Senator Joe Biden "borrows" a speech from British politician Neil Kinnock.

JOE BIDEN copies from Neil Kinnock  Tunnel Wall covered this some time back:   "A September 17, 1987 broadcast of the PBS NewsHour discusses how Joe Biden’s 1988 presidential bid was derailed by charges of plagiarism."

. . . . . . "But Biden’s exit from the 1988 race is worth recalling in detail, because his transgressions far exceeded Obama’s own relatively innocent lifting of rhetorical set pieces from his friend Deval Patrick, which occasioned a brief flap last February. Biden’s misdeeds encompassed numerous self-aggrandizing thefts, misstatements, and exaggerations that seemed to point to a serious character defect. In some ways, the 1988 campaign—in which scandal forced not just Biden but also Gary Hart from the race—marked a watershed in the absurd gotcha politics that have since marred our politics and punditry. But unlike Hart’s plight, Biden’s can’t be blamed on an overly intrusive or hectoring press corps. The press was right to dig into this one.." . . .

Not Again! Joe Biden Accused of Plagiarizing Canadian Politician in DNC Speech  . . .“Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I’m the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?” 

"During the 1987 California Democratic Convention, Biden also lifted a phrase verbatim from John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural address.
"Earlier this year, Joe Biden’s campaign also copied Bernie Sanders’ platform last month.

"On multiple occasions, Joe Biden plagiarized Trump’s coronavirus response plan by pitching ideas on what to do about the pandemic as his own, even though they’d already been done."

Conclave Day 2: White Smoke! We Have a New Pope

New Pope Elected, White Smoke Billows from Vatican Chimney: Watch Live

At precisely 6:07 p.m., local time, the smoke rose into the late afternoon sky, sparking an emotional eruption from the tens of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square. Cheers rang out as priests made the sign of the cross, nuns wept, and the crowd shouted in unison, "Viva il papa!" Flags from across the globe waved above the masses as they anxiously awaited the identity of the Church's new spiritual leader.

 Legal Insurrection

"We will find out soon who it is. After the cardinal accepts his election, he goes to the “Room of Tears.” It’s called that because so many have cried after receiving the enormous responsibility of leading the Catholic Church.

"He will put on the white papal vestments.

Once everything gets settled and ready, the senior cardinal deacon will declare from the central balcony of St. Peter’s, “Habemus papam!” (We have a pope!).

"The new pope will emerge and give us his first papal blessing.

White smoke = WE HAVE A POPE!!! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/AUIytxVU2F

— Ascension (@AscensionPress) May 8, 2025 . . .  . . .More here.

 

 

28th Annual Highway Report

 Reason  

For those keeping track, California is 49 out of 50. TD  View the chart here

"Reason Foundation’s 28th Annual Highway Report evaluates state highway systems on cost versus quality using a method developed in the early 1990s by David T. Hartgen, Ph.D., emeritus professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This method has since been refined by Hartgen, M. Gregory Fields, Baruch Feigenbaum, and Truong Bui.

"Since states have different budgets, system sizes, and traffic and geographic circumstances, their comparative performance depends on both system performance and the resources available. To determine relative performance across the country, state highway system budgets (per mile of responsibility) are compared with system performance, state by state. States with high rankings typically have better-than-average system conditions (good for road users) along with relatively low per-mile expenditures (also good for taxpayers)." . . .

If You Have To Tell People You’re ‘Not The Enemy Of The People,’ You Are

 

Rich Terrell

‘Come on The View!’ MSNBC Biden Flack Defends Him Refusing Pressers   ...You can take the press secretary out of the White House, but you can’t take the White House out of the press secretary. Despite now being a member of the press (after her ethically dubious hiring by NBC/MSNBC), former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki appeared on Monday’s edition of The View and defended President Biden’s refusal to do press conferences and his desire to only grant sit down interviews to friendly media outlets that give him a tongue bath.

"Psaki was teed up by faux-conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who framed her question about Biden’s lack of “press availabilities” as her providing free campaign advice:" ...

