Bianco and Hilton Both Need To Win California’s Jungle Primary

 In a previous recall attempt, California had a great chance to be rid of Newsom yet chose to keep him.

Robin M. Itzler - American Thinker   

"Strategically speaking, in order to maximize their chances of advancing Hilton and Bianco to the November election, Republicans need to split their vote as close to 50-50 as possible. President Trump coming out and endorsing Hilton for governor makes that more difficult to achieve."

"Forget counting sheep. If you can’t get some shut-eye, just open the California primary booklet and read aloud the names of the 61 candidates running for governor: 24 Democrats, 12 Republicans, 1 Libertarian, 1 Peace and Freedom, and 23 running with no party affiliation. Ballots were mailed in early May, which means illegal aliens are being instructed on which Democrats should get their votes.

"Yet, this primary season, there is some optimism on the right side of the aisle. With both Republican candidates—Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco—frequently maintaining the one and two positions in numerous polls, along with multiple Democrat gubernatorial candidates possibly splitting votes, there is a chance to save this leftist state come November. The whispered chatter is that both Republicans might be the top two vote-getters—and let’s hope that happens, because it’s the only path to a Republican victory.

"For both Hilton and Bianco to be the top two winners, it would require a lot of disgruntled Democrats, along with No Party Preference voters, to vote Republican. Per the Independent Voter Project:

• Democrat registered voters 44.96%
• Republican registered voters 25.14%
• No Party Preference 22.65%
• Other 7.25%

"Some Republican strategists say it is mathematically impossible for both Republican candidates to emerge as the top two primary winners. They insist that the only path to success is for Republicans to rally behind one of the two leading candidates. This is easier said than done since Hilton supporters want Bianco to drop out, and Bianco supporters want Hilton to drop out." . . .More..

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter.

Gorsuch Just Named Who Put Justice Kavanaugh in the Crosshairs During Bombshell Reagan Library Remarks

 24/7 Politics 

 "Madison later believed there would have been no Constitution" without that protection, Gorsuch said. The left is trying to destroy that same protection now – and last time they succeeded, a man showed up at a Supreme Court justice's home with a gun."

Someone flew from California to kill Brett Kavanaugh while Kagan refused to act on warnings it was coming.

"Gorsuch just broke his silence on who left his colleague in that crosshairs.

"What he revealed about the liberal justices who kept Kavanaugh there is something conservatives need to see.

"The Kavanaugh Assassination Attempt the Dobbs Leak Made Possible

"It was June 8, 2022. Nicholas Roske flew from California to Maryland with one purpose: to kill a conservative Supreme Court justice and change the outcome of a case.

"Roske showed up at Kavanaugh's Chevy Chase home in the middle of the night loaded down with a Glock, a tactical knife, zip ties, duct tape, a hammer, a crowbar, and lock picks.

"He had searched online how to cause maximum damage with a knife

"He had told people online he was going to "remove some people from the Supreme Court."

"The only reason Brett Kavanaugh is alive today is that Roske saw marshals outside the home and lost his nerve.

"This wasn't a protest. It wasn't a threat. It was a premeditated assassination attempt – and it was made possible by the Dobbs leak.

"Kagan and Sotomayor Left Kavanaugh in the Crosshairs

"Here's the part the media buried: the conservative justices begged their liberal colleagues to release the Dobbs decision quickly.

"Justice Alito warned them directly – delay was a security threat, because an assassin could still change the outcome if a justice died before the ruling became official.

"The liberal dissenters had one job: finish their dissent so the ruling could be released.

"They refused.

"Mollie Hemingway's new book Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution reveals that Kagan didn't just slow-walk the dissent – she screamed at Breyer so loudly when he considered complying that observers said "the wall was shaking."

"The Dobbs majority had been ready since February." . . .

The final ruling didn't come out until June 22 – two weeks after the assassination attempt." . . .

. . . "For those two weeks, with a would-be killer already arrested and more threats building, the left-wing justices did nothing to reduce the danger to their colleagues. 

"Roske was sentenced to eight years in prison.

"Not one liberal justice has faced a single consequence."

Schumer and Biden know how to argue for assassination TD

NYC Grocers Are Begging Zohran Mamdani to Stop Before His Government Store Opens -

Renewed Right  

"Every radical-left mayor in America is watching this experiment.  If Mamdani gets away with it in the largest city in the country, it becomes the template – Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, then everywhere a socialist mayor wants to tell you what food you can buy and at what price."

"Venezuela had government grocery stores too.

"Now Zohran Mamdani wants New York City to try the same thing.

"The locals who actually run food businesses in East Harlem are not impressed – and they're saying so out loud.

