December 21, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson launches unified shelter system as migrant shelter population wanes
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/20/mayor-brandon-johnson-unified-shelter-system/
— Standoff continues between Thornton Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard, trustees
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/20/standoff-continues-between-thornton-township-supervisor-tiffany-henyard-trustees/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton polling shows she may have her sights set on a different office. A source with knowledge of Stratton’s poll and the thinking behind it told Rich Miller she is “keeping her options open” as Gov. JB Pritzker decides if he will seek reelection.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/12/20/lt-gov-juliana-stratton-poll-popularity-black-woman-attorney-jb-pritzker-dick-durbin-rich-miller

CBS2
— Judge permanently blocks Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s appointments to key village posts
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/judge-blocks-tiffany-henyard-appointments-dolton/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Editorial: Mr. Mayor, if you truly care about Chicago, you should step aside. (COMMENT: Who should he be replaced with?)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/editorial/brandon-johnson-should-step-aside-after-martinez-editorial

ABC7
— Thornton Township’s government remains shut down, without crucial insurance after chaotic meeting
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tiffany-henyard-news-thornton-townships-government-remains-shut-down-crucial-insurance-after-chaotic-meeting/15683333/

NBC5
— Biden forgives $4.28 billion in student debt for 54,900 borrowers. Biden has forgiven more student debt than any other president. (COMMENT: Did you get a student loan? I did not. I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA. Far too often, instead of studying, I worked all the part-times that I could for the Park Forest Post Office while I was a UIC and NIU student 1966-1969.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/biden-forgives-4-28-billion-in-student-debt-for-54900-borrowers/3629422/

WGN9
— More student loans canceled in final round of forgiveness before Biden leaves office (COMMENT: Did you get a student loan? I did not. I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA. Far too often, instead of studying, I worked all the part-times that I could for the Park Forest Post Office while I was a UIC and NIU student 1966-1969.)
https://wgntv.com/news/more-student-loans-canceled-in-final-round-of-forgiveness-before-biden-leaves-office/

FOX32
— Chicago ends migrant shelter mission, merges housing system for all in need
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-ends-migrant-shelter-mission-merges-housing-system-all-need

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump set to take office with tighter grip on GOP (COMMENT: Who represents and speaks for Trump in Illinois, in your congressional district, in your county, in your township, and in your municipality?)
https://foxillinois.com/news/connect-to-congress/president-elect-donald-trump-set-to-take-office-with-tighter-grip-on-gop-and-less-resistance-white-house-second-term-congress-republican-majority

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2024-12-20/trumps-mass-deportation-would-hurt-everyone-not-just-undocumented-workers-prof-says

WIFR
— Illinois adds new requirements to job posting (COMMENT: Democrats run IRS and GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. They forced me to take a $22,996 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, that is, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, they would have given me a promotion to GS-13 Step 1 (currently $118,439/year) to transfer. 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 $97-079-$110,020/year). I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates used my having to take a downgrade to transfer against me big time. They used that downgrade a) to keep me off audits of IRS until 1986, b) to delay my promotions, and c) to not promote me to GS-13 until 1986. They did that even though a) I earned that master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, b) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and c) I became a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, GAO would have promoted into its Senior Executive Service (currently $191,900/year) before I was 40 years old.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9wDQ556Uak

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-221/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker was and remains part of the coverup of Biden’s mental decline
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzker-was-and-remains-part-of-the-coverup-of-bidens-mental-decline-wirepoints/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— State immigration advocates plot strategy for Trump’s deportation plans
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_8d18c736-befc-11ef-865f-eb36d769b00f.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Librarian Gets Two Years for Stealing $770,000
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/19/librarian-gets-two-years-for-stealing-770000/
— When Will an Illinois Legislator Introduce a No Tax on Tips Bill?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/19/when-will-an-illinois-legislator-introduce-a-no-tax-on-tips-bill/
— Report Shows Wildly Inaccurate Crystal Lake Tax Increment Financial Projections
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/20/report-shows-wildly-inaccurate-crystal-lake-tax-increment-financial-projections/
— Health Department Reports First Death of Young Child from Respiratory Syncytial Virus
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/20/health-department-reports-death-of-young-child-from-respiratory-syncytial-virus/
— Trump Wins Budget Battle, Christmas Tree Bill Chopped Down
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/20/trump-wins-budget-battle/
— Slot Machine Thieves Arrested
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/20/slot-machine-thieves-arrested/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you are a conservative who is not in the process of leaving Illinois, what should you do to defend yourself? One thing is to help elect the Republican candidates on the April 1, 2025 ballot in your precinct.  Another thing is to get appointed to serve as a Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain. Another thing is to attend the January 11, 2025 Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee meeting. – Dave Diersen
http://
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election. From what I see, the more that Republican leaders do to deport illegals, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders will do a) to keep their illegals here and b) to bring their deported illegals back in. What can/should be done about that? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents do? My critics/opponents promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, 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. They destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. They have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you do and why do you do it? I put together and send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters every morning. I do that to promote conservative principles, that is, I do that to promote the Republican Party platform. I credit all my accomplishments in life to my following conservative principles. If I had not followed conservative principles, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, c) earn a professional license when I was 32, d) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., e) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, and 74, f) get married when I was 29, g) etc. – Dave Diersen
http”//www.gopillinois.com
— GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters are in-kind donations. GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter subscriptions are worth $1,000/year, if not $5,000/year, if not $10,000/year. But I send GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters out each and every morning free of charge and with no advertising or donation requests. I spend about 15 hours a day putting the newsletters together and sending them out. I spend thousands of dollars each year for newspaper subscriptions, internet expenses, etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com)

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Pritzker, a Licensed Attorney, Could Face State Disciplinary Action for Falsely Stating Trump is a “Rapist,” Says Blagojevich
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/12/pritzker-a-licensed-attorney-could-face-state-disciplinary-action-for-falsely-stating-trump-is-a-rapist-says-blagojevich.html
— Biden Rushes Back to DC as Harris Cancels Holiday Trip, Sparking 25th Amendment Rumors After Explosive Report Reveals Extensive Health Coverup Scheme
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/12/biden-rushes-back-to-dc-as-harris-cancels-holiday-trip-sparking-25th-amendment-rumors-after-explosive-report-reveals-extensive-health-coverup-scheme.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal published an explosive story that detailed a four-year coverup by the White House to hide the president’s deteriorating mental health condition and how top aides protected the ailing president from the public, his staff and even the cabinet. The White House hired a vocal coach to assist with his diminishing voice, sent surrogates to meetings that he should have been attending and canceled Oval Office meetings at the last minute when he wasn’t feeling well. Aides even instructed him on simple details like where to stand, where to look, how to get on and off stage and included note cards with pictures so he wouldn’t forget places or names. Press aides were even told to leave out negative press clippings seen by the president to further shield him from reality.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DEI is dangerous. It stokes hostility, not goodwill. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents promote DEI. DEI turns those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time AGAINST those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time,)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/20/network-contagion-research-institute-rutgers-study/
— 7.6 million known illegal immigrants at large in U.S.; number doubled under Biden (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/20/7-6-million-known-illegal-immigrants-large-u-numbe/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Elton John is right, marijuana legalization was a ‘great mistake’ (COMMENT: If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) earn six professional certifications, or a) earn a professional license.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3266882/elton-john-right-marijuana-legalization-great-mistake/

NEW YORK POST
— Over 271K migrants were deported from the US in 2024 — a paltry 9% of the 2.9M encountered at borders (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that deported illegals will immediately return. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/20/us-news/just-9-of-migrants-deported-in-2024-ice-data/
— Progressives care more about illegal-immigrant rapists than their child victims
https://nypost.com/2024/12/20/opinion/progressives-care-more-about-illegal-immigrant-rapists-than-child-victims/
— Illinois cops bust Canadians who crossed border with 1,100 pounds of cocaine worth $40 million
https://www.aol.com/illinois-cops-bust-2-canadians-174029707.html

AMERICAN MILTARY NEWS
— Up to 1,200 DEI employees may be hired by feds before Trump’s inauguration
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/12/up-to-1200-dei-employees-may-be-hired-by-feds-before-trumps-inauguration-report/#google_vignette

BREITBART
— The Wages of Wokeness: Google Slashes Management Roles by 10% (COMMENT: The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone to websites a) that promote the Democrat Party platform and Democrat candidates and elected officials and b) that demonize, denigrate, and condemn the Republican Party platform and Republican candidates and elected officials.)
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/12/20/the-wages-of-wokeness-google-slashes-management-roles-by-10/

DAILY CALLER
— Biden Admin Pats Itself On Back For Deporting Thousands Of Illegal Migrant Criminals After Rolling Out Welcome Mat
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/biden-admin-pats-itself-on-back-for-deporting-thousands-of-illegal-migrant-criminals-after-rolling-out-welcome-mat/ar-AA1wfczL

DAILY SIGNAL
— Biden’s Border Legacy Is More Crime, Strained Cities
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/20/bidens-border-legacy-is-more-crime-strained-cities-borderline/

EPOCH TIMES
— House Passes Funding Plan, Sends Bill to Senate Hours Before Shutdown Deadline
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/house-to-vote-on-plan-c-funding-plan-as-shutdown-looms-5779746

FOX BUSINESS
— Biden admin looks to hire up to 1,200 DEI employees in last-minute ‘woke’ push
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/watch/biden-admin-looks-to-hire-up-to-1200-dei-employees-in-last-minute-woke-push/vi-AA1weVPn

FOX NEWS
— Embattled Illinois mayor Tiffany Henyard declares ‘I am your Rosa Parks’ amid leadership feud. ‘Somebody has to say never never ever give up,’ Henyard said.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/embattled-illinois-mayor-declares-i-am-your-rosa-parks-amid-leadership-feud

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Obama Clings to Relevance—and to Racial Division
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/obama-clings-relevance-and-racial-division

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Democratic Chicago mayor faces irate citizens sick of illegal immigration onslaught in town hall
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/leftist-chicago-mayor-faces-irate-citizens-sick-of-illegal-immigration-onslaught-in-town-hall

MRC TV
— ‘Chicago Flips Red’: Local Group Repeatedly Scolds Mayor Over Job Performance, Ignoring the Constitution
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/nick-kangadis/chicago-flips-red-local-group-repeatedly-scolds-mayor-over-job-performance

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Nicknames, Mockery Trickle Out for Chicago’s Mayor
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2024/12/19/nicknames_mockery_trickle_out_for_chicagos_mayor_637606.html

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Senile Biden Frees 100+ Illegals Who Rioted at Border Because They’re Not ‘Border Security Risks’ Under His Policy
https://www.westernjournal.com/senile-biden-frees-100-illegals-rioted-border-not-border-security-risks-policy-report/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will do whatever they believe is necessary to destroy Trump including destroying America.
https://www.timescall.com/2024/12/20/donald-trump-economy-federal-reserve-bipartisan-budget-deal/amp/

MSN
— Starbucks provided in-kind donation to GOP convention host committee  (COMMENT: GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter subscriptions are worth $1,000/year, if not $5,000/year, if not $10,000/year. But I send GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters out each and every morning free of charge and with no advertising or donation requests. I spend about 15 hours a day putting the newsletters together and sending them out. I spend thousands of dollars each year for newspaper subscriptions, internet expenses, etc.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/starbucks-provides-in-kind-donation-to-gop-convention-host-committee/ar-BB1qaMuz
— New Bill Would Strip Federal Funding To Groups Supporting Illegal Immigrants (COMMENT: How strongly are groups in your county, township, municipality, and school district working to attract and keep illegals?)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-bill-would-strip-federal-funding-to-groups-supporting-illegal-immigrants/ss-AA1rZmdi
— Migrants Are Using Private Jet Charters To Enter The US
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/migrants-are-using-private-jet-charters-to-enter-the-us/ar-AA1wggnS
— 80% of women in Tijuana’s migrant shelters are from Mexico
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/80-of-women-in-tijuana-s-migrant-shelters-are-from-mexico/ar-AA1wbJmK

NEW YORK TIMES
— How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly analogize a) illegals with runaway slaves and b) Republicans and Confederates.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/books/review/andrew-delbanco-war-before-the-war.html

WASHINGTON POST
— 8 policies stripped from GOP bill after Trump, Musk rebellion
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/20/musk-trump-children-health-debt/
— To promote more hatred against Republicans, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations. If anyone should pay reparations, it should be Democrats because Democrats fought for slavery in the Civil War.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/20/reparations-black-trump/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater crow that “Trump’s claims of a mandate run into reality of narrow majorities.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/20/trump-presidential-power-congress-legislature/

NEW YORK SUN
— D.C. City Council Stealthily Passes Bill To Create a ‘Reparations Task Force’ To Explore Giving Money to Black Residents. Council members at Washington are hoping their sneakily named bill will avoid scrutiny from Republicans in Congress.
https://www.nysun.com/article/d-c-stealthily-passes-create-reparations-explore-money-black-residents

BALTIMORE SUN
— Equality and equity are not the same (COMMENT: According to Democrat and RINO leaders, if X% of those who apply for something are minority or female, that same X% should be accepted. Because of that, to accept minorities and females, Democrat and RINO leaders have ever-increasingly dramatically lowered hiring, retention, and promotion requirements. Because of that, because I am a White male, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license ever-increasingly became worthless.)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/12/20/equality-and-equity-are-not-the-same-reader-commentary/

WASHINGTON STATE STANDARD
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. By coming into America illegally and/or by staying In America illegally, illegals demonstrate their gross disrespect for the rule of law and for America. My their inviting illegals into America and by their keeping them in America, Democrat and RINO leaders demonstrate their gross disrespect for the rule of law and for America.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/12/20/immigration-drives-nations-population-growth/

13 NEWS NOW
— Government shutdown could cause millions of federal workers to be furloughed. (COMMENT: If I was still a federal employee, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would kill me figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.13newsnow.com/video/money/government-shutdown-could-cause-millions-of-federal-workers-to-be-furloughed/291-a2378a98-58dd-4470-b844-3f77354b7963

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How Colleges and Universities Get Around State DEI Bans. They hide behind vague demands from accreditors. Congress should deprive them of this excuse.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-colleges-and-universities-get-around-state-dei-bans-discrimination-iowa-65732dfb
— For Many People in This Small Town, Deportations Can’t Come Soon Enough. In Seymour, Ind., immigration became a focal point in 2024. Some residents hope 2025 brings changes. (COMMENT: Seymour today, your municipality tomorrow. What are the Democrat and RINO leaders of your municipality doing to invite illegals?)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/for-many-people-in-this-small-town-deportations-cant-come-soon-enough-fee9a193

BLOOMBERG
— The Wrath of DOGE Is Coming for Federal Workers (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years 1966-1969 and 1971-1997. They despised/hated Republicans. They especially despised/hated Republican elected officials. I should write a book about how they took their hatred against Nixon, Ford, Reagan, George H. Bush, and Gingrich out on me. It is called political affiliation discrimination.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-12-20/the-wrath-of-doge-is-coming-for-federal-workers
— Corporate America Hired More Black Workers. Then It Stopped. Black workers are losing share at big US public companies as conservatives amp up their anti-diversity push ahead of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. (COMMENT: Under Republicans Nixon, Ford, Reagan, George H. Bush, and Gingrich, the federal government gave tremendous preference to its Black employees. All my Black coworkers who were promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. Under Republican Gingrich, GAO forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-anti-dei-corporate-america-stalls-black-workers-gains/

NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— Immigration and Employment of Foreign Nationals: A Look Ahead (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers do not want any immigration laws let alone enforcement of those laws.)
https://natlawreview.com/article/immigration-and-employment-foreign-nationals-look-ahead

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— A quarter of FDIC survey respondents say harassment is common in the workplace. The new survey, from the FDIC inspector general, comes as part of the ongoing investigation into long-standing workplace culture concerns. (COMMENT: In Diersen v. GAO, GAO argued a) that it had never discriminated against any of its employees for any reason and b) that it had treated me and all its employees exactly like Congress wanted it to, that is, to meet Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI quotas, goals, and targets, that is, to use AA, DEI, up-or-out, budget cuts, etc. to waste the careers of and to get rid of its employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2024/12/a-quarter-of-fdic-survey-respondents-say-harassment-is-common-in-the-workplace/

FED SMITH
— Cato’s Recommendations to DOGE for Slashing Federal Employee Pay, Benefits (COMMENT: While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents always shouted a) that I was grossly overpaid and that my employee benefits were much too generous, b) that young minorities and young females should have had the jobs that I had, and c) that I should be fired. While I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years, my critics/opponents have always shouted that my retiree benefits are much too generous. In my defense, I became a federal employee when I was 22 years old in 1971 because of EEOC. In 1971, Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me because I had accepted that offer. I had to have a job. I was helping support my mother and brother because my father had recently suddenly died. Because of that I accepted a job offer from IRS.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2024/12/20/catos-recommendations-to-doge-for-slashing-federal-employee-pay-benefits/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Cut Overall Compensation for Federal Employees by 10%. . .Cut the Total Number of Federal Employees by 10%. . .Limit Federal Employee Unions. . .Making It Easier to Fire Poorly Performing Federal Employees. . .Reinstate Schedule F. . .End Affirmative Action in Federal Hiring and Contracting. . .Privatizing Federal Operations

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— More! on the windfall elimination provision and government pension offset. Many Civil Service Retirement System retirees are hoping for an early Christmas present from Congress. (COMMENT: My Social Security is dramatically reduced because I get a Civil Service Retirement System pension. I paid into Social Security for 10 years while I washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, delivered mail, worked on an automobile assembly line, and sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances.)
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2024/12/more-windfall-elimination-provision-and-government-pension-offset/401798/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Wednesday, federal retirees who retired under the Civil Service Retirement System, current CSRS employees and a multitude of other state and local public service employees who receive pensions from work not covered by Social Security, applauded when the Senate voted on a motion to invoke cloture. The agreement to invoke cloture was on the motion to proceed to H.R. 82. (a bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provisions). The motion was agreed to with 73 years and 27 nays which could mean higher Social Security benefits for CSRS retirees if passed before Congress leaves this week.)
— IRS workforce is more diverse than the national civilian labor force. So why is GAO criticizing the tax agency’s DEI programs?  A new GAO report ( https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105785 ) found that women, employees from historically disadvantaged racial or ethnic groups and persons with disabilities were underrepresented in senior levels at the agency. (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980. They did everything that they could to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. That is, they discriminated against their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2024/09/irs-workforce-more-diverse-national-civilian-labor-force-so-why-gao-criticizing-tax-agencys-dei-programs/399446/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The IRS’ workforce in 2022 was more diverse than the federal workforce as a whole as well as the national civilian labor force in terms of representation of women and individuals from historically disadvantaged racial or ethnic groups. However a Government Accountability Office report published on Monday found disparities in diverse representation at more senior levels and argued current IRS plans to address the gaps have significant shortcomings. GAO reported that IRS’ workforce — which consists of approximately 90,000 employees, and is expected to grow because of an infusion of funds from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act —  generally became more diverse between fiscal years 2013 and 2022. But that progress didn’t persist across ranks. “In general, the more senior the level, the lower the representation of women, employees from historically disadvantaged racial or ethnic groups and persons with disabilities in each of the 10 fiscal years we reviewed,” investigators wrote. For example, 71.9% of IRS employees in grades [general schedule]-10 and below were women in fiscal 2022 compared to 45.6% of individuals at the executive level. Other noteworthy findings include: The decreasing representation at senior levels for Black or African American and Hispanic or Latino employees was largely tied to fewer women of those backgrounds serving in those roles. In contrast, the increasing representation at senior levels of white employees was driven largely by there being more white men in those positions. Women, employees from historically disadvantaged racial or ethnic groups and individuals with disabilities were generally less likely to be promoted across multiple GS grades. IRS employees who are women earned 17% less than men and workers from historically disadvantaged racial or ethnic groups earned 6% less than their white counterparts. Investigators wrote that salary disparities existed even after controlling for GS grade level and occupation. Over the review period, IRS did identify certain causes for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility setbacks. Between fiscal years 2017 and 2022, for instance, the agency noted that there was low participation by Hispanic or Latino, Asian and Black or African American employees in an executive readiness development program. GAO criticized IRS’ plans to resolve those setbacks, in particular that they are spread out among three different strategies. “​​With multiple plans articulating differing DEIA goals, IRS’s DEIA efforts are neither clear nor transparent, hindering decision-makers’ ability to set priorities, allocate resources and restructure efforts, as needed, to ensure effective DEIA advancement,” investigators wrote. They also found the agency conducted limited stakeholder consultation and that staffing issues in IRS’ Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion contributed to the issue. GAO made eight recommendations, including that IRS create a unified DEIA strategic plan and set performance measures for goals in the strategy. IRS agreed with each of the recommendations. Congressional Republicans in June introduced legislation that would bar federal funds from being used toward DEI efforts.)

GUARDIAN
— Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally, sources allege. Experts believe the alleged ‘shuttle support’ program used by Uline – a company owned by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – is likely illegal and exploitative of workers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/uline-mexican-workers-trump

DAILY MAIL
— ‘Am I Racist?’ star Matt Walsh blasts the Academy Awards for snubbing documentary exposing DEI  (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that Democrats and RINOs will ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and even worse things.)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14212167/Am-Racist-star-Matt-Walsh-blasts-Academy-Awards-snubbing-documentary-exposing-DEI.html
— Ruthless migrant thugs are entering the US legally through Biden-approved loophole app
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-14212499/Ruthless-migrant-thugs-entering-legally-Biden-approved-loophole-app.html

WORKERS WORLD
— Protesters to Biden: ‘Dismantle the Deportation Machine’ (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. By coming into America illegally and/or by staying In America illegally, illegals demonstrate their gross disrespect for the rule of law and for America. By their inviting illegals into America and by their keeping them in America, Democrat and RINO leaders demonstrate their gross disrespect for the rule of law and for America.)
https://www.workers.org/2024/12/82757/ 

December 16, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 16 shot, 3 fatally, in Chicago shootings this weekend
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-15-shot-3-killed-gun-violence-city-police-department-says-live-news-updates/15659574/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-cannabis-industry-illinois/15652693/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/lgbtq-pride-magazines-100-celebration-honors-trailblazers-advocates-including-gma-sam-champion/15645988/
— Woman charged in alleged anti-Palestinian hate crime inside Downers Grove Panera due in court
https://abc7chicago.com/post/alexandra-szustakiewicz-due-court-hate-crime-charges-alleged-ant-palestinian-incident-downers-grove-panera/15662572/

FOX32
— Threats against members of Congress surge after murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO. Threats against members of Congress are surging, including fake bomb calls targeting their homes after the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1562490
— More than 100 former patients file major lawsuit against Universal Health Services for alleged abuse
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-lawsuit-universal-health-services
— UnitedHealthcare lawsuit: Physicians allege delay, deny, underpay practices
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/unitedhealthcare-physicians-lawsuit

WGN9
— DuPage County Sheriff to suspend evictions during portion of the holiday season
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/dupage-county-sheriff-to-suspend-evictions-during-portion-of-the-holiday-season/ar-AA1vHgTi

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: November election numbers tell a cautionary tale for both Democrats and GOP (COMMRENT: Why didn’t Republican candidates on the ballot in your precinct do better?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/16/illinois-presidential-election-breakdown/
— The real cost of the anti-college narrative (COMMENT: My father often decried that he did not get promotions because he did not have a college degree. When you were in high school, were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/16/opinion-anti-college-narrative-black-students-elitism/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The current anti-college narrative, while seemingly populist and anti-elitist, is built on a false premise: that just because you can be successful without college, you shouldn’t have to pursue it. Worse, it perpetuates a harmful message for historically marginalized groups. This line of thinking implies that students from lower-income backgrounds or marginalized communities — those often unable to afford college outright — should simply opt out, limiting their potential opportunities. This ultimately reinforces racist and classist ideas that say if you aren’t already poised to access other forms of opportunity, then those opportunities aren’t for you.)

