FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Sanctuary cities pose an unacceptable risk to public safety
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/13/opinion-sanctuary-cities-public-safety/
— Democrats try to move on after ex-Speaker Michael Madigan’s conviction as GOP calls for greater state ethics reforms
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/12/democrats-try-to-move-on-after-ex-speaker-michael-madigans-conviction-as-gop-calls-for-greater-state-ethics-reforms/
DAILY HERALD
— Hayes endorses Tinaglia to succeed him as Arlington Heights mayor (COMMENT: Since 2004, my critics/opponents have stressed that Jim Rasins did not endorse me for Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) Treasurer when he did not run again in 2004. They stressed that I had known Rasins since the 1980s and that I had worked hard to help elect him DuPage County Auditor in 2000 and to help reelect him in 2004. They knew that I had recruited Rasins to speak at an Association of Government Accountants (AGA) Chicago Chapter event in the 1990s. They ignored, dismissed, belittled, and badmouthed my qualifications. I had served as the AGA Chicago Chapter Treasurer 1983-1986. I had served as the Illinois Center Right Coalition Treasurer since 2003. I had worked for GAO 1980-1997, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117-807-$153,151/year: I had worked for IRS 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul. I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor Examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. I had become a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. Since 2004, my MTRO critics/opponents have stressed that I got only 13 votes in that MTRO Treasurer election while my opponent got 69 votes. They I should write about my MTRO critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250212/news/hayes-endorses-tinaglia-to-succeed-him-as-arlington-heights-mayor/
ABC7
— Some new-arrival Venezuelan migrants in Chicago face threat of deportation. President Trump moves up timeline to April to revoke temporary protected status.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-immigration-news-new-arrival-venezuelan-migrants-face-threat-deportation-no-temporary-protected-status/15899205/
NBC5
— Trump administration considering using defense funding to ramp up deportations. The administration has been unhappy with the current pace of immigrant arrests and deportations, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement budget has been a factor.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-administration-considering-using-defense-funding-to-ramp-up-deportations/3672999/?os=io..ref%3Dapp&ref=app
WGN9
— Durkin talks Madigan verdict
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elsCv9KLiF4
WTTW
— Trump Says He Wants the Department of Education Closed ‘Immediately.’ What That Could Mean for Illinois
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/12/trump-says-he-wants-department-education-closed-immediately-what-could-mean-illinois
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— What to know about the federal workforce under Trump. Since President Donald Trump began his second term last month, he has focused on dramatically reducing the federal workforce at a breakneck pace.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-what-to-know-about-the-federal-workforce-under-trump/
— Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to discriminate against Christians, and especially against Christians who are Protestant.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-given-christianitys-dominance-in-us-trump-raises-eyebrows-with-anti-christian-bias-initiative/
WAND TV
— Migrants with work permits could become firefighters under new plan in Illinois
https://www.wandtv.com/community/migrants-with-work-permits-could-become-firefighters-under-new-plan-in-illinois/article_bd88074c-e97c-11ef-b76b-d77fe5a5d046.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-455/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— At the University of Michigan, DEI Now Hides in Office of ‘Community Culture’
https://freebeacon.com/campus/exclusive-at-the-university-of-michigan-dei-now-hides-in-office-of-community-culture/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump Should Cancel the Diversity Visa Program. Ending the green card lottery needs to be a top immigration priority for the president.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-should-cancel-the-diversity-visa-program/
BLAZE
— Trump tears down the woke iron curtain.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trump-tears-down-the-woke-iron-curtain
BREITBART
— Former GAO Head David Walker: DOGE Should Look at COVID Payments, Wouldn’t Surprise Me if There Was a Trillion in Fraud, Abuse
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/02/12/fmr-gao-head-doge-should-look-at-covid-payments-wouldnt-surprise-me-if-there-was-a-trillion-in-fraud-abuse/
— New York isn’t alone when it comes to granting driver’s licenses to immigrants without legal status (COMMENT: The list includes Illinois.)
https://www.breitbart.com/news/new-york-isnt-alone-when-it-comes-to-granting-drivers-licenses-to-immigrants-without-legal-status/
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Says Putin Agreed to Start Negotiations to End Ukraine War. Trump also discussed the plans with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy is due to meet with Vice President Vance on Feb. 14.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/trump-announces-productive-call-with-putin-on-russia-ukraine-peace-talks-5808724
MEGYN KELLY
— Massachusetts City Flouts Trump Executive Orders, Votes to Become a ‘Sanctuary City’ for Trans People
https://www.megynkelly.com/2025/02/12/worcester-massachusetts-votes-to-become-sanctuary-city-for-trans-people/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5141877-trump-musk-advocacy-campaign/
REUTERS
— US judge clears the way for tens of thousands of federal workers to take Trump buyout
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-allows-trump-proceed-with-government-employee-buyout-2025-02-12/
MSNBC
— Trump and Musk were wrong about government employees – they actually want to work (COMMENT: I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980 because GAO’s mission is to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government. The importance of that mission a) enabled me to withstand for almost 18 years tremendous efforts by my Democrat GAO superiors to waste my career and to get rid of me and b) motivated me to complete the requirements for master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination in my first attempt in 1981, become a licensed CPA in 1981, become a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997 and to earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-and-musk-were-wrong-about-government-employees-they-actually-want-to-work/vi-AA1yWCyV
NEW YORK TIMES
— The federal employees Trump has purged, so far (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 gave purge lists to all of their new managers of their Chicago office. Of course, I was at the top of all of those lists because I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844.)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/11/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-federal-workers.html
— Democrat teachers promote DEI
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/nyregion/trump-dei-executive-orders-schools.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump closes down federal worker buyout offer after judge lifts hold (COMMENT: What is your position on buyouts and early retirement offers? In 1993, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of their employees who were Republican, older, White, male, non-veteran, GS-13, and/or had 25 years or more of federal service. I was “eligible,” that is, I was “targeted” because I was all of the aforesaid. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Their forcing me to retire wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for 18 years and for IRS for 9 years, b) earning three job-related master’s degrees (finance-1997, accounting-1980, and business-1976), c) 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 d) earning a job-related professional license (CPA-1981).)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/12/trump-federal-worker-buyout-court-hearing/
— Trump wants to substantially cut the federal workforce. Here’s what it looks like. While federal hiring has increased in recent years, federal workers, as a share of all Americans workers, remains at a historic low.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/12/federal-workers-trump-doge-cuts/
FORBES
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aparnarae/2025/02/13/the-state-of-dei-practitioners-navigate-a-shifting-landscape/
NPR
— Trump ignites political firestorm in South Africa over Afrikaner asylum status offer (COMMENT: Because Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to discriminate against Whites in America big time, it makes no sense for Whites to immigrate to America.)
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5294345/trump-ignites-political-firestorm-in-south-africa-over-afrikaner-asylum-status-offer
HUFFINGTON POST
— Trump Ordered A Federal Hiring Freeze. Previous Ones Backfired. GAO found that earlier hiring freezes actually made government services less efficient. (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years, the agency was almost always under Republican-imposed hiring freezes and/or promotion freezes.)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-federal-hiring-freeze_n_678fe14de4b02903dff7d61f
GAO
— U.S. Comptroller General (COMMENT: Who does Trump want the next U.S. Comptroller General to be and why?)
https://www.gao.gov/about/comptroller-general
(FROM THE POSTING: Gene L. Dodaro became the eighth Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on December 22, 2010, when he was confirmed by the United States Senate. He was nominated by President Obama in September of 2010 from a list of candidates selected by a bipartisan, bicameral congressional commission. He had been serving as Acting Comptroller General since March of 2008. . . The Comptroller General of the United States heads the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an agency within the legislative branch of the federal government. The Comptroller General is appointed by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the Senate. When a vacancy occurs in the office of the Comptroller General, the Congress establishes a bipartisan, bicameral commission to recommend individuals to the President. The Comptroller General’s term of office is set statutorily at 15 years and they are not eligible for reappointment.)
INDIA TODAY
— Indians seeking asylum in US grew 470% in 5 years
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/indians-seeking-asylum-in-us-grew-470-in-5-years-study/ar-AA1yU0hE
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February 10, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Why Henry Hyde’s name should stay on the DuPage County courthouse. The GOP powerhouse stood for far more than his famous eponymous abortion amendment.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/10/editorial-henry-hyde-dupage-county-courthouse/
(FROM THE EDITORIAL: History often is complex and resistant to simple narratives. So are people. So it is a needlessly divisive mistake for DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy to push for her fellow board members to remove the name of the late Henry J. Hyde, longtime Republican congressman, from the county courthouse. The board is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the issue. Hyde represented DuPage, which until recent years was a Republican power center, in Washington for more than three decades, retiring in 2007. During that time, Hyde wasn’t some low-profile lifer in Congress. He was one of the House’s most prominent members, even when he was serving in the minority, which is to say most of his career there. Conroy’s rationale for removing Hyde’s name from the court building is that the staunchly anti-abortion politician was responsible for the Hyde Amendment, the provision in federal law that for decades barred spending federal taxpayer money on abortions with exceptions for rape, incest or endangerment to the life of the mother. “It’s strictly because of the Hyde Amendment, and it’s very difficult for so many women to walk into the courthouse and see (his name),” she told the Tribune. Abortion rights is an issue that only has grown more intense since Hyde died 10 months after his retirement. We understand the symbolic argument. But to strip his name from the building would be akin to removing Richard J. Daley’s name from the courthouse in the heart of the Loop over a single issue — say, the police beating of protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention on his orders, the culture of corruption that the Daley machine fostered or his brutal segregationist policies. Even many ardent Daley critics wouldn’t suggest doing so. Why is that? Because Daley is a singularly important figure in the history of Chicago and to rename the Daley Center or Daley Plaza would be to try to negate that history. Like Daley, Hyde was a complicated figure and far more than the name adorning a famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) piece of legislation. Memories are short, of course, but for most of his career Hyde was an intellectual heavyweight on the Republican side of the aisle. Agree or disagree, but when Hyde took the floor to speak, people listened. And for good reason. He was a thoughtful conservative. Consider this: Hyde stepped down in 1981 from the advisory board of the National Pro-Life Political Action Committee after Executive Director Peter Gemma Jr. identified incumbent lawmakers the group planned to work to defeat. Hyde objected to targeting officeholders over a single issue. Much the way the DuPage board is considering doing Tuesday. Would the Democratic majority on the DuPage board consider themselves in favor of reasonable gun regulation? If so, against the consensus of his party, Hyde in 1994 voted for President Bill Clinton’s ban on assault weapons, demonstrating that he could be persuaded to change his mind on a monumental issue of the day. Just three years earlier, he had voted against the same ban. Hyde reversed himself after reading detailed accounts of gun victims in Chicago, provided by Democratic Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois. “At the end of reading this list of bloody crimes, I had to conclude these guns have no purpose but to kill a lot of people very rapidly,” Hyde said. “It wasn’t like falling off a horse on the road to Damascus. But like many things complicated and emotional, you don’t dwell on them unless forced to.” Hyde’s change of heart induced Illinois Rep. Bob Michel, then GOP minority leader, and dozens more Republicans to vote for the ban. Such political courage is almost impossible to imagine on today’s Capitol Hill. Of course, four years later Hyde led Clinton’s impeachment proceedings on behalf of the House before the Senate, leading critics to disclose Hyde’s yearslong extramarital affair decades earlier and accusing him of hypocrisy. Hyde admitted to cheating on his wife but claimed Clinton’s alleged wrongdoing was about Clinton’s cover-up attempts rather than his actual affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The public didn’t buy it, and Hyde paid a reputational price in the process. All of this is to say that Henry Hyde was complicated. Just like most people. But what is indisputable is that he was one of the most important political figures to emerge from DuPage County. Ever. His name should stay on that courthouse.)
ABC7
— DuPage County Democrats push to rename courthouse over late Congressman’s abortion views
https://abc7chicago.com/post/local-democrats-push-rename-dupage-county-courthouse-late-congressman-henry-hydes-abortion-views/15890259/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “He had a lot of support, a lot of friends on the other side of the aisle. He strikes me as a kind of official that we should be looking to model ourselves after, not disrespect,” said DuPage County GOP Chair Kevin Coyne. While he was bipartisan on certain issues such as gun control and the Family and Medical Leave Act, Hyde was one of Congress’ biggest opponents of abortion. He authored the Hyde Amendment, which denied abortion access to poor women on Medicaid. . .The board will vote on the resolution to remove Hyde’s name on Tuesday. With a Democratic majority, Conroy says, the proposal will pass. “To cherry-pick this one issue and hold it against a man that was such a big part of our history, to me, is just wrong. It’s short sighted,” Coyne said. Coyne says the decision to remove Hyde’s name may ruin the bipartisanship Conroy says she has proudly created while serving as chair.)