"The Plan That 45 Grocery Stores Did Not Ask For

"Mamdani is spending $30 million of New York taxpayer money to open a city-run grocery store in La Marqueta, a public market space at Park Avenue and 115th Street in East Harlem.

"He plans five stores total – one in each borough – by 2029.

"The city-run stores will be exempt from paying rent or property taxes, advantages that every private grocer in the neighborhood will never get.

"Fox News Digital analyzed the area around La Marqueta and found 45 grocery stores already operating within a 35-minute walk." . . . More...

How Disneyland Remade American Politics

 Beverly Gage   

"It’s not just that Reagan co-hosted Disneyland’s opening day or that, like Nixon, he went back again and again. It’s that Reagan and Disney shared a view of America." 

"On July 17, 1955, Ronald Reagan stood near a mocked-up wood-plank town in Anaheim, California, where a 13-star flag flew incongruously over an “Old West” landscape, and introduced the world to Disneyland. He had been invited by Walt Disney himself to co-host the park’s live ABC broadcast, alongside Art Linkletter and Bob Cummings—three Hollywood actors who seemed to embody a wholesome, all-American ethos. From the imagined past of Frontierland, the show leaped ahead to Tomorrowland, set in the far-off year of 1986, emphasizing the technical marvels yet to come: nuclear energy harnessed for civilian purposes, human beings riding rocket ships into space. Disney foretold great things for a 1980s in which the United States would serve as “a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.” But even he could not predict the most important political fact of the age: that his genial co-host would become president.

"Southern California was a strange place to build a park about the past, because the region at the time was all about newness and abundance and growth. For a lot of its history, Orange County had been Southern California’s version of flyover country: a vast agricultural expanse between two desirable places, Los Angeles and San Diego. But Disneyland was changing that. Before long, 50 miles south of deep-blue Hollywood, Orange County would become a region famed for its right-wing politics—but also for its mythmaking skills. Those two things, it turned out, went naturally together.

"The two presidents Southern California gave America both understood this instinctively. Richard Nixon and Reagan each built a national career on invoking a version of the American past in which the specificities of historical context mattered less than the big picture. For Nixon, progress meant proclaiming a “New American Revolution” on the eve of America’s bicentennial while dismantling the federal programs that had built the postwar middle class.

 "For Reagan, it meant recapturing a lost optimism and an old-fashioned faith in America as an exceptional nation. Both men were less interested in history as it actually happened than in history as it felt—and Orange County, a place that had built itself almost entirely from scratch, turned out to be exactly where the myth of America’s future was getting made.

"I’m a historian—and historians tend to be myth-busters. With the country’s 250th birthday on the horizon, I figured it was a good time to step out of the ivory tower and check in with the past as it exists here and now, at the museums and monuments and roadside attractions where Americans go to learn about their history. After all my travels—to Davy Crockett’s Tennessee and Texas, to the real Erie Canal, to the birthplace of the American automobile and the actual Old West—I couldn’t miss out on Disneyland, the single most influential historic attraction in U.S. history." . . . More...

Former Louisiana sheriff indicted after infamous jailbreak

Bing "A year after 10 inmates escaped the Orleans Justice Center, former Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson faces charges of malfeasance in office and obstruction of justice. NEWSMAX Crime Correspondent Jason Mattera has more on “Wake Up America.'”

Comment; "I am retired law enforcement and this is hilarious. From what I can gather she had zero actual law enforcement experience prior to being elected except for being a watchdog on how police do their jobs. This also does not say much for the voters of Orleans Parish either does it. What Rush Limbaugh used to refer to as "Low Information Voters."

A timeline of what led to Sheriff Susan Hutson’s indictment 

"Hutson voted out of office: October 2025; Orleans Parish voters booted Hutson from office in October 2025, replacing her with Michelle Woodfork, a 30-year New Orleans police officer who rose to become interim NOPD superintendent. Woodfork won the primary outright with 53% of the vote. Hutson garnered 17% of the vote."...

Not A War Of Choice

Trump will soon be gone and whenever a Democrat takes the White House again, expect another Biden, Harris or a Hollywood, MSNOW or CNN acceptable leader to take over America's foreign policy. Then our faithful ally, Israel will once again be alone just as Britain and Churchill had the axe of Naziism looming over them. Tunnel Dweller

Fletch Daniels - American Thinker  

"Iran is the only regime in the world that wants nuclear weapons for the purpose of using them. That’s what this war is about." 

"Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Democrat-media complex, the war with Iran is not a war of choice in any practical sense. If anything, the current operations represent the end of the great pretending, since Iran has long been at war with us, keeping their attacks just low enough in intensity or with just enough plausible deniability to allow for the continuance of that pretending.

