FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Abolish ICE’ gets early nod from Mayor Brandon Johnson in annual Chicago snowplow contest. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/26/abolish-ice-gets-early-nod-from-mayor-brandon-johnson-in-annual-chicago-snowplow-contest/
— Immigration-themed Nativity scene at Evanston church turns ICE agents into shepherds for a peaceful Christmas
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/26/immigration-nativity-scene-evanston-church-ice-agents-shepherds-christmas/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ‘Abolish ICE’ gains Mayor Brandon Johnson’s support as Chicago snowplow-naming contest returns. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12/26/chicago-snowplow-naming-contest
— DD: Under Pritzker, more and more and more in Illinois will be on SNAP, that is, more and more and more will be dependent on government assistance.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/12/26/illinois-hunger-congress-trump-tax-spending-law-snap-benefits-food-stamps-kate-maehr-julie-yurko
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/12/26/undocumented-immigrants-businesses-jobs-economy-chicago-amy-yee
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders promote Kwanzaa
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12/26/kwanzaa-malcolm-x-college
DAILY HERALD
— Candidate forum for 8th Congressional District Democratic primary set for Jan. 15. DD: If I was still the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman and an Illinois Center Right Collation Steering Committee member, the organizations would still be hosting candidate forums.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20251226/news/candidate-forum-for-8th-congressional-district-democratic-primary-set-for-jan-15/
QUAD CITY TIMES
— DD: Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://qctimes.com/news/state-regional/business/article_d12558fd-a755-50c6-a98e-f3fa668efb2b.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO & WGLT
— Cannabis use among teens tied to poor school performance. DD: Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) get an ACT score of 24, b) graduate in the upper 20% of my high school class, b) earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, c) pass the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, d) earn four more professional certifications, or e) earn a professional license. I would not have been able to get jobs that enabled me to a) buy a 6-year old car when I was 16, b) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, d) or get married when I was 29.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-12-26/cannabis-use-among-teens-tied-to-poor-school-performance
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-12-26/marijuana-rescheduling-would-bring-some-immediate-changes-but-others-will-take-time
https://www.wglt.org/2025-12-26/cannabis-use-among-teens-tied-to-poor-school-performance
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Taking Our Islamic Enemy at His Word
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/taking-our-islamic-enemy-at-his-word/
— Open Borders, Open Jihad
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/12/open-borders-open-jihad/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Hunger Industrial Complex: How America Manufactured a Food Insecurity Crisis
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/the-hunger-industrial-complex-how-america-manufactured-a-food-insecurity-crisis/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What are the candidates in the contested Republican primary races on the ballot in your precinct doing to win on March 17, 2026? What are their political consultants advising them to do? Which ones are seeking or have gotten Trump’s endorsement? Which ones are you going to vote for and why? I will be hand-delivering sample Republican primary ballots and campaign literature to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you had adverse actions taken against you? When your critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against you, who has come to your defense? My critics/opponents continue to stress that when they had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me, virtually no one came to my defense. They had their operatives and their dupes a) rudely throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) rudely end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) rudely gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) rudely end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) rudely end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) rudely end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, h) rudely defeat my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, i) etc. Who have you hoped would have come to your defense, but did not? For me, it is those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect in general elections. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois’ radically woke employee training
https://wirepoints.org/wirepoints-mark-glennon-on-illinois-radically-woke-employee-training-chicagos-budget-and-more-audio-wls/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— A Political Christmas Tree
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/26/a-political-christmas-tree/
— Democratic Party Infighting in Dundee Township Leads to Levy Meeting Tonight
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/26/democratic-party-infighting-in-dundee-township-leads-to-levy-meeting-tonight/
— Laws Taking Effect January 1st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/12/26/laws-taking-effect-january-1st/
— Bruce Leon Takes the Offensive in 9th Congressional District Democratic Party Race to Replace Jan Schakowsky
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=15074&action=edit
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— How the White House drew a new battle plan to take on the Washington press corps. DD: I should write about RINO candidates, RINO elected officials, and RINO party leaders who a) pander to the Democrat news media and b) take adverse actions against me to curry favor with the Democrat news media.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/26/white-house-drew-new-battle-plan-take-washington-press-corps/
— High-stakes gamble: Parents pour thousands into youth sports despite microscopic pro odds
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/dec/26/play-pressure-hidden-toll-families-kids-professionalized-youth-sports/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— California wants schools to keep parents in the dark
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4362234/california-wants-schools-keep-parents-in-the-dark/
NEW YORK POST
— Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan wears hijab in solidarity with Somalis as feds probe multibillion-dollar fraud scandal
https://nypost.com/2025/12/26/us-news/minnesota-lt-gov-peggy-flanagan-wears-hijab-at-somali-market-amid-multibillion-dollar-fraud-scandal/
— DD: Pot is poison. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/26/opinion/trump-makes-the-right-call-on-cannabis-after-a-40-year-wait/
— Mamdani picks his mentor: The woke, radical, anti-Israel YouTuber Ms. Rachel
https://nypost.com/2025/12/26/opinion/mamdani-picks-his-mentor-the-woke-radical-anti-israel-youtuber-ms-rachel/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The calamity of illegal semi-truck drivers on the road
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/the_calamity_of_illegal_semi_truck_drivers_on_the_road.html
— Minnesota Gov. Walz implies that white people should have to apologize for their skin color. DD: To get more votes from nonwhites, Democrats ever-increasingly glorify and praise them, pander to them, give them more preference, and tell them that White male Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/minnesota_gov_walz_implies_that_white_people_should_have_to_apologize_for_their_skin_color.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Infuriating list of fatal car crashes caused by illegals and those who allowed them licenses
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/12/26/infuriating-list-of-fatal-car-crashes-caused-by-illegals-and-those-who-allowed-them-licenses-1612331/
BLAZE
— Leftist radicals doxx ICE agents with ‘WANTED’ flyers in Pennsylvania
https://www.theblaze.com/news/leftist-radicals-doxx-ice-agents-with-wanted-flyers
BREITBART
— Democrats ‘Have Adopted Illegal Aliens as Their Primary Constituents’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/12/26/exclusive-scott-jennings-democrats-have-adopted-illegal-aliens-as-their-primary-constituents/
CHRISTIAN POST
— Kristi Noem urges illegal immigrants to self-deport with $3K bonus or risk deportation, never returning to the US. DD: To me, $3,000 is a lot of money. In today’s dollars, during 1964, 1965, and 1966, I worked for $12.77/hour washing dishes. To earn $3,000 in today’s dollars, I had to work 235 hours.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/dhs-offers-3k-holiday-stipend-for-illegal-aliens-to-self-deport.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— Victor Davis Hanson Explains Why DEI Is the Most ‘Toxic Ideology’ DD: DEI destroys meritocracy.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/26/victor-davis-hanson-dei-is-most-toxic-ideology-weve-ever-experienced/
FOX NEWS
— Defiant TPUSA leader won’t quit despite intimidation, harassment after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. After a string of harassment, intimidation and destruction in the wake of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a leader at one of the organization’s college chapters refuses to back down. DD: Who leads TPUSA in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Wheaton, and in Wheaton Warrenville School District 200?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386873781112
— Most radical courses, curriculum that received federal funding in 2025. Parents’ rights groups across the country have spoken out against far-left indoctrination over the past year. DD: My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earning a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/most-radical-courses-curriculum-received-federal-funding-2025
— Homeownership is making a comeback thanks to Trump, but there’s more to come. HUD report shows foreign-born migrants accounted for two-thirds of growth in rental demand. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My being hired in 1970 and 1971 enabled me to not only buy a new townhome in 1972, but to also buy a new Corvette in 1971 and pay for graduate evening business courses in 1972.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sec-turner-homeownership-making-comeback-thanks-trump-theres-more-come.amp
HOT AIR
— Wokeness Isn’t Dead. DD: My critics/opponents continue to promote Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI. They continue to deny that AA and DEI are reverse discrimination and age discrimination.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/12/26/wokeness-isnt-dead-n3810212
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Deadly Highway Crashes Prompt ICE Sweep of Illegal Alien Truckers in California
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/ice-operation-california-highway-illegal-alien-truckers
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— DEI Policies Have Caused Real Harm to Young White Men. DD: According to my critics/opponents, a) reverse discrimination and age discrimination have never existed and b) older White males have caused all the world’s problems.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/dei-policies-have-caused-real-harm-to-young-white-men/amp/
NEWSMAX
— ICE: 70% Arrested Had Criminal Ties
https://www.newsmax.com/us/ice-trump-admin-illegals/2025/12/26/id/1239728/
— Discrimination Can Apply to Any Color, Any Sex, Any Race. DD: According to my critics/opponents, only those who are the following discriminate: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-veteran, German American, Protestant, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/bondi-dei/2025/12/26/id/1239727/
PJ MEDIA
— Laken Riley Act Arrests Reach 17,500
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/26/laken-riley-act-arrests-of-criminals-hit-17500-n4947555
— Not every Black or female is deemed more employable than a White male; only Black or female candidates who demonstrate the proper adherence to progressive values and the progressive agenda are deemed worthy. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise an older Black woman.
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/12/26/theres-a-right-kind-of-black-and-a-wrong-kind-of-black-n4947548
— Woke Professor Smears ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ As Racist
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/26/woke-professor-smears-its-a-wonderful-life-as-racist-n4947551
POST MILLENNIAL
— Mamdani’s new lesbian FDNY fire chief never worked as a firefighter. “There are some young LGBTQ members that maybe don’t see this as a possibility for them and I want them to know that there’s nothing that can stop them from finding success.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/mamdanis-new-lesbian-fdny-fire-chief-never-worked-as-a-firefighter
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Some have been critical of Bonsignore’s appointment as well as her comment, saying that she was hired only for DEI purposes.)
