Tag: old

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

FOX32
— Retirement ‘magic number’ jumps to $1.46 million as Americans grow anxious about their financial futures. DD: My retirement savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/americans-grow-anxious-retirement

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote birthright citizenship.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/06/column-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-donald-trump-page/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2026/04/05/illinois-conversion-therapy-ban-intact-after-supreme-court-ruling-advocates-wary-future-challenges

ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Illinois need‑focused funding bill draws dissent. DD: I transferred from UIC to NIU at the start of 1969 when I was 20. I was able to keep my part-time Park Forest Post Office job by coming home to my parents’ home in Crete weekends, holidays, and every day NIU was not in session. I worked full-time during the summer of 1969. But my Democrat superiors forced me to resign at the end of that summer by falsely claiming that I would not be available to work enough part-time hours. I was available to work every Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, holiday, and every day NIU was not in session.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/illinois-need-focused-funding-bill-draws-dissent/article_66f6b595-70e4-4b16-a9f8-e647b5d48204.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Lawmakers questioned Illinois university leaders about a contentious bill that adjusts how new money is allocated to in-state, public universities. The new funding formula would favor smaller schools with the least funding. . .Northern Illinois University President Dr. Lisa Freeman also reflected her support, saying it would be a long-term solution to a major problem.)

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Legislators resist Johnson revenue plans
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/04/06/legislators-resist-johnson-revenue-plans-00859400

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Why do Democrat candidates, elected officials, and party leaders promote Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI? It is because they want more votes from those who benefit from AA and DEI, that is, those who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and those who ancestors have not been in America for a long time. It is because the aforesaid are far more likely to want/need/demand government assistance, lack education and/or job skills, and/or have financial, health, and/or other problems.
hiring discrimination against white males is really a thing. And, there’s not much that can be done

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DD: Your decisions a) to earn a college degree, b) to select the college to earn it from, and c) to select your major are all extremely important. I regret my not majoring in accounting from the beginning. I did not start taking graduate evening accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take the CPA examination and pass it on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take the Certified Internal Auditor examination and pass it on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, because of my bad demographics, the accounting profession considered me to be too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/5/college-decisions-matter-less-families-think-despite-rising-costs/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— DD: As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, Affirmative Action and DEI ever-increasingly became more and more and more entrenched. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-dei-still-entrenched-at-the-state-department/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Texas A&M San Antonio English course ties standard English to ‘oppression.’ DD: According to Democrats and according to RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you oppress others: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/texas-am-san-antonio-english-course-ties-standard-english-oppression/29668

FOX NEWS
— There’s no such thing as birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6392626175112
— Pentagon cites ‘meritocracy’ as reported officer promotion removals draw Democratic criticism. DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like I did, and/or e) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/articles/pentagon-cites-meritocracy-reported-officer-211958987.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— Bondi failed to prosecute Trump’s foes. DD: While my Democrat superiors in the federal government never prosecuted me, they took many big adverse actions against me. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors a) never promoted me beyond GS-12, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors a) forced me to resign in 1969 and b) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. They ever-increasingly ignored/dismissed/belittled a) my 1970 job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my 1976, 1980, and 1997 job-related master’s degrees, c) my 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 job-related professional certifications, and d) my 1981 job-related professional license. They would not have done any of the aforesaid if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/pam-bondi-failed-prosecute-trumps-foes-todd-blanche-probably-will-rcna266627

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Republicans Must Stop Being Democrat-Lite. DD: It is beyond obvious that Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois ever-increasingly paint themselves as being Democrat-Lite. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. But fewer and fewer and fewer Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois defend and advance the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. That brings forth the demise of the Republican Party in Illinois.
https://www.usnews.com/debate-club/is-the-gops-problem-in-its-strategies-or-its-policies/republicans-must-stop-being-democrat-lite

NEW YORK TIMES
— Parents Who Borrowed for Children’s College Face Looming Deadline. DD: My mother attended high school. She never worked outside of the home until after my father died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969. Because my father did not earn enough money, he never earned more than $50,00/year in today’s dollars, he could not have gotten a loan to pay for my college expenses. Because of that, and because I could not get any scholarships, my ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class, I had to work my way through college. I did that, but my GPA suffered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/your-money/parent-plus-college-loans-deadline.html

WASHINGTON POST
— APRIL 3, 2015 FLASHBACK: Would the government have hired you in 1956? DD: If I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination, IRS would not have offered me a job when I was 22 in 1971.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/04/03/would-the-government-have-hired-you-in-1956/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The old civil service exam was introduced in 1955, a proctored, pencil-and-paper test that thousands of Americans took each year to get federal jobs. It was called the Federal Service Entrance Examination. A brochure called “Futures in the Federal Government” opened with these words: “Wanted: People of Promise” and urged Americans to take the exam. Starting salaries were listed at $4,040.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Bobby Jindal Condemns Democrat-Lite Republicans. DD: It is beyond obvious that Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois ever-increasingly paint themselves as being Democrat-Lite. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. But fewer and fewer and fewer Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois defend and advance the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. That brings forth the demise of the Republican Party in Illinois.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-52829
— FRONT PAGE: The Number of Law-School Grads Getting Extra Time for the Bar Exam Is Surging. DD: I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 in 1979.  I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32 in 1981. I should write about my critics/opponents who have ignored/dismissed/belittled that the most. I would focus on my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors. I would focus on past/present Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have lost elections. I would focus on past/present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, etc. I would focus on past/present Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, etc. I would focus on past/present conservative leaders in Illinois. I would focus on past/present religious leaders in Illinois. I would focus on past/present major Republican donors in Illinois. I would focus on the aforesaid who reject the most conservative principles, religious principles, and planks in the Republican Party platform. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/bar-exam-extra-time-696cfd11