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, if not already, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241215/news/wrapping-our-arms-around-the-community-the-outreach-house-helps-with-food-clothing-utilities/
— Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrat leaders have hinted/implied/argued/shouted at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241215/news/a-resilient-nation-leaders-stress-importance-of-community-at-mlk-dinner/

JOURNAL COURIER
— Other states must be saying, ‘Thanks, Santa, for what you send us from Illinois
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/the-gifts-illinois-sends-states-mark-glennon-19980840.php

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
— How much does that job pay? Salary transparency one of many new Illinois laws in 2025. (COMMENT: Federal employee salaries are extremely transparent. My IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates saw that my Democrat superiors were paying me less than my coworkers who had less work experience that 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. They especially saw that I had to take a $22,996 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.)
https://www.bnd.com/news/state/illinois/article296931194.html

CENTRALL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders were less successful than they thought they be in getting their illegals to vote.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-the-gop-stoked-fears-of-noncitizens-voting-cases-in-ohio-show-how-rhetoric-and-reality-diverge/

WCIA
— Romney: ‘You can’t complain’ if Trump does what he says he would do (COMMENT: I should write about the Romney promoters in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois a) who continue to blame Romney’s defeats on me and on my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) who continue to punish me for Romney’s defeats.)
https://www.wcia.com/news/national/romney-you-cant-complain-if-trump-does-what-he-says-he-would-do/

WAND TV
— Journalists anticipate a renewed hostility toward their work under the incoming Trump administration. When Donald Trump takes office as president for a second time, many journalists anticipate a hostile climate toward them and their work. (COMMENT: How does the Trump team view me and view my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters?)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/journalists-anticipate-a-renewed-hostility-toward-their-work-under-the-incoming-trump-administration/article_4f8a72ac-939c-5c42-8bf4-d9117554b666.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-424/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Settlement with ABC and Stephanopoulos indicates Trump has an actionable defamation claim against Gov. Pritzker
https://wirepoints.org/settlement-with-abc-and-stephanopolous-indicates-trump-has-an-actionable-defamation-claim-against-pritzker-wirepoints-quickpoint/
— Illinois pension debts hit $144 billion in 2024, make a mockery of politicians’ decades of ‘balanced budgets’
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-pension-debts-at-144-billion-in-2024-makes-mockery-of-politicians-decades-of-balanced-budgets-wirepoints/
— Chicago aldermen have told Mayor Johnson they don’t want to impose yet another property tax hike on Chicagoans. He should listen.
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-aldermen-have-told-mayor-johnson-they-dont-want-to-impose-yet-another-tax-hike-on-chicagoans-he-should-listen-wirepoints-on-univision-chicago/
— Pritzker takes credit for ending the grocery tax, but won’t mention the gas tax hike or property taxes
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzker-takes-credit-for-ending-the-grocery-tax-but-wont-mention-the-gas-tax-hike-or-property-taxes-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If you wrote books, what would you write about? I would write about the mainstream news media and Google and their ever-increasing promotion of the Democrat Party platform, Democrat elected officials, and Democrat candidates and their ever-increasing demonization, denigration, and condemnation of the Republican Party platform, Republican elected officials, and Republican candidates. The mainstream news media ever-increasingly makes its anti-conservative anti-Republican anti-Trump editorials look like news articles. I should write a book about that.- Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If you wrote books, what would you write about? I would write about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and retaliation for complaining about the aforesaid. I would use as examples my Democrat GAO, IRS, Firestone Store, and Post Office superiors. I would use as examples leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. I would use as examples Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. I would use as examples adverse actions that the aforesaid have taken against me and the pretexts they used. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If you wrote books, what would you write about? I would write about the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton township, and Wheaton and how they have been taken over by anti-conservatives and by anti-Republicans. I would use as examples the adverse actions that leaders of the aforesaid have taken against me and the pretexts they have used. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WILLIAM J KELLY
— Johnson runs from budget debacle
https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1867683008511152167

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Let ‘sanctuary’ cities keep millions of illegal aliens, without federal funding. Time to give ‘the resistance’ what they want. (COMMENT: The Democrats who run sanctuary cities will a) run up debt, b) take money away from any remaining Republicans in the city, and/or c) ship their illegals to the suburbs.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/15/let-sanctuary-cities-keep-millions-illegal-aliens-/
— Romney predicts J.D. Vance will be GOP presidential nominee in 2028
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/15/mitt-romney-predicts-vice-president-elect-j-d-vanc/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Fixing deportation
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/fixing_deportation.html
— Anchor babies with birthright citizenship is an idiotic policy that encourages migrants to come to the U.S. illegally
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/anchor_babies_with_birthright_citizenship_is_an_idiotic_policy_that_encourages_migrants_to_come_to_the_u_s_illegally.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘Party of the working class’: Trump critic Mitt Romney credits Trump for reshaping GOP as he exits politics (COMMENT: I was a member of the working class for 33 years, that is, I was a wage earner for 33 years.)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/12/15/party-of-the-working-class-trump-critic-mitt-romney-credits-trump-for-reshaping-gop-as-he-exits-politics-1509812/

CENTER SQUARE
— Military may be ground zero for the war on woke (COMMENT: All my critics/opponents are woke, that is, they all are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-draft avoiders, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_4d1e584e-b9a7-11ef-8c1a-774323955d0c.html

DAILY SIGNAL
— It’s ‘Prime’ Time to Discuss Transgender Medicine as a Nation of Parents, Not Partisans (COMMENT: Soon, if not already, everyone in medicine will be Democrat, libera/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/15/its-prime-time-discuss-transgender-medicine-nation-parents-not-partisans/

FOX NEWS
— Clinton says Democrats have bad habit of ‘giving up’ on certain groups because of demographics (COMMENT: Democrat plant political consultants in Illinois advise Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois to get votes from those in Illinois who are liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and those whose ancestors who have not been in America for a long time to dump voters in Illinois who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365866530112
— ‘Going to be painful’: Venezuelan expert sounds alarm about what’s next if sanctuary city policies continue. A former Venezuelan army officer told Fox News Digital that the ‘next step’ of violent gang is ‘targeted assassinations.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/painful-venezuelan-expert-sounds-alarm-about-whats-next-sanctuary-city-policies-continue

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— The Thieves of Words: DEI and Other Misleading Terms. Totalitarian ideologues have perfected the art of deception by using benign terminology and injecting it with oppressive meaning.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/the-thieves-of-words-dei-and-other-misleading-terms/
— Diversity Conference for Elite Private Schools Devolves Into Festival of Jew Hatred
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/diversity-conference-for-elite-private-schools-devolves-into-festival-of-jew-hatred/amp/

REASON
— Federal Government Has ‘Grown Too Big, Promised Too Much, Subsidized Too Many,’ Warns Former GAO Boss David Walker. This week’s House Budget Committee hearing showed bipartisan agreement about the seriousness of America’s fiscal problems. (COMMENT: Walker led GAO 1998-2008. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 and I sued GAO in 1998. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf  The Democrats who run GAO do not want GAO to have any Republican employees. They used Republican-led budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s few remaining Republicans.)
https://reason.com/2024/12/13/federal-government-has-grown-too-big-promised-too-much-subsidized-too-many-warns-former-gao-boss/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The United States is likely to face a debt crisis within the next five years unless Congress undertakes serious fiscal reforms, says a former comptroller general who is urging lawmakers to treat the budget and deficit with the seriousness it deserves. “The federal government has grown too big, promised too much, subsidized too many, undercut states’ rights, and lost control of the budget,” David Walker, who led the Government Accountability Office from 1998 until 2008, told members of the House Budget Committee on Wednesday. Unless Congress puts the country on a different fiscal course, Walker believes there is a 70 percent chance of a serious debt crisis before the end of the decade. That crisis would have “serious adverse economic security, national security, diplomatic, and domestic tranquility consequences,” he warned, adding that the middle class would “be affected the most on a relative basis” if standards of living are suddenly hit with a debt-induced shockwave. This week’s hearing was intended to highlight bipartisan agreement on the seriousness of the federal government’s fiscal problems, said Rep. Jodey Arrington (R–Texas), the committee’s chairman. “We’ve got major fiscal problems and a completely unsustainable fiscal trajectory. I haven’t heard anyone, Democrat or Republican, witness or member, that [sic] doesn’t accept that fact,” he said. “We won’t know when the dominoes fall on us in a sovereign debt crisis, it’s going to be difficult to put the pieces back together and maintain our global leadership.” Those remarks echo warnings issued in recent years by governmental entities like the GAO and the Congressional Budget Office, as well as outside groups like the Penn Wharton Budget Model. Since 2015 the gross national debt has doubled, from $18 trillion to over $36 trillion. Debt held by the public, which most economists consider the more significant measure, sits at more than $28 trillion, or 99 percent of GDP. Deficits of nearly $2 trillion are expected for the foreseeable future. Douglas Elmendorf, the economist and dean of the school of government at Harvard University, who was invited to speak at the hearing by Democrats, also stressed the need for immediate action. “Although we are not in a crisis now, delaying action has significant costs,” Elmendorf said. “The accumulation of debt crowds out capital investment, which holds down wages and pushes up interest rates relative to what would happen otherwise. In addition, the accumulation of debt limits the government’s ability to borrow when truly needed to respond to problems in the future.” While there is little disagreement about the seriousness of America’s fiscal problems, the committee hearing also inadvertently highlighted the immense difficulty of solving them. During his testimony, Walker proposed what he called a “fiscal responsibility amendment” to the U.S. Constitution, which would bind Congress’ ability to borrow recklessly. This could take several different forms. Germany, for example, has a so-called “debt brake” rule—which it hasn’t followed in recent years—that says the government’s annual budget deficit cannot exceed 0.35 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). By contrast, the U.S. federal government ran a deficit of $1.8 trillion last year, which is about 6 percent of America’s current GDP of about $29.3 trillion. Another example is on the books in Colorado, where the growth of government spending is limited by a formula that takes into account population growth and inflation. Those are good models to follow, but imposing those restrictions via a constitutional amendment seems like a nearly impossible lift. Amendments must be passed by a two-thirds vote in both chambers of Congress and subsequently ratified by three-quarters of the states, and no amendment has successfully navigated the process since 1992. Of course, lawmakers don’t need a constitutional constraint to prevent them from borrowing too much. They could simply pass a budget that doesn’t depend on trillions of dollars in annual borrowing. Yes, yes, it’s okay to laugh. But that is the thing that must happen. New constitutional amendments or other mechanisms like debt commissions—a solution favored by Cato Institute budget expert Romina Boccia, who also testified at this week’s hearing—are fine ideas worth pursuing. Embedded in both those ideas, however, is the admission that our elected leaders are somehow unable to do their most fundamental jobs without artificial constraints. And that may very well be true: Available evidence certainly points to that conclusion. But the biggest budgetary constraint of all is the one Walker (and plenty of others) believe is looming just over the horizon. Congress cannot ignore it any longer.)

STARS AND STRIPES
— Why the Naval Academy gets to keep affirmative action (COMMENT: To use Affirmative Action and DEI is to a) lower hiring, retention, and promotion standards for minorities and for females and a) to raise hiring, retention, and promotion standards for Whites and for men. All my coworkers in the federal government who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who were minority and/or female. They all 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. Because I am not a minority or female, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed my job-related bachelor’s degree and my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.)
https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2024-12-15/naval-academy-affirmative-action-admissions-16171778.html

TOWNHALL
— The End of the ‘Free’ Rides.  A new sheriff is coming to town. The free gravy train for the irresponsible and illegals is going to be over. “Free” is giving way to personal responsibility and earning the rewards you seek. “Free” is on the way out in Trump’s Washington.
https://townhall.com/columnists/terrypaulson/2024/12/16/the-end-of-the-free-rides-n2648995

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Trump vows to ‘hire American.’ His businesses keep hiring foreign guest workers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-vows-to-hire-american-his-businesses-keep-hiring-foreign-guest-workers/ar-AA1vW5JM

YAHOO
— Shock as Trump Adviser Collapses on Stage at New York Young Republican Gala
https://www.yahoo.com/news/shock-trump-adviser-collapses-stage-053308177.html

ABC NEWS
— Journalists anticipate a renewed hostility toward their work under the incoming Trump administration. When Donald Trump takes office as president for a second time, many journalists anticipate a hostile climate toward them and their work. (COMMENT: How does the Trump team view me and view my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters?)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/journalists-anticipate-renewed-hostility-work-incoming-trump-administration-116818030
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/trump-threatens-mass-deportations-central-america-braces-influx-116816385

MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more pot.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/this-is-how-much-weed-you-should-smoke-if-you-re-trying-to-relieve-stress/ss-AA1uCQzC
— ‘Promoting Meritocracy’: Elon Musk’s Super PAC Drops $10,000,000 (COMMENT: (COMMENT: My critics/opponents oppose meritocracy because meritocracy frustrates their giving preference to those who are liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and those whose ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/promoting-meritocracy-elon-musk-s-super-pac-drops-10-000-000/ss-AA1sk2K7?ocid=HPCDHP

NEWSWEEK
— Full List of Democrats Skipping Donald Trump’s Inauguration (COMMENT: The list includes Casten and Ramirez.)
https://www.newsweek.com/list-democrats-skipping-donald-trumps-inauguration-2001234
— Blagojevich: Weaponization of Justice ‘Started With Me’
https://www.newsweek.com/rod-blagojevich-justice-department-lawfare-trump-biden-2000399
— Celebrities Who Tried to Stop Donald Trump Fall Silent
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-election-celebrities-debra-messing-martin-sheen-video-2000481

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Wants to Destroy the ‘Deep State.’ But He Also Wants to Wield Its Power. (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who want Trump to fail.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/opinion/deep-state-trump-administrative.html
— Opposition Research Goes Hyperlocal. The liberal group American Bridge is launching a new project to collect information for campaigns against Republicans running for state and local offices. (COMMENT: If you were me, what would you do? I spend a tremendous amount of time and money putting my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out each and every morning. Far too many of those who read my newsletters do so for opposition research. They a) reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform, b) read my newsletters to get information to use against me, and/or c) have taken adverse actions against me. Should I start naming the aforesaid and writing about them? I would start with those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. The only legitimate reason to read my newsletters is to get information to defend and advance conservative principles and the Republican Party platform and to help elect Republican candidates who can and will do the aforesaid.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/us/politics/opposition-research-goes-hyperlocal.html
— Why Democrats Lost More Seats in Vermont Than Any Other State (COMMRENT: Why didn’t Republican candidates on the ballot in your precinct do better?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/us/vermont-election-democrats-republicans.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration,
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/us/trump-immigrant-deportations-rome-georgia.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Musk put $277 million into the election. He’s $200 billion richer this year. The tech mogul made a big bet on Trump. By one measure, it has paid off handsomely.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/15/elon-musk-trump-election-wealth/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/15/honduras-trump-mass-deportations-central-america-immigration/b5f4eb26-bb64-11ef-b94f-104ed944ce38_story.html

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Biden is trying to Trump-proof his legacy (COMMENT: Biden’s legacy is massive increases in dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/14/biden-trump-laws-judges-regulations-legacy/76865964007/
— FRONT PAGE: Illegals drive up health care costs.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/12/15/why-americans-pay-more-for-health-care/76900978007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Allies Fear Watered Down Deportation Efforts. President-elect’s team is committed to pursuing immigrants who crossed illegally, but is wary about logistical challenges and setting expectations. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that they have flooded America with so many millions of their illegals that it is futile to deport any of them. They will simply immediately return.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-immigration-deportation-promises-worried-allies-6b78418d
— Untangling America’s Love-Hate Relationship With Corporate Power. Assassination of health-insurance executive reveals frustration with big business weeks after a business leader was elected president.
https://www.wsj.com/business/untangling-americas-love-hate-relationship-with-corporate-power-6d415af4
— When ‘Middle Age’ Arrives in Your 20s. Stress is making young people feel older, with mounting concerns about job security, debt, child-care costs and caregiving. (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out, that is, they used age discrimination, to get rid of their Republican employees. In 1974 when I was 25 years old, they wrote me off as being too old to be promoted to GS-13. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980. I transferred to GAO in 1980. After I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981 and became a licensed CPA in 1981, they finally promoted me to GS-13 in 1986.)
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/middle-age-young-stress-aging-4965bdc7
— The Economics of Media Bias. In a polarized country and crowded market, partisan coverage allows outlets to differentiate themselves.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-media-bias-journalism-politics-polarization-markets-e723fe18
— A New Risk for Employers: Losing Millions of Migrants With Temporary Work Permits. Trump promised to eliminate programs that provide temporary work permits, including to Dreamers. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers prefer citizens of foreign countries.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-immigration-work-permit-policy-business-impact-0ecadef5


FORBES
— Mitch McConnell Criticizes ‘Right-Wing Isolationists’—Says Trump Must Embrace U.S. ‘Hard Power’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/12/16/mitch-mcconnell-criticizes-right-wing-isolationists-says-trump-must-embrace-us-hard-power/
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marybethgasman/2024/12/15/how-the-congressional-black-caucus-foundation-is-responding-to-attacks-on-dei/

SCRIPPS NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that they have flooded America with so many millions of their illegals that it is futile to deport any of them. They will simply immediately return.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/experts-predict-mass-deportation-would-damage-us-economy/ar-AA1vLckQ

NPR
— Biden took his election as being a mandate to not only destroy the Republican Party, but to destroy America.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/16/g-s1-38003/trump-mandate-presidents

LADDERS
— 5 reasons your boss wants you to succeed (COMMENT: Because I was a Republican, my Democrat bosses absolutely did not want me to succeed. My Democrat GAO bosses were furious that I survived their efforts to get rid of me for almost 18 years. My Democrat IRS bosses were furious that I survived their efforts to get rid of me for almost 9 years. My Democrat Firestone Store boss was furious that I survived his efforts to get rid of me for almost 3 years. My Democrat Post Office bosses were furious that I survived their efforts to get rid of me for almost 3 years. My TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois RINO bosses were furious that I survived their efforts to get rid of me and my chairmanship for almost 7 years. My Milton Township Republican Organization RINO bosses were furious that I survived their efforts to get rid of my webmaster service for 6 years. My Illinois Center Right Coalition RINO bosses were furious that I survived their efforts to get rid of me and my service as an officer for 4 years. My American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter Democrat and RINO bosses were furious that I survived their efforts to get rid of me and my service as a board member for 3 years. I should write about the aforesaid.)
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/5-reasons-your-boss-wants-you-to-succeed
— It’s not in your head — 10 signs your boss is setting you up to fail (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors a) gave me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals and b) assigned me to supervise their most problematic employees.)
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/its-not-in-your-head-10-signs-your-boss-is-setting-you-up-to-fail

ENTREPRENEUR
— 10 Signs People Believe In You and Want You to Succeed (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and promote me to GS-13 in 1986.)
https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/10-signs-people-believe-in-you-and-want-you-to-succeed/345386
— Surround Yourself With People Who Want You to Succeed (COMMENT: While I served as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012, I was not able recruit offices and directors who wanted me to succeed.)
https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/surround-yourself-with-people-who-want-you-to-succeed/337493

MEDIUM
— How to Deal With People Who Want You to Fail (COMMENT: Because I was a Republican, my Democrat Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO  superiors wanted me to fail. To deal with that, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://medium.com/mind-cafe/how-to-deal-with-people-who-want-you-to-fail-7a86ffc64b46
— People Want You to Stay in Your Limits. (COMMENT: What limited your advancement? My demographics are terrible. Further, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. I avoided the Vietnam War draft. I had to work my way through college.)
https://medium.com/the-ascent/people-want-you-to-stay-in-your-limits-e46d486f9519
— “I just want you to succeed” — the back-handed compliment  (COMMENT: See my comments above.)
https://medium.com/@uzhussain/i-just-want-you-to-succeed-d53ca40e84a4
— Why The World Doesn’t Want You to Succeed  (COMMENT: See my comments above.)
https://medium.com/the-understanding-project/why-the-world-doesnt-want-you-to-succeed-and-what-to-do-about-it-cf2854b505b9

FORBES
— Five Signs Your Boss Doesn’t Want You To Succeed (COMMENT: See my comments above.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2016/01/13/five-signs-your-boss-doesnt-want-you-to-succeed/

IVY EXE
— Set Up to Fail? Here’s What to Do  (COMMENT: See my comments above.)
https://ivyexec.com/career-advice/2017/set-up-to-fail/

LINKED IN
— People Want You to Succeed (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and promote me to GS-13 in 1986.)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/people-want-you-succeed-mike-kaeding
— When Your Manager Doesn’t Want You To Succeed (COMMENT: See my comments above.)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-your-manager-doesnt-want-you-succeed-liz-ryan
— How to Rise Above Friends Who Secretly Want You to Fail (COMMENT: See my comments above.)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-rise-above-friends-who-secretly-want-you-fail-reza-naqvi-ghmve
— Why Society Doesn’t Want You to Succeed (COMMENT: See my comments above.)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-society-doesnt-want-you-succeed-ayodeji-awosika

SELF-PUBLISHING
— How to Write a Book (COMMENT: If you wrote books, what would you write about? I would write about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and retaliation for complaining about the aforesaid. I would use as examples my Democrat GAO, IRS, Firestone Store, and Post Office superiors. I would use as examples leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. I would use as examples Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. I would use as examples adverse actions that the aforesaid took against me and the pretexts they used.)
https://selfpublishing.com/how-to-write-a-book/

INDEPENDENT
— ABC’s $15m settlement in Trump ‘rape’ defamation case was met with surprise and outrage. Here’s why. Trump claimed George Stephanopoulos defamed him when he said a jury found him ‘liable for rape.’ (COMMENT: My critics/opponents stress that GAO forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49, but they hold back from publicly hinting/implying/arguing/shouting why GAO forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49. Under the table, they hint/imply/argue/shout that GAO must have forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 because I am a White supremist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things even though a) I had a CPA license, b) I had professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, c) I had master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, d) I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years, and e) I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years. My critics/opponents know that I have filed lawsuits.)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/abc-news-defamation-settlement-george-stephanopoulos-b2664857.html