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Feminism, Anti-Racism & the Unraveling of Western Civilization. Statistics from media, academia, and law suggest meritocracy has given way to ideology—reshaping institutions, sidelining men, and raising hard questions about the West’s long-term viability.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2025/12/26/feminism_anti-racism_amp_the_unraveling_of_western_civilization_681458.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters continue to promote Joe Walsh.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5664041-joe-walsh-criticizes-ice-raids/amp/
CBS NEWS
— Boston Archbishop to meet with priest over controversial “ICE was here” nativity scene. DD: How strongly have Democrats taken over your church?
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/ice-was-here-nativity-dedham-boston/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Most Americans decide 2025 isn’t the year for charity. DD: Most if not virtually all charities promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, they promote even more a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination, and f) socialism.
https://fortune.com/2025/12/24/charitable-giving-declines-philanthropy-affordability-this-year-2025/
MSN
— US rolls out $5,000 penalty for migrants caught after illegal entry
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/us-rolls-out-5000-penalty-for-migrants-caught-after-illegal-entry/ar-AA1RSlwD
CNBC
— As the cost of living keeps climbing, Americans are trying to muscle through the affordability crisis. DD: At my and my wife’s stage in life, we deal with inflation by using our retirement savings. We have no children.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/26/how-americans-are-responding-to-the-affordability-crisis.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— The Strange Death of Make America Great Again. DD: I agree with MAGA when it promotes conservative principles and the Republican Party platform. I disagree with MAGA when it rejects conservative principles and the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/opinion/turning-points-americafest-maga.html
— Agriculture Department Sheds a Fifth of Its Workers. From January to June, more than 20,000 employees out of more than 110,000 left the agency, according to a report by the agency’s inspector general. DD: Because of Gingrich budget cuts, GAO shed half its workers between 1980 and 1997. I was one of them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-agriculture-department-resignations-cuts.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Tale of Two Medicaid States: Minnesota Fraud vs. Indiana Reform. More indictments in Tim Walz’s state, while Mike Braun’s reforms save hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/medicaid-fraud-minnesota-indiana-reforms-tim-walz-mike-braun-d1edb6b1
— The Bruising Reality of Searching for a Job at 65. DD: I have been unemployed since I was 49 in 1997. My critics/opponents have always stressed that. In my defense, my Democrat GAO forced me to retire, that is, they fired me. Before that, a) they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, b) they delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) they kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and d) they forced me to take a $23,472/year pay cut (21%) n today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. Before that, my Democrat IRS superiors a) never promoted me beyond GS-12, b) disallowed my education deductions, and c) disallowed my travel vouchers. Before that, my Democrat Post Office superiors, a) forced me to resign and b) disallowed my sick leave requests. The aforesaid has rendered worthless a) my work experience, b) my job-related bachelor’s degree, c) my three job-related master’s degrees, d) my six job-related professional certifications, and e) my job-related professional license.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/the-bruising-reality-of-searching-for-a-job-at-65-eed94709
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Committee Republicans advance House bill to overhaul the federal probationary period. DD: Have you been in a probationary period? After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO supervisors were furious when they learned that because of my IRS employment, they could not use probationary procedures to get rid of me. In 1970, my Chicago Heights Firestone Store boss unsuccessfully tried to use probationary procedures to not hire me. The Firestone Store Chicago district office hired me and assigned me to his store. He never would have hired me. He forced me to pass a 2-week probationary period in Firestone’s Gary Indiana Store. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. He disapproved of my being Protestant. He disapproved of my being German American. He disapproved of me and my ancestors living in Crete and their having been in America since 1844. The aforesaid led to my accepting a job offer from Oldsmobile in 1971. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. He rudely fired me because I had accepted that job offer.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/12/committee-republicans-advance-house-bill-to-overhaul-the-federal-probationary-period/
FROM OTHER SOURSES
GOOGE AI
— Come to your defense. DD: Have you had adverse actions taken against you? When your critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against you, who has come to your defense? My critics/opponents continue to stress that when they had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me, virtually no one came to my defense. They had their operatives and their dupes a) rudely throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) rudely end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) rudely gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) rudely end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) rudely end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) rudely end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, h) rudely defeat my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, i) etc. Who have you hoped would have come to your defense, but did not? For me, it is those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect in general elections.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22come+to+your+defense%22
HR MORNING
— Ask these 8 questions to get difficult employees back on track. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise their most problematic employees. They all were Democrats who were minority, female, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. Further, they assigned me to work for the supervisors who they wanted to get rid of.
https://www.hrmorning.com/articles/back-on-track/
