Not this green card...If a California congresswoman has her way, a lot more people will get their green cards soon. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would amp the number of green cards for foreign students and entrepreneurs. The students have to meet a lot of c ... More >>
Rep. James Clyburn (D-South Carolina), the highest-ranking African American in Congress, used Orange County Republican Party official Marilyn Davenport's controversial email depicting Barack Obama as the child of chimps to argue most of the president's problems relate to "the color of his skin."I ... More >>
We ain't got pudding, but there is proof on the t-shirt.President Barack Obama proved all the haters wrong. He provided his long-form birth certificate, putting all the "He's not even American!" banter to rest. But the president and his campaign still want to have some fun--even after Obama mo ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
Through top-secret Army intelligence de-coding methods, a source working exclusively for Navel Gazing has uncovered a shocking revelation in President Barack Obama's Certificate of Live Birth from Hawaii.Rather than come right out and say what the secret message is contained on the form no one kn ... More >>
Obama wasn't the first black to be belittled for winning powerful job...For fictional purposes, the place was called "Rock Ridge" and the setting was put at 137 years ago somewhere in the American West.But nowadays how can there be doubt that Hollywood's historic comedy, Blazing Saddles, was actu ... More >>
(c) Photo by R. Scott MoxleyCA Republican Party is not happy with DavenportUPDATE, APRIL 20, 10:18 P.M.: During the KTLA interview, a "timid, confused" Marilyn Davenport, a retired Christian book publisher, said she is "really sorry" for sending the racist email. In her view--expressed throu ... More >>
Yes we can...tell accurate storiesThere is much to criticize about President Barack Obama, whether from the left or right--but to blame him for the nation's continuing loosening of dining dress codes, a trend that has gone on for decades? Only the most frothing-at-the-mouth lunatic would ever mak ... More >>
Illustration by Trevor Keen/OC WeeklyEmboldened by results showing 93 percent of those polled by NewsMax.com question Barack Obama's legitimacy to be U.S. President, Orly Taitz has announced she will seek re-election as Queen of the Birthers.Okay, so Dr. T, the Laguna Niguel lawyer/dentist/real-e ... More >>
"Barry speaking . . ."The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected without comment a requested rehearing on a previously tossed out case alleging Barack Obama is not eligible to be the U.S. president.This one was not filed by Laguna Niguel lawyer/dentist/birther/nutbar/real-estate saleswoman Orly Taitz ... More >>
UPDATE, FEB. 23, 4:18 P.M.: The couple who filed the first marriage equality case in California and later became petitioners to overturn Prop 8, Diane Olson and Robin Tyler, said today's decision by the Obama administration to stop defending the federal government's anti-gay marriage law is "a hu ... More >>
UPDATED, JAN. 26, 5:49 P.M.: President Barack Obama agreed today that Orange County is a disaster. Ethically, morally, politically--it's like Mischa Barton's blank stare here, said . . .Check that: Obama today signed the paperwork that officially declared Orange County and several other Californ ... More >>
President Barack Obama's conciliatory, olive-branch-loaded, let's-all-work-together-for-the-sake-of-America State of the Union speech before both houses of Congress Tuesday evening failed to sway Representative Dana Rohrabacher."You think that us sitting together and singing 'Kumbaya' is going to ... More >>
From the Department of Nothing Important Will Ever Get Done in This Country Because All Sides Cannot Agree on the Facts comes the latest word from Hawaii's new Governor Neil Abercrombie on President Barack Obama's birth in the Aloha State. Those who discount Orly Taitz and fellow birthers as nu ... More >>
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 >>
Political Vel Craft ("Veil of Politics") is an amazing site with ads against the climate change "con," a link to the U.S. Debt Clock and blanket coverage of the WikiLeaks-exposed marriage between the United Kingdom and The Illuminati. There's also a call for U.S. Supreme Court C ... More >>
At a White House briefing, President Barack Obama just said suspicious packages found aboard two cargo planes bound for the United States "do apparently contain explosive material."They came from Yemen and were inside Fed-Ex and UPS packages bound for a synagogue in Chicago.