December 15, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

WGN9
— Is it legal to shoot down a drone in Illinois?
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/is-it-legal-to-shoot-down-a-drone-in-missouri-or-illinois/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Lake County officials vow not to help any mass deportation efforts (COMMENT: Constructively, Lake County has declared war on America. The Democrat Party has declared a Second Civil War on the Republican Party. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/13/lake-county-officials-vow-not-to-help-any-mass-deportation-efforts-we-want-everyone-in-our-community-to-trust-in-that/
— In Downers Grove, whether to elect library board exposes old political rifts
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/14/downers-grove-library-board/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Intentionally weak government oversight gives Illinois public officials cover for corruption
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/15/illinois-weak-government-oversight/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2024/12/14/national-immigrant-justice-center-prepares-defend-immigrants-mass-deportations-tom-homan-border-czar

DAILY HERALD
— Trump attends the Army-Navy game alongside key allies, nominees and Daniel Penny
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241214/nation-and-world-politics/trump-attends-the-army-navy-game-alongside-key-allies-nominees-and-daniel-penny/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Why Illinois state agencies are sitting on millions in unspent funding
https://pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/rich-miller-why-illinois-state-agencies-are-sitting-on-millions-in-unspent-funding/article_a609c768-b9a2-11ef-a81d-73b012977313.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Kinzinger.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/government-politics/elections/adam-kinzinger-central-illinois-last-republican-president-2028/article_bd5feb52-b99f-11ef-9897-9744ae045665.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump gets warm welcome as he watches Army-Navy game alongside key allies, nominees and Daniel Penny (COMMENT: If Trump came to your county, township, or municipality, how warm of a welcome would he get?)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-will-attend-the-army-navy-game-alongside-key-allies-nominees-and-daniel-penny/

NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION
— Naperville man found guilty of criminal damage to property for swastikas on campaign signs
https://www.nctv17.org/news/naperville-man-found-guilty-of-criminal-damage-to-property-for-swastikas-on-campaign-signs/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Unions pitch ‘fix’ to Illinois’ pensions without knowing taxpayer cost
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b481dc42-b9a0-11ef-9ca3-ef54943f8644.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders a) equate illegals with runaway slaves, b) equate the Democrat Party with Union in the Civil War, and c) equate the Republican Party with the Confederacy in the Civil War. The Democrat Party has declared a Second Civil War on the Republican Party. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In Illinois, you declare your party affiliation by casting a primary ballot. Of registered voters nationwide, 47% have declared a party affiliation. As of September 2024, 36 million voters are registered Republicans and 45.1 million are registered Democrats. SEE: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-voters-have-a-party-affiliation/  What percent of the voters in your precinct are registered Republican, Democrat, and not affiliated? In my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton, 361 (33%) are Republican, 272 (27%) are Democrat, and 458 (42%) are not affiliated. For the April 1, 2025 consolidate election, I will hand-deliver campaign literature for the Republican candidates and a copy of the sample ballot to the approximate 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or not affiliated voter. – Dave Diersen
http://www-gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Continued Concern about Data Centers Sucking Up Residential Electricity
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/14/continued-concern-about-data-centers-sucking-up-residential-electricity/
— Notes on Government Consolidation from Zoom Meeting of We the People with Illinois House Majority Leader
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/14/notes-on-government-consolidation-from-zoom-meeting-of-we-the-people-with-illinois-house-majority-leader/
— Lakewood Village Board Turns Thumbs Down on Police Request for Tesla
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/14/lakewood-village-board-turns-thumbs-down-on-police-request-for-tesla/
— LaHood Criticizes Biden for Voiding 19-Year Dixon Comptroller Prison Sentence
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/14/lahood-criticizes-biden-for-voiding-19-year-dixon-comptroller-prison-sentence/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Daniel Penny joins Trump and Vance at Army-Navy game
https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/us-news/daniel-penny-joins-trump-and-vance-at-army-navy-game/
— Trump eyeing privatizing US Postal Service (COMMENT: I worked for the Post Office for almost 3 years.)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/us-news/trump-eyeing-privatizing-us-postal-service-report/
— Joe Biden & Co. are doing as much damage to the US as they can before they leave
https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/opinion/joe-biden-amp-co-are-doing-as-much-damage-to-the-us-as-they-can-before-they-leave/
— Google slammed for ‘woke’ new Christmas ad starring ‘nonbinary’ beauty influencer  (COMMENT: The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone to websites a) that promote Democrats and the Democrat Party and b) that demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans and the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7vbl7bMZGg
— A new investment fund is saying ‘no’ to DEI-focused companies — and ‘yes’ to others
https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/opinion/a-new-investment-fund-is-saying-no-to-dei-focused-companies/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Communist China Is Moving Toward War  (COMMENT: Communist China sees that Affirmative Action and DEI are ever-increasingly weakening America.)
https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/15/communist-china-is-moving-toward-war-separating-the-signal-from-the-noise/

BREITBART
— DOGE Says Department of Education Spent $1 Billion Promoting DEI in Schools (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/14/doge-claims-department-education-spent-1-billion-promoting-dei-schools/
— Majority Support Banning Minors from Accessing Transgender Procedures; Most Democrats Disagree
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/14/poll-majority-support-banning-minors-from-accessing-transgender-procedures-most-democrats-disagree/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Yale law Scholars program extends eligibility to non-citizens, including illegal immigrants (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/yale-law-scholars-program-extends-eligibility-non-citizens-including-illegal-immigrants/27088

CENTER SQUARE
— IRS data shows ‘Blue State Exodus’ over past 30 years  (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly drive Republicans out of blue states. I should write a book about the success that Democrat and RINO leaders in Illinois have had driving Republicans out of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton’s West District, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_161808d8-b982-11ef-bd4c-f35cdecb09db.html
— Challenging Trump, California to pay for migrant deportation defense  (COMMENT: Constructively, California has declared war on America.)
https://www.aol.com/challenging-trump-california-pay-migrant-172900872.html

DAILY CALLER
— Massive Defense Bill Creates Sperm Freezing Program, Dumps Millions Into ‘Minority Serving’ Schools
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/14/house-passes-ndaa-program-funds-sperm-freezing/

DAILY SIGNAL
— More Corporations Following Walmart’s ‘Rollback’ of DEI Policies (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RNO employers will put their DEI “under the table” and that they will continue to use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/14/corporations-are-finally-giving-dei-pink-slip/

EPOCH TIMES
— ABC News, George Stephanopoulos Agree to Pay $15 Million to Settle Trump’s Defamation Lawsuit. ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have agreed to apologize to Trump and pay millions to settle a defamation lawsuit. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents tone down their defamation of me because I have filed lawsuits.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/abc-news-george-stephanopoulos-agree-to-pay-15-million-to-settle-trumps-defamation-lawsuit-5776527

FOX BUSINESS
— Chicago resident slams mayor, calls out city’s illegal immigration ‘Ponzi scheme’: ‘Gotten out of hand’  The Windy City has spent $574.5 million on migrants.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/chicago-resident-slams-mayor-calls-out-citys-illegal-immigration-ponzi-scheme-gotten-out-hand

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Identity Politics Don’t Belong in Medicine  (COMMENT: Soon, if not already, everyone in medicine will be libera/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/identity-politics-dont-belong-in-medicine-either/

JP MEDIA
— ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Can Impede Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, But They Can’t Stop It (COMMENT: How strongly will the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district fight deportation?)
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/12/14/sanctuary-cities-can-impede-trumps-mass-deportation-plan-but-they-cant-stop-it-n4935128

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Google Goes Fully Woke in New Christmas Ad, Sparking Calls for Boycott (COMMENT: The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone to websites a) that promote Democrats and the Democrat Party and b) that demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans and the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.westernjournal.com/google-goes-fully-woke-new-christmas-ad-sparking-calls-boycott/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrats recalibrate their resistance to Trump (COMMENT: How strongly will the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district fight deportation?)

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5039827-democratic-party-trump-resistance/

CNN
— Chicago mayor blasts Trump after ‘border czar’ vows mass deportation (COMMENT: How strongly will the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district work against Trump?)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/14/politics/video/brandon-johnson-chicago-trump-border-czar-immigration-plan-reaction-blackwell-intv-foa-digvid

REUTERS
— US Naval Academy to defend race-conscious admissions policies at trial (COMMENT: GAO works for Congress. Democrats run GAO. In Diersen v. GAO, GAO argued that it treated me exactly like Congress wanted it to treat me, that is, to make me pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI a) because I was conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, my ancestors have been in America for a long time, b) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and c) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged GAO with the aforesaid. My Democrat GAO superiors took many big adverse actions against me including forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.)
https://www.aol.com/news/us-naval-academy-defend-race-100618581.html

CNBC
— Majority of Americans are ready to support Trump and large parts of his agenda
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/15/majorities-in-poll-give-trump-green-light-for-some-controversial-policies.html

MSN
— Sharp Drop In College Enrollment Raises Alarm (COMMENT: If you were in high school today, would have the necessary motivation to earn a college degree?  What are your demographics? Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more or the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or if you have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/sharp-drop-in-college-enrollment-raises-alarm/ar-AA1vu6gt
— Map Shows Nationalities of Immigrants Awaiting ICE Deportation from US
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/map-shows-nationalities-of-immigrants-awaiting-ice-deportation-from-us/ar-AA1vL2Ng

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in the military.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/defense-trans-minors-care-ban-bill-military-families-rcna184156
— ‘I surely hope’ to work with Trump to raise the minimum wage, Sen. Bernie Sanders says (COMMENT: I worked part-time for the minimum wage ($12.41/hour in today’s dollars) during my junior and senior years in high school and full-time during the summer in between 1964-1966. That enabled me to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint (a poor man’s GAO) in May of 1966.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/-i-surely-hope-to-work-with-trump-to-raise-the-minimum-wage-sen-bernie-sanders-says-227110469948

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump gets warm welcome as he watches Army-Navy game alongside key allies, nominees and Daniel Penny. Donald Trump huddled with allies and a Republican cause célèbre at the Army-Navy football game. (COMMENT: If Trump came to your county, township, or municipality, how warm of a welcome would he get?)
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-gets-warm-welcome-as-he-watches-army-navy-game-alongside-key-allies-nominees-and/article_fc351f0c-ac8d-5051-85f8-5119828e7384.html

NEWSWEEK
— New Mexico Governor Refuses National Guard Deployment for Mass Deportations  (COMMENT: Constructively, New Mexico has declared war on America.)
https://www.newsweek.com/new-mexico-michelle-lujan-grisham-trump-mass-deportations-2000244
— Democrats say “Musk Overseeing a Department for Transparency and Accountability Is the Ultimate Troll.”  I worked for IRS 1971-1980. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors did not want me to audit IRS. They succeed in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They stressed the adverse actions that my Democrat IRS superiors had taken against me including a) disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974 and education deductions in 1978, never promoting me beyond GS-12, and ignoring/dismissing/belittling my earning an MBA in 1976, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-overseeing-department-transparency-accountability-ultimate-troll-opinion-1988463

NEW YORK TIMES
— ABC to Pay $15 Million to Settle a Defamation Suit Brought by Trump. The outcome of the lawsuit marks an unusual victory for President-elect Donald J. Trump in his ongoing legal campaign against national news organizations. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents tone down their defamation of me because I have filed lawsuits.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/us/politics/trump-abc-settlement.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— As with Trump’s last term, California will lead the liberal resistance  (COMMENT: How strongly will the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district fight Trump?)
https://www.aol.com/news/trumps-last-term-california-lead-194711042.html
— Former California Rep. Devin Nunes once sued media companies. Now he’s struggling to run one. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents tone down their defamation of me because I have filed lawsuits.)
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-10-23/devin-nunes-donald-trump-truth-social-california-congress-robin-abcarian
(FROM THE ARTICLE:  I’ve followed Nunes’ career as an ultra-litigious Trump defender who is afflicted by a world-class intolerance for perceived slights. Before taking the helm of Trump Media in 2022, Nunes had a master’s degree in agriculture but little hands-on business experience. He was involved in his family’s San Joaquin Valley dairy farm decades ago; when he was 14, he has recounted, he bought seven head of young cattle to raise and sell. I guess this explains his tolerance for the, ah, stench of MAGA bull. Given his disdain for media in general and free speech in particular, as evidenced by a series of lawsuits against news organizations and other critics, putting Nunes in charge of a fledgling media empire was a bizarre move — unless the company is all about cozying up to the deep-pocketed sort of people who would benefit from a second Trump administration. According to documents obtained by ProPublica, an unnamed Trump Media whistleblower recently asked the company’s board of directors to fire Nunes. One person with knowledge of the situation told ProPublica that the complaint alleged “misuse of funds, hiring of foreign contractors and interfering with product development.” (A Trump Media spokesperson denied the charges and accused the nonprofit journalism organization of a campaign to damage the company.))

USA TODAY
— How President Biden is trying to Trump-proof his legacy
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/14/biden-trump-laws-judges-regulations-legacy/76865964007/

WFAE
— Trump wants to use Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – the law has been used only during war (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.wfae.org/politics/2024-12-14/trump-wants-to-use-alien-enemies-act-to-deport-immigrants-the-law-has-been-used-only-during-war

WEEK
— Diversity training: a victim of the ‘war on woke’  More and more US companies have phased out corporate DEI initiatives, and the incoming Trump administration is likely to fuel the cultural shift. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use diversity training to promote more hatred against Republicans.)
https://theweek.com/business/diversity-training-a-victim-of-the-war-on-woke

NEW YORKER
— Democrats are the party of the elites. I should write about the elites who run Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me recently.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/have-the-democrats-become-the-party-of-the-elites

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/corinnepost/2024/12/14/lessons-from-naval-academy-ruling-on-race-for-defending-dei-programs/

TIME
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://time.com/7199981/how-gender-affirming-healthcare-providers-are-preparing-for-trumps-presidency/

POLITICO
— ABC and Stephanopoulos to pay Trump $15M, apologize in defamation suit settlement. The network and anchor will also cover $1M of Trump legal fees. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents tone down their defamation of me because I have filed lawsuits.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/14/trump-abc-stephanopoulos-settlement-00194391

SLATE
— Whose enemies lists are you on and why? I should write about those who have me on their enemies lists and why. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on the pretexts that they use.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/trump-fbi-pick-kash-patel-enemies-list.html

RAW STORY
— ‘Trump owes them’: Disgruntled conservative urges activists to ‘start a fight’ inside GOP
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/trump-owes-them-disgruntled-conservative-urges-activists-to-start-a-fight-inside-gop/ar-AA1vBYmL

INDEPENDENT
— Trump may revoke policy shielding migrants from deportation arrests in churches and schools
https://www.aol.com/trump-may-revoke-policy-shielding-231402429.html

TIMES NOW
— 18,000 Indians To See US Exit Gate As Trump Vows Immigration Crackdown
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/18000-indians-at-risk-of-being-deported-as-trump-vows-immigration-crackdown-article-116323181

TIMES
— Google’s ‘Woke’ Christmas Ad sparks backlash: Nonbinary influencer Cyrus Veyssi takes center stage (COMMENT: The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone to websites a) that promote Democrats and the Democrat Party and b) that demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans and the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/google-s-woke-christmas-ad-sparks-backlash-nonbinary-influencer-cyrus-veyssi-takes-center-stage/ar-AA1vJvPz

INVESTOPEDIA
— Here’s The Average Net Worth of Each Class: How Does Yours Compare?  (COMMENT: Should all those involved in government, politics, and journalism be required to a) disclose their sources and amounts of income, b) disclose their assets, debts, and net worth, and c) disclose how they accumulated their assets? Beyond the aforesaid, should they be required to disclose how much education and money their parents have/had?)
https://www.investopedia.com/average-net-worth-lower-middle-upper-class-8760531
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The lower class has a median net worth of about $3,500, while the upper class has one of about $7.81 million. U.S. families with net worths in the top 10% have a median net worth of $3,794,600 and a mean net worth of $7,810,500. The middle class has a median net worth that ranges from $93,300 to $1.04 million.)

December 14, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Tiffany Henyard sues Thornton Township Democrats after failing to gain nomination for supervisor (COMMENT: When will the Daily Herald start reporting on Castle v. Monino (2024 MTEB 01)? Monino has filed petitions to run for Milton Township Supervisor as an Independent and Caste is changeling those petitions.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/13/tiffany-henyard-sues-thornton-township-democrats-after-failing-to-gain-nomination-for-supervisor/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois election results show gerrymandering’s bad outcome
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/12/14/election-results-illinois-gerrymandering-party-control-republican-democrat-sheldon-jacobson
— Mona Charen blasts Tulsi Gabbard
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/12/13/tulsi-gabbard-cozies-up-american-enemies-russia-vladimir-putin-syria-bashar-al-assad-mona-charen

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, if not already, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241213/news/donations-pour-in-to-save-lives-fund-winter-shelter-for-dupage-countys-homeless/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241213/nation-and-world/texas-abortion-pill-lawsuit-against-new-york-doctor-marks-new-challenge-to-interstate-telemedicine/

ABC7
— ‘This is normal?’: 2 close-calls at Chicago’s O’Hare airport in 1 day. Topic of possible runway collisions being discussed in Washington at same time. (COMMENT: I worked for GAO on an audit of this in the early 1980s.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/2-close-calls-chicago-ohare-airport-involving-united-airlines-flights-1-day-is-normal/15653147/

NBC5
— Trump says he will seek to eliminate daylight saving time
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-says-he-will-seek-to-eliminate-daylight-saving-time/3624199/
— Democrats and RINOs say “US adults not confident Trump can assemble qualified cabinet.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/trump-cabinet-confidence-poll-ap-norc/3623857/

FOX32
— Anonymous donor drops gold coin in Wheaton Salvation Army Red Kettle
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/anonymous-donor-drops-gold-coin-wheaton-salvation-army-red-kettle

WBEZ
— What to know about an effort to make college in Illinois more affordable. Legislators are considering a funding formula that would make Illinois a model for other states to emulate, but would come at a hefty cost. (COMMENT: What helped you afford college? For me, it was a) my living with my parents and brother in Crete during my first 2 years at UIC 1966-1968 and commuting to/from classes there and b) working all the part-time hours that I could for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. That enabled me to buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, buy a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, pay for my college expenses, and graduate debt-free from NIU owning that Charger  in 1970.)
https://www.wbez.org/education/2024/12/12/what-to-know-about-an-effort-to-make-college-in-illinois-more-affordable

DECATUR DAILY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow that they have flooded America with so many millions of their illegals that it is futile to deport any of them. Deported illegals will immediately return. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.decaturdaily.com/news/other_news/national/trump-migrant-deportations-could-threaten-states-agricultural-economies/article_79311d58-b96c-11ef-921c-2335e9aa1b59.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— What was the worst year of your life and what did you learn from it? We want to hear. (COMMENT: My worse years include 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old and 1980 when they forced me to take a $22,996/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. They include 1978 when my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education deductions and 1974 when they disallowed my travel vouchers.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-12-12/what-was-the-worst-year-of-your-life-and-what-did-you-learn-from-it-we-want-to-hear
— Tech moguls Altman, Bezos and Zuckerberg donate to Trump’s inauguration fund
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-12-13/tech-moguls-altman-bezos-and-zuckerberg-donate-to-trumps-inauguration-fund
— Trump’s picks would make his new administration the wealthiest in U.S. history
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2024-12-13/trumps-picks-would-make-his-new-administration-the-wealthiest-in-u-s-history
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for high health care costs.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-12-12/americans-are-furious-over-health-care-is-this-an-occupy-wall-street-moment

WGLT
— Trump’s picks would make his new administration the wealthiest in U.S. history (COMMENT: Should government employees be required to fully disclose where their wealth come from?)
https://www.wglt.org/2024-12-13/trumps-picks-would-make-his-new-administration-the-wealthiest-in-u-s-history

EFFINGHAM RADIO
— Duckworth, Durbin Announce Funding To Help Prepare Young Illinoisans To Succeed In High-Demand Careers
https://www.effinghamradio.com/2024/12/14/duckworth-durbin-announce-funding-to-help-prepare-young-illinoisans-to-succeed-in-high-demand-careers/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-216/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that the Democrat and RINO leaders of America, Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district will put their efforts promote mass/illegal immigration “under the table.” Do not anticipate/expect that they will give you an opportunity to vote to stop it. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois’ worst-in-nation pension debts means more property and income tax hikes to pay that debt off
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-worst-in-nation-pension-debts-means-more-property-and-income-tax-hikes-to-pay-that-debt-off-wirepoints-in-the-center-square/
— With the taxes they pay and debts they face, everyday Illinoisans are basically now subservient to their public servants
https://wirepoints.org/with-the-taxes-they-pay-and-debts-they-face-everyday-illinoisans-are-basically-now-subservient-to-their-public-servants-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Democrats Decide to Skip Algonquin Township Elections Leaving Winners of February GOP Primary Victors
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/13/democrats-decide-to-skip-algonquin-township-elections-leaving-winners-of-february-gop-primary-victors/
— $9.5 Million in Federal Funds for Fox River Valley Wastewater Treatment & Storage
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/13/9-5-million-in-federal-funds-for-fox-river-valley-wastewater-treatment-storage/
— Biden Issues “Get Out of Jail Free” Card for $54 Million Dixon Embezzler Rita Cromwell
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/13/biden-issues-get-out-of-jail-free-card-for-54-million-dixon-embezzler-rita-cromwell/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Homer Township lets voters weigh in on pension reform, key issues
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/homer-township-lets-voters-weigh-in-on-pension-reform-key-issues/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago mayor spends $700K per ‘affordable’ apartment unit
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-mayor-spends-700k-per-affordable-apartment-unit/
— Nearly $50K property tax bills robs ‘Home Alone’ house
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/nearly-50k-property-tax-bills-robs-home-alone-house/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden’s supercharged IRS nets $1.3 billion more from wealthy taxpayers
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/12/joe-biden-supercharged-irs-nets-1-3-billion-wealth/
— DOGE zeros in on report showing Biden’s DOE spent $1 billion on DEI grants. Elon Musk calls the massive spending ‘insane.’  (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Their top priority is giving federal tax dollars to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, have less money than others, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, in America illegally, etc.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/13/doge-zeros-report-showing-biden-doe-spent-1-billio/
— Syria’s new leader remains an al Qaeda operative
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/13/editorial-syria-new-leader-remains-al-qaeda-operat/
— Don’t be too sure DEI is DOA. Movement is far more than a political fad.  (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always promoted DEI, they are promoting DEI, and they will forever promote DEI. To promote DEI is to blame all problems on those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/13/sure-dei-doa/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democratic socialists keep trying to justify healthcare CEO’s murder
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3260205/democratic-socialists-justify-healthcare-ceo-murder/

