FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBINE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/chicago-immigration-operation-midway-blitz-2/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/2025-in-review-immigration-enforcement-ice-operation-midway-blitz/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/opinion-2025-chicago-immigration-enforcement-raids/
— Here’s what Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2024 tax returns show
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/mayor-brandon-johnson-2024-tax-returns/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more drug abuse.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/libraries-opioid-reversal-naxalone/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/28/deported-chicago-to-mexico-husband-ice-detention-middway-blitz
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/28/broadview-detainees-operation-midway-blitz-self-deporting-high-rates-analysis-finds
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Kwanzaa.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/bronzeville/2025/12/27/bronzeville-kwanzaa-black-owned-businesses-fair
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: As home prices soar in the suburbs, communities struggle to meet affordable housing goals. DD: Back in the good old days, my wife and I bought 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton when I was 29 in 1978. SEE: https://www.redfin.com/IL/Wheaton/1017-E-Harrison-Ave-60187/home/18135528 My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious. The down payment came from my wife’s savings. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $108,978/year. I sold my one bedroom Outer Drive East condo and with the gain bought a new 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale and a new 1978 Chevrolet Chevette. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/documents/ My Democrat IRS superiors immediately disallowed my education deductions and again made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. They had disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. They started being furious when I bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971 and more furious when I bought a new townhome in University Park in 1972 SEE: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ and then condos in 1974 and 1976. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251227/news/as-home-prices-soar-in-the-suburbs-communities-struggle-to-meet-affordable-housing-goals/
WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led a successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/will-marijuana-be-legalized-rescheduled-in-2026/
WGN RADIO
— A college in degree in Illinois can go a long way. DD: If I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1970, Firestone Stores would not have hired me as a Retail Store Manager in 1970 and IRS would not have hired me as a Revenue Officer in 1971. If I had not been taking graduate business evening courses, IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If I had not earned an MBA in 1976 and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, GAO would not have hired me as an Analyst in 1980. If I had not earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986. If I had not been taking graduate evening finance courses, GAO would have forced me to retire when I was 45 in 1993 instead of when I was 49 in 1997.
https://wgnradio.com/outside-the-loop-radio/otl-1002-a-college-in-degree-in-illinois-can-go-a-long-way-the-secret-history-of-kitty-haywood/
SHAW LOCAL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/12/27/illinois-to-increase-funding-for-planned-parenthood/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for the high cost of healthcare.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/12/27/why-are-health-insurance-premiums-spiking-in-2026-heres-what-to-know/
CENTAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led a successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/will-marijuana-be-legalized-rescheduled-in-2026/
FOX ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the high cost of health care. To regain the White House, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that they would make healthcare free in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-eepskjWlY
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The Ivy League is manufacturing America’s adversaries. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote divisiveness. They ever-increasingly turn those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, have less money than others, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time AGAINST those who are conservative, White, male, older, have more money than others, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/4362289/the-ivy-league-manufacturing-america-adversaries/
— The Chinese Communist Party poses a greater threat than Islamism. DD: My critics/opponents have no problem with China and Islam.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4342568/chinese-communist-party-greater-threat-than-islamism/
— Affordability. DD: What helped you afford things? For me, it included my earning more money. The following helped me earn more money: a) my earning a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my earning three job-related master’s degrees, c) my earning six job-related professional certifications, and d) my earning a job-related professional license.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/4356814/subsidizing-demand-not-solve-affordability/
NEW YORK POST
— Musk slams Mamdani’s appointment of Lillian Bonsignore as FDNY commissioner over lack of experience. DD: How have your superiors treated your experience? All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. The leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) ever-increasingly ignore/dismiss/belittle the experience I have gained serving a) as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999 and b) as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and the experience I previously gained serving a) as an American Association of Political Consultant Midwest Chapter director for 3 years, b) as the MTRO webmaster for 6 years, c) as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee officer for 4 years, d) as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman for 7 years, and e) as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks for 16 years.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/elon-musk-slams-mamdanis-fdny-commissioner-pick-over-lack-of-experience-people-will-die/
— LA Mayor Karen Bass calls it ‘sad’ that Hispanics are joining Border Patrol – suggests they’re desperate for money. DD: When were you most desperate for money? For me, it was when my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I was 22 years old in 1971. My application for a financial hardship draft deferment was pending and I was helping support my mother and brother. His firing me directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/26/us-news/la-mayor-karen-bass-calls-it-sad-that-hispanics-are-joining-border-patrol/
— Mamdani-backed Queens Assembly candidate hates American holidays like Veterans Day, July 4th. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who have done the most to harm Wheaton’s Independence Day parades since 1978. I would focus on those who had their operatives and their dupes end my service as the Republican fundraiser for the parades in 2021.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/mamdani-backed-queens-assembly-candidate-hates-american-holidays-like-veterans-day-july-4th/
— ‘Unlucky’ illegal immigrant runs red light, crashes straight into ICE vehicle
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/unlucky-illegal-immigrant-allegedly-runs-red-light-and-crashes-into-ice-vehicle/
— Mamdani gives advice to thwart, evade ICE in video message calling to ‘stand up’ to feds
https://www.aol.com/articles/zohran-mamdani-gives-advice-thwart-205026199.html
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Antisemitism is surging worldwide, but Jews must stay proud, courageous, and vigilant against threats to their people and faith. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, they had my many Jewish superiors and supervisors take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/12/28/never-again-is-always/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Veiled threat? Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey warns ICE agents they could get killed if they enforce immigration law
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/veiled_threat_minneapolis_mayor_jacob_frey_warns_ice_agents_they_could_get_killed_if_they_enforce_immigration_law.html
— Kid with cell phone exposes $110 million in Somali fraud in Minnesota
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/kid_with_cell_phone_exposes_110_million_in_somali_fraud_in_minnesota.html
— Conservatism through reason and analysis
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/conservatism_through_reason_and_analysis.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As a California resident, I have seen firsthand the mirage that is leftism. Democrats appeal to emotion by espousing the good intentions of their proposed policies (and, more recently, the evil intent of Republicans — e.g., “kill Grandma”). Their policies always lead to disaster. Affirmative action, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, Social justice policing, Appeasement abroad, Free trade (resulting in the destruction of our middle class), Universal public education, No-risk college loans, SNAP benefits for the poor, Medicaid for All (including illegal aliens), Free buses, Rent control, Gun control, Abortion, or the deceptively named “reproductive rights,” Transing of children, or the deceptively named “gender-affirming care,” Mass unfettered illegal immigration, Bend down the (health care) cost curve, If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, and Climate change and the urbanization of the populace into smart cities. Wonderful ideas — in theory. In practice, the outcome of these policies has been disastrous, particularly for those who have bought in to the lie. Inner cities are rife with drugs, crime, and homelessness.)
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— South Pacific island to take deportees in exchange for millions in US foreign aid
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/27/south-pacific-island-to-take-deportees-in-exchange-for-millions-in-us-foreign-aid-1612489/
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz claims America ‘can’t afford’ to spend millions deporting illegal aliens
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/27/dws-claims-america-cant-afford-to-spend-millions-deporting-illegal-aliens-1612451/
— Walz’s daughter extends warm Christmas greetings to illegal aliens ‘terrorized’ by ICE
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/27/walzs-daughter-extends-warm-christmas-greetings-to-illegal-aliens-terrorized-by-ice-1612387/
DAILY SIGNAL
— How Illegal Immigration and Government Failure Fuel Identity Theft
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/27/how-illegal-immigration-and-government-failure-fuel-identity-theft/
— Why Western Leaders Won’t Acknowledge ‘Radical Islam’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/22/leaders-fail-when-the-threat-of-radical-islam-is-ignored/
— The Left Framed Trump on ‘Affordability’ Crisis. Here’s What Trump Must Do Now.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/23/the-left-framed-trump-on-affordability-crisis-heres-what-trump-must-do-now/
DAILY WIRE
— Kristi Noem’s Gift? ICE Discloses List Of ‘Worst Of The Worst’ It Arrested On Christmas. The list includes murderers, gang members, and drug traffickers.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homans-gift-ice-discloses-list-of-worst-of-the-worst-it-arrested-on-christmas
FOX NEWS
— ‘Unlucky’ Honduran woman arrested after allegedly running red light and crashing into ICE vehicle
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unlucky-honduran-woman-arrested-allegedly-running-red-light-crashing-ice-vehicle
PJ MEDIA
— Biden Administration Helped Illegals Take Americans’ Housing
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/27/biden-admin-helped-illegals-take-americans-housing-sec-turner-says-n4947576
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump calls for release of any Epstein files naming Democrats: “Embarrass them”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-calls-for-release-epstein-files-naming-democrats/
NBC NEWS
— How tracking blood sugar with continuous glucose monitoring may be helpful. Some experts claim that reducing fluctuations throughout the day can help protect against heart disease, even for people who don’t have diabetes. DD: I have started using Stelo by Dexcom to continuously monitor my blood sugar level. If you have type 2 diabetes like I do and use Stelo, please phone me at 630-653-0462.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heart-health/glucose-monitoring-blood-sugar-tracking-continuous-non-diabetic-know-rcna189881
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Is there a benefit for healthy people to track their blood sugar? Measuring blood sugar has joined sleep and exercise tracking as wellness trends, with some longevity experts claiming that reducing fluctuations throughout the day can help protect against heart disease, even for people who don’t have diabetes. Continuous glucose monitors, or CGMs, are small devices that track blood sugar in real time and can tell wearers how their bodies are reacting to stress, food, sleep or exercise. New versions attach to a user’s arm and can pair with a smartphone to give blood sugar readings throughout the day. CGMs, which the Food and Drug Administration first approved in 1999, have traditionally been prescribed only to patients with diabetes. More recently, the FDA has approved two blood sugar monitors for over-the-counter use, making them available to anyone without prescriptions.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— The U.S. Must Break China’s Chokehold on Our Economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/opinion/the-us-must-end-chinas-rare-earth-dominance.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/opinion/trump-weaker-resistance-stronger.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/opinion/voter-preferences-polls.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would have been no need for DOGE.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html
— How to Tell Your Adult Kids the Bank of Mom and Dad Is Closed. DD: I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. I helped support my mother and brother 1970-1972.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/business/retirement-supporting-adult-kids.html
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— How to Use an MBA to Advance in Your Field or Change Careers. DD: The IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 gave weight to my taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola during that time. GAO would not have hired me in 1980 if I had not earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.
https://www.usnews.com/education/articles/how-to-use-an-mba-to-advance-in-your-field-or-change-careers
ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION
— How to find a career with a purpose. DD: What about the importance of what employers do? The importance of what the Post Office does (deliver mail), what Firestone does (sell tires and automotive services), what IRS does (collect federal taxes), and what GAO does (audit federal agencies) motivated me to not only to accept their job offers, but to withstand tremendous efforts to get rid of me by my Democrat superiors.
https://www.ajc.com/herstory/2025/12/how-to-find-a-career-with-a-purpose-this-atlanta-executive-charted-a-path/
COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN
— When Nixon ended the draft it changed the course of my life. DD: How did the Vietnam War draft impact you? It had a tremendous impact on me. I avoided the draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship deferment 1970-1971. Because of my draft lottery number, the likelihood of my being drafted decreased in 1971. But the draft did not end until 1973. Potential employers viewed me as being draft bait because I was 1-A for the draft. They did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved. That severely harmed my job search. When I graduated from NIU in 1970, I took the only job offer that I got. It was for a job that did not really require a college degree. I was rudely fired from that job because I had accepted a job offer. But that job offer was withdrawn. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS in 1971. But I soon learned that my Democrat IRS superiors who were veterans blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. They despised/hated Republicans like me who avoided the draft. They got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. They disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. They disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. They made it ever-increasingly clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. The aforesaid resulted in my transferring to GAO in 1980. But I soon learned that my Democrat GAO superiors who were veterans also blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. They forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, They delayed my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.columbiamissourian.com/opinion/local_columnists/when-nixon-ended-the-draft-50-years-ago-it-changed-the-course-of-my-life/article_20c863b8-98d7-11ed-8e1c-2b19c458cdaf.html
NPR
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. Because of that, federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5369550/trump-federal-workers-schedule-f
MS NOW
— DD: To get more votes from minorities and from females, Democrat and RINO candidates, elected officials, and party leaders ever-increasingly shout at minorities and at females that older Republican White males discriminate against them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUy-mDTryPk
FAST COMPANY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91460622/trump-mass-deportation-campaign-in-2025-devastating-photos
JILL SCHLESINGER
— Labor Market Slowdown: Young Grads Feel the Squeeze. DD: What harmed your job search? Potential employers viewed me as being draft bait because I was 1-A for the draft. They did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved. That severely harmed my job search. I avoided the draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship deferment 1970-1971. Because of my draft lottery number, the likelihood of my being drafted decreased in 1971. But the draft did not end until 1973. When I graduated from NIU in 1970, I took the only job offer that I got. It was for a job that did not really require a college degree.
https://www.jillonmoney.com/blog/labor-market-slowdown-young-grads-feel-the-squeeze
BANKRATE
— 9 myths about home equity. DD: When I sold my Outer Drive East studio condo in 1976, I used the equity to buy a one bedroom condo in that building. When I sold that one bedroom condo in 1978, I used the equity to buy a new 1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale and a new 1978 Chevrolet Chevette. When my wife and I sold 1017 East Harrison in Wheaton and my townhome in University Park in 1984, we used the equities to have 915 Cove Court built in Wheaton.
https://www.bankrate.com/home-equity/myths-about-home-equity-what-homeowners-often-get-wrong/
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. Because of that, federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/11/final-schedule-f-regulations-describe-civil-service-protections-unconstitutional-overcorrections/409616/
NFFE & FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. Because of that, federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://nffe.org/press-release/trump-administration-creates-new-schedule-g-to-reward-political-lackeys-and-undercut-civil-service-protections/
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/trump-administration-estimates-50000-federal-employees-will-lose-civil-service-protections/
GALLUP
— One in Four U.S. Employees Lack Advancement Opportunities. DD: Democrats run the federal government. To advance in the federal government you have to be a Democrat and the more of the following that you are, the faster that you can advance: minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Because I am none of the aforesaid, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and GAO never promoted me beyond GS-13 even though I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-relate professional license.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/695996/one-four-employees-lack-advancement-opportunities.aspx
LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. Because of that, federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.naacpldf.org/five-rights-federal-workers/
MOTHER JONES
— DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I dad.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/elon-musk-the-fdny-veteran-who-worked-9-11-and-covid-isnt-qualified-to-lead-the-department/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
FINANCIAL EXPRESS
— Why being good at your job doesn’t guarantee career growth. DD: My Democrat superiors and supervisors have always used the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems a) to favor their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and b) to disfavor their Republican employees who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. The aforesaid ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related a) bachelor’s degree, b) three master’s degrees, c) six professional certifications, and d) professional license.
https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/education/article/why-being-good-at-your-job-doesnt-guarantee-career-growth
OTHER SOIURCES
CNET
— Continuous Glucose Monitors for Easy Tracking. DD: I have started using Stelo by Dexcom to continuously monitor my blood sugar level. If you have type 2 diabetes like I do and use Stelo, please phone me at 630-653-0462.
https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/best-continuous-glucose-monitors-according-to-experts/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Stelo was the first over-the-counter CGM available in the US when it received FDA approval in 2024. The small sensor sits on the back of your arm and tracks your glucose levels 24/7. You can view your blood sugar levels within the app. . .Each sensor lasts up to 15 days, it’s pretty low maintenance and it’s an easy way to see how your stress, meals and daily habits influence your glucose levels. One pack of two will cost you $99 (lasts about a month) but if you subscribe that price will drop to $89 a month. The pack comes with everything you need: the sensors, applicator and overpatch to secure the sensor in place. Over the two weeks I tested the Stelo, I noticed which habits (like taking a walk after dinner) affected my blood sugar the most. I find this tool helpful for those curious about their overall health and probably not for those with a diabetes diagnosis as it doesn’t send safety alarms when your glucose levels are too high or too low. If you have a diagnosis and would like to try Stelo, I recommend speaking to your doctor to ensure it will give you the insights and alerts you need.)
