March 18, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/17/families-impacted-by-ice-raids-denounce-trump-administrations-arrests-file-emergency-motion/
— Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin. My ancestors on my father’s side immigrated from what is now Germany in 1844. They worked in a Chicago brick factory until 1854 when they had saved enough money to homestead a farm in southeast Crete Township.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/16/irish-chicago-kilgubbin/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with foreign countries against America.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/03/17/denmark-europe-boycott-us-goods-trump-tariffs-trade-greenland-eu-musk-tesla
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2025/03/17/trump-administration-deports-hundreds-immigrants-court-order-el-salvador

DAILY HERALD
— Illinois could legalize internet gambling. Casinos say it will hurt them.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250317/business/illinois-could-legalize-internet-gambling-casinos-say-it-will-hurt-them/

ABC7
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Kinzinger.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-biden-pardons-ex-rep-adam-kinzinger-jan-6-committee-member-fires-back-claim-are-invalid/16040145/

NBC5
— Trump says autopen voids Biden’s pardons for Jan. 6 committee. Trump has argued that the committee members are guilty of unspecified “major crimes.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-biden-autopen-voids-jan-6-pardons/3699413/?os=dio____ref%3Dapp&ref=app

FOX32
— A French Parliament member wants America to return the Statue of Liberty. Far too many foreign countries despise/hate America.  Far too many of them dump their problematic citizens on America.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/raphael-glucksmann-statue-liberty-back
— MN lawmakers want to define ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ as a mental illness. Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOIs blame Trump for all their problems, for all your problems, and for all of everyone’s problems.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/mn-lawmakers-want-make-trump-derangement-syndrome-mental-illness
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad. I should write about my critics/opponents who blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I would focus on a) those candidates, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, c) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and d) conservative and religious leaders and activists. It is called scapegoating.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1609814

WGN RADIO
— Democrat and RINO leaders want Democrats and RINOs to punish Tesla owners because of Musk, that is, because of Trump.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/newsclick/the-john-williams-newsclick-is-it-okay-to-vent-doge-criticism-on-tesla-owners/#/questions

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-476/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-269/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Illinoisans haven’t yet connected the dots between bad policies, bad outcomes and the politicians they vote for.
https://wirepoints.org/illinoisans-havent-yet-connected-the-dots-between-bad-policies-bad-outcomes-and-the-politicians-they-vote-for-wirepoints-on-the-crisis-cast/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Today, again using 800 mailing labels and 400 envelopes, I will hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. I have divided my precinct into four zones. It takes me about three/four hours to walk a zone. While I walk my precinct, I will get a measure of the success that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump haters have had promoting more hatred against Trump. Republican Precinct Committeemen are lightning rods for that hatred. 478 in my precinct voted for Harris. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad. I should write about my critics/opponents who blame me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I would focus on a) those candidates, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, c) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and d) conservative and religious leaders and activists. It is called scapegoating. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
—  If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it in the 1980s and 1990s, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee. If Gingrich had formed a team to reform GAO, I would have volunteered to be a member of that team. I would have stressed a) that I had worked for GAO since 1980 and the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in1981, d) that I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, and e) that I earned an MBA in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, and a master’s degree in finance in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How do you deal with your critics/opponents? I should write about my critics/opponents and how they use their adverse actions against me against me. I would start with my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— What Exactly is in the Homeschool Bill – HB 2827?
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/what-exactly-is-in-the-homeschool-bill-hb-2827/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Musk: Democrats used $200 billion to ‘buy’ votes of illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3349807/musk-democrats-200-billion-buy-votes-illegal-immigrants/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Trump Admin Launches Probe Into Big Law DEI Policies. The EEOC is asking white shoe firms to provide detailed information about their hiring practices.
https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/trump-admin-launches-probe-into-big-law-dei-policies/

NEW YORK POST
— Federal judges’ Trump hate is only harming the courts themselves
https://nypost.com/2025/03/17/opinion/how-federal-judges-trump-hate-is-harming-the-courts/

AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY
— Trump Administration Brings Changes to the Federal Hiring System. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the 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. I had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.
https://americansforprosperity.org/policy-corner/trump-administration-brings-changes-to-the-federal-hiring-system-a-brief-look-at-president-trumps-schedule-f-policy-career-policy-and-civil-service-reform/

BLAZE
— History affirms Trump’s right to use the Alien Enemies Act against gangs
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/history-affirms-trumps-right-to-use-the-alien-enemies-act-against-gangs

