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Christian Conservatives Confront the Anti-Christ in Newport Beach

[Moxley Confidential] Surprise, surprise! Old, white Republicans battle abortion, gays, Boy Scouts and Barack Obama's 'evil'

Urban Seoul's Bulgogi Nation

This Irvine restaurant is the latest Kogi knock-off, but it's a damn great one

OC Deputies Union Gives to Boston Victims, Reward Funds and Lobbies Sanchez to Boost Homeland Security Dollars for Local Agencies

The Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs (AOCDS) has contributed to a fund for victims of the Boston terror attacks and to the reward for the capture of whoever planted the bombs. But the Santa Ana-based AOCDS wants to loosen up even more funding, calling on Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Gr ... More >>

ABC News' '20/20' Faces Libel Lawsuit for OC Internet-Dating Story

[Moxley Confidential] Orange County judge refuses network's demand to kill libel lawsuit against the ABC program

Maz Jobrani Explains Why Its Way Harder to Tell a Joke in the Middle East

When it comes to supplying laughs, Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani enjoys his share of racial banter. Born in Iran and raised in CA, he delivers jokes rooted in his own heritage, mixing in jabs at his family, upbringing, even audience members. Before he headlines the Brea Improv February 21st ... More >>

Facebook Fan Pages Support Manhunt Suspect Chris Dorner

Perhaps the public's outrage at years of police brutality and cover- ups is justified, or perhaps people simply have their heads planted firmly in their own asses. In either case, fan pages supporting accused cop killer Chris Dorner have been popping up around Facebook. Featuring titles such as "Chr ... More >>

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 >>

'We Will Live to Fight Again'

Election Day dispatches from around the county

Final Episode of No Reservations Airs Tonight (Sob!), Wrapping Up In Brooklyn

Eight years. One hundred forty episodes. Sixty countries. More than 716,000 miles. Countless toasts, laughs, expletives and soul-hitting meals. Tonight, it comes to an end. The final episode of No Reservations airs at 9 p.m. on the Travel Channel. Host Anthony Bourdain completes his epic voyage ... More >>

ABC Reveals Details About Nigella Lawson & Anthony Bourdain Show

As his No Reservations show on Travel Channel is winding down, Anthony Bourdain shows no signs of doing the same. He's working on his next travel series for CNN; there's that show on PBS called The Mind of a Chef his company is producing; and now comes more details on the culinary competition show h ... More >>

Rumors About Mike Love Firing Original Beach Boys Are Bullshit

Fat, sick and overwhelmed by the voices in his head, Brian Wilson was fired from the Beach Boys on November 25,, 1982 with a formal note from Brother Records, Inc. stating, "...Your services as an employee...are hereby terminated effective immediately," as outlined in Wilson's 1992 autobiography, Wo ... More >>

Police Protests in Anaheim Last Night Echo the Citrus War of Yesteryear

Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesAs more than a thousand protestors clashed in Anaheim with police in the streets below, several helicopters hovered above the night's sky while Disneyland's fireworks exploded in air, oblivious to it all. The juxtaposition between the virtual and re ... More >>

Presente, National Latino Political Advocacy Group, Demands Full State Attorney General Investigation of Anaheim Police Department

The disturbing images of police repression from Saturday's standoff in Anaheim following the police killing of Manuel Diaz have gone viral, making international headlines. After a weekend of fatal officer-involved shootings and days of social unrest in the city, the national Latino political organiz ... More >>

[UPDATED with Documents Released] Mental Health Activists Still Waiting for Fullerton Police to Respond to their Public-Records Request

UPDATE JUNE 6, 9:23 P.M.: For the better part of 17 business days, Megan Osborn of Mind(ful) Liberation Project had heard nary a peep from the city of Fullerton. The organization sought to obtain, through public records requests, police training manuals and other documents related to mental health i ... More >>

Hamid Karzai Was Right To Block Dana Rohrabacher From Afghanistan

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was right to ban Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher from his country last month.Why?Well, even if the always apologetic/lost Orange County Register doesn't yet know, there are plenty of reasons.Let us start with this one:(No, I'm not going to begin with the ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher and Hamid Karzai Spar as Afghanistan Bans Surfin' Congressman

"A democratically elected congressman of the United States should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs, should not be asking the Afghan people to have a federal structure as against what the Afghan constitution has asked for, ... More >>

[UPDATED with New Strategy:] Dolphin Trapped at Bolsa Chica Wetlands

UPDATE, APRIL 30, 9:51 A.M.: With a dolphin still swimming in circles on the inland side of PCH at the Bolsa Chica wetlands in Huntington Beach for a fourth day, animall rescue crews say they may step up efforts to return the mammal that's been nicknamed Freddie to the open sea.They came close to ac ... More >>