Tag: GOPUSA
December 27, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Abolish ICE’ gets early nod from Mayor Brandon Johnson in annual Chicago snowplow contest. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/26/abolish-ice-gets-early-nod-from-mayor-brandon-johnson-in-annual-chicago-snowplow-contest/
— Immigration-themed Nativity scene at Evanston church turns ICE agents into shepherds for a peaceful Christmas
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/26/immigration-nativity-scene-evanston-church-ice-agents-shepherds-christmas/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ‘Abolish ICE’ gains Mayor Brandon Johnson’s support as Chicago snowplow-naming contest returns. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12/26/chicago-snowplow-naming-contest
— DD: Under Pritzker, more and more and more in Illinois will be on SNAP, that is, more and more and more will be dependent on government assistance.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/12/26/illinois-hunger-congress-trump-tax-spending-law-snap-benefits-food-stamps-kate-maehr-julie-yurko
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/12/26/undocumented-immigrants-businesses-jobs-economy-chicago-amy-yee
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders promote Kwanzaa
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12/26/kwanzaa-malcolm-x-college
DAILY HERALD
— Candidate forum for 8th Congressional District Democratic primary set for Jan. 15. DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman and an Illinois Center Right Collation Steering Committee member, the organizations would still be hosting candidate forums.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251226/news/candidate-forum-for-8th-congressional-district-democratic-primary-set-for-jan-15/
QUAD CITY TIMES
— DD: Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://qctimes.com/news/state-regional/business/article_d12558fd-a755-50c6-a98e-f3fa668efb2b.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO & WGLT
— Cannabis use among teens tied to poor school performance. DD: Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) get an ACT score of 24, b) graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, b) earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, c) pass the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, d) earn four more professional certifications, or e) earn a professional license. I would not have been able to get jobs that enabled me to a) buy a 6-year old car when I was 16, b) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, d) or get married when I was 29.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-12-26/cannabis-use-among-teens-tied-to-poor-school-performance
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-12-26/marijuana-rescheduling-would-bring-some-immediate-changes-but-others-will-take-time
https://www.wglt.org/2025-12-26/cannabis-use-among-teens-tied-to-poor-school-performance
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Taking Our Islamic Enemy at His Word
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/taking-our-islamic-enemy-at-his-word/
— Open Borders, Open Jihad
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/open-borders-open-jihad/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Hunger Industrial Complex: How America Manufactured a Food Insecurity Crisis
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/the-hunger-industrial-complex-how-america-manufactured-a-food-insecurity-crisis/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What are the candidates in the contested Republican primary races on the ballot in your precinct doing to win on March 17, 2026? What are their political consultants advising them to do? Which ones are seeking or have gotten Trump’s endorsement? Which ones are you going to vote for and why? I will be hand-delivering sample Republican primary ballots and campaign literature to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you had adverse actions taken against you? When your critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against you, who has come to your defense? My critics/opponents continue to stress that when they had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me, virtually no one came to my defense. They had their operatives and their dupes a) rudely throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) rudely end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) rudely gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) rudely end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) rudely end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) rudely end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, h) rudely defeat my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, i) etc. Who have you hoped would have come to your defense, but did not? For me, it is those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect in general elections. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois’ radically woke employee training
https://wirepoints.org/wirepoints-mark-glennon-on-illinois-radically-woke-employee-training-chicagos-budget-and-more-audio-wls/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— A Political Christmas Tree
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/26/a-political-christmas-tree/
— Democratic Party Infighting in Dundee Township Leads to Levy Meeting Tonight
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/26/democratic-party-infighting-in-dundee-township-leads-to-levy-meeting-tonight/
— Laws Taking Effect January 1st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/26/laws-taking-effect-january-1st/
— Bruce Leon Takes the Offensive in 9th Congressional District Democratic Party Race to Replace Jan Schakowsky
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=15074&action=edit
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— How the White House drew a new battle plan to take on the Washington press corps. DD: I should write about RINO candidates, RINO elected officials, and RINO party leaders who a) pander to the Democrat news media and b) take adverse actions against me to curry favor with the Democrat news media.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/26/white-house-drew-new-battle-plan-take-washington-press-corps/
— High-stakes gamble: Parents pour thousands into youth sports despite microscopic pro odds
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/26/play-pressure-hidden-toll-families-kids-professionalized-youth-sports/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— California wants schools to keep parents in the dark
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4362234/california-wants-schools-keep-parents-in-the-dark/
NEW YORK POST
— Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan wears hijab in solidarity with Somalis as feds probe multibillion-dollar fraud scandal
https://nypost.com/2025/12/26/us-news/minnesota-lt-gov-peggy-flanagan-wears-hijab-at-somali-market-amid-multibillion-dollar-fraud-scandal/
— DD: Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/26/opinion/trump-makes-the-right-call-on-cannabis-after-a-40-year-wait/
— Mamdani picks his mentor: The woke, radical, anti-Israel YouTuber Ms. Rachel
https://nypost.com/2025/12/26/opinion/mamdani-picks-his-mentor-the-woke-radical-anti-israel-youtuber-ms-rachel/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The calamity of illegal semi-truck drivers on the road
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/the_calamity_of_illegal_semi_truck_drivers_on_the_road.html
— Minnesota Gov. Walz implies that white people should have to apologize for their skin color. DD: To get more votes from nonwhites, Democrats ever-increasingly glorify and praise them, pander to them, give them more preference, and tell them that White male Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/minnesota_gov_walz_implies_that_white_people_should_have_to_apologize_for_their_skin_color.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Infuriating list of fatal car crashes caused by illegals and those who allowed them licenses
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/26/infuriating-list-of-fatal-car-crashes-caused-by-illegals-and-those-who-allowed-them-licenses-1612331/
BLAZE
— Leftist radicals doxx ICE agents with ‘WANTED’ flyers in Pennsylvania
https://www.theblaze.com/news/leftist-radicals-doxx-ice-agents-with-wanted-flyers
BREITBART
— Democrats ‘Have Adopted Illegal Aliens as Their Primary Constituents’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/12/26/exclusive-scott-jennings-democrats-have-adopted-illegal-aliens-as-their-primary-constituents/
CHRISTIAN POST
— Kristi Noem urges illegal immigrants to self-deport with $3K bonus or risk deportation, never returning to the US. DD: To me, $3,000 is a lot of money. In today’s dollars, during 1964, 1965, and 1966, I worked for $12.77/hour washing dishes. To earn $3,000 in today’s dollars, I had to work 235 hours.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/dhs-offers-3k-holiday-stipend-for-illegal-aliens-to-self-deport.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— Victor Davis Hanson Explains Why DEI Is the Most ‘Toxic Ideology’ DD: DEI destroys meritocracy.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/26/victor-davis-hanson-dei-is-most-toxic-ideology-weve-ever-experienced/
FOX NEWS
— Defiant TPUSA leader won’t quit despite intimidation, harassment after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. After a string of harassment, intimidation and destruction in the wake of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a leader at one of the organization’s college chapters refuses to back down. DD: Who leads TPUSA in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Wheaton, and in Wheaton Warrenville School District 200?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386873781112
— Most radical courses, curriculum that received federal funding in 2025. Parents’ rights groups across the country have spoken out against far-left indoctrination over the past year. DD: My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earning a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/most-radical-courses-curriculum-received-federal-funding-2025
— Homeownership is making a comeback thanks to Trump, but there’s more to come. HUD report shows foreign-born migrants accounted for two-thirds of growth in rental demand. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My being hired in 1970 and 1971 enabled me to not only buy a new townhome in 1972, but to also buy a new Corvette in 1971 and pay for graduate evening business courses in 1972.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sec-turner-homeownership-making-comeback-thanks-trump-theres-more-come.amp
HOT AIR
— Wokeness Isn’t Dead. DD: My critics/opponents continue to promote Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI. They continue to deny that AA and DEI are reverse discrimination and age discrimination.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/12/26/wokeness-isnt-dead-n3810212
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Deadly Highway Crashes Prompt ICE Sweep of Illegal Alien Truckers in California
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/ice-operation-california-highway-illegal-alien-truckers
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— DEI Policies Have Caused Real Harm to Young White Men. DD: According to my critics/opponents, a) reverse discrimination and age discrimination have never existed and b) older White males have caused all the world’s problems.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/dei-policies-have-caused-real-harm-to-young-white-men/amp/
NEWSMAX
— ICE: 70% Arrested Had Criminal Ties
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-trump-admin-illegals/2025/12/26/id/1239728/
— Discrimination Can Apply to Any Color, Any Sex, Any Race. DD: According to my critics/opponents, only those who are the following discriminate: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, German American, Protestant, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/bondi-dei/2025/12/26/id/1239727/
PJ MEDIA
— Laken Riley Act Arrests Reach 17,500
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/26/laken-riley-act-arrests-of-criminals-hit-17500-n4947555
— Not every Black or female is deemed more employable than a White male; only Black or female candidates who demonstrate the proper adherence to progressive values and the progressive agenda are deemed worthy. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise an older Black woman.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/12/26/theres-a-right-kind-of-black-and-a-wrong-kind-of-black-n4947548
— Woke Professor Smears ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ As Racist
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/26/woke-professor-smears-its-a-wonderful-life-as-racist-n4947551
POST MILLENNIAL
— Mamdani’s new lesbian FDNY fire chief never worked as a firefighter. “There are some young LGBTQ members that maybe don’t see this as a possibility for them and I want them to know that there’s nothing that can stop them from finding success.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/mamdanis-new-lesbian-fdny-fire-chief-never-worked-as-a-firefighter
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Some have been critical of Bonsignore’s appointment as well as her comment, saying that she was hired only for DEI purposes.)
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Feminism, Anti-Racism & the Unraveling of Western Civilization. Statistics from media, academia, and law suggest meritocracy has given way to ideology—reshaping institutions, sidelining men, and raising hard questions about the West’s long-term viability.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/12/26/feminism_anti-racism_amp_the_unraveling_of_western_civilization_681458.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters continue to promote Joe Walsh.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5664041-joe-walsh-criticizes-ice-raids/amp/
CBS NEWS
— Boston Archbishop to meet with priest over controversial “ICE was here” nativity scene. DD: How strongly have Democrats taken over your church?
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/ice-was-here-nativity-dedham-boston/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Most Americans decide 2025 isn’t the year for charity. DD: Most if not virtually all charities promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, they promote even more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, and f) socialism.
https://fortune.com/2025/12/24/charitable-giving-declines-philanthropy-affordability-this-year-2025/
MSN
— US rolls out $5,000 penalty for migrants caught after illegal entry
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/us-rolls-out-5000-penalty-for-migrants-caught-after-illegal-entry/ar-AA1RSlwD
CNBC
— As the cost of living keeps climbing, Americans are trying to muscle through the affordability crisis. DD: At my and my wife’s stage in life, we deal with inflation by using our retirement savings. We have no children.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/26/how-americans-are-responding-to-the-affordability-crisis.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— The Strange Death of Make America Great Again. DD: I agree with MAGA when it promotes conservative principles and the Republican Party platform. I disagree with MAGA when it rejects conservative principles and the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/opinion/turning-points-americafest-maga.html
— Agriculture Department Sheds a Fifth of Its Workers. From January to June, more than 20,000 employees out of more than 110,000 left the agency, according to a report by the agency’s inspector general. DD: Because of Gingrich budget cuts, GAO shed half its workers between 1980 and 1997. I was one of them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-agriculture-department-resignations-cuts.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Tale of Two Medicaid States: Minnesota Fraud vs. Indiana Reform. More indictments in Tim Walz’s state, while Mike Braun’s reforms save hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/medicaid-fraud-minnesota-indiana-reforms-tim-walz-mike-braun-d1edb6b1
— The Bruising Reality of Searching for a Job at 65. DD: I have been unemployed since I was 49 in 1997. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. In my defense, my Democrat GAO forced me to retire, that is, they fired me. Before that, a) they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, b) they delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) they kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and d) they forced me to take a $23,472/year pay cut (21%) n today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. Before that, my Democrat IRS superiors a) never promoted me beyond GS-12, b) disallowed my education deductions, and c) disallowed my travel vouchers. Before that, my Democrat Post Office superiors, a) forced me to resign and b) disallowed my sick leave requests. The aforesaid has rendered worthless a) my work experience, b) my job-related bachelor’s degree, c) my three job-related master’s degrees, d) my six job-related professional certifications, and e) my job-related professional license.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/the-bruising-reality-of-searching-for-a-job-at-65-eed94709
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Committee Republicans advance House bill to overhaul the federal probationary period. DD: Have you been in a probationary period? After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO supervisors were furious when they learned that because of my IRS employment, they could not use probationary procedures to get rid of me. In 1970, my Chicago Heights Firestone Store boss unsuccessfully tried to use probationary procedures to not hire me. The Firestone Store Chicago district office hired me and assigned me to his store. He never would have hired me. He forced me to pass a 2-week probationary period in Firestone’s Gary Indiana Store. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. He disapproved of my being Protestant. He disapproved of my being German American. He disapproved of me and my ancestors living in Crete and their having been in America since 1844. The aforesaid led to my accepting a job offer from Oldsmobile in 1971. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. He rudely fired me because I had accepted that job offer.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/12/committee-republicans-advance-house-bill-to-overhaul-the-federal-probationary-period/
FROM OTHER SOURSES
GOOGE AI
— Come to your defense. DD: Have you had adverse actions taken against you? When your critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against you, who has come to your defense? My critics/opponents continue to stress that when they had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me, virtually no one came to my defense. They had their operatives and their dupes a) rudely throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) rudely end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) rudely gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) rudely end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) rudely end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) rudely end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, h) rudely defeat my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, i) etc. Who have you hoped would have come to your defense, but did not? For me, it is those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect in general elections.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22come+to+your+defense%22
HR MORNING
— Ask these 8 questions to get difficult employees back on track. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise their most problematic employees. They all were Democrats who were minority, female, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. Further, they assigned me to work for the supervisors who they wanted to get rid of.
https://www.hrmorning.com/articles/back-on-track/
December 23, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Supreme Court keeps Trump’s National Guard deployment blocked in the Chicago area, for now
https://abc7chicago.com/post/supreme-court-ruling-keeps-donald-trumps-chicago-national-guard-deployment-blocked-now/18309907/
— Pope disappointed over approval of assisted suicide legislation in his home state of Illinois
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pope-leo-xiv-news-catholic-church-leader-disappointed-approval-assisted-suicide-legislation-home-state-illinois/18310097/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Supreme Court deals Trump a defeat on bid to deploy National Guard in Illinois
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/23/supreme-court-trump-national-guard-illinois/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for inflation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/20/november-us-consumer-goods-price-tracker/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pope disappointed by approval of Illinois’ assisted suicide legislation. Pope Leo XIV said he asked Gov. JB Pritzker not to sign legislation allowing assisted suicide in Illinois. “We were very clear about the necessity to respect the sacredness of life from the very beginning to the very end, and unfortunately … he decided to sign that bill.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv/2025/12/23/pope-disappointed-over-approval-of-illinois-assisted-suicide-legislation
DAILY HERALD
— Why three congressional candidates could be booted from the ballot
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251223/us-congress-politics/why-three-congressional-candidates-could-be-booted-from-the-ballot/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Three congressional candidates vying to serve different parts of the Northwest or West suburbs will find out early next month if they’ll appear on March 2026 primary ballots or be booted. On the hot seat are Democrat Mark J. Pasieka Sr., a Chicagoan running in the 3rd District; and two Republicans running in the 11th District, Tedora Brown of Palos Park and Michael Pierce of Naperville.)
— DuPagePads opens new warming center in Wheaton
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251223/news/dupagepads-opens-new-warming-center-in-wheaton/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Quantifying the Tax Local Officials Did Not Vote To Impose, a “Would Have Been, Could Have Been” Article
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/23/quantifying-the-tax-local-officials-did-not-vote-to-impose-a-would-have-been-could-have-been-article/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court rules against Trump on deploying troops to Chicago
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/23/supreme-court-rules-trump-deploying-troops-chicago/
— Medicaid wasted more than $200 million on dead enrollees in single year
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/23/medicaid-paid-200-million-care-deceased-patients-single-year/
— White House rebuffs Catholic bishops’ appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/23/catholic-bishops-appeal-christmas-pause-immigration-enforcement/
— Military hits best recruiting numbers in 15 years
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/23/military-hits-best-recruiting-numbers-15-years-pentagon-says/
— Islam is still incompatible with America
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/23/december-2025-islam-still-incompatible-america/
— American families deserve real health care relief. There’s a better path than Obamacare.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/10/american-families-deserve-real-health-care-relief/
NEW YORK POST
— Toxic ideas fueling far-left terrorists came straight from our college campuses
https://nypost.com/2025/12/23/opinion/toxic-fuel-for-far-left-terrorists-came-straight-from-our-colleges/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The problem behind ‘affordability’
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/the_problem_behind_affordability.html
— NBC criticizes Trump admin for claiming ‘without evidence’ that white civilization is being erased
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/more_fake_news_nbc_criticizes_trump_admin_for_claiming_without_evidence_that_white_civilization_is_being_erased.html
— The ‘affordability crisis’ myth
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/the_affordability_crisis_myth.html
BREITBART
— SCOTUS Rules Against Trump Sending National Guard to Sanctuary Chicago
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/23/scotus-rules-against-trump-sending-national-guard-sanctuary-chicago/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Worst 5 examples of higher ed’s pro-abortion agenda in 2025. Abortion is celebrated and promoted on college campuses.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/worst-5-examples-higher-eds-pro-abortion-agenda-2025/29167
DAILY WIRE
— TPUSA Attendees Rally Around JD Vance At AmFest. “JD Vance represents the greatest conservative movement in over forty years.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tpusa-attendees-rally-around-jd-vance-at-amfest
EPOCH TIMES
— Federal Judge Strikes Down California’s Policies Hiding Gender Switches From Parents. The permanent injunction includes language that bars any employee in California’s education system from ’misleading the parent.’
