homan Explores Case Against AOC for Obstructing Immigration Enforcement
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/05/03/showdown-looms-as-tom-homan-explores-case-against-aoc-for-bstructing-immigration-enforcement/
— Radical LGBTQ+ Stonewall Group’s Charity Status Questioned in Row over Supreme Court Trans Ruling
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/05/03/lgbtq-stonewall-groups-charity-status-questioned-in-row-over-supreme-court-trans-ruling/
— Costco, Levi’s, and Other Companies Stubbornly Cling to DEI Policies
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/05/03/costco-levis-other-companies-stubbornly-cling-dei-policies/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump’s Push for Equal Rights and Against Quotas
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/03/trumps-push-for-equal-rights-and-against-quotas/

EPOCH TIMES
— US Tariff on Auto Parts Goes Into Effect. If the United States had been as dependent on foreign countries as it is now, it would never have won WWI or WWII.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trumps-25-percent-auto-part-tariff-goes-into-effect-5851640
— Mexican President Said She Rejected Trump Offer to Deploy US Troops to Mexico. Constructively, Mexico had declared war on America. FROM GOOGLE AI: The US military maintains a significant global presence with thousands of troops and hundreds of bases across nearly every continent. While the exact number of bases is difficult to determine due to varying classifications and ongoing changes, estimates range from 750 to over 900. The US has the largest number of overseas military bases compared to any other country, accounting for roughly 75-85% of the total. Key Locations and Troop Distribution: Japan, Germany, and South Korea: These countries host the largest number of US military bases and troops. Japan alone has over 50,000 US troops. Middle East: The US maintains a considerable military presence in the Middle East, with forces in numerous countries and on ships in the region’s waters, particularly in response to threats from Iran and its affiliated groups. Europe: The US has a significant military presence in Europe, particularly in countries like Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, with many bases being NATO interoperable.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/mexican-president-said-she-rejected-trump-offer-to-deploy-us-troops-to-mexico-5851892

FOX NEWS
— Texas Gov. Abbott signs $1 billion voucher program into law, capping off win for school choice advocates. ‘Gone are the days that families are limited to only the schools assigned by government,’ Gov. Abbott said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-gov-abbott-signs-1-billion-voucher-program-law-capping-off-win-school-choice-advocates
— Dem gov’s new campaign message man once said ‘religious right’ united by ‘white supremacy’  The Arizona governor’s recent hire is just the latest in a series of tumultuous staffing issues Hobbs has faced.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-govs-new-campaign-message-man-once-said-religious-right-united-white-supremacy
— AOC taunts Homan after DOJ referral threat over deportations. Homan suggested AOC’s previous advice for migrants may have crossed a line.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/come-me-aoc-taunts-tom-homan-after-doj-referral-threat-over-deportations
— Trump questions judges who block deportations of ‘criminals, including murderers’  federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act was ‘unlawful’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-questions-judges-who-block-deportations-criminals-including-murderers

NEWSMAX
— Trump Media Quits Delaware for ‘Pro-business’ Florida
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/trump-media-delaware-florida/2025/05/03/id/1209437/

PJ MEDIA
— Is the Era of Sanctuary Cities and States Going to Come to an End? For a city or a state to declare itself a sanctuary is to declare war on America.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/03/is-the-era-of-sanctuary-cities-and-states-going-to-come-to-an-end-n4939453

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Pritzker’s Trump posture ramps up 2028 chatter
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5280477-illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-trump-critics/

NBC NEWS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters a) drove the stock market down to punish Trump and b) decry the stock market’s comeback.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/stocks-unleash-remarkable-comeback-after-volatile-month-trump-tariffs-rcna204213

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize more protests against Trump. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden?
https://www.newsweek.com/may-day-50501-protests-list-weekend-2067558

