FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Green Beret who died in Las Vegas Cybertruck shot himself in the head before explosion
https://abc7chicago.com/post/las-vegas-cybertruck-explosion-investigation-leads-police-colorado-sources-say/15740014/
FOX32
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly work to unify those who are the following against Trump: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, have less money than others, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, in America illegally, etc.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/majority-americans-think-trump-control-illegal-immigration-not-unify-country-poll
WGN9
— CTU says it’s pushing for district to address ‘systemic’ racial inequities in schools
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/ctu-cps-bargaining-update-01022025/
WTTW
— Chicago Police Increasing Patrols Near Trump Tower After Explosion Outside Las Vegas Hotel
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/02/chicago-police-increasing-patrols-near-trump-tower-after-explosion-outside-las-vegas
— Highly Decorated US Soldier Shot Self Before Cybertruck Exploded Outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas Hotel
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/02/man-who-died-tesla-cybertruck-explosion-front-trump-s-las-vegas-hotel-was-active-duty-us
— New Law Requires Many Illinois Companies to List Salary Range in Job Postings (COMMENT: GAO audits IRS. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 would have offered me a pay increase to transfer from IRS instead of a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut. I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.)
https://news.wttw.com/2025/01/02/new-law-requires-many-illinois-companies-list-salary-range-job-postings
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Former Naperville Councilman Kevin Coyne named new DuPage County GOP chair
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/02/naperville-city-council-dupage-county-republicans-election-politics/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: DuPage Republicans, though, are actively rebuilding, Coyne says, and shaping up to “run better campaigns and turn things around.” A part of that rebuilding process is defeating “this narrative out there that we are a deep-blue, progressive county,” he said. “We clearly are not. We have Republican mayors in virtually every notable city in DuPage, even after these terrible November elections. … If you’re truly a progressive county, you don’t have Republicans getting elected at anything.” Another focus will be “finding good people that are willing to give their time and energy to the cause here” despite the party facing strong headwinds “outside of our control,” Coyne said. He pointed, for instance, to Republicans being outspent at the state level. As chairman of DuPage Republicans, Coyne is tasked with working with township leaders across the county to execute “really well-done campaigns in November cycles,” he said. To that end, he says the party needs to modernize and “improve everywhere.” “The Republican Party for many, many, many decades in DuPage County really didn’t have competitive November races to worry about. This whole blue wave thing came about fairly fast,” he said. “I don’t think the campaign infrastructure, whether it be in everything from social media to email distribution to small donor bases and all these kind of grassroots and nuts and bolts campaign considerations, has been effectuated to the degree that they should.” Revamping how Republican candidates run and execute campaigns will be the priority, Coyne said. As the party rebuilds, changes will likely entail a larger presence on social media and a more aggressive approach to events and outreach, he said. Now’s an opportune time to rebuild, with Republicans taking back the White House and Senate in November, he added. “(There’s) a lot of national momentum that we’ve got to figure out how we capture and bring home here,” he said.)
— Porter County Indiana’s Republican officials take oath of office after party sweep of November elections
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/02/porter-countys-republican-officials-take-oath-of-office-after-party-sweep-of-november-elections/
— Mike Johnson’s bid to remain House speaker could be a struggle despite Donald Trump’s support (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about them and those who could and should have come to my defense but failed/refused to do so.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/02/mike-johnsons/
— FBI says driver in New Orleans rampage acted alone, was ‘100%’ inspired by Islamic State group
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/02/new-orleans-attack-army-veteran-islamic-state/
DAILY HERALD
— Mayoral candidate back on Aurora primary ballot
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250102/news/mayoral-candidate-back-on-aurora-primary-ballot/
— Plan for car condos in South Barrington up for public review (COMMENT: I own a unit in Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville ( https://www.irongatemotorcondos.com/ ). If you share my interest in cars I own, please let me know. I own a 1972 and 2005 Corvette, 2023 Mustang GT Premium, 2013 Charger R/T Max, and 1996 Thunderbird LX. I am interested in the 2025 Charger.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241230/business/plan-for-car-condos-in-south-barrington-up-for-public-review/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Surgeon General calls for cancer warnings on alcohol labels (COMMENT: Most, if not virtually all of my older White male critics/opponents are/were big drinkers.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/consumer-products/cancer-warnings-alcohol-labels?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter-BreakingNews-20250103
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen, who represents parts of Bloomington-Normal, says DOGE has ‘no validity’ to enforce budget cuts. (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. They use Republican-led budget cuts first to get rid of their employees who are Republican and then their employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I would not have survived for almost 18 years at GAO if I had not earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination and became a licensed CPA in 1981, earned more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-01-02/rep-eric-sorensen-doge-has-no-validity-to-enforce-budget-cuts
— Trump points to Gilded Age (1870 to 1910) to push tariffs (COMMENT: During the Gilded Age, my ancestors on my father’s side ran Crete’s only hardware store. In 1902, they had the 4,030 sq. ft. 1285 Main Street built in Crete ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/Crete/1285-Main-St-60417/home/23199035 ). My ancestors on my mother’s side bought a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.)
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-01-02/trump-points-to-gilded-age-to-push-tariffs-experts-say-its-a-misreading-of-history
WAND TV
— The man who died in a Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside a Trump hotel was a member of the Army’s elite Green Berets
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/the-man-who-died-in-a-tesla-cybertruck-explosion-outside-a-trump-hotel-was-a/article_cd951d94-8055-571d-bcfe-bceb6723d2ad.html
ELMHURST PATCH
— Pension Plus Raise: Bensenville Leader May See $229K Yearly. Patch took a look at Frank DeSimone’s pension from the police department where he retired. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents are furious that I get a $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension and that the federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance.)
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/pension-plus-raise-bensenville-leader-may-see-229k-yearly
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— The Democratic Exodus Movement is a grassroots initiative spearheaded by community stakeholders and residents of Thornton Township, driven by a collective frustration with useless career politicians and the longstanding neglect of underserved Township communities.
https://thesouthlandjournal.com/the-newly-formed-league-of-independence-sparks-democratic-exodus-movement/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— No Restaurant Inspection Stories in McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/02/no-restaurant-inspection-stories-in-mchenry-county/
— Intensive Efforts Mandated to Identify and Rectify High Infant Lead Concentrations
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/02/intensive-efforts-mandated-to-identify-and-rectify-high-infant-lead-concentrations/
— Lincoln Way High School Marches in Rose Bowl Parade
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/02/lincoln-way-high-school-marches-in-rose-bowl-parade/
— Dorr Township Officials’ Salaries and Fringe Benefits for the Upcoming Term”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/02/dorr-township-officials-salaries-and-fringe-benefits-for-the-upcoming-term/
— Health Department Offers Virus Tests in Woodstock by Appointment Only
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/01/health-department-offers-virus-tests-in-woodstock-by-appointment-only/
Catalina Lauf Promoted to Replace Congressman Byron Daniels Should He Run for Florida Governor
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/03/catalina-lauf-promoted-to-replace-congressman-byron-daniels-should-he-run-for-florida-governor/
— “Bad” Things Democrats Banned
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/03/bad-things-democrats-banned/
— Jimmy Carter’s Post-Presidential Snuffing Out of Democracy in Venezuela
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/03/jimmy-carters-post-presidential-snuffing-out-of-democracy-in-venezuela/
— Sheriff Seeking Deputies Who Start at $78,872, Plus Normal Fringes and Take-Home Squad Car
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/03/sheriff-seeking-deputies-who-start-at-78872-plus-normal-fringes-and-take-home-squad-car/
— Wirepoints Takes Aim at Excessive Number of Illinois Local Governments
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/03/wirepoints-takes-aim-at-excessive-number-of-illinois-local-governments/
— Projected 2025 McHenry County Employee Compensation: Ab-Au
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/02/project-2025-mchenry-county-employee-compensation-ab-au/
— No Restaurant Inspection Stories in McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/02/no-restaurant-inspection-stories-in-mchenry-county/
— Intensive Efforts Mandated to Identify and Rectify High Infant Lead Concentrations
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/02/intensive-efforts-mandated-to-identify-and-rectify-high-infant-lead-concentrations/
— Lincoln Way High School Marches in Rose Bowl Parade
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/02/lincoln-way-high-school-marches-in-rose-bowl-parade/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Sanctuary cities see increased defiance for Trump’s second term (COMMENT: How strongly will the Democrats who run Chicago defy Trump?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/2/sanctuary-cities-see-increased-defiance-trump-seco/
— Republican ‘Revolution’ under way in new field — voter registration
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/2/inside-beltway-republican-revolution-way-new-field/
— Cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline will be his legacy (COMMENT: What shows your cognitive status? For me, it is my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/2/cover-biden-cognitive-decline-legacy/
— Bury wokeness: If leftist identity politics are dying, conservatives should act like it. (COMMENT: Will the extreme giving of preference to those who are the following diminish: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, have less money than others, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, in America illegally, etc.?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3273102/if-leftist-identity-politics-dying-conservatives-should-act-like-it/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— One-third of illegal migrants are no-shows at deportation hearings under Biden (COMMENT: Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3273001/one-third-illegal-migrants-no-shows-deportation-hearings-biden/
— Biden Justice Department spent over $100 million on DEI-related grants for K-12 (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3274755/biden-justice-department-100-million-dei-grants-parents-defending-education/
— Fixing Biden’s homelessness crisis
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3274568/fixing-biden-homeless-crisis/
AMERICAN THINKER
— So-Called Transgenderism Is A Leftist Malady
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/01/so_called_transgenderism_is_an_imaginary_condition.html
— Jim Crow Education Comes to New York City
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/01/jim_crow_education_comes_to_new_york_city.html?ref=redicate.com
NEW YORK POST
— DOJ spent over $100M on DEI education programs over last four years (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/02/us-news/doj-spent-over-100-million-on-dei-programs-over-last-4-years/
— Boss put on leave for hiring based on merit (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980, who assigned me to audits of IRS in 1986, and who promoted me in 1986.)
https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/us-news/top-oregon-official-put-on-leave-for-allegedly-prioritizing-qualified-job-candidates-over-gender-identity/
BLAZE
— Allstate’s wokeness under fire after CEO uses New Orleans massacre to lecture Americans about ‘divisiveness’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/allstates-wokeness-under-fire-after-ceo-used-new-orleans-massacre-to-lecture-americans-about-divisiveness
BREITBART
— Nearly 400K Anchor Babies Born in 2024, Exceeding Population of New Orleans
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/02/analysis-nearly-400k-anchor-babies-born-in-2024-exceeding-population-of-new-orleans/
DAILY CALLER
— Illegal Immigrants Are Scrambling To Lawyer Up Ahead Of Trump’s Swearing In
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/02/illegals-call-hotline-as-trump-returns/
— Tech Giants Secure Work Visas For Tens Of Thousands Of Foreigners While Kicking Existing Employees To The Curb
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tech-giants-secure-work-visas-for-tens-of-thousands-of-foreigners-while-kicking-existing-employees-to-the-curb/ar-AA1wLaUr
— New Orleans’ FBI Office, Police Department Are Chock Full Of DEI Nonsense (COMMENT: The federal government is chock full of DEI nonsense. I should write about those Republican governments and political organizations in Illinois that are chock full of DEI nonsense.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/02/new-orleans-police-department-fbi-office-dei-diversity-terrorist-attack-15-jabbar-new-years/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Resistance or Assistance? State and Local Governments Stake Out Positions as Trump Prepares to Take Office (COMMENT: How strongly will the Democrats and RINOs who run Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district defy Trump?)
https://www.fairus.org/resistance-or-assistance-state-and-local-governments-stake-out-positions-trump-prepares-take-office
FOX NEWS
— FLASHBACK: Biden downplays ISIS threat to US, repeatedly says White supremacy ‘most lethal’ danger. ‘Not ISIS, not al Qaeda — White supremacists,’ Biden said in 2021 of the primary terror threats to the country.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-biden-downplays-isis-threat-us-repeatedly-says-white-supremacy-most-lethal-danger
— Abuse of H-1B visa program, Americans ‘shouldn’t train their foreign replacements’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/eric-schmitt-blasts-abuse-of-h-1b-visa-program-says-americans-shouldn-t-train-their-foreign-replacements/ar-AA1wF8OZ
— Transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete against each other.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/lawmakers-indiana-home-ncaa-hq-look-expand-transgender-sports-ban-include-college-programs
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— When They Say ‘Globalize The Intifada’ They Mean Like The New Orleans Terrorist Mass Murder. “The left loves to talk about intersectionality. Well talk about the intersectionality of violence and threats to our society that come from the pro-Palestinian movement.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/01/when-they-say-globalize-the-intifada-they-mean-like-the-new-orleans-terrorist-mass-murder/
— Lie of the Year: Joe Biden Is “Sharp, Intensely Probing, Detail-Oriented, and Focused” They were all complicit in a massive fraud against the American electorate.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/lie-of-the-year-joe-biden-is-sharp-intensely-probing-detail-oriented-and-focused/
— Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) calls for creating Dem “war machine” to stop Republicans. While he didn’t threaten to use nukes, like Eric Swalwell once did, the military imagery and war-like rhetoric were no mistake. It’s a continuation of the type of rhetoric that almost got Brett Kavanaugh killed.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/sheldon-whitehouse-d-ri-calls-for-creating-dem-war-machine-to-stop-republicans/
— Chief Justice John Roberts Warns Against Defying Supreme Court Rulings, Politico Makes Story About Trump (COMMENT: My critics/opponents reject the Supreme Court’s abortion and affirmative action rulings.)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/01/chief-justice-john-roberts-warns-against-defying-supreme-court-rulings-politico-makes-story-about-trump/
NEW AMERICAN
— H-1B Blues: Dividing MAGA, Americans From Their Jobs — and America From Americanism
https://thenewamerican.com/us/h-1b-blues-dividing-maga-americans-from-their-jobs-and-america-from-americanism/
PJ MEDIA
— They Can’t Blame the GOP for the Record Rise in Homelessness
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/01/02/they-cant-blame-the-gop-for-the-record-rise-in-homelessness-n4935604
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Trump’s Secret Weapon for Mass Deportations: E-Verify (COMMENT: How many illegals are employed in America, Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district?)
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/03/trumps_secret_weapon_for_mass_deportations_e-verify_152153.html
TOWNHALL
— Bourbon Street Massacre Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like
https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2025/01/03/bourbon-street-massacre-is-what-globalize-the-intifada-looks-like-n2649925
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— How ISIS inspired the deadly truck attack in New Orleans
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/how-isis-may-have-inspired-the-deadly-truck-attack-in-new-orleans/ar-AA1wTwFT
— 20 Reasons Americans No Longer Believe In Retiring at 65 (COMMENT: Democrats forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/retirement-doubts-20-reasons-americans-no-longer-believe-in-retiring-at-65/ss-AA1vjMNO
— California state lawmaker vows to get cash reparations for 1,800 families displaced when the LA Dodgers Stadium was built during the 1950s. (COIMMENT: What about reparations for descendants of soldiers in the Union Army?)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-state-lawmaker-vows-to-get-cash-reparations-for-1-800-families-displaced-when-the-la-dodgers-stadium-was-built-during-the-1950s/ar-BB1kLCk8
NEWSWEEK
— Honduras Threatens US Military Bases Over Trump’s Mass Deportations (COMMENT: In WWIII, will Honduras side against America? Most countries, if not virtually all countries, want America to be the dumping ground for their problematic citizens.)
https://www.newsweek.com/honduras-threatens-shut-down-us-military-bases-mass-deportations-2009110
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Why Mike Johnson’s bid to remain House speaker could be a struggle despite Trump’s support (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about them and those who could and should have come to my defense but failed/refused to do so.)
https://apnews.com/article/house-speaker-mike-johnson-trump-mccarthy-0e0b5613f1d39f4e1405a475fdfea8ea
CBS NEWS
— New Orleans attacker posted videos declaring support for ISIS shortly before rampage
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-orleans-truck-attack-motive-possible-accomplices/
USA TODAY
— Notre Dame pounds Georgia in College Football Playoff Sugar Bowl for long-awaited glory
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/01/02/notre-dame-georgia-score-sugar-bowl-college-football-playoff/77319281007/
SEATTLE TIMES
— Alarming new car prices (COMMENT: What new cars are you interested in? I am interest in the new Dodge Charger. I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T collector car 1994-2005. I currently own a 2013 Charger R/T Max .)
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/alarming-new-car-prices-push-buyers-toward-used-vehicles-but-theyre-pricey-too/
KLTV
— Harrison County GOP threatens Rep. Jay Dean with censure in push for conservative Speaker (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, I have always been “too conservative.”
https://www.kltv.com/2025/01/02/harrison-county-gop-threatens-rep-jay-dean-with-censure-push-conservative-speaker/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Speaker Johnson’s Foe Representative Massie Sees Little to Lose (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year, b) ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) ended my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, d) ended my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2010 and 2004, e) ended my service as an Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee member in 2007, f) almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, and g) ended my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/thomas-massie-needs-backup-to-take-out-mike-johnson-e5db12df
FORBES
— What You Need To Know To Edge Out The Internal Candidate
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbescoachescouncil/2024/11/05/executive-hiring-what-you-need-to-know-to-edge-out-the-internal-candidate/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Bernie Sanders says Elon Musk is wrong about H-1B visas: ‘Low-wage indentured servants’ (COMMENT: GAO audits IRS. When I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates painted me a being a bad external candidate to work on audits of IRS.)
https://www.aol.com/news/bernie-sanders-says-elon-musk-213741641.html
PBS
— Most countries, if not virtually all countries, want America to be the dumping ground for their problematic citizens.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-calls-the-u-s-a-garbage-can-for-the-world-at-campaign-event-in-austin-texas
AUTOMATION
— Enhancing Power Grid Resiliency (COMMENT: I need electricity to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and to send them out. My 20KW Generac failed and it will be replaced with a 24KW tomorrow.)
https://www.automation.com/en-us/articles/january-2025/enhancing-power-grid-resiliency
LADDERS
— How to deal with super-competitive people at work (COMMENT: What did your coworkers do to get promoted over you? My Democrat coworkers a) badmouthed my job-related work experience, b) badmouthed my job-related college degrees, c) badmouthed my professional certifications, d) badmouthed my professional license and/or e) stressed that they were Democrat, minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/competitive-people-work
HIGHER ED DRIVE
— Nearly half of companies say they plan to eliminate bachelor’s degree requirements in 2024. Many employers are dropping degree requirements to create a more diverse workforce and increase job candidate numbers. (COMMENT: To hire, retain, and promote young Democrat and RINO employees, Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly lower requirements. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree (1970), three master’s degrees (1976, 1980, and 1997), six professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997), and professional license (1981).)
https://www.highereddive.com/news/nearly-half-of-companies-plan-to-eliminate-bachelors-degree-requirements/702277/
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— Reasons Why Most Companies Won’t Hire Older People. Ending ageism in the workplace is an uphill battle. (COMMENT: I have been fighting age discrimination since I was 25 years old in 1974 when my Democrat IRS superiors deemed me to be too old to be promoted to GS-13. I eventually did get promoted to GS-13 in 1986, but not until a) I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) I transferred from IRS to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and d) I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination and became a licensed CPA in 1981.)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/boomers-30/202110/the-5-reasons-why-most-companies-wont-hire-older-people
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Many companies are resistant to hiring older people. Discriminating against older workers is unethical and illegal. There are compelling reasons why discrimination against older workers exists.)
Ending ageism in the workplace represents a major challenge.
DON MOYNIHAN
— Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are liberal, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time and who despise/hate Trump and despise/hate those who share Trump’s demographics.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/will-the-federal-government-become
Tag: MAGA
January 2, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— New Orleans attack latest: Police probe suspect motive, possible accomplices
https://abc7chicago.com/post/new-orleans-attack-latest-police-probe-suspect-motive-possible-accomplices/15739812/
— New Orleans attack: Suspect identified as US citizen in attack that left 15 dead. The suspect in the New Orleans vehicle ramming attack is Shamsud Din Jabbar.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/least-10-dead-mass-casualty-event-after-car-intentionally-plows-crowd-bourbon-street-new-orleans-police-say/15736735/
— What we know about Shamsud Din Jabbar, the suspect from Houston, Texas in the New Orleans attack
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-know-shamsud-din-jabbar-suspect-new-orleans-attack/15737645/
— Truck driven in deadly New Orleans attack rented from Texas. 15 killed, dozens injured in what local officials calling ‘terrorist attack’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/new-orleans-terrorist-attack-car-driven-crowd-bourbon-street-rented-turo-app-houston-texas-sources-confirm/15737640/
— Chicago-area Notre Dame fans in New Orleans for Sugar Bowl during deadly attack. At least 15 killed in Bourbon Street vehicle ramming attack, ABC News sources say. Sugar Bowl football game postponed to Thursday.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/new-orleans-truck-attack-indiana-officials-notre-dame-football-louisiana-sugar-bowl-during-deadly-bourbon-street/15738198/
— Trump says he is planning to attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-says-he-is-planning-attend-jimmy-carters-funeral/15735931/
— Person believed to have rented Cybertruck before Las Vegas blast identified
https://abc7chicago.com/post/las-vegas-cybertruck-explosion-investigation-leads-police-colorado-sources-say/15740014/
NBC5
— CPD increases patrols outside Trump Tower Chicago after Las Vegas truck explosion
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/cpd-increases-patrols-outside-trump-tower-chicago-after-las-vegas-truck-explosion/3636009/
— Notre Dame vs. Georgia: Postponed Sugar Bowl gets new start time Thursday. The Superdome, set to host the quarterfinal game between Georgia and Notre Dame Wednesday night, had been on lockdown for security sweeps after a truck plowed into a New Year’s crowd about a mile away.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/sugar-bowl-game-between-notre-dame-georgia-postponed-after-new-orleans-attack/3635832/
— Authorities don’t believe driver in New Year’s attack in New Orleans acted alone.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/authorities-dont-believe-driver-in-new-years-attack-in-new-orleans-acted-alone/3635887/
— Tesla truck explosion outside Trump’s Las Vegas hotel being investigated as possible terror attack. Authorities confirmed the person killed was in the truck, while the seven people injured were located nearby.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-las-vegas-hotel-tesla-truck-explosion/3635909/
CBS2
— 2 dead, 5 wounded in mass shooting at New Year’s Day party in Kankakee
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/kankakee-mass-shooting-new-years-day-party/
FOX32
— Jimmy Carter funeral plans, schedule of events announced
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/jimmy-carter-funeral-plans-announced
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— To process tragic New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans, Chicagoans cancel events and focus on aid
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/01/new-orleans-terrorist-attack-reaction/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/02/chicago-immigration-deportation-fears-trump/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— 2 killed, 17 wounded in New Year’s shootings in Chicago
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/01/01/1-killed-13-shot-night-on-new-years-eve
DAILY HERALD
— Welcome, 2025: We’re happy to celebrate another new year; let’s prepare to make a difference in it (COMMENT: I will continue to a) put together and send out a GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter every morning and b) help elect Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct notwithstanding ever-increasing efforts by my critics/opponents to stop from doing the aforesaid.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250101/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-welcome-2025-were-happy-to-celebrate-another-new-year-lets-prepare-to-mak/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Promise and peril for Pritzker as 2025 begins
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/greg-hinz-promise-and-peril-jb-pritzker-2025-opens
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/protections-for-reproductive-health-decisionmaking-take-effect-january-1-78433.cfm
ALTON PATCH
— Biden is giving the second highest civilian award to the leaders of the Jan. 6 congressional panel
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/politics/article/biden-is-giving-the-second-highest-civilian-award-20010852.php
WGLT
— 1 dead, 7 injured after Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump’s Las Vegas hotel
https://www.wglt.org/2025-01-01/1-dead-7-injured-after-tesla-cybertruck-explodes-outside-trumps-las-vegas-hotel
WSIL TV
— Pope calls for commitment to protect life as he doubles down on abortion in New Year’s Day message. Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with an appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural death.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/pope-calls-for-commitment-to-protect-life-as-he-doubles-down-on-abortion-in-new/article_fb4ef342-a282-5646-9525-f5297fc29573.html
NPR ILLINOIS & WSIL TV
— Firework mortars, gas canisters inside Tesla that exploded by Trump’s Las Vegas hotel
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-01-01/firework-mortars-gas-canisters-inside-tesla-that-exploded-by-trumps-las-vegas-hotel
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/national/tesla-cybertruck-explosion-at-trump-hotel-in-vegas-investigated-as-a-possible-terrorist-act-law/article_ff98aa33-8e2f-57c6-9753-1fee4ad0c873.html
CHICAGO HEIGHTS PATCH
— 2 Killed, 5 Injured In Mass Shooting At NYE Party In Kankakee. A suspect is being held for questioning, police said. Mayor Chris Curtis called the shooting tragic and urged witnesses to come forward.