INC.
— Hiring discrimination against white males is real. And, there’s not much that can be done about it. DD: Ever-increasingly, since the 1960s, Democrat leaders have ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI to pressure employers to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and who have ancestors have not been in America for a long time. Because I am none of the aforesaid, to fight against Democrat political affiliation discrimination, Democrat reverse discrimination, Democrat age discrimination, Democrat religious discrimination, and Democrat national origin discrimination, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) I earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and d) I earned a job-related professional license in 1981. But because I refused to become a Democrat, but because I complained about their discrimination, but because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with their discrimination when I was 40 in 1988, my Democrat superiors wasted my career, they took many big adverse actions against me, and they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.inc.com/jt-odonnell/this-white-male-cant-get-hired-should-we-feel-sorry-for-him.html

POYNTER
— Journalists need to rethink their relationship with corrections. DD: I do not have a proofreader. Please let me know if you see that I made a big typo in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Most commonly, I leave out short words. Yesterday, I left out the word “not.” My comment on the Next Gov article should have read “OMB Director Russell Vought says GAO should NOT exist.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2022/journalists-need-to-rethink-their-relationship-with-corrections/

PRESS READER
— Pam Bondi is out of a job, yet she holds the Trump card. DD: When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they knew that I did not hold any Republican cards. They knew that my demographics were terrible. They knew that none of the Republican leaders above me would come to my defense. They knew that the Republican leaders above me rejected the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform. They knew that the Republicans leaders above me were doing everything that they could to get more votes from minorities and from females. They knew that the Republicans above me were promoting race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/the-irish-mail-on-sunday/20260405/281973204207658

NPR
— DD: How has EEOC impacted you? EEOC had a monumental impact on me when I was 22 in 1971. I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted that job offer. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5763966/eeoc-trump-white-men-civil-rights-dei-discrimination

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— DD: Democrats run the federal government. For them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Consequently, federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/04/critics-argue-new-federal-workforce-rules-increase-risk-politicization-not-accountability/412558/
— DD: My Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors always hinted/implied that all the many big adverse actions that they took against me were “for cause.” They got ever-increasingly more furious that I did the following because it made it ever-increasingly more difficult for them to do justify their adverse actions: a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) I earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and d) I earned a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/trump-administration-considering-notifying-probationary-employees-they-were-fired-cause-actually/407555/

JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTANCY
— The CPA license is a powerful, proven differentiator — a mark of public trust, professional rigor, and long-term career value. If you possess the skill, smarts, and persistence to become a licensed CPA, that should be something to celebrate and declare in your business dealings. DD: I became a licensed CPA when I was 32 in 1981. I should write about my critics/opponents who have ignored/dismissed/belittled my becoming a licensed CPA the most. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors. I would focus on past/present Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have lost elections. I would focus on past/present leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, etc. I would focus on past/present Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, etc. I would focus on past/present conservative leaders in Illinois. I would focus on past/present religious leaders in Illinois. I would focus on past/present major Republican donors in Illinois. I would focus on the aforesaid who reject the most conservative principles, religious principles, and planks in the Republican Party platform. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2025/may/display-that-cpa/

PEW RESEARCH
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that in America, those who are the following will ever-increasingly be in the minority: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that poverty and crime will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2026/03/25/the-united-states-at-250-how-the-country-has-changed-in-the-past-50-years/

SLATE
— A growing number of job seekers have begun “lowballing” their salary expectations. DD: When I was 31 in 1980, to get promoted to GS-13, I took a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. I finally made GS-13 when I was 38 in 1986, but that would not have happened if I had not a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, and e) became a licensed CPA when I was 32. But most importantly, I never would made GS-13 at GAO if the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer had not gotten back into power, assigned me to audits of IRS, and promoted me when I was 38.
https://slate.com/technology/2026/01/job-market-hiring-lowball-salary-careers.html

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

FIND MBA
— Business schools say the market for new MBA graduates has cooled, with salary growth moderating across several sectors that once offered near-automatic pay premiums. DD: If I had not been taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have promoted me to GS-9 (currently $68,999/year) in 1972 when I was 23, to GS-11 (currently $83,482/year) in 1973, and to GS-12 (currently $100,059/year) in 1974. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. But my Democrat IRS superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled that a) because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran and b) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. Because they had made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13 (currently $118,984/year), I transferred to GAO in 1980.
https://find-mba.com/articles/as-salary-growth-slows-mba-graduates-rethink-the-job-market
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the U.S., employers expect MBA starting salaries to rise slightly in 2025 compared with 2024 – reaching $125,000 – but GMAC notes that the increases are not statistically significant once inflation is accounted for. . .Pay at top consulting firms has stalled for a third straight year, reflecting weaker client demand and the growing use of AI to automate junior-level work. At leading consulting firms McKinsey, BCG and Bain & Company, MBA recruits continue to command total compensation packages of roughly $270,000—$285,000, according to Management Consulted.)