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The current and former first lady are doing California's first lady a solid, as Michelle Obama and Laura Bush have agreed to speak during Maria Shriver's annual Women's Conference in Long Beach Oct. 24-26.Obama last appeared at what Shriver has dubbed "the Super Bowl for Women" in 2007, when she ... More >>
The Washington Post is reporting that in his speech tonight to announce the end of major combat operations in Iraq, President Barack Obama will say it is time to "turn the page." "Ending this war is not only in Iraq's interest-it is in our own. The United States has paid a huge price to put t ... More >>
John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyWhen Brian Williams asked President Barack Obama what he thought of all the people who suspected he was born outside of the United States, Obama had a snappy, headline-generating answer: "I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead." ... More >>
John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyLaguna Niguel birther/dentist/lawyer Orly Taitz's newest filing at the Supreme Court of the United States is a "MOTION FOR RECONSIFERATION." (Yes, [sic]) At least, that's how the title starts. Then you get this... "OF THE APPLICATION FOR EMERGENCY STAY AND/OR INJU ... More >>
Headline: House Passes Border Security BillComment by unclebill: I love Obama! $600M for boarder security. $26B for teachers unions. OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA! Gimmie dat Obama money....Comment by gameon: I'm starting to think you just don't like mexicans and don't like having a black president. its a ... More >>
Christopher Victorio/ OC WeeklyIn Orange County, we've grown accustomed (read: numb) to Orly Taitz's nauseating logic, hate-mongering rhetoric, and borderline paranoid-schizophrenic anxiety attacks regarding left-wing conspiracies and Obama's citizenship. But c'mon, Orly: you supposedly ear ... More >>
Christopher VictorioTaitz: "I can't be bought."Dr. Orly Taitz says it's challenging not being "a part of the controlled [Barack Obama] opposition."For example, Taitz says the mainstream media (MSM) ignores her or pokes fun of her goal to impeach President Obama because he is a native-born citizen ... More >>
Headline: Rally Celebrates "Historic" RulingComment by V22FOREVER: I cannot believe that one person can change a law which was legally voted into existence by a huge majority of citizens, just because they feel like it. This is wrong. Legislating from the bench is why we should be throwing these ... More >>
Headline: Obama to Challenge Arizona Immigration Law Comment by antarez7: This Hispandering TRAITOR Obama has millions of Americans out of work and he wants to reward Illegal Alien Parasites. Time to impeach Obama NOW. No Amnesty for ever!!!!
Lt. Dan Choi wants to drag President Obama into court.But the Tustin High grad, out Army officer and gay activist is not challenging the Kenyan's place of birth with his subpoena. (Sorry, Orly.) Facing the music in the case we wrote about here, when Choi was arrested for chaining himself to a Whi ... More >>
Chris VictorioPresident Barack Obama at a Town Hall Meeting in Costa Mesa last MarchYou deserve an update: After Stephen Colbert investigated the so called-conspiracy, Gawker finally got DC The Brain Supreme and Steve Roll'N, the Atlanta-based rappers formerly known as Tag Team, to comment on t ... More >>
[via Gawker]Remember the weekend's big news about the Obama look-alike who had a cameo a minute into the Tag Team "Whoomp (There It Is!) video? The left-handed domino player was wearing shades, flashy rings (and earrings) and was using a Zack Morris cell phone...and he looked a lot like President ... More >>
[via Gawker]The biggest thing on the Interwebz this weekend was a story going around that President Obama was in Tag Team's 1993 hit song "Whoomp (There It Is)." According to Gawker, the whole conspiracy theory has appeared everywhere, from the hip hop message board Tha Corner, the message board ... More >>
[Via Pitchfork] While you were eating dinner, doing laundry or watching TV last night, President Obama was apparently singing "Hey Jude" at the White House with a bunch of other famous people. The grand sing-along happened after he p ... More >>
Trevor Keen / OC WeeklyLike the blob, Taitz's theories change shape.Did you hear that the birthers, led by Laguna Niguel's Dr. Orly Taitz, have a new accusation against President Barack Obama, involving his social security number? Well that's wrong. Despite the headlines at sites like the We ... More >>
Youtube screen captureFrom left: Anderson Cooper (duh), Paul Rolf Jensen, Lt. Col. Terrance LakinPaul Rolf Jensen issued a press release last year in which he called himself a "leading Orange County, California trial lawyer." His personal-injury law firm is based in Costa Mesa.On Friday, CNN anch ... More >>
oceanswavesbeaches.blogspot.comThe Surfrider Foundation released a statement today, expressing their disapproval of Obama's proposal to open areas of the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic coastline and Arctic coastline to oil drilling and exploration. They are not stoked.