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-strikes-down-californias-policies-hiding-gender-switches-from-parents-5961936
FOX NEWS
— Mamdani FIRES BACK after report exposes anti-Zionist appointees
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386869048112
— 20% of NYC mayor-elect Mamdani transition appointees have anti-Zionist ties
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/20-nyc-mayor-elect-mamdani-transition-appointees-have-anti-zionist-ties-adl.amp
NEWSMAX
— California Auditor Flags Newsom Admin as High Risk, Citing Billions in Exposure
https://www.newsmax.com/us/california-gavin-newsom-audit/2025/12/23/id/1239457/
PATRIOT POST
— Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews. To catalog all the recent violence against Jews in the Western world would fill a book.
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/123805-slouching-toward-open-season-on-jews-2025-12-23
POST MILLENNIAL
— Vance overwhelmingly wins AmFest straw poll for 2028 GOP presidential nominee. The poll found that 84.2 percent of attendees want Vance for the spot, while no other figure in the poll received double-digit support.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-jd-vance-overwhelmingly-wins-amfest-straw-poll-for-2028-gop-presidential-nominee
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— The NLRB Can Now Serve the American People, Not the Democratic Party
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/22/the_nlrb_can_now_serve_the_american_people_not_the_democratic_party_153661.amp.html
TOWNHALL
— Mamdani Chalks Up His Antisemitic Staff Problem As a ‘Wide Variety of Political Opinion’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/23/mamdani-radical-staffers-wide-variety-of-political-opinion-n2668370
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— US seeks to cancel thousands of asylum cases
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-seeks-cancel-thousands-asylum-cases-cbs-news-reports-2025-12-23/
CNBC
— Entry-level hiring is down 23% from March 2020. DD: What entry-level jobs did you have? I had three. I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 years old in 1970. My first entry-level job was a Retail Sales Manager for a Firestone Store. My salary was about $50,000/year in today’s dollars for a 44-hour workweek. In 1971, my second entry-level job was a GS-7 IRS Revenue Officer. The salary was $55,850/year in today’s dollars. To get that job, I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination. My taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola helped me get promoted to GS-9 ($68,315/year) in 1972, to GS-11 ($82,655/year) in 1973, and to GS-12 ($99,069/year) in 1974. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. In 1980, my third entry-level job was a GS-9 Step 10 GAO Analyst. The salary was $88,808/year in today’s dollars. To get that job, I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and almost earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. My salary was $153,151/year in today’s dollars almost 18 years later in 1997, after I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, after I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, after I became a licensed CPA in 1981, after I earned four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and after I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/this-is-linkedins-no-1-piece-of-advice-for-entry-level-job-seekers-in-2026.html
USA TODAY
— Turning Point exposes Republican infighting when we need unity. DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman and an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer, those organizations would still be hosting candidate debates today.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/12/23/turning-point-republican-infighting-conservative-movement/87855762007/
INC.
— The Top 15 Highest-Paying Jobs for 2026 That Don’t Require a College Degree. DD: Firestone Stores would not have hired me as a Retail Store Manager in 1970 and IRS would not have hired me as a Revenue Officer in 1971 if I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1970. IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 if I had not been taking graduate business evening courses. GAO would not have hired me as an Analyst in 1980 if I had not earned an MBA in 1976 and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. GAO would not have promoted me in 1986 if I had not earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/the-top-15-highest-paying-jobs-for-2026-that-dont-require-a-degree/91281103
TALKING POINTS MEMO
— GAO Has Been Calling Out Trump’s Illegal Impoundment. That May Soon Change.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/one-agency-has-been-calling-out-trumps-illegal-impoundment-that-may-soon-change
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Throughout 2025, the Trump administration has, time after time, simply refused to spend funds that Congress appropriated. The obstinacy was without precedent in modern American governance; congressional Democrats suggested it had put the country on track toward a constitutional crisis. Republicans, who controlled both chambers of Congress, largely did nothing. Piping up occasionally to affirm to those who were paying attention that they had not entirely lost their minds was a relatively small watchdog agency housed within the legislative branch: The Government Accountability Office (GAO). . .Following Dodaro’s retirement, Congress will establish a bipartisan panel to recommend a replacement to the president. President Donald Trump will then nominate a candidate subject to Senate confirmation. But experts worry that the ostensibly bipartisan process will not be enough to force Trump to appoint someone who will live up to the agency’s nonpartisan mission, which includes investigating improper, wasteful and fraudulent use of the money Congress allocates. “It is very likely that Gene Dodaro is replaced with a Trump lackey,” Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told TPM. Kogan worries that if Dodaro is replaced by a Trump loyalist, the agency will stop doing the “important part of what they have been doing, which is investigations, public oversight and accountability.” “GAO investigations are extremely important,” Georgetown Law professor David Super told TPM. “In many respects, it provides a better and more independent version of what the inspectors general used to provide,” he said, referencing the watchdogs who sit within many executive branch agencies — and who Trump fired en masse in 2025. “Since Trump has gotten rid of the inspectors general, we don’t have that independent site,” Super continued. “So having an independent GAO looking at things is extremely important. And, certainly, Congress would have a harder time doing its job without GAO.”)
PEW RESEARCH
— The Political Gap in Americans’ News Sources. DD: Since 2000, I have worked hard to fill an ever-increasing political news and commentary gap in Illinois with my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Tragically, there are fewer and fewer and fewer conservative news and commentary sources in Illinois.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/06/10/the-political-gap-in-americans-news-sources/
December 19, 2025
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton. Pot drags you down. I have never used pot and I never will. Did your classmates and coworkers use pot? What if your classmates had used pot? If my Crete-Monee High School classmates had used pot, my 1966 class ranking would have been higher. If I had used pot, my ACT score and my GPA would have been lower. UIC would not have accepted me in 1966 let alone NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. If I had used pot, I would not have passed on my first attempt the CPA examination in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981. If I had used pot, I would not have become a licensed CPA in 1981. If I had used pot, none of my employers would have hired me let alone promoted me. Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970. IRS would not have hired me in 1971 let alone promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. GAO would not have hired me in 1980 let alone promoted me in 1986. If my IRS and GAO coworkers had used pot, I would have had less competition. I would have been promoted much faster and much higher than I was. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who is more likely to use pot? From what I see, it is those who have trouble dealing with reality, who have health, financial, and/or other problems, and/or who fall for vices. From what I see, they are more likely to be liberal, Libertarian, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The more that you use pot, the sooner that you will crash and burn. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Marijuana criminals flow into Illinois prisons as president relaxes weed status. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/marijuana-criminals-flow-into-illinois-prisons-as-president-relaxes-weed-status/3865686/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/local/cannabis-reclassification-could-reshape-the-illinois-industry/3865691/
ABC7
— Illinois Accountability Commission holds 1st meeting on claims of abuse in ‘Operation Midway Blitz’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-operation-midway-blitz-news-illinois-accountability-commission-discusses-impact-federal-agents-using-chemical/18298598/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday defended their agents actions, which they continue to say are exercised only in the face of grave threats and dangerous situations. “DHS law enforcement officers follow the law and the U.S. Constitution,” a statement from DHS read in part. “Our law enforcement show incredible restraint and professionalism in exhausting all options before any kind of non-lethal force is used.”)
CBS2
— Dozens more Chicago police officers and private security guards to begin patrolling CTA on Friday
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/cta-security-plan-police-officers-security-guards-patrols/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/19/opinion-gregory-bovino-christmas-immigration-raids/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump admin ending grants for support services at many Illinois schools. The administration informed ACT Now Illinois last week that it is discontinuing its Community Schools grant, effective Dec. 31. DD: Democrat leaders use grants to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/12/18/act-now-illinois-community-schools-grant-trump
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2025/12/18/cannabis-trump-reclassify-marijuana-research
DAILY HERALD
— Elgin council meeting paused twice following interruptions from residents frustrated with federal immigration enforcement tactics. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251218/news/elgin-council-meeting-paused-twice-following-interruptions-from-residents-frustrated-with-federal-im/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Want to talk affordability in Illinois? Start with taxes. DD: Ever-since I became an IRS employee when I was 22 years old in 1971, my critics/opponents have wanted me to pay more taxes. They were furious that I paid less federal income taxes by itemizing. They were even more furious that I paid less federal income tax by deducting my deducting my education expenses 1972-1981 and 1992-1997.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2025/12/19/want-to-talk-affordability-in-illinois-start-with-taxes-opinion/87827310007/
JOURNAL COURIER
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/business/article/cloud-lifts-over-cannabis-companies-future-amid-21250757.php
— Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shooting suspects into US
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/trump-suspends-green-card-lottery-program-that-21251664.php
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Illinois bill would let people with past convictions run for office
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/illinois-bill-convictions-office-21248130.php
WAND TV
— EEOC urges white men to report discrimination. DD: In Diersen v. GAO, the courts ruled that discrimination against older White males was not only legal, but that it is what Congress wanted.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/head-of-workplace-rights-agency-urges-white-men-to-report-discrimination/article_5098cb76-91e7-573c-8977-e20aeb5aad43.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Venezuela against America.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-12-18/venezuelans-brace-for-hardship-as-trump-threatens-oil-blockade
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-18/fcc-chair-faces-questions-about-threats-to-broadcasters-and-agencys-independence
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— December 19, 2025
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-651/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Which Identity Is Unworthy? It Might Be Yours. DD: According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the following identities are unworthy: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://johnkassnews.com/which-identity-is-unworthy-it-might-be-yours/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pritzker Wasn’t Paying Attention During the 1974 RTA Referendum
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/19/pritzker-wasnt-paying-attention-during-the-1974-rta-referendum/
— Criticism Mimics 1974 RTA Opponents’ Road Tax Diversion Arguments
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/19/nita-criticism-mimics-1974-rta-opponents-road-tax-diversion-arguments/
— Examples of Homeowners Who Lost Equity Through the Property Tax Sale Process
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/19/examples-of-homeowners-who-lost-equity-through-the-property-tax-sale-process/
— Man Charged for Lighting Women on Fire on CTA Train and Lighting Up City Hall
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/18/man-charged-for-lighting-women-on-fire-on-cta-train-and-lighting-up-city-hall/
— Republican Congress Folks Ask Trump Not to Pardon Madigan
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/18/republican-congress-folks-ask-trump-not-to-pardon-madigan/
— Rep. Sue Ness Asks Constituents about Double-Dipping Elected Officials
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/17/rep-sue-ness-asks-constituents-about-double-dipping-elected-officials/
— Illinois Public Sector Unions Spend More on Politics Than Any Other State
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/17/illinois-public-sector-unions-spends-more-on-politics-than-any-other-state/
— Household Income Limit for Senior Real Estate Tax Deferral Going Up to $75,000
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/17/household-income-limit-for-senior-real-estate-tax-deferral-going-up-to-75000/
— NBC Minimizes Democrats’ 60% Toll Increase
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/17/nbc-minimizes-democrats-60-toll-increase/
— Biss Calls for Repeal of Second Amendment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/17/biss-calls-for-repeal-of-second-amendment/
— Next Dems Will Make It Easier for Sgt. Dam
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/16/next-dems-will-make-it-easier-for-sgt-dam/
— Crooks in State Government
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/16/crooks-in-state-government/
— Why This Gambling Opponent Voted for the Lottery
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/15/why-this-gambling-opponent-voted-for-the-lottery/
— Discount on Lyft Rides on Christmas and New Year’s, First Come, First Serve
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/15/discount-on-lyft-rides-on-christmas-and-new-years-first-come-first-serve/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Don’t blame racism for inequality in America. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that those who are the following have: liberal, moderate, Libertarian, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, non-rich, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3919625/inequality-america-study-racism-american-dream/
NEW YORK POST
— Mamdani appointee resigns after vile antisemitic social media posts resurface
https://nypost.com/2025/12/18/us-news/zohran-mamdani-appointee-catherine-almonte-da-costa-made-vile-antisemitic-comments-in-unearthed-social-media-posts/
BREITBART
— Democrats Fight for Illegals, Career Criminals, and Terrorists over Americans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ZcyN8VQT8
FEDERALIST
— EEOC Makes Direct Appeal To White Males Facing Workplace Discrimination. DD: In Diersen v. GAO, the courts ruled that discrimination against older White males was not only legal, but that it is what Congress wanted.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/18/employment-commission-makes-direct-appeal-to-white-males-facing-workplace-discrimination/
— Large School Systems See Plummeting Foreign-Language Students Thanks To Immigration Enforcement. DD: What percent of the students in your school district are noncitizens?
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/18/large-school-systems-see-plummeting-foreign-language-students-thanks-to-immigration-enforcement/
FOX BUSINESS
— Evanston mayor Biss makes the ‘conscious decision’ to choose illegal aliens over Americans
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6386677331112
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IjokWmyy7I
FOX NEWS
— A group of House Republicans is urging President Donald Trump against reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-demand-trump-reverse-course-after-strongly-considering-marijuana-executive-order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE5eDjAAp-M
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
— Comptroller General Dodaro’s Final Testimony Underscores Why Congress Needs a Strong Watchdog. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, b) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.ntu.org/foundation/detail/comptroller-general-dodaros-final-testimony-underscores-why-congress-needs-a-strong-watchdog
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This week, Gene Dodaro, the outgoing Comptroller General of the United States, delivered his final testimony to Congress. After 15 years leading the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Dodaro used his closing appearance to highlight persistent high-risk areas across the federal government that expose taxpayers to waste, fraud, and abuse. He also reiterated a warning GAO has issued consistently during his tenure: without sustained leadership and reform from lawmakers, the nation’s fiscal trajectory is becoming increasingly perilous.)
NEWSMAX
— Democrat Candidates Tout Backing From Pro-Trans Ideology Group
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/democrats-senate-reproductive-freedom-for-all/2025/12/18/id/1238894/
TOWNHALL
— It’s No Shock Why Enrollment in These Large School Districts From Foreign-Language Students Is Down. DD: What percent of the students in your school district are noncitizens?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/12/18/its-no-shock-why-enrollment-in-large-school-districts-from-foreign-language-students-n2668124
— Can the Dark Ages Return?
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2025/12/19/can-the-dark-ages-return-n2668175
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— DD: To get more votes from minorities and from women, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Whites and against men.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-encourages-white-men-to-claim-discrimination-money-11235826
AOL
— About 1.5 million Americans could face soaring healthcare insurance premiums in 2026 with ACA subsidies set to expire. Will your income still qualify? DD: Are/were your healthcare insurance premiums subsidized? Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married when I was 29 and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.aol.com/finance/1-5-million-americans-could-190000891.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The subsidy cliff affects households with incomes that are above 400% of the federal poverty level (FPL). For 2026 marketplace coverage, that’s about $62,600 for a single person and $128,600 for a family of four in the contiguous U.S.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/18/us/trump-news
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats will not release the autopsy of their 2024 loss. Party leaders hope to avoid contentious fights over the party’s failing as it attempts to reboot for the 2026 midterms. DD: My critics/opponents continue to blame all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000 a) on what I have done as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and b) on what I did as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012 and as an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer 2003-2007, etc. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on a) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000, b) Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders since 2000, c) conservative leaders since 2000, and d) religious leaders since 2000. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/18/democrats-2024-harris-trump-autopsy/
USA TODAY
— White men urged by EEOC to file discrimination claims in anti-DEI escalation. DD: In Diersen v. GAO, the courts ruled that discrimination against older White males was not only legal, but that it is what Congress wanted.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/12/18/trump-anti-dei-eeoc-discrimination-white-men/87830694007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/marijuana-drug-reclassify-trump-administration-db8eb9b4
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for their inflation. What has helped you deal with inflation? Ever since my wife and I got married in 1978, we a) spent money like we had only one paycheck instead of two and b) saved as much as we could for our retirement.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/potomac-watch-strassel/wsj-opinion-donald-trump-tries-to-recover-on-inflation-and-affordability/BD7DA3B4-DD5F-4300-BAAB-75CE2F90406C
WION
— DD: Biden did not “allow” 25 million illegals to come in, he brought them in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm2mC0ysRio
NPR
— Inflation cools slightly in November as worries about affordability grip Americans. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for their inflation. What has helped you deal with inflation? Ever since my wife and I got married in 1978, we a) spent money like we had only one paycheck instead of two and b) saved as much as we could for our retirement.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5647510
COLUMBIA SPECTATOR
— Yes, Columbia needs more conservative professors. DD: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, virtually all of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. Many, most, and at times, virtually all of them were veterans who blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War.
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025/12/19/yes-columbia-needs-more-conservative-professors/
NIEMAN LAB
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans who are the following once and for all: conservative, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/dei-dies-in-darkness-taking-integrity-with-it/https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-dei-whiplash-continues/
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-dei-whiplash-continues/
ATLANTIC
— Rescheduling Marijuana Is an Enormous Mistake. Trump’s executive order does little more than offer a tax cut to an industry that profits from addiction. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/trump-marijuana-rescheduling-tax/685317/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GOVERNMENT AUDITING
— A Letter from the U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro. DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, b) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, c) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, d) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://intosaijournal.org/journal-entry/a-letter-from-the-u-s-comptroller-general-and-chair-of-the-intosai-journal/
FREE MALAYSIA TODAY
— Should candidate eligibility include health requirements? DD: What about additional requirements including relevant education, relevant work experience, relevant professional certifications, and relevant professional licenses? If I had run for a government office, I would have stressed my relevant education (master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance), my relevant work experience (almost 9 years working for IRS and almost 18 for GAO), my relevant professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and my relevant professional license (CPA).
