FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/11/11/judge-doj-broadview-six-hearing/
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Miller calls on Congress to codify Trump policies.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/miller-calls-on-congress-to-codify-trump-policies/article_0f5842bc-7b0c-495f-8521-e041ca113d3b.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Justice Richard A. Posner has died. His influence in law was beyond compare: Posner, who served from 1981 to 2017 on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago, wrote thousands of judicial opinions and more than 50 books. DD: In 1996, I argued a case pro se in front of Posner. According to Google AI: The landmark federal case Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange (1997) ( https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/110/481/526770/ ) is a well-known U.S. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit) decision regarding federal odometer fraud and automobile sales.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/11/12/blagojevichs-memoir-recounts-old-feuds-01161621
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/
WIREPOINTS
https://wirepoints.org/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you get blamed for? My critics/opponents blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems and they do not want me to “complain” about that. They blame me and my newsletters for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me and they destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify or praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Illegal migrant who tried to hijack a United Airlines flight claimed to be trans and HIV positive — and was granted asylum.
https://nypost.com/2026/11/11/us-news/illegal-migrant-who-tried-to-hijack-a-united-airlines-flight-claimed-to-be-trans-and-hiv-positive-and-was-granted-asylum/
BREITBART
— Texas Democrat Files Bill to Give $1,500 to Every Household — Including Illegal Aliens.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2026/11/11/texas-democrat-files-bill-to-give-1500-to-every-household-including-illegal-aliens/
— Newsom Builds Wine Empire Using Illegal Migrant Labor.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/11/11/report-gavin-newsom-builds-wine-empire-using-illegal-migrant-labor/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Occidental College hosts ‘Transgender Operations’ event mocking Trump.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/occidental-college-hosts-transgender-operations-event-mocking-trump/30978
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://cis.org/Arthur/How-Big-Role-Did-Immigration-Play-2026-GOP-Wipeout
FOX NEWS
— Trump defends Iran war during Veterans Day address, says he is making the world ‘safer.’ The president used his Veterans Day address to argue Iran has been waging war on America since 1979.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-defends-iran-war-during-veterans-day-address-says-making-world-safer
— Senate Republicans fear ‘brutal’ 2028 map could keep Dems in power for years to come. Campaign chief Sen. Bernie Moreno says the path to reclaiming the majority is ‘very tough’ as GOP defends deep-red seats.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-republicans-fear-brutal-2028-map-could-keep-dems-power-years-come
— Women debate what it means to be a ‘trad wife’ on Chris Harrison’s new dating show. DD: From what I see, fewer and fewer and fewer men are marriage material. What did you do to make yourself marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a townhome in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. See Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on my wife and I at https://gopillinois.com/documents/ Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6408151676112
PJ MEDIA
— Universities Are Turning Students Against America. Here’s the Proof.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/11/11/heres-how-we-know-universities-are-turning-students-against-america-n4959253
WHITE HOUSE
— “We Render You the Highest Salute”: President Trump Honors America’s Veterans on Hallowed Ground at Arlington.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/11/we-render-you-the-highest-salute-president-trump-honors-americas-veterans-on-hallowed-ground-at-arlington/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrats, vowing action next year, stew over missed votes on Hegseth impeachment. DD: I should write about the failed effort by my critics/opponents in 2006 to have the Illinois Center Right Coalition censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6214625-house-democrats-fail-hegseth-measure/
ROLL CALL
— Remarks: Donald Trump Addresses a Veterans Day Ceremony at Arlington – November 11, 2026.
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-veterans-day-arlington-national-cemetery-november-11-2026/
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders say Republicans tiptoe around Trump as they process defeat in the 2026 elections.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-hesitate-blame-trump-defeat-2026-elections-rcna608554
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrat leaders say Trump says the towering arch he wants to build might be dedicated to military veterans.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-arch-veterans-day-washington-2002012a2b0a6afb0ccf01325a41683f
CNN
— DD: Democrat leaders say Trump said veterans have been waiting 200 years for proposed triumphal arch.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/11/politics/video/president-trump-participates-in-veterans-day-ceremony
MS NOW
— DD; Democrat leaders say that Trump DOJ orders staff to get on board or GET OUT. DD: For Democrat leaders, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are non-White, female, younger, and/or veteran. My Democrat superiors in the federal government forced my superiors and supervisors to waste the careers of and to get rid of their Republican employees, and especially those who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran like me.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fUxSOGRGXac
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders say Republicans Begin Aggressive Lame-Duck Push to Install Trump Judges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/us/politics/trump-federal-judges-senate-republicans.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders describe how Trump and the GOP are reacting to their midterm catastrophe.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/press-freedom-desk/2026/11/11/freedom-desk-how-trump-gop-are-reacting-their-midterm-catastrophe/
— DD: Democrat leaders blast Trump defended his war policies in speech at Arlington National Cemetery.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/11/11/trump-defends-his-war-policies-speech-arlington-national-cemetery/