"Snack Man": New York's Newest Superhero

So there's a viral video of this guy who stopped what looked to be a violent subway scuffle between a man and a woman by inserting himself in the middle of the fight...while casually munching on potato chips. Move aside, "Ridiculously Photogenic Guy." Eat your heart out, Ryan Gosling. The dude has b ... More >>

Manuel Levi Loggins Jr.: Attorney for Family of Marine Slain by Deputy Defends "Crash" Video

Various media sites are reporting that surveillance video released today shows an SUV driven by Marine Sgt. Manuel Levi "Manny" Loggins "crashed" through gates at San Clemente High School early Feb. 7--and moments before he was shot to death by an Orange County sheriff's deputy. But the Loggins fami ... More >>

Five Songs for Trayvon Martin: The Hip-Hop Community Express Their Outrage

​The February 26 shooting death of an African-American youth named Trayvon Martin has ignited a nationwide outcry. Marches across the country, including Los Angeles, took place yesterday to demand justice and another round of demonstrations are slated for today. The 17 year-old was walking in a Sa ... More >>

Starbucks Opens Its First 'Ski-Thru' in California

​Skiers know the dilemma. During a long, cold day on the slopes, you yearn for a steaming beverage to warm you up, but getting those clunky things off your feet, and then finding a safe place to store them, is so much of a hassle that you'd rather just eat snow.   Enter the world's first ... More >>

[UPDATED With Cause of Death:] Whitney Houston Dead at 48

​UPDATE: Feb. 13, 12:27 p.m.: TMZ says the L.A. County Coroner told Whitney Houston's family that the singer d"id not die from drowning, but rather from what appears to be a combination of Xanax and other prescription drugs mixed with alcohol."Sources also told TMZ that the family was told there ... More >>

Fred Karger Makes Home State's GOP Ballot

​Many California gays (and non-gays) celebrated this week's federal appellate court ruling upholding a district court decision that found Prop. 8 violates the U.S. Constitution.Those waving rainbow-colored flags have another reason to celebrate: a gay man made the presidential ballot in California ... More >>

Lady Gaga Finally Has Something in Common With Newt Gingrich and it is in Orange County!

​[UPDATED: At conclusion of the article.]Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Mike Schroeder, his decades old travel companion and buddy, adamantly disagree on which 2012 Republican candidate would make the best U.S. president. Rohrabacher despises Newt Gingrich and is backing Mitt Romney. Schroeder d ... More >>

Japan's New Christmas Tradition: KFC

​CNN has a curious story out today: it seems that the Japanese, for reasons that remain kind of dubious, have adopted eating KFC as part of their Christmas tradition.Yes, when we think of Christmas, we think ham and turkey with all the trimmings. The Japanese think Extra Tasty Crispy. The article ... More >>

The Boy Scouts' Police Problem

Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should the Scouts share the blame?

[UPDATED with OC Public Defender Getting Dekraai Case:] 6 Women and 2 Men, OC Homicides Nos. 45-52: Massacred at Beauty Salon

​UPDATE, OCT. 24, 3:05 P.M.: Orange County Superior Court Judge Erick L. Larsh this afternoon assigned the defense of Scott Evans Dekraai to the Orange County Public Defender's office. The lead attorney (at taxpayers' dime) will now be senior Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders. Dekraai's origin ... More >>

[UPDATE with Earlier Apology Retracted] Katt Williams in Phoenix: "If You Love Mexico, Bitch, Get the Fuck Over There!"

He's back, alright​UPDATE, Sept. 5 9:00 A.M.: Katt Williams appeared on CNN over the weekend on Saturday giving an interview essentially retracting an apology that had been earlier attributed to him. He suggested that the statement came from his publicist without signing off on it personally. The ... More >>

Anaheim White House Restaurant Owner Surprises Nonprofits with Free Luncheons For All

Anaheim White House Facebook PageBruno Serato makes his big announcement. ​The feel-good story for your day comes from Anaheim White House Restaurant. Since 2005, owner Bruno Serato has been serving free pasta dinners to underprivileged children, many who live in motels. This summer, the Italian c ... More >>

[UPDATED with Return to Other OC Ordered:] Casey Anthony Trades One Orange County (FL) For Another (CA)?