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/12/19/should-candidate-eligibility-include-health-requirements
TIMES OF INDIA
— Trump’s H-1B Visa Chaos: Jobs At Risk, Families Traumatized As Wait Pushed To Late 2026. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/global-pulse/trumps-h-1b-visa-chaos-jobs-at-risk-families-traumatised-as-wait-pushed-to-late-2026/videoshow/126062036.cms
— Why Is India The Hardest Hit By Donald Trump’s H-1B Visa Crackdown? DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/short-videos/briefs/why-is-india-the-hardest-hit-by-donald-trumps-h-1b-visa-crackdown-global-pulse/shorttakes/126061288.cms
December 16, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hundreds of Chicagoans contribute campaign money in hotly contested mayoral election . . . in New York City? The Nov. 4 general election between New York mayoral candidates Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa drew interest from across the country, including Illinois, where more than 800 people contributed over $70,000 to candidate campaign funds. Mamdani won the race on a progressive platform that’s drawn comparisons to Brandon. DD: Mamdani is not progressive, he is socialist.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/12/16/illinois-chicago-campaign-contributions-new-york-mayor-candidates-zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-curtis-sliwa
— DePaul University lays off 114 staff members. The Lincoln Park-based school said it’s facing financial headwinds due to a significant drop in enrollment among international graduate students, an increased demand for financial aid and the rising costs of benefits.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/12/15/depaul-university-layoff-cuts-chicago-lincoln-park
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders use vandalism of Evanston Church Nativity scene to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/nativity-smashed-mary-evanston-church/
— What the mayor can do to address the rise of anti-Jewish crime in Chicago. DD: Democrats run Chicago. Chicago residents are overwhelmingly Democrat. Enough said.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/opinion-antisemitism-chicago-solutions/
DAILY HERALD
— Kane County officials: Police can’t enforce new law banning civil immigration arrests at courthouses
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251215/news/kane-county-officials-police-cant-enforce-new-law-banning-civil-immigration-arrests-at-courthouses/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTOS: The mainstream news media is ever-increasingly nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251215/nation-and-world-politics/another-blue-wave-napervilles-lauren-underwood-working-to-make-it-happen-while-republican-fights/
WGN9
— Local ‘Worst of the Worst’ list includes serious crimes, also traffic and weed offenses
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/local-worst-of-the-worst-list-includes-serious-crimes-also-traffic-and-weed-offenses/
FOX32
— Illinois invests $2M to strengthen fight against homelessness. DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1756794
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Illinois Republicans look for SAFE-T Act changes after Governors comment
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/safe-t-act-pre-trial-release-concerns/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump again says he is considering reclassifying marijuana as less dangerous drug. ‘So we are looking at that very strongly,’ Trump said. DD: Pot is poison. I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-again-says-he-considering-reclassifying-marijuana-less-dangerous-drug
WAND TV
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight getting rid of SNAP fraud.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-administration-says-it-needs-to-fight-snap-fraud-but-the-extent-of-the-problem/article_8ec03628-6e2b-5bd1-9050-d73bcc9eeb89.html
WCIA
— IDPH releases first-ever report on alcohol use in Illinois. Nearly 23 percent of Illinois high schoolers reported consuming at least one alcoholic beverage in the past 30 days. DD: If I had been a drinker or a pot smoker, a) S.S. Kresge would not have hired me to wash dishes, b) my ACT score would have been lower, c) I would not have made it into the upper 20% of my class, and d) UIC would not have accepted me.
https://www.wcia.com/news/health-news/idph-releases-first-ever-report-on-alcohol-use-in-illinois/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Springfield receives $2 million to address homelessness. DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.nprillinois.org/springfield-il/2025-12-15/springfield-receives-2-million-to-address-homelessness
INDIANA STUDENT DAILY
— Indiana University Turning Point USA membership increases significantly after Kirk assassination. DD: Who heads Turning Point USA in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district? If I had been active in Republican politics when I was in high school, the Democrats who ran the Post Office would not have hired me in 1966. If I had been active in Republican politics while I attended UIC and NIU, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have hired me in 1971. If I had been active in Republican politics while I took graduate courses at Loyola and DePaul, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have hired me in 1980.
https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/12/charlie-kirk-turning-point-indiana-university-iu-news
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pritzker slams Trump’s rhetoric on Reiner
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/12/16/pritzker-slams-trumps-rhetoric-on-reiner-00692394
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-649/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— QUESTION: What motivates mainstream news media owners, leaders, employees, and advertisers? ANSWER: Electing and reelecting Democrat candidates and defeating Republican candidates. I base that mainly on my serving as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. Since 2004, GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters have included links to more than 530,000 articles. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Questions Swirl as GOP Candidate Gabby Shanahan Hands Out Policy Awards to GOP Legislators While Taking Party Cash
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/questions-swirl-as-gop-candidate-gabby-shanahan-hands-out-policy-awards-to-gop-legislators-while-taking-party-cash.html
— Illinois Republican grassroots activists are voicing growing frustration – not just with State Rep. Norine Hammond’s latest staged photo-op, but now with Aaron Del Mar’s response that many believe let her off the hook.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/grassroots-furious-after-del-mar-plays-nice-following-hammond-photo-op-controversy.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Top Zohran Mamdani fundraiser celebrated anti-NYPD slurs, said US should be ‘punished for its sins.’ DD: Immigrants to America ever-increasingly stress that their hands are clean, that is, that their ancestors were not responsible for slavery in America. I have always stressed that while all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, they have always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/15/us-news/top-zohran-mamdani-fundraiser-celebrated-anti-nypd-slurs-said-us-should-be-punished-for-its-sins/
BREITBART
— Machado: “Hundreds Of Thousands” Will Return To Venezuela Once Maduro Goes. DD: If/when Republicans regain control of Illinois, how many Republicans will return to Illinois?
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/12/15/maria-corina-machado-says-hundreds-of-thousands-venezuelans-will-return-home-once-maduro-goes/amp/
CAMPUS REFORM
— 5 times higher ed pushed socialism in 2025. DD: While I earned four college degrees, I escaped such pushes by majoring in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/5-times-higher-ed-pushed-socialism-2025/29080
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— The H-1B Tsunami: Why the U.S. Must Act to Protect American Jobs, Security, and Prosperity. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://cis.org/Siddiqui/H1B-Tsunami-Why-US-Must-Act-Protect-American-Jobs-Security-and-Prosperity
— Were Refugees Resettled under Biden Properly Vetted? A look at the process suggests potential hazards.
https://cis.org/Report/Were-Refugees-Resettled-under-Biden-Properly-Vetted
DAILY CALLER
— Left-Wing Podcaster Jennifer Welch Says With Straight Face Charlie Kirk Justified His Own Murder. DD: Your reaction to Kirk’s assignation says more about you than anything that you can say about yourself.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/12/15/left-wing-podcaster-says-with-straight-face-charlie-kirk-justified-his-own-murder/
DAILY WIRE
— Mamdani And The Expanding Army Of DEI-Trained Social Workers. For the far-left, this is about growing the ranks of credentialed supporters of DEI in public institutions, especially schools.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-and-the-expanding-army-of-dei-trained-social-workers
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Chicago Wants Money for Lawbreaking. FAIR shows city has no standing to object to Trump’s funding cutoff.
https://www.fairus.org/press-release/misc/chicago-wants-money-lawbreaking
FOX NEWS
— AOC’s luxury spending binge in Puerto Rico reignites questions about ‘socialist’ brand: ‘Peak hypocrisy.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that under socialism, everyone gets free housing, free food, free clothing, free medical care, free childcare, free transportation, free education, free everything. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that under socialism, you do not have to work unless you want to. More and more and more in America are falling for that.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aocs-luxury-binge-puerto-rico-reignites-questions-about-socialist-brand-peak-hypocrisy.print
— Trump admin launches ‘MerryChristmas.gov’ to roll out 12 days of federal gifts as Christmas comeback ramps up. DD: The Post Office would not have offered me a job when I was 18 years old in 1966 if it had not gotten a budget increase for the 1966 Christmas rush.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-admin-launches-merrychristmas-gov-173246390.html
TOWNHALL
— The Destructive Force Enabling Mayhem. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with those who hate conservatives, hate Republicans, hate Americans, hate Whites, hate males, hate older people, hate heterosexuals, hate married people, hate non-poor people, hate Protestants, hate German Americans, and/or hate those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors have been.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2025/12/16/the-destructive-force-enabling-mayhem-n2667942
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In assessing the weekend from hell, as Islamic terrorists grabbed headlines worldwide – with Jews being slaughtered on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Jews being massacred at Brown University in Providence, and U.S. soldiers and a staff member murdered in Palmyra, Syria – what is the enabling force behind such mayhem? Spoiler Alert: It’s Leftists. As demonstrated each and every day, leftists in America – Democrats and the fakestream media which carries their water – are anti-Western civilization.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Fewer MAGA Republicans ‘strongly’ support Trump. DD: What makes someone a Trump supporter? Their giving money to Trump? Their attending his rallies? Their voting for candidates he endorses?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5649278-maga-republicans-donald-trump-approval-drop/
REUTERS
— Ford takes $19.5bn hit amid electric vehicle retreat as Trump policies bite. Company to scrap several electric models and focus on gas and hybrid as US president pulls support for EVs.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/15/ford-electric-vehicles-trump
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Confronts a Backlash of the Reasonable
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/opinion/trump-swing-voters-approval-rating.html
— Rob Reiner Fought for Democrats, and They Loved Him Back. The Hollywood star was an unusually hands-on activist and donor, whose deep understanding of politics set him apart from other celebrities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/rob-reiner-democrats-politics.html
WASHINGTON POST
— MAGA leaders warn Trump the base is checking out. Will he listen? Trump’s advisers say he is preparing to hold near-weekly rallies to spend more time with the base, but he has faced criticism from within MAGA in the meantime. DD: What makes someone a member of Trump’s base? Their giving money to Trump? Their attending his rallies? Their voting for candidates he endorses?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/15/trump-base-maga-midterm-voters/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that under socialism, everyone gets free housing, free food, free clothing, free medical care, free childcare, free transportation, free education, free everything. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that under socialism, you do not have to work unless you want to. More and more and more in America are falling for that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/15/reckoning-over-capitalism/
NEW YORK SUN
— New ‘Animal Farm’ Adaptation Sparks Backlash Over ‘Woke’ Retelling
https://www.nysun.com/article/new-animal-farm-adaptation-sparks-backlash-over-woke-retelling
USA TODAY
— DD: The mainstream news media ever-increasingly exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/12/14/trump-economy-inflation-affordability-hoax/87725036007/
— DD: Gun laws do reduce gun violence. The fewer people that have guns, the more emboldened that criminals are.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/12/15/australia-gun-laws-bondi-beach-shooting/87771943007/
ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION
— Effort to overhaul ‘woke’ college accreditation system raises questions about politics and power. DD: For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.ajc.com/education/2025/12/effort-to-overhaul-woke-college-accreditation-system-raises-questions-about-politics-and-power/
WEEK
— Trump signs executive order classifying fentanyl as a ‘weapon of mass destruction’
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/12/15/trump-signs-executive-order-classifying-fentanyl-weapon-mass-destruction/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Orwell Gets an Orwellian Rewrite. What is ‘Animal Farm’ without a focus on communist tyranny?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/orwell-gets-an-orwellian-rewrite-83635dcf
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly force EVs on everyone.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/can-u-s-automakers-compete-with-chinese-evs-while-focusing-on-gas-guzzlers-1b10c881
— A New Journal Opinion Offering. Free Expression writers will focus on life, culture and politics. DD: Will the WSJ invite me to be one of their Free Expression writers? I am completely independent. No one pulls my strings. I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-new-journal-opinion-offering-free-expression-97c5c341
— Trump Criticizes Rob Reiner After His Death. Democrats and some Republicans said the president went too far in his social-media post.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-rob-reiner-death-comments-4ab536d1
FORBES
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use disparate impact a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees. According to them, when Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time succeed, it is because they have benefitted from discrimination against those who are not aforesaid. According to my critics/opponents, because I am all of the aforesaid, a) I owe all of my successes in life to my benefitted from discrimination against those who are not the aforesaid and b) I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.
https://theweek.com/politics/doj-civil-rights-disparate-impact-discrimination-bondi
— Alarming Update On Student Loan Forgiveness Posted By The Education Department. DD: My critics/opponents have always stressed that I could not have gotten a student loan. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I was 1-A for the Vietnam War draft. I had not demonstrated any leadership potential. Further, I was not a minority or a female.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2025/12/15/alarming-update-on-student-loan-forgiveness-posted-by-the-education-department/
FAST COMPANY
— ICE is spending millions on ads to recruit new agents. DD: I was rudely fired by my Firestone Store boss when I was 22 years old in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had to have a job to help support my mother and brother, I accepted a job offer from IRS. What if the only job offer I had gotten was from ICE?
https://www.fastcompany.com/91460777/ice-is-spending-millions-on-ads-to-recruit-new-agents
MIT MANAGEMENT
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO employers will ever-increasingly use AI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-reinventing-hiring-same-old-biases-heres-how-to-avoid-trap
HR GRAPEVINE
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use budget cuts a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2025-12-15-journalists-of-color-question-recent-media-layoffs-amid-dei-purge
NPR
— DD: What is your attitude toward federal employees and federal retirees? I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for more than 28 years. My critics/opponents have always despised/hated federal employee and federal retirees. I should write about that. They believe that federal employees are grossly overpaid, that federal pensions are much too generous, and that their benefits are much too generous. In my defense, I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to join him in taking the postal employment test. I would not have become an IRS employee when I was 22 in 1971 if my Firestone Store boss had not fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, an offer that Oldsmobile withdrew because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/15/nx-s1-5620842/how-a-va-social-workers-life-has-changed-since-leaving-the-job
THOMAS REDICK
— “Time for Trump’s Patriotic Reparations” is an Urgent Call for Trump to Finally Enact Reparations for Black Americans. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders promote Affirmative Action (AA) to get votes from Blacks. Since the 1960s, AA has been reparations. Since the 1960s, Democrat and RINO leaders have forced those who are the following to pay the price of AA: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid, my Democrat superiors in the federal government forced me to pay the price of AA big time. It all culminated when I was 49 years old in 1997 when they forced me to retire and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, who had less education than I had, who had one professional certification while I had six, and who had no professional license like I had.
https://www.pr.com/press-release/955740
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY MAIL
— Fury over family-friendly film adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm that blames capitalism and has a happy ending
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-15384471/Fury-family-friendly-film-adaptation-George-Orwells-Animal-Farm-blames-capitalism-happy-ending.html
FROM OTHER SOURCES
WORLD ATLAS
— 12 Best Places to Live in Illinois. DD: Wheaton is not one of the 12. Why is that?
https://www.worldatlas.com/cities/12-best-places-to-live-in-illinois-2025.html
AUTO GUIDE
— These 11 Classic Cars Are A Good Investment. DD: If I had more money back in 2005, I would not have sold my 1968 Dodge Charger R/T to buy a 2005 Corvette. I had far less money in 2005 because my Democrat superiors wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/featured-articles/s-10-photos-of-bmw-s-futuristic-vision-neue-klasse-x-concept-44610355
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1968–1970 Dodge Charger — $91,450 With roughly 40,000 R/Ts built and available Hemi power up to 425 hp, the second-gen Charger remains muscle-car royalty. More than half its owners today are Gen X or younger.)