— President Trump pardons ex-Illinois Gov. Blagojevich 5 years after commuting his sentence
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-expected-pardon-ex-illinois-gov-rod-blagojevich-5-years-commuting-sentence-reports/15889540/
FOX32
— ICE operations intensify across U.S. sanctuary cities
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1591008
DAILY HERALD
— Residents protest proposed cuts to Medicaid at DuPage County rally
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250210/news/residents-protest-proposed-cuts-to-medicaid-at-dupage-county-rally/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Blagojevich pardoned on corruption conviction by Trump
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-pardons-rod-blagojevich-corruption-conviction
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Del Mar teases run for ‘higher office,’ sparking 2026 Illinois governor speculation
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_69d594d6-e7c2-11ef-b535-b39343671dce.html
CITIES 92.9
— Illinois circuit judge finds FOID for firearms in home unconstitutional (COMMENT: I have had a FOID card since I was 20 years old in 1968.)
https://www.cities929.com/2025/02/10/illinois-circuit-judge-finds-foid-for-firearms-in-home-unconstitutional/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-246/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION
— FOID Card Found to be Unconstitutional Yet Again
https://isra.org/foid-card-found-to-be-unconstitutional-yet-again/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Migrants turning around and heading back home in ‘new trend’ under Trump border crackdown
https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/us-news/new-trend-of-migrants-turning-around-and-heading-back-toward-home-under-trump-border-crackdown/
DAILY SIGNAL
— ‘BETRAYAL’: Lawmaker Responds to FEMA Diverting $59M to House Illegal Aliens
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/10/fema-using-59-million-house-illegal-aliens-is-betrayal-highest-order-congressman-says/
DAILY WIRE
— Musk Says FEMA Spent $60M Housing Illegal Immigrants In ‘Luxury Hotels’ Last Week. The payments were suspended by acting FEMA Director Cameron Hamilton after Musk’s announcement.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/musks-says-fema-spent-60m-housing-illegal-immigrants-in-luxury-hotels-last-week
— 27% Of National Science Foundation Grants Went To DEI Projects, Study Finds. ‘Congress must end the politicization of NSF funding and restore integrity to scientific research,’ Sen. Ted Cruz says.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27-of-national-science-foundation-grants-went-to-dei-projects-study-finds
EPOCH TIMES
— Musk Says FEMA Spent $59 Million on Housing Illegal Immigrants in NYC Hotels. ‘This stops now,’ said acting FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton, announcing that all such payments from FEMA were suspended on Feb. 9.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/musk-says-fema-spent-59-million-on-housing-illegal-immigrants-in-nyc-hotels-5807322
FOX NEWS
— Trump expected to pardon former Illinois Gov Rod Blagojevich. Trump previously commuted Blagojevich’s sentence in 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-expected-pardon-former-illinois-gov-rod-blagojevich
MRC TV
— Illegal Alien Crossings Have Plummeted 90% Under Trump
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/border-agent-illegal-alien-crossings-have-plummeted-90-under-trump
TOWNHALL
— Trump Ramps Up Purge of ‘Woke’ Ideology in the Military
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/02/10/trump-liquidates-woke-board-of-visitors-for-military-branches-n2651967
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump says ‘too early’ to name Vance as successor
https://www.aol.com/trump-says-too-early-name-215711428.html
CNN
— Trump imposes 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/politics/tariffs-steel-aluminum-trump/index.html
CBS NEWS
— Increasing numbers of Democrats want their party to oppose Trump
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-want-party-oppose-trump-poll-analysis/
— Trump ousts director of Office of Government Ethics
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-office-of-government-ethics-director/
WEEK
— DeSantis signs agreement with ICE to have Florida state troopers detain illegal immigrants
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/02/10/desantis-signs-agreement-with-ice-have-florida-state-troopers-detain-illegal-immigrants/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DHS Seeks to Deputize IRS Officers to Help With Deportation Effort. Tax-collecting agency has thousands of special agents in its criminal-investigation division. (COMMENT: I worked for GAO on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $117,807-$125,661/year, for 3 years.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-irs-officers-ice-deportations-ed87c4b5
AUTO GUIDE
— Why Is General Motors Getting Rid Of Key Corvette Personnel?
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/manufacturers/chevrolet/why-is-general-motors-getting-rid-of-key-corvette-personnel-44616109
February 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Enjoy Black History Month — while you still can (COMMENT: Democrat leaders promote Black History Month. My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and had always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/09/column-black-history-month-dei-donald-trump-page/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their getting Democrats to protest Trump
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/02/08/immigration-advocates-rally-in-little-village-in-response-to-trump-administration-sweeps
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://abc7chicago.com/post/equality-illinois-holds-annual-gala-hilton-chicago-lgbtq-group-honors-jim-obergefell-scotus-case-legalized-same-sex-marriage/15882412/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Democrats to protest against Trump’s immigration policies
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1590368
— Chicago Auto Show begins amid Trump’s push to end federal support for EVs
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-auto-show-begins-amid-trumps-push-to-end-federal-support-for-evs
— Pritzker, Duckworth blast Trump administration over Head Start funding freeze (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Republicans deleted half of the agency’s positions. The agency was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes. Democrats did little to stop that. My Democrat GAO superiors used Affirmative Action, DEI, and up-or-out to punish me severely for that. They forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. The kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/pritzker-duckworth-blast-trump-administration-over-head-start-funding-freeze
NPR ILLINOIS
— EEOC exists to fight discrimination. Fired official fears a hobbling under Trump (COMMENT: How has EEOC impacted you? I became an IRS Revenue Officer when I was 22 years old in 1971 because my Firestone Store boss had rudely fired me. He did that because I had told him that 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.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-09/the-eeoc-exists-to-fight-discrimination-fired-official-fears-a-hobbling-under-trump
WCIA
— Trump says he won’t deport Prince Harry: ‘He’s got enough problems with his wife’
https://www.wcia.com/news/national/trump-says-he-wont-deport-prince-harry-hes-got-enough-problems-with-his-wife/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— GAO fights government waste. But the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 used Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, and Republican-led budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. They wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5/12 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) earning a job-relate professional license (CPA), d) earning six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and e) earning three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— DOGE must keep moving fast — despite Democrats’ sound, fury and lawsuits
https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/opinion/democrats-fight-doge-with-lawsuits-since-losing-the-election/
— The Democrats abandoned the working class to create a ‘Grievance Olympics’ obsessed with identity politics
https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/opinion/the-democrats-abandoned-the-working-class-to-create-a-grievance-olympics-obsessed-with-identity-politics/
AMERICAN THINKER
— High time for the posse to round up the bad guys
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/high_time_for_the_posse_to_round_up_the_bad_guys.html
BREITBART
— L.A. Mayor Bass Hires Illinois Consulting Firm Hagerty Consulting Led by Far-Left Politician to Support Fire ‘Recovery Process’ (COMMENT: If I had ran for a government office, my critics/opponents would have stressed that during the 1850s, on my father’s side, my ancestors homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete Township, and on my mother’s side, they sharecropped a 180-acre farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/08/la-mayor-bass-hires-illinois-consulting-firm-led-by-far-left-politician-to-support-fire-recovery-process/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: He also signed legislation that recognizes that the city of Evanston sits on land that “originally belonged to the Potawatomi Tribes until their forceful and violent relocation at the hands of white colonizers.”)
DAILY SIGNAL
— When the FAA and DEI Don’t Mix
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/04/when-faa-dei-dont-mix/
— The American People Are Shocked to See What USAID Was Funding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTK82S–3Ww
(FROM THE ARTICLE: From transgender operas to DEI in workplaces in foreign countries, the U.S. Agency for International Development has funded the same woke priorities as George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. Tyler O’Neil joins John Solomon and Amanda Head to talk about the latest news and his new book “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”)
NATIONAL REVIEW
— If Wokeism Dies, What Cause Will the Left Embrace Next?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/02/if-wokeism-dies-what-cause-will-the-left-embrace-next/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Want to cut government waste? Pay congressional staffers more. (COMMENT: GAO fights government waste. But the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 used Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, and Republican-led budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. They wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5/12 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) earning a job-relate professional license (CPA), d) earning six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and e) earning three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance).)
https://www.aol.com/opinion-want-cut-government-waste-190000965.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There are analysts at the Government Accountability Office who audit said agencies in response to the directives of Congress. But insofar as Congress is limited in its possession of the necessary “intelligence,” it has a correspondingly inadequate ability to specify the investigations and evaluations that GAO should conduct. Congressional limitations are the central problem here. The ability of our elected representatives to make optimally informed decisions about programs and budgets is constrained by the limited capabilities and numbers of congressional staff.
MSN
— Trump Accuses South Africa of Discriminating Against Whites, Freezes Foreign Aid Until It Reforms Law
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/trump-accuses-south-africa-of-discriminating-against-whites-freezes-foreign-aid-until-it-reforms-law/ar-AA1yFvVW
— Trump admin freezes EV charging program that gave Tesla millions
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-admin-freezes-ev-charging-program-that-gave-tesla-millions/ar-AA1yCKcS
— Multiple Democrats Fired Under Trump’s Anti-DEI Agenda (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/multiple-democrats-fired-under-trump-s-anti-dei-agenda/ss-AA1yyMwU
— Another IRS Program ‘Deleted’ by Musk (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Republicans deleted half of the agency’s positions. The agency was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes. My Democrat GAO superiors used Affirmative Action, DEI, and up-or-out to punish me severely for that. They forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. The kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes. They forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/another-irs-program-deleted-by-musk/ss-AA1yEJWx
(COMMENT: Elon Musk recently announced the elimination of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) tech arm, 18F, which helped develop the IRS Direct File program. The program, championed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), faced criticism from conservatives as a form of government overreach. Musk confirmed on X that 18F was disbanded, claiming the move was part of his efforts to eliminate inefficiencies and reduce government expenses. Musk said, “That group has been deleted.”
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders side with South Africa against Afrikaners
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/world/africa/afrikaners-trump-south-africa.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government and charity
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/health/trump-usaid-health-aid.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders promote Black History Month. My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and had always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/07/black-history-month-trump-dei-attacks/78183174007/
BOSTON GAZETTE
— Uncertain about future of same-sex marriage under Trump, couple decides to exchange vows
https://www.gastongazette.com/picture-gallery/news/2025/02/07/lgbtq-community-in-gastonia-nc-fears-future-as-trump-takes-office/78299539007/
FORBES
— How DOGE Is Reshaping Government (COMMENT: GAO audits the federal government. I worked for GAO as an Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I working for IRS as a Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, the last 5/12 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I earned a job-relate professional license (CPA). I earned six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting). I earning three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance).)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amysterling/2025/02/08/from-meme-to-machine-how-doge-is-reshaping-government/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Auditing a $3 trillion mega economy sounds like the embodiment of easier said than done. A government is wise to periodically audit itself. And there is an agency for that, the GAO, Government Accountability Office, which on Feb 5th released a government 2025 Fiscal Health Report. The report finds that “the federal government is on an unsustainable fiscal path that poses serious economic, security, and social challenges.” Recommending “Congress and the administration will need to make difficult budgetary and policy decisions to address the key drivers of federal debt and change the government’s fiscal trajectory.”)
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Elizabeth Warren tells Elon Musk she’s ‘happy’ to work with him on DOGE’s goals to slash government waste. She has 30 recommendations. (COMMENT: GAO fights government waste. But the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 used Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, and Republican-led budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran. They wasted what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5/12 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) earning a job-relate professional license (CPA), d) earning six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and e) earning three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance).)
https://www.aol.com/elizabeth-warren-tells-elon-musk-161736484.html
— Elon Musk is hiring for DOGE. Here’s what he’s looking for. (COMMENT: Should I apply? GAO fights government waste. I worked for GAO as an Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year. I working for IRS as a Revenue Officer for almost 9 years, the last 5/12 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. I earned a job-relate professional license (CPA). I earned six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting). I earning three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance).)
https://www.aol.com/elon-musk-hiring-doge-heres-181742212.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency says it’s looking for the “top 1%” of people. DOGE says it’ll expect its staff to work 80-plus-hour weeks — a common request of Musk’s employees. Musk has had aggressive work expectations for staff at his companies like Tesla and X. Elon Musk wants you to help root out government waste — but only if you’re really smart and willing to work 80 hours a week. Musk, who’s standing up the Department of Government Efficiency — or DOGE, named after a cryptocurrency he’s linked to — is looking for the top 1% of people interested in joining.
A post on the department’s newly created X account on Thursday said: “We don’t need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. “If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants,” it continued, referring to the businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, who is set to lead the department alongside Musk.)
GAO
— America’s Fiscal Future. GAO takes a big-picture look at the nation’s fiscal condition and offers resources to help policymakers get the nation on a more sustainable fiscal path.
https://www.gao.gov/americas-fiscal-future
INDEPENDENT
— Elizabeth Warren pens Fox News op-ed revealing she agrees with Trump and Musk on one thing
https://www.aol.com/news/elizabeth-warren-pens-fox-news-141529465.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has written an op-ed for Fox News about one “important” thing she agrees with President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on. Warren shared that she agrees with the cost-cutting aims of the Department of Government Efficiency — but not the government programs Musk and Republicans are eyeing as potential targets. The Massachusetts senator said she is “ready to work with Musk” to make the government “more efficient” while saving the taxpayer money. “Here’s something President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and I agree on: the federal government throws away trillions of dollars on wasteful spending,” she wrote in the op-ed. “I have spent years trying to squeeze government waste out of our budget.”)
February 7, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Kankakee County sheriff Mike Downey says Illinois laws hinder enforcement, supports DOJ lawsuit on sanctuary status (COMMENT: Hopefully, your county sheriff agrees with Downey.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/kankakee-sheriff-says-illinois-trust-act-hinders-enforcement-supports-doj-lawsuit-sanctuary-status/15874853/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Kankakee sheriff said he hopes a lawsuit by the Department of Justice over Illinois’ sanctuary laws can resolve ongoing frustration in the law enforcement community. “Why are we so concerned about these individuals who are not here legally, who have some have committed violent, heinous crimes, and we’re worried about whether or not a local police department is calling ICE to say, hey, this guy’s in our community,” said Kankakee County Sheriff Mike Downey.)
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in pushing pot.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-cannabis-market-new-sales-record-2024
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Federal employees are demonized, denigrated, and condemned, except those federal employees who Trump wants to get rid of. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/06/trump-musk-move-to-oust-epa-staff-in-the-great-lakes-region-including-dozens-responsible-for-protecting-drinking-water-for-30-million-in-u-s-and-canada/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump-proposed tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/07/illinois-braces-for-impact-of-tariffs/
— Chicago Auto Show goes electric with 2 EV tracks, dozens of models and first appearance by Rivian (COMMENT: I am especially interested in how the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV will be displayed.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/06/chicago-auto-show-ev-rivian/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Lawsuit alleges UI Health stopped gender-affirming care for teen after Trump executive order. Part of the nationwide suit against the order alleges that a 17–year-old Illinois boy had been given a date for chest surgery at UI Health, only for it to be canceled one day after Trump’s order.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/02/06/lawsuit-alleges-ui-health-stopped-gender-affirming-care-for-teen-after-trump-executive-order
DAILY HERALD
— Illinois, Trump administration in legal battle over immigration policy
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250206/illinois-state-politics/illinois-trump-administration-in-legal-battle-over-immigration-policy/
— Cannabis is never safe for developing brains (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250207/health-and-fitness/cannabis-is-never-safe-for-developing-brains/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: EVs, hybrids give spark to Chicago Auto Show (COMMENT: I am especially interested in how the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV will be displayed.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250206/transportation/evs-hybrids-give-spark-to-chicago-auto-show/
WBEZ
— Chicago alderpeople want to ban participants in the Jan. 6 attack from working for the city
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/02/06/chicago-alderpeople-want-to-ban-participants-in-the-january-6th-attack-from-working-for-the-city
WCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in pushing pot.