https://patch.com/illinois/chicagoheights/s/j3309/2-killed-5-injured-in-mass-shooting-at-nye-party-in-kankakee
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Nation’s highest real estate taxes: Six Illinois cities are in nation’s top 20, including the top two
https://wirepoints.org/nations-highest-real-estate-taxes-six-illinois-cities-are-in-nations-top-20-including-the-top-two-wirepoints/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— “Not Enough Potheads?”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/01/not-enough-potheads/
— Illinois Venezuelan Gang Penetration
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/01/illinois-venezuelan-gang-penetration/
— New Health Insurance Mandates/Benefits Will Increase Cost
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/01/new-health-insurance-mandates-benefits-will-increase-cost/
— Hope for Federal Tax Deduction for Those Having Real Estate Bills over $10,000
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/01/hope-for-federal-tax-deduction-for-those-having-real-estate-bills-over-10000/
— Argument That Gerrymandering Did Not Give GOP Control of Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/31/arugment-that-gerrymandering-did-not-give-gop-control-of-congress/
— Illinois Rose Bowl Parade Entry Features Ferris Bueher Playing Hookey
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/01/illinois-rose-bowl-parade-entry-features-forest-buehler-playing-hookey/
— New Year’s Day Funny
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/01/01/new-years-day-funny/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents who paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican come out of their closets and make it clear that they have always been moderate, liberal, RINO, Democrat Lite, anti-religious, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Man behind deadly New Orleans attack made videos discussing ISIS allegiance, desire to kill family
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/2/man-behind-deadly-new-orleans-attack-made-videos-d/
— The politics of creating — or killing — a government website
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/1/politics-creating-killing-government-website/
— Trump and Musk are right: Legal immigrants a boon to U.S. economy. Yankee ingenuity and entrepreneurial foreigners give America an edge. (COMMENT: All my ancestors immigrated legally during the 1840s and 1850s from what is now Germany.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/1/trump-musk-right-legal-immigrants-boon-u-economy/
— Musk is not your friend. Expanding H-1B visa program is not ‘America First.’ (COMMENT: If they could have, all my employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/1/elon-musk-friend/
NEW YORK POST
— ISIS flag-carrying terrorist driver Shamsud-Din Jabbar seen in first photo after he mowed down dozens of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans
https://nypost.com/2025/01/01/us-news/shamsud-din-jabbar-identified-as-killer-driver-who-mowed-down-dozens-of-new-years-revelers-in-new-orleans/
— New Orleans terror attack live updates: Terrorist made videos where he confessed to planning to murder his family, claimed he joined ISIS
https://nypost.com/2025/01/01/us-news/attack-on-bourbon-street-in-new-orleans-live-updates-photos/
— Trump hotel Tesla Cybertruck explosion probed as possible terror act as vehicle was rented with same app as truck from New Orleans massacre
https://nypost.com/2025/01/01/us-news/tesla-cybertruck-explosion-at-trump-hotel-in-las-vegas-being-investigated-as-potential-act-of-terror-report/
— Vote totals show GOP faces major hurdle to woo black voters. (COMMENT: Since the Civil War, Democrats have shouted at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have. I should write about the success that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that.)
https://nypost.com/2025/01/01/opinion/gops-major-hurdle-to-woo-black-voters-the-selma-effect/
— American Psychological Association claims ‘hiring the most qualified candidate’ could be ‘unfair’ (COMMENT: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/american-psychological-association-claims-hiring-the-most-qualified-candidate-could-be-unfair-in-study/ar-BB1hGIHP
— Driver of Tesla Cybertruck killed in explosion outside Trump Las Vegas hotel is ID’d as Army vet Matthew Livelsberger
https://nypost.com/2025/01/02/us-news/las-vegas-trump-hotel-tesla-cybertruck-driver-idd-as-army-vet-matthew-livelsberger/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Welcome to the New Normal
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/01/welcome_to_the_new_normal.html
— So it begins: a new year, a new presidency, and, for America, a new lease on life. Yet it feels as if we’ve been here before, doesn’t it? (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that for the next 4 years, Democrat and RINO leaders will do everything that they can to destroy Trump, that is, to destroy America.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/01/back_to_the_beginning.html
— False moral equivalencies facilitate jihadist attacks
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/false_moral_equivalencies_facilitate_jihadist_attacks.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Dems push Biden to seal the deal for illegals
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/01/01/dems-push-biden-to-seal-the-deal-for-illegals-1513219/
— Amid reports that the Mexican government is sending hundreds of lawyers to the United States to assist illegal immigrants who may face deportation under President-elect Donald J. Trump, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) shared an interesting question. Lee asked in a post on X, “If Mexico is sending hundreds of lawyers to help illegal aliens remain in the U.S., why are we letting them in?” (COMMENT: Mexico ever-increasingly acts like it has declared war on America.)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/01/01/sen-mike-lee-asks-a-great-question-about-mexico-sending-lawyers-to-us-1513247/
BREITBART
— New Orleans Ramming Suspect Identified as ‘Shamsud Din Jabbar’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/01/report-new-orleans-ramming-suspect-identified-shamsud-din-jabbar/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— The Overlooked Power to Enlist Local Cops for Immigration Enforcement. A tool that needs some polishing — and updating.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Overlooked-Power-Enlist-Local-Cops-Immigration-Enforcement
DAILY CALLER
— ‘Value-Destroying And Costly’: Is Corporate America’s Love Affair With DEI Finally Coming To An End?
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/01/value-destroying-and-costly-is-corporate-americas-love-affair-with-dei-finally-coming-to-an-end/
FOX NEWS
— Republicans slam Biden migrant parole program: ‘Rife with fraud’
https://www.aol.com/republicans-slam-biden-migrant-parole-190410549.html
— Three of the biggest challenges Trump will face trying to fix Biden’s mistakes. Americans will need to have patience as good policy tries to fix the Biden administration’s mistakes.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/three-biggest-challenges-trump-face-trying-fix-bidens-mistakesthree-of-the-biggest-challenges-trump-will-face-trying-to-fix-bidens-mistakes
NEW AMERICAN
— Mexico Prepares Legal War Against Deportations With Lawyers, Smartphone App to Notify Consulates (COMMENT: Mexico ever-increasingly acts like it has declared war on America.)
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/mexico-prepares-legal-war-against-deportations-with-lawyers-smartphone-app-to-notify-consulates/
JUST THE NEWS
— No matter how MAGA debate ends, H-1B visas have an undeniable fraud problem (COMMENT: If they could have, all my employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me.)
https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/thuno-matter-how-maga-debate-ends-h-1b-visas-have-undeniable
— Feds warned a year ago that U.S. ill-prepared for attacks on ‘soft targets and crowded places’
https://justthenews.com/government/security/feds-warned-year-ago-us-ill-prepared-attacks-soft-targets-and-crowded-places
PJ MEDIA
— What’s Worse Than Wokeism? Greg Gutfeld Explains.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/01/greg-gutfeld-explains-whats-worse-than-wokeism-n4935575
TOWNHALL
— Former Newsweek Editor: Hispanics Are Becoming Like White People
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/01/01/former-newsweek-editor-hispanics-are-becoming-like-white-people-n2649792
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Progressives face an existential crisis under Trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5055327-progressives-fear-trump-administration/
CNN
— Trump asks Supreme Court to pause TikTok ban, while Biden admin says app poses ‘grave’ threat. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Failing that, they want stop everyone from reading those newsletters. Failing that, they have their operatives and their dupes take big adverse actions against me. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/27/politics/tiktok-supreme-court-trump-biden-briefs/index.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In one of the most significant pending cases before the Supreme Court, the justices must weigh whether the TikTok ban Congress approved in April violates the First Amendment.)
REUTERS
— Free-speech advocates tell Supreme Court US TikTok law reminiscent of dictatorships (COMMENT: My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Failing that, they want stop everyone from reading those newsletters. Failing that, they have their operatives and their dupes take big adverse actions against me. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/free-speech-advocates-tell-supreme-court-us-tiktok-law-reminiscent-dictatorships-2024-12-27/
MSN
— Tech Giants Secure Work Visas For Tens Of Thousands Of Foreigners While Kicking Existing Employees To The Curb (COMMENT: If they could have, all my employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/tech-giants-secure-work-visas-for-tens-of-thousands-of-foreigners-while-kicking-existing-employees-to-the-curb/ar-AA1wLaUr
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— What is the Islamic State group, and what attacks has it inspired by offshoots and lone wolves?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-is-the-islamic-state-group-and-what-attacks-has-it-inspired-by-offshoots-and-lone-wolves/ar-AA1wP5fA
NEWSWEEK
— Mexico is Sending Hundreds of Lawyers to US to Help Migrants (COMMENT: Mexico ever-increasingly acts like it has declared war on America.)
https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-lawyers-united-states-help-migrants-what-we-know-2008309
— Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s Local Mosque Responds to New Orleans Terror Attack
https://www.newsweek.com/shamsud-din-jabbars-local-mosque-responds-new-orleans-terror-attack-2008437
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Masjid Bilal said in its Instagram story: “If anyone is contacted by the media, it is very important that you do not respond. If approached by the FBI and a response is necessary, please refer to CAIR and ISGH. It is crucial that we stay united at this time as we condemn these terrible acts.”)
CBS NEWS
— Trump to hold D.C. rally on Jan. 19, the day before his inauguration
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-to-hold-dc-rally-jan-19-inauguration/
— House to vote on rule making it harder to oust speaker (COMMENT: Have you been ousted? I should write about my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes oust me a) as a member of the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform & Resolutions Committee this year, b) as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, and d) as an Illinois Center Right Coalition officer in 2007.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-rules-package-motion-to-vacate-speaker/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trucks in New Orleans Attack and Las Vegas Explosion Were Rented Using the Same App. Renters of both vehicles had used Turo, a peer-to-peer app. Officials are investigating possible connections between the two cases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/us/turo-new-orleans-attack-vegas-explosion.html
— New Orleans Attacker Was ‘Inspired’ by ISIS, Biden Says
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/01/us/new-orleans-vehicle-crash
— As Marijuana Use Grows, Effect on Road Safety Remains a Blind Spot. Scientists want to create breathalyzers that show how recently a driver used marijuana. Researchers also are studying how cannabis impairs motor skills and reflexes for habitual and occasional users. (COMMENT: Pot is poison.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/us/marijuana-driving-impairment.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Biden says New Orleans attacker appeared to be inspired by ISIS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/01/02/new-orleans-truck-attack-investigation-updates/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— To promote DEI is to discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestor who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-01-01/column-business-leaders-bow-to-anti-dei-activists-except-at-costco
USA TODAY
— Suspect in New Orleans attack served in Army, deployed to Afghanistan
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/01/new-orleans-suspect-army-veteran/77388200007/
— Turns out Trump is OK with immigrants – if they help his billionaire friends (COMMENT: If they could have, all my employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/01/02/trump-musk-immigration-h1b-visa-jobs/77317795007/
WOAI
— Bad Neighbor: Mexico Launches App to Help Illegals (COMMENT: Mexico ever-increasingly acts like it has declared war on America.)
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2024-12-31-bad-neighbor-mexico-launches-app-to-help-illegals/
GAMBLING NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly encourage women and minorities to be gamblers.
https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/ballys-chicago-opens-investment-to-women-and-minority-investors/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Green Electricity Costs a Bundle. The data make clear: The notion that solar and wind power save money is an environmentalist lie.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/green-electricity-costs-a-bundle-wind-solar-data-analysis-power-prices-259344f4
— The House’s Unfinished Gender Business. Another chance to undo Pelosi’s ugly linguistic handiwork.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-houses-unfinished-gender-business-inclusivity-pronouns-53921b16
— Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites, and Publishers Have Had Enough of It. Brands are skittish about appearing near stories on politics and violence, but news outlets say their fears are overblown. (COMMENT: I am thankful that I have enough money, time, experience, ability, good health, and motivation to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out every morning free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/advertisers-keep-avoiding-news-sites-and-publishers-have-had-enough-of-it-e9e4ab83
— Buying Greenland Isn’t a New Idea. Denmark wanted to sell it a century ago. The U.S. didn’t bite but did acquire the Virgin Islands.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/buying-greenland-isnt-a-new-idea-denmark-sovereignty-2a003c35
— The Financial Regrets and Wisdom of Americans Over 80. There is a lot of life to live after the traditional retirement age that many wish they had prepared for. (COMMENT: My Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension is dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. My Social Security is dramatically less because I get a CSRS pension.)
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/financial-advice-regrets-seniors-a18aa5cb
FORBES
— To promote DEI is to discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestor who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2025/01/01/top-10-inclusion-pivots-for-leaders/
FAST COMPANY
— Calls for Costco boycott mount after board upholds DEI commitment (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to discriminate against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestor who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91253805/calls-for-costco-boycott-mount-after-board-upholds-dei-commitment
REAL CLEAR MARKETS
— Trump Can Transform Immigration to Strengthen America (COMMENT: If they could have, all my employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me.)
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2025/01/02/trump_can_transform_immigration_to_strengthen_america_1082001.html
GOING CONCERN
— So How Did Your 2024 Predictions For the Accounting Profession Work Out? (COMMENT: The accounting profession had no use for me a) because my undergraduate major and my MBA area of concentration were not accounting, b) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, c) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, d) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become a licensed CPA until I was 32, and e) because my demographics were terrible.)
https://www.goingconcern.com/so-how-did-your-2024-predictions-for-the-accounting-profession-work-out/
BUSINESS INSURANCE
— Jury ordered Walmart to pay $34.7M in defamation case (COMMENT: Constructively, with the many big adverse actions that they took against me, my Democrat superiors defamed me. Constructively, with the many big adverse actions that they took against me, my critics/opponents who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican defamed me. I should write about that.)
https://www.businessinsurance.com/9-jury-ordered-walmart-to-pay-34-7m-in-defamation-case/
PRO PUBLICA
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in making America dependent on foreigner labor.
https://www.propublica.org/article/us-navy-shipbuilding-donald-trump
GOOGLE
— “Do it over again” in the context of a career (COMMENT: If I could do it over again, notwithstanding the fact that my demographics are terrible, I would have majored in accounting from the beginning. The accounting profession had no use for me a) because my undergraduate major and my MBA area of concentration were not accounting, b) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, c) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, and d) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become a licensed CPA until I was 32.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=career+%22do+it+over+again%22
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Americans Have High Hopes for 2025 (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that for the next 4 years, Democrat and RINO leaders will do everything that they can to destroy Trump, that is, to destroy America.)
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/holidays/americans_have_high_hopes_for_2025
DAILY BEAST
— New Orleans Attacker’s Descent From Six-Figure Job to ISIS-Inspired Terror (COMMENT: The accounting profession (including Deloitte, Accenture, and Ernst & Young) had no use for me a) because my undergraduate major and my MBA area of concentration were not accounting, b) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, c) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, d) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become a licensed CPA until I was 32, and e) because my demographics were terrible.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-orleans-terror-attacker-shamsud-din-jabbar-descent-from-six-figure-job-to-isis-inspired-terror/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Army vet suspected of killing 15 people in a terror attack in New Orleans worked as a senior consultant at Deloitte making six figures, the Wall Street Journal reported. After a 10-year stint with the U.S. Army, Texas native Shamsud-Din Jabbar climbed the corporate ladder at Accenture and Ernst & Young, where he worked as a cloud consulting manager. In 2021, he was hired at Deloitte as a “senior solutions specialist” making about $125,000 per year, according to court records cited by the Journal. He worked there until at least the past fall.)
POLITICO
— Democratic-led states still grapple with housing migrants
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/02/migrants-democrats-new-york-illinois-massachusetts-00196167
ECONOMIST
— An attack in New Orleans raises fears about Islamic State. The rampage on Bourbon Street appears to be part of a worrisome trend.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/01/02/an-attack-in-new-orleans-raises-fears-about-islamic-state
INDIA TIMES
— If they could have, all my employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I did not a) earn a master’s degree in business until I was 27, b) pass the CPA examination until I was 30, c) earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, and d) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become a Licensed CPA until I was 32.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/migrate/trumps-immigration-overhaul-is-fraught-with-hurdles-from-courts-to-states/articleshow/116872828.cms
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Steve Bannon says H1-B visa program is a scam of the highest order, asks Donald Trump to revisit the law that was enacted in 1990 (COMMENT: If they could have, all my employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me.)
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/steve-bannon-says-h1-b-visa-program-is-a-scam-of-the-highest-order-asks-donald-trump-to-revisit-the-law-that-was-enacted-in-1990/ar-AA1wL7Lo
INDEPENDENT
— Musk’s estranged trans daughter says she doesn’t ‘see a future’ in the US after Trump’s win (COMMENT: How successful have Democrats been promoting LGBTQ in your county, township, municipality, and school district?)
https://www.aol.com/news/elon-musk-estranged-trans-daughter-173456640.html
December 31, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Donald Trump endorses House Speaker Mike Johnson amid Republican infighting
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-endorses-house-speaker-mike-johnson-amid-republican-infighting/15728436/
— Thornton Township special meeting fails to reach quorum; Henyard calls for 2 trustees to resign
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tiffany-henyard-calls-carmen-carlisle-christopher-gonzalez-resign-after-thornton-township-meeting-fails-reach-quorum/15730558/
CBS2
— Thornton Township, Illinois trustees deny Henyard quorum again amid fight over lapsed insurance
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/thornton-township-illinois-tdeny-henyard-quorum-again/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/thornton-township-board-cant-meet-in-own-building-due-to-insurance-lapse/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago homicides in 2024: 572 people slain. Here’s how that compares with previous years.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/30/chicago-homicides-in-2024-5-people-slain-heres-how-that-compares-with-previous-years/
— Caucus of military veterans seeks to bridge the political divide in a polarized Congress
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/30/congress-military-veterans-caucus/
— Costco board stands firm on DEI policies as think tank pushes for review (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/30/costco-board-stands-firm-on-dei-policies-as-think-tank-pushes-for-review/
WBBM
— Casten questions Robinhood’s decision to allow election betting
https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/law-makers-question-robinhoods-election-betting
WSPY
— East Aurora School Board President Survives Economic Interest Petition Challenge (COMMENT: Why doesn’t the Daily Herald, Wheaton Patch, and Glen Ellyn Patch report on Milton Township petition challenges?)
https://www.wspynews.com/news/local/east-aurora-school-board-president-survives-economic-interest-petition-challenge/article_368d655e-c715-11ef-9622-63b2cbbc6258.html
WAND TV
— Illinois Democrats ever-increasingly run Illinois, but blame Republicans for discrimination.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/illinois-committed-to-protecting-those-facing-discrimination-in-employment-education-says-gov-pritzker/article_7083618c-c6c0-11ef-9948-179a6208a4be.html
CITIES 92.9
— Some Illinois ‘offenders’ renamed ‘justice-impacted individuals’ (COMMENT: Call me an “Affirmative Action and DEI impacted individual.”