HOT CARS
— America’s Oldest Surviving Car That Makes The Country’s Most Reliable Cars In 2025. DD: If I was in the market for a SUV, I would consider Buick.
https://www.hotcars.com/americas-oldest-surviving-car-brand-makes-most-reliable-cars/
December 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Housing Authority subject of HUD audit citing immigration and criminal activity. The CHA is one of a handful of housing authorities across the country being audited.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/12/15/chicago-housing-authority-hud-oig-audit-immigration-criminal-activity
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/12/15/meet-the-chicago-teens-raising-money-to-help-classmates-with-parents-in-immigration-detention
— UChicago, Northwestern students receive prestigious Marshall scholarship. DD: My critics/opponents have always used my having to work my way through college against me. They have always stressed that I would not have had to do that if I had gotten scholarships. They have always stressed that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/12/11/uchicago-northwestern-students-receive-prestigious-marshall-scholarship
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/the-chicago-immigrant-orchestra-is-defiant-in-the-wake-of-recent-raids/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: CPS lunchroom workers near six months without a contract: ‘No one sees us.’ DD: Which of your jobs put you out of sight? I washed dishes in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights while I was a junior and senior at Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966. I worked 28 hours a week during the school years and 40 hours a week during the summer of 1965. All during that time, I worked alone for 20 hours every week. My next job was working alone cleaning golf shores at the Flossmoor County Club. But I soon had to resign because my allergies were killing me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/cps-lunchroom-workers-contract-negotiations/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that under socialism, everyone gets free housing, free food, free clothing, free medical care, free childcare, free transportation, free education, free everything. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that under socialism, you do not have to work unless you want to. More and more and more in America are falling for that.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251214/news/medical-care-is-a-human-right-st-charles-clinics-meet-the-needs-of-kane-countys-uninsured/
FOX32
— Two-thirds of Americans say government should ensure health care for all. DD: Big step toward socialism, communism, and dictatorship. America-haters ever-increasing destroy personal responsibility and blame capitalism for all problems.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/two-thirds-americans-believe-government-should-ensure-health-care-all-poll
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Legal marijuana? Critics asking people to re-think the issue. DD: Pot is poison. I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-legal-marijuana-critics-asking-people-to-re-think-the-issue/article_91c740f6-21e3-4738-9b42-7484b749cd3a.html
— Illinois’ abortion policy places Carbondale in a hot spot
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/jim-dey-illinois-abortion-policy-places-carbondale-in-a-hot-spot/article_8c21faab-ea8c-4bf2-bc3f-2c4a16805a03.html
WAND TV
— As gerrymandering battles sweep country, supporters say partisan dominance is ‘fair.’ DD: According to Democrat leaders, political jurisdictions should be gerrymandered to favor voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Demographics that vote for Democrats include minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/as-gerrymandering-battles-sweep-country-supporters-say-partisan-dominance-is-fair/article_f074880c-f23d-5dfb-8060-2a2b6c7f381c.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— For Americans, the love for chain restaurants runs deep. DD: I became a McDonald’s fan when one of my relatives became financially successful selling eggs to McDonalds starting in 1960s.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-15/for-americans-the-love-for-chain-restaurants-runs-deep
WHEATON RECORD
— A Conversation on Trump Administration’s Handling of Immigration
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/12/14/a-conversation-on-trump-administrations-handling-of-immigration/
— McManis-Evans Women’s Floor Becoming a Male Dorm. DD: Wheaton College being conservative was a reason why my wife and I bought a home in Wheaton in 1978 and had one built in Wheaton in 1984.
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/12/14/mcmanis-evans-womens-floor-becoming-a-male-dorm/
— Three Illinois Christian Institutions Announced Closures in Recent Years
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/12/14/three-illinois-christian-institutions-announced-closures-in-recent-years/
— New Class Coming this Spring: “The Bible, Slavery and Liberation”
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/12/14/new-class-coming-this-spring-the-bible-slavery-and-liberation/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Presumptuous Pritzker Signs Away the Lives of More Illinoisans
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/12/11/presumptuous-pritzker-signs-away-the-lives-of-more-illinoisans
— American “Educators” and Somali-alia
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/12/10/american-educators-and-somali-alia
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Newly-Elected Democratic Party Dundee Township Supervisor Shefali Shah Acts As If She Is All-Powerful. DD: I should write about the many big adverse actions that past and present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have taken against me.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/14/newly-elected-democratic-party-dundee-township-supervisor-shefali-shah-acts-as-if-she-is-all-powerful/
— Illinois Review Takes Down Darby Hills for Taking a Walk on Illegal Alien Vote
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/14/illinois-review-takes-down-darby-hills-for-taking-a-walk-on-illegal-alien-vote/
— Charlie Brown Christmas Available Free Saturday & Sunday on Apple+
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/14/charlie-brown-christmas-available-free-saturday-sunday-on-apple/
— Blackface in Easton, Maryland
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/14/blackface-in-easton-maryland/
— Illinois Ranks High on Lawsuit Abuse. DD: All my critics/opponents side with the defendants in the lawsuits that I have filed. I should write about those lawsuits, the defendants, their lawyers, and the big adverse actions that they have taken against me.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/13/14853/
— U.S. Treasury Secretary Calls Out Illinois for Refusing to Stop Taxing Tips
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/12/u-s-treasury-secretary-calls-out-illinois-for-refusing-to-stop-taxing-tips/
— Bailey Attacks Pritzker on Refusing to Stop Taxing Tips in Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/12/bailey-attacks-pritzker-on-refusing-to-stop-taxing-tips-in-illinois/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illegal immigration embraced by progressive evangelicals pushes America toward cultural suicide. Recycled ’70s Marxism isn’t real Christianity. DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/14/illegal-immigration-embraced-progressive-evangelicals-pushes-america/
NEW YORK POST
— The woke have seized control of NYC’s ‘affordable housing’
https://nypost.com/2025/12/14/opinion/the-woke-have-seized-control-of-nycs-affordable-housing/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Is the Indiana Redistricting Debacle the Future of MAGA?
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-the-indiana-redistricting-debacle-the-future-of-maga/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Wisconsin Supreme Court takes on the Supremacy Clause. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly reject federal law. That is what the Confederates did.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/the_wisconsin_supreme_court_takes_on_the_supremacy_clause.html
CHRISTIAN POST
— Why the woke right is winning Gen Z: A look inside the machine
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/why-the-woke-right-is-winning-gen-z-a-look-inside-the-machine.html
COLLEGE FIX
— White professor still fighting in court, alleging ‘racially hostile’ environment at Penn State. DEI trainings gave ‘signals to white and Asian employees that they are not going to be treated equally.’ DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, I worked in an ever-increasingly hostile environment. Gingrich ever-increasingly cut the agency’s budget. My Democrat GAO superiors ever-increasingly used those cuts to waste the careers of and to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. That all culminated in their forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in September of 1997.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/white-professor-still-fighting-in-court-alleging-racially-hostile-environment-at-penn-state/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Would ICE Have Deported Jesus at Christmas? AWAY WITH THE MANGER: How the Left Tries to Weaponize Christmas Against Trump. DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/14/would-ice-have-deported-jesus-christmas/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: This year, Catholics in Massachusetts are protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies by swapping “Away in a Manger” for “Away With the Manger.” This marks yet another instance of Trump opponents weaponizing the Christmas story to demonize immigration enforcement by claiming Jesus was a refugee and suggesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement would have arrested and deported the Christ child in the manger. The Catholic priest at St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, set up a classic nativity scene with shepherds, sheep, wise men, and … a sign reading “ICE was here” in the place where Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus would normally be. While the Catholic leadership opposed this “divisive political messaging,” the Rev. Stephen Josoma blamed the Trump administration for any division. Meanwhile, Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois, put baby Jesus in zip ties and an emergency blanket, and placed gas masks on the faces of Mary and Joseph. The church said this symbolizes the conditions of ICE detention facilities and the use of tear gas on “peaceful protesters, journalists, and community members advocating for immigration reform.” “The Holy Family were refugees,” the church posted on Facebook. “By witnessing this familiar story through the reality faced by migrants today, we hope to restore its radical edge, and to ask what it means to celebrate the birth of a refugee child while turning away those who follow in that child’s footsteps.” Was Jesus a Refugee? These strained analogies rest on a kernel of truth. According to Matthew 2:13-23, an angel appeared to Joseph, warning him to flee to Egypt because King Herod the Great aimed to kill Jesus. Herod ordered the slaughter of male children in Bethlehem, but Jesus survived in Egypt. God sent another angel to Joseph later, advising him to return to Israel because “those who sought the child’s life are dead.” Jesus arguably fit the definition of a refugee: someone forced to leave his or her country to escape war or persecution. However, anyone seeking to tie Jesus’ sojourn in Egypt to the plight of refugees or illegal aliens in America today will at once encounter a plethora of problems. Herod, the king who sought to kill Jesus, owed his position to the Roman Senate. Jesus fled Roman-ruled Judea to reside in Roman-ruled Egypt, and then returned to Roman-ruled Judea. Politically, Jesus’ flight to Egypt resembles a conservative family fleeing New York for Florida, or a liberal family moving from Texas to Illinois, more than it does a Somali refugee seeking asylum in the U.S. Jesus did not immigrate to Egypt and did not seek to become a citizen there. Furthermore, the Roman Empire at the time did not grant most of the population the right to vote, and it did not award government benefits to Jewish refugees in Egypt. Modern Western democratic welfare states need to regulate immigration more heavily than ancient empires did, partly because immigrants and refugees often claim benefits from the public purse, and these aliens may also seek to influence politics by voting or other means. Merely shouting, “Jesus was a refugee!” does nothing to address the serious concerns that illegal immigration poses. Caring for ‘The Least of These’ Christians should, of course, heed the Matthew 25 parable in which Jesus says God will reward us for helping “the least of these.” We should care for the sick, feed the hungry, and clothe the naked, to the best of our ability. These commands to love our neighbor do not extend to using the force of the state to redistribute funds, however. Jesus calls on us to love our neighbors, not to bully our neighbors into forking over cash so the government can then serve other neighbors. That parable urges us to see Jesus in the least fortunate, and Christians are right to provide aid to those who are struggling. That doesn’t mean, however, that we must sacrifice national sovereignty or oppose the enforcement of immigration law. In our globalized world, Christians can and should help those in other countries before they seek to enter the U.S., and it would be grotesque for Christians to prioritize aid for those who violated the law to come to America over legal immigrants or the poor people who are still struggling in their own countries. Contrary to the suggestion of the Evanston church, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were not political activists. Yes, Jesus came to usher in a new kingdom—but when the Jews sought to make him a king, he refused. Jesus did not set himself up as a political leader. Rather, he and his followers urged Jews and Christians to pay their taxes and to submit to the ruling authorities, knowing that the spiritual freedom of the gospel matters far more than any political cause. Jesus knew of political movements against Roman oppression, and he did not endorse them. Jesus’ decision not to lead a political rebellion against Rome likely contributed to the Jewish leaders’ scheme to have him executed. None of this is to say that Christians cannot support political causes, but it does mean that Mary and Joseph likely would not have joined the agitators who seek to block ICE from enforcing immigration law. Perhaps more importantly, ICE would not have removed Jesus from the manger—any more than it would remove conservative New Yorkers from Florida or liberal Texans from Illinois. Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, not an excuse to demonize law enforcement. It’s high time for St. Susanna Parish to put the Christ child back in the center of the nativity scene where he belongs.)
EPOCH TIMES
— 1 in 4 Unemployed Americans Has a Degree—The Future of White-Collar Jobs. DD: I have been unemployed since I was 49 in 1997 despite my having a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. Why is that? It is because my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and because of the many additional adverse actions that they took against me before that because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and because I became an active member of a class action lawsuit that charged them with the aforesaid when I was 40 in 1988.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/1-in-4-unemployed-americans-has-a-degree-the-future-of-white-collar-jobs-5950378
— Want a Job? Ditch the Degree and Pick Up a Trade. The future belongs to trades and hands-on skills. DD: Doctors discouraged my father from seeking a college degree because he had brittle type 1 diabetes. According to them, the stress would kill him. So he got an office job. He often decried his not having a degree. He was often passed over for promotions. He blamed his not having a degree for that, but his health problems were also a big factor. That led me to earn four degrees. A bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 in 1970. An MBA from Loyola when I was 27. A master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31. And a master’s degree in finance from IIT when I was 48. That also led me to pass the CPA examination on first attempt when I was 30. To pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32. To become a licensed CPA when I was 32. And to earn four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/want-a-job-ditch-the-degree-and-pick-up-a-trade-5939262
FOX NEWS
— Illegal immigrant truck driver accused in fatal Washington crash released on $100,000 bond
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrant-truck-driver-accused-fatal-washington-crash-released-100000-bond.print
JONATHAN TURLEY
— “Hatemongers, Homophobes, Fascists, Racists, Flag-Waving Proud Racists”: Fired Radio Host Has Meltdown Over Cubs Infielder Matt Shaw Going to Kirk Funeral. DD: People’s reactions to Kirk’s assassination say a lot about them.
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/12/14/hatemongers-homophobes-fascists-racists-flag-waving-proud-racists-fired-radio-host-has-meltdown-over-cubs-infielder-matt-shaw-going-to-kirk-funeral/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Opposing the Hypocrisy of Woke Establishments
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/opposing-the-hypocrisy-of-woke-establishments/amp/
NEWSMAX
— Party Label Drives Voters More Than Policy. DD: Democrats run the news media, education, and just about everything else in America. Democrats exist to advance the liberal/socialist Democrat Party platform and to get rid of Republicans once and for all. To vote for Democrats is to get rid of Republicans once and for all starting with Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. The more of the aforesaid that Republicans are, the more that they should focus on their personal defense.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/politico-poll-party/2025/12/14/id/1238288/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Illegal immigrant trucker charged in Washington fatal crash was released into US under Biden—then freed again despite ICE detainer
https://thepostmillennial.com/illegal-immigrant-trucker-charged-in-washington-fatal-crash-was-released-into-us-under-biden-then-freed-again-despite-ice-detainer
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— The Immigration and Deportation Conundrums
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/15/the_immigration_and_deportation_conundrums_153629.amp.html
TOWNHALL
— The Weekend’s Gun Tragedies Show Why You Must Buy (Even More) Guns. DD: As Democrats gain more power, they will try to confiscate firearms and ammunition from Republicans.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/12/15/the-weekends-gun-tragedies-show-why-you-must-buy-even-more-guns-n2667868
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEW YORK TIMES
— Without affirmative action, some colleges focus on economics. DD: Because Black and Hispanic parents have lower incomes than White parents, colleges use income as a proxy for race.
https://yorknewstimes.com/news/nation-world/education/article_5c7a93e6-cfb9-50be-a071-a40bdb92d096.html
— DD: The New York Times exists to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/trump-dei-funding-deaf-blind.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Do Democrats need their own billionaire? Pritzker is betting on it. The Illinois governor has tapped his wealth to climb the political ladder, moving toward a White House run while presenting himself as a champion for everyday people. DD: Does Pritzker champion for you? If so, you must be liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/15/billionaires-pritzker-democrats-president-trump/
— DD: Because federal courts ruled that my Democrat GAO superiors had the power to force me to retire, that is, that they had the power to fire me, Trump has the power to fire any federal employee he wants to.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/14/supreme-court-ftc-trump-firing/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Higher cost, worse coverage: Affordable Care Act enrollees say expiring subsidies will hit them hard. DD: Are/were your healthcare insurance premiums subsidized? Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married when I was 29 and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-12-14/higher-cost-worse-coverage-affordable-care-act-enrollees-say-expiring-subsidies-will-hit-them-hard
ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION
— Worried about paying for college? There are affordable options. DD: My critics/opponents have always used my having to work my way through college against me. They have always stressed that I would not have had to do that if I had gotten scholarships. They have always stressed that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class.
https://www.ajc.com/education/2025/12/worried-about-paying-for-college-there-are-affordable-options/
USA TODAY
— Looking for a big raise or promotion in 2026? Don’t get your hopes up. DD: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, my critics/opponents were ever-increasingly furious a) that the Post Office hired me in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980, b) that IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) that GAO promoted me in 1986, d) that I got COLAs, e) that I got step increases, f) that 72% of my and wife’s healthcare insurance premiums were subsidized, g) that I got lots of sick leave and vacation time, h) etc. According to my critics/opponents, all of the aforesaid should have been given to Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/12/10/raise-promotion-chances-2026/87676414007/
— Why retirees could face a financial shock from Social Security in 2026. Many retirees are struggling with their finances, and things could get worse next year if they aren’t prepared for this reality about Social Security.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/retirement/2025/12/10/financial-shock-social-security-2026/87683527007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Disparate-Impact Theory Is Unconstitutional. It purports to combat discrimination but in practice ends up encouraging it. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders use disparate impact to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. According to Democrat and RINO leaders, when those who are the aforesaid succeed, it is because they benefit from discrimination against those who are not aforesaid. According to my critics/opponents, because I am all of the aforesaid, a) I owe all of my successes in life to my benefitted from discrimination against those who are not the aforesaid and b) I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/disparate-impact-theory-is-unconstitutional-2664133d
— FRONT PAGE: The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate. Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them. DD: With birthright citizenship, the future of America is ever-increasingly bleak. Ever-increasingly, citizens of foreign countries that despise/hate America and despise/hate Americans are taking over America.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/chinese-billionaires-surrogacy-pregnancy-7fdfc0c3
— Does MAHA Stand for ‘Make America High Again’? Reclassifying marijuana flies in the face of Trump and RFK Jr.’s professed concern about health. DD: Pot is poison. I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/does-maha-stand-for-make-america-high-again-ff356532
— Say Goodbye to the Billable Hour. DD: While I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, I had to account for each and every hour that I worked. I had to fill out forms each and every day with the number of hours that spent working on “job codes” and then submit those forms every 2 weeks.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-goodbye-to-billable-hours-cba198fe
FORBES
— The CPA Shortage. DD: My passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was a 30-year-old IRS employee in 1979 was one of my greatest successes. But my Democrat IRS superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled it. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. My passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was a 32-year-old GAO employee in 1981 was one of my greatest successes. But my Democrat GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled it. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesfinancecouncil/2025/05/12/disruption-in-accounting-the-cpa-shortage-meets-the-rise-of-ai/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The CPA pipeline has been weakening for years. Fewer accounting majors are sitting for the CPA exam, and the industry is seeing a mass exodus of Baby Boomers without enough young professionals to replace them. According to estimates from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, around 75% of all licensed CPAs reached retirement age by 2019.