https://www.wcia.com/news/illinois-news/cannabis-sales-higher-than-ever-in-illinois-exceeded-2b-in-2024/
WAND TV
— IL House Dems approve resolution condemning Trump for Jan. 6 pardons, GOP walk out
https://www.wandtv.com/news/il-house-dems-approve-resolution-condemning-trump-for-jan-6-pardons-gop-walk-out/article_c6f54a60-e4db-11ef-9fd5-1f36abe51611.html
— Thousands of cars sold in Illinois have fake odometer readings (COMMENT: I bought a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T collector car from the Chicago Car Exchange (CCE) in 1994. I had owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971. I should not have assumed that CCE would not have engaged in odometer fraud. SEE: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-7th-circuit/1385001.html CCE did not set the car’s odometer back, but it knew that its previous owners had done that. CCE offered to buy the car back from me, but only for what I had paid them for it. I had spent thousands on the car making it “show ready.”)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/thousands-of-cars-sold-in-illinois-have-fake-odometer-readings/article_05d9763e-e3dd-11ef-a40b-6b906b5beb3d.html
TRI STATE PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://www.tspr.org/illinois-public-radio/2025-02-06/illinois-attorney-general-vows-to-protect-gender-affirming-care-after-trump-order-threatens-to-cut-funding
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pritzker to DOJ: See you in court
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/07/pritzker-to-doj-see-you-in-court-00203066
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-452/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison’s Statement on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Lawsuit against the State of Illinois, Cook County, and the City of Chicago
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/cook-county-commissioner-sean-morrisons-statement-on-the-u-s-department-of-justices-lawsuit-against-the-state-of-illinois-cook-county-and-the-city-of-chicago/
WIREPOINTS
— The next absurd bill from Illinois’ legislature: Removing student test scores from teacher evaluations
https://wirepoints.org/the-next-absurd-bill-from-illinois-legislature-getting-rid-of-test-scores-from-teacher-evaluations-wirepoints/
— The covid-era money spigot is turned off. We should get back to normal, but Gov. Pritzker wants to spend even more
https://wirepoints.org/the-covid-era-money-spigot-is-turned-off-we-should-get-back-to-normal-but-gov-pritzker-wants-to-spend-even-more-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slocum/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Trump’s federal employee buyout deadline has been extended until February 10. Have you faced such deadlines? My Democrat GAO superiors’ deadline to take their early retirement “offer” was September 30, 1997. If I had not taken it, I would not have been eligible to retire for 6 years. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should not have taken it. I should not succumbed to their threats. Yes, if I had not taken it, they would have taken even bigger adverse actions against me than they had before. But I would have sought help from my U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde. I would have sued my GAO superiors. I would have stressed that I had earned job-relate professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting). I would have stressed that I earned a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA). I would have stressed that I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (financial markets and trading), 1980 (accounting), and 1976 (business). I would have stressed that GAO audits IRS, that I had worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years (1986-1988), and that I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years (1971-1980), the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If you are considering buying an Iron Gate Motor Condo in Naperville, consider this one at https://leeernst.exprealty.com/holp/listing/103/12283041 If my wife and I had not bought our unit in 2023, we would be making an offer on this one. Features that it has that our unit does not have include a balcony, windows, forever unobstructed view to the west, wider garage door, and more useable square feet on the second floor. The seller wants $100,000 for his unit than what my wife and I paid for our unit. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Feds spent millions to create ‘transgender’ lab testing animals
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/6/feds-spent-millions-create-transgender-lab-testing/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Musk Vows to Eliminate ‘Wasteful’ Politico Subscriptions for Federal Employees. Government payments to Politico quadrupled to $26 million during the Biden administration. (COMMENT: GOPUSA ILLINOIS subscriptions are worth at least $5,000/year. But I send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters out to anyone who wants them free of charge, without any advertising, and with no donation requests.)
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/musk-vows-to-eliminate-wasteful-politico-subscriptions-for-federal-employees/
— ‘No Immigrant Should Be Detained,’ Says Left-Wing Nonprofit With $769 Million Federal Immigration Contract. The D.C.-based Acacia Center for Justice is squarely at odds with the Trump administration.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/no-immigrant-should-be-detained-says-left-wing-nonprofit-with-769-million-federal-immigration-contract/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Federal Judge Delays Trump’s Worker ‘Buyout’ Deadline
https://amgreatness.com/2025/02/07/morning-greatness-federal-judge-delays-trumps-worker-buyout-deadline/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump hauls out the government waste (COMMENT: GAO fights government waste. I worked for GAO for almost 18 years.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-hauls-out-the-government-waste/
DAILY CALLER
— Pam Bondi Sends ‘Clear’ Message To Sanctuary Cities Choosing ‘Illegal Aliens’ Over Americans
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/06/pam-bondi-sanctuary-cities-illegal-aliens-americans-legal-repercussions/
— GOP Lawmakers React to Trump Suing Their State Over Laws That ‘Obstruct’ ICE Arrests
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/06/gop-lawmakers-react-to-trump-suing-their-state-over-laws-that-obstruct-ice-arrests/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago resident pushes back against Dem leaders acting like Trump ‘isn’t welcome’ Chicago resident Vashon Tuncle joins ‘The Ingraham Angle’ with insight on the Trump administration’s embattled immigration policies. (COMMENT: How welcome is Trump in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct. I should write about how welcome Trump is in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368403046112
— Trump’s ICE crackdown could get boost in Florida with DeSantis’ plan to deputize state patrol
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-ice-crackdown-could-see-boost-florida-desantis-plan-deputize-state-patrol
— Over a dozen Venezuelan criminal illegal migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay: ‘Highly dangerous’ people. The US plans to house ‘the worst of the worst’ at the detention facility until they can be flown back to their home countries.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/over-dozen-venezuelan-criminal-illegal-migrants-sent-guantanamo-bay-dangerous-people
PJ MEDIA
— Former USAID Official Liz Cheney Rips Elon Musk for Being a… Foreigner
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/02/06/former-usaid-official-liz-cheney-rips-elon-musk-for-being-a-foreigner-n4936761
(FROM THE ARTICLE: And now you’re throwing shade at Elon Musk for not being born in the United States? . . . Cheney’s sneering at Musk for not being an American just didn’t make any sense, at least apart from the fact that the political establishment claims to be the embodiment of compassion, but actually has nothing but contempt for the American people. The recent revelations about USAID confirm that in spades by showing that taxpayer money that was supposed to go to the poor and needy of the world was actually lining the pockets of “journalists” at AP, Politico, the New York Times, and elsewhere, so as to ensure that the American people were thoroughly saturated with the establishment line. And that was, of course, by no means all that USAID has been up to.)
MRC TV
— Rep. Dan Goldman Advises Illegals How to Evade Authorities…in Three Languages
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/nick-kangadis/legal-rep-dan-goldman-advises-illegals-how-evade-authoritiesin-three-languages
NEWSMAX
— Trump WH Sues Chicago in Latest Crackdown on ‘Sanctuary’ Cities
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-immigration-chicago-arrests-sanctuary-immigrants-enforcement/2025/02/06/id/1198131/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Black Hawk helicopter in D.C. plane crash had a safety system off
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/black-hawk-helicopter-dc-plane-crash-safety-system-off-senator-says/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Opposition lawmakers protest alleged mistreatment of Indian deportees by US
https://apnews.com/article/indian-illegal-immigration-protest-parliament-deportation-trump-90ae7999040196e3ce25dd3fa8e29137
NBC NEWS
— Trump signs executive order banning men from women’s sports
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/trump-executive-order-ban-trans-women-sports-rcna190767
CNN
— White House pressures ICE to pick up pace of migrant arrests
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/ice-arrests-pressure/index.html
NEWSWEEK
— Unemployment in D.C. Nearly Doubles as Trump Aims to Shrink US Government (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Republicans shrank the agency from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me big time for that.)
https://www.newsweek.com/unemployment-washington-dc-doubles-trump-guts-federal-government-2027547
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— What Would a Drastically Reduced Government Workforce Mean for Americans? (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Republicans shrank the agency from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000. My Democrat GAO superiors punished me big time for that.)
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-02-06/what-trumps-federal-workforce-cuts-mean-for-everyday-americans
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting vices. Because I do not spend money on vices, I have more money. My critics/opponents promote vices.
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/video/more-than-80-of-u-s-adults-spend-money-on-common-vice-report-shows/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 4 in 5 Americans spend money on one of six common vices. That includes alcohol, lottery tickets, casino games, tobacco, marijuana and sports betting.
NEW YORK TIMES
— This Isn’t Reform. It’s Sabotage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/trump-musk-government.html?searchResultPosition=3
WASHINGTON POST
— Federal workers ‘defiant’ on Musk’s buyout (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. If I was still working for the federal government, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now, figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/can-he-do-that/federal-workers-defiant-on-musks-buyout/
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/07/trump-dei-federal-government-discrimination/
— Tulsa mayor backs reparations plan for ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre victims (COMMENT: What about reparations for all the Republicans who Democrats killed during the Civil War?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/tulsa-reparations-race-massacre/
— Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. If I was still working for the federal government, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now, figuratively if not literally.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-ai-department-education/
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
— Democrat leaders have always used Black History Months to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/trump-hegseth-black-history-cancelled-20149267.php
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump’s Use of Guantanamo Bay Signals Hard Line Against Migrants
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-use-of-guantanamo-bay-signals-hard-line-against-migrants-32880dac
— Test Scores Fall, Unions Want More (COMMENT: The more illegals that there are in schools, the more that test scores will fall.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/california-teachers-association-schools-money-covid-david-goldberg-teachers-union-5b21847f
— FRONT PAGE: How Trump’s Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Republican-led budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s Republican employees starting with those who were White, male, older. non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid. I am amazed that I survived for almost 18 years,
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-fbi-firings-immigration-crime-ad7d6b44
KIPLINGER
— Is Your Vice Putting Your Retirement at Risk? From alcohol to gambling, adults spend a lot of money pursuing their vices. Is the cost of a little fun jeopardizing their retirement nest eggs? (COMMENT: Democrat leaders crow about their success in promoting vices. Because I do not spend money on vices, I have more money. My critics/opponents promote vices.)
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/is-your-vice-putting-your-retirement-at-risk
HAGERTY
— American Muscle Car Index (COMMENT: Please let me know if you share my interest in American muscle cars. I am especially interested in Chargers, Corvettes, Mustangs, and Thunderbirds. I have ordered a 2025 Charger Daytona R/T. I own a 2013 Charger R/T Max, 2005 and 1972 Corvette, 2023 Mustang GT Premium, and 1996 Thunderbird LX. I previously owned a 1968 Charger R/T, 1969 Charger SE, 1962 Impala SS, 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, 1968 Oldsmobile 442, 1990 Thunderbird LX, 1994 Thunderbird, and 2003 Cavalier LS.)
https://www.hagerty.com/media/market-trends/hagerty-indexes-idle-into-2025/
UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
— Scholarships You Should Apply for in February 2025 (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always used my not getting any scholarships against me. They hint/imply/argue/shout that my not getting any scholarships proves that I am academically deficient and that my parents were filthy rich. I should write about my critics/opponents and the scholarships that they got.)
https://www.universitymagazine.ca/scholarships-you-should-apply-for-in-february/
GLUESENKAMP PEREZ
— Gluesenkamp Perez Introduces Bill to Bring Greater Transparency to College Tuition Costs (COMMENT: Back in the good old days when college costs were much lower, I was able to work my way through college and graduate debt-free and owning a 20-month-old car. But the many hours that I worked to do that instead of studying dragged my GPA down.)
https://gluesenkampperez.house.gov/posts/gluesenkamp-perez-introduces-bill-to-bring-greater-transparency-to-college-tuition-costs
HR DIGEST
— Federal Worker Buyout Deadline Extended Until February 10 (COMMENT: Have you faced such deadlines? My Democrat GAO superiors’ deadline to take their early retirement “offer” was September 30, 1997. If I had not taken it, I would not have been eligible to retire for 6 years. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should not have taken it. I should not succumbed to their threats. Yes, if I had not taken it, they would have taken even bigger adverse actions against me than they had before. But I would have sought help from U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde. I would have sued my GAO superiors. I would have stressed that I had earned job-relate professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting). I would have stressed that I earned a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA). I would have stressed that I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (financial markets and trading), 1980 (accounting), and 1976 (business). I would have stressed that GAO audits IRS, that I had worked for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years (1986-1988), and that I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years (1971-1980), the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year.)
https://www.thehrdigest.com/federal-worker-buyout-deadline-extended-until-feb-10/
AMERICA MAGAZINE
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Catholics to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2025/02/06/catholic-church-vulnerable-migrants-trump-249835
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Black Federal Employees Targeted in Public Blacklist as Trump and Musk Continue Assault on Diversity (COMMENT: I should write about the tremendous preference that my Democrat Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates got while I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years. I would focus on my Democrat Black GAO subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/trump-allies-identify-federal-employees/
TIMES OF INDIA
— Condoms for Taliban to drag shows in Ecuador: Craziest USAID spends revealed
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/condoms-for-taliban-to-drag-shows-in-ecuador-craziest-usaid-spends-revealed/articleshow/118003488.cms
February 6, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DOJ sues Chicago, Illinois and Cook County over sanctuary city policies
https://abc7chicago.com/post/doj-sues-chicago-illinois-cook-county-sanctuary-city-immigration-policies/15872840/
— LGBTQ+ group rallies at UI Health after Trump administration sued over transgender care order. Lawsuit claims UI Health Chicago doctors canceled 17-year-old transgender boy’s surgery last week after Trump’s executive order.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/lgbtq-group-rallies-ui-health-chicago-pflag-sues-trump-administration-executive-order-transgender-care-minors/15873976/
— Service members sue Trump administration over transgender military service ban
https://abc7chicago.com/post/transgender-military-service-ban-members-sue-trump-administration/15873833/
NBC5
— Justice Department sues Chicago and Illinois over immigration policies. In their complaint, the department cites specifically Illinois’ Trust Act, The Way Forward Act and Chicago’s Welcoming City ordinance.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/justice-department-sues-chicago-and-illinois-over-immigration-policies/3667316/
CBS2
— Thornton Township, Illinois fires Tiffany Henyard’s boyfriend, another employee
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/thornton-township-illinois-fires-tiffany-henyards-boyfriend/
WGN9
— Trump announces task force to ‘eradicate anti-Christian bias’
https://wgntv.com/news/trump-announces-task-force-to-eradicate-anti-christian-bias/
— 117th Chicago Auto Show begins 10-day run Saturday, kicks off with charity event Friday night, at McCormick Place
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/117th-chicago-auto-show-show-begins-10-day-run-saturday-kicks-off-with-charity-event-friday-night-at-mccormick-place/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ
https://news.wttw.com/2025/02/06/supporters-gender-affirming-care-rally-university-illinois-hospital-following-trump-s
WGN RADIO
— Should Illinois counties that voted to secede join Indiana?
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/should-illinois-counties-that-voted-to-secede-join-indiana/
— How much money are Americans spending on their vices?
