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Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    [UPDATED with NMA Video:] Supreme Court Overturns State Ban on Sales and Rentals of Violent Video Games to Kids

    NMA.TV​UPDATE, JUNE 28, 2:50 P.M.: Next Media Animation, the largest full-service animation studio in Asia and subsidiary of Hong Kong's largest publicly listed print media company, is getting faster at turning around animated video on news stories around the world.Take Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    When Will OC Republicans Apologize to California for Pushing Arnold Schwarzenegger on Us?

    ​Kudos to former OC GOP head Tom Fuentes for cracking jokes about his terminal cancer last night during the local Reeps' annual Flag Day dinner last night in Irvine. Of course, for him--who supported more pedophiles, corrupt politicians, and plain old scum than the entirety of Law and Order: SVU h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    [UPDATED with Plea from Tousignant Family:] Arnold Schwarzenegger Love Child Scandal Rocks OC

    Tammy Tousignant​UPDATE, MAY 19, 4:12 P.M.: The attorney for Brea's Tousignant family, which earlier this week found itself at the center of the media speculation over the identity of Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child, has issued a statement with a simple message for that same media:Leave the Tou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Storm Status: Road and Shelter Closures

    ​Update, December 22, 10:08 p.m.: The emergency shelter at Mission Viejo High School has closed, the county announced this evening.Evacuated residents in need of shelter can still go to Laguna Beach High School and El Modena High School in Orange. (Addresses are on the next page.)The county's most ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    Meg Whitman, Chuck DeVore's Choice for Governor, is Now a "Self-Funded Dilettante"

    ​Chuck DeVore, who is leaving his Irvine-based state Assembly seat for private life after losing the U.S. Senate GOP primary to eventual general election loser Carly Fiorina, posted this on his Facebook page Oct. 4:"If we are to win and provide an opportunity to enact our ideas, we need to vote fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Did Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger "Sandbag" Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown?

    ​KNBC/Channel 4 political reporter Conan Nolan is raising a very plausible notion: that Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger--likely miffed over negative portrayals of the Governator by Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman--"sandbagged" both candidates.And it all went down in Long Beach, where Shriver i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2010

    Sunday News Notes: Reg Slams Loretta Sanchez

    ​Local news highlights include:Register against Loretta Sanchez but drags out marijuana stanceThe editorial staff of the OC Register has declared itself for congressional candidate Van Tran, a Republican; U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, a Republican; and Whitman, yep, a Republican. "From our ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Fees Charged Students in Tustin and Long Beach Cited in ACLU Lawsuit Against State

    ​Fees charged to public school students in Tustin and Long Beach are part of the evidence the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is citing in a class action lawsuit filed today against the state of California and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.The suit contends the state is violating the Californ ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2010

    Total Recall

    Regency South Coast Plaza

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Statewide Trans Fat Ban Starts Friday

    ​Beginning New Years Day, California will be the first state to ban trans fat from restaurants.  The measure was signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger in 2008, but according to the Sacramento Bee, there was a one-year adjustment period. However, bakeries don't need to comply until January of 201 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Feds and State to Californians: Ride Out Swine Flu Alone

    CNN carried a report this morning on physicians at the University of Kansas telling students to avoid coming in to the campus health clinic if they contract the H1N1 swine flu virus and that they instead ride it out in their dorm rooms. That's keeping with federal guidelines ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2008

    Schwarzenegger Sacks Shriver

    Governor Schwarzenegger sent a message to every one of his appointees this week by effectively firing the chair and vice-chair of the California State Parks and Recreation Commission. Bobby Shriver, chairman of the Commission, is a Santa Monica City Councilman and the Governor's brother-in-law. Clin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2008

    Wake Up and Suck the Orange 1.29.08

    I hope you're sitting down. For one thing, checking a blog while standing up is just ... weird. BYE-BYE RENT CONTROL? LA Times - A June 3rd ballot proposal could end the practice of rent control in California. Lawyers and landlords are both circling. If you prick a landlord, does it not bleed? PE ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2008

    Hu-what?! Schwarzenegger gives toll road stamp of approval

    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's neutral stance on the 241 toll road extension magically changed for the worse Tuesday, and the Los Angeles Times reports that he's now urging the California Coastal Commission to approve the much-opposed project. The people at the Transportation Corridor Agencies are pre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2007

    Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Criminal Miscalculations

    California's New Math: The LA Times reports today that state prison officials miscalculated the sentences for not 25 or 50 or 100 but for 33,000 current inmates. According to judges, officials have been applying the "wrong formula." Writes reporter Michael Rothfeld, "The sentencing errors range fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2007

    Friday's Headlines. No Surprises: Slut Day instead of Halloween

    It's Day Six and the Santiago fire is still only 30 percent contained. Fourteen homes were destroyed, and 750 more are threatened in Silverado Canyon. The Register reports that a liquid was used to ignite the blaze along Santiago Canyon Road at two separate points. Sheriff Carona says his departmen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2007

    Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Total Idiot

    Fatal Femmes! In the July 30 issue of Time, Sean Gregory reports on the Fatal Femmes Fighting Championship for all-female mixed-martial arts caged combat. Need I say more? Well, okay. In an enjoyable read based on the event in a Compton casino earlier this month, Gregory describes the brutality and ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 15, 2007

    Diary of a Mad County

    Feb. 7-Feb. 13

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2007

    Numbers, Numbers (and a semi-Nun)

    First for some numbers that aren't as big as you might think, or others might want you to think. If California were a separate country, it would have the world's sixth-largest economy, one hears time and time again. The governor even repeated the We're Number 6 bleat in his State of the State spee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2007

    Shorter State of the State

    Appropriately enough for a State of the State speech delivered in 2007, Governor Schwarzenegger's plan to "lead California into the future" can be summed up in three very 007-ish sounding words: Bonds. More Bonds.

