January 2, 2024

What positions do the following have on Democrat and RINO leaders allowing/encouraging anyone and everyone in the world to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally if they claim asylum: a) your Republican Congressman, b) your Republican state senator and representative, c) the Republican leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district, d) the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) leaders, e) your representative on the IRP State Central Committee, f) the leaders of your Republican county and township/ward party organizations, and g) the Republican candidates on the March 19, 2024 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, virtually all the citizens of all the countries of the world will seek asylum in America.

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Hinsdale, Buffalo Grove among suburbs considering regulations on migrant bus drop-offs – Stephanie Wade
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-migrant-crisis-venezuelan-migrants-hinsdale-news/14258635/

NBC5
— Video captures downtown ‘street takeover’ following Chicago New Year’s Eve celebrations (COMMENT: What are your connections with downtown Chicago? I a) I lived there full-time 1976-1978 and weekdays 1974-1976, b) I worked there 1973-1997 and 1971, and c) I took classes there 1992-1997, 1971-1981, and 1966-1968.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/video-captures-downtown-street-takeover-following-chicago-new-years-eve-celebrations/3315262/
— Illinois’ ‘Paid Leave for All Workers Act’ is now in effect. Here’s what is says. (COMMENT: What leave policies are/were you under? I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years. My critics/opponents have always used against me my benefitting from the federal government’s more generous leave policies. As a part-time substitute carrier/clerk for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969, I worked many more hours because my coworkers took lots of sick leave and annual leave. My Civil Service Retirement System is higher because my more than a year of unused sick leave was credited as though I had worked that time.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-paid-leave-for-all-workers-act-is-now-in-effect-heres-what-is-says/3315038/

CBS2
— 2 killed, 23 hurt in Chicago shootings during New Year’s weekend
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/weekend-shootings-dec-29-to-jan-1/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/volunteers-migrants-chicago-successes-challenges/
— Few migrants in Chicago able to work as shelter stay limit approaches
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/few-migrants-in-chicago-able-to-work-as-shelter-stay-limit-approaches/
— Only 1% of newly arrived migrants in Chicago have received work permits so far – SABRINA FRANZA
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-migrants-work-permits-asylum-seekers/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij3bgJQF7go
https://news.yahoo.com/just-fraction-migrants-living-chicago-001300483.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With more than 14,000 migrants still living in one of more than two dozen city-operated shelters in Chicago, only a fraction of all the asylum seekers who have arrived in Chicago over the past 16 months have received the permits they need to start looking for jobs. As of Monday morning, city officials said 14,717 asylum seekers were staying in the city’s 27 shelters, and more than half of those are coming up on the city’s 60-day limit for staying in shelters. . .It’s not clear how many applications have been submitted, but as of Dec. 29, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had processed work permits and temporary protected status applications for only 1,480 new arrivals, according to city data obtained by CBS 2. Once those applications are processed, they also need to be approved. Sources said only 284 asylum seekers in Chicago have gotten work permits, and 279 have received their Social Security card. That’s about 1%. Worse, city data suggests applications did not start processing until the week of Nov. 9.)
— Monday was deadline for Illinois owners of assault weapons prior to ban to register their guns – DARIUS JOHNSON
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-assault-weapons-deadline/
— Monday was deadline for Illinois owners of assault weapons prior to ban to register their guns – DARIUS JOHNSO
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As of last week, only 15,000 people completed the disclosures, according to Illinois State Police. There are nearly 2.5 million firearm owner’s IDs in the state. However, it’s unclear how many of those FOID holders own assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, or rapid-firing triggers. . .In November, state police said it is up to prosecutors in the state’s 102 counties to enforce the law, but it’s unclear what penalties would be in store for those who fail to register their weapons. Penalties can vary for illegal weapons. Carrying or possessing unauthorized assault weapons could result in a misdemeanor, with one year in jail or a fine of up to $2,500. Manufacturing, selling, or purchasing an unauthorized weapon could constitute a felony and result in up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-assault-weapons-deadline/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMNj-F9PlJE

WGN9
— Hundreds of migrants enter Chicago after being flown to Rockford from San Antonio – Michael Johnson, Judy Wang
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/hundreds-of-migrants-enter-chicago-after-being-flown-to-rockford-from-san-antonio/
— NJ mayor says buses of migrants bound for NY are being dropped off at NJ train stations – AP
https://wgntv.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-nj-mayor-says-buses-of-migrants-bound-for-ny-are-being-dropped-off-at-nj-train-stations/

FOX32
— Chicago’s new ‘Landing Zone’ for migrants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln_BLeEXggo

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— With the start of the new year, here is a sobering look at the state of Illinois – Paul Vallas
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-state-of-illinois-2024-crime-education-taxes-20240102-moc5t357pfadvptvo3ymitqj5q-story.html
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Here’s what to know about the job market in 2024. – Talia Soglin (COMMENT: What was the Chicago-area job market like when you graduated from college? It was not good for me when I graduated in August of 1970 from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management. Potential employers viewed me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. My father had died suddenly in October of 1969. My mother had never worked outside the home and she had never attended high school. Further, employers were under ever-increasing pressure to hire minorities, females, and veterans. Further, my GPA was not that high because instead of studying, I had worked as many hours as I could for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got, it was from Firestone to be a Retail Store Sales Manager. I soon learned a) that my job did not really require a college degree, b) that I was not using what I had learned at NIU, c) that my duties frequently included pumping gasoline, mounting and balancing tires, changing oil and filters, installing batteries, delivering major appliances, etc., d) that advancement would be very slow, and e) my boss disapproved of my being a college graduate, draft avoider, Protestant, German American, and Crete resident. I was assigned to his store by the Firestone Store district office. He never would have hired me.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-jobs-employment-vibes-2024-20240101-hyfuurg555e2bok6naobn752sa-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders oppose school choice. Democrat leaders oppose meritocracy.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/1/2/24011026/chicago-school-choice-inequity-segregation-whitney-young-jackson-potter-crystal-gardner

SOUTHERN
— Jefferson County Sheriff shares gun control concerns (FROM THE ARTICLE: “Anyone wishing to delay registering their firearms, waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court rule on this matter would be safe to do so.”)
https://thesouthern.com/news/jefferson-county-sheriff-shares-gun-control-concerns/article_0507950e-8162-5f0b-98fe-c17ae972838e.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard, however, took to social media ahead of the affidavit deadline to share that he believed the law was unconstitutional. In a question and answer style video posted on the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page Friday, Bullard said he had been receiving many concerned calls from gun owners who wanted to know if they should register their firearms as constitutional challenges to PICA carry on in state and federal courts. He directed people to the ISP website for registration and more information, before claiming, “Anyone wishing to delay registering their firearms, waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court rule on this matter would be safe to do so.” He continued, saying, “I would never advise anyone to knowingly violate the law, but the law has to be constitutionally valid on its face, and this gun ban is not,” citing previous Supreme Court cases he believed demonstrated his argument, included New York State Pistol and Rifle Association v. Bruen and D.C. v Heller. Bullard said he and other, unnamed Illinois sheriffs who oppose the law “won’t enforce it” and “won’t support it in any way, shape, or form.” Bullard stated that he believed the best way to combat violent crime was “aggressive policing, investigations, prosecution, that is supported by sound sentencing decisions by our judges.”)

HOMETOWN REGISTER
— IRS ready to test free-file program in 13 states (COMMENT: As long as Democrats run IRS, Republicans should use TurboTax. In 1978, the Democrats who ran IRS disallowed the graduate a) business courses that I had taken at Loyola 1972-1976 and b) accounting courses that I had taken at DePaul since 1976. I was 29, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years, and my salary was $106,785/year (GS-12 Step 4) in today’s dollars. They would not have disallowed those courses I had not been a union member or if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. They disallowed those courses to punish me for my complaining about their use of “up-or-out” to get rid of me, that is, their use of political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination to get rid of me. They had made it extremely clear that they would never promote me to GS-13 because I was too old. They ignored/dismissed/belittled the aforesaid course work and that I was on track to pass the CPA examination which I did in 1979. They outrageously/disgustingly/unethically argued that the courses were not job-related, that they did not help me carry out my job duties, that they qualified me for a new trade or business, and that I took them to get a job in the private sector. They ignored/dismissed/belittled the requirements of my position descriptions and the fact that I stated in my Loyola and DePaul applications that I wanted to take the courses because the employee manual that IRS gave me in 1971 encouraged me to take graduate business, accounting, and law courses. They helped Money Magazine make my deducting the courses look improper in its 4-page February 1978 article on me. Again, as long as Democrats run IRS, Republicans should use TurboTax.)
https://www.hometownregister.com/news/national/irs-ready-to-test-free-file-program-in-13-states/video_ed7538ca-7956-5d89-8384-a338dd22e8a4.html

WGLT
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wglt.org/2024-01-01/colorado-legalized-recreational-pot-10-years-ago-heres-how-the-industry-has-grown

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more and mor and more illegal immigration.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2024-01-02/republicans-want-to-limit-migrants-entering-the-u-s-will-it-affect-asylum-seekers

KHMO RADIO
— Chicago is the New ‘Murder Capital’
https://khmoradio.com/chicago-is-the-new-murder-capital-but-theres-some-good-news/

LAKE & MCHENRY COUNTY SCANNER
— Migrants dropped off by bus at Waukegan Metra station for at least second occasion – Sam Borcia
https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2024/01/01/migrants-dropped-off-by-bus-at-waukegan-metra-station-for-at-least-second-occasion/

JOLIET PATCH
— Girls Fight In Downtown Joliet Alley, Officer Attacked. Joliet police intervened in the fight and identified the aggressors as Vervynck and Trujillo. – John Ferak
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/girls-fight-downtown-joliet-alley-officer-attacked-cops
— Democrats stress the make and model (Cadillac STS) of the car used by a driver arrested for DUI. My critics/opponents despise if not hate American nameplate vehicles. They hate the fact that they are built by union members. I was a union member for almost 12 years. I worked on a Dodge assembly line in 1970. I have bought many cars since 1964, and they all have been American nameplate. I should write a book about my critics/opponents.
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/cadillac-drives-through-joliet-red-light-felony-dui-arrest-jpd

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Janice Anderson has organized Democratic Voters for Naperville. She’s a former Republican DuPage County Board member who left the GOP after Donald Trump took it over. – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/01/02/2024-has-a-familiar-ring-00133419

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Illinois illegal alien bus report for Dec 31, 2023; 780 illegals dropped in DuPage, Lake Counties, Elgin, Rockford
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/653460563-illinois-illegal-alien-bus-report-for-dec-31-2023-780-illegals-dropped-in-dupage-lake-counties-elgin-rockford

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Hinsdale will hold meeting Jan. 2 to address drop-offs of illegal immigrants
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/653451057-hinsdale-will-hold-meeting-jan-2-to-address-drop-offs-of-illegal-immigrants

LAKE COUNTY GAZETTE
— 75 illegal immigrants dropped off in Lake County on Dec. 31
https://lakecountygazette.com/stories/653460564-75-illegal-immigrants-dropped-off-in-lake-county-on-dec-31

SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS NEWS
— Bailey on gun ban registry deadline: ‘Waiting for Pritzker to knock on my door and take my guns. I will not comply’
https://seillinoisnews.com/stories/653450150-bailey-on-gun-ban-registry-deadline-waiting-for-pritzker-to-knock-on-my-door-and-take-my-guns-i-will-not-comply

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois Is A Moderate State. Its Progressive Leaders Are Out Of touch. – Mark Glennon (COMMENT: One could argue that Chicago is liberal, the rest of Cook County and the collar counties are moderate, and the rest of Illinois is conservative.)
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-is-a-moderate-state-its-progressive-leaders-are-out-of-touch-wirepoints/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Thinking about Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Strategy to Change Public Immigration Policy
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/01/01/thinking-about-texas-governor-greg-abbotts-strategy-to-change-public-immigration-policy/
— Illinois Rose Bowl Float
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/01/01/illinois-rose-bowl-float/
— Contrarian Thoughts on Global Warming
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/01/01/contrarian-thoughts-on-global-warming/
— Lou Bianchi Supports Rob Hanlon for Associate Judgeship
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/01/01/lou-bianchi-supports-rob-hanlon-for-associate-judgeship/
— Looking at Crime Statistics
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/01/01/212500/
— UPDATE: Texas Migrants Flown to Rockford Airport WITH WGN-TV STORY AND CHICAGO MAYOR’S MOANING
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/01/01/texas-migrants-flown-to-rockford-airport/
— McRide Price Increased
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/01/01/mcride-price-increased/
— County Board Plans Three Bus Grants
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/01/01/county-board-plans-three-bus-grants/
— Sheriff Tadelman Featured Speaker at Ives Mid-January Event in Geneva
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/01/01/tadelman-featured-speaker-at-ives-mid-january-event-in-geneva/
— Underwood Disappoints Jewish Leaders on Resolution Vote
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/01/01/underwood-disappoints-jewish-leaders-on-resolution-vote/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Pritzker’s Epic Failure to Intimidate Law-Abiding Gun Owners in Illinois – David A. Lombardo
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/01/opinion-pritzkers-epic-failure-to-intimidate-law-abiding-gun-owners-in-illinois.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s plan to save our cities – Newt Gingrich
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/1/trumps-plan-to-save-our-cities/
— Cities with noncitizen voting struggle to boost turnout – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/1/if-you-build-it-will-they-vote-cities-with-nonciti/
— Too many Americans live a life of debauchery – Tom Basile
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/30/prodigal-nation-too-many-americans-live-life-of-fa/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: America’s rise in drug abuse, mental illness, financial stress, divorce, fatherless households, rudderless, lonely youth, welfare dependency, crime, depression and other societal conditions can be tied to our slow revolt against traditional American values in the name of more freedom.)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt JFK Airport in New York – Jack Birle
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-disrupt-jfk-airport-new-york

NEW YORK POST
— Biden rings in New Year with black, Hispanic, young voters abandoning him – Diana Glebova (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that to get reelected, Biden will ever-increasingly have the federal government give even more preference to voters who are minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, parents, veterans, non-Christian, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, those who have financial, health, and/or other problems, citizens of foreign countries, etc.)
https://nypost.com/2024/01/01/news/biden-rings-in-new-year-with-black-hispanic-young-voters-abandoning-him/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The Utter Insanity of Joe Biden’s Open Border. If the amorality of illegal immigration were not so deleterious to Americans, its absurdity would be laughable. – Victor Davis Hanson
https://amgreatness.com/2024/01/02/the-utter-insanity-of-joe-bidens-open-border/

AMERICAN THINKER
— How to Understand the Woke Colonization Project – Christopher Chantrill
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/how_to_understand_the_woke_colonization_project.html

AMERICAN WIRE
— NBC News slammed for ringing in 2024 by touting racist anti-white study: ‘I’m so sick of this trash’ – Chris Donaldson
https://americanwirenews.com/nbc-news-slammed-for-ringing-in-2024-by-touting-racist-anti-white-study-im-so-sick-of-this-trash/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Migrants show up in Chicago burbs and beyond as Gov. Abbott skirts Mayor Johnson’s new bus ordinance – Kevin Haggerty
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/01/01/migrants-show-up-in-chicago-burbs-and-beyond-as-gov-abbott-skirts-mayor-johnsons-new-bus-ordinance-1424112/

BREITBART
— Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez: ‘Community’s at the Brink of Collapse’ Due to Migrant Surge, We Need to Remain a Sanctuary City – IAN HANCHETT
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/01/01/chicago-alderman-communitys-at-the-brink-of-collapse-due-to-migrant-surge-we-need-to-remain-a-sanctuary-city/
— Buses Are Dropping Off Illegal Aliens at NJ Train Stations due to Big Apple Bus Restrictions – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/01/01/buses-droppingoff-illegal-aliens-nj-train-stations-travel-big-apple-bus-restrictions/

DAILY CALLER
— Biden Admin Watered Down Vetting Process For Chinese Illegal Immigrants – PHILIP LENCZYCKI
https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/02/biden-admin-cbp-chinese-illegal-migrants/

DAILY WIRE
— Illegal Immigrants Take Trains Into NYC After Eric Adams Restricts Bus Arrivals – Zach Jewell
https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrants-take-trains-into-nyc-after-eric-adams-restricts-bus-arrivals

FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor ripped for objecting to illegal immigrants flown into city: ‘Take it up with your pal Joe’ – Gabriel Hays
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-mayor-ripped-objecting-illegal-immigrants-flown-city-take-it-up-your-pal-joe
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chicago-mayor-ripped-for-objecting-to-illegal-immigrants-flown-into-city-take-it-up-with-your-pal-joe/ar-AA1mk4gY
— Maryland county claims school board can create seat only illegal immigrants can vote on – Greg Wehner
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maryland-county-claims-school-board-create-seat-only-illegal-immigrants-vote-reports

NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
— RACIAL PREFERENCES ARE AGAINST THE LAW – HORACE COOPER
https://nationalcenter.org/ncppr/2024/01/01/horace-cooper-racial-preferences-are-against-the-law/

NEWSMAX
— 10M Illegals Since Biden’s Oath – Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/newsmax-tv-rep-mccormick-border/2024/01/01/id/1147846/

TOWNHALL
— Biden Never Bothers to Justify His Open Border Policy—and He Gets Away With It – Ed Brodow
https://townhall.com/columnists/edbrodow/2024/01/02/biden-never-bothers-to-justify-his-open-border-policyand-he-gets-away-with-it-n2633052
— Joe Biden- America’s Agent of Chaos – Jeff Crouere
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2024/01/01/joe-biden-americas-agent-of-chaos-n2633030
— ‘Figured Out a Loophole’: Mayor of NJ City Details How Adams’ Rules for Migrant Buses Are Being Ignored. – Leah Barkoukis
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/01/01/nyc-migrant-buses-nj-n2633038

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Sanctuary City Denver Mayor Cries Foul Over Too Many Illegals, Threatens Residents with ‘Historic’ City Service Cuts – Jack Davis
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-sanctuary-city-mayor-cries-foul-many-illegals-threatens-residents-historic-city-service-cuts/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

YAHOO NEWS
— Democrats crow that “Number of refugees resettling in Minnesota rising, and more on way.”
https://news.yahoo.com/number-refugees-resettling-minnesota-rising-213500664.html

CBS NEW YORK
— Secaucus, NJ mayor responds to buses dropping off asylum seekers (COMMENT: What positions do the following have on Democrat and RINO leaders allowing/encouraging anyone and everyone to come to America illegally and to stay in America illegally if they claim asylum: a) your Republican Congressman, b) your Republican state senator and representative, c) the Republican leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district, d) the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) leaders, e) your representative on the IRP State Central Committee, f) the leaders of your Republican county and township/ward party organizations, and g) the Republican candidates on the March 19, 2024 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, virtually all the citizens of all the countries of the world will seek asylum in America.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/secaucus-nj-mayor-responds-to-buses-dropping-off-asylum-seekers/

CBS MIDLAND TEXAS
— Midland-Odessa welcomes Chinese refugees after years of seeking asylum – Noe Ortega (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, virtually all the citizens of all the countries of the world will seek asylum in America.)
https://www.cbs7.com/2024/01/02/midland-odessa-welcomes-chinese-refugees-after-years-seeking-asylum/

MSN
— Sanctuary City Mayor Mike Johnston Cries Foul Over Too Many Illegals, Threatens ‘Historic’ City Service Cuts – Jack Davis
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/watch-sanctuary-city-mayor-mike-johnston-cries-foul-over-too-many-illegals-threatens-historic-city-service-cuts/ar-AA1mjjw0
— Migrants Arrive by Busloads in New Jersey to Work Around NYC Executive Order – Kayla Gallagher
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/migrants-arrive-by-busloads-in-new-jersey-to-work-around-nyc-executive-order/ar-AA1mjNOH
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/border-patrol-agent-illegally-turns-away-asylum-seeking-migrants-who-had-already-made-it-into-texas/ar-AA1mkkFn

NEW YORK POST
— LaPierre, Longtime N.R.A. Leader, Faces Trial That Could End His Reign. A lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general against Wayne LaPierre and three other N.R.A. insiders accuses the gun-rights group of decades of corruption. – Danny Hakim
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/nyregion/nra-lapierre-trial.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Colleges ever-increasingly promote the Democrat, Libertarian, and Green party platforms.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/02/war-on-college-politics-not-education/
— Republican loyalty to Trump, rioters climbs in 3 years after Jan. 6 attack – Rachel Weiner, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/02/jan-6-poll-post-trump/

USA TODAY
— Migrants dropped at New Jersey train stations to avoid New York bus restrictions. – Trevor Hughes and Katie Sobko
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/01/migrants-dropped-new-jersey-train-stations-avoid-nyc-bus-limits/72080200007/
— What to know about America’s rural-urban divide – Brian Reisinger (COMMENT: During the 1950s and early 1960s, I spent lots of time at my mother’s parents’ farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/12/23/economy-election-growing-us-urban-rural-divide/71960783007/

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
— Blame the woke authoritarians for student learning loss – Ron Paul
https://www.ocregister.com/2024/01/01/ron-paul-blame-the-woke-authoritarians-for-student-learning-loss/

CHICO ENTERPRISE RECORD
— Blame illegal immigration on a) employers that hire illegals and b) elected officials that let them do it.
https://www.chicoer.com/2024/01/02/by-hiring-migrants-americans-made-a-mess-at-the-border-mexico-shouldnt-have-to-clean-it-up-other-views/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Making Discrimination OK Again. The losers in a 2020 California referendum are back again with a sneakier version. – William McGurn (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans. Congress is run by Democrats and RINOs. GAO works for Congress. In Diersen vs. GAO, constructively, GAO successfully argued that it treated me exactly like Congress wanted it to treat its employees who shared my demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, old, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. GAO wasted my career, took many adverse actions against me, and forced me to take its early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/making-discrimination-ok-again-racial-preference-california-government-asian-american-9f190a1c
— The Military’s Phantom ‘Extremists’ An independent study puts to rest another false media narrative. – Editorial (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being an extremist. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. Better yet, I should sue them.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/military-extremists-report-institute-for-defense-analyses-pentagon-lloyd-austin-97619f4d

SHANNONSIDE
— 11 professions added to Critical Skill list for international work permits (COMMENT: From what I see, illegals not only lack job skills and lack education, they have serious financial, health, and/or other problems. From what I see, they want/need/demand massive assistance from governments and charities.)
https://www.shannonside.ie/news/11-professions-added-to-critical-skill-list-for-international-work-permits-234555

January 1, 2024

Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) blame illegal immigration problems on Republicans.

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: More migrants arrive in Chicago after being flown from Texas to Rockford. Mayor Johnson says Gov. Abbott continues ‘to sow seeds of chaos.’ – A.D. Quig, Robert Channick and Joe Mahr
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-rockford-plane-migrants-texas-20231231-n3imjhomxvarff7s2gjb6liwqi-story.html
https://news.yahoo.com/texas-flies-migrants-rockford-bus-145200918.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Another plane of migrants arrives in Chicago area as Mayor Brandon Johnson continues call for federal help. A plane from Texas dropped 355 migrants off about 1 a.m. Sunday in Rockford, officials said. They were transported by bus to a Chicago landing zone. – Kaitlin Washburn
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/31/24020673/rockford-migrant-plane-bus-brandon-johnson-immigration
— Democrat and RINO lawyers ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/1/1/24017584/chicago-migrant-crisis-immigration-court-law-center-attorneys

ABC7
— At least 12 shot, 1 killed in holiday weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-weekend-gun-violence-police/14251620/
— Plane from Texas drops off more than 300 migrants at Rockford airport; 8 buses heading to Chicago – Evelyn Holmes and Michelle Gallardo
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-migrant-crisis-plane-rockford-airport-texas/14249350/
— Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march up Michigan Avenue, call for end to war
https://abc7chicago.com/palestinian-protest-chicago-today-michigan-avenue-water-tower-place/14251670/

NBC5
— Plane carrying hundreds of migrants lands in Rockford, officials say. The plane, which departed San Antonio, Texas, and arrived in Rockford, Illinois, was carrying 355 migrants.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/plane-carrying-hundreds-of-migrants-lands-in-rockford-officials-say/3314592/
— Naperville named among safest cities in America for 2024
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-suburb-named-among-safest-cities-in-america-for-2024/3314794/

CBS2
— 350 more migrants head to Chicago after Texas sends plane to Rockford – TODD FEURER, DARIUS JOHNSON, JERAMIE BIZZLE
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/migrants-heading-to-chicago-from-rockford-texas-flight/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Two unscheduled buses also dropped of migrants in west suburban Lombard and Wheaton on Sunday. Chicago’s suburbs have been on the receiving end of migrant arrivals in recent weeks, after the Chicago City Council approved the crackdown on so-called “rogue” buses.)

WGN9
— Plane carrying over 300 migrants from Texas lands in Rockford, en route to Chicago – Courtney Spinelli
https://wgntv.com/news/plane-carrying-migrants-from-texas-landed-in-rockford-en-route-to-chicago/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlk9PRlHEjo

FOX32
— Pro-Palestine protest marches through downtown Chicago, shuts down I-90/I-94
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pro-palestine-protest-marches-through-downtown-chicago
— Hundreds of migrants bussed to Chicago area after landing in Rockford
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/migrants-chicago-rockford

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Plane carrying migrants from Texas lands in Rockford
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2023/12/31/355-migrants-land-in-rockford-before-being-bussed-to-chicago-illinois/72072935007/

SOUHERN
— Former Trump White House insiders call possible second term a threat to American democracy – Soo Rin Kim and Quinn Scanlan (COMMENT: I should write a book about the following who have worked against me the hardest: a) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, fundraisers, major donors, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and volunteers, b) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, c) Republican elected officials and their operatives and dupes in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, d) leaders of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition, e) conservative leaders, f) religious leaders, and g) those who I have sued.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/01/01/former-trump-white-house-insiders-call-possible-second-term-a-threat-to-american-democracy/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Elmhurst mayor clarifies procedure for transporting migrants to Chicago
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2023/12/31/elmhurst-mayor-clarifies-procedure-for-transporting-migrants-to-chicago/

WIFR
— Migrants from Texas arrive in Rockford, en route to Chicago
https://www.wifr.com/2023/12/31/migrants-texas-arrive-rockford-en-route-chicago/

WREX
— Migrants arrive at Rockford’s airport, escorted to Chicago
https://www.wrex.com/news/top-stories/update-migrants-arrive-at-rockfords-airport-escorted-to-chicago/article_c9f9dae6-a79c-11ee-ba79-37996e9fb1a2.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Democrats’ “Red Dawn” Gun Ban Goes Into Effect Today
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2024/01/01/democrats-red-dawn-gun-ban-goes-into-effect-today/
— Kane County GOP Sends Second Migrant Warning Press Release
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/31/kane-county-gop-sents-second-migrant-warning-press-release/
— Texas Migrants Flown to Rockford Airport
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/31/texas-migrants-flown-to-rockford-airport/
— Views of Eyewitness to 75 Woodstock Migrants at Metra Station Says FIVE Did Not Board Train to Chicago
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/31/views-of-eyewitness-to-woodstock-migrants-at-metra-station-says-five-did-not-board-train/
UPDATE 2: Zimel Loses Court Appeal to Keep Algonquin Township Trusteeship, LINK TO DECISION & ZIMEL COMMENTS
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/31/zimel-loses-court-appeal-to-keep-algonquin-township-trusteeship-copy/
— Tribune Finally Runs Obituary on My 1970’s Seatmate Susan Catania
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/31/tribune-finally-runs-obituary-on-my-1970s-seatmate-susan-catania/
— Governor Pats Himself on the Back
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/31/governor-pats-himself-on-the-back/
— Rashid Bemoans Foster’s Refusal to Debate
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/31/rashid-bemoans-fosters-refusal-to-debate/

LAKE MCHENRY SCANNER
— Plane carrying migrants lands in Rockford before buses drop off migrants in Highland Park, other suburbs. The bus drops occurred in Highland Park, West Chicago, Wheeling, Lombard, Wheaton, Glen Ellyn and Elgin. – Sam Borcia
https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2023/12/31/plane-carrying-migrants-lands-in-rockford-before-buses-drop-off-migrants-in-highland-park-other-suburbs/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— 17 buses dropping illegal immigrants were reported in DuPage County on Dec. 28 and 29
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/653399859-17-buses-dropping-illegal-immigrants-were-reported-in-dupage-county-on-dec-28-and-29
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Dec. 28 the Elmhurst Metra Station, in particular, saw significant activity, with a reported 53 migrants boarding an UP-W train destined for Ogilvie Station at 10:50 a.m. The train service relayed information about 40 migrants on a train and 70 at Villa Park. Bus updates throughout the day included arrivals at Elmhurst, an attempted drop-off in University Park at 10:40 a.m. and two buses in Wheaton at 12:50 pm. All passengers from these buses were reported to be on or preparing to board Metra trains to the city, with the Office of Emergency Management and Communications informed of the situation. Reports from Dec. 28 indicated an unexpected increase in buses, surpassing the expected 10 with a total headcount of 605 migrants.)