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/how-much-money-are-americans-spending-on-their-vices/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump administration sues Illinois, Cook County and Chicago over sanctuary immigration laws
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/06/trump-immigration-sanctuary-lawsuit/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/05/illinois-gender-affirming-care-trump-order/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Justice Department sues Illinois, Chicago and Cook County over sanctuary status. The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, claims sanctuary policies in Illinois that keep local authorities from cooperating with the deportation effort are “exacerbating” a crisis at the U.S. Southern border.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/02/06/donald-trump-justice-department-lawsuit-jb-pritzker-mayor-brandon-johnson-sanctuary-status
— Under Trump administration, some Chicago students think twice about applying for financial aid. If they submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, students risk outing their undocumented parents. But if they don’t, they could lose out on the chance at college.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/02/06/under-trump-administration-some-chicago-students-think-twice-about-fafsa
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump DOJ accuses Pritzker, Johnson and other local Dems of defying immigration crackdown
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-justice-department-sues-chicago-over-sanctuary-laws
— Illinois officials eye N.Y. law keeping doctors’ names off abortion pill prescriptions
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/illinois-considers-law-obscuring-abortion-pill-prescriptions
SOUTHERN
— House Republicans meet with Trump to ‘move the ball forward’ on his agenda
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/02/06/house-republicans-meet-with-trump-to-move-the-ball-forward-on-his-agenda/
MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— House GOP caucus walks out during Dems’ pushback of Trump agenda
https://muddyrivernews.com/top-stories/house-gop-caucus-walks-out-during-dems-pushback-of-trump-agenda/20250206074725/
SUBURBAN LIFE
— Democrat leaders promote anti-Trump rally in Wheaton
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/news/dupage-county/2025/02/06/dupage-county-rally-to-support-medicaid-in-the-face-of-proposed-cuts/
WIFR
— Illinois State Representative John Cabello, R-90th District, slams Illinois democrats, claiming they used a Feb. 5 legislative session to push back on President Donald Trump’s agenda instead of focusing on the state budget.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/02/07/absolutely-positively-stupid-stateline-lawmaker-shares-reasons-behind-republican-walkout-during-legislative-session/
WSIL TV
— Attention federal employees: It may be hard to get a private sector job right now (COMMENT: Private sector employers a) look down on, if not despise, if not hate federal employees and b) ascribe negative stereotypes to federal employees.)
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/consumer/attention-federal-employees-it-may-be-hard-to-get-a-private-sector-job-right-now/article_a5178a86-1fcc-54ff-86bd-261d286dda77.html
WAND TV
— Thousands of cars sold in Illinois have fake odometer readings
https://www.wandtv.com/news/thousands-of-cars-sold-in-illinois-have-fake-odometer-readings/article_05d9763e-e3dd-11ef-a40b-6b906b5beb3d.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Opposition lawmakers protest alleged mistreatment of Indian deportees by US
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/world/ap-opposition-lawmakers-protest-alleged-mistreatment-of-indian-deportees-by-us/
STATE OF ILLINOIS
— Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot. How successful have Democrats been pushing pot in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/illinois/iisnewsattachments/30910-020625-24.02.05-pritzker-administration-announces-cannabis-sales-exceed-2-billion-annually2.pdf.pdf
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-244/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois near the bottom for social mobility (COMMENT: Sadly, my father, my grandfather, and my great grandfather are examples of downward mobility. In 1902, my great grandfather had 1285 Main Street built in Crete (4,030 sq. ft. https://www.redfin.com/IL/Crete/1285-Main-St-60417/home/23199035 ). In 1926, my grandfather had 1286 Wood Street built in Crete (1793 sq. ft. https://www.redfin.com/IL/Crete/1286-Wood-St-60417/home/23199039 ). My father never had a home built.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_3c4d4faa-e4c9-11ef-8357-db47fe4d3cdf.html
ILLINOIS LEAKS
— State of Illinois Paid CAPFAX / POLITICO $102,673 (COMMENT: I advocate full disclosure. He who pays the piper calls the tunes. 100% of the money and time needed to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and to send them out comes from me.)
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2025/02/state-of-illinois-paid-capfax-politico-102673/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Once again, we do not fault any news agency or blogger, or anyone else for making a living, but we do fault state and local governments for spending tax money on these types of subscriptions as there does not appear to be any statute providing our state government to spend money in this fashion.)
— U.S. Justice Dept. Sues Illinois, JB Pritzker, Chicago PD, Cook County Over Sanctuary Policies
https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2025/02/u-s-justice-dept-sues-illinois-jb-pritzker-chicago-pd-cook-county-over-sanctuary-policies/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Laura Trump, Speaker at McHenry County GOPAC Event, Selected by FOX to Host Saturday Night Show
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/06/laura-trump-speaker-at-mchenry-county-gopac-event-selected-by-fox-to-host/
— Cary Grade School District Sends Immigrant Protection Letter in Searchable Format Showing It’s Never Too Late for A School Superintendent to Learn Something New
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/06/cary-grade-school-district-sends-immigrant-protection-letter-in-searchable-format-showing-its-never-too-late-for-a-school-superintendent-to-learn-something-new/
— Nunda Township GOP Candidate Forum Cancelled after Incumbent Declines to Attend
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/06/nunda-township-gop-candidate-forum-cancelled-after-incumbent-declines-to-attend/
— Huntley Amazon Warehouse Hires Employees Who Don’t Speak English
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/06/huntley-amazon-warehouse-hires-employees-who-dont-speak-english/
— Lakemoor, Former Mayor Ryan Todd Weihofen & State Police Sued for Over $40 Million for Botched Hemp Seizure
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/06/lakemoor-former-mayor-ryan-todd-weihofen-state-police-sued-for-over-40-million-for-botched-hemp-seizure/
— A Duty Most County Boards Probably Do Not Perform
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/06/a-duty-the-county-board-probably-does-not-perform/
— The Highest Compensated McHenry County Employees – $150,000 Up
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/06/the-highest-compensated-mchenry-county-employees/
— LaHood Comments on Trump’s Suing Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois over Illegal Alien Deportation Interference
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/06/lahood-comments-on-trumps-suing-chicago-cook-county-and-the-state-of-illinois-over-illegal-alien-deportation-interference/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal judge pauses Trump’s federal worker buyout plan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/6/federal-judge-pauses-trump-federal-worker-buyout-p/
— Trump elevates birthright citizenship fight with appeal of judge’s block
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/6/trump-elevates-birthright-citizenship-fight-appeal/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump DOJ sues Chicago in first major sanctuary city case
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3312737/trump-doj-sues-chicago-first-major-sanctuary-city-case/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump administration sues Chicago, state of Illinois over sanctuary laws — and vows more lawsuits to come
https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/us-news/trump-administration-sues-chicago-state-of-illinois-over-sanctuary-laws-and-vows-more-lawsuits-to-come/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Church, Illegals, and the Law
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/the_church_illegals_and_the_law.html
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Admin Sues Chicago, State Of Illinois Over Illegal Alien Sanctuary Laws. “The Department of Justice will no longer stand by as state and local leaders obstruct federal law enforcement efforts.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-sues-chicago-state-of-illinois-over-illegal-alien-sanctuary-laws
— U.S. Military Drops Off First Flight Of ‘High Priority’ Illegal Immigrants At GITMO. Those dropped off for detention were members of Tren de Aragua.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-u-s-military-drops-off-first-flight-of-high-priority-illegal-immigrants-at-gitmo
— Why Guantanamo Bay Is ‘The Perfect Place’ For Violent Illegals. Eventually, 30,000 undesirables with no business moving within our borders will be off our streets and tossed into prison.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-guantanamo-bay-is-the-perfect-place-for-violent-illegals
EPOCH TIMES
— Judge Pushes Back Deadline for Trump Admin Buyout Offer to Federal Workers. More than 40,000 federal workers have already opted into the plan.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/judge-pushes-back-deadline-for-trump-buyout-offer-to-federal-workers-5805560
FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Misnamed Open-Borders Protest is the Usual Bust
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/02/05/misnamed-open-borders-protest-usual-bust
FOX NEWS
— Trump DOJ slaps Illinois, Chicago with lawsuit over sanctuary laws
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-doj-files-lawsuit-against-illinois-chicago-lawsuit-sanctuary-laws
— ‘Tough decisions’ in store for ‘sanctuary’ cities after Bondi turns off federal funding spigot. ‘I would expect there to be consequences, and I support that,’ PA House GOP Leader Jesse Topper said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/state-officials-react-bondis-order-withholding-sanctuary-city-funding-tough-decisions-make
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Diversity Staffers at Eastern Illinois U. Raise Black Lives Matter Flag for Black History Month
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/02/diversity-staffers-at-eastern-illinois-u-raise-black-lives-matter-flag-for-black-history-month/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— DOJ Sues Illinois, Chicago over Sanctuary Laws as Mass Deportations Continue
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/doj-sues-illinois-chicago-over-sanctuary-laws-as-mass-deportations-continue/
PJ MOBILITY
— Militant Group Teaching ‘Self Defense’ Against ICE Raids
https://pjmedia.com/lincolnbrown/2025/02/06/militant-group-teaching-self-defense-against-ice-raids-n4936751
WESTERN JOURNAL
— US Taxpayer Money Found Flowing to Drag Queen Shows in Ecuador
https://www.westernjournal.com/us-taxpayer-money-found-flowing-drag-queen-shows-ecuador/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— A short honeymoon for Catholics in D.C. as Vice President Vance clashes with bishops on migration
https://www.yahoo.com/news/short-honeymoon-catholics-d-c-130201365.html
CNN
— Judge pauses ‘buyout’ offer for federal workers
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-gaza-news-02-06-25
CBS NEWS
— Trump makes misleading claims about government payments to Politico.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-politico-payments-fact-check/
NEW YORK TIMES
— The Trump administration plans to retain only about 290 of the more than 10,000 employees worldwide at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/06/us/president-trump-news?campaign_id=60
MIAMI HERALD
— Democrats use DEI to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/florida-showed-trump-demonize-dei-225956004.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— White House Preparing Order to Cut Thousands of Federal Health Workers. The executive order could come as soon as next week, if the Trump administration goes ahead with plans
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/white-house-preparing-order-to-cut-thousands-of-federal-health-workers-bd1e0b7f
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 54% Agree Media Are the ‘Enemy of the People’ (COMMENT: The mainstream news media exists a) to advance the Democrat Party platform and to elect and reelect Democrats and b) to demonize, denigrate, and condemn the Republican Party platform and to defeat Republican candidates.)
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/54_still_agree_media_are_the_enemy_of_the_people
February 6, 2025
Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly organize, promote, and report on more demonstrations against Trump. How successful have Democrat leaders been organizing, promoting, and reporting on protests against Trump in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Chicago-area experts question US right to make Gaza Strip ‘Riviera of the Middle East’
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-gaza-news-heading-springfield-advocate-palestinians-pres-says-he-wants-turn-strip-riviera/15869210/
NBC5
— Rallies against Trump administration held in Chicago, numerous other cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EE5dLjYfZA
— Google scraps diversity ‘aspirations,’ citing role as federal contractor (COMMENT: Google has always steered everyone to websites a) that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) that demonize, denigrate, and condemn the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/google-scraps-diversity-aspirations-citing-role-as-federal-contractor/3666768/
CBS2
— Palestinian Americans in Chicago area decry Trump’s plan for U.S. to “take over the Gaza Strip”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/palestinian-americans-in-chicago-area-decry-trump-s-plan-for-u-s-to-take-over-the-gaza-strip/ar-AA1yucJ8
— Palestinian Americans in Chicago not pleased with President Trump’s Gaza takeover plan
https://www.yahoo.com/news/palestinian-americans-chicago-not-pleased-013600282.html
WGN9
— Hundreds rally against Trump administration’s Middle East, immigration policies
https://www.aol.com/hundreds-rally-against-trump-administration-225347771.html
FOX32
— Trump tariffs could hit Illinois hard, state treasurer warns
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tariffs-illinois
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Hundreds of patients skip appointments at Chicago health clinic amid deportation fears. At CommunityHealth, which serves a large immigrant population, prescriptions for diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions have been left on shelves since President Donald Trump took office.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2025/02/05/chicago-health-clinic-patient-deportation-fear
DAILY HERALD
— Salvi: JB Pritzker’s ego could cost Illinois
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250206/columns/jb-pritzkers-ego-could-cost-illinois/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Photos of Illinois protestors against actions of President Trump, Elon Musk
https://www.sj-r.com/picture-gallery/news/2025/02/05/hundreds-of-protestors-rally-at-illinois-capitol-against-trump-musk-see-photos/78260501007/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Protestors demonstrate against Trump policies outside Illinois Capitol
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/protestors-demonstrate-against-trump-policies-outside-illinois-capitol/video_241eda7c-9746-51d7-be96-80a0d75c5146.html
— Fear, anger, hope shown at ICE protest by students on ISU campus
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/government-politics/protest-isu-immigration-ice-students-bloomington-normal/article_a5c3fb6a-e3fb-11ef-919b-6b706dd71e8a.html
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote more hatred against Republicans. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-schools-communities-on-edge-with-rumors-of-ice-raids/
WAND TV
— State Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid (D-Berwyn) said President Donald Trump is enacting an ethnic cleansing after Trump called all Palestinians to leave Gaza. “Let’s call that what it is, ethnic cleansing,” Rashid said.
https://www.wandtv.com/community/donald-trump-is-calling-for-ethnic-cleansing-says-illinois-house-democrat/article_7629d996-e406-11ef-bf60-3f2a156d1588.html
WCIA
— Protesters converge on Illinois Capitol as tensions over Trump actions rise in the chamber
https://www.wcia.com/news/protesters-converge-on-illinois-capitol-as-tensions-over-trump-actions-rise-in-the-chamber/
WGLT
— Advocates ask Illinois lawmakers to increase funding for the unhoused in new budget (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.)
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-02-04/advocates-ask-illinois-lawmakers-to-increase-funding-for-the-unhoused-in-new-budget
NPR ILLINOIS
— New attorney general moves to align DOJ with Trump’s priorities. (COMMENT: In Diersen v. GAO, Bush’s DOJ was aligned with GAO’s priorities of using Affirmative Action, DEI, up-or-out, and budget cuts to waste the careers of and to get rid of its Republican employees like me who were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-05/new-attorney-general-moves-to-align-justice-department-with-trumps-priorities
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they always glorified and praised those inside and outside of the federal government who promoted the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-05/nsa-museum-covered-plaques-honoring-women-and-people-of-color-provoking-an-uproar
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Rand Paul knocks Trump Gaza takeover plan
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/rand-paul-knocks-trump-gaza-takeover-plan-i-thought-we-voted-for-america-first/
CWB CHICAGO
— Bystanders slam gate on cops, cheerlead suspects during cross-town chase
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/02/bystanders-slam-gate-cops-cheerlead-suspects-during-cross-town-chase-video.html
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Illinois lawmakers advance measure to untangle student test scores from teacher evaluations (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise all their most problematic employees.)
