Subject: Dianne Feinstein

• Dianne Feinstein's Profile in Courage

  There was nothing surprising in the careful analysis on Glenn Greenwald's blog, Unclaimed Territory, of the gutless way Senate Democrats are scuttling away from Senator Russ Feingold's (D-Wisconsin) resolution to censure President Bush for his administration's illegal wiretapping program. Democrats have been surrendering to Republicans, whenever Republicans wave their National Security Fetish Doll, since the days when Edward R. Murrow wished viewers Good Night and Good Luck. So there was nothing

  March 15, 2006

• Less than an hour until the polls close...

  ... and I'm soooooo confused. I was out of town last Thursday through Sunday, and when I returned there were 17 messages on my phone from the likes of Pete Wilson, Dick Ackerman, Hillary Clinton, someone yammering about Jessica's Law, the Nguyen running for an OC school board seat and his partner in crime David Boyd, Wendy Leece (Costa Mesa City Council), Ben Stein, Alan Mansoor (Costa Mesa CC), sheriff's lieutenant Ron Cunningham (from which sheriff's agency, Lordy knows), "Don't Call Me" Shirl

  November 7, 2006

• The Natives are Getting Restless

  Remember how congenial the OC GOP gathering at the Hyatt Regency Irvine seemed a few minutes ago? Fuck that shit. Election-loss testiness reared its ugly head at 10:20 p.m., our R. Scott Moxley reports from the scene. As the giant TV screen showing CNN flashed pictures of presumed California winners Arnold Schwarzenegger (governor), Tom McClintock (lieutenant governor) and Steve Poizner (insurance commissioner), Young Republican types yelped with respectful cheers. But they filled the hall wi

  November 7, 2006

• Eddie Rose on "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly"

  Eddie Rose writes: "In California this year, we have--with one notable exception--the WORST slate of candidates, including a man who can't pronounce the name of the state he claims to serve! Were it not for the importance of several ballot propositions, it probably wouldn't make much sense to go to the polls at all--unless you believe that we should simply vote for the LESSER OF EVILS. What an option! Here are my recommendations: Prop. 1A: Use existing gas taxes for roads and transportatio

  October 29, 2006

• Bang, Bang, Shoot, Shoot

  It's always entertaining reading the Fullerton-based California Rifle and Pistol Association newsletter, The Firing Line. The best section, naturally, is On Target -- the letters to the editor. The March 2006 issue does not disappoint, with letters branding U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein "a loser" (her reign as county supervisor and mayor is somehow linked to the recent city law banning firearms), calling for America's immediate pullout from Washington, D.C. (because there have been 60 firearms d

  March 12, 2006

• Got HIV/AIDS? Kick Hillary Clinton

  Perhaps preoccupied by the GOP man-boy love case in the lower house, the U.S. Senate over the weekend failed to reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act and with it about $6 million annually that helps Orange County deal with a growing HIV population and increasing number of AIDS cases, alerts the AIDS Services Foundation of Orange County. The foundation notes that federal funding patterns typically show Orange County getting less dollars as more is diverted to regions with higher HIV/AIDS rates. Ext

  October 3, 2006

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Ass Slapping Fun!

  Worm Attack in Dana Point? TMZ reports that Orange County police are investigating former Los Angeles Laker/Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman for allegedly committing a “crime” inside the Hennessy's Tavern near PCH in Dana Point. The celebrity website says Rodman was accused of slapping a female customer's ass so hard it left a “major mark.” No word on what part of his anatomy did the slapping. Jim Amormino, sheriff's spokesman, said dicks in his department's “sex crimes unit” are on

  September 24, 2007

• Fighting Cox

  November 18, 1999

• Total Recall

  August 7, 2003

• Same Cox, New Box!

  August 4, 2005

• Where Obama Might Chow Down During His OC Visit

  We may have been thwarted in our attempt to get tickets to see Obama speak at the OC Fair & Event Center later today, but that doesn't stop us from trying to guess where he might fill up on his OC jaunt, should hunger strike. Both Barack and Michelle are known for their love of food. They don't eat healthily all the time, by their own reckoning, but they enjoy what they eat, whether it's comfort food or more upmarket fare. Eddie Gehman Kohan at Obama Foodorama kindly gave me a few tips, nam

  March 18, 2009

• Broccoli, er, Barack Obama Remarks Are Best Served Prepared

  Prepared remarks for a town hall meeting? Isn't that why they used to unload on Bush? No, it was because ol' Dubya's questioners seemed even better briefed than he was. Observers say President Obama truly chose folks at random during his first presidential visit to Southern California and Orange County, and the first visit by a sitting president to the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. More on that is coming from Weeklings who were actually there, but in the meantime chew on these pre

  March 18, 2009

• Ed McKie Has Been Stymied in His Efforts to Create a Safe Space for Gay Meth Addicts in Santa Ana

  July 31, 2008

• [Pucker Up] Behind the Green Door

  March 13, 2008

• Did Crimes Kamran Mashayekhi Witnessed Put His Life in Danger?

  February 21, 2008

• OC's Scariest People

  Our Congressional delegation tops this year’s list of 33 villains (31 for October, plus two more to get to the Dia de los Muertos, ese)

  October 25, 2007

• Broadway Eddie Rose

  Supervisor candidate on everything from the gropinator to O.J.
  

  April 20, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 1, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK NARANJA

  September 1, 2005

• Diary of A Mad County

  January 27, 2005

• This Slaphappy Summer

  August 21, 2003

• Letters

  April 17, 2003

• Latin America, Political? No Way!

  February 13, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 7, 2002

• Drive-By Consultant

  July 12, 2001

• Reg Squawks as Box Blocks Cox!

  June 14, 2001

• Golden Smog

  May 17, 2001

• Mmm-Bop!

  November 30, 2000

• 'Hello...Is This Thing On?'

  September 28, 2000

• Cox Tales

  September 21, 2000

• How Times Change

  September 14, 2000

• Shut Em Down!

  April 20, 2000

• New! Hot!

  April 6, 2000

• Pauper Chase

  August 12, 1999

• July-September

  January 7, 1999

• Whose Online is it, Anyway?

  December 17, 1998

• Covert Campaigner

  November 26, 1998

• Political Football

  November 12, 1998

• Geeks of the World, Unite!

  October 29, 1998

• A Wylie Strategy

  September 25, 1997

• The Sore-Losers Club

  January 23, 1997

• The Dems' Wine-and-Cheese Whiz

  December 26, 1996

• Chuck DeVore's Quixotic Attempt to Twitter and Parody-Video His Way Into the U.S. Senate

  May 21, 2009

• John Yoo Stars in a Most Civilized Debate on Torture

  Photo by Christopher VictorioAs John Yoo makes his case, John C. Eastman is hard at think.Two days after Barack Obama's chief of staff said the administration was not inclined to back prosecutions against Bush lawyers who signed off on torture, the president backed off that statement today, saying he would leave that up to his attorney general. If this reversal bunched John Yoo's BVDs, he sure wasn't showing it inside Chapman University's Memorial Hall, where the controversial UC Berkeley law pr

  April 21, 2009

• Have Your Robo-Responder Contact My Robo-Responder and Set Up a Virtual Lunch, Madame Senator

  This is either Sen. Dianne Feinstein or her screen saver.​Have you ever been leaving a political website when a pop-up asks you to weigh in on an issue? And have you ever decided it would be just as quick to click a couple boxes indicating your support/opposition as it would be to close the pop-up and be on your merry way? And, seconds after your robo-reply was delivered, have you ever received a robo-response from the politician your electronic form letter was delivered to?As you'll see after

  November 3, 2009