https://www.cities929.com/2024/12/30/some-illinois-offenders-renamed-justice-impacted-individuals/
WHEATON PATCH
— Fake Facebook Account Poses As DuPage Sheriff’s Office. Officials say the account is posing as the sheriff’s office to steal personal information from residents.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/fake-facebook-account-poses-dupage-sheriffs-office
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCE
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— More gun control efforts possible in Illinois’ lame duck session
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_f143e678-c3b6-11ef-892b-47a63eb94ef6.html
— Illinois students poor SAT showing a bad sign
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b3fe9c64-c176-11ef-bef1-6f1c6d9b39a8.html
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago in 2025 will see hikes in taxes, fines and fees as part of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s latest budget
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-in-2025-will-see-hikes-in-taxes-fines-and-fees-as-part-of-mayor-brandon-johnsons-latest-budget-chicago-tribune-yahoo/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— DuPage County voters anxiously await information from the DuPage County Election Division and from other sources on a) which offices will be on April 1, 2025 consolidated election ballots (SEE: https://www.dupagecounty.gov/elected_officials/election_and_voter_information/candidate_information/candidate_listings.php ), b) who has filled for those offices, and c) challenges to their nominating petitions. I am especially interested in that information for Milton Township because a) I have lived in Milton Township since 1978, b) I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Milton Township since 1999, c) I served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010, and d) certain past and present MTRO leaders have taken many big adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Ever-increasingly, Americans fail/refuse to take bad jobs like the ones I took. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. Having bad jobs on your resume harms your ability to get good jobs. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Ever-increasingly, Americans fail/refuse to take bad jobs like the ones I took. But would illegals stoop to take the bad jobs that I took? I doubt it. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. – Dave Diersen
— How has H-1B impacted you? My employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me if they could have. My employers would have replaced me with H-1B workers if they could have. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— State Raises Minimum Wage to $15 per Hour
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/30/state-raises-minimum-wage-to-15-per-hour/
— Mark Glennon of Wirepoints Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Tiny Campaign Appearance at Northwestern & Praises His Term, Skinner Has No Memory of Carter Appearance at General Assembly
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/30/mark-glennon-of-wirepoints-remembers-jimmy-carters-tiny-campaign-appearance-at-northwestern-praises-his-term-skinner-has-no-memory-of-carter-appearance-at-general-assembly/
— Will County Following McHenry County’s Provision of Public Transportation Throughout County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/30/will-county-following-mchenry-countys-provision-of-public-transportation-throughout-county/
— The Need for Another Great Awakening
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/30/the-need-for-another-great-awakening/
— Worthless Orders of Protection
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/31/worthless-orders-of-protection/
— The Crystal Lake McDonald’s Murderer
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/31/the-crystal-lake-mcdonalds-murderer/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 4,098 Chicagoans killed in gang crime in 20 years
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/4098-chicagoans-killed-in-gang-crime-in-20-years/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden closes federal government for Jimmy Carter’s funeral
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/30/joe-biden-closes-federal-government-jimmy-carter-f/
— America revs up for a Republican revival. The good vibes are about more than politics.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/27/america-revs-republican-revival/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Texas has built 54 miles of border wall amid Biden defiance of Trump project
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3272223/texas-54-miles-border-wall-amid-biden-defiance-trump/
NEW YORK POST
— Merrick Garland corrupted the Justice Department with political persecutions
https://nypost.com/2024/12/30/opinion/ag-merrick-garland-corrupted-the-doj-with-political-persecutions/
— Woke is dead — let’s make sure it never comes back (COMMENT: Woke is not dead in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. Woke leaders of the aforesaid ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action, DEI, and wokeness/wokeism to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/30/opinion/woke-is-dead-lets-make-sure-it-never-comes-back/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The H-1B controversy: Time for dispassionate thought (COMMENT: My employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me if they could have. My employers would have replaced me with H-1B workers if they could have. Ever-increasingly, Americans fail/refuse to take bad jobs like the ones I took.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/the_h_1b_controversy_time_for_dispassionate_thought.html
BREITBART
— Democrat-Run Chicago: Nearly 2,800 Shooting Victims in 2024
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/12/30/democrat-run-chicago-nearly-2800-shooting-victims-2024/
— Mexico Sending Hundreds of Lawyers to Aid Illegal Migrants in U.S.A.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/12/30/mexico-sending-hundreds-lawyers-aid-illegal-migrants-u-s-a/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasing promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/12/31/ct-a-g-since-most-households-with-illegals-are-mixed-status-its-not-simple-to-just-kick-them-out/
DAILY CALLER
— Teachers Will No Longer Need To Pass Basic Reading, Writing And Math Test For Certification In New Jersey (COMMENT: I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 years old in 1979 and I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/30/new-jersey-law-reduces-teaching-requirements/
EPOCH TIMES
— Chinese Hackers Breached Workstations, Stole Documents, Treasury Department Says
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/chinese-hackers-breached-workstations-stole-documents-treasury-department-says-5783973
FOX BUSINESS
— Officials of sanctuary cities could be met with jail time for not cooperating with ICE
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6366564825112
FOX NEWS
— Trump’s convincing 2024 victory sets House GOP up for homefield advantage in 2026 midterm elections. Republicans will hold a fragile 220-215 majority when the House of Representatives is at full strength.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-convincing-2024-victory-sets-house-gop-up-homefield-advantage-2026-midterm-elections
— Trump hails Florida Dem’s decision to ditch party, join GOP
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-hails-florida-dems-decision-ditch-party-join-gop-thank-you-hillary
— Trump urged to step in to unite GOP as lawmakers fear speaker showdown could delay election certification
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-urged-step-unite-gop-lawmakers-fear-speaker-showdown-could-delay-election-certification
— ICE shuts down programs offering services to illegal immigrants, citing ‘immense’ costs. Non-detained docket has exploded in recent years to more than 7.6 million people. (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-scraps-social-service-programs-illegal-immigrants-citing-immense-cost
— These six states banned or limited DEI at colleges and universities in 2024 (COMMENT: To ban DEI is to promote meritocracy. Democrats and RINOs oppose meritocracy because with meritocracy, Republicans outperform Democrats and RINOs. Very few of my Democrat and RINO peers earned master’s degrees like I did. Extremely few of my Democrat and RINO peers earned professional certifications like I did, Virtually none of my Democrat and RINO peers earned a professional license like I did.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/these-six-states-banned-or-limited-dei-at-colleges-and-universities-in-2024/ar-AA1wIlGo
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Election of Trump, defeat of progressive DAs proves defund the police movement was a failure
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/election-of-trump-defeat-of-progressive-das-proves-defund-the-police-movement-was-a-failure
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— The Communist Precursors of DEI
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/the-communist-precursors-of-dei/
NEW AMERICAN
— How Immigrants Abuse the H-1B Visa Program. Critics say companies abuse it to get cheap labor and avoid hiring qualified American workers. (COMMENT: My employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me if they could have. My employers would have replaced me with H-1B workers if they could have.
What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970. I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997. I earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I earned a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://thenewamerican.com/us/how-immigrants-abuse-h-1b-visa-program/
NEWSMAX
— Colleges, Universities Churn Out Students Brainwashed with Hatred
https://www.newsmax.com/zivadahl/anti-semitism-colleges-universities/2024/12/30/id/1193334/
— ‘Provide Americans Jobs First’ (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Americans fail/refuse to take bad jobs like the ones I took.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/worker-visas-immigration/2024/12/30/id/1193331/
— Updating Immigration Registry Would Help Address Labor Shortage (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Americans fail/refuse to take bad jobs like the ones I took.)
https://www.newsmax.com/joepenland/everify-ramaswamy-reagan/2024/12/30/id/1193299/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In a December 2024 study, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce outlined that the United States has a shortage of workers and concluded, “If every unemployed worker took an open job in their industry, there would still be millions of open jobs.”
— Migrants Anxious to Enter US Legally Before Jan. 20
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/migrants-mexico-asylum/2024/12/30/id/1193407/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Homan to hold weekly press briefings on border security, deportations to ensure transparency
https://thepostmillennial.com/tom-homan-to-hold-weekly-press-briefings-on-border-security-deportations-to-ensure-transparency
TOM KLINGENSTEIN
— How to Get Wokeness Out of Schools
https://tomklingenstein.com/how-to-get-wokeness-out-of-schools/
TOWNHALL
— Addressing Both of Our Nation’s Immigration Challenges (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Americans fail/refuse to take bad jobs like the ones I took.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffdavidson/2024/12/31/two-birds-one-stone-addressing-both-of-our-nations-immigration-challenges-n2649772
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The second challenge is the need for the U.S. to import legal workers (hence, not technically immigrants) to meet labor shortages and to help expand the economy.)
— New Poll Shows How Americans Feel About Trump’s Plan to Put Illegal Immigrants in Militarized Camps
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2024/12/30/new-poll-shows-how-americans-feel-about-trumps-plan-to-put-illegal-immigrants-in-militarized-camps-n2649775
— Towards a Sane and Comprehensive Immigration Policy
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2024/12/31/towards-a-sane-and-comprehensive-immigration-policy-n2649733
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— Chicago may go bankrupt thanks to public sector pension scheme
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/dem-run-city-may-go-bankrupt-thanks-to-public-sector-pension-scheme/ar-AA1wJSnF
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action, DEI , and wokeness/wokeism to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/older-generations-aren-t-embracing-woke-culture-and-these-16-reasons-explain-why/ss-AA1sxXHX
— Canadian conservatives say they’d love a Trump takeover
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canadian-conservatives-say-they-d-love-a-trump-takeover/ar-AA1wyCBL
— Is Tesla replacing Americans with H-1B workers? Report highlights what’s at play (COMMENT: My employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me if they could have. My employers would have replaced me with H-1B workers if they could have.)
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/is-tesla-replacing-americans-with-h-1b-workers-report-highlights-what-s-at-play/ar-AA1wJTfn
NEW YORK TIMES
— Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk. His relationship with Chinese leaders and reported contacts with Russian officials are cause for alarm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/opinion/elon-musk-china-classified-secrets-national-security-russia-doge.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “MAGA is fighting a ‘civil war’ over H-1B visas. Here’s what they are. Right-wing figures are fighting over H-1B visas that allow highly qualified workers to join the American workforce. Here’s what the permits do.” (COMMENT: My employers would have hired H-1B workers instead of me if they could have. My employers would have replaced me with H-1B workers if they could have. Employers want cheap labor. Democrat employers want Democrat employees. RINO employers want cheap labor. Democrat employers like the federal government that I worked for almost 30 years put being a Democrat ahead of qualifications. All my coworkers who they 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, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. Employers use Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, budget cuts, etc. to accomplish the aforesaid.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/30/h1b-visas-musk-maga/
1819 NEWS
— As debate rages over H-1B program, 273 Alabama companies employ foreign visa workers (COMMENT: How many companies in Illinois, your county, your township, and your municipality employ foreign visa workers?)
https://1819news.com/news/item/as-debate-rages-over-h-1b-program-273-alabama-companies-employ-foreign-visa-workers
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— It’s Biden’s Policies, Stupid. The president’s real messaging failure is that Donald Trump had a better message.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/its-bidens-policies-stupid-disenchantment-inflation-voters-f656c3d0
— The Blue State Homeless Boom. Homelessness kept rising in 2024, as progressive remedies fail.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/homelessness-report-department-of-housing-and-urban-development-2024-a150b1c7
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/the-staggering-cost-needed-for-trumps-mass-deportation-plan/B4B447AE-E653-4225-8E5B-4B59B1D8508D
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Where Have All the Managers Gone? Companies’ quest to purge bosses is seizing up job and promotion opportunities. Workers have had to adjust. (COMMENT: The Democrats who run the federal government use up-or-out to get rid of their Republican employees who they do not promote to GS-13 ($117,807/year) by age 25, GS-14 ($139,211/year) by age 30, GS-15 ($163,749/year) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($195,200/year) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/management-jobs-shrinking-white-collar-workers-cc761cb7
LEVEL
— Why Meritocracy Dropped Like a Dirty Rag in Debate Over H1-B Visas. The endorsement of this ideology is often self-serving. (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, I owe none of my successes in life to meritocracy, but instead, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics. In my defense. I stress that neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.)
https://www.levelman.com/why-meritocracy-dropped-like-a-dirty-rag-in-debate-over-h1-b-visas/
DAILY KOS
— Democrats say “Trump used H-1B Visas to participate in virtual human trafficking and slave labor.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/30/2294322/-Trump-used-H-1B-Visas-to-participate-in-virtual-human-trafficking-and-slave-labor
December 29, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
– Elon Musk accused of censoring conservatives on X who disagree with him about immigration (COMMENT: I worked for GAO on an audit of employment visas during the 1980s. Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/elon-musk-accused-of-censoring-conservatives-on-x-who-disagree-with-him-about-immigration/3633247/
WGN9
— The race for Democratic National Committee chair is shaping up to be a field of largely white men — a notable development for a party that has long touted diversity within its ranks. (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, political organizations want their leaders to be liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Even though I am none of the aforesaid, I survived as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois for 7 years and as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member for 4 years.)
https://wgntv.com/hill-politics/democrats-grapple-with-jarring-lack-of-diversity-in-dnc-race/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Donald Trump appears to side with Elon Musk, tech allies in debate over foreign workers roiling his supporters (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/28/trump-musk-tech-allies-foreign-workers/
— Discrimination based on source of income still widespread despite new Illinois law, housing advocates say; recent lawsuits may change that. (COMMENT: What are/were your sources of income? Between 1962 and 1997, my income came from doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, delivering mail, working on an automobile assembly line, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumping gasoline, collecting delinquent taxes, and auditing federal agencies. Since 1997, my income has come from my Civil Service Retirement System pension, and since 2010, from my Social Security.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/28/source-of-income-protections-illinois/
— Top stories of 1924 (COMMENT: What were your ancestors doing in 1924? My grandparents on father’s side operated Crete’s only hardware store. On my mother’s side, they operated a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/26/vintage-chicago-tribune-paul-duricas-top-picks-from-1924/
— Dixmoor Mayor Fitzgerald Roberts faces potential challenge from former trustee in April, pending petition review COMMENT: What offices will be on the April 1, 2025 ballot in your precinct, who has filed to run, and what is the status of petition challenges?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/22/dixmoor-mayor-fitzgerald-roberts-faces-potential-challenge/
JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL COURIER
— 20 attorneys general, including Illinois, backing states’ right to redraw legislative maps
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/20-attorneys-general-including-illinois-backing-states-right-to-redraw-legislative-maps/ar-AA1wBEia
SHAW LOCAL
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2024/12/29/in-states-that-ban-abortion-social-safety-net-programs-often-fail-families/
EFFINGHAM RADIO
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.effinghamradio.com/2024/12/29/new-law-expands-reproductive-rights-in-illinois/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats taunt Trump with ‘President Musk’ moniker
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/democrats-taunt-trump-with-president-musk-moniker/
— Musk calls some MAGA supporters ‘contemptible fools’ as visa row intensifies (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/musk-calls-some-maga-supporters-contemptible-fools-as-visa-row-intensifies/
— Trump appears to side with Musk, tech allies in debate over foreign workers roiling his supporters (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-appears-to-side-with-musk-tech-allies-in-debate-over-foreign-workers-roiling-his-supporters/
— What is your county clerk doing to assure that illegals cannot use their false identifications to register to vote?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-kansas-once-required-voters-to-prove-citizenship-that-didnt-work-out-so-well/
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF MILTON TOWNSHIP
— MEETING NOTICE: Milton Township Officers Electoral Board Meeting Agenda Monday, December 30, 2024, 1:00 P.M. (COMMENT: Milton Township Supervisor Monino is challenging the nominating petitions file by Milinko for Supervisor, Nathwani for Clerk, Muehlfelt for Highway Commissioner, Argianas for Assessor, and Ellis, Kemp, Castle, and Margetts for Trustee. In addition, Nachman is challenging the nominating petitions file by Argianas.)
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10230616481547080&set=g.141390082555472
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I what ways do Trump’s background differ from your background the most? For me, it includes my having to work my way through college. For me, it includes all the bad jobs that I had to take. For me, it includes the difficulty/failure that I had finding/keeping jobs that were appropriate for my education, work experience, professional certifications, and professional license. Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents side with Trump and Musk on H-1B. According to my critics/opponents, my employers would not have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have. According to my critics/opponents, all the difficulty/failure that I had finding/keeping jobs that were appropriate for my education, work experience, professional certifications, and professional license was because I am a very bad person and even worse things. Further, according to my critics/opponents, none of the difficulty/failure that I had was because of political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, national origin discrimination, my complaining about the aforesaid, or my suing GAO about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— More Warnings of Electric Power Adequacy Arriving with Data Centers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/29/more-warnings-of-electric-power-adequacy-arriving-with-data-centers/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Violent Venezuelan gang members expanding operations in Midwest. Tren de Aragua members arrested in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_8ef45944-c46f-11ef-8832-87b950a44406.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Musk jars Trump world, calling a bulk of supporters ‘contemptible fools’ (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/28/musk-jars-trump-world-calling-bulk-supporters-cont/
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/28/costco-rejects-push-nix-company-dei-program/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— What’s on Trump’s transgender agenda for 2025
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/3260064/whats-on-trump-transgender-agenda-2025/
NEW YORK POST
— How California is gearing up to fight Trump 2.0 (COMMENT: Constructively, California has declared war on America.)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/opinion/how-california-is-gearing-up-to-fight-trump-2-0/
— Trump supports immigration visas backed by Musk: ‘I have many H-1B visas on my properties’ (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/donald-trump-backs-h-1b-visa-program-supported-by-elon-musk/
— Wokeness is in retreat, but Nasdaq’s ‘diversity rules’ show its awful stench will be hard to eliminate
https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/business/wokeness-is-in-retreat-but-nasdaqs-diversity-rules-show-its-awful-stench-will-be-hard-to-eliminate/
— Hollywood loves #diversity — except when it comes to Israel and Jews
https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/opinion/hollywood-loves-diversity-except-when-it-comes-to-israel-and-jews/
— Trump’s expected rollback of DEI can’t come soon enough. (COMMENT: If there had never been Affirmative Action (AA) or DEI, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old in 1988. But my Democrat superiors used AA and DEI to waste my career and to get rid of me.)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/29/opinion/donald-trumps-expected-rollback-of-dei-cant-come-soon-enough/
AMERICAN THINKER
— A woke encyclopedia?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/a_woke_encyclopedia.html
BLAZE
— Chicago needs a new mayor — and it’s time for a Republican
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/chicago-needs-a-new-mayor-and-its-time-for-a-republican
— Biden’s clemency play panders to his woke base, snubbing justice
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/bidens-clemency-play-panders-to-his-woke-base-snubbing-justice
BREITBART
— DEI Stands for ‘Discrimination, Exclusion and Indoctrination’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/12/28/riley-gaines-dei-stands-for-discrimination-exclusion-and-indoctrination/
— H-1B Uproar Obscures Vast Workforce of Other White-Collar Migrants (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.)
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/12/28/h-1b-uproar-obscures-vast-workforce-other-white-collar-migrants/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The heated debate over H-1B visa workers obscures the far greater inflows of other foreign workers into the white-collar jobs needed by American college graduates. The federal government issues about 130,000 new H-1B visas each year — plus another 650,000 visas or work permits to other white-collar migrants each year. Many of these non-immigrant workers are allowed to stay for five, six, or seven years. The multi-year visas create a resident population of at least 1.5 million white-collar workers. That growing population is almost twenty times larger than the H-1B program’s inflow of 85,000 new foreign workers every year that the media is focusing on. “For decades, this has been out of control,” said Kevin Lynn, the founder of U.S. Tech Workers, which campaigns against the visa worker programs. The huge giveaway annually delivers roughly two foreign workers for every American who graduates from a four-year college with a skilled degree in science, software, computers, business, healthcare, or engineering. The programs also deliver two foreign workers into the career-starting jobs needed by every young American who graduates with a four-year degree in “STEM,” or science, technology, engineering, and math. The migrants are not legal immigrants. They are government-approved contract workers or just-graduated foreign students, and their vulnerable legal status allows employers to treat them badly and undercut pay for American graduates. “There are about a million work-visa issuances a year … it’s gone up about 25 percent in recent years,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. The programs’ complexity and lack of transparency are intended to help employers smuggle more white-collar workers into American jobs, Vaughan said. President Joe Biden’s deputies are trying to raise the visa-worker inflow. . .The federal government allows employers to import roughly 450,000 visa workers for the blue-collar H-2A and H-2B workers, and perhaps 150,000 pink-collar visa workers via the J-1 program. But the white-collar inflow is larger. The H-1B program is getting much attention, partly because Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other West Coast investors triggered a heated Twitter debate with President Donald Trump’s voter base. But the H-1B program is just one of many government pipelines that deliver foreign college graduates into the valuable U.S. careers needed by the American middle class. Each year, the H-1B program delivers roughly 130,000 new workers, including 85,000 workers for private companies. They can stay for six years or longer. “The resident population of people with H-1Bs is [roughly] 600,000,” Vaughan told Breitbart News. There is no requirement to offer the H-1B jobs to Americans. Also, there is no limit on the inflow of H-1B workers for non-profits. That loophole has created a new style of non-profit staffing organization that transfers college graduates into private sector jobs. More than half of the H-1Bs are from India, where the government pressures American companies to hire Indian graduates, even though they are rooted in a culture where workplace corruption and bribes are common. Deputies working for President Barack Obama also allowed the spouses of H-1Bs to get work permits, dubbed H4EADs. Many now work in jobs alongside their spouses, adding at least 100,000 more white-collar visa workers to the U.S. labor market. The little-known L-1 visa program allows foreign companies to move their employees into the United States for five to 7 years. In 2022, the Department of State approved 73,000 new L-1s, so the resident white-collar L-1 population is roughly 200,000 white-collar workers. The spouses of L-1 workers are also allowed to work, adding another 40,000 workers to the workforce, according to a 2017 report by the left-wing Economic Policy Institute. Many of the H-1B and L-1 workers are allowed to stay past their visa expiry date if their employers offer them the deferred bonus of a government-provided green card. This bonus has created a population of roughly 600,000 Indian workers who are working while waiting for a green card. This population includes many L-1s and H-1Bs, complicating the population count. The State Department’s J-1 program delivers about 90,000 white-collar workers via multiple categories, such as “short-term scholars, “research scholars,” and professors, who are allowed to stay up to five or even seven years. Government agencies do not reveal the resident population of J-1s, but 300,000 white-collar employees is a reasonable estimate. The 0-1A so-called “genius visa” program is now delivering at least 9,000 white-collar workers per year, up from 6,500 in 2019. This program is uncapped, like the L-1, TN, and H-1B programs. This visa lasts for three years, so the resident 0-1A population is roughly 25,000. The TN program allows professionals and recent graduates in Canada and Mexico to get jobs in the United States via the TN visa created by trade treaties. Government officials have said they do not count TN migrants entering the United States from Canada. Vaughan said she estimates the resident TN population to be roughly 120,000 foreign graduates. The OPT and CPT programs were created for foreign students at American universities. These programs deliver the most new workers each year — but they can only stay for one or three years. Almost 340,000 students and graduates got work permits in 2023, suggesting the resident population is roughly 400,000, most of whom work in technology-related jobs. The OPT — Optional Practical Training — and the CPT — Curricular Practical Training — programs were not created by Congress but by officials working for President George W. Bush. The CPT and OPT programs are touted as study programs, but the OPT program is a pipeline for foreigners to get green cards via employers and the H-1B program. These pipelines often run through ethnic hiring networks at Fortune 500 companies or their vast network of “software sweatshops” that implement outsourcing policies at nearly all major U.S. companies. Many of the OPT and CPT workers fail to get into the H-1B programs and so join the growing population of “overstay” illegal white-collar migrants, many of whom work alongside their legal compatriots as software subcontractors. This illegal white-collar foreign workforce is also boosted by a growing population of airport migrants. They legally enter the country as tourists or “business visitors,” dubbed B-1/B-2 visas. But they illegally work as freelancers and contractors, usually within ethnic networks of legal migrants. The federal government has done little to suppress or count this population. There has been no cap on the number of white-collar illegal migrants during Biden’s administration, in part because his pro-migration border chief — Alejandro Mayorkas — enforced a policy of no arrests for migrants who were not found guilty of major crimes. In addition, Mayorkas has imported roughly one million migrants through his quasi-legal “parole pipelines.” This inflow includes many white-collar workers — but their unrecognized credentials exclude them from licensed professions. Vaughan suggested these various pipelines have delivered 3 million illegal white-collar workers into the U.S. labor force, alongside the legal population of 1.5 million visa workers. Lynn estimated the illegal white-collar population at roughly 1.5 million, alongside 1.5 million legal migrants. In December, Mayrokas announced he would loosen the J-1 program to help migrants from China and India stay in J-1 white-collar jobs for longer than two years. Mayorkas’ deputies also announced changes to the H-1B program to help American companies import more white-collar workers. The new rules allow more companies to be treated as non-profits so they can import an unlimited number of “cap-exempt” H-1B workers for jobs that are sought by Americans. The rule states: . . . Meanwhile, huge numbers of American professionals are being laid off, according to a December report by Forbes.)