Photo by John GilhooleyDoes Chuck DeVore have an app for teabagging?Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), who's in the middle of a longshot bid to become your U.S. senator, is cooing about his impending endorsement Sunday from the Tea Party Express, the national conservative movement that helped s ... More >>
The Orange County Register's Teri Sforza has a fascinating post today that answers the question "Will California be frozen out of Obama's nuclear future?" this way: definitely yes in the short term, possibly no in the long term.
Trevor Keen / OC Weekly[Updated 3:45 p.m., originally published 10:15 a.m. See end of post.]Way back in spring of 2009, a lengthy document started circulating in the birther blogosphere, supposedly a formal complaint to the California Bar Association about the conduct of Laguna Niguel dentist/law ... More >>
This morning, Laguna Niguel dentist/lawyer Orly Taitz filed a motion opposing the government's opposition to her motion to move her already-dismissed Pamela v. Barnett lawsuit from Santa Ana to Washington D.C. (Got all that?)The PDF's here. It's 11 pages long. None of those 11 pages really explai ... More >>
Here are The World Almanac and Book of Facts Top Ten News Topics of 2009:1. Obama Presidency Begins. With the U.S. at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and facing its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Barack Obama swearing in as the nation's 44th president Jan. 20 in Washington, DC.her ... More >>
With apologies to Don Michael Corleone, fellow fictional character/dentist/real estate agent/Birther attorney/crooked eyeliner model Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. might be tempted to utter--in her thick Zsa Zsa accent--"Every time zhey zhink I'm out, I pull me back zin."The Laguna Niguel resident's latest ... More >>
Presented without comment, a copy-paste from a letter posted on Orly Taitz's blog:Nothing happens by coincidence. Take, for example, Obama's announced Afghanistan policy tonight. Had it not been for the pressure of your Barnett lawsuit, and your brilliant motion for reconsideration, Dr. Orly, Oba ... More >>
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 >>
Star Foreman / OC WeeklyOur Orly Taitz costume is on discount for Black Friday.Yesterday, I gave thanks to birthers, who have provided the Weekly with so much fun material in 2009. So let's check in on them. What's new in the wonderful world of people who don't believe that Barack Obama is an Ame ... More >>
Rep. Ed Royce loves Indiana food.Not that yours truly would want to get into a pissing match with the Orange County Register over typos, but Washington Bureau chief Dena Bunis' "Total Buzz" blog post on Congressman Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) attending President Barack Obama's first State Dinner--in ... More >>
John Gilhooley, OC WeeklyMaybe we will get another date with Orly Taitz in Santa Ana's Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse after all. Less than two weeks after Judge David O. Carter dismissed the Laguna Niguel's Barnett v. Obama lawsuit seeking to throw the President out of office, Tait ... More >>
From a source...As I opened the door of the examination room after an appointment with my St. Jude physician, I came face to face with a political Photoshop disaster of President Obama's face superimposed on a feathered witch doctor complete with bone in nose. The title below the image said, "Oba ... More >>
Flickr user theskywatcherIn a move that will likely increase President Obama's favorable rating even here in conservative Orange County, Attorney General Eric Holder ordered federal drug agents to stop prosecuting cases involving medical marijuana users and providers who obey state laws legalizin ... More >>
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