PUNCHBOWL NEWS
— Indiana flop muddies Dem redistricting push. DD: I anticipate/expect that Pritzker could say/has said that he has the power to redistrict so that no Republican will ever be elected in Illinois.
https://punchbowl.news/article/campaigns/redistricting-dems/
PROVIDER MAGAZINE
— How to Keep Up with the Jones. DD: Did your parents have trouble keeping up with the Jones? Mine sure did. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969. My mother, who never attended high school, never worked outside of the home until after he died because of her limited earning potential. I had to work my way through college. I remember in 1958 when our neighbor to the north owned a top of the line 1958 Oldsmobile, our neighbor to the south owned a top of the line 1957 Pontiac, and we owned a bottom of the line 1951 Plymouth.
https://www.providermagazine.com/Articles/Pages/How-to-Keep-Up-with-the-Jones-to-Attract-Residents-.aspx
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. Only those federal employees who are the following have Civil Service protections: Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/11/final-schedule-f-regulations-describe-civil-service-protections-unconstitutional-overcorrections/409616/
CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTIONS
— The ‘Do My Own Research’ Voter Has a New Research Assistant. DD: If I did not spend so much time putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out, I would do opposition research. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://campaignsandelections.com/voices/the-do-my-own-research-voter-has-a-new-research-assistant/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I spent years moderating focus groups, and I lost count of how many voters proudly said they “did their own research.” What that really meant was typing a candidate’s name into Google, glancing at ten blue links and, more often than not, closing the browser without clicking a thing. Now, voters searching for a candidate or issue are often getting a single neatly packaged answer assembled by artificial intelligence from whatever sources it finds most credible and clearly written. And if it answers their question, their “research” is done. That’s great if your campaign is one of those sources. If not, it’s a problem.)
December 13, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Illinois Democrat leaders gerrymandered the 3rd Congressional District to elect Ramirez
https://abc7chicago.com/post/2022-election-results-delia-ramirez-illinois-3rd-congressional-district/12434540/
WGN9
— New law protects public officials’ personal info from disclosure
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/new-law-protects-public-officials-personal-info-from-disclosure/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/12/nativity-displays-deportation-lake-street-urban-village-church
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251212/lifestyle/letter-writing-campaign-spreads-pride-and-holiday-cheer/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Under Pritzker, soon, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251113/news/we-need-to-act-now-dupage-county-to-shift-funds-to-help-food-pantries-amid-snap-crisis/
NORTHWEST HERALD
— As Pritzker opens door to SAFE-T Act revisions, McHenry County sheriff, state’s attorney want input
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/12/12/as-pritzker-opens-door-to-safe-t-act-revisions-mchenry-county-sheriff-states-attorney-want-input/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrats always want to do more to promote abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-13/fewer-characters-on-tv-had-abortions-this-year-and-more-stories-reinforced-shame
ELMHURST COLLEGE
— Four Career Benefits to Completing Your Degree. DD: If I had not earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 and IRS would not have hired me in 1971. If I had not earned a job-related master’s degree, GAO would not have hired me in 1980. Further, if I had not been taking job-related graduate evening courses, IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Further, if I had not earned a second job-related master’s degree, two job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986.
https://www.elmhurst.edu/blog/four-career-benefits-to-completing-your-degree/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Unlocking Higher Earning Potential. . .Access to Specialized Roles. . .Staying Competitive in a Changing Job Market. . .Expanding Your Professional Network)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Narco-Ranching Fuels Disease, Corruption, and Border Instability — And President Trump Is the Only Leader Treating It as a National Security Crisis
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/narco-ranching-fuels-disease-corruption-and-border-instability-and-president-trump-is-the-only-leader-treating-it-as-a-national-security-crisis.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BRETBART
— Musk Slams Newsom, Says Transgenderism Is ‘Evil Woke Mind Virus’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/12/elon-musk-gavin-newsom-transgenderism-evil-woke-mind-virus/amp/
DAILY WIRE
— Here Are The Illegals Arrested As Anti-ICE Protesters Disrupted Noem’s Testimony
https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-illegals-arrested-as-anti-ice-protesters-disrupted-noems-testimony
FEDERALIST
— Deportation Is The Only ‘Due Process’ Illegal Aliens Deserve
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/12/deportation-is-the-only-due-process-illegal-aliens-deserve/
FOX NEWS
— DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://www.aol.com/articles/illinois-church-nativity-shows-baby-131613906.html
— Kentucky lawmaker sparks firestorm for saying she doesn’t ‘feel good about being White’
https://www.aol.com/news/kentucky-lawmaker-sparks-firestorm-saying-180016752.html
NEWSMAX
— Journalists Can NOT Locate a ‘Far Left’ Anywhere. DD: To get rid of me, my critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being not only far right, but as being too far right. My critics/opponents reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform. They most commonly reject the platform’s personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who are/were a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) conservative leaders, and d) religious leaders.
https://newsbusters.org/node/293164/print
— Trump Allies Put Ind. GOP on Primary Radar After Map Loss. DD: In 2000, my critics/opponents succeeded in getting a registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman, but not since then. In 2015, they drew me into the same precinct with Ives, but that redrawing was rescinded.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/indiana-senate-redistricting-2026-elections/2025/12/12/id/1238162/
PJ MEDIA
— Pritzker Signs Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2025/12/12/pope-fan-boy-gov-jb-pritzker-signs-bill-legalize-assisted-suicide-n4947003
— Another Illegal Alien Truck Driver Causes Deadly Crash
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/12/another-illegal-alien-truck-driver-causes-deadly-crash-n4947005
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump’s Indiana primary threats risk fracturing GOP
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5647183-trump-primaries-indiana-republicans/
— GOP unveils health bill without ACA subsidies. DD: Is/was your healthcare insurance premiums subsidized? Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married I was 29 years old and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/5647134-gop-unveils-health-bill-without-aca-subsidies/amp/
REUTERS
— Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee draws legal challenge from US states. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee-draws-legal-challenge-california-other-states-2025-12-12/
NEW YORK TIMES
— 20 States Sue to Block $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/us/politics/states-lawsuit-h1b-visas.html
— $27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That? DD: Is/was your healthcare insurance premiums subsidized? Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married I was 29 years old and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/opinion/health-care-aca-cost-insurance.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Pot is poison. If I had been a pot user, I would not have been able a) to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) to earn six professional certifications, c) to earn a professional license, d) to buy news cars, e) to buy real estate, f) to get married, g) to etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/12/cannabis-marijuana-rescheduling-trump-administration/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-12-12/church-nativity-scenes-add-zip-ties-gas-masks-ice-to-protest-immigration-raids
— Is $140,000 really a poverty income? Clearly not, but the viral debate underscores the ‘affordability’ issue. DD: I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars. According to my critics/opponents, that proves both a) that I was grossly overpaid and b) that was a career failure because I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/hiltzik-is-140000-really-a-poverty-income-clearly-not-but-the-viral-debate-underscores-the-affordability-issue/ar-AA1S4nOJ
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, a wealth manager named Michael Green published a Substack post arguing that a $140,000 income is the new poverty level for a family of four in America, where the official poverty line is $32,150. The post promptly went viral. One would hope that economic commentators coast-to-coast mentioned Green as their “person I’m most thankful for” at their family gatherings that week, because he gave them something to masticate ever since. On the spectrum from left to right, countless pundits have rerun Green’s numbers to deride or validate his argument.)
USA TODAY
— House narrowly voted against formally reprimanding a Democrat. DD: Censures and attempts to censure are always big news. I should write about the unsuccessful attempt by my critics/opponents to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on my critics/opponents who continue to have their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me.
https://www.aol.com/articles/democrat-texted-epstein-avoids-censure-164814919.html
CNBC
— Affordability is the ‘beating heart’ of the ACA enhanced subsidy debate. DD: Is/was your healthcare insurance premiums subsidized? Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married I was 29 years old and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/12/aca-enhanced-subsidies-democrats-republicans-health-care-plan.html
EL PASO TIMES
— Push to exclude noncitizens from redistricting could have big effect in Texas. DD: How many illegals are in the political jurisdictions that you live in?
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/texasregion/2025/12/12/how-texas-could-fare-if-redistricting-excludes-noncitizens/87731753007/
DESERT NEWS
— Why are Americans growing indifferent to marriage? DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing destroy traditional marriage and family. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer people are marriage material. What helped make you marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $108,978/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971.
https://www.deseret.com/special-series/2025/11/14/american-family-survey-marriage-indifference-needed-family/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The New College Unemployment Line. DD: If I had not earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 and IRS would not have hired me in 1971. If I had not earned a job-related master’s degree, GAO would not have hired me in 1980. Further, if I had not been taking job-related graduate evening courses, IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Further, if I had not earned a second job-related master’s degree, two job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-new-college-unemployment-line-2556ad81
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Prioritizing work-life balance is not a recipe for success — it’s a red flag. DD: While I worked for Firestone Stores in 1971, IRS 1972-1979, and GAO in 1981 and 1992-1997, I took only one graduate business, accounting, internal auditing, or finance course at a time. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, that was a BIG mistake. By the time I earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, became a licensed CPA in 1981, earned four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and earned a master’s degree in finance in 1997, IT WAS TOO LATE.
https://www.businessinsider.com/skims-cofounder-emma-grede-work-life-balance-your-problem-2025-5
BLOOMBERG LAW
— ICE Detainees Successfully ‘Swarm’ Courts Seeking Due Process. DD: Illegals are not entitled to due process.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/ice-detainees-successfully-swarm-courts-seeking-due-process
AXIOS
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/trump-economy-inflation-affordability
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
HRD AMERICA
— Starbucks sued for alleged racial quotas in hiring. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always had Affirmative Action quotas, goals, and targets to meet. They used those quotas, goals, and targets to waste the careers of and to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.hcamag.com/nz/news/general/starbucks-sued-for-alleged-racial-quotas-in-hiring/560027
GAUARDIAN
— DD: How strongly have Democrat leaders taken over your church?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/12/church-jesus-nativity-scenes-mock-ice-trump
December 12, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker signs ‘right-to-die’ legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois. The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/12/12/illinois-right-to-die-pritzker-signs-law
— Illinois’ political tensions nothing compared to failed redistricting push in Indiana. Indiana Republicans’ arguments against the bill were sound, not only because they were under so much pressure from D.C., but because it just wasn’t the right thing to do. DD: What about the gerrymandered Illinois 3rd Congressional District?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/12/12/illinois-redistricting-push-indiana-republicans-trump-rich-miller
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump downplays Indiana redistricting loss, but funds could be in doubt
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/12/trump-downplays-indiana-redistricting-loss-but-funds-could-be-in-doubt/
— Speaker Mike Johnson scrambles to find a health care plan as Republicans remain divided
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/12/speaker-johnson-health-care-plan/
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251212/nation-and-world/immigration-crackdown-leaves-teens-to-care-for-siblings-after-parents-get-detained/
— DD: Censures and attempts to censure are always big news. I should write about the unsuccessful attempt by my critics/opponents to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on my critics/opponents who continue to have their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251212/news/district-211-board-censures-member-for-sharing-closed-session-discussion-of-fired-teachers/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Illinois cannabis industry poised for major tax relief if Trump reclassifies marijuana. DD: Pot is poison.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/trump-cannabis-rescheduling-could-ease-industrys-tax-burden
— Illinois among states suing Trump over $100,000 H-1B visa fee. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-among-states-suing-trump-over-h-1b-visa-fee
ABC7
— Republican state Sen. Niemeyer explains his vote against Indiana redistricting plan backed by Trump. DD: What about the gerrymandered Illinois 3rd Congressional District?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gop-state-sen-rick-niemeyer-explains-indiana-redistricting-vote-rejecting-plan-backed-donald-trump-ahead-2026-midterms/18280892/
WTTW
— Evanston Church Nativity Scene Adds Zip Ties, Gas Masks and ICE to Protest Immigration Raids. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/12/12/evanston-church-nativity-scene-adds-zip-ties-gas-masks-and-ice-protest-immigration-raids
— Illinois Agriculture Director Says Trump Trade Policies Are ‘Crushing’ Farmers
https://news.wttw.com/2025/12/12/illinois-agriculture-director-says-trump-trade-policies-are-crushing-farmers
WSIU
— Illinois H-1B workers earn median $110K as visa fees and wage rules shift. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.wsiu.org/diversity/2025-12-12/illinois-h-1b-workers-earn-median-110k-as-visa-fees-and-wage-rules-shift
CAPITOL FAX
— Illinois very near its 15-year goal of 60 percent of adults holding ‘postsecondary credentials.’ DD: None of my peers hold anywhere near as many credentials as I have. I have a) three master’s degrees (business-1976, accounting-1980, and finance-1997), b) six professional certifications (accounting-1979, internal auditing-1981, fraud examination-1990, government financial management-1994, financial services auditing-1996, and forensic accounting-1997, and c) a professional license (CPA-1981). Since I was 27 years old in 1976, my critics/opponents have ever-increasingly ignored/dismissed/belittled my credentials. But worse than that, they have ever-increasingly used them against me. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that anyone with as many credentials I have should have had a far more successful career than I had. They stress that my ending federal salary in 1997 was only $153,151/year in today’s dollars. They stress the many adverse actions that my superiors in the federal government took against me. They stress that Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton continue to ignore/dismiss/belittle my credentials. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that my lack of career success and Republican ignoring/dismissing/belittling of my credentials is because I am an extremely bad person.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/12/report-illinois-very-near-its-15-year-goal-of-60-percent-of-adults-holding-postsecondary-credentials/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— When the State Decides Your Life Isn’t Worth Living
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/i-was-offered-death-when-i-needed-care-when-the-state-decides-your-life-isnt-worth-living.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Seized oil tanker was hiding its location to evade sanctions, law enforcement
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/12/seized-oil-tanker-hiding-location-evade-sanctions-law-enforcement/
— New York gave illegal driver’s licenses to foreign truck drivers
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/12/new-york-gave-illegal-drivers-licenses-foreign-truck-drivers-feds/
— Killing narco-terrorists, saving American lives. Critics of the president’s drone policy would perpetuate deadly overdoses.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/10/killing-narco-terrorists-saving-american-lives/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The dangers of Trump’s venture socialism
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3916547/dangers-trump-venture-socialism/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump and Team MAGA are coming for turncoat Indiana Republicans
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/12/trump-and-team-maga-are-coming-for-turncoat-indiana-republicans-1609751/
BREITBART
— Poll: Majority of Catholics Support President Trump’s Mass Deportation of Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2025/12/12/poll-majority-of-catholics-support-president-trumps-mass-deportation-of-illegals/amp/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump: Blue States That Let Illegals Drive ‘Lethal Weapons’ Will Miss Out On Millions Of Tax Money
https://dailycaller.com/2025/12/12/sean-duffy-illegal-truckers-cdls-new-york/
FOX BUSINESS
— University calls ‘Standard American English’ a tool of white supremacy
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6386398348112
FOX NEWS
— Omar accused by GOP opponent of opening up the door to massive Minneapolis fraud: ‘Deep, deep ties.’ Republican challenger John Nagel alleges that Omar has ties to individuals involved in fraud scandal.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/omar-accused-gop-opponent-opening-up-door-massive-minneapolis-fraud-deep-deep-ties
NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
— National Right to Life Condemns Actions of Pritzker’s Signing of Illinois Assisted Suicide Law
https://nrlc.org/communications/nrl-condemns-actions-of-illinois-governor-pritzkers-signing-of-illinois-assisted-suicide-law/
NEWSMAX
— Blue States Flouting Federal Laws
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/illinois-crash-cdl/2025/12/12/id/1238101/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Cannabis Stocks Soar on Reports White House Plans to Reclassify Pot. DD: Pot is poison.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-12-12-2025/card/cannabis-stocks-soar-on-reports-of-white-house-plan-to-reclassify-pot-PvFT19TMWSoL6bTntJEz
INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— Trump: Blue States That Let Illegals Drive ‘Lethal Weapons’ Will Miss Out On Millions Of Tax Money
https://ijr.com/trump-admin-says-blue-states-that-let-illegals-drive-lethal-weapons-will-miss-out-on-millions-of-tax-money/
December 10, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan asks Trump to pardon him after bribery conviction
https://chicago.suntimes.com/madigan-trial-news/2025/12/09/former-illinois-house-speaker-michael-madigan-asks-trump-for-pardon
— As Indiana Republicans move toward redistricting, Pritzker warns Illinois ‘won’t stand idly by’
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/12/09/indiana-redistricting-illinois-pritzker-congressional-map
— Pritzker, Johnson slam Trump admin threat to cut funding over CTA safety issues: ‘Action has been taken.’ Federal officials ordered the CTA to develop an enhanced security plan by next week in response to the burning of a woman aboard a Blue Line train last month.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/transportation/2025/12/09/trump-administration-cta-crime-federal-funding-threat-jb-pritzker-brandon-johnson
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/12/09/guadalupe-little-village-epiphany-catholic
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/09/tammy-duckworth-senate-hearing-illegal-dhs-arrests-chicago-woman-testimony
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly turn women against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/10/gallup-young-women-move-abroad/
DAILY HERALD
— Krishnamoorthi, Mendrick survive challenges, but some candidates knocked out
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251209/illinois-state-politics/krishnamoorthi-mendrick-survive-challenges-but-some-candidates-knocked-out/
STATELINE
— 50% of Illinois residents would move if they could. DD: What keeps you in Illinois? My ancestors have lived in northeast Illinois since 1844. I have lived in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978. I have lived in my precinct since 1984. All four of my degrees are from Illinois Universities.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-residents-want-to-leave-state/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders do not want any of their illegals to be deported, and especially those who do not have a criminal record yet. 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://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-10/about-a-third-of-people-arrested-by-ice-had-no-criminal-record-new-data-shows
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fill their schools with illegals. What percent of the students in your school district are illegals?
