Tag: Republican

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— FBI reopens investigations into cocaine at White House, leaked Dobbs opinion.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/fbi-reopens-investigation-cocaine-white-house-leaked-dobbs-opinion/16555524/

NBC5
— Cuban exiles were shielded from deportation. Now Trump is cracking down.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/cuban-exiles-were-shielded-from-deportation-now-trump-is-cracking-down/3754038/
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS10122HIBg

WTTW
— Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Senior Leadership Team Nearly 50% Black, More Than Half Female.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/27/mayor-brandon-johnson-s-senior-leadership-team-nearly-50-black-more-half-female-analysis
— Can Chicago-Born Pope Leo Remain a U.S. Citizen Now That He’s a Foreign Head of State?
https://news.wttw.com/2025/05/25/can-chicago-born-pope-leo-remain-us-citizen-now-he-s-foreign-head-state

WGN RADIO
— Chicago’s own Gary Sinise: Serving military families of the fallen, first responders, veterans, and The Memorial Day concert.
https://wgnradio.com/dave-plier/chicagos-own-gary-sinise-serving-military-families-of-the-fallen-first-responders-veterans-and-the-memorial-day-concert/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— With the Chinese outpacing our tech advances, has our ‘Sputnik moment’ come and gone?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/opinion-us-china-students-education-sputnik/
— Illinois Teacher of the Year from Indian Prairie District 204 has hosted dozens of discussions across the state on belonging. Sadly, if not tragically, the more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the less that you feel like you belong in the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. Far too many leaders of the aforesaid organizations reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform. I support all the planks.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/illinois-teacher-of-the-year-from-indian-prairie-district-204-has-hosted-dozens-of-discussions-across-the-state-on-belonging/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/24/what-trumps-cuts-to-medicaid-will-mean-for-nursing-homes-long-term-care-facilities-in-illinois
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/25/northwestern-uic-medical-researchers-diabetes-hiv-trump-funding-budget-cuts

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250526/news/cuts-to-school-mental-health-grants-could-trickle-down-to-local-districts/

WIFR
— Major General John Borling: A Memorial Day Tribute “We Are Americans.” In 2004, Borling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Borling ) was a candidate in the Republican Primary for the United States Senate.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/05/26/memorial-day-tribute-we-are-americans/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Homeless vets in LA hope that Trump order will create housing for them.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-05-26/homeless-vets-in-la-hope-that-trump-order-will-create-housing-for-them

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote mote illegal immigration.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-bill-could-allow-immigrants-to-become-driving-instructors/article_0fbe828b-ff74-4e28-9660-d922ed7fffcd.html

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-05-26/where-the-racial-justice-movement-stands-5-years-after-george-floyds-murder

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/26/chicagoans-mark-5-years-since-george-floyds-murder-with-protest-the-work-here-is-far-from-done/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/05/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-520/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— What’s behind Chicago’s welcome, but belated, drop in crime
https://wirepoints.org/whats-behind-chicagos-welcome-but-belated-drop-in-crime-wirepoints/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Oberweis’ New Owners Expanding in Congressional District in Which Jim Oberweis Is Running for Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/oberweis-new-owners-expanding-in-congressional-district-in-which-jim-oberweis-is-running-for-congress/
— Tribune Reporter Misinformed about Motive for Consolidating RTA Governing
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/26/tribune-reporter-misinformed-about-motive-for-consolidating-rta-governing/
— Too Cold for the Beach?
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/too-cold-for-the-beach/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Legislative Update for the Last Week of May 2025
https://illinoisfamily.org/politics/legislative-update-for-the-last-week-of-may-2025/
— Assisted Suicide Bill Pops Up In Last Week of Session
https://illinoisfamily.org/life/shell-games-with-assisted-suicide-bill/

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Pritzker Calls for “Summer of Love” 2.0?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/pritzker-calls-for-summer-of-love-2-0/
— Illinois School District Defies Title IX… Again
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/illinois-school-district-defies-title-ix-again/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s Department of Education right to combat racial discrimination. Ending DEI policies a legal imperative.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/trumps-department-education-right-combat-racial-discrimination/
— Justice Department says it’s ‘absurd’ and ‘wrong’ to suggest U.S. marshals won’t protect judges.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/justice-department-says-absurd-wrong-suggest-us-marshals-wont-protect/
— Charlie Kirk dismisses SPLC as ‘laughingstock’ for listing Turning Point on ‘hate map.’ My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that  Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were hate groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. I should write about my critics/opponents who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/26/charlie-kirk-dismisses-splc-laughingstock-listing-turning-point-hate/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump can’t be bought
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3421969/trump-cant-be-bought-big-tech-finding-out-hard-way/

