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April 2, 2012
Gary Stein, Tea-Bagging Marine Corps Sergeant, Coming to Buena Park!
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association will be holding a fundraiser tomorrow at the Knott's Berry Farm Resort Hotel. Proceeds from the event, which will also feature a talk by Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, will go toward educating sheriffs and peace officers on the ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2012
Mysteries of Costa Mesa: Armalite and the Creator of the M16, a Walking Tour
For reasons not entirely clear, Orange County isn't out loud and proud when it comes to its connection to one of the most famous battle implements of all time. In my efforts to discover the one-time Costa Mesa location of ArmaLite, developer of the M16, I was met with blank stares and should ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
Zorro
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Film
February 23, 2012
'Act of Valor' Wants You
Navy SEALs: Honor, courage, commitment
Blogs
February 22, 2012
[UPDATED: Coroner Rules Suicide] Katherine Darmer, Chapman Professor and Gay Rights Champion, Falls From a Building in a Possible Suicide
UPDATE, FEB. 22, 3:46 P.M.: The Orange County coroner's office has ruled Katherine Darmer's death a suicide. Questions remain as to why she would want to end her life. ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 21, 12:32 P.M.: Katherine Darmer, a Chapman law professor and a founding member of the Orange Cou ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2012
Police Find 2 Grenades at Cypress Home, But Resident Says He Has a Third
While serving a search warrant at a home in the 5300 block of Bishop Street in Cypress this morning, the man of the house being cuffed for alleged narcotics sales mentioned he had three grenades on the premises. The disclosure prompted a call to the Orange County Sheriff's Department Bomb Squad, ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2011
Homeless Veterans Need Your Help
Telling you about the National Guard armories that opened last night and will open tomorrow night to provide winter shelter for the homeless, we mentioned the nonprofit running the program for the county was in need of various clothing, grooming and food items. That group is not alone. A charity ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2011
Loretta Sanchez Blasts Illegal Forecloses on Homes of Military Members
There has been a lot of talk around the country about homes being illegally foreclosed upon. For instance, the word on the streets of Oakland right now is that greedy banks are specifically targeting the houses of African Americans. But such stories have gone from rumors to, well, legitimate stor ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2011
Don't Ask, Don't Tell's End Marks ROTC's Beginning at UC Irvine
Last week, when the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy was officially repealed, UC Irvine's inaugural class of ROTC cadets began participating in the campus' new program.That wasn't just a coincidence.Campus officials first talked to the U.S. Army about establishing an ROTC program d ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2011
Lt. Dan Choi Not Celebrating Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
With the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, you'd think the leading opponent of the policy prohibiting gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military would be celebrating.But Tustin's Dan Choi, the Army National Guard lieutenant who was discharged from his upper New York state unit in 2010 for ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2011
UC Irvine Attempts to Reclaim Record for World's Largest Dodgeball Game
Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly Click here to see more images from UC Irvine's world record game.Get ready for some more flying balls. Last year, UC Irvine broke the Guinness World Record for largest dodgeball game, enlisting 1,745 participants for a day of utter mayhem. (See our slideshow o ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2011
Court Orders Immediate End to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled today the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy must be immediately lifted.The legal battle over the 20-year-old policy is still being played out in courts, but the justices say it must end now that the ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Dana Rohrabacher and Loretta Sanchez Joined at the Hip on Afghanistan
There was a time during the unresolved county redistricting process when it appeared the congressional districts of Reps. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) might melt into one.Maybe that explains why these Members of Congress are starting to sound like one ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Rep. Loretta Sanchez Introduces Bill to Legitimize U.S. Military Women in Combat
Representative Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) today introduced what her office is hailing as "groundbreaking" legislation: the Women's Fair and Equal Right to Military Service Act, which would allow qualified female soldiers in the U.S. military to fight in combat.The ranking female member on ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
