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Dana Rohrabacher Loses Battle With Hillary Clinton During Benghazi Hearing

Remember the alleged threat of Y2K wreckingcomputers and disrupting the world at the outset of 2000?Remember all the talk of a cataclysmic disaster we'd face when the planet aligned itself with the sun and the center of the Milky Way galaxy on Dec. 21, 2012?Well, in fitting with those types of utter ... More >>

Malcolm X Shares the Spotlight with Martin Luther King Jr. at UC Irvine Tonight

Wotta country! On the same day we honored the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., an extension of the slain civil rights leader's dream--the presidency of Barack Obama--was realized with the second term inauguration.But as UC Irvine celebrates King with events through Jan. 31, it is the legacy of anoth ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Did The Unimaginable On Gun Control

Question of the morning: Did Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher fall off his testosterone-enhancing medications or guzzle a bad batch of low grade tequila?Rohrabacher did the unimaginable this week.Don't tell the John Birch Society, but the self-described "patriot" paused from calling B ... More >>

5 Examples of Why Passing Out Fliers of Obama with a Hitler Mustache is Soooo First Term

Sheriff's deputies received a call Monday afternoon about two people near an ATM in the 23800 block of El Toro Road, Lake Forest, handing out fliers of President Barack Obama with an Adolf Hitler mustache. Given the timing with the "fiscal cliff" vote, one might assume these angry folks emerged fro ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher: "Illegals" Were Paid To Steal 2012 Presidential Election For Barack Obama

Cheap tequila on the Kookville Express must have been free flowing as tipsy conductor Dana Rohrabacher pulled into the Costa Mesa train station on Dec. 6 to pen another wild, late night Twitter rant.Republicans like to claim they despise class warfare, but Orange County's senior career politici ... More >>

7-Eleven Wants People to Hate You For Your Coffee

Is it the first Wednesday in November yet? No? What do you mean, we have eight more weeks of this bullshit left?Obviously, plastering your car or truck with self-serving bumper stickers advertising your every belief isn't enough; posting comments anonymously on the Internet doesn't allow you to see ... More >>

U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Alan Keyes and Wiley Drake's Obama Birther Lawsuit

The U.S. Supreme Court has officially declined to hear the Barack Obama "birther" lawsuit. This legal remedy was not sought by "Queen of the Birthers" Orly Taitz but the conservative shark hired by the Alan Keyes-Wiley Drake presidential tag team of 2008. (Actually, the Aliso Viejo lawyer/dentist/re ... More >>

Four Tons of Floating Weed Discovered Off Dana Point

Presumably this is unrelated to the arrival of Japanese tsunami debris along the California coastline that we've all been hearing about. But at about noon yesterday, a boater who either really hates marijuana or really loves obeying the law, called authorities to report several large bales of weed f ... More >>

Five Politically Active College-Student Types and the Alcohol They Drink

With a college pub as great as the Anthill, you're bound to meet some drunk people every once in awhile. Some of them can be pretty cool. Others cans be super opinionated. Hilariously, people share both similar opinions and favorite drinks.

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 >>

[BREAKING!] Whitney Houston's Death was a Barack Obama-Hollywood Illuminati Rub Out

​What do Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, Barack Obama, a marijuana-toting pilot who wandered into the presidential airspace leaving Corona del Mar and the shooting of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Long Beach have in common?They are all connected to the Hollywood Illuminati A ... More >>

Democrats and Republicans Alike Make Pendejos Out of Themselves Over Chimichangas "Controversy"

​To continue on this morning's cylindrical god theme is a ridiculous story coming out of Washington, D.C. involving that legendary borderlands offspring, the chimichanga, a clueless Washington Post, columnist and pendejo Democrats and Republicans fighting over the tamale pie that is the Latino ele ... More >>

Stop the Presses!!! Orly Taitz Wins a Motion!