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000010122048/how-trumps-cuts-are-stifling-lgbtq-health-research.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/health/trump-administration-slashes-research-into-lgbtq-health.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/opinion/trump-polls-popularity-dei.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Trump brands his opponents as communists. Today’s Democrats have no problem with communism. They promote socialism. Socialism is a step on the road to communism.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-05-04/trump-brands-his-opponents-as-communists-a-label-loaded-with-the-baggage-of-american-history

DALLAS MORNING NEWS
— Rogers: Who’s a RINO — Cornyn or Paxton? Texas oligarchy uses the wrong criteria for choosing leaders. RINOs are Republicans who reject planks in the Republican Party platform and who get rid of Republicans who support those planks. Most commonly, they reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about the biggest past and present RINO leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, etc. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2025/05/03/rogers-whos-a-rino-cornyn-or-paxton/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hate filled Trump-hating Trump-haters decry that Trump’s tariffs are lifting some U.S. manufacturers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-s-tariffs-are-lifting-some-u-s-manufacturers/ar-AA1E8iki

MONEY INC.
— 20 Worst Jobs in America. I did not have any of these jobs, but I did do yard work (1962-1964), deliver newspapers (1962-1966), wash dishes (1964-1966), clean golf shoes, chip slag, and pump gasoline (1966), deliver mail (1966-1969), work on an automotive assembly line (1970), sell tires, automotive services, and major appliances (1970-1971), pump more gasoline (1971-1972), collect delinquent taxes (1971-1980), and audit federal agencies (1980-1997).
https://moneyinc.com/20-worst-jobs-in-america/

May 1, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders organize May Day protests
https://abc7chicago.com/post/may-day-2025-thousands-expected-protest-march-rally-downtown-chicago-union-park-grant/16292225/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Senate votes down resolution to block Trump’s global tariffs amid economic turmoil
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/30/senate-vote-tariffs/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— How dependent is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct on federal spending?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/04/30/trump-americorps-cuts-include-grant-terminations-for-12-million-in-illinois-programs
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their foreign students. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But if they could have admitted foreign students instead of me, they would have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/04/30/uic-student-has-legal-status-restored-but-only-after-leaving-us

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in Mundelein.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250430/business/company-shifts-plans-for-new-cannabis-dispensary-in-mundelein-to-different-site/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Under globalism, the rest of the world has prospered at the expense of America’s future.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing-logistics/rivian-stockpiled-batteries-asia-trump-tariffs

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— A crackdown on diversity programs is reshaping college graduation ceremonies. Some colleges are canceling graduation ceremonies that recognize individual cultures or groups. Diversity is divisive.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/a-crackdown-on-diversity-programs-is-reshaping-college-graduation-ceremonies/article_0c8f7250-9f85-59f7-9342-c4d5921b0fee.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote socialism.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-30/may-day-protesters-will-rally-nationwide-against-the-war-on-working-people

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Senate resolution to scrap Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs fails despite some GOP support
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/senate-resolution-to-scrap-trump-liberation-day-tariffs-fails-despite-some-gop-support/amp/

WAND TV
— For Black men, fashion has been a tool of self-expression — and a way they’ve been judged. Clothing as message.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/for-black-men-fashion-has-been-a-tool-of-self-expression-and-a-way-theyve/article_96dbc781-4929-55d9-a211-1aa0642395e7.html

EVANSTON NOW
— To get more votes from renters, some Democrat leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that homeowners discriminate against them. How many rental units are there in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://evanstonnow.com/new-council-heavy-with-homeowners/

EVERGREEN PARK PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Casten.
https://patch.com/illinois/evergreenpark/sean-casten-tells-ep-town-hall-fight-our-democracy-or-lose-it

ILLINOIS TIMES
— I should write about those Republican leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who are the most anti-conservative, that is, who are the most anti-Republican. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/illinois-republicans-need-diversity-of-views-a-bigger-tent-20101601
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/recognizing-the-spirit-of-abraham-lincoln-20102511

DICK DURBIN
— Durbin ever-increasingly promotes more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQyAn-YX4NQ