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2006

    Arnold Schwarzenegger: Pumping Dollars

    In a state which has had as governor both Pete Wilson and Gray Davis, two men who could squeeze campaign contributions out of a stone, it would take a very special politician to set a new standard for money grubbing. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a very special politician. A story from The Associated P ... More >>

  • News

    November 2, 2006

    Mostly, No

    WEB EXCLUSIVE! Ladies and gentlemen, the propositions!

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2006

    Hummers Still Humming

    It was such a good story that David Letterman worked it into last night's monologue. And before Letterman, there was our own Matt Coker pointing out the story on the Weekly's ur-blog, A Clockwork Orange. The story: according to London's Daily Mirror, Arnold Schwarzenegger had taken his commitme ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 14, 2006

    Diary of a Mad County

    Sept. 9 - Sept. 12

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2006

    State Secret: Arnold's Big Night Out

    How desperate is Governor Schwarzenegger to avoid reminding people that he belongs to same political party as George W. Bush, let alone remind them that he was one of the featured speakers supporting Bush at the 2004 Republican Convention? Desperate enough to sneak across the country and into the Wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2006

    Is There an ECCO in Here?

    Interesting June 6 election endorsements from the Elections Committee of the County of Orange (ECCO), a political action committee aimed at mainstream (change to:) Democrat Party hacky gay lesbians Democrats: GOVERNOR Steve Westley (D) - endorsed Phil Angelides (D) - acceptable Arnold Schwarzenegg ... More >>

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    Unflinching Sincerity

    Unitarian Human Rights Forum

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2006

    Coming Attractions

    Cast your mind back to one of the grimmer spectacles of the grim days of 2004: the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign. If you recall, it was impossible to tell the difference that year between the official functions of President Bush and the fearmongering and pandering of Candidate Bush. Every official ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2006

    Another Star Chamber Turn

    My colleague Alex Brant-Zawadzki is right about the potential of television for doing good– his pro-having-sex-with-George Clooney stance, I'll pass over in silence– but Edward R. Murrow is long dead, and TV nowadays seems to be mostly offering up "the evil of banality", to use Alex Cock ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2006

    Toll Road Decision Delayed; Newport Beach Freezes Over

    Okay, Newport's fine, but there must be Satanic snowballs somewhere. Today, the Transportation Corridor Agencies announced a 30-day delay on their choice of alignments for the Foothill-South toll road extension. The TCA board voted 12-3 for the delay mere hours after its staff received a letter from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2006

    Orange County developers snared in hot lesbo love in!

    Don't know if you caught this buried in the LA "By God" Times' Jan. 12 front-pager on Governor Big Lippy sending his chief-of-staff out to court his big-money Republican donors: their first get together will be this coming Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Irvine Co.'s "Fantasy" Island Hotel (formerly the ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 22, 2005

    Diary of a Mad County

    Don't know if you caught this buried in the LA "By God" Times' Jan. 12 front-pager on Governor Big Lippy sending his chief-of-staff out to court his big-money Republican donors: their first get together will be this coming Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Irvine Co.'s "Fantasy" Island Hotel (formerly the ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 1, 2005

    Diary of a Mad County

    Aug. 24 - Aug. 29

  • Features

    June 2, 2005

    Capitol Punishment

    How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests

  • Features

    November 25, 2004

    Scoring the Quiz

    How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests

  • Columns

    September 16, 2004

    Diary of a Mad County

    How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests

  • Columns

    September 9, 2004

    Diary of a Mad County

    How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests

  • News

    August 26, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The Presidents Conservative Critics

  • Columns

    January 15, 2004

    Roll out the Schwarzenkegger!

    We have a barrel of fees

  • Features

    January 1, 2004

    The Year in Girl

    There was a war in there, somewhere

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    Municide

    How Laguna Woods killed itself

  • News

    October 16, 2003

    Total Recoil

    The recall movies over. Now what?

  • News

    September 25, 2003

    Pete Wilson on Steroids

    Cruz Bustamante on Arnold Schwarzenegger, the GOP and John and Ben

  • News

    September 11, 2003

    Gorbasms

    Schwarzenegger gets OCs nuts excited

  • Columns

    September 4, 2003

    Cleaning House!

    Arnold & Arianna, happy at last

  • News

    August 21, 2003

    The Fringe on Top

    Extremists Help the GOP muscle in on the Golden State

  • Columns

    August 21, 2003

    Moon Over Mesa

    And Issa in tears

  • Film

    July 10, 2003

    Theyre Back

    Do androids dream of electric sequels?

  • Film

    July 10, 2003

    Theyre Back

    Do androids dream of electric sequels?

  • Columns

    November 7, 2002

    I Wish I Were Blind

    Do androids dream of electric sequels?

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