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April 15, 2013
Dana Rohrabacher To Feds: Respect State Marijuana Laws
Like the proverbial broken clock that is right twice a day, U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) is occasionally doing things that aren't completely crazy, like defending the Taliban or accusing the Obama Administration of intentionally lying to the American public about the Islami ... More >>
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April 12, 2013
Obama Administration Bans Synthetic Weed
More than four months after voters in Colorado and Washington State legalized recreational marijuana smoking, the Obama administration has yet to announce any plans to either tolerate those developments or continue to crack down on America's homegrown marijuana industry (to the presumed delight of t ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2013
Can World of Warcraft Survive the Inevitable Political Backlash from More Positive Research?
Another day, another World of Warcraft study, another opportunity for Republicans in Congress to lash out at government spending on research associated with the online role playing game from Irvine's Blizzard Entertainment. The latest finds those who play WoW for socialization are more open, agreeab ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2013
[Exene Says . . .] Part Two of 'I Had a Dream That I Woke Up, But It Was Too Late!'
[Editor's Note: Our esteemed punk-rock columnist Exene Cervenka wanted to share a short story. Since most everything she does is badass, we figured this would be no different. The first part ran in last week's issue.] Her friends told her she spent too much time online. She followed YouTubers and b ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2013
Obama Administration Will Soon Announce New Pot Policy; Meanwhile Arrests Continue
Ever since voters in Washington State and Colorado approved legalizing the recreational smoking of marijuana last November, the public has been waiting to see how the Obama administration would react. So far, officials have only said that they are monitoring the situation to see how those states imp ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2013
Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager Rip Off "¡Ask a Mexican!" with "Ask a Jew" Event!
I do not listen to OC's own third-rate conservative pundit, Hugh Hewitt, because he just became too predictable: Scalia great and Dubya great, Obama and Obama horrible. But every couple of months, I check out his website to see what he's bloviating about just in case I need column fodder.And that's ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2013
OC Labor Calls for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (aka Amnesty) at Press Conference in Anaheim
Hundreds of union members and allies rallied in front of Anaheim City Hall today to announce their support for "comprehensive immigration reform," which everyone and their cousin knows as amnesty. The press conference was called by the Orange County Labor Federation and featured leaders from the rel ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2013
Marijuana To Remain A Schedule One Narcotic, Court Rules
To the great dismay of stoners and medical marijuana activists everywhere, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington D.C. Circuit ruled yesterday that marijuana will remain illegal for doctors to prescribe as medicine. Specifically, the court agreed with lawyers for the U.S. Drug Enforcement ... More >>
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January 21, 2013
C-SPAN Is Carrying Live Feed of President Obama's Inauguration Today
If you're one of us Southern Californians who doesn't have a holiday today, are stuck at work in a TV-less cubbyhole and have an interest in watching President Barack Obama's second inauguration in Washington, D.C, you are in luck.C-SPAN is airing a live Internet feed of the nation's 57th Presidenti ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2013
OC-based Tea Party: Impeach Obama Over Gun Control Executive Orders ... or Benghazi
Before President Barack Obama just announced 23 executive orders he will issue and a $500 million package and changes in law he will seek from Congress in the wake of the mass shooting in Connecticut that killed 20 elementary schoolchildren, the Laguna Woods-based California Tea Party called for hi ... More >>
Blogs
January 8, 2013
A Dude's Dream Comes True Aboard the Holy Ship!!
