Two films that played in Orange County in March and April to wide critical acclaim--if by "wide critical acclaim" you mean "received positive reviews from OC Weekly"--will screen up the road in that little berg that natives call Los Angeles in the days ahead.
Of Quality of Life, a drama about the lives of San Francisco graffitti writers that showed at Edwards University in Irvine, we wrote: "this li'l pic packs authentic street grittiness, a kicking soundtrack (featuring the likes of Modest Mou
. . . and if that happened, would the righty Red County blog have to change its name?
Final election results from OC:
PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT
Completed Precincts: 2109 of 2109
Vote Count Percentage
JOHN MCCAIN / SARAH PALIN (REP) 430,360 50.8%
BARACK OBAMA / JOE BIDEN (DEM) 401,605 47.4%
BOB BARR / WAYNE A. ROOT (LIB) 5,884 0.7%
RALPH NADER / MATT GONZALEZ (P-F) 5,470 0.6%
ALAN KEYES / WILEY S. DRAKE, SR. (AI) 2,672 0.3%
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY / ROSA CLEMENTE (GRN) 1,720 0.2%
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Gramps is just gonna rest his eyes some...
Orange County Democrats are justifiably happy today as their presidential candidate will be sworn in on Inauguration Day Jan. 20, 2009. And they can take some pride in the Barack Obama-Joe Biden Democratic ticket's 401,605 votes being only 28,755 votes shy of the John McCain-Sarah Palin Republican ticket's 430,360 votes in decidedly red Orange County.
Democrats secured a higher percentage of the Orange County vote in 2008 than in any national electio
The Mission Viejo Dispatch has an item today about local dentist Dr. Orly Taitz. You might remember her as an associate of Alan Keyes and Weekly interviewee Wiley Drake in their lawsuit trying to prove that Barack Hussein Obama isn't technically qualified to be president. Now, Taitz, claiming to represent more than 100 members of the armed forces, has filed a petition with members of congress to issue some subpoenas to some pretty big names: Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates and those pesky academic
A Media Matters rundown on the key nutbars in the "birthers" movement that claims Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. includes a couple plugs of Spencer Kornhaber's "Birth of an Obsession" June 19 cover story. The media watchdogs focus in particular on Kornhaber's reporting on Orly Taitz, the Laguna Niguel denist, attorney, real estate agent and queen bee of the birthers, and Wiley Drake, the Buena Park Southern Baptist pastor, homeless advocate, Alan Keyes' presidential running mate in
The Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia, reports today that Orly Taitz, the Orange County attorney who reigns as queen bee to the Obama "birther" movement, is representing a "conscientious objector" who refuses to deploy to Iraq*, not because he's a pacifist or because George Bush authorized the invasion of the country on bogus claims, but because President Obama isn't a U.S. citizen.That's right: As everyone knows, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Indonesia or somewhere, but definitely not Hon
Judge David O. Carter today threw out Dr. Orly Taitz's Barnett v. Obama lawsuit against President Obama. This was the lawsuit filed with dozens of plaintiffs, in Santa Ana Federal court, with a judge that seemed to listen patiently to the legal theories of Taitz and co-counsel Gary Kreep.Read the judge's opinion here.Essentially, Carter ruled that the courts don't have the power to remove a sitting president -- only Congress does -- and therefor the case could not move forwards. In addition,
John Gilhooley, OC WeeklyMaybe we will get another date with Orly Taitz in Santa Ana's Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse after all. Less than two weeks after Judge David O. Carter dismissed the Laguna Niguel's Barnett v. Obama lawsuit seeking to throw the President out of office, Taitz has filed a motion for reconsideration of that case.And boy is it... interesting. Some might call the motion racially and politically offensive, but, whatever. Like any battle for freedom, Orly's wa