​Orly Taitz won a court motion in Georgia this week and, after consulting my ass and the sky, monkeys are not flying out of my butt and pigs still cannot fly.It happened, oddly enough, not in Florida but Georgia, where Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi in the Office of State Administrative Heari ... More >>

President Barack Obama Wins Again! Birthers Orly Taitz and Wiley Drake Lose Appellate Bid

​Barack Obama does not have to go to court to prove to Orange County's Orly Taitz and the Rev. Wiley Drake and seven other Southern Californians that he was natural born and eligible to be president of the United States, a federal appeals court ruled today. One reason a three-judge panel of the U ... More >>

Obama Administration Promises (Again) Not to Wage War on Medical Marijuana

Eric Holder​Ever since the federal government announced a major crackdown on medical marijuana cultivators and dispensaries in California, a lot of people have been wondering what the hell Barack Obama is thinking. Message boards for medical marijuana activists in the state have been abuzz with on ... More >>

Chapman Forecast That's Only Been Wrong Once Since 1944 Has GOP Presidential Win

​A Chapman University presidential forecast equation calls for a Republican presidential win in the November 2012 election.The Anderson Center for Economic Research data does not identify specific candidates, only the incumbent from each party. And before you label this the fantasy of a GOP-leanin ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher: It's Barack Obama, Stupid!

Dana: Let's sabotage the USA for next 18 months!​According to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican Party's "primary goal" for the next 1.5 years is not to reduce federal spending, pay down the ridiculous federal debt or cut taxes, the party's three chief public policy themes. No, Rohrabacher ... More >>

Laguna Niguel Writer Lights Up Interwebs Again with His Tales of Hanging with Young Marxist Obama

​Laguna Niguel nonprofit grant-writing consultant John C. Drew's tale of meeting an apparently borderline-Commie college student has been lighting up the Interwebs for years, from Conservative American to Rapture Ready.It's happening again following American Thinker last month posting yet another ... More >>

Orange Countians Closely Watching Events Unfold in Egypt Agree the U.S. Must Get Behind Its People

​"It's a moment of total euphoria," Edina Lekovich, director of policy and programming with the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Los Angeles, said during this morning's uninterrupted KTLA/Channel 5 news coverage of the events unfolding in Egypt after the resignation and departure of Egyptian Presi ... More >>

U.S. Supreme Court Tosses Orly Taitz's Latest Crazy Appeal Tied to Barack Obama's Citizenship

​So, after having her latest appeal rejected this morning by the U.S. Supreme Court, where is Laguna Niguel birther/dentist/lawyer Orly Taitz to turn next? The Hague? Judge Judy? The Trill Symbiosis Commission?The Supremes did not utter a peep while tossing the appeal contesting a $20,000 fine lev ... More >>

Chapman Constitutional Scholar Rebuffs Orly Taitz's Overtures

​Professor Ronald Rotunda of Orange's Chapman University School of Law scored some publicity at the confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan when he showed up while wearing a natty bow tie and jacket. He may seem to be of another era, but he's definitely plugged into new technologies--so mu ... More >>

Is Calvary Chapel's Tustin Branch a Secret Mosque?

Will Chuck Smith soon become an imam?​Remember that Drudge-created controversy a couple of months ago where some government agency or other unveiled their new logo, and lunatics said that its similarity to the crescent-and-moon symbol of the Middle East was further proof that President Barack Obam ... More >>

Today's Don't Miss: "Cypher Vision"

​This is tough, because recommending a corporate surf film goes against my, comrade Kim Jong-Il and Barack Obama's training.

Today, Medical Marijuana. Tomorrow, Legalize It!

Hugh Hewitt Blames Obama for Detroit Near-Disaster, but Whither Dubya?

Hewitt: Is he truly stupid, or just acts like it to make cash? Shockingly, it's the latter, according to sources...​Unsurprisingly, the Right is blaming President Barack Obama for the Christmas Day terrorist attack of an airliner flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. Our local yakmouth Hugh Hewitt was ... More >>

Barbara Coe on Lou Dobbs' Resignation: It's Also Obama's Fault

So legendary liar Lou Dobbs quit his CNN show last night, and the expected reactions are flowing in: Aztlanistas rejoice, Know Nothings rail. The campaign against Dobbs was very much a La Raza conspiracy, but California for Coalition Reform head Barbara Coe is also pointing a gnarled, cigarette-stai ... More >>

Orly Taitz Calls Us Out at the (Bill) Ayres Hotel in Costa Mesa

​Orly! I know you're reading this. After all, during your speech to the Costa Mesa Republican Assembly last night, while talking about your appearance on the Joy Behar show, you said something like "Joy Behar, who was, as this reporter here Mr. Kornbacher said... well, I won't use those words."Who ... More >>

Is Obama Our Nixon and Fox News Our New York Times?

​Is Barack Obama this generation's disgraced Orange County favorite son Richard Nixon?And does that make Fox News the Dick-era equivalent of the Pentagon Papers-publishing New York Times?Well, Bebe Rebozo, see if you can follow the bouncing twisted-logic ball . . .