DAILY CALLER
— ‘These People Are Exploiting These Folks’: Andy Biggs Exposes Flaws In Dems’ Narrative About Migrants (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/27/andy-biggs-dems-migrants/
— Mark Halperin Warns ‘We’re Gonna See More’ Advocacy To Stop Trump From Taking Office As Inauguration ‘Gets Closer’ (COMMENT: How far do you think hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will go?)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/27/mark-halperin-democrats-block-donald-trump-inauguration/
— Woke Colleges Finally Being Forced To Reckon With Diversity Agenda
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/28/zachary-marschall-woke-colleges-finally-being-forced-to-reckon-with-diversity-agenda/
— Costco Embraces DEI As Other Companies Move In Opposite Direction
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/28/costco-dei-diversity-national-center-public-policy-research/
DAILY SIGNAL
— PBS Hosts Far-Left Smear Factory to Demonize Trump—Using Your Tax Dollars
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/29/pbs-hosts-far-left-smear-factory-demonize-trump-using-your-tax-dollars/
DAILY WIRE
— Homan Promises To Root Out Bad Actors Left Over From Biden Admin. ‘We pretty much know where the bodies are buried’ and ‘We know who’s who.’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/god-help-them-border-czar-tom-homan-promises-to-root-out-bad-actors-leftover-from-biden-admin
— Here’s How Trump Admin Could Help Crush Censorship Industry (COMMENT: Since I became the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, my critics/opponents have wanted to censure me. In 2006, they almost succeeded in getting the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/28/trump-admin-crush-censorship-industry/
FOX BUSINESS
— Musk inflames X with profane movie quote in defense of H-1B visa. Musk invoked the satirical action-comedy movie ‘Tropic Thunder’ in defending the visa program.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-politics/musk-inflames-x-profane-movie-quote-defense-h-1b-visa
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The internal rift inside the MAGA movement over the H-1B visa continues to play out on X with Elon Musk attacking a critic of the program on Friday using a profane quote from Tom Cruise’s character in the movie “Tropic Thunder.” Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who have been tapped by President-elect Trump to lead his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), argued earlier this week that American culture has not prioritized education enough and therefore foreign workers are needed for tech companies like Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla. Many tech companies have embraced the H-1B visa program, which allows U.S. companies to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations, but critics of the program say H-1B holders are often chosen over U.S. citizens for jobs. One of the reasons for this is that foreign workers are tied to their respective employers via the H-1B visa – as a company is required to sponsor the visa — and therefore quitting the job could ultimately see foreign workers losing their visa and their ability to legally remain in the country. On Friday, Musk doubled down on his defense of the program, blasting a user on X who used a video of Musk discussing SpaceX processes to go after the billionaire’s stance on the visa program. “The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B,” Musk wrote on X. He then went on to quote the 2008 action-comedy movie, which was a box office hit. “Take a big step back and F— YOURSELF in the face,” Musk railed. The line, although not verbatim, comes from a scene from the movie where Tom Cruise’s character Les Grossman, a balding, profane-laden and ill-tempered studio executive, roars down the phone at a group of kidnappers in a memorable scene. Grossman then goes on to threaten the kidnappers, saying that he will go “scorched earth” and “massacre” them. The outburst leaves the kidnappers and Matthew McConaughey, who plays Rick “The Pecker” Peck, stunned into silence. The movie also stars Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black and Nick Nolte. Musk also invokes Grossman’s combative stance with the X user, finishing off his late Friday post by writing: “I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.” Musk then went on to interact with other commentators on the topic, saying he agreed with one poster who wrote that the visa program needs reform and that Musk “protects meritocracy and the American Dream for tech innovators at all costs.” Elsewhere, Musk agreed to a separate post that stated that Google, Intel and Tesla were all founded or built by immigrants and that H-1B visa employees are effectively capped at 15% for big tech companies. The post noted that a third of positions in the sector go unfulfilled each year and that foreign workers are needed in the short term to make up the shortfall. On Christmas Day, Musk wrote that he and his companies would prefer to hire Americans – and that it is much easier than going through the “incredibly painful and slow work visa process.” “HOWEVER, there is a dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America. This is not about handing out opportunities from some magical hat. You don’t get it. This is blindingly obvious when looking at NBA teams, as the physical differences are so obvious to see,” Musk wrote. “However, the MENTAL differences between humans are FAR bigger than the physical differences!!” He also wrote that employing immigrants is essential to future American ingenuity. “It comes down to this: do you want America to WIN or do you want America to LOSE,” he wrote. “If you force the world’s best talent to play for the other side, America will LOSE. End of story.” It’s not the first time Musk has invoked Tropic Thunder online. In August, he unleashed the same line on Thierry Breton, a French business executive and former European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Services who threatened to censor X.)
FOX NEWS
— The real reason Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is working so hard to resist Trump. Rooftop Revelations: Chicago’s Brandon Johnson wants to cast himself as the mighty moral man who would save us all.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/real-reason-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-wants-resist-trump
— Trump says he is a ‘believer’ in H-1B visas for skilled migrant workers as right spars on immigration. Musk argued that immigrants are needed for the tech sector. (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-he-believer-h-1b-visas-skilled-migrant-workers-right-spars-immigration-report
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Newsom eyeing ways to help illegal aliens dodge deportation under Trump administration (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrats and RINOs will help illegals dodge deportation.)
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/california-gov-gavin-newsom-eyeing-ways-to-help-illegal-aliens-dodge-deportation-under-trump-administration
NEWSMAX
— Biden Admin Partially Blames Homelessness Spike on Immigration Surge
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/immigration-homelessness-spike/2024/12/27/id/1193112/
PJ MEDIA
— Are You an Illegal Alien About to be Arrested by ICE and Deported? There’s an App For That.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/12/28/are-you-and-illegal-alien-about-to-be-arrested-by-ice-and-deported-theres-an-app-for-that-n4935479
— Democrats Want Your Children to Die
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/12/28/democrats-want-your-kids-to-die-n4935487
POST MILLENNIAL
— Costco board of directors urge shareholders to continue DEI programs
https://thepostmillennial.com/costco-board-of-directors-urge-shareholders-to-continue-dei-programs
TOWNHALL
— Trump Needs To Be Ready For The Gathering Storm Over H1B Visas (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/12/29/trump-needs-to-be-ready-for-the-gathering-storm-over-h1b-visas-n2649702
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump weighs in on H-1B debate, backs immigration visas (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5058560-trump-weighs-in-on-h-1b-debate-backs-immigration-visas/
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://thehill.com/business/5058433-costco-dei-initiatives-pushback/
REUTERS
— Trump sides with Elon Musk in H-1B visa debate, says he’s always been in favor of the program (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musk-vows-war-over-h-1b-visa-program-amid-rift-with-some-trump-supporters-2024-12-28/
YAHOO
— Trump Backs H-1B Visa Program After Elon Musk Vows ‘War’ During Fiery Online MAGA Debate (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-vows-war-defense-190919100.html
AOL
— Democrats ask: “Do Republicans Tend To Help Rich People More Than the Middle Class?” GAO works for Congress. In Diersen v. GAO, I got no help from my Republican U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives. To help me would have been to fight political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. My demographics are terrible: conservative, Republican, White, male,
https://www.aol.com/republicans-tend-help-rich-people-170044992.html
NEWSWEEK
— Donald Trump Allies Threaten California Officials With Prison (COMMENT: Constructively, California has declared war on America.)
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-allies-threaten-california-officials-prison-2006917
— Can H-1B Visa Holders Change Jobs? Critics Call Workers Indentured Servants (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://www.newsweek.com/can-h-1b-visa-holders-change-jobs-critics-call-workers-indentured-servants-2006950
NBC NEWS
— Trump says H-1B visa program is ‘great’ amid MAGA feud over tech workers. Trump allies, including Elon Musk, vigorously defended the program to other MAGA adherents this week. (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-h1b-visa-program-maga-elon-musk-rcna185656
CBS NEWS
— Musk and Ramaswamy are sparking a debate over the H-1B visa. Here’s what to know about the visa. (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/musk-vivek-ramaswamy-h1b-visa-maga-immigration-what-to-know/
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump backs H-1B visas, aligning with Musk on immigration. “I’ve always liked the visas,” he said, siding with tech leaders against anti-immigration hard-liners. (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/28/trump-h1b-musk-immigration-debate/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Trump weighs in on debate among supporters to back H-1B visa program (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-12-28/president-elect-trump-weighs-into-debate-among-supporters-to-back-h-1b-visa-program
USA TODAY
— Elon Musk vows ‘war’ over H-1B visa program amid rift with some Trump supporters (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/28/elon-musk-immigrants-via/77290081007/
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
— The H-1B Visa Program and Its Impact on the U.S. Economy (COMMENT: What percent of H-1B recipients are non-White?)
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/h1b-visa-program-fact-sheet
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Before an employer can file a petition with USCIS, the employer must take steps to ensure that hiring the foreign worker will not harm U.S. workers. Employers first must attest, on a labor condition application (LCA) certified by the Department of Labor (DOL), that employment of the H-1B worker will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of similarly employed U.S. workers. Employers must also provide existing workers with notice of their intention to hire an H-1B worker.)
U.S. CENSUS
— The Impact of Immigration on Firms and Workers: Insights from the H-1B Lottery
https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/2024/adrm/CES-WP-24-19.html
(DEMOCRATS SAY: We do not find evidence for displacement of native-born, college-educated workers at the firm level, on net. However, this result masks dynamics among more specific subgroups of incumbents that we further elucidate.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.wsj.com/business/corporate-dei-policy-changes-pull-back-33fdab87
FORBES
— Trump Weighs In On H-1B Visa Program Dividing MAGA World (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/12/28/trump-weighs-in-on-h-1b-visa-program-dividing-maga-world/
— Democrats and RINOs say “Immigrants Don’t Crowd Out U.S.-Born Professionals.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2024/05/13/more-evidence-immigrants-dont-crowd-out-us-born-professionals/
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonemorris/2024/12/28/costco-to-shareholders-dei-and-inclusive-leadership-is-non-negotiable/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2024/12/29/history-of-dei-why-it-matters-for-the-future/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsegal/2024/12/28/two-new-books-provide-insights-into-aspects-of-the-immigration-crisis/
FORTUNE
— Trump backs immigration visas for skilled workers after MAGA followers turn on Elon Musk over H-1Bs (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://fortune.com/2024/12/28/trump-h1b-immigration-visas-skilled-workers-maga-backlash-elon-musk/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Trump responds after Elon Musk escalates his feud with MAGA loyalists over H-1B visas (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. If they could have, all my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me. Citizens of foreign countries are easier to exploit than citizens of America.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-bros-debating-maga-fans-over-h-1b-visas-2024-12
FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91247954/if-dei-is-dead-this-is-the-way-to-look-at-workplace-culture-in-2025
KIPLINGER
— Leave Your Life Story as a Legacy for Your Heirs. These eight resources will help you preserve your life story to pass on to your family. (COMMENT: I am 76. I have no heirs. My wife and I never had children. My brother, my parents, my grandparents, and my aunts and uncles have all passed away. On my father’s side, my brother and my aunt never married and had no children. On my mother’s side, her sister never married and had no children. Her brothers had four children of which three are still alive.)
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/inheritance/leave-your-life-story-as-a-legacy-for-your-heirs
PEW TRUSTS
— Democrats and RINOs say: Foreign-born workers have helped fuel growth, and their wages and occupations vary by English proficiency, origins, and education.
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2024/09/the-demographics-of-immigrant-workers-in-philadelphia
AXIOS
— Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO employers hint/imply/argue/shout that Asians are more intelligent and harder working than Whites and that is employers should be able to hire them and to promote them instead of Whites.
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/28/maga-dei-fight-musk-trump-bannon
December 28, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Musk, Ramaswamy spar with Trump supporters over H-1B work visas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/what-are-1b-visas-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-spar-donald-trump-supporters-work/15715514/
— 4 Lincoln Park businesses hit by smash-and-grab burglar (COMMENT: How vulnerable are businesses in your municipality to smash-and-grab burglary?)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-4-lincoln-park-businesses-hit-smash-grab-burglar-including-old-pueblo-cantina-sweet-mandy-bs/15716989/
— Supervisor Tiffany Henyard threatens Thornton Township government shutdown. Henyard’s allies successfully got some of her challengers kicked off the April 1 general election ballot earlier Tuesday.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tiffany-henyard-news-allies-thornton-township-supervisor-serves-dolton-mayor-get-challengers-kicked-off-ballot/15668759/
— Harvey family’s home ransacked by burglars during holiday vacation: ‘Scared and traumatized’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/harvey-family-returns-holiday-vacation-find-home-ransacked-burglars-mother-ceminya-winters-says/15716144/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/states-abortion-ban-social-services-often-fail-families/3633018/
WTTW
— Judge Won’t Allow Chicagoans Who Sued CPD for Targeting Black, Latino Drivers to Intervene in Consent Decree Court Case
https://news.wttw.com/2024/12/27/judge-won-t-allow-chicagoans-who-sued-cpd-targeting-black-latino-drivers-intervene
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— 3 candidates for Thornton Township supervisor knocked off 2025 ballot
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/17/3-candidates-for-thornton-township-supervisor-knocked-off-2025-ballot/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more gambling.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/casinos-gambling/2024/12/27/internet-gambling-illinois-igaming-casino-app
DAILY HERALD
— DECEMBER 5, 2024 FLASHBACK: Milton Township Democrats select full slate of candidates for spring election (COMMENT: DuPage County voters anxiously await information from the DuPage County Election Division and from other sources on a) which offices will be on April 1, 2025 consolidated election ballots (SEE: https://www.dupagecounty.gov/elected_officials/election_and_voter_information/candidate_information/candidate_listings.php ), b) who has filled for those offices, and c) challenges to their nominating petitions. I am especially interested in that information for Milton Township because a) I have lived in Milton Township since 1978, b) I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Milton Township since 1999, c) I served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010, and d) certain past and present MTRO leaders have taken many big adverse actions against me.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241205/submitted-content/milton-township-democrats-select-full-slate-of-candidates-for-spring-election/
— FEBRUARY 27, 2024 FLASHBACK: Democratic Party of Milton Township names Precinct Committee Person of the Year (COMMENT: I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Milton Township since 1999. I served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010. I should write about those past and present MTRO leaders who have taken many big adverse actions against me.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240227/submitted-content/democratic-party-of-milton-township-names-precinct-committee-person-of-the-year/
FOX ILLINOIS
— ‘Schumer’s last hope:’ Dem leader reveals plan to disrupt MAGA revolution (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that because Trump won, Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly destroy Republicans.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/connect-to-congress/schumers-last-hope-dem-leader-reveals-plan-to-disrupt-maga-revolution
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Debate over foreign workers in tech shows tensions in Trump’s political coalition (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-an-online-debate-over-foreign-workers-in-tech-shows-tensions-in-trumps-political-coalition/
— Musk and MAGA are fighting over H-1B visas. How do they work? (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/musk-and-maga-are-fighting-over-h-1b-visas-how-do-they-work/
ORLAND TOWNSHIP PATCH
— An electoral board in Orland Township voted to dismiss a challenge that contended American flags on township candidates’ nominating petitions violated election rules.
https://patch.com/illinois/orlandpark/board-tosses-challenge-orland-township-candidates-kept-ballot
LYONS PATCH
— Paula Struwing, a Lyons Township High School board member, has been removed from the ballot for the April 1 school board election.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lyons-township-high-hopeful-kicked-off-ballot/ar-AA1weLjW
WSIL TV
— Costco is pushing back — hard — against the anti-DEI movement (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to get rid of those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/consumer/costco-is-pushing-back-hard-against-the-anti-dei-movement/article_06ce3c31-802b-5bbd-8b58-cd098d49da88.html
— Abortions are up in the US. It’s a complicated picture as women turn to pills, travel. (COMMENT: Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?)
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/missouri/abortions-are-up-in-the-us-its-a-complicated-picture-as-women-turn-to-pills/article_b43b2214-a3f2-5003-9c62-bad9ff1f2546.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— DuPage County voters anxiously await information from the DuPage County Election Division and from other sources on a) which offices will be on April 1, 2025 consolidated election ballots (SEE: https://www.dupagecounty.gov/elected_officials/election_and_voter_information/candidate_information/candidate_listings.php ), b) who has filled for those offices, and c) challenges to their nominating petitions. I am especially interested in that information for Milton Township because a) I have lived in Milton Township since 1978, b) I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Milton Township since 1999, c) I served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010, and d) certain past and present MTRO leaders have taken many big adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— There is no such thing as nonpartisan. In the final analysis, all individuals, all companies, all organizations, all etc. in America are either Democrat or Republican, that is, they are either liberal or conservative. The mainstream news media falsely claims to be nonpartisan. The mainstream news media is Democrat, that is, the mainstream news media is liberal. Because I refuse to falsely claim to be nonpartisan like the mainstream news media does, my critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout that I am not a legitimate reporter or journalist. Google continues to refuse to treat www.gopillinois.com like it is a news website. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Politics is nasty/vicious. George Ryan ran Corinne Wood in the 2002 Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary to defeat Pat O’Malley and to elect Jim Ryan. I supported O’Malley in that primary. Jim Ryan won the primary but lost to Blagojevich in the general election. Ever since then, George Ryan and Jim Ryan supporters in my precinct, in Wheaton’s West District, in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County’s 4th District, in DuPage County, and in Illinois have done everything that they could to destroy me. They ignored/dismissed/belittled what I did to help Jim Ryan win the general election. I should write about them and what they continue to do to destroy me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MILTON TOWNSHIP REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION
https://miltongop.org/
https://www.facebook.com/MiltonRepublicans
MILTON TOWNSHIP REPUBLICAN TEAM
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=milton%20township%20republican%20team
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— As sheriff pushes to end electronic monitoring, some critical of no-cash bail
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/as-sheriff-pushes-to-end-electronic-monitoring-some-critical-of-no-cash-bail/ar-AA1wAfuc
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Nunda Township Assessor Mark Dzemske Rejects Township Board’s Offer to Be Paid $250 Extra for Each Meeting Appearance, Says That Guarantees He Will Attend No Meetings
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/27/nunda-township-assessor-mark-dzemske-rejects-township-boards-offer-to-be-paid-extra-for-each-meeting-appearance/
— The Son of a Man Whose Mother Was Born in Bethlehem Reflects on Heritage
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/26/the-son-of-a-man-whose-mother-lived-in-bethlehem-reflects-on-heritage/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s victory marks the return of masculinity. Who needs men? Women and children do.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/27/trump-victory-marks-return-masculinity/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— People can’t flee blue states fast enough. The top five population losers were all Democrat controlled, including the biggest loser, California, followed by New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3270450/people-cant-flee-blue-states-fast-enough/
— Has the tide really turned on ‘wokeness’? (COMMENT: Back in the good old days, men were expected to protect women and children, to get married, and to raise children.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3270683/has-tide-turned-wokeness/
NEW YORK POST
— Pro-Luigi Mangione punks vandalize Jeffrey Epstein’s former NYC mansion with message found on alleged assassin’s bullets
https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/pro-luigi-mangione-punks-vandalize-jeffrey-epsteins-former-nyc-mansion-deny-defend-depose/
AMAC
— GENDER INDOCTRINATION: 16 States That Force Transgender Lessons on Kids (COMMENT: Illinois is one of them. That is a big reason to leave Illinois.)
https://amac.us/newsline/society/gender-indoctrination-16-states-that-force-transgender-lessons-on-kids/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The coming showdown between Trump’s government and Democrat governors
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/the_coming_showdown_between_trump_s_government_and_democrat_governors.html
— An easier way to show illegals the door.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/an_easier_way_to_show_illegals_the_door.html
BLAZE
— Illegal aliens in Michigan likely won’t get driver’s licenses as Democratic ‘trifecta’ nears end
https://www.theblaze.com/news/illegal-aliens-in-michigan-likely-won-t-get-driver-s-licenses-as-democratic-trifecta-nears-end
— Guatemala ready to receive deported illegal aliens from other countries
https://www.theblaze.com/news/guatemala-ready-to-receive-deported-illegal-aliens-from-other-countries-report
— Woke Oregon AG does her best to help illegal aliens dodge ICE
https://www.theblaze.com/news/woke-oregon-ag-does-her-best-to-help-illegal-aliens-dodge-ice
BREITBART
— Democrat Governors Compete to Lead ‘Resistance’ to Trump’s Popular Immigration Reforms (COPMMENT: Will Pritzker win?)
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/12/27/democrat-governors-compete-to-lead-resistance-to-trumps-popular-immigration-reforms/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump’s Threats Are Already Yielding Results In The Fight Against Cartels
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-threats-are-already-yielding-results-in-the-fight-against-cartels
— How One Of America’s Largest School Districts Became A Pipeline For A Trans Youth Clinic. “I hope you count us as partners in service to our trans youth,” a middle school administrator declared to a trans youth clinic.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-one-of-americas-largest-school-districts-became-a-pipeline-for-a-trans-youth-clinic
FOX NEWS
— US homelessness up double digits, rising numbers of asylum seekers, affordability crisis among causes. (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-homelessness-up-double-digits-rising-numbers-asylum-seekers-affordability-crisis-among-causes
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Gender Studies Program at Princeton University Offering Course on ‘Sex Work’
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/gender-studies-program-at-princeton-university-offering-course-on-sex-work/amp/
— California Lawmakers Push College Admissions Priority for Descendants of Slavery (COMMENT: What about priority for students whose parents do not have college degrees? 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://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/california-lawmakers-push-college-admissions-priority-for-descendants-of-slavery/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— U.S. Homelessness up 18 Percent to Record High This Year Due to Migrant Influx, Housing Crisis
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-s-homelessness-up-18-percent-to-record-high-this-year-due-to-migrant-influx-housing-crisis/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrats brace for a new Trump presidency
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5048978-democrats-brace-trump-inauguration/
REUTERS
— US homelessness rose by record 18% in latest annual data (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-homelessness-rose-by-record-18-latest-annual-data-2024-12-27/
MSN
— ‘Sounds Good’: Canadians React To Trump’s ‘Offer’ Of Canada Becoming 51st US State
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/sounds-good-canadians-react-to-trump-s-offer-of-canada-becoming-51st-us-state/ar-AA1wxLRX
— Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI are reparations. America has spent many trillions of dollars on AA and DEI.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/america-s-unpaid-debt-the-case-for-reparations-to-black-descendants-of-slavery/ss-AA1pFTM2
— Trump calls public support for accused healthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione ‘a sickness’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/trump-calls-public-support-for-accused-healthcare-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione-a-sickness/ss-AA1w0LuW
NEWSWEEK
— Discontent over political issues among co-workers can play out in less public but equally damaging ways in all kinds of workplaces nationwide. (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. As Gingrich ever-increasing destroyed GAO, they ever-increasingly destroyed me.)
https://www.newsweek.com/2024/12/20/rules-tips-discussing-politics-workplace-after-2024-election-1996122.html
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.newsweek.com/workplace-diversity-ranking-highlights-companies-that-invest-people-2005166
CBS NEWS
— Capitol Hill lawmakers experience surge of swatting calls, bomb threats in wake of November election
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/congress-lawmakers-surge-swatting-calls-bomb-threats-following-november-election/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump Backers Battle Online Over Skilled Immigrants. A fierce dispute erupted in the president-elect’s camp between immigration hard-liners and tech industry leaders including Elon Musk. (COMMENT: Employers want cheap labor. Asians are ever-increasingly viewed as being superior to Whites. Ever-increasingly, Whites smoke pot and otherwise destroy themselves.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/technology/trump-musk-immigration-h1b-visa.html
— The number of people experiencing homelessness topped 770,000, an increase of more than 18 percent over last year. (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/us/homelessness-hit-record-level-in-2024.html
— A Retirement Expert Is Giving Her Notice (COMMENT: The more of the following that you are, the more that you should anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or if you have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/business/retirement-alicia-munnell-boston-college.html
— Will the U.S. Ever Be Ready for a Female President? (COMMENT: To get more votes from women, Democrat and RINO candidates shout at women that men cause all the problems that women have.).
