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University Synagogue's Jewish Film Festival Rolls on with Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Grey

The expansive Jewish Film Festival continues tonight at University Synagogue of Irvine--and, yes, that's continues as your humble servant was slow on the uptake to promote the full schedule of movies that started rolling in October and continue through April at the synagogue, Regal's Westpark 8 in I ... More >>

Why Is Placentia Councilmember Chad Wanke Facebook Friends with Neo-Nazis?

Digging through Facebook late at night always brings out hilarious surprises, especially when it's the individual pages of our local politicos, where we can see their personal stupidity in all its glory. Who can forget Congresswomen Loretta and Linda Sanchez dressed as a sexy angel and banana, respe ... More >>

Why Do Mexicans Paint Murals on Lowriders?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do they love scratch-off Lotto tickets?

OC LGBT Community's New Grand Poobah: Our Gays Are Better Looking!

​Kevin O'Grady is the new executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County. O'Grady comes to Santa Ana-based advocacy group after serving as the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, Orange County/Long Beach region, where he oversaw programming, ... More >>

OC Prosecutor Jim Mendelson Honored For Anti-Hate Crime Work

​The Orange County District Attorney's Office issued a press release late this afternoon noting a new honor for one of the agency's most publicity resistant but accomplished prosecutors: Jim Mendelson.I can image Mendelson's sincere reaction: Hell, no!It's not that this no-nonsense courtroom veter ... More >>

LGBT Advocacy Group Gets New Head

​An advocacy network for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Orange County has announced a new executive director. Kevin O'Grady will assume the position at the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County starting March 5.

What We Learned

The Year on Navel Gazing and Beyond!

[UPDATED with Hate Crimes Down In OC, Or Are They?:]African-Americans Were Victims of One-Third of OC's 2010 Hate Crimes: Report

​UPDATED, AUGUST 18, 4:48 P.M.: Update by Marisa Gerber.Statistics show that hate crimes are down in OC, but nobody's overly convinced. There was a buzzword at this morning's event, where last year' hate crime report was released. What was the word? Underreporting. The report, which was ... More >>

Cops: OC White Power Gang "Disrupted" in Undercover Sting

PEN1 boss Wayne Marshall​After calling members of Public Enemy Number One Death Squad (PEN1) "haters and cowards," federal agent John A. Torres bragged today that government authorities had successfully infiltrated and disrupted Orange County's most notorious white supremacist gang."Their reign of ... More >>

Abe Foxman, Head of Anti-Defamation League, to Speak Twice in OC This Sunday

​Few folks are more controversial on the Left that Abraham Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League. On one hand, his organization remains on the forefront of tracking white supremacists in the United States; on the other hand, their knee-jerk reaction to categorize nearly any criticism of Israe ... More >>

SJC Americans: OC's Latest Hate Group!

Another set of OCers makes Henry W. Head proud...​I don't really pay much attention to San Juan Capistrano because that's more Spencer's terrain, but one facet of the town that previously drew my  interest was some group calling themselves the SJC Americans. Clockwork Coker previously wrote a ... More >>

Five Orange County Venues Most Likely to Host a White-Power Concert

​So white-power music fans are planning to hold a concert this weekend in an undisclosed Orange County location because, hey: cockroaches* like to hide, you know? There'll be some big names  in the hatecore scene: Max Resist, Youngland, White Knuckle Driver, and other knuckleheads.I know wher ... More >>

OC's Adam "Goat Boy" Gadahn Still Alive, Now Hates Obama

​The last time we heard from Adam Yahihe Gadahn, the American voice of Al Qaeda, was four months ago, when he was reported to have been arrested in Karachi, Pakistan. Within a day, those reports had been retracted in keeping with previously discredited reports that Gadahn, better known in the Nave ... More >>

Crazy Imam Invited by UCI Muslim Student Union: Jews "The New Nazis"

Good people who criticize Israel's policies toward Palestinians always strive to reassure Jews that they're not anti-Semitic. They'll claim they're anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, but don't hate all Jews--just those that oppress the Palestinians.That's been the claim of the UC Irvine Muslim Student Un ... More >>

Jew-Bashing, Gay-Trashing La Voz de Aztlan Harasses Long Beach State Chicanas

May this image sear the homophobic minds of La Voz de Pendejos anew...​Ever since KPFK-FM 90.7 (where I host a radio show every Thursday at 3 p.m.) booted off an anti-Semitic radio show that had close ties to the notorious La Voz de Aztlán, Southern California's premier spewers of bile have had a ... More >>

American Third Position Party Goons Exaggerated their Anti-Defamation League Protest!

The American TP's brave "confrontation." Vaxmonsky is at far right, as are his politics...​Last Halloween, back when they still called themselves Freedom 14, members of the American Third Position Party excitedly posted a dispatch on Stormfront.org with the headline "Freedom 14 Confronts the ADL, ... More >>

Welcome to The Hilarious Haters: MTV "The Real World" Edition

​Remember that kid who was arrested March 3 after bringing a fake bomb to Huntington Beach High School? The 16-year-old boy first tried to throw cops off by saying the device was a prop for a film he was shooting after school.But a search of the juvenile's bedroom produced a cardboard box labeled ... More >>

The "Irvine 11" Fights the Power

​As they fill out their AARP membership cards, '60s burnouts can rejoice that a group of campus agitators has at last come along to rival the infamous Chicago Seven.Mamas and papas, introducing the "Irvine 11"! Something's happening here, and what it is ain't exactly kosher. The Irvine 11 are the ... More >>

ADL Opposes Jewish Boycott of UCI, Gently Admonishes Chancellor Drake

​Not all organizations fighting anti-Semitism are the same. Take the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which announced opposition today to calls by "some in the Jewish community" to boycott UC Irvine over perceived anti-Israel activity on campus.Who would that "some" be? How about the Zionist Organiz ... More >>

Letters from OC Weekly Readers

Is the American Third Position Party Just Another William D. Johnson Pyramid Scheme?