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/12/09/illinois-governor-signs-bill-on-immigrants-at-child-care-centers-colleges/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— On the GOP side, attorney Jeannie Evans has officially entered the fray, launching her U.S. Senate campaign by presenting herself as a consumer advocate and working mom who has spent her career challenging major corporations. She steps into a marquee Republican primary against former Illinois GOP Chair Don Tracy. “There are important issues that demand leadership,” Evans said in her announcement. “Illinoisans deserve a fresh voice in Washington. I’m a political outsider and working mother who has taken on powerful corporations to help lower the cost of living.” Her résumé includes time at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, co-founding a litigation firm, and serving as a partner at plaintiff-side class-action firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro. Evans is also active in the Federalist Society and says she’s committed to working with President Donald Trump on lowering costs, reducing crime, and expanding education and job opportunities.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/12/10/union-tip-toes-around-endorsing-00684291
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-645/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago’s Leadership Fixates on Police Use-of-Force While Violent Crime and Fiscal Crisis Deepen
https://wirepoints.org/chicagos-leadership-fixates-on-police-use-of-force-while-violent-crime-and-fiscal-crisis-deepen-wirepoints-mark-glennon-warns-am560-interview/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL Statehouse candidate finds 20,000 kids without SSNs getting Medicaid
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_12d4062d-013c-430a-b4f7-402511a179d1.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Transit sales tax hike makes suburbs pay for Chicago problems
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/transit-sales-tax-hike-makes-suburbs-pay-for-chicago-problems/
— Illinois’ $143.5 billion state pension debt saw a tiny dip, but meaningful reform is needed to stop threats to taxpayers and protect state retirees.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-alone-lets-state-pension-debt-top-100b/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What keeps you in Illinois? My ancestors have lived in northeast Illinois since 1844. I have lived in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978. I have lived in my precinct since 1984. All four of my degrees are from Illinois Universities. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— A growing number of Americans are taking on second, third and even fourth jobs to offset inflation and stagnant wages. Have you worked second jobs? I did when I worked for IRS when I was 22-24 years old 1971-1972. I pumped gasoline for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights. The money that I earned helped me a) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, b) pay for graduate business courses at Loyola in 1972, and c) buy a new townhome in University Park in 1972. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Socialists argue that socialist employers, that is, Democrat employers, pay their employees more than capitalist employers, that is, Republican employers, do. Ever since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was able to do the following because the Democrat federal government paid me far more than Republican employers would have: a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., c) pay my expenses to earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, d) pay my review course expenses to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 31, and become a licensed CPA when I was 31, e) get married when I was 29, f) etc. In your opinion, if I had worked for Republican employers, how much would I have been paid? In today’s dollars, the Democrat federal government paid me a) $19.37/hour when I was 18, b) $55,850/year when I was 22, c) $68,315/year when I was 23, $82,655/year when I was 24, $99,069/year when I was 25, $112,280/year when I was 29, $117,807/year when I was 38, and $153,151/year when I was 49. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Under the Democrats, the future for White males in America is ever-increasingly bleak. Fewer and fewer and fewer of them seek college degrees. Why is that? They are discouraged. Under the Democrats, non-Whites and females ever-increasingly get more and more and more preference, and especially non-White females who are Democrat, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. If I was young today, because of my bad demographics, I question if I could find the motivation to do what I did. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What have your critics/opponents used to discredit your accomplishments? To discredit my accomplishments. my critics/opponents have always outrageously disgustingly unethically painted my parents as having been filthy rich. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47, I was 21, and my brother was 16. I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that if you have less money than your peers, it is because of Trump. I have way less money than my peers who earned college degrees, professional certifications, and a professional license like I did. But I have way less money because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders use “disparate impact’ to hint/imply/argue/shout that if something results in Whites or males doing better at something than minorities or females, that it is because that something discriminates against minorities and females. Using that, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion standards in the federal government. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— A growing number of Americans are taking on second, third and even fourth jobs to offset inflation and stagnant wages. DD: Have you worked second jobs? I did when I worked for IRS when I was 22-24 years old 1971-1972. I pumped gasoline for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights. The money that I earned helped me a) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, b) pay for graduate business courses at Loyola in 1972, and c) buy a new townhome in University Park in 1972.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/25/americans-polyworking-offset-inflation-stagnant-wages/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrat Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayor race, ending 28 years of GOP control
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3912830/democrat-eileen-higgins-miami-mayor/
— Gen Z socialists (DD: Socialists argue that socialist employers, that is, Democrat employers, pay their employees more than capitalist employers, that is, Republican employers, do. Ever since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was able to do the following because the Democrat federal government paid me far more than Republican employers would have: a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., c) pay my expenses to earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, d) pay my review course expenses to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 31, and become a licensed CPA when I was 31, e) get married when I was 29, f) etc. In your opinion, if I had worked for Republican employers, how much would I have been paid? In today’s dollars, the Democrat federal government paid me a) $19.37/hour when I was 18, b) $55,850/year when I was 22, c) $68,315/year when I was 23, $82,655/year when I was 24, $99,069/year when I was 25, $112,280/year when I was 29, $117,807/year when I was 38, and $153,151/year when I was 49.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/videos/3912567/inside-scoop-jim-antle-gen-z-socialists-christmas-reading-utah-redistricting/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “A lot of younger people today don’t have any stake in the capitalist system because they don’t have any capital,” Antle said. “They study in college, they accumulate a lot of debt to pay off their student loans, and then they are not in a position where they can afford to buy a home when they graduate, so they’re perennially renting. They don’t really feel like they benefit from a lot of aspects of the free enterprise system.” Antle highlights the appeal of socialist candidates, such as newly elected New York Mayor-elect Mamdani. “He ran on an explicitly Democratic Socialist platform,” Antle said. “Many of the people who voted for him were younger professionals making six-figure salaries, but in an expensive city like New York, and in a place where they’re very unlikely to own their own homes, own any of their own property. They really feel the crushing burden of how expensive everything is in the city, and they don’t see how the free market system is really benefiting them.”)
NEW YORK POST
— Citizens are fed up with Dem-invited migrants who have disdain for US law and culture
https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/opinion/citizens-are-fed-up-with-dem-invited-migrants-that-have-disdain-for-us-law-and-culture/
— Send Her Back’: MAGA Crowd Erupts as Trump Claims Ilhan Omar is ‘Here Illegally’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEtkoidi01E
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— DOJ restores equal treatment for all in civil rights enforcement. DD: Democrat leaders use “disparate impact’ to hint/imply/argue/shout that if something results in Whites or males doing better at something than minorities or females, that it is because that something discriminates against minorities and females. Using that, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion standards in the federal government. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/10/doj-restores-equal-treatment-for-all-in-civil-rights-enforcement-1609269/
BREITBART
— Pritzker Signs Bill Preventing ICE from Arresting Illegal Aliens near Courthouses
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/12/09/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-signs-bill-preventing-ice-arresting-illegal-aliens-courthouses/
— Trump Approval Rating up as Republicans Applaud Focus on Affordability
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/09/trump-approval-rating-up-as-republicans-applaud-focus-on-affordability/
FEDERALIST
— ‘Gold-Standard’ Immigration Enforcement Bill Lagging In Indiana As Redistricting Sucks Oxygen
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/10/gold-standard-immigration-enforcement-bill-lagging-in-indiana-as-redistricting-sucks-oxygen/
FOX NEWS
— Japan rejects same-sex marriage to save itself from demographic collapse. Tokyo court upholds traditional marriage while G7 nations face plummeting fertility rates.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/japan-rejects-same-sex-marriage-save-itself-from-demographic-collapse
— DHS blasts Newsom over taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegals as California ambulance costs may soar 382%. California governor faces federal criticism over Medi-Cal benefits as transport costs jump from $339 to potentially $1,637.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-blasts-newsom-taxpayer-funded-healthcare-illegals-california-ambulance-costs-may-soar-382-percent
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— ICE Slams Pritzker as Illinois Releases 1,700 Criminal Illegal Aliens — Including Rapists and Pedophiles
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/ice-slams-gov-pritzker-as-illinois-releases-1700-criminal-illegal-aliens-including-rapists-and-pedophiles
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Man Behind App That Helps Illegals Evade ICE Now Suing Bondi, Noem, Homan After Apple Took it Down
https://www.westernjournal.com/man-behind-app-helps-illegals-evade-ice-now-suing-bondi-noem-homan-apple-took/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-ice-arrested-his-mom-18-year-old-citizen-now-caring-for-his-sister-worries-he-could-be-next/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope against Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-russia-ukraine-trump-pope-leo-60c898afe3241ff67552f417a06900b0
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Calls Europe ‘Decaying’ and ‘Weak’ President Trump criticized his European counterparts over their defense and Ukraine policies during an interview with Politico. The president also suggested that it was time for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to compromise in the cease-fire talks.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010577149/trump-europe-decaying-weak-ukraine.html
— The Latest Trump Resistance Is Within the Indiana G.O.P. Some Republicans in the Indiana Senate have resisted a new congressional map despite lobbying from the White House and threats of political consequences.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/indiana-redistricting-trump-republicans.html
— Nancy Mace: What’s the Point of Congress?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/opinion/nancy-mace-congress-republicans.html
— Despite Red-State Efforts, Abortion Rate Nationwide Still Climbs. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/states-new-abortion-laws.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Under the Democrats, the future for White males in America is ever-increasingly bleak. Fewer and fewer and fewer of them seek college degrees. Why is that? They are discouraged. Under the Democrats, non-Whites and females ever-increasingly get more and more and more preference, and especially non-White females who are Democrat, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries. If I was young today, because of my bad demographics, I question if I could find the motivation to do what I did. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/12/04/trump-dei-ban-college-men/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Economics of Immigration. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens drive wages down. Noncitizens vote for Democrats.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-immigration-9b4a5b9d
— Potheads Head for the Emergency Room. Two new studies show that the ill effects of THC are increasing. DD: Pot is poison.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/marijuana-referendum-massachusetts-pot-users-emergency-rooms-68fa22cd
FORTUNE
— Americans can’t agree on what ‘middle class’ means anymore. DD: To discredit my accomplishments. my critics/opponents have always outrageously disgustingly unethically painted my parents as having been filthy rich. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He died suddenly when he was 47, I was 21, and my brother was 16. I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://www.aol.com/finance/americans-t-agree-middle-class-204839884.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pew Research Center defines middle class as falling between two-thirds and double the median household income—which can vary in U.S. metro areas from about $53,000 to $161,000 annually. . .With the median household income coming to roughly $83,000 as of September 2025, and steadily climbing as inflation has pushed up household costs.”)
KFF HEALTH NEWS
— Online Abortion Pill Access Up In Early 2025, Despite GOP Efforts to Restrict It
https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/online-abortion-pill-access-up-in-early-2025-despite-gop-efforts-to-restrict-it/
POLITICO
— As Pope Leo’s MAGA criticism builds, Trump suggests he’d meet Catholic leader.
https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-leo-maga-criticism-donald-trump-meeting/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone that if you have less money than your peers, it is because of Trump. I have way less money than my peers who earned college degrees, professional certifications, and a professional license like I did. But I have way less money because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/poll-affordability-cost-of-living-00678076
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— 200 DOJ employees who left under Trump say admin is making ‘coordinated effort’ to undermine career staff. The Justice Department is actively pushing out career employees working on civil rights, they say. DD: According to Democrats, the federal government exists to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/12/200-doj-employees-who-left-under-trump-say-admin-making-coordinated-effort-undermine-career-staff/410052/
SUSTAINABILITY
— Why Microsoft Has Scaled Back DEI in its Performance Reviews. DD: To promote Affirmative Action and DEI is to discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Because I opposed that discrimination, my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://sustainabilitymag.com/news/why-microsoft-has-scaled-back-dei-in-its-performance-reviews
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
ASAM NEWS
— Duckworth becomes a voice for Asian America. DD: Who is a voice for those who share your demographics?
https://asamnews.com/2025/12/09/hegseth-defense-secretary-controversy-duckworth-response-war-crime-allegations/
NTD
— Documentary Exposes How People Opposed to Critical Race Theory Were Put on Lists. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders promote CRT to get more votes from Blacks.
https://www.ntd.com/documentary-exposes-how-people-opposed-to-critical-race-theory-were-put-on-lists_1112910.html
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Mamdani’s new address: Iconic $100 million Gracie Mansion
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/zohran-mamdanis-new-address-all-about-iconic-100-million-gracie-mansion-the-226-year-old-residence-in-new-york/articleshow/125882778.cms
TELEGRAPH
— Mamdani to move into $100 million mansion after becoming New York mayor, cites family safety, Mamdani, who prominently featured the issue of affordability in his election campaign, has sparked discussion with his decision to move into this $100 million mansion.
https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/zohran-mamdani-to-move-into-100-million-gracie-mansion-after-becoming-new-york-mayor-cites-family-safety/cid/2137078
TIMES OF INDIA
— Illinois Shields ‘ILLEGAL ALIENS’, Pritzker Unleashes Direct Attack On Trump, Noem, Bovino
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/illinois-shields-illegal-aliens-pritzker-unleashes-direct-attack-on-trump-noem-bovino-watch/videoshow/125879701.cms
— Parents’ income puts candidate in creamy layer, Karnataka high court upholds rejection. DD: My parents’ income never put me in the creamy layer. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. My mother never worked outside of the home until he died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. 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.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/parents-income-puts-candidate-in-creamy-layer-karnataka-high-court-upholds-rejection/articleshow/125840555.cms
December 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois educators are applauding weak school achievement
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/09/opinion-illinois-students-achievement-china/
— Lake County immigrants relieved, but wary as arrests subside: ‘They’re still afraid.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/08/lake-county-immigration-enforcement/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: ICE arrests suspect after standoff between agents, protesters in Elgin
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251208/crime/ice-arrests-suspect-after-standoff-between-agents-protesters-in-elgin/
— Crowded U.S. Senate race could slim down as state board rules on objections
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251208/illinois-state-politics/crowded-senate-race-could-slim-down-as-state-board-rules-on-objections/
NBC5
— Feds threaten to withhold funding after violent incidents on CTA property. The federal government demanded that the CTA take multiple steps to improve safety on its system.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/traffic/transit/feds-threaten-to-withhold-funding-after-violent-incidents-on-cta-property/3860623/
WGN9
— Nativity scenes around Chicagoland opt for political theme during holiday season. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://wgntv.com/news/north-suburbs/nativity-scenes-around-chicagoland-opt-for-political-theme-during-holiday-season/
— Immigration raids cast shadow over Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://wgntv.com/western-suburbs/immigration-raids-cast-shadow-over-feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe/
FOX32
— Here’s how much your family needs to earn to have a stay-at-home parent. DD: In Illinois, it is $79,102/year. My mother was a stay-at-home parent. The belief was that because she never attended high school, her earning potential was very limited. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21 and my brother was 16. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/how-much-family-needs-earn-stay-at-home-parent
WTTW
— Johnson Warns Chicago is Headed for Shutdown Amid Budget Deadlock
https://news.wttw.com/2025/12/08/johnson-warns-chicago-headed-shutdown-amid-budget-deadlock
— CPD Should Revise Promotions Policy After Officer Under Investigation Promoted. DD: IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. According to my critics/opponents, that was much too fast. But I earned an MBA in 1976, I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and I became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/12/08/cpd-should-revise-promotions-policy-after-officer-under-investigation-promoted-johnson
STATELINE
— DHS demands Illinois honor ICE detainers for over 4,000 criminal aliens. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/dhs-demands-illinois-honor-ice-detainers-for-over-4000-criminal-aliens/
SHAW LOCAL
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly blame Trump for the cost of living.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/12/08/how-illinois-democratic-us-senate-candidates-plan-to-address-economic-issues/
NPR ILLINOIS
— FBI agents sue after being fired for kneeling during racial justice protest. DD: Trump could cite Diersen v. GAO. The 7th Circuit ruled that my Democrat GAO superiors had the power to force me to retire, that is, that they had the power to fire me, when I was 49 years old in 1997, because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-12-08/fbi-agents-sue-after-being-fired-for-kneeling-during-racial-justice-protest
ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois. DD: My passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was a 30-year-old IRS employee in 1979 was one of my greatest successes. But my Democrat IRS superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled it. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. My passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and becoming a licensed CPA when I was a 32-year-old GAO employee in 1981 was one of my greatest successes. But my Democrat GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled it. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.icpas.org/endowmentfund/gift/donation.aspx
(FROM THE LETTER: Every CPA remembers what it took to get there—long nights, financial strain, moments of doubt, and people who stepped in at just the right time. Today’s aspiring CPAs are facing those same moments when continuing to pursue their dream feels just out of reach. More students than ever before are turning to us for scholarships, guidance, and reassurance that the profession has their back.)