The Babylon Bee finds room for parody in the press: Jen Psaki Walks Back Claims That She Ever Worked For Biden Administration   . . ." 'We need to walk back this notion that I ever worked for or represented the Biden administration," she said to Fox New's Peter Doocy. "To be honest, I was more like an unpaid intern. I really didn't do anything here. I am in no way associated with Biden or his policies or the consequences of his policies. I would say, and the President agrees, that any assertions to the contrary are unfounded."

" 'But Jen, come on!" retorted Doocy. "Didn't you run interference for the Biden administration for over a year, repeating his lies and distortions while his policies wreaked havoc on the country? I was here watching you the whole time!" Doocy was then pelted with spitballs by the other reporters in the room and ran out sobbing.

" 'We'll circle back to that question," said Psaki.  

"According to sources, Psaki will make a move to MSNBC, where she will represent the people who tell Biden what to do."

If You Have To Tell People You’re ‘Not The Enemy Of The People,’ You Are

"Though he said nothing had changed with the program’s editorial content — nope, their lying on behalf of Democrats was coming along just fine! — Pelley said Owens “felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.” In other words, Paramount executives might have told Bill that perhaps 50 back-to-back segments on “why Trump isn’t Hitler, but kind of is” weren’t really necessary right now."

. . ."60 Minutes hasn’t been a respectable program for about two decades now, which is about how long Bill Owens was with the show. He didn’t sacrifice just his job, he helped squander all of CBS’s credibility by using it to prop up one political party and demean half the country. Recall the Trump interview Owens oversaw in 2020, during which 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl denied the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop story and Trump’s demonstrably true claim that his 2016 campaign was spied on by feds. Yet we’re supposed to be moved by his resignation and angry that it might change things at 60 Minutes. If only." 

'People Warned Us About How Bad This Was Going to Be': Colbert and Maddow Spew Bile About Trump, GOP

"Colbert kicked off the festivities by lying about Trump's "obvious incompetence and disregard for our institutions.' " 

. . ."The people who warned you about the end of the planet as we know it were you, Colbert, the lady geniuses of "The View," the so-called "mainstream" media lapdog media, and other Trump-loathers, so please."

MSNBC Forced to Retract False Claim About Kash Patel 

. . ."Figliuzzi also claimed that Patel’s daily intelligence briefings had been reduced from daily to “maybe twice weekly.” 

"Again, he cited anonymous sources and offered no proof.

"Yet, despite the complete lack of evidence, those remarks quickly circulated across digital news platforms and social media.

"Outlets such as the Daily Mail, Daily Beast, and MSN repeated the claims without independent verification." . . .

The land of loathing: When privilege breeds contempt

David Manney 

"Here, you can shout your dissatisfaction from every rooftop and still sleep safely beneath the flag you claim to loathe."

"They sip $18 matcha oat milk lattes in multi-million-dollar coastal fortresses, attend galas guarded by private security, and tweet their grievances about America from iPhones made possible by capitalism.  And yet, if you believed the words of the Obamas, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and their ilk, you’d think they were broadcasting from the dungeons of a medieval regime rather than the freest nation in the world’s history.

"Let’s stop pretending this is normal.

"In her now-standard tone of wounded enlightenment, Michelle Obama once said she was never truly proud of her country until her husband was nominated for president.  What a curious definition of patriotism.  Not landing on the moon.  Not defeating Nazism. Not the sacrifices of 9/11 first responders or Lincoln’s moral clarity.  No, she found pride only when her family got into the spotlight.

"For all his charm and eloquence, former president Barack Obama spent eight years delivering what might as well have been a global apology tour.  He bowed to monarchs, lamented America’s past, and chastised us in Cairo and Berlin.  He spoke of “arrogance” as though it were uniquely American — never mind that we’re the first global superpower to spread freedom instead of tyranny.

"U.S. rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn), the walking paradox, fled the wreckage of Somalia, was granted asylum by American generosity, was educated on our dime, and was elected to the halls of Congress.  She repaid that gift with venom, accusing the very nation that rescued her of systemic rot.  She mocked our soldiers, smeared our institutions,and has never found a camera she couldn’t scold us from.

"U.S. rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), meanwhile, gets misty-eyed over her grandmother’s roof in Puerto Rico while somehow blaming the United States, not the island’s decades of mismanagement.  She poses theatrically at border fences, slingshots words like “concentration camps” around as though she’s never read a history book, and lectures truck-drivers and steelworkers about privilege, all while basking in celebrity status and reality TV optics.

