FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WGN RADIO
— Chicago Way w/John Kass: Former State Rep. Tom Morrison is here to talk about his ‘complete blueprint for winning a local or state race’ at www.CandidateMasterclass.com and why it is so important as the country prepares to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, everyone takes an active role in keep the republic healthy.
https://wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/thechicagoway/chicago-way-w-john-kass-a-blueprint-for-getting-involved-in-the-republic/amp/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURES: National Register status sought for Lombard Underground Railroad stop. DD: What role did your hometown play in the underground railroad? My critics/opponents have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned my hometown of Crete. I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and my ancestors have lived in Crete since 1854. According to my critics/opponents, back then, Crete was full of German Lutherans who were racist, sexist, bigoted, and even worse things. In Crete’s defense, I have always stressed the role it played in the underground railroad. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=underground+railroad+crete and https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/18/column-efforts-to-document-underground-railroad-sites-in-the-south-suburbs-gains-momentum/
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260323/news/national-register-status-sought-for-lombard-underground-railroad-stop/
— DD: Soon, under the Democrats, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260324/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-a-worthy-project-local-food-pantry-has-plan-to-expand-its-capacity-to-help-pe/
SHAW LOCAL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2026/03/24/immigration-crackdown-hits-students-statewide-with-fear-lower-attendance-and-some-families-not-returning/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump casts Florida mail ballot as he pushes Congress to severely limit that voting option. President Donald Trump has cast another mail ballot in Florida as he continues to publicly bash the voting method as a source of fraud and push Congress to curtail the practice.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-casts-florida-mail-ballot-as-he-pushes-congress-to-severely-limit-that-voting-option/article_e544cc83-72ff-5f2e-afb5-f659c5f39e80.html
NPR ILLINOIS & FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-03-23/despite-state-bans-and-restrictions-the-number-of-abortions-in-the-u-s-holds-steady
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/abortion-pills-are-gaining-ground-as-a-method-for-ending-pregnancies-and-opponents-are-responding/article_e05ea678-b25c-5fb2-b4d8-8a648f2abe7e.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— ICE lands in O’Hare, tensions mount
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/24/ice-lands-in-ohare-tensions-mount-00840825
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-705/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Poll: Most Americans back limits on school activism
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_8f12e447-7896-4ee2-93d7-f97d99123329.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Fairfax County again scheduled to sacrifice academics for wokeness. DD: How strongly do the Democrats who run your school district promote wokeness, that is, how strongly do they promote hatred against Trump and against those who share his demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/23/fairfax-county-scheduled-sacrifice-academics-wokeness/
NEW YORK POST
— Biden’s insane ‘asylum-seekers’ policy is what’s frustrating, hurting the US. DD: What percent of those who come to America falsely claim asylum?
https://nypost.com/2026/03/23/opinion/bidens-insane-asylum-seekers-policy-is-whats-frustrating-hurting-the-us/
BREITBART
— GOP Slams Democrats for Protecting Illegal Aliens During DHS Shutdown. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly exist a) to glorify and praise their illegals and b) to fight their deportation.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/23/gop-slams-democrats-protecting-illegal-aliens-dhs-shutdown/amp/
— House Transportation Committee Approves ‘Dalilah’s Law’ to Ban Trucking Licenses for Illegal Aliens. DD: Illegally selling trucking licenses is what brought George Ryan down. My critics/opponents have always sided with George Ryan and blamed his problems a) on me, b) on my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, c) on what I did as a TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois leader, d) on what I did as an Illinois Center Right Coalition leader, and e) on everything else I have done. I should write about my critics/opponents who have blamed me the most for George Ryan’s problems and the biggest adverse actions that they have taken against me.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/23/house-transportation-committee-dalilah-law-ban-trucking-licenses-illegal-aliens/
COLLEGE FIX
— College Republicans mourn, demand action after illegal alien accused of killing Loyola student, 18.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/college-republicans-mourn-demand-action-after-illegal-alien-accused-of-killing-loyola-student-18/
FOX NEWS
— Blagojevich: This could have ‘easily been avoided’ if Pritzker, Johnson did their jobs. Blagojevich discusses an illegal immigrant charged in the murder of an 18-year-old Loyola University student in Chicago and criticizes sanctuary city policies.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6391488733112
REAL CLEAR DEFENSE
— Where Have All the Young Men Gone? DD: Did you enlist? What motivated you to get a college degree? My father often decried his not having a college degree. Because of that and because my parents lacked money, when I was a freshman and sophomore at Crete-Monee High School 1962-1964, my plan was to enlist and use the GI Bill to get a college degree. But one of my high school friends suggested that I consider working my way through college because I was taking college preparatory classes and I was in the upper 20% of my class. Then, another high school friend provided me with a model: get accepted by UIC and commute to/from classes there from my parents’ home in Crete. At the start of my junior year, got a job washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the SS Kresge in Chicago Heights. To get to/from that job and my parents’ home, I bought a 6-year-old car with money I had earned/saved doing yard work and delivering newspapers. I got an ACT score of 24 and I got accepted by UIC. Just before I graduated in June of 1966, I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, a poor man’s