— DD: Democrat leaders crow that Democratic sweep opens the door for major policy changes at state level. Democrats gained trifectas in six new states, flipped 12 state legislative chambers and are poised to flip six governorships.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/11/12/democratic-sweep-opens-door-major-policy-changes-state-level/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Melania Trump’s Initiative for Women Appears at Odds With D.E.I. Crackdown. Its name and mission also overlap with a company that left the United States after the administration sought to end corporate networking programs for women and people of color. DD: Since the 1960s, everyone above me has been under ever-increasing pressure to give more preference to those who do not share my demographics, that is, to discriminate against those who share my demographics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/us/politics/melania-trump-imperia-women-dei-programs.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in blaming Trump for inflation. Admittedly, COLAs have helped me deal with inflation. I got COLAs while I was a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997. I have gotten COLAs as a federal retiree since 1997 and as a Social Security recipient since 2010.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/economy-cpi-inflation-republicans-wages-donald-trump-kevin-warsh-ae0a07a2
— DD: Rove blasts Trump again.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-if-trump-still-thinks-hes-winning-f82bbd4f
— Hiking the Minimum Wage Isn’t Affordable. Consumers pay when the fellow who flips burgers is required to be paid $20 an hour. DD: Have you ever worked for the minimum wage? I did for 19 months 1964-1966.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/hiking-the-minimum-wage-isnt-affordable-cee17e64
— How to Plan for a Career That Could Easily Last 60 Years. As lifespans increase, people have to prepare—mentally and financially—to work well into their 70s and 80s. That’s going to require a new plan. DD: My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/career-lifespan-planning-retirement-savings-79dacdc3
— Infertility. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used against me big time my and my wife’s giving up trying to have children, our not adopting, and our not becoming foster parents. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/home-vs-stock-market-investment-cda88604
INC.
— DD: Democrats and RINOs will forever use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Liberals and moderates will forever use DEI to get rid of conservatives.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/companies-may-restore-dei-after-the-midterms-but-employees-wont-trust-empty-promises/91434652
TEXARKANA GAZETTE
— They fled California for Republican Texas but then the blue wave hit the Lone Star State.
https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2026/nov/12/they-fled-california-for-republican-texas-but/
WTOP
— DD: Democrat leaders say the newest statue on the National Mall does not honor a war hero. For Veterans Day, the protest art group The Secret Handshake is once again targeting Trump, this time with a golden statue mocking his medical exemption from military service during the Vietnam War. DD: Since I was 18 in 1966, my critics/opponents have used against me my avoiding the Vietnam War draft with four student deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment. My critics/opponents do not want me to “complain” about their doing that. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my many Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans. They blamed draft avoiders like me for America losing the Vietnam War.
https://wtop.com/dc/2026/11/the-statue-represents-a-draft-dodger-protest-art-mocks-trump-with-golden-statue/
KUTV
— DD: Democrat leaders acknowledge that Trump thanked Veterans for reassuring that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zcdoFgIoWic
APT
— DD: Democrat leaders say Trump Praises Hegseth’s Leadership, Says War Secretary Has Done ‘Fantastic Job.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjJFjN-nq88
— DD: Democrat leaders say Trump Demands ‘Total Victory’ Over Iran, Says US Has Already Won The War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLZrq2HDGEQ
SCHUMER
— Schumer, Peters, Jeffries And Garcia Statement On Sham Nomination Process For Next GAO Leader. DD: Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. 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 $118,984-$154,682/year. I sued those Democrats for their using Affirmative Action, up-or-out, subjectivity in their performance appraisal system, and budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf I should write a book about GAO and its Democrat leaders.
https://www.forth.news/lists/ussen-schumer/CgxCJYYd6siaR4TQTx6Gx
(FROM THE POSTING: Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and U.S. Representatives Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08), House Democratic Leader, and Robert Garcia (D-CA-42), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) initiated a sham process to recommend nominees to serve as the next Comptroller General of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for a 15-year term: “This afternoon, Chairman Rand Paul’s office requested submissions of candidates to serve as the next Comptroller General of GAO with a deadline of less than 24 hours. This is clearly a sham to enable President Trump to appoint a handpicked nominee to lead Congress’ watchdog. We cannot allow President Trump to install a fox in the henhouse at an agency Congress relies on to provide independent, nonpartisan oversight, and expose waste, fraud, and abuse across the Trump Administration. “Counter to the last time a GAO Comptroller was selected in 2010 in a yearlong, bipartisan process, Republican leaders have never convened the Commission for meetings, and the Commission has not interviewed a single candidate for this critical role, despite repeated requests to begin the process over the last two years. Every Member of Congress who values independent oversight and good stewardship of taxpayer dollars should call this out for what it is – a transparent effort to ram through another Trump crony at the 11th hour, and undercut Congress’ ability to conduct effective oversight of the Trump Administration. GAO is Congress’ nonpartisan watchdog, conducting research, investigations and audits that support Congressional oversight of the Executive Branch. By statute, a bipartisan, bicameral Commission is central to the process of selecting a new Comptroller General. The 10-member Commission recommends at least three candidates, and the President chooses a nominee from the Commission’s recommendations. In the past, the Commission engaged in an extensive process, seeking a wide range of applicants and reviewing and interviewing candidates in a bipartisan manner. The bipartisan Commission is made up of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate, the Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. All three times the Commission process has occurred in the past, the president has selected a nominee with bipartisan support.)