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/us/politics/will-the-us-ever-be-ready-for-a-female-president.html
NEWSWEEK
–Costco Denies Shareholder Demand to Back Down From DEI Hiring (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to get rid of those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.newsweek.com/costco-board-shareholder-dei-hiring-2006717
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump’s Border Czar Says Military Bases Could Aid Deportation Effort. Homan said he views the military as a ‘force multiplier’ to build infrastructure such as certain detention facilities.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/tom-homan-trump-border-czar-deportation-plan-78fd3c2d
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dei-is-the-booster-seat-that-provides-equality-2f80cace
— The Graying of America (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that the older that you get, the more that you will be discriminated against because of your age, and especially if you are conservative, Republican, White, male, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/golden-years-review-the-graying-of-america-af2218a5
— Massachusetts Puts Its Education Excellence at Risk. Voters nixed an exam that helped enhance the state’s reputation. Lawmakers may correct this mistake. (COMMENT: Of the many examinations that I have passes, my critics/opponents are most furious a) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 in 1979 and b) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32 in 1981.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/massachusetts-puts-its-education-excellence-at-risk-mcas-testing-70224ad7
FAST COMPANY
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91247655/this-is-how-dei-will-change-in-2025
WEEK
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://theweek.com/politics/instant-opinion-deportation-students-eye-contact-gaming-plane-crash-azerbaijan
BILLBOARD
— Examining the Phenomenon of the Accused Shooter-Turned-Antihero Through Mexican Music. Following the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, some social media users are immortalizing Mangione in corridors that reflect societal tumult over corporate ethics.
https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/luigi-mangione-corridos-antihero-songs-1235865770/
HARVARD CRIMSON
— I’m a White HLS Grad. Classroom Diversity Made Me a Better Lawyer. (COMMENT: Since 1964, I have worked with, I have supervised, and I have been supervised by far more minorities than my critics/opponents in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I washed dishes in Chicago Heights 1964-1966, delivered mail in Park Forest 1966-1969, collected delinquent taxes in Harvey, 63rd & Halsted area, Joliet, and downtown Chicago 1971-1980, lived in University Park 1972-1976, and audited federal agencies in downtown Chicago 1980-1997.)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/12/28/cohen-harvard-law-diversity/
INDEPENDENT
— Luigi Mangione’s sweater sells out at Nordstrom one day after court appearance
https://www.aol.com/news/luigi-mangione-sweater-sells-nordstrom-211815173.html
December 27, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Bears’ losing streak reaches historic mark
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/nfl/chicago-bears/bears-losing-streak-reaches-historic-mark/3632765/
FOX32
— A family of four in Illinois needs a salary of $100,332 to live comfortably. This includes $7,872 annually for groceries, $18,479 for housing, and $7,758 for healthcare. (COMMENT: I did not earn $100,000/year in today’s dollars until I was 27 in 1976. By then, I had worked for IRS for 5 years and I had earned an MBA from Loyola.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/whats-living-wage-needed-family-four-illinois
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump has pressed for voting changes. GOP majorities in Congress will try to make that happen. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders have flooded America with millions of illegals. What does your county clerk do to stop illegals from using their false identifications to vote?)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/26/donald-trump-voting-changes/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/12/26/newberry-library-immigrants-printing-history-postcards-catalogs-mail-order-sears-montgomery-ward
JOURNAL COURIER
— Looking for waste? IRS should be the target. (COMMENT: Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. Democrats run IRS and GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO. According to my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, because IRS had taken so many big adverse actions against me, it would be a conflict of interest for me to work on audits of IRS. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. In my defense, I stressed the many professional codes of conduct I was under because I was a CPA, Certified Internal Auditor, Licensed CPA, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Government Financial Manager, Certified Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant. Of course, I should not have been and I was not assigned to audits of my IRS superiors who had taken adverse actions against me.)
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/looking-waste-irs-target-william-henck-19989165.php
WGEM
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wgem.com/2024/12/27/illinois-adds-reproductive-health-choices-anti-discrimination-law/
CWB CHICAGO
— Felony shoplifting cases surge 154% under new state’s attorney
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/12/felony-shoplifting-cases-surge-154-under-new-states-attorney.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Minimum Wage Increase Touted by Pritzker as Unemployment Rate Remains High
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/26/minimum-wage-increase-touted-by-pritzker-as-unemployment-rate-remains-high/
— Aggrieved Employees Given Way to Complain without Going to Court
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/26/aggrieved-employees-given-way-to-complain-without-going-to-court/
— How to Identify & Treat Insect Bites
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/26/how-to-identify-treat-insect-bites/
— CORRETION: Nunda Township Sets Compensation for Next Term, MISSED $500 PER MEETING BONUS FOR ROAD
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/26/nunda-township-sets-compensation-for-next-term/
— Bears’ Lakefront Gambit Results in Much Lower Arlington Heights Real Estate Tax Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/26/bears-lakefront-gambit-results-in-much-lower-arlington-heights-real-estate-tax-bill/
— Pritzker: Defender of Illegal Aliens
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/26/pritzker-defender-of-illegal-aliens/
— How I Got the Name Calvin, It didn’t Come from Calvin Coolidge
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/26/how-i-got-the-name-calvin-it-didnt-come-from-calvin-coolidge/
— 2024 Christmas Letter
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/25/2024-christmas-letter/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— When Republican candidates on ballots in your precinct lose elections, who do you blame? I have served as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. It is a thankless job. My critics/opponents who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican ever-increasingly blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They do not blame those candidates or the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, or Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO). They have punished me by a) removing me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee this year, b) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) ending my bid to be selected to fill a Wheaton City Council West District vacancy in 2019, d) gerrymandering my precinct in 2015, e) ending my service as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, f) ending my membership on the Wheaton City Council Government Affairs Committee in 2011, g) ending my service as the MTRO webmaster in 2010 and 2004, h) ending my service as an Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee member in 2007, i) almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, j) ending my service on the American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board of directors in 2004, k) etc.)
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Similarities between Reagan, Trump electoral victories (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for 8 years while Reagan was President. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO in January of 1980. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious that Reagan was elected. I was one of an extremely few Republicans in the office and they took their anger against Reagan out on me. They gave me bad job assignments and unfair performance expectations and appraisals. They delayed my promotions, did not promote me to GS-13 until 1986, and never promoted me to GS-14. They kept me off audits of IRS until 1986 and then after 1988. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. To deal with the aforesaid punishment, a) I completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1990, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. I earned a master’s degree in finance in 1997.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/26/inside-beltway-essayist-details-similarities-reaga/
— Who is really to blame for the ills of society? New York City’s indifference to violent attacks reveals a deeper breakdown from progressive policies. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents blame their problems, your problems, my problems, and everyone’s problems a) on me and on my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, b) on what I did as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, c) on what I did as an Illinois Center Right Steering Committee member 2003-2007, d) etc. They especially blame me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I should title it “The Scapegoaters.”)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/26/really-blame-ills-society/
— Biden protects the lives of murderers, but not babies. President is practicing ‘cafeteria Christianity.’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/26/biden-protects-lives-murderers-babies/
— Taking Christmas seriously. Taking Christmas seriously means rejecting abortion in all its forms because it is the killing of an innocent person.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/25/taking-christmas-seriously/
— Biden signs last-minute ban on gasoline-powered vehicles (COMMENT: Just kidding, but to curry favor with Democrat leaders, should I buy an electric car? Should I buy a 2025 Dodge Charger?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/26/editorial-biden-signs-last-minute-ban-gasoline-pow/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Legal immigration must be cut too (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3270230/legal-immigration-must-be-cut-too/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: If Trump wants to achieve his goals of lowering the cost of living, and ensuring that Americans have stable and good-paying jobs, expanding the H-1B visa program and other legal immigration pathways is not the way to do it. To begin with, H1-B visas have been grossly abused by companies eager to hire foreigners over American citizens. These visas are given out on a lottery basis every year to a maximum of 85,000 foreigners, out of hundreds of thousands of applicants. But in an attempt to game the odds, companies often submit multiple (and thus fraudulent) applications for the same individual to boost their chances of being selected.)
NEW YORK POST
— Sanctuary state Oregon rolls out program to help illegal migrants thwart ICE (COMMENT: How strongly is Pritzker going to thwart ICE?)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/26/us-news/sanctuary-state-oregon-rolls-out-program-to-help-illegal-migrants-thwart-ice/
— Original ‘Home Alone’ house may be pricey — but the NYC sequel’s townhouse puts the McCallisters to shame.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/26/us-news/original-home-alone-house-may-be-pricey-but-the-nyc-sequels-townhouse-puts-the-mccallisters-to-shame/
— Mexico to open shelters to house over 12K of its own citizens deported in Trump’s illegal immigrant crackdown. (COMMENT: What if America dumped its unwanted citizens on foreign countries?)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/26/us-news/mexico-plans-to-open-more-than-shelters-for-migrants-deported-by-trump/
— Ultra-progressive women fetishize Luigi Mangione because they’ve spent years shaming masculinity. (COMMENT: What do you say to those who promote Mangione?)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/26/us-news/feminists-who-demonized-masculinity-now-fetishize-luigi-mangione/
AMAC
— Merry Christmas, America – Mass Deportations Are Coming
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/merry-christmas-america-mass-deportations-are-coming/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Michigan won’t be Michigan for much longer (COMMENT: How successful have Democrat leaders been in your county, township, municipality, and school district in replacing those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/michigan_won_t_be_michigan_for_much_longer.html
— A wishful version of Trump’s Inauguration Day
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/a_wishful_version_of_trump_s_inauguration_day.html
AMUSE
— The Death of Merit: How America’s Best Companies Lost Their Way (COMMENT: Because of Affirmative Acton and DEI and because of my bad demographics, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and job-related professional license because ever-increasingly worthless.)
https://amuseonx.substack.com/p/the-death-of-merit-how-americas-best
BLAZE
— California considers ‘support network’ to shield illegal aliens from Trump’s deportation sweep
https://www.theblaze.com/news/california-considers-support-network-to-shield-illegal-aliens-from-trumps-deportation-sweep
— Illegal aliens are stealing into the US in the final days of the Biden administration. Here’s how.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/exclusive-illegal-aliens-are-stealing-into-the-us-in-the-final-days-of-the-biden-administration-here-s-how
BREITBART
— Casten promotes illegal immigration.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/12/26/dem-rep-casten-on-chicago-migrants-most-illegals-have-been-here-a-while-theyre-contributing/
— Homan: Trump Will Immediately Bring Back ICE Worksite Raids, ‘Remain in Mexico’ Border Policy
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/26/tom-homan-trump-will-immediately-bring-back-ice-worksite-raids-remain-in-mexico-border-policy/
CAMPUS REFORM
— The death of DEI started in 2024 and will accelerate in 2025 (COMMENT: Because of my bad demographics, my critics/opponents have always used Affirmative Acton and DEI to get rid of me.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/sturge-death-dei-started-2024-will-accelerate-2025/27100
DAILY CALLER
— Homan has a message for any individual or jurisdiction that directly impedes the work of an ICE agent: prepare to face the consequences. (COMMENT: Democrats, RINOs, and their illegals reject the rule of law.)
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/26/homan-ready-to-jail-those-blocking-ice/
DAILY WIRE
— Inside A ‘Social Justice Academy’ Where Third Graders Learn To Be Leftist Activists. California school district runs a summer course where students learn to disavow “whiteness” and embrace transgender ideology. (COMMENT: How strongly do Democrats and RINOs promote LGBTQ in your school district?)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-a-social-justice-academy-where-third-graders-learn-to-be-leftist-activists-2
— The Year The DEI Tide Turned. DEI isn’t dead. But this year, we took major steps towards defeating its worst aspects.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-year-the-dei-tide-turned
EPOCH TIMES
— Sheriffs Say They Can Help ICE in Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan (COMMENT: Will your county sheriff help ICE in Trump’s mass deportation plan?)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/sheriffs-say-they-can-help-ice-in-trumps-mass-deportation-plan-5779191
FOX NEWS
— At least six cities have strengthened sanctuary laws since Trump’s 2024 win (COMMENT: Chicago is one of them.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6366456729112
— Growing gap between hardworking Americans and ruling class (COMMENT: What does the ruling class in your county, township, and municipality think of you?)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6366480158112
NEWSMAX
— Subway Burning Death Is A ‘Direct Result’ of Sanctuary Policies
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/burning-murder-subway/2024/12/26/id/1192927/
— Homan: Security Priceless Amid $86B Border Deportations (COMMENT: If illegal immigration is not stopped and reversed, America is doomed. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/tom-homan-security-border/2024/12/26/id/1192985/
PJ MEDIA
— Is Donald Trump Actually a Conservative?
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/12/26/is-donald-trump-actually-a-conservative-n4935442#google_vignette
TOWNHALL
— The German Christmas Market Attack Demonstrates Perils of Mass Migration Policies
https://townhall.com/columnists/williamdavis/2024/12/27/the-germany-christmas-market-attack-demonstrates-perils-of-mass-migration-policies-n2649600
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— No ‘price tag’ for mass deportations, says incoming border czar (COMMENT: If illegal immigration is not stopped and reversed, America is doomed. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5056883-no-price-tag-for-mass-deportations-says-incoming-border-czar/
— Most Americans want to reduce political news consumption due to fatigue (COMMENT: I have served as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. It is a thankless job. My critics/opponents who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican ever-increasingly blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They do not blame those candidates or the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, or Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO). They have punished me by a) removing me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee this year, b) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) ending my bid to be selected to fill a Wheaton City Council West District vacancy in 2019, d) gerrymandering my precinct in 2015, e) ending my service as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, f) ending my membership on the Wheaton City Council Government Affairs Committee in 2011, g) ending my service as the MTRO webmaster in 2010 and 2004, h) ending my service as an Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee member in 2007, i) almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, j) ending my service on the American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board of directors in 2004, k) etc.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5056424-americans-political-news-consumption-poll/
— Kay Granger revelation punctuates increasing scrutiny of aging officials (COMMRENT: What demonstrates your physical and mental health? For me, it is my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that I put together and send out every morning.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5056889-aging-public-officials-granger/
— The mainstream news media is an arm of the Democrat Party.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5056890-trump-lawsuit-selzer-des-moines-register/
NEWSWEEK
— Next Year Will Be the Best America’s Had in a Long Time
https://www.newsweek.com/next-year-will-best-americas-had-long-time-opinion-2005161
MSN
— My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always been woke, that is, they have always been anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/mindandbody/people-who-wear-their-wokeness-as-a-badge-often-say-these-16-things/ss-AA1vBzcG
— Where to Find High-Quality Men (COMMENT: Are you a man? Are you married? If yes and yes, what did you do before you got married that made you more attractive to women? I got married when I was 29 in 1978. I was earning $106,785/year in today’s dollars. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I had bought real estate in 1972, 1974, and 1976. I had bought new cars in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, and 1973. I am a Missouri Synod Lutheran. My wife is Catholic. We met at a Presbyterian singles social event.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/travel/where-to-find-high-quality-men/ar-AA1qjNYz
— To be woke is to be anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/when-did-woke-become-a-bad-word/ss-AA15iSxK
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/diversity-programs-cut-is-your-workplace-next/ss-AA1r7q3M
WASHINGTON POST
— Congress stripped IRS of another $20 billion in government shutdown fight. Republican lawmakers have now clawed back half the investment the Biden administration made in the tax agency. (COMMENT: The Democrats who run IRS will use Republican budget cuts first to get rid of any of their remaining Republican employees and next their employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/26/irs-funding-cut-20-billion-shutdown/
— A MAGA ‘Civil War’ on X between Musk and the far right over H-1B visas. The online rift over the H-1B skilled-worker visa program signifies a potential wedge between Trump’s core base and his new Silicon Valley supporters. (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/27/h-1b-visas-elon-musk-trump-immigration/
USA TODAY
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/12/26/trump-mass-deportation-los-angeles-sanctuary-city/76890251007/
PRESS REPUBLICAN
— Applications for continuing unemployment benefits rise to 3-year high. (COMMENT: I have not been able to get a job appropriate for someone with my work experience, education, profession certifications, and professional license since I was 49 years old in 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire. I should write about what my critics/opponents hint/imply/argue/shout the reasons for that are.)
https://www.pressrepublican.com/ap/business/us-applications-for-unemployment-benefits-hold-steady-but-continuing-claims-rise-to-3-year-high/article_9eb04c2b-623e-5d21-95b1-48af42ddfdce.html
FLAGLER LIVE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://flaglerlive.com/birthright-citizenship-2/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Germany Opened Its Doors to Migrants. Now It’s Struggling to Cope. Even before Christmas market attack, nation was straining under influx; economy needs new workers.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/germany-immigration-struggles-election-8dfd4b65
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Hostile Work Environment Claims Aimed at DEI Gain Early Traction (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government had great success creating hostile work environments for their Republican employees who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. RINO and Democrat plant leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, and American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter have had great success creating hostile environments for their members who are conservative like me.)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/hostile-work-environment-claims-aimed-at-dei-gain-early-traction
SALON
— Employers want cheap labor. Citizens of foreign countries work for less money than citizens of America. Citizens of foreign countries are much easier to exploit and to abuse. If my employers could have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me, they would have.
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/26/dire-shortage-elon-musk-sparks-maga-backlash-after-calling-for-more-workers/
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 57% Favor FBI Probe of Liz Cheney
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/57_favor_fbi_probe_of_liz_cheney
INDEPENDENT
— More Americans believe health care is the government’s responsibility. MAGA is looking to end federal programs. Newfound belief in government health care comes as some Republicans are getting ready to push for cutting government spending on health care programs such as Obamacare and Medicaid.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/health-care-government-americans-donald-trump-b2666060.html
December 18, 2024
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE IN NAPERVILLE SUN: After decades of red, 2024 election shows DuPage County now ‘reliably blue’ (COMMENT: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. I have been deeply involved with Republican politics in DuPage County since 2000. At least since 2000, leaders of the DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC) have rejected some, many, most, if not virtually all the planks in the Republican Party platform. Yes, Democrats have ever-increasing invaded the county. But DCRCC leaders have ever-increasingly become more Democrat Lite, more RINO, more anti-conservative, more anti-Trump, and more anti-Republican. They boycotted the Illinois Republican Party State Convention in Collinsville this year and removed me from its Platform and Resolutions Committee. I should write about those past and present DCRCC leaders who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/17/dupage-county-naperville-2024-election-democrat-republican-illinois-politics/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Earlier this month, 11 elected officials were sworn into DuPage County offices. Of those, nine were Democrats. In the wake of November’s general election, DuPage County — once a Republican stronghold — seems to have definitively shifted left, experts and observers say. “I think we have strong evidence suggesting that we can now say DuPage is reliably blue,” said Melissa Mouritsen, a political science professor at College of DuPage. From federal races to county contests, the 2024 election saw the Democratic Party come out strong across DuPage. Voters favored the Democratic candidates in four of five congressional races that reached into the county. Democrats also captured a larger share of the county’s vote in three of four state senator races and 12 of 16 state representative races. County-wide, three-term DuPage County Coroner Richard Jorgensen was unseated by Democratic challenger Judith Lukas. Democratic incumbents prevailed in their reelection bids for circuit clerk and auditor while the Democratic candidate clinched a win in the race for recorder. On the DuPage County Board, a Democratic challenger unseated her Republican predecessor, while other Democratic incumbents held onto their seats, leaving the body with 12 Democrats, six Republicans and a Democratic chair. Eighteen years ago, not one Democrat sat on the board. Change in course For more than a century, DuPage County was undeniably Republican. But over the past two decades — particularly the past six years — Democrats have incrementally loosened the GOP’s grip on the county. In 2006, the county had an entirely Republican 18-seat board. Over the next 10 years, Democrats grew to have a small presence on the body. But then the tide really started to change. In 2018 alone, the body added six Democrats to the mix. That same year, Jean Kaczmarek was elected clerk, making her the first Democrat to snag a county-wide office in DuPage since 1934. (BAR CHART) By 2020, Democrats picked up four more seats on the board, flipping the majority in their favor. Two years later, voters elected the board’s first Democratic chair in at least three-quarters of a century. It all pointed to a change in course. Still, even when Democrats took control of the board four years ago — something that hadn’t happened since the 1930s — questions loomed: was DuPage County really blue? Was it purple? Will it last? November’s election, though, dealt answers, observers say. That’s even despite Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket underperforming President Joe Biden by nearly three points. “I think it’s enduring change,” Mouritsen said. And it comes down to there being a greater shift in what the electorate is thinking, meaning residents “by and large more identify as Democrats,” she said. Mouritsen, in part, attributes the change to secular shift, including demographics and that “we’re seeing more people move to DuPage from Cook County, who bring their politics.” Another factor is mapmaking, Mouritsen said. Favorable political districts for Illinois Democrats starting in 2010 gave way to Democratic gerrymandering in DuPage, she said. A third component has been just work of the party itself. Mouritsen called the trio of factors “three legs of a table,” all contributing to Democrats’ ascendancy in DuPage. Then, six years ago, the change — already in the making — hastened with something Mouritsen dubbed the “Trump effect.” Repudiation In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump received 39% of the county’s vote, nearly nine points less than Mitt Romney four years prior. Locally, there appeared to be an aversion to Trump, Mouritsen said. “(I would say) there was a strong contingent of Republicans in DuPage County who felt that way,” she said, adding that in turn helped to spur on the blue shift already taking root in the county. Former DuPage County Board Democrat Elizabeth “Liz” Chaplin says that she has likewise found that, “(With) what we’re hearing at the national level … a lot of people just don’t like this rhetoric (and) I think that really helped us resonate with the voters.” Chaplin was first elected to the board in 2012. She retained her seat for 12 more years before leaving to successfully run for county recorder this year. “I mean, from 12 years to where we are today, I never thought it would have turned this quickly,” she said. To her, Trump’s first term is the “prevailing factor” in propelling that flip, she said. Jennifer Zordani, who was the acting chair of the Democratic Party of DuPage County until mid-November, likewise thinks repudiation has played an important part in change, she says, though less so in direct response to Trump and more against extremist ideology in general. “I don’t know if it’s as much the repudiation of Trump … (as it is) a repudiation of extremists on issues,” she said. Where Zordani and Chaplin do align is their belief in where the past few years have landed DuPage today. “I believe it is solidly blue,” Zordani said. Chaplin echoed, “I do see (the county) as truly blue.” Across the aisle, though, observations diverge. ‘Green wave’ James Zay, a DuPage County Board member since 1999 and chairman of DuPage County Republicans, says he wouldn’t call recent change a blue wave but a “green wave.” “Democrats are outspending us probably 10 to one at least in all of these House and Senate races and on media on Chicago markets. … And you can’t tell me it doesn’t have an effect down ballot,” Zay said. Democrats had a hefty financial advantage in state legislative races, with the House Democrats’ campaign organization and the state party funneling millions of dollars to candidates facing potentially tough Republican competition. As far as other potential down-ballot effects, Zay dismissed the notion that Trump is a deterrent for local Republicans. There were more requests for Trump signs ahead of November’s election than he’s seen before, Zay said. Speaking to the GOP’s broader trajectory both in the years leading up to November and going forward, Zay did recognize there is work ahead for the party. Namely, building Republicans’ stronghold back from the ground up. DuPage Republicans in recent years have lost a once-strong pipeline for up-and-coming candidates, Zay said. Of late, the party hasn’t “done a good job of bringing people up from park district boards and municipal boards” for higher office, he said. It needs to build a farm system again, he noted. In Zay’s estimation, the county these days is more purple than firmly blue. “I would definitely say it’s a 60-40 (Democrats to Republicans) county right now,” he said. But that split, as the past few years have shown, is subject to change, he added. “It could turn at any time. I mean, who knows, you know?” A blue future? The durability of Democrats’ momentum in DuPage is hard to pinpoint, according to Stephen Maynard Caliendo, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at North Central College. Caliendo, who is also a professor of political science, expects the shift to persist for some time, though that doesn’t mean it will never swing back, he said. There are a few factors, again, playing to Democrats’ favor. One is incumbent advantage, Caliendo says. Another is the party’s power statewide, he said, especially when it comes to redistricting. “With a state that is always in control by Democrats, it’s very unlikely … that they’re going to” realign districts in a way that’s going to put them — candidates in DuPage included — at a disadvantage, he said. What could make a difference is the country’s larger political environment, Caliendo said. “The reason why I might be wrong,” he said, “is because we may be seeing a fundamental realignment of the parties … and what I mean by that is I don’t know if the Republican Party can survive Trump in the form that it had taken since 1980.” If that’s the case, Caliendo continued, “everything I said about redistricting and whatever is not going to make any difference because people who used to vote Democrat might vote Republican” and vice versa. For now, what DuPage Democrats can — and should do — is avoid complacency, Chaplin and Zordani advise. “We’re still growing. … We can’t rest on our laurels,” Chaplin said. “I think we have to continue to work to let people know who we are,” Zordani added, “(and) what we’re doing. … We are solidly blue, but it would never ever be something I would take for granted.”)