"This is not mere criticism of policy.  This is contempt for the country itself." . . .

Ann Coulter: Ok, Kill PBS. But Save MSNBC!

 Ann Coulter  

[AC -- OK, but I'm about to get to Joe Scarborough for having the guts to tell viewers last year: "F--- you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever."]

"The thing I admire most about liberals is their balls-to-the-wall bravery. This past weekend, for example, CBS's Scott Pelley called Trump a "felon," making him, quite simply, the finest investigative reporter working in journalism today.

"Innumerable news outlets hailed Pelley's reckless courage in headlines the next day, (here, Mediaite):

"' '60 Minutes' Airs Scathing Segment on 'First Felon in the Oval Office' Despite Pressure to Avoid Sensitive Stories About Trump"

[Editor -- Correction: Trump has been called a " felon" by every major newspaper, TV anchor, elected Democrat, blog post, overweight female protester and undiscovered Amazonian tribe. The New York Times alone has called him a "convicted felon" more than a thousand times. By now, Trump is insisting that "convicted felon" be on his headstone. Pelley's calling Trump a felon was not heroic.]

"In CBS's own write-up on Pelley's fearless decision to label Trump a "felon," the network reported that it "was nearly impossible to get anyone on camera for this story because of the fear now running through our system of justice."

"Miraculously though, "60 Minutes" somehow managed to lure Democratic activist lawyer Marc Elias out of retirement and onto its airwaves. Nobody's sure when he might appear on TV again, except continuously, until the end of time.

"Demonstrating the very real risk to Elias for criticizing Trump, the media crackled with encomiums to his courage the next day. The most enthusiastic admirer of Elias's bravery was Elias himself -- and, really, who's in a better position to judge? . . .

'People Warned Us About How Bad This Was Going to Be': Colbert and Maddow Spew Bile About Trump, GOP

Israel Prepares Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ to Take Over Gaza, Clear Hamas

 Joel B. Pollak  Pray for the hostages of these savages.

Saul Sadka

"Israel called up its military reserves Sunday to prepare for a massive new operation, “Gideon’s Chariots,” in which it plans to reconquer Gaza and eliminate Hamas, neighborhood by neighborhood, over several months.

"The Israeli government says that it will carry out the operation if Hamas does not agree to a hostage deal by the end of the forthcoming visit of President Donald Trump to the region, which will be from May 13 to 16.

"Military analysts describe “Gideon’s Chariots” as a classic “clear, hold, build” strategy to root out Hamas and create new, credible, demilitarized civilian authorities to govern the Palestinian communities in Gaza.

"Israel plans to use military pressure to rescue the remaining hostages in a new way: not by pressuring Hamas leadership, which has been unwilling to compromise, but to isolate Hamas cells that are holding captives.

"Israel plans to keep the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza indefinitely. U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested taking control of Gaza, once the Israeli military has removed Hamas, without U.S. troops involved." . . .

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of Trump 2.0: The Most Dramatic ‘First 100 Days’ in Presidential History, available for Amazon Kindle. He is also the author of The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency, now available on Audible. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship.

Five Quick Things: The Utter, Complete, and Glorious Evisceration of the Legacy Propaganda Press

 The American Spectator  

       "The Trump administration does not pull any punches with the White House press pool."

"Yes, the headline and Thing Number One are all about what Stephen Miller did to the White House Press Corps on Thursday in one of the most breathtaking takedowns of all time.

It needs very little introduction, and so I’ll not burden you with one.

1. Here It Is, in All Its Glory

"The entire thing was almost cinematic — except that if it had been a scene in a movie, reviews would likely have included observations that “nah, this couldn’t happen in real life; no politician would have the stones to shred the media this badly.”

" 'And that might have been true up until not long ago, but when Miller fully spread his wings in this second Trump administration the whole reality changed.

"It’s going to be interesting to see the reverberations from Miller’s tour de force and whether it changed the standard for media relations.

" 'If nothing else, this is such a complete 180-degree turn from the posture the George W. Bush administration took vis-a-vis the legacy corporate media. It was pretty standard procedure for the Bushies (some of whom I liked: Tony Snow was an excellent press secretary before he got sick, and who can’t like Dana Perino?) to adopt a deferential attitude toward a hostile press corps. Miller, on the other hand, will challenge the false premise of any of those questions.