NEW YORK POST
— Gianno Caldwell: My colleague Pete Hegseth is the right man to make our military sane again
https://nypost.com/2024/12/13/opinion/gianno-caldwell-my-colleague-pete-hegseth-will-fix-our-military/
— Kellyanne Conway clashes with Never Trump activist over election: ‘You have stage 5 Trump Derangement Syndrome’
https://nypost.com/2024/12/13/media/kellyanne-conway-clashes-with-never-trump-activist-sarah-longwell/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— A Word to the DOGE: ‘Reduction’ Is Not Synonymous With ‘Reform’  As we have painfully learned since the Grace Commission, a revanchist, ravenous administrative state can survive and metastasize despite periodic efforts to trim its size and scope. (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. They use budget cuts to get rid of any remaining Republican employees.)
https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/14/a-word-to-the-doge-reduction-is-not-synonymous-with-reform/

AMERICAN THINKER
— It’s not enough to dismantle the Department of Education
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/it_s_not_enough_to_dismantle_the_department_of_education.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Cop who gunned down Ashli Babbitt was not supposed to be employed at the time of J6
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/12/13/cop-who-gunned-down-ashli-babbitt-was-not-supposed-to-be-employed-at-the-time-of-j6-report-says-1509372/

BLAZE
— Dems push Biden to extend deportation shields for illegal aliens in last-minute plea
https://www.theblaze.com/news/dems-push-biden-to-extend-deportation-shields-for-illegal-aliens-in-last-minute-plea

BREITBART
— Winnebago County Sheriff Gary Caruana has reversed his support for a plan to designate a new facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house illegal migrants slated for deportation in the northern Illinois region.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/12/13/illinois-sheriff-reverses-support-for-ice-detention-center/

ENERGY GRID
— Commentary: To keep the lights on, the Midwest needs an ‘all of the above’ power grid. New transmission line development and construction can take many years. To address immediate needs, there are other solutions that can improve capacity in the near term. (COMMENT: My 13-year-old 20W Generac has failed. I am replacing it with a 24W.)
https://energynews.us/2024/12/12/commentary-to-keep-the-lights-on-the-midwest-needs-an-all-of-the-above-power-grid/

FEDERALIST
— DEI Rot At Schools Shows Republicans Have Failed To Eradicate The Ideology
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/13/dei-rot-at-sec-schools-shows-republicans-have-failed-to-eradicate-the-ideology/

FOX BUSINESS
— Nonbinary influencer in Google’s new ‘woke’ ad ridicules women opposed to sharing bathroom with biological men. In the Google ad, Veyssi appears in makeup and women’s clothing and complains about dry skin.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/nonbinary-influencer-googles-new-woke-ad-ridicules-women-opposed-sharing-bathroom-biological-men

FOX NEWS
— Senate Dems demand Biden extend protections for illegal immigrants ahead of Trump admin. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/legal-authority-senate-dems-demand-biden-extend-protections-illegal-immigrants-ahead-trump-admin
— You will not stop Trump
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365974090112
—  Biden’s last act is ‘sabotaging’ incoming Trump admin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PxNL3bXz1k
— Trump brings political drama to Army-Navy game sidelines. Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth and Marine veteran Daniel Penny are attending the game with President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-brings-political-drama-army-navy-game-sidelines
— Democrats need new playbook to confront Trump, Kamala Harris pollster tells party. DNC chair Harrison says it would be ‘big error’ if Democrats focus all their attention on Trump and ignore Vance. (COMMENT: In Illinois, the Republican playbook has been anti-conservative.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-need-new-playbook-confront-trump-kamala-harris-pollster-tells-party
— RNC chair reveals what role Trump will play during the 2026 midterms: ‘All the way to the finish line’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rnc-chair-reveals-what-role-trump-will-play-2026-midterms-finish-line

FOX RADIO
— Google Goes Full Woke with New Ad
https://radio.foxnews.com/2024/12/13/google-goes-full-woke-with-new-ad/

JONATHAN TURLEY
— University of Illinois Accounting Professor Li Zhang is under fire this week after warning students about their “unconscious and unintentional biases” against women and minorities before they completed their evaluations.
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/12/14/unconscious-and-unintentional-biases-university-of-illinois-professors-issues-discrimination-warning-to-students-before-they-complete-her-evaluations/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A student objected to the “passive-aggressive” nature of the email: [T]his announcement can be interpreted in two ways: 1) It implies that I am a bigot, incapable of providing honest feedback without my opinions being negatively influenced by the professor’s race or sex. It suggests that any negative feelings I have towards the professor or the course are more influenced by personal, subjective feelings regarding race and sex than by any objective facts. 2) It suggests that I should provide high evaluation scores, regardless of my actual feelings, in order to atone for past actions taken by others. Both interpretations are unacceptable and represent a passive-aggressive method to artificially inflate course evaluation scores. This approach is highly unprofessional and creates an “othering” effect, implying that white males are incapable of making objective decisions that are not influenced by race or sex.)

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Smart Democrats See That Working With Trump Is The Only Sensible Thing To Do
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/12/13/laura_ingraham_smart_democrats_see_that_working_with_trump_is_the_only_sensible_thing_to_do.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— GOP aims for deportation bill by February (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders did not need or get bills passed to promote their mass/illegal immigration.)
https://thehill.com/video/gop-aims-for-deportation-bill-by-february/10296911/

CNN
— Big donors secure big roles in the incoming Trump administration
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/14/politics/trump-administration-big-donors/index.html

CBS NEWS
— Social Security Fairness Act to get a vote in the Senate, Chuck Schumer says (COMMENT: My Social Security is dramatically reduced because I get a Civil Service Retirement System pension. I paid into Social Security for 10 years during the 1960s and 1970s while I washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, delivered mail, worked on an automotive assemble line, and sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-fairness-act-chuck-schumer-senate-vote/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Wants Mass Deportations. He Will Need Jails and Sanctuary Cities to Help. Immigration experts say the Trump administration would need cooperation from local law enforcement to deport millions of people. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow that they have flooded America with so many millions of their illegals that it is futile to deport any of them. Deported illegals will immediately return. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/us/politics/trump-immigration-deportations.html
— Biden Administration Is Said to Allow California to Ban New Gas-Powered Cars. California and 11 other states want to halt the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to try to stop them. (COMMENT: I own seven gas-powered cars and a gas-powered SUV. My critics/opponents hate cars and SUVs and especially gas-powered ones and especially American nameplate ones and especially muscle cars. My seven cars include a 1972 Corvette that I have owned since 1971, a 1996 Thunderbird LX since 1995, a 2005 Corvette since 2005, a 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max since 2012, and a 2023 Mustang GT Premium since 2023.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/climate/california-ban-gas-cars-electric-biden-trump.html
— I’m on Kash Patel’s Enemies List. I Don’t Want a Pardon. (COMMENT: I should write about those who have me on their enemies lists. I would focus on those a) who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, b) who destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money, and c) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most biggest adverse actions against. I would focus on the pretexts that they use.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/opinion/biden-pardon-trump-patel.html
— Democrat leaders use the Voice of America to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/politics/voice-of-america-journalists-trump.html
— Trump’s Transition Business Largely Happens After Night Falls. At his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, the president-elect has been hosting diplomatic dinners, announcing cabinet picks and firing off texts to his aides — all after the sun goes down.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/us/politics/trump-diplomacy-night-mar-a-lago.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump allies, opponents prepare to battle over plans for at-will workforce. Trump will return to the White House with the backing of a Republican controlled Congress and a generally friendly Supreme Court majority as he seeks to reshape the federal workforce. (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are hell-bent on a) not hiring Republicans and b) getting rid of Republican employees. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/13/trump-schedule-f-federal-unions-at-will/
— Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses. Trump feuded with the mail agency in his first term. Privatizing it could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/14/trump-usps-privatize-plan/
— Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s unprecedented alliance. Musk has joined Trump’s calls with world leaders, weighed in on Cabinet choices and been a regular part of the Trump family since the election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/14/musk-trump-relationship-explained/

USA TODAY
— Democrats are split on snubbing or showing up for Donald Trump’s inauguration
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/12/democrats-trump-inauguration/76915244007/
— How President Biden is trying to Trump-proof his legacy
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/14/biden-trump-laws-judges-regulations-legacy/76865964007/

U.S. CENSUS
— About 33.9 million or 1 in 4 households nationwide reported they were completely without power at least once in the 12 months before they were interviewed for the 2023 American Housing Survey. Approximately 70% or 23.6 million of the households reporting an outage said at least one outage lasted 6 hours or more. (COMMENT: Generally, the more that the wires that bring electricity to your home are above ground, the more likely that you will suffer outages.)
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2024/10/power-outages.html

REUTERS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow that they have flooded America with so many millions of their illegals that it is futile to deport any of them. Deported illegals will immediately return. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-deportations-could-shake-up-restaurant-industry-wall-street-isnt-worried-2024-12-13/

NEWSWEEK
— She Stole Millions From Taxpayers to Buy Show Horses. Biden Set Her Free.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-commute-sentence-rita-crundwell-dixon-illinois-2000541
— Sanctuary Cities Could be Banned Under Republican Proposal
https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-city-ban-republican-plan-2000351

DESERET NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow that they have flooded America with so many millions of their illegals that it is futile to deport any of them. Deported illegals will immediately return. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2024/12/13/what-do-americans-really-think-of-trumps-deportation-plans/

EASTERN PROGRESS
— Generac Urges Homeowners to Make a Plan for Winter Power Outages (COMMENT: My 13-year-old 20W Generac has failed. I am replacing it with a 24W.)
https://www.easternprogress.com/generac-urges-homeowners-to-make-a-plan-for-winter-power-outages/article_6e7526be-c0ab-57dd-ba14-2e02fa30450c.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Hold On, Elon and Vivek: Firing Federal Bureaucrats Isn’t the Solution. Complex rules and procedures keep civil servants from getting things done. We need to deregulate the bureaucracy, not gut it.  (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are hell-bent on a) not hiring Republicans and b) getting rid of Republican employees. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/hold-on-elon-and-vivek-firing-federal-bureaucrats-isnt-the-solution-2168910a
— Has World War III Already Begun?  An axis of autocracies led by Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea is challenging the democratic world order. (COMMENT: In WW III, which countries will side with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea against America?)
https://www.wsj.com/world/has-world-war-iii-already-begun-16fb94c9
— A New Risk for Employers: Losing Millions of Migrants With Temporary Work Permits. Trump promised to eliminate programs that provide temporary work permits, including to Dreamers. (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-immigration-work-permit-policy-business-impact-0ecadef5

FORBES
— Using E-Verify discourages illegal immigration. Democrat and RINO leaders discourage using E-Verify.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alonzomartinez/2024/12/13/mastering-e-verify-in-2025-federal-and-state-compliance-essentials/

BLOOMBERG
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-12-13/what-is-citizenship-how-states-determine-birthright-and-privilege

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their republican employees.
https://hbr.org/2024/12/continuing-the-work-of-dei-no-matter-what-your-company-calls-it

FEEDSPOT
— Top 60 Illinois News Websites in 2024
https://news.feedspot.com/illinois_news_websites/

FORD FOUNDATION
— For generations, the United States of America has been built on a pact: secure a job, commit to it, and ensure a stable life. Yet for millions of workers, this promise is dissolving. (COMMENT:  I was a wage earner 1964-1997. My critics/opponents look down on wage earners, if not despise wage earners. They have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having been grossly overpaid. In my defense, I earned 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. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had lots of money, who bought them cars, who paid for their college degree, and who got them jobs.)
https://www.fordfoundation.org/news-and-stories/stories/fighting-for-a-just-economy-workers-lead-the-way/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Across every sector, jobs are becoming increasingly precarious. Gig work, temporary positions, and subcontracted roles are replacing traditional employment, leaving workers with unpredictable incomes, erratic schedules, and a lack of benefits. This instability breeds anxiety, disrupts families, and creates a sense of expendability, ultimately destabilizing entire communities and creating a race to the bottom economy. This rise of precarious work is no accident. Decades of policies prioritizing corporate profits over worker protections have eroded job security and weakened worker power. By design, this uncertainty leaves workers vulnerable and less likely to demand their rights, individually and collectively.)

REASON
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow that they have flooded America with so many millions of their illegals that it is futile to deport any of them. Deported illegals will immediately return. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://reason.com/2024/12/13/mass-deportations-are-bad-for-everyones-liberty/

DAILY KOS
— These Democrats have plans to fight Trump’s mass deportations (COMMENT: How strongly are the Democrats and RINOs who represent you going to fight deportation?)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/13/2291756/-These-Democrats-have-plans-to-fight-Trump-s-mass-deportations

December 12, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Pritzker pushes back on Trump ‘border czar’s’ promises of mass deportations (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/pritzker-pushes-back-on-trump-border-czars-promises-of-mass-deportations/3622500/
— Tesla shares close at record high, boosted by 69% pop since Trump election victory
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/tesla-shares-climb-to-record-boosted-by-64-pop-since-trump-election-victory/3621974/

WGN9
— Pritzker vows to follow law, protect asylum seekers and immigrants in state legally (COMMENT: Under Biden, all those who come into America are in America legally. What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://wgntv.com/migrants-in-chicago/pritzker-tom-homan-undocumented-immigrants-deportations/

FOX32
— Battle brewing over deportation threats in Chicago (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/battle-brewing-deportation-threats-chicago
— Duckworth says “Hegseth ‘Should Scare All Of Us.’ She calls him “dangerously unqualified.”  In 2006, Michael J. Fox spoke at a Duckworth press conference in Wheaton. She had me rudely thrown out of that press conference to punish Roskam.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/duckworth-hegseth-meeting

WGN RADIO
— Mace, activist dispute handshake that resulted in arrest
https://wgnradio.com/news/mace-activist-dispute-handshake-that-resulted-in-arrest/amp/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Donald Trump will ring the New York Stock Exchange bell as he’s named Time’s Person of the Year
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/11/trump-time-person-of-the-year/
— Pritzker promises to protect immigrants, but says those convicted of violent crimes need to go  (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/11/gov-jb-pritzker-promises-to-protect-immigrants-but-says-those-convicted-of-violent-crimes-need-to-go/
— Judge to appoint special prosecutor to represent Republicans in lawsuit against Will County executive (COMMENT: When will the news media start reporting on Castle v. Monino (2024 MTEB 01)? Monino has filed petitions to run for Milton Township Supervisor as an Independent and Caste is changeling those petitions.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/11/judge-to-appoint-special-prosecutor-to-represent-republicans-in-lawsuit-against-will-county-executive/
— James McIntyre, 33, of Chicago, who has been accused of accosting Rep. Nancy Mace at Capitol, pleads not guilty to assault charge
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/11/nancy-mace-capitol/
— Candidates for Oak Park and River Forest School Board challenged (COMMENT: When will the news media start reporting on Castle v. Monino (2024 MTEB 01)? Monino has filed petitions to run for Milton Township Supervisor as an Independent and Caste is challenging those petitions.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/10/oak-park-river-forest-candidates/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/12/editorial-tom-homan-immigration-christmas-party/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Chicagoan held in ‘violently shaking’ of anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace’s hand, Capitol. James McIntyre, 33, an East Rogers Park advocate for foster youth, pleaded not guilty to charges he assaulted the GOP congresswoman in Washington. Nancy Mace posted on X that she was assaulted by a “pro-tr*ns man” and used the incident to solicit campaign funds.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2024/12/11/illinois-man-arrested-for-allegedly-assaulting-south-carolina-rep-nancy-mace
— Chicago and Illinois have sanctuary laws. What does that actually mean?  Advocates hope local and state sanctuary laws can help protect undocumented immigrants from deportation in coming years. But will they? (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2024/12/11/chicago-illinois-sanctuary-laws-explainer
— Those who run Sun-Time claim that they are “fighting for you.” They are not only not fighting for me, they are fighting against me and against those who share my demographics.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/support-cst

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump taps immigration hard-liner Kari Lake as head of Voice of America  (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-taps-immigration-hard-liner-kari-lake-as-head-of-voice-of-america/

WCBM
— Tom Homan Holds Closed-Door Meetings With Chicago Democrats, Union Members, and Law Enforcement Including Alderman Raymond Lopez in Direct Defiance of Governor Pritzker
https://wcbm.com/national-headline/exclusive-tom-homan-holds-closed-door-meetings-with-chicago-democrats-union-members-and-law-enforcement-including-alderman-raymond-lopez-in-direct-defiance-of-governor-pritzker/

ELMHURST PATCH
— Elmhurst Hopeful’s Petition Investigated. The state’s attorney is looking into the signatures on Mark Mulliner’s petition. They are believed to be forgeries.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/elmhurst-hopefuls-petition-investigated

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-422/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-214/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker willing to sit down with incoming border czar. Governor says violent foreign nationals should be deported, but he will protect others. (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_9e8886a0-b80d-11ef-a102-2be2d42c883b.html

WILLIAM J KELLY
— Reporter William J. Kelly Urges Federal Probe into Illinois’ $1 Billion Expenditure on Illegal Immigration
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Reporter-William-J–Kelly-urges-federal-congressional-probe-into-Illinois–Chicago-s-billion-dollar-migrant-spending.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— New State Flag Contest Top Ten Finalists
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/11/new-state-flag-contest-top-ten-finalists/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Biden is Stoking the Flames of War in Middle East
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/12/opinion-biden-is-stoking-the-flames-of-war-in-middle-east.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Left wing sees a silver lining in accused assassin’s actions (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate me the most because the federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums. In my defense, I worked for the Democrats who run the federal government for almost 30 years to get that benefit.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/11/left-wing-sees-silver-lining-accused-assassin-luig/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Images of the man accused of killing the CEO of the nation’s largest health insurance company are splashed across T-shirts, coffee cups and other merchandise being hawked online and on the streets of New York City. Meanwhile, a group born out of Sen. Bernard Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign is walking a tightrope of sympathy after the high-profile execution in Manhattan, suggesting, in this instance, that vigilante justice has a silver lining. . .“Half a million families go bankrupt each year from medical debt, and millions are harmed because their care is delayed or denied,” said the email, which included the subject headline “What Luigi Mangione means for Our Revolution.” The group has been a chief advocate for Medicare for All, taxing the wealthy and kneecapping corporations it accuses of putting “profits over people.”)

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Analysis: Democrats’ Campaign To Win Back Normal Americans Going as Poorly as Expected (COMMENT: Democrat leaders a) despise/hate normal Americans and b) glorify and praise those who demonize, denigrate, and condemn normal Americans. They especially demonize, denigrate, and condemn normal Americans like me who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://freebeacon.com/author/stiles/democrats/analysis-democrats-campaign-to-win-back-normal-americans-going-as-poorly-as-expected/

NEW YORK POST
— US immigration surge under Biden administration is biggest in US history — outpacing the days of Ellis Island (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always decried the German immigration surge during the 1840s and 1850s. All my ancestors immigrated to America during the 1840s and 1850s. My critics/opponents have always a) stressed that I am 100% German national origin and b) have foisted negative German stereotypes on me. SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_Germans  In my defense, I have always stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans during WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/11/us-news/us-immigration-surge-under-biden-administration-is-biggest-in-us-history/
(FROM WIKIPEDIA: For Germany perpetrating the Holocaust and starting World War II, Germans are often stereotyped as Nazis. This stereotype, while now rare, persists to this day. After the war, the German people were often viewed with contempt because they were blamed by other Europeans for Nazi crimes. Germans visiting abroad, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, attracted insults from locals, and from foreigners who may have lost their families or friends in the atrocities. Today in Europe and worldwide (particularly in countries that fought against the Axis), Germans may be scorned by elderly people who were alive to experience the atrocities committed by Nazi Germans or by veterans who had fought against the Nazis during World War II. This resulted in a feeling of controversy for many Germans, causing numerous discussions and rows among scholars and politicians in Post-War West Germany (for example, the “Historikerstreit” [historians’ argument] in the 1980s) and after Reunification. Here, the discussion was mainly about the role that the unified Germany should play in the world and in Europe. Bernhard Schlink’s novel The Reader concerns how post-war Germans dealt with the issue.)

