Barbara Coe

Bill Hunt Must Renounce Joe Arpaio and Barbara Coe If He Want to Be Taken Seriously Once Becoming Fullerton Police Chief

I've been receiving a ton of email and Facebook messages from both good and bad people in Fullerton, concerned that tomorrow, the Fullerton City Council just might replace acting Fullerton Police Department Chief Dan Hughes with former Orange County deputy sheriff Bill Hunt. Hunt is a darling of Tea ... More >>

What We Learned, March 24-30

​The week flew by, but we still learned from it.MARCH 24: Octomom Nadya Suleman earns $8,000 posing nude for a British magazine. She is not using the money to save her La Habra house, as that's listed for sale as a foreclosure, but to rent a new pad for her, her 14 kids and the gaggle of gossip re ... More >>

Barbara Coe: Andrew Breitbart Murdered by Obama "Goons"

​I never thought much of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative media mogul who died this month. He didn't deserve the hagiographies printed about him (his schtick was funnier when Michael Moore did it, or--if you want to stay conservative--William F. Buckley), but he also wasn't Satan: it's good that ... More >>

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 >>

Barbara Coe Joins Dana Rohrabacher-Run Group--Will Dana Boot Her? (Of Course Not)

Dana: Next Zuckerberg?​Crazy deserves crazy, and few people are more insane in Orange County than long-time Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Didn't Serve) and California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe. Dana has started...something called OC Patriots, which I really can't tell wha ... More >>

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 >>

Gustavo to Debate Tom Tancredo about Immigration in Denver Next Week!

​Oh, is this going to be fun: next Tuesday evening, two of the biggest lunatics in the immigration debate will rant at each other in Denver. On the right side is former Congressman Tom Tancredo, he of the many wild theories about Mexicans over the years. And on the left is yours truly, I of the ma ... More >>

Election 2010: Gustavo Drinks Through the Election, Or: Trashing the Dems and Bashing Whitman

​Updated throughout the day, with the freshest post on top. Click after the jump for vignettes on Barbara Coe, Loretta Sanchez, Meg Whitman, and Borat!Midnight. Drink of choice: Alka-Seltzer...my pockets hurt. Loretta Sanchez has pulled away by thousands of votes, but we'll wait until the official ... More >>

Minuteman Project Head PR Man Tim Bueler Won't Unsubscribe People from His Wackjob Mailing List

Bueler? Bueler? Bueler?​Dear Tim Bueler: I have asked you to delete me from your mailing list. I have pressed the "unsubscribe" button from your mailings, almost all touting lunatic conservatives like Jerome Corsi and other questionable clients. I have asked you to stop sending me your press relea ... More >>

The Strangest Mexican Food Chain in America: Taco Bueno

A massive painting inside Taco Bueno--WTF??? But I guess it's better than a Chihuahua...​This past summer, I drove from Anacrime to Louisville, Kentucky, down to Chattanooga, then took I-40 back home. Along the way, I did some research for my coming Mexican-food book, research that was necessary ... More >>

Five Tips for Salsa-Making Contest Entries Gleaned from the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival

​A couple of weekends ago, I went Austin way to help judge  the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, one of the largest in the country. I went at the invitation of Robb Walsh, the dean of Texas food journalists and one of America's great advocates and historians of Tex-Mex cuisine (ask him wh ... More >>

Gift Wrath: Retailers Walk Fine Line at Christmas

Be more jolly!​Gustavo blogged about California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe forwarding to her knuckle-dragging followers an article critical of Best Buy's all inclusive Thanksgiving greeting including a happy Eid Al-Adha wish to Muslims, which naturally forced Babs to conclud ... More >>

You Vote What You Eat

juverna @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Innocent snack, or political shibboleth?​Quick, what's your favorite Girl Scout cookie? Okay, now what's your favorite Girl Scout cookie besides Thin Mints? Is it Samoas (or Caramel De-Lites)?You pinko.According to a survey done by hunch.com, what you like to ea ... 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 >>

Bill Hunt Now Officially Batshit Loco

Arpaio, Coe, and Hunt: Pendejos in a pod? For sure, the first two...​It was bad enough that Orange County Sheriff's candidate Bill Hunt invited a man as controversial as Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to shill for him at a fundraiser. But for Hunt to allow California Coalition for Immigration ... More >>

Feeling Slutty? Let Us Dress You Up as OC's Scariest People!

Time for Boston To Give Us Their Crown as the Kings of Bigotry

OC founding father Henry W. Head: Could take on a Bostonian any day​Let the baseball pundits obsess over whether your Angels will finally beat the Boston Red Sox in the playoffs next week--I care about stripping from Beantown what's now rightfully ours: the title of most-racist 'burb in America.†... More >>

Know Nothing Leaders Jeff Schwilk and William Gheen Add Homophobic Slurs to their Rolodex of Racism

We're all accustomed to hear anti-immigrant loons rail:  illegal alien SAVAGES, PRESS 1 FOR ENGLISH, TWO FOR SPANISH, and other priceless couplets. But, until this new wave of Know Nothings, there was at least a bit of class. Sure, Barbara Coe and her minions would spew all sorts of vitriol abo ... More >>

Another Know Nothing Turns Against Barbara Coe

Notice the Iron Cross on Coe's T-shirt...The Beer Hall Putsch of America's modern-day Know Nothing movement keeps turning more hilarious by the day. Earlier this week, we reported on how California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe tried to put  murders at the hands of Minuteman ... More >>

OC Republicans Satanic!