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/02/05/illinois-lawmakers-propose-change-to-teacher-evaluation-requirements/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Battle lines in Springfield over Trump
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/02/06/battle-lines-in-springfield-over-trump-00202827
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-451/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago violent crime numbers up, arrests down across city
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a5a16d6c-e3d7-11ef-aa02-4b09cee8328e.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If Trump had been elected earlier with his new priorities, how might that have impacted you? If Trump had been elected earlier with his new priorities, my critics/opponents in the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP) might not have been able to a) remove me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and c) take other adverse actions against me. If Trump had been elected earlier with his new priorities, my Democrat GAO superiors might not have been able to a) force me to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay for performance purposes, c) not promote me beyond GS-13 and delay my promotions, d) keep me off audits of IRS, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. If Trump had been elected earlier with his new priorities, my Democrat IRS superiors might not have been able to a) not promote me beyond GS-12, b) disallow my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallow my travel vouchers in 1974. If Trump had been elected earlier with his new priorities, my Democrat Post Office superiors might not have been able to a) force me to resign in 1969 and b) disallow my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Non-Parental Relatives Caring for Children to Receive Same State Benefits as Foster Parents
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/05/non-parental-relatives-caring-for-children-to-receive-same-state-benefits-as-foster-parents/
— County Offers Paperless Permit Application
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/05/county-offers-paperless-permit-application/
— McHenry County Republicans Announce Darin Bailey as Lincoln Day Speaker on April 5th
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/05/mchenry-county-republicans-announce-darin-bailey-as-lincoln-day-speaker-on-april-5th/
ILLINOIS POLCY INSTITUTE
— Illinois 10th worst state for getting ahead. (COMMENT: Back in the good old days, I was able earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license even though neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and my mother never attended high school.)
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/ranking-illinois-10th-worst-state-for-getting-ahead/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Tom Cotton credits bump in Army recruits to ‘Trump effect’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3311440/tom-cotton-credits-bump-army-recruits-trump-effect/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Colombia’s President Petro calls cocaine no different from whiskey, claims only gringo prejudice gives it a bad rap
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/colombia_s_president_petro_calls_cocaine_no_different_from_whiskey_claims_only_gringo_prejudice_gives_it_a_bad_rap.html
FOX NEWS
— Detaining illegal immigrants at Guantanamo could result in legal challenges, slow deportations, experts say. The Trump administration this week began flying illegal immigrants to a military installation on the island.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/detaining-illegal-immigrants-guantanamo-result-legal-challenges-slow-deportations-experts-say
TOWNHALL
— Mexico Begins Sending Troops to Southern Border After Trump Threatens Tariffs
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/02/05/mexico-begins-sending-troops-to-southern-border-n2651711
— DEI Woke Uniparty Deep State Collusion
https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2025/02/06/dei-woke-uniparty-deep-state-collusion-n2651705#google_vignette
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— ICE releases some migrant detainees as its detention facilities reach 109% capacity
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-releases-some-migrant-detainees-detention-facilities-reach-109-percent-capacity/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Opposition lawmakers protest alleged mistreatment of Indian deportees by US
https://apnews.com/article/indian-illegal-immigration-protest-parliament-deportation-trump-90ae7999040196e3ce25dd3fa8e29137
NEWSWEEK
— 50501 Movement Fuels Anti-Trump Rallies Across the US
https://www.newsweek.com/anti-donald-trump-protests-50501-project-2025-live-updates-2026503
CNBC
— Have taken a pay cut? GAO audits IRS. In 1980, when I was 31 years old, my GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, that is, I had to take a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10. They used that to shout at everyone that GAO considered the following to be worthless my having: a) worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently$99,069-$112,280/year, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and d) earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/14/one-third-of-job-switchers-took-a-pay-cut-for-better-work-life-balance.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/trump-trans-athletes-executive-order.html
— Right-Wing Group Publishes ‘D.E.I. Watch List’ Targeting Federal Workers. The American Accountability Foundation list included names and photos of more than 50 people, many in programs aimed at improving the health of people of color. (COMMENT: Because of my bad demographics and because I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, my Democrat superiors in the federal government always had me on their purge lists.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/dei-watchlist-federal-health-workers-cdc-nih.html
— As Trump Attacks D.E.I., Some on the Left Approve
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/business/economy/trump-dei-democrats-left-unions.html
— The Trump Crisis Deepens
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/opinion/trump-power-constitution.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/02/05/transgender-students-trump-executive-order/
USA TODAY
— ‘People are feeling galvanized’: Anti-Trump protesters rally in cities across US
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/05/anti-trump-protests-50-states-updates/78239472007/
— Fear and uncertainty in federal workforce as Trump deadline arrives
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/06/trump-federal-workforce-fork-buyout-deadline-musk/78057990007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Disabled federal workers fear for their jobs after Trump remarks (COMMENT: Their employees who my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise were Democrats and were many, most, if not virtually all of the following: minority, female, veteran, disabled, and/or had performance problems.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/05/disabled-federal-employees-dei-trump/77976332007/
THE SUN
— What were you doing 50 years ago? I was working for IRS in the Loop, taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, living in my studio condo in downtown Chicago weekdays, living in my town home in University Park weekends, and owning a 1972 Corvette and a 1962 Chevy Bel Air.
https://news.thesunontheweb.com/articles/50-years-ago-220/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DEI and Disparate Impact. The next step in restoring meritocracy is to reject the theory that proportionate outcomes equal fairness.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dei-and-disparate-impact-next-step-toward-meritocracy-is-rejecting-this-theory-b65485ed
— Trump Considers Labeling Migrants a Measles, Tuberculosis Risk. Advisers have searched for disease threats that would merit emergency health law invoked during Trump’s first term for Covid-19 risk.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-asylum-seekers-measles-tuberculosis-risk-0e71a539
KIPLINGER
— Social Security Fairness Act Checklist: Six Things to Know. This Social Security Fairness Act checklist explains what public sector retirees can expect from SSFA, including how much more money they might receive. (COMMENT: The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) has dramatically reduced my Social Security since 2010.)
https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/social-security/social-security-fairness-act-checklist
PLAN ADVISER
— Potential Implementation Delays Face Social Security Fairness Act. Under the SSA’s current budget, the agency expects it could take more than one year to adjust benefits and pay all retroactive benefits. (COMMENT: The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) has dramatically reduced my Social Security since 2010.)
https://www.planadviser.com/potential-implementation-delays-face-social-security-fairness-act/
NATIONAL LAW REVIEW
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://natlawreview.com/article/employment-law-week-how-will-trumps-federal-changes-impact-employers-podcast-video
LEXOLOGY
— Requirements of the New Illinois Pay Transparency Amendment (COMMENT: Federal salaries have always been extremely transparent. GAO audits IRS. In 1980, when I was 31 years old, my IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates shouted at everyone that GAO had forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, that is, that I had to take a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10. They used that to shout at everyone that GAO considered the following to be worthless: a) my having worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, b) my having passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my having almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and d) my having earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=2cd9088a-1c7c-45d4-adec-57a619e1b71b
NPR
— Democrat leaders charge ICE with arresting “scores of migrants in the U.S. who have no criminal records.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5282379/trumps-mass-deportation-arrests-of-non-criminal-immigrants-no-criminal-record
POLITICO
— Musk aims to hobble federal workers ahead of ‘buyout’ deadline. Countless staffers in the government are now grappling with what to do. (COMMENT: I was a federal worker for almost 30 years.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/06/federal-workers-musk-buyout-fears-00202768
AXIOS
— Thousands across the U.S. protest Trump and Musk’s policies
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/05/photos-protest-trump-admin-50501
CANADIAN PRESS
— Protests against Trump and Project 2025 are planned in cities across the US
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/protesters-in-cities-across-the-us-rally-against-trump-s-policies-project-2025-and-elon-musk/ar-AA1yr7tC
DAILY MAIL
— Anti-Donald Trump and Elon Musk protests pop up across the country
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/anti-donald-trump-and-elon-musk-protests-pop-up-across-the-country/vi-AA1yu5Nv
GUARDIAN
— US military aircraft transports 104 deported people to India. Plane departed Texas and landed in Amritsar as Washington prepares to welcome Indian PM Narendra Modi.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/05/military-flight-india-immigration
— JANUARY 30, 2019 FLASKBACK: ‘How do they expect to run without us?’ Tesla accused of axing key staff to cut costs. Electric car firm slashed 7% of workforce this month and ex-employees say more experienced staff were targeted. (COMMEMT: When the Democrats who ran GAO in 1997 forced me to retire, they flushed down their toilets the experience that I had gained a) working for GAO since 1980, b) working for IRS 1971-1980, c) earning master’s degrees in 1997 (finance), 1980 (accounting), and 1976 (business), d) earning job-related professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting), and e) earning a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA).)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/30/tesla-factory-elon-musk-layoffs-company
ECONOMIC TIMES
— ‘Deport Elon, DOGE is not legit’: Protests erupt across US against Trump, Tesla CEO and Project 2025
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-protests-against-trump-elon-musk-deport-elon-doge-is-not-legit-protests-erupt-across-us-against-trump-tesla-ceo-and-project-2025-usaid/articleshow/117978132.cms
BUSINESS STANDARD
— ‘Stop attack on democracy’: Protesters rally against Trump, Musk across US
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/us-protests-against-trump-immigration-rights-transgender-gaza-2025-125020600688_1.html
TIMES OF INDIA
— Why the rich risk being illegals in America
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/why-the-rich-risk-being-illegals-in-america/
February 4, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Businesses across Chicago area close, some CPS students stay home for ‘a day without immigrants’ The national movement encouraged participants to skip work, school and refrain from shopping for one day. The initiative spread across social media in response to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject Trump’s election, that is, they ever-increasingly reject the rule of law.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/02/03/businesses-across-chicago-area-close-some-cps-students-stay-home-for-a-day-without-immigrants
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Hoping to ‘Trump proof’ students’ rights, Illinois lawmakers aim to end police ticketing at school (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasing destroy education.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/04/illinois-school-ticketing-bill/
— The more hatred that you promote against Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hates promote you.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/04/opinion-congress-powers-donald-trump/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/lake-county-volunteers-search-deep-into-the-night-for-the-homeless-they-left-their-warm-homes-to-seek-out-our-unhoused-neighbors/
— Democrats promote illegal immigration in Lake County
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/hundreds-rally-in-waukegan-for-immigrants-rights-we-will-not-let-trumps-war-on-immigrants-go-uncontested/
ABC7
— Chicago Teachers Union holding ‘walk-ins’ amid concerns over Trump policies
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-teachers-union-holding-walk-ins-amid-concerns-president-donald-trumps-policies/15863535/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47uvgPvocjo
— Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality, including Americans
https://abc7chicago.com/post/marco-rubio-says-el-salvador-offers-accept-deportees-us-any-nationality-including-americans/15862619/
— Northwestern University among 5 colleges in Trump probe by Education Dept. over alleged antisemitism
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-education-investigate-antisemitism-5-colleges-including-northwestern-university-trump-order/15862361/
CBS2
— Trump administration investigates Northwestern University claiming antisemitism
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trump-administration-investigates-northwestern-university-claiming-antisemitism/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-woman-worries-about-trump-administration-ending-temporary-immigration-program/
WGN9
— What is your connections with slavery? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) blame Republicans for all the problems that Blacks have, b) remind Blacks about past discrimination against them, c) urge Blacks to forever demand Affirmative Action (AA), DEI, and reparations, and d) promise to give Blacks the aforesaid. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that the longer that your ancestors have been in America and the more of the following that you are, the more that you have benefitted from slavery and from past discrimination against Blacks: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, and/or German American. Because I am all of the aforesaid, Democrats have always made me pay the price of AA and DEI big time. My critics/opponents have always stressed my bad demographics and that all my ancestors immigrated to Illinois during the 1840s and 1850s. They have also stressed that in 1853, Illinois passed a so called “Black Law” also known as a “Black Code.” At the time, it was the harshest restriction of Black people in the country and that it was not repealed until 1865. They have also stressed that none of my ancestors served in the Union Army. During the Civil War, on my father’s side, they raised and sold horses in Crete. Before that, they homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township. Before that, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago. On my mother’s side, they sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border. My Democrat GAO superiors hinted/implied that I discriminated against my Black subordinates. I should sue my Democrat GAO superiors.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/historic-meeting-in-illinois-paved-the-way-for-black-citizens-rights/
FOX32
— New poll shows Chicagoans losing confidence in Johnson, CTU: ‘Politically toxic’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/new-poll-chicago-mayor-ctu
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— 2 Illinois legislators support ban on abortion
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/rockford-register-star/20250204/281500756946373
INDIANAPOLIS STAR
— Indiana shouldn’t want Illinois’ poor counties (COMMENT: Since the 1850s, on my father’s side, my ancestors lived in northeast Will County. On my mother’s side, they lived in northeast Kankakee County. From what I see, if they had lived in DuPage County, they would have done much better financially. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/indiana-shouldnt-want-illinois-welfare-103038149.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The “secessionist” counties in Illinois are in the southern part of the state, with many bordering Indiana. This one-third of counties comprise only 6.6% of the Illinois population, and only 4% of the state’s economy. Per capita income in the secessionist counties is $54,381. If it were a separate state, it would be the second-poorest state in the union, sliding right in between Mississippi and West Virginia. The remaining counties in Illinois have a per capita income of $73,228. Adding the secessionist counties to Indiana would cut our per capita income enough for us to move from 14th to 11th place from the bottom. Only 18.6% of adults in these counties have completed college, while the Illinois total is 36.7%. This new post-secession Indiana would instantly be the least well-educated state, and would be right about where the U.S. as a whole was in the late 1980s. Economic growth in the secessionist counties has been at about half the rate of the rest of Illinois so far this century. And, while the rest of Illinois has experienced very modest population growth of about 1.4%, these secessionist counties have lost a whopping 5.2% of their population. If the secessionist parts of Illinois were their own state, they’d have the worst 25 years of population loss of any state in U.S. history. So, it’s pretty easy to see why these counties might be unhappy about their economic conditions. They are truly dismal. But how much of this is the fault of Illinois state government? After all, the other Illinois counties are doing much better. That includes Chicago, where the economy continues to be robust, even as population growth has stalled. Is it possible that these counties are somehow being robbed of economic opportunity by Illinois? Nope. As it turns out, these counties are essentially welfare queens of the state of Illinois. . .As it turns out, residents in these secessionist counties pay about $2,986 per person each year in state taxes. That would make them the fourth lowest-taxed residents in the nation. But here’s the rub: They receive $5,430 per person each year in support from residents of the other 69 Illinois counties. In contrast, the rest of the state collects $4,485 in state taxes each year and gets back $4,217 per person in state spending. So, each resident of the secessionist counties gets $2,444 more state dollars spent in their county each year than they pay in taxes. On top of that, they pay only 66.6 cents for every dollar of taxes residents in the other 69 Illinois counties pay. Federal taxes and spending tell a similar story. A recent study of mine calculated the share of taxes and transfer payments made at the county level to the federal government. You guessed it, the secessionist counties pay a lower federal tax rate, but receive more in Social Security payments and in other types of transfers (TANF, SNAP, etc.) than the counties that did not vote to secede from Illinois. Rural voters are failing themselves There are some useful lessons here. First, the secessionist counties of Illinois pay low state taxes but are beneficiaries of enormous transfers from the rest of Illinois. It is hard to pinpoint just what these Illinois secessionist counties are angry about. Most likely it is bad vibes borne of ignorance. There’s compelling evidence of that. If they do come to Indiana, Hoosier taxpayers will need to pony up almost $2 billion more per year to match the fiscal largesse those secessionist counties receive from the rest of Illinois. It is worth noting that those taxes are going to come primarily from urban areas, like Fishers, Carmel and Indianapolis. So, no, we don’t really want them — though it is easy to see why Illinois might not want them either. Second, neither the red state and blue state models of rural development have worked. The secessionist counties of Illinois look just like 40 or 50 declining rural counties in Indiana. Both Illinois and Indiana policymakers are failing their rural counties, though most of the blame for economic decline belongs squarely with the voters of those rural counties. Finally, the real political divisions in America are geographic. So far this century, a whopping half of all the population growth this century has occurred in just 75 out of 3,143 U.S. counties, or 2.3%. Fully 45% of U.S. counties have lost population this century. This deep economic divergence has gripped the U.S. for four decades. It is not between red or blue states, or places with high taxes or woke policies. It is primarily between urban and non-urban counties, and reflects the desire of most Americans to live in places with strong local public services — great schools, low crime and businesses that offer a mix of goods and services. Places that offer these do well; those that do not will look more and more like rural Illinois.)