"As will Karoline Leavitt, who has done a great deal of work in restoring some ideological balance to that room.

"None of this is going to alter the left-wing propaganda press’s coverage of the administration, of course. These are Democrat political operatives disguised as journalists, and as such, they’re going to act as the proverbial scorpion acts toward the gullible frog carrying him across the river.

"The difference, as Miller’s glorious tirade makes clear, is that this administration refuses to be the gullible frog. Instead, it’s the elephant who stomps the scorpion flat on the riverbank." . ..

Training tomorrow’s Tesla torchers: Beyond DEI: How a Top US University Became a Marxist Factory

The American Spectator   

 "Students, some of whom pay up to $40,000 per year, are subsidizing their own ideological programming. Without capitalism, they wouldn’t be at Penn State to begin with. Yet they are taught to see it as the disease, and communist-friendly collectivism as the cure. Forget higher learning. This is higher programming." 

"In the 20th century, communism arrived via drab uniforms, five-year plans, and gulags. Today, it arrives via soft slogans and social media campaigns. Its weapons are no longer rifles and red flags but influencer campaigns, fellowship programs, and university-backed curricula. The battlefield is the minds of the young. One of its most powerful players is the Club of Rome, with Penn State University (PSU) acting as a campus incubator.

"Founded in 1968 by Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei and Scottish scientist Alexander King, the Club of Rome is a powerful and well-connected group that has shaped global policy for decades. It was designed to coordinate elite responses to what it framed as global crises. These crises, it’s worth noting, were — and still are — often ecological in nature and always carry real economic consequences. The group gained global recognition with its infamous 1972 report, “The Limits to Growth,” which predicted societal collapse due to overpopulation and resource exhaustion.

"As exposed in The Club of Rome: The Think Tank of the New World Order by John Coleman, the group is far more than a gathering of anxiety-ridden intellectuals. It functions as an elite-guided engine for global transformation, merging technocratic planning with post-Marxist doctrine. Coleman warned that the Club’s real aim was the demolition of national sovereignty, curtailing economic freedom, and reconditioning youth into compliant agents of systemic change. What was once dismissed as conspiratorial is now presented in clear language on the group’s official websites and in its “educational” materials.

"Take the Club’s “Young Person’s Guidebook to Systems Change,” which is essentially a manifesto crafted to reshape how young people view capitalism, society, and themselves. The guide portrays capitalism not merely as flawed but as evil, a parasitic force sustained by contemptible concepts like independence, individualism, and meritocracy.  (RELATED: The Fall of Harvard: How America’s Oldest University Became Its Most Expensive Liability)

"The authors argue that capitalism has “mastered the art of adaptation,” labeling it a chameleon that can absorb any challenge and commodify every aspect of society. Young readers are told that their “survival of the fittest” mindset is not only outdated but harmful, and that individual pursuit must be replaced by communal “we-ness,” a collectivist creed designed to override selfhood." . . .More here

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

Argus Hamilton 

 Cinco de Mayo was celebrated in bars and parties Monday on a day that has become America's second-biggest drinking holiday of the year. The day celebrates the Mexican Army's upset victory over the French army in 1862 in Mexico. Ah yes, the French, everyone's favorite homecoming opponent. 

• King Charles appeared on the balcony before hundreds of thousands for the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day Monday. May 8th, 1945, ended the war and began a new etiquette. To this day, you never ask woman her age, a man his salary or a German why his grandpa moved to Argentina.

• President Trump said he may reopen Alcatraz Prison which he said was protected by sharks. A female Olympic swimmer in San Francisco last year swam from Baker Beach to Alcatraz and back and told reporters the sharks never came close to her. I swear, even the sharks are gay in that town.

• Broadway's magazine Playbill reported the 2025 Tony Award nominations were announced last Thursday in New York. The awards will air live on CBS from Radio City Music Hall on June 8th. The Tony Awards Show is the second holiest day on the gay calendar, right behind Judy Garland's Birthday.

