FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drug use.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251220/news/illinois-libraries-step-into-life-saving-role-as-new-law-expands-access-to-narcan/
RIVER BENDER
— DD: Duckworth ever-increasingly fights Trump’s use of the military.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworthled-provision-to-rein-in-trumps-misuse-of-the-military-passes-congress-awaits-presidents-signature-89249.cfm
WAND TV
— Military lawyer swiftly fired from immigration bench after defying Trump deportation push. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I never defied any of their orders. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ordered me to give tremendous preference to their Democrat employees who they assigned me to supervise. All those employees were minority, female, much younger, veteran, disabled, and/or had performance problems. But because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with the aforesaid discrimination when I was 40 years old in 1988, they wasted my career, they took many big adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/military-lawyer-swiftly-fired-from-immigration-bench-after-defying-trump-deportation-push/article_0db74911-444a-5a1a-8ee6-c5f8de72ad55.html
WGLT
— Duckworth: Hegseth is “dangerously unqualified.” Hegseth left the armed services with a rank of Major, which can oversee a unit of between 300 to 1,200. DD: To discredit Hegseth, Duckworth stresses that the Army never promoted him beyond the rank of Major. IRS promoted me to GS-12 when I was 25 in 1974. The equivalent Army rank is Captain. GAO promoted me to GS-13 when I was 38 in 1986. The equivalent Army rank is Major. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed what I did as an IRS Revenue Officer 1971-1980 and as a GAO Analyst 1980-1997.
https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2025-01-13/trump-defense-nominee-hegseth-is-dangerously-unqualified-duckworth-says
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Federal Child Sex Crime Report
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/20/federal-child-sex-crime-report/
— McHenry State’s Attorney on a Roll in Keeping Dangerous Criminals in Jail, This Time a Marengo Man Arrested for Child Porn
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/19/mchenry-states-attorney-on-a-roll-in-keeping-dangerous-criminals-in-jail-this-time-a-marengo-man-arrested-for-child-porn/
— Rep. Sosnowski Opposes Subsidy for Bears
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/19/15263/
— Head of Northern Illinois Food Bank Receives National Recognition, Salaries of Officers Listed for Year Ending June, 2024
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/19/head-of-northern-illinois-food-bank-receives-national-recognition-salaries-of-officers-listed-for-year-ending-june-2024/
— UPDATE 2: MORE Images You Won’t See in Chicago Tribune Story on Australian Jewish Massacre, GUNMEN TIED TO ISIS, POLICE INACTION
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/19/images-you-wont-see-in-chicago-tribune-story-on-australian-jewish-massacre/
— Ted Dombrowski Says Mass Transit Law “Fleeces” Taxpayers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/19/ted-dombrowski-says-mass-transit-law-fleeces-taxpayers/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Kristi Noem Joins United States Coast Guard in Christmas Tree Giveaway In Chicago
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/12/weyermuller-kristi-noem-joins-united-states-coast-guard-in-christmas-tree-giveaway-in-chicago.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— DD: Which of the candidates on the Republican primary ballot in your precinct a) have sought Trump’s endorsement and/or b) have gotten Trump’s endorsement?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/20/trump-endorses-blakeman-new-york-governor/
— Former President Clinton turns up in newly released ‘Epstein files’ — in a hot tub
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/19/former-president-bill-clinton-turns-newly-released-epstein-files-
— The snakes within the Trump administration. The president should heed his own 2016 warning.
hot/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/18/snakes-within-trump-administration/
— Recent terrorist attacks highlight the folly of unchecked mass migration
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/19/editorial-recent-terrorist-attacks-highlight-folly-unchecked-mass/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The politically incorrect crisis: How society is failing boys and men
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/3926463/society-failing-boys-and-men/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For decades, Americans have told a clear story about gender. Women were held back. Society was built by men and for men. The moral task of our time, we were told, was to dismantle male advantage and help women catch up. That story may have once described reality. It no longer does. Today, a growing body of evidence points to a different and deeply uncomfortable conclusion. Boys and men are now falling behind across many of the institutions that structure a stable, dignified life: education, work, family, and mental health. And yet our public conversation remains frozen in an earlier era, unable or unwilling to recognize what has changed. This is not an argument against women’s progress. Women have made extraordinary and deserved gains. It is an argument that a society can correct one injustice and create another if it refuses to update its moral lens. Start with education. In elementary and secondary school, boys now lag behind girls in reading in every developed country. They are more likely to struggle academically, to be disciplined, and to disengage from school altogether. That early gap compounds over time. Seven out of 10 valedictorians are female. On college campuses, the gender balance has flipped: Women now make up nearly 60% of undergraduates and earn close to 60% of bachelor’s degrees. Among young adults, women are significantly more likely than men to have a college degree, a reversal of the gender gap that defined much of the 20th century. Yet our educational rhetoric still sounds as though girls are the ones being left