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump won the November 5, 2024 presidential election. The voters have spoken. In light of that, what should Republican party leaders, elected officials, and candidates be doing to defend and advance Trump? What should the following be doing to defend and advance Trump: a) the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party and your Republican county and township/ward party organizations, b) the Republican elected officials in your area, and c) the Republican candidates on the April 1, 2025 ballot in your precinct? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election and they ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. That hatred caused all but 2 of the 13 Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in my precinct to lose. How successful will Democrat and RINO leaders be in causing the Republican candidates on the April 1, 2025 ballot in my precinct to lose? I have 1,091 registered voters in my precinct. 458 (42%) are Independent. 361 (33%) are Republican. 272 (25%) are Democrat. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Allies of Thornton Township Supervisor Tiffany Henyard get some challengers kicked off ballot (COMMENT: When will the Daily Herald start reporting on Castle v. Monino (2024 MTEB 01)? Monino has filed petitions to run for Milton Township Supervisor as an Independent and Caste is changeling those petitions.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tiffany-henyard-news-allies-thornton-township-supervisor-serves-dolton-mayor-get-challengers-kicked-off-ballot/15668759/
— Supervisor Tiffany Henyard warns Thornton Township shutdown could start Wednesday
https://abc7chicago.com/post/tiffany-henyard-news-thornton-township-supervisor-serves-dolton-mayor-warns-shutdown-could-start-wednesday/15671055/
— ‘Total dumpster fire’: Republicans fume over speaker’s spending plan days from shutdown deadline. House Republicans stormed out of a GOP conference meeting, furious at Johnson.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/republicans-fume-speaker-mike-johnsons-spending-plan-days-shutdown-deadline/15668588/
NBC5
— Trump chooses Herschel Walker as US ambassador to Bahamas (COMMENT: Back in the good old days, that is, back in 1970s, I went on two vacations to the Bahamas.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-chooses-herschel-walker-as-us-ambassador-to-bahamas/3627133/
WGN9
— Trump sues Des Moines Register, pollster
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/trump-sues-des-moines-register-pollster/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Illinois Democrats push to accomplish a slew of last-minute goals as President Joe Biden’s era ends
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/18/illinois-congress-biden-goals/
— After investigating Jan. 6, House GOP sides with Trump and goes after Liz Cheney
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/17/jan-6-house-gop-liz-cheney/
— Elgin City Council to vote on plan to move tent city residents to hotels, tear down encampment
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/17/elgin-council-to-vote-on-plan-to-move-tent-city-residents-to-hotels-tear-down-encampment/
— 3 candidates for Thornton Township supervisor knocked off 2025 ballot (COMMENT: When will the Chicago Tribune start reporting on Castle v. Monino (2024 MTEB 01)? Monino has filed petitions to run for Milton Township Supervisor as an Independent and Caste is changeling those petitions.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/17/3-candidates-for-thornton-township-supervisor-knocked-off-2025-ballot/
— Americans end 2024 with grim economic outlook, but Republicans are optimistic for 2025
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/17/america-economy/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Sheriff Tom Dart plans to scrap decades-old electronic monitoring program over safety concerns
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2024/12/17/sheriff-tom-dart-scrap-electronic-monitoring-safety-concerns
— Here’s hoping Trump doesn’t deliver on ideas to privatize the U.S. Postal Service. Taking the country’s troubled but constitutionally-enshrined mail and placing it on the hands of the private operators is a cure that’s far worse than the ailment. (COMMENT: I worked for the Post Office 1966-1969.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2024/12/18/donald-trump-privatize-u-s-postal-service-musk-ramaswamy-postmaster-louis-dejoy
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Illinois Democrats and Illinois RINOs reject Trump’s election.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2024-12-18/illinois-laws-create-roadblocks-but-dont-stop-deportations-expert-says
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Most US teens are abstaining from drinking, smoking and marijuana (COMMENT: Democrat leaders promote vices.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/health-news/ap-most-us-teens-are-abstaining-from-drinking-smoking-and-marijuana-survey-says/
CITIES 92.9
— Appeals court hears challenge of Illinois teacher’s firing for Facebook posts (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me because they do not like articles linked to in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.)
https://www.cities929.com/2024/12/17/appeals-court-hears-challenge-of-illinois-teachers-firing-for-facebook-posts/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-426/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/12/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-218/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS GOP
— Illinois’ No Good, Very Bad YEAR Under IL Democrats
https://illinois.gop/illinois-no-good-very-bad-year-under-il-democrats/
JOHN KASS
— Chicago’s Desperate Mayor: el Brandito
https://johnkassnews.com/chicagos-desperate-mayor-black-lenin/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Looking at the Birthright Citizenship Debate
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/17/looking-at-the-birthright-citizenship-debate/
— 71-Year Old Enbridge Pipeline That Appears to Run Through Western McHenry County Springs Leak in Wisconsin
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/16/71-year-old-enbridge-pipeline-that-appears-to-run-through-western-mchenry-county-springs-leak-in-wisconsin/
— Ethics, Smethics
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/15/ethics-smethics/
— Trump Puts Year-Round Daylight v. Standard Time Fight on Horizon
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/15/trump-puts-year-round-daylight-v-standard-time-fight-on-horizon/
— From Now through January 2nd Local Police Have Federally-Financed Cars on Duty
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/16/from-now-through-january-2nd-local-police-have-federally-financed-cars-on-duty/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago property taxes have doubled in 10 years, thanks to pensions
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-property-taxes-have-doubled-in-10-years-thanks-to-pensions/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump is right about birthright citizenship. Farcical practice should have ended long ago.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/17/trump-right-birthright-citizenship/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
— End the weaponization of the IRS (COMMENT: To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980. They never promoted me beyond GS-12.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/17/end-weaponization-irs/
— Why transgender people shouldn’t serve in the military
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/17/transgender-people-shouldn-serve-military/
— Change needs to come to White House press briefing room (COMMENT: I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor 2000. My DuPage County Republican critics/opponents did not want me to attend Henry Hyde’s press conference in 2005 ( https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-08-05-0508050305-story.html ) in which he endorsed Roskam. But when I attended anyway, they warned me to not ask any questions. Since 2005, they have used what happened with Jeff Gannon during a White House press briefing (SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talon_News ) to demonize me, denigrate, me, and condemn me as being a clone of Gannon and even worse things. Since 2005, they have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I ask bad questions at press conferences and share privileged information with Democrat reporters that have caused Republican candidates to be defeated and even worse things. Needless-to-say, I should sue my critics/opponents.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/17/change-needs-come-white-house-press-briefing-room/
— Trump poised to shake up America’s woke colleges and universities (COMMENT: The universities that I earned degrees from (NIU-1970, Loyola-1976, DePaul-1980, and IIT-1997) are ever-increasingly more woke, that is, they ever-increasingly have no use for me.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/17/donald-trump-poised-shake-america-woke-colleges-un/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ‘Sanctuaries’ hiding nearly 60% of illegal immigrants from ICE
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3263100/sanctuaries-hiding-60-percent-illegal-immigrants-ice/
NEW YORK POST
— Disney axes transgender storyline from upcoming ‘Win or Lose’ series
https://nypost.com/2024/12/18/entertainment/disney-axes-transgender-storyline-from-upcoming-win-or-lose-series-report/
AMERICA FIRST LEGAL
— American Airlines Agrees to End Illegal Discrimination in Hiring, Recruiting, and Employment Practices Following AFL’s Civil Rights Complaint
https://aflegal.org/victory-american-airlines-agrees-to-end-illegal-discrimination-in-hiring-recruiting-and-employment-practices-following-afls-civil-rights-complaint/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrat Party’s Fight for American Youth (COMMENT: How successful have Democrat and RINO leaders in your county, township, municipality, and school district been in making young people anti-Trump, that is, in making them anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/twitch_wokeism_and_the_democrat_party_s_fight_for_american_youth.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) says Hispanic Trump voters have a ‘slave mentality’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/12/17/jasmine-crockett-says-hispanic-trump-voters-have-a-slave-mentality-1510157/
BREITBART
— Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Removes Citizens from Meeting for Protesting Migrant Funding
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/17/chicago-democrat-mayor-removes-citizens-meeting-protesting-migrant-funding/
— Nearly 8 Million Illegals Living in Sanctuary Cities Across U.S. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Party Army.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/17/analysis-nearly-8-million-illegals-living-sanctuary-cities-across-us/
— Trump’s Deportations May Force Meatpacking Industry to Raise Wages (COMMENT: Illegals drive wages down. Back in good old days, that is, back in the 1960s, I was able to earn enough a) to buy a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air when I was 16 in 1964, a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, and a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, b) to pay for all my college expenses, and c) to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning that Charger.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/17/report-trumps-deportations-may-force-meatpacking-industry-raise-wages/
— Democrat Senators Defend Transgenderism in Pentagon’s K-12 Schools
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/17/democrat-senators-defend-transgenderism-pentagon-k-12-schools/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Working-Age, but Not Working, 1960 to 2024. Documenting the decades-long increase in the share of Americans not in the labor force, and its implications for immigration policy. (COMMENT: If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://cis.org/Report/WorkingAge-Not-Working-1960-2024
COLLEGE FIX
— Michael Knowles ‘creates unsafe’ campus for ‘LGBTQ+ students,’ University of Illinois complaint says
https://www.thecollegefix.com/michael-knowles-creates-unsafe-campus-for-lgbtq-students-u-illinois-complaint-says/
DAILY CALLER
— Chicago City Hall Meeting Erupts Into Chaos As Residents Protest ‘Migrant Invasion,’ Mayor Calls In Police To Clear Them Out. https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/17/chicago-city-hall-meeting-chaos-residents-protest-migrant-funding/
— ‘Just Another Weaponized Institution’: Ramaswamy, Musk Slam SEC Following Diversity Policy Reversal (COMMENT: GAO audits SEC. Because my Democrat GAO had forced me to retire when I was 49 years old 1997, the Democrats who ran SEC had no interest in hiring me even though a) I had worked for GAO on audits of federal financial industry regulators including SEC for 9 years, b) I had earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, c) I had become a Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, d) I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981, e) I had become a licensed CPA in 1981, f) I had become a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, g) I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and h) I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years. SEC would have hired me instantly if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/just-another-weaponized-institution-ramaswamy-musk-slam-sec-following-diversity-policy-reversal/ar-AA1vOxoj
DAILY WIRE
— 120+ Retired Generals, Admirals Sign Letter Backing Pete Hegseth For Defense Secretary. Trump said Hegseth has made “tremendous strides” over the last week toward being confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/120-retired-generals-admirals-sign-letter-backing-pete-hegseth-for-defense-secretary
— Medical School To Host Course With Activist Who Said ‘White People Are Psychopaths’ The far-left activist said that whites are psychopaths because of their biology and ‘evolutionary history’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/medical-school-to-host-course-with-activist-who-said-white-people-are-psychopaths
— Feds Look To Hire Up To 1,200 New DEI Bureaucrats Before Trump Takes Office. Thirty-three DEI jobs were posted in the 10 days immediately following Trump’s election.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-look-to-hire-up-to-1200-new-dei-bureaucrats-before-trump-takes-office
— Major Medical Association Pushes For DEI ‘To Be Embedded In Everything’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-medical-association-pushes-for-dei-to-be-embedded-in-everything
— Disney Pulls Transgender Storyline From Upcoming Animated Series
https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-upcoming-animated-series
EPOCH TIMES
— Head of Russia’s Nuclear Defense Forces Killed by Scooter Bomb in Moscow. Earlier this week, Ukraine’s security services charged Igor Kirillov with the use of banned chemical weapons.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/head-of-russias-nuclear-defense-forces-killed-by-scooter-bomb-in-moscow-5777751
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
— Department of Education Blew $1 Billion on DEI
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/department-of-education-blew-1-billion-on-dei-heres-why-it-matters/
FOX BUSINESS
— American Airlines ends DEI hiring practices after facing discrimination charges by conservative watchdog. The policy reversal comes after America First Legal filed a discrimination complaint against the airline.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/american-airlines-ends-dei-hiring-practices-after-facing-discrimination-charges-conservative-watchdog
FOX NEWS
— Chicago community activist Andre Smith sounds off on migrant crisis: ‘I welcome’ Trump border czar
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-community-activist-sounds-off-133540056.html
— Chicago mayor boots public from rowdy city meeting as residents object to migrant ‘invasion’ Mayor Johnson struggled to pass his budget plan for weeks. (COMMENT: Illegal immigration harms low-paid employees and especially low-paid employees who are minority and/or female.)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-mayor-boots-public-from-rowdy-city-meeting-residents-object-migrant-invasion
— Cheney Accused of ‘Potential’ Witness Tampering
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-politics-cheney-accused-potential-witness-tampering
— Biden wants to make it difficult for Trump (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors made things difficult for me after I got promoted to GS-11 in 1973. They disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. They got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976. They disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and my earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980. They never promoted me beyond GS-12.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6366162026112
— Mike Lee looks to halt welfare for illegals going on under Biden with key budget process. The ‘America First Act’ would remove eligibility for a variety of benefits from noncitizens.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-lee-looks-halt-welfare-illegals-going-under-biden-key-budget-process
— Trump’s transition team eyes expansion of ankle monitors for illegal immigrants not in custody. Expanded GPS monitoring has been on Republicans’ agendas for years. (COMMENT: How many illegals are roaming around in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-transition-team-eyes-expansion-ankle-monitors-illegal-immigrants-not-custody
— Black enrollment at Harvard Law tanks by more than half after affirmative action ruling. The president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association, lamented the decline in enrollment as a ‘crushing loss.’ (COMMENT: My Democrat superiors in the federal government used Affirmative Action to waste my career and to get rid of me. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had one professional certification while I had six, and d) who was not a licensed CPA like I was.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/black-enrollment-harvard-law-tanks-more-than-half-after-affirmative-action-ruling
— Disney drops transgender storyline from upcoming animated Pixar show ‘Win or Lose’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/disney-drops-transgender-storyline-from-upcoming-animated-pixar-show-win-lose
— Biden sinks to all-time low, while Trump’s numbers rise, in new national poll
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-sinks-all-time-low-trump-hits-recent-high-new-national-poll
HANNITY
— Trump Says Hegseth Making ‘Tremendous Strides’ Towards Confirmation, 120+ Sign Letter in Support
https://hannity.com/media-room/in-his-defense-trump-says-hegseth-making-tremendous-strides-towards-confirmation-120-sign-letter-in-support/
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Chicago Mayor Kicks Public Out of City Meeting After They Trash Him Over Illegal Aliens. “He wants to pull a $40 million line of credit and put the city in even more debt. It’s your fault, because you gave half of the money to illegals.” (COMMENT: Illegal immigration harms low-paid employees and especially low-paid employees who are minority and/or female.)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/chicago-mayor-kicks-public-out-of-city-meeting-after-they-trash-him-over-illegal-aliens/
NEWSMAX
— 120 Retired Generals, Admirals Sign Support for Hegseth
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/military-trump-cabinet/2024/12/17/id/1191979/
OPEN THE BOOKS
— NEW REPORT SHOWS DC STILL A GHOST TOWN AFTER COVID
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/wheres-waldo-new-report-shows-dc
TOWNHALL
— Chicago Mayor Boots Angry Residents From Meeting After Being Criticized for Prioritizing Illegal Aliens
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2024/12/17/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-kicks-people-out-of-meeting-who-were-angry-about-migrant-crisis-n2649188
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— Are more migrants staying in Texas after crossing the border?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/are-more-migrants-staying-in-texas-after-crossing-the-border/ar-AA1w3aCM
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/us/undocumented-border-families-texas.html
— Suit Accuses Georgetown, Penn and M.I.T. of Admissions Based on Wealth. The schools were accused of giving special treatment to wealthy students who might not otherwise have been admitted. (COMMENT: I had to work my way through college. How wealthy were your parents when you were in high school and college? My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school and never worked outside of the home.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/us/lawsuit-georgetown-wealthy-students-admissions.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Young Republicans Gather, Ready to Make America Vengeful Again. At a gala on Wall Street for the New York Young Republican Club, attendees were looking forward to retribution from the next Trump era, and musing on another run in 2028.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/us/politics/young-republicans-gala.html
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject Trump’s election and ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/12/17/trump-mass-deportation-threats-nyc-principals-reminded-keep-ice-out-of-public-schools/
NEW YORK SUN
— House GOP Subcommittee Recommends Liz Cheney Face Criminal Charges for Witness Tampering. Congressman Barry Loudermilk says Ms. Cheney colluded with Cassidy Hutchinson and her attorney to give false testimony by telling salacious and untrue stories about the events of that day.
https://www.nysun.com/article/house-gop-subcommittee-recommends-liz-cheney-face-criminal-charges-for-witness-tampering
USA TODAY
— Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters ever-increasingly promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/12/17/republicans-congress-all-male-house-committee-chair/77026435007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— All the News That’s Suddenly Fit to Print After the Election. New York Times readers finally learn that Biden policies spurred a wave of illegal immigration.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/all-the-news-thats-suddenly-fit-to-print-after-the-election-f4a0d624
— Lawsuit Reveals How Colleges Really Talk About Rich Applicants. ‘Sure hope the wealthy raise a few more smart kids!’ wrote one college enrollment officer, according to the suit. (COMMENT: I had to work my way through college. How wealthy were your parents when you were in high school and college? My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school and never worked outside of the home.)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/college-financial-aid-lawsuit-rich-students-families-c1a3a41c
BEACON ONLINE NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Jesus is woke, that is, that Jesus is anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://beacononlinenews.com/2024/12/17/christ-and-woke-philosophy/
DAILY BEAST
— Trump Makes Good on His Threat to Sue Iowa Pollster and The Des Moines Register
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-makes-good-on-his-threat-to-sue-iowa-pollster-j-ann-selzer-and-de-moines-register/
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Blacks cannot succeed unless they are given massive preference. My Democrat GAO superiors gave my Black subordinate massive preference. They forced me to retire and gave him my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had a professional certification, but I had six. He was not a licensed CPA like I was.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/12/18/harvard-and-unc-enrolled-fewer-black-law-students-year
CARE
— 7 practical ways to pay for long-term care (COMMENT: How prepared are you to pay for long-term care? My outstanding aunt had saved more than $600,000 for her long-term care when she went into an assisted living facility in 2011. She died in 2022. She had never attended college. She never married. She worked as a key-punch operator. She lived frugally. She helped teach me how to drive a car.)
https://www.care.com/c/practical-ways-to-pay-for-long-term-care/
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
— Insulate Your Home — and Your Bank Account (COMMENT: When our home was built in 1984, my wife and I insulated the walls and attic of our attached 3-car garage. Subsequently, we replaced the garage doors with insulated ones. I am now adding additional insulation in the garage attic.)
https://www.energy.gov/articles/insulate-your-home-and-your-bank-account
INDEPENDENT
— Wisconsin shooting latest: Natalie Rupnow joined shooting range before school attack as police hunt motive. Natalie Rupnow, a 15-year-old student at Abundant Life Christian School, was photographed shooting skeet in the summer.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/natalie-rupnow-wisconsin-madison-school-shooting-motive-b2666321.html
DAILY MAIL
— Democrat sparks fury as she accuses Latino Trump voters of having a ‘slave mentality’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14202963/jasmine-crockett-maga-hispanic-voters-slave-mentality.html
— More than a million Venezuelans have been allowed into the US in the time President Joe Biden has been in office. A staggering 1,022,409 citizens of the South American country have been encountered at the southern border or granted admission into the US through one of Biden’s immigration programs, according to federal government statistics from 2021 through October of this year. This citizenship is particularly important because Venezuelans have largely fueled the crisis at the border for the last four years – from asylum-seekers fleeing the communist regime back home to the Tren de Aragua members who have unleashed a wave of crime in American cities.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/us-border-crisis/article-14191311/venezuelan-migrant-numbers-biden-border.html
December 15, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WGN9
— Is it legal to shoot down a drone in Illinois?