Osama Bin Laden's Death Praised by Mother of Fallen Navy SEAL
Debbie Lee and Danny Gonzalez of Cypress are the spokespeople for Sacramento-based pro-troops organization Move America Forward. To reach Lee, a Gold Star mother who tours the country on behalf of the group, you go through Gonzalez.Late last night, the mother of Marc A. Lee, a Navy SEAL who was k ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
Loretta Sanchez Lauds Military, Intelligence Community and Obama for Getting Osama Bin Laden
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove), a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, congratulates the armed forces, the intelligence community and President Barack Obama in a statement issued about the Commander-in-Chief's announcement that Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. m ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
Barbara Coe Takes News of Osama bin Laden's Death to Claim (Again) Barack Obama is a Muslim
You'd figure that with the killing of Osama bin Laden by special forces who acted on the order of President Barack Obama that California Coalition for Immigration Reform head witch Barbara Coe might, for even a nano-second, have something nice to say about Obama. Or, at the very least, shut her s ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Obama Signs "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal
As expected, President Barack Obama signed legislation today that repeals the 17-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law that prevented gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military. However, it could still take months for military officials to completely lift the old policy.Still, Ob ... More >>
Blogs
December 18, 2010
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Overturned in Senate
Godspeed, Lt. Choi.This morning will be known as the day the DREAM Act died in the U.S. Senate but "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was overturned there.By a bipartisan vote of 63 to 33, the Senate voted to end the debate on a bill that will allow President Barack Obama to overturn the Pentagon's ban on g ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
[BREAKING:] Sorry, Lt. Dan Choi: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal Fails
Repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that would have allowed gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military just failed in a 57-40 procedural vote in the U.S. Senate. Despite two-thirds of Americans and most in the mlitary supporting the repeal, the setback seemingly doom ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2010
UPDATED: OC-Born Judge Throws Out 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Anti-DADT activist and fired soldier Dan ChoiUpdate, Oct. 12, 1:02 p.m.: Riverside federal judge Virginia Phillips has double-downed on her initial ruling against Don't Ask, Don't Tell, issuing a worldwide injunction barring enforcement of the rule. The government has sixty days to appeal, but ... More >>
News
September 23, 2010
Pinalcchio
Renowned forensics experts say a Pinal County, Arizona, deputy's high-profile tale about getting shot after encountering drug smugglers doesn't add up
Blogs
September 21, 2010
"Justice For Julian" Collender Takes Brea PD War to Streets, Facebook, Yorba Linda City Hall
UPDATE: Julian "Jules" Stanley Collender's Family and Friends Loudly Protest His Slaying by PoliceIt's been 2 1/2 months since the life of Julian "Jules" Stanley Collender was cut short by a single police gunshot, but the Yorba Linda 25-year-old's family and friends have maintained their pressure ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2010
Garden Grove Veterans Advocate Seizes on Sliver in President Obama's Iraq Speech
President Barack Obama's Tuesday evening speech announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq generated heat on both sides of the aisle, with Republicans complaining he did not give George W. Bush enough credit and Democrats complaining, "This is what you chose to talk about with the econ ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: 200 National Guard Troops Along California-Mexico BorderComment by HBFOREVER: now deploy another couple hundred National Guard into Santa Ana and clean up that mess! you have to dispose of the garbage that is already here in addition to keeping more trash from coming in! Comment by ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Obama to send 1,200 troops to border Comment from Molly: We need to get rid of the Monkey in the White House before he ruins this Country any more. We need an AMERICAN for a president
Blogs
April 14, 2010
Tea Bagging With a Marine. This Could Get Ugly
Facebook/ArmedForcesTeaPartyGary Stein, a 24-year-old active duty Marine Corps sergeant based at Camp Pendeton, created his own Tea Party group, then announced its arrival on the national Tea Party scene in a press release.Two days later, some of his "brothers" are calling for a court martial.