behind. The consequences don’t end at graduation. Men’s connection to work, a central source of purpose, structure, and social standing, has been eroding for decades. Prime-age male labor force participation has steadily declined, especially among men without college degrees. Entire cohorts of working-class men have drifted out of stable employment, not because they prefer idleness, but because the economy increasingly rewards credentials and social skills while offering fewer pathways for men whose strengths are practical, mechanical, or physical. For generations, society made a promise to such men: Work hard, show up, and you will earn a place. That promise has been quietly broken. The fallout shows up starkly in our health statistics. Men die by suicide at nearly four times the rate of women. Middle-aged men, particularly those without college degrees, account for a disproportionate share of what economists grimly call “deaths of despair”: suicide, drug overdoses, and alcohol-related disease. When we talk about mental health, we often focus, appropriately, on the pressures facing teenage girls. But while that crisis is loudly discussed, another one unfolds in silence: Men are dying in extraordinary numbers, and few seem to notice. Loneliness deepens the wound. Surveys show that young men are significantly more likely than young women to report feeling lonely. Male friendship has collapsed over the past few decades, with approximately 25% of young men reporting that they have no close friends at all. As traditional institutions that once anchored male social life — stable jobs, unions, churches, and fraternal organizations — have weakened, little has replaced them. Men, on average, are less likely to seek emotional support and less likely to be invited into spaces where vulnerability is encouraged. The result is a quiet epidemic of isolation. Family life tells a similar story. Roughly 1 in 4 American children now grow up without a father in the home. This is often discussed solely in terms of its impact on children, and rightly so, but it also reflects the broader marginalization of men from family life. Many men are disconnected from stable work, from marriage, and ultimately from daily involvement in their children’s lives. For all our concern about “toxic masculinity,” the more common problem in many communities is not men behaving badly, but men being absent altogether. When men fail, society often responds with punishment rather than repair. Men make up more than 90% of the prison population. The United States incarcerates more people than any other nation on Earth, and the burden falls overwhelmingly on men — disproportionately poor men and men of color. Many of the same struggles we ignore in schools and workplaces — illiteracy, untreated mental illness, and addiction — reappear in our jails and prisons, where they are far more expensive and difficult to address. None of this means women no longer face injustice. Women still bear disproportionate caregiving burdens, face violence, and encounter barriers in certain professions. Acknowledging male disadvantage in some areas does not erase female disadvantage in others. Justice is not a finite resource. But our gender conversation has become dangerously one-sided. We have built institutions, policies, and cultural narratives that assume men are always advantaged and women are always vulnerable, even when the data tell a different story. That mismatch matters. When people feel unseen or misrepresented, they disengage. When boys grow up hearing only what’s wrong with men, they struggle to imagine a hopeful future for themselves.)
NEW YORK POST
— DOGE’s federal job cuts really ARE making a difference
https://nypost.com/2025/12/19/opinion/guess-what-doges-federal-headcount-cuts-really-are-making-a-difference/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Using the Christmas Story to Demonize ICE Agents
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/12/using_the_christmas_story_to_demonize_ice_agents.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— ‘We are just getting started’: DHS says 2.5M illegals have now exited US
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/20/we-are-just-getting-started-dhs-says-2-5m-illegals-have-now-exited-us-1611555/
— HUD Secretary shares shocking details of welfare program usage among illegal alien families
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/20/hud-sec-shares-shocking-details-of-welfare-program-usage-among-illegal-alien-families-1611613/
BLAZE
— ’50 high-quality sons’: Chinese men are siring US citizen ‘mega-families’ via surrogacy
https://www.theblaze.com/news/50-high-quality-sons-chinese-elites-are-siring-armies-of-babies-in-us-via-surrogates-report
BREITBART
— Translator Services Helping Illegal Aliens to Cheat on Drivers Exam
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/12/20/maine-whistleblower-translator-services-helping-illegal-aliens-to-cheat-on-drivers-exam/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Trump DOJ Undoes Clinton Sabotage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law
https://cis.org/Fishman/Trump-DOJ-Undoes-Clinton-Sabotage-1996-Welfare-Reform-Law
CHRISTOPHER RUFO
— DEI and the “Lost Generation.” How white millennial men were purged from elite institutions. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to purge the agency of its employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://christopherrufo.com/p/dei-and-the-lost-generation
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In Compact magazine, “The Lost Generation,” is a firsthand account, backed by deep reporting, on discrimination against millennial white men in the institutions of elite culture, academia, media, publishing, and entertainment. Affirmative action, a euphemism for anti-white-male discrimination, dates back to the mid-1960s, and, in the 1990s, Claremont University professor Frederick Lynch was already documenting systematic discrimination against white men in corporate environments in books such as Invisible Victims and The Diversity Machine. But Jacob Savage, the author of the Compact article, makes a persuasive case that this trend accelerated dramatically in the ten-year period between 2014 and 2024—the decade of the so-called Great Awokening.)