AMAC
— Legal Showdown Looms Over Trump’s Plan to End Birthright Citizenship
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/legal-showdown-looms-over-trumps-plan-to-end-birthright-citizenship/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Inauguration Day means the DoJ gets back in the business of justice
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/inauguration_day_means_the_doj_gets_back_in_the_business_of_justice.html
— Castrating Boys Symbolizes the Castration of America
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/castrating_boys_symbolizes_the_castration_of_america.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Member of violent Tren de Aragua gang arrested in Palm Beach, Trump’s backyard
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/12/11/member-of-violent-tren-de-aragua-gang-arrested-in-palm-beach-trumps-backyard-1508857/
— San Diego County Sheriff will not adhere to Board of Supervisors ‘super sanctuary’ policy (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/12/11/san-diego-county-sheriff-will-not-adhere-to-board-of-supervisors-super-sanctuary-policy-1509004/

BREITBART
— The Biden Legacy: Over 1 Million Migrants Shielded from Deportation through Quasi-Amnesty Program  (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/11/the-biden-legacy-over-1-million-migrants-shielded-from-deportation-th/
— Democrat Plan Is Amnesty for 13M Illegals to Flood Workforce  (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/11/josh-hawley-democrat-plan-is-amnesty-for-13m-illegals-to-flood-workforce/
— Poll Shows Majority of New Yorkers Support Trump on Deportation (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/12/11/poll-shows-majority-of-new-yorkers-support-trump-on-deportationpoll-shows-majority-of-new-yorkers-support-trump-on-deportation/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— A Brief History of Military Assistance in Immigration Enforcement. Logistical support — and detention.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Brief-History-Military-Assistance-Immigration-Enforcement

DAILY SIGNAL
— Legacy Media Pretend There’s No Cost to Biden’s Mass Importation of Illegal Immigrants
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/11/legacy-media-pretend-theres-no-cost-bidens-mass-importation-illegal-immigrants/
— Josh Hawley Confronts Witness Who Says Flooding Job Market With Illegal Aliens Helps Americans
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/11/josh-hawley-confronts-witness-says-flooding-job-market-illegal-aliens-helps-americans/
— The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Made-Up Job Numbers
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/11/made-up-job-numbers/?utm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_content=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&amp

DAILY WIRE
— San Diego County Board Of Supervisors Votes To Protect Violent Illegals. Sheriff Fires Back. “The Board of Supervisors does not set policy for the Sheriff’s Office” (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-diego-county-board-of-supervisors-votes-to-protect-violent-illegals-sheriff-fires-back
— Biden Caused Largest Surge Of Illegal Immigration In U.S. History. The majority of Americans support mass deportations of illegal aliens.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-caused-largest-surge-of-illegal-immigration-in-u-s-history-nyt
— New Google Christmas Ad Features Dude Dressed Like A Lady. Google pulls a Bud Light.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-google-christmas-ad-features-dude-dressed-like-a-lady
— Google Trashed For Holiday Shopping Ad Featuring Man Dressed Like A Woman. The tech giant issued a statement regarding the ad.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-trashed-for-holiday-shopping-ad-featuring-man-dressed-like-a-woman

FEDERALIST
— California County Votes To Stop Turning Violent Illegal Immigrant Criminals Over To Feds  (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/11/california-county-votes-to-stop-turning-violent-illegal-immigrant-criminals-over-to-feds/

FOX BUSINESS
— Google accused of ‘woke’ new Christmas ad with ‘nonbinary’ beauty influencer. Google is the latest company to face online backlash for putting out a ‘woke’ ad. (COMMENT: To be woke is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/google-accused-woke-new-christmas-ad-nonbinary-beauty-influencer

FOX NEWS
— Chicago residents slam the ‘stupidity’ of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s liberal policies during city council meeting. Residents wore ‘Chicago flips red’ shirts and accused the Democratic mayor of lack of transparency when it comes to using taxpayer funds to take care of illegal immigrants.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-residents-slam-stupidity-mayor-brandon-johnsons-liberal-policies-during-city-council-meeting
— How Trump will conquer Dem resistance with immigration mandate
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-house-candidate-reveals-trump-conquer-dem-resistance-immigration-mandate
— Border sheriff ignores county’s new policy that blocks cooperation with ICE immigration enforcement. (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-sheriff-ignores-countys-new-policy-blocks-cooperation-ice-immigration-enforcement
— Black lawmakers, activists blame racism for Daniel Penny’s acquittal: ‘This is the evil of White supremacy’  One lawmaker argued that Penny’s acquittal is a green light for attacks against ‘unarmed Black Americans’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/black-lawmakers-activists-blame-racism-daniel-pennys-acquittal-this-evil-white-supremacy

HOT AIR
— Will the Woke Left Doom Democrats for Years to Come? (COMMENT: My critics/opponents promote wokeness/wokeism.)
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/12/11/will-the-woke-left-doom-democrats-for-years-to-come-n3797813

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Learning nothing from Trump’s landslide, CA AG vows to defy his mass deportation of illegal aliens (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/learning-nothing-from-trumps-landslide-california-ag-vows-to-defy-his-mass-deportation-of-illegal-aliens

NEWS BUSTERS
— George Orwell had it right. We’ve somehow allowed a mob of degenerates guilt trip an entire society into a dystopia that rejects all morals in the name of morality. War is peace, ignorance is strength… Men are Women. “Affirming” the mentally ill is “life saving healthcare,” and with that, refusing to pay for someone’s “essential health care” is akin to murder. A cowardly thug murdering an innocent father in cold blood is therefore justified resistance. That’s who our leftist politicians, mainstream media and pop culture have celebrated for the past week. A wannabe vigilante jumping out of the dark to shoot a self-made CEO from an Iowa farm town was somehow presented as a win for the common man against the corporate empire. Except their Marxist hero, the identified suspect, turns out to be the product of privilege and money, cut from the same cloth as the Ivy League “revolutionaries” cheering him on.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/justine-brooke-murray/2024/12/11/woke-weak-losers-are-dangerous-murder-not-hip

NEWSMAX
— Fewer asylum requests, especially from Latinos, are being granted as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to crack down on immigration.  (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/asylum-approved-migrants/2024/12/11/id/1191287/

PJ MEDIA
— Total net migration — the number of people coming to the country minus the number leaving — will likely exceed eight million people over the past four years. (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/12/11/you-arent-going-to-believe-the-number-of-illegal-aliens-who-have-entered-the-us-since-2021-n4935019#google_vignette
— West Point Caught Lying About Hegseth’s Acceptance There
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/12/11/west-point-lied-about-hegseths-acceptance-n4935033

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Duckworth says “Hegseth ‘Should Scare All Of Us.’ She calls him “dangerously unqualified.” In 2006, Michael J. Fox spoke at a Duckworth press conference in Wheaton. She had me rudely thrown out of that press conference to punish Roskam.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2024/12/12/hegseth_should_scare_all_of_us_duckworth_says_1078085.html

TOWNHALL
— California County Voted to Become a ‘Super’ Sanctuary for Illegals. Here’s How the Sheriff Responded. (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/12/11/san-diego-sanctuary-n2648884

WESTERN JOURNAL
— First ‘Super Sanctuary’ Created in San Diego, Would Literally Protect Jailed Rapists from Deportation
https://www.westernjournal.com/first-super-sanctuary-created-san-diego-literally-protect-jailed-rapists-deportation/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump says he’ll pardon Jan. 6 defendants in first hour back in White House
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5036670-donald-trump-jan-6-pardons-time-magazine/

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-lgbtq-americans-preparing-another-trump-term/

CNN
— Democratic governors quietly prep extensive plans to counter Trump
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/11/politics/democratic-governors-counter-trump

MSN
— Radical California county introduces extreme new ‘sanctuary’ laws (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/radical-california-county-introduces-extreme-new-sanctuary-laws/ar-AA1vHin2
— DOJ v. DEI: Trump’s Justice Department likely to target diversity programs (COMMENT: DOJ represented GAO In Diersen v. GAO. My critics/opponents sided with GAO and with DOJ, that is, they promoted patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/doj-v-dei-trumps-justice-department-likely-to-target-diversity-programs/ar-AA1vAJM0

NEW YORK TIMES
— Donald Trump Is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/politics/trump-time-person-year.html
— Biden Is Pardoning Nearly 1,500 Americans (COMMENT: Should I seek pardons from Trump? My Democrat superiors in the federal government took many big adverse actions against me because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/politics/biden-pardons-commutes-1500.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Standards for Public Service Have Gone to Pot, Once a bit of marijuana smoke was enough to scuttle an appointment. How far we’ve come. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents promote pot.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-standards-for-public-service-have-gone-to-pot-ginsburg-marijuana-moral-244aef86
— FRONT PAGE: No Pay for an 80-Hour Workweek? DOGE Applicants Say Bring It On. Hopefuls line up for Elon Musk’s and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency (COMMENT: Just kidding, but should I apply? My qualifications include a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $115,439-$150,075/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year, c) earning six professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), f) earning a professional license (CPA), and g) earning a bachelor’s degree (management) and three master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance).)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/elon-musk-doge-government-efficiency-trump-ramaswamy-c9e7207d

POLITICO
— Pritzker questions whether Trump’s border czar has the ‘authority’ to implement massive immigration changes. The Illinois governor was responding to a visit from Tom Homan, who Trump has selected for a high-level position in his administration. (COMMENT: What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/11/congress/jb-pritzker-tom-homan-00193864

FAST COMPANY
— I’ve been a super commuter for more than a decade. Here’s why. Every week I commute from Chicago to Nashville for work, and I’m not planning on moving anytime soon. (COMMENT: In Diersen v. IRS ( https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11 ), my Democrat Chicago office IRS superiors had super commuters testify against me. In my defense, I testified that I bought a studio condo in the Outer Drive East building so that I could walk to/from my IRS job in the Loop.)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91244164/ive-been-a-super-commuter-for-more-than-a-decade-heres-why

GOVERNING
— Trump Admin Will Target Sanctuary Cities, His Border Czar Says. Tom Homan, who will lead Trump’s deportation effort, said that sanctuary policies can shield dangerous criminals. Harboring or concealing undocumented immigrants, he said, is a federal crime.
https://www.governing.com/politics/trump-admin-will-target-sanctuary-cities-his-border-czar-says

HR DRIVE
— Workers say DEI initiatives aren’t that important to them personally (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post office superiors insulated their Democrat employees from Affirmative Action and DEI negatives.)
https://www.hrdive.com/news/workers-say-dei-initiatives-arent-important/735247/

FED SMITH
— The DOGE Acts and Impact on the Federal Workforce. The second Trump administration is taking shape much faster than the first. DOGE is one example. Here is how the federal workforce may be impacted.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2024/12/09/doge-acts-impact-on-federal-workforce/

HUFFINGTON POST
— What positions on deportation do the following have: those who run your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-trump-really-means-when-he-threatens-to-deport-americans_n_675a0209e4b04fd5c3670754

RAW STORY
— McConnell takes another swipe at Trump and warns even his slogan echoes the 1930s (COMMENT: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasing demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump as being an isolationist. What if America had declared war on Germany, Japan, and Italy during the 1930s?)
https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell-2670438975/
— GOP senators reveal Fox News staff have launched lobbying blitz for Hegseth (COMMENT: My critics/opponents stress that the following did not lobby for me when adverse actions were taken against me: a) my representative on the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee and the leaders of the DuPage County Republican Central Committee and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) the Republican leaders of DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton-Warrenville School District 200, c) the Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) the conservative leaders and activists in my area, and e) the religious leaders and activists in my area.)
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/pete-hegseth-fox-news/

DEMOCRACY NOW
— Rep. Delia Ramirez: Trump’s Immigration Plans Are “Un-American, Unconstitutional & Undemocratic”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/11/delia_ramirez_birthright_citizenship

December 10, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Tom Homan swings hard at Illinois Dems
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/12/10/homan-jabs-illinois-democrats-at-gop-event-in-chicago-00193434
(FROM THE ARTICLE: MAKING A SPLASH: Tom Homan took the stage in Chicago on Monday to George Thorogood’s “Bad to the Bone.” The incoming “border czar” then crassly attacked Illinois Democratic leaders on immigration. And as he made his exit, Homan posed for selfies and took a slug from a bottle of beer. Stirring the pot: “Chicago is in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,” Homan said on stage for a Chicago GOP event. He was referring to Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson — both of whom have spoken out against President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans. On immigration, Homan said he would “welcome” Illinois Democratic leaders to “come to the table. … Help us protect you,” he said. “Please. But if you don’t, get the hell out of the way.” The crowd ate it up: The holiday event was organized by Chicago’s Northside Republicans and the Law & Order PAC and held at Biagio Events space in the city. Pritzker gives an eye-roll: “It’s no secret that Illinois will face countless, baseless attacks over the next four years from the Trump Administration,” Matt Hill, the governor’s spokesman, said in a statement. “Rather than responding to every ridiculous boast from Trump lackeys, Gov. Pritzker is focused on what he was focused on during the first Trump term: leading our state with competence instead of chaos.” More from POLITICO’s home page:  ( https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/09/congress/border-czars-tough-talk-00193416 ) Homan says children born in the U.S. to non-citizens would be part of the deportation effort. Giving the brushoff: Though Homan took time earlier in the day to visit Chicago pastors, he didn’t make the first move to call the governor or mayor. “They need to reach out to me,” Homan told your Playbook host. The Illinois Democratic leaders need to “come to the table” the way New York Mayor Eric Adams did to talk about how to work with ICE, Homan said. Some background: Pritzker and Johnson have condemned plans for mass deportations. The Illinois Trust Act and the Chicago welcoming city ordinance prevent local law enforcement from taking part in immigration and customs enforcement, and state lawmakers are looking at other ways to make sure state law can’t be circumvented. On Illinois’ rules about working with ICE: “Change the law,” Homan told your Playbook host. The mayor’s hopes Trump takes advantage of the power he has to “actually pass substantive immigration reform policy,” Johnson said at an unrelated event earlier in the day. Chicago Alderman Nicholas Sposato, one of the very few Trump supporters on the 50-member City Council, said he liked what he heard from Homan and doesn’t believe Illinois or Chicago sanctuary city status should prevent ICE from coming to town. “It means law enforcement just has to stay out of the way,” Sposato said. Also in the room: Dr. Dave Nayak, a Democrat-turned-Republican who introduced Homan, Ald. Raymond Lopez, Commissioner Sean Morrison, Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau, pollster Matt Podgorski, former state’s attorney candidate Bob Fioretti, political consultant Shando Valdez and retired Chicago Police Sergeant and former political candidate John Garrido.)

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Chicago to be ground zero for mass deportations, Trump border czar Tom Homan tells Illinois Republicans. President-elect Donald Trump’s designated “border czar.” Homan started his remarks at a Northwest Side GOP “holiday party” with some light ribbing: “Chicago’s in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks.” But he also warned Johnson about his deportation plan, saying, “If he doesn’t want to help, get the hell out of the way.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2024/12/09/border-czar-tom-homan-donald-trump-chicago-pritzker-brandon-johnson-immigration

ABC7
— Incoming border czar Tom Homan promises mass deportation: ‘Going to start right here in Chicago’ (COMMENT: Homan​ spoke at a holiday party hosted by the Law and Order PAC and the Northwest Side GOP Club. As the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012, I recruited speakers for TAPROOT’s monthly breakfast meetings and its annual picnic and Christmas party. My critics/opponents always demonized, denigrated, and condemned the speakers who I recruited as being “too conservative.” I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me recently.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-immigration-incoming-border-czar-tom-homan-promises-mass-deportation-says-hell-start-chicago-migrants/15633535/
— Chicago police investigating after ‘Kill your CEO’ graffiti spray-painted on North Side businesses
https://abc7chicago.com/post/kill-ceo-graffiti-emerges-andersonville-uptown-ravenswood-businesses-after-nyc-shooting-chicago-police-say/15632606/
— Community leaders urge IL lawmakers to pass bill requiring officer training on hate crime incidents
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-laws-community-leaders-urge-state-house-senate-members-pass-bill-requiring-hate-crime-training-police-officers/15632314/

CBS2
— Tom Homan, President-elect Trump’s border czar, says deportation plan will start in Chicago
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tom-homan-trump-border-czar-chicago/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tom-homan-president-elect-trump-s-border-czar-says-deportation-plan-will-start-in-chicago/ar-AA1vzy9r
— Incoming border czar Tom Homan has tough words for Chicago. Homan​ was a guest at a holiday party hosted by the Law and Order PAC and the Northwest Side GOP Club.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/incoming-border-czar-tom-homan-has-tough-words-for-chicago/

WGN RADIO
— Can Trump’s DOGE-machine permanently remake govt? (COMMENT: If GAO had been remade and expanded during the 1980s and 1990s instead of being destroyed, there would be no need for DODGE. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They used Republican-led budget cuts to waste my career and force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $115,439-$150,075/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year, c) earning six job-related professional certifications, f) earning a job-related professional license, and g) earning a job-related bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-can-trumps-doge-machine-permanently-remake-govt/

NBC5
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hates who promote the Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly charge Trump with promoting hate crimes.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/civil-rights-groups-demand-hate-crime-training-for-illinois-law-enforcement/3620199/
— Questions surround aide of Mayor Brandon Johnson. Residency rules require city of Chicago employees to live in the city. So, why did a senior advisor to Mayor Brandon Johnson vote last month in Texas?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/questions-surround-aide-of-mayor-brandon-johnson/3620289/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/12/09/supreme-court-skrmetti-transgender-gender-affirming-care

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Arlington Heights board inks deal to lower Bears’ tax bill until stadium construction begins (COMMENT: I should write my successfully fighting during the 1980s and 1990s to get the assessed valuation of my home at 915 Cove Court in Wheaton ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/915-Cove-Ct-Wheaton-IL-60189/4447887_zpid/ ) reduced. Those who opposed that continue to take adverse actions against me to this day.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241209/news/arlington-heights-board-inks-deal-to-lower-bears-tax-bill-until-stadium-construction-begins/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker’s property tax bill will be nearly $1.29 million  (COMMENT: I should write my successfully fighting during the 1980s and 1990s to get the assessed valuation of my home at 915 Cove Court in Wheaton ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/915-Cove-Ct-Wheaton-IL-60189/4447887_zpid/ ) reduced. Those who opposed that continue to take adverse actions against me to this day.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/pritzkers-top-list-biggest-residential-property-tax-payers
(COMMENT: In the wake of their recent purchase of $19 million worth of Gold Coast condos, Gov. JB Pritzker and first lady MK Pritzker can expect to receive property tax bills totaling almost $1.29 million in early 2025. This makes the Pritzkers the biggest residential property taxpayers in Cook County by far. The next-highest bill, according to Crain’s research, is the $635,620 total for Citadel chief Ken Griffin’s three yet-unsold downtown penthouses.)

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Musk warns Republicans against standing in Trump’s way — or his. Trump’s second term comes with the specter of the world’s richest man serving as his political enforcer. (COPMMENT: What if Pritzker decided to get rid of you? Who would come to your defense?)
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/elon-musk-warns-republicans-against-standing-in-trumps-way-or-his/article_45a72206-989c-5be7-8029-c61531d79819.html

JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL COURIER
— Panic overdone about fate of social issues
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/panic-overdone-fate-social-issues-19962332.php

PEORIA JOUNAL STAR
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters who run Chicago.
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2024/12/09/new-report-names-chicago-illinois-among-best-cities-in-the-world/76863099007/

SOUTHERN
— How Trump has infused parts of Project 2025 into his administration
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/12/09/how-trump-has-infused-parts-of-project-2025-into-his-administration-2/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against police.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2024-12-09/illinois-law-requires-transparency-when-police-kill-people-many-cases-stay-in-the-dark

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump has flip-flopped on abortion policy. His appointees may offer clues to what happens next
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-both-sides-in-abortion-debate-seek-clues-in-trumps-nominees-to-key-positions/

WSIL TV
— Republicans are feeling great about the economy again. Democrats are really worried
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/consumer/republicans-are-feeling-great-about-the-economy-again-democrats-are-really-worried/article_bcdac9b1-b7a6-5cbd-80ad-e443b2eeb60a.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— In promising to shake up Washington, Trump is in a class of his own
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-in-promising-to-shake-up-washington-trump-is-in-a-class-of-his-own/
— Adam Schiff to be sworn into the Senate, where he wants to be more than a Trump antagonist (COMMENT: I should write about my past and present antagonists in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, Illinois Center Right Coalition, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, etc. The aforesaid antagonists are operatives and dupes for my critics/opponents who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-adam-schiff-to-be-sworn-into-the-senate-where-he-wants-to-be-more-than-a-trump-antagonist/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-420/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-212/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What positions do the following have on Trump, Homan, and illegal immigration: a) your representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) and the leaders your Republican county and township/ward party organizations, b) the Republican leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district, c) the Republican candidates on ballots in your precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) the conservative leaders and activists in your area, and e) the religious leaders and activists in your area? I should write about the positions the following have: a) my representative on the IRP SCC and the leaders of the DuPage County Republican Central Committee and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) the Republican leaders of DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton-Warrenville School District 200, c) the Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) the conservative leaders and activists in my area, and e) the religious leaders and activists in my area. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How much success have Democrat and RINO leaders had promoting Affirmative Action and DEI where you live, that is, how much success have they had promoting race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and nation origin discrimination where you live? They have had tremendous success where I live. According to them, the more of the following that you are, the more that you owe your successes in life to your benefitting from discrimination against those who are moderate/liberal, 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, my critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are the aforesaid. I should write about my critics/opponents who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me and the pretexts that they have used to justify their actions. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— QUESTION: What do racists, sexists, and bigots do? ANSWER: They ascribe/foist negatives on others because of their demographics. That is political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I should write about those who ascribe/foist negatives on those who are the following because they have the following demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, draft avoider, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about the major conservative and Republican events in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois that I was not invited to attend since 2000. I would focus on those events organized by my critics/opponents a) who reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform, b) who reject candidates in Republican primaries who I supported, and c) who destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Report shows licensing burden on Illinois workers (COMMENT: I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 in 1981. I had earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, worked for IRS 1971-1980, and worked for GAO since 1980.)
https://www.aol.com/news/op-ed-report-shows-licensing-161500364.html

WIREPOINTS
— Chicago’s weak luxury real estate market goes beyond Ken Griffin
https://wirepoints.org/chicagos-weak-real-estate-market-hurts-everyone-not-just-ken-griffin-wirepoints/
— Awful and worse: Illinois jobs and employment numbers badly lag the nation
https://wirepoints.org/awful-and-worse-illinois-jobs-and-employment-numbers-badly-lag-the-nation-wirepoints/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Alito scolds colleagues as Supreme Court ducks new affirmative action case (COMMENT: Since the 1960s, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action against me.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/9/alito-scolds-colleagues-supreme-court-ducks-new-af/
— Party poopers: Palm Beach seeks to limit Trump’s Mar-a-Lago galas as residents seethe over traffic
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/9/palm-beach-seeks-limit-donald-trump-mar-lago-galas/
— White House tells staff to spend as much money as possible ahead of Trump presidency
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/9/white-house-tells-staff-spend-much-money-possible-/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Supreme Court rejects cases on admissions diversity, guns, and transgender policies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court/3254098/supreme-court-rejects-cases-admissions-diversity-guns-transgender-policies/

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— DEI Is Unconstitutional
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/dei-is-unconstitutional/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to appear in pro-transgender Broadway musical
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/justice_ketanji_brown_jackson_to_appear_in_pro_transgender_broadway_musical.html

BREITBART
— Trump Will Push Earlier DREAMers Plan, I Wouldn’t Do It Until Dems Agree on Border, Deporting Safety Threats
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/12/10/homan-trump-will-push-earlier-dreamers-plan-i-wouldnt-do-it-until-dems-agree-on-border-deporting-safety-threats/
— Colorado Democrats Launch Program to Give Free Healthcare to Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/12/09/colorado-democrats-launch-program-to-give-free-healthcare-to-illegal-aliens/

DAILY CALLER
— Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Challenge To Racial Discrimination In Public School Admissions (COMMENT: Since the 1960s, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action against me.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/09/supreme-court-refuses-hear-challenge-racial-discrimination-public-school-admissions/

DAILY SIGNAL
— What’s Next for the Woke Bureaucrats in the Administrative State? (COMMENT: All my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government used wokeness/wokeism to waste the careers of and to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/09/whats-next-woke-bureaucrats-administrative-state/

DAILY WIRE
— Why Are We Celebrating Terrorists Taking Over Syria?
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1632
— Tom Homan Explains How Democrats Protecting Illegal Aliens In Sanctuary Cities, States Will Backfire. Homan said ICE agents will uphold their oath and follow the law.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-explains-how-democrats-protecting-illegal-aliens-in-sanctuary-cities-states-will-backfire
— College Tells International Students To Return Before Trump Takes Office, Offers To Shelter Illegals. Claremont McKenna College told students in the country illegally they could meet with ‘an immigration lawyer for a free initial consultation.’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-college-to-connect-illegals-with-lawyers-urges-foreigners-to-return-before-inauguration

FEDERALIST
— Prosecuting Daniel Penny Was An Irreparable Miscarriage Of Justice. New York Owes Him A Massive Payout.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/09/prosecuting-daniel-penny-was-an-irreparable-miscarriage-of-justice-new-york-owes-him-a-massive-payout/
— Trump, Not Biden, Is The True Unifier-In-Chief
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/09/trump-not-biden-is-the-true-unifier-in-chief/

FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Open-Borders Advocates Demand Governor Newsom Pardon Convicted Criminals so they Won’t Be Deported
https://www.fairus.org/news/state-and-local/open-borders-advocates-demand-governor-newsom-pardon-convicted-criminals-so

FOX NEWS
— The Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Monday to take up a case of Boston parents claiming an admissions policy had discriminated against White and Asian students. (COMMENT: Since the 1960s, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action against me.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/supreme-court-rejects-boston-parents-appeal-claiming-racial-bias-admissions-policy