"Iran is the single most committed and least deterrable enemy of the United States, and was developing ever more lethal means to inflict grave harm.

"Democrats and their media allies who mostly know better are calling operations against Iran a war of choice for political gain. It is only a war of choice if you are okay with Iran using proxies to continually kill Americans, or if you are cool with a smuggled nuclear bomb one day going off in Washington D.C., New York, or Tel Aviv.

"We have fought plenty of wars of choice in recent history. In 2010, General David Petraeus, then CENTCOM commander, admitted that what kept him up at night was worrying about Iran.

"So, one year later, we got serious about the threat and attacked…Libya. We left Iran to continue killing Americans while we toppled the secular government of Libya, converting it to an Islamist one, and kicking off a disruptive civil war that still rages beneath the surface.

"The media adored the “we came, we saw, he died” war since it was overseen by Democrats and made no strategic sense. Not only was that a war of choice, but we were openly acting against our own interests, removing a pragmatic and reformed authoritarian secular government in favor of an Islamist one that would be far harder to deter.

"The second Iraq war was also a war of choice, removing a secular strongman in favor of an Islamist government that further empowered Iran, while handing them a killing field to target Americans.

"Iran is simply a different beast, a radical Islamist regime that sees it as their mission to bring about the apocalypse and the revelation of the Twelfth Imam.

"Most Americans are blissfully unaware of just how effective Iran has been at killing Americans." . . .   More...

"My hope is that we finish the job now or set the conditions for the regime’s fall before the inmates are back in charge in D.C. We need to remove the remnants of the nuke-committed regime from the board before the future is reduced to ashes in a torrent of mushroom clouds."

Hate Wars: Luke Skywalker Proves Yet Again That He's No Hero — He's Just Part of a Death Cult

 Bob Hoge – RedState  

"It’s quite ironic that the man who played an ironic rebel, who stood up to tyranny and oppression and fought heroically, now sides firmly with the corrupt Democrat regime that despises law and order and wants to destroy the freest and most noble republic that has ever existed."

"So many Hollywood stars have gotten so gross, lecturing us from awards shows about climate change while jetting around in private planes, talking about peace and love while admitting they despise half the American population, and regularly ruining franchises like Star Wars and Snow White by injecting them full of toxic woke messages.

"Actor Mark Hamill has become a face of the Tinseltown far-left movement and has made himself much more well-known for his pious lectures than he has for his performances. While he was a serviceable Luke Skywalker in numerous Star Wars movies, it was actually the much more dynamic Harrison Ford who rose to superstardom playing Han Solo.

"Hamill has always been somewhat insipid, but now he’s taken his hate to new levels and is openly wishing for death to strike the president of the United States. I have always cared about our country and its leaders, but have never once prayed for the demise of those on the other side. Why? Because it’s sick.

"Once you cross that line, you are no longer a concerned citizen practicing your First Amendment rights and simply voicing your opinion — you have become an evil cog in the progressive machine that is working feverishly to destroy this country. (Trust me, I live in California; I know of what I speak.)" . . .  

🚨 NOW: The White House is EVISCERATING deranged Mark Hamill for openly egging on the death of President Trump
The SAME Mark Hamill that Barack Hussein Obama just welcomed to his trash can library in Chicago
THEY WANT 47 TO BE KlLLED.
"Mark Hamill is one sick individual. These… pic.twitter.com/WUUrsyXZQg

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 7, 2026

Speaking of... The Barack Obama Presidential Center won't be open to the public for another few weeks, but the gift shop is already up and running

. . . "These other books by notable authors ($40) It's always a good time to learn about community organizing and structural racism. Add these fun titles to your child's summer reading list, or get the whole neighborhood involved by starting a book club—in which case you should probably get them on Amazon for half the price." . . .

. . . "This gorgeous lapel pin ($30) This "unique accessory" was designed by Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes, a former NYU professor of ethical leadership and an architect who specializes in sustainability and social equity. It allegedly represents the "intersection of bold design and global leadership."

 More...

The design of the library is referred to as Brutalist architecture: . . . "is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are known for minimalist construction showcasing the bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design.^] The style commonly makes use of exposed, unpainted concrete or brick, angular geometric shapes and a predominantly monochrome colour palette; other materials, such as steel, timber, and glass, are also featured.

" . . .I suggest this must be the cheapest, fastest way of restoring bombed-out, devastated cities such as Britain and Germany after WW2. A legacy of Adolph Hitler's destruction..

 No! No! I do not call Obama's Library "Nazi"; aren't we all sick of that?  