CHUY GARCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) that Jesus is a liberal Democrat, that is, that Jesus is anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and b) that Jesus promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, that Jesus promotes 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. How strongly have Democrat leaders taken control of your church?.
https://x.com/RepChuyGarcia

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-503/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) that Jesus is a liberal Democrat, that is, that Jesus is anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non poor people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and b) that Jesus promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, that Jesus promotes 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. How strongly have Democrat leaders taken control of your church?. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Newly elected Cook County GOP chairman Del Mar seeks to breathe new life into party: ‘We’re just going to cut the bull****’
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/671055397-newly-elected-cook-county-gop-chairman-del-mar-seeks-to-breathe-new-life-into-party-we-re-just-going-to-cut-the-bull

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— State legislators oppose Chicago mayor’s desire for more taxpayer dollars
https://www.dailygazette.com/news/business/nerd_wallet/watch-state-legislators-oppose-chicago-mayor-s-desire-for-more-taxpayer-dollars/article_9d089685-b288-501b-84d5-040e0bc68cd1.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Marter Says Underwood Supporter Wishes Him Dead
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/01/marter-says-underwood-supporter-wishes-him-dead/
— Blago as GOP U.S. Senate Candidate?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/30/blago-as-gop-u-s-senate-candidate/
— POW/MIA Honor Chair Donated to Courthouse by Rolling Thunder Chapter 2
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/29/pow-mia-honor-chair-donated-to-courthouse-by-rolling-thunder-chapter-2/
— LaHood on Trump’s First 100 Days, NPR Disagrees, Sun-Times’ Take
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/29/lahood-on-trumps-first-100-days/
— Americans for Prosperity Use Mail To Bring Pressure on Ness Not to Vote for Costly Pension Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/americans-for-prosperity-use-mail-to-bring-pressure-on-ness-not-to-vote-for-costly-pension-bill/
— UPDATE: McHenry County Attendees at Illinois GOP Bryon Donalds Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/mchenry-county-attendees-at-illinois-gop-bryon-donalds-fundraiser/
— Debate Continues Between Republican and Democratic Party Board Members
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/debate-continues-between-republican-and-democratic-party-board-members/
— Ex-District 300 Superintendent Norm Wetzel Has 28th Highest Public Pension
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/ex-district-300-superintendent-norm-wetzel-has-28th-highest-public-pension/
— Intriguing Fire Protection District Intergovernmental Cooperation in Western McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/28/intriguing-fire-protection-district-intergovernmental-cooperation-in-western-mchenry-county/
— More on the Closure of a Rockford Abortion Clinic
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/27/more-on-the-closure-of-a-rockford-abortion-clinic/
— Demonstrators and LaHood in Different Parts of His District
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/26/demonstrators-and-lahood-in-different-parts-of-his-district/
— Deep State – 1967 — Goldwater Supporter in Johnson Administration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/26/deep-state-1967/
— Still Another Unfunded Mandate on the Horizon for Schools
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/26/still-another-unfunded-mandate-on-the-horizon-for-schools/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Bondi celebrates arrests that ‘make America safe again’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3396145/pam-bondi-100-days-celebrates-arrests-make-america-safe-again/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump admin to charge asylum application fee, Dems in an uproar
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/30/trump-admin-to-charge-asylum-application-fee-dems-in-an-uproar-1540083/

BLAZE
— Illegal aliens aren’t just ‘guests’ — they’re future voters
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/illegal-aliens-arent-just-guests-theyre-future-voters

BREITBART
— Trump’s Mass Deportation Goals Require Advanced Technology
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/30/ice-chief-todd-lyons-trumps-mass-deportation-goals-require-advanced-technology-akin-to-amazon-fedex/

COLLEGE FIX
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn pro-lifers.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/pro-lifers-misuse-bible-to-consolidate-white-political-power-ucla-event/
— Harvard ends racially segregated grad ceremonies, renames DEI office amid battle with Trump
https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-cuts-funding-for-racially-segregated-graduation-ceremonies/
— Northwestern University edits job titles to erase references to DEI
https://www.thecollegefix.com/northwestern-university-edits-job-titles-to-erase-references-to-dei/