• CBS News cited President Trump for advertising himself as the Fertilization President and the King of IVF by offering women $5,000 to have kids. The Census Bureau reports the United States birth rate just hit an all-time low and the nation needs to produce more babies. Must Elon do everything?

• California lawmakers in Sacramento blocked a bill to make it a felony to purchase 16- or 17-year-old girls for sex or for pimps to sex traffic girls who are 16 or 17 years old. Let freedom ring. This means if P. Diddy is found guilty, he could get 8-12 years as a member of the California State Assembly.

• Homeland Security offered a new program to illegal immigrants to receive $1,000 and a plane ticket back to their home countries. I have no place to be sent now that Oklahoma's been given back to the Indians. Just because you're conceived in the back seat of a Jeep does NOT make you part Cherokee.   More here...

Jen Psaki's Attempted Cover-Up of the Biden Decline Cover-Up Gets Demolished

Sister Toldjah 

 "This is why the American people should never be allowed to forget the lengths Democrats and their media allies went to in order to keep the scandal of a diminished president under wraps."

"We've been closely tracking the number of self-serving Democrats and media figures who are falling all over themselves in the aftermath of a WHCA awards dinner speech that touched on Joe Biden's decline to share their impressions of the Biden they say they knew ahead of the infamous June 2024 presidential debate.

"Among them is Jen Psaki, a former Biden White House press secretary who, as we reported, appeared on Semafor's "Mixed Signals" podcast last Friday and who tried to claim that she "never saw that person" that everyone else saw give a disastrous debate performance against then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

" 'I never saw that person, not a single time, and I was in the Oval Office every day, that was on that debate stage," Psaki said during the interview. "I'm not a doctor. Aging happens quite quickly," she also proclaimed.

"Lying, of course, happens a lot quicker, something media critic Joe Concha pointed out on Fox News in response to Psaki's remarks:

"Jen Psaki only saw Joe Biden shake hands with the air, have conversations with leaders that had been dead for many years, couldn’t remember the names of his cabinet members. That went back to when she was press secretary. But here's the money quote - Jen Psaki says Biden is so fit that she had trouble keeping up with him, that's what she said when she was press secretary - we know that now to be a lie." . . .

Jen Psaki Is Everything That's Wrong With Dems and the Corrupt Media As She Doubles Down on Hypocrisy

. . ."I write often about the mainstream/corrupt/leftist media because it is easy for conservatives to scoff at it and say, “Who cares?” Unfortunately, even though MSNBC’s ratings have cratered as they’ve lost any credibility, many Americans still depend on the broadcast networks and depraved communist outlets like The New York Times for their news. We can ignore it at our own peril, but their continued influence is one of the reasons we got Joe Biden for four ugly long years and why we cannot minimize the dark efforts of the progressive left." . . .

Gav the Gov still rules California

 Californians say Newsom is more focused on boosting presidential prospects than fixing state   "By more than 2 to 1, California registered voters believe that Gov. Gavin Newsom is more focused on boosting his presidential prospects than on fixing the problems in his own state, according to a new poll.

"A survey by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, co-sponsored by The Times, found that 54% of voters said Newsom is devoting more attention to things that could benefit himself as a future White House contender compared with 26% who said he's paying more attention to governing the state and helping to solve its problems." . . .

. . .

Gov. Newsom Gave $1.7M to Drag Queens That Targets Kids  "The story of the governor, the transvestite and the tax credit began when Gavin Newsom first ran for office and called on the support of the state’s wealthiest and most famous transvestite.

“I’m honored to have your vote,” Newsom told Ru Paul. The celebrity millionaire drag queen endorsed Newsom in the governor’s race and praised him for having “changed the course of history for LGBT Americans” and for legalizing drugs. “Legal weed, baby!”

"The campaign video posted on Newsom’s social media and on the World of Wonder company which produces Ru Paul’s Drag Race raised legal and campaign issues that were never addressed. Those issues have only become more serious after World of Wonder received a $1.7 million film tax credit for a production listed only as ‘Untitled Drag Queen Movie’.

"California’s notoriously corrupt film tax credit system exploded under Gov. Gavin Newsom."

The Gavin Newsom who stood on stage with Ru Paul and announced that he was “honored and humbled” to have the support of the drag queen is still the same man even with a moderate makeover.