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Groups demand release of after-school program funding. Programs close, staff laid off while $50M in funding remains unspent. (COMMENT. While I was a high school student, I did yard work, delivered newspapers, and washed dishes. That enabled me to buy a 1958 Chevy Bel Air at the start on my junior year in 1964 and to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint at the end of my senior year in 1966. I used that car to get to/from my parents’ home in Crete and a) summer jobs cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, and pumping gasoline in 1966, b) UIC classes in 1966 and 1967, and c) my Park Forest Post Office job 1966-1967. I sold the car to one of my coworkers in late 1967 and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442.)
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/groups-demand-release-of-after-school-program-funding/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-449/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Bally’s and the city of Chicago are engaging in illegal discrimination, plain and simple.
https://wirepoints.org/ballys-and-the-city-of-chicago-are-engaging-in-illegal-discrimination-plain-and-simple-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To get more votes from voters who have problems, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) shout at voters who have problems that Republicans cause all the problems that voters have and b) focus on voters who have bigger problems and are minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. How successful have Democrat and RINO leaders been doing that blaming in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? If voters in the aforesaid who have big problems were surveyed, on who/what would they blame their problems on? What big problems did you have? Mine included having to work my way through college. I did not blame my parents for not having more money. I blamed myself. I could not get any scholarships because I only just barely made it into the top 20% of my high school class and my ACT score was only 24. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The liberal Democrats who run Google continue to refuse to treat www.gopillinois.com as being a legitimate news website. They continue to refuse to treat me as being a legitimate political and government news and commentary aggregator, journalist, and reporter. They continue to hint/imply/argue/shout that I cannot be legitimate because I state that and I am conservative and Republican. I should write about the websites that Google treats as being legitimate news websites. I would focus on those a) that promote the Democrat Party platform and/or b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn the Republican Party platform. I would focus on those that promote the most hatred a) against Trump and b) against those who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Challenger Richard Tado Takes on Algonquin Township Supervisor Randy Funk on YouTube
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/03/challenger-richard-tado-takes-on-algonquin-township-supervisor-randy-funk-on-youtube/
— Taking Down Pritzker’s Bragging about School Success
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/03/3521/
— Reick Reprises Animal Farm
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/02/03/reick-reprises-animal-farm/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Enforcing the law breaks the law: Chicago’s ICE lawsuit. The legal equivalent of a toddler throwing a temper tantrum.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/3/enforcing-law-breaks-law-chicago-ice-lawsuit/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A coalition of anti-border organizations in Chicago has just filed what may be the dumbest lawsuit in the history of jurisprudence. In essence, it claims that enforcement of the Immigration and Nationality Act — the statute that dictates how and when foreign nationals may lawfully enter the United States — interferes with the First Amendment rights of sanctuary city advocates. Frankly, it’s hard to overstate just how moronic Organized Communities Against Deportation, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Brighton Park Neighborhood Council and Raise the Floor Alliance v. Trump are.)
— China angrily retaliates against Trump’s new 10% tariff
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/4/china-angrily-retaliates-donald-trump-new-10-tarif/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump can help prevent aviation disasters
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3309085/trump-can-help-prevent-aviation-disasters/
BREITBART
— Democratic Party Unfavorable Rating Hits 16-Year High
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/03/nolte-democratic-party-unfavorable-rating-hits-16-year-high/
— California Democrats Pass $50 Million to Fight Trump, Defend Illegal Alien Criminals; Seek Billions in Fire Aid
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/04/california-democrats-pass-50-million-to-fight-trump-defend-illegal-alien-criminals-seek-billions-in-fire-aid/
— Martha’s Vineyard Residents Defend Illegal Aliens After Previously Shipping Them Off Island
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/02/03/marthas-vineyard-residents-defend-illegal-aliens-previously-shipping-off-island/
FEDERALIST
— Why It’s Absolutely Christian To Swiftly Deport All Illegal Migrants
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/04/why-its-absolutely-christian-to-swiftly-deport-all-illegal-migrants/
FOX NEWS
— Chicago alderman accuses Mayor Johnson of only listening to ‘hyper-liberal White progressives’ on immigration. ‘He’s not concerned with African-Americans nor Latinos,’ Alderman Ray Lopez told Fox News Digital
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-alderman-accuses-mayor-johnson-only-listening-hyper-white-liberal-progressives-immigration
— Guantanamo Bay for illegals doesn’t tug at heartstrings (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint illegals as being fugitive slaves. But unlike illegals, slaves were brought into America against their will.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6368228766112
NEWSMAX
— Bill Would Allow Lawsuits Against Sanctuary Cities
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/thom-tillis-senate-bill/2025/02/03/id/1197687/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Trump Wages a Needless War. The trade fight with our neighbors is mostly costs and very little in the way of benefits.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/02/trump-wages-a-needless-war/
TOWNHALL
— Securing the Border: Trump Actions Prove It Doesn’t Require New Laws
https://townhall.com/columnists/jennybethmartin/2025/02/04/securing-the-border-trump-actions-prove-it-doesnt-require-new-laws-n2651575#google_vignette
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Trump administration to take steps to defund Education Department
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-advisers-weigh-plan-dismantle-department-education-wsj-reports-2025-02-03/
ABC NEWS
— To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrats ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise non-Whites and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/american-monuments-perpetuate-white-supremacy-myths-118423608
NEW YORK TIMES
— China Swiftly Counters Trump’s Tariffs With a Flurry of Trade Curbs. After a 10 percent tariff on Chinese products took effect on Tuesday, China announced retaliatory measures, including tariffs and an investigation of Google.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/business/economy/trump-tariffs-china.html
— House Democratic Super PAC Creates $50 Million Fund Targeting Working Class (COMMENT: My critics/opponents despise/hate a) the working class, that is, wage earners and b) unions and union members. I was a wage earned for 33 years and I was a union member for 12 of those years. According to my critics/opponents, a) all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and b) I was grossly overpaid and my benefits were far too generous. In my defense, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/democrats-house-super-pac.html
— IRS Expands Its Free Tax Filing Option (COMMENT: I use TurboTax. One could compare and contrast your balance due/refund between TurboTax and IRS’s Direct File.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/your-money/irs-tax-filing-free-online.html
— Anticipate/expect that the more demographics that you share with Trump, the more that hate-filled, Trump-hating Trump-haters will call you a racist and even worse things.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/trump-diversity-racism.html
— Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday. Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/upshot/trump-government-websites-missing-pages.html
— E.V. Owners Don’t Pay Gas Taxes. So, Many States Are Charging Them Fees. States are using higher registration fees for electric cars to make up for declining fuel taxes, but some are punitive, environmentalists say. A federal tax could be coming. (COMMENT: What about extremely low mileage EVs like mine is going to be? How about a per-miles driven tax?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/business/ev-fees-gas-tax.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Can Ban Transgender Birth Certificates. Most states allow natives to alter their recorded sex, an affront against science and a danger to women.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-can-ban-transgender-birth-certificates-policy-protect-womens-spaces-d726a9fe
— Tips to Cutting Back on Your Drinking (COMMENT: Most of my superiors in the federal government who were Democrat, older, White, and male were big drinkers. They did not approve of my not being a drinker.)
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/part-time-sober-how-you-can-join-the-ranks-f973250b
— Trump Advisers Weigh Plan to Dismantle Education Department. Administration officials are discussing executive order that could shut down key functions of the agency. (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, Republicans cut the agency’s budget. When I started, GAO had more than 6,000 employees. By the time my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire, it had less than 3,000 employees.)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/education-department-trump-executive-order-eeaf1cb6
— ‘We’re Taking It Back’: Trump Renews Threat to Seize Panama Canal
https://www.wsj.com/video/were-taking-it-back-trump-renews-threat-to-seize-panama-canal/54B3FD62-0EDD-43A9-8F06-5E59EE7167D2
NPR
— Even where weed is legal, product safety isn’t guaranteed
https://www.wvik.org/2025-02-04/even-where-weed-is-legal-product-safety-isnt-guaranteed
WION
— Donald Trump Begins Deporting Indian Migrants, 205 Illegals ‘Kicked Out’
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFFSRZNDk6YM
WIRED
— A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System. The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/
VOA NEWS
— Trump administration moves to end deportation protections for 348,000 Venezuelans
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-administration-moves-to-end-deportation-protections-for-348-000-venezuelans-/7961630.html
VOX
— Why some immigrants want fewer immigrants (COMMENT: Immigrants drive wages down for low-wage workers.
https://www.vox.com/immigration/397835/immigrants-less-immigration-trump-democrats-laken-riley-cesar-chavez
ABS-CBN
— Illegals unite near Trump Tower in Chicago and a) glorify and praise illegals and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Americans.
https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/2/4/immigrants-built-america-protesters-unite-near-trump-tower-in-chicago-1123
BUSINESS TODAY
— Trump administration begins deporting illegal migrants to India. India is the furthest destination for US military flights deporting illegals, with over 5,000 migrants being sent from El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California.
https://www.businesstoday.in/world/us/story/trump-administration-begins-deporting-illegal-migrants-to-india-after-guatemala-report-463278-2025-02-04
BUSINESS STANDARD
— 18,000 Indians identified as illegal immigrants in US; 205 deported so far
https://www.business-standard.com/finance/personal-finance/18-000-indians-identified-as-illegal-immigrants-in-us-205-deported-so-far-125020400247_1.html
February 3, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Mexico, Canada for a month
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-tariffs-mexico-paused-month-mexican-president-says/15860417/
— ‘A Day Without Immigrants’ protests and business closures in Chicago in opposition to Trump policies (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. I washed dishes for 18 months while I was in high school. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, they would have gotten that job.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/day-immigrants-chicago-business-owners-city-close-monday-protest-president-trumps-immigration-policies/15859639/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump threatens to fire more than 100 Chicago EPA workers. An email tells new employees that the agency can “immediately terminate you.” (COMMENT: I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980. Because I had served my federal probationary period by working for IRS for almost 9 years, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious that they could not just fire me. However, they did force the GAO manager to retire who had arranged my transfer.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/02/03/trump-threatens-to-fire-100-chicago-epa-workers-environmental-protection-agency
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The warnings came in an email sent last week to most-recently hired workers who have not yet put in enough time to enjoy more job-protection benefits. “As a probationary/trial period employee, the agency has the right to immediately terminate you,” the email said. “The process for probationary removal is that you receive a notice of termination, and your employment is ended immediately.”)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Musk tightens grip on federal government as Democrats raise alarms
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/elon-musk-federal-government/
— Some Chicago businesses close their doors to protest immigration crackdown (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. I washed dishes for 18 months while I was in high school. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, they would have gotten that job.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/chicago-has-always-been-a-city-of-immigrant-workers-some-chicago-businesses-close-their-doors-to-protest-immigration-crackdown/
— South suburban business advocates warn targeting of DEI will hurt small businesses and the economy (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO employers use DEI a) to not hire Republicans like me and b) to get rid of their Republican employees like I was.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/03/south-suburban-business-advocates-dei-economy/
DAILY HERALD
— ‘We’re all humans’: Immigrant advocates rally in West Chicago to protest mass deportations (COMMENT: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250203/nation-and-world-politics/were-all-humans-immigrant-advocates-rally-in-west-chicago-to-protest-mass-deportations/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Carrying signs with slogans including “FIGHT IGNORANCE NOT IMMIGRATION,” a crowd of more than 150 people gathered in West Chicago to protest mass deportations Monday, saying the policy unfairly targets Latino residents. “We’re all humans at the end of the day. No one is illegal,” West Chicagoan Jessica Garnica said. “This is a new civil rights movement,” Casa DuPage Workers Center Executive Organizer Cristobal Cavazos said. He helped organize the Day Without Immigrants March and Rally, intended to demonstrate the importance of the Chicago area’s Latino community. Multiple Latinos are “not going to work, not going to school, not buying anything. The majority of people (at the rally) are essential workers in the factories, in the warehouses, in the restaurants,” Cavazos said. Drivers in passing cars and semitrucks honked as participants gathered at Route 59 near Route 38 before marching to the West Chicago City Hall. Mexican immigrants “bring a lot of diversity and culture to the U.S.” but are often treated with disrespect, university student Ajimelec Garcia of West Chicago said. As well as in Chicago, ICE actions have been reported in Deer Park, Elgin, Palatine, Round Lake, Waukegan and West Chicago as part of President Donald Trump’s deportation ramp-up. Federal authorities said their priority is arresting criminals but protesters feared longtime residents with jobs and families will be swept up. “A lot of people are worried,” Garcia said. “I feel they don’t really honestly care if you have papers, in a way. As long as you’re Mexican they don’t want you here.” On Fox News Sunday, Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan cited a 93% decrease in illegal border crossings. “We can’t have strong national security if we don’t have border security. We need to know who’s coming in, what’s coming in, where it’s coming in and why it’s coming in.” About 5,000 arrests were made in the first week, with the majority being criminals, Homan said. He added “noncriminals are (being) arrested in sanctuary cities because you force us into the community rather than arresting the bad guy in jail. And, when we find that criminal, he’s most likely with others, and they’re going to go, too. “If you want to be a sanctuary city, you’re going to get exactly what you don’t want — more agents in the city and more noncriminals arrested,” Homan said. Marcher Alejandra Jacobo of West Chicago said she’s concerned about loved ones. “They’ve worked so hard, most of the time for minimum wage,” Jacobo said. “I know they’re (ICE) doing their jobs, but do not take our good people. Just take the bad ones. These are the ones you should be chasing after.” Handmade signs sported slogans including “MEXICANS MAKE AMERICA GR8,” MY PARENTS ARE NOT CRIMINALS FOR WANTING A BETTER LIFE,” AND “AMERICA WE ARE YOUR PEOPLE.” Marchers included seniors, teens and kids in strollers. “We’re staying strong as a community,” Garnica said. “When you believe in God, he’s the one who’s going to guide us through.” The rally was organized by the Casa DuPage Workers Center and DuPage Immigrant Solidarity.)