Blogs
December 3, 2009
Dana Rohrabacher Is Now A Sage? Hehehehe
Broken clock is right more often than Dana"Sending 30,000 more combat troops to Afghanistan will not make us any safer. Focusing a strategy around the central government in Kabul will not work, especially with a government as corrupt as the Karzai regime. Sending more American combat troop ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2009
Anti-Warriors Respectfully Wait to Crap On Obama's Afghan Surge
Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) was criticized in some quarters today for crapping on President Barack Obama's Afghanistan surge announcement before the speech was even delivered tonight.So credit the anti-war movement for at least waiting until Obama was waving goodbye from the West Point podium ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
Hats Off to Our Veterans
Los Alammitos Army Airfield
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October 8, 2009
MURS
House of Blues
Blogs
August 25, 2009
John Stern: Neither "Inglourious" Nor "Basterd"
A filmmaker is exposing the world to the little-told story of Jewish Americans who banded together to fight Nazis during World War II.No, the filmmaker is not Quentin Tarantino and the story is not the fictional one told in his film Inglourious Basterds, which not only won at the weekend box offi ... More >>
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April 14, 2009
Santa Ana, Police Feted for Getting Their War On
Parked on Civic Center?If you're scooting past Santa Ana police headquarters Thursday afternoon and notice a large contingency of uniformed members of the Armed Services, worry not. That portion of Downtown Santa Ana has not been declared a war zone. Yet.Nor is it a green zone signifying safety from ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2009
Diane Harkey Protects Us From Accidental Terrorism
Assemblywoman Diane Harkey put forth a resolution back in February to keep ex-Guantanamo detainees out of Camp Pendleton. With Barack Obama set to close the notorious, quasi-constitutional prison some time next year, Harkey wants to make sure the administration doesn't even think about putting any o ... More >>
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October 9, 2008
Rock the Vets
Assemblywoman Diane Harkey put forth a resolution back in February to keep ex-Guantanamo detainees out of Camp Pendleton. With Barack Obama set to close the notorious, quasi-constitutional prison some time next year, Harkey wants to make sure the administration doesn't even think about putting any o ... More >>
Music
May 22, 2008
[Aural Reports] Arrival Are an (Air) Force to Reckon With
Assemblywoman Diane Harkey put forth a resolution back in February to keep ex-Guantanamo detainees out of Camp Pendleton. With Barack Obama set to close the notorious, quasi-constitutional prison some time next year, Harkey wants to make sure the administration doesn't even think about putting any o ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2008
Five years of war protest in Huntington Beach on 03/15
On the fifth anniversary of U.S. involvement in the Iraq War, 500 protectors engaged in a silent, single-file march down Main Street in Huntington Beach. Members of dozens of peace organizations under the Orange County Peace Coalition gathered near the Huntington Pier armed with folding card table ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2008
Wake Up and Suck the Orange 1.31.08
POORMAN SUES KDOC: LA Times - Dana Parsons covers the Poorman with typical dollops of smarminess. No genital warts mentioned whatsoever. I'd wax moronic but Luke Y. Thompson already covered this like a month ago (Exit Poorman, Feb. 3). So will he be a Richman? Do fiddlers play on roofs? DEBBIE #1 G ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2007
Knott's Berry Farm Welcomes Veterans
Sure, there are easier ways to get inside Knott's Berry Farm than joining the military (there used to be a great way sneak in off of La Palma and. . . well, let's just leave it at that), but for those Americans who've already taken the military oath, KBF is offering free admission now through Thanks ... More >>
Features
October 25, 2007
OC's Scariest People
Our Congressional delegation tops this year’s list of 33 villains (31 for October, plus two more to get to the Dia de los Muertos, ese)
Blogs
March 18, 2006
A Third Anniversary Gift for Iraq
Who knew that our political and military leaders were such a bunch of ol' sentimental softies? As a gift for the Iraqi people to mark the third invasion of their country, our leaders got them a miniature version of the invasion, Operation Swarmer. The mini-invasion has all feature that made that ful ... More >>
News
August 5, 2004
Burning Bush
The presidents conservative critics
News
March 18, 2004
Empire Falls
Chalmers Johnson on why things that cant go on forever dont
News
September 11, 2003
Cold Case at the Marine base
An El Toro officers 1991 death could re-open controversy over military drug trafficking
Features
March 6, 2003
War College
67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop
News
April 18, 2002
Oy, No! We Won't Go!
67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop
News
September 28, 2000
Aim Higher!
And then shoot to kill!
News
December 9, 1999
Alien Toxins
Area 51's sci-fi folklore masks a truly spooks reality
News
November 18, 1999
Up In Smoke
South County project burns more taxpayer money than missiles
News
April 22, 1999
Reveille for Ridiculous
Dornan, from coward to 'military expert'
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