​UPDATE, JULY 31, 9:13 A.M.: What will me miss most about having had Casey Anthony in our own Orange County (or, more likely, OC-adjacent)?Would it be her whisking away from John Wayne Airport by hired handlers? The wonder-inducing glimpses of someone who looked like her checking the calorie coun ... More >>

[UPDATED with "Babies Disgust Me" Audio:] Octomom Nadya Suleman Hates Her 14 Kids

TMZ​UPDATE, JULY 19, 11:09 A.M.: Audio has been posted from the controversial In Touch interview that had Octomom Nadya Suleman saying she hates babies. The tape confirms the single mother of 14 said to a reporter that babies "disgust" her, that her children crying gets to her and that she locks h ... More >>

In Fred Karger's Presidential Run, GOP Stands for Gay Old Party

The OC resident and onetime Republican hatchet man hopes his quixotic campaign can push his party to become more gay-friendly

Shaq Retires From Basketball; Top Five Reasons He Should Revive His Music Career

​Today NBA star Shaquille O'Neal posted on his Twitter account that "I'm retiring" and "Shaq ooout" today. On the video linked from his Tweet, he says, ""We did it. Nineteen years, baby. (I) want to thank you very much. That's why I'm telling you first, I'm about to retire. Love you. Talk to ... More >>

[UPDATED: Family Celebrates His Release] Man With OC Ties Detained in North Korea; Family Pleads For His Release

Flickr user kalleboo​UPDATE, May 31, 1:24 P.M.: Detained for several months in North Korea, Eddie Yong Su Jun was finally released at the request of the U.S. He was escorted out of the country on Saturday by U.S. human rights envoy Robert King.  Jun's family wrote in ... More >>

Why Don't Mexicans Want to Learn English?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And is Mexico a Tea Party paradise?

Missives from SXSW: Exene Cervenka (of X) Sings With Old 97s, Thinks of Japan

Most famous as a punk rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures for Heard Mentality on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival. Check out her complete tour diary archive here.Raven Lo ... More >>

Pilot of Airbus That Nearly Collided with Plane Sees Dark Days Ahead in Skies Above John Wayne Airport

​A cockpit alarm prevented a collision between a small aircraft and an Airbus 319 jetliner in the skies above John Wayne Airport (JWA) this past September.Later, on the FAA's Aviation Safety Reporting System log, the Airbus 319 pilot predicted that the mix of large jets and light aircraft at JWA " ... More >>

[UPDATED Further Details About Murder Investigation from KCBS] Notorious B.I.G. Murder Case Reopened

Myspace.com​UPDATE, 4 A.M.,Feb. 14: On CBS 2 News at 11 after the Grammy broadcast last night, KCBS featured a report on the newly-hot Wallace murder. Former LAPD robbery/homicide detective Russell Poole claims that he has a jailhouse source implicating both David Mack (who, according to court doc ... More >>

[UPDATED: Recovered, Back in OC] San Clemente Surfer In Critical Condition After Hold-Down While Surfing Maverick's

Wikipedia CommonsAn example of the power of Mavericks.​UPDATE, JAN. 27, 2:40 P.M.: Jacob Trette is walking and talking the way he was before the frightening multiple-wave hold-down at Maverick's, a big-wave surf break near San Francisco.He was released from Stanford Medical Center yesterday, accor ... More >>

Mexican Pop Singer Kalimba Jailed on Rape Charge

 Twenty-eight-year-old Mexican pop singer Kalimba Ibar, former member of band OV7 and the singing voice of Simba in the Latin American film version of The Lion King, was jailed on rape charges on Jan 20. According to the Associated Press, Kalimba was deported from the U.S. to Mexico after ... More >>

Brian Levin, Noted Hate-Group Fighter, on the Tucson Shootings

Levin​Brian Levin runs the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, and is someone whom the mainstream media always calls on for insights into hate groups after one of their members commits a crime. Now that word is leaking out that the horrific shooting in Tucson ye ... More >>

Ninth Circuit Upholds Sheriff Mike Carona's Corruption Conviction

Teflon Mikey loses his magic​Orange County's long, disgusting law enforcement nightmare is finally over.Disgraced ex-Sheriff Mike Carona, once absurdly hailed as "America's sheriff" by CNN's Larry King, is going to federal prison.This morning an all Republican panel of federal judges at the Ninth ... More >>

[UPDATE:] DREAM Act Passes in the House, Stalls in the Senate

​Update, December 9, 6:11 p.m.: The esteemed Surf City GOP Congressdude, Dana Rohrabacher, said on the House floor that the DREAM Act is unfair to "non-minorities."Oh no he diiiiiiiin't?!?Oh, yes. Yes he did. See the video and a passage from his debate after the jump . . .

CNN Asks a Mexican About 'Ask a Korean'!

​Okay, I'm really late to this story, but I mention it just because the guy deserves all the praise on Earth: last month, CNN's website did a profile on Ask a Korean!, the blog that answers any and all questions about the Mexicans of continental Asia and directly cites my ridiculous column as insp ... More >>

Young the Giant Steps Out

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War College

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