GTO, with money I had earned/saved washing dishes. In December of 1967, I sold that Pontiac and bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 with the money I had earned/saved delivering mail for the Park Forest Post Office. In December of 1968, I sold that Oldsmobile, I bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE, and I transferred to NIU. In August of 1970, I graduated debt-free from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management and owning that Charger. According to my critics/opponents, the real reason why I did the aforesaid was to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Admittedly, as the war dragged on, war protesters ever-increasingly demonized, denigrated, and condemned a) those who enlisted and b) those who did not avoid the draft. My father died suddenly in October of 1969. I applied for a financial hardship draft deferment to help support my mother and brother. But potential employers saw me as being draft bait, they did not believe my application would be approved. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was for a job that did not really require a college degree. But then, my application was approved and because my lottery number was over 100, I was no longer subject to the draft. What if I had tried to enlist? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2026/03/23/where_have_all_the_young_men_gone_1171913.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: When Richard Nixon ended the draft in January 1973, America lost something vital to its soul. The quality of our military has not suffered. We have a splendid volunteer force defending our country and freedom right now. It’s the best educated, best trained, and best equipped force we have ever had. They are not the problem. The problem is that they represent only a very small fraction of America. For the first time in our history, the overwhelming majority of American families not only do not have a member in service, but they also don’t even know any family that does. 1973 was not the first time conscription was canceled. For the record, there was no national conscription before the Civil War…not for want of trying. General George Washington was frustrated with the unsoldierly quality of state militias during the Revolutionary War, and as president tried to register all males for military service. Congress blocked him. Conscription has been on-again-off-again our entire history to this day. So, Nixon’s draft cancellation cannot really be blamed for the decay of American culture. The problem was that our culture was already turning into a fetid sea, and the draft was a lifeboat. Besides shared contribution, experience and sacrifice, what we lost by ending the draft was character. Our country is in crisis, and most of our nation’s problems can be traced to the lack of character attributes that should be taught by mothers and fathers, and which are certainly instilled through military service: self-discipline, personal accountability, responsibility, self-reliance, selflessness, integrity, respect, and patriotism. Perhaps the greatest of these is discipline, from which all else must surely flow. Ask a strapping young man knocking about in life trying to find himself today, “Have you considered the military?” “Oh, no!” is a common response, “I couldn’t stand all that discipline.” That is sad, and a sad commentary on what we have allowed to happen to our great country. “Country” is not synonymous with “nation.” Right now, the United States is Balkanizing itself, and worse, sinking into tribalism. Common values build a nation. The Kurds are a nation who have never had a country. The Jews are a nation that only recovered their country after 2000 years of exile, but half of whom are still spread around the world. The nationhood of both derives from shared values and history—not from politics, race, or regionalism. Of course, it’s more complex, but shared values are the core of nationhood. The United States of America has lost that. The draft could bring it back. “The Marine Corps builds men.” And women. So do the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Space Force. More than instilling character, the military exposes young people to milieus that he or she might never otherwise encounter. To use the current politically correct term “diversity:” the military is comprised of every race, religion, culture, ethnicity, economic class, education and experience that make up this great country coming together and working together on a level playing field. And building a national common denominator of shared experience and, yes, character traits. Bottom line, it is the military strength of our country that keeps us free, and that is a personal responsibility. Writing of “the necessity of obliging every citizen to be a soldier,” Thomas Jefferson said in a letter to James Monroe in 1813, “We must train…our citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. We can never be safe until this is done,” Restoring universal service would also put us on the road to restoring the nobility of character that Alexis de Tocqueville so admired in Americans in 1831. Mandatory non-military community service, as suggested by some, is a nice idea, but it is no substitute for Jefferson’s vision.)
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Porter: Pritzker Makes “First and Craziest” Play of 2028 Democratic Primary With “Project 2029”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/03/23/richard_porter_pritzker_making_early_2028_play_for_the_democratic_left_with_project_2029.html
TOWNHALL
— This Murder of a US Student Is Getting Suffocated by the Media…Because It’s Laken Riley 2.0
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/print/2673273
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump calls airports ‘fertile territory’ for ICE
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5796513-ice-agents-airport-security-trump/
CNN
— Duckworth blasts Trump as ‘draft dodger.’ DD: What does Duckworth think of you? Both Trump and I avoided the Vietnam War draft. We are both conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and our ancestors have been in America for a long time. In 2006, Duckworth had me throw out of her press conference with Michael J. Fox in Wheaton. SEE: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/10/25/celebrity-and-controversy-mark-6th-race/ Further, my wife and I gave up trying to have children with trying IVF. We did not adopt. We did not become foster parents.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/21/politics/tammy-duckworth-donald-trump-military
ABC NEWS
— Trump doesn’t rule out immigration enforcement at airports after ICE agents deployed. Border czar Tom Homan said ICE would help TSA “plug the holes of security.”