IPM NEWSROOM
— Republican Senate Candidate Don Tracy on Israel, ICE, and the future of MAGA and the GOP
https://ipmnewsroom.org/republican-senate-candidate-don-tracy-on-israel-ice-and-the-future-of-maga-and-the-gop/
— Champaign’s only low-barrier shelter is at risk of closing. DD: Chicago Democrat leaders use to send many of their homeless to Wheaton. Big homeless problems in Wheaton diminished after PADS raised its requirements.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/champaigns-only-low-barrier-shelter-is-at-risk-of-closing-some-guests-are-worried/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As the only low-barrier shelter in the area, Strides does not have sobriety or abstinence requirements, and does not conduct criminal background checks before accepting guests.
TRACE
— DD: Democrat leader ever-increasingly paint themselves as being protectors of those who are noncitizens, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, have health problems, non-rich, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, etc.
https://www.thetrace.org/2025/12/chicago-ice-school-safe-passage-violence/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/09/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-644/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/12/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-434/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
TED DABROWSKI
— Statement by Ted Dabrowski on illegals over citizens: Now for college aid
https://mailchi.mp/tedforillinois/student-aid-for-illegals
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— New Data Exposes Illinois GOP Crisis: Millions of Republicans Aren’t Voting, Party Leaders to Blame. DD: Illinois Republicans see how Illinois Republican leaders have treated me and have treated my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000. I should write about those Illinois Republican leaders who have blamed conservatives like me, that is, who have blamed platform Republicans like me, for Republican losses in Illinois the most since 2000. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform ins conservative. Far too many Illinois Republican leaders fail/refuse to defend and advance far too many planks in that platform.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/new-data-exposes-illinois-gop-crisis-millions-of-republicans-arent-voting-party-leaders-to-blame.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: New voter-participation data circulating among Illinois conservatives is highlighting what many now argue is the real and long-running crisis inside the Illinois Republican Party: collapsing enthusiasm, shrinking turnout, and a leadership class that has failed the base for more than two decades. Illinois has 12.5 million residents, with roughly 10 million old enough to vote. About 8 million are registered. Yet only 6 million typically vote in a presidential cycle, and just 4 million show up for midterms. According to attorney Tom DeVore, who has studied the numbers closely, the picture for Republicans is even worse. . .For twenty years, the Illinois GOP establishment has presided over shrinking maps, shrinking turnout, shrinking relevance, and a stunning refusal to engage real voters on real issues. “You can complain about the Democrats all day long, but at the end of the day they just want it more badly than Republicans,” DeVore said. “We have a voter-enthusiasm problem in Illinois Republican politics. The party sucks, so Republicans don’t vote.” He argues the problem is not Democrat strength — it’s Republican failure. “Republicans not voting allows bad Republican leaders to stay in office,” he said. “It’s a vicious circle that only a group of people with real courage and talent can resolve.” And while party insiders often bristle at criticism, DeVore says the truth is simple: “They want to blow smoke and tell you it’s the Democrats’ problem, when in reality it’s Republican leadership’s failures.” Democrats already dominate every level of state government, and without a significant shift in Republican engagement, 2026 would simply reinforce the trend. The emerging data shows a participation gap, not a population gap — and unless those millions of inactive Republican-leaning voters reenter the process, Illinois’ political landscape is likely to remain exactly where it has been for the past two decades.)
— Illinois Republicans Lose Focus as Property Taxes Dominate Their Messaging — Despite Having Little Power to Change Them
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/illinois-republicans-lose-focus-as-property-taxes-dominate-their-messaging-despite-having-little-power-to-change-them.html
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pritzker Continues Unannounced Visits to Crystal Lake
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/09/pritzker-continues-unannounced-visits-to-crystal-lake/
— Homeland Security Reveals 1,700+ Illegal Aliens Released from Prison into Society Instead of Given to ICE for Deportation
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/09/homeland-security-reveals-1700-illegal-aliens-released-from-prison-into-society-instead-of-given-to-ice-for-deportation/
— Senate Republicans Seek to Mirror Federal End to Tax on Tips
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/senate-republicans-seek-to-mirror-federal-end-to-tax-on-tips/
— Bruce Leon Gains Support from Orthodox Jewish Leaders for 9th District Democratic Party Nomination
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/bruce-leon-gains-support-from-orthodox-jewish-leaders/
— What Homeland Security Says Happened in Elgin
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/what-homeland-security-says-happened-in-elgin/
— Pay Gap Between Men and Women Lessens: “Women Earn About 91–93 Cents for Every Dollar Earned by Men in Comparable Roles.” DD: My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors paid all my female coworkers more than they paid me. All those who they 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 I had.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/pay-gap-between-men-and-women-lessens-women-earn-about-91-93-cents-for-every-dollar-earned-by-men-in-comparable-roles/
— Our U.S. Senator Not Doing Her Homework
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/08/our-u-s-senator-not-doing-her-homework/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Mamdani should open his mayor’s mansion to illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/9/zohran-mamdani-open-mayors-mansion-illegal-immigrants/
— Conservatives outpace liberals in marrying and having children. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discourage traditional marriage and family.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/8/conservatives-outpace-liberals-marrying-children/
— The new American dream starts with a college search. Choose a school and degree that will make you a success. DD: Choosing the right major is just as important. I should have chosen accounting from the beginning. I didn’t because I erroneously thought I could not pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate evening accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditing examination until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The profession would not have done that if I had been a minority or a female.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/7/new-american-dream-starts-college-search/
— How multiculturalism and open borders brought Muslims’ religious war from Nigeria to America. Will Americans celebrate Christmas in 100 years? DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, Christianity will die in America.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/7/multiculturalism-open-borders-brought-muslims-religious-war-nigeria/
— Jewish Americans must get on right side of immigration debate. The direct link between leftist leaders, arrivals of unvetted foreigners. DD: My Democrat leaders in the federal government used/forced my many Jewish superiors to take many adverse actions against me. They used/forced my Jewish Post Office superiors to disallow my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and to force me to resign in 1969. They used/forced my Jewish IRS superiors to disallow my travel vouchers in 1974, to disallow my education expenses in 1978, and to not promote me beyond GS-12. They used/forced my Jewish GAO superiors to force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer to GAO in 1980, to keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, to delay my promotions and to not promote me beyond GS-13, to always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/7/jewish-americans-must-get-right-side-immigration-debate/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ICE puts pressure on Illinois attorney general to honor illegal immigrant detainers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3910538/ice-pressure-illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-illegal-immigrant-detainers/
— How Democrats treat illegal immigrants better than US citizens
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3909088/how-democrats-treat-illegal-immigrants-better-than-us-citizens/
NEW YORK POST
— Furious anti-ICE protesters threw snowballs at feds to protect Chicago Tren de Aragua gangbanger
https://nypost.com/2025/12/08/us-news/chicago-anti-ice-protesters-threw-snowballs-at-feds-to-protect-tren-de-argua-gangbanger-dhs-says/
— We’re raising kids who can’t do the math — making them easy to manipulate
https://nypost.com/2025/12/08/opinion/were-raising-kids-who-cant-do-the-math-making-them-easy-to-manipulate/
— Woke Protesters Support Trans Instructor On Leave For Religious Discrimination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp9g013RqVQ
BLAZE
— Illinois, Pritzker has released almost 1,800 violent illegal aliens back onto the streets in defiance of ICE
https://www.theblaze.com/news/illinois-gov-pritzker-have-released-almost-1800-violent-illegal-aliens-back-onto-the-streets-in-defiance-of-ice-dhs-says
BREITBART
— Migrant Crime Soared in Obama’s ‘Welcoming Cities’
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/12/08/report-migrant-crime-soared-obama-welcoming-cities/
CHRISTIAN POST
— Chick-Fil-A waffles on wokeness with same-sex marriage post and DEI focus
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/chick-fil-a-waffles-on-wokeness-with-same-sex-marriage-post.html?mobile=false
CRISIS MAGAZINE
— Young Americans Are Turning to Socialism—They Deserve Better
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/young-americans-are-turning-to-socialism-they-deserve-better
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Administration Has Found 62,000 Children, Some Victims of Sex Trafficking and Forced Labor
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/08/trump-administration-found-62000-children-some-victims-sex-trafficking-forced-labor/
— Illegals Plague Our Highways and Our Health Care
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/09/its-road-warrior-out-there/
FEDERALIST
— American Taxpayers Are Paying Somalis Millions To Not Assimilate. DD: All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Sadly, they did not assimilate as fast as they could/should have. Consequently, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school. All my grandparents spoke German. I had to work my way through college.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/08/american-taxpayers-are-paying-somalis-millions-to-not-assimilate/
FOX NEWS
— ICE warns Illinois is releasing violent criminal illegal aliens despite detainers, risking public safety. State has released 1,768 criminal aliens with active detainers since January 2025.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-warns-illinois-releasing-violent-criminal-illegal-aliens-despite-detainers-risking-public-safety
— Inside ‘Little Mogadishu’: Minnesota’s beleaguered Somali community under a cloud of fraud and Trump attacks. Fox News Digital visited ‘Little Mogadishu’ in Minneapolis to hear from Somali residents as national debates over integration and welfare fraud intensify.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/inside-little-mogadishu-minnesotas-somali-community-its-push-belonging
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Harvard Paid Internship For “Students of Color” Challenged by Equal Protection Project
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/harvard-paid-internship-for-students-of-color-challenged-by-equal-protection-project/
MRC TV
— Fox News Special Report Is The Only Nightly Newscast To Cover Mamdani’s ‘How To’ ICE Video For Illegals
https://mrctv.org/videos/fox-news-special-report-only-nightly-newscast-cover-mamdanis-how-ice-video-illegals
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: Democrat leaders created affordability problems and now they blame Trump for those problems.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5640001-trump-speech-pennsylvania-economy/
ROLL CALL
— Congress must become a champion guard dog to defend its watchdog. A hostile executive branch could be in charge of the legislative branch’s investigations. DD: My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed my having been a GAO employee for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. They have also ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed a) my earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, b) my earning professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and c) my becoming a licensed CPA. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on past and present Republican a) federal candidates and elected officials and b) Illinois, DuPage County, and Milton Township party leaders.
https://rollcall.com/2025/12/08/congress-must-become-a-champion-guard-dog-to-defend-its-watchdog/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Dec. 29, the 15-year term of Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro will end, leaving the Government Accountability Office without a Senate-confirmed leader. The Trump administration has made no secret of its hostility toward GAO, and this creates a dangerous opening for the executive branch to undermine or even capture the agency that exists for one purpose: to help Congress do its job. The current president and his allies in Congress have publicly targeted GAO, recognizing that a weakened watchdog means weakened oversight of executive action. GAO support to Congress extends beyond any single administration. If GAO is captured or hollowed out, the damage will outlast the current presidency. Rebuilding independent investigative capacity takes decades. Losing it takes a moment of inattention. At stake is the legislative branch authority and responsibility set forth in Article I of the Constitution to oversee the executive branch. Congress must act immediately to protect GAO during the transition. This means forming a visible, bipartisan, bicameral coalition — backed by constitutional experts—to reject any executive interference with the legislative branch agency. Any attempt by the current president to appoint, nominate, or direct GAO leadership should be challenged publicly and legally. The message must be unambiguous: GAO belongs to Congress. Most Americans have never heard of GAO. That’s by design. The agency operates as Congress’s nonpartisan, nonpolitical right hand — conducting audits, evaluations, and investigations that give legislators the facts they need to oversee federal programs and hold the executive branch accountable. GAO doesn’t make policy or substitute its judgment for Congress’s. It provides the independent, professional analysis that makes genuine oversight possible.)
ABC NEWS
— Mamdani tells immigrant New Yorkers about their right not to comply with ICE. The New York City mayor-elect posted a video explaining immigrants’ rights.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/zohran-mamdani-tells-immigrant-new-yorkers-comply-ice-128194280
CBS NEWS
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h1-b-visa-fees-rural-health-care-hospitals/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Three Years After Dobbs, the State Divide Over Abortion Deepens. DD: My critics/opponents reject the right to life plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/states-new-abortion-laws.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Because minorities overwhelmingly vote for Democrats, gerrymandering is by definition racial gerrymandering. The Democrats’ 3rd Congressional District in Illinois is a prime example.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/is-this-electoral-map-based-on-race-or-partisanship/2025/12/08/6e43e5bd-7be2-4983-bed5-8e4bcdb01ec5_video.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/09/young-adults-religion-campuses-kirk/
USA TODAY
— College students less comfortable expressing beliefs after Kirk death
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/12/08/charlie-kirk-assassination-students-free-speech-poll/87623920007/
LAW AND THE WORPKPLACE
— EEOC Issues Updated Guidance on National Origin Discrimination DD: I am 100% German national origin and a Missouri Synod Lutheran. All my employers would have hired noncitizens and/or non-German Americans instead of me if they could have. There are many negative German stereotypes. SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_Germans I lived in Crete 1948-1972 when it was overwhelmingly German American and Lutheran. While I was a Firestone Store employee for more than 2 years and a federal employee for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times virtually all of my supervisors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates had loved ones who were killed by Germans. In my defense, I stressed that while all my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany, they all immigrated way back in 1840s and 1850s. I stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI. I stressed that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII. I stressed that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.lawandtheworkplace.com/2025/12/eeoc-issues-updated-guidance-on-national-origin-discrimination/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The EEOC has issued a one-page technical assistance document, “Discrimination Against American Workers Is Against the Law” and updated its national origin discrimination landing page, reinforcing national origin discrimination protections with a focus on immigration-related issues. The latest guidance follows the EEOC’s previous 2016 Enforcement Guidance on National Origin Discrimination, which remains in effect. Title VII, which is enforced by the EEOC, prohibits employment discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and applies to most private employers with 15 or more employees. Under Title VII, discrimination based on national origin with respect to compensation and other terms and conditions of employment is unlawful, and employers are prohibited from limiting, segregating or classifying employees in a way that could deprive them of opportunities based on their national origin. The new technical assistance document defines national origin discrimination as “treating employees or applicants unfavorably or favorably because they are from a particular country or part of the world, because of ethnicity or accent, or because they appear to be of a certain ethnic background.” The landing page emphasizes that Title VII protects all workers, “including Americans,” and explains that national origin discrimination can include preferring foreign workers, including workers with certain visa statuses, over American workers. It further highlights that discrimination can occur when the victim and the person engaging in the discrimination are of the same national origin.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The GOP Can’t Agree on a Healthcare Plan. Some Republicans Are Panicking. Senate is expected to vote this week on Democratic-backed measure to extend enhanced healthcare subsidies. DD: Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married I was 29 years old and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-gop-cant-agree-on-a-healthcare-plan-some-republicans-are-panicking-76b6d89e
— China Is Gearing Up for a Potential Invasion of Taiwan
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/how-china-chinese-invasion-taiwan-ba7e3916
FORBES
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2025/12/08/a-diverse-hire-not-a-diversity-hire/
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/11/final-schedule-f-regulations-describe-civil-service-protections-unconstitutional-overcorrections/409616/
POLITICO
— Supreme Court seems likely to let Trump fire independent agency heads. DD: Trump could cite Diersen v. GAO. The 7th Circuit ruled that my Democrat GAO superiors had the power to force me to retire, that is, that they had the power to fire me, when I was 49 years old in 1997, because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/supreme-court-slaughter-trump-firings-00681078
NPR
— DD: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly creates more homelessness by destroying traditional marriage and family.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5637407/homelessness-in-the-new-gilded-age
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5637259/placeless-author-traces-the-roots-and-realities-of-mass-homelessness-in-america
— Americans facing unaffordable healthcare costs if ACA subsidies end share concerns. DD: Ever since I became a part-time postal employee when was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my healthcare insurance premiums. They have been even more furious ever since I got married I was 29 years old and the federal government started paying 72% of my wife’s healthcare insurance premiums. That 72% subsidy is a major reason why people despise/hate federal employees, federal retirees, and their spouses. That 72% subsidy helped me withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5634778/americans-facing-unaffordable-healthcare-costs-if-aca-subsidies-end-share-concerns
HR ZONE
— DD: My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government made it clear that they believed that the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://hrzone.com/2025-12-are-staff-surveys-making-employees-too-entitled/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
DAILY MAIL
— Disturbing truth about Somalis in America that no Democrat will ever confront
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15356833/somali-americans-usa-stats-expert.html
— Woke school gives kids as young as 11 tips on how to ‘come out as trans.’ DD: How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15364609/maryland-westland-middle-school-transgender-binding-lessons.html
HINDUSTAN TIMES
— US tech co-founder says he’ll pay $100,000 per day for H-1B talent: ‘Will set up recurring payment.’ DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/us-tech-co-founder-says-hell-pay-100-000-per-day-for-h-1b-talent-will-set-up-recurring-payment-101765206308941.html
ZOOM BANGLA
— Caste Discrimination a Major Drag on India’s Economy. DD: What Caste were you born into? 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.
https://inews.zoombangla.com/caste-discrimination-a-major-drag-on-indias-economy-argues-prominent-economist/
ECONOMIC TIMES
— H-1B visa appointments cancelled for many applicants as US expands social media vetting. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/work/h1b-visa-appointments-cancelled-for-many-applicants-as-us-expands-social-media-vetting/articleshow/125865253.cms