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— University of  Illinois-Chicago Department of Art History: Too Many White Scholars is “Ethically Problematic” (COMMENT: This is racism. According to racists, Whites owe all their accomplishments to benefitting from discrimination against non-Whites.)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/u-illinois-chicago-dept-of-art-history-too-many-white-scholars-is-ethically-problematic/amp/

NEWSMAX
— Federal Judge Blocks Obamacare for Dreamers
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/judge-obamacare-illegals/2024/12/09/id/1191024/
— High Court Can Declare Transgenderism a Lie
https://www.newsmax.com/joshhammer/transgender-scotus/2024/12/09/id/1190925/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Trump’s border czar signals solution for Dreamers will be tied to border security
https://thehill.com/latino/5029991-trump-border-czar-dreamers/

NBC NEWS
— Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying played video game killer
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ironic-suspect-unitedhealthcare-slaying-played-video-game-killer-rcna183550

NEW YORK TIMES
— Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/opinion/elites-euro-social-media.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly ascribe/foist bad judgement if not evil motive to past leaders of America who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/09/biden-designate-national-monument-former-indian-boarding-school/
— I should write about the major conservative and Republican events in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois that I was not invited to attend since 2000. I would focus on those events organized by my critics/opponents a) who reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform, b) who reject candidates in Republican primaries who I supported, and c) who destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to coverup their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/16/teenager-new-hampshire-republican-event-ejected/
— Colleges ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, and even worse things.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/12/09/college-programs-trump-republicans-tensions/

USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2024/12/08/trump-immigration-college-students-fafsa/76737394007/
— Supreme Court won’t review admissions policy challenged as unfair to whites, Asian Americans  (COMMENT: Since the 1960s, my critics/opponents have used Affirmative Action against me.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/09/supreme-court-diversity-school-admissions/75086029007/
— DEI promotes false perceptions of prejudice. ()COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give more preference to those who are minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/12/08/walmart-dei-university-michigan-diversity-statements-end/76708201007/
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates ever-increasingly became more hostile against Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2024/12/03/political-civility-in-the-workplace/76640409007/
— Minimum wage set to rise in 23 states next year as $15 an hour, and beyond, picks up steam. (COMMENT: I worked part-time for the minimum wage 1964-1966 washing dishes in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights while I was a junior and senior at Crete-Monee High School. In today’s dollars, that minimum wage was $12.41/hour. With the money that I earned and saved, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, a poor man’s GTO, in May of 1966.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/12/09/minimum-wage-hikes-2025/76710608007/
— The housing crisis threatens the American dream. What’s next? (COMMENT: Back in the good old days, that is, back in the 1970s, I was able to buy a new town home when I was 24 years old.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/real-estate/2024/12/06/is-homeownership-still-american-dream-trump/76483339007/

NEWSWEEK
— BLM Calls for ‘Black Vigilantes’ to Target Oppressors After Daniel Penny Verdict
https://www.newsweek.com/blm-leader-reaction-daniel-penny-verdict-jordan-neely-1997953

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How Trump Can Target Transgenderism in Schools. A federal court ruling in Pennsylvania vindicated the rights of parents.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-trump-can-target-transgenderism-in-schools-law-policy-education-369537a7

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against men to curry favor with women.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sophianelson/2024/12/09/women-in-business-can-survive-the-new-anti-dei-climate-in-washington/

POLITICO
— Homan tells Democrats to ‘get the hell out of the way’ on immigration. Incoming ‘border czar’ draws hard line on who should be able to stay in the country.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/09/congress/border-czars-tough-talk-00193416

INSIDE STORY
— My critics/opponents attribute all their successes in life to meritocracy, but attribute all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had lots of money, who bought them cars, who paid for their college expenses, who got them jobs, etc.
https://insidestory.org.au/the-fall-of-the-meritocracy/

MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE
— The Biden Legacy on Immigration (COMMENT: Under Biden, anyone and everyone could come into America “legally” and/or stay in America “legally.”)
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/events/biden-legacy-immigration

GOOGLE
— Discrimination (COMMENT: In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), constructively, GAO argued that its political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination against me was justified because that was what Congress wanted it to do.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=discrimination+justified

MONDAQ
— Handbook Season Arrives with a Flurry of Potential Policy Updates. 2024 produced a number of new laws and legal developments requiring changes to employer policies, including changes related to discrimination and harassment. (COMMENT: What did you do because your employee handbooks encouraged you to do that? I took graduate evening courses a) in business at Loyola 1972-1976 and b) in accounting at DePaul 1976-1980 because my IRS employee handbook encouraged me to do that. Nevertheless, to get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed those courses in 1978. They outrageously/disgustingly/unethically argued that the courses were not related to my job duties, that they did not maintain or improve my job skills, that I took them to get a job in the private sector, and that they qualified me for a new trade or business. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/employee-rights-labour-relations/1555116/handbook-season-arrives-with-a-flurry-of-potential-policy-updates

ECONOMIC TIMES
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that county. But illegals hint/imply/argue/shout that Democrat and RINO leaders invited them to come into America and to stay in America..
https://m.economictimes.com/nri/migrate/trump-only-wants-perfect-immigrants-thats-almost-impossible/amp_articleshow/116159545.cms

December 9, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 14 shot, 4 fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-shootings-weekend-gun-violence-city-police-department/15627082/
— Trump says he can’t guarantee tariffs won’t raise US prices and promises swift immigration action
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-tariffs-president-elect-says-he-cant-guarantee-raise-us-prices-promises-swift-immigration-action/15627946/
— Syrian-Americans in Chicago celebrate downfall of Assad regime: ‘My country is back’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/syrian-americans-chicago-celebrate-bashar-al-assads-resignation-downfall-assad-regime-dictatorship-government-syria/15628197/
— Illinois Legislative Black Caucus holding policy summit (COMMENT: When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and no professional license like the one I had. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-legislative-black-caucus-holding-policy-summit/15630464/

NBC5
— Trump aims to end birthright citizenship
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-aims-to-end-birthright-citizenship-says-american-citizens-with-family-here-illegally-may-be-deported/3619250/
— Lara Trump says she’s stepping down as Republican National Committee co-chair. President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law is widely viewed as a candidate to fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/lara-trump-stepping-down-republican-national-committe-rcna183394
— Trump is stacking his White House roster with uber-rich backers
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-is-stacking-his-white-house-roster-with-uber-rich-backers/3618956/

WGN9
— Trump’s new coalition puts female nominees at forefront
https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/trumps-new-coalition-puts-female-nominees-at-forefront/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/09/opinion-donald-trump-exploit-alien-enemies-act-immigration/
— State anti-book-ban law leads some school districts to forsake grants to maintain local control
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/08/illinois-grants-book-bans/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Durbin will decide if he will seek another term after the first of the year. The biggest political guessing game in Illinois is whether Durbin will seek a sixth term in 2026.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/washington/2024/12/08/dick-durbin-seek-another-term-decision-2025
— Slaying of UnitedHealthcare executive is the wrong path for a nation with a broken medical care system. Social media celebrated the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. That’s understandable, but wrong. (COMMENT: It is not “understandable.”)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/12/08/unitedhealthcare-brian-thompson-killing-manhattan-health-insurance

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) discourage women from seeking traditional marriage and family and b) discourage men from making themselves eligible bachelors.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241208/news/wings-helps-women-kids-escape-domestic-violence/

CHAMPAIGN URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Lara Trump steps down as RNC co-chair and addresses speculation about Florida Senate seat
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/lara-trump-steps-down-as-rnc-co-chair-and-addresses-speculation-about-florida-senate-seat/article_f3250f04-7c97-58c8-8781-ac71b5bb89ab.html

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Whipping up Illinois Republicans  (COMMENT: I used to attend and report on such Republican political events. I should write about the following who have ever-increasingly blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA UILLINOIS newsletters for defeats suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000: past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/12/09/whipping-up-illinois-republicans-00193243
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Incoming Ohio Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno stopped in Illinois for a Republican holiday gathering and gave some insight about Donald Trump 2.0, immigration and his beef with the Inflation Reduction Act. “We’re going to resolve immigration in the first 40 to 60 days,” Moreno told the Republican-centric crowd over a lunch of chicken Milanese and whipped potatoes at Gibson’s in Oak Brook on Friday. Speaking to the choir: “This election was ultimately about two issues at the end of the day: open borders and high prices,” Moreno told the group. Immigration “is the easiest thing to fix intellectually. It’s the hardest thing to fix emotionally, and I hope to play a role in making that happen.” Moreno will be Ohio’s first Latino senator after ousting Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown last month in the most expensive Senate race ever at $441 million. The who’s who of Illinois Republicans were in a celebratory mood in spite of their tough spot as the state’s underdog party. The event was hosted by businessman Jay Bergman, Superior Ambulance Service CEO David B. Hill III and Kirkland & Ellis’ Sandy Perl and Richard Porter, who sported “Let’s Go Brandon” socks (a hat tip to the anti-Biden meme), and organized by Victoria Login and Sara Karlovics of LW&Co. The new name in the crowd was Dave Nayak, who earlier this year ran as a Democrat for state Senate and has since pivoted to be a Republican. “Switching parties was an easy decision,” he told your Playbook host. “I’m honored and proud to be part of the Republican Party.” What’s next for Nayak: He hasn’t decided about whether he’s running for office again, but he is co-hosting an event tonight featuring Tom Homan, who’s been picked by Trump as border czar. Republicans don’t hold any statewide office, and they didn’t make headway in state legislative races — though they didn’t lose ground, either. They hope having Republicans in control of Washington will have a trickle-down effect in Illinois in future elections. Moreno’s big win gives them hope. The Ohio Republican was well received, though he did make one comment that fell flat with the crowd. He criticized the Inflation Reduction Act because it gives $7,500 incentives to those who buy electric vehicles. “So Ken Griffin can lease an electric Rolls Royce that costs $600 grand and get $7,500 in tax subsidies. Do you think he needs it?” There was a nervous buzz in the room from the 250-plus crowd that still pines for Griffin, a billionaire who for years opened his wallet to Illinois Republicans before he moved to Florida. SPOTTED: Illinois Republican Chair Kathy Salvi, Former Ambassador Ron Gidwitz, former Congressman Bob Dold, state Sen. Andrew Chesney, former Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti, Will County State’s Attorney Jim Glasgow, Sangamon County State’s Attorney John Milhiser, DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin, former Illinois House Republican Leader Jim Durkin, former Illinois comptroller Leslie Munger, Illinois Chamber Senior Legislative Affairs Adviser Keith Wheeler, Lee County development leader Tom Demmer, Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau, Will County Board Member Raquel Mitchell, Metra Board Chair Joe McMahon, Palatine Committeeman Aaron del Mar and DuPage County Board candidate Greg Hart. Also in the room: former state lawmakers Jeanne Ives, Jack Schaffer, David Welter, Patricia Bellock, Bob Biggins and Tim Ozinga, former congressional candidates Esther Joy King and Jim Carris, businessman Eli Boufis, attorney Tom DeVore, philanthropist Eleni Bousis, former hospital exec Robert Christie, Strategia Chief Strategy Officer Brian Bernardoni and LW&Co.’s Lisa Wagner.)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-419/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— To Move Forward, Democrats Must Oust Obama
https://johnkassnews.com/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— RTA Makes Pitch for Higher Taxes, Elimination of Required User Fees to County Board
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/08/rta-makes-pitch-for-higher-taxes-elimination-of-required-user-fees-to-county-board/
— Mainstream Media’s Tariff Fear Mongering Leading to Hoarding
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/08/mainstream-medias-tariff-fear-mongering-leading-to-hoarding/
— GOP Seeks Petition Signatures on “No More Taxes” Petition
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/08/gop-seeks-petition-signatures-on-no-more-taxes-petition/
— Metra’s Presentation to County Board
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/08/metras-presentation-to-county-board/

WIREPOINTS
— Chicago property taxes rise 3.5 times faster than inflation in last decade
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-property-taxes-rise-3-5-times-faster-than-inflation-in-last-decade-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who is your representative on the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) and who are the leaders of your Republican county and township/ward party organizations? Who have they encourage to run for government and party offices and why?  I should write a book about a) my IRP SCC members and the leaders of the DuPage County Republican Central Committee and Milton Township Republican Organization since 2000 and b) those who they have encouraged to run for government and party offices since 2000. None of the aforesaid have encouraged me to run for a government or party office. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump says he wants deal for DACA amnesty. ‘I will work with the Democrats on a plan,’ president-elect claims.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/8/donald-trump-says-wants-deal-daca-amnesty/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Eric Adams wisely works with Trump on deportations
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3251411/eric-adams-wisely-works-with-trump-deportations/
— Kinzinger predicts Trump won’t jail critics in Congress
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3253990/adam-kinzinger-predicts-trump-wont-jail-critics-congress/#google_vignette

NEW YORK POST
— Chicago removes largest homeless encampment, relocates tent residents into apartments and shelters
https://nypost.com/2024/12/08/us-news/chicago-removes-largest-homeless-encampment-relocates-residents-into-apartments-and-shelters-report/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Education Priorities for Trump: Yes to Excellence and Accountability, No to Ideology and Business as Usual
https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/09/education-priorities-for-trump-yes-to-excellence-and-accountability-no-to-ideology-and-business-as-usual/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Sanctuary cities need to listen to their citizens
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/sanctuary_cities_need_to_listen_to_their_citizens.html
— How to destroy your country in 10 easy steps
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/how_to_destroy_your_country_in_10_easy_steps.html
— Tennessee protects its children from transgender madness (COMMENT: What are the Republican leaders of your school district doing to stop transgender madness?)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/tennessee_protects_its_children_from_transgender_madness.html

CAMPUS REFORM
— ‘Social justice’ is injustice by another name
https://www.campusreform.org/article/prof-jenkins-social-justice-injustice-another-name/26989

DAILY WIRE
— Trump Reveals Plans For Mass Deportation, Dealing With Illegal Immigration. Trump said he had “no choice” but to conduct mass deportations after millions of illegal aliens entered the U.S. under Biden.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-reveals-plans-for-mass-deportation-dealing-with-illegal-immigration

FEDERALIST
— Tough Talk On Illegal Immigration Does Not Make Eric Adams a Republican
https://thefederalist.com/videos/lyman-eric-adams-tough-talk-on-illegal-immigration-doesnt-make-him-republican/
— Justice And Accountability Are Not ‘Retribution’
https://thefederalist.com/videos/hemingway-justice-and-accountability-are-not-retribution/
— DOGE Will Fulfill Jefferson’s Wishes About Small Government
https://thefederalist.com/videos/lyman-doge-will-fulfill-jeffersons-wishes-about-small-government/
— From Abortion To Transgenderism, Democrat Media Caused America’s ‘Misinformation Crisis’
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/09/from-abortion-to-transgenderism-democrat-media-caused-americas-misinformation-crisis/

FOX NEWS
— A tale of two cities: Sanctuary city Dems must choose between Americans or illegal immigrants. New York City and Chicago highlight massive Democrat division on illegal immigration.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tale-two-cities-sanctuary-city-dems-must-choose-between-americans-illegal-immigrants
— Trump border czar Tom Homan sends ‘clear message’ to sanctuary cities: ‘You don’t want’ this. Multiple blue cities and states have pushed back against mass deportation plans.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-sends-clear-message-sanctuary-cities-you-dont-want
— Nearly all Fortune 500 companies still maintain corporate DEI commitments (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nearly-all-fortune-500-companies-still-maintain-corporate-dei-commitments-report/ar-AA1vtjLl
— Huckabee Sanders says Trump’s message of unity shouldn’t come as a surprise
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365758051112

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Trump Puts Foot Down on Immigration: ‘We Have to Get Criminals Out of Our Country’  Trump also spoke about his economic and foreign policy agendas, not backing down from using tariffs as a negotiating tool.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/trump-puts-foot-down-on-immigration-we-have-to-get-criminals-out-of-our-country/

NEWS BUSTERS
— PBS Promotes Pro-Pedophilia ‘Pioneer’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2024/12/08/pbs-promotes-pro-pedophilia-pioneer-conservative-opponents-offer

NEWSMAX
— Trump: Deportation ‘Complicated,’ but Criminals Out First
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/border-illegals-deportation/2024/12/08/id/1190814/

PJ MEDIA
— Bidenomics: A Million Fewer Native-Born U.S. Workers Since Last Year
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/12/08/bidenomics-a-million-fewer-native-born-us-workers-since-last-year-n4934951
— The Marxism in Front of You That You Can’t Unsee
https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2024/12/08/look-at-the-marxism-in-front-of-you-that-you-cant-unsee-n4934939
— The Hypocrisy Behind Criticizing Trump’s ‘Loyalists’
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/12/08/the-hypocrisy-behind-criticizing-trumps-loyalists-n4934949
— Trump’s Notre Dame Appearance Was Way More Significant Than You Think
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/12/08/trumps-notre-dame-appearance-was-way-more-significant-than-you-think-n4934946

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Trump Border Czar Tom Homan: Tren De Aragua And MS-13 Will Be Top Priorities; “So, January 20, Game On”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/12/08/trump_border_czar_tom_homan_tren_de_aragua_and_ms-13_will_be_top_priorities_so_january_20_game_on.html

TOWNHALL
— Voter Turnout Was High, and Even Higher Participation Would Have Increased Trump’s Victory Margin (COMMENT: What did your Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain do increase Republican turnout? I hand-delivered campaign literature and a copy of the sample ballot to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or Independent registered voter.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/12/04/voter-turnout-was-high-and-even-higher-participation-would-have-increased-trumps-victory-margin-n2648465
— We Would Have Been Better Off If Trump Had Won In 2020 (COMMENT: My critics/opponents hate Trump. They had their operatives and their dupes a) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021 and b) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee this year.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2024/12/09/would-we-have-been-better-off-if-trump-had-won-in-2020-n2648764
— Here’s the List of People a Research Group Wants Pete Hegseth to Fire (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, because I have always been a Republican, I was always on their lists to be fired. Further, my being the following moved me up on their lists: conservative, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time. The following helped me survive: a) my earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) my earning job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) my earning a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/12/08/heres-the-list-of-people-a-research-group-wants-pete-hegseth-to-fire-n2648751

TRUTH ABOUT GUNS
— Canada Bans 324 More Types Of Firearms, Plans To Give The Guns To Ukraine
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/canada-bans-324-more-types-of-firearms-and-plans-to-donate-confiscated-guns-to-ukraine/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Crazed Man With Chainsaw Burst Into St. Charles Nursing Home, Dropped in His Tracks by Good Guy with Gun
https://www.westernjournal.com/crazed-man-chainsaw-burst-nursing-home-dropped-tracks-good-guy-gun/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEWSWEEK
— DEI Is Unconstitutional
https://www.newsweek.com/dei-unconstitutional-opinion-1997453

REUTERS
— Trump aims to deport all immigrants in the US illegally (COMMENT: Of course, Democrat and RINO leaders argue that no one is in America illegally, that Biden made them all legal.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-aims-deport-all-immigrants-us-illegally-2024-12-08/

MSN
— Elite rich Americans often overlook factors that are key to their success (COMMENT: Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents have/had parents a) who had way more money than my parents had and b) who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them jobs. I should write about them.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/moneyball-and-big-short-author-michael-lewis-says-elite-rich-americans-often-overlook-these-factors-that-are-key-to-their-success/ar-AA1v8F5R

NBC NEWS
— Democrats and Republicans in Congress worried that Gabbard might leak to Assad regime (COMMENT: I should sue those who hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I leaked confidential Roskam campaign information to Duckworth in 2006.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/democrats-republicans-congress-worried-gabbard-might-leak-information-rcna181316
— Soon, if not already, all of those in healthcare will be Democrat, citizens of foreign countries, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/more-dei-bans-will-have-dire-side-effects-for-public-health/ar-AA1vgZT5

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Want a Job in the Trump Administration? Be Prepared for the Loyalty Test. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents stress the many demographics that I share with Trump and demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being blindly loyal to Trump. But they know full-well that I would fail any Trump loyalty test. They know that I am loyal to the Republican Party platform and not to any individual.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/us/politics/trump-administration-loyalty-test.html
— HARDCOY BUSINESS SECTION: How China Became a Carmaking Juggernaut (COMMENT: China, Japan, Mexico, Germany, and South Korea export more cars than the United States.)
https://www.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump says members of Jan. 6 committee should be jailed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/08/trump-january-6-biden-jack-smith/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use LGBTQers to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/09/lgbtq-trump-reactions-preparations/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How Trump Can Target Transgenderism in Schools. A federal court ruling in Pennsylvania vindicated the rights of parents. (COMMENT: How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-trump-can-target-transgenderism-in-schools-law-policy-education-369537a7

POLITICO
— Democrats inch toward the anger phase of their election loss  (COMMENT: What about down ballot Republican candidates who lost because voters punished them to punish Trump?)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/07/democrat-chairs-post-election-anger-exhaustion-00193120

DESERT NEWS
— I should write about hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters who claim to be conservative and/or Republican to give themselves standing to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2024/12/08/how-anti-trump-conservatives-will-cover-the-trump-white-house/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/they-re-conservatives-who-oppose-trump-what-do-they-do-now/ar-AA1vvdFG

DAILY VOICE
— Sharp Drop In College Enrollment Raises Alarm  (COMMENT: If you were in high school today, would you have the motivation to earn a college degree? From what I see, ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://dailyvoice.com/ma/pittsfield/sharp-drop-in-college-enrollment-raises-alarm/

MILITARY
— Military Leaders are Rattled by a List of ‘Woke’ Officers That a Group Urges Hegseth to Fire (COMMENT: I should write about my superiors in the federal government who used Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI the most to get rid of their Republican employees.  I should write about leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization who have used AA and DEI the most to get rid of their Republican members.)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/12/08/military-leaders-are-rattled-list-of-woke-officers-group-urges-hegseth-fire.html

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— How Important Is a College Degree Compared to Experience? (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that what I learned earning four job-related college degrees, earning six job-related professional certifications, and earning a job-related professional license a) did not relate to my job duties, b) did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) was acquired my me to get a job in the private sector, d) qualified me for a new trade or business, and/or e) was a distraction. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.)
https://hbr.org/2023/02/how-important-is-a-college-degree-compared-to-experience

GOOGLE
— Work your way through college (COMMENT: Because I had to work my way through college, my GPA suffered. Instead of studying, I worked all the part-time hours that I could for the Park Forest Post Office while I was a UIC student 1966-1968 and a NIU student in 1969.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22work+your+way+through+college

GOOGLE
— When a father dies early (COMMENT: Needless to say, my father’s dying suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in October of 1969 had a tremendous negative impact on me. My mother had never attended high school and she had stayed home and raised my brother and me. My brother was having problems in high school. I graduated from NIU in August of 1970 and immediately took a job working for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights. My application for a financial hardship draft deferment to help support my mother and brother was approved in February of 1971. I lived with and helped support them until my mother got a better paying job and I bought a new town home in University Park in September of 1972.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22father+died+early%22+impact

GOOGLE
—  Eligible bachelor (COMMENT: If you are a man, what did you do to make yourself an eligible bachelor? I got married when I was 29 in 1978. I had taken college preparatory courses in high school, got an ACT score of 24, graduated in the upper 20% of my class, earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, bought a new town home in 1972 and condos in 1974 and 1976, earned an MBA in 1976, and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses. By the time I got married, I had almost 10 years of federal seniority and I was earning $106,785/year in today’s dollars.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22eligible+bachelor

INDEED
— What Is a Pay Cut and When Should You Take One? (COMMENT: Needless to say, my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to take a $22,996 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980 has had a tremendous negative impact on me. In addition to the tremendous negative financial impact, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates used it to hint/imply/argue/shout that what I had learned doing the following was worthless: a) working for IRS for almost 9 years, b) earning an MBA in 1976, c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and d) almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.)
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/pay-salary/taking-a-pay-cut

INVESTOPEDIA
— You May Not Plan To Retire Early, But Many Have To (COMMENT: Needless to say, my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 has had a tremendous negative impact on me. In addition to the tremendous negative financial impact, my critics/opponents continue to use it to hint/imply/argue/shout that I must be an extremely bad person or my superiors would not have thrown away what I had learned a) working for them for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years before that, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees, c) earning six job-related professional certifications, and d) earning a job-related professional license.)
https://www.investopedia.com/you-might-not-plan-to-retire-early-here-s-what-to-know-about-savings-if-you-re-forced-to-8752713

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Trump’s immigration balancing act: Keep illegals out of US, let legals in (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Further, what percent of them are agents for countries that want to destroy America?)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/latest-updates/will-make-it-easier-for-people-to-come-in-legally-says-trump-insists-on-deporting-all-illegal-immigrants/articleshow/116119930.cms

HUFFINGTON POST
— Kinzinger Has Defiant 3-Word Response To Donald Trump’s Jail Threat
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-kinzinger-donald-trump-threat-response_n_6756c1e0e4b06b50ac934fbf

December 4, 2024

It would be great if all township political parties would issue press releases on their caucuses.