Johnson: Maybe the "TP" in his party's name stands for "Think Ponzi"?​We spent quite a bit of digital ink last week on Long Beach State psychology professor Kevin MacDonald and his involvement in the white-power American Third Position Party, and not enough on the party's head: Los Angeles lawyer ... More >>

Counterprotesters Vastly Outnumber Neo-Nazis at Rallies

Bad weekend for Adolf lovers.​Neo-Nazis rallying in Riverside--which was previously referred to here and here--were vastly outnumbered by counterprotesters Saturday.A morning counterprotest sponsored by 32 community organizations, including some with Orange County members, drew 200 people to River ... More >>

UPDATED: ACLU Announces Settlement of Suit Tied to Corona del Mar High's Production of "Rent"

Photo by Matt Coker Karyl Ketchum and Mike Wiggins talk about the hell their 17-year-old daughter Hail endured at Corona del Mar High School last school year.​Three varsity football players at Corona del Mar High School posted a video on the school's Facebook page in January in which they describe ... More >>

Don't Be Stupid, Be a Smarty, Come and Join the Inland Empire Nazi Party!

  Orange County has its fair share of haters, racists and hater/racist skinheads thanks to the Hitler lovers of Anaheim, the Mexican bashers of Costa Mesa, the assorted white supremacists of Black Star Canyon, the Republican Central Committee of Orange County and haters and ... More >>

Top 5 Hate Crime Reports in June--and a [Non-]Bogus Bonus [THE RE-WRITE]

Kevin O'Grady, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League's Orange County/Long Beach office, was kind enough to email over five hate-crime reports his office received this past June, in reverse chronological order. While that format may be helpful to give readers a sense of ... More >>

Tangled Web of Hate Weaved By Carto, Von Brunn & Co.

Willis Carto speaks at a David Duke event about five years ago. It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry and it takes Irvine Valley College philosophy professor Ray Roy Bauer to connect the dots between National Holocaust Museum shooter James Wenneker von Brunn, some of our most notori ... More >>

ADL: Orange County/Long Beach Remain Hotbed For Hate

He Knows NothingOrange County/Long Beach bigots painted Swastikas on a liquor store, middle and elementary schools, public park buildings and even a temple--signifying an increase in anti-Semitic activity last year, according to a report issued this morning by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).  ... More >>

Los Alamitos Meeting Might Help Fight Racist Rep

The Orange County Human Relations Commission and the Anti-Defamation League have arranged a meeting with Los Alamitos residents tonight, to figure out how to be safe in light of hate activity in the city. The meeting's at 6 p.m., 4000 Farquhar Ave. The incident spurring the meeting is the vandalizin ... More >>

I Wish the Orange County Register Used the Word "Fag"

Longtime Orange County Register theater critic Paul Hodgins is a good guy, great critic, and someone whom was once on the same panel with me judging a dog show. Yesterday, he wrote a blog post about how Westboro Baptist Church (they of "God Hates Fags" infamy) plans to protest outside Corona del Mar ... More >>

A Fortuitously Timed Tax-Denying Conference Comes To Our Tax-Hating County

Man met bril / Flickr / Creative CommonsSpotted on the commute to Weekly world headquarters today: a brown Dodge pickup whose back window read, in blue electricians-tape lettering, "TAX REVOLT!" Spotted on Red County and Orange Juice Blog: recall fever against all the Republicans who supported the s ... More >>

Because You're Ugly: Urban Outfitters Pulls Tees in Support of Gay Marriage

Repeat offender Urban Outfitters has made headlines once again: the leading retailer has taken T-shirts supporting gay marriage off its California shelves this week. The printed Tees, a staple for the popular chain, simply read "I Support Same Sex Marriage." When questioned, a buyer for Urban Outf ... More >>

Local Extremist Supports Ron Paul

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has some great ideas (anti-imperialism) and some stupid ones (deny amnesty and birthright citizenship to illegal immigrants), and it's this schizophrenic platform that has attracted sane folks (the editors of Reason magazine, Barry Manilow) and unrepentant ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

Special one-question edicion

On the Road

Sacha Baron Cohens howlingly funny mockumentary goes looking for America

Hatesville, USA

Welcome to Costa Mesa . . . if youre colored, please leave

Live Free Now

Ask me how: Talking taxes and trilaterals in Irvine

Diary of A Mad Year

2004 regurgitated

!Ask a Mexican!

Diary of a Mad County

The Backlash Passion

A Messianic Meller for Our Time

From Nazis to Schuller to Arabs

Former neo-Nazi leader Bill Baker now speaks on the Muslim circuit

Mel Gibsons Christ Complex

Is The Passion of Christ an autobiopic?

Secrets and Lies

The cleric who turned a blind eye

Letters

Letters to the Editor 1/22/99

Let's Get Mikey

Letters

Hate Central

OC's bad reputation grows

Show Stopper

It's two, two, two weeks in one as Clockwork plays catch-up after the hiatus brought on by last week's boffo Best of OC issue.