Mandatory suicide watch for terrorists and assassins

"When a judge offers an apology to a man accused of attempting to assassinate the president, you know something needs to change."

 Monty L. Donohew  

"A 30-day review is more than reasonable for a person charged with the willingness to sacrifice his own life in the taking of others’ lives.  Anything less is an invitation to more evidence lost, more martyrs created, and more condolences to new victims." 

"Last week, a federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C. offered an apology to the man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump in the middle of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.  Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old California man who allegedly stormed a security checkpoint armed with a shotgun and knives on April 25, 2026, had been placed on suicide watch in the D.C. jail.  His lawyers complained that it was “demeaning” and amounted to “functionally solitary confinement.”  The judge, “fascinated and disturbed,” agreed, publicly apologized to the suspect, and ensured that the watch was lifted.  Prosecutors had noted that Allen told investigators he never expected to survive the attack, a detail that should have screamed “high suicide risk” to anyone with common sense.

"Judicial theater that elevates the feelings of a would-be presidential assassin (or his lawyer) over public safety, national security, protection of the accused, and the basic imperative to keep dangerous defendants alive long enough to face accountability is simply unacceptable.  It is time for Congress and state legislatures to enact a clear, narrow mandate: Any individual charged with or credibly suspected of terrorism, attempted assassination of a public official, or mass murder must be placed on continuous suicide watch upon arrest and detention.  No exceptions, no judicial discretion to coddle, and no apologies to the perpetrators.

"The reasons are straightforward and compelling.

"First, suicide in such cases is inherently an obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence.  Suicide destroys evidence — perhaps the only evidence — of conspirators and inciters.  These attacks rarely occur in a vacuum.  Even when the shooter appears to act alone, as authorities currently claim about Allen, digital trails, writings, communications, and potential co-conspirators often exist.  A successful suicide, however, allows the perpetrator to take his secrets to the grave.  It also removes the perpetrator as a possible witness.  Families of victims, investigators, and the American people deserve every scrap of information and every possible witness about and against co-conspirators, those who radicalized the killer, those who provided material support, and those who may have looked the other way.  Allowing a terrorist or assassin to check out early is a permanent loss of evidence, a loss enabled by the state itself."

"Critics will wave the Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment) and the presumption of innocence.  But suicide watch is not punishment; it is a protective medical and security protocol, not at all different from involuntary psychiatric holds or medical restraints used every day in hospitals and jails for suicidal individuals.  The Supreme Court has long recognized that the state has a compelling interest in preserving the lives of those in its custody, particularly when their deaths could harm public safety or the administration of justice.  Moreover, protecting the life of a person and insulating that person from self-harm is hardly cruel or unusual punishment." . . .  More...

"Licensed to practice law since 1987, Monty has been admitted to practice in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois and currently practices in Ohio and Missouri. Admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, and before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, he is a member of several state and local bar associations, among them being the Ohio State Bar Association,  Missouri Bar Association, Akron Bar Association, and St. Louis County Bar Association." . . . 

The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins*!

By the early nineteenth century, the word “Jacobin” had become a warning. It warned about revolutionary extremism and the violence that could follow when ideology replaced law.  

 Victor Davis Hanson › American Greatness  

"Today’s Democratic Party has abandoned its traditional working-class, patriotic roots and embraced a radical Jacobin ideology built on division, coercion, and political extremism."

"For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions.

"Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance, and Social Security were their trademarks—often rapidly achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes. Still, many Democrats were socially conservative.

"By the 1970s, Democrats still deplored antisemitism. Party officials had rejected their own segregationists to champion civil rights.

"Presidents like Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy all supported strong defense and military deterrence.

"All that is now passé.

"The only vestigial Democrat left in Congress is Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, himself roundly despised by Democrat leaders.

"Today, supporting Israel and calling for campuses to stop their institutionalized antisemitism is Democratic political suicide.

"Forty years ago, any Democrat with a Nazi tattoo was political toast; today, he can become the party’s nominee for the Maine Senate race.

"So, the current Democrat Party is no longer truly democratic at all. Its new spirit and methods resemble the radical Jacobin Party of the French Revolution. Today, Democrats claim that if any opponent gives a Roman salute, he is a Nazi—while insisting that one of their own with a Nazi tattoo is not.

"Jacobinism rejects Martin Luther King Jr.’s emphasis on the “content of . . . character.” It instead prefers fixating on “the color of . . . skin.”

"It aims to divide the nation arbitrarily between the noble oppressed and the toxic oppressors.