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— December 31, 2023 Newsletter: The Sanctuary Problem
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/blog
(FROM THE NEWSLETTER: Here are some important questions to ask your uncurious elected officials: 1. How many “newcomers” have entered your schools in the last two years and how does that compare to the previous five years? 2. It is against the law for landlords to ask about immigration status. Do you have any way of tracking how many illegals are renting in the community or being otherwise housed by non-profits? 3. How many illegals are using local food pantries, and are they having supply issues? 4. What hard benefits are illegals receiving? Debit cards, transport, housing support? 5. What is the usage and cost of services at medical facilities by illegals, and are the organizations getting paid for the services, or is it documented as charity care? 6. Is there a separate tracking system the public can see that shows incidents of any crimes committed by illegals, and if not, why not? 7. What are our community’s specific responses to the migrant issue? 8. For state officials – How much is this costing? Who is getting the contracts for all the support? Is there a daily tracker on the costs and numbers of illegals?)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democratic mayors point finger at Texas governor over migrant ‘chaos’ – Ramsey Touchberry
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/31/democrats-brandon-johnson-mike-johnston-point-fing/
— Mayors from hell: Democratic leaders are destroying our cities – Don Feder
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/31/mayors-from-hell-democratic-leaders-are-destroying/
— Texas AG accuses Biden administration of ‘aiding and abetting’ cartels in border crisis – Ramsey Touchberry
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/31/ken-paxton-texas-attorney-general-says-joe-biden-a/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Transgender movement grew bolder amid backlash – Heather Hunter
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2023-in-review-transgender-movement-grew-bolder-amid-backlash

NEW YORK POST
— Biden spent 37% of 2023 at a getaway spot — in Delaware, at posh vacation sites or Camp David – Diana Glebova
https://nypost.com/2023/12/31/news/biden-spent-37-of-past-year-in-delaware-at-posh-vacation-sites-or-camp-david/
— Laws banning semi-automatic weapons and library censorship to take effect in Illinois – AP
https://nypost.com/2023/12/31/news/laws-banning-semi-automatic-weapons-and-library-censorship-to-take-effect-in-illinois/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Flashpoints of a second civil war? – Mike McDaniel
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/flashpoints_of_a_second_civil_war.html
— All cultures are equally valuable: a deadly delusion – Mike McDaniel
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/all_cultures_are_equally_valuable_a_deadly_delusion.html

AMERICAN WIRE
— Trump says Dems ‘scrambling’ to let illegals vote in 2024 – Chris Donaldson
https://americanwirenews.com/trump-uncorks-early-new-years-message-to-biden-says-dems-scrambling-to-let-illegals-vote-in-2024/
— ‘Insane’ numbers of illegal immigrants entering US exceeds American births – Melissa Fine
https://americanwirenews.com/insane-numbers-of-illegal-immigrants-entering-us-exceeds-american-births-report/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— MSNBC guest scapegoats ‘structural racism,’ claims people only ‘about 20%’ responsible for their health – Kevin Haggerty
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/31/msnbc-guest-scapegoats-structural-racism-claims-people-only-about-20-responsible-for-their-health-1423974/
— ‘Insane’ numbers of illegal immigrants entering US exceeds American births – Melissa Fine
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/31/insane-numbers-of-illegal-immigrants-entering-us-exceeds-american-births-report-1423868/

BLAZE
— DHS Secretary Mayorkas roundly mocked after floating yet another absurd euphemism for illegal immigration – LEON WOLF
https://www.theblaze.com/news/dhs-secretary-mayorkas-roundly-mocked-after-floating-yet-another-absurd-euphemism-for-illegal-immigration
— Illegals given Court Dates in Year 2031!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJwOC6RbUTs

BREITBART
— Chicago Mayor Johnson: Texas Governor Abbott Creating ‘Chaos’ with Migrant Transport – PAM KEY
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/12/31/chicago-mayor-johnson-texas-governor-abbott-creating-chaos-with-migrant-transport/
— Illinois Towns, Cities Rising Up to Oppose Chicago’s and Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Sanctuary Policies – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/12/31/illinois-towns-cities-oppose-chicago-gov-j-b-pritzkers-sanctuary-illegal-aliens-policies/
— 8 Migrant Buses Head to Chicago After Texas Gov. Abbott Skirts Around New City Ordinance – OLIVIA RONDEAU
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/12/31/8-migrant-buses-head-chicago-after-texas-gov-abbott-skirts-around-new-city-ordinance/
— University Of Illinois Chicago Student Lauds ‘Courageous’ Hamas for Oct. 7 Massacre: ‘Brought Pride to Islamic Nation’ – JOSHUA KLEIN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/31/wacth-university-of-illinois-chicago-student-lauds-courageous-hamas-for-oct-7-massacre-brought-pride-to-islamic-nation/
— Donald Trump: Biden Allowing ‘Invasion’ at Border, a ‘Migration of Civilization into Our Country’ – MATTHEW BOYLE and ALEXANDER MARLOW
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/31/exclusive-donald-trump-biden-allowing-invasion-border-migration-civilization-country/
— ‘Censorship Is Ramping Up’ – AMY FURR (COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents who had their operatives and dupes try to get the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. I would focus on those who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me before and after 2006. I would focus on those who ended my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.)
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/12/31/censorship-ramping-facebook-suspends-libs-tiktok-going-against-community-standards/
— Lindsey Graham: In Trump’s Second Term ‘If You’re Here Illegally, You’re Going to Be Deported’ – PAM KEY (COMMENT: But according to Democrats and according to RINOs, you are here legally if you seek asylum.)
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/12/31/graham-in-trumps-second-term-if-youre-here-illegally-youre-going-to-be-deported/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Four times universities defied the SCOTUS Affirmative Action ruling
https://www.campusreform.org/article/four-times-universities-defied-the-scotus-affirmative-action-ruling/24513

CENTER SQUARE
— Texas busing migrants to sanctuary cities intensifies spotlight on border crisis – Tom Gantert
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_3350c98a-a6f0-11ee-9042-67275bec8a96.html

CREATORS SYNDICATE
— For the Sake of Equity, Expand School Choice (COMMENT: My parents sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always used that to falsely hint/imply/argue/shout that my parents were filthy rich. I should write a book about my disgusting critics/opponents, their disgusting operatives, and their disgusting dupes.)
https://www.creators.com/read/daily-editorials/01/24/for-the-sake-of-equity-expand-school-choice

DAILY CALLER
— ‘Vestiges Of Jefferson Davis’: Chicago Mayor Compares Texas Gov To Confederate President Over Treatment Of Migrants At Border – HAILEY GOMEZ
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/31/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-compares-texas-gov-greg-abbott-confederate-president-jefferson-davis-cites-lack-health-screenings-vaccinations-migrants-southern-border/
— Blue States Prepare To Enact Slew Of Left-Wing Laws In 2024 – JAKE SMITH
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/31/blue-states-prepare-enact-slew-left-wing-laws-2024/
— Hungary Knows How To Stop The Woke Mind Virus – DR.
MIKLOS SZANTHO
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/31/opinion-this-country-knows-how-to-stop-the-woke-mind-virus-dr-miklos-szantho/

DAILY WIRE
— Chicago Mayor Claims Texas Governor Clinging To ‘Vestiges’ Of Confederacy With Migrant Transports – Daniel Chaitin
https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-claims-texas-governor-clinging-to-vestiges-of-confederacy-with-migrant-transports

FOX NEWS
— ‘Systemic racism’ responsible for 80% of Black community’s health issues, doctor argues. Dr. Uché Blackstock appeared on MSNBC to discuss the ‘legacy of slavery’ in the Black community’s health. – Lindsay Kornick
https://www.foxnews.com/media/systemic-racism-responsible-black-communitys-health-issues-doctor-argues

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Blinken and Mayorkas’ trip to Mexico accomplishes… keeping the borders essentially wide open – Pat Droney
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/blinken-and-mayorkas-trip-to-mexico-accomplished-what-everyone-thought-it-would-a-big-fat-nothing

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Biden’s FCC is Adopting New ‘Diversity’ Rules to Take Control of the Internet. “The FCC is dishonestly claiming that it is promoting equity and fairness. However, the FCC is just seizing control over business decisions, funneling resources to politically preferred constituencies.” – Mike LaChance (COMMENT: What will you do if Democrat and RINO leaders succeed in a) stopping me from sending my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters out and/or b) stopping you from reading the newsletters?)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/bidens-fcc-is-adopting-new-diversity-rules-to-take-control-of-the-internet/
— The Fight to Stop California Politicians from Enshrining Racism in State’s Constitution – Leslie Eastman
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/the-fight-to-stop-california-politicians-from-enshrining-racism-in-states-constitution/

NEWSMAX
— N.Y., Chicago, Denver Sanctuary Cities Have Buyer’s Remorse – Eric Mack
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/sanctuary-city-nyc-chicago/2023/12/31/id/1147745/

PJ MEDIA
— Texas Flies Migrants to Rockford, IL in Escalation of War With Chicago – RICK MORAN
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2023/12/31/texas-flies-migrants-to-rockford-il-in-escalation-of-war-with-chicago-n4925121

POST MELLINNIAL
— Brandon Johnson lashes out at Texas for sending more illegal immigrants to Chicago. “The governor of Texas, Governor Abbott, is determined to continue to sow seeds of chaos.” – Sara Higdon
https://thepostmillennial.com/brandon-johnson-lashes-out-at-texas-for-sending-more-illegal-immigrants-to-chicago

POWER LINE
— TRUMP SAYS: ILLEGALS WILL VOTE IN 2024!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/12/trump-says-illegals-will-vote-in-2024.php

TOWNHALL
— Detroit Is Asking Residents to House Illegal Aliens As Biden’s Border Crisis Gets Out of Hand – Sarah Arnold (COMMENT: Sooner or later, if not already, the Democrats and RINOs who run your county, township, municipality, and school district will ask/force your neighbors if not you to house illegals. What will they stress that those illegals could/would do for you: buy groceries, prepare and serve meals, wash dishes, do laundry, walk your dog(s), clean toilets, vacuum floors, wash windows, take out trash, teach you, your spouse, and your children Spanish, raise your children, take care of your parents and grandparents, shovel snow, clean gutters, do yard work, etc.?)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/12/31/detroit-is-asking-residents-to-house-illegal-aliens-n2633016
— Republicans Remind Biden of the Crisis He Caused at the Border for the Third Year In a Row – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/12/31/republicans-remind-biden-of-the-crisis-he-caused-at-the-border-for-the-third-year-in-a-row-n2633026
— The Radical Left-Wing Laws Coming In 2024 – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/12/31/all-the-radical-left-wing-laws-coming-in-2024-n2633027
— Watch California Die – Derek Hunter
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2024/01/01/watch-california-die-n2633029

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

CNN
— The Supreme Court could make a Trump victory virtually impossible – David Mark
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/31/opinions/supreme-court-trump-2024-election-states-remove-ballot-mark/index.html
— More than 350 migrants flown from Texas to Rockford before being escorted to Chicago. – Sarah Dewberry
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/31/us/migrants-arriving-chicago-texas-sending/index.html

CBS NEWS
— Chicago mayor says Texas governor causing “chaos” with migrant transport – CAITLIN YILEK
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-arrivals-chicago-denver-texas-face-the-nation/

MSN
— ‘This guy makes Lightfoot look good’: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson trolled after calling for reparations funding to reduce violent crime. – Kunal Dey
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-guy-makes-lightfoot-look-good-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-trolled-after-calling-for-reparations-funding-to-reduce-violent-crime/ar-AA1mgCSj
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) blame illegal immigration problems on Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/us-mayors-take-action-to-slow-influx-of-migrants-arriving-from-texas/ar-AA1mhZfr

MSNBC
— Democrats ever-increasingly push religious leaders to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/methodist-church-anti-lgbtq-christian-schism-rcna131606
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more wokeness/wokeism, that is, they ever-increasingly promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, heterosexual, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, etc.)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/woke-trump-2023-identity-politics-criticism-rcna131193

WASHINGTON POST
— DeSantis, Haley pledge to pardon Trump if he’s convicted – Reis Thebault
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/31/desantis-haley-pledge-pardon-trump-if-hes-convicted/
— Doom dominates 2024 messaging as Trump and Biden trade dire warnings. Apocalyptic messages, reflecting country’s anxious mood, could prompt convulsive reaction to the election results. – Toluse Olorunnipa
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/31/biden-trump-doomsday-rhetoric/

NEW YORK SUN
— Democratic Mayors and Governors Begin to Push Back as Migrant Crossings Soar – MATTHEW RICE
https://www.nysun.com/article/democratic-mayors-and-governors-begin-to-push-back-as-migrant-crossings-soar

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters use Haley to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/12/31/message-to-gop-south-lost-the-civil-war-and-the-right-to-own-slaves-get-over-it-leonard-greene/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America, b) paint Democrats as having been the Union Army in the Civil War, c) paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army in the Civil War, and d) paint today’s Republicans as being White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2024-01-01/nikki-haley-ducked-the-slavery-question-america-does-it-too

USA TODAY
— A fraying coalition: Black, Hispanic, young voters abandon Biden as election year begins. Biden’s failure to consolidate his victorious 2020 support has left him narrowly trailing Trump. – Susan Page, Savannah Kuchar, Sudiksha Kochi (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Biden will ever-increasingly have the federal government give even more preference to voters who are minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, parents, veterans, non-Christian, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, those who have financial, health, and/or other problems, citizens of foreign countries, etc.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/01/biden-trump-poll-odds-black-hispanic-young-voters/72072111007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Welfare-Industrial Complex Is Booming. What’s driving American job growth? In progressive states, it’s government, social assistance and healthcare. – Allysia Finley (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, more and more and more employees have more and more and more demographics that vote for Democrats.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-welfare-industrial-complex-is-booming-3a7ad15c
— How to Work—and Love It—Into Your 80s and Beyond – Clare Ansberry (COMMENT: If I had been a Democrat, the Democrats who ran the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service, currently $191,900/year, long before I was 40 in 1988. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I earned 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.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/how-to-workand-love-itinto-your-80s-and-beyond-55cbb48c
— Republicans Have a Great Chance to Retake the Senate in 2024 – Lindsay Wise (COMMENT: The Republican Party platform is conservative. RINO leaders much rather see Democrat candidates win elections than conservative Republican candidates. RINO leaders want Republican candidates to run as “Democrat-Lite” candidates, that is, to dump the individual responsibility, traditional marriage/family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), and the rest of the planks in the Republican Party platform. I should write a book about all the Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have lost elections. I would focus on those who dumped the most planks in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/republicans-have-a-great-chance-to-retake-the-senate-in-2024-9b33b1e3

FORBES
— ‘Woke Ideology Has Gotten In’: DeSantis Trashes Biden’s Handling Of Military
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LU65YSVUe0
— Google Slashes Diversity Programs After Big Promises – Johan Moreno
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johanmoreno/2023/12/31/google-slashes-diversity-programs-after-big-promises/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2023/12/31/the-2024-dei-outlook/

SEATTLE’S CHILD
— Diversity in school: How a local Montessori celebrates. Teaching diversity begins in the classroom. (COMMENT: My mother never attended high school. In 1969, when my father died suddenly, the only job that I could find for her was driving children to/from Crete and the Montessori school in Park Forest.)
https://www.seattleschild.com/diversity-in-school-how-a-local-montessori-celebrates/

December 26, 2023

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 19 shot, 3 fatally in holiday weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-gun-violence-police-department/14223855/
— Democrats promote Kwanzaa.
https://abc7chicago.com/what-is-kwanzaa-when-does-start-swahili-nguzo-saba/14141593/

CBS2
— 3 killed, 17 wounded in Chicago shootings during Christmas weekend – JERAMIE BIZZLE, ADAM HARRINGTON, TODD FEURER
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-christmas-weekend-shootings-dec-22-to-26/

NBC5
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote Taylor Swift.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/taylor-swift-celebrates-christmas-alongside-santa-claus-to-cheer-on-travis-kelce-for-chiefs-raiders-game/3311018/

FOX32
— Damages increase as Democrat and RINO leaders flood America with illegals.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1386064
— 2 unscheduled migrant buses arrive at Elmhurst train station
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/2-unscheduled-migrant-buses-arrive-at-elmhurst-train-station

WGN9
— Pro-Palestinian rally held in Chicago Ridge on Christmas Day
https://wgntv.com/israel-hamas-conflict/pro-palestinian-rally-held-in-chicago-ridge-on-christmas-day/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbyfw8KLKxA

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Two busloads of migrants are dropped off at Elmhurst train station. A total of 91 people were on the coach buses that arrived Saturday from Texas, according to a post on the Elmhurst Police Department’s Facebook page.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/25/24014884/two-busloads-of-migrants-are-dropped-off-at-elmhurst-train-station
— Palestinian truckers gather in southwest suburbs for four-hour Christmas caravan. A parade of 150 vehicles on Monday sought to draw attention to the atrocities committed in the 11-week war between Israel and Hamas. – Michael Loria
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/25/24014978/palestinian-truckers-gather-in-southwest-suburbs-for-four-hour-christmas-caravan
— City Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza is deeply flawed. The Committee on Health and Human Relations voted on a one-sided resolution, Ald. Debra Silverstein writes. The council must also advocate for the release of hostages and condemn the violence against Israeli citizens. – Debra Silverstein
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/26/24012523/city-council-resolution-israel-hamas-cease-fire-gaza-alderman-debra-silverstein

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pope joins Democrats in blaming war on the availability of firearms.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/religion/pope-francis-christmas-20231225-drvqwu2cuvcc7oszt5yreiegfu-story.html
— 2023 was not a banner year for taking responsibility – Editorial (COMMENT: What do your critics/opponents hold you responsible for? My critics/opponents hold me responsible for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-acountability-brandon-johnson-pat-fitzgerald-20231226-6mrzlu4cqrcs3iyi2mspt63p5y-story.html
— Democrats promote LGBTQ in Wilson Creek School in Manhattan.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-manhattan-school-sign-st-1224-20231222-3k3jd2umxnhfdl3tmjogdgrx5i-story.html
— University Park enacts bus ordinance after unscheduled drop off of migrants – Mike Nolan (COMMENT: I bought a new town home in University Park in 1972, lived in it full-time 1972-1974, part-time 1974-1976, rented it out 1976-1984, and sold it in 1984.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-migrants-south-suburbs-st-1222-20231221-qkh7pf7mrnhrjlfkes24bydxa4-story.html

NORTHWEST HERALD
— McHenry County preps for more possible migrants arriving at train stations. Aim is to get migrants safely to Chicago, county official says. (COMMENT: What are the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district doing with illegals?)
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2023/12/25/mchenry-county-preps-for-more-possible-migrants-arriving-at-train-stations/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The only location in the state where asylum seekers can go through processing is in Chicago, so there is not much the county can do other than help people get to the city, Austin said.)

SOUTHERN
— Illinois purchases hotel rooms for asylum seekers sent from Texas. (COMMENT: There would be no asylum seekers for Texas to send if Democrat and RINO leaders had not invited them.)
https://thesouthern.com/news/illinois-purchases-hotel-rooms-for-asylum-seekers-sent-from-texas/article_9cbf08f2-23ef-5453-ab22-54b621b9f3e6.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Rashid Speaks against Aurora Ordinance Limiting Migrants (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly destroy you if you do not promote mass/illegal immigration.)
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/26/rashid-speaks-against-aurora-oridinance-limiting-migrants/
— UPDATE :Migrants Dropped at Various Outlying Locations Besides Fox River Grove, ELMHURST, TOO
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/25/migrants-dropped-at-various-outlying-locations-besides-fox-river-grove-copy/
— Political Predictions from Russ Stewart
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/23/political-predictions-from-russ-stewart/
— Less Than Ten Days to Sign Up on Democrats’ Red Dawn List Or “Be Criminals”
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/22/less-than-ten-days-to-sign-up-on-democrats-red-dawn-list-or-be-criminals/
— Nepotism
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/22/message-of-the-day-nepotism/
— We’re Number Three
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/22/were-number-three/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Sen. Ron Johnson says ‘radical leftism has infiltrated’ U.S. institutions – Mallory Wilson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/25/ron-johnson-says-radical-leftism-has-infiltrated-u/
— Biden’s migrant surge deepens America’s greenhouse gas problem – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/25/joe-bidens-migrant-surge-deepens-americas-greenhou/
— Trump rips into rivals in Christmas rants: ‘May they rot in hell’ – Victor Morton
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/25/donald-trump-rips-rivals-christmas-rants-may-they-/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— AOC sparks backlash after comparing Palestinian refugees to Jesus in Christmas message – Cami Mondeaux,
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/aoc-sparks-backlash-comparing-palestinian-refugees-jesus
— Crenshaw bill against college DEI oaths is well aimed – Editorial
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/crenshaw-bill-against-college-dei-oaths-is-well-aimed

NEW YORK POST
— Biden can stop the migrant caravan heading to the border — if he cared – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2023/12/25/opinion/biden-can-stop-the-migrant-caravan-heading-to-the-border-if-he-cared/
— Migrant caravan leader says 15,000 asylum-seekers could reach US border – Selim Algar
https://nypost.com/2023/12/25/news/media-savvy-radical-behind-the-latest-massive-migrant-caravan-from-mexico-to-the-us/
— Biden challenger Dean Phillips backs reparations for slavery, universal basic income – Diana Glebova
https://nypost.com/2023/12/25/news/biden-challenger-dean-phillips-on-reparations-the-border-and-israel/
— Caravan of up to 15,000 migrants set to crash US border as Blinken prepares to travel to Mexico – Selim Algar
https://nypost.com/2023/12/25/news/fresh-wave-of-7000-migrants-set-to-crash-into-us-border-ahead-of-blinkens-mexico-visit/

BREITBART
— 8 Times the Biden Administration Pushed the Transgender Agenda on Children – HANNAH BLEAU KNUDSEN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/25/8-times-biden-administration-pushed-transgender-agenda-children/
— At Least 18 Shot in Chicago During First Two Days of Christmas Weekend – AWR HAWKINS
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/12/25/at-least-18-shot-chicago-first-two-days-christmas-weekend/
— Buses Forced to Leave Illegals in Suburbs After ‘Sanctuary’ Chicago Passes Rules Restricting Dropoffs – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/12/25/buses-forced-leave-illegals-suburbs-after-sanctuary-chicago-passes-rules-restricting-dropoffs/
— ‘Christmas Is Canceled’: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Riot in New York, Block O’Hare in Chicago – JOEL B. POLLAK
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/25/christmas-is-canceled-pro-palestinian-protesters-riot-in-new-york-block-ohare-in-chicago/
— Universities Must Ban DEI Departments to Rout Out Raging Antisemitism on Campuses – Jewish Liberal Leader
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2023/12/25/exclusive-jewish-liberal-leader-universities-must-ban-dei-departments-to-rout-out-raging-antisemitism-on-campuses/

CENTER SQUARE
— U.S. national debt soars in 2023; per-taxpayer burden reaches $100,000 – Casey Harpe
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_59d5d5b8-a10b-11ee-86c9-1f290b61a050.html

CITY JOURNAL
— The New Racial Preferences – Renu Mukherjee, Brian C. Anderson (COMMENT: Far too many are involved in education, religion, politics, government, etc., to get more preference for themselves and for those who share their demographics.)
https://www.city-journal.org/multimedia/the-new-racial-preferences

DAILY CALLER
— Biden administration’s Minority Business Development Agency is currently facing a legal challenge for giving assistance to Americans based on race, and it may suffer the same fate at the Supreme Court as colleges and universities did earlier this year in the court’s affirmative action ruling. – WILL KESSLER (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote diversity, that is, they want more and more and more preference for those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, parents, veterans, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/25/govt-program-courts-chopping-block-affirmative-action/
— Several Microsoft scholarship programs intended to help students pursue careers in technology are limited to applicants on the basis of race and sex, according to its website. The programs offer high school seniors who are black, Hispanic or identify as women different scholarships to go to college, according to the website. – BRANDON POULTER
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/19/tech-giant-offers-high-school-students-race-based-scholarships/
— Here’s What They’re Teaching In The Naval Academy’s Gender And Sexuality Class – MICAELA BURROW
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/25/navy-gender-sexuality-class/
— AOC Cooked For ‘Jew Hate’ Christmas Message Likening Jesus Christ To Gazans – ILAN HULKOWER
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/25/aoc-christmas-eve-message-jesus-christ-palestine-gaza-israel-jew-hate/

FOX NEWS
— Mayor Johnson criticizes Texas governor for Biden’s migrant chaos
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6343858820112

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— California Medicaid Soon Open To All, “Papers or No Papers” Cost estimates have already doubled since last May: “the department estimated that the age 26-49 expansion would cost the state $1.2 billion in 2023-24, nearly double the previous cost estimate of $635 million.” – William A. Jacobson
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/california-medicaid-soon-open-to-all-papers-or-no-papers/

NEWSMAX
— DEI Damaging CIA – Fred Fleitz (COMMENT: GAO is just a shell of what it once was. During the 1980s and 1990s, Democrats used Republican-led budget cuts to waste the careers of and to get of the agency’s employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write a book about that.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/fredfleitz-newsmax-cia/2023/12/25/id/1147134/