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/is-it-legal-to-shoot-down-a-drone-in-missouri-or-illinois/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Lake County officials vow not to help any mass deportation efforts (COMMENT: Constructively, Lake County has declared war on America. The Democrat Party has declared a Second Civil War on the Republican Party. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/13/lake-county-officials-vow-not-to-help-any-mass-deportation-efforts-we-want-everyone-in-our-community-to-trust-in-that/
— In Downers Grove, whether to elect library board exposes old political rifts
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/14/downers-grove-library-board/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Intentionally weak government oversight gives Illinois public officials cover for corruption
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/15/illinois-weak-government-oversight/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those in America who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2024/12/14/national-immigrant-justice-center-prepares-defend-immigrants-mass-deportations-tom-homan-border-czar
DAILY HERALD
— Trump attends the Army-Navy game alongside key allies, nominees and Daniel Penny
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241214/nation-and-world-politics/trump-attends-the-army-navy-game-alongside-key-allies-nominees-and-daniel-penny/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Why Illinois state agencies are sitting on millions in unspent funding
https://pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/rich-miller-why-illinois-state-agencies-are-sitting-on-millions-in-unspent-funding/article_a609c768-b9a2-11ef-a81d-73b012977313.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Kinzinger.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/government-politics/elections/adam-kinzinger-central-illinois-last-republican-president-2028/article_bd5feb52-b99f-11ef-9897-9744ae045665.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Trump gets warm welcome as he watches Army-Navy game alongside key allies, nominees and Daniel Penny (COMMENT: If Trump came to your county, township, or municipality, how warm of a welcome would he get?)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-will-attend-the-army-navy-game-alongside-key-allies-nominees-and-daniel-penny/
NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION
— Naperville man found guilty of criminal damage to property for swastikas on campaign signs
https://www.nctv17.org/news/naperville-man-found-guilty-of-criminal-damage-to-property-for-swastikas-on-campaign-signs/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Unions pitch ‘fix’ to Illinois’ pensions without knowing taxpayer cost
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b481dc42-b9a0-11ef-9ca3-ef54943f8644.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders a) equate illegals with runaway slaves, b) equate the Democrat Party with Union in the Civil War, and c) equate the Republican Party with the Confederacy in the Civil War. The Democrat Party has declared a Second Civil War on the Republican Party. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In Illinois, you declare your party affiliation by casting a primary ballot. Of registered voters nationwide, 47% have declared a party affiliation. As of September 2024, 36 million voters are registered Republicans and 45.1 million are registered Democrats. SEE: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-voters-have-a-party-affiliation/ What percent of the voters in your precinct are registered Republican, Democrat, and not affiliated? In my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton, 361 (33%) are Republican, 272 (27%) are Democrat, and 458 (42%) are not affiliated. For the April 1, 2025 consolidate election, I will hand-deliver campaign literature for the Republican candidates and a copy of the sample ballot to the approximate 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or not affiliated voter. – Dave Diersen
http://www-gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Continued Concern about Data Centers Sucking Up Residential Electricity
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/14/continued-concern-about-data-centers-sucking-up-residential-electricity/
— Notes on Government Consolidation from Zoom Meeting of We the People with Illinois House Majority Leader
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/14/notes-on-government-consolidation-from-zoom-meeting-of-we-the-people-with-illinois-house-majority-leader/
— Lakewood Village Board Turns Thumbs Down on Police Request for Tesla
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/14/lakewood-village-board-turns-thumbs-down-on-police-request-for-tesla/
— LaHood Criticizes Biden for Voiding 19-Year Dixon Comptroller Prison Sentence
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/12/14/lahood-criticizes-biden-for-voiding-19-year-dixon-comptroller-prison-sentence/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Daniel Penny joins Trump and Vance at Army-Navy game
https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/us-news/daniel-penny-joins-trump-and-vance-at-army-navy-game/
— Trump eyeing privatizing US Postal Service (COMMENT: I worked for the Post Office for almost 3 years.)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/us-news/trump-eyeing-privatizing-us-postal-service-report/
— Joe Biden & Co. are doing as much damage to the US as they can before they leave
https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/opinion/joe-biden-amp-co-are-doing-as-much-damage-to-the-us-as-they-can-before-they-leave/
— Google slammed for ‘woke’ new Christmas ad starring ‘nonbinary’ beauty influencer (COMMENT: The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone to websites a) that promote Democrats and the Democrat Party and b) that demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans and the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7vbl7bMZGg
— A new investment fund is saying ‘no’ to DEI-focused companies — and ‘yes’ to others
https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/opinion/a-new-investment-fund-is-saying-no-to-dei-focused-companies/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Communist China Is Moving Toward War (COMMENT: Communist China sees that Affirmative Action and DEI are ever-increasingly weakening America.)
https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/15/communist-china-is-moving-toward-war-separating-the-signal-from-the-noise/
BREITBART
— DOGE Says Department of Education Spent $1 Billion Promoting DEI in Schools (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/14/doge-claims-department-education-spent-1-billion-promoting-dei-schools/
— Majority Support Banning Minors from Accessing Transgender Procedures; Most Democrats Disagree
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/14/poll-majority-support-banning-minors-from-accessing-transgender-procedures-most-democrats-disagree/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Yale law Scholars program extends eligibility to non-citizens, including illegal immigrants (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/yale-law-scholars-program-extends-eligibility-non-citizens-including-illegal-immigrants/27088
CENTER SQUARE
— IRS data shows ‘Blue State Exodus’ over past 30 years (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly drive Republicans out of blue states. I should write a book about the success that Democrat and RINO leaders in Illinois have had driving Republicans out of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton’s West District, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_161808d8-b982-11ef-bd4c-f35cdecb09db.html
— Challenging Trump, California to pay for migrant deportation defense (COMMENT: Constructively, California has declared war on America.)
https://www.aol.com/challenging-trump-california-pay-migrant-172900872.html
DAILY CALLER
— Massive Defense Bill Creates Sperm Freezing Program, Dumps Millions Into ‘Minority Serving’ Schools
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/14/house-passes-ndaa-program-funds-sperm-freezing/
DAILY SIGNAL
— More Corporations Following Walmart’s ‘Rollback’ of DEI Policies (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RNO employers will put their DEI “under the table” and that they will continue to use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/14/corporations-are-finally-giving-dei-pink-slip/
EPOCH TIMES
— ABC News, George Stephanopoulos Agree to Pay $15 Million to Settle Trump’s Defamation Lawsuit. ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have agreed to apologize to Trump and pay millions to settle a defamation lawsuit. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents tone down their defamation of me because I have filed lawsuits.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/abc-news-george-stephanopoulos-agree-to-pay-15-million-to-settle-trumps-defamation-lawsuit-5776527
FOX BUSINESS
— Chicago resident slams mayor, calls out city’s illegal immigration ‘Ponzi scheme’: ‘Gotten out of hand’ The Windy City has spent $574.5 million on migrants.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/chicago-resident-slams-mayor-calls-out-citys-illegal-immigration-ponzi-scheme-gotten-out-hand
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Identity Politics Don’t Belong in Medicine (COMMENT: Soon, if not already, everyone in medicine will be libera/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are citizens of foreign countries.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/identity-politics-dont-belong-in-medicine-either/
JP MEDIA
— ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Can Impede Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, But They Can’t Stop It (COMMENT: How strongly will the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district fight deportation?)
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/12/14/sanctuary-cities-can-impede-trumps-mass-deportation-plan-but-they-cant-stop-it-n4935128
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Google Goes Fully Woke in New Christmas Ad, Sparking Calls for Boycott (COMMENT: The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone to websites a) that promote Democrats and the Democrat Party and b) that demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans and the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.westernjournal.com/google-goes-fully-woke-new-christmas-ad-sparking-calls-boycott/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrats recalibrate their resistance to Trump (COMMENT: How strongly will the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district fight deportation?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5039827-democratic-party-trump-resistance/
CNN
— Chicago mayor blasts Trump after ‘border czar’ vows mass deportation (COMMENT: How strongly will the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district work against Trump?)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/14/politics/video/brandon-johnson-chicago-trump-border-czar-immigration-plan-reaction-blackwell-intv-foa-digvid
REUTERS
— US Naval Academy to defend race-conscious admissions policies at trial (COMMENT: GAO works for Congress. Democrats run GAO. In Diersen v. GAO, GAO argued that it treated me exactly like Congress wanted it to treat me, that is, to make me pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI a) because I was conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, my ancestors have been in America for a long time, b) because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and c) because I was an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged GAO with the aforesaid. My Democrat GAO superiors took many big adverse actions against me including forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and giving my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.)
https://www.aol.com/news/us-naval-academy-defend-race-100618581.html
CNBC
— Majority of Americans are ready to support Trump and large parts of his agenda
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/15/majorities-in-poll-give-trump-green-light-for-some-controversial-policies.html
MSN
— Sharp Drop In College Enrollment Raises Alarm (COMMENT: If you were in high school today, would have the necessary motivation to earn a college degree? What are your demographics? Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more or the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, Protestant, German American, and/or if you have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/sharp-drop-in-college-enrollment-raises-alarm/ar-AA1vu6gt
— Map Shows Nationalities of Immigrants Awaiting ICE Deportation from US
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/map-shows-nationalities-of-immigrants-awaiting-ice-deportation-from-us/ar-AA1vL2Ng
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in the military.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/defense-trans-minors-care-ban-bill-military-families-rcna184156
— ‘I surely hope’ to work with Trump to raise the minimum wage, Sen. Bernie Sanders says (COMMENT: I worked part-time for the minimum wage ($12.41/hour in today’s dollars) during my junior and senior years in high school and full-time during the summer in between 1964-1966. That enabled me to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint (a poor man’s GAO) in May of 1966.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/-i-surely-hope-to-work-with-trump-to-raise-the-minimum-wage-sen-bernie-sanders-says-227110469948
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump gets warm welcome as he watches Army-Navy game alongside key allies, nominees and Daniel Penny. Donald Trump huddled with allies and a Republican cause célèbre at the Army-Navy football game. (COMMENT: If Trump came to your county, township, or municipality, how warm of a welcome would he get?)
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-gets-warm-welcome-as-he-watches-army-navy-game-alongside-key-allies-nominees-and/article_fc351f0c-ac8d-5051-85f8-5119828e7384.html
NEWSWEEK
— New Mexico Governor Refuses National Guard Deployment for Mass Deportations (COMMENT: Constructively, New Mexico has declared war on America.)
https://www.newsweek.com/new-mexico-michelle-lujan-grisham-trump-mass-deportations-2000244
— Democrats say “Musk Overseeing a Department for Transparency and Accountability Is the Ultimate Troll.” I worked for IRS 1971-1980. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors did not want me to audit IRS. They succeed in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They stressed the adverse actions that my Democrat IRS superiors had taken against me including a) disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974 and education deductions in 1978, never promoting me beyond GS-12, and ignoring/dismissing/belittling my earning an MBA in 1976, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and earning a master’s degree in accounting in 1980.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-overseeing-department-transparency-accountability-ultimate-troll-opinion-1988463
NEW YORK TIMES
— ABC to Pay $15 Million to Settle a Defamation Suit Brought by Trump. The outcome of the lawsuit marks an unusual victory for President-elect Donald J. Trump in his ongoing legal campaign against national news organizations. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents tone down their defamation of me because I have filed lawsuits.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/us/politics/trump-abc-settlement.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— As with Trump’s last term, California will lead the liberal resistance (COMMENT: How strongly will the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district fight Trump?)
https://www.aol.com/news/trumps-last-term-california-lead-194711042.html
— Former California Rep. Devin Nunes once sued media companies. Now he’s struggling to run one. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents tone down their defamation of me because I have filed lawsuits.)
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-10-23/devin-nunes-donald-trump-truth-social-california-congress-robin-abcarian
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I’ve followed Nunes’ career as an ultra-litigious Trump defender who is afflicted by a world-class intolerance for perceived slights. Before taking the helm of Trump Media in 2022, Nunes had a master’s degree in agriculture but little hands-on business experience. He was involved in his family’s San Joaquin Valley dairy farm decades ago; when he was 14, he has recounted, he bought seven head of young cattle to raise and sell. I guess this explains his tolerance for the, ah, stench of MAGA bull. Given his disdain for media in general and free speech in particular, as evidenced by a series of lawsuits against news organizations and other critics, putting Nunes in charge of a fledgling media empire was a bizarre move — unless the company is all about cozying up to the deep-pocketed sort of people who would benefit from a second Trump administration. According to documents obtained by ProPublica, an unnamed Trump Media whistleblower recently asked the company’s board of directors to fire Nunes. One person with knowledge of the situation told ProPublica that the complaint alleged “misuse of funds, hiring of foreign contractors and interfering with product development.” (A Trump Media spokesperson denied the charges and accused the nonprofit journalism organization of a campaign to damage the company.))
USA TODAY
— How President Biden is trying to Trump-proof his legacy
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/14/biden-trump-laws-judges-regulations-legacy/76865964007/
WFAE
— Trump wants to use Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – the law has been used only during war (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.)
https://www.wfae.org/politics/2024-12-14/trump-wants-to-use-alien-enemies-act-to-deport-immigrants-the-law-has-been-used-only-during-war
WEEK
— Diversity training: a victim of the ‘war on woke’ More and more US companies have phased out corporate DEI initiatives, and the incoming Trump administration is likely to fuel the cultural shift. (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders use diversity training to promote more hatred against Republicans.)
https://theweek.com/business/diversity-training-a-victim-of-the-war-on-woke
NEW YORKER
— Democrats are the party of the elites. I should write about the elites who run Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me recently.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/have-the-democrats-become-the-party-of-the-elites
FORBES
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/corinnepost/2024/12/14/lessons-from-naval-academy-ruling-on-race-for-defending-dei-programs/
TIME
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://time.com/7199981/how-gender-affirming-healthcare-providers-are-preparing-for-trumps-presidency/
POLITICO
— ABC and Stephanopoulos to pay Trump $15M, apologize in defamation suit settlement. The network and anchor will also cover $1M of Trump legal fees. (COMMENT: My critics/opponents tone down their defamation of me because I have filed lawsuits.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/14/trump-abc-stephanopoulos-settlement-00194391
SLATE
— Whose enemies lists are you on and why? I should write about those who have me on their enemies lists and why. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on the pretexts that they use.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/trump-fbi-pick-kash-patel-enemies-list.html
RAW STORY
— ‘Trump owes them’: Disgruntled conservative urges activists to ‘start a fight’ inside GOP
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/trump-owes-them-disgruntled-conservative-urges-activists-to-start-a-fight-inside-gop/ar-AA1vBYmL
INDEPENDENT
— Trump may revoke policy shielding migrants from deportation arrests in churches and schools
https://www.aol.com/trump-may-revoke-policy-shielding-231402429.html
TIMES NOW
— 18,000 Indians To See US Exit Gate As Trump Vows Immigration Crackdown
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/18000-indians-at-risk-of-being-deported-as-trump-vows-immigration-crackdown-article-116323181
TIMES
— Google’s ‘Woke’ Christmas Ad sparks backlash: Nonbinary influencer Cyrus Veyssi takes center stage (COMMENT: The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone to websites a) that promote Democrats and the Democrat Party and b) that demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans and the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/google-s-woke-christmas-ad-sparks-backlash-nonbinary-influencer-cyrus-veyssi-takes-center-stage/ar-AA1vJvPz
INVESTOPEDIA
— Here’s The Average Net Worth of Each Class: How Does Yours Compare? (COMMENT: Should all those involved in government, politics, and journalism be required to a) disclose their sources and amounts of income, b) disclose their assets, debts, and net worth, and c) disclose how they accumulated their assets? Beyond the aforesaid, should they be required to disclose how much education and money their parents have/had?)
https://www.investopedia.com/average-net-worth-lower-middle-upper-class-8760531
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The lower class has a median net worth of about $3,500, while the upper class has one of about $7.81 million. U.S. families with net worths in the top 10% have a median net worth of $3,794,600 and a mean net worth of $7,810,500. The middle class has a median net worth that ranges from $93,300 to $1.04 million.)
November 30, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/30/what-does-the-trump-administration-have-in-store-for-chicago-families-many-are-concerned-about-child-care-costs-paid-family-leave/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pro-Palestinian protesters block traffic on Mag Mile to highlight continuing conflict in Gaza. The hourlong blockage of Michigan Avenue culminated in a chaotic scene at the Apple store on the Chicago River. Chicago police officers and store security spent several minutes removing a handful of protesters who entered the store and chanted inside. (COMMENT: Chicago today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/11/29/black-friday-mag-mile-gaza-israel-protest
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2024/11/29/severe-pregnancy-complications-illinois-black-mothers
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2024/11/30/severe-pregnancy-complications-illinois-black-mothers
DAILY HERALD
— Inauguration set for new DuPage County officials
https://www.dailyherald.com/20241129/news/inauguration-set-for-new-dupage-county-officials/
WSPY
— The next school reform push in Illinois: testing and accountability (COMMENT: Back in the good old days, the tests I took enabled me to a) get hired by the Post Office (1966), IRS (1971), and GAO (1980), b) earn degrees from NIU (1970), Loyola (1976), DePaul (1980), and IIT (1997), c) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt (1979), and d) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt (1981).)
https://www.wspynews.com/news/local/the-next-school-reform-push-in-illinois-testing-and-accountability/article_0cdb396a-ae48-11ef-bf4f-235257bd1396.html
WHEATON PATCH
— $2K In Cannabis Products Stolen During Home Burglary In Wheaton. An apartment in the Briarbrook complex was burglarized in mid-November.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/2k-cannabis-products-stolen-during-home-burglary-wheaton
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Pritzker ever-increasingly makes it clear that he is going to drive out of Illinois all Republicans who voted for Trump and are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. How soon, if not already will Pritzker officially a) stop schools from accepting students whose parents are Republican, b) stop schools from graduating Republicans, c) stop Republicans from getting professional certifications and licenses, d) stop employers hiring Republicans, e) force employers to fire their Republican employees, f) destroy businesses and organizations run my Republicans, g) stop Republicans from owning firearms, vehicles, real estate, etc., h) etc.? What are the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party doing about the aforesaid? Who will come to the defense of Republicans in Illinois? 2.4 million in Illinois voted for Trump, 191,000 in DuPage County, and 373 in my precinct. Trump won all but 14 of Illinois’ 102 counties. – Dave Diersen
http://www-gopillinois.com
— With his rejection of federal immigration law, will Pritzker become the second George Wallace? SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents who have lots of political and/or government clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois paint themselves as being very well informed about political and government and news and commentary of interest to Illinois Republicans. Of course, they would deny that they read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. If that is true, on what sources do they rely and why? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Illinois sanctuary law will hinder, but won’t stop ICE agents in potential deportation actions (COMMENT: How hard will Pritzker and the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district fight deportation?)
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/666186855-illinois-sanctuary-law-will-hinder-but-won-t-stop-ice-agents-in-potential-deportation-actions
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Liberals pay political price for war on families (COMMENT: To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/29/liberals-pay-political-price-war-families/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— How the Left gins up a war on women (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy women.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3242044/handmaid-tales/
— Harris’s loss of support in major cities spells trouble for Democrats beyond Trump (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly run the Chicago area. Democrats despise/hate Republicans. Ever-increasingly, anticipate/expect that if you are a Republican in the Chicago area, that Democrats will get rid of you. The Democrats who ran the Post Office when I was 18 in 1966, IRS when I was 22, and GAO when I was 31 hired me, but if I was 18, 22, or 31 today, they would not hire me.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3245661/harris-loss-support-major-cities-spells-trouble-democrats-beyond-trump/
— Group of 300 illegal immigrants breaches Texas border in final days of Biden administration
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3245639/group-illegal-immigrants-breaches-texas-border/
— The strategy behind negative campaigning (COMMENT: My critics/opponents are negative campaigners. They have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. I should write about their success in a) removing me from the Illinois Republican Party Platform and Resolutions Committee this year, b) ending my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) ending my bid to be selected to fill a Wheaton City Council West District vacancy in 2019, d) gerrymandering my precinct in 2015, e) ending my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, f) ending my membership on the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee in 2011, g) ending my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2010 and 2004, h) ending my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, i) almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, j) ending my bid to be the MTRO Treasurer in 2004, k) ending my American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board membership in 2004, l) ending my GAO employment in 1997, m) etc.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3212863/harris-cries-fascist-strategy-negative-campaigning/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump plans to give local sheriffs more power to act as immigration agents amid mass deportation crackdown (COMMENT: How hard will Pritzker and the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district fight deportation?)
https://nypost.com/2024/11/29/us-news/trump-plans-to-give-local-sheriffs-more-power-to-help-with-the-migrant-crisis/
AMAC
— Crime Rate for Illegal Aliens Vastly Understated (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/crime-rate-for-illegal-aliens-vastly-understated-data-shows/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illinois Democrat Jonathan Jackson whines about Trump’s hyperfocus on ‘efficiency’ and debloating government (COMMENT: Yes, there was bloat in GAO during the 1980s and 1990s, but Republicans threw the baby out with the bathwater when the destroyed GAO.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/illinois_democrat_whines_about_trump_s_hyperfocus_on_efficiency_and_debloating_government.html
— Pete Hegseth on Women in Combat
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/pete_hegseth_on_women_in_combat.html
BREITBART
— Local Sheriffs Back Trump’s Deportation Plan: ‘People Are Tired of This’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/29/report-local-sheriffs-back-trumps-deportation-plan-people-are-tired-this/
CENTER SQUARE COLORADO
— Denver spends more than $350 million on migrants
https://www.thecentersquare.com/colorado/article_af0c1b62-ae45-11ef-a45e-1335938bbf3e.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— To Get Rid of Woke, Understand How It Got Started (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always been woke and are ever-increasingly woke.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/11/29/get-rid-woke-understand-got-started/
EPOCH TIMES
— Biden to Attend Trump’s Inauguration
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/biden-to-attend-trumps-inauguration-white-house-5766688
FOX NEWS
— Liberals call for ‘MAGA’ to ‘give thanks to undocumented immigrants’ on Thanksgiving. X users asked which migrants flooding Chicago and NYC harvested their turkeys.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/liberals-call-maga-give-thanks-undocumented-immigrants-thanksgiving
— ‘Party of wokeness’: Democratic strategist dissects reasons behind 2024 loss (COMMENT: To promote wokeness is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6365337261112
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Young Men Just Swung towards the GOP. Conservatives Have to Win Them. (COMMENT: If I had not followed conservative principles, I would not have been able a) to earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) to earn master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) to earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, d) to earn a professional license when I was 32, e) to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., f) to buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, and g) to get married when I was 29.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/young-men-just-swung-towards-the-gop-conservatives-have-to-win-them/
NEWSMAX
— Stop Attending, Supporting ‘Woke’ Colleges (COMMENT: The Democrats who run the four universities that I earned degrees from (NIU-1970, Loyola-1976, DePaul-1980, and IIT-1997 and their students ever-increasingly make it clear that they despise/hate Trump and those who share his demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/bill-oreilly-woke-colleges/2024/11/29/id/1189808/
PJ MEDIA
— The Unreality of Leftist Ideology
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/11/29/washington-irving-and-the-unreality-of-leftist-ideology-n4934712
— Woke Marxists Not Only Reject Western Culture, but Remake It in Their Evil Image
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/11/30/woke-marxists-not-only-reject-western-culture-but-remake-it-in-their-evil-image-n4934725#google_vignette
PATRIOT POST
— DEI Training Makes You More Likely to Agree With … Literally Hitler. Hitler accused Jews of discriminating and conspiring to enrich themselves — much as DEI and radical theories accuse white people of doing today. (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/112447-study-dei-training-makes-you-more-likely-to-agree-with-dot-dot-dot-literally-hitler-2024-11-29
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrats Need To Stop Being The Party Of Wokeness and Moral Condescension
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/11/29/dem_strategist_julian_epstein_democrats_need_to_stop_being_the_party_of_wokeness_and_moral_condescension.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NEWSWEEK
— Democrat and RINO ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-migrants-mass-deportation-southern-border-illegals-1992681
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/illinois/articles/2024-11-30/emboldened-manosphere-accelerates-threats-and-demeaning-language-toward-women-after-us-election
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbtq-americans-voting-demographic-2024-election/
— How soon will Los Angeles officially declare war on America?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-braces-trump-mass-deportations-sanctuary-city/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, men are falling further and further and further behind women academically, career-wise, and financially. Will Trump stop that decline? All my female coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/opinion/dating-bro-culture-manosphere-trump-cinderella.html
JOURNAL NEWS
— The only thing the illegals are picking are hotel rooms in sanctuary cities.
https://www.journal-news.net/journal-news/journal-junction—december-1-2024/article_da2fbda8-2f3a-56fd-9148-555b2a4e476b.html
KTRH
— Blue Cities Are Planning To Defy Trump’s Deportation (COMMENT: How strongly will Pritzker and the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district defy deportation?)