POLITICO
— Democrats accuse GOP of helping Trump put ‘fox in the henhouse’ at top watchdog. They warn that Republicans are driving a “sham” process to pick the next Government Accountability Office (GAO) head. DD: Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. 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 $118,984-$154,682/year. I sued those Democrats for their using Affirmative Action, up-or-out, subjectivity in their performance appraisal system, and budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf I should write a book about GAO and its Democrat leaders.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/11/senate-confirmation-gao-chief-01161896
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Congressional Democrats claim GOP leaders are trying to choke off the selection process for the federal government’s top watchdog in a bid to let President Donald Trump install one of his allies before Republicans cede the majority in January. Top Democrats in both chambers divulged Wednesday night that Republicans gave them less than 24 hours to submit candidates to serve as Comptroller General, otherwise known as the head of the Government Accountability Office — an official uniquely empowered to sue Trump on Congress’ behalf for clawing back federal funding lawmakers have approved. “This is clearly a sham to enable President Trump to appoint a handpicked nominee to lead Congress’ watchdog,” the Democrats said in a joint statement. “We cannot allow President Trump to install a fox in the henhouse at an agency Congress relies on to provide independent, nonpartisan oversight, and expose waste, fraud, and abuse across the Trump Administration.” The lawmakers signing onto the statement include Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and the top Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Committee on House Oversight and Governmental Affairs — Gary Peters of Michigan and Robert Garcia of California, respectively. GAO is currently headed by an acting comptroller general, Orice Williams Brown, who is under increasing pressure to sue the Trump administration for withholding federal cash after the president canceled hundreds of millions of dollars without Congress’ consent this fall. Brown assumed that role last December, when Gene Dodaro retired at the end of his 15-year term. By law, a bipartisan panel of 10 lawmakers is supposed to recommend candidates for Trump to nominate for Senate confirmation. And when Dodaro retired last year, Senate HSGAC Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — one of the lawmakers on the broader recommendation committee — said he intended to “look for someone who’s honest,” warning that it would be “a mistake to get somebody who’s been real active in political processes.” Democrats now claim Paul and other top Republicans are working to “ram through another Trump crony at the 11th hour, and undercut Congress’ ability to conduct effective oversight of the Trump Administration.” The Washington Sun reported last month that the administration has floated the idea of nominating Eric Ueland to head GAO; POLITICO has not independently confirmed that the White House is considering the former longtime Senate aide who now serves as a senior official at the White House budget office. In the months leading up to Dodaro’s retirement last year, Democrats on Capitol Hill began to lament the fact that a president who continually challenges the bounds of Congress’ funding power would get to nominate the watchdog tasked with defending the authority of the legislative branch. In the more than 10 months since Dodaro left the role, Republican leaders on the bipartisan selection commission have held no meetings, nor have they interviewed any candidates for the role, said Schumer, Jeffries, Peters and Garcia Wednesday night. Peters and Garcia are supposed to be on the panel that recommends GAO candidates, since they are the leading Democrats on Congress’ oversight committees. Spokespeople for Paul and Senate Majority Leader John Thune did not immediately respond to requests for comment.)
ATLANTIC
— Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies. DD: For Democrat leaders, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are non-White, female, younger, and/or veteran. My Democrat superiors in the federal government forced my superiors and supervisors to waste the careers of and to get rid of their Republican employees, and especially those who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran like me.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/civil-servants-trump-efficiency/681596/
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: Liberals and moderates will forever use DEI to get rid of conservatives. Democrats and RINOs will forever use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Because most liberals, moderates, Democrats, and RINOs are minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, they use DEI to get rid of conservatives and Republicans like me who are White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/11/12/anti-dei-trump-official-lead-doj-civil-rights-office
— 13 AGs Ask Supreme Court to Uphold Florida’s Stop WOKE Act. DD: To promote woke is to promote more hatred against Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/11/12/13-ags-ask-supreme-court-uphold-floridas-stop-woke-act
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS
— DD: To get more votes from voters who have less income/assets than others, Democrat and RINO candidates and elected officials ever-increasingly shout at them a) that those who have more income/assets than they have cause all their problems and b) that they will use government to take more income/assets away from those who have more and to give it to those who have less. Generally, those who have more income/assets are White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time and generally, those who have less are minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/americans-want-federal-government-help-people-need/
DAILY BEAST
— Trump’s Tax Dodging Scheme. The president could get a $3 billion tax break for the development rights to his golf courses. DD: My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that my deducting my education expenses was a tax dodging scheme. While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS and GAO, I deducted graduate evening a) business courses at Loyola 1972-1976, b) accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1980, and c) finance courses at IIT 1992-1997. According to them, the courses were not deductible because they were not related to my job duties, did not maintain or improve my job skills, were taken by me to get a job in the private sector, and qualified me for a new trade or business.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-tax-dodging-scheme-laid-bare-in-bombshell-report
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— DD: Democrat leaders call Jim Jordan a “Pugnacious Trump ideologue.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/10/who-is-jim-jordan-house-republicans