PJ MEDIA
— Black Actress Worth Estimated $12 Million Cries About Low Pay, Cites Racism – BEN BARTEE
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2023/12/25/watch-black-actress-worth-estimated-12-million-cries-about-low-pay-cites-racism-n4925008

PATRIOT POST
— No Border, No Nation. Illegal immigrants and welfare spending programs are leading to chaos, bankruptcy, and societal breakdown. – Laurence F. Sanford
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/103121-no-border-no-nation-2023-12-26

TOWNHALL
— NY Gov: Let’s Get Those Slave Reparations Started – Matt Vespa
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/12/25/ny-gov-lets-get-those-slave-reparations-going-n2632827
— The Victimhood Mindset Makes People Helpless – Rainer Zitelmann (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, those who are the following are victims: minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, unmarried people, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/rainerzitelmann/2023/12/23/the-victimhood-mindset-makes-people-helpless-n2632650

ZERO HEDGE
— A network of non-governmental organizations seems to be playing a powerful role in coordinating the large-scale invasion of illegals at the US southern border. – TYLER DURDEN
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mass-migration-blueprints-reveal-ngos-carefully-planned-us-migrant-invasion-report

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— Democrats say “Reparations gained historic momentum in 2023 because of California’s efforts.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/reparations-momentum-2023-california-rcna127949

YAHOO NEWS
— While he was in office, Trump did more to defend and advance the Republican Party platform than either Bush.
https://news.yahoo.com/reagan-wouldnt-recognize-trump-style-123409497.html

CNN
— Thousands of migrants join caravan for U.S. – Rafael Romo
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/12/26/exp-migrants-caravan-romo-looklive-122612aseg1-world.cnn
— Democrats say “Trump augurs divisive year in angry Christmas rant.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/26/politics/trump-christmas-rant/index.html

REUTERS
— Migrant caravan spends Christmas on the road before heading to US border – Jose Torres
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/migrant-caravan-spends-christmas-road-before-heading-us-border-2023-12-24/

MSN
— Thousands of southern Mexican migrants march toward U.S. border
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/thousands-of-southern-mexican-migrants-march-toward-u-s-border/ar-AA1m1h7Q
— Texas border city El Paso opens shelter for migrants as massive migrant caravan anticipated to cross US-Mexico border in coming weeks. – Maryann Martinez
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-border-city-el-paso-opens-shelter-for-migrants-as-massive-migrant-caravan-anticipated-to-cross-us-mexico-border-in-coming-weeks/ar-AA1m1tv4

THE HILL
— Happy Plessivus: Democrats celebrate the holidays with separate-but-equal policies – JONATHAN TURLEY
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/4374248-happy-plessivus-democrats-celebrate-the-holidays-with-separate-but-equal-policies/

NEWSWEEK
— Ronna McDaniel Hit With Wave of Resignation Calls Under Christmas Post – Aila Slisco (COMMENT: Who do McDaniel’s critics/opponents want to replace her? One could ask my critics/opponents who they wanted to replace me with a) as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, b) as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, and c) as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member.)
https://www.newsweek.com/ronna-mcdaniel-hit-wave-resignation-calls-under-christmas-post-1855410

NEW YORK TIMES
— Nikki Haley Wants to Run on Her Record, Not Her Gender. The Republican presidential candidate would be the first woman to enter the White House, but she has so far tried to avoid the identity politics that could repel some voters. – Jazmine Ulloa (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote identity politics, that is, they want more and more and more preference for those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, parents, veterans, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/politics/nikki-haley-woman-president-gender.html
— For Donald Trump’s Family, an Immigrant’s Tale With 2 Beginnings – Jason Horowitz (COMMENT: What do you say to those who have asked me why I never pretended to be Swedish?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/us/politics/for-donald-trumps-family-an-immigrants-tale-with-2-beginnings.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the middle of the night, Friedrich Trump left his house in Kallstadt, a small town spotted with vineyards and a Lutheran church, for a northern port city that served as Germany’s gateway to America. A few days later, on Oct. 7, 1885, Friedrich, then 16 years old, bought a steerage-class ticket on the S.S. Eider, the start of an adventurous life as a barber, restaurateur, saloonkeeper, hotelier, entrepreneur, gold rush prospector, shipwreck survivor and New York real estate investor. It was an immigrant tale that would make any family proud. But for decades, the Trumps almost never talked about it. Friedrich Trump’s son, Fred, came of age between the World Wars, a period marked by resentment of and even discrimination toward Germans in the United States. More important, he was marketing his properties to the growing Jewish middle class filling up the old farmsteads of central Brooklyn and Queens. During his presidential campaign, Fred’s son Donald has occasionally run roughshod over Jewish sensibilities, notably with a post on Twitter that featured a six-pointed star and a pile of cash. But for many years, the Trumps went out of their way to avoid disquieting their Jewish friends and customers by burying their German identity. They told anyone who asked that they were Swedish. “He had thought, ‘Gee whiz, I’m not going to be able to sell these homes if there are all these Jewish people,’” said Donald J. Trump’s cousin John Walter, the Trump family historian, who has worked closely with Fred and Donald. And once they started portraying themselves as Swedish, they could not stop. “After the war, he’s still Swedish,” Mr. Walter said. “It was just going, going, going.” Even Mr. Trump, not known to be shy about embellishing facts, questioned the need. According to Mr. Walter, when Mr. Trump was working on his best seller “The Art of the Deal” in the mid-1980s, he asked his father, “Do I have to do this Swedish thing?”)
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: In Campus Protests Over Gaza, Echoes of Outcry Over Vietnam. The war in Vietnam ignited a protest movement that helped define a generation. Is the war between Israel and Hamas doing the same thing? – Michael Wines (COMMENT: The Vietnam War continues to have a tremendous negative impact on me My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes continue to punish me for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student draft deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They punished me the most while I worked for the Post Office 1966-1969, Firestone Stores 1970-1972, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997. They stress that I should have enlisted because I am conservative, Republican, and deemed 1-A for the draft. They stress that I am unmitigated coward because with my health problems (could not run because of a bone disease, eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and partially red/green color blind), I would not been sent into combat. They stress that if I had not avoided the Viet Nam War draft, I would not have been able to a) buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, b) buy a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, c) graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970, d) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, e) buy a new town home in University Park in 1972, f) buy a studio condo in downtown Chicago in 1974, g) earn an MBA from Loyola in 1976, h) buy a one bedroom condo in downtown Chicago in 1976, i) etc.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/24/us/gaza-vietnam-student-protest.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Demand for senior dating services, from local mixers to age-specific apps, is higher than ever in a rapidly aging America. – Charley Locke (COMMENT: I met my wife at a Presbyterian singles event. She is Catholic and I am Missouri Synod Lutheran.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/senior-dating-single-events-golden-bachelor-21187ced

FORBES
— Trump Rails Against Biden—And Obama—In Christmas Message – Molly Bohannon
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/12/25/trump-rails-against-biden-and-obama-in-christmas-message/?sh=2721176e3358
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly blame Republicans for mass shootings. Then again, Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly blame Republicans for everything that is bad.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/12/25/us-mass-shootings-near-650-this-year-second-worst-total-on-record/
— What Counts As An Averse Action? – Eric Bachman (COMMENT: What adverse actions do you fear that your critics/opponents might take against you next year? There are fewer adverse actions that my critics/opponents can take against me next year because they succeeded in a) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, b) ending my service as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, c) ending my service on the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee in 2007, d) etc.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericbachman/2021/11/15/what-counts-as-an-adverse-employment-action-in-discrimination-and-retaliation-cases/

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Donald Trump wishes electric car supporters rot in hell for Christmas (COMMENT: The cars that you own/owned say more about you than anything that you can say about yourself. What cars do the presidential candidates own and what cars did they own?)
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-electric-car-supporters-rot-hell-christmas-truth-social-2023-12

BUSINESS NEWS
— The 15 Richest Republicans on Capitol Hill – Harold Vazquez (COMMENT: He who pays the piper calls the tunes. My Republican critics/opponents in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois are wealthy. They have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. They had their operatives and their dupes a) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, b) end my service as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, c) end my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee in 2007, d) etc.)
https://biz.crast.net/dollars-and-decisions-the-15-richest-republicans-on-capitol-hill-wealth-of-geeks/

USA TODAY
— Ever-increasingly, everyone in healthcare in America is more and more and more of the following: citizen of a foreign country, minority, female, younger, non-Christian, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, has parents/ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, non-conservative, non-Republican, etc.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/12/20/people-of-color-health-care-appearance-bias/71825185007/

WUSA9
— What are you thankful for? (COMMENT: I was born in 1948. The many things that I am thankful for include my not having been born in later years because of Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, that is, because of political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. Because of the aforesaid, discrimination has ever-increasingly increased against those who share my demographics: White, male, Protestant, German American, those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, conservative, Republican, draft avoider, gun-owner, etc. Because of my terrible demographics, if I had been born in later years, I doubt that UIC, NIU, Loyola, DePaul, or IIT would have accepted me and I doubt that the Post Office, Firestone Stores, IRS, or GAO would have hired me.)
https://www.wusa9.com/video/life/holidays/what-are-you-thankful-of-this-holiday-season/65-070598d3-1fe2-4876-850d-c744f9b96bd3

SPIKED
— ‘Diversity’ just means discrimination. Aviva’s CEO has unwittingly revealed the backwardness of the ‘DEI’ agenda. – ALKA SEHGAL CUTHBERT (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote diversity, that is, they want more and more and more preference for those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, parents, veterans, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/12/21/diversity-just-means-discrimination/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Amanda Blanc, the chief executive of insurance company Aviva, has revealed that no white males can be recruited to senior posts without her say-so. Speaking last week at a Treasury Select Committee hearing on sexism in the finance industry, Blanc said that there can be ‘no non-diverse hire at Aviva without it being signed off by me and the chief people officer’. It was an admission that revealed a lot about the impact of the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agenda on employment and public life more broadly. Thanks to DEI, it is now acceptable for a CEO to state that she will subject ‘non-diverse’ candidates – a coded reference to white males – to extra scrutiny. Which sounds very much like discrimination to me. This captures the through-the-looking-glass logic of DEI, a logic that menaces every principle of fairness and equality. After all, a fair approach to recruitment would ensure that vacancies are widely advertised so as to broaden the pool of applicants. That way, an organization can maximize its chances of finding the best applicant with the best set of skills and talents for the role advertised.)

JACOBIN
— Identity Politics Is a Poor Substitute for Socialism – PAUL PRESCOD (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote identity politics, that is, they want more and more and more preference for those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, parents, veterans, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time.)
https://jacobin.com/2023/12/no-politics-but-class-politics-review-identity-race-working-class-adolph-reed-walter-benn-michaels

CBT NEWS
— The value of an inclusive workforce in the automotive industry – Jody DeVere (COMMENT: My plan for a career in the automotive industry ended in 1971 when I was 22 when Oldsmobile withdrew a job offer that I had accepted saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.)
https://www.cbtnews.com/the-value-of-an-inclusive-workforce-in-the-automotive-industry/

NATION
— Systematic Struggle – Khairpur Nathan Shah (COMMENT: My critics/opponents attribute their successes in life to meritocracy but attribute my successes in life to my benefitting tremendously from discrimination against those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write a book about my biggest critics/opponents. I would focus on their parents’ wealth.)
https://www.nation.com.pk/26-Dec-2023/systematic-struggle

NEW REPUBLIC
— The End of Opposition Research? (COMMENT: Far too many who falsely claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for opposition research. I should write a book about them. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois and who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://newrepublic.com/article/170556/george-santos-end-opposition-research

GOVERNING
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) promote more illegal immigration and b) blame bad weather for illegal immigration.
https://www.governing.com/climate/already-3-2-million-americans-are-climate-migrants

TIMES OF INDIA
— Thousands of Chinese migrants cross border as US Marks 80th anniversary of repeal of exclusion act
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/thousands-of-chinese-migrants-cross-border-as-us-marks-80th-anniversary-of-repeal-of-exclusion-act/articleshow/106288763.cms

GUARDIAN
— Houston Chronicle compares people crossing border to Mary and Joseph
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/25/houston-chronicle-texas-governor-migration-mary-joseph

INDEPENDENT
— Trump hopes opponents ‘rot in hell’ in Christmas Truth Social rant – Oliver O’Connell, Graig Graziosi, Ariana Baio
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-christmas-greeting-message-truth-social-latest-b2469453.html

DAILY MAIL
— Red states like Texas and Florida see population boom – while migrant crisis offsets loss in ‘sanctuary city’ states, like New York, California and Illinois as residents flee due to crime and high tax rates. The country’s population grew by 1.6million over the last year. Eight states including New York, California and Illinois saw populations decline. States in the south saw the biggest gains in population, with Texas adding nearly 500,000 new residents. – GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12899729/population-declines-increases-census.html
— Thousands join Christmas Eve migrant caravan – the biggest in more than a year – as it treks through Mexico and towards the U.S. border just days before Blinken arrives in the capital to hammer out new agreement to stem surge. Up to 10,000 people set out from the Guatemalan border on the long journey north in record migrant caravan as Mexican security forces look on. Comes as Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is hauled off Middle East duties for a crisis migrant summit with Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. An all-time record of 12,600 crossings were detected on Monday with the total figure for 2023 expected to top 2 million. – DOMINIC YEATMAN
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12898865/migrants-border-caravan-blinken-mexico-crossings-tapachula.html
— Texas border city El Paso opens shelter for migrants as massive migrant caravan anticipated to cross US-Mexico border in coming weeks. Migrant caravan estimated between 6,000-8,000 people from Central and South America, Caribbean. Unknown when caravan will arrive at US-Mexico border. Caravan could stay together or break apart into smaller groups as it arrives at US’ southern border. – MARYANN MARTINEZ
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12899813/Migrants-El-Paso-shelter-brder-crossing-caravan.html
— Christmas chaos in Eagle Pass as THOUSANDS more migrants cross US border into Texas after wading across the Rio Grande and wait to be processed.
Eagle Pass is been flooded with at least 10,000 asylum-seekers on Christmas Eve into Christmas morning. Families including young children waded across the Rio Grande from Mexico and scaled barbed-wire fences. Surrendered to border agents to claim asylum and were put in huge pens to await processing by few officers. – NIC WHITE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12899949/Christmas-crisis-Eagle-Pass-Texas-border-migrants.html

December 25, 2023

What are the following doing to fight illegal immigration: a) your Republican Congressman, b) your Republican state senator and representative, c) Republican leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district, d) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township/ward party organization, and e) candidates for the aforesaid on the March 19, 2024 Republican primary ballot in your precinct?

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

MWAKILISHI
— 10 Jobs That Will Secure You an Italian Work Visa in 2024 – Martin Olage (COMMENT: For which jobs are applicants needed in your county, township, municipality, and school district? When I was young, applicants were needed for the following jobs: doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, working on an automobile assembly line, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, collecting delinquent taxes, and auditing federal agencies. What jobs do illegals want? What jobs are they qualified to take? What jobs will be offered to them? What jobs will they take? According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, all the jobs that I took were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take. If offered the bad jobs that I took, will illegals take them or refuse to stoop to take them?)
https://www.mwakilishi.com/article/immigration-news/2023-12-24/10-jobs-that-will-secure-you-an-italian-work-visa-in-2024
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Doctors, Nurses, Physiotherapists, Healthcare and social services professionals, Mathematics and computer science specialists, ICT technicians, Engineers, Engineering Technicians, Skilled construction workers, Restaurant staff)

SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
— What’s the Difference Between a ‘Good’ Job and a ‘Bad’ Job? – Dana Wilkie (COMMENT: What was good and bad about the jobs that you had? According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, a) all the jobs that I took were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and b) I was grossly overpaid. To qualify myself for better paying jobs, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I earned a job-related professional license.)
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/employee-relations/pages/good-and-bad-jobs.aspx
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 10 Dimensions of Job Quality: Level of pay. Stable and predictable pay. Stable and predictable hours. Control over hours and/or job Location. Job security. Employee benefits. Career advancement opportunities. Enjoying the day-to-day work. Having a sense of purpose and dignity at work. Having the power to change things that are unsatisfying at work.)

COLLINS DICTIONARY
— Overpaid (COMMENT: Are/were you overpaid? According to my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes, I was always grossly overpaid. In 1997, in today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $142,650/year. In my defense, a) I earned a job-related professional license (CPA-1981), b) I earned six job-related professional certifications (forensic accounting-1997, financial services auditing-1996, government financial management-1994, fraud examination-1990, internal auditing-1981, and accounting-1979), and c) I earned three job-related graduate degrees (IIT-finance-1997, DePaul-accounting-1980, and Loyola-business-1976) and a job-related bachelor’s degree (NIU-management-1970).)
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/overpaid

GAO
— GAO’s mission is to provide Congress with fact-based, nonpartisan information that can help improve federal government performance and ensure accountability for the benefit of the American people. (COMMENT: While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, its mission was fighting government fraud, waste, and abuse. What is/were the missions of your employers? The importance of GAO’s mission helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat GAO superiors to waste my career and to get rid of me. They forced me to take a $21,863/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 when I was 31. They gave me bad/unfair job assignments, performance expectations, and performance appraisals. They delayed my promotions to GS-11, GS12, and GS-13 and they never promoted me to GS-14. They kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49. They would not have done the aforesaid if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.)
https://www.gao.gov/blog/about

ABC7
— State to temporarily house hundreds of Chicago migrants in hotels as crisis continues (COMMENT: Housing illegals in hotels encourages more illegals to come.)
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-migrants-in-elmhurst-il-fox-river-grove/14221592/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSR_pjsbtwc
— At least 17 shot, 3 fatally in holiday weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-gun-violence-police-department/14221411/

CBS2
— Illinois temporarily places hundreds of migrants in Chicago hotel rooms in response to influx – JERAMIE BIZZLE (COMMENT: Housing illegals in hotels encourages more illegals to come.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/state-placing-hundreds-of-migrants-in-chicago-hotel-rooms/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/illinois-temporarily-places-hundreds-of-migrants-in-chicago-hotel-rooms/

WGN9
— Illinois provides hotels for some migrants in Chicago – Angelica Sanchez, Andrew Smith (COMMENT: Housing illegals in hotels encourages more illegals to come.)
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/illinois-provides-hotels-for-some-migrants-in-chicago/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIXYpfrWLZ4

FOX32
— Migrants in Chicago: State funds hotel stays for hundreds of asylum seekers amid ‘unprecedented’ influx – Maggie Duly (COMMENT: Housing illegals in hotels encourages more illegals to come.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-migrants-illinois-hotels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcrepkAhg84
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QrxIukW4ko

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois provides hotel housing for migrants in Chicago given latest influx – Lizzie Kane (COMMENT: Housing illegals in hotels encourages more illegals to come.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/immigration/ct-illinois-provides-more-migrant-housing-20231224-bjvud4fgfndvjma5iengcjiyva-story.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-christmas-mike-royko-migrants-chicago-pd-20231225-2v45wjtnivddrnwpwf5jph7moy-story.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/immigration/ct-venezuelan-migrant-single-mother-chicago-residents-friendship-20231225-6mzwh7wqm5htlaeqxreqk64atq-story.html (FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE)

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/24/22850743/mike-royko-mary-joe-chicago-style-illinois-christmas

DAILY HERALD
— Two busloads of migrants dropped off at Elmhurst train station – Russell Lissau (COMMENT: Housing illegals in hotels encourages more illegals to come.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20231224/news/two-busloads-of-migrants-dropped-off-in-elmhurst/
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/2023/12/24/two-busloads-of-migrants-dropped-off-at-elmhurst-train-station/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Sunday, the Illinois Department of Human Services announced the state is reserving more hotel rooms to house migrants transported to the area from Texas. The state made approximately 30 hotel rooms available Saturday night, with more rooms for up to 200 people expected to be available Sunday, according to a news release. The Illinois Department of Human Services is working with Chicago officials to find hotel rooms for the migrants. The city is providing transportation for the people. Those in hotels will be moved to a pharmacy being converted into a shelter in the Little Village neighborhood when construction finishes in January, officials said.)

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Kane County GOP issues statement on suburban migrant drop-offs. 38 migrants dropped off at Elburn Metra station. (COMMENT: What are the following doing to fight illegal immigration: a) your Republican Congressman, b) your Republican state senator and representative, c) Republican leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district, d) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township/ward party organization, and e) candidates for the aforesaid on the March 19, 2024 Republican primary ballot in your precinct?)
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2023/12/24/kane-county-gop-issues-statement-on-suburban-migrant-drop-offs/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Kane County Republican Party leadership issued a statement Saturday regarding the drop-off of 38 migrants on a bus sent from Texas on Dec. 21 at the Elburn Metra train station. The incident has been mirrored in other Chicago suburbs recently after the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance on Dec. 13 prohibiting buses from arriving and dropping people off in the city with no prior notice. “… Kane County witnessed yet another incident where busloads of migrants were callously dumped here from the U.S. border without prior warning or care for their well-being,” the statement said. “This is not an act of compassion but a systematic failure resulting in a criminal operation.” Signed by the Andro Lerario, chairman of the Kane County Republican Central Committee, the statement added, “This issue is no longer confined to the distant border; it’s happening right here in our neighborhoods.”)

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Two busloads of migrants dropped off at Elmhurst train station – Russell Lissau (COMMENT: Housing illegals in hotels encourages more illegals to come.)
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/2023/12/24/two-busloads-of-migrants-dropped-off-at-elmhurst-train-station/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trump still a money machine in central Illinois. – TOM KACICH
https://www.news-gazette.com/newsletter/content/daily_headlines/tom-kacich-trump-still-a-money-machine-in-central-illinois/article_bb9d0ab1-38d0-56cc-96c8-5ffce53eff47.html

WTHI TV
— Federal judge declines to stay assault weapons ban ahead of Jan. 1 registration deadline. McGlynn previously issued an injunction that was overturned by appellate court. – BETH HUNDSDORFER
https://www.wthitv.com/news/federal-judge-declines-to-stay-assault-weapons-ban-ahead-of-jan-1-registration-deadline/article_77dfde64-a264-11ee-9955-1b68cf36458b.html

COUNTRY HERALD
— Elmhurst: Unexpected Arrival of Migrant Buses at Train Station (COMMENT: Housing illegals in hotels encourages more illegals to come.)
https://www.countryherald.com/illinois/dupage-illinois/elmhurst/elmhurst-illinois-unexpected-arrival-of-migrant-buses-at-train-station/
— Frankfort Takes Precautionary Steps Despite No Migrant Arrivals (COMMENT: What are the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district doing to discourage illegal immigration?)
https://www.countryherald.com/illinois/frankfort-illinois-village-takes-precautionary-steps-despite-no-migrant-arrivals/

MANHATTEN PATCH
— Manhattan Mayor Restricts Migrant Drop-Offs In Town. Mayor Mike Adrieansen signed an order preventing intercity bus drivers from dropping passengers off unscheduled without prior approval. – Lauren Traut (COMMENT: What are the following doing to fight illegal immigration: a) your Republican Congressman, b) your Republican state senator and representative, c) Republican leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district, d) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township/ward party organization, and e) candidates for the aforesaid on the March 19, 2024 Republican primary ballot in your precinct?)
https://patch.com/illinois/manhattan/manhattan-mayor-restricts-migrant-drop-offs-town

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

— CALL FOR ARTICLES!!!