Aboard the Holy Ship!! one gets to mix and mingle with the slew of name DJs. "Hey there's Zedd in line for pasta salad. Oh wow, there's Dillon Francis in the elevator. Oh damn, Diplo is out on the beach swimming with all the fans. "Jackbeats just bought all those people shots!" With this mesh of a ... More >>
Blogs
December 26, 2012
The End of the World Came and Went, But Training for the Apocalypse Never Ends
The Mayan end-of-days' days passed without the world ending, but you suspect that won't stop the subjects of Rob VanAlkemade's gripping (and surefire) new documentary from preparing for what they believe to be the inevitable.Training for the Apocalypse, which premiered on NatGeo last spring and is n ... More >>
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December 9, 2012
Dana Rohrabacher Fans Claim "Conniving, Wily Latinos" Who Stole 2012 Election For Barack Obama Were Too Smart To Get Caught
On Dec. 8, I reported that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher claimed Democratic operatives paid poor people and "illegals" to steal the 2012 presidential election for Barack Obama.Rohrabacher offered no proof of his claim and so I challenged him to name just one crony who paid one identified "illega ... More >>
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December 6, 2012
OC Professor Blames Occupy Wall Street and President Obama For Causing California Gun Buying Spree
The nation was safe and harmonious until the Occupy Wall Street movement and Barack Obama's re-election campaign brought discord that prompted financially secure Californians to fear a violent revolution by the poor.That's the laughable stance taken by rabidly conservative activist and Chapman Unive ... More >>
Film
November 29, 2012
Brad Pitt: Making a Killing in Obama's America
'Killing Them Softly' argues crime is just businesss
News
November 8, 2012
'We Will Live to Fight Again'
Election Day dispatches from around the county
Blogs
November 6, 2012
The Five Best Songs On Barack Obama's Campaign Playlist
It's Election Day and that means not only will millions of Americans be making their way to voting booths in order to participate in our great democracy, but chances are they'll first have to work through that dreaded pre-election anxiety as the fateful hour draws closer. What better way to pass the ... More >>
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November 6, 2012
Barack Obama Wins 2012 Election: KDOC-TV Psychic Who is "Ignorant," "Knows Nothing"
The 2012 United States presidential election was called at 5:48 a.m. today (Pacific daylight savings time).Jamie the Psychic, who describes herself as "the worst person to call when it comes to politics," announced Barack Obama as the winner while she appeared on The Daily Buzz (or, as the hip kids ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2012
Gustavo's Mother, the Assimilated Voter
My ballot cast for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson this year wasn't the first time I've voted Libertarian. The Republican and Democratic parties in Orange County are so fetid that I've split my votes between Green and Libertarian Party candidates (with the occasional bone tossed to the Peac ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
Obama Gets The Jay-Z Mash-up Treatment With "99 Problems (But Mitt's Not One)"
With the first round of the 2012 Presidential Debate happening tomorrow, we're sure both President Obama and Mitt Romney are busy stretching, meditating and fishing through their iPods for the perfect hype music to pump them up for talks about domestic policy. So it seems like a good time to share a ... More >>
News
September 20, 2012
Barack Obama Who?
[Moxley Confidential] Orange County Democrats hold pre-November election summit and forget to rally the faithful for the president's re-election
Blogs
September 10, 2012
OC Pot Dealer Cheers Fed Crackdown on Medical Marijuana
The wire service United Press International has a funny story that went up this weekend: pot dealers are really happy that the Obama administration has been cracking down on the medical marijuana industry. The Sept. 8 story's funny in part because of it's headline: "California's Medical Pot Trade Th ... More >>
Film
August 23, 2012
The Five Most Hilarious Lowlights of '2016: Obama's America'
Distilling Dinesh D'Souza's anti-anticolonialist jeremiads
Blogs
August 8, 2012
Jenna Jameson's for Mitt Romney But What About These 8 Porn Actresses?
