Tag: political

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE AND GRAPHIC: Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Democrat and Non-Affiliated voters to vote for Democrat candidates to punish Trump. They succeeded in getting from 166 to 179 in my precinct to vote for Democrat Milton Township candidates while only 126-143 voted for Republican Township candidates. I base my opinions on the many conversations that I have had with many registered voters in my precinct since 2015 and the political actions that those voters have and have not taken.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250406/local-politics/what-drove-voter-turnout-in-some-suburban-counties-this-election/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— As teens ‘take over’ downtown once again, Chicago faces a choice
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/06/chicago-teen-takeovers/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/06/tariffs-new-york-economy-candy/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/06/editorial-international-tourism-choose-chicago-trump/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/07/opinion-america-first-isolationism-ukraine/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s budget cuts to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/06/shutdown-of-regional-head-start-offices-creates-confusion-but-feds-say-funding-will-continue/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders use “young classical musicians” to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/music/2025/04/06/young-classical-musicians-undeterred-by-trumps-dei-reversal-earn-standing-ovation-at-symphony-center

ABC7
— Democrat leaders use a “youth orchestra” to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/equity-arc-pathways-orchestra-performs-chicago-youth-music-festival-washington-dc-show-canceled-due-anti-dei-order/16136411/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-county-swung-trump-grapples-immigration-crackdown-panaderia-is-targeted/16134652/

NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/what-is-a-recession-and-what-could-it-mean-for-you-heres-what-to-know/3715188/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Israel.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/israel-gaza-bombing/3715082/

CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/thousands-packed-chicagos-daley-plaza-part-of-nationwide-hands-off-protests/


SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://thesouthern.com/news/even-after-rain-cancellation-450-people-protest-trump-with-hands-off-campaign/article_8e9d1e79-c7e4-5f02-9ddf-4edce241d853.html

SHAW LOCAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/04/06/northern-illinois-hands-off-protests-rally-thousands-against-government-overreach/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-05/photos-see-demonstrators-around-the-country-rally-in-hands-off-protests
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-06/how-the-trump-administration-is-sidestepping-the-legal-process-for-deportations

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— UIC accepted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992, But if they could have, they would accepted foreign students instead of me.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/gop-senators-back-crackdown-on-foreign-students/

DEPAULIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://depauliaonline.com/76339/news/thousands-of-chicagoans-participate-in-nationwide-hands-off-protests/

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://chicagodefender.com/costcos-foot-traffic-increases-for-13th-week-after-reaffirming-dei/

CHICAGOLAND JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/thousands-of-chicagoans-rise-up-and-fight-back-against-trump-musk-agenda-in-massive-rally-march/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Funds cut for cultural groups
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/07/feds-cut-grants-to-illinois-humanities-council-00276184

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/07/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-490/
— Behind the ‘complete wipeout’ in DuPage and what’s to come
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/07/behind-the-complete-wipeout-in-dupage-and-whats-to-come/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— As the Democrat Party tightens its grip on Illinois, on DuPage County, on Milton Township, and on Wheaton, anticipate/expect that more elected Republicans will officially become Democrats. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all my critics/opponents who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican will officially become Democrats. They all have always been anti-religious, anti-conservative, and/or anti-Republican. They all have always been RINOs if not Democrat plants. I should write about them. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats run the federal government. If I had become a Democrat, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service before I was 40 years old in 1988. I say that because a) I earned an MBA when I was 27, a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and a master’s degree in finance when I was 48, b) I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt when I was 30 and 32, c) I became a licensed CPA when I was 32, and d) I earned additional job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 46, and 48. None of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing anything like the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly position themselves as being protectors of disadvantaged/marginalized/oppressed groups. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause all the problems that members of those groups have. Members of those groups include those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, in America illegally, have less money than others, have financial, health, and or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, prostitutes, and criminals. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders use up-or-out, that is, age discrimination, to get rid of Republicans. Republicans should know that Democrat and RINO leaders will get rid of you if you are not making say a) $100,000/year by age 25, c) $200,000/year by age 30, d) $300,000/year by age 35, e) $400,000/year by age 40, f) etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
—  Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend their platform. Trump got elected by promising to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. Republican Trump critics/opponents have standing to complain when he promotes things that are not in the Republican Party platform and especially when he does things against the Republican Party platform. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pope criticizes immigration walls while living behind one
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/6/pope-criticizes-immigration-walls-living-behind-one/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illinois Democrats bully home school families
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3371486/illinois-democrats-bully-home-school-families/
— Trump’s MAGA brand may be nontransferable to rest of GOP. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend their platform. Trump got elected by promising to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. Republican Trump critics/opponents have standing to complain when he promotes things that are not in the Republican Party platform and especially when he does things against the Republican Party platform.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3370799/trump-maga-brand-nontransferrable-rest-of-gop/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The Poverty of the Criticism of Trump’s Agenda. The left rages against Trump but offers no real alternatives on debt, trade, or immigration—just noise, while results quietly pile up.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/07/the-poverty-of-the-criticism-of-trumps-agenda/

BREITBART
— Trump Plan Will Reindustrialize, Revitalize Private Sector and Raise Wages
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/06/bessent-trump-plan-will-reindustrialize-revitalize-private-sector-and-raise-wages/
— Carville Compares Those Cooperating with Trump to Nazi Collaborators
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/06/carville-compares-those-cooperating-with-trump-to-nazi-collaborators/
— DOJ Says Judge Cannot Order Deported Illegal Migrant Be Returned to U.S.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/06/doj-judge-cannot-order-deported-illegal-migrant-returned-u-s/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Workplace Enforcement Is the Key to Mass Deportations
https://cis.org/Mortensen/Workplace-Enforcement-Key-Mass-Deportations