https://ktrh.iheart.com/alternate/amp/2024-11-29-blue-cities-are-planning-to-defy-trumps-deportation/
USA HERALD
— The State Bar of California Under Fire: Should Meritocracy Trump Diversity in Admitting New Lawyers? (COMMENT: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://usaherald.com/the-state-bar-of-california-under-fire-should-meritocracy-trump-diversity-in-admitting-new-lawyers/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Local Sheriffs Gearing Up to Help Trump Carry Out Mass Deportations (COMMENT: How strongly will law enforcement help Trump in your county, township, and municipality?)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/county-sheriffs-trump-immigration-plan-deportations-64c522dd
— What the Top 1% Really Pays the IRS. They kick in 40.4% of income taxes, nearly double their income share. (COMMENT: Ever since I was 18 years old in 1966, my critics/opponents have wanted me to pay more taxes a) because they believe that federal employees are grossly overpaid and that federal benefits and pensions are much too generous, b) because I was an IRS employee for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year, c) because I avoided the draft, d) because of my wife’s income and our not having children, and e) because I paid less federal income tax 1972-1977 and my wife and I 1978 paid less federal income tax until recently by itemizing our deductions.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-the-top-1-really-pays-the-irs-57c4ad58
— Trump’s Rainbow Coalition. His biggest vote gains from 2020 came in states with the most immigrants. And he seems to have broken the Democratic monopoly on the black vote. (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat plant, Libertarian plant, Green plant, Independent plant, and RINO political consultants will continue to if not increase advising Trump to dump those who have demographics that vote for Republicans to get more votes from those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trumps-rainbow-coalition-realignment-election-voters-minorities-race-ethnicity-e6867c3c
— America Has Much to Be Thankful For (COMMENT: QUESTION: Why do minority and/or female citizens of foreign countries ever-increasingly illegally come to America illegally and illegally stay in America illegally? ANSWER: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly give them more preference over citizens of America who are White and/or male.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-has-much-to-be-thankful-for-452806fb
— The GOP Barely Won the House. Factionalism in 2025 would waste a majority that could be fleeting.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-gop-barely-won-the-house-9d5e1bb5
— Gavin Newsom Turns on Elon Musk (COMMENT: My critics/opponents are masters at turning people against people. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would use as examples the many who they have turned against me. I would focus on a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gavin-newsom-turns-on-elon-musk-12280bd7
— Employers ever-increasingly want cheap labor. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, I earned a) $12.41/hour 1964-1966, b) $18.99-$20.25/hour 1966-1969, c) $54,728-$110,020/year 1971-1980, and d) $87,024-$150,075/year 1980-1997. In my defense, I earned a) a high school diploma in 1966, b) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, c) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) a job-related professional license in 1981. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on what they did to qualify themselves for better paying jobs.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/trump-immigration-policy-job-growth-567fb3cd
FORBES
— Will Trump Nominees Face FBI Background Checks? (COMMENT: What background checks have you passed? I passed background checks to be hired by the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980. In my opinion, candidates for government and political offices should be required to pass background checks before they can run. I should write a book about candidates who would have failed background checks if they had taken them.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/11/25/will-trump-nominees-face-fbi-background-checks-heres-what-to-know/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2024/11/29/deportation-plan-presents-a-daunting-challenge-for-america/
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurencoulman/2024/11/29/dei-rollbacks-or-revision-of-diversity-initiatives/
BLOOMBERG
— Checkr Triples Revenue as Background-Check Firm Courts Large Enterprise Clients (COMMENT: What background checks have you passed? I passed background checks to be hired by the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980. In my opinion, candidates for government and political offices should be required to pass background checks before they can run. I should write a book about candidates who would have failed background checks if they had taken them.)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/checkr-triples-revenue-courts-large-202451348.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/checkr-triples-revenue-as-background-check-firm-courts-large-enterprise-clients/ar-AA1uS9p2
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Unlike traditional background check services that require manual work like gathering documents from various government and judicial systems about an individual’s history, Checkr maintains partnerships with governments so it can tap a large digital database of public records. . .More recently, Checkr has expanded its customer base to include non-tech sectors such as retail, manufacturing and hospitality. It also introduced a personal background-check product this year, letting individuals ensure the accuracy of their history before it’s seen by banks, landlords and potential employers.)
CENTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION
— Background Checks and Security Clearances (COMMENT: What background checks have you passed? I passed background checks to be hired by the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980. In my opinion, candidates for government and political offices should be required to pass background checks before they can run. I should write a book about candidates who would have failed background checks if they had taken them.)
https://presidentialtransition.org/appointee-resources/ready-to-serve-prospective-appointees/background-checks-and-security-clearances/
(FROM THE POSTING: Every person hired for a federal job must undergo a background investigation to ensure that they are “reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and loyal to the United States.” This is an important and lengthy part of the appointment process. Familiarize yourself with the forms
To initiate a background investigation, your sponsoring agency will ask you to complete one or more of these forms: the Questionnaire for National Security Positions (SF 86) ( https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf ) or the Questionnaire for Public Trust Positions (SF 85P) ( https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf85p.pdf ), depending on how your position may affect national security and other sensitive matters such as government finance and technology. The government is in the process of consolidating these forms into one Personnel Vetting Questionnaire. It may take weeks to gather your records and complete, and longer if you have significant foreign travel. Get started early!)
PEW RESEARCH
— Americans’ top sources of political news (COMMENT: My critics/opponents who have lots of political and/or government clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois paint themselves as being very well informed about political and government and news and commentary of interest to Illinois Republicans. Of course, they would deny that they read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. If that is true, on what sources do they rely and why?)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/31/americans-top-sources-of-political-news-ahead-of-the-2024-election/
INDEPENDENT
— Black jobs are bad jobs that Whites refuse to take. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me for taking bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. They have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Blacks should have gotten the jobs and promotions that I got. They were especially furious when IRS promoted me instead of Blacks in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and GAO promoted me instead of a Black in 1986. They were overjoyed when GAO forced me to retire in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. I should write a book about the aforesaid.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/during-campaign-trump-talked-black-171602738.html
November 29, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Anticipate/expect that Democrats and RINOs will ever-increasingly use AI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/28/ai-regulations-us-outlook/
— Why aren’t more people talking about America’s alcoholism? (COMMENT: Many, if not most of my critics/opponents are big drinkers if not alcoholics. I should write about those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/29/opinion-america-alcoholism-problem/
— Stacy Davis Gates, President, Chicago Teachers Union: Despite what editorial board indicates, teacher attendance at CPS tracks with statewide trends
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/29/opinion-chicago-teachers-absenteeism-stacey-davis-gates/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— A year into bail reform, more domestic violence defendants ordered held pending trial in Cook County. Judges are spending more time on initial court hearings as they weigh whether to detain or release defendants. However, issues remain with interpretation and implementation of the state’s watershed criminal justice reform law.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/bail-reform/2024/11/29/bail-reform-domestic-violence-defendants-ordered-held-pending-trial-cook-county
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/11/29/women-asylum-border-abuse-donald-trump-project-25-carol-cleaveland-michele-waslin
FOX32
— Mexico’s president tells Trump she will take measures to stop illegal immigration
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1554710
WGN9
— LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family, that is, LGBTQ promotes homelessness.
https://wgntv.com/news/cover-story/chicago-cover-story-youth-homelessness-lgbtq/
WCBM
— FOIA Finds Chicago Uses FEMA Funding for Democrat Donor Business to Feed Illegals
https://wcbm.com/national-headline/foia-finds-chicago-uses-fema-funding-for-democrat-donor-business-to-feed-illegals/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Employers want cheap labor. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, I earned a) $12.41/hour 1964-1966, b) $18.99-$20.25/hour 1966-1969, c) $54,728-$110,020/year 1971-1980, and d) $87,024-$150,075/year 1980-1997. In my defense, I earned a) a high school diploma in 1966, b) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, c) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, d) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and e) a job-related professional license in 1981. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on what they did to qualify themselves for better paying jobs. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you taken bad jobs? According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had lots of money, who bought them cars, who paid for their college expenses, and who got them jobs. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Recording of Madigan Making Insurance Business Pitch for His Son
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/11/28/recording-of-madigan-making-pitch-for-insurance-business-for-his-son/
— Thanksgiving Belt Tightening
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/11/28/thanksgiving-belt-tightening/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— IL GOP Support Proves Again to be the ‘Kiss of Death’ Even During a Trump-Dominated, Historic Election Cycle
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/11/il-gop-support-proves-again-to-be-the-kiss-of-death-even-during-a-trump-dominated-historic-election-cycle.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It wasn’t that long ago when IL GOP leaders were endorsing Fl. Gov. Ron DeSantis’ failed presidential bid, hosting ‘Never Trumpers’ at fundraisers in Naples, Florida; naming anti-MAGA officials as gala co-chairs and blaming President Donald Trump for Illinois election losses in 2020 and 2022. When Trump secured the Republican nomination for president last Spring, those same officials were silent. But that’s not all. When this publication revealed that a party leader in 2016 compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler – IL GOP officials were once again silent. This pattern, however, should come as no surprise. In 2022, IL GOP officials backed Richard Irvin’s failed campaign for Illinois governor. During the primary campaign, it was reported by WTTW’s Paris Schutz that in 2018, Irvin sent text messages calling Trump an “idiot” and a “bigoted racist.” Irvin also texted the friend, “I hate Trump too!” Irvin would lose the primary to the Trump-endorsed candidate by 43 points. During Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair last year, then Illinois Republican national committeeman Richard Porter gave an interview to the Chicago Tribune and said that Trump couldn’t win independent voters in swing states in 2024 and that he was running for president to avoid going to jail. “I think the most ardent Trumpers recognize that they might love him in their heart, but they know in their head he is not going to win independents in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Hampshire, Arizona and Nevada. And that’s what you need to do to become president. And if you don’t become president of the United States, Trump goes to jail.” After this publication ran a story on his reported comments, Porter was in damage control, offering a long explanation to try and repair the damage – but it was too little, too late. And during the 2024 election, Trump would win every swing state proving Porter to be wrong once again. And former Illinois House Republican leader Jim Durkin – who is revered and respected by IL GOP leaders – likes to blame Trump for every Republican loss in Illinois. In November 2023, Durkin announced that he was not going to run for Cook County State’s Attorney and he blamed President Trump for his decision not to throw his hat in the race. “I know that if you’re going to run in a race, you have to run knowing that you have a good chance of winning, and I see no path winning with Trump at the top of the ticket [in 2024],” Durkin told CBS Chicago anchor Brad Edwards. In the Spring of 2022, IL GOP leaders traveled down to Naples, Florida to host a private reception featuring former US Attorney General Bill Baar, who served as AG under the George HW Bush and Donald Trump presidential administrations. Baar remains critical of Trump, and in November of 2022, he published a scathing opinion piece in the New York Post, writing, “Unless the rest of the party goes along with him, he will burn the whole house down by leading ‘his people’ out of the GOP. Trump’s willingness to destroy the party if he does not get his way is not based on principle, but on his own supreme narcissism. His egoism makes him unable to think of a political party as anything but an extension of himself – a cult of personality.” During this past election cycle where Trump dominated and made history winning both the popular and electoral votes by historic margins – and Republicans took control of the U.S. Senate and maintained control of the U.S. House – IL GOP leaders once again proved why their support is the ‘kiss of death.’ In District 10, Democrat U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider smoked Republican Jim Carris – who was the darling of the IL GOP, by 20 points – the largest margin of defeat of any congressional candidate. Illinois Republican leaders came out strong for Carris in ways not seen with other pro-MAGA candidates – as Carris had the support of the IL GOP establishment and leaders like IL GOP co-chair Kathy Salvi and national committeeman Dean White. Carris even appeared alongside Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at a private event where the two shared the stage. Carris is pro-choice and refused to vocalize any support of Trump during his failed congressional campaign. “I’ve done a lot of research on this and studied and really given it a lot of thought and I am a pro-choice candidate,” Carris told a group in Winnetka, Illinois on June 6, 2024. During that same event, Carris refused to offer support for Trump when asked – who at the time was the presumptive Republican nominee for President, saying, “I am an independent person. I will decide when the time comes, but I’m concerned about my own campaign at this point…rather than be worried about the national election.” Carris was also endorsed by former U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (IL), who is a Never Trumper – and called him “one of my political heroes…I can’t tell you how meaningful this is to me.” During the 2016 national GOP convention, many IL GOP leaders, including then Gov. Rauner, former Gov. Jim Edgar, US Sen. Mark Kirk and Rauner-appointed Comptroller Leslie Munger, skipped the convention because they did not support Trump. Kirk even ran an ad that said that Trump was not “fit to be Commander in Chief.” Across Illinois, state Democratic leaders maintained their super majority control as Republicans failed to flip any seats despite this being a historic Republican year with Trump at the top of the ticket. Democrats in the state House maintain the largest majority over Republicans in Illinois history. So what’s the key takeaway? IL GOP leaders and their cadre of failed political consultants have proven that like the Chicago Bears – they can find creative ways to lose and snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. But what can you expect? It’s in their DNA.)
— Another $6.6 Billion in Tax Dollars for Green Energy, Before the Spigot is Shut Off
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/11/opinion-another-6-6-billion-in-tax-dollars-for-green-energy-before-the-spigot-is-shut-off.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The California GOP has a path back to relevance (COMMENT: What is the Illinois GOP path back to relevance? 77 million voted for Trump nationwide, 2.4 million in Illinois, 191,000 in DuPage County, and 373 in my precinct. Trump won all but 14 of Illinois’ 102 counties.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3243072/california-gop-has-path-back-to-relevance/
NEW YORK POST
— Mass arrests at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as anti-Israel protesters block procession
https://nypost.com/2024/11/28/us-news/mass-arrests-at-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-as-anti-israel-protesters-block-path/
— We should be thankful that the future is in Trump’s hands — and not Harris’
https://nypost.com/2024/11/28/opinion/we-should-be-thankful-that-the-future-is-in-trumps-hands-and-not-harris/
— Thanksgiving is a great time to forgive those who dumped you for your political views (COMMENT: Many have dumped me because I support planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject. Most commonly, they reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks.)
https://nypost.com/2024/11/27/opinion/on-thanksgiving-forgive-those-who-dumped-you-for-your-political-views/
AMERICAN THINKER
— We don’t want revenge, we want justice
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/we_don_t_want_revenge_we_want_justice.html
BLAZE
— I’m thankful for American voters who rejected leftism, lawlessness, and lunacy this election
https://www.theblaze.com/news/im-thankful-for-american-voters-who-rejected-leftism-lawlessness-and-lunacy-this-election
BREITBART
— Democrats Scold Americans on Thanksgiving: Thank Illegal Aliens for Picking Your Food.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/28/democrats-scold-americans-thankgiving-thank-illegal-aliens-picking-your-food/
— Top Migration Lobbyist: Public Rejected Biden’s Border Policies Only Because of Bad Messaging
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/11/28/scoop-investor-lobbyist-says-voters-reject-migration-because-of-joe-biden-democrats/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— A Case Study in Cheap H-1B Labor
https://cis.org/Miano/Case-Study-Cheap-H1B-Labor
DAILY CALLER
— Women Gather For ‘Primal Scream’ Session To Cope With Trump Victory
https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/28/women-gather-primal-scream-session-cope-trump-victory/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Here’s How to Deport More Than 10 Million People
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/11/28/how-deport-over-10-million-people/
FEDERALIST
— 40 Things To Be Grateful For After Trump’s Historic Win
https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/28/40-things-to-be-grateful-for-after-trumps-historic-win/
FOX BUSINESS
— Majority of Americans support Trump’s agenda (COMMENT: Trump’s agenda is the Republican Party platform. To what extent do the following support Trump’s agenda: the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party and the leaders of your county, township, and ward party organizations?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzcz-WAtdLE
FOX NEWS
— Texas could bus migrants directly to ICE for deportation instead of to sanctuary cities
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-could-bus-migrants-directly-ice-deportation-instead-sanctuary-cities-under-proposed-plan
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Why Latinos Deported Harris From the White House
https://www.heritage.org/border-security/commentary/why-latinos-deported-harris-the-white-house
— Japan Follows America’s Lead in Importing Millions To Do Low-Paying, Unskilled Jobs
https://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/commentary/japan-follows-americas-lead-importing-millions-do-low-paying-unskilled
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Indian illegal immigrants are increasingly crossing into the U.S. from Canada – so what’s being done about it?
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/indian-illegal-immigrants-are-increasingly-crossing-into-the-u-s-from-canada-leading-to-more-deportation-flights
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Pro-Hamas Mob Tries to Block Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/pro-hamas-mob-tries-to-block-macys-thanksgiving-parade/
LIFEZETTE
— Musk Leads The Charge To Audit The IRS (COMMENT: I worked for IRS for almost 9 years. I worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years.)
https://www.lifezette.com/2024/11/musk-leads-the-charge-to-audit-the-irs-public-says-eliminate-it-watch/
NEWS BUSTERS
— PBS Promotes ‘Spike in Racist Incidents’ After Trump Win
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2024/11/29/rising-hate-pbs-promotes-spike-racist-incidents-after-trump-win-splc
NEWSMAX
— Blue Cities Finalizing Efforts to Thwart Trump’s Deportations (COMMENT: What are the Democrats and RINOs who run your county, township, municipality, and school district doing to thwart deportation?)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/blue-cities-states/2024/11/28/id/1189700/
— Musk, Stallone Join Trump for Thanksgiving
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-musk-stallone/2024/11/29/id/1189765/
PJ MEDIA
— Federal Appeals Court Stops Biden Administration From Removing Border Wall In Texas
https://pjmedia.com/bryan-s-jung/2024/11/28/federal-appeals-court-stops-biden-administration-from-removing-razor-wire-on-border-in-texas-n4934709
TOWNHALL
— Five Things To Be Thankful For In 2024
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/11/28/five-things-to-be-thankful-for-in-2024-n2648346
— Democrat Urges Americans to ‘Give Thanks’ to Illegal Immigrants on Thanksgiving (COMMENT: Democrat leaders want illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINOs want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/11/28/democrat-tells-americans-to-give-thanks-to-illegal-immigrants-on-thanksgiving-n2648380
— Jaguar Doubles Down on Woke New Rebranding Ad
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/11/28/jaguars-woke-new-ad-n2648320#google_vignette
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump posts parody video crashing Democrats’ Thanksgiving meal
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5014762-trump-biden-parody-video-democrats-thanksgiving/
NEWSWEEK
— Mexico Quashes Donald Trump’s Claim It Agreed To ‘Effectively’ Close Border
https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-quashes-donald-trump-claim-agreed-effectively-close-border-1992892
MSNBC
— RINO leaders want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/thanksgiving-shopping-food-prices-trump-rcna181951
NEW YORK TIMES
— What do you influence? I influence conservative principles and the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/us/politics/democratic-influencers.html
— Transgender Activists Question the Movement’s Confrontational Approach (COMMENT: My critics/opponent promote LGBTQ. I should write about those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/us/politics/transgender-activists-rights.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Texas is gearing up in a big way for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The state’s Republican leaders say they’re primed for Texas to be both the model and epicenter as the incoming administration cracks down on immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/11/29/migrant-deportations-texas-border-homan-abbott/
USA TODAY
— RIP DEI? The war on ‘woke’ America has a new commander-in-chief (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always been woke, that is, they have always blamed their problems on those who do not share their demographics.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/11/22/rip-dei-donald-trump-president/76116276007/
INDY STAR
— RINO leaders want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/readers/2024/11/06/logansport-immigration-jobs-labor/76072394007/
WTOC
— Local Republican leaders react to President-elect Trump’s victory (COMMENT: How are the following reacting to Trump’s victory: the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party and the leaders of your Republican county, township, and ward party organizations?)
https://www.wtoc.com/2024/11/06/local-republican-leaders-react-president-elect-trumps-victory/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Rich Countries Are Becoming Addicted to Cheap Labor. Businesses are relying more on migrant workers as labor shortages persist, but economists warn of long-term dangers.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/business-immigrant-low-skilled-labor-addiction-bf009a83
— America Has Much to Be Thankful For (COMMENT: The many things that I am thankful for include my being able to earn four college degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license even though neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never attended high school, I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class, my ACT score was only 24, and I had to work my way through college. Further, I was able to earn enough money to buy a new car when I was 17 and a new town home when I was 24.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-has-much-to-be-thankful-for-452806fb
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL
— Are “bad jobs” dead ends or steppingstones to better things? (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had lots of money, who bought them cars, who paid for their college expenses, and who got them jobs.)
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/social-policy/are-bad-jobs-dead-ends-or-steppingstones-better-things
BLOOMBERG
— RINO leaders want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-28/immigration-benefits-go-far-beyond-providing-cheap-labor
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Musk is hiring for DOGE (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors wasted what I had learned working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA and a master’s degree in accounting, and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt. GAO audits IRS. My Democrat GAO superiors wasted what I had learned working for IRS and working for GAO for almost 18 years, passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, and earning a master’s degree in finance. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://www.aol.com/elon-musk-hiring-doge-heres-181742212.html
FORBES
— RINO leaders want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ethankarp/2024/11/25/40-essential-truths-to-succeed-in-manufacturing-right-now/
FAST COMPANY
— 5 times it makes sense to include your high-school job on your résumé (COMMENT: My having washed dishes during my junior and senior years in high school and the summer in between set me back in many ways. My having delivered mail while I was a student at UIC and NIU 1966-1969 set me back in many ways.)
https://www.fastcompany.com/90459897/5-times-it-makes-sense-to-include-your-high-school-job-on-your-resume
(FROM THE ARTICLE: If the experience is relevant. . . If the job was in the same industry. . .If you were promoted)
MCKINSEY & COMPANY
— The value of experience (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors wasted what I had learned working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA and a master’s degree in accounting, and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt. GAO audits IRS. My Democrat GAO superiors wasted what I had learned working for IRS and working for GAO for almost 18 years, passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, and earning a master’s degree in finance. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/human-capital-at-work-the-value-of-experience
ECONOMIST
— The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-rural. What is your connection farming? My mother was born and raised on a farm. I spent lots of time at that farm during the 1950s and early 1960s.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/11/28/americas-rural-urban-divide-nurtures-wannabe-state-splitters
WORD & WAY
— What Congress Reveals About Lutheran Denominations (COMMENT: In 1961, when I was in 8th grade, Trinity Lutheran Church and Grade School in Crete left the Missouri Synod for the Wisconsin Synod. To stay with the Missouri Synod, my parents joined Hope Lutheran Church in Park Forest and transferred me to a newly formed 8th grade there. That ended my parents’ annual family reunions that had been held for many decades. That had a major impact on me.)
https://wordandway.org/2024/08/15/what-congress-reveals-about-lutheran-denominations/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Among the current 532 members of Congress (there are three open House seats at the moment), Republicans have a narrow majority with 51% of the seats. The partisan divide among Lutheran members in Congress depends on which denomination. Of the 20 Lutheran members identified, 12 belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America that Walz is part of, while 7 are in the more conservative Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. One other member, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, is part of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, which is smaller and more conservative than the other two bodies. . .The members of the 118th Congress show which Lutheran denominations in public life have the most partisan leaning. Only the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has a bipartisan delegation, while the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod currently only send Republicans to Congress.)
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— 20 Certification Programs for Careers That Pay Well (COMMENT: Who do you know who has passed the CPA and/or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination? Who do you know who passed one or both of those examinations on their first attempt? I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and the CIA examination on my first attempt in 1981.)
https://money.usnews.com/careers/articles/certificate-programs-that-pay-well
NPR
— RINO leaders want illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2024/11/26/g-s1-35805/chinese-expulsion-act-railroads-immigration-crackdown
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/04/02/1228739124/how-we-got-to-made-in-china
GUARDIAN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/29/trump-mass-deportation-plan-cities