FOX NEWS
— University of Illinois lesson materials push leftist race, class struggles on future teachers. Lectures focus on racism, white supremacy and cultivating belonging for ‘minoritized’ students.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/university-illinois-lesson-materials-push-leftist-race-class-struggles-future-teachers-leaked-lectures
— ‘Bitter sweet’: TPUSA holds AmericaFest for the first time without Charlie Kirk. DD: Who leads TPUSA in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Wheaton, and in Wheaton Warrenville School District 200? I want to promote TPUSA activities.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386755343112
— Dallas Church depicts nativity as migrants in detention. ‘Relatable Podcast’ host Allie Beth Stuckey joins ‘Saturday in America’ live from AmericaFest 2025 to discuss churches politicizing nativity scenes by depicting them as anti-ICE.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386757075112
— It’s not just Minnesota; Democrats have created welfare fraud everywhere. Politicians in virtually every state have let waste, fraud and abuse spread like wildfire in Medicaid.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/its-not-just-minnesota-democrats-have-created-welfare-fraud-everywhere
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Taxpayer Cash, Zero Accountability: Minnesota Fraud Proves Welfare Is Broken
https://www.heritage.org/welfare/commentary/taxpayer-cash-zero-accountability-minnesota-fraud-proves-welfare-broken
LEGAL NEWSLINE
— Supreme Court weighs gun owners’ challenge to IL transit carry ban
https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/transit-gun-ban-in-illinois-a-supreme-court-matter/article_b9854254-33e7-49d7-849b-735485520cc8.html
NEWSMAX
— Property Taxes Threaten American Dream of Home Ownership. DD: Being able to itemize and to deduct real estate taxes helped me a) buy a new townhome when I was 24 in 1972, b) buy a studio condo when I was 25, and c) buy a one bedroom condo when I was 27. Being able to itemize and to deduct real estate taxes helped my wife and I a) buy a home in Wheaton when I was 29 and b) have a home built in Wheaton when I was 35.
https://www.newsmax.com/mccaughey/affordability-homeowners-syracuse/2025/12/18/id/1238829/
PJ MEDIA
— Border Crossings Down 93%, Fentanyl Trafficking Cut in Half in 2025
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/20/border-crossings-down-93-fentanyl-trafficking-cut-in-half-n4947321
REASON
— Mamdani’s $6 Billion Child Care Expansion Would Be a Handout to Wealthy New Yorkers. The more the government intervenes in the market, the more New York parents pay for child care.
https://reason.com/2025/12/25/mamdani-cant-raise-your-kids/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Young conservative women find a home in Turning Point with Charlie Kirk’s widow at the helm. DD: Who leads TPUSA in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Wheaton, and in Wheaton Warrenville School District 200? I want to promote TPUSA activities.
https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/politics/article/young-conservative-women-find-a-home-in-turning-21251712.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e56BOXKhvnY
AOL
— Everything about retirement changes if you’re one of the lucky few who have a pension in America. DD: What is your attitude toward federal employees and federal retirees? I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a federal retiree for more than 28 years. My critics/opponents have always despised/hated federal employee and federal retirees. I should write about that. They believe that federal employees are grossly overpaid, that federal pensions are much too generous, and that their benefits are much too generous. In my defense, I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to join him in taking the postal employment test. I would not have become an IRS employee when I was 22 in 1971 if my Firestone Store boss had not fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, an offer that Oldsmobile withdrew because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://www.aol.com/finance/everything-retirement-changes-one-lucky-114500050.html
NBC NEWS
— VERY SAD: MAGA infighting over Israel and 2028 heats up at the Turning Point USA conference. Influencers turned on one another, with Ben Shapiro blasting “charlatans,” Steve Bannon calling Shapiro a “cancer” and Megyn Kelly declaring she was no longer friends with Shapiro. DD: Who leads TPUSA in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Wheaton, and in Wheaton Warrenville School District 200? I want to promote TPUSA activities.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/maga-infighting-israel-2028-turning-point-usa-conference-rcna250162
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/briefing/a-moral-reckoning-on-immigration.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What to Know About Minnesota’s ‘Industrial-Scale Fraud’ Scandal. A federal prosecutor highlights ‘fraud tourism,’ where people with no connection to the state allegedly siphoned money from safety-net programs there.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/minnesota-fraud-trump-scandal-113f4315
FORBES
— The 2026 US Job Market Will Be Competitive – How To Stand Out. DD: When you graduated from college, what frustrated your job search? For me, it was potential employers viewing me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecenizalevine/2025/12/19/the-2026-us-job-market-will-be-competitive–how-to-stand-out/
TIME
— ‘No Sleep for ICE’: Inside the Protest Movement Keeping Immigration Agents Awake at Night
https://time.com/7341833/no-sleep-for-ice-protests-hotels/
HUFFINGTON POST
— DD: Hate-filled conservative-hating conservative-haters ever-increasingly work against Erika Kirk. DD: Who leads TPUSA in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Wheaton, and in Wheaton Warrenville School District 200? I want to promote TPUSA activities.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/erika-kirk-turning-point-usa-gen-z_n_6925f13ae4b063285310f023