NEW YORK POST
— US military’s greatest challenge is here at home: How to solve the recruitment crisis.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/opinion/the-us-militarys-biggest-challenge-is-right-here-at-home/
— Pentagon’s new anti-woke ad: ‘No more gender confusion’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/us-news/pentagon-rolls-out-epic-new-ad-touting-end-of-wokeness-under-trump-hegseth-no-more-gender-confusion/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hjyt9QRA20
— ‘Forest Gump’ star Gary Sinise open to Hollywood comeback under ‘right circumstances’
https://nypost.com/2025/05/26/entertainment/gary-sinise-open-to-hollywood-comeback-under-right-circumstances/

DAILY CALLER
— Biden’s Education Secretary Pushed Men Into Women’s Sports.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/26/bidens-education-secretary-who-pushed-men-into-womens-sports-announces-new-gig/
— Trump Announces What He Might Do With $3 Billion He Threatens To Take Away ‘From A Very Antisemitic’ Harvard.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/26/trump-announces-3-billion-threatens-antisemitic-harvard-dei-trade-school/

FOX NEWS
— Trump fires off Memorial Day message targeting ‘SCUM’ who sought to ‘DESTROY’ the US. The president asserts the nation ‘WILL SOON BE SAFE AND GREAT AGAIN!’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-fires-off-memorial-day-message-targeting-scum-who-sought-destroy-us

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Federal workers grapple with canceled health insurance, bungled benefits after Trump’s layoff chaos
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/politics/federal-workers-benefits-health-insurance

CBS NEWS
— Trump says he’s considering rerouting $3 billion in Harvard grants to U.S. trade schools. According to my critics/opponents, degrees from non-Ivy League universities are worthless, that is, my job-related degrees from NIU (1970), Loyola (1976), DePaul (1980), and IIT (1997) are worthless. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government who treated not only my degrees as being worthless, but also my job-related professional certifications (1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997) and my professional license (1981). I would focus on my critics/opponents who have degrees from Ivy League universities.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-harvard-trade-schools-3-billion-grant-money/
— At DNC, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth calls Trump “draft-dodging coward.”  I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. The blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/at-dnc-sen-tammy-duckworth-uses-her-personal-history-to-call-out-donald-trump/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Electric Vehicles Died a Century Ago. Could That Happen Again? Republicans do not target EVs. Republicans target incentives for EVs. I am a Republican. I just bought a EV. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/business/electric-vehicles-history.html
— Republicans do not target EVs. Republicans target incentives for EVs. I am a Republican. I just bought a EV. I just bought a new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus EV.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/electric-vehicles-house-tax-bill.html
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html
— As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests. The president and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/republican-crackdown-on-aid-to-immigrants-would-hit-us-citizens.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/05/26/hes-throwing-global-pride-trumps-backyard-whos-with-him/
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will forever get votes from those who are the following by using government to give them more preference: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger people, LGBTQers, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, citizens of foreign countries, those who lack education and/or job skills, those who have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozers, gamblers, stoners, criminals, etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/democrats-language-elite-politically-correct/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/veterans-affairs-cuts-morale-layoffs/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/senate-reconciliation-big-bill/

USA TODAY
— Work till you drop? Here’s why America’s average retirement age keeps rising.  If you are a wage earner in America like I was 1964-1997, and if you are Republican, White, male, or non-veteran, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and that your job will be given to one of your younger coworkers or subordinates who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/22/retirement-age-rising-social-security-medicare/83767525007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in replacing people born in America with people born in foreign countries. Democrat leaders want that because people born in foreign countries vote for Democrats. RINO leaders want that because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.wsj.com/business/california-population-growth-immigration-h-1b-visa-4b526478
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make America more dependent on foreign countries. Most, if virtually all foreign countries despise/hate America.
https://www.wsj.com/business/buy-made-in-america-challenges-e53efd43
— The New Retirement Age in Denmark Is 70. The Danes set an example for timorous American politicians who refuse to reform unaffordable entitlements. If you are a wage earner in America like I was 1964-1997, and if you are Republican, White, male, or non-veteran, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and that your job will be given to one of your younger coworkers or subordinates who are Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-new-retirement-age-in-denmark-is-70-574b5259

BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-22/trump-s-research-funding-cuts-create-job-drought-for-scientists

FAST COMPANY
— GM wants to be all-electric by 2035. Why did it lobby to kill California’s EV rule?  GM celebrated the Senate’s vote to block California’s EV mandate—which was also supposed to go fully into effect by 2035.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91339643/gm-wants-to-be-all-electric-by-2035-why-did-it-lobby-to-kill-californias-ev-rule

NPR
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5398042/trump-cuts-could-harm-after-school-programs
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/1253189688/what-trumps-cuts-to-intelligence-could-mean-for-national-security