EDGAR COUNTY WATCHDOGS
— Thornton Township Democrat Caucus Nominated Napoleon Harris’ Slate For Township Offices – Tiffany Henyard Shouted Down By Residents
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2024/12/thornton-township-democrat-caucus-nominated-napoleon-harris-slate-for-township-offices-tiffany-henyard-shouted-down-by-residents/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Tiffany Henyard denied place on ballot to stay on as Thornton Township supervisor
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tiffany-henyard-news-democratic-party-caucus-denies-dolton-mayor-place-ballot-stay-thornton-township-supervisor/15621781/

NBC5
— Tiffany Henyard loses nomination as Thornton Township supervisor
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/tiffany-henyard-loses-nomination-as-thornton-township-supervisor/3615125/
— Trump’s FBI pick has plans to reshape the bureau. This is what Kash Patel has said he wants to do. (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. Charles Bowsher ran GAO 1981-1996. Under him, GAO shrank from over 6,000 employees to under 3,000. GAO is less than a shell of what it once was. Its employees who conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time were gotten rid of and replaced with employees who were liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. I should write a book about the aforesaid.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-fbi-kash-patel-reshape-bureau/3614377/

CBS2
— Tiffany Henyard denied place on ballot to stay on as Thornton Township, Illinois supervisor
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tiffany-henyard-denied-ballot-thornton-township-illinois-supervisor/

WGN9
— “A raucous caucus” seeks to determine if Tiffany Henyard can seek re-election in Thornton Township
https://www.yahoo.com/news/raucous-caucus-seeks-determine-tiffany-232440595.html
— ‘They can’t beat me’: In rare caucus, Tiffany Henyard loses Thornton Township nomination
https://wgntv.com/news/south-suburbs/they-cant-beat-me-tiffany-henyard-loses-thornton-township-nomination-to-napoleon-harris/
— Chicago’s progressive mayor gets fiery in City Club visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGf-ol9kHlU

FOX32
— ‘You can’t do stuff like this’: Tiffany Henyard, her supporters claim they were cheated in caucus
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/tiffany-henyard-exclusive-fox-32-interview
https://www.aol.com/t-stuff-tiffany-henyard-her-235252100.html

LANSING JOURNAL
— Many left waiting in cold for Democratic caucus
https://thelansingjournal.com/2024/12/03/many-left-waiting-in-cold-for-democratic-caucus/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— State Sen. Napoleon Harris blocks Tiffany Henyard to claim Democratic nomination for Thornton Township supervisor
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/03/napoleon-harris-blocks-tiffany-henyard-to-claim-democratic-thornton-township/
— Jim Dodge’s challenge to Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau heads to Cook County court
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/02/jim-dodges-challenge-to-orland-park-mayor-keith-pekau-heads-to-cook-county-court/
— Marginalized groups admit fear, uncertainty as Trump secures second term (COMMENT: According to Democrat and RINO leaders, marginalized groups include those who are liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-rich, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/09/marginalized-groups-admit-fear-uncertainty-as-trump-secures-second-term/
— Paul Vallas: The CTU, a de facto political party, is a bigger threat to public education in Chicago than Trump (COMMENT: Democrat leaders are a threat to everyone.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/04/opinion-public-education-chicago-risk-chicago-teachers-union/

DAILY HERALD
— 4 new McHenry County Board members sworn in as GOP majority grows
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241203/local-politics/4-new-mchenry-county-board-members-sworn-in-as-gop-majority-grows/

WBEZ
— Chicago is closing its biggest tent city but comes up short on promised apartments
https://www.wbez.org/housing/2024/12/04/chicago-is-closing-its-biggest-tent-city-but-comes-up-short-on-promised-apartments

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump’s defense pick Pete Hegseth faces deepening scrutiny in Senate (COMMENT: If you were picked for a position, what would your critics/opponents throw against you? If I was picked for a position, my critics/opponents would stress the success that they had having their operatives and their dupes a) throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee this year, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) end my bid to be selected to fill a Wheaton City Council West District vacancy in 2019, d) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, e) end my TAPROOT Republican of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, f) end my Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee membership in 2011, g) end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, h) end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, i) almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, j) end my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, k) end my American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board membership in 2004, l) end my GAO employment in 1997, l) etc.)
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trumps-defense-pick-pete-hegseth-faces-deepening-scrutiny-in-senate/article_e4be4b32-f1c0-57db-a1f6-c41bf6740dd1.html

SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racists.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/12/03/black-republicans-feel-left-out-of-trumps-second-term-picks/

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— New IRS funding boosted tax enforcement and improved taxpayer services during the Biden administration
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/new-irs-funding-boosted-tax-enforcement-and-19955276.php

FOX NEWS
— Trump may replace Hegseth with DeSantis for defense secretary (COMMENT: Early on, hate-filled Trump-hating Republicans backed DeSantis for President. What do they have to say about this?)
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-may-replace-hegseth-with-desantis-for-defense-secretary-amid-allegations-florida-governor-secretary-of-defense-fox-friends-weekend-conservative-gop-primary

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump picks staunch Israel supporters for key roles (COMMENT: I demonstrated my support for Israel in 1990 when I volunteered to be assigned to GAO’s only work group in Chicago that was headed by a Jewish person. Many of my Democrat GAO Chicago office superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were antisemitic.)
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-5195102/trump-picks-staunch-israel-supporters-for-key-roles-worrying-arab-americans

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Trump team signs an agreement with the DOJ for security clearances (COMMENT: I had a security clearance when I worked for GAO 1980-1997, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $115,439-$150,075/year.)
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2024-12-03/trump-team-signs-an-agreement-with-the-doj-for-security-clearances

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump may replace Hegseth with DeSantis
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-may-replace-hegseth-with-desantis-wsj/

WSIL TV
— Donald Trump Jr. is joining the board of a ‘woke-free’ marketplace. Its stock is surging (COMMENT: Woke employers do not hire, retain, or promote conservatives like me. Woke employers get rid of their conservative employees like me. To be woke is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/consumer/donald-trump-jr-is-set-to-join-the-board-of-a-woke-free-marketplace-its/article_5f2fc644-4567-5595-87e8-90a54957276c.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-416/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-208/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BOB BERLIN
— Bob Berlin Sworn In For Four More Years As DuPage County State’s Attorney
https://www.bobberlin.com/news/bob-berlin-sworn-in-for-four-more-years-as-dupage-county-states-attorney

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— WBEZ Reports on “The Last Republican”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/04/wbez-reports-on-the-last-republican/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— When Republican candidates on ballots in your precinct lose elections, who blames who for that? Since 2000, my critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party have blamed me and have blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for losses suffered my Republican candidates on ballots in my DuPage County Milton Township precinct in Wheaton. They hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I paint the candidates in my newsletters as being far more conservative than they are and that causes them to lose elections and b) that I include links to articles in my newsletters that they do not like. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me recently. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What adverse actions do your critics/opponents take against you? Mine a) discourage me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) discourage everyone from reading my newsletters. They hint/imply/argue/shout at Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct that the more that I do to help elect them, the fewer votes that they will get. If you were me, how would you respond to that? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— Rhetoric is easy. Facts are hard.
https://wirepoints.org/rhetoric-is-easy-facts-are-hard-wirepoints/
— CPS staffing grew 25% even as enrollment fell during COVID. No wonder it’s running deficits.
https://wirepoints.org/cps-staffing-grew-25-even-as-enrollment-fell-during-covid-no-wonder-its-running-deficits/
— You’re asking ordinary people to pay higher taxes so a local bureaucrat can enjoy a $9 million pension
https://wirepoints.org/youre-asking-ordinary-people-to-pay-higher-taxes-so-a-local-bureaucrat-can-enjoy-a-9-million-pension-wirepoints-on-with-wvons-bridgette-washington/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— CHICAGO MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON PUBLIC PENSIONS TO BE WORTH $3.8M-$5.5M. THANKS, LOOPHOLES!
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-public-pensions-to-be-worth-3-8m-5-5m-thanks-loopholes/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Mitch McConnell calls on anti-Trump judges to recuse themselves from some cases
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/3/mitch-mcconnell-senate-gop-leader-calls-antitrump-/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The FBI needs reform, not retribution (COMMENT: Republicans should have reformed GAO instead of gutting it.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3247517/fbi-needs-reform-not-retribution/

NEW YORK POST
— With 58K criminal migrants in New York, Eric Adams and Kathy Hochul must end sanctuary-city rules
https://nypost.com/2024/12/03/opinion/hey-eric-adams-kathy-hochul-dont-let-58k-criminal-migrants-use-new-york-as-a-sanctuary/
— Jaguar’s pink, ‘woke’ electric car slammed by Gen Z: ‘What on Earth is Jaguar thinking?’
https://nypost.com/2024/12/03/lifestyle/jaguars-pink-woke-electric-car-slammed-by-gen-z-what-on-earth-is-jaguar-thinking/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Jill Biden unveils White House ‘clown show’ Christmas decor and the reviews are savage
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/12/03/jill-biden-unveils-white-house-clown-show-christmas-decor-and-the-reviews-are-savage-1506885/

BREITBART
— Homan Slams Chicago Democrat for ‘Threatening’ Violence Against ICE
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/12/03/tom-homan-slams-chicago-democrat-threatening-violence-ice/
— NYC Mayor Eric Adams Blasts Joe Biden for Illegal Immigration, Vows to Work with Trump to Deport Criminal Illegals
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/03/eric-adams-blasts-joe-biden-illegal-immigration-vows-work-trump-deport-criminal-illegals/
— Chicago Residents Tell Trump to Arrest Mayor Brandon Johnson ff He Tries to Block Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/03/watch-chicago-residents-tell-trump-to-arrest-mayor-brandon-johnson-ff-he-tries-to-block-deportations/
— Biden’s Mass Migration Legacy: Foreign-Born Population on Track to Exceed 82 Million by 2040
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/03/bidens-mass-migration-legacy-foreign-born-population-on-track-to-exceed-82-million-by-2040/

COLLEGE FIX
— Yale event explores role of ‘merit’ in higher education and hiring (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders put the following ahead of merit: Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and nation origin discrimination.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/yale-event-explores-role-of-merit-in-higher-education-and-hiring/

CREATORS SYNDICATE
— End the Sanctuary-for-Migrants Madness
https://www.creators.com/read/betsy-mccaughey/12/24/end-the-sanctuary-for-migrants-madness

DAILY CALLER
— Biden-Harris Admin Opened Floodgates For Taxpayer-Funded Sex Changes On Kids
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/02/biden-harris-admin-taxpayer-funded-sex-changes-kids-cost/
— ‘Cutting Waste Is Not A Partisan Idea’: Trump’s DOGE Secures Support From Dem Lawmakers  (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/03/cutting-waste-not-partisan-idea-trump-doge-secures-support-dem-lawmakers/

DAILY WIRE
— ‘Shell Game’: The Feds Said Anti-White Activist’s DEI Unit Was Disbanded. She Was Actually Promoted.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/shell-game-the-feds-said-anti-white-activists-dei-unit-was-disbanded-she-was-actually-promoted

FEDERALIST
— Trump’s Woke DEA Pick Arrested Christian Pastor, Released Criminals, Penalized Unvaccinated Employees
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/03/trumps-woke-dea-pick-arrested-christian-pastor-released-criminals-penalized-unvaccinated-employees/
— 9th Circuit: Local Authorities In Washington State Can’t Block Feds From Deporting Illegals
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/04/9th-circuit-local-authorities-in-washington-state-cant-block-feds-from-deporting-illegals/

FOX BUSINESS
— DOGE highlights how much illegal immigration costs US taxpayers. DOGE will be co-led by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents reject the immigration plank in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/doge-highlights-how-much-illegal-immigration-costs-us-taxpayers
— Domino’s manager fired by franchisee for complaining owner hired illegal migrants
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/dominos-manager-fired-franchisee-complaining-owner-hired-illegal-migrants-lawsuit-claims

FOX NEWS
— Chicago residents explode at liberal mayor over city resources going to migrants
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365481394112
— Chicago residents rip mayor over spending on migrants: ‘Worst mayor in America’. Mayor Brandon Johnson is trying to close $1 billion budget shortfall, with $60M property tax hike floated.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-residents-rip-mayor-over-spending-migrants-worst-mayor-america
— DOGE chief Musk bashes massive government spending on illegal immigrants: ‘Boggles the mind!’  Musk says ‘scale of spending on illegal immigration boggles the mind’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-chief-musk-bashes-massive-government-spending-illegal-immigrants-boggles-mind

JOHNATHAN TURLEY
— Newsom’s Publicly-Funded War Chest: “Trump-Proofing” California Could Prove a Costly Option for Californians
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/12/03/newsoms-publicly-funded-war-chest-trump-proofing-california-could-prove-a-costly-option-for-californians/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— The Battle to End Wokeness is Just Getting Started
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/the-battle-to-end-wokeness-is-just-getting-started/

MRC TV
— Nearly HALF Of Chicago Teachers Are Chronically Absent, Yet Union Demands Pay RAISE (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat coworkers and subordinates took far more sick days than I did.)
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/p-gardner-goldsmith/nearly-half-chicago-teachers-are-chronically-absent-yet-union-demands-pay

PJ MEDIA
— Sodom and Gomorrah
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2024/12/04/sodom-and-gomorrica-vol-x-male-lactation-vs-transphobia-n4934820#google_vignette

POST MILLENNIAL
— US spent $151 BILLION on illegal immigration in 2023 alone
https://thepostmillennial.com/us-spent-151-billion-on-illegal-immigration-in-2023-alone-doge

TOWNHALL
— The Looming Resistance to Donald Trump’s Immigration Agenda
https://townhall.com/columnists/williamdavis/2024/12/04/the-looming-resistance-to-donald-trumps-immigration-agenda-n2648570
— The Fall of DEI: How President Trump Ushers in a Merit-Based Future (COMMENT: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/bob-rubin/2024/12/04/the-fall-of-dei-how-president-trump-ushers-in-a-merit-based-future-n2648601

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— A Democrats says “Patel picked to weaponize government against Trump enemies.”  Democrat and RINO leaders have weaponized government against Republicans.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5019000-new-york-daniel-goldman-donald-trump-kash-patel-cabinet-picks-weaponize-government/

ABC NEWS
— Shares in ‘anti-woke’ online marketplace jump after Donald Trump Jr. joins board. President-elect Trump’s eldest son was appointed to the board of PublicSquare.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/shares-anti-woke-online-marketplace-jump-after-donald/story?id=116424955

NBC NEWS
— The GOP’s post-election challenge: Turning Trump voters into full-fledged Republicans (COMMENT: I have always been a conservative, that is, a platform Republican, that is, a Republican. My Republican critics/opponents reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. They are Democrat Lite, RINO, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, if not Republican-haters. I should write about my Republican critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me lately.).
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/gop-post-election-challenge-trump-voters-politics-desk-rcna182707

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrats still don’t agree on the seriousness of their political problem after election defeat
https://apnews.com/article/democrats-political-problem-2024-election-0674765f082ba6116107e1e7cad4e536

REUTERS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote mote illegal immigration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7_6fybIx9s

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Constructively, Los Angeles is officially declaring war on America.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-council-to-finalize-and-adopt-sanctuary-city-ordinance/3573823/

NEWSWEEK
— As Hegseth Falters, Ron DeSantis May Get to Take ‘War on Woke’ to Military
https://www.newsweek.com/desantis-may-trumps-backup-plan-gop-senators-balk-pete-hegseth-1995231
— Musk Department Says Illegal Immigration Costs Taxpayer $150.7 billion
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-doge-150-billion-immigration-cost-1994609
— Employers want immigrants because employers want cheap labor. Democrats want immigrants because immigrants vote for Democrats. According to all my Democrat employers, including GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and Post Office 1966-1969, I was grossly overpaid. In my defense, I earned 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.
https://www.newsweek.com/mass-deportation-court-ruling-favors-trump-wall-street-1995144
— Illegal Chinese Migrant Shipped Weapons to North Korea From US
https://www.newsweek.com/illegal-immigrant-shipping-weapons-north-korea-chinese-national-1994903

SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with illegals against America. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on America. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://midmichigannow.com/news/nation-world/illinois-rep-john-davis-federal-forces-in-us-cities-are-an-intrusion

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Will We Ever Hear the End of Slavery Reparations? (COMMENT: According to Democrat and RINO leaders, those who are the following should pay reparations: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/will-we-ever-hear-the-end-of-slavery-reparations-racism-africa-5634f18a

BLOOMBERG
— DOD Must Face Worker’s Retaliation Claims Over EEOC Complaints (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors’ retaliation against me for complaining about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination escalated big time when I became an active member in a class action lawsuit in 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/dod-must-face-workers-retaliation-claims-over-eeoc-complaints

FORBES
— Set Your Middle School Student On The Path To College Success (COMMENT: When you were in high school, were you viewed as being college material? I was not. Nevertheless, at the start of my junior year in 1964, I set a goal for myself to get accepted by UIC. I took college preparatory courses, I got an ACT score of 24, and I graduated in the upper 20% of my class. To buy a new car to commute to/from UIC and my parents’ home in Crete, I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights after school, Saturdays, and the summer of 1965.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivalegatt/2024/12/03/set-your-middle-school-student-on-the-path-to-college-success/

DAILY KOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/3/2289941/-Republicans-are-going-to-wind-up-regretting-Trump-s-deportation-scheme

LOS ANGELES PROGRESSIVE
— To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Whites.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/king-trump

BROOKINGS
— Less than half of adults from disadvantaged backgrounds attain decent wages by age 30 (COMMENT: When I was 30 years old in 1978, my IRS salary was $110,020/year in today’s dollars. I had worked for IRS since 1971. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. I had to work my way through college. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. My ACT score was only 24. Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/pathways-to-upward-mobility-diverging-pathways/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: To identify adults who experienced socioeconomic disadvantage in adolescence, we assess whether they met any of the following criteria in their teens: Lived in a low-income family, Neither parent had a postsecondary degree, Mother was aged 19 years old or younger when her first child was born, Family received public assistance. Anyone who met at least one of the above criteria is included in the analysis.)

December 1, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry that “US Senate inquiry into Chicago ‘s housing of migrants at airports likely to heat up after Republican election wins.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/01/senate-inquiry-migrants-chicago-airports/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/30/what-does-the-trump-administration-have-in-store-for-chicago-families-many-are-concerned-about-child-care-costs-paid-family-leave/
— Young men swung to the right for Donald Trump after a campaign dominated by masculine appeals  (COMMENT: To get more votes from women and from LGBTQers, Democrat and RINO leaders are ever-increasingly anti-masculine.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/30/young-men-trump-campaign-masculine-appeals/
— Our neighbors’ marijuana usage is unbearable
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/01/asking-eric-marijuana-neighbors/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have Democrat leaders been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/01/transgender-affirming-care-trump-illinois/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/01/migrant-shelters-dcfs-investigations/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/murals-mosaics/2024/11/29/chicago-murals-pilsen-henry-gonzalez-immigration-american-flag
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/11/30/rogers-park-resident-maggie-chan-500-hats-for-refugees

DAILY HERALD
— Trump and Republicans in Congress eye an ambitious 100-day agenda, starting with tax cuts (COMMENT: Ever since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have wanted me to pay more taxes a) because they believe that federal employees are grossly overpaid and that federal benefits and pensions are much too generous, b) because I was an IRS employee for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year, c) because I avoided the draft, d) because of my wife’s income and our not having children, and e) because I paid less federal income tax 1972-1977 and my wife and I 1978 paid less federal income tax until recently by itemizing our deductions.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241130/nation-and-world-politics/trump-and-republicans-in-congress-eye-an-ambitious-100-day-agenda-starting-with-tax-cuts/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump’s election numbers — good and bad — are remarkably consistent
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/tom-kacich-trumps-election-numbers-good-and-bad-are-remarkably-consistent/article_df59249c-ada3-11ef-8e46-cf5bc3678e01.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The final, official 2024 election returns are in, and boy, are they consistent. When it comes to the last three presidential elections, 2024 doesn’t look much different than 2016 or 2020 in our area. Let’s start with Champaign County, where Donald Trump’s losing percentage — a historically bad one for three consecutive elections — has barely budged. He got 36.52 percent in 2024, 36.92 percent in 2020 and 36.42 percent in 2016. No candidate has done that poorly in the county in a presidential election with just two major candidates since Democrat Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and 1956 (34 and 33 percent, respectively). Poor Jimmy Carter got just 32.2 percent in 1980, but that was also had Illinois congressman and University of Illinois graduate John Anderson running as an independent, and he got 15 percent of the vote here.)