https://abcnews.com/US/trump-rule-immigration-enforcement-airports-after-ice-agents/story?id=131321898
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/wireStory/abortion-pills-gaining-ground-method-ending-pregnancies-opponents-131349369
NEW YORK TIMES
— Gregory Bovino’s Final Days: Harsh Words and Few Regrets. He was the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. But as he begins a retirement that was not entirely voluntary, the Border Patrol leader says he did not go far enough. DD: Were you forced to retire early? Will you be forced to retire early? What if I had not succumbed to my Democrat GAO superiors’ threats and I had not retired early when I was 49 in 1997? They had threatened to make my next 6 years until I would be eligible for regular retirement to be a living hell for me. They had threatened to constructively demote me, to give me adverse transfers, unfair performance expectations, unfair performance appraisals, and to continue to rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. GAO was not unionized. It did not unionize until 2007. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should not have retired. I should have fought to keep my job a) because my critics/opponents have used my being forced to retire early against me so viciously and b) because of the tremendous loss of income that I have suffered and will suffer for the rest of my life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/gregory-bovino-border-patrol.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/politics/republicans-trump-midterms.html
— Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail. President Trump has long fixated on mail-in voting to bolster his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. But he recently used the method in a Florida special election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/politics/trump-mail-in-voting-florida.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— 40 hour workweek. DD: Did you have a 40 hour workweek? I had a 40 hour workweek 1971-1997 when I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997. My critics/opponents have always been furious about that. They stress that 40 hour workweek unfairly enabled me a) to work part-time 1971-1972, b) to take graduate evening business courses 1972-1976, accounting courses 1976-1980, and finance courses 1992-1997, and c) to take evening and weekend CPA examination review courses 1978-1979 and Certified Internal Auditor examination review courses 1980-1981.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/opinion/minimum-wage-hours-work-part-time.html
— Record Number of Student Loan Borrowers Are in Delinquency and Default. Recently released data from the Education Department showed that by the end of last year, 7.7 million borrowers had defaulted on $181 billion in federal student loans. DD: Because I worked my way through college, I graduated debt-free from NIU in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in business and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. But my GPA suffered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/business/student-loan-deliquency-default.html
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/us/trump-ice-deportations-pets-left-behind.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly becoming more anti-American.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-24/california-teachers-tread-lightly-for-americas-250th-anniversary
— DD: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Whites who are conservative, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2026-03-24/documentaries-to-watch-stream
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/24/supreme-court-case-asylum-seekers-border-metering/89224595007/
— Experience. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly made it clear that to keep your job, you not only had to be a Democrat, you had to be a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. As I got older, they ever-increasingly wasted what I had learned earning a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and job-related professional license. As I got older, they took ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions to get rid of me culminating in their forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2026/03/17/college-grad-jobs-experience/89125141007/
— When and where is the next mass layoff? DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, because of Gingrich-led budget cuts, the agency shrank from having more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees. In 1997, I was one of the last Republican employees they go rid of.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/03/19/tracker-companies-mass-layoffs-closings-warn/89195890007/
— Young people wonder: Why even try? DD: If I was a young person today, because of my terrible demographics, I question if I could find the motivation like I did during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. Democrat and RINO employers want to hire, retain, and promote employees who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are noncitizens.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/03/15/the-american-dream-upward-mobility-now-stability/89070281007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Welcome Setback for Medical DEI. A medical school accreditor removes race-based guidance. DD: Since the 1960s, Democrat and RINO leaders have ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of me and to get rid of those who share my demographics: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older (born in 1948), non-veteran, non-poor, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-welcome-setback-for-medical-dei-fbac8fa0
FORTUNE
— Largest federal workers union warns ICE agents are not trained to replace TSA and putting them in airports ‘does not fill a gap. It creates one. DD: The first 6 months that I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer in 1971 was classroom training. While I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997, the agencies provided me with lots of classroom training. But the Democrats who ran IRS and GAO wasted what I learned from that training as well as what I learned a) earning a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970, b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, e) passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and f) earning a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/tsa-union-federal-workers-ice-airports-gap/
HR GRAPEVINE
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers will forever use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2026-03-23-how-to-make-sure-your-dei-policies-stay-on-the-right-side-of-the-law
NATIONAL CATHOLOC REPORTER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in using Hispanics to take over the Catholic Church.
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/young-latinos-and-their-commitment-social-justice-are-shaping-catholic-future
LA PROGRESSIVE
— DD: To promote Affirmative Action, DEI, wokeness, and wokeism is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/anti-discrimination-laws
ATLANTIC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/afghanistan-refugees-trump-immigration/686508/
PEW RESEARCH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice, dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, gun control, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/
