Opinion: Maduro’s Illegitimacy, AndWhy the United States Was Right to Act
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion ContributorThe Left is in meltdown status. The Trump administration did what it needed to...
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer, and actor. Once a County Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party in the 1990s, after serving as president of the Ethnic American Council in the 1980s, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009. Professionally, he is a licensed Customs broker, and has worked in freight forwarding and manufacturing for over forty years. John is available for training seminars ranging from the Incoterms and free trade agreements to the challenge of re-shoring to minimize tariff impacts (https://tradecomplianceseminars.com/), as well as fiery speeches concerning the political issues covered in his columns. His book on vote fraud, “The Tales of Little Pavel,” his three-volume political satires of the Biden-Harris regime, “Evening Soup with Basement Joe,” and his 2024 non-fiction work covering the issues of the 2020s, "Current Events and the Issues of Our Age," are available in eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion ContributorThe Left is in meltdown status. The Trump administration did what it needed to...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor The news stories at the end of the calendar year are different from...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor When someone famous dies, you don’t always have to comment. There are so...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion ContributorThe American Left – along with certain Trump Derangement Syndrome-stricken Republicans – greeted the...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor President Trump and the modern populist conservative movement have campaigned on ending the...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion ContributorSix Democrats – two U.S. Senators and four U.S. Congressmen – recorded a public...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion ContributorMany in the press have enjoyed taking pot shots at President Donald Trump for...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor You may have noticed something new, as of late, in news reporting on...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor At this writing, the Trump presidency has just passed the nine month mark,...
By John F. Di Leo, Opinion Contributor On October 9, 2025, as China-watchers scoured the news for details about Chairman...