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— TOO MUCH OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING COULD STOP PEOPLE FROM MOVING TO ILLINOIS – Joe Tabor (COMMENT: I became a licensed CPA in 1981 when I was 32. But my Democrat GAO superiors ignored, dismissed, and belittled that.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/too-much-occupational-licensing-could-stop-people-from-moving-to-illinois/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Al Gore foreshadows 1 billion ‘climate refugees’ crossing borders from global warming – Ramsey Touchberry (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly use “climate change” to promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/24/al-gore-foreshadows-1-billion-climate-refugees-cro/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Haley takes aim at Biden with new ad in final push before Iowa caucuses – Julia Johnson
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/nikki-haley-ad-beat-biden-final-iowa-push
— Why the Trump-Haley ticket talk won’t die – W. James Antle III
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/why-trump-haley-ticket-talk
— Border Patrol warns illegal immigrants winter is coming – Luke Gentile
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/border-patrol-warns-illegal-immigrants-winter-coming

NEW YORK POST
— Defund the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum — a woke indoctrination factory – Mike Gonzalez
https://nypost.com/2023/12/24/opinion/why-the-national-museum-of-the-american-latino-should-be-defunded/
— Migrants signing up for NYC ID cards in record numbers with more than 112K awarded in 2023 – Carl Campanile
https://nypost.com/2023/12/24/metro/record-number-of-migrants-take-first-step-to-becoming-nyc-residents-lines-wrapped-around-the-building/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Democrats are completely delusional about Joe Biden’s ‘unifying’ status – Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/democrats_are_completely_delusional_about_joe_bidens_unifying_status.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— NYC Mayor Adams cries the poor mouth but hired nearly 300 ‘special assistants’ – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/24/nyc-mayor-adams-cries-the-poor-mouth-but-hired-nearly-300-special-assistants-1422478/

BREITBART
— Top 5 Times Mitch McConnell Opposed America First in 2023. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 81, is not a friend to America First conservatives. – WENDELL HUSEBØ
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/24/top-5-times-mitch-mcconnell-opposed-america-first-in-2023/

DAILY CALLER
— Sprawling Migrant Caravan Surges Toward U.S. Border Days Before Secretary Blinken’s Scheduled Trip To Mexico – JOHN OYEWALE
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/24/migrant-caravan-united-states-mexico-border-blinken-visits-mexico/
— Big Business Scales Back ‘Diversity’ Initiatives As Legal Pressure Mounts – JAKE SMITH
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/24/big-business-scales-back-diversity-initiatives-as-legal-pressure-mounts/
— Are GOP Presidential Candidates Leaving The Door Open To Be Trump’s Pick For VP? – MARY LOU MASTERS
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/24/desantis-haley-christie-ramaswamy-hutchinson-gop-presidential-candidates-wouldnt-take-vp-position-donald-trump-who-doesnt/
— Abortion Advocacy Groups Saw A Massive Revenue Spike As The Supreme Court’s Overturn Of Roe Unfolded – ROBERT SCHMAD (COMMENT: I support the right to life plank in the Republican Party platform. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes not only reject that plank, they do everything that they can to destroy me because I support that plank. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes.)
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/24/abortion-advocacy-groups-saw-a-massive-revenue-spike-as-the-supreme-courts-overturn-of-roe-unfolded-tax-forms-show/

FOX NEWS
— Illinois state government provides hundreds of migrants with hotel housing in Chicago. State made approximately 230 hotel rooms available over weekend. – Stepheny Price
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-state-government-provides-hundreds-migrants-hotel-housing-chicago
— Pro-Palestinian protesters confront Democratic lawmakers, shut down Chicago interstate. – Landon Mion
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pro-palestinian-protesters-confront-democratic-lawmakers-shut-down-chicago-interstate
— Ex-NASCAR star Danica Patrick faces criticism for attending conservative event. Patrick was at a Turning Point USA event earlier in the week. – Ryan Gaydos
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/ex-nascar-star-danica-patrick-faces-criticism-attending-conservative-event

HOT AIR
— Pro-Hamas Protestors Busy in Union Square Trashing Lincoln Statues
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/12/24/pro-hamas-protestors-busy-in-union-square-trashing-lincoln-statues-n600996

NEWSMAX
— Migrant Christmas Eve Caravan on Road to US Border: ‘We Won’t Be Stopped’
https://www.newsmax.com/us/migrant-caravan-immigration/2023/12/24/id/1147080/

ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Over 6,000 People Join Migrant Caravan In Mexico Ahead Of Blinken’s Visit To The Capital
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/over-6000-people-join-migrant-caravan-in-mexico-ahead-of-blinkens-visit-to-the-capital/

PJ MEDIA
— Clinton-Appointed Judge Claims DeSantis Spread ‘False Information’ – MATT MARGOLIS (COMMENT: Since 2000, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I spread false information with my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes. Better yet, I should sue them. I would focus on those who have/had lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2023/12/24/clinton-appointed-judge-claims-desantis-spread-false-information-about-child-transitions-n4924988

TOWNHALL
— James O’Keefe Refutes Biden Claim That Illegal Migrants Are Vetted Before Boarding Flights – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/12/24/james-okeefe-refutes-biden-claim-that-illegal-migrants-are-vetted-before-boarding-flights-n2632805

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

MSNBC
— Taylor Swift could save Joe Biden in 2024. The musical megastar may be the rare celebrity with the cultural influence to shift the political tides. – Michael A. Cohen (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Taylor Swift to destroy Trump. Will they also have Swift destroy those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, non-veteran, gun-owner, Protestant, German American, and has ancestor who have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/taylor-swift-save-joe-biden-rcna130344

MSN
— Chicago Alderman: ‘My Mayor Is Blaming Everyone Except the Person Who Needs to Get the Blame’ – Joseph Ellis
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chicago-alderman-my-mayor-is-blaming-everyone-except-the-person-who-needs-to-get-the-blame/ar-AA1lZaDS

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Thousands join migrant caravan in Mexico ahead of Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to the capital – EDGAR H. CLEMENTE
https://www.aol.com/thousands-join-migrant-caravan-mexico-191633916.html

YAHOO NEWS
— Illinois provides hotel housing for migrants in Chicago given latest influx – Lizzie Kane (COMMENT: Housing illegals in hotels encourages more illegals to come.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-provides-hotel-housing-migrants-001300283.html

NEWSWEEK
— Rand Paul Hits Donald Trump and Republican Colleagues in Holiday Rant – Gabe Whisnant
https://www.newsweek.com/rand-paul-hits-donald-trump-republican-colleagues-holiday-rant-1855290

ABC NEWS
— Thousands join migrant caravan in Mexico ahead of Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to the capital. A sprawling caravan of migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and other countries is trekking through Mexico. – AP
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/thousands-join-migrant-caravan-mexico-ahead-secretary-state-105902470
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/pentagon-states-work-restore-military-benefits-lgbtq-veterans-105900228

CBS NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/record-number-migrant-border-crossings-december-2023/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/24/us/politics/trump-immigration-fact-check.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Thousands join migrant caravan in Mexico ahead of Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to the capital – AP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/24/mexico-us-caravan-migration/063fb6d0-a291-11ee-aacb-6f873a65763e_story.html

USA TODAY
— Who would Trump choose as vice president? Here’s a list of potential candidates. – Sudiksha Kochi and David Jackson
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/12/23/trump-choice-for-vice-president/71974799007/

NEWS 18
— ‘When Affirmative Action is Your Basis for Hiring’: Ramaswamy Takes Shot at US Vice Prez Harris (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promote patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.news18.com/world/when-affirmative-action-is-your-basis-for-hiring-ramaswamy-takes-shot-at-us-vice-president-harris-8716625.html

FORBES
— Forbes promotes Pritzker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPOP-ZcSGZs
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat investors will destroy America.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2023/12/24/how-investors-will-drive-more-dei-commitment/

MESSENGER
— America’s Crisis of Single-Parent Families Has Only Gotten Worse – Albert R. Hunt (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, Democrats ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and the traditional family.)
https://themessenger.com/opinion/melissa-kearney-single-parent-families-children-success-rates-moynihan-policy

WORLD TRIBUNE
— More illegals than Americans flying out of Laredo airport … and free of charge
https://www.worldtribune.com/report-more-illegals-than-americans-flying-out-of-laredo-airport-and-free-of-charge/

DAILY MAIL
— Thousands join Christmas Eve migrant caravan – the biggest in more than a year – as it treks through Mexico and towards the U.S. border just days before Blinken arrives in the capital to hammer out new agreement to stem surge. Up to 10,000 people set out from the Guatemalan border on the long journey north in record migrant caravan as Mexican security forces look on. Comes as Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is hauled off Middle East duties for a crisis migrant summit with Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. An all-time record of 12,600 crossings were detected on Monday with the total figure for 2023 expected to top 2 million. – DOMINIC YEATMAN
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12898865/migrants-border-caravan-blinken-mexico-crossings-tapachula.html

December 24, 2023

Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage illegal immigration, but then blame Republicans for that illegal immigration.

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Chicago shootings: At least 10 shot, 2 fatally in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-gun-violence-police-department/14219929/
— Migrant man shot to death in Gage Park
https://abc7chicago.com/gage-park-news-chicago-shooting-migrant-55th-street/14219698/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-migrants-venezuelan-toy-giveaway-migrant-buses/14219271/

NBC5
— Busload of migrants arrives at Westmont Metra station as suburban drop-offs continue to increase
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/busload-of-migrants-arrives-at-westmont-metra-station-as-suburban-drop-offs-continue-to-increase/3310330/
— Bus drops off asylum-seekers in Fox River Grove; migrants were told they had arrived in Chicago
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/bus-drops-off-asylum-seekers-in-fox-river-grove-migrants-were-told-they-had-arrived-in-chicago/3310380/
— Asylum-seeker shot and killed outside Gage Park migrant shelter – Matt Stefanski
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/man-shot-in-the-head-outside-migrant-shelter-in-gage-park-chicago-police/3310417/

CBS2
— 2 killed, 9 wounded in Chicago shootings during Christmas weekend – JERAMIE BIZZLE
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-christmas-weekend-shootings-dec-22-to-26/
— 28-year-old migrant shot, killed in Chicago, alderman says – ALEX ORTIZ
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/migrant-shot-killed/
— Chicago, suburbs crack down on migrant buses arriving without notice
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-suburbs-crack-down-migrant-buses-arriving-without-notice/

WGN9
— 38 migrants dropped off in Fox River Grove after being told they were in Chicago – Gabriel Castillo
https://wgntv.com/news/northwest-suburbs/38-migrants-dropped-off-in-fox-river-grove-after-being-told-they-were-in-chicago/
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://wgntv.com/news/features/northwest-side-church-hosts-christmas-party-for-asylum-seekers/
— New Illinois driving laws going into effect in 2024 – John Clark
https://wgntv.com/news/new-illinois-driving-laws-going-into-effect-in-2024/

FOX32
— Sen. Tim Scott blasts Chicago mayor for ‘devastating’ students with broken campaign pledge – Andrew Mark Miller
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-school-of-choice
— Migrants dropped off by bus in Fox River Grove after being told they were in Chicago
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/migrants-dropped-off-fox-river-grove-after-being-told-they-were-in-chicago
— Pro-Palestinian caravan shuts down I-190, confronts lawmakers to demand ceasefire
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/protest-in-chicago-today-pro-palestinian-caravan-shuts-down-i-190-confronts-lawmakers-to-demand-ceasefire

WTTW
— Illinois Manufacturers Say Rail Pause in Texas Caused Harm During Busy Holiday Season: ‘It Rippled Down’ – Amanda Vinicky
https://news.wttw.com/2023/12/22/illinois-manufacturers-say-rail-pause-texas-caused-harm-during-busy-holiday-season-it

WGN RADIO
— The importance of putting together a budget – Ashley Bihun (COMMENT: When I ran for the open Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) Treasurer office in 2004, I had served as the Treasurer for the a) Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter for 3 years, b) American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter for 3 years, and c) Illinois Center Right Coalition for 2 years. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and I had become a licensed CPA. I had worked for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years. I stressed to MTRO members that budgeting was a very important planning exercise. I stressed that I would draft a budget for MTRO each year, get the other MTRO officers to approve a draft budget, get the MTRO membership to approve a budget, and get MTRO to follow that budget. But my opponent for that MTRO Treasurer office, his operatives, and his dupes, including two CPAs, not only viciously attacked budgeting, they viciously attacked me personally. Just before the vote, they demonized, denigrated, and condemned me as not being a team player and that I irritate everyone around me. My opponent got 69 votes and I got only 13 votes. Since 2002, MTRO has punished me for Jim Ryan’s losing to Blagojevich because I supported Patrick O’Malley in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Since 2004, MTRO has punished me for my not covering up the wrongdoing of a MTRO officer and for Andrew McKenna losing the Republican U.S. Senate primary because I allegedly rigged a major MTRO straw poll. Since 2006, MTRO has punished me for Judy Baar Topinka’s losing to Blagojevich. MTRO continues to punish me for the aforesaid.)
https://wgnradio.com/home-sweet-home-chicago/the-importance-of-putting-together-a-budget/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Man dead after shooting outside city migrant shelter in Gage Park – Nell Salzman
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-migrant-man-shot-dec-23-20231223-su2gaxs5kvaovaacqnigy53z24-story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-migrant-christmas-celebration-belmont-cragin-parish-1223-20231223-pqtyui55nrdzdmu4vmbc7n4qva-story.html
— Chicago actor Mike Nussbaum dies at 99, the oldest working actor in the country. – Chris Jones (COMMENT: The Democrats who run the federal government force federal employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran to retire as soon as they are eligible so that they can give their jobs to their Democrat employees who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. In 1997, when I was 49 years old, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take their early retirement “offer” so that they could give my younger Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office, and that is exactly what they did.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-ent-mike-nussbaum-chicago-actor-dies-hold-20231223-o2gsp5hbtncujjobygpvzzdaqu-story.html
— Federal judge declines to delay Illinois gun registration deadline – Jeremy Gorner (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will force county sheriffs to go after those who have not registered and who share demographics with Trump. Trump is conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-gun-registration-injunction-denied-20231222-qmzutjlayrh2jhs3dehqatyb2e-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: Aurora OKs new regulations aimed at buses from Texas dropping migrants off on their way to Chicago – Steve Lord
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/ct-abn-aurora-migrants-st-1224-20231222-mzkjrqm6v5hq3j3ks62x27ysii-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/immigration/ct-migrants-leaving-shelters-living-encampents-streets-20231224-aot7wkc2snbbxpwmziilaegmjq-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Health care services at Pilsen migrant shelter fall short of promises, medical advocates say. The city has said migrants in shelters receive health screenings. A source close to the matter said that of the thousands at the Pilsen shelter where a child died, only a few hundred have been screened. – Michael Loria
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/23/24010129/chicago-migrant-crisis-pilsen-shelter-health-care-screenings
— Union members make the holidays happen. Delivery drivers and postal workers deserve an extra special mention because of the determination they show to get our gifts to loved ones, no matter how close we cut it, Illinois AFL-CIO officials write. – Tim Drea and Pat Devaney (COMMENT: The Park Forest Post Office hired me in November of 1966 when I was 18 for the 1966 Christmas rush. I joined the postal union and continued to work part-time until 1969.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/23/23997442/labor-union-workers-postal-delivery-grocery-holidays-aflcio-tim-drea-pat-devaney
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/24/23989391/christams-migrants-navidad-migrants-holiday-family-venezuela-angola-haiti

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: How DuPage Forest Preserve’s plan to buy horse farm led to a lawsuit – Susan Sarkauskas
https://www.dailyherald.com/20231223/news/how-dupage-forest-preserves-plan-to-buy-horse-farm-led-to-a-lawsuit/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Why some suburbs are scrambling to opt out of state’s new paid-leave law before Jan. 1 – Eric Peterson (COMMENT: While I worked part-time for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969, I was called in many times to work many more hours because my Democrat coworkers called in to take sick leave or emergency annual leave. I worked almost every Sunday and almost every holiday.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20231214/news/suburbs-scramble-to-exempt-public-safety-employees-from-states-on-demand-paid-leave-law/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: An Illinois law taking effect Jan. 1 will guarantee nearly all workers in the state the right to 40 hours of paid leave each year, leaving local governments with police, fire and public works departments rushing to exempt themselves to avoid the possibility of empty shifts.)
— Pre-trial release was denied Saturday for an Aurora man accused of shooting another man after a dispute over pizza and a bar tab at a Wheaton bar. – Alicia Fabbre
https://www.dailyherald.com/20231223/news/man-killed-over-dispute-about-pizza-and-bar-tab/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Census estimates raise questions some prefer to ignore – Editorial (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders in Illinois ever-increasingly do everything that they can to drive out of Illinois those who have demographics that vote for Republicans, that is, those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, married, gun owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-census-estimates-raise-questions-some-prefer-to-ignore/article_e4b51e14-462c-591d-a063-6b4e99d74a55.html

WAND TV
— New Illinois law invests $20 million for new grocery stores, eliminating food deserts – Mike Miletich
https://www.wandtv.com/news/new-illinois-law-invests-20-million-for-new-grocery-stores-eliminating-food-deserts/article_a25b176c-a11a-11ee-a378-830b5bafc2b1.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders encourage illegal immigration and then blame Republicans for illegal immigration.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-12-23/chicago-is-struggling-to-house-the-migrants-sent-out-of-state-by-texas-gov-greg-abbott

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Bally’s Casino Is Running Hourly Shuttles From Chinatown, Worrying Neighborhood Leaders. The buses started in October following a lull in attendance and revenue. Local advocates didn’t know about it and worry the casino is targeting vulnerable neighbors — though a community leader said residents asked for the shuttles. – Melody Mercado (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote vices, that is, Democrats ever-increasingly destroy people.).
https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/12/22/ballys-casino-is-running-hourly-shuttles-from-chinatown-worrying-neighborhood-leaders/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

— CALL FOR ARTICLES FROM ILLINOIS CONSERVATIVE LEADERS THAT PROMOTE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM!!!


FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Is Delta flying illegals deeper into U.S.? Gaetz wants answers from airline’s CEO. – Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/23/rep-matt-gaetz-presses-delta-ceo-whether-airline-t/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to destroy Chicago’s best schools – Corey Walker
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/mayor-brandon-johnson-wants-to-destroy-chicagos-best-schools
— Republican lawmakers defend Monroe Doctrine against liberal backlash – Gabrielle M. Etzel
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/republican-lawmakers-monroe-doctrine-liberal-backlash

NEW YORK POST
— Thousands of migrants cross into the US across southern border in year-end surge: ‘Humanitarian crisis’ – Mary Kay Linge and Go Nakamura
https://nypost.com/2023/12/23/news/huge-migrant-group-surges-into-us-amid-dire-border-crisis/
— DEI Statements are bad for everyone – Zack K. De Piero (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://nypost.com/2023/12/23/opinion/dei-statements-are-bad-for-everyone/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— 19,400 Illegal Migrants Apprehended Just this Week in Arizona’s Tucson Sector
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/23/19400-illegal-migrants-apprehended-just-this-week-in-arizonas-tucson-sector/

AMERICAN THINKER
— FBI warns of terrorist ‘threats’…and that’s about it – Michael Letts
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/fbi_warns_of_terrorist_threatsand_thats_about_it.html
— Master Troll: Trump says Kamala Harris would be a better president than Joe Biden – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/master_troll_trump_says_kamala_harris_would_be_a_better_president_than_joe_biden.html
— A good choice for Trump’s running mate – Earick Ward
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/a_good_choice_for_trumps_running_mate.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘This is going to become difficult and ugly’: NYC mayor slapped with lawsuit by outraged teachers union – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/23/this-is-going-to-become-difficult-and-ugly-nyc-mayor-slapped-with-lawsuit-by-outraged-teachers-union-1422261/
— Media hypes poll showing Nikki Haley within striking distance of Trump, but some are skeptical – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/23/media-hypes-poll-showing-nikki-haley-within-striking-distance-of-trump-but-some-are-skeptical-1422181/

DAILY CALLER
— Neighborhoods Swamped By Onslaught Of Migrants Begging Locals For Cash, Food And Clothes – HAILEY GOMEZ
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/23/new-york-neighborhoods-flooded-migrants-floyd-bennett-field-begging-cash-food-clothes/

DAILY WIRE
— Trump Asking His Allies About Possibly Picking Nikki Haley As VP. Trump’s most vocal supporters push back on the idea. – Ryan Saavedra
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-asking-his-allies-about-possibly-picking-nikki-haley-as-vp-report

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump: Illegal Immigration Is ‘Destroying Our Country’ – Aaron Pan
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-illegal-immigration-is-destroying-our-country-5552284

FOX NEWS
— IDF veteran turned NY GOP pick to replace George Santos vows to take on ‘Squad,’ slams Suozzi as fake moderate. Mazi Melesa Pilip details platform on combating antisemitism, immigration, abortion, wars in Israel and Ukraine – Danielle Wallace
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/idf-veteran-turned-ny-gop-pick-replace-george-santos-vows-take-on-squad-slams-suozzi-fake-moderate

GOPUSA
— Trump Criticizes ‘Scam’ Poll Showing Nikki Haley Trailing By Just 4 Points In New Hampshire
https://www.gopusa.com/trump-criticizes-scam-poll-showing-nikki-haley-trailing-by-just-4-points-in-new-hampshire/
— Sen. Paul Releases ‘Festivus’ Report Detailing $900 Billion In Wasteful Spending
https://www.gopusa.com/sen-paul-releases-festivus-report-detailing-900-billion-in-wasteful-spending/
— The Rise Of Black Support For Trump
https://www.gopusa.com/the-rise-of-black-support-for-trump/

HOT AIR
— Biden’s Christmas Present for You: Another Record Number of Illegal Border Crossings
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/12/23/bidens-christmas-present-for-you-another-record-number-of-illegal-border-crossings-n600820

NATIONAL REVIEW
— House Committee to Initiate Impeachment Proceedings against Mayorkas over ‘Devastating’ Border Crisis – DAVID ZIMMERMANN
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/house-committee-to-initiate-impeachment-proceedings-against-mayorkas-over-devastating-border-crisis/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Leaked IBM Training Reveals Unhealthy Obsession with Demonizing White People – Rachel M. Emmanuel (COMMENT: What do you say to Whites, males, and older people who blame Whites, males, and older people for the problems that minorities, females, and younger people have to curry favor with minorities, females, and younger people?)
https://www.westernjournal.com/leaked-ibm-training-reveals-unhealthy-obsession-demonizing-white-people-report/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

MSN
— Americans Are Leaving Democratic States, Census Data Shows – Khaleda Rahman
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americans-are-leaving-democratic-states-census-data-shows/ar-AA1lYF0v

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats in Key States Worry Biden Could Be a Drag on Their Races. Candidates for the Senate and House have expressed concern that the president has not done enough to build an operation or excite voters. – Reid J. Epstein and Lisa Lerer
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/us/politics/biden-congressional-democrats-concern.html
— What Went Wrong for Ron DeSantis in 2023. The Florida governor entered the year flush with cash and momentum. In the months since, internal chaos and Donald Trump’s indictments have sapped even his most avid supporters. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has had to downsize his once-grand national ambitions to the simple hopes that a strong showing in Iowa could vault him back into contention. – Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman and Nicholas Nehamas
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/24/us/politics/desantis.html
— Democrats want Biden to give Blacks in Georgia even more preference.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/opinion/editorials/georgia-election-biden-democrats.html
— Barring Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot would be a mistake. – Samuel Moyn
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/opinion/trump-colorado-ballot-ban.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans with voters who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/business/economy/social-trends-2023-economy.html
— Scandal and Shame Ended Many a Politician. Not Trump. – Michael C. Bender (COMMENT: I should write a book about Republican candidates in ballots in my precinct since 2000 a) who have lost elections, did not run, and/or withdrew because of scandal or shame and b) who have blamed me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for that.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/us/politics/trump-legal-challenges.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly paint themselves as being GOD-like and use Jesus to promote more and more and more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/24/opinion/christmas-jesus-wept-compassion.html

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Migrants at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field harassed by hostile neighbors as political tensions rise – JOSEPHINE STRATMAN
https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/12/23/floyd-bennet-field-migrants-harassed-political-tensions-immigration/

USA TODAY
— Democrats say “Donald Trump faces many signs of potential political trouble; here are a few of them.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/12/24/donald-trump-faces-signs-of-political-trouble-here-are-just-a-few/71983708007/

NEWS CITY
— As College DEI spending surges, buildings neglected – Ray Carter
https://www.citynewsokc.com/education/as-college-dei-spending-surges-buildings-neglected/article_ab2f9dca-a130-11ee-8389-774e7c0268d8.html

PARADISE NEWS
— Illegal Invaders Overrun Airports to Be Settled Across America Amid Record Border Crossings
https://theparadise.ng/15066/watch-illegal-invaders-overrun-airports-to-be-settled-across-america-amid-record-border-crossings/
— Illegals Aliens Begging Door-to-Door in Neighborhoods Near NYC Tent Shelter
https://theparadise.ng/15049/illegals-aliens-begging-door-to-door-in-neighborhoods-near-nyc-tent-shelter/
— Alex Jones Breaks Down UN’s ‘Replacement Migration’ Plan to Flood West with Third World Invaders
https://theparadise.ng/15013/watch-alex-jones-breaks-down-uns-replacement-migration-plan-to-flood-west-with-third-world-invaders/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How Much Do I Really Need to Retire? Plus, see how your retirement savings stack up against the average by age. Tanza Loudenback (COMMENT: Because my Democrat IRS and GAO wasted my career and forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997, in today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement System pension is only 44% of what my GAO salary was in 1997 and less than what my IRS salary was in 1972. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.)
https://www.wsj.com/buyside/personal-finance/how-much-do-i-need-to-retire-3275fa7

INC.
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote Taylor Swift.
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/taylor-swift-packed-empowering-advice-17-words.html

KIPLINGER
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, they assigned me to supervise all their new-hired Democrat employees who were disabled. Further, they assigned me to supervise all their newly-hired Democrat employees who were minority, female, veteran, unmarried, non-Christian, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, had performance problems, and/or who they wanted to get rid of. Of course, they did everything that they could to turn the aforesaid employees against me.
https://www.kiplinger.com/business/employees/experiencing-disability-in-late-career

BARRON’S
— As Joe Biden’s poll numbers flag ahead of next year’s election, it might seem obvious for the president to look to the pop-star billionaire Taylor Swift who endorsed him in 2020, and whose every move is endlessly cataloged by US media. – Robin LEGRAND
https://www.barrons.com/news/swifties-to-the-polls-why-eyes-are-on-taylor-ahead-of-2024-7dec96a7

December 22, 2023

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Aurora City Council to discuss rules for migrant bus drop-offs – Christian Piekos (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://abc7chicago.com/venezuelan-migrants-migrant-crisis-chicago-aurora-illinois-bus-drop-offs/14214664/
— Former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke found guilty on multiple counts in federal corruption case. – Sarah Schulte, Craig Wall, Chuck Goudie
https://abc7chicago.com/alderman-ed-burke-trial-chicago-jury-deliberation-verdict/14212124/
— Chicago politicians call for federal help as Texas sends plane carrying migrants. Private plane from El Paso drops off 100 migrants at O’Hare Airport. – Michelle Gallardo, Liz Nagy (COMMENT: The more assistance that illegals are given, the more illegals that will come.)
https://abc7chicago.com/venezuelan-migrants-chicago-migrant-crisis-ohare-airport-mayor-brandon-johnson/14210332/
— Citizens of foreign countries come to America illegally because Democrat and RINO leaders encourage them to.
https://abc7chicago.com/southern-border-crisis-migrants-white-house/14212445/
— Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy days after being ordered to pay $148M in a defamation case – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/rudy-giuliani-bankruptcy-defamation/14211705/
— UIC is now under federal investigation for alleged discrimination. The U.S. Department of Education is looking at more than a dozen schools as a part of the Biden Administration’s efforts to take action against a rise in reports of antisemitism, anti-Muslim and anti-Arab incidents on college campuses nationwide.
https://abc7chicago.com/university-of-illinois-chicago-uic-college-discrimination-investigation-antisemitism/14204544/
— Chicago vehicle thefts reach all-time high in 2023 – Mark Rivera and Maggie Green
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-crime-car-theft-vehicle-police-department/14212073/
— Starbucks CEO wants people to stop protesting at its stores over Israel-Hamas war – Nathaniel Meyersohn
https://abc7chicago.com/starbucks-protests-boycott-ceo/14212388/

NBC5
— Chicago officials, activists push harder for federal assistance with influx of migrants (COMMENT: The more assistance that illegals are given, the more illegals that will come.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/chicago-officials-activists-push-harder-for-federal-assistance-with-influx-of-migrants/3309196/
— Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy protection, lists more than $100 million in debts – Dan Mangan
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/former-trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-lists-more-than-100-million-in-debts/3308885/
— Vote by mail applications for Chicago voters open for March primary elections (COMMENT: What is your Republican Precinct Committeeman going to do to encourage registered Republicans in your precinct to vote? As soon as the sample ballot is available for my precinct, I am going to hand-deliver a copy of it to each of the 228 homes in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican voter.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/vote-by-mail-applications-for-chicago-voters-open-for-march-primary-elections/3309344/
— Suburban police issue warning after ‘increase’ of daytime carjackings at gas stations. Police in Glenview and Niles have reported carjackings at Costco gas stations in recent months.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/wilmette-glenview-police-costco-carjacking-warning/3308672/

CBS2
— Video shows Chicago Police officer throwing away street vendor’s goods – MARYBEL GONZALEZ
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/video-chicago-police-officer-throw-away-street-vendor-goods/
— Closure of several Will Co. schools upsetting parents – SARA MACHI (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrats and RINOs will fill closed schools with illegals.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/will-county-schools-close/

WGN9
— First permitted bus of migrants arrives Thursday in Chicago – Dana Rebik, Andrew Smith (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/first-permitted-bus-of-migrants-arrives-thursday-in-chicago/
— Democrats say “Over half of Americans approve of Colorado ruling to bar Trump from state’s ballot.”
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/over-half-of-americans-approve-of-colorado-ruling-to-bar-trump-from-states-ballot-poll/
— ‘We are not all bad’: Migrants stuck waiting at O’Hare, facing uncertain future in latest kick of ‘political football’ from Texas – Michael Johnson, Ben Bradley
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/we-are-not-all-bad-migrants-stuck-waiting-at-ohare-facing-uncertain-future-in-latest-kick-of-political-football-from-texas/