POLITICO
— GOP declares war on GAO. Republicans are undermining the Government Accountability Office, the century-old agency that roots out waste, fraud and abuse. Who do you know who works for GAO or has worked for GAO? I worked for the Democrats who ran 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.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/gop-declares-war-on-gao-00369762
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The independent Government Accountability Office has served Congress as the nation’s chief investigator of wrongdoing at federal agencies for more than a century. Now it’s under assault. The typically uncontroversial, under-the-radar agency is fighting to retain power against attempts by Republicans in the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill to undercut its legal conclusions and independence — an onslaught that has been fast and furious. . .Vought also claimed that GAO had played “a partisan role” in the “impeachment hoax” of Donald Trump’s first presidency, referencing the House’s vote in 2019 to remove the president ahead of GAO’s conclusion that the administration violated the same “impoundment” law by withholding aid to Ukraine. Sen. Mike Lee piled on a day later. “GAO has lost credibility as an independent body,” the Utah Republican wrote on social media, reacting to Vought’s criticism. Taken together, these events show the extent to which Republicans are increasingly willing to denigrate an agency that has frequently validated their policies and positions, while sometimes delivering findings conservatives don’t like. And this political posture could upend the relationship members of both parties have had with GAO for decades. . .And while GAO is a legislative branch agency, Trump has the ability to dismiss its leader, akin to his firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. GAO spokesperson Jasmine Berry Franklin said in a statement that agency officials “stand behind the quality of our work.” The watchdog’s mission is to deliver “non-partisan, fact-based information to Congress, to help it carry out its constitutional legislative, appropriations, and oversight functions and protect the power of the purse,” she continued. “Our legal decisions do not take a position on the policy goals of a program, they only examine the procedural issues and compliance with the law.” At a recent congressional hearing, Dodaro also stressed that GAO doesn’t want to be in the partisan crosshairs, has no interest in having political sway and is committed to its mandate to respond to requests from lawmakers with the facts. “We’re just responding to help Congress,” Dodaro said. “We’re not trying to influence things one way or the other. We’re nonpartisan. We’re asked a question; we give an answer. It doesn’t matter who it is.”)

PBS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight federal budget cuts. Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, no one can survive in America, let alone prosper in America, without massive federal spending.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/catholic-relief-services-faces-uncertain-future-after-trump-cuts-aid-funding

TIME
— How Grads Can Futureproof Themselves As Career Ladders Weaken. Timing is everything. My not majoring in accounting at UIC 1966-1968 and at NIU 1969-1970 was a very big career mistake. I erroneously though that I could not pass the CPA examination. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, the accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting. The accounting profession would not have done that if I had been a minority, female, or veteran.
https://time.com/charter/7286901/how-grads-can-futureproof-themselves-as-career-ladders-weaken/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With the “bottom rung of the career ladder breaking,” according to Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn, new graduates and other workers early in their careers face less certain paths for getting professional toeholds and experience that can serve them over their lifetimes. That also ups the stakes for managers and mentors to help young workers identify and cultivate the skills that will best serve them.)

DC MEDIA GROUP
— Democrat and RINO leaders reject meritocracy a) because they want votes from minorities and from females and b) because with meritocracy, Whites males do better. Overwhelmingly, those who passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on their first attempt like did were White males.
https://dcmediagroup.us/2025/05/26/the-myth-of-meritocracy-diversity-will-never-die/

ECONOMIC TIMES
— He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I should write about my critics/opponents who are major Republican donors. I would focus on the biggest adverse actions that they had their operatives and their dupes take against me.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trumps-campaign-received-scores-of-donations-from-problematic-donors/articleshow/121429265.cms

JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE
— Mass Deportations Would Deliver a Catastrophic Blow to the U.S. Economy. Should America start offering citizens of foreign countries “bad job” employment permits? Fewer and fewer and fewer citizens of American will take bad jobs like I did. I did yard work 1962-1964, delivered newspapers 1962-1966, washed dishes 1964-1966, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966, delivered mail 1966-1969, worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970, sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971, pumped gasoline 1971-1972, collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980, and audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I got those bad jobs because my employers could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take them. Again, should America start offering citizens of foreign countries “bad job” employment permits?
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2024/12/mass-deportations-would-deliver-a-catastrophic-blow-to-the-u-s-economy

KYIV POST
— Ukraine blasts Trump for avoiding the Vietnam War draft. I should write about my critics/opponents who have blasted me the most for my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. The blame Republicans for losing the Vietnam War. They stress that I am a conservative Republican and that I was 1-A. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/53398

NTD
— What did you do to avoid financial stress? My father frequently decried his not having a college degree. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. To qualify myself for better paying jobs, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45 47, and 48, and c) I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.ntd.com/5-ways-couples-can-curb-financial-stress_1067416.html

AUTO BLOG
— Tesla’s Odometer Lawsuit Could Be EV Industry’s Dieselgate Moment. A class-action suit claims Tesla rigs odometers with software to void warranties early—costing drivers thousands. Could this be Silicon Valley’s Dieselgate?
https://www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-odometer-warranty-lawsuit