We mentioned earlier how adult entertainer-turned-Huntington Harbour mom Jenna Jameson and gay pornpressario Michael Lucas are solidly behind (oofa!) Mitt Romney for president, while Ron Jeremy likes, but probably will not vote for, the former Massachusetts governor.Well, we now know how eight other ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2012
Local DREAM Activists Organize Forum Surrounding President Obama's Wannabe DREAM Act
After DREAM activists courageously staged sit-ins at Obama for America campaign offices in multiple cities, the President announced earlier this month on June 15 a policy change affecting undocumented youth. Not an executive order as Know Nothings whine, the move nevertheless pressured the Deporter- ... More >>
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June 25, 2012
[UPDATED with Loretta Sanchez: "This is a Victory":] Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Paper Check Provision But Tosses Other Parts of SB 1070
See update at the end of the post with reaction to the Supreme Court ruling by Rep. Loretta Sanchez:ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 25, 8:35 A.M.: The U.S. Supreme Court this morning rejected nearly all of Arizona's controversial immigration law yet upheld SB 1070's most controversial provision: the one requiri ... More >>
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June 8, 2012
Panties and Popery at Religious Freedom Rally in Santa Ana
Hundreds of Roman Catholics and their leaders gathered Friday in downtown Santa Ana to rally against what they say is the erosion of religious liberty in the United States. The Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally took aim at the usual suspects, including President Barack Obama and Planned Pare ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2012
Barack Obama and Orange County's Unfriendly Skies
Since Barack Obama will inevitably be venturing back into Southern California to revisit the Hollywood ATM machine during his presidential reelection bid, the military should just keep F-16 fighter jets in the air over Orange County full-time.For a second straight visit by The Chosen One, a small pl ... More >>
News
June 7, 2012
Welcome Back, Jim Crow
[Crossing the Line] New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall
News
June 7, 2012
Our Hands to Mexicans, Our Fists to Crackers
Crossing the Line: A Village Voice Media Special Report
News
June 7, 2012
Arizona Senate Bill 1070's Days of Rage
[Crossing the Line] The U.S. Supreme Court and President Barack Obama leave the undocumented and their allies no choice but to escalate civil disobedience
Blogs
June 7, 2012
Immigration Makes Us Safer, Richer and Better Able to Breathe: UCI Study
Well here's a timely UC Irvine study in light of today's Weekly cover package: The Southern California Regional Progress Report to be released next week shows the large influx of Asian and Latino immigrants into Southern California in the past 50 years has led to less crime, lower joblessness and ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2012
Secret Service Whoring Around Dates Back (at least) to Richard Nixon in San Clemente
Google "Barack Obama Nixonian" or just click this link. You'll see several e-pundits love making the Chosen One out to be Orange County favorite disgraced son Richard M. Nixon. Actually, former Nixon Library director John Taylor made that case--in a positive way--days before Obama was inaugurated. T ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
Penn Jillete's Obama-Marijuana-Crackdown-Is-Whack Tirade Goes Taiwanese!
On his recent Penn's Sunday School show, magician, comedian, and medical pot defender Penn Jillette blasted President Barack Obama for unleashing federal goons on California's medical marijuana industry. In his tirade, Jillette shredded Obama for trying to act cool and hip with the kids on his ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2012
Ron Paul Ends Campaign: Who Wins The Pot Vote?
It's being widely reported today--including right here on Navel Gazing, like one minute ago--that Ron Paul is bowing out of the 2012 presidential race, or more accurately, ceasing any campaigning in states that have yet to hold their Republican Party primary elections.This is not good news for peopl ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2012
[UPDATE: Oaksterdam's Lee Retires] Feds Raid Oaksterdam University As Local Lawmakers Demand End to Pot War
UPDATE, April 6, 12:00 p.m.: According to the LA Times news blog, Oaksterdam University's founder Richard Lee is retiring from the medical marijuana industry he helped create. "I've been doing this a long time," he told the newspaper. "Over 20 years...I kind of feel like I've done my time. It's time ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2012
[PHOTO] Awesome Anti-Obama Sign of the Day!