FOX32
— Migrant buses divert to Chicago suburbs amid city crackdown. Migrant buses arriving from Texas are diverting to suburban areas in response to a recent crackdown by the City of Chicago. (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1385260

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago politicians urge federal government to provide funding to help house, care for migrants – Alysa Guffey (COMMENT: The more assistance that illegals are given, the more illegals that will come.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/immigration/ct-migrants-chicago-alderman-biden-20231221-3vyr3w4tonbfpkvhxpkuxlfiqa-story.html
— Is Illinois losing population? The question misses the point. – Editorial (COMMENT: Tne more of the following that you are, the harder that Democrats and RINOs work to drive you out of Illinois: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, non-veteran, gun-owner, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorials-census-pritzker-illinois-population-congress-20231222-fyblgomim5bz3f72f6rmuu46va-story.html
— After planned migrant camp is scrapped over toxins at Brighton Park site, neighbors want to know how city is going to protect them – Samantha Moilanen
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-brighton-park-residents-environmental-report-20231221-rwj4mwwdjfcr7laxd6qjotoy7a-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Heartbreaking details shed light on the last hours of 5-year-old boy’s life at Pilsen migrant shelter. Jean Carlos Martinez Rivero died Sunday afternoon after suffering a medical episode at the migrant shelter on Cermak Road and Halsted Street where the family was staying, according to police. Autopsy results were still pending Thursday afternoon. – Mohammad Samra
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/21/24011217/jean-carlos-martinez-rivero-death-migrant-boy-shelter-pilsen

DAILY HERALD
— Aurora responds to influx of Texas buses bringing migrants to town. Aurora City Council members Friday will consider an ordinance that will make it more difficult for buses carrying asylum seekers to drop off passengers in town. – Alicia Fabbre (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://www.dailyherald.com
— Loaves & Fishes and DuPagePads partner to provide donated vehicles to clients in need of transportation – Joni Wiltz (COMMENT: In 1964, when I was 16, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air with money that I earned delivering newspapers and doing yard work 1962-1964. I 1966, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint with money that I earned washing dishes and delivering newspapers 1964-1966. In 1967, I bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 with money that I earned delivering mail 1966-1967. In 1968, I bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE with money that I earned delivering mail 1967-1968.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20231218/submitted-content/loaves-fishes-and-dupagepads-partner-to-provide-donated-vehicles-to-clients-in-need-of-transportat/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— White House slams Texas governor for flying migrants to Chicago (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/white-house-slams-texas-governor-flying-migrants-chicago

NPR ILLINOIS
— Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy a day after a judge orders him to pay $146 million – Ayana Archie, Becky Sullivan
https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-12-21/rudy-giuliani-files-for-bankruptcy-a-day-after-a-judge-orders-him-to-pay-146-million

CWB CHICAGO
— City issues seizure notices for mayor’s motorcade after failing to pay red light, speed cam tickets – Tim Hecke
https://cwbchicago.com/2023/12/seizure-notices-chicago-mayor-vehicles-tickets-unpaid.html

VERMILION COUNTY FIRST
— Brandun Schweizer Sworn In as New 104th District Illinois State Representative – Steve Brandy
https://vermilioncountyfirst.com/2023/12/21/brandun-schweizer-sworn-in-as-new-104th-district-illinois-state-representative/

COUNTRY HERALD
— Migrants Bound for Chicago Dumped in Kankakee After 30-Hour Ride from El Paso, Texas (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://www.countryherald.com/news/migrants-bound-for-chicago-dumped-in-kankakee-after-30-hour-ride-from-el-paso-texas/

BURR RIDGE PATCH
— New Lawmaker For Burr Ridge, Darien, Western Springs. Republican insiders picked Nicole La Ha Zwiercan, the only applicant for the state representative’s seat. – David Giuliani
https://patch.com/illinois/burrridge/new-lawmaker-burr-ridge-darien-western-springs

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Big red states gain, big blue states drain when it comes to 2023 population growth – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/big-red-states-gain-big-blue-states-drain-when-it-comes-to-2023-population-growth-wirepoints/

COLLIN CORBETT
— Illinois Republican Leaders Share Optimism for 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5zU6yDeN78

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— UnMerry Christmas for Ex-Power House Democrat Ed Burke
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/21/unmerry-christmas-for-ex-power-house-democrat-ed-burke/
— Texas Governor Guilty of “Demonic” “Human Trafficking” in a “Despicable” “Political Attack”
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/21/texas-governor-guilty-of-demonic-human-trafficking-in-a-political-attack/
— Quicker Trips from Texas to Chicago
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/20/quicker-trips-from-texas-to-chicago/
— Kenneally Elected Head of Illinois State’s Attorneys Association
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/21/kenneally-elected-head-of-illinois-states-attorneys-association/
— A Township Supervisor with Billboards Financed by Taxpayers
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/21/a-township-supervisor-with-billboards-financed-by-taxpayers/
— Mental Health Sales Tax Imposition Referendum Question in Proposed Switch from Property Tax Funding for 708 Board
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/20/mental-health-sales-tax-imposition-referendum-question-in-proposed-switch-from-property-tax-funding-for-708-board/
— Following a Guy Who Violated Pre-Trial Release Conditions
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/20/following-a-guy-who-violated-pre-trial-release-conditions/
— Mother Has Not Gotten Reason for Her Son’s Death at McHenry County Jail
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/20/mother-has-not-gotten-reason-for-her-sons-death-at-mchenry-county-jail/
— UPDATEDx3 with DECISION: Eric Hendricks v. Robert “Bob” Nowak County Electoral Board Hearing Ruling, NOWAK STAYS ON BALLOT
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/19/brdpreview/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Migrant Mayhem in Chicago: Mayor Johnson’s Approval Sinks to 28% (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2023/12/migrant-mayhem-in-chicago-mayor-johnsons-approval-sinks-to-28.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Rep. Crane, Heritage Foundation President Roberts call on conservatives to ‘take action’ on border – Mallory Wilson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/21/eli-crane-heritage-foundation-president-kevin-robe/
— Biden’s Christmas present to seniors: Higher drug prices – Christian Josi
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/21/bidens-christmas-present-to-seniors-higher-drug-pr/
— Industries see diversity challenges following Supreme Court upending affirmative action – Alex Swoyer (COMMENT: While I worked for the following employers, they were always under tremendous pressure from Democrat politicians to hire, to retain, and promote Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran: GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and Post Office 1966-1969.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/21/industries-see-diversity-challenges-following-supr/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illinois gun owners struggle with state’s looming banned gun registry – Greg Bishop
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/illinois-gun-owners-struggle-with-states-looming-banned-gun-registry
— American decay is flowing from the Ivy League – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/american-decay-is-flowing-from-the-ivy-league
— New York Democrats follow Colorado and renew effort to push Trump off the ballot – Jack Birle
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/new-york-democrats-renew-effort-colorado-trump-off-ballot

NEW YORK POST
— Marco Rubio’s new book explains how globalizing the US economy transformed immigration – Marco Rubio (COMMENT: Globalists want cheap labor.)
https://nypost.com/2023/06/10/marco-rubios-new-book-explains-how-globalization-transformed-immigration/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) explains how these newcomers served as convenient sources of cheap labor — while upended long-standing patterns of assimilation and integration. . .many elites believe “it is better to import cheap labor and buy off Americans with cash welfare programs provided by the government” . . . For decades now, since our elites began to believe that global market integration was an inherent good that should take precedence over all else — particularly patriotism, national unity, and the welfare of American workers — this country has prioritized the importation of cheap labor. . .But not every business could be exported, which meant Wall Street simply figured out how to import cheap labor, much of it coming from illegal immigrants. This was a slower, more subtle process. . .More often than not, it is about jobs Wall Street doesn’t want Americans to do because hiring Americans would require higher wages and better working conditions. To them, it is better to import cheap labor and buy off Americans with cash welfare programs provided by the government.)
— Migrants pouring over Texas border looking for ‘better life’, fleeing ‘bad economy’ – Jack Morphet and Selim Algar
https://nypost.com/2023/12/22/news/us-bound-migrants-pouring-over-texas-border-looking-for-better-life/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Congress must hold Biden’s feet to the fire on immigration – William Davis
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/congress_must_hold_bidens_feet_to_the_fire_on_immigration.html

BREITBART
— Biden’s Border: Migrants Given Asylum Hearings Nearly a Decade Out as Court Backlog Tops Three Million – JOHN BINDER (COMMENT: To allow people to stay in America by claiming asylum is to abolish America’s borders.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/21/bidens-border-migrants-given-asylum-hearings-nearly-a-decade-out-as-court-backlog-tops-three-million/
— Biden-Harris 2024 Campaign Likens Trump to Hitler – JOSHUA KLEIN (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, that if you are conservative and/or Republican, that the more demographics that you share with Trump, especially being German American and/or Protestant, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will liken you to Hitler. The author of Money Magazine’s February 1978 4-page article on me was very puzzled why I did not try to hide the fact that I was 100% German American and Protestant. In addition to being German American and Protestant, both Trump and I are conservative, Republican, White, male, older. draft avoiders, non-poor, married, and our ancestors have been in America for a long time. In my defense, I have always stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/21/biden-harris-2024-campaign-likens-trump-hitler/
— Republicans Drafting Bills to Remove Joe Biden from Ballots in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania – WENDELL HUSEBØ
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/22/exclusive-republicans-drafting-bills-to-remove-joe-biden-from-ballots-in-georgia-arizona-pennsylvania/

CENTER SQUARE
— Border Patrol chiefs confirm ‘illegal aliens spread the word the border is open’ – Bethany Blankley
https://www.therogersvillereview.com/news/national/article_bf8166f0-4143-5ec5-a7d3-8d6779d90878.html

CONSERVATIVE HQ
— No Border, No Nation – Laurence F. Sanford
https://www.conservativehq.org/post/no-border-no-nation

DAILY CALLER
— Illegal Migrant Encounters At The Southern Border Surpass 547,000 In Less Than Three Months – JENNIE TAER (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/21/illegal-migrant-encounters-at-the-southern-border-surpass-less-three-months/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Barring Trump From Ballots Is a Recipe for Violence – Ben Shapiro
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/21/barring-trump-from-ballots-is-a-recipe-for-violence/

DAILY WIRE
— Why Are Major Airlines Shipping Thousands Of Illegal Migrants Across The Country? – Matt Walsh (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-are-major-airlines-shipping-thousands-of-illegal-migrants-across-the-country

EPOCH TIMES
— The Rise of Black Support for Trump. Black Americans, who have often been entrenched Democrat voters, are starting to rethink their stance as the economy hits them and the justice system hits Trump. – Janice Hisle (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace Blacks with Hispanics.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/the-rise-of-black-support-for-trump-5515133
— IRS Warns Seniors of Penalties for Not Taking Required Withdrawals From Retirement Plans. The tax agency’s warning applies to people born before 1951, who face possible penalties if they don’t take minimum distributions from their retirement plans. – Tom Ozimek
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/irs-warns-seniors-of-penalties-for-not-taking-required-withdrawals-from-retirement-plans-5550776

FOX NEWS
— Ed Burke, former Chicago Democratic alderman, found guilty in corruption trial. Burke had been on the council in Chicago for more than 50 years and chaired its finance committee for the last three decades. – Bradford Betz
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ed-burke-former-chicago-democratic-alderman-found-guilty-corruption-trial
— Congress must block Biden’s open-borders insanity. House can lead the way. Without policy changes, every dollar given to Biden for the border makes things worse. – Eli Crane, Dr. Kevin Roberts
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/congress-must-block-bidens-open-borders-insanity-house-lead
— Cruz quizzes DHS on TSA screening of migrants boarding flights: ‘This is alarming’ Around 1,600 migrants are being paroled into the US via the CBP One app – Adam Shaw (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cruz-quizzes-dhs-tsa-screening-migrants-boarding-flights-alarming
— Mayor Adams facing lawsuit for slashing city’s budget to pay for migrants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-0K5b3N9_w

HOT AIR
— Late-Night Flights Still Bringing Migrants to NYC (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/12/21/late-night-flights-still-bringing-migrants-to-nyc-n600515

NEWS BUSTERS
— Broadcast Journalists Watch in Horror As Texas Protects Its Border – Bill D’Agostino
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2023/12/21/broadcast-journalists-watch-horror-texas-protects-its-border

NEWSMAX
— Biden Admin Rushing in Migrants – Rep. Van Duyne (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/beth-van-duyne-immigration-biden/2023/12/21/id/1146814/
— Reparations is meant to divide, it’s not meant to heal – Lee Zeldin and Carl Higbie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIPEziwXnm8

MRC TV
— Netflix’s ‘CoComelon Lane’ Features Boy in Tutu & Tiara Dancing for Gay Dads – TIERIN-ROSE MANDELBURG
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/tierin-rose-mandelburg/netflixs-cocomelon-lane-features-boy-tutu-tiara-dancing-gay-dads

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Israel Condemned by U.N. Twice as Many Times as Rest of World – ARI BLAFF
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/israel-condemned-by-u-n-twice-as-many-times-as-rest-of-world-report/
— Trump Surges in National Poll as Majority of Voters Doubt Biden Will Complete Second Term If Reelected – ARI BLAFF
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusive-trump-surges-in-national-poll-as-majority-of-voters-doubt-biden-will-complete-second-term-if-reelected/

TOWNHALL
— Here’s Why the Wisconsin State Bar Is Being Sued – Mia Cathell |
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/12/20/will-lawsuit-dei-state-bar-n2632570
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The State Bar of Wisconsin is being sued for promoting discriminatory DEI practices based on race and sexual orientation. Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) launched a lawsuit Wednesday against the Wisconsin State Bar on behalf of a State Bar member who is compelled to pay mandatory membership dues that functionally fund DEI programming he argues unfairly discriminates against him as well as thousands of Wisconsin attorneys on the basis of racial and sexual identity. Specifically, the State Bar of Wisconsin’s “Diversity Clerkship Program” offers exclusive internship opportunities—ones that should be open to everyone, WILL’s client says—only to certain minority law students or those who self-identify as LGBTQ+. Some of Wisconsin’s largest law firms and government agencies participate in the race- and sexuality-based Diversity Clerkship Program, including the ACLU of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee City Attorney’s Office, and the Wisconsin Department of Justice. The application itself requires prospects to submit personal statements, “an extremely important factor” in the “race-based selection criteria,” detailing how they “contributed to diversity” and have “demonstrat[ed] their commitment to diversity.” . . . WILL additionally argues that the program “advocates for supplanting equal opportunity with equal outcome” and “violates the free speech rights of students by discriminating against those who will not profess a commitment to this [DEI] ideology.”)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— More and more and more citizens of foreign countries are dumping their children in America.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-12-21/faith-groups-say-more-foster-families-are-needed-to-care-for-the-children-coming-to-the-us-alone

REUTERS
— Trump plan to gut civil service triggers pushback by unions, Democrats – Tim Reid and Nathan Layne (COMMENT: I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years and I was a union member for almost the first 12 years of that. I should write a book about those who have used that against me the most.)
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-plan-gut-civil-triggers-110144496.html

CBS NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders have always used Affirmative Action, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-end-of-affirmative-action-cbs-reports/

NBC NEWS
— Migrants are being released on U.S. streets at the border as shelters see record numbers. Many migrants in Arizona’s Tucson sector, one of the busiest, are being released directly onto the streets, according to two DHS officials. – Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez (COMMENT: When illegals are dumped in your county, township, municipality, and school district, what will the leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district do?)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrants-released-us-streets-record-border-crossings-shelters-overflow-rcna130781

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans and illegals are the Democrats’ soldiers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/world/americas/migrants-tiktok-darien-gap.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/world/europe/pope-francis-lgbtq-blessings.html
— The Danger From Low-Skilled Immigrants: Not Having Them – Eduardo Porter (COMMENT: Have you competed against low-skilled immigrants? I did 1962-1964 when I did yard work, 1962-1966 when I delivered newspapers, 1964-1966 when I washed dishes, in 1966 when I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline, 1966-1969 when I delivered mail, and in 1970 when I worked on an automobile assembly line.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/business/economy/immigrants-skills-economy-jobs.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump has profited from foreign labor he says is killing U.S. jobs – Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-decries-outsourced-labor-yet-he-didnt-seek-made-in-america-in-2004-deal/2016/03/13/4d65a43c-e63a-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans and illegals are the Democrats’ soldiers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/22/venezuelan-migrants-carbondale-colorado-assistance/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/22/immigration-border-republicans-national-security/

USA TODAY
— Johnson pushes Biden to take executive action on border security – Riley Beggin
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/21/johnson-pushes-biden-executive-orders-border/72001393007/

ORLAND WEEKLY
— Disney imports cheap overseas help to replace local workers because they can – Erin Sullivan
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/disney-imports-cheap-overseas-help-to-replace-local-workers-because-they-can-2401844

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Conservative Bishops Push Back Against Pope Francis on Same-Sex Blessings. Church leaders in Africa and Central Asia prohibit the practice despite Vatican approval. – Francis X. Rocca (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.)
https://www.wsj.com/world/conservative-bishops-push-back-against-pope-francis-on-same-sex-blessings-0453ad85
— Harvard Stands Behind Its President, Claudine Gay, After New Plagiarism Allegations. Gay will update her Ph.D. dissertation, but school calls newest claims meritless. – Melissa Korn
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-continues-to-back-its-president-claudine-gay-after-new-plagiarism-allegations-ae494ca7

FORBES
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2023/12/21/embracing-diversity-7-principles-of-lgbtq-centered-marketing/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/12/21/netflixs-cocomelon-lane-garners-anti-woke-backlash-for-featuring-gay-couple/

INSIDE SOURCES
— Did Tesla Violate Immigration Law by Importing Cheap Labor? – Dean Chambers
https://insidesources.com/did-tesla-violate-immigration-law-by-importing-cheap-labor/

PBS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-the-u-s-immigration-system-is-strained-and-unable-to-handle-record-number-of-migrants

ATLANTIC
— Not All Immigrant Labor Is Cheap Labor. There are problems with the narrative that visas are letting foreigners take Americans’ jobs at lower wages. – Alexia Fernández Campbel (COMMENT: Which employers in your county, township, municipality, and school district bring in the most foreign labor?)
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/foreign-tech-workers-arent-cheap-labor/509096/

DAILY MAIL
— ‘Trump, come in here and clean this mess up!’ Seething Chicago resident explodes on migrant crisis and demands mayor ‘send them all back’ Chicago’s City Council on December 14 held a meeting to discuss whether asking voters in March whether they want to end sanctuary city status. The members of the council voted 31-16 to block any debate or vote on a proposal to place the non-binding referendum on the March primary ballot. The hearing was boisterous, with members of the public speaking in favor of revoking the designation and keeping it, and loud boos and cheers. – HARRIET ALEXANDER
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12891987/chicago-migrants-donald-trump-greg-abbott-brandon-johnson.html
— Migrants claim Mexican officials are HELPING them cross into the US illegally at Eagle Pass, Texas – where a staggering 14,000 have entered this week alone. Mexican officials had previously detained migrants crossing through Mexico– sending many back to Mexico-Guatemala border. Migrants often the target of extortion by Mexican officials while making their way to US. – MARYANN MARTINEZ
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-12890797/Migrants-claim-Mexican-officials-HELPING-cross-illegally-Eagle-Pass-Texas-staggering-14-000-entered-week-alone.html
— Biden and Mexico’s President AMLO agree to ramp up ‘enforcement’ in crisis talks as border reaches breaking point with more than 10,000 migrants crossing each day as White House admits ‘there’s probably more we can be doing’ Biden is dispatching Antony Blinken and top officials to Mexico City for talks. Daily crossings have toppled records, according to CBP figures. The president spoke with Mexican President Lopez Obrador Thursday. – GEOFF EARLE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12891535/Biden-Mexicos-President-AMLO-agree-ramp-enforcement-crisis-talks-border-reaches-breaking-point-10-000-migrants-crossing-day-White-House-admits-theres-probably-doing.html

December 19, 2023

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Tents at West Loop encampment moved for city cleaning, many residents leave – Jake Sheridan
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-west-loop-encampment-cleaning-20231219-32664car2bbypmcmtho5do4muu-story.html
— Chicago aldermen advance Gaza cease-fire resolution – A.D. Quig
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-city-council-gaza-ceasefire-palestine-resolution-20231218-djquq2dkpra7hnpmq4cu6brgb4-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: After mother’s cry for help and CPR, 5-year-old migrant boy dies during Chicago shelter stay – Nell Salzman and Jake Sheridan
https://www.chicagotribune.com/immigration/ct-migrant-boy-5-year-old-dies-shelter-20231218-jfuucbd2qjao7n24l47gycu5eq-story.html
— Texas governor signs bill that lets police arrest migrants who enter the US illegally – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/immigration/ct-aud-nw-immigration-texas-20231218-hznevz43mjglxiobrcjhezpyvi-story.html
— Inside a migrant shelter in Chicago
https://www.chicagotribune.com/3ea5aa76-abd4-4db0-a82f-6846f96b2aab-132.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/people/ct-pope-francis-same-sex-couples-chicago-20231218-gao3cpiio5hx3ie4kf47zexgfu-story.html
— Chicago aldermen advance Gaza cease-fire resolution – A.D. Quig
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-city-council-gaza-ceasefire-palestine-resolution-20231218-djquq2dkpra7hnpmq4cu6brgb4-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Gutting school choice in Chicago would be terrible for Black, Brown students. Pitting neighborhood and choice schools against each other is misleading and divisive, the former schools CEO writes. The board’s irresponsible action is about politics and ideology, not facts. – Janice Jackson
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/18/24006244/chicago-school-choice-neighborhoods-inequity-black-brown-students-achievement-janice-jackson
— 5-year-old boy dies after becoming ill at Pilsen migrant shelter. The boy was transported by ambulance Sunday to Comer’s Children Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:47 p.m., officials said. – Michael Loria
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/18/24005978/migrant-child-dies-after-falling-ill-at-pilsen-shelter
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2023/12/18/24006164/pope-francis-same-sex-blessing-marriage
— U.S. Rep. Schneider, college students talk antisemitism on campus. Most of the students described how strong the Jewish community is on their campuses. But they all shared stories about antisemitic incidents they’ve witnessed at school. – Kaitlin Washburn
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2023/12/18/24006367/schneider-college-students-antisemitism-israel-hamas-war

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20231218/religion/pope-approves-blessings-for-same-sex-couples-if-they-dont-resemble-marriage/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hope in a ‘time of darkness’: Suburban students discuss campus antisemitism – Barbara Vitello (COMMENT: I should write a book about antisemitism in GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20231218/news/hope-in-a-time-of-darkness-suburban-students-discuss-campus-antisemitism/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago’s selective-enrollment schools are a civic asset worth saving – Editorial
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chicagos-selective-enrollment-schools-should-be-preserved-editorial
— Democrats push ranked choice voting.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-forum-voting-and-democracy/ranked-choice-voting-gets-green-light-evanston-opinion

ABC7
— Chicago migrants say illness rampant at shelter where child died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jRkS0hDLbU
— Migrant boy, 5, dies after becoming sick at Pilsen shelter; 4 other children hospitalized. 4 other children and a teen girl from the same shelter were also hospitalized overnight and Tuesday morning. – Jessica D’Onofrio, Michelle Gallardo, and Liz Nagy
— Communication about new Chicago migrant arrivals lacking (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders of your municipality will hide their success in bringing in illegals.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tatjzZUFhk
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-migrant-crisis-migrants-immigration-pilsen/14197317/
— Democrat leaders object to Texas law that gives local law enforcement the ability to arrest people they believe are in the country illegally.
https://abc7chicago.com/greg-abbott-texas-governor-sb4/14199461/
— Crews seen removing tents, cleaning up West Loop viaduct, site of homeless encampment
https://abc7chicago.com/west-loop-chicago-lake-street-clinton-homeless/14198626/
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Trump’s being German American and Protestant against him.
https://abc7chicago.com/trump-immigrants-blood-purity/14198102/

NBC5
— ‘Several’ calls of sick children reported at Pilsen shelter where 5-year-old died
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/several-calls-of-sick-children-reported-at-pilsen-shelter-where-5-year-old-died-cfd/3306151/
— Death of 5-year-old boy raises questions about migrant access to health care in Chicago. Medical volunteers say they’ve been denied access to providing medical assistance at the city’s migrant shelters. Mayor Brandon Johnson said he was unaware. – Bennett Haeberle and Lisa Capitanini
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/death-of-5-year-old-boy-raises-questions-about-migrant-access-to-health-care-in-chicago/3306366/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-home/concerns-surrounding-chicago-migrant-shelters-grow-following-childs-death/3306492/
— Johnson pushes back on questions over medical care for migrants after child’s death
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/johnson-pushes-back-on-questions-over-medical-care-for-migrants-after-childs-death/3306319/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pyvD58J-aQ
— Officials discuss safety, health protocols for migrants in Chicago. According to authorities, the child was “not feeling well” while at the shelter in the 2200 block of South Halsted in the city’s Pilsen neighborhood over the weekend. – Natalie Martinez
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/officials-discuss-safety-health-protocols-for-migrants-in-chicago/3306403/
— Florida Republican Party suspends chairman and demands his resignation amid rape investigation. Christian Ziegler has not been charged with a crime and says he is innocent, contending the encounter was consensual. – AP
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/florida-republican-party-suspends-chairman-and-demands-his-resignation-amid-rape-investigation/3305386/
— Hearings, subpoenas, crackdowns: Inside House Republicans’ long-term plan to ‘defund’ elite universities
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/hearings-subpoenas-crackdowns-inside-house-republicans-long-term-plan-to-defund-elite-universities/3306407/

CBS2
— Death of 5-year-old in Pilsen raises questions about Chicago’s migrant shelters – SABRINA FRANZA, CHARLIE DE MAR
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pilsen-migrant-shelter-child-death-mayor-brandon-johnson/
— 5-year-old’s death prompts questions about Chicago’s migrant shelters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRmbm3ulvSU
— Growing health concerns at Chicago migrant shelters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQn6y1_fmqE
— Study finds environmental concerns at proposed migrant tent camp site on Chicago’s Far South Side – ADAM HARRINGTON, TODD FEURER, JOHN ODENTHAL
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/study-finds-environmental-concerns-proposed-migrant-tent-camp-far-south-side/
— Resolution calling for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war advances in Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDiwW0Lhxxw
— Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-pastor-reacts-to-pope-francis-approving-blessings-for-same-sex-couples/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTCJqautceI

WGN9
— Johnson says migrants are being dropped off in Chicago without coordination – Tahman Bradley, Andrew Smith (COMMENT: What will the leaders of your municipality do when migrants are dropped off in your municipality?)
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/johnson-says-migrants-are-being-dropped-off-in-chicago-without-coordination/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuFFin4Ai_Q