CHRISTIAN POST
— Wheaton alumni single out ‘critical race theorist’ professor as example of leftist infiltration
https://www.christianpost.com/news/wheaton-alumni-single-out-critical-race-theorist-professor.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Alumni of Wheaton College concerned about the school’s alleged leftward drift recently singled out a philosophy professor at the school as an example of liberalism seeping into the flagship Evangelical institution. Nathan Cartagena, Ph.D., who has been an assistant professor of philosophy at Wheaton College since 2018, has repeatedly exhibited “left-wing racial politics laundered through a patina of ‘Christianese,'” according to an analysis of his writings posted on the website “For Wheaton.” Educated at Grove City College, Texas A&M University and Baylor University, Cartagena’s profile asserts that he specializes in Thomas Aquinas, civil rights activist James Baldwin, Critical Race Theory, military ethics, “Evangélic@ Theology,” and Christian pedagogy.)

FOX NEWS
— DURBIN: Closing federal offices punishes everyday Americans. DOGE claims it canceled 793 federal leases which will make it hard for Americans to access benefits. According to Durbin, the federal government exists to dish out welfare.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-dick-durbin-closing-federal-offices-punishes-everyday-americans

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Democrat Leaders Organize Over 1,000 Anti-Trump ‘Hands Off’ Protests across Nation
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/activists-organize-over-1000-anti-trump-hands-off-protests-across-nation/

PJ MEDIA
— Make the Illegal Alien Criminals Stay at Judge Boasberg’s House
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/04/06/the-morning-briefing-make-the-illegal-alien-criminals-stay-at-judge-boasbergs-house-n4938654

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Trump says he’s not backing down on tariffs, calls them ‘medicine’ as markets reel
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-recession-financial-markets-negotiations-retaliation-860760cdc1aa2cc58853c9aab987e36d

CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-beach-pride-parade-lgbtq-community-trump-policy-changes/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelan-migrants-deportations-el-salvador-prison-60-minutes/

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump and Musk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/world/europe/trade-trump-tariffs-brexit.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/us/trump-tariffs-shopping-consumer-panic-buying.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/anti-trump-protests-hands-off.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Younger Democrats want to force an uncomfortable conversation about age. Many complain the party is dominated by an older generation of leaders who have lost touch with Americans’ day-to-day struggles. Democrat and RINO leaders use up-or-out, that is, age discrimination, to get rid of Republicans. Republicans should know that Democrat and RINO leaders will get rid of you if you are not making say a) $100,000/year by age 25, c) $200,000/year by age 30, d) $300,000/year by age 35, e) $400,000/year by age 40, f) etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/06/young-democrats-age-leadership/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— We Had Been Scraping By on Two Paychecks. Now We Have One. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. In today’s dollars, a) my GAO salary was $153,151/year and b) my Civil Service Retirement System pension is $66,780/year. That means that my wife and I have had $86,371/year less income since 1997.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/starting-business-couple-one-paycheck-13538648
— Republicans in Congress are drafting a tax bill that raises the state and local tax deduction cap for individuals from $10,000 to $25,000. I started itemizing when I was 24 years old in 1972 and my wife and I started in 1978. We paid less federal income tax because of that. But SALT ended all that. My critics/opponents have been furious that we have paid less federal income tax by itemizing. They want SALT and they do not want the SALT cap to be increased.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-republican-tax-proposal-could-harm-american-businesses-csalt-deduction-cap-economy-8c888837
— Is Anyone a Patriot Anymore? It’s not buying American flag boxer briefs. It’s following up words with actions. I should write about those who have acted like they disapproved of if not hated my having displayed an 18X12-foot American Flag in my Iron Gate Motor Condo that I just sold.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-anyone-a-patriot-anymore-america-commitment-country-f4056f00
— Cars Were Already Unaffordable Before Tariffs. Common advice to not spend more than 10% of pay on a car loan payment is getting harder to follow. The 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus that I recently bought is very expensive.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/trump-auto-tariffs-car-prices-0b7ca5f2

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly position themselves as being protectors of disadvantaged/marginalized/oppressed groups. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause all the problems that members of those groups have. Members of those groups include those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, in America illegally, have less money than others, have financial, health, and or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, prostitutes, and criminals.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sughnenyongo/2024/06/10/the-urgent-case-for-supporting-marginalized-groups-in-todays-society/

NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly stage more protests against Trump and Musk.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/nx-s1-5354187/trump-vows-to-stay-the-course-as-demonstrators-hold-weekend-protests-across-the-u-s

LATIN TIMES
— More Elected Democrats Are Becoming Republicans As The GOP Strengthens Grip On Texas. As the Democrat Party tightens its grip on Illinois, on DuPage County, on Milton Township, and on Wheaton, anticipate/expect that more elected Republicans will officially become Democrats. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all my critics/opponents who claim to be religious, conservative, and/or Republican will officially become Democrats. They all have always been anti-religious, anti-conservative, and/or anti-Republican. They all have always been RINOs if not Democrat plants. I should write about them. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.latintimes.com/more-elected-democrats-are-becoming-republicans-gop-strengthens-grip-texas-577688