From a Martin Wisckol story in the Register yesterday:One indicator is that the county Republican Party pitched in $666,000 last year to help out campaigns, while the Democratic Party here came up with just $90,000, according to campaign disclosure reports.That's right, the Number of the Beast plus ... More >>

Potential Unlikely Swine Flu Victims THIS Close to OC (Updated!)

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that recent two deaths in LA County are being investigated by the coroner as possibly resulting from swine flu. The location of the two suspected flu victims? Long Beach and La Mirada, two Orange County border towns.With most of the previously reported Southern Cal ... More >>

Barbara Coe And Friends Use Adenhart Tragedy to Troll for New Members to CCIR

Was CCIR head once a Chinese singer?As Clockwork Coker inadvertently showed in his post on the death of Anaheim Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and his friends caused by some dipshit drunk driver, the Know Nothing nation will seize any opportunity to bash Mexicans and exploit any tragedy if it means fu ... More >>

It's a Quick Read 17

Orange County Register: South Coast Plaza shoppers are oblivious to President Obama's visit two miles away. If they can still afford South Coast Plaza, they are oblivious to his message, too. . . . Another Kobe Bryant court appearance, another dismissal. This time he was getting out of jury dut ... More >>

Barbara Coe Ties National Council of La Raza To Notorious Salvadoran Gang

California Coalition for Immigration Reform head witch Barbara Coe keeps getting wackier and wackier. This week, she forwarded a press release to her Know Nothing nation about how National Council of La Raza presidents Janet Murguia was scheduled to testify before the House of Representatives Financ ... More >>

Looking Back at 2008: The Celeb-Reality Edition

It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who opined that a new truth is better than an old celebrity-tinged news item, or at least he would have opined that had he lived in our celeb-obsessed times. So it is in that spirit these 15 Orange County brushes with famous folks in '08 are unveiled.   1) Newpo ... More >>

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 >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

OC's Taliban-Loving Congressman to Address OC's Taliban This Wednesday

Ya wanna know why the California Coalition for Immigration Reform are evil, decrepit hypocrites? Because they're hosting Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban) this Wednesday at their monthly Klavern at the Garden Grove Woman's Club on the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove Blvd (starts at 7:30 pm ... More >>

Hugh Hewitt Gets Tracked by Southern Poverty Law Center

It's one thing for Orange County blabbermouth Hugh "Baby Hewie/Hughcifer" Hewitt to get monitored by myself and Clockwork Coker, but it's quite the feat that Baby Hewie made it into the pages of the Southern Poverty Law Center's fall issue of its award-winning Intelligence Report. In its round-up of ... More >>

CCIR Suffered Hackers, Barbara Coe Her Usual Wacky Self

Sometime last week, someone hacked into the email of California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe and started spamming the hell out of her subscribers. On June 22, she finally got the problem under control. "I know the last few days have been a nightmare of a deluge of emails coming ... More >>

Orange County: A Personal History (Reconquista Canto XXVII)

Quien es Más Minuteman?

You'll be hard-pressed to ever find two sides in a lawsuit less sympathetic than the parties who are scheduled to show up in Orange County Superior Court on May 27. On one side will stand Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist, who was fired last year from the organization he founded for accusation ... More >>

Whats Illegal?

Video of elementary schoolkids chanting on May Day becomes YouTube hit as immigration-debate propaganda

This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

Pizza for Pesos: Chicago Pizza

Who is Sergio Ramirez?

Rebel Girl over at the always awesome Dissent the Blog weighs in on OC's Keyser Soze, the man who signed the infamous Tan Nguyen "immigrants can't vote" letter. Turns out it might be a Sandinista! Full Tan Nguyen coverage: Why is La Opinion Changing the Tan Nguyen Letter? Tan Nguyen: The New Bob ... More >>

The Anti-Immigrant All-Stars

Hangin with the haters at Santa Anas Day Without an Immigrant

!Ask a Mexican!

In the Midnite Hour

Thee Midniters never cared for ethnicityothers did

Letters

This Hole-In-The-Wall Life

Diary of a Mad County

Mammaganza!

Everyones a racist! Oh, yes, you are!

Californias Misadventures

Disney fetes Californias diversity as Anaheim trashes it

Letters

Harald Martins Army

The anti-immigration activist has a new plan to send Mexicans packing

If You Believe They Put Mine on the Moon

Union Maid

Apathy is sooo 1990s

Scary!

White Lines, black helicopters

Painters of the World Unite!

April-June