FOX32
— Chicago updates ‘new arrivals plan’ as police districts clear housing of migrants – Kasey Chronis
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-updates-new-arrivals-plan-police-districts-clear-housing-migrants
— Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s taxpayer-funded billboards raise questions – Dane Placko
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dolton-mayor-tiffany-henyard-taxpayer-funded-billboards-raise-questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owoug1kw4P8
— Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-reacts-pope-francis-priests-bless-same-sex-couples
— Trustees in one Chicago suburb likely to force fire chief into retirement (COMMENT: I should write a book about being forced to retire. Since 1997 when I was 49 years old and my Democrats GAO superiors forced me to take their early retirement “offer,” my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have used that against me big time. They hint/imply/argue/shout that because I had so many qualifications, I must have been an extremely BAD PERSON (White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, hater, racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things) or my Democrat GAO superiors would not have done that. I had a job-related professional license (CPA-1981), six job-related professional certifications (forensic accounting-1997, financial services auditing-1996, government financial management-1994, fraud examination-1990, internal auditing-1981, and accounting-1979), and three job-related graduate degrees (IIT-finance-1997, DePaul-accounting-1980, and Loyola-business-1976).
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trustees-in-one-chicago-suburb-likely-to-force-fire-chief-into-retirement

WTTW
— Biden’s Embrace of Stricter Border Measures Puts Him at Odds With Key Reelection Allies (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders are Biden’s reelection allies. They work together to promote more illegal immigration.)
https://news.wttw.com/2023/12/18/joe-biden-s-embrace-stricter-border-measures-puts-him-odds-key-reelection-allies
— Far South Side Land Set to Become Migrant Base Camp Polluted by Buried Fuel Oil Tank, Defunct Dry Cleaners and Nearby Gas Station – Heather Cherone
https://news.wttw.com/2023/12/18/far-south-side-land-set-become-migrant-base-camp-polluted-buried-fuel-oil-tank-defunct

WBEZ
— As the 60-day shelter stay limit looms, a WBEZ analysis reveals most migrants stay longer. Roughly 7 in 10 migrants have been at shelters longer than 60 days, with the average stay 76 days for those who left by Nov. 1, data shows. – Amy Qin, Tessa Weinberg
https://www.wbez.org/stories/migrants-stay-in-chicago-shelters-longer-than-60-days/237bf7cc-ea23-4e29-a11d-1b467d4d1398
— A migrant boy’s death raises safety questions – Hunter Clauss
https://www.wbez.org/stories/the-rundown-a-migrant-boys-death-raises-safety-questions/45d04eab-30ae-434e-bcc3-f942d756b7a2
— Colleges hand out scholarship money to attract top students — at the expense of kids in need. Advocates say merit scholarships mainly benefit white, wealthy students and make it harder for low-income students to afford college.- Lisa Kurian Philip (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always stressed that I did not get any scholarships. They stress that my ACT score was only 24 and that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. But they also falsely hint/imply/argue/shout that I did not get any scholarships because my parents were filth rich. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents are/were filthy rich.)
https://www.wbez.org/stories/more-college-merit-aid-means-less-for-low-income-black-students/d9735924-b48c-4fd2-b966-68d5761e0c92

SOUTHERN
— Trump doubles down on anti-immigration rhetoric, pledging to use overseas troops at the border – Soo Rin Kim, Lalee Ibssa and Kendall Ross
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2023/12/19/trump-doubles-down-on-anti-immigration-rhetoric-pledging-to-use-overseas-troops-at-the-border/

ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— Rockford area Democrats, Republicans butt heads at legislative luncheon – Jeff Kolkey
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2023/12/19/rockford-area-lawmakers-are-divided-along-party-lines/71935801007/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— Thefts from DuPage County stores result in several arrests – Bob Rakow
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2023/12/18/thefts-from-dupage-county-stores-result-in-several-arrests/

CENTRALL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Wealthy Democrat and RINO leaders personally benefit from mass/illegal immigration, that is, they personally benefit from cheap labor.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/senate-republicans-recoil-at-trump-poisoning-the-blood-of-our-country-remarks/

WAND TV
— Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/local-organizations-react-to-popes-decision-to-allow-blessings-for-same-sex-couples/article_ded70d26-9df1-11ee-b903-07dd43ebaa42.html

CITIES 92.9
— Election integrity groups threaten lawsuit against Illinois – Catrina Peterson
https://www.cities929.com/2023/12/18/election-integrity-groups-threaten-lawsuit-against-illinois/

CHICAGO PARENT
— Best Public High Schools in DuPage County – Amanda Rahn
https://www.chicagoparent.com/parenting/advice/best-public-high-schools-dupage/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2023/12/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-205/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2023/12/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-8/
— Shelter death: One problem may have been dealt with, but did the city create another one?
https://capitolfax.com/2023/12/18/one-problem-may-have-been-dealt-with-but-did-the-city-create-another-one/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Landlords required to build EV chargers at renters’ request with new Illinois law – Andrew Hensel
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_1f64ffc2-9df9-11ee-bc5d-436a5b2b718b.html
— Illinois law cuts funding for public libraries that ban certain books starting Jan. 1 – Kevin Bessler
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a9f9627e-9ded-11ee-bd15-03b76c1fea18.html
— Election integrity groups threaten lawsuit against Illinois – Catrina Peterson
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d1471516-9dec-11ee-913d-075f424e3852.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Demonstrators Take to Street to Pressure Bill Foster to Come Out for a Ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas War
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2023/12/18/demonstrators-take-to-street-to-pressure-bill-foster-to-come-out-for-a-cease-fire-in-the-israeli-hamas-war/

WIREPOINTS
— The costs of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Illinois universities – Nick Binotti
https://wirepoints.org/the-costs-of-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-at-illinois-universities-wirepoints/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Abbott signs law making illegal immigration a state crime in Texas – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/18/texas-gov-greg-abbott-signs-bill-that-lets-police-/
— Youngest U.S. voters see Jews, Whites as ‘oppressors,’ want Israel to be ‘ended’ – Valerie Richardson (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes hint/imply/argue/shout that I must have been an oppressor of minorities, females, younger people, veterans, etc. or my superiors in the federal government would not have taken the many/big adverse actions against me that they did.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/18/youngest-us-voters-see-jews-whites-as-oppressors-w/
— Biden making federal workers take public transportation or other ‘green’ travel options – Jeff Mordock (COMMENT: Very few of my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have used public transportation very much. I used public transportation to get to/from my IRS and GAO jobs in the Loop and Crete in 1971 and then University Park in 1973 and 1974 and then Wheaton 1978-1997. I also used public transportation to get to/from my graduate evening business classes at Loyola in 1973 and 1974 and then my accounting classes at DePaul 1978-1980 and then my internal auditing classes at Roosevelt 1980-1981 and then my finance classes at IIT 1992-1997.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/18/joe-biden-to-require-federal-workers-to-take-publi/
— The rise of anti-religious bigotry – Tommy Valentine (COMMENT: I should write a book about those who have used my having been baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran against me the most.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/18/rise-of-anti-religious-bigotry/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Fixing discrimination with more discrimination isn’t the answer – Erin Wilcox
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/in-public-contracting-fixing-discrimination-with-more-discrimination-isnt-the-answer
— Pro-Palestinian protesters descend on New York City transportation hubs – Brady Knox
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/palestinian-protesters-descend-new-york-city-transportation
— Medical activists ‘cherry-pick’ research to justify racialized healthcare – Breccan F. Thies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/medical-activists-cherry-pick-research-racialized-healthcare

NEW YORK POST
— Migrant families brace for eviction from NYC shelters as nearly 20K other asylum-seekers are flown elsewhere. – Craig McCarthy and Emily Crane
https://nypost.com/2023/12/18/metro/migrant-families-brace-for-eviction-from-nyc-shelters-under-60-day-limit/
— Ultra-left NYC Council pretends there’s no migrant crisis — and unlimited money – Vickie Paladino
https://nypost.com/2023/12/18/opinion/ultra-left-nyc-council-pretends-theres-no-migrant-crisis-and-unlimited-money/
— Crenshaw bill would cut federal funding from ‘toxic’ woke universities with DEI initiatives – Ryan King
https://nypost.com/2023/12/18/news/crenshaw-bill-would-cut-funding-from-toxic-woke-schools/
— Illegal crossings surge in remote areas as Congress, White House weigh major asylum limits – AP
https://nypost.com/2023/12/19/news/illegal-crossings-surge-in-remote-areas-of-us-border-as-congress-white-house-weigh-major-asylum-limits/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— New Texas Law Allows Police to Bust Illegals and Judges to Send Them Back to Mexico – Debra Heine
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/18/new-texas-law-allows-police-to-bust-illegals-and-judges-to-send-them-back-to-mexico/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Taxpayer-funded ‘affirming’ poster conspicuously leaves out certain groups of people – Olivia Murray
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/taxpayerfunded_affirming_poster_conspicuously_leaves_out_emcertainem_groups_of_people.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— NYC housing 67K illegal immigrants – Mayor Adams calls Biden admin lack of response ‘baffling’ – Kevin Haggerty
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/18/nyc-housing-67k-illegal-immigrants-mayor-adams-calls-biden-admin-lack-of-response-baffling-1420791/

BREITBART
— Chicago Suburbs Preempting Buses Dropping Off Illegals with New Restrictions – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/12/18/chicago-suburbs-preempting-buses-dropping-off-illegals-with-new-restrictions/
— Philadelphia Becomes First U.S. City to Ban Sending Illegal Aliens to Their Native Countries for Medical Care – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/12/18/philadelphia-becomes-first-u-s-city-to-ban-sending-illegal-aliens-to-their-native-countries-for-medical-care/
— Most Americans Want Businesses Prosecuted for Hiring Illegal Aliens – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/18/poll-most-americans-want-businesses-prosecuted-hiring-illegal-aliens/

CHARLIE KIRK
— Michele Bachmann Exposes the Islamic Great Replacement of Minnesota
https://thecharliekirkshow.com/podcasts/the-charlie-kirk-show/michele-bachmann-exposes-the-islamic-great-replace

DAILY CALLER
— The Immigration Inversion Paints Lawbreakers As Victims – MATT O’BRIEN
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/18/obrien-daca-la-times-ortiz-twins-citizenship/
— Donors From The Richest Zip Codes In America Are Throwing Their Support Behind Biden – ROBERT SCHMAD
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/18/donors-richest-zip-codes-america-throw-support-biden/
— Greg Abbott Signs Bill Allowing Texas Cops To Arrest Illegal Aliens – HAROLD HUTCHISON
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/18/greg-abbott-signs-bill-allowing-texas-cops-to-arrest-illegal-aliens/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Senator Blocks Air Force Colonel’s Military Promotion Over ‘Divisive DEI Policies’ – Rob Bluey (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote DEI a) because they benefit from race and gender based preference giving, that is, because they benefit from patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination and/or b) because they want to curry favor with minorities, females, younger people, veterans, etc.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/18/senator-blocks-air-force-colonels-military-promotion-over-divisive-dei-policies/

DAILY WIRE
— Racial Segregation Is Making A Big Comeback, Thanks To The Left – Matt Walsh
https://www.dailywire.com/news/racial-segregation-is-making-a-big-comeback-thanks-to-the-left

EPOCH TIMES
— Texas Governor Signs Law Giving Police Power to Arrest Illegal Immigrants – Savannah Hulsey Pointer
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-governor-signs-law-giving-police-power-to-arrest-illegal-immigrants-5548854

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Digging a Deeper Hole: Big City Mayors Continue to Insist on Faster Work Authorization for Migrants – Ira Mehlman
https://www.fairus.org/state-immigration-legislation-policies/digging-deeper-hole-big-city-mayors-continue-insist-faster

GOPUSA
— Donald Trump Declines To Rule Out Nikki Haley As Potential Running Mate
https://www.gopusa.com/donald-trump-declines-to-rule-out-nikki-haley-as-potential-running-mate/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Chicago’s War on Poverty Has Failed – JOSH BANDOCH
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/12/chicagos-war-on-poverty-has-failed/

NEW AMERICAN
— DHS Suspends Railway Operations at Border Crossings – David Kelly
https://thenewamerican.com/us/dhs-suspends-railway-operations-at-border-crossings/

NEWSMAX
— Oklahoma Joins Other GOP-Controlled States in Banning DEI – Brian Freeman (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes promote DEI a) because they benefit from race and gender based preference giving, that is, because they benefit from patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination and/or b) because they want to curry favor with minorities, females, younger people, veterans, etc.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/dei-defund-oklahoma/2023/12/18/id/1146362/

PJ MEDIA
— Woke Ways Shrink U.S. Military to Smallest Fighting Force in 8 Decades – MILT HARRIS
https://pjmedia.com/miltharris/2023/12/18/woke-ways-shrink-us-military-to-smallest-fighting-force-in-8-decades-n4924846

TOWNHALL
— NYC Mayor Makes an Admission About the Border Crisis – Madeline Leesman
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/12/18/eric-adams-democrats-underestimated-the-border-crisis-n2632531

ZERO HEDGE
— Arizona’s Democratic Gov. Sends National Guard To Border, Citing Feds’ Inaction On Migrant Influx – TYLER DURDEN
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/arizona-gov-sends-national-guard-border-citing-feds-inaction-migrant-influx

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Death of 5-year-old boy prompts criticism of Chicago shelters for migrants – AP
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/ap-death-of-5-year-old-boy-prompts-criticism-of-chicago-shelters-for-migrants/
— Biden’s border policy is ‘greatest harm ever done intentionally to US by any president’ – Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4366928-bob-good-bidens-border-policy-is-greatest-harm-ever-done-intentionally-to-us-by-any-president/
— Cheney urges Fox viewers to ditch Trump – DOMINICK MASTRANGELO (COMMENT: My critics/opponents urge everyone to ditch my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. My critics/opponents destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/4366731-cheney-urges-fox-viewers-to-ditch-trump/

CNN
— Greyhound bus stops are valuable assets. Here’s who’s cashing in on them. – Nathaniel Meyersohn
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/17/business/greyhound-buses-transportation-cities/index.html

MSN
— Supreme Court Declines to Block Illinois Ban on High-Power Semiautomatic Weapons – Rhonna Morala (COMMENT: Semi-automatic firearms today, all firearms tomorrow.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/supreme-court-declines-to-block-illinois-ban-on-high-power-semiautomatic-weapons/ss-AA1lGDUw
— Migrant crossings from Mexico up nearly one third in December with 167,000 stopped so far as even DEMOCRAT congressman in Texas calls for tougher measures to ‘secure the border now’ – Morgan Phillips
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/migrant-crossings-from-mexico-up-nearly-one-third-in-december-with-167-000-stopped-so-far-as-even-democrat-congressman-in-texas-calls-for-tougher-measures-to-secure-the-border-now/ar-AA1lHvDg
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Trump’s being German American and Protestant against him.
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/voices-we-need-to-talk-about-trump-s-antisemitism/ar-AA1lHbVq

CBS NEWS & MSNBC
— Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly use Trump’s being German American and Protestant against him.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/latest-trump-immigration-comments-draw-hitler-comparisons-from-biden-campaign/
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-criticized-for-immigrant-poison-comment/
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-immigrant-comments-hitler-mein-kampf-poisoning-blood-rcna130251

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Illegal Crossings Surge in Remote Areas as Congress, White House Weigh Major Asylum Limits. Hundreds of dates are written on concrete-filled steel columns erected along the U.S. border with Mexico to memorialize when the Border Patrol has repaired illicit openings in the would-be barriers. – AP
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/2023-12-19/illegal-crossings-surge-in-remote-areas-as-congress-white-house-weigh-major-asylum-limits

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: Abbott Signs Law Allowing Texas to Arrest Migrants, Setting Up Federal Showdown. The new law, which takes effect in March, could bring in mass arrests and a court fight between Texas and the federal government over immigration powers. – J. David Goodman (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Constructively, Democrat and RINO leaders have declared war on America and illegals are their soldiers.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/abbott-texas-border-law-arrests.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Constructively, Democrat and RINO leaders have declared war on America and illegals are their soldiers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/briefing/immigration-debate.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/pope-francis-lgbtq-catholic.html

WASHINGTON POST
— ‘Biden’s too old,’ Nikki Haley says in new campaign ad – Mariana Alfaro (COMMENT: The issue should be Biden’s health, not his age.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/18/nikki-haley-joe-biden-age/

USA TODAY
— Ugly rise in antisemitism after Hamas attack on Israel has deep roots in American history – Dr. Marc Siegel (COMMENT: I should write a book about antisemitism in GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/12/18/antisemitism-jews-us-history-hamas-israel-world-war-ii/71910193007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/12/18/pope-francis-approves-blessings-for-same-sex-couples/71958167007/

POLITICO
— ‘I Want Trump Back’: Even in Democratic El Paso, Immigration Is Sinking Biden. A visit to this border town shows how the politics of immigration are shifting — and what’s really underneath it. – DAVID SIDERS
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/19/road-trip-el-paso-2024-00131703

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Migrant Surge Overwhelms Border Agents as Smugglers Target Remote Stretches. People are crossing into sparsely populated parts of Arizona and California, forcing officials to take them to makeshift holding areas and processing centers. – Alicia A. Caldwell
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/migrant-surge-overwhelms-border-agents-as-smugglers-target-remote-stretches-d2b0ce07
— Woke Students Will Outgrow It. ‘Intersectionality’ has thrived on campus, but it won’t survive now that it’s being exposed to sunlight. – Michael Segal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-young-woke-will-outgrow-it-intersectionality-hamas-israel-antisemitism-5ad3edc0
— A Skimpy Bonus Season Awaits Some White-Collar Workers – Ray A. Smith (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors not only never gave me any bonuses, they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/holiday-bonus-landscape-de4e73e8

FORBES
— Democrats ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2023/12/18/pope-francis-approves-same-sex-blessings/

FORTUNE
— ‘Antisemitism is on the rise across America–and it’s creeping into the workplace’ – JONATHAN A. GREENBLATT AND CLARA HESS (COMMENT: I should write a book about antisemitism in GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997.)
https://fortune.com/2023/04/05/adl-antisemitism-rise-across-america-workplace-success-careers-diversity-politics-greenblatt-hess/

ACCOUNTING TODAY
— The new shape of the CPA exam – Daniel Hood (COMMENT: Who do you know that passed CPA examination? My passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 when I was a 30-year-old GS-12 IRS employee was one of my biggest accomplishments in my life. Only about 20% of those who take the examination pass it on their first attempt. But because I was conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, 100% German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a union member, a Crete resident 1948-1972, a Wheaton resident since 1978, and I had complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, my Democrat IRS superiors made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. Because of that, in 1980, I took a $21,863/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars, that is, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10 to transfer to GAO. But my Democrat GAO superiors did not promote me to GS-13 until 1986 and that was after I had completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981.)
https://www.accountingtoday.com/podcast/the-new-shape-of-the-cpa-exam

CPA PRACTICE ADVISOR
— Illinois CPA Society Releases New Report on Turnover in the Accounting Profession. – Isaac M. O’Bannon (COMMENT: Accounting firms were never interested in me even though a) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 when I was 30 years old, b) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) became a licensed CPA in 1981, e) worked for IRS 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $92,279-$104,583/year in today’s dollars, f) worked for GAO 1980-1997, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $109,732-$142,650/year in today’s dollars, g) became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and h) earned master’s degrees in business from Loyola in 1976 and in finance from IIT in 1997. If I had been a minority and/or a female, they would have been extremely interest in me. It is called reverse discrimination. It is called age discrimination.)
https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2023/12/18/illinois-cpa-society-releases-new-report-on-turnover-in-the-accounting-profession/99314/

GBN
— Israel-Hamas war is a key issue for Jewish voters in America and could swing Biden vs Trump (COMMENT: What percent of Jewish voters in America side with Hamas?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0xInN8DOE

December 17, 2023

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

CBS2
— CBS 2 looks into how much Chicago is spending on newly arrived migrants
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/cbs-2-looks-into-how-much-chicago-is-spending-on-newly-arrived-migrants/
— Chicago says there are no more migrants camped outside of police stations – SARA MACHI
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/no-migrants-chicago-stations/

WGN9
— Pro-Palestinian demonstrators call for ceasefire in Gaza during protest in Downtown Chicago – Jewell Hillery
https://wgntv.com/israel-hamas-conflict/pro-palestinian-demonstrators-call-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-during-protest-in-downtown-chicago/
— Migrants arriving in Chicago face uncertainty as communication with border cities deteriorates – Angelica Sanchez
https://wgntv.com/news/migrants-arriving-in-chicago-face-uncertainty-as-communication-with-border-cities-deteriorates/

WGN RADIO
— New Chicago ordinance will increase employees’ paid leave – Patrick Hennessey (COMMENT: For almost 30 years, I benefitted from the federal government’s generous leave policies. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that.)
https://wgnradio.com/lets-get-legal/new-chicago-ordinance-will-increase-employees-paid-leave/

FOX32
— Senate aide dismissed after purported sex tape features Senate hearing room – Chris Pandolfo
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/senate-aide-dismissed-after-purported-sex-tape-features-senate-hearing-room

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— No migrants living in Chicago police stations for first time since spring. Nearly 190 new arrivals are still awaiting shelter placement at O’Hare Airport, but the city’s move has some volunteers worrying about transparency and support. – Violet Miller
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/16/24004075/migrants-chicago-police-stations-shelter-clear

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago Public Schools picks South Side high school principal to lead Office of Diverse Learner Supports and Services – Sarah Macaraeg
https://www.chicagotribune.com/education/ct-cps-chief-diverse-learners-20231216-6ukoizyns5cqvfrrn44n6a7bz4-story.html
— Latino Democrats shift from quiet concern to open opposition to Biden’s concessions in border talks – AP (COMMENT: As Latinos ever-increasingly invade America, America ever-increasingly becomes a Latino nation.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-aud-nw-latino-democrats-southern-border-20231216-qtm7whroarc6ni5gsk7v4asuxa-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURES: Why some congressional candidates could get kicked off the March primary ballot – Russell Lissau
https://www.dailyherald.com/20231216/news/why-some-congressional-candidates-could-get-kicked-off-the-march-primary-ballot/
— Democrats ever-increasingly push pot in Des Plaines.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20220406/oakton-community-college-in-des-plaines-dedicates-new-first-of-its-kind-cannabis-lab/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: How suburban counties are spending opioid settlement money – Katlyn Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/20231216/news/how-suburban-counties-are-spending-opioid-settlement-money/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Black American solidarity with Palestinians is rising and testing longstanding ties to Jewish allies – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-black-american-solidarity-with-palestinians-is-rising-and-testing-longstanding-ties-to-jewish-allies/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

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FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Dem staffer out from Senate job after revelation of sex video shot in Capitol Hill hearing room – Kerry Picket
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/16/dem-staffer-out-from-senate-job-after-revelation-o/
— The left’s climate fear-mongering, Christian-bashing, race-baiting fever dreams – Robert Knight
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/15/lefts-climate-fear-mongering-christian-bashing-rac/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Boston mayor releases photo from ‘electeds of color’ party that sparked outrage – Gabrielle M. Etzel
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/boston-mayor-wu-electeds-of-color-party-sparked-outrage
— Education Department reveals 40% of student loan borrowers missed first payment since COVID – Misty Severi
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/education-department-40-percent-student-loan-borrowers-missed-payment
— Donald Trump rehashes statement that immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood’ of US – Jenny Goldsberry
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/immigration/donald-trump-rehashes-poisoning-the-blood
— What did Biden promise to do as president in 2020? – Rachel Schilke
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/joe-biden-presidential-campaign-promises-2020

NEW YORK POST
— Trump ignores GOP rivals, rips ‘corrupt’ Biden as ‘threat to democracy’ during 90-minute NH rally – Mary Kay Linge
https://nypost.com/2023/12/16/news/trump-ignores-gop-rivals-rips-corrupt-biden-at-rally/
— Rep. Kevin McCarthy says George Santos’ expulsion was a mistake, says disgraced pol deserved’ his day in court’ – Jon Levine
https://nypost.com/2023/12/16/news/kevin-mccarthy-says-santos-expulsion-was-a-mistake/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Migrant groups launch lawsuits against Border Patrol over camping conditions near San Diego – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/migrant_groups_launch_lawsuits_against_border_patrol_over_camping_conditions_near_san_diego.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— FBI will adopt ‘LGBTQIA+ acronym’ at behest of one of their ‘nine Diversity Advisory Committees’ – Melissa Fine
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/16/fbi-will-reportedly-adopt-lgbtqia-acronym-at-behest-of-one-of-their-nine-diversity-advisory-committees-1420483/

BREITBART
— DeSantis Challenges Trump to Debate Ahead of Iowa Caucus – HANNAH BLEAU KNUDSEN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/16/ron-desantis-challenges-trump-debate-ahead-iowa-caucus/
— Musk’s ‘Grok’ AI Is Just as Woke as Other Chatbots – LUCAS NOLAN
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/12/16/elon-musks-grok-ai-is-just-as-woke-as-other-chatbots/

FEDERALIST
— Illinois Cooks Up Cashless Bail And Discovers It’s A ‘Perfect Recipe For Lawlessness’ – M.D. KITTLE
https://thefederalist.com/2023/12/14/illinois-cooks-up-cashless-bail-and-discovers-its-a-perfect-recipe-for-lawlessness/
— Did NY State Republicans Nominate a Registered Democrat to Replace George Santos? – Lorri Wickenhauser (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the more that you are discouraged from running for any kind of government or political office: conservative, Republican, White, male. older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/fact-check-ny-state-republicans-nominate-registered-democrat-replace-george-santos
(FRM THE ARTICLE: Mazi Melesa Pilip would seem to check all the boxes for a solid GOP candidate, Politico reported. She is a two-term Republican member of the Nassau County Legislature who has championed law enforcement and low property taxes. She is also a pro-Israel Orthodox Jew and has even served in the Israel Defense Forces. However, Pilip has been a registered Democrat since 2012, Politico reported, citing public records it had “uncovered.” “The Nassau County Board of Elections’ spokesperson called [Politico] on Pilip’s behalf and confirmed she is an enrolled Democrat.” Commenting on the situation, the outlet noted, “It seems like New York’s 3rd Congressional [District] is destined for drama.” Business Insider reported that the Ethiopian-born Pilip “professes to be” a Republican, despite the evidence uncovered by Politico. In securing the New York GOP nod, she “beat out a slew of other hopeful GOP nominees,” including a U.S. Air Force veteran and another IDF veteran. Pilip will be running against Democrat Tom Suozzi, a former House member who stepped down in 2022 to run for governor of New York. He lost the Democratic nomination to incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul. Politico described Pilip as a “firebrand” and added that she is “a popular figure in Great Neck, where she lives with her seven children.” The special election to fill Santos’ vacant seat will be held on Feb. 13, according to Business Insider.)