"So these new Jacobins have institutionalized racially separate college dorms and graduation ceremonies, along with hiring and promoting on the basis of race." . . . More...

*Who were the Jacobins, the ruthless radicals of the French Revolution?  . . . "According to official records, the Reign of Terror resulted in at least 16,500 legal executions by guillotine.

 "An additional 10,000 people died in prisons or through extrajudicial killings.

 Victims included nobles, clergy, Girondins, moderate republicans, and ordinary citizens.

 "Some were convicted after public trials, but many were condemned without defence or evidence." . . .

Letterman defends Colbert—poorly

Don Surber   

"Don’t blame management. Blame the, um, comic for not being funny. In a world with thousands of entertainment choices, people don’t watch Colbert to be insulted. They go elsewhere."

"MAGA Disposed of Stephen Colbert—with help of course from podcasts, Twitter and reruns of Friends, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, and Modern Family because if you are looking for late-night humor, you will not find it on the broadcast networks.

"But on cable, the Antenna channel shows reruns of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. So if you are looking for political humor from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, there’s that.

"Stephen Colbert’s show will end this month due to his B-2 ratings. They are nearly invisible. David Letterman whined to the New York Times that the new owners at CBS are just closing the show just to suck up to President Trump.

"Letterman said:

They don’t share the books with me. All of television seems to have been nicked by digital communication and streaming platforms and on and on. TV may be not the money machine it once was. On the other hand, what about the humanity for Stephen and the humanity of people who love him and the humanity for people who still enjoyed that 11:30 respite?

He was dumped because the people selling the network to Skydance said, “Oh no, there’s not going to be any trouble with that guy. We’re going to take care of the show. We’re just going to throw that into the deal. When will the ink on the check dry?” I’m just going to go on record as saying: They’re lying. Let me just add one other thing, Jason. They’re lying weasels.

"NYT community-noted him: “Asked to comment, a spokesman for CBS said, ‘Unequivocally a financial decision.’”

"But Letterman’s libel against Skydance makes the MAGA case that Colbert is a talentless mutt who offers anti-Trump propaganda poorly disguised as a comedy routine." . . . More...

Barack Obama Admits There Is ‘Genuine Tension’ in His Marriage Over Trump and Politics

Megyn Kelly   

 "The former president is also in the news this week for a sit-down he did with Stephen Colbert in which he had the audacity to accuse the Trump administration of weaponizing the justice system when the entire Russia collusion hoax (i.e. OG ‘lawfare’) originated on his watch." 

"Megyn Kelly is joined by Sohrab Ahmari, U.S. editor at Unherd, and Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, to discuss President Barack Obama admitting Michelle’s thoughts on Trump and politics have hurt his marriage, how little Obama actually did during his presidency, Obama having the nerve to complain about politicizing criminal justice, and more."

 

Reader comment: "The Democrat party has become the party of gaslighting and hypocrisy.

Is it any surprise that Jill B., H. Clinton, and M. Obama despise their husbands?

And, their weak husbands let themselves be led around, and insulted by their wives? Karma."

The Federalist’s Sean Davis said the interviews are an unpleasant reminder of what was. “I agree with him, yes, lawfare is awful. It is a cancer on the American republic, and I don’t know if it’s something we can come back from,” Davis said. “[But] he is the one who started it! He gave it its origin story. For this guy to go out there and pretend he had nothing to do with it.”

“I will tell you, between that [Colbert] interview, between The New Yorker article, he had kind of faded away and I had forgotten about how mendacious and unlikable and dishonest he was,” Davis added. “So thank you, Barack, for coming back and reminding all of us why we couldn’t wait to get rid of you.”   More...

Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

Excerpts from Jewish World Review

• Coach Bill Belichick, 74, and much younger girlfriend Jordan Hudson, 25, were photographed on the celebrity red carpet at Churchill Downs at the Kentucky Derby Saturday. They were also seen at the betting window. I haven't heard which horse Bill picked but Jordan bet everything on Beneficiary.
•  The Washington, D.C., judge presiding over the attempted assassination of President Trump case apologized to the shooter in court Monday. We're probably closer to the next attempt than the last one. Trump has been shot at so many times you'd think he was the President of Death Row Record
• The Secret Service engaged in a shootout with an armed gunman Monday who was spotted about a mile from the White House by cameras. It prompted a fist pump from the president. Trump feels that if his life isn't put in mortal danger every 10 days, he's losing ground to the next James Bond movie.
• Somali pirates hijacked a United Arab Emirates oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Saturday and then demanded a king's ransom for its release. It was ever thus. Back during the 2024 Summer Olympic sailing competition, Australia took the gold, England took the silver and Somalia took the boat.