— Canada Follows Mexico in Reaching Deal to Delay Trump Tariffs. The leaders of Mexico and Canada each said they had struck agreements to pause tariffs for 30 days, but levies on products from China were still set to take effect just after midnight. (COMMENT: I have ordered a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T that will be built in Canada.)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/03/us/trump-tariffs
— DuPage County keeps federal lobbyist
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250203/news/dupage-county-keeps-federal-lobbyist/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— How are Chicago schools responding to increased immigration enforcement? Here are five examples. (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/how-chicago-schools-are-responding-immigration-enforcement
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL EWGISTER
— Pritzker calls Trump ‘incompetent’, says Illinois families will feel impact of new tariffs
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/02/03/gov-pritzker-is-vocal-about-pres-trump-calls-him-incompetent/78181424007/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Restaurants shutter nationwide for ‘Day Without Immigrants’ protests (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. I washed dishes for 18 months while I was in high school. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, they would have gotten that job.)
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/restaurants-shutter-nationwide-for-day-without-immigrants-protests-trump-mass-deporations-immigration-policies-washington-dc-utah-florida-california
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-241/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— From what I see, Democrats have decided to not only reject Trump’s presidency, but to end it. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Party Army. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— McCombie urges cohesion amid party in fighting
http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/illinois-quick-hits-mccombie-urges-cohesion-amid-party-in-fighting-conservation-group-raises-bird-flu-concerns/ar-AA1yl60B
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The head of Illinois House Republicans is responding to calls for her to step down from her leadership role. The Illinois Freedom Caucus, made up of six state representatives and one senator, is accusing House Minority Leader Tony McCombie of playing “silly games” after she denied several services at the Capitol for not voting for her as leader. McCombie said the suspension of certain caucus-specific services does not affect any legislator’s ability to serve constituents, and the focus should be on “fighting Democrat policies that are failing Illinois families, not each other.”)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Mexico’s president blames U.S. for arming cartels (COMMENT: From what I see, Mexico will side with America’s enemies in WWIII.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/3/mexico-president-claudia-sheinbaum-blames-u-arming/
NEW YORK POST
— NJ Gov. Phil Murphy reveals he’s housing a migrant at his residence — and tells feds ‘good luck’ trying to get her. (COMMENT: Murphy wants to be a modern day George Wallace.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/03/us-news/nj-gov-phil-murphy-reveals-hes-housing-a-migrant-at-his-residence-and-tells-feds-good-luck-trying-to-get-her/
FEDERALIST
— Former Mexican Consulate Lawyer Coaches Illegals To Lie To ICE (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against America. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrats’ invading army.)
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/03/report-former-mexican-consulate-lawyer-coaches-illegals-to-lie-to-ice/
CAMPUS REFORM
— University of Minnesota charges up to $1,575 for online DEI certificate (COMMENT: I should add up all the money that I paid for tuition and books to earn a) a bachelor’s degree (NIU-management-1970), b) three master’s degrees (Loyola- business-1976, DePaul-accounting 1980, and IIT-finance-1997), and two professional certifications CPA-1979 and Certified Internal Auditor-1981) and adjust that money to today’s dollars.)
https://www.campusreform.org/article/university-minnesota-charges-1575-online-dei-certificate/27386
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Celebrities Put on a Parade of Wokeness at Grammys, Proving They Didn’t Learn Their Lesson in 2024 (COMMENT: From what I see, Democrats have decided to not only reject Trump’s presidency, but to end it. Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Party Army.)
https://www.westernjournal.com/celebrities-put-parade-wokeness-grammys-proving-didnt-learn-lesson-2024/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Education Dept. to probe antisemitism at 5 universities, including Columbia, Northwestern, Berkeley
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/education-dept-antisemitism-universities-columbia-northwestern-berkeley/
NEWSWEEK
— National ’50 States’ Anti-Trump Protest Planned for Feb 5: What to Know (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against America. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrats’ invading army.)
https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-february-5-details-2025300
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— ACLU Sues Over Trump Ban on Asylum at U.S.-Mexico Border (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against America. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrats’ invading army.)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-03/aclu-sues-over-trump-ban-on-asylum-at-u-s-mexico-border
WASHINGTON POST
— Immigrant advocates file lawsuit challenging Trump asylum shutdown. The Trump administration has claimed there is an “invasion” on the U.S.-Mexico border to justify summarily expelling migrants without giving them a chance to apply for asylum. (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against America. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrats’ invading army.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/03/aclu-lawsuit-asylum-border/
— Here’s who’s been ousted from FBI, Justice Dept. so far. Will it stand? (COMMENT: My Democrat GAO superiors ousted me, that is, they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. My critics/opponents have no problem with that. Actually, they are furious that I have gotten a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension since then. Currently it is $66,680/year. So far, in today’s dollars, CSRS has paid me $1.8 million.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/03/fbi-justice-firings-removals-due-process/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Another Thing Musk Hates About Germany: Absentee Workers at His Tesla Plant (COMMENT: While I was a student at NIU in 1970, Chrysler hired me to work in its Belvidere plant on Mondays because that was when absenteeism was highest.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-german-tesla-factory-workers-0317574f
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Elon Musk was taken aback last fall by reports of high absenteeism at Tesla’s TSLA -5.17%decrease; red down pointing triangle factory near Berlin. “This sounds crazy. Looking into it,” the company’s workaholic chief executive wrote last September on X, the social-media platform he owns, responding to a tweet citing a sickness rate above 15%. The number of workers calling in sick has long been a flashpoint at the facility, where managers are battling to preserve the freewheeling spirit of an American tech company amid union pressure to hew closer to more worker-friendly European practices. The culture clash offers corporate context for Musk’s increasingly frequent interjections on European politics, including his recent endorsement of the far-right Alternative for Germany party.)
ACLU
— Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Efforts to Completely Shut Down Asylum at the Border (COMMENT: Democrats have declared a Second Civil War against America. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrats’ invading army.)
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/immigrants-rights-advocates-sue-trump-administration-over-efforts-to-completely-shut-down-asylum-at-the-border
ACCOUNTNG TODAY
— Illinois lawmakers propose alternative paths to CPA license (COMMENT: Because my becoming a licensed CPA when I was 32 years old in 1981 was my biggest professional accomplishment, my critics/opponents have ignored/dismissed/belittled that the most. None of my GAO Chicago office superiors, supervisors, coworkers, or subordinates were licensed CPAs.)
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/illinois-lawmakers-propose-alternative-paths-to-cpa-license
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 77% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that requiring photo ID to vote is a reasonable measure to protect the integrity of elections – up from 74% in 2021. Just 17% disagree.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/election_integrity_77_favor_voter_id
February 2, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump says Americans could feel ‘some pain’ from his new tariffs that are triggering a trade war (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-justin-trudeau-claudia-sheinbaum-respond-says-americans-could-feel-pain/15857363/
— Fans at Raptors game continue trend of booing US national anthem at pro sporting events in Canada (COMMENT: If the past predicts the future, I will hear complaints about Trump when I hand-deliver campaign literature and sample ballots in my precinct for the April 1 election. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris in the November 5 election.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/fans-boo-national-anthem-us-toronto-raptors-game-los-angeles-clippers-hours-canada-tariffs-imposed/15858045/
CBS2
— Pritzker says “working families will pay the price” for President Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/gov-jb-pritzker-president-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china/
WGN9
— EU warns Trump it would ‘respond firmly’ to tariffs (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://wgntv.com/news/national/eu-warns-trump-it-would-respond-firmly-to-tariffs/
FOX32
— Trump tariffs latest: China to file lawsuit for ‘wrongful practices of US’ (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-tariffs-canada-response-china-mexico
WGN RADIO
— The future of electric vehicles in Illinois (COMMENT: I should listen to this.)
https://wgnradio.com/outside-the-loop-radio/otl-955-the-future-of-electric-vehicles-in-illinois-restorative-justice-in-north-lawndale/
WBEZ
— Following lawsuit, McDonald’s no longer requiring Hispanic heritage for its Hispanic college scholarships. The Chicago-based fast food giant changed its scholarship criteria to settle a discrimination lawsuit. (COMMENT: Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me.)
https://www.wbez.org/business/2025/02/02/lawsuit-mcdonalds-hispanic-heritage-college-scholarships
— Removing medical debt from credit reports opens door to economic opportunity: ‘It gives me hope’ (COMMENT: The federal government paying 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to get rid of me.)
https://www.wbez.org/money/2025/02/02/medical-debt-credit-reports-home-mortages-housing-opportunity
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Friends say Army captain killed in midair collision was a ‘brilliant and fearless’ patriot
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/army-captain-midair-collision/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/02/02/cps-non-citizen-school-advisory-board-mayor-johnson-appointees-jessica-canas
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Trump’s federal worker buyout offer: What does it mean for Illinois? (COMMENT: In 1993, when I was 45 years old, the Democrats who ran GAO “offered” $25,000 buyouts and early retirement to get rid of its older White male non-veteran employees who they had not promoted to GS-15, currently $163,749-$180,974/year in today’s dollars. I was eligible because I had 25 years of federal service – 13 with GAO, 9 with IRS, and 3 with the Post Office. They succeeded in forcing me to retire in 1997 just before their “offer” expired. If I had not succumbed, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until 2003. Things that I did that helped me survive 1993-1997 include a) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, b) becoming a Certified Forensic Accountant in 1997, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Fraud Examiner in 1990, Internal Auditor and licensed CPA in 1981, and CPA in 1979, and c) earning master’s degrees in accounting from DePaul in 1980 and in business from Loyola in 1976.)
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2025/02/01/what-does-trumps-buyout-offer-mean-for-illinois-federal-employees/78086399007/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “Trump used fentanyl to justify tariffs, but the crisis was already easing.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-02-02/trump-used-fentanyl-to-justify-tariffs-but-the-crisis-was-already-easing
WAND TV
— Democrats say: “Trump kept his pledge on tariffs” and ask “Is he ready for the fallout? Are Americans?” (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/trump-kept-his-pledge-on-tariffs-is-he-ready-for-the-fallout-are-americans-heres/article_f5fb599b-e26d-529c-9c4d-79f9b7886556.html
SOUTHLAND JOURNAL
— Homer Township ReSet Slate a “No-Show” at Will County Republican Debate Amidst Democratic Endorsement Controversy
https://thesouthlandjournal.com/homer-township-reset-slate-a-no-show-at-will-county-republican-debate-amidst-democratic-endorsement-controversy/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
REPUBLICANS FOR MILTON TOWNSHIP
— COMMENT: I look forward to hand-delivering campaign literature for the candidates and a copy of the sample ballot to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter.