FOX NEWS
— Harvard identity-based graduations excluded Jews in now-deleted webpage as antisemitism claims plague school. Harvard held an affinity graduation celebration for specific identity groups. – Adam Sabes
https://www.foxnews.com/us/harvard-identity-based-graduations-excluded-jews-now-deleted-webpage-antisemitism-claims-plague-school

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— “The anti-American activists are the anti-Capitalist activists are the anti-Israel activists” – William A. Jacobson
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/the-anti-american-activists-are-the-anti-capitalist-activists-are-the-anti-israel-activists/

NTD
— Arizona Gov. Sends National Guard to Border, Citing Feds’ Inaction on Migrant Influx
https://www.ntd.com/arizona-gov-sends-national-guard-to-border-citing-feds-inaction-on-migrant-influx_960894.html

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Colleges Have a New Scheme to Get Around the End of Affirmative Action. Unwilling to drop racial preferences in admissions, colleges are now being advised to redefine merit to include race. – RENU MUKHERJEE
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/12/colleges-have-a-new-scheme-to-get-around-the-end-of-affirmative-action/
— San Francisco Puts Reparations Office on Hold as Part of $75 Million Budget Cut – ARI BLAFF
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/san-francisco-cuts-reparations-office-as-part-of-75-million-budget-cut/

NEWSMAX
— ‘We won’t secure the border under Democratic governments’ – Ron Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSYDsOuTxg

PJ MEDIA
— Arizona Governor Hobbs Calls Out National Guard to Deal With Crisis at Border – RICK MORAN |
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2023/12/16/feds-close-4-border-crossings-in-arizona-as-governor-hobbs-calls-out-national-guard-n4924797

POST MILLENNIAL
— Elon Musk warns Italy to not import the ‘woke mind virus’ from America. “Woke mind virus, in my view, amplifies racism amplifies frankly sexism and all the isms.” – Sara Higdon
https://thepostmillennial.com/elon-musk-warns-italy-to-not-import-the-woke-mind-virus-from-america

TOWNHALL
— Republicans Introduce Bill Prohibiting VA Health Resources From Being Used for Illegal Immigrants – Madeline Leesman
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/12/16/va-health-care-facilities-helping-illegal-immigrants-bill-n2632469

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) accuses FBI of focusing on ‘identity politics’ over its LGBTQIA+ acronym adoption policy – LAUREN IRWIN
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4364175-republican-rep-accuses-fbi-identity-politics-lgbtqia-acronym-adoption-policy/
— Hispanic Caucus spells out opposition to GOP border demands – RAFAEL BERNAL (COMMENT: As Hispanics ever-increasingly invade America, America ever-increasingly becomes a Hispanic nation.)
https://thehill.com/latino/4348410-hispanic-caucus-gop-border-demands-x/
— Democrats ever-increasingly paint illegals as being GOD-like.
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-top-headlines/ap-no-room-at-the-inn-as-holidays-approach-migrants-face-eviction-from-new-york-city-shelters/

CNN
— Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and migrants are the Democrats’ soldiers.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/16/trump-immigration-nh-rally-contorno-se-cupp-acostanr-vpx.cnn

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Latino Democrats shift from quiet concern to open opposition to Biden’s concessions in border talks – STEPHEN GROVES, LISA MASCARO AND REBECCA SANTANA (COMMENT: As Latinos ever-increasingly invade America, America ever-increasingly becomes a Latino nation.)
https://apnews.com/article/senate-border-immigration-biden-66531bcefb908d5440a52b54c543b006
— US homelessness up 12% to highest reported level as rents soar and coronavirus pandemic aid lapses – KEVIN FREKING
https://greensboro.com/news/nation-world/us-homelessness-up-12-to-highest-reported-level-as-rents-soar-and-coronavirus-pandemic-aid/article_45a50793-a002-5a8e-9b59-1c17c4c82b60.html

MSN
— Maryland Senator Ben Cardin’s Staffer Responds to Accusations About Video, Confrontation – Jessica McBride
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/maryland-senator-ben-cardin-s-staffer-responds-to-accusations-about-video-confrontation/ar-AA1lBl5v

NEWSWEEK
— Kinzinger Does Victory Lap After Giuliani’s $148M Judgment – Thomas Kika
https://www.newsweek.com/adam-kinzinger-does-victory-lap-after-rudy-giulianis-148m-judgment-1853055

CBS NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/advocate-lgbtq-community-hosts-annual-coat-drive-transgender-individuals-team-abads-coat-drive/

NEW YORK TIMES
— The more demographics that you share with Trump, the more hatred that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote against you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/opinion/trump-democracy-dewey.html
— Trump, Quoting Putin, Declares Indictments ‘Politically Motivated Persecution’ – Maggie Haberman and Michael Gold (COMMENT: To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and my education deductions in 1978.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/us/politics/trump-putin-new-hampshire.html

USA TODAY
— Are you Hispanic if you can’t speak Spanish? Here’s what Hispanics say. – Marc Ramirez (COMMENT: As Hispanics ever-increasingly invade America, America ever-increasingly becomes a Hispanic nation.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/23/latinos-spanish-language-fade-hope-future-generations/70903045007/
— As Hispanics ever-increasingly invade America, America ever-increasingly becomes a Hispanic nation.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/10/11/hispanic-heritage-immigration-america/1627823/

JOPLIN GLOBE
— Biden, not Trump, the one acting like a dictator – Geoff Caldwell
https://www.joplinglobe.com/opinion/geoff-caldwell-biden-not-trump-the-one-acting-like-a-dictator/article_0a2e77c8-9a89-11ee-9726-abec53b8203b.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Why the Race to Replace George Santos Will Matter in 2024. Republicans pick Mazi Melesa Pilip to face Democrat Tom Suozzi in big test of parties’ strength next year. – Jimmy Vielkind and Katy Stech Ferek
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/why-the-race-to-replace-george-santos-will-matter-in-2024-383434d8

FORTUNE
— Elon Musk calls diversity, equity, inclusion ‘morally wrong’ propaganda words for racism, sexism, etc.: ‘Changing the target class doesn’t make it right’ – DANA HULL
https://fortune.com/2023/12/16/elon-musk-calls-diversity-equity-inclusion-propaganda/

FORBES
— Musk Raises A Fair Point On DEI – Susan Harmeling, Ph.D.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanharmeling/2023/12/16/i-hate-to-admit-elon-musk-raises-a-fair-point-on-dei/

BUSINESS WIRE
— Nearly Two-Thirds of Retail Workers Are Worried About Personal Safety this Holiday Season
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231211138551/en/Nearly-Two-Thirds-of-Retail-Workers-Are-Worried-About-Personal-Safety-this-Holiday-Season

SPECTRUM NEWS
— Hispanic Texas Democrats in Congress urge White House to reject hardline GOP border demands – Reena Diamante (COMMENT: As Hispanics ever-increasingly invade America, America ever-increasingly becomes a Hispanic nation.)
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2023/12/14/hispanic-texas-democrats-urge-white-house-reject-republican-border-demands

POLITICO
— Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and migrants are the Democrats’ soldiers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/16/biden-trump-remarks-immigration-00132161

KNOW INSIDERS
— The 43rd governor of Illinois is Jay Robert Pritzker, better known by his stage as J.B. Pritzker. Among the wealthiest families in the US are he and his family. Read on to know how rich he is.
https://knowinsiders.com/who-is-robert-pritzker-richest-politician-in-the-us-biography-career-and-net-worth-38889.html

GOVERNING
“Alabama seems to be addicted to cheap labor.”
https://www.governing.com/government-quotes/alabama-seems-to-be-addicted-to-cheap-labor

GALLUP
— Personal Safety Fears at Three-Decade High in U.S. – LYDIA SAAD
https://news.gallup.com/poll/544415/personal-safety-fears-three-decade-high.aspx

PEW RESEARCH
— As Hispanics ever-increasingly invade America, America ever-increasingly becomes a Hispanic nation.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/22/key-facts-about-us-latinos-for-national-hispanic-heritage-month/
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/05/who-is-hispanic/

DAILY MAIL
— Chicago has spent $138 MILLION on city’s migrant crisis in 14 months after 26,000 were bused in – more cash than was given to city’s public library network.
About 26,000 migrants arrived in the city by buses since August last year. The city spent nearly a million on the shuttered migrant camp at Brighton Park. – DOLORES CHANG
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12871843/Chicago-cash-migrant-crisis-public-library.html

December 16, 2023

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— With Iowa’s caucuses a month away, can any GOP challenger beat Donald Trump? – AP
https://abc7chicago.com/iowa-caucus-one-month-away-donald-trump/14189750/
— Giuliani trial: Jury awards election workers nearly $150 million in damages
https://abc7chicago.com/rudy-giuliani-election-fraud-lawsuit-shaye-moss/14189218/

NBC5
— New paid leave law begins in Illinois in 2024, but what about Chicago and Cook County? As part of the Paid Leave for All Workers Act, Illinois employees who work for companies with at least five employees will be eligible for a minimum of 40 hours of paid leave per year.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/new-paid-leave-law-begins-in-illinois-in-2024-but-what-about-chicago-and-cook-county/3304456/

CBS2
— CBS 2 Investigators: Chicago spent $138M so far on newly-arrived migrants – SABRINA FRANZA
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/migrant-money-cbs-2-investigators/
— Chicago homeless encampment to be dismantled amid crime concerns – TARA MOLINA, ASHLEY SCHIEDENHELM
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-homeless-encampment-to-be-dismantled-amid-crime-concerns/

WGN9
— Illinois NAACP conference president suspended after racist remarks – Peter Curi
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-naacp-conference-president-suspended-after-racist-remarks/

FOX32
— Chicago’s Fulton Market Association demands migrants be relocated. The Fulton Market Association is raising concerns regarding the use of buildings meant for manufacturing that now house migrants, calling out Mayor Brandon Johnson over the apparent zoning violation.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1382260
— Fulton Market Assoc. accuses Chicago mayor of ‘breaking the law’ for housing migrants in certain buildings
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/fulton-market-association-challenges-chicago-mayor-migrants-designated-manufacturing-buildings

WTTW
— All Migrants Now Moved Out of Chicago Police Stations, Mayor Brandon Johnson Announces – Heather Cherone
https://news.wttw.com/2023/12/15/all-migrants-now-moved-out-chicagopolice-stations-mayor-brandon-johnson-announces
— Chicago Tribune Journalists Push for Contract Deal, Accuse Company Owner of Stripping Assets Ahead of Planned Rally – Nick Blumberg
https://news.wttw.com/2023/12/15/chicago-tribune-journalists-push-contract-deal-accuse-hedge-fund-owner-stripping-assets
— Illinois Leads the National in Medicaid Renewals Amid Federal Enrollment Update – Amanda Vinicky
https://news.wttw.com/2023/12/15/illinois-leads-national-medicaid-renewals-amid-federal-enrollment-update

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— City to remove West Loop homeless encampment in order to clean area – Jake Sheridan
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-homeless-encampment-power-wash-20231215-r7spdqfgx5hv7ffrovobxyocoa-story.html
— Illinois NAACP president apologizes for saying migrants are rapists and likening them to ‘savages’ – Robert McCoppin
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-illinois-naacp-migrants-apology-20231215-7hqslhftinadtj6cd6hr5znzui-story.html
— Pace official gives stark outlook to Chicago area public transit during budget presentation – George Wiebe
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/hinsdale/ct-dupage-county-pace-bus-budget-2024-tl-1221-20231215-l2g4pg5dtzdvzg5srss5ph477a-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Rep. Blaine Wilhour of the Illinois Freedom Caucus has a primary fight on his hands. If nothing else, a barrage of union money aimed at Wilhour could divert “Eastern Bloc” resources away from their hoped-for battle against Rep. Dave Severin. – Rich Miller (COMMENT: In 2000, when I first ran for DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 Republican Committeeman, those to the left of me had a woman to the left of me run against me. But with a written endorsement from both Randy Hultgren and Peter Roskam, I won.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/12/16/24003512/rep-blaine-wilhour-illinois-freedom-caucus-primary-fight-eastern-bloc-rich-miller
(FRM THE ARTICLE: Several weeks ago, Illinois Department of Corrections employee Matt Hall started quietly circulating petitions to run against Wilhour in the Republican primary. The Illinois Education Association confirmed it had been looking for a candidate to challenge Wilhour. A union spokesperson said the IEA did not recruit Hall but said, “We are excited about his candidacy and believe our members who live in the district will be as well.” Asked if he would accept union contributions, Hall said, “I will accept everyone’s support, and I expect to get everyone’s support.” He said he decided to run because Wilhour “quit doing what I think a state representative needs to do,” including being responsive to constituents. “He just doesn’t do anything,” Hall said. “In my opinion, all he does is kick and scream and doesn’t get anything passed.” Wilhour also hasn’t stopped any Democratic bills, Hall claimed. “We need to learn how to work together and get things done and care about this district.” In response, Rep. Wilhour said: “A primary fight with the teachers’ union has been a foregone conclusion. It’s always been about them finding their tool willing to carry their woke agenda.” People on Wilhour’s side are convinced House GOP Leader McCombie is somehow behind Hall’s race. “I prefer not to speak of who I’ve had contact with,” Hall said when asked if he’d spoken with McCombie about his candidacy. A McCombie aide said the leader was focused on holding and picking up seats. Hall ended up filing his petitions. They were solid, and he had help from the IEA. Interestingly enough, a formal objection was filed against Rep. Wilhour’s petitions. “It looks like a concerned citizen filed the complaint, and we’re interested to see what comes of it,” said an IEA spokesperson. Sure. Anyway, if Hall manages to beat Wilhour, a shockwave will reverberate through the far right of the party. But, if nothing else, a barrage of union money aimed at Wilhour could divert Eastern Bloc resources away from their hoped-for battle against Rep. Severin.)
— West Loop homeless encampment will be cleared, Ald. Conway says. The area, adjacent to Union Station and the Ogilvie Transportation Center, gets heavy foot traffic from commuters, and neighbors have said they’ve witnessed daytime drug-dealing and drug use. – Dorothy Hernandez (COMMENT: I used Ogilvie very often 1978-1997 and Union Station often 1992-1997.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/15/24003576/west-loop-encampment-cleared-ald-conway-migrants-crime
— Newspapers ever-increasingly act as arms of the Democrat, Libertarian, and Green parties.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/12/15/23992497/chicago-news-journalism-learning-kwame-opam-meet-sun-times-column
— Did your ancestors live/work in Chicago? My ancestors on my father’s side lived in Chicago 1844-1854 while they worked in brick factory. In 1854, they homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township. Did/do you live in Chicago? I lived in Chicago in 1971 and then 1974-1978. My wife and I bought a house in Wheaton in 1978. Do/did you work in Chicago? I worked in Chicago in 1971 and then 1973-1997. Do/did you take classes in Chicago? I took classes in Chicago 1966-1968, 1971-1981, and 1992-1997.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/15/23997856/chicago-reinvention-carl-sandburg-chicagos-next-voices

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois NAACP president Teresa Haley suspended for comments – Patrick M. Keck
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2023/12/15/national-naacp-confirms-haleys-suspension-for-migrant-remarks/71931939007/

CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Chicago threatens to impound buses dropping migrants in the middle of traffic – Tom Gantert, Shirleen Guerra and Brett Rowland
https://chicagocrusader.com/chicago-threatens-to-impound-buses-dropping-migrants-in-the-middle-of-traffic/

EFFINGHAM DAILY NEWS & CITIES 92.9
— ‘Sanctuary city’ Chicago to impound migrant buses, redirect migrants elsewhere. – Andrew Hensel
https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/sanctuary-city-chicago-to-impound-migrant-buses-redirect-migrants-elsewhere/article_428cba3a-9b9c-11ee-a9ac-7711133f91f8.html
https://www.cities929.com/2023/12/15/sanctuary-city-chicago-to-impound-migrant-buses-redirect-migrants-elsewhere/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— With Iowa’s caucuses a month away, Trump urges voters to hand him not just a victory, but a blowout – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-with-iowas-caucuses-a-month-away-trump-urges-voters-to-hand-him-not-just-a-victory-but-a-blowout/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Migrants Describe Inhumane Conditions At Chicago’s Largest Shelter. Just days after Gov. JB Pritzker shut down a proposed shelter due to health concerns, Venezuelan migrants living in the Pilsen shelter say they are being treated “like dogs.” – Mauricio Peña, Katrina Pham, and Nissa Rhee
https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/12/15/migrants-describe-inhumane-conditions-at-chicagos-largest-shelter/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2023/12/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-7/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— ‘Sanctuary city’ Chicago to impound migrant buses, redirect migrants elsewhere. – Andrew Hensel
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a8663f2a-9ad4-11ee-bcaa-d348a7c7cd0e.html

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Mark Rice, candidate for the 8th Congressional District: ‘Krishnamoorthi thinks it’s ok taxpayers were forced to pay the $32 million probe costs of investigating a democrat-led and created witch hunt’
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/652967242-rice-krishnamoorthi-thinks-it-s-ok-taxpayers-were-forced-to-pay-the-32-million-probe-costs-of-investigating-a-democrat-led-and-created-witch-hunt

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION KILLS EXCELLING SCHOOLS TO FORCE STUDENTS INTO DYSFUNCTION – Hannah Schmid
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-kills-excelling-schools-to-force-students-into-dysfunction/
— TEACHERS UNION WAR ON PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE HURTS POOR, MINORITY STUDENTS – Paul Vallas
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-chicago-teachers-union-war-on-public-school-choice-hurts-poor-minority-students/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Billions in Middle East donations to U.S. universities linked to campus antisemitism – Valerie Richardson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/14/billions-in-middle-east-donations-to-us-universiti/
— The Democrats’ war on American competence. What good is equality if nothing works? – Kelly Sadler (COMMENT: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and b) who had less job-related work experience, less job-related education, and/or no professional certifications or licenses. I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and d) a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/12/democrats-war-on-american-competence/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago wants to keep poor students in failing schools for equity – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/chicago-wants-keep-poor-students-failing-schools-equity
— Chicagoan sues employer and union for being denied transgender breast removal surgery – Breccan F. Thies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/chicagoan-sues-employer-union-denied-transgender-breast-removal
— Major automakers tell Biden to reconsider rule propping up EVs that would kill gas-powered cars. – Brady Knox
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-environment/major-automakers-biden-rule-evs-gas-powered-cars
— Philadelphia highway protesters are the latest out-of-control left-wing activism – Christopher Tremoglie
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/philadelphia-highway-protesters-out-of-control-activism
— Wokeness wrecked Disney. What’s next? – Corey Walker
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/wokeness-wrecked-disney-whats-next

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 73)
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-joe-bidens-senior-moment-of-the-week-vol-73/
— Los Angeles Hate Crime Suspect Was Arrested and Released on Cashless Bail Hours Before Anti-Semitic Attack – Jessica Costescu
https://freebeacon.com/crime/los-angeles-hate-crime-suspect-was-arrested-and-released-on-cashless-bail-hours-before-anti-semitic-attack/
— ‘Historic’ Biden Judicial Nominee Sits on Board of Group Founded by Cop-Killing Domestic Terrorist – Chuck Ross
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/historic-biden-judicial-nominee-sits-on-board-of-group-founded-by-cop-killing-domestic-terrorist/

NEW YORK POST
— Why is Michigan hate preacher Ahmad Musa Jibril allowed to call for the murder of Americans? – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2023/12/15/opinion/deplatform-vile-imam-musa-jibril-too-bad-we-cant-deport-him/

AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS
— Immigration courts overloaded … it’s all part of the plan – Chad Groening
https://afn.net/national-security/2023/12/15/immigration-courts-overloaded-it-s-all-part-of-the-plan-says-fair/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— University of Wisconsin System Accepts Deal to Receive $800M in Exchange for Cutting Diversity Effort – Eric Lendrum
https://amgreatness.com/2023/12/15/university-of-wisconsin-system-accepts-deal-to-receive-800m-in-exchange-for-cutting-diversity-effort/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Blue city achievement: San Francisco hits its highest overdose count in history – Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/blue_city_achievement_san_francisco_hits_its_highest_overdose_count_in_history.html
— Leftists And The ‘Imperial Presidency’ – Ted Noel
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/leftists_and_the_imperial_presidency.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Shocking new details emerge about Jill Biden’s bizarre Christmas dance group – Tom Tillison
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/15/shocking-new-details-emerge-about-jill-bidens-bizarre-christmas-dance-group-1420147/
— Tens of thousands of uneaten taxpayer-funded migrant meals being ‘trashed’ in NYC – Melissa Fine
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/15/tens-of-thousands-of-uneaten-taxpayer-funded-migrant-meals-being-trashed-in-nyc-report-1420202/
— Virginia School board member gets sworn in on a stack of ‘LGBTQ themed’ books – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/15/virginia-school-board-member-gets-sworn-in-on-a-stack-of-lgbtq-themed-books-1420140/

BREITBART
— Mayor and Chicago City Council Vote to Nix Measure to Ask Voters About Keeping ‘Sanctuary City’ Status – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/15/mayor-and-chicago-city-council-vote-to-nix-measure-to-ask-voters-about-keeping-sanctuary-city-status/
— Chicago Mayor Secretly Paying Higher Than Market Prices to Rent Migrant Shelter Buildings – WARNER TODD HUSTON
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/12/15/report-chicago-mayor-secretly-paying-higher-than-market-prices-to-rent-migrant-shelter-buildings/
— Jill Biden’s ‘Nutcracker’ Dance Troupe Promotes Abolishing Police Departments, Rants About ‘White Supremacy’ – DAVID NG
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/12/15/jill-bidens-nutcracker-dance-troupe-promotes-abolishing-police-departments-rants-about-white-supremacy/
— Tuberville: ‘We’re Going to Do Everything We Can to Run the Illegals Out of the VA’ – JEFF POOR
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/12/16/tuberville-were-going-to-do-everything-we-can-to-run-the-illegals-out-of-the-va/

DAILY CALLER
— Jury Determines Rudy Giuliani Owes Nearly $150 Million In Damages In Defamation Case – KATELYNN RICHARDSON
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/15/jury-determines-rudy-giuliani-owes-nearly-150-million-in-damages-in-defamation-case/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Climate Change Is Not Responsible for Mass Migration – Simon Hankinson
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/15/borderline-climate-change-is-responsible-mass-migration/

FEDERALIST
— From Woke Walkouts To Dumping Selective Enrollment, Illinois Schools Are Melting Down – SHAWN FLEETWOOD
https://thefederalist.com/2023/12/15/from-woke-walkouts-to-dumping-selective-enrollment-illinois-schools-are-melting-down/

FOX BUSINESS
— Elon Musk says ‘DEI must DIE,’ explains why. Tesla CEO says DEI policies are simply another form of discrimination. – Breck Dumas (COMMENT: My critics/opponents reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform and promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promote patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. I should write a book about my critics/opponents the many/big adverse actions that they have taken against me.)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elon-musk-dei-must-die-explains-why

FOX NEWS
— Chicago to move away from school choice, center neighborhood schools to rectify ‘structural racism’ ‘This resolution declares a new chapter in CPS,’ said Chicago Public Schools Board of Education President Jianan Shi. – Joshua Q. Nelson
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-move-school-choice-center-neighborhood-schools-rectify-structural-racism
— ‘Party does not exist’: Illinois incumbent wants primary opponent disqualified for misspelling ‘Republican’ The IL candidate allegedly filed to run as a member of the ‘Republian Party’ – AP
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/party-does-not-exist-illinois-incumbent-wants-primary-opponent-disqualified-misspelling-republican

GOPUSA
— Trump Leads Biden In 7 Key Swing States
https://www.gopusa.com/trump-leads-biden-in-7-key-swing-states-poll/
— Alabama Senate Republicans Introduce Bill To Prevent Non US Citizens From Voting In Federal Elections
https://www.gopusa.com/alabama-senate-republicans-introduce-bill-to-prevent-non-us-citizens-from-voting-in-federal-elections/

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— LAPD swears in police officers who are DACA recipients and entered US illegally – Pat Droney
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/no-this-isnt-satire-newly-sworn-los-angeles-police-officers-daca-recipients-who-entered-us-illegally

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Chicago Board of Education Passes Plan That Could End School Choice in the City. They don’t care about the kids. They consider the move a “critical step toward closing opportunity and achievement gaps.” – Mary Chastain
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/chicago-board-of-education-passes-plan-that-could-end-school-choice-in-the-city/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Chicago: Equality in Misery – NOAH ROTHMAN
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/equality-in-misery/

NEW AMERICAN
— Impeachment Inquiry Ignores Border Invasion – R. Cort Kirkwood (COMMENT: The Republican Party is ever-increasingly dominated by those who want cheap labor.)
https://thenewamerican.com/opinion/stupid-party-continues-being-stupid-impeachment-inquiry-ignores-border-invasion/

NEWSMAX
— Military’s Quest for Marxist DEI Imperils Nation – Brig Gen (ret) Blaine Holt
https://www.newsmax.com/briggenblaineholt/dei-marxism-marxist/2023/12/15/id/1146123/

TOWNHALL
— Border Walls Are Most Effective Way to Stop Illegal Immigration – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/12/15/internal-dhs-memo-border-walls-are-most-effective-way-to-stop-illegal-immigration-n2632456

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Illinois ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban to Take Effect in Just a Few Weeks After Supreme Court Declines to Block It. – Warner Todd Huston
https://www.westernjournal.com/assault-weapons-ban-take-effect-just-weeks-supreme-court-declines-block/
— Chicago Residents Denied Say in Ending Sanctuary City Status – Jack Davis
https://www.westernjournal.com/fed-blue-city-residents-denied-say-ending-sanctuary-city-status/

ZERO HEDGE
— Illinois NAACP President Apologizes, Then Blames AI Deepfake, After Referring To Immigrants As “Savages” – TYLER DURDEN
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/illinois-naacp-president-apologizes-then-blames-ai-deepfake-after-referring-immigrants

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrats ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/congressional-black-caucus-urges-corporate-191415061.html

ABC NEWS
— The 2024 Republican presidential primary could be over in a month. Unless he drops out, Donald Trump is extremely likely to win the GOP nomination. – G. Elliott Morris
https://abcnews.go.com/538/donald-trumps-lead-gop-primary-insurmountable/story?id=105661719
— What to know about the candidates for the special election to replace George Santos, and why it matters. The special election will occur on Feb. 13, 2024. – Oren Oppenheim and Brittany Shepherd (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, political parties want candidates who have high DEI scores. My DEI score is extremely low because I am not liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time, that is, because I am conservative, White, male, old, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844.).
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/candidates-special-election-replace-george-santos-matters/story?id=105673496

CBS NEWS
— Giuliani must pay $148 million to Georgia election workers he defamed, jury says – Robert Legare, Musa Ali
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jury-giuliani-defamation-trial-reaches-211334137.html

REUTERS
— Hispanic support for Trump raises red flag for Biden – Tim Reid
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hispanic-support-for-trump-raises-red-flag-for-biden/ar-AA1lAMEU

YAHOO
— Republicans Nominate Mazi Melesa Pilip To Succeed George Santos – Daniel Marans (COMMENT: From what I see, the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization ever-increasingly want candidates who do not share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, male, older, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-nominate-mazi-melesa-pilip-183043210.html
— Strip club paid mayor of Harvey for years to allow prostitution at the venue, feds say – Minyvonne Burke
https://www.yahoo.com/news/strip-club-paid-mayor-illinois-003537598.html