DAILY CALLER
— The Democrats’ New Fad Is Violent Rhetoric
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/30/opinion-the-democrats-new-fad-is-violent-rhetoric-haley-kennington/
— Trump Addresses Liberal Spin On Whether He’ll Gut Entitlements. To what extent are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct dependent on entitlements?
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/01/trump-chris-cuomo-medicaid-entitlements/

FOX NEWS
— Kamala Harris comes knives out against Trump in first speech since leaving office: ‘Absolute chaos’  Harris claimed that under the Trump administration ‘we are seeing the wholesale abandonment’ of American ideals. According to Democrat leaders, America exists to give more preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-comes-knives-out-against-trump-first-speech-since-leaving-office-absolute-chaos

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Illegal Aliens Aren’t Fugitive Slaves
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/illegal-aliens-arent-fugitive-slaves/

NEWSMAX
— Trump’s First 100 Days Causing Dems to Have ‘Mental Breakdown’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/craig-shirley-donald-trump-democrats/2025/04/30/id/1208936/
— Military Rebounding Under Trump Leadership
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pete-hegseth-donald-trump-sean-parnell/2025/04/30/id/1209026/

PJ MEDIA
— Woke Judge Tramples Law With New Border Enforcement Ruling
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/04/30/woke-judge-tramples-law-with-new-border-patrol-ruling-n4939380

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— To promote diversity is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/news/thomson-reuters-drops-diversity-inclusion-201922820.html

ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote May Day protests against Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/activists-rally-worldwide-day-us-protests-targeting-trump-121345294

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying America to destroy Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/u-s-economy-slowed-sharply-this-year-under-second-trump-administration/

CNN
— According to Democrat leaders, America exists to give more preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, etc.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/kamala-harris-speech-trump/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/politics/video/kamala-harris-trump-performance-digvid
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/politics/trump-gdp-economy-golden-age-recession-perception/index.html
— Vance casts tie-breaking Senate vote to kill bipartisan effort to rebuke Trump’s trade policy
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/senate-republicans-democrats-trump-tariffs/index.html

MSN
— Tesla board searching for new CEO to replace Musk
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/tesla-board-searching-for-new-ceo-to-replace-elon-musk-report/ar-AA1DXKFT

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to Blacks. To give preference to one group is to discriminate against other groups.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-chicago-schools-black-students.html
— Under globalism, the rest of the world has prospered at the expense of America’s future.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/business/bank-of-japan-gdp-forecast.html
— Student Debt Collections Restart on May 5. More than five million borrowers are in default, and millions of others are projected to be on the precipice. Did you get a college loan? I did not. If I had gotten one, my GPA would have been higher. I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying. If my GPA had been higher, that would have helped me get a better job after I graduated debt-free from NIU in 1970.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/business/student-loans-collections.html
— My Democrat superiors in the federal government had great success getting my many Jewish superiors and supervisors to take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-antisemitism-jews-israel.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly a) side with America’s enemies, and b) promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/opinion/100-days-trump-world.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote socialism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/01/march-holiday-may-day-labor-workers-union/3389a3cc-2642-11f0-ae6d-e4db528eba27_story.html

USA TODAY
— 77 million Americans voted for Trump. After 100 days, few of them regret it. President Donald Trump is delivering on what he said he would do, and, for the most part, his voters appreciate it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/29/trump-polls-approval-rating-voters/83271813007/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in driving the economy down to punish Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-us-economy-republicans-congress/83290133007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-approval-rating-polls-down-economy/83349237007/
— Democrats and RINOs use wokeness/wokeism to destroy Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/01/is-trump-winning-dei-fight/83368731007/
— Return on a college investment: These majors pay the highest premiums. In retrospect and with benefit of hindsight, I would have majored in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970. I erroneously thought that I could never pass the CPA examination. But I not only passed it, I passed it on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979. But by then, the accounting profession viewed me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/24/is-college-degree-worth-it-graduate-income/83216369007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk. Hate filled Trump-haters ever-increasingly punish Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-musk-ceo-search-board-0ce61af9
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Under globalism, the rest of the world has prospered at the expense of America’s future. I should write about the factory jobs in Chicago Heights that my brother lost when his employers moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulations.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/us-gdp-q1-2025-1f82f689
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/first-quarter-gdp-economy-tariffs-donald-trump-trade-policy-ee60db88
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/are-factory-jobs-worth-protecting-economy-manufacturing-production-fa969bea

NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote socialism.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5382560/may-day-protests-history-trump

POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying America to destroy Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/30/democrat-group-trump-economic-messaging-warning-00314778

FED SMITH
— House Oversight Committee Advances Benefits Cuts Package
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/04/30/house-oversight-committee-advances-benefits-cuts-package/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Among the cuts in the legislation are raising the FERS contribution rate to 4.4% for all federal employees, eliminating the FERS annuity supplement and switching from a high-3 average salary to high-5. There also is a provision that would give newly hired federal employees the option to elect to serve as at-will employees in exchange for higher take home pay with a lower FERS contribution rate. Accepting the at-will status option would keep the FERS contribution rate at 4.4%, but retaining civil service protections would add 5% to the retirement contribution (9.4% total). Another provision would require federal employees to pay a $350 fee to reduce frivolous employee appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) regarding agency disciplinary adverse actions. The proposed cuts were being considered as the House Oversight Committee looked to slash $50 billion from the overall federal budget as it debated its portion of the larger overall FY 2025 spending bill. In remarks he made at Wednesday’s markup session, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said: World-class employment benefits provided to federal employees are well-known, which can include eleven paid holidays; various incentives and awards; health, life, and long-term care insurance; flexible spending accounts; student loan repayment and forgiveness plans; generous leave and workplace flexibilities; and childcare, professional development, and commuter subsidies. The simple truth is that a significant amount of the costs associated with all of these benefits are funded by hardworking taxpayers in the private sector and increasingly now federal government borrowing. The legislation before us today advances important budgetary reforms that will save taxpayers money. Democrats as well as one Republican voted against the legislation in Wednesday’s markup session. Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH) opposed cutting pensions for federal employees as part of the deficit reduction, and he had said prior to the markup session that he would be voting against the bill. He wrote in a statement on X: The goal of reconciliation should be to reduce overall government spending by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse and reducing needless and unnecessary spending. I oppose any and all efforts to reduce federal spending by taking money from the hard-earned pensions of federal workers. Employee benefits are not a gift. They are earned. I will not support and will not vote for the Oversight Committee’s current budget reconciliation proposal reducing earned pension benefits for current federal employees. In remarks he made at the markup session, Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) said: This partisan bill threatens to further undermine the federal workforce, by reducing the take-home pay, benefits, and workforce protections of 2.4 million federal employees, most of whom are middle-class American workers and a third of whom are military veterans. This is more of the same; an unprecedented assault and political purge of the civil service. The legislative package now advances to the House Budget Committee. Turner also said he thinks that changes are likely to be made to the legislation as it progresses through the legislative process, namely that the cuts to federal employee pensions to which he was opposed would ultimately be eliminated. During Wednesday’s markup session, he reiterated his opposition to the legislation, saying, “I believe that making changes to pension retirement benefits in the middle of someone’s employment is wrong. Changing the rules, especially when someone’s already been vested, is wrong.” He also added, “I have talked to enough people on the House floor that I do think that this [pension cuts] will not be included in the final bill, and that this bill ultimately will have to be changed if it’s going to be included in the ultimate budget reconciliation.” Whether any of these proposed cuts become reality will be determined by what makes it into the final budget legislation if and when it becomes law. As Congressman Turner noted, changes are likely to be made as it goes through the legislative process. FedSmith will continue to provide any updates as they become available.)

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