Anti-Obama 'Eligibility' Movement Members Breaking Ties With Laguna Niguel Birther Orly Taitz

Cypress Mosque Hate Crime Gets Twittered

Here are some random comments on Twitter regarding the anti-Muslim graffiti at the Cypress mosque Nick Schou previously blogged about:  ...Obama gave a powerful speech in Cairo on the US-Middle East relations & an Islamic center in OC was immedtly defaced in a hate crime...   Our milit ... More >>

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Live From Earthquake Central!

WikicommonsYou know what's funny? Earthquake coverage. To be specific: coverage of moderate earthquakes. NPR's coverage of the devastating Chengdu tremor in 2008 can be called many things, but not "funny" isn't one of them.When a 4.7 quake hits Southern California, as one did last night, you have to ... More >>

This Week In Food

We may have been slightly distracted by Obama's visit to the OC this week, but that didn't stop us from blogging with gusto... Indeed, I tried to guess where the President might eat during his Southland trip (I'm still none the wiser).I also blew the lid off popcorn prices, which have risen an evil ... More >>

It's a Quick Read 15

Orange County Register: Here are some select reader comments to a story on people camping out for tickets to President Obama's Wednesday town hall at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa: "He is owned by the same people that owned Bush, he is called a PUPPET." "What do you expect from a ... More >>

Red Chinese are All Over Barack Obama's Visit to OC

White House photo by Pete SouzaBring on the Australian beer-battered Twinkies.Barack Obama's visit Wednesday to the Orange County Fairgrounds will mark his first visit to Southern California since becoming president, the first visit by a seated president to the facilities more prone to hosting gun s ... More >>

Read Curt Pringle's Lips: He'll Take New Taxpayer Dollars

Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle has long been the golden boy among Orange County Republicans. He got elected to the party's Central Committee in 1986, and two years later became the GOP nominee for the Garden Grove area state Assembly seat. The party, under the leadership of then-Chairman Tom Fuentes ... More >>

Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake Believes He Still Has a Prayer of Unseating Barack Obama

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Barbara Coe on Obama: "It's time to STAND UP & BE COUNTED - OR - DIE"

We already knew that California Coalition for Immigration Reform head witch Barbara Coe doesn't like President-elect Barack Obama, going so far as to compare him to Hitler. But, boy oh boy, does Barry have her goat! To the left (natch) is a doctored photo Babs sent around to CCIR's mailing list befo ... More >>

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Obama Lets the Nuns at St. Joseph's Have It

There seems to be some confusion out there regarding a band of courageous Catholic nuns turned anti-union, the staff who now work at their multi-hospital system and the big union trying to organize them. Just to add more spice to the mix, Barack Obama has now chimed in, calling on the Sisters of S ... More >>

Mile High Sanchezism

"It's really an important issue to acknowledge that women are important." --Orange County Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Santa Ana) tells the New York Times today what she wants from Barack Obama before she'll switch from backing Hillary Clinton's already defeated campaign. — R. Scott Moxley / OC Week ... More >>

Famous Musicians' Presidential Picks

When musicians wax political, the results are usually laughable and rarely illuminating. With this in mind, we link to OC Weekly freelancer Ben Westhoff's blog, where he's posted the presidential preferences (or noncommittal blather) of several rock and rap figures he's recently interviewed. Their r ... More >>

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Fired up for Obama at UCI on 01/31

“Fired up!” yells Abraham Jenkins. “Ready to go!” respond UCI's Barack Obamamites. In the midst of their chant a faint “Romney!” is heard from the obnoxious kid holding the long board. Dude, it’s an Obama rally. Did you not get the memo? The rally hype began a week ago, with posters ... More >>

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Stint in OC inspired Obama to run?

Last month's edition of The Atlantic profiles Barack Obama in several articles. One of them, "Teacher and Apprentice," a must-read piece on the Obama-Clinton relationship by Marc Ambinder, contains a couple of theories about what lit a fire under the man's ass and made him decide to seek presidency. ... More >>

Obama Gets Extra Golden's Song of Approval

Extra Golden chime in for Dem prez candidate Barack Obama. The Kenyan-American quartet Extra Golden have cut a song big upping presidential hopeful Barack Obama. You can check out “Obama” (which will appear on Extra Golden's Hera Ma Nono Oct. 9) here. Now that the Illinois Senator has this s ... More >>

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