NEWSWEEK
— Unvaccinated Migrants Fuel Dramatic Spike in Chickenpox Cases in Chicago – Andrew Stanton
https://www.newsweek.com/chicago-unvaccinated-migrants-fuel-chickenpox-surge-1852817
— Greg Abbott Breaks Sanctuary City Democrats – Andrew Stanton
https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-breaks-sanctuary-city-democrats-migrants-1852896
— he Biden Administration Just Keeps Making Our Border Crisis Worse – Mark Green
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administration-just-keeps-making-our-border-crisis-worse-opinion-1852506
— Melania Trump’s Immigration Journey Speech Mocked – Kaitlin Lewis
https://www.newsweek.com/melania-trumps-immigration-journey-speech-mocked-1853024

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/us/politics/border-deal-asylum-explainer.html
— Democrats say “A Historical and Hysterical House Flees After a Tumultuous Year. An ousted speaker, internal divisions and a race to the exits characterized the first year of the chaos-wracked Republican majority.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/us/politics/congress-republicans-2023.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: American Dream Deferred: Why Housing Prices May Pose a Problem for Biden. Buying a home is a less attainable goal for many young people, and rents are expensive. Could that dog Democrats in the 2024 election? – Jeanna Smialek, Jim Tankersley and Conor Dougherty. (COMMENT: Back in the good old days, that is, back in 1972 when I was 24, I bought a new townhome ( https://www.redfin.com/IL/University-Park/774-Sunset-Ct-60484/unit-5/home/23344604 ) in University Park. The downpayment came from what earned a) working for IRS for 15 months, b) working part-time for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights for 18 months, and c) working full-time for that store for 7 months before that. That money also enabled me to buy a new Corvette in 1971 and to pay tuition for graduate business courses at Loyola in 1972. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $52,022/year in 1971 and $63,633/year in 1972.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/us/politics/housing-prices-biden.html
— DeSantis Says Trump Will Declare Iowa Caucuses Stolen if He Loses. The former president “will try to delegitimize the results,” Mr. DeSantis said while campaigning in New Hampshire on Friday. – Nicholas Nehamas
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/us/politics/desantis-trump-iowa-caucuses.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Lawsuit claims CPAC knew of past allegations of sexual misconduct by Matt Schlapp – Beth Reinhard and Isaac Arnsdorf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/16/cpac-matt-schlapp-lawsuit-sexual-misconduct/
— Ever-increasingly, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you can get away with: liberal, moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or if your ancestors have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/12/15/harvard-president-claudine-gay-race-criticism/

USA TODAY
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, etc.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/15/boston-holiday-party-furor-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-efforts/71918470007/

FOX SALT LAKE CITY
— Governor Cox says diversity programs at colleges are ‘divisive’, not unifying – Lucy Nelson (COIMMENT: Affirmative Action (AA), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are extremely divisive. Democrats and RINOs have always used AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/governor-cox-says-diversity-programs-at-colleges-are-divisive-not-unifying

NDTV
— ‘Diversity, Equity And Inclusion’ Are “Propaganda Words”: Elon Musk The billionaire is chief executive officer and the largest shareholder of Tesla, the electric-vehicle maker which has boasted that underrepresented groups make up the majority of its US workforce. – Dana Hull (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly more and more and more humans are the following: minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Christian, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, and/or non-German American, that is, ever-increasingly fewer and fewer and fewer humans are White, male, older, non-poor, heterosexual, married, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, and/or German American. Democrats and RINOs are overjoyed about that.)
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-are-propaganda-words-elon-musk-4684332

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Illinois Concedes on Pregnancy Centers. The state won’t enforce its law targeting pro-life activists as fraudsters. – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/illinois-pregnancy-center-speech-kwame-raoul-j-b-pritzker-41c0a9dd
— U.S. Homeless Count Surges 12% to Highest-Recorded Level. – Jon Kamp and Shannon Najmabadi (COMMENT: The more destruction of traditional marriage and family, the more homelessness.)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/record-homeless-united-states-2023-ef86f904
— Mary Barra Spent a Decade Transforming GM. It Hasn’t Been Enough. The CEO pushed GM hard into electric and driverless cars. The finish line keeps moving farther away. – Mike Colias
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/mary-barra-spent-a-decade-transforming-gm-it-hasnt-been-enough-d82f4c5a
— What Universities Have Done to Themselves. They ‘have gone from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas.’ – Peggy Noonan
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-universities-have-done-to-themselves-antisemitism-hearing-dei-woke-history-abf4901b

FORBES
— Musk Joins University Donors And Lawmakers Targeting DEI Amid Antisemitism Concerns – Brian Bushard
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/12/15/university-donors-lawmakers-target-dei-how-antisemitism-concerns-have-expanded-into-gop-culture-wars/

AMERICAN PROSPECT
— The Immigration Policy Spiral. Joe Biden, from a position of weakness, is trying to cut a punitive deal on border policy without the House. – DAVID DAYEN
https://prospect.org/politics/2023-12-15-immigration-policy-spiral/

GAO
— The Democrats who run GAO ever-increasingly promote more patronage, more political affiliation discrimination, more reverse discrimination, and more age discrimination. Soon, if not already, all federal employees will be Democrats who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Christian, non-Protestant, non-Italian American, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105732

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
— From what I see, because of Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/primal-world-beliefs-unpacked/202312/when-demographics-arent-destiny

DAILY MAIL
— Chicago’s migrant crisis spirals out of control: City spent nearly $1 million on failed camp before pulling the plug – as officials now IMPOUND buses bringing migrants to the city from Texas on Gov. Greg Abbott’s orders. The city spent over $985,000 on the shuttered migrant camp at Brighton Park. Locals had opposed the camp, with two residents filing a lawsuit. There are currently more than 13,000 migrants staying in Chicago’s shelter system and the city has spent more than $250M handing the crisis this year. – GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12868819/Chicago-migrant-camps-buses-impounded.html
— Senate closes in on deal on new hardline border policy that could ban asylum after 5,000 crossings a day: Mayorkas heads to Capitol Hill for talks on new migration plan to get billions in Israel and Ukraine aid. Talks are still in the phase of ‘concepts’ rather than ‘legislative text,’ Senate GOP Whip John Thune told reporters. ‘Members need to be here next week,’ Schumer urged. ‘We have to get this done. We WILL vote on a supplemental proposal next week’ – MORGAN PHILLIPS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12868573/Senate-closes-deal-new-hardline-border-policy-ban-asylum-5-000-crossings-day-Mayorkas-heads-Capitol-Hill-talks-new-migration-plan-billions-Israel-Ukraine-aid.html
— Elon Musk SLAMS Microsoft Word’s inclusiveness checker as it prompts him to reconsider using the word ‘insane’ – as his fans vent ‘wokeism has literally infiltrated everything on this planet’ Elon Musk took to X to complain that he had been ‘scolded’ by Microsoft Word. Musk and his supporters railed against the ‘woke’ word processor’s suggestions. – WILIAM HUNTER
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12867925/Elon-Musk-SLAMS-Microsoft-Words-inclusiveness-checker-prompts-reconsider-using-word-insane-fans-vent-wokeism-literally-infiltrated-planet.html

December 10, 2023

To stay up-to-date with news and commentary of interest to Illinois Republicans, what do my critics/opponents want you to read instead of my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters? My critics/opponents do not want anyone to read my newsletters; however, many of them read my newsletters for “opposition research.” Those who paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican but who reject many of the planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote in my newsletters do not want anyone to read articles that promote those planks. As everyone knows, I promote my direct newsletter competitors. But many of my direct newsletter competitors ignore, dismiss, if not belittle the planks that I promote. Further, many want cheap labor, that is, they want mass/illegal immigration. Again, what newsletters do my critics/opponents want you to read instead of my newsletters? What arguments do they make for that?

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

ABC7
— Pro-Palestinian car caravan blocks traffic on Kennedy Expressway
https://abc7chicago.com/protest-in-chicago-today-palestinian-traffic-kennedy-expressway/14158985/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riohOnkJOJ4
— Hundreds of affordable homes remain vacant amid Chicago housing crisis – Ramona Meadors (COMMENT: Will Democrat leaders house illegals in these homes?)
https://abc7chicago.com/affordable-housing-chicago-crisis-authority-illinois-answers-projects/14152220/
— Chicago police respond to bomb threat at Ogilvie Transportation Center; Metra trains delayed
https://abc7chicago.com/metra-delay-ogilvie-transportation-center-train-schedule/14159357/
— At least 11 shot, 3 killed in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-this-weekend-violence-police/14158472/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-migrants-venezuelan-legal-aid-help/14159087/

NBC5
— Inbound Kennedy, Dan Ryan see closures due to pro-Palestinian protest
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/inbound-kennedy-dan-ryan-see-closures-due-to-pro-palestinian-protest/3299293/
— Unfounded threat halts Metra trains at Ogilvie Transportation Center
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/all-metra-trains-halted-at-ogilvie-transportation-center-amid-police-investigation/3299331/

CBS2
— Chicago Weekend Shootings: 3 killed, 7 hurt
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-dec-8-to-11/

WGN9
— Here’s a list of new Illinois laws going into effect in 2024 – John Clark
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/heres-a-list-of-new-illinois-laws-going-into-effect-in-2024/

FOX32
— Johnson proposes fines over ‘rogue buses’ transporting migrants to Chicago
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/johnson-proposes-fines-rogue-buses-transporting-migrants-chicago
— Low-income seniors are often challenged with living in deteriorating conditions because they can’t afford the necessary repairs on their homes. (COMMENT: My grandfather on my father’s side had 1286 Wood Street ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1286-Wood-St-Crete-IL-60417/5461313_zpid/ ) built in Crete in 1926. He lived in it until 1954 and then my father. But after my father died suddenly in 1969, because of lack of money and because of negative trends in Crete, no upgrades were made to it and maintenance and repairs were deferred. After my brother died suddenly last year, I sold it for only $99,900.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-coalition-increased-investment-protections-low-income-residents

WGN9
— Ukrainian activists gather in Chicago to raise funds for country’s war effort – Jewell Hillery (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly blame Trump for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.)
https://wgntv.com/news/ukrainian-activists-gather-in-chicago-to-raise-funds-for-countrys-war-effort/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorials-immigration-congress-border-greg-abbott-migrants-20231210-ipnfl3xsprgdxninwtzioaecdq-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— No excuse for political horse trading when it comes to crime-ridden West Loop encampment. The murder of a man near the encampment is the latest example of surging crime in the area. The Johnson administration can’t engage in any quid pro quo with public safety at stake. – Editorial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/8/23994304/west-loop-encampment-murder-crime-political-horse-trading-brandon-johnson-bill-conway-editorial
— Black employment in Cook County is sandwiched between hope and reality. Jobs can be a source of inspiration, but opportunities are diminishing for young Black people in the Chicago area. – Alden Loury (COMMENT: I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. I was the only White male who had that job. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me for taking jobs that should have been given to Blacks.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/12/9/23994061/black-african-american-employment-college-jobs-race-census-cook-county-alden-loury
— Will the real ‘Golden Bachelor’ please stand up? A messy report takes the shine off the popular reality TV show. – Mary Mitchell (COMMENT: My wife and I have been married since 1978. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. They have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being someone who was so bad that I would never get married, but if I did, the marriage would not last. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who never married, b) who are divorced, and/or c) who have/had spouses who have/had little or no income.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/12/8/23992229/will-the-real-golden-bachelor-please-stand-up-gerry-turner

DAILY HERALD
— Door kicked, antisemitic statement made at Glen Ellyn home
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20231210/police-door-kicked-antisemitic-statement-made-at-glen-ellyn-home
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Are electric vehicle owners paying enough for Illinois roads? – Jake Griffin
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20231209/are-electric-vehicle-owners-paying-enough-for-illinois-roads-
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrats ever-increasingly discourage traditional marriage and discourage the traditional family. I owe all my successes in life to my being a product of traditional marriage and family.
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20231210/wings-appreciates-community-effort-to-combat-domestic-violence
— As women ever-increasingly advance, men ever-increasingly fall further and further and further behind.
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20231210/influential-women-of-nawbo-chicago-share-keys-to-their-success

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Biden’s focus on bashing Trump takes a page from the winning Obama and Bush reelection playbooks – AP (COMMENT: When have your critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes bashed you the most/hardest? Mine did a) when I was the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012 and b) when I served as an officer of the Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007. They ever-increasingly blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for losses suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-bidens-focus-on-bashing-trump-takes-a-page-from-the-winning-obama-and-bush-reelection-playbooks/

COUNTRY HERALD
— Glen Ellyn in Shock: Door Kicking Hate-Incident Alarms Local Community
https://www.countryherald.com/illinois/dupage-illinois/glen-ellyn-in-shock-door-kicking-hate-incident-alarms-local-community/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: According to police reports it happened at approximately 8:00 PM, in the 400 Block of Elm Street, when two unidentified individuals targeted a residence in a brazen act of aggression. Witnesses report that the suspects forcefully kicked the front door of the house, causing alarm among residents. The situation took a darker turn when one of the suspects made an anti-Semitic statement before fleeing the scene.)

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

CHICAGO CITY WIRE
— Public outcry against ‘sanctuary city’ ordinance: Activists demand repeal as migrants set to reside at former location of St. Bart’s school
https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/652876943-public-outcry-against-sanctuary-city-ordinance-activists-demand-repeal-as-migrants-set-to-reside-at-former-location-of-st-bart-s-school

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Rep. Mary Miller Endorses Darren Bailey in High-Profile GOP 12th Dist. Race, Cites Faith-Driven Service
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2023/12/breaking-rep-mary-miller-endorses-darren-bailey-in-high-profile-gop-12th-dist-race-cites-faith-driven-service.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT LEANING SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Billionaire and Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone endorsed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s presidential bid, saying former President Trump’s time had “come and gone.” – Alex Miller
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/9/billionaire-gop-donor-backs-haley-says-trump-shoul/

NEW YORK POST
— Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest near star-studded LA Biden fundraiser – Jon Levine
https://nypost.com/2023/12/09/news/pro-palestine-demonstrators-protest-los-angeles-biden-fundraiser/
— Megyn Kelly said that former President Trump had lost “multiple steps” mentally and was no longer the same man he was in 2016. – Jon Levine (COMMENT: In your opinion, as a GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter reader, how many steps have I lost mentally since 2000?)
https://nypost.com/2023/12/09/news/megyn-kelly-says-trump-has-lost-multiple-steps-mentally/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Deport and Deter State of the Union: The fight over illegal immigration needs to move from regulation to deportation and deterrence. – Sumantra Maitra
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/deport-and-deter/

AMERICAN THINKER
— 3 reasons for the Democrat ‘great replacement’ – Earick Ward
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/3_reasons_for_the_democrat_great_replacement.html
— The Future’s Zero-Sum Game – J.B. Shurk (COMMENT: Everything is a zero-sum game. To give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group. To give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time is to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/the_futures_zerosum_game.html
— Countercultural Christianity – Whitson G. Waldo, III
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/countercultural_christianity.html
— Let’s hear it for segregation? – Walter E. Block
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/lets_hear_it_for_segregation.html

CAMPUS REFORM
— Claudine Gay is a DEI hire (COMMENT: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were DEI hires. They all had less job-related work experience than I had, less job-related education than I had, no job-related professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no job-related professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/claudine-gay-is-a-dei-hire-lacking-intellectual-credentials-critics-argue-/24451

DAILY CALLER
— One GOP Candidate (Nikki Haley) Wallops Biden In The Latest Poll By Double Digits. It’s Not Trump – ARJUN SINGH
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/09/gop-candidate-wallops-biden-poll-trump-haley/

EPOCH TIMES
— A Troubling Trend in the Personal Saving Rate – Sandra Block (COMMENT: My wife and I got married in 1978. We have always saved as much as we could for our retirement. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always been furious that we could do that and that we did do that. They stress that if we had not given up trying to have children or if we had adopted, we would not have been able to save anywhere near as much. Further, they hint/imply/argue/shout that the federal government grossly overpaid me and that my federal pension is much too generous.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/bright/a-troubling-trend-in-the-personal-saving-rate-5538805

FOX NEWS
— 5,000 illegal immigrants released every day into US, admin officials privately tell lawmakers. Total illegal immigrants released could top 1.8 million for the year if current pace continues. – Adam Shaw, Bill Melugin
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/5000-illegal-immigrants-released-every-day-us-admin-officials-privately-tell-lawmakers
— Poll shows Biden hitting record low approvals, falling behind against Trump in 2024 matchup. Trump’s lead over Biden grows when independent candidates are included. – Michael Lee, Paul Steinhauser (COMMENT: The more that it looks like Trump will be our next President, the more hatred that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will promote against Trump and against those who share his demographics.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/poll-shows-biden-hitting-record-low-approvals-falling-behind-against-trump-2024-matchup
— Mass/illegal immigration promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-demand-new-study-possible-link-between-uncontrolled-immigration-crime

INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW
— Professor: Asking Black Students to Write Using Standard English is ‘Anti-Black Linguistic Racism’ – Jack Davis
https://ijr.com/professor-asking-black-students-write-using-standard-english-anti-black-linguistic-racism/LEGAL 

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Biden Border Crisis: Military-Age Men From Across the Globe Flood Across Arizona Border. “there were a large number of Africans from countries Senegal, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt and elsewhere waiting to be processed and potentially released into the U.S. Others were from the Middle East and Asia”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/biden-border-crisis-military-age-men-from-across-the-globe-flood-across-arizona-border/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Historic Levels of Immigration: Who Decides? – RICH LOWRY (COMMENT: Democrat leaders want illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want illegals because RINO leaders want cheap labor.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/12/who-decided/
(FROM THE ARYTICLE: Historic levels of immigration shouldn’t be on autopilot. Do you remember the big national debate on whether the United States would adopt a policy to make the foreign-born share of the population the highest it’s ever been? Neither do I. For the simple reason, of course, that there wasn’t one. That doesn’t mean that the policy wasn’t adopted, through inertia and the Biden administration’s unilateral imposition of a de facto open border for a large swath of asylum seekers. An analysis of Census data by Steve Camarota and his colleagues at the Center for Immigration Studies has found that a 4.5 million net increase in immigrants since President Biden took office has boosted the share of the foreign-born to 15 percent, the highest ever recorded. You know all the black-and-white photos of immigrants coming to Ellis Island, the lore about names being changed upon arrival, “your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”? Today, we are eclipsing the “great wave” of immigration with an even greater wave. We hit 14.8 percent in 1890 and 14.7 in 1910, in what were, until now, the most historic decades for immigration. Just last month, the Census Bureau was still projecting the foreign-born share of the population wouldn’t hit 15 percent for another decade, in 2033. Now, we could keep going up from here. “If the immigrant population continues to grow,” Camarota writes, “it will set new numerical and percentage records every year going forward.” A straight-line projection shows the share of the foreign-born rising to 15.5 percent by the end of Biden’s term, and to an astonishing 17.3 percent by the end of a potential second term. This is not the normal course of business. According to Camarota, the foreign-born population has grown on average by 137,000 a month since the beginning of Biden’s term, higher than Donald Trump’s pre-Covid 42,000 and Barack Obama’s 68,000.)

TOWNHALL
— Wisconsin Democrat Vetoes Bill That Would Protect Children From Leftist Transgender Agenda – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/12/09/wisconsin-democrat-vetoes-bill-that-would-protect-children-from-leftists-transgender-agenda-n2632208

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Tucker Carlson Reveals Only Thing That Would Make Him Answer Growing Calls to Become Trump’s VP – Michael Schwarz
https://www.westernjournal.com/tucker-carlson-reveals-thing-make-answer-growing-calls-become-trumps-vp/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT LEANING SOURCES

MSN
— Democrats crow about their success in getting those in healthcare to promote abortion.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/future-doctors-say-they-ll-look-for-residencies-in-states-where-abortion-is-legal-survey-says/ar-AA1lfHW9

THE HILL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4351189-restricting-asylum-would-make-the-border-less-secure/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Census Bureau wants to change how it asks about disabilities. Some advocates don’t like it. – Mike Schneider (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, they assigned me to supervise all of the employees who they hired who were disabled, minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, had performance problems, and/or who they wanted to get rid of. They did everything that they could to turn them against me.)
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2023/12/08/census-bureau-wants-to-change-how-it-asks-about-disabilities-some-advocates-dont-like-it/

CNN
— Trump is even stronger than he looks against his Republican rivals – Harry Enten
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/09/politics/trump-is-even-stronger-than-he-looks-against-his-gop-republican-rivals/index.html

NBC NEWS
— Congressional Hispanic Caucus frustrated with the White House on immigration negotiations. The group requested a meeting with the White House but has yet to get one. A senior administration official said there are plans to ramp up Hill outreach this week. – Julie Tsirkin, Julia Ainsley, Sahil Kapur and Monica Alba (COMMENT: What if there was a Congressional White Caucus and Whites were ever-increasingly flooding America illegally?)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/congressional-hispanic-caucus-frustrated-white-house-immigration-rcna128828
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A number of Hispanic and Latino members of Congress, as well as advocacy groups, are becoming increasingly concerned that President Joe Biden may strike a deal with Republicans on immigration that they find unacceptable in order to secure passage of his high-priority Ukraine and Israel aid package. The fear, one Capitol Hill Democrat with knowledge of the negotiations said, is that the president will accept border policy changes proposed by Republicans that are “unimaginably cruel.” Democrats in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus demanded an “urgent” meeting with the White House over one week ago. Yet even though the president was in Washington for much of that period, it never happened.)

NEWSWEEK
— Kinzinger Mocks Biden Impeachment Inquiry: ‘Fishing Expedition’ – Thomas Kika
https://www.newsweek.com/adam-kinzinger-mocks-biden-impeachment-inquiry-fishing-expedition-1851025

NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Cheney.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/opinion/liz-cheney-memoir.html
— As Fury Erupts Over Campus Antisemitism, Conservatives Seize the Moment. Republicans have been attacking elite universities for years. After a tense congressional hearing last week, many on the left are joining them. – Nicholas Confessore
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/universities-antisemitism-conservatives-liberals.html
— Mideast War Pushes Companies to Extend Diversity Programs to Faith Groups – Emma Goldberg (COMMENT: Very few of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates while I worked for GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, Firestone Stores 1970-1072, and the Post Office 1966-1969 were Protestant, German American, conservative, Republican, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/business/workplace-dei-religion.html
— If You Hate Investment Risk, High Interest Rates Are Great. With a Catch. – Jeff Sommer (COMMENT: With treasury strips, my wife and I did well as interest rates fell, but we lost when interest rates went up.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/business/interest-rates-stocks-bonds-retire.html
— People Are Pessimistic About Their Economic Futures. Can You Blame Them? – Steven Rattner
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/opinion/economy-young-voters-inflation-biden.html
— Why Is It a Surprise That America Is Gloomy After a Devastating Pandemic? – David Wallace-Wells
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/opinion/bad-economy-vibes.html
— Democrats say “University Presidents Walked Into a Trap.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/opinion/university-presidents-antisemitism.html
— The Old New Way to Provide Cheap Housing – Nicholas Kristof
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/opinion/homelessness-housing-shortage.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/opinion/joe-biden-immigration.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Conservatives are suing law firms over diversity efforts. It’s working. As they fend off lawsuits targeting their own programs, law firms are creating task forces to guide clients through the challenges of DEI. – Julian Mark and Taylor Telford
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/12/09/conservatives-sue-law-firms-dei/
— Liz Cheney’s 2024 campaign mission: Defeat House Republicans. The former GOP congresswoman wants to oust House GOP majority to block Donald Trump’s every possible path to the White House. – Paul Kane (COMMENT: RINOs would rather see Democrats elected than conservative Republicans. I should write a book about the biggest RINOs in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, and in Wheaton.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/09/liz-cheney-trump-2024-elections/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Moving Company Touts Its Young, Chiseled Workers. Feds Say That’s Age Discrimination. Biden-appointed EEOC commissioners are taking closer look at alleged age bias in the labor market. – Austen Hufford (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they crowed about their success in wasting the careers of and getting rid of their Republican employees who were older, conservative, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/a-moving-company-touts-its-young-chiseled-workers-feds-say-thats-age-discrimination-c50a773c

FORTUNE
— House, marriage, kids: Millennials and Gen Z who try to follow a ‘traditional’ path of financial milestones may be majorly messing up their finances. – ELEANOR PRINGLE (COMMENT: By following a traditional path, I was able to buy a new town home in University Park in 1972 when I was 24 years old. I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I worked for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights full-time 1970-1971 and then part-time 1971-1972. I worked for IRS in Chicago in 1971 and then Harvey in 1972.)
https://fortune.com/2023/12/09/buying-house-marriage-kids-best-order/
— Millennials are the most housing-obsessed generation—it’s a sign the prosperity of the boomers has bypassed them. – SYDNEY LAKE
https://fortune.com/2023/12/04/millennials-homeownership-housing-obsessed-boomers-bank-of-america/

BLOOMBERG
— The 25 Richest Families in the World (COMMENT: How wealthy are/were your parents? My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was the first my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He worked in the office of a nasty chemical plant on the east side of Chicago Heights. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-worlds-richest-families/

FORBES
— Navigating Generational Wealth Transition – Abiola Adediran (COMMENT: How wealthy are/were your parents? My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was the first my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He worked in the office of a nasty chemical plant on the east side of Chicago Heights. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2023/12/05/the-parents-advisor-navigating-generational-wealth-transition/

ADP
— Keeping Up-and-Comers From Leaving: How Promotions Tie Into Employee Retention – Sarah Greesonbach (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious when IRS promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 and GAO promoted me in 1986. They all wanted those promotions to be given to Democrats, and especially to Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors soon got rid of the managers who promoted me.)
https://www.adp.com/spark/articles/2023/11/keeping-up-and-comers-from-leaving-how-promotions-tie-into-employee-retention.aspx

DESERET NEWS
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use Diversity to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.deseret.com/2023/12/9/23993615/house-hearing-antisemitism-college-campuses-diversity-pluralism

STAR
— When it comes to money advice, young people turn to parents and relatives (COMMENT: How wealthy are/were your parents? My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was the first my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/family/2023/12/09/when-it-comes-to-money-advice-young-people-turn-to-parents-and-relatives

FOX EL PASO
— Migrants ask for aid as freezing temperatures hit El Paso amidst shelter overcapacity – Jonathan Mejia
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/migrants-ask-for-aid-as-freezing-temperatures-hit-el-paso-amidst-shelter-overcapacity

NEW REPUBLIC
— The GOP’s House Majority Is in Big Trouble. – Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
https://newrepublic.com/post/177384/gops-house-majority-big-trouble
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://newrepublic.com/post/177415/now-damning-evidence-devastation-caused-end-roe-v-wade

GILLETT NEWS
— The Evolution of Political Labels: Republican in Name Only – Casey Martinez (COMMENT: I should write a book about the biggest RINOs in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, and in Wheaton. Of course, I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://gillettnews.com/news/the-evolution-of-political-labels-republican-in-name-only/303316/

ECONOMIST
— What percent of the parents in your school district are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-heterosexual, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, and/or anti-those who have more money than they have?
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/12/09/anti-woke-activists-are-losing-many-of-their-school-board-battles