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Pritzker not the first Illinois governor to defy the president’s wishes  (COMMENT: With his rejection of federal immigration law, will Pritzker become the second George Wallace?)
https://pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/mike-matejka-pritzker-not-the-first-illinois-governor-to-defy-the-presidents-wishes/article_44d9e65c-acfb-11ef-b915-ff26ea8a1225.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Trump’s Illinois gain a rejection of Democrat status quo, Rep. Ryan Spain, R-Peoria, says
https://www.cnhinews.com/exchange/states/illinois/article_96752bcc-f45e-58f8-b876-bea1aa8a50a5.html

JOHN KASS
— DOGE: Dreaming of a Better Government
https://johnkassnews.com/doge-america-yearns-for-a-return-to-small-government/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Democrat leaders, a) voters are fully aware of the Democrat Party platform, b) they support it, and c) that is why they vote for Democrat candidates. But how aware are they of the Democrat Party platform? The Democrat Party platform promotes dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and nation origin discrimination. The aforesaid promotes poverty and crime. My “Republican” critics/opponents are Democrat Lite, RINO, anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican. They fail/refuse to speak against the Democrat Party platform. They fail/refuse to promote the Republican Party platform. They focus on stopping me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They focus on stopping everyone from reading my newsletters. They have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me since 2000. I should start writing about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To vote for Democrats is to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and nation origin discrimination. The aforesaid promotes poverty and crime. QUESTION: Why are voters leaving Illinois? ANSWER: 3 million in Illinois voted for Harris, that is, for the Democrat Party platform, 251,000 in DuPage County, and 478 in my precinct. Pritzker ever-increasingly makes it clear that he is going to use Illinois government get rid of those who voted for Trump once and for all. Will Trump be able to save the 2.4 million in Illinois, 191,000 in DuPage County, and 373 in my precinct who voted for him? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— QUESTION: Who is most responsible for defending and advancing the Republican Party platform in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district? ANSWER: a)  U.S. Representatives Darin LaHood, Mike Bost, and  Mary Miller, b) Republican Illinois Senators and Representatives, c) Republican elected officials in your county, township, municipality, and school district, d) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, and e) leaders of your county and township/ward party organizations. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
–Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) members run the IRP. QUESTION: Why has the IRP ever-increasingly moved to the left, that is, why have Illinois Republican candidates ever-increasingly lost elections? ANSWER: IRP SCC members are not directly elected by Illinois Republicans. Those who control the IRP SCC election process are Democrat Lite, RINO, anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican. They reject some, many, most, if not virtually all of the planks in the Republican Party platform. They despise if not hate Trump. They have taken many big adverse actions against me since 2000 because I promote direct election of IRP SCC members. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Trump’s proposed tariffs against Trump. My brother lost several jobs because his employers moved their operations to Mexico.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/29/justin-trudeau-trump-would-raise-prices-americans-/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Biden administration bankrolled development of app to help transgender people deal with ‘voice dysphoria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3244465/biden-administration-money-development-app-transgender-people-voice-dysphoria/

NEW YORK POST
— NYC is now home to over 58K ‘criminal’ migrants — including more than 1,000 gang members
https://nypost.com/2024/11/30/us-news/nyc-is-now-home-to-over-58k-criminal-migrants-including-over-1000-gang-members-ice/
— Jaguar’s woke ad shows just how out of touch companies are with consumers (COMMENT: To promote woke is to get rid of those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, etc.)
https://nypost.com/2024/11/30/business/jaguars-woke-ad-shows-just-how-out-of-touch-companies-are-with-consumers/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Nothing Cool About Democrats’ Woke Religion
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/nothing_cool_about_democrats_woke_religion.html
— Making mass deportation easier
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/making_mass_deportation_easier.html
— Where’s Antifa?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/where_s_antifa.html

BREITBART
— Cutting Block Needs to Come for Med Schools Promoting DEI
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/11/30/gop-rep-murphy-cutting-block-needs-to-come-for-med-schools-promoting-dei/

CENTER SQUARE
— Federal DEI spending explodes under Biden-Harris administration (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, etc.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_0085f3aa-ae78-11ef-a3aa-13045f2dab56.html

CHRISTIAN POST
— Biden Education Department tries to force its woke agenda on Christian schools. Since 1953, my critics/opponents have used my attending Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools against me.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/biden-education-dept-accused-of-forcing-woke-agenda-on-christian-schools.html

DAILY SIGNAL
— Haitian Immigrants ‘Self-Deporting’ Ahead of Trump Inauguration
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/11/30/haitian-immigrants-self-deporting-ahead-trump-inauguration/

DAILY WIRE
— The Left Has A Wokeness Problem, That Is, The Left Has a Moral Condescension Problem
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-strategist-the-left-has-a-wokeness-moral-condescension-problem
— Here’s What Getting Rid Of The Education Department Could Look Like
https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-getting-rid-of-the-education-department-could-look-like

FOX NEWS
— Democrat mayors fighting Trump’s deportations are playing with electoral fire. Voters have spoken, and they want an end to illegal immigration.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-democrat-mayors-fighting-trumps-deportations-playing-electoral-fire

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Toddler picked up at the southern border alone, tells police she came to U.S. to find her parents
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/toddler-picked-up-at-the-southern-border-alone-tells-police-she-came-to-u-s-to-find-her-parents

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Leftists Are Openly Promoting Terrorists Week in Education
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/leftists-are-openly-promoting-terrorists-week-in-education/amp/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— When DEI Indoctrination Is Anti-White Racism, Sue (COMMENT: I sued my Democrat GAO superiors for political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf  Of course, I got no support for my lawsuit from my critics/opponents. My critics/opponents reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform. That is, they promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, the promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and nation origin discrimination.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/when-dei-indoctrination-is-anti-white-racism-sue/

PJ MEDIA
— New York Has 58K Criminal Illegals. It’s Loosening Rules to Ensure That More Come In.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/11/30/ny-has-58k-criminal-illegals-its-loosening-rules-to-ensure-more-come-in-n4934744

TOWNHALL
— Democrats Point Fingers At Biden, Harris, Mayorkas for Costing Them the Election (COMMENT: To vote for Democrats is to promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and nation origin discrimination.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/11/30/democrats-admit-they-dropped-the-ball-on-immigration-n2648444#google_vignette

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSN
— Surge in illegal immigration by Indians at US-Canada border, over 40,000 caught this year
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/surge-in-illegal-immigration-by-indians-at-us-canada-border-over-40-000-caught-this-year/ar-AA1v3ol3
— 1.4 million illegal immigrants in US have been ordered deported, but have yet to be removed
https://www.aol.com/1-4-million-illegal-immigrants-023343453.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters stress that John Phelan who Trump wants to head the U.S. Navy has no military experience. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, Hastert, my Republican U.S. Senators and Representatives, their staff members, and candidates for those offices wasted my knowledge of IRS. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step-1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year. I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years at the GS-13 Step-1-3 Levels, currently $115,439-$123,136/year. I should write about that.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/who-is-john-phelan-trumps-mega-donor-with-no-military-experience-set-to-head-us-navy/ar-AA1uQOvf
— What arguments do your critics/opponents make to justify your paying reparations?  Mine stress that I am conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors who have been in America since 1844.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/greek-leaders-tell-german-president-a-wwii-reparations-claim-is-very-much-alive/ar-AA1tdttW

NBC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/trump-gay-marriage-fertility-treatments-inauguration-rcna181715

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2024/12/01/barely-legal-5-hard-truths–a-blueprint-for-your-dei-plan-in-2025/
— Never Change Careers Before Answering These 6 Questions First (COMMENT: Of course, I asked myself all these questions before I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. GAO audits IRS. However, my Democrat GAO superiors did everything that they could to make my transfer a failure. They forced me to take a $22,996/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my knowledge of IRS and that much of what I did at IRS was very similar to what I would do at GAO. They kept me off of audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. 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. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination and becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, my earning four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and my earning a master’s degree in finance in 1997. I should write a book about the aforesaid.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/terinaallen/2019/11/16/never-change-careers-before-answering-these-6-questions-first/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. Do you want a new career, or do you really just want to get away from a stale job, a bad boss or bad culture?. . .2. What does success in the new job or career look like? Does this fit with reality?. . .3. What career capital can you leverage?. . .4. What skills and credentials do you need to compete for a new job or career?. . .5. Are you willing to do what it takes to develop new skills and earn new credentials?. . .6. Are you willing to start at a lower level and take a pay cut to enter a new career?)

FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91236972/forget-dei-this-is-why-we-need-to-focus-on-fairness

November 30, 2024

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/30/what-does-the-trump-administration-have-in-store-for-chicago-families-many-are-concerned-about-child-care-costs-paid-family-leave/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pro-Palestinian protesters block traffic on Mag Mile to highlight continuing conflict in Gaza. The hourlong blockage of Michigan Avenue culminated in a chaotic scene at the Apple store on the Chicago River. Chicago police officers and store security spent several minutes removing a handful of protesters who entered the store and chanted inside. (COMMENT: Chicago today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/11/29/black-friday-mag-mile-gaza-israel-protest
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2024/11/29/severe-pregnancy-complications-illinois-black-mothers
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2024/11/30/severe-pregnancy-complications-illinois-black-mothers

DAILY HERALD
— Inauguration set for new DuPage County officials
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241129/news/inauguration-set-for-new-dupage-county-officials/

WSPY
— The next school reform push in Illinois: testing and accountability (COMMENT: Back in the good old days, the tests I took enabled me to a) get hired by the Post Office (1966), IRS (1971), and GAO (1980), b) earn degrees from NIU (1970), Loyola (1976), DePaul (1980), and IIT (1997), c) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt (1979), and d) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt (1981).)
https://www.wspynews.com/news/local/the-next-school-reform-push-in-illinois-testing-and-accountability/article_0cdb396a-ae48-11ef-bf4f-235257bd1396.html

WHEATON PATCH
— $2K In Cannabis Products Stolen During Home Burglary In Wheaton. An apartment in the Briarbrook complex was burglarized in mid-November.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/2k-cannabis-products-stolen-during-home-burglary-wheaton

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Pritzker ever-increasingly makes it clear that he is going to drive out of Illinois all Republicans who voted for Trump and are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. How soon, if not already will Pritzker officially a) stop schools from accepting students whose parents are Republican, b) stop schools from graduating Republicans, c) stop Republicans from getting professional certifications and licenses, d) stop employers hiring Republicans, e) force employers to fire their Republican employees, f) destroy businesses and organizations run my Republicans, g) stop Republicans from owning firearms, vehicles, real estate, etc., h) etc.?  What are the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party doing about the aforesaid? Who will come to the defense of Republicans in Illinois? 2.4 million in Illinois voted for Trump, 191,000 in DuPage County, and 373 in my precinct. Trump won all but 14 of Illinois’ 102 counties. – Dave Diersen
http://www-gopillinois.com
— With his rejection of federal immigration law, will Pritzker become the second George Wallace? SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents who have lots of political and/or government clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois paint themselves as being very well informed about political and government and news and commentary of interest to Illinois Republicans. Of course, they would deny that they read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. If that is true, on what sources do they rely and why? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Illinois sanctuary law will hinder, but won’t stop ICE agents in potential deportation actions (COMMENT: How hard will Pritzker and the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district fight deportation?)
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/666186855-illinois-sanctuary-law-will-hinder-but-won-t-stop-ice-agents-in-potential-deportation-actions

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Liberals pay political price for war on families  (COMMENT: To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/29/liberals-pay-political-price-war-families/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— How the Left gins up a war on women  (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy women.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3242044/handmaid-tales/
— Harris’s loss of support in major cities spells trouble for Democrats beyond Trump (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly run the Chicago area. Democrats despise/hate Republicans. Ever-increasingly, anticipate/expect that if you are a Republican in the Chicago area, that Democrats will get rid of you. The Democrats who ran the Post Office when I was 18 in 1966, IRS when I was 22, and GAO when I was 31 hired me, but if I was 18, 22, or 31 today, they would not hire me.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3245661/harris-loss-support-major-cities-spells-trouble-democrats-beyond-trump/
— Group of 300 illegal immigrants breaches Texas border in final days of Biden administration
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3245639/group-illegal-immigrants-breaches-texas-border/
— The strategy behind negative campaigning  (COMMENT: My critics/opponents are negative campaigners. They have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. I should write about their success in a) removing me from the Illinois Republican Party Platform and Resolutions Committee this year, b) ending my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) ending my bid to be selected to fill a Wheaton City Council West District vacancy in 2019, d) gerrymandering my precinct in 2015, e) ending my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, f) ending my membership on the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee in 2011, g) ending my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2010 and 2004, h) ending my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, i) almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, j) ending my bid to be the MTRO Treasurer in 2004, k) ending my American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board membership in 2004, l) ending my GAO employment in 1997, m) etc.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3212863/harris-cries-fascist-strategy-negative-campaigning/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump plans to give local sheriffs more power to act as immigration agents amid mass deportation crackdown (COMMENT: How hard will Pritzker and the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district fight deportation?)
https://nypost.com/2024/11/29/us-news/trump-plans-to-give-local-sheriffs-more-power-to-help-with-the-migrant-crisis/

AMAC
— Crime Rate for Illegal Aliens Vastly Understated (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/crime-rate-for-illegal-aliens-vastly-understated-data-shows/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Illinois Democrat Jonathan Jackson whines about Trump’s hyperfocus on ‘efficiency’ and debloating government (COMMENT: Yes, there was bloat in GAO during the 1980s and 1990s, but Republicans threw the baby out with the bathwater when the destroyed GAO.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/illinois_democrat_whines_about_trump_s_hyperfocus_on_efficiency_and_debloating_government.html
— Pete Hegseth on Women in Combat
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/pete_hegseth_on_women_in_combat.html

BREITBART
— Local Sheriffs Back Trump’s Deportation Plan: ‘People Are Tired of This’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/29/report-local-sheriffs-back-trumps-deportation-plan-people-are-tired-this/

CENTER SQUARE COLORADO
— Denver spends more than $350 million on migrants
https://www.thecentersquare.com/colorado/article_af0c1b62-ae45-11ef-a45e-1335938bbf3e.html

DAILY SIGNAL
— To Get Rid of Woke, Understand How It Got Started (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always been woke and are ever-increasingly woke.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/11/29/get-rid-woke-understand-got-started/

EPOCH TIMES
— Biden to Attend Trump’s Inauguration
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/biden-to-attend-trumps-inauguration-white-house-5766688

FOX NEWS
— Liberals call for ‘MAGA’ to ‘give thanks to undocumented immigrants’ on Thanksgiving. X users asked which migrants flooding Chicago and NYC harvested their turkeys.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/liberals-call-maga-give-thanks-undocumented-immigrants-thanksgiving
— ‘Party of wokeness’: Democratic strategist dissects reasons behind 2024 loss (COMMENT: To promote wokeness is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365337261112

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Young Men Just Swung towards the GOP. Conservatives Have to Win Them. (COMMENT: If I had not followed conservative principles, I would not have been able a) to earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) to earn master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) to earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, d) to earn a professional license when I was 32, e) to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., f) to buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, and g) to get married when I was 29.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/young-men-just-swung-towards-the-gop-conservatives-have-to-win-them/

NEWSMAX
— Stop Attending, Supporting ‘Woke’ Colleges (COMMENT: The Democrats who run the four universities that I earned degrees from (NIU-1970, Loyola-1976, DePaul-1980, and IIT-1997 and their students ever-increasingly make it clear that they despise/hate Trump and those who share his demographics:  conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/bill-oreilly-woke-colleges/2024/11/29/id/1189808/

PJ MEDIA
— The Unreality of Leftist Ideology
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/11/29/washington-irving-and-the-unreality-of-leftist-ideology-n4934712
— Woke Marxists Not Only Reject Western Culture, but Remake It in Their Evil Image
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/11/30/woke-marxists-not-only-reject-western-culture-but-remake-it-in-their-evil-image-n4934725#google_vignette

PATRIOT POST
— DEI Training Makes You More Likely to Agree With … Literally Hitler. Hitler accused Jews of discriminating and conspiring to enrich themselves — much as DEI and radical theories accuse white people of doing today. (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/112447-study-dei-training-makes-you-more-likely-to-agree-with-dot-dot-dot-literally-hitler-2024-11-29

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrats Need To Stop Being The Party Of Wokeness and Moral Condescension
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/11/29/dem_strategist_julian_epstein_democrats_need_to_stop_being_the_party_of_wokeness_and_moral_condescension.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat and RINO ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-migrants-mass-deportation-southern-border-illegals-1992681

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/illinois/articles/2024-11-30/emboldened-manosphere-accelerates-threats-and-demeaning-language-toward-women-after-us-election

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbtq-americans-voting-demographic-2024-election/
— How soon will Los Angeles officially declare war on America?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-braces-trump-mass-deportations-sanctuary-city/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, men are falling further and further and further behind women academically, career-wise, and financially. Will Trump stop that decline? All my female coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/opinion/dating-bro-culture-manosphere-trump-cinderella.html

JOURNAL NEWS
— The only thing the illegals are picking are hotel rooms in sanctuary cities.
https://www.journal-news.net/journal-news/journal-junction—december-1-2024/article_da2fbda8-2f3a-56fd-9148-555b2a4e476b.html

KTRH
— Blue Cities Are Planning To Defy Trump’s Deportation (COMMENT: How strongly will Pritzker and the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district defy deportation?)
https://ktrh.iheart.com/alternate/amp/2024-11-29-blue-cities-are-planning-to-defy-trumps-deportation/

USA HERALD
— The State Bar of California Under Fire: Should Meritocracy Trump Diversity in Admitting New Lawyers? (COMMENT: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://usaherald.com/the-state-bar-of-california-under-fire-should-meritocracy-trump-diversity-in-admitting-new-lawyers/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Local Sheriffs Gearing Up to Help Trump Carry Out Mass Deportations (COMMENT: How strongly will law enforcement help Trump in your county, township, and municipality?)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/county-sheriffs-trump-immigration-plan-deportations-64c522dd
— What the Top 1% Really Pays the IRS. They kick in 40.4% of income taxes, nearly double their income share. (COMMENT: Ever since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have wanted me to pay more taxes a) because they believe that federal employees are grossly overpaid and that federal benefits and pensions are much too generous, b) because I was an IRS employee for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year, c) because I avoided the draft, d) because of my wife’s income and our not having children, and e) because I paid less federal income tax 1972-1977 and my wife and I 1978 paid less federal income tax until recently by itemizing our deductions.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-the-top-1-really-pays-the-irs-57c4ad58
— Trump’s Rainbow Coalition. His biggest vote gains from 2020 came in states with the most immigrants. And he seems to have broken the Democratic monopoly on the black vote. (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat plant, Libertarian plant, Green plant, Independent plant, and RINO political consultants will continue to if not increase advising Trump to dump those who have demographics that vote for Republicans to get more votes from those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trumps-rainbow-coalition-realignment-election-voters-minorities-race-ethnicity-e6867c3c
— America Has Much to Be Thankful For (COMMENT: QUESTION: Why do minority and/or female citizens of foreign countries ever-increasingly illegally come to America illegally and illegally stay in America illegally? ANSWER: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give them more preference over citizens of America who are White and/or male.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-has-much-to-be-thankful-for-452806fb
— The GOP Barely Won the House. Factionalism in 2025 would waste a majority that could be fleeting.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-gop-barely-won-the-house-9d5e1bb5
— Gavin Newsom Turns on Elon Musk (COMMENT: My critics/opponents are masters at turning people against people. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would use as examples the many who they have turned against me. I would focus on a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gavin-newsom-turns-on-elon-musk-12280bd7
— Employers ever-increasingly want cheap labor. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, I earned a) $12.41/hour 1964-1966, b) $18.99-$20.25/hour 1966-1969, c) $54,728-$110,020/year 1971-1980, and d) $87,024-$150,075/year 1980-1997. In my defense, I earned a) a high school diploma in 1966, b) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, c) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) a job-related professional license in 1981. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on what they did to qualify themselves for better paying jobs.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/trump-immigration-policy-job-growth-567fb3cd

FORBES
— Will Trump Nominees Face FBI Background Checks? (COMMENT: What background checks have you passed? I passed background checks to be hired by the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980. In my opinion, candidates for government and political offices should be required to pass background checks before they can run. I should write a book about candidates who would have failed background checks if they had taken them.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/11/25/will-trump-nominees-face-fbi-background-checks-heres-what-to-know/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2024/11/29/deportation-plan-presents-a-daunting-challenge-for-america/
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurencoulman/2024/11/29/dei-rollbacks-or-revision-of-diversity-initiatives/

BLOOMBERG
— Checkr Triples Revenue as Background-Check Firm Courts Large Enterprise Clients (COMMENT: What background checks have you passed? I passed background checks to be hired by the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980. In my opinion, candidates for government and political offices should be required to pass background checks before they can run. I should write a book about candidates who would have failed background checks if they had taken them.)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/checkr-triples-revenue-courts-large-202451348.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/checkr-triples-revenue-as-background-check-firm-courts-large-enterprise-clients/ar-AA1uS9p2
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Unlike traditional background check services that require manual work like gathering documents from various government and judicial systems about an individual’s history, Checkr maintains partnerships with governments so it can tap a large digital database of public records. . .More recently, Checkr has expanded its customer base to include non-tech sectors such as retail, manufacturing and hospitality. It also introduced a personal background-check product this year, letting individuals ensure the accuracy of their history before it’s seen by banks, landlords and potential employers.)

CENTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION
— Background Checks and Security Clearances (COMMENT: What background checks have you passed? I passed background checks to be hired by the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980. In my opinion, candidates for government and political offices should be required to pass background checks before they can run. I should write a book about candidates who would have failed background checks if they had taken them.)
https://presidentialtransition.org/appointee-resources/ready-to-serve-prospective-appointees/background-checks-and-security-clearances/
(FROM THE POSTING: Every person hired for a federal job must undergo a background investigation to ensure that they are “reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and loyal to the United States.” This is an important and lengthy part of the appointment process. Familiarize yourself with the forms
To initiate a background investigation, your sponsoring agency will ask you to complete one or more of these forms: the Questionnaire for National Security Positions (SF 86) ( https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf ) or the Questionnaire for Public Trust Positions (SF 85P) ( https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf85p.pdf ), depending on how your position may affect national security and other sensitive matters such as government finance and technology. The government is in the process of consolidating these forms into one Personnel Vetting Questionnaire. It may take weeks to gather your records and complete, and longer if you have significant foreign travel. Get started early!)

PEW RESEARCH
— Americans’ top sources of political news  (COMMENT: My critics/opponents who have lots of political and/or government clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois paint themselves as being very well informed about political and government and news and commentary of interest to Illinois Republicans. Of course, they would deny that they read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. If that is true, on what sources do they rely and why?)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/31/americans-top-sources-of-political-news-ahead-of-the-2024-election/

INDEPENDENT
— Black jobs are bad jobs that Whites refuse to take. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me for taking bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. They have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Blacks should have gotten the jobs and promotions that I got. They were especially furious when IRS promoted me instead of Blacks in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and GAO promoted me instead of a Black in 1986. They were overjoyed when GAO forced me to retire in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. I should write a book about the aforesaid.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/during-campaign-trump-talked-black-171602738.html