BREITBART
— Pritzker Dumping Healthcare Program for Older Illegal Migrants
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/17/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-dumping-healthcare-program-older-illegal-migrants/
— DOJ Argues ‘Court Lacks the Jurisdiction’ After Judge Blocks Trump Use of Alien Enemies Act
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/17/doj-argues-court-lacks-jurisdiction-judge-blocks-trump-use-alien-enemies-act/
— Left Portrays Pro-Hamas Activist Mahmoud Khalil as Victim of Trump’s Deportation Policy
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/17/left-portrays-mahmoud-khalil-as-victim-of-trumps-deportation-policy/
— Socialist Venezuela Compares Trump Deporting Tren de Aragua Thugs to the Holocaust
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2025/03/17/hold-for-ezra-socialist-venezuela-compares-trump-deporting-tren-de-aragua-thugs-to-the-holocaust/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Colleges and universities are not backing away from wokeness. They are putting it under the table, off the books.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/our-colleges-and-universities-arent-backing-away-from-wokeness/

NEWSBUSTERS
— The Media Protest Trump Deportations of Illegal Alien Gangbangers to El Salvador’s CECOT Prison
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/03/18/unhinged-media-now-protest-trump-deportations-illegal-alien

TOWNHALL
— 95 Percent of Federal Employees Express Liberal Views at Work. As I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates got ever-increasingly anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-non-veteran, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jacob-sagert/2025/03/18/95-percent-of-federal-employees-express-liberal-views-at-work-n2653950
— Democrat Gov: I Won’t Allow Trump to Take Illegal Aliens ‘Off the Streets.’ Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2025/03/17/hochul-speaking-on-ice-and-illegal-aliens-in-nyc-n2653928
— DEI-Obsessed Democrats Are Doing This on Purpose
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/03/17/arlington-cemetery-removes-pages-on-black-veterans-and-women-n2653943

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Under Biden, constructively, Americans were barred from everything if they did not promote LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5199691-third-challenge-trump-order-transgender-troops/
— Harvard is expanding free tuition in diversity push  My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. Nevertheless, he believed that was too much to qualify for financial scholarships. And as my critics/opponents have always stressed, I did not qualify for scholastic scholarships because my ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class. Therefore, I worked my way through college.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5198613-harvard-free-tuition-diversity-ivy-league-supreme-court/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Harvard University announced Monday it will be expanding free tuition to more students, a move adopted by other schools since the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action could no longer be used in college admissions. Harvard said students from families making less than $200,000 a year will not be charged for tuition, expanding on a previous decision to make the school completely free, covering tuition, housing and other costs, for those coming from families making less than $100,000 a year.)

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Hard-Line Tactics Are Driving Down Illegal Migration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/americas/mexico-trump-migration.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly oppose a) all Trump budget cuts and b) all Trump spending increases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/nyregion/columbia-research-grants-trump.html
— Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-order-voice-of-america.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their illegals to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/americas/el-salvador-venezuela-deportations-families.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Communist China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/trump-china-trade-war.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ask “Do Americans Approve of President Trump?”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump’s Grievance-Filled Speech Makes Clear His Quest for Vengeance Is Personal.” I should write about my critics/opponents and how they use their adverse actions against me against me. I would start with my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes a) end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/trump-speech-doj-retribution.html
— Trump Appoints Michael Flynn, Walt Nauta and Other Allies to Oversee Military Academies. Among other appointees were Charlie Kirk, Sean Spicer and the daughter of Steve Bannon. President Trump purged several of the military oversight boards last month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-military-academies-flynn-nauta.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters crow about their success in promoting more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-economy-polling.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/upshot/abortion-bans-births-study.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration moves to reinstate thousands of probationary employees. After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that because I had served my probationary period when I was an IRS employee, they could not just fire me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/17/trump-administration-reinstates-fired-probationary-workers/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly paint their illegals as being GOD-LIKE.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/17/trump-presidency-news/

USA TODAY
— Trump has promised to rid the government of “waste, fraud and abuse.” But he’s fired many of the people who look for it in schools. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not be needed today and I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/03/16/education-department-waste-fraud-abuse-cuts/82370646007/

SACRAMENTO BEE
— Soon, if not already, everyone in healthcare will be most, if not virtually all of the following: non-Republican, liberal, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or citizens of foreign countries.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article302217539.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly paint their illegals as being GOD-LIKE.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-deportations-gang-members-james-boasberg-tom-homan-nayib-bukele-ms-13-tren-de-aragua-6e377106

BUSINESS STANDARD
— US to undocumented immigrants: Leave now or pay up to $700 per day
https://www.business-standard.com/finance/personal-finance/us-to-undocumented-immigrants-leave-now-or-pay-up-to-700-per-day-125031800940_1.html

POLITICO
— Trump stacks military academy boards with MAGA loyalists, including Michael Flynn, Charlie Kirk, and Steve Bannon’s daughter. Just kidding, but will Trump form a GAO oversight board and appoint me to it?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/michael-flynn-charlie-kirk-trump-appointments-00234637

PBS
— The history of civil service and the impact of Trump’s slashing of the workforce. For Democrats, government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2025/03/the-history-of-civil-service-and-the-impact-of-trumps-slashing-of-the-workforce

PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY
— Trump is the right’s tool to dismantle a century of progress
https://www.peoplefor.org/trump-rights-tool-dismantle-century-progress

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.