There's people who hate President Barack Obama, and then there's people who HATE Barack Hussein Obama, the kind who'll decorate their pickup truck with tigers and allusions to Pinocchio AND Jack and the Beanstalk.The following photo was taken on the intersection of Springdale Street and Navajo Ro ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2012
Barack Obama Delights, Annoys Corona del Mar Fans and Protesters
Brandon FergusonCritics of the president hold a banner in preparation for his OC visitOn a sunny Southern California morning, an evenly split crowd of perhaps 500 protesters and fans of Barack Obama lined the sidewalks of swank, oceanfront Corona del Mar in anticipation of the president's arrival ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2012
President Barack Obama Set to Land in Bitter Enemy Terrority--Orange County
Under intense security, Air Force One and Barack Obama landed late this afternoon at Los Angeles International Airport for the president's ninth trip to Southern California and, during a series of fund-raising events, touted his administration's accomplishments, including a repeal of "Don't Ask; ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2012
Where the Rubbers Meet the Road to Rome: Rick Warren Willing to Go to Jail in Support of Catholic Stance on Obama Mandate
Rick Warren took a break from humblebragging on his Twitter page last week to say he would go to jail before caving to President Barack Obama's mandate that employers with religious affiliations -- such as Catholic hospitals -- cover contraceptives in their health insurance plans.
Blogs
February 2, 2012
Barack Obama Goes Rogue, Ventures into Corona del Mar to Scoop Up Campaign Cash
Barack Obama will tread where Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have already been this presidential election season: Corona del Mar.You read that right: this month our Democratic Prez Dog is venturing deep into Newport Beach, which for decades and decades has served as an ATM machine for Republican o ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2012
Dana Rohrabacher Blames "Rude" Female for His Gaffes on Bill Maher's HBO show
Any reasonable person who saw Dana Rohrabacher's Jan. 27 performance on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher appreciated that the right-wing Orange County Republican congressman set a new low for political discourse.Hilariously acting as if he's a seasoned, elder statesman, Rohrabacher--the self-descr ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2012
Orly Taitz Delusional Quote of the Day
"Does this look like a behavior of an innocent person? An innocent person would have come to court and showed all the valid documents with the embossed seals, which are verifiable. Instead he is acting like a 5-year-old brat, saying 'I am afraid of Orly, 'I want the secretary of state of GA to a ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2012
Barbara Coe Compares Routine Military Exercise in Downtown LA to Hitler Rounding Up the Jews for the Holocaust
That crazy Barbara Coe is at it again! The aging cigarette that is the head of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform has been a bit quiet on her email blasts as of recent, preferring to send out stories that claim pedophilia is an acceptable part of Afghan culture with no comment. But t ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2011
[BREAKING:] Obama: All U.S. Troops Will Be Out of Iraq by End of Year
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher told the Laguna Niguel City Council last night that U.S. troops do not belong in Iraq. The Huntington Beach Republican must be ready to give Barack Obama a bear hug because the president just announced all U.S. military in Iraq will be home for the holidays.In announc ... More >>
News
October 20, 2011
Obama's War On Weed
In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees
Blogs
October 12, 2011
Obama Administration Threatens to Prosecute Media For Marijuana Ads
Design By Brian StaufferAnybody know what the hell is going on with Barack Obama?You know, the guy who admitted before becoming president that he was a college stoner and whose Justice Department initially acted like that it had better things to do than harass medical marijuana dispensaries?Seems ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2011
[UPDATED with More Nuttiness:] Birthers Queen Orly Taitz Pisses Off Yet Another Federal Judge
UPDATED, JULY 26, 4:15 P.M.: Another day, another federal judge Queen of the Birthers Orly Taitz has managed to piss off.The latest is District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who wrote of the Laguna Niguel dentist/lawyer/real-estate saleswoman--in a ruling dated Monday--"Plaintiff is either toyi ... 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 >>
Blogs
June 17, 2011
Ed Royce: Let 'Em Eat . . . Nothing--Wants to Cut Food Assistance to North Korea
Yo, Kim, serve ketchup on your cardboardJournalists can always count on Orange County politicians to say something sensational on slow news days.For example, Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa) recently opined to Iraqis that they should pay the U.S. for all of the costs of the invasion and occupation ... More >>
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