https://republicansformilton.com/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Milton Township Democrats have ramped up their efforts to keep Milton Township Republican Assessor candidate Chuck Argianas off the April 1 ballot. Another hearing is scheduled for 3:00 PM, Thursday, February 6, in the Wheaton City Hall 2nd Floor Council Chambers. I will be there. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Bishop Budde pushes propaganda with pleas for mercy. A political hissy thinly disguised as Christianity.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/bishop-budde-pushes-propaganda-pleas-mercy/
— Wall Street Journal slams Trump tariffs against U.S. neighbors and trading partners (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/wall-street-journal-slams-donald-trump-tariffs-u-n/
— Trump tariffs spark retaliation from Canada, Mexico and China (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/donald-trump-tariffs-spark-retaliation-canada-mexi/
— Driscoll refuses order to list FBI employees involved in Jan. 6 cases amid ouster of agency leaders
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/brian-driscoll-acting-fbi-director-thin-ice-refusi/
— Trump’s efforts to reshape federal workforce test legal boundaries (COMMENT: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. If the federal workforce looked like America, half of it would be Republican.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/31/trump-efforts-reshape-federal-workforce-test-legal/
— Ex-FBI director Comey calls on DOJ and FBI employees to fight Trump administration for lost jobs (COMMENT: I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. Few in government or politics fought Gingrich’s gutting of GAO.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/2/james-comey-urges-doj-fbi-employees-fight-trump-ad/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Tom Homan warns sanctuary cities against sheltering illegal immigrants from ICE (COMMENT: How strongly are the Democrat and RINO leaders of your county, township, municipality, and school district sheltering illegals?)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3308196/tom-homan-warns-sanctuary-cities-against-sheltering-illegal-immigrants/
— Liberal objections to mass deportations go hilariously wrong
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3307032/liberal-objections-mass-deportations-go-wrong/
— DeSantis calls out Florida legislature for ‘defacto sanctuary state’ bill
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3308057/desantis-florida-legislature-defacto-sanctuary-state-bill/
NEW YORK POST
— Republicans hold their breath as Trump ignites trade war with Canada, Mexico and China: ‘Tariffs are simply taxes’
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/us-news/republicans-hold-their-breath-as-trump-ignites-trade-war-with-canada-mexico-and-china-tariffs-are-simply-taxes/
— Transportation chief Sean Duffy claims department traded core mission for DEI, vows to add air traffic controllers (COMMENT: Democrats use DEI to get rid of Republicans. The Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 traded its core mission for DEI. They ever-increasingly got rid of GAO employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. They would have gotten rid of me sooner than they did if I had not a) earned job-related master’s degrees 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) earned a job-related professional license in 1981.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/us-news/transportation-chief-sean-duffy-vows-to-add-air-traffic-controllers-says-department-traded-core-mission-for-dei/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegals hinder ICE attempts to arrest and deport them
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/alarming_report_illegals_hinder_ice_attempts_to_arrest_and_deport_them.html
— With Trump imposing tariffs, suddenly the media is concerned about inflation (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/with_trump_imposing_tariffs_suddenly_the_media_is_concerned_about_inflation.html
FOX NEWS
— Trump defends tariffs, accuses Canada of being ‘very abusive of the United States’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-defends-tariffs-accuses-canada-being-very-abusive-united-states-video
NEWSMAX
— Sanctuary City Mayors Must Face Consequences
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/chad-wolf-brandon-johnson-ice/2025/02/02/id/1197517/
— Migrant Crackdown Uses ‘Whole of Government’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/frank-tarentino-dea-immigration/2025/02/02/id/1197511/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Trump administration ends temporary immigration program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-ends-temporary-immigration-program-venezuela/
— FBI distributing questionnaire probing agents’ work on Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases, sources say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-questionnaire-jan-6-agents/
REUTERS
— Trump curtails protections around diversity, LGBTQ rights (COMMENT: How many marginalized groups are you a member of? My critics/opponents stress that I am not a member of any marginalized group. I am not liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, or citizen of a foreign country. According to my critics/opponents, because I am not a member of any marginalized group, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-sign-orders-ending-diversity-programs-proclaiming-there-are-only-two-sexes-2025-01-20/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. The decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dangerous countries. (COMMENT: According to Democrat and RINO leaders, all foreign countries are dangerous, and therefore, all their citizens are marginalized and should come to America illegally.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/trump-venezuela-temporary-protected-status.html
— The Democrat Party’s message is very clear: vote for us and we will use government give you preference big time, and especially if you are liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are a citizen of a foreign country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/democrats-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Disability advocates fear backlash, discrimination after Trump’s FAA comments (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, they assigned me to supervise all their disabled employees.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/02/trump-crash-disabilities-dei/
FORBES
— The Urgent Case For Supporting Marginalized Groups In Today’s Society (COMMENT: How many marginalized groups are you a member of? My critics/opponents stress that I am not a member of any marginalized group. I am not liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, or citizen of a foreign country. According to my critics/opponents, because I am not a member of any marginalized group, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sughnenyongo/2024/06/10/the-urgent-case-for-supporting-marginalized-groups-in-todays-society/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— America is doing retirement all wrong. Retirees look forward to doing nothing all day. Turns out that’s a big mistake. (COMMENT: What do you look forward to do? I look forward to filling a tremendous communication void in Illinois by putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out every morning. I also look forward to hand-delivering campaign literature for the Republican candidates along with a copy of the sample ballot to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter. I also look forward to car shows, and especially those at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/america-is-doing-retirement-all-wrong-boomers-aging-longevity-happiness-2024-12
GOOGLE
— Dependent on other countries (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, America has become ever-increasingly dependent on other countries. Too many of those countries despise/hate America.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22dependent+on+other+countries
STUDENT AID
— Do You Need Money for College? (COMMENT: I needed money for college. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. I did not apply for aid. I did not apply for scholarships because I had only just barely made it into upper 20% of my high school class and my ACT score was only 24. Instead, I worked my way through college. To earn money for my UIC and NIU expenses and for new cars to get to/from classes and jobs and my parents’ home in Crete, I washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, and worked on an automobile assembly line in 1970. I graduated from NIU in August of 1970 debt-free and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. But my GPA suffered because I worked many hours instead of studying.)
https://studentaid.gov/sites/default/files/do-you-need-money.pdf
COMMON DREAMS
— Progressives Won’t Help the Working Class by Abandoning Marginalized Groups. Leaders must reject false choices rooted in the idea that social and economic advancement is a zero-sum game or that working-class people must spar over scraps while all the spoils go to the elite few. (COMMENT: How many marginalized groups are you a member of? My critics/opponents stress that I am not a member of any marginalized group. I am not liberal, Democrat, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, disabled, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, or citizen of a foreign country. According to my critics/opponents, because I am not a member of any marginalized group, I should pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI big time.)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/progressives-don-t-abandon-marginalized
February 2, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Conflicting preliminary data raises questions about aircrafts’ altitude at time of DC midair crash. Flight data shows American Airlines jet was at 325 feet, tower data shows Army helicopter was at 200 feet at time of collision.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dc-plane-crash-updates-conflicting-preliminary-data-raises-questions-american-airlines-flight-army-helicopter-altitudes/15855126/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PIOCTURE: Chicago becomes an epicenter of resistance amid Trump’s immigration crackdown (COMMENT: Arguably, Pritzker is the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater in America. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly get rid of the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/chicago-ice-trump-immigration-deportation/
— What will Mayor Brandon Johnson’s playbook be against ‘raggedy’ Trump White House? (COMMENT: Arguably, Brando is the biggest hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hater in Chicago. Anticipate/expect that Brandon will ever-increasingly get rid of the 22% in Chicago who voted for Trump.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/mayor-brandon-johnsons-playbook-trump-white-house/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/22/heidi-stevens-balancing-act-bishop-budde-trump/
— Evanston ever-increasing promotes more illegal immigration
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/27/evanston-church-offers-sanctuary-to-immigrants/
— When disaster strikes, Donald Trump’s instinct is to blame DEI first (COMMENT: The adverse impacts of Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI on occupations vary and can be difficult to measure. To implement AA and DEI is to lower standards. To meet their AA and DEI quotas, goals, and targets, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered standards. That rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license. They flushed the aforesaid down their toilets when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/02/column-donald-trump-plane-crash-washington-dei-page/
WGN RADIO
— Are you in the top 1% of earners in Illinois, Indiana or Wisconsin? (COMMENT: What is the most that you earned? Because I never earned more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars, my critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a career failure. Further, they have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the federal government grossly overpaid me. When they are not ignoring/dismissing/belittling/badmouthing my having earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related profession certifications, and a job-related professional license, they hint/imply/argue/shout that my having all the aforesaid qualifications and my still earning only $153,151/year in today’s dollars proves that I am a career failure.)
https://wgnradio.com/news/list-are-you-in-the-top-1-of-earners-in-illinois-indiana-or-wisconsin/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Reviewing data from the Social Security Administration, GOBankingRates recently determined that to be among the top 1% of earners in the U.S., you need to make at least $794,129 annually. That works out to about $66,180 a week — for comparison, the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau found the average annual household income in 2023 was $80,610. . .In Illinois, you need to make $811,004 to be in the top 1%. In Indiana, the threshold is $572,403, and in Wisconsin it’s $631,993.)
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Two Illinois legislators support labeling unborn American children as ‘persons’ in bill
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/01/31/illinois-legislators-are-cosponsors-of-federal-abortion-ban/78059289007/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Trapped in irrelevance, GOP attacks Dems’ legislative maps
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-trapped-in-irrelevance-gop-attacks-dems-legislative-maps/article_45b46aca-df46-11ef-ad88-2704e5b9a6b0.html
MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— The more hatred that you promote against Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote you. Arguably, Pritzker is the biggest Trump-hater in America. Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will ever-increasingly get rid of the 2.4 million in Illinois who voted for Trump.
https://muddyrivernews.com/politics/pritzker-vs-trump/20250201075633/
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicagodefender.com/ben-jealous-trumps-america-last-agenda-is-a-knife-in-the-back-of-working-people/
WKDQ
— Popular Illinois Concert Venue To Sell Cannabis During Shows (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly push more pot.)
https://wkdq.com/ixp/722/p/cannabis-concert-venue-illinois/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Ken Martin, Who Called for Trump To Be Charged With Treason (COMMENT: Who has taken adverse actions against you? I should write about those who have taken most/biggest adverse actions against me and the pretexts that they used.)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/ken-martin-who-called-for-trump-to-be-charged-with-treason-elected-dnc-chair/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrats waging ‘holy war’ as Trump ends 50 years of affirmative-action tyranny (COMMENT: Democrats use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/opinion/democrats-will-wage-holy-war-as-trump-ends-dei-tyranny/
AMERICAN THINKER
— How low can you go? As we debate the future of the Department of Education, we get news that U.S. children are not being educated. Something is wrong, because this department has a budget of $90 billion. How are we spending those billions? Not well as we see in this report. (COMMENT: My teachers at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961, Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962, and Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966 put me on track to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/how_low_can_you_go.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Millions on the line for Episcopal Church as ‘woke’ bishop lectured Trump on migrants (COMMENT: How much money does your church take from Democrat and RINO leaders to promote more illegal immigration?)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/02/01/millions-on-the-line-for-episcopal-church-as-woke-bishop-lectured-trump-on-migrants-1520136/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Episcopal Migration Ministries announced it will lay off employees and end its federally funded work as the Episcopal News Service reported that as one of “10 agencies with federal contracts to resettle refugees on behalf of the State Department” the EMM’s work “ground to a halt last week when President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program as one of his first acts after taking office Jan. 20.”)
FOX NEWS
— FAA Academy in Oklahoma struggled to fill classrooms due to DEI quotas (COMMENT: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/faa-academy-oklahoma-struggled-fill-classrooms-due-dei-quotas-sen-mullin-says
— Parents ‘overjoyed’ with Trump’s DEI crackdown, education group says (COMMENT: My teachers at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961, Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962, and Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966 put me on track to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.)
China denounces Trump tariff: ‘Fentanyl is America’s problem’
— House GOP elections chair reveals which voter blocs Republicans are targeting ahead of 2026 (COMMENT: According to Democrat plant and RINO political consultants in Illinois, DuPage County, and Milton Township, Republican candidates should target those who have demographics that vote for Democrats by dumping those who have demographics that vote for Republicans. I have all demographics that vote for Republicans. I should write about those Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who have not only dumped me, but have taken many big adverse actions against me.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-gop-elections-chair-reveals-which-voter-blocs-republicans-targeting-ahead-2026
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The more demographics that you have that vote for Democrats, the faster the pathways that Democrats give you to citizenship.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5119825-trump-immigration-crackdown-southern-border-asylum-cbp-one-refugees/
MSNBC
— Pentagon agency bans Black History Month in compliance with Trump’s anti-DEI push (COMMENT: My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-agency-bans-black-history-111555895.html
MSN
— Black History Month faces uncertainty under President Trump’s diversity rollback (COMMENT: My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/politics/black-history-month-faces-uncertainty-under-president-trump-s-diversity-rollback/ar-AA1yenKi
REUTERS
— China denounces Trump tariff: ‘Fentanyl is America’s problem’ (COMMENT: To push fentanyl in America is to destroy America. How much success have hate-filled America-hating America-haters had pushing fentanyl in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-denounces-trump-tariff-fentanyl-is-americas-problem-2025-02-02/
— Democrats elect Ken Martin as chair to rebuild demoralized party (COMMENT: Serving as the chairman of a political organization is a thankless job. I served as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. Also, I served on the Steering Committee of the Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007. Also, I headed Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial primary campaign in Milton Township in 2002. Also, I have served as the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. Because of the aforesaid, my critics/opponents have blamed me for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on a) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party and b) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct who have suffered losses and their major donors, political consultants, fundraisers, pollsters, and campaign managers. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW806401022025RP1/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters blame Trump for the plane crash. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI at FAA did in fact cause the crash, Trump should have gotten rid of AA and DEI at FAA when he was President 2017-2021. If previous presidents had gotten rid of AA and DEI in the federal government sooner, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/politics/trump-plane-crash-dei-faa-diversity.html
— Amid Trump’s Anti-Diversity Effort, Black History Month Takes On New Meaning. Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of defiance. (COMMENT: My subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with was Black and always led the office’s Black History Month events. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/trump-black-history-month.html
— Education Officials Placed on Leave in Trump’s Sprawling Effort to Curb D.E.I. (COMMENT: When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors did far more than place me on leave, they forced me to retire. Because of that, in today’s dollars, my Civil Service Retirement system is only 44% of what my GAO salary was in 1997 and less than what my IRS salary was in 1972.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/trump-dei-education-department.html
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/opinion/trump-dei-diversity-meritocracy.html
— Official Email Urges Federal Workers to Find ‘Higher Productivity’ Jobs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/federal-workers-opm.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Pritzker bans Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump from state jobs. The order would apply to more than 50 people from Illinois who were given pardons or commutations by President Donald Trump. (COMMENT: After my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, they did everything that they could to ban me from getting employment appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/01/illinois-pritzker-trump-pardons/
USA TODAY
— As crash victims’ families start calling lawyers, Trump’s words may be evidence in suits. (COMMENT: The adverse impacts of Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI on occupations vary and can be difficult to measure. To implement AA and DEI is to lower standards. To meet their AA and DEI quotas, goals, and targets, my Democrat superiors in the federal government ever-increasingly lowered standards. That rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license. They flushed the aforesaid down their toilets when they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/01/aviation-lawsuit-experts-say-trump-duffy-comments-will-impact-claims/78091407007/
— ‘Earned her place’: Friends grieve Rebecca Lobach, US Army pilot killed in DC crash
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/01/capt-rebecca-lobach-army-pilot-killed-crash/78130730007/
— Illinois lawmakers file bill to repeal ‘Trust Act,’ require police to work with ICE
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/2025/01/28/illinois-lawmakers-want-law-enforcement-to-work-with-ice/78000550007/
FORBES
— Union Popularity Hits 70%, But Trump’s NLRB Move Threatens Labor (COMMENT: My critics/opponents despise/hate a) the working class, that is, wage earners and b) unions and union members. I was a wage earned for 33 years and I was a union member for 12 of those years. According to my critics/opponents, a) all the jobs that I had were bad jobs that they would never stoop to take and b) I was grossly overpaid and my benefits were far too generous. In my defense, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2025/01/28/union-popularity-hits-70-but-trumps-nlrb-move-threatens-labor/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: And, not surprisingly support for unions is especially high among workers…with bad jobs.)
INDEED
— 15 Tips for Comparing Job Offers (COMMENT: In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, because I have always been a Republican and because I would never become a Democrat, I should not have become a federal employee. Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. The federal government wastes the careers of and gets rid of its Republican employees, and especially those like me who are conservative, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/job-offer-comparison
NEW YORKER
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly a) use wokeness/wokeism to destroy Republicans and b) call Republicans White supremacists, Nazis, KKK members, haters, racists, sexists, bigots, and even worse things who should be gotten rid of once and for all. Because of the aforesaid, Republicans should be ever-increasingly doing more for their self-defense.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/10/donald-trumps-anti-woke-wrecking-ball
HERALD SUN
— Canada joins Mexico in retaliation as Trump trade war heats up
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/subscribe/news/1/