Tag: marriage

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Trump Truth Store owner agrees to vacate Huntley building amid eviction threats — but hopes to soon reopen in a larger location
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/25/trump-truth-store-eviction-settlement/
— Is CTU’s playbook coming to a school district near you?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/25/ift-ctu-union-contracts-negotiations/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to promote the destruction of traditional marriage and family.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/26/opinion-transgender-issues-military-sports/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Census Bureau estimates show fast-growing Asian population in metro Chicago. Since 2020, the Asian population in metro Chicago has grown by an estimated 11.6%, more than double the rate of growth for the next highest group.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/06/26/census-bureau-estimates-show-fast-growing-asian-population-in-metro-chicago

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to promote the destruction of traditional marriage and family.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250625/news/a-decade-after-supreme-court-legalized-same-sex-marriage-are-rights-under-threat/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/how-new-buffalo-michigan-became-weed-city-usa

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to promote the destruction of traditional marriage and family.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pride-month-federal-funding-cuts-impacting-chicago-area-organizations-vital-resources-lgbtq-community/16849055/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight Trump budget cuts.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-joins-lawsuit-challenging-president-donald-trumps-termination-federal-grants/16849387/

NBC5
— Who’s leading McDonald’s boycott, and why the protest is happening.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/whos-leading-mcdonalds-boycott-and-why-is-the-company-being-targeted/3776262/

JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Manure trucks disrupt anti-Trump protest at SW Illinois courthouse.
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_91967874-696a-525b-b4f1-53b7739ebaa4.html

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/illinois-bill-ensuring-medication-abortion-access-amid-fda-uncertainty-awaits-final-approval/article_47dd94d8-27d9-4d9f-b3e4-c71c137e6c19.html

CHICAGO READER
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to promote the destruction of traditional marriage and family.
https://chicagoreader.com/news/lgbtq-health-care-trump-hiv/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-540/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/06/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-333/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— DuPage County Chairman, Democrat Deb Conroy, issues largest-ever, $30K taxpayer grant to Naperville Democrat advocacy group
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/673497892-dupage-county-chairman-democrat-deb-conroy-issues-largest-ever-30k-taxpayer-grant-to-naperville-democrat-advocacy-group

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Census data: IL losing 18 and under at faster rate than NY, CA
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_566853ca-c2d9-414c-8649-f15c844c5e7c.html

WIREPOINTS
— Illinois’ disastrous demographics: Fewer youth, a drop in working-age residents and a jump in elderly.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-disastrous-demographics-fewer-youth-a-drop-in-working-age-residents-and-a-jump-in-elderly-wirepoints/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois pensioners earn nearly $25K more retired than those working to support them. The average retired career state employee in Illinois was paid $93,558 in pension benefits last year. That’s $24,538 more than the average Illinoisan working to pay for those retirees. My $66,780/year Civil Service Retirement System pension is a) only 44% of what my GAO salary was in 1997 in today’s dollars and b) less than what $68,315/year IRS salary was in 1972 in today’s dollars.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-pensioners-earn-nearly-25k-more-retired-than-those-working-to-support-them/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Republican elected officials should reform government agencies. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed. If Gingrich had reformed GAO, I might still be a GAO employee. The Democrats who ran GAO during the 1980s and 1990s would not have wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would not have wasted what I learned working for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years before that. They would not have wasted what I learned earning six professional certifications and a professional license. They would not have wasted what I learned earning three master’s degrees. They would not have always ranked in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They would not have delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They would have always assigned me to audits of IRS. They would not have forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Republican elected officials should reform government agencies. What if Republican elected officials had reformed GAO, IRS, and the Post Office? What if Republican elected officials had called for the Democrats who ran GAO, IRS, and the Post Office to stop taking adverse actions against me? What if Bush, Hastert, Fitzgerald, and Hyde had called for GAO to settle in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you avoid the Vietnam War draft? My avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment was my biggest mistake in life. Anticipate/expect a) that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly stress that Trump avoided the Vietnam War draft and b) that Duckworth will be their leader. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me the most since 1966. I would focus on my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government. I would focus on those who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me. They have always stressed that I was 1-A. They have always stressed I would not have been sent into combat anyway a) because I could not run because I had a bone disease, b) because my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and c) because I had partial red/green color blindness. They have always stressed that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars in 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, and 1978, b) earn a bachelor’s degree in 1970 and master’s degrees in 1976 and 1980, c) buy real estate in 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1978, d) go on vacations in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976, e) get married in 1978, f) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, g) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, h) become a licensed CPA in 1981, i) etc. While I took classes at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, many of those around me despised Vietnam veterans if not hated them. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. In my ancestors’ defense, they followed the rule of law. They came legally during the 1840s and 1850s. On my father’s side they worked in a brick factory in Chicago for 10 years and then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township in 1854. On my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who has slung insults at you? I should write about my critics/opponents who have slung the most/biggest insults at me. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Pastor Corey Brooks Declines $200,000 in Legislative Pork for Project H.O.O.D.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/25/pastor-corey-brooks-declines-200000-in-legislative-pork-for-project-h-o-o-d/
— Interesting How Big Money Affects State Policy?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/23/interesting-how-big-money-affects-state-policy/
— Catalina Lauf Publishes Book
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/22/catalina-lauf-published-book/
— Ness Announces Member Initiatives, Which Most Characterize as Pork
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/20/ness-announces-member-initiatives-which-most-characterize-as-pork/
— RTA Finally Comes Up with a Universal Pass
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/20/8824/
— Liberals Demonstrate in Front of McHenry Library
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/20/liberals-demonstrate-in-front-of-mchenry-library/
— DEI Supporters Keep Up Pressure on Crystal Lake Park Board, Conflict of Interest Charged for New Attorney, Pitch Made for Purchasing HealthBridge, Lake Advisory Committee Discussed
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/20/dei-supporters-keep-up-pressure-on-crystal-lake-park-board-conflict-of-interest-charged-for-new-attorney-pitch-made-for-purchasing-healthbridge/
— Inflation Prompts Discussion of Elected Officials Salaries
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/19/inflation-prompts-discussion-of-elected-officials-salaries/
— DeWitte Questions State Subsidies for Sporting Events
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/06/18/dewitte-questions-state-subsidies-for-sporting-events/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Zohran Mamdani spells doom for Democrats — and glee for the GOP
https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/opinion/zohran-mamdani-spells-doom-for-dems-and-glee-for-the-gop/

AMERICAN INTEREST
— “Better Angels” In Our Past
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/07/04/better-angels-in-our-past/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump scores Nobel Peace Prize nomination, thanks Jeb Bush for his support
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/06/25/trump-scores-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-thanks-jeb-bush-for-his-support-1554020/

BREITBART
— Trump Oversees Record Level of Rejected Asylum Cases for Migrants. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to falsely claim asylum and/or refugee status in America. Democrat leaders want their votes and RINO leaders want cheap labor.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/25/trump-oversees-record-level-of-rejected-asylum-cases-for-migrants/

BREITBART
— Chicago Shows ‘Socialism Doesn’t Work’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/06/25/dem-rep-gillen-chicago-shows-socialism-doesnt-work/
— Denver Shuts Car Theft Tracking System to Prevent ICE Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/06/25/denver-shuts-car-theft-tracking-system-to-prevent-ice-deportations/

CHRISTIAN POST
— New all-trimester facility in Chicago exposes reality of late-term abortions
https://www.christianpost.com/news/all-trimester-abortion-center-exposes-brutal-reality-advocates.html

DAILY WIRE
— New Yorkers Embrace Their Own Destruction By Voting For Socialist Muslim Mayor. This primary demonstrates, once again, that the culture war continues.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-yorkers-embrace-their-own-destruction-by-voting-for-socialist-muslim-mayor

FOX NEWS
— What to know about NYC’s next potential mayor. Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., has called Mamdani a ‘radical, antisemitic socialist.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/city-run-grocery-stores-defunding-police-safe-injection-sites-what-know-about-nycs-next-potential-mayor
— Trump is forcing Europe to ‘have a backbone’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMjZS7MUm6Q

HOT AIR
— LA Logic: Since Illegals Are Too Scared of ICE to Go to Work They Shouldn’t Have to Pay Rent Either
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/06/25/la-logic-since-illegals-are-too-scared-of-ice-to-go-to-work-they-shouldnt-have-to-pay-rent-either-n3804179

NEWS BUSTERS
— ABC and NBC Ignore 11 Iranians Arrested by ICE
https://www.newsbusters.org/node/289579/print

PATRIOT POST
— If Illegals Are Illegal, Why Are Their Babies Citizens? Manifestly, anchor babies were not part of the accepted understanding of the 14th Amendment. These are the facts, no matter what the women on the Supreme Court have to say.
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/118532-if-illegals-are-illegal-why-are-their-babies-citizens-2025-06-26

REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census. How many illegals have Democrat and RINO leaders brought into your congressional district, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/06/26/who_counts_trump_poised_to_try_to_remove_noncitizens_from_census_1118884.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Anticipate/expect that the Democrats who run the mainstream news media will ever-increasingly spin everything that Trump does or does not do against him.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/middleeast/why-trumps-strikes-on-iran-will-leave-north-korea-more-determined-than-ever-to-keep-its-nukes

MSNBC
— Anticipate/expect a) that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will ever-increasingly stress that Trump avoided the Vietnam War draft and b) that Duckworth will be their leader. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me the most since 1966. I would focus on my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government. I would focus on those who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me. They have always stressed that I was 1-A. They have always stressed I would not have been sent into combat anyway a) because I could not run because I had a bone disease, b) because my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and c) because I had partial red/green color blindness. They have always stressed that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars in 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, and 1978, b) earn a bachelor’s degree in 1970 and master’s degrees in 1976 and 1980, c) buy real estate in 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1978, d) go on vacations in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976, e) get married in 1978, f) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, g) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, h) become a licensed CPA in 1981, i) etc. While I took classes at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, many of those around me despised Vietnam veterans if not hated them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wuHPDo8KAI

MSN
— National Association Of Black Accountants Convention Struggled With Sponsors Amid DEI Pushback. My Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with my Black CPA subordinate when I was 49 years old in 1997. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and no professional license like the one I had. Will he speak at the NABA convention?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/national-association-of-black-accountants-convention-struggled-with-sponsors-amid-dei-pushback/ar-AA1Hqyf4

NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iranian-woman-suffers-severe-panic-attack-ice-agents-arrest-husband-rcna215119
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/iranian-woman-seeking-asylum-collapses-as-ice-agents-arrest-her-husband-242274373595

CBS NEWS
— Immigration agents detain Iranian asylum seekers in West Los Angeles
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/video-shows-immigration-agents-detaining-iranian-asylum-seekers-in-west-los-angeles/

NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders decry that Trump’s strike on Iran discourages China from striking Taiwan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/world/asia/iran-china-trump-taiwan.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight everything that Trump does or does not do.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/trump-administration-lawsuits.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/trump-republicans-safety-net-cuts.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to promote the destruction of traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/hiv-lenacapavir-vaccine-trump-cuts-africa.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/insider/same-sex-marriage-legal-10-years.html
— Why Factories Are Having Trouble Filling Nearly 400,000 Open Jobs. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights when his employers moved to Mexico.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/business/factory-jobs-workers-trump.html

WASHINGTON POST
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. In my ancestors’ defense, they followed the rule of law. They came legally during the 1840s and 1850s. On my father’s side they worked in a brick factory in Chicago for 10 years and then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township in 1854. On my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/25/immigration-criminals-trump-invention/
— Trump administration says California must bar boys from girls sports
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/06/25/california-transgender-girls-sports-trump/169f6dfa-51fd-11f0-baaa-ba1025f321a8_story.html
— Trump seeks to ‘rightsize’ federal presence in D.C.  If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed. If Gingrich had reformed GAO, I might still be a GAO employee. The Democrats who ran GAO during the 1980s and 1990s would not have wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would not have wasted what I learned working for GAO for almost 18 years and for IRS for almost 9 years before that. They would not have wasted what I learned earning six professional certifications and a professional license. They would not have wasted what I learned earning three master’s degrees. They would not have always ranked in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They would not have delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They would have always assigned me to audits of IRS. They would not have forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/25/housing-hud-relocation/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to promote the destruction of traditional marriage and family.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/26/same-sex-marriage-anniversary-supreme-court-case/84233451007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2025/06/20/lgbtq-travel-south-us-trump/83137441007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Says Iranian Nuclear Deal Isn’t Necessary After U.S. Strikes
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-israel-ceasefire-conflict-news
— The New Sobriety. Virtually all my critics/opponents who are White, male, and/or older have been big drinkers if not very big drinkers.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/alcohol-free-sober-culture-8f95e4de

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sonariglinton/2025/06/26/the-real-history-behind-dei-and-workplace-equity-in-america/

AXIOS
— Trump calls for canceling Netanyahu’s corruption trial.  What if Republican elected officials had reformed GAO, IRS, and the Post Office? What if Republican elected officials had called for the Democrats who ran GAO, IRS, and the Post Office to stop taking adverse actions against me? What if Bush, Hastert, Fitzgerald, and Hyde had called for GAO to settle in Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf )?
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/trump-cancel-netanyahu-corruption-trial
— Who has slung insults at you? I should write about my critics/opponents who have slung the most/biggest insults at me. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/trump-mamdani-democrats-nyc-primary

FEDERAL TIMES
— Isolationists want Trump to be an isolationist.
https://www.ft.com/content/6e896a85-510e-4081-8d00-617bf69de585

GOOGLE AI
— Vietnam veterans. While I took classes at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970, many of those around me despised Vietnam veterans if not hated them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Vietnam+veterans
(FROM THE POSTING: Vietnam veterans are generally treated with more respect and gratitude today than they were upon their initial return from the war. While some faced hostility and indifference initially, there’s been a significant shift in public perception and appreciation for their service. However, many Vietnam veterans still struggle with the long-term effects of their service, including